Bulletins and News Discussion from March 4th to March 10th, 2024 - The Coalition of Losers - COTW: Pakistan

Rishi Sunak felt the need to explicitly “reject” the idea that “Britain is or has been on the wrong side of history.”

Keep bullying.

BREAKING: U.S. Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1764781238550680002

The food the US dropped for Gaza was MREs that were 8 years out of date.

There are now multiple billboards in Yemen with Aaron Bushnell's picture

He's gonna win lmao

https://twitter.com/addammy1/status/1765948090501001622

Yemeni forces attacked the cargo ship True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden, after which it caught fire.

Al Jazeera reports this with reference to the Houthi press service.

Two sailors were killed, the British embassy in Sana'a said.

According to the AP, the ship is owned by Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management.

Reuters claims that it is owned by a Greek company with no connection to the United States, and that the ship was flying the flag of Barbados.

Ambrey, which specializes in maritime security, claims that the attacked bulk carrier is still American.

Pretty interesting how every time Ansarallah strikes another ship, media falls over itself to say it’s “Greek owned, Lebanese flagged, heading towards Cyprus” or some shit to try and make Ansarallah look like reckless terrorists, but it always comes out eventually it was indeed US/UK/Israeli connected in some major way. They deliberately omit the connections and only report on everything else. In one article they will mention the flag but omit the owner, in another they will omit the flag but mention the owner. It’s such obvious bad faith propaganda on their parts

Exactly 1 month ago Sweden ended their investigation into the NordStream pipeline, saying it lacked jurisdiction on the issue. Today they join NATO officially.

How much circumstantial evidence do we need to conclusively say NATO INTENTIONALLY caused one of the worst environmental disasters of all time?

Democrats say they aren’t worried about the “Uncommitted” campaign because it isn’t garnering that much support, when in reality people will just sit out the election if they don’t like your candidate.

Funny enough, this always makes me think of an episode of Kitchen Nightmares where Gordon Ramsay once said something that really stuck with me. A restaurant was failing due to the low quality of its food, and people were sending their food back to the kitchen saying that it was no good. The owner/chef were shocked because they said this never happens, and it must just be because Gordon Ramsay was there influencing their decision. Ramsay said that in the restaurant business, almost all restaurants stay afloat due to repeat customers. He went on to say that it may be true that people are sending food back now because they know he’s here, but on a normal day it’s different. If you go out to eat and the food is low quality, the vast majority of people don’t send food back, they just never come back to your restaurant.

This so perfectly encapsulates how the “Uncommitted” vote in the Democrat primaries is actually an underrepresentation of people who will not vote for Biden on Election Day. It is much more difficult to go out to a predetermined primary election and vote for nobody than it is to simply stay home and not vote at all.

Democrats will lose a sizable chunk of voters as a result of this election cycle, many of them forever. This alienation event is almost certainly going to be larger than the Bernie 2016 and 2020 events, and is probably going to be the largest since NAFTA. If you are a young person, it is just so blatantly obvious that democrats have almost no policy overlap with you.

Houthi attack kills two sailors in group’s first fatal strike on shipping

The True Confidence bulk carrier is no longer under the command of its crew because they have abandoned the vessel, UK Maritime Trade Operations says.

Libs love to say "Biden doesn't have the power to send weapons to Israel, it's up to Congress.".

Except Congress hasn't sent any weapons, Biden has bypassed them multiple times to send weapons. It's not even a spin or bad faith or anything, they're just dumbasses.

In Toronto, there was a protest against a Zionist real estate show selling Palestinian land, which culminated in a Zionist freak attempting to attack protestors with a nailgun and a few cars trying to run over the protestors.

Background of the protest: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764424937375166754

Aniti-Zionist rabbi explaining the protest: https://twitter.com/Mivasair/status/1764322548215410811

Car attempting to run over protestors: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764308711265202490

Zionist loser attempting to attack protestors with a nailgun, getting scared, attempting to throw hands with some middle-aged lady, getting scared again, and storming off in his car: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764426956483817739

Different POV of the same Zionist loser: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764345290109145174

Lurking more, there was apparently multiple Zionist venues in Canada selling illegally occupied land, which led to multiple protests, which lead to multiple Zionist attempts at injuring and murdering protestors.

I don't know if this is part of the same Toronto protest. Apparently, Thornhill is right next to Toronto proper: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764704064942576039

Biden invoking Reagan in the first 10 minutes, amazing. Insane that Reagan has had 11 terms.

Residents in Areeha named one of the streets in the city after the American pilot Aaron Bushnell, who self-immolated in front of the occupation embassy in Washington, in solidarity with Palestine and in rejection of his country's position supporting the genocide war waged against #Gaza. This sign of appreciation from Palestine comes just a week after a government order in Sana'a, Yemen put Aaron's face on billboards across

State of the Union: Gold Star dad whose son died during U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan arrested for heckling Biden

Maybe should have been more upset about sending your kid to colonize another country.

Macron: "If Russia moves towards Kiev or Odessa, there will be no red lines for France"

Hopefully other NATO countries won't be stupid enough to follow France's lead.

The ICJ has refused South Africa's request for the court to issue demands for the to cease it's campaign on last Monday, reverting to their empty statements of "ensuring the safety of Palestinian civilians". On the flip side, Nicaragua has filed a seperate suit against for complicity in genocide. Ireland has imposed sanctions and Brazil is the latest country to sever relations with the apartheid regime.

Damn this photo still goes hard. Death to ISISrael

To top it off, the South African government has very openly stated that the West has no grounds to speak of human rights, validating the

As of 22h00 SAST, there is again a total communications blackout in the entire Gaza Strip.

The total amount of water also entering the strip, of which 97% is contaminated, is less than 7 million liters daily. This is half a million liters below that of Johannesburg's Berea suburb by contrast, which has 1/50th the population.

The intentional annual homicide rate also stands at 3,500/100K, 100 times greater than that of South Africa.

ICJ does not consider this urgent BTW.

Medvedev ditched his usual Western suit and donned a Zhongshan suit in the conference “Knowledge First” two days ago.

lmao this guy.

What is he trying to say? That Russia is a Chinese colony now?

What would be substantially different about a Trump presidency? Biden has, to my knowledge refused federal action against LGBT discrimination in red states, signed on to every last bullet point of Trump's white nationalist border sadism, given unlimited greenlights to the rogue state of Israel to carry out a genocide, refused to codify Roe and essentially allowed the Supreme Court to remain an unchecked organ of hard right political power.

Which elements of fascism would materialize under Trump that Biden hasn't either sleepwalked into or enthusiastically supported?

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I don't think the Zionists actually want this "temporary ceasefire" deal to happen. They want it to be rejected so they can say "oh, we wanted peace, but Kkkkhhhhamas refuses" and then re-intensify their genocidal bombing and starvation campaigns.

Israeli settlers have walked past the military without issue and are walking directly to the humanitarian aid trucks headed to Gaza in order to stop them.

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These people brought their babies with them to a highly sensitive and militarized zone on the border of Gaza in order to celebrate illegally blocking humanitarian assistance meant for a desperate and starving Palestinian population that has been bombarded with 2,000 pound bombs for 5 months

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Lmao

A whole room clapping extra long for his comments on Israel. We are firmly in the shadows of history

FAIR: US Media and Factcheckers Fail to Note Israel’s Refutation of ‘Beheaded Babies’ Stories

Bituah Leumi, the Israeli social security agency, provided that missing proof when it posted the official list of victims that showed only one infant was killed in the attack.

The mainstream US news media ignored that authoritative evidence.

Looks like the resistance carried out a massive operation in the West Bank centered around Nablus, Al Mayadeen English is reporting all checkpoints were attacked. Still too early to tell, but it could be a major event

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-to-falsely-admit-hamas-links/ar-BB1jzR5h

The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.

torture of kidnapped aid workers to extract false confessions for the purpose of defunding a tremendously important humanitarian aid organization. Horrifying

I was watching some of Genocide Joe's older interviews (2016 and earlier)... He sounds incredibly coherent, incredibly well-spoken, and incredibly arrogant. A model American statesman.

What the fuck happened?

So apparently Biden is trying to circumvent protesters by not going to College Campuses and getting smaller town halls. His aides are hiding him (which they were already doing tbh, it was his 2020 strat), but they are doing it even more now.

Israeli Rabbi Giora Redler on Israeli Channel 13 praises Hitler, claims "He was the most correct person there ever was, and was correct in every word he said...he was just on the wrong side"

Holy fuck, San Francisco is evil. This passed 63-37:

Shall the City require single adults age 65 and under with no dependent children who receive City public assistance benefits and whom the City reasonably suspects are dependent on illegal drugs to participate in screening, evaluation and treatment for drug dependency for those adults to be eligible for most of those benefits?

"Political violence has no place in America."

Because it belongs in Gaza of course.

Israeli news is reporting that the Biden administration prevented European countries from sanctioning Israel

VICTORIA NULAND GONE

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1765032997995081999

As it is 'International' Women's Day, why not learn how MI6 cynically weaponised Syrian women for information warfare purposes

https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/syrian-women-exploited-in-british

"Roughly a year after that CIA memo was authored, Gay Girl in Damascus, a blog purportedly written by Syrian-American lesbian Amina Arraf, garnered significant mainstream attention. Widely hailed for her “fearless” and “inspiring” eyewitness reporting, the author was lauded as a symbol of the “progressive” revolution erupting in the country.

In June 2011, Amina’s cousin announced on the blog Amina had been kidnapped by three armed men in the Syrian capital. In response, numerous Facebook pages were set up calling for Amina’s release and ‘liked’ by tens of thousands, #FreeAmina trended widely on Twitter, journalists and rights groups begged Western governments to demand her release, and the US State Department announced it was investigating her disappearance.

Six days later, it was revealed ‘Amina’ was in fact Tom MacMaster, a US citizen residing in Scotland. While corporate news outlets hurried to forget all about the hoax they’d so comprehensively fallen for, their appetite for dubious human interest stories emanating from the crisis evidently wasn’t diminished."

New NYMag long form profile of Biden has some banger quotes from Biden's melted brain

I asked Biden if he intended to apply more pressure on Israel’s leaders, and, for the first time that day, he did not jab back at the question. “I understand the anger and the rage” sparked by October 7th, he said. “But you can’t let the rage consume you to the point where you lose the moral high ground.”

I asked Biden what he would do in a second term to protect abortion access at the federal level. “Pass Roe v. Wade as the law of the land,” he said. Democrats would need to win control of the House of Representatives and gain seats in the Senate, but Biden expressed confidence. “A few more elections like we’ve seen taking place in the states” would suffice, he said. “You’re seeing the country changing.” Then, reiterating his position on Roe, he said, “I’ve never been supportive of, you know, ‘It’s my body, I can do what I want with it.’ But I have been supportive of the notion that this is probably the most rational allocation of responsibility that all the major religions have signed on and debated over the last thousand years.”

Houthi Attacks In Red Sea And Gulf Of Aden From November 19, 2023 To March 5, 2024

I am going to go fucking postal.

Q: How does the Pentagon address the apparent paradox of providing bombs to Israel on the one hand and ready-to-eat meals to the Palestinians on the other?

PENTAGON: Israel has an inherent right to defend itself.

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I do love seeing Dems screamed at by Palestine activists, while also seeing the old people look like they are willing to die for that politician when they confront the activist.

Gaza has been divided in half by a new road the IDF constructed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68514821.amp

They are almost certainly going to maintain control of this post-conflict, using it as a tool to control travel between north and south just like they control travel through checkpoints elsewhere in the country.

143 Greenlandic women who had contraceptive spirals inserted without proper consent in the 1969's and 1970's has filed a human rights lawsuit against the Danish state. Each of the victims are demanding a compensation of USD 44.000 for violation of their right to family life among other offenses

The so-called Spiral Campaign was a eugenics programme in the years 1966 to 1975 initiated by Danish colonial administrators in Greenland who were alarmed over a rising number of Inuit children born out of wedlock. Indigenous girls as young as 13 had contraceptive spirals inserted by Danish colonial health professionals often without asking them or their parents for consent and without informing victims about the procedure. Several victims have told how they experienced the procedure as forced. Victims experienced high rates of complications as the spirals inserted were sized for adult women who had given birth and not for the teenagers who received them. Complications were made worse by victims lacking proper information about the procedure and many victims suffered lasting injuries.

The Danish government promised to make an official investigation of the Spiral Campaign in 2022 but has been dragging it's feet, leading to a diplomatic crisis with the government of Greenland last year. Danish officials refuse to make statement regarding compensations as long as the investigation is ongoing.

The victims are not content with waiting for the investigation that is due to be finished next year though. They see the investigation as a stalling tactic and according to their lawyer the scope of the official investigation is not to assign culpability or to assess compensation and as the oldest victim is 85 there is no time for further delays.

In recent years the Danish state has settled human rights lawsuits with 26 Greenlandic legally fatherless children, six survivors of a 1950's experiment to assimilate Inuit children into Danish culture and 46 Danish men who were abused at an orphanage as children and paid out compensations. No steps has been made to settle this case though and if it goes to trial it will be the largest human rights case in Danish legal history.

It's already happening with the text spam, despite my growing plethera of blocked numbers, that the Democrats are going shotgun anything breadcrumbs to ignore or move on from the genocide. Rolling out Bend the Knee Bernie. Rolling out Kyle Cucklinsky. Other trying to raise decimated worthless stale crumbs up from the depths of the abyss of future nothingness they are. The can kicking "pragmatic" tone deaf farts they blow at you and proudly claim historic "accomplishments" shall be mocked and dismissed as the absence of material improvements and lies that they are.

It is our duty to not ever let these fuckers off the hook and bully them and their mouthpieces harder than ever.

IN NOVEMBER WE REMEMBER.

Shut the fuck up: Pro-Zionist Danish PM Booed Off Stage By Anti-genocide Protesters

Friday night Danish succdem prime minister Mette Frederiksen was booed off stage by anti-genocide protesters at an international women's day event in Copenhagen where she was scheduled to give a speech about "girls' and women's rights".

Shortly after beginning her speech Frederiksen was interrupted by a man shouting "stop your hypocrisy!", which resulted in cheers and applause among the crowd. Several protestors began shouting "Free Palestine!" and "genocide in Palestine!". A part of the crowd was discontent with the disruption and applauded Frederiksen who then attempted to continue her speech, only to be immediately cut short by chants of "Free Palestine" and "shut the fuck up" from protestors who had unfurled Palestinian flags and hung banners from the balconies of the venue.

Frederiksen made several attempts to ignore the protesters and continue her speech but eventually she gave up and went off stage. She then immediately left the building together with three other government ministers who were scheduled to appear at the event. One of the ministers described the vibes of the venue going from "good" to "unsafe and unpleasant".

Protesters distributed flyers among the crowd with the headline "Mette Frederiksen is not a feminist", describing the atrocities done to Palestinian girls and women by the genocidal zionist occupiers.

Frederiksen has declined to give interviews about the protest. Instead, following her usual style of preferring strictly controlled one-way communication, she has made a both whiny and pompous post on Facebook saying that "Unfortunately there was so much shouting that I couldn't get through with my words. Thanks to all of you who insisted on the democratic dialogue. Luckily you were the most." She goes on to write "I hope it will give cause to thought. Our democracy is only as strong as we make it".

With Denmark being an American satellite state it is no surprise that establishment politics in the Nordic country is near-universally pro-zionist. However, throughout her career Frederiksen has been more vocal than most about her support for the settler-colonialist project in Palestine than most politicians. She has made nebulous accusations against the left of "anti-semitism", attempted to pass an "official definition of anti-semitism" that labelled anti-zionism as antisemitic and keenly collaborated with the illegal zionist entity as well as placed orders for weapons with the zionist arms manufacturer Elbit. Since the Al-Aqsa Flood happened her government has followed the American lead of condemning Palestinian resistance while handwringing over the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Putin confirmed that Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles had been used for the first time in Ukraine (RIA)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, said that the Zircon complex had already been used in combat.

“Obviously, we are talking about the use of the latest hypersonic missiles for attacks on military targets of Ukraine. Surely these missiles were used within the framework of the air defense as part of the so-called combined strikes, which involve the use of various types of weapons in one strike with synchronization in time and place. That is this is a combination, for example, of Zircons, Calibers, Geran UAVs, and Kh-101 long-range air-launched cruise missiles,” Murakhovsky said. In his opinion, no more than two or three Zircons were used in one strike, because this stage of use is a test of the weapon system in real combat conditions.

“Most likely, combined strikes with the participation of Zircons were carried out against Ukrainian targets in areas most densely covered by layered air defense, including with the participation of Western Patriot-type systems, in order to confirm the capabilities of hypersonic missiles to overcome air defense. I think that in this regard there were targets have been selected for destruction in the Odessa or Kiev region,” Murakhovsky noted.

The specialist added that, judging by the lack of “media activity” on this matter from the enemy, the missiles were not shot down. He recalled that the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles had previously confirmed their effectiveness in overcoming the layered air defense of Ukraine, which includes Western-style air defense systems.

The Zircon missile was developed and produced at the Reutov NPO Mashinostroyenia (part of the Tactical Missiles Corporation). The missile has a range of 1000 kilometers and can reach a speed of Mach 9.

Better start believing in it. Scramjet hypersonic cruise missiles are real.

I'm not an expert on El Salvador by any means, but it seems kinda funny that Bukele's "solution" to gangs in the country is the same thing that caused the creation of those gangs in the first place: creating a huge prison system and throwing a bunch of people into it.

I'm sure that won't backfire at all in the future.

A video shows what it’s like inside an IOF troop carrier after it was targeted by the Palestinian resistance using a Al-Yassin 105 Shell, resulting in deaths and injuries of the IOF tеrrorists. You can hear the sound of the carrier burning in the background (CW: Dead and Bloodied fascists)

When life comes at you fast

Apparently there aren't actually any defensive lines beyond Avdiivka? Whoops.

West of Avdiivka, no significant defense line has been built for Ukrainian troops, and the Russian army continues to advance. This was announced by the editor-in-chief of Censor, Yuri Butusov, following his trip to this area.

"There are no words. Gap: here in Kiev, the supreme commander-in-chief says one thing, but at the front something completely different is happening. I want to say that no field lines of fortifications have been built beyond Avdiivka so far. I saw Russian drones attacking our soldiers in their burrows in the middle of a field, " Butusov said.

According to him, no conclusions are drawn from previous failures. "If the government can't find builders to build at least basic rear lines of defense, if they can't find engineers to maintain modern equipment, drones, sensors, communications, if they can't find workers and technologists to produce ammunition, then there will never be enough attack aircraft," the journalist added.

Even the NYT is admitting it:

Sparse, rudimentary trench lines populate the area west of Avdiivka that Ukraine is trying to defend, according to a Times review of imagery by Planet Labs, a commercial satellite company. These trench lines lack many of the additional fortifications that could help slow Russian tanks and help defend major roads and important terrain.

But a part of me wants Biden to win just to see what happens like how he continues to become a zombie on live TV every day. Like if now it's bad, imagine four more years lmao

TIL the U.S. did a successful coup against Australia when it threatened to shut down its big spy base decades ago. I guess Oz really learned it lesson.

Transnistria appears to have vanished from google maps lol

A lot of the even progressive or nominally leftist streamers, podcasters, and other talking heads who are covering the lies about sexual violence on Oct 7 always include disclaimers like, "I'm not saying no sexual violence occurred, in fact I find it very likely it did, but no evidence has been produced...."

Find it very likely why? Because it was Palestinians? Because some of them were Hamas? Because any incident of mass violence is likely to include sexual violence? Because they were overwhelmingly young men? Because Israel said so? What? It strikes me as still buying heavily into "gotta condemn Hamas, no matter what" bullshit. Or am I missing something, other than the obvious racism?

Argentina's Foreign Minister, ancap Diana Mondino, remembers the passing of Akira Toriyama with this insane "how do you do fellow kids" post

"Now and Forever"

"SHRINK THE STATE

ELIMINATE TAXES

INCREASE FREEDOMS"

Yeah, that's EXACTLY what Goku would have wanted... Anarcho-Capitalism. She never even watched Dragon Ball lmfao, she's a 65 year old demon.

In other news, our ancap-in-chief gave a speech in his boyhood school, which is dangerously close to where I live. The school itself is a private one, made by the rich and only for the rich Anyway, he gave a speech to a bunch of kids, he spoke about Davos and how he "fought the Communists" there, he actually spoke alot about Communism and Socialism, saying how dangerous it is. To kids.

However, during his speech, one kid fainted. He actually showed some compassion and ordered his medics to assist the kid. The speech resumed, he continued to talk about the dangers of Communism when ANOTHER KID FAINTED, this one was directly next to him (It was caught on live TV even). Compassion was gone by this point, and he made a joke about the kid fainting, because reasons. Terrible aura, Chávez walked by and said he smells of sulfur.

lmao

Nikki Haley becomes first woman to win a Republican presidential primary

And also the first person to win a Republican primary with a majority Democratic votes.

That primary is DC by the way. I'm sure all five Republicans living there voted Trump.

Haley dropped out

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nikki-haley-exit-us-republican-presidential-race-wsj-reports-2024-03-06/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nikki-haley-ends-presidential-campaign-trump-gop-primary-rcna134811

"I'll restore Roe v Wade as the land of the law again."

Our president has the best brain.

that's the picture they went with huh

US to set up temporary port on Gaza coast for aid delivery

highly suspect this will somehow be used to kill more palestinians

Naxal rally burning effigies of Bibi, Biden and Modi in solidarity with Palestine https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianLeft/comments/1b7ubc4/naxals_showing_their_solidarity_for_palestinians/

I was wondering why claims of Uyghur sterilization fit so prominently in US claims... The Role of Sterilization in Controlling Puerto Rican Fertility

I should have known.

Idk if it was here or Twitter but some people were definitely saying that dropping tons of supplies from the sky would probably crush people to death

Seems like it has!

https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1766054703673016493

Is it possible that the increasingly flagrant warcrimes being committed by Israel is a sign that this war's really not going so well for them? They're taking their frustrations out on civilians who they know aren't able to fight back, just so they can feel like they're "powerful" and "winning."

Germany: Far-left group claims act of sabotage on Tesla - DW

https://archive.ph/WY1B2

I've been thinking about all of the articles about NATO troops possibly deploying in Ukraine and the whole will they won't they of it all. I think that this piece by Bhadrakumar got me to finally understand what NATO is planning. There will be bilateral troop deployments from some willing NATO countries and because they won't be in NATO territory they will not be able to trigger article five. I'm convinced that the Brandon regime will push for this in an absurd attempt to win reelection. Try to go full wartime president with it with non-US NATO troops fighting Russia. They will try flying close to the sun on this one.

I don't know what that looks like in practice exactly but I can see a rough shape. said that France will move after certain red lines are crossed. I could also see staggered announcements and entrance into the plan.

First, after Russia goes on the offensive, announce some ghoulish framework for helping Ukraine and how it will be conducted. Next, announce noncombat troop deployments as "advisors" and such from France and a few other countries. Then, after NATO troops die in combat (like they're supposed to), they can announce limited combat forces and work their way up the escalation ladder. This would be a slow buildup with countries entering the new "coalition of the willing" over a few months, but I can see it happening this way.

This could also all be bullshit to try to scare the Russians though. I think that I'm around 50-50 between the two options.

Even Xi is heartbroken by Toriyamas death

CAIR calls for probe of Israeli flag at polling station

There's a new Biden interview with some actually interesting moments.

The interviewer asks Biden about calling a person "an illegal" during his SOTU speech. Biden says that he now regrets using the word "illegal" and should have said undocumented person. Then Biden go on to say "we have to control the border", but also that he's different from Trump because Trump uses words like Vermin. Biden basically says that he's doing Trump's border policy but with Civility (TM).

The interviewer asks Biden about the hot mic footage after the speech, where Biden says "I told Bibi, and don't repeat this, 'You and I are about to have a come to Jesus meeting'." Biden says that Bibi has the right to protect Israel but that it's now Biden's view that Israel's actions are hurting Israel by making them look bad. Then Biden says that he's trying to get a ceasefire, 6-week ceasefire. The notable thing here is that the Democratic establishment is redefining what a ceasefire is. Ceasefire is meant to be an end of the war, not a 6-week pause.

The interviewer asks Biden about the "no red lines" policy on Israel. Biden says that he won't stop supplying weapons to Israel under any circumstance. Then he says "We can't have another 30,000 Palestinians dead". Biden says that he told Israel "Don't make the mistakes that America made with Bin Laden" Then he has a Freudian slip and says "But we shouldn't have gone into Ukraine". Biden winces. Then he says "I mean we shouldn't have gone into Iraq or Afghanistan."

The interviewers asks Biden about the port that Biden promised during the SOTU to build in Gaza for aid, saying that a port would take 60 days to build. The interviewer asks Biden what he will do to give aid to Gaza for the next 60 days. Biden talks about the air drops and acknowledges that several people were killed by the air drops falling on them.

The interviewer asks Biden about the Uncommitted primary voting campaign and says that many people have pledged to never vote for Biden because Biden actively armed a genocide. Biden says that the interviewer is lying and that people don't believe that. Biden says that people are upset and asking him to do something, but Biden says that he believes most people don't think that Israel is doing a genocide. Biden denies that Israel is doing genocide and he also denies that other people believe Israel is doing genocide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03VAGMvmoNQ

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-breaks-silence-laken-riley-sotu-1877143

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75OIu1hUchQ

Biden referred to an immigrant as 'an illegal'. He flubs his words afterwards. I think from the video, he says "how many innocent people are killed by legals?". Like he was trying to make the claim that more people are killed by documented american citizens. He's out of breath when he talks. The newsweeks article interpreted what he said differently. It's very bad that he referred to a person as illegal.

China and the Maldives have signed a defense deal

I got a copy of "white malice" about neocolonialism in africa on recommendation from the news mega a few days ago and damn if it isn't the most hexbear aesthetic for the cover

Heads up, there's photos of a Palestinian boy who has starved to death floating around in Twitter. The expression "nothing but skin and bones" isn't just an expression. He really looked like a skeleton wrapped in human skin. The photos show his entire body, not just his face which is what most Resistance news media have shown.

Trump should get Joe worked up to the point one of them keels over dead on the spot.

A huge jobs massacre is looming in German industry. Hundreds of thousands of jobs, some of them highly skilled, are at stake. The main focus is on the gutting of jobs in the automotive and parts industry, where—not including repair shops, petrol stations, trade and sales—more than 800,000 people are employed. Depending on the source and forecast, more than half of these jobs are at risk.

However, the layoffs are not limited to the automotive sector. The chemical, steel, construction, household appliances and even the IT sector are also affected. In retail, in the health sector, where dozens of hospitals are threatened with bankruptcy, and in rail freight, tens of thousands of jobs are also at risk.

The job massacre ranges from the factories to administration and development centres. “Suddenly, mid-level executives and experienced engineers are also at risk of losing their jobs,” writes the Handelsblatt, which published an extensive article on the subject at the end of February under the headline “And out you are – The new wave of staff reductions.”

“Those in the current wave of dismissals don’t just wear overalls, but more often than not also a suit, lab coat or hoodie,” according to the Handelsblatt. Citing labour market experts, it warned against the illusion “that most of the affected employees can easily switch to other vacancies.” Even if this were the case, “then these new jobs are often paid significantly less than the traditional position in the large corporation.”

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According to a survey by the Institute of the German Economy (IW), only five out of 47 industry associations expect an increase in the number of employees in 2024, and 23 industries expect a reduction, including such employment-intensive sectors as wholesale and retail, machine manufacture, trades and construction. Credit insurer Allianz Trade expects the number of insolvencies in Germany to rise to 20,260 in 2024. That is 5 per cent more than in the previous year.

Ansar Allah targeted american war ships with 37 drones a few hours ago

who would win in a dementia competition:

Joe Biden vs. bloodthirsty westoids posting some variation of "fuck around and find out" for the 12th week in a row

Recently surface letter between Princess Diana and pedophile Jimmy Saville led to someone penning this interesting article:

https://jamiefcrawford.substack.com/p/the-princess-and-the-pedophile?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5nd7r&triedRedirect=true

It's long so I'll give you the jist of it. They are suggesting that Diana was killed by the royals because she was going to expose Jimmy Saville and the royal family, bringing down the monarchy.

It fits with Andrew, Charles and existing shit. It has strong potential as a theory, and people will be willing to believe it in the current climate particularly because nobody likes Charles.

UNRWA funding news:

UNRWA donors likely to resume funding soon, Norway says

US wants Turkey to pick up its UNRWA tab: Report

Spain pledges extra 20 mln euros in aid to UNRWA

Canada to unfreeze funds for UN Palestinian refugee agency, CBC reports

Qatar pledges additional $25m to UNRWA

Iron Dome malfunctuons and hits colonizer building

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A succdem city councillor in Copenhagen is investigating the possibility of renaming the street the Russian embassy is located on to Alexey Navalny Street. He explicitly states that the intent of the proposal is to annoy russia. If it turns out not to be "too expensive or troublesome" he will make a formal proposal to the city council.

In 2022 a similar proposal attempted to change the name to Ukraine Street. That proposal was voted down as the committee for street names is very reluctant to rename existing streets due to the inconvenience it causes to residents. They did however add a several Ukraine-themed names to the list they draw names for new developments from.

In Oslo a similar proposal was passed, renaming the intersection in front of the Russian embassy to Ukraine Square.

New psyop dropped:

"At the same time, while the Chinese authorities appear to stand with Palestine geopolitically, we must also see that Israel and China are using the same rhetoric and methods for genocide. Therefore, we also implore Palestinians and their supporters to stand with the Uyghurs rather than being divided by campism."

https://chuangcn.org/2024/03/pinkwashing-genocide-palestine/

Nuland ("Toria" oh god kill me..) steps down / Is getting stepped down

The week just keeps getting worse in the Nordics: Finland is to send soldiers to "secure boat traffic in an US led operation in the Red Sea" along with Swedish and Danish troops that in parts are already there.

Can't find an English link of this yet.

All these social media platforms going down on Super Tuesday. Are they trying to suppress #UNCOMMITTED then blame Russia for 'election interference' again?

Spookbook and Instaglow back on.

Interesting thing I don't see talked about much here: Maine is working on joining the interstate compact to abolish the electoral college.

The idea is that, once a majority of electoral college votes sign on, that all of those states would award electors based on the national popular vote, making the presidential election actually democratic. If Maine accepts, that would bring the total to 209 votes out of 270 needed.
Theoretically, that would mean a lot more Democrat presidents. If they continue their rightward shift, that may not matter much, but it would be a significant change to American voting all the same.

Armenia is considering seeking EU membership, foreign minister says

Armenia is considering applying for European Union membership, foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday (8 March), as it seeks to forge closer ties with the West in the face of tensions with traditional ally Russia.

“Many new opportunities are largely being discussed in Armenia nowadays and that will not be a secret if I say that includes membership in the European Union,” Mirzoyan said in an interview with Turkey’s TRT World television station.

HELL FUCKING YEAH

Mondino alleges 'Cuban and Venezuelan moles' are in Argentina to destabilise government

Without presenting evidence, Argentina's foreign minister claims there are "specialist and highty skilled" Cuban and Venezuelan moles active in the country that are trying to destabilise President Javier Milei's government.

Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino said Thursday that there are undercover "Cuban and Venezuelan" spies active in the country that are trying to destabilise President Javier Milei's government. Speaking a day before President Milei is due to deliver his state-of-the-nation address to Congress, Mondino alleged during a television interview that foreign actors were trying to damage the government. Mondino claimed that “there are Cuban and Venezuelan moles in the country who specialise in destabilising governments."

“It’s already a proven fact, some of them journalists, they are highly skilled," the official told the TN news channel.

Without presenting evidence for her claims, Mondino said that "we have proven it in different ways," alleging that some of the alleged foreign actors were journalists. "The same thing happened in the riots from a few years ago in Chile, so they are obviously highly skilled," continued Mondino, Argentina's top diplomat. She said the goal of the rogue agents is to “make a fuss” to “get Milei out" of office.

They heard our calls for Freedom and answered. Blessed be the Cuban and Venezuelan Revolutionary Moles sacrificing everything for us.

“They are here to make a fuss, someone’s paying them to do it or stop doing it. The reward to oust Javier must be large,” she claimed.

The reward is a strong socialist Argentina. LETS FUCKING GOOO

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https://t.me/PalestineResist/30841

Anonymous Sudan launched a cyber attack on universities of the zionist entity yesterday, including "Tel Aviv University," "The Hebrew University," "The Technion," "Ben-Gurion University," "Haifa University, "Bar-Ilan University," "Weizmann Institute," successfully taking down their systems. The group has renewed its attack on the universities today.

The group stated: "Attacks against Israel will continue as they continue their genocidal campaign on Gaza. One of the reasons for the attack: drawing attention to the dire situation in Sudan."

Sudan was on the neocon PNAC list of Countries to destroy for the Empire

Does anyone have idea who took macron hinges? why is he suddenly the most bloodthirsty one? did they like, strike his son or some shit

West Bank resistance-

Jenin Brigade carried out a dual jihadist mission in the vicinity of the "Homesh" settlement, around 4:00 PM on Friday, March 8, 2024.

The operation involved luring enemy forces under gunfire and then trapping them in an explosive devices field, leading to direct hits and losses among the soldiers of the enemy forces.

If I ever want to feel better I just search “Nickel” and “Indonesia” online and see the massive amounts of cope from the West and the snarky responses the Indonesian government made towards the IMF and WTO.

Case in point: Indonesia's Nickel Supremacy: China's Backing and Australia's Decline

NOOOOOO you shouldn’t move away from primary raw commodity exports, you are our best mining colony!!!

Biden: "I'm a capitalist"

No shit

In the Funniest Coup In History News: brazilian General Augusto Heleno kept a diary in his home in which he rambled on about a four step plan to do a Great Purge. The General's plan was to have the Minister of Justice order Federal Police to do something; have the attorney general declare the order illegal; and then arrest the Police who followed said order. General Augusto was a prominent part of Bolsonaro's clique, a major proponent of the coup, and chief of security for Bolsonaro's presidency.

I was watching a shit "documentary" on TV this morning (I don't watch TV very often) and it was about the similarities between Russia's War in Ukraine and their war in Chechnya. The docu says usual stuff like Russia gives no freedoms and there are detention camps for, I shit you not (unless I heard something very wrong), pro-russian people INSIDE territory currently held by Russia. Also they claim Russia destroys entire cities only to rebuild them very fast after the battle is over, like they did with Mariupol and Grozny. This is, according to the gringos who made the docu, to "force the people to erase the war from their memories and serves as a propaganda and psychological warfare tool".

Nice, so if Russia takes a city and rebuilds it immediately after, it's bad. If Russia destroys a city and leaves it destroyed, it's also bad.

Also all people invited to speak in the docu were white and spoke near perfect english, despite some being "activists from Chechnya".

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In Finland the capitalist alinged Left party is countering the governments plan to remove workers right to strike by asking people to sign a petition on their website.

Amazing, I can't wait to see what incredible results asking the capitalists nicely brings this time./s

My dad is freaking out about some AI generated fake Trump ad that he thinks is real. He literally moved to my mom's home country last year to escape Trump. Now he wants me to uproot my life and move there. I don't know the language, even if I did I would have a hard time finding a job (I was quite lucky to get the one I have), which means I'd have to live with them which I'd rather not. I'm also already in a decent housing situation (mortgage from 2020 so pretty low interest rate, $1500 payments which is cheaper than some rent, especially for a home not a shitty apartment, and best of all no landlord) and I'd be giving that up.

I might get a gun though.

Where is Transnistria?

WHERE IS TRANSNISTRIA?

PUT IT BACK ON THE MAP, MOTHERFUCKER.

This is what American Democracy looks like. The whole picture’s a microcosm.

The Dems have been told to just stand up, clap, and scream about every banal thing he says. God they're so desperate. They KNOW they're going to lose the election.

3 border pigs got in a helicopter....yadda yadda

In Finland, a 2-week strike has been announced by SAK (the largest confederation of trade unions) in response to labor reforms by the new Finnish government. The strike is planned to start next Monday. Most notably it will impact port operations and rail freight traffic will be stopped.

EDIT: It's not as cool as I originally thought, this will only be a few thousand union members in key sectors. But it's still driving the porkies in Finnish media absolutely wild, quoting CEOs being upset.

SAK unions to begin political strikes on Monday

At a press conference on Tuesday, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) explained its efforts to establish negotiating channels with the Finnish Government in recent weeks. These efforts have been futile, and the Government has instead announced the intention to continue implementing its plans in all respects.

If you think about it, Taiwan is to superconductors as Arrakis is to spice.

I'm bored at work and it is only 10 my time

Nepal's communist parties join forces to form a new coalition government

Nima Shirazi talked with the Real News Network on Iran and the Resistance Axis: Demystifying Iran and the ‘Resistance Axis’. It's a very long interview and discussion but I like this part:

Nima Shirazi: Yeah. Iran is a large country with 80-plus million people. It has its own interests as a nation-state. Its government has its own interests domestically and internationally. There are all manner of different political persuasions and different perspectives on things within the country and within its people. To say that Iran has one thing that it wants to do is a way to flatten reality so that we can somehow after the Cold War ended, have a new, big, bad puppet master enemy. You don’t have the Soviet Union anymore, you don’t have communism in that way anymore, therefore, the political narrative switches to worrying about Iran and worrying about Islamism.

But so much of what this does is self-perpetuating because by casting Iran, its government, and also its people – And let’s be clear about this – The US and its allies and affiliated media arms love to do this thing where there’s the government and then the people. No, we’re not talking about the people; We love the people, we’re just talking about the government. But then everything we do is attacking the people. Every sanction, every missile strike, every drone attack attacks people. So that is a way to disassociate and dismiss out of hand, this idea that our interests, US interests, and Western interests are not fully bent on domination. They care about the freedom, love, and peace of people around the world. Okay. But with that in mind, this constant drumbeat of Iran can’t be trusted, Iran is our enemy, Iran is in charge, Iran is in control. One of my favorite terms herein that Wall Street Journal piece is the “land bridge.” You mean like, earth? [Max laughs] Okay. Cool.

Maximillian Alvarez: Also known as land [all laugh].

Nima Shirazi: Yeah. Like, okay. The land bridge between New York and Los Angeles is ripe with Americans [Max laughs]. Whoa, it’s fucked up. They built a land bridge. So all of this serves the purpose of not only refusing to change the perception of an enemy state to keep that threat ever present. So that American interests, American actions, Israeli interests and actions, and Saudi interests and actions can be perennially justified. Anything they do can be justified. It is reasonable to act in this way because of big, bad Iran. But also what that does, much in the way that we see the US political machines and media talk about Latin and South America, when there are socialist governments challenging American hegemony, those countries have been under threat. Their governments and their people have been under threat and under attack for so long and never allowed to fully realize the nation-states that they could have, with the popular representation that they could have, with the aspirations of the people enacted in the way that the people get to decide because they are constantly under threat.

Being constantly under threat serves a real political purpose not only for the US threatening those countries but also within those countries. Because the people and governments of those countries are always under siege, and therefore, what you see is this idea that what Iran could be is not allowed to be realized on purpose because it is constantly under sanction and under threat. The fact that Iran still maintains this terrifying persona in the American political power structure psyche is a real testament to how much resistance Iran has been able to maintain, that it has not been regime changed, it has not been occupied. So it’s important to realize that this threat narrative not only threatens people within those countries and whatever spectrum of political interests they have for aspirations of stronger democratic representation, of different relations with other countries in the world, that is done on purpose; Exacted from the outside onto those countries to stifle the natural course of the way that nation-states evolve.

I got a question for everyone here, in your country/region/state is the 4 day work week being talked about very often in the media or by center-left political figures?

I ask because for whatever reason this shit has really taken off here in Portugal to the point where they got my old former maoist uncle telling me "you're only going to be working 4 days soon!".

And I mean yeah I'm all for it, except that the way it's being pushed is not with "fuck the bosses we deserve to work less" and an associated mass movement (the communist friendly labour union approves it but they don't have the power alone to do it), it's with very technocratic arguments about productivity increases, sometimes mentioning the human worth of free time and recurring to the handful of limited experiments which are always successful, basically in the logic of "no class war here this is actually good for everyone!", which I don't know if that's true, feels like employers would 100% get fucked with this (unless they get to cut wages or increase work hours).

I already mentioned some of the reasons I'm skeptical this will ever actually be implemented anywhere, but another big one is that here in Portugal it's implicit in this idea of the 4 day work week that it has to be the center-left (often much closer to the center than the left) "socialist" party which has been in power for 9 years (and might get booted in next sunday's elections), and this is crazy because there's no way they would actually do this it doesn't matter how many studies are comissioned saying it's great policy that would favour anyone, like, WE WILL WORK LESS, idk how this can be discussed technocratically yes I'm sure some professions (mine included but probably not my way of working specifically) will 100% probably have increased productivity, but will everyone? To the point where the right and employers actually accept this? I can't see it.

So is the 4 day work week being discussed and debated positively in your country or is it still a fringe left idea?

Edit: Thank you all for the responses!

Hoping for Biden’s eye to explode again

Love to think about when that happened in 2019 and no one in the media mentioned it at all

it would be funny seeing one of the "why don't we talk about Chinese/Arab Imperialism?" people accidentally walk into saying "Why don't we talk about Indian/Turkish/Kenyan Imperialism?" and then get immediately culled by their reddit's mods.

Medvedev posting Ukraine balkanization maps on national tv.

China seems to still be sticking to their guns on the Yemen issue despite some speculation due to them sending a diplomat to major countries involved in the Middle East.

But analysts have said the diplomatic mission is unlikely to yield any solid breakthroughs in the crisis due to Beijing’s continuing reluctance to intervene further – and threaten its neutral position in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Last month, Wang Di, director general of the foreign ministry’s West Asian and North African affairs department, became the first Chinese diplomat since the crisis began to visit both Saudi Arabia and Oman as he met with Saudi, Omani and Yemeni officials. In all his meetings, he had a similar message.

In Saudi capital Riyadh, Wang told Yemeni deputy foreign minister Mansour Ali Saeed Bajash that China attached great importance to “maintaining security and stability in the Red Sea region”, adding that Beijing supported Yemen’s “legitimate government”, but it would only pursue a “political settlement” on the anti-government Houthi militants. While there, he made the same point to Saudi Arabian officials – that Beijing was willing to work with the country to “restore safety and stability” in the Red Sea. Meanwhile, Wang also highlighted China’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza during his tour, telling Omani officials that Beijing believed the Red Sea crisis was a “prominent manifestation of the spillover from Gaza”.

“Actually, Wang’s diplomatic visit is about furthering Beijing’s goal of a political solution to the Palestinian-Israeli issue, which is to achieve a ceasefire [in Gaza] through diplomatic mediation and political approaches,” he said. But Yin Gang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that since Wang was not considered a senior official of the foreign ministry, his visit was more of a “routine” one, underscoring Beijing’s reluctance to get more involved in the crisis. He noted that as the Houthi militants gave the green light to Chinese and Russian vessels in the trade corridor, Beijing needed to maintain a balanced approach so it would not be blamed for “conspiring with the Houthis and Iran”.

Looks like China is basically saying to the West: "Yep, this is your problem, not ours. Good luck with sorting it out. Maybe if you weren't supporting genocide in Palestine, things might not have gotten to this point. Fuck around and find out, what more is there to say?"

Martyrdom of field commander Hamza Hisham Amer, whose nickname is Abu Hisham. He is the son of the martyr Al-Qassam leader Hisham Amer (top center image), who rose in the first Palestinian Intifada. He became famous after the video him in a black coat using a Yassin 105 to destroy occupation vehicles.

"The martyr Hamza led Al-Qassam ambushes that confronted the occupation soldiers and vehicles in the Al-Amal neighborhood area, west of the city of Khan Yunis. He and his fellow Mujahideen brothers were pursuing the enemy soldiers and vehicles from one area to another, and he himself was able to target a number of the occupation vehicles."

https://t.me/meshheek/44718

Is there any basis behind the claim that Trump would be worse on Palestine than Biden, other than "Trump is evil, therefore, he will be worse than Biden on everything"?

what should I know about ghana that I'm not going to learn on natopedia? I can pick it out on a map but that's about it.

brags of running over a Palestinian with a tank (a different guy) (cw dead body)

RIP Toriyama

Chrono Trigger was my first brush of his work. His signature art style is iconic. His characters and stories legendary.

There is a game coming out next month from Toriyama - SAND LAND.

thinking about the tiktok ban, this seems like a potential mass radicalization moment, as depressing as that sounds, tiktok is like half of people's lives it feels like these days. Of course, that would require american communists to not be incompetent, so it will just be another opportunity wasted

The IOF has definitely not sexually terrorized Palestinian women unlike Khamas (CW: IOF goon fondling a naked mannequin's breasts): https://twitter.com/palebirdy/status/1765461976136692039

It's color revolution time in Mexico: https://twitter.com/bidetmarxman/status/1765468160663404963

China is digging Kaiju hole. Over 10km deep now.

Syrsky has been tasked with auditing the existing armed forces to find more combat-eligible troops, after Zelensky’s office recently announced that of the 1 million people who have been mobilized, only about 300,000 have fought at the front lines. But nearly a month after his promotion, no one in the military leadership or the presidential administration has explained where those 700,000 are — or what they have been doing

Washington Post seems to disagree with Zelenskyy’s 31,000 casualties claim

On Nuland stepping down, three possibilities, from the most optimistic to the least:

Case 1: The blob has determined that the PNAC strategy is too costly for the empire to sustain, following the attritional warfare in Ukraine as they did expect Russia’s change in strategy (Phase 2) to work. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has effectively stopped the expansionist aspiration of the empire all the way towards Iran, or has significantly delayed it in its tracks.

Case 2: Nuland takes the fall but the imperialist doctrine will persist without her involvement. This will likely follow with a pull back on the current strategy in Ukraine promoted by the neocon faction, while the empire redraws a new approach towards achieving the PNAC goals in more strategic and realistic manners.

Case 3: Nuland is getting promoted. The empire is going all in on a maximalist approach against all its geopolitical foes, leveraging on every piece of advantage it has (or still has, before they lose it completely in the near future) to retain its relevance as the global hegemonic power.

Thoughts?

Is anyone more familiar with the theory that the UK blew up the Nord Stream pipeline?

It's being investigated and promoted by an anonymous online blogger, supposedly someone working in data analysis in Finland, using public information and claims to be "the only public, open-source investigation" into the bombing.

I haven't delved into every post yet, but the top line narrative and some of the circumstantial evidence around UK military deployments, reorganisations, and government behaviour just before and after is reasonably compelling. The anonymity and (although superficial) tone of some of their Twitter posts though raises my eye brow a little though.

What did genocide joe say in his speech? Didn't catch it and don't want msm takes.

China drops 'peaceful reunification' reference to Taiwan

BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China will boost its defence spending by 7.2% this year, fuelling a military budget that has more than doubled under President Xi Jinping's 11 years in office as Beijing hardens its stance on Taiwan, according to official reports on Tuesday.

The increase mirrors the rate presented in last year's budget and again comes in well above the government's economic growth forecast for this year.

China also officially adopted tougher language against Taiwan as it released the budget figures, dropping the mention of "peaceful reunification" in a government report delivered by Premier Li Qiang at the opening of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp parliament, on Tuesday.

A correspondent on my television is standing and saying that "a recent UN report" says that it is "very likely" that female hostages are being sexually assaulted by Hamas. He does hide it under a "'Israel' says" fig leaf but to the casual western news consumer it would feel like a vindication of their racist fantasies about muslamic savagery.

Naked Capitalism has a new piece on Israel. Simplicius also wrote a piece a few days ago.

TLDR:

Socially:

• It's difficult to have a great idea of what's really going on in Israel because of the sheer magnitude of propaganda and narratives and hasbara. The best you can really do is stumble around in the fog and decide whether or not this article or that statistic is meaningful or meaningless.
• From what we can tell, Israeli opinions against Palestinians are not improving, which is expected. If anything, the young appear to be more conservative and bloodthirsty than the older generations (though I'm not somebody who believes in generational politics or that the zoomers will save us or whatever, so idc).
• Israeli society nonethless appears to irrevocably shattered. The sense of safety has gone, and the dramatic victory and display of military might that could have repaired it has not happened and seems less likely to happen every month that this goes on. On the contrary, Israelis seem to believe that the death count is higher than the Israeli government is letting on.

Economically:

• Israel experienced a 20% decline in Q4 GDP. I don't put much stock in GDP figures but a hit like that is extremely difficult to just shrug at.
• Imports are down 42%, which indicates that the blockade is being more successful than previously thought.
• Spending is up by 90%, while investment is down by 70% and private consumption dropped 27% and public consumption dropped 90%. Israel also suffered its first sovereign credit rating downgrade.
• NATOpedia says that the number of settlers evacuated from the Lebanese border is at 96,000. If scaled up to the US population, that would be 3.5 million people. These settlers are receiving social support which is perhaps not sustainable in the long term, and regardless, every month that goes by without businesses operating near the border makes it more unlikely that they'll be revived. They'll just set up shop elsewhere.
• According to rumours, 500,000 Israelis have emigrated and immigration into Israel fell by 70% in November. People who can emigrate on short notice are more likely to be affluent, so them not being around anymore to spend money is probably not great.
• About half a million compensation claims for businesses have been filed so far, and the damage is so far 6 times greater than the war in 2006.

Militarily:

• Once again, the West's inability to fight wars of attrition for a drawn out length of time is on full display.
• The war in Gaza is going badly and most are aware of it. Resistance groups inside the strip do not seem to be meaningfully weakened despite us being in month 6 of the conflict. It's entirely possible that Hamas has recruited more people than they've lost.
• Israel says that they're going to invade Rafah soon, so Israeli casualties will increase even further soon.
• Border settlers want Hezbollah pushed back to the Litani River to provide a buffer zone. Unfortunately for them, this doesn't seem possible. Israel made two (albeit limited) attempts recently to strike at Hezbollah in cross-border attacks and were routed both times. Israel is striking further into Lebanon to kill civilians and such, but this doesn't have much effect militarily. The US is trying to defuse the situation on the border by proposing deals that Hezbollah will obviously never accept.
• The US produces 30,000 artillery shells per month, of which 10,000 go to Israel. This is not enough for a war against Hezbollah, so if Israel starts shit against Hezbollah officially, then Ukraine will collapse even faster than it already is.
• On that note, Israel is now officially no longer doing a weird balancing act between Russia and Ukraine, siding fully with Ukraine and offering early-warning systems. This seems both delusional and difficult to actually achieve given the enormous hole Israel is putting itself in, and making an enemy of Russia when they're becoming more friendly with Iran does not seem like a good idea either.
• There have been rumors of waves of resignations; I'm unsure how much stock to put in them in terms of both veracity and the actual impact they're having overall.
• The Haredim in Israel are also under pressure by the government to undergo conscription; they were previously exempt. Polling suggests only ~30% of them are fine with joining the army. It's hard to tell whether this is due to desperately needing more troops, or if it's more to do with spreading the pain throughout society so as to bring it together and ensure no particular group is unaffected while another bears most of the weight.
• Yemen's blockade obviously continues, with the US continuing its definitely-sustainable strategy of firing $5 million missiles at $2000 drones. Ansarallah have also shot down three Predator drones, which is $100 million down the drain there too.
• The US seems to still be in talks about the withdrawal of forces from Iraq and possibly Syria. They may be trying to draw it out to see whether conditions might improve, but Iran will very probably keep the pressure on.

Boeing 737 Max 8 ran off Texas runway ‘into grassy area’, says United Airlines

"Resistance is continually benefitting. Whatever you pay in resistance, if you don't reap it in your lifetime, you will get the results later." —the revolutionary, resisting martyr Basil Al-Araj

From the Resistance News Network. I don’t read Arabic, I’m not sure I understand the word “benefitting”, context clues tell me it’s just something that generally positive.

US is saying that there may be an "extremist" attack in the next 48 hours in Russia

You ever have a spice vision of a way that the empire could resolve certain contradictions, only to not want to post it lest whichever fed responsible for watching this place thinks it's a good idea and passes it on?

Thinking about the proposition that passed in SF around waiving taxes for commercial real estate sold for conversion to residential units….keep me honest here:

There’s no fucking way these offices get turned into housing, right? I’ve sat by a window so rarely in an office. How the fuck are you going to take these open plan spaces and make them into homes that investors can sell? Not to mention the costs of completely changing the plumbing in the building to support multiple housing units.

Is there more to this, or is the “convert offices to homes” thing just a massive grift to allow commercial landlords to offload their unoccupied real estate, while receiving handouts from the city budget? While making it look like the mayor is “building housing”?

Nazi drone boats hit another Russian ship in Crimea.

Guess they haven't learned that every time they do this Russia typically responds with heavy ass missle barrages at major cities. So expect headlines around that to come next.

Big serge's latest on Russia Ukraine strategy, theory of victory is good. His analysis centers on this war as a war of attrition and so he spends a lot of time discussing industrial bases of the parties and how that actually influences what's happening at a tactical and operational level.

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-deluge

What I intend to argue here is that 2024 will be highly decisive for the war, as the year in which Ukrainian strategic exhaustion begins to show out at the same time that Russia’s strategic investments begin to pay off on the battlefield. This is the way of such an attritional conflict, which burdens armies with cumulative and constant stressors in a test of their recuperative powers.

One note about the mediazona Russian casualty tracker is that it always fades to nothing in the last month or so. The nature of their data is that they don't record casualties as they happen, they track obituaries and other data with lag times. Every mediazona chart thus trails off to nothing making it look like Russia has had an amazing last month, but really it takes a couple months for data to catch up.

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TikTok needs to get ahead of the curve on this US ban by aggressively pushing creators to advertise VPNs.

There's no reason ByteDance would divest TikTok, it makes no sense from a profit perspective. Far more likely is that TikTok gets banned in the US and US users are forced to go through a VPN.

Same reason Alphabet won't divest it's global Google operations to operate in China.

Continuing a discussion from the last thread: May I just say that critical support is ok? Stalin wasn't perfect either but god damn I'd take Stalin over every world leader alive today. A Galloway + Corbyn alliance might be the best thing that ever happened to the UK; and I don't mean the kind of 'harm reduction' of voting for Biden where there is literally a zero percent chance of anything changing. Corbyn and Galloway, despite their issues, are legitimately pro-Palestine, pro-unions, pro-worker, anti-war with Russia. Corbyn in particular is extremely progressive on LGBTQ+ issues; he could push Galloway on that. Yes we have a lot of work ahead of us pushing them in the right direction but they're almost there. If Galloway was completely immovable on green energy/trans rights, I don't think he'd be offering Corbyn to lead his party; the 2017/9 manifesto was extremely pro green energy and LGBTQ+ rights.