Bulletins and News Discussion from February 12th to February 18th, 2024 - The Prodigal Failson - COTW: Brazil

Putin endorses Biden

Asked in a state television interview to choose between Biden and Trump, Putin said the US leader was “more experienced, predictable, an old-school politician”, adding that Russia would “work with any US leader who wins the trust of the American people”.

At their last meeting in Geneva in 2021, Putin recalled, “they were already saying Biden wasn’t competent [ . . . ] but I saw nothing of the sort. Yes, he looked at his notes, and to be honest, I looked at mine. No big deal. So he banged his head on the helicopter when he was getting out of it — who of us hasn’t banged their head on something?”

Russia should not "try to save Assad, who represents a military junta," Navalny said.

Another day, another banger

Okay I've just seen the bodycam footage of the unloading his gun because he thought he was getting shot at, when in reality an acorn fell on his cop car. Pigs are always on edge lmao, always scared of everything and everyone. They truly behave like an occupying force that has the community in front of them, much like occupying armies, the civilians are there to be watched and repressed and not protected. Plus the cop's training in ameriKKKa is just awful lol

That officer is probably serving with the IOF now tho

Disneyland cast members announce plans to form a union

Calling themselves "Magic United," the cast members seeking to organize announced they are working with Actors' Equity Association, a union representing 51,000 theater actors and stage managers across the U.S. Although most of the roughly 35,000 workers at Disneyland already have labor unions, about 1,700 performers and character actors do not, the labor group said.

azov losers try not to get surrounded in a dirty factory basement challenge (impossible)

Wake up babe, new Russian disinfo network has dropped

Can’t believe they excluded Richard Medhurst, Michael Hudson and Alexander Mercouris! My favorite Russian stooges snubbed!

A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s planners

https://archive.is/20240215164219/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/rate-of-russian-military-production-worries-european-war-planners

As Ukraine has scrambled to source ammunition, arms and equipment for its defence, Russia has presided over a massive ramping up of industrial production over the last two years that has outstripped what many western defence planners expected when Vladimir Putin launched his invasion.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its third year, the massive Russian investment in the military, projected this year to be the largest as a share of GDP since the Soviet Union, has worried European war planners, who have said Nato underestimated Russia’s ability to sustain a long-term war.

A tale as old as time: Smug Europeans with planet-sized hubris decide to poke the bear and find out the hard way.

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Since Starship Troopers was in the discourse on Twitter, I've come to realize the film basically depicted Israel after seeing all those TikToks

Useful guide for any cities Russia will conquer

The British cargo vessel "Morning Tide" tried to pretend to be Chinese (CHINESE OWNER SHIP) but Yemen was not fooled

Absolutely bizarre how much of a media blitz there has been over Navalny, good god

Kanye becoming a Zionist after realizing it’s the most antisemitic thing you can be https://twitter.com/karaokecomputer/status/1757524839160746178

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Navalny's dead.

MOSCOW, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is dead, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said on Friday.

In a statement published on its website, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said that Navalny "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday, and "almost immediately lost consciousness".

It said that medical staff had been called, but that they were unable to resuscitate Navalny. It said the reason of death was being established.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/

Libs are going to be insufferable.

The Battle of avdeevka is ending. This is happening too fast to follow in detail at work but holy shit UAF are getting routed

CW: No visible gore but extremely sad video https://streamable.com/pmpm0i

ICJ has left South Africa on hold since Monday and just on Friday, announced that further provisional emergency measures were not necessary. The way the report was also written comes off really nothing more than crocodile tears and them hoping that readers wouldn't notice the dismissal.

Anyways, the educational sector and the Supreme Court is totally annihilated, with healthcare in terminal condition and all medical services with the exception of primary care (such as ICU, dentistry and surgery) having been suspended. The price of food has increased tenfold in the Strip. A singular hen egg now costs R20 ZAR.

Rafah Municipality's population is now estimated to be anywhere between 1.4 to 2 million people, with a density in critical mass hovering at 36,000/km2. For context, this is the Berea suburb at 42,000/km2:

Chinese scientists say new calcium-based battery offers ‘cheaper, safer’ alternative to lithium-ion cells

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3251755/chinese-scientists-say-new-calcium-based-battery-offers-cheaper-safer-alternative-lithium-ion-cells

• Fudan University team creates battery able to charge and discharge fully 700 times at room temperature, in a first for the calcium-based technology
• With calcium 2,500 times more abundant than lithium, battery offers viable option with possibly comparable energy density, team says in Nature paper

Blowback's here

Magdeburg: "Centuria", one of the most powerful neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine, has an offshoot in Germany

full article

The leader of the “National Militia” of the “Azov” movement swore his comrades to the final “clash of civilizations” on August 1, 2020 at the edge of a forest near Kiev. “The age of absolute darkness lies before us,” predicted Igor “Tcherkas” Mikhailenko and demanded that the hundreds of mostly masked fighters of his “vigilante group” present would make sacrifices for the idea of a “Greater Ukraine.” He gave a new battle cry: "Aut Caesar, aut nihil!" (all or nothing). By torchlight and with Nazi pomp, which was based on the war aesthetics of ancient Rome, the “Centuria” organization was born – and the “National Militia” was history. Since 2017, they had been practicing brutal vigilante justice in Ukrainian cities and, for example, tyrannizing the LGBTQ scene. “Centuria” has enjoyed the admiration of the small neo-Nazi party “Der III. Weg(The third way)” in this country for years.

The organization (not to be confused with the military order of the same name and also associated with "Azov", which already existed before 2020) now has an offshoot in Germany: On August 24, 2023, immigrant Ukrainian fascists founded an initiative group in Magdeburg: "Although the Ukrainian youth are not in their homeland, they are starting to unite,” they announced on social media. The "enemies" of their country, whom they want to cause a "hellish storm" against, must understand that "Ukrainian emigrants" are not prepared to "forget their national identity for a few hundred euros."

Photos and videos show a nationalist rally on the Old Market in Magdeburg on the 32nd anniversary of Ukraine's independence - as usual unmolested by Antifa and critical media reporting. According to its own information, the march was organized by “Centuria”. The participants posed with a flag of the Bandera wing of the fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The “German-Ukrainian Society of Saxony-Anhalt” is also said to have been involved. Most recently, the group organized a solidarity rally for the “Defenders of Azovstal” in front of the Red City Hall in Berlin on January 27th, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Since its founding, “Centuria Magdeburg” has also been inviting people to go on hikes together in the Harz Mountains. For example, with the nationalist scout association “Plast”, which has been based in Germany since 1951 and had already set up its first tent camp in Mittenwald in 1947. According to its own information, “Centuria Magdeburg” has members in a total of six cities and is networked with Ukrainian organizations throughout Germany. The group is currently raising funds for its parent organization's combat unit, which has been integrated into the third "Azov" assault brigade of the Ukrainian army under the command of Nazi leader Andriy Biletsky since 2022, and is participating in "information warfare." Not only against Russia, but also against minorities hated by the fascists: the "German Caliphate", Palestinians and other migrants from predominantly Muslim regions, as well as "black rapists" who are allegedly protected by the police, and "pedophiles", as the group calls homosexuals.

“We are creating a new generation of heroes!” they promise. True to its leader Mikhailenko - who wants to "destroy everything anti-Ukrainian" and was head of the Nazi organization "Patriot of Ukraine" in the Kharkiv region and commander of the "Azov" regiment of the National Guard from 2014 to 2016 - the group relies on violence: "Free People have weapons,” it says on her Telegram channel. The German traffic light government supplies these in abundance to the Ukrainian armed forces and thus also to the fascist and other ultra-right units belonging to them. It can therefore be assumed that “Centuria” will be able to expand its structures in Germany unhindered by the local security authorities.

I'm not clicking that:

Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride

tl;dr - Twitter blocked the last known way to access their network without a user account.

RIP Nitter dot cz

Greek Parliament Passes Bill on Same-Sex Marriage

The "Equality in Civil Marriage" law also grants same-sex couples full parental rights for both partners.

On Thursday, Greece's parliament approved a landmark bill allowing same-sex civil marriage, granting same-sex couples the right to wed and adopt children.

A majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted in favor of the bill, entitled "Equality in Civil Marriage." A total of 254 participated in the roll call vote.

"We are here to deal with an existing social reality together, with responsibility, putting an end to an inequality that is serious for our democracy," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, addressing the plenary shortly before the roll call vote.

The new law also grants same-sex couples full parental rights for both partners, but not the use of assisted reproduction methods.

Legal systems are adapted internationally in response to trends in societies and same-sex marriage is legal already in 36 countries worldwide, Mitsotakis stressed, adding that there are already parents in same-sex couples who cannot legally care for their children, pick them up from school or accompany them to hospital.

However, recent opinion polls showed that the Greeks were divided on the reform. Even when the bill was voted on, opposite groups were both in demonstrations on Thursday.

"In a Christian Orthodox country, we should not allow the ratification of something that goes against the teachings of the Bible," Dionisis Makris said during a protest of conservative groups near the parliament.

"Today is a day of joy and celebration for equality of human beings," said Rafaela, a member of the LGBT+ community which organized another gathering outside the parliament. Greece legalized civil partnerships among same-sex couples in 2015.

The timely demise of Navalny means that Ivan Guaidovich becomes the interim leader of the Russian pro-democracy opposition.

Avdiivka is COMPLETELY fucking wiped:

Avdiivka has totally fallen, even the coke plant and citadel are lost and Ukraine is routed

India has new farmer protests

Protests are going on in the DRC. You can see them burning US and Belgian flags:

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/african_stream/status/1757779305390624923

• https://twitter.com/african_stream/status/1757779305390624923

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/ajplus/status/1757852245029499303

• https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1757852245029499303

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/AfricanHub_/status/1757896052483441003

• https://twitter.com/AfricanHub_/status/1757896052483441003

NATOpedia articles on the Western-backed separatists:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23_Movement

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M23_offensive_(2022–present)

The year is 2100. My great great granddaughter is scrawling the latest news about the next Ukrainian village to fall on the Hexbear post-apocalyptic cave.

UAF announced complete withdrawal from Avdeevka

https://twitter.com/CinC_AFU/status/1758642687417417845

We need more of this energy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k2XWTXpn1ug&feature=youtu.be

BadEmpanada got banned from twitter, AGAIN

Somehow I missed that Sam Altman of OpenAI is attempting to con the UAE out of $7 trillion dollars. Absolutely incredible levels of astronomical grift.

Primary Challenger Bankrolled by AIPAC Says Jamaal Bowman Takes Money From Hamas

LMAO we are days away from tunnel accusations

The Putin Insider is going right for the jugular with this headline:

Ukraine's military is shifting to a defensive strategy that failed Nazi Germany in WWII

https://archive.is/kBEt6

But inside contains the usual cope about "massive Russian losses" that you've all seen a thousand times before. Not a very interesting article overall apart from the headline.

if i was Navalny I would simply not have returned to Russia after almost dying from getting poisoned

Let's see how is reacting to the Navalny news...

As we mourn the loss of Navalny, let us also reflect on what his life stood for: courage, integrity, and the unwavering pursuit of justice. May his legacy inspire future generations to continue the fight for a freer, more just Russia.

Been dealing with more unhinged Bukele supporters getting increasingly angry at me. It’s weird to say but I enjoy dealing with them more than liberals. Bukele supporters are mostly staunch nationalists who don’t cowardly hide behind police like the libs do and get rabid over their country as opposed to getting rabid for the US or EU.

Just kind of wish they didn’t channel that aggressive energy into showing up at my place and forcing me to take the shotgun out to scare them away.

They’re mostly mad about my criticisms of him during the election. Some Salvadorans have a chip on their shoulder with Guatemala and our influence on the country. So hearing a leftist Guatemalan loudly criticizing their God makes them furious.

Comrade Prigozhin. Welcome to the resistance.

Three key points from His Eminence Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speech yesterday which should clarify once and for all some basic misunderstandings. (Al-Ahed Arabic summary of the whole speech)

Do you think America cares about the children in Gaza? The West only makes performative statements. In reality, the one who insists on the goal of eliminating Hamas is America more than “Israel.”

The one responsible for every drop of blood in the region is the American administration, and the Israeli occupation officials are merely tools. If the United States stops arming and supporting “Israel” now, the aggression will stop immediately, whether Netanyahu likes it or not.

Our goal is for Gaza to remain steadfast and Hamas to emerge victorious. The Resistance in Gaza negotiates for us all [Axis of Resistance]. Our support for them is unconditional and they know their capabilities and demands.

Superbowl victory parade gets shot up

Palestinian Exodus From Rafah: ‘Where Do We Go?’

This is the eighth time that Mohammed Abu Amsha has been displaced. His journey in search of safety has taken him from the city of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to the Nuseirat refugee camp, then to Maghazi, then Khan Yunis, and finally to Rafah. At each stop, the man moved from one house to another, from one shelter to a hospital. Yesterday, Abu Amsha packed his bags and returned from the Shaboura camp to the Nuseirat camp. The 30-year-old man says to Al-Akhbar, “By God, I don’t know where I’m going. I have a family to care for, and the shrapnel burned the tents we were sleeping in two days ago. I’m heading from Rafah into the unknown. They told us Rafah was safe, but if it is safe and they killed more than 100 martyrs in one night, what would they do if it were a battlefield?”

The road from the eastern and western neighborhoods of Rafah, passing through the al-Awda junction, is crowded with thousands of families who have boarded cars, trucks, and carts pulled by animals, carrying with them tents and firewood. On all departing faces, even those overwhelmed by gloom and silence, one phrase is read and heard from those speaking: “Where do we go?” For these people, the repeated Israeli threats against the city of Rafah necessarily imply an intention and plan to invade the city.

As for the hundreds of statements issued by the international community and national capitals, Abu Khalil Al-Muzayn describes them as follows: “If they were useful, they would have stopped the dozens of massacres that started in northern Gaza and will end in Rafah. This war has proven that Israel is not accountable to anyone. If it decides to invade the city, it will trample over the skulls of a million displaced people without any humanitarian restraint, so there is no way we can leave the fate of our families to analysts and estimates.”

As for the living conditions in Rafah, a reliable source in the Government Emergency Committee of Gaza confirms that the city has plunged into a food crisis. This is exacerbated by the Israeli occupation’s blockade that has been preventing aid trucks from entering for over a week. The source adds in conversation with Al-Akhbar, “Everything that enters represents just a drop in the ocean of daily needs. We are talking about nearly a million and a half people squeezed into an area not exceeding 30 kilometers. With the limited aid entering, there is a shortage of many products, and there has been a significant increase in the prices of basic goods, including vegetables.” He pointed out, for example, that “the price of a kilo of onions has reached 50 shekels, while a single pack of baby diapers is nearly $100.”

As the international warnings about catastrophic consequences in the event of the occupation army storming the city of Rafah continue to grow, writer and political analyst Ismail Mohammed believes that the totality of warnings about the Israeli ground operation in the southern city is not aimed at preventing the occupation from doing it, but is a warning addressed to the Hamas movement. A warning that urgent concessions should be made at the negotiating table to prevent the tragedy that will start with a ground operation in the city. “It is understandable that everything that the enemy is doing now is seeking to achieve victories at the negotiating table, and it is even more understandable that the world, which could not stop Israel’s crimes that have been going on for 130 days, will not stop them today,” Mohammed adds. “Israel, all Arab and regional countries, and the international community stand as one front to exert pressure on the resistance at the negotiating table. Therefore, there is a high possibility of a military invasion of Rafah.”

Ancap Update:

The UCA (Catholic University of Argentina) estimates that Milei's government increased poverty from 44.7% to 57.4% and extreme poverty from 9.8% to 15%.

US Navy aircraft carrier going head-to-head with the Houthis has its planes in the air 'constantly,' strike-group commander says - Jake Epstein, Business Insider

"It's a huge effort," Rear Adm. Marc Miguez told Business Insider during an interview on the Ike in the Red Sea this week. "We're going at it constantly," he said, adding that the crew is "launching airplanes every hour to hour and a half."

Dozens of planes may take off from the carrier during a typical day, which can include multiple launch and recovery cycles over a period that can last up to 12 hours, if not longer. [...]

The aircraft can be tasked with various missions once they're airborne, from training to defending commercial vessels and US Navy ships from Houthi attacks. They always have to be ready to strike rebel assets in Yemen if needed, Capt. Marvin Scott, the commander of the Eisenhower's carrier air wing, said.

Preemptive strikes, which are aimed at effectively eliminating Houthi missiles and drones before they can even become a threat to international shipping lanes, have become a regular occurrence in recent weeks. Before this shift in tactics, the US spent months shooting down Houthi threats in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden after they had already been launched by the rebels.

US Central Command has announced preemptive military actions on multiple occasions over the past few days. These have destroyed a handful of unmanned surface vessels, which are drone boats that can be packed with explosives, and anti-ship missiles.

So it seems that after one of the US ships intercepted an anti ship cruise missile launched by the Houthis using it's CIWS, after it evaded interceptor missiles, the US has been forced to change tactics. CIWS is a last line of defence, a missile intercepted by CIWS is a few seconds from landing a direct hit on a ship, and can still land an indirect hit, or spray shrapnel all over the targeted ship. CIWS cannot be relied on to continuously intercept missiles, it's a last line of defence. So the US now has to have jets in the air 24/7, to take down any missiles Ansar Allah/the Houthis are about to launch against US Navy ships, before they are launched from their launch sites. This has to be done because US Navy ships cannot rely on their air defence and missile interception systems to intercept the missiles anymore. Ansar Allah has figured out a way to bypass that layer of defence on occasion. I predicted such a change in tactics a few weeks ago.

This is going to be a very costly exercise for the US Navy. Ansar Allah can also use this change of tactics to manipulate the US Navy, for instance by putting out some defunct warheads or missiles, or fake/"blank" missiles, which the US Navy will be forced to launch airstrikes at to ensure the safety of their ships. I'd consider this a strategic win for Ansar Allah here, the US Navy now has to waste millions of dollars to launch airstrikes against potential fake missiles to ensure that their Navy is safe. Yes the US still has the overwhelming force advantage, but at what cost?

Angloland and Nippon in recession lmao

It's fun reading old reddit posts about Euromaidan and seeing people like "why not just split the country in half and the east can go to Russia?"

Like well done, posters from 10 years ago - you called it.

Every dead IOF soldier brings a little joy back into my life. Anyone got any?

Death to America, of course, but at least we sometimes had the guts to send our own guys into enemy tunnels with a pistol and a flashlight like Yaldabaoth intended instead of using hostages wired with explosives and cameras like our farcical imperialist failsons the IOF

So Bakhmut, Marinka, and Avdiivka are all gone. Does Ukraine actually have any other super defensible fortresses along the line of contact? As I understand it some of the fallen positions have been fortified since 2015. Doubt they can replicate them in a few weeks or months.

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Many news orgs in Canada are now sharing headlines about Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ordering an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to prevent further crises in Rafah, but of course the fine print buried in the article is that a ceasefire has to be on "both sides", meaning that Hamas has to surrender, disarm, and release all hostages... Of course they won't mention anything about israel withdrawing their forces or releasing Palestinian hostages.

Am I being cynical, or is this nothing new? I figured imperial core countries that have been aiding and abetting israel's genocide of Palestinians would have always supported a ceasefire based on conditions they knew were impossible, and which would make sure that israel is the victor (e.g., for Hamas to completely secede and surrender). Am I wrong?

Either way it's still and always will be.

Another Canadian happening this week is Trudeau breaking his recent silence about the israeli genocide of Palestinians, but this time it was to condemn pro-Palestinian protestors who marched by a hospital near downtown Toronto (which he claims is antisemitic targeting). Not a peep from Mr. "International Rules Based Order" about the thousands of Palestinians that israel has butchered since the ICJ's ruling that israel needs to take immediate steps to prevent collective punishment and the killing of civilians more than two weeks ago. israel has tripled down on their genocidal mission since this ruling, and the cowardly "progressive" Canadian PM will only speak up to smear a pro-peace protest.

Diplomatic and consular relations established between the Republic of Cuba and the Republic of Korea

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The establishment of diplomatic and consular relations between the Republic of Cuba and the Republic of Korea took place on February 14 through an exchange of Diplomatic Notes between the Permanent Representations of the two countries to the United Nations in New York, United States.

This milestone in bilateral history took place in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and the spirit and norms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba.

The study Centralidad de Asia para Cuba, published in 2021 by the Center for International Policy Research, shows that both nations had economic and commercial ties in areas such as the automotive industry, air conditioners, refrigerators, high-definition televisions and cell phones.

i wonder if this will cause problems between the DPRK and Cuba since they dont see peacefull reunification as posible anymore

OpenAI just released actually good AI-generated video. The samples are actually holy fucking shit.

https://openai.com/sora

How will this affect disinformation, now that photorealistic videos can now be fabricated from a text prompt?

Also note that OpenAI is now presumably licensing its technology to the US military.

https://hexbear.net/post/1604077

I predict that in the next few months, we are going to see AI-generated videos of completely fabricated atrocities.

A bit late on the story but last month the Army HR department made an offer to infantry and armor branch officers that graduated and commissioned in 2021 to transfer into the Adjutant General, Finance or Signal Corps branches on the grounds that there's an "imbalance" in the number of personnel that needs to be corrected before it begins to effect unit readiness.

So they need like 250 people for what sounds like 1st lieutenant to captain positions, which is a decent number of people concidering the fact it's for officer positions.

From what I hear in the grapevine they got that imbalance because those branches have the most real-world equivalent jobs that are both available and pay a hell of a lot better than what an officer gets paid. So basically they get the training and some experience under their belts then dip out. Also throw in the shitty work culture and bosses the army has, and you have a recipe for a systemic retention problem.

Looks like one of the candidates in the indonesian elections todays is indonesian hitler

Massacres, invasions, and anti-communism. This is Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia's next President, involved in numerous atrocities from his days as a henchman of General Suharto.

Tweet looks like he claimed victory before the result but he is doing good in the polls

Prigozhin and Navalny are probably up in heaven right now having the time of their lives

(Testing material I'm gonna use to annoy liberals later)

The Euro-Mediterranean Monitor clarified that, based on the received testimonies, groups of Israeli civilians, ranging from 10 to 20 individuals, were allowed to witness and record Palestinian prisoners stripped of their clothes while soldiers used metal batons and electric rods to beat them:

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1756950353424068929

https://nitter.mint.lgbt/QudsNen/status/1756950353424068929

Xi and Putin make dumplings

Xi and Putin make pancakes

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Occupied Syrian Golan residents reject Israelization of community

During a massive public meeting encompassing all segments of society from the four villages, the people of the occupied Syrian Golan issued a statement on Thursday marking the anniversary of the "Glorious Strike," when they cautioned against the 'Israelization' of their community.

The statement underscored the importance of upholding the heritage of the national Golan and paying tribute to its ancestors. It firmly rejected 'Israelization' efforts, especially the recruitment of locals into the occupation army and associated groups. These actions were deemed as threats to our fundamental existence and Syrian identity. Consequently, stringent measures were implemented in the occupied Golan to address this pressing issue.

Attendees emphasized that individuals participating in the recruitment project, wielding arms, and donning enemy uniforms were being misled. They urged these individuals to reconsider their involvement and to publicly announce their return to their community within a week.

They also proclaimed a complete rejection and condemnation of anyone who dared to betray their family and heritage by engaging in projects that "destroy our society and its honorable legacy."

It declared the "religious excommunication and social boycott of all individuals involved in this sinful project, which entails volunteering for service in the occupation enemy's army and its affiliated branches."

The statement emphasized that the decision to boycott and banish extends to the individual involved and all members of their family unless they take proactive steps to publicly reject and disavow the individual's behavior.

It also outlined measures such as the closure of people's homes and businesses, as well as prohibiting participation in their funerals, offering prayers for their deceased, or burying them in family cemeteries.

The statement by the residents of the occupied Syrian Golan concluded by emphasizing their determination to "eradicate all examples of this destructive phenomenon from our society" and "to not accept it, neither now nor in the future," according to what they described as aligning "with the spirit and provisions of the national document that embodies the belonging and identity of the people of the Syrian Golan."

Redditor asks how Russia is surviving despite bajillion deaths from covid and war

Most of the responses are just “because propaganda”, “because authoritarianism”, “because mass wave horde”, “they’re barely surviving because sanctions are striking the country!”

Few people, outside of a Russian residents, actually talk about the financial situation inside the country lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1as2dyf/how_is_russia_still_functioning_considering_they/

The Ukraine War Runs on Lies

Nothing really new here but I like the presentation of parallels between the Vietnam War and Ukraine.

Recall in the first case that the template, that of the Cold War, is essentially unchanged, even in some of the particulars, not least in the comparisons of Ngo Dinh Diem and Volodymyr Zelensky to Winston Churchill. The South Vietnamese government (avaricious, corrupt) had the right to American arms by virtue of its right “to determine [the nation’s] future.” The Ukrainian government (avaricious, corrupt) likewise has the right, we are endlessly told, to be allowed to “shape its own destiny.”

Thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Domino Theory, long derided in the years following Vietnam, has made a comeback. Thus, President Biden’s declaration on December 6, “If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there. It’s important to see the long run here. He’s going to keep going…. Then we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” echoes that made by President Johnson in July 1965:

This is really war. It is guided by North Viet-Nam and it is spurred by Communist China. Its goal is to conquer the South, to defeat American power, and to extend the Asiatic dominion of communism. There are great stakes in the balance. Most of the non-Communist nations of Asia cannot, by themselves and alone, resist the growing might and the grasping ambition of Asian communism.

Former German spy chief founds new right-wing party

https://archive.is/ZqkKh

Ian Miles Cheong, twomad, Navalny in one month.

In the inscrutable authoritian US regime today news has leaked that Lindsey Graham, a dissident voice in the Senate state organ, has come out against further state-funded support of Ukraine thereby foiling the goals of the bloodthirsty despot Joe Biden.

Independent USian experts have regretfully concluded that execution by anti-aircraft guns will be the likely punishment doled out by the vengeful leadership of the rogue state, as is tradition.

Norm tweet...

Will the NY Times win a special Oscar for "Best Supporting Role in Israel's Genocide"?

Nitter

Soon.

Here's a site that tracks how many "likes" milei has given in a single day on twitter: https://milei.nulo.ar/?ref=x

Most of them are to bluecheck libertarians that act as secondary spokespersons and right-wing media like La Nacion and LaDerechaDiario (which is the dark counterpart of La Izquierda Diario, the trot-run site). Our man is terminally online.

This is really good. Nothing most people here don't already know, I think, but it puts recent history and ideological and geopolitical shifts of the whole region into a really clear and succinct picture IMO. I think it'd be good to throw at people who are suffering from some Western ignorance but aren't fully committed to the liberal/imperialist narrative to the point where the blinders have to be violently pried from their eyes.

BreakThrough News: The Struggle to Liberate Palestine is a Battle for the Future of Humanity, w/ Matteo Capasso

Rania Khalek has been killin' it lately!

Lula's twitter post after meeting with the Arab League:

"I return to Cairo in the context of the terrible humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas attack on October 7 against Israeli civilians is indefensible and deserved Brazil's strong condemnation. Israel's disproportionate and indiscriminate reaction is unacceptable and constitutes one of the most tragic episodes of this long conflict. The human and material losses are irreparable. We cannot trivialize the deaths of thousands of civilians as mere collateral damage. In Gaza, there are almost 30,000 fatalities, mostly children, the elderly and women. 80% of the population has been forced to leave their homes. The situation in the West Bank, which was already critical, is also becoming untenable."

"At a time when the Palestinian people need support the most, rich countries have decided to cut humanitarian aid to the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The recent allegations against the agency's staff need to be properly investigated, but they cannot paralyze it. Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon will also be left destitute. This inhumanity and cowardice must be stopped. The federal government (Brazil's govement) will provide new funding for UNRWA."

"We call on all countries to maintain and increase their contributions. The most urgent task is to establish a definitive ceasefire that allows for the provision of sustainable and unimpeded humanitarian aid and the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages. The persistence of the conflict in Palestine goes far beyond the Middle East."

"We proposed and defended resolutions in the Security Council, which we chaired in October. We support the case brought before the International Court of Justice by South Africa on the application of the Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It is urgent to stop the killing. Brazil's position is clear. There will be no peace until there is a Palestinian state, within mutually agreed and internationally recognized borders, which include the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital."

"The decision on the existence of an independent Palestinian state was taken 75 years ago by the United Nations. There are no more excuses to prevent Palestine from joining the UN as a full member. The resumption of peace negotiations is a universal cause. And it is our cause. I renew my wishes of peace and prosperity to all."

UK Labour under Starmer seem to be calling for a ceasefire now? not sure what changed, is the official Palestinian to Israeli exchange rate like 30k : 1.2k for them?

if a nuke falls i'm calling out of work

Uh aktually, Germany isn't the sick man of Europe. It's just the unfit man of Europe: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/german-fm-describes-german-economy-as-an--unfit-man

deliberately starving the poor to own the socialists:

More hunger, less money: Argentina's soup kitchens count rations

At community meal centres across Argentina, a dual crisis is biting: the influx of ever more hungry mouths to feed during an economic crisis, and a decision by President Javier Milei's new government to freeze their aid.

In an Argentine soup kitchen, empty plastic containers are piling up from hungry visitors, and the cooks are worried their limited supply of pasta will not be enough to fill them. "I don't know if we will make it today," frets 50-year-old Carina López, who manages the ‘Las hormiguitas viajeras’ community dining hall in Loma Hermosa, a poor neighbourhood in San Martín, north of Buenos Aires. She points to empty crates normally filled with fruit and vegetables. Today, those coming for a hot meal will only get plain pasta and a small piece of pork.

Meal centres like this one are facing a dual crisis: the influx of ever more hungry mouths to feed during an economic crisis, and a decision by President Javier Milei's new government to freeze their aid. Tens of thousands of such community organisations in Argentina received their last batch of food from the government in November, before Milei – a far-right libertarian, self-described "anarcho-capitalist" – was inaugurated. Milei's government says it plans to audit the needs of each individual soup kitchen to put in place a system of direct aid, and excluding intermediaries such as social movements he describes as "poverty managers."

These "poverty managers" are social orgs that feed the needy in community centres, they are often accused of "getting money from the government" at the "expense of the poor", while also "using the poor for electoral campaigns" in the sense of clientelism. Of course this is bullshit, and clientelism is nothing but classism, thinking that the poor and the needy are just brainless bots who receive food in exchange for votes or for taking part in a rally or something. These are people with their own interests who are more than capable of pressuring whoever they want to get whatever they need. Furthermore, the absolute majority of these orgs are created and maintained by the poor themselves, that is: self-organisation, exactly what they fear and don't like at all, the poor organizing. Cutting aid is another way to discipline the poor, which in this country constitutes a social class of it's own.

Sure, let's just say that there are irregularities with these orgs in the way they receive aid, just for a moment. Okay, but the solution is not to cul ALL aid to feeding centers which people DEPEND ON TO EAT.

"There will be an innovative method so that help arrives where it is supposed to," Milei's Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni said. The soup kitchens, which typically provide more than 100 portions a day, have waited months on that innovation while battling to survive off some municipal aid and donations. López said she had been told by authorities to either "cut the soup kitchen's days, or kick people out." "But I can't kick anyone out. There are new people. New elderly people."

'The situation is beyond me'

Argentina faces annual inflation of over 250 percent with almost half the country now living in poverty after decades of economic mismanagement. Milei, elected on a wave of fury last November, has vowed a painful turnaround and embarked on massive spending cuts. He also started his term by devaluing the long-overvalued peso by more than 50 percent and cutting state subsidies on fuel and transport – further hitting the poor.

One of the new visitors to the soup kitchen in San Martín is Daniel Barreto, 33, a bricklayer who like others is struggling to find contract jobs with many construction sites at a standstill after the government froze all new public works. Meanwhile, private companies are hiring less because of the economic crisis.

The wages Barreto does manage to scrape together are nonetheless eaten away by inflation. "However much I do or don't work, the money is not enough. I have a wife and four kids," he said. "The situation is beyond me." The social movements who run the soup kitchens – born of a strong sense of community – say the number of people resorting to them has risen at least 50 percent.

"And that has only just started," said Melissa Cáceres, a member of a local group co-ordinating the soup kitchen who is registered with the Libres del Sur group. Often families will send in a child to pick up some food, to avoid being seen. Argentina counts some 38,000 so-called "community dining halls," said Celeste Ortiz, spokeswoman for the Barrios de Pie social movement.

Minister under fire

In February, Argentina's conference of bishops called for "all spaces which give food... to receive help without delay." Last week, hundreds of people lined up along 30 blocks after Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello told social movements complaining about the lack of food aid that anyone who was hungry should come "one by one" to see her. She did not come out to see them.

That minister legit said this. She told starving people to meet her "one by one", literally the next day thousands showed up in the Ministry asking for a conference with her, but of course, these people mobilized with their own orgs. They thought they can manipulate and humilliate the poor, but this is not the case. And while the number of poor people is increasing in numbers, the organization of said people is also increasing. They're creating a monster they simply cannot contain or defeat.

Pettovello is currently the target of a lawsuit from a union leader over her Ministry's failure to deliver food. The government has taken pains to show that Milei's mass deregulation of the economy will not hit the most vulnerable, doubling the value of food vouchers handed out to families. In recent days, Pettovello has sealed aid programmes worth more than half a million dollars with evangelical churches and the Caritas Catholic charity. However, Caritas has spoken out against the government's selective aid, saying "a country where poverty is increasing cannot tolerate partisan opinions, ideological prejudices and sectoral struggles."

While she is grateful for the Church's support, Cáceres regrets that "it seems that there are intermediaries who are worthwhile and others who are not.” As the battle continues, the cooks in the San Martín soup kitchen breathe a sigh of relief after stretching their rations to feed all those who needed it for one more day. Carina López sighs with relief: 130 rations were distributed in the dining hall and everyone received a full lunch.

At the end of the day, it's all projection from them. Brainwormed milei has spent his entire campaign (and years before that) saying that the left loves to starve people because reasons, yet he's the one destroying everyone's income AND cutting aid to feeding centers for the poor. Who starves who now? Motherfucker. Hexbear taught me an important lesson these days, every accusation they make is actually a confession.

: Low unemployment and high stocks means the economy is fantastic, jack

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Quote tweets and replies to this are amazing - just a bunch of libs going insane at Rashida for the crime of... doing tiny and inconsequentional gestures that would put some pressure on Biden if Biden wasn't an insane person to begin with.

said France is willing to recognize a Palestinian state

French lawmakers voted in 2014 to urge their government to recognise Palestine, a symbolic move that had little impact on France's diplomatic stance.

Macron's comments were the first time a French leader had made such a suggestion and highlighted further impatience among Western leaders as casualties mount in Gaza...

"Our partners in the region, notably Jordan, are working on it, we are working on it with them. We are ready to contribute to it, in Europe and in the Security Council. The recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France," Macron said alongside Jordan's King Abdullah II in Paris.

"We owe it to the Palestinians, whose aspirations have been trampled on for too long. We owe it to the Israelis who lived through the greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century. We owe it to a region that longs to escape the promoters of chaos and the those who sow revenge," he said.

Macron's comments are likely aimed at adding pressure on Israel.

Israel-Lebanon border plan

France has made a proposal to Lebanon to bring an end to the confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel. The dpa learned this from Lebanese government circles on Tuesday. The proposal therefore calls for Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the border - to a distance of around ten kilometers. The border region is to be monitored by the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers. The proposal was developed together with government representatives from the USA, Qatar and Egypt. There was initially no official confirmation from Lebanon or France. Hezbollah circles said that they had not officially received any paper with suggestions.

Le evil French scheming again

How tf is Ukraine losing? They just sunk that one Russian ship. Shouldn't they be winning overwhelmingly after that?

An update regarding one of my older posts to a megathread:

The South African/Palestinian journalist Haidar Eid is actually alive after total radio silence for nearly 2 months - He has escaped back to South Africa and is confirmed to be a guest speaker at the SAJFP's "Shabbat Against Genocide" in Johannesburg this Friday

quite funny: the top seven, yes seven, articles featured on Reuters' site are about Navalny

https://www.reuters.com/world

Egypt Builds Border Wall in Gaza to Contain Palestinians

Egyptian authorities are enclosing a vast area of the Sinai Desert spanning over 20 square kilometers with large concrete walls.

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Egypt is building a large concrete wall on its border with the Gaza Strip to contain a potential influx of Palestinians fleeing Israeli bombings.

Egyptian authorities are enclosing a vast area of the Sinai Desert spanning over 20 square kilometers with large concrete walls near the Gaza border, the newspaper asserts, citing Egyptian officials and security analysts as sources.

It is described as a massive new complex to bolster the country's security in the event that "a large number of Gaza residents manage to enter" if an Israeli offensive erupts in the southern part of the Strip, in the border city of Rafah.

Egypt has already been trying to bolster security along the border in recent months to keep Palestinians away, deploying soldiers and armored vehicles and reinforcing fences.

The Wall Street Journal published satellite photographs taken by the company Planet Labs PBC showing earth movements in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, next to Gaza, within an area designated as a walled enclosure for the possible location of a Palestinian refugee camp.

Over 100,000 people could be housed in the camp, which is surrounded by concrete walls and far from any Egyptian settlement. A large number of tents have been delivered to the site.

The construction of this wall comes as Israel continues its military offensive along the Gaza Strip, and fears increase that the country will launch an attack on Rafah.

Thousands of Palestinians living in Gaza have moved to Rafah to protect themselves from Israeli attacks that began in the north of that territory but have spread throughout the Strip.

Notoriously corrupt Indonesia seems to keep having an issue with poll workers "dying from exhaustion".

2024 voting day marred by reports of violations

The Elections Supervisory Agency has received thousands of reports of election fraud that occurred on the Feb. 14 voting day, ranging from intimidation of poll workers and voters to double voting and glitches of the official vote tallying platform.

2024 Over 20 poll workers die of exhaustion, says KPU

2019 More than 300 election workers, police officers in Indonesia die of exhaustion

2014 - 150 workers died from similar causes during the 2014 presidential and legislative elections

is it just me or is google really pushing to take a phone number when im trying to log into my fake accounts

Every week we're going to get a new story about a scary Russian super weapon so the next weapon to promote is the microwave bomb from Batman Begins that now Poopin Putin has.

I saw some sponsored ads for uyghers on instagram lol

Ezra calls for Biden to bow out gracefully. Will this be the opinion of the paper, or is he just wishcasting an opportunity to flex his knowledge of party nominating convention history/procedure?

THE SEALS AND THE DHOW - Seymour Hersh

In which we recall the 2 dead and 1 severely injured Navy Seals from that anti-smuggling operation that was kept under wraps but we all were distracted by the horrors of what's going on in Gaza:

The Somali dhow offered the White House a chance to justify its new offensive. It had been tracked by American intelligence since leaving Somalia because it was believed to be carrying ballistic missile parts needed by the Houthis in their ongoing campaign against Western shipping; The basis for that intelligence, which proved to be wrong, has not been made known.

American intelligence? Wrong? Damn audio is playin on loop

Back to the Lewis B. Puller. The more than a dozen senior officers from all services assigned to the ship’s command center were gung-ho to send the hot-shot SEAL team to intercept the dhow, compel the boat to stand to, and board it to find ballistic missiles or parts of weapons that were coming to the Houthis from Iran, known to American intelligence as a longtime supporter and supplier of weaponry to Yemen. But there was a serious problem. The issue is what is known in the Navy as the Sea State Code, which is based on terminology used in oceanography to describe the general conditions of the ocean’s surface, as determined by three key factors: wind, waves, and swell.

There are ten categories of sea state, and SEALs can operate with ease and safety up to sea state 3. One experienced retired senior American Navy officer told me that even four- and five-foot waves can sometimes create difficulties for a Navy tanker attempting to refuel an aircraft carrier, but it can be done with skilled maneuvering. No ship loaded with high-octane fighter fuel wants to crash into the side of a carrier.

When the seas get higher, to level 4 or 5, the waves and stronger current make boarding a targeted vessel, even a wooden dhow, an extremely dangerous prospect, in part because of the difficulty in handling steel ladders, known as caving ladders, that are standard SEAL boarding gear. The steps are lightweight aluminum tubes linked by equally lightweight steel cables.

What is hard to do at sea state 3 is deadly dangerous at sea state 4 or 5, a retired Navy officer, with years of experience in special operations, told me. “The waves are going up and down eight feet and more and you do not board a ship in heavy sea,” he said. He added that Navy captains of combat ships finishing a long deployment understand that crews due for shore leave are not permitted to leave the ship in such churning waters.

RuZZian propaganda against our Navy SEAL high level operators. They can handle it. Send them in!

The SEAL team leader said no. But he was ordered to carry out the mission, despite the obvious weather issues, and he did so.

The questions that were not asked, the retired officer said, were these: “Do we know if the dhow is carrying a ballistic missile or a box full of missile parts?” No. “Can you get a key to a launch site?” No. “Or a map of all the Houthi launch sites?” No. “Do Somali smugglers know the difference between a case of Johnny Walker Red and one of Johnny Walter Black?” Yes.

A RuZZian within our own ranks, it can't be!

The decision to ignore the concerns of the SEAL commander has been seen by the angered SEAL community in America as “beyond rational planning” and “a disaster waiting to happen.” I learned that one high-ranking member of the community, now retired, wrote a private letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, asking that the officer who overruled the SEAL commander be court-martialed for dereliction of duty as the buck-stops-here boss of the operation. “It will never happen,” the former officer told me. “Dead SEALs will go down in Navy annals as heroes, not victims.” His point was that the Navy would never acknowledge that the SEAL team had no business being sent on a search-and-destroy mission in such weather.

What the SEALS should do from my experience of watching other wars unfold is drive up to the capital in a caravan of military vehicles, then turn around halfway, then have your leader go on a lot of private jet rides . I'm just speaking from experience here.

Israel withdraws from truce negotiations in Egypt

Hezbollah just fired a very deadly missile/rocket barrage toward Safed & Meron.

According to Zionist sources, there are ar least 2 deaths and a dozen wounded. There are reports of a “difficult” event at the IOF Northern Command HQ that was targeted. https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1757702577607602444

That's definitely a major strike, Hezbollah is still in the fight

you know what's the solution to surface fleets becoming vulnerable?

submersible carrier

Navalny , a Russian Patriot died fighting with the 56th Convicts Storm Detachment of the Russian federation around the Adivvka Cokeplant after rescuing 109 Comrads from a Sinking Battleship.

Palestinian Factions To Seek Reconciliation in Russian Meeting

Russia has always supported the Palestinian aspiration to create an independent state within the borders prior to the 1967 Six-Day War.

On Friday, Russia announced a reconciliation meeting in Moscow between the main Palestinian factions, from the secular Fatah party to the Islamist movement Hamas.

"We have invited all Palestinian representatives, all political forces... There will be 12 to 14 organizations," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said, adding that the meeting will take place between February 29 and March 1-2.

Bogdanov emphasized that Moscow has sent invitations to groups that are part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), but also to others such as Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement.

He stressed that the aim of these consultations is to pave the way for Palestinians to unite politically, noting that for Moscow, the PLO remains "the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."

Representing Hamas will be its political bureau member, Musa Abu Marzouq, announced Abdel Hafiz Nofal, Palestinian ambassador to Moscow. Fatah will be represented by Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the PLO executive committee.

The Islamic Jihad movement also accepted the invitation to participate in the intra-Palestinian consultations. The President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, urged Hamas this week to "quickly complete" an agreement to exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners to prevent "the evils of another catastrophe" in Gaza and a massive displacement of Palestinians similar to that of 1948.

In the current war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza - the second longest in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1948 - nearly two million Palestinians in the Strip have been forced to evacuate their homes as the Israeli offensive advanced in response to the brutal attack by the Islamist movement on October 7 against its territory.

Russia has been waiting for a visit to Moscow by Abbas, whose influence in the mediation process between Israel and Hamas is almost nil, as it does not act as an interlocutor nor has direct control over Gaza, where Hamas ousted the PNA from power in 2007.

Weeks ago, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov had expressed hope of bringing together representatives of the main Palestinian organizations in Moscow soon to overcome their divisions.

Similar reconciliation consultations took place in 2019 and 2017, when Fatah and Hamas demanded that Abbas form a national unity government.

Russia has always supported the Palestinian aspiration to create an independent state within the borders prior to the 1967 Six-Day War, with its capital in East Jerusalem and in accordance with UN resolutions.

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A stock market that always goes up is just poor allocation of capital, right? Wealth must come from somewhere and flow somewhere. If a stock market continues to see growth, it inherently means wealth will flow towards those with the greatest stock value (the shareholders). By extension, wealth must be created by the workers, and this type of stock market serves only to transfer wealth from workers to shareholders.

A stock market is supposed to be used to efficiently allocate capital between different options, so assessing the aggregate value of a market sounds like it doesn't capture the actual point of the market, right? Assuming no economic growth and fixed interest in an entirely free market, you'd expect that stock market returns should be ~nil since it should efficiently allocate capital to where it's needed: profit in one sector and loss in another sector should equalize.

All this is to say: Japan's Nikkei has been going up despite a recession, and China's Hang Seng has been going down despite 5% growth. Yet, everyone points to the Chinese stock market as if it's an indicator for China's economy.

So did nothing funny even happen with the Texas border patrol and feds?

So uh, one month since icj decision is getting nearer, has there been any moves to speed up stuff? Any new hamas links of the judges? israel will have to provide some documents, are they likely to?

Ecuador cancels its decision to supply Russian armaments to the US. (Link in Spanish Only)

Translation: The decision to deliver obsolete equipment to Washington, announced in January by President Daniel Noboa, provoked Moscow's objections, since such a supply would violate contractual obligations.

Ecuador has reversed its decision to supply Russian weaponry to the United States, reports RIA Novosti. In January, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced that his country planned to exchange obsolete equipment, "Ukrainian and Russian scrap, for $200 million worth of modern equipment" with the U.S. by the end of January.

For her part, the Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Gabriela Sommerfeld, assured that "there is nothing new" in Ecuador's decision, since "it does not violate any regulations" and "it is not illegal". According to the Foreign Minister, "this equipment is not operational", and her country "can cancel it, sell it, give it away or exchange it".

Russia stated its position to Ecuador on the transfer of military equipment to the United States. "In case of transferring military property to a third party, Ecuador will violate its international obligations, and this may have negative consequences for our future bilateral interaction," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

According to Zakharova, the provisions of the contracts specify that the equipment should not be transferred to third parties without the consent of the Russian side. "All this has been raised with the Ecuadorian side invoking the clauses of the relevant treaties and agreements," she said, referring to the possible consequences for Quito. "There is no ambiguity in our position," he concluded.

Meanwhile, U.S. Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Kevin Sullivan suggested this month in an interview that such Russian equipment could be sent to Ukraine.

Abu Obeida gives a speech for the first time in a month:

133 days since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle, which has changed and will change the face of the region. It marked the beginning of the end for the longest and last occupation in contemporary history, leading to its defeat, disgrace, and exposure.

The Al-Aqsa Flood continues to evolve to eliminate injustice and aggression against Al-Aqsa and the land of Isra and Mi'raj, becoming a pivotal point in the history of our nation, by the will of Allah.

For 5 consecutive months, our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza confront a Zionist-American war. Despite the brutalities and appalling massacres, this resilient and generous community stands resolute, refusing to surrender.

The defeat of those incapable of subduing a population whose children teach lessons of courage to the helpless adults. Women who raise generations and embody the essence of resistance, turning it into a legendary force of the era and an iconic symbol of courage, sacrifice, and heroism.

How can they defeat a population whose resistance is deeply embedded in their collective conscience, sharing the burdens of suffering, pain, and hope? They sacrifice their most cherished, with leaders and soldiers marching in the path of Allah, defending the holiest sanctuaries and the most significant causes.

Our fighters in Al-Qassam Brigades and other Palestinian resistance factions continue to confront a criminal army, the likes of which have not been seen in modern history in terms of its brutality, savagery, and repugnant racist ideology. They inflict unprecedented losses on the enemy's army, a level unseen in the history of our people's revolution.

Our fighters destroy the enemy's vehicles and armored units, engage heavily armed soldiers supported by tanks, aircraft, and military ships, setting well-prepared ambushes. They skillfully snipe at their officers and attack their soldiers from point-blank range.

Whenever the enemy thinks it is secure in a scorched area, our fighters emerge unexpectedly, conducting high-impact operations, fighting with the help, support, and guidance of Allah.

Simultaneously, battles with the fighters of our nation and its resistant forces continue on all fronts, expanding and intensifying in the face of the enemy's arrogance, aggression, and Nazi-like brutality.

We won't delve into listing the operations by Al-Qassam Brigades, as we announce them promptly 24/7. Some fighters' field conditions delay the announcement of certain missions. We prioritize security and complex field conditions, choosing to postpone the disclosure of some operations and scenes for safety reasons.

Additionally, Hamas in northern Gaza fired a barrage of missiles towards Ashkelon and Zikim in the northern Gaza Envelope, about 12 hours ago.

Like Gaza...

Children's Mercy hospital is treating 12 patients from the shooting at the Chiefs victory rally. 11 are children, 9 have gunshot wounds.

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ABC News: Two sources familiar with deliberations on Capitol Hill said the intelligence has to do with Russian Federation wanting to put a nuclear weapon into space

A high-altitude Nuclear-EMP creates an electric free field incident powerful enough to damage any microcircuitry onboard satellites (see: Starfish Prime Test), especially modern electronics due to increasingly thin structures (therefore electric breakthrough occurs already at relatively low voltages). We are hardening military systems against such EM incidents by shielding, e.g. on a ship using its hull as a Faraday cage. This can't be done on a satellite due to weight constraints.

First, a space nuke would disable recon satellites, both RF (radio frequency) and EO (electro optical), therefore making command blind. Second, it would disable GPS, therefore severely reducing effectiveness of ballistic and cruise missiles guidance (inertial guidance is drifting over time, losing accuracy over longer distances). Third, communication satellites (military but also commercial such as Starlink) would be disabled, leaving troops without orders in time of crisis. Finally, radars are cluttered for days by charged particles bouncing along earth's magnetic field lines, emitting EMI, making air defense and air operations almost impossible.

It would instantaneously nullify most of the US most powerful military assets. It's the ultimate preemptive strike weapon, so it's clear why they would be concerned.

So this is like Call of Duty MW3? I thought this was going to be like that CoD were the Venezuelans use a giant space station to send giant iron rods into California because they are ebil.

He can't keep getting away with it!!

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so Russia just took the yellow pipelines in the Backround there ...

EDIT: Also AD Base in the south has fallen , opening the south to attack .. (probably not the highrises tho, looks like a ulegar)

In Africa, Lula criticizes extreme right, talks about expanding partnerships and says Brazil has a 'historic debt' to the continent

Lula took part in a meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In a speech, Lula also condemned attacks by Hamas and called Israel's response 'disproportionate'. He also advocated the formation of a global alliance against hunger.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party) gave a speech during the 37th African Union summit on Saturday (17) in Ethiopia. In his speech, the Brazilian president criticized the extreme right, said he intends to expand partnerships with African countries and stated that Brazil has a "historical debt" with the continent due to the 300 years of slavery in the country.

The African Union brings together 55 countries from the continent and, in 2023, became a permanent member of the G20 - a group that brings together the world's largest economies, responsible for more than 80% of the global economy.

In his speech, Lula called for the reorganization of global governance, to increase the representation of African and Latin American countries, and said that the "racist and xenophobic" far right will not be able to solve world crises.

"Without the developing countries, it will not be possible to open a new cycle of global expansion that combines growth, reduction of inequality and environmental preservation with the expansion of freedoms," said Lula.

"The global South is becoming an unavoidable part of the solution to the main crises afflicting the planet. Crises that are the result of a model that concentrates wealth and that hit the poorest the hardest. And among them, immigrants. The alternative to the ills of neoliberal globalization will not come from the racist and xenophobic far right," added the Brazilian leader.

Before attending the African Union summit as a guest, Lula met with the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammad Shtayyeh.

According to the Planalto Palace, during the meeting with the Palestinian, Lula condemned attacks by Hamas and reiterated the need for peace in the Middle East, with the creation of a Palestinian state. According to the Brazilian government, Shtayyeh thanked Lula for his solidarity with the Palestinian people.

A meeting with António Guterres was scheduled for Saturday, but did not take place because the UN secretary-general canceled his trip to Ethiopia.

Also on Saturday, Lula will have other bilateral agendas and will attend a dinner hosted by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

In his speech, Lula also said that, as president, he wants to expand diplomatic and trade relations so that Brazil and Africa can grow "together".

Lula defended the formation of a "global alliance" against hunger, a Brazilian proposal during the presidency of the G20. And also partnerships in the areas of education, health and science and technology.

"We're going to work together to make Africa independent in food production and clean, renewable energy," he said. Lula pointed out that he has traveled to the African continent more than 20 times throughout his life. In his third term, this is the second time he has visited Africa.

"Brazil has always looked at the world without seeing the African continent. For many centuries, Brazil was governed looking at the United States and Europe. And Brazil didn't even see South America, let alone the African continent," he said.

Brazil owes Africa a 'historic debt. At the end of his speech, Lula said that Brazil doesn't have "all the money" and "scientific and technological knowledge" that he would like it to have, but that the country wants to "share" what it has with African countries. "Because we have a historical debt of 300 years of slavery and the only way to pay it is with solidarity and a lot of love," he said. Lula pointed out that "more than half of the 200 million Brazilians recognize themselves as people of African descent".

Lula spoke after the Palestinian representative at the African Union meeting. In his speech, the Brazilian president once again condemned attacks by the terrorist group Hamas on Israel, but called the Israeli response to the attacks "disproportionate", with the death of thousands of civilians. For Lula, the crisis in the Middle East will only be resolved with the creation of a "sovereign" Palestinian state and a "full member" of the United Nations (UN).

Still on the subject of international conflicts, Lula mentioned the war between Russia and Ukraine, which has been going on for more than two years. He advocated a reform of the UN Security Council - with the inclusion of more developing countries and an end to the power of veto - in order to mediate disputes, and said that only politics and diplomacy will solve wars.

Lula said that, as president of the G20, Brazil will "support" discussions on the Global Digital Compact at the United Nations. For Lula, artificial intelligence "cannot become a monopoly of a few countries and companies", nor can it become "fertile ground for hate speech and disinformation".

"[Artificial intelligence cannot] cause unemployment and reinforce racial and gender biases, which accentuate injustices and discrimination," he said. "We hope to contribute to effective, multilateral governance in artificial intelligence that fully incorporates the interests of the Global South," said Lula. He also said that, together with African countries, he intends to "develop and build a family of satellites to monitor deforestation".

"The imperative to protect the two largest tropical forests in the world, the Amazon and the Congo, makes us protagonists in the climate agenda. The international instruments that exist today are insufficient to effectively reward the protection of forests, their biodiversity and the people who live there," he said. "With the recovery of degraded areas, we can create a real green belt to protect the forests of the global south," he added.

Army's testing out a new helmet to replace the ACH/ECH head protection systems. It's called the Next-Generation Integrated Head Protection System (NG-IHPS). Of course the dipshit nerds that make this shit brag about how it's lighter than the ACH, but leave out that they mean it's lighter than the original ACH but heavier than the Gen 2 model that's been out for almost 6-7 years now.

Also, while I'm sure they're keeping the more interesting details out of the press for now, they're bragging about using polyethylene instead of Kevlar saying it'll better "disperse the energy on impact" instead of "shattering like the latter" sure it'll probably at least do its job of catching some fragmentation, but would you be confident of your safety with a piece of camo-colored Styrofoam strapped to your head?

I’ve been thinking more and more about organizing psyops/disinfo against Zionists, and more broadly conservatives and liberals. Unfortunately, the kremlin and Beijing has cut our budgets and so we have to do everything from scratch.

What are some good resources to get learning about this? Particularly, more informative/instructional text on botting, COINTELPRO, and the likes. I know the military has war time psyop manuals and the FBI has a couple manuals as well. But I don’t remember what they’re all called.

The national security threat from Russia is the friends we made along the way

News from Africa:

Constitutional Council of Senegal blocked the French neocolonial puppet from running another term in office:

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/marcus_herve/status/1758235696647582004

• https://twitter.com/marcus_herve/status/1758235696647582004

The AES officially drafted the treaty of the confederation:

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/marcus_herve/status/1758314548447093223

• https://twitter.com/marcus_herve/status/1758314548447093223

South Africa is sending some troops into the DRC. It doesn't seem like it's going to be a lot though:

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/CyrilRamaphosa/status/1758116025789194511

• https://twitter.com/CyrilRamaphosa/status/1758116025789194511

Tom Suozzi, of the Democratic party, and former Representative of the 3rd district of New York, won today's special election, due to the expulsion of Republican George Santos, and will return to Washington representing the district. The term runs until January 3, 2025.

George Santos, after the defeat of the Republican candidate in the 3rd district of New York, which he represented until his expulsion, posted the message below, in which he mocks the reduction of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, caused by his expulsion.

:troll:

Day 3 of no treats. Eating healthy, not drinking, not smoking cigs or weed. How do people cope living without treats? Seems like this lifestyle is impossible to sustain.

Local media here is giving huge Ws to the ukranians because of some shit on the black sea, so what's going on are they doing well there? And how does it affect the rest of the front?

The plot thickens. Yuliya Navalnaya made a surprise appearance at the Munich Security Conference 2024, which happens to start today, to appeal to everyone to punish the Russian regime. (NY Times)

International Community Does Nothing to Stop Israel: Mitaki

On Wednesday, two Israeli airstrikes killed seven people in a building in Nabatieh and another three from the same family in a house in Souaneh.

On Friday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced the ongoing Israeli aggression against southern Lebanon.

"While Lebanon insists on the need for regional stability and calls on all parties to refrain from escalation, we have found that Israel continues its aggression, leading us to wonder what measures the international community has taken to stop this prolonged aggression," he said during the Munich Security Conference (MSC).

"Just two days ago, a family of seven was attacked in southern Lebanon, including women and children. Killing and attacking innocent women, children, and elderly people is a crime against humanity," Mikati added.

On Wednesday, two Israeli airstrikes killed seven people in a building in Nabatieh and another three from the same family in a house in Souaneh, marking a record number of civilian casualties in a single day since the beginning of hostilities four months ago.

Mikati reiterated Lebanon's commitment to "all" resolutions adopted by the United Nations in recent decades regarding Israel, a neighboring country to which he also urged to respect and implement those resolutions.

For that to happen, he pointed out that the Jewish state must end its attacks on Lebanon, stop violating its sovereignty, and withdraw from "all Lebanese territories occupied" in border areas, where there are 13 disputed points between the two nations.

"A stable, vibrant, and sovereign Lebanon is a basic necessity; not only for the Lebanese people but also for the peace and stability of the region," he said.

Mikati is expected to meet on the sidelines of the conference with a series of international officials as part of efforts to contain the border violence with Israel, including U.S. adviser and mediator Amos Hochstein.

In which chuds froth at the idea that the Texas grid should be connected to the national grid

Cuba Establishes Diplomatic Relations with South Korea

Trade between the countries amounted to 21 million U.S. dollars in 2022.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that Cuba has established diplomatic relations with South Korea through the exchange of official letters in New York.

The letters were exchanged between the missions of the two countries to the United Nations to set up their ambassador-level diplomatic ties, according to the Cuban ministry.

"The establishment of official relations between the two countries was carried out in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and in conformity with the spirit and norms set forth in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961," the statement said.

For its part, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said that the establishment of diplomatic relations was an important turning point for Seoul to strengthen and expand diplomacy in Latin America.

The Ministry added that it would contribute to expanding substantial cooperation between the two countries.

Some 14,000 South Koreans had visited Cuba annually before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, while trade between the two countries amounted to 21 million dollars in 2022.

In this regard, it is worth mentioning that in May 2016, the chambers of commerce of the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding in the interest of boosting bilateral cooperation, especially the exchange of business-related information.

Cuba approved the Republic of Korea, the official name of South Korea, in 1949, but exchanges between the two countries had been cut off since the Cuban socialist revolution of 1959.

In 2022, when the 'international community' was going on and on about russia, which countries were refusing to fall in line? Like pakistan with the whole 'what are we your slaves' comment.

I couldve sworn there was a UN vote about condemning the invasion, but most of the countries chose not to?

In a World Taking About War, Colombia Talks About Peace: Petro

"We are witnessing a genocide live and we cannot do anything or we are complicit with it," the Colombian president said. At the Security Conference held in Munich, Colombian President Gustavo Petro advocated for social justice as a way out of conflicts in the world.

"In a world that talks about war, Colombia is talking about peace and it's not the first time," assured Petro, who is the only South American leader at this high-level conference on Friday.

He participates on a panel alongside Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo, United Nations Secretary Antonio Guterres, and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley.

"There is no nation that can be sustained and built by killing itself for 75 years," he said, alluding to the time during which Colombia has been experiencing an internal war.

When explaining the reasons for this long-lasting conflict, Pedro stated that Colombia is one of the world's most unequal countries, a nation in which colonial structures left a persistent legacy in its economy, culture and society.

He proposed building alternatives throughout the planet that would allow for the expansion of social justice as a mechanism to resolve conflicts between countries and within countries.

"We are witnessing a genocide live and we cannot do anything or we are complicit with it," Petro said, referring to Gaza. "What should we do? Barbarism, war, and bombing, or a new democratic pact between the North and the South?" he asked at the Munich forum, in which are also participating Israel President Isaac Herzog, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Making implicit reference to the numerous resolutions in favor of peace in the Middle East approved by the United Nations General Assembly, Petro called for listening to the voices calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

"Humanity has voted at the United Nations for the end of wars. Why don't they listen to us? Why do they have more planes?" the Colombian president asked, adding that "while more planes mean barbarism, more votes represent democracy, civilization, and humanity."

Ian Miles Cheong execution watch party when?

it's probably some boring shit but I'm hoping space lasers

navalny dies, but fucking zuganov is still alive. Fucking sucks, what the fuck

War with Hezbollah to be 'Israel's' deadliest: 130-page Israeli report

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The potential war between the Israeli occupation and Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a grim reality for the Israeli occupation, as it would be the most devastating war it has gone through since its inception, as per a three-year study conducted by hundreds of experts at the Counter-Terrorism Policy Institute at Reichman University.

Israeli news outlet Calcalist shed light on the grim analysis of the potential war, which warns of unprecedented destruction and bloodshed in a conflict that could surpass the Israeli occupation's worst fears.

The exhaustive 130-page report was a collaborative effort of six think tank teams, consisting of 100 experts, former military and security officials, academics, and government officials. Notably, the team was led by Professor Boaz Ganor, a globally recognized pioneer in so-called "terrorism research" and the current president of Reichman University.

Despite the gravity of the findings, Calcalist suggests that doubts surround the timing of the report's release, hinting at possible concealment or manipulation. Ganor reportedly presented the report to various Israeli military and political leaders in the months leading up to the Palestinian Resistance's October 7 operation. However, the attempts to alert security agencies and decision-makers were allegedly unsuccessful, according to the Israeli media outlet.

The report was presented to senior Israeli officials over the span of 40 meetings with figures as high-ranking as former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Security Minister Moshe Ya'alon, and former Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, among others.

Ganor's report suggests that the war, anticipated to erupt from the north, will be overwhelmingly intense for the Israeli occupation, with Hezbollah launching a whopping 2,500 to 3,000 missiles per day. This barrage includes both statistically inaccurate rocket artillery and high-precision long-range missiles.

The relentless assault is projected to persist day after day, extending over three weeks from the outbreak of hostilities. The report warns that the resulting destruction will be unprecedented, accompanied by thousands of casualties on both the front lines and among Israeli settlers within occupied Palestine, sparking a state of panic and disarray.

The pace of the barrage will present unprecedented challenges to Israeli capabilities, depleting reserves of interception missiles for the Iron Dome and David's Sling within the early days of the conflict. The Israeli occupation could be left exposed to thousands of rocket and missile attacks without an effective and reliable defensive mechanism.

Intensive fire will target hangars storing military aircraft and precision missiles with explosive warheads will strike sensitive infrastructure, including power stations, electricity-related facilities, desalination plants, and transportation facilities in Haifa and "Ashdod", the report underlined.

The report's research team also issued a dire warning that a swarm of dozens of suicide drones flying at very low altitudes would target critical assets within occupied Palestine. These include weapons facilities, emergency storage facilities for the Israeli occupation forces, and hospitals that would be needed for the unprecedented casualties that would be incurred.

The assault won't be limited to physical attacks; critical transportation infrastructure, communication channels, and sites related to government ministries and local authorities are expected to face widespread cyberattacks, posing a serious risk of disrupting the economy.

The report highlights that chaos is expected to escalate within the Israeli occupation as Hezbollah prepares to send hundreds of fighters from the Radwan force into Israeli territories. Their primary objective would be to gain control of settlements along the border area with Lebanon and strategic military sites in the northern region.

Hezbollah plans to exacerbate panic and confusion through continuous psychological warfare, flooding the media and social networks with threats and information that deepen internal divisions. Additionally, those seeking to escape from occupied Palestine may discover that the country's air links with the world have been severed.

Ganor, a prominent figure in the region, pointed out that the Israeli public's expectations of the Air Force and intelligence formations preventing the majority of guided missile strikes on the Israeli occupation are likely to be disproven. The assumption that an intensive Israeli attack on strategically important properties in Lebanon will force Hezbollah to cease fire is also expected to be proven wrong.

Hezbollah will not be alone in this battle, as the report warns of involvement from organizations across the region. Resistance factions in Syria and Iraq, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, as well as Ansar Allah in Yemen, are expected to contribute to what the report describes as a "violent and extensive upheaval."

A report made in late January by Israeli media outlets saw the Israelis admitting to the Lebanese Resistance's capabilities, saying Hezbollah possessed the capability to launch approximately a thousand missiles at 'Tel Aviv' within a two-hour operational window. The report suggests that some of these missiles will be precision-guided, while others will be directed toward the skyscrapers in "Tel Aviv".

Israeli officials admitted that the Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, has succeeded in emptying the settlements in northern occupied Palestine without the use of any force. According to the officials, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) commander of the northern region has received instructions not to escalate confrontations with the Lebanese resistance.

In a related context, a former Shin Bet official Dvir Karev told Israeli Channel 13 that "Israel" is currently in its third war with Lebanon and that Hezbollah has much more power than Hamas, both in weapons and in force. He questioned whether the IOF's power could be sufficient against Hezbollah and expressed hope that the confrontations would remain at a low level, acknowledging the many Israeli casualties.

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https://nitter.cz/JakeSherman/status/1757775659475021938#m

There is supposedly going to be some hearing to declassify information about a "destabilizing foreign military capability".

https://nitter.cz/sentdefender/status/1757821213915611363#m

A U.S. Intelligence Official has reportedly told CNN that the National Security Threat is a “Highly Concerning and Destabilizing” Capability established by the Russian Armed Forces.

Edit: According to new reports, it's space-related and not urgent.

US eases restrictions on Wells Fargo after years of strict oversight following scandal

Best guesses until Wells Fargo fucks up on a royal scale again?

Cluster munition attack on a base with a concentration of forces and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Tsukurino

Footage of attacks on a Ukrainian military facility in the Tsukurino area in the part of the DPR temporarily occupied by Kiev regime

Coordinates: 48.089901, 37.290115

Reportedly destroyed:

• 2 infantry fighting vehicles;
• 4 trucks with ammunition and equipment;
• 2 minibuses and 4 pickups with personnel;
• warehouse wth military-technical equipment;
• up to 30 servicemen.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/88610

Syrskyi not off to a great start. Rushing in multiple reserve battalions to reinforce the crumbling Avdiivka front and concentrating forces behind the front has lead to sloppy logistics and Russia destroying whole battalions worth of equipment in a single strike.

Zaluzhnyi wouldn’t have made this error I don’t think, he would have retreated if he had his way.

Is the bulletins site no longer updated?

When the newly rebuilt Mariupol apartments are better than mine

Very news: crypto is again at 2 trillion evaluation

Yo, you cop those new Treezys?

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