Bulletins and News Discussion from April 29th to May 5th, 2024 - Césaire's Boomerang - COTW: United States
Bulletins and News Discussion from April 29th to May 5th, 2024 - Césaire's Boomerang - COTW: United States
Also known as "Foucault's boomerang" or the "imperial boomerang".
Image is of a sniper on the roof of the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana State University, overlooking a student protest.
The Imperial Boomerang is the observation that the tactics of mass oppression and totalitarianism used by Western countries in their colonies and neocolonies will, sooner or later, return home to be used against the citizens of those Western countries. While the people living at the time of WW2 were, rightfully, in deep shock of the concentration camps used by Nazi Germany, those paying attention to what was occurring in Africa would not have been terribly surprised. Concentration camps were used in several countries in order to separate out ethnic groups and place them in more easily controlled environments which aimed to prevent them from rising up and fighting back against the Western governments which exploited them. There is the additional factor of governments taking notes from each other - Hitler was inspired by America's racial segregation and genocide of indigenous groups, which author Carroll Kakel among others have written books on.
Today, the totalitarian strategies used by the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine are being brought home to Western countries as the American Reich and its global influence accelerate in their decline. Gaza was and is a cyber-concentration camp, with digital surveillance taking place alongside old-fashioned techniques of paying informants. Aside from being an unsinkable aircraft carrier and disrupting the entire Middle East, Israel's primary role appears to be to generate new ways to monitor entire populations. Propaganda about China being an authoritarian police state with social credit scores and AI which knows where everybody is at all times was probably created, at least in part, to deflect attention from Israel doing those exact things. The paranoid and flimsy American regime with its gerontocratic upper circles now use these tactics at home: cracking down on any and all protestors with political views left of Mussolini; placing snipers on roofs ready to fire at the slightest provocation; and arresting organization leaders. Pegasus has wormed its way around the world, with a notable recent example in Poland, in which the previous conservative government used the spyware to monitor the current liberal ruling party. The Israeli military, experts only in killing children and not actual warfare, have trained the police of other nations.
It would be easy to end the preamble there, on a gloomy note about the brick wall - or, indeed, iron curtain - that upstart left-wing groups are up against. What history has shown is that these regimes are, in fact, beatable. Liberation movements around the world have found ways to counter imperialism, even if they required wars in which millions of their countrymen were murdered. The legacy of Israeli propaganda psyops and digital tracking is not victory, as Hamas demonstrated on October 7th and continues to show with every ambush executed and every Merkava destroyed. The legacy of Western military defence equipment is not success, demonstrated by every missile fired by Hezbollah and Iran which hits Israel. The legacy of the American Navy is not competence, with a naval blockade of the Red Sea still maintained after months by one of the poorest countries on the planet.
The protests of at least the last couple decades have been marked by failure to produce material results: from those against the Iraq War, to Occupy Wall Street, to the BLM protests of 2020. Of course, it would be silly to tell American protestors to start digging tunnels. But sooner or later, the failure of Western protest movements will be overcome, and a more effective strategy will be devised, in order to deflect the boomerang.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Thank you comrade checks notes Ken Bone
10 years ago today was the Odessa trade union massacre.
On May 2, 2014, NATO-backed Ukrainian neo-nazis attacked an encampment of anti-maidan protestors. When some of the protestors took refuge in the trade union building the neo-nazis lit it on fire. Those who tried to escape the building were beaten to death. This was all recorded live and posted online but the Ukrainian regime never punished the perpetrators. 48 people were murdered.
Zionists at UCLA have been throwing fireworks into the encampment, spraying people with bear mace and physically attacking protestors with batons, lasers in the eyes and such for about 4 hours now, theres an LAPD helicopter watching overhead and there has been 0 police response.
https://twitter.com/joeyneverjoe
All this so they can keep bombing toddlers! What do you even say at this point?
Students at Columbia appear to have captured Hamilton Hall, the building housing administration offices. This is the same building occupied by protestors in 1968.
Columbia has just sent out a note that it is suspending media access to its campus "as a safety measure". The statement notes that Hamilton Hall is "an active crime scene" under police investigation, and the campus will only be accessible to those with university IDs or "essential personnel".
In a statement earlier on Wednesday, President Minouche Shafik said the events of the past few days have "filled me with deep sadness. I am sorry we reached this point".
"It is going to take time to heal, but I know we can do that together," she wrote.
"active crime scene" fills me with dread and horror at what the pigs have done
Biden is so fucking done lmao. All Trump has to do now is sit back and watch it all burn, not that he will gain a lot of votes out of this scenario but Biden will bleed voters left and right.
And excuse me but I think this was probably one of the "easiest" presidencies one can hope for. Trump was so fucking bad all you had to do was not screw up, but this old fuck did just that. Serves them right, death to the DemoKKKratiKKK Party and JoSSeph Biden.
Faculty from Columbia’s sociology department are outright stating they will subvert a university suspension of students who participate in pro-Palestine protests by continuing to allow students to attend class, take exams, and receive grades.
The following is a comment left by user Emma under the Naked Capitalism story about Türkiye cutting off trade to Israel. Sharing it because it makes me hopeful, and I think we all appreciate having some hope:
I will say that I don’t think there’s going to be a real day after for Israel or the West, even if they ethnically cleanse all of Gaza or put it under some sort of PA led Vichy regime.
Ilan Pappe said that he thought the next 12 to 24 months will be very hard, but then Israel will break from its internal contradictions. People will leave, the struggles in the West Bank and with Hezbollah will intensify, and there won’t be a sustainable Jewish entity on the other end.
The external factors will also be very harsh on Israel. Once Russia is done in Ukraine, it and China will look to help Syria recover its territory and economy. Iran and China will also want to bring Iraq fully into the BRICS system and out of American domination. The salvo from this new Bahraini resistance organization suggests that Iran’s Axis of Resistance is spreading into places ruled by Western placed emirs and kings. The actual positions of ISIS and other regional players has been unveiled by their actions. All in all, an Israel that is now clearly intolerable to basically all Arabs is not going to last in a sea of Arabs.
Yes there are the nukes and the Samson option, but I don’t think Israelis have it in them to die for the land. Look how quickly the fanatical settlers in the north and around the Gaza envelop abandoned their homes. Look at how quickly the ultra orthodox deeply implicated in pogroms in the West Bank and lies of Zaka, threatened to leave the country if they’re called up for conscription. Look at the desertions of reservists in the latest call ups.
Would any of these people, who can still have comfortable lives in the Levant or in the West, really give up their lives for a land that they’re only willing to kill for (and in many cases, brainwash the young into killing for them)?
Especially now that their finally waking up somewhat from their October 7 freakout and are confronting the fact that Mass Hannibal was likely responsible for the majority of civilian deaths, and that their ‘most moral army in the world’ shot 3 white flag waving defenseless hostages in cold blood.
The Afrikaans didn’t use their nukes, even though their ties to the land go back centuries and their ancestors did die in large numbers in the Boer War. So while the chances of the Israelis using nukes is not zero, I hope and think its quite unlikely
LMAO
Both sides now chanting “F***” Joe Biden”
https://nitter.poast.org/MavenNavarro1/status/1785785576571994299#m
Big props to the student protesters that are setting up media liaisons and making white female agitators cry, because they can’t quote, dox, or misinform their audience, because students refuse to engage and point them to their official spokesperson.
Chad Moves to Kick Out US Military:
https://orinocotribune.com/chad-moves-to-kick-out-us-military/(I forgot if this was already posted)
Source (Farsi) https://www.isna.ir/news/1403021007893
Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/
https://twitter.com/xpmov/status/1783871060682637507
Need more like them. 👍
American protestor waving Hezbullah flag saying "I love Hezbullah"
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1786083257001599410?t=sMxCiz6BU4dN3eOELBjXaw&s=19
kevin o' leary is a completely disgusting human being
lmao RFK Jr is proposing to Biden that they hold a nationwide poll putting Biden and him each 1-on-1 vs Trump and the loser will drop out. He’s showing polls where Trump beats Biden but without Biden, Kennedy beats Trump. Saying “Biden is the real spoiler”.
Regardless of how true or crazy it is, it’s a good bit.
Got an email from my union president a few minutes ago. UAW 4811, the union of academic workers in the UC system, "voted to hold a strike authorization vote as early as next week to give the Executive Board authority to call a strike."
This is obviously in regards to the attack at the UCLA encampments. My opinion of the highest level of my union leadership is kinda bad, there's still a decent bit of corruption that hasn't been stamped out, but I think this might have been egregious enough for the other organs of the union below to push for this. This could be pretty huge if it goes through, there's 48000 people in the union altogether. This would be a massive amount of economic pressure, so I can only hope.
The strike authorization vote will be across the entire union membership, which is good. The membership is consistently better about things than the highest leadership levels.
zionist freikorps beating up protesters while being protected by the pigs, very cool and normal country
The Guardian has been editing out mentions of Israel in its articles without even telling the authors in question that edits were made. It was highlighted this morning by author Noreen Masud, but other authors have chimed in to say they've gone back and checked and it's been done to their articles too.
Twitter thread here and some excerpts posted below:
I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the @guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out?
I did not approve these edits and I condemn the moral cowardice behind them. Name the hand behind the deaths of 15,000 children. It is Israeli violence, funded and supported by the US and the UK.
I am so so sickened by the cowardice of our media
UPDATE. No one has been in touch with me
Despite the thread blowing up and her contacting the Guardian they were ignored until, according to an email screenshot, her publisher intervened with the Guardian.
the ‘lost’ word has mysteriously been found
Another author who was asked by the Guardian to write about the conflict then chimes in with others with another particular egregious example:
(2nd Author) I noticed a similarly shocking omission in a piece I’ve just read about the horrors unfolding in Rafah.
My god - am I right in thinking that Israel is not mentioned there even once in a whole article about its violence towards Gaza’s children?
(2nd Author) Not once
Speechless
Since nobody else has mentined it here yet, 2 major developments today:
- Turkey has suspended all trade with Israel
- Ansarallah has announced that they have spread theitr target range to include the Mediterrenean sea.
Yesterday:
- The IOF has been deploying explosives in canned food containers set to explode when opened. People are finding them in their homes upon returm.
- The Islamoc Resistance in Bahrain has joined the fight, and claimed credit for an attack on occupied Palestine
I love how Biden's America has enlisted brownshirts
❗ABC7 news footage shows a pro-Israel mob attacking protesters at the UCLA encampment for Palestine. No law-enforcement or police intervened to stop the violence.
Video: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/14792
Even the news guy can't hide his shock
Ah but pigs are quick and brutal when dealing with a bunch of peaceful students protesting against a genocide. But when it comes to saving kids from a mass shooter? Hold it there chief, they ain't going in. There are kids in Uvalde whose lives were cut short because the pigs never cared for them.
Never trust a pig, never. Pathetic losers and cowards too mediocre to choose an actual career that does something positive for society.
Went into the gym listening to the Rev Left Radio episode about the college uprisings, then I saw Fox News on a few of the TVs there and they were crying "CAMPUS CHAOS" and about the "hands-off approach" to the protests. Absolute fucking swine, top to bottom. God damn this country to hell.
Remember what you feel in this moment, what you did, and where everyone else stood. In a decade or two, liberals will swear they were next to you all along.
As well as attackers who served in the IOF, it seems there was more Israeli involvement in the attacks on UCLA protesters.
- The ADL held a rally event before the attack and one of the speakers was amongst the crowd and had been harassing the encampment all week, as mentioned before.
- An IOF affiliated private security company, Magen Am, were at UCLA and coordinating with the LAPD.
- An Israeli special forces veteran, 'law enforcement trainee & counter terrorism analyst' was there coordinating with the LAPD and ran a "quiet infiltration operation".
Per Cinemarxism's latest Twitch video (timestamp 36:20), IDF soldiers implanted themselves in the UCLA occupation and coordinated with LA police, and there's a Twitter video by one of them.
EDIT: Also (45min, citing a Grayzone tweet) the NYPD attack on Columbia students was led by a professor from the university who "leads an NYPD intil division that maintains an office in Tel Aviv".
Good morning to every university student currently protesting against the Netanyahu and Biden regimes, both carrying out a genocide in Palestine while having a stand off with the little pigs armed with military grade weapons and armor, I have nothing to offer to you but my sincere solidarity. I'd also like to extend a wish for a good morning to those members of the Resistence who are currently face to face with the genocidal beast itself in the city of Gaza, godspeed, may your next ambush be a huge success. And finally I don't want to forget about our friends in Yemen who scrambled their limited resources in an act of self-sacrifice to help their brothers and sisters in need during their darkest times, good luck, may your ballistic missiles and drones hit many US and "israeli" targets, as well as their proxies the "United Kingdom" and other despicable genocidal monsters. Good morning to you all.
It appears the protests in US in support of Palestine have made the Resistance more courageous.
For First Time Ever – Bahraini Resistance Launches Attack on Israel (The Palestine Chronicle)
spoiler
The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain – Saraya Al-Ashtar – announces the targeting of the headquarters of the company responsible for ground transportation in the Zionist entity (Trucknet) in the city of Umm al-Rashrash in occupied Palestine (Eilat), on Tuesday, April 27, 2024, using drones, in support of the Palestinian cause and in solidarity with our resisting people in Gaza.
“The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain affirms that it will continue its movements and support on all fronts for our patient people in resisting Gaza, and that it will not cease its operations until the zionist aggression on Gaza stops.”
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The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said in two online statements that on Thursday noon, its fighters launched three attacks with long-range ‘al-Arqab’ upgraded cruise missiles on two vital sites in Tel Aviv and one in Be'er Sheva in southern Israel, Xinhua reported.
One strike has reportedly targeted Mossad’s ‘Glilot’ intelligence center in Tel Aviv.
The Iraqi forces also said they have attacked the ‘Abraham’ intelligence center in Be'er Sheva.
In another statement, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq said a “vital Israeli target” in the Dead Sea region, located between Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories, has been attacked.
Fuck
Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah
Israel is setting up 'complex network' of checkpoints to prevent 'military age' men from fleeing Rafah assault, senior western official tells MEE.
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Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.
The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault.
The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps.
The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.
The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”.
Relatives of many of the men photographed recognised them and said they had nothing to do with Hamas. Israel's military was later accused of staging footage of men surrounding weapons.
“Israel considers every male a Hamas fighter until proven otherwise,” Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East told Middle East Eye.
“It’s not a sound move. Cordoning Rafah is a daunting task and good luck separating fathers and sons from their families.” Truce talks down to the wire
Israel’s preparations for an assault are occurring at the same time it continues down-to-the-wire truce talks with Hamas. A delegation from Hamas is set to visit Egypt on Monday for further negotiations.
The US, UN, European states and Arab powers are pushing to avert a Rafah offensive, which aid workers and diplomats say could spark a humanitarian disaster and potential refugee crisis.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Hamas to accept the latest Israeli truce offer which he described as “extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous”.
“In this moment, the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas," Blinken said in Riyadh at the World Economic Forum.
"They have to decide - and they have to decide quickly,” Blinken said, in an apparent reference to Israel’s threat to invade Rafah.
In Riyadh, Blinken met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.
Both Qatar and Turkey maintain ties with Hamas, with the former hosting the group’s political leadership at the request of Washington. Egypt, which borders Rafah and whose security establishment talks directly with Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, is also mediating.
MEE reached out to the White House and the Israeli embassy in Washington for comment on this story, but neither responded by the time of publication. Reconnaissance by fire
Israel has offered a 40-day truce to Hamas and the return of thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli jails in exchange for hostages. It has also downsized its demand that at least 40 hostages held in Gaza be released, with the new figure being placed at 33 hostages.
But Hamas has called for a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and the return of forcibly displaced Palestinians to their homes. A key sticking point in the talks has been Hamas’s demand that Palestinian families are not to be separated going back to their homes.
As truce talks drag on, Israel has ramped up its threat to invade Rafah, where it says four Hamas battalions are stationed. As the threat of an Israeli attack mounts, Hamas has also released more hostage videos.
Israel’s potential assault on Rafah is in many ways unique to warfare.
The border town turned sprawling refugee camp is hemmed in on the left by the Mediterranean Sea and on the right by Israel proper, both of which Israel controls. Egyptian troops are massed along Rafah’s southern border where Cairo has vowed to prevent an influx of refugees. Hamas fighters have shed their uniforms and disappeared into a vast tunnel network, military experts say.
Israeli analysts have told MEE previously that Israel's war cabinet believes it can't declare victory in Gaza without attacking Rafah, but other analysts say the bloody assault is unlikely to extract Israel from the Gaza quagmire.
“The conduct of Israel’s operations from north to south has been revenge-driven, not intelligence-driven," Dahouk told MEE. "They don’t know where the enemy is. It’s reconnaissance by fire.”
On Friday (yesterday) the White House released a statement calling for a 37 billion dollar investment in law enforcement and the recruitment of 100,000 additional cops.
We can’t stop now. My Safer America Plan calls on Congress to invest $37 billion to support law enforcement and crime prevention, including by funding 100,000 additional police officers for accountable community policing, investing $5 billion in community violence interventions, and enacting commonsense gun safety reforms such as a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and a universal background check requirement.
Protestors slash coach tyres to prevent migrants from being removed from London hotel:
https://twitter.com/LondonEconomic/status/1786018920542896480When asked about the tyres of the bus being slashed, one protester said:
“I don’t know how the tyres happened, maybe the tyres are comrades and let themselves down.”Worst I've seen yet
University of Wisconsin-Madison started an encampment today. Pretty damn good turnout of supporters protecting them as they set up in the morning. Never more than 3 cops anywhere even in sight of the protesters, and usually fewer than that (down to 0). As evening fell cops started amassing in numbers a few blocks away at a convention center and the school newspaper live reporting kept talking about how they were gearing up with full riot accoutrements to break up the camps but even as the non-campers left to go to bed there wasn't a pig in sight. Only people I know of who had any contact with police at all were counterprotesters actually. And all this after the Chancellor sent a mass email to all 50,000 fucking students saying "no camping we will make arrests." Either they're waiting till the dead of night when everyone's literally asleep or they're giving them a day or something.
Solidarity to all students at UCLA, u are my heros. I love u all so much, I am so proud of u. The day will come, when its us who swing the baton.
Not sure if it's been shared in this thread, but some far-right coward drove up to the protest at Portland State University like they were about to do another Charlottesvillle, but opted to run away as they pepper-sprayed nearby protestors when they got scared.
Their car (featuring a custom "we the people" plate) got fucked and they've been ID'd though
mashallahUniversities racially profiling Palestinians and Muslim students by suspending students who weren't even involved in the protests:
https://twitter.com/bluepashminas/status/1785374556250677423
https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1785336302269088117Nearly seven months into the war, UNMAS estimates the amount of debris in the Gaza Strip at 37 million tonnes in mid-April, or 300 kilogrammes per square metre.
“Gaza has more rubble than Ukraine, and to put that in perspective, the Ukrainian front line is 600 miles (nearly 1,000 kilometres) long, and Gaza is 25 miles (40 km) long,” said Mungo Birch, head of the UNMAS programme in the Palestinian territories.
Mfw COTW
Long live Palestine and long live the global solidarity movement so long as any person is shackled by the chains of imperialism. So proud of the brave protestors in America for rising up against this cruel and unjust system spearheaded by their criminal government.
These American students are DEFINITELY not ever getting those student loans forgiven at this point, but history will exonerate them a million times over.
A much clearer shot of American pigs having the time of their lives just blindly pumping 'less lethal' shotgun shells into a mass of students in smoke and teargas at ultra short range, probably even students on the floor judging by the angle of some shots.
Wow madman Putin really did order the riot police to crack the skulls of student protestors... what a piece of shit dictator. Wait... it was the US? Surely EU will sanction them after this. Slava Navalny
in the republic of badcountry, state security forces arrested more than 2000 people protesting against the regime's material support for the ongoing genocide.
i want to see a video of the crackdowns spliced together with like a low angle shot of a huge tv screen displaying a close up of biden's face while he says "order must prevail"
order must prevail! dissent must never lead to disorder! please return to your designated protest safety zone for your own protection. order must prevail!A couple of hours ago, UCLA students kettled the LAPD and pushed them out of their encampment.
Now the LAPD have resorted to firing dozens of flashbangs and 'less lethal' rounds at them after reinforcements tore down the perimeter fence - via People's City Council LA
The Cradle: Yemeni Armed Forces announces fourth phase of escalation against Israel:
- Will target ships heading to Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Will prevent all ships of companies linked to Israeli ports from passing through the armed forces' area of operations, regardless of their destination.
- If Israel launches an operation on Rafah, the armed forces will impose sanctions against ships associated with supplying and entering Israeli ports.
Incredible scenes in Victory Park. Watch the video. Russians in the thousands touching and laughing at broken western tanks. A sign above a
nazigerman tank reads "History is repeating itself."
NATO is putting combat troops in Ukraine officially
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1785967152429748238?s=19
From the latest Red Menace episode, Alyson was actually in the UCLA encampment for a while. The main thing that stood out for her, as someone who was part of OWS, was that the students are a lot more disciplined and actually have clear actionable demands like divestment.
https://redmenace.libsyn.com/students-revolt-the-campus-uprisings-for-palestine
The US is preparing sanctions against the international criminal court in The Hague because of the arrest warrant for Netanyahu - Times of Israel Unprecedented in human history. Members of Congress have warned the International Criminal Court that they will retaliate if arrest warrants are issued against Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. Speaker Mike Johnson: "If unchallenged by the Biden administration, the ICC could create and assume unprecedented power to issue arrest warrants against American political leaders, American diplomats, and American military personnel, thereby endangering our country's sovereign authority." Members of Congress from both parties are reportedly preparing legislation to sanction ICC officials unless they back down.
not very good source
"This is what our Ruling class has decieded to be normal"
Norm on the Occupation of "Hamilton hall "
Today marks a historic occasion. By seizing control of Hamilton Hall, students at Columbia University have anchored in historical memory the nexus between the horrors inflicted in Vietnam that was the hallmark of my generation with the horrors inflicted in Gaza that is the hallmark of the new generation. It is testament to the majesty of these young people that they have risked their futures for the sake of a poor, powerless people halfway around the world in order to uphold that sacred principle that every life is worthy and the murder of none shall pass in silence. As Abraham Lincoln famously quoted, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." The right of the people of Gaza to live is an eternal truth. May the young soldiers in Hamilton Hall be honored and blessed for not countenancing, come what may, its extinguishment.
Oh look, the only student the BBC television news actually interviewed in its segments on the campus protest attacks is an ADL funded provocateur who was working with the cops.
a labor day present from Gustavo Petro, Colombia is officially breaking diplomatic relations with Israel
Actions across the UK today are targetting weapons manufacturer (who sell to Israel) BAE systems and this morning blockaded and shut down the UK Dept. for Business & Trade over Israeli arms liscense. Happy May Day comrades!
Columbia University: If you don't disperse, you'll be SUSPENDED.
Students: I ain't reading all that lmao
I was watching Mearsheimer at Piers Morgan (I know) the other day and he was criticizing and blaming the US for massive war crimes of intentionally targeting and killing Japanese civilians in WW2.
Piers asks for an example of an army that didn’t target civilians when faced with existential threat and Mearsheimer responds with, and I kid you not, Red Army and the Soviet Union.
I guess it’s “comrade Mearsheimer” now?
From about 28:00… https://youtu.be/vlLubLH5QfE?si=APycA7Xh9rWxfUf1
Brown University commits to divestment vote
browndivestcoalition
VICTORY!!!!!! BROWN COMMITS TO DIVESTMENT VOTE. This would not have been possible without the hard work of university encampments across the country, whose collective power has forced university administrators to acknowledge the overwhelming support for Palestine on their campuses and make material concessions towards ending the Israeli occupation.
We will continue to pressure Brown to ensure we divest in October and support encampments across the country. We stand with student protestors as they face university oppression and police brutality, and the people of Palestine as they continue to withstand the Israeli occupation.
This is victory is not the end to our work but rather fuel for it. We will continue fighting until every last cent is divested from the Israeli Occupation and Palestine is free. ❤️🇵🇸
Liberal whining about getting banned from /r/BreadTube because they're repeating Zionist talking points about Palestinian resistance being "terrorists", blah, blah, blah.
I guess I'm the most "tankie" anarchist you know. Despite Palestine not being a state, Al-Qassam Brigades having zero authority and pretty popular support among Palestinians, acting in horizontal coalition with other resistance groups, etc. shrug
BTW, here's a nice little extra tidbit. LMAO.
I don't really care if "leftist" spaces on
lose participation and die after every Zionist and faux-leftist gets banned, TBH. It's better than maintaining another liberal shithole helping to manufacture consent for genocide and repressive state violence.Palestine Thanks Colombia for Breaking Relations With Israel
Colombia's noble position constitutes an example to follow for the world, President Abas said.
On Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmud Abas thanked Colombian President Gustavo Petro for his decision to cut diplomatic relations with Israel due to the genocide against the Palestinian people.
The Presidency of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which governs the occupied West Bank, assured that the Colombian position should be an example for the rest of the world.
"The Presidency affirmed that the noble positions adopted by the Colombian government and people constitute an example to follow for the world, to bind the Israeli occupation authorities to resolutions of international legitimacy and to comply with international law," WAFA reported.
The authorities praised Petro's speech this Wednesday, in which the Colombian president announced the breaking of relations and accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
"As of tomorrow diplomatic relations with Israel will be broken," Petro said, adding that this decision is due to the fact that that country "has a genocidal government and president."
“The necessity of life, rebellion, the raised flag, and resistance is summed up in one word. That word is called Gaza. It is called the children and babies who have died dismembered by the bombs," the Colombian leader stressed.
In turn, the Palestinian Presidency once again called on the international community to "adopt more decisive positions against the crimes of genocide against the Palestinian people," WAFA noted, and for Israel to respect the Security Council resolution that demand an "immediate" ceasefire or precautionary measures from the International Court of Justice.
Lula accepted a deal from the brazilian army with the IOF, planned in the bolsonaro era, to buy several APCs.
This shows why critical support is the most that can be done for lula and why PT is not a left-wing party. Its very easy to condone Israel in public but give them money. The amount is close to $500 million.
The 54 year anniversary of the Kent State massacre is in 2 days. The students need to be very careful, especially on that day.
I didn't know he made the announcement in front of a massive crowd, nice
University: This is trespassing!
Five Nation Loghouse Confederacy: Pilgrim says what?https://twitter.com/decolonialsol/status/1785098398606975419
Citizens who left at the beginning of the war are returning to Russia, strengthening its war economy, Bloomberg writes.
In the first year of the invasion of Ukraine, about a million people left the Russian Federation abroad. Now thousands are returning home to face refusals to renew their residence permits, difficulties transferring work and money abroad, and an overall less than friendly attitude.
“No one is really waiting for us,” they say.
Bloomberg confirms the figure stated by the Kremlin that half of those who left in 2022 have already returned.
The west couldn’t stop being Russophobic so all the traitorous squishy Russian shitlibs got forced back to Russia lmao
Yemeni Journalist Zakaria Al-Sharabi on the US protests:
https://twitter.com/akaromaeda/status/1783700934926729328The demonstrations in the United States of America are of importance for a number of reasons:
First: they overturned the American slogans of freedom and democracy, which the United States has used to interfere in the sovereignty of countries to subjugate peoples and plunder their wealth
Second: it sent a strong message of solidarity to the steadfast people of Gaza that they are not alone
Third: it demonstrated the gap between the American leadership and the younger generation, and showed that the traditional media on which Zionism has always relied is no longer effective
Fourth: These demonstrations, if they continue, will draw a line between what the American-Zionist authority calls anti-semitism and protesting against the crimes of the Zionist entity
Fifth: Exposing the deep involvement of American educational institutions in the military research investments of the entity.
There are many important aspects that can be read as events develop
Universally despised old man feebly attempts to reach out to the youth:
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1785787430148468786JUST IN: Biden announces cancelling $6.1 billion in student debt for 317,000 borrowers
Another one:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1786263894496817414BREAKING: Weapons manufacturer L3 Harris will leave Brighton as the landlord refuses to renew the lease
From Rybar:
The French conservative media @lesalonbeige reacted to the exhibition of trophies from the SMO, including French weapons, in the Victory Park in Moscow:
"#Macron and other Western leaders took billions of euros from the pockets of European taxpayers so that Western tanks could roll through Moscow.
But there's a catch."
Apologies aren’t enough, Indigenous people say of Brazil dictatorship’s crimes - Mongabay
- After the Brazilian state apologized for the crimes perpetrated during the military dictatorship, the Krenak and Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous peoples are demanding the demarcation of their territories.
- The Krenak were tortured during the military regime, while the Guarani-Kaiowá were enslaved by farmers; both were forced from their lands.
- Violations also affected Indigenous peoples such as the Avá-Canoeiro, who were driven to the brink of extinction by years of persecution.
The ruling party of india is now straight up using propaganda from the Eternal Jew (Nazi Holocaust justification film) against Muslims.
https://twitter.com/BJP4Karnataka/status/1786725873334256103?s=19
Ukrainian men abroad voice anger over pressure to return home to fight
Headline picture caption: "Ukrainian recruits with the Aidar Battalion train in the eastern Donbas region in early February."
Hey, look who it is. I wonder why they all have their backs turned, and no identifying markers showing that would allow me as the reader to confirm that they are my favorite anti-Russian fighting force.
You won't BELIEVE what the NYPD found in Hindi Hall! (twitter)
copaganda screed from the NYPD deputy commissioner
Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM. These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious. Thankfully, your NYPD was able to prevent whatever they were planning and stop them before they could do it. Continue to peacefully and lawfully protest; but know that if you engage in illegal conduct, the NYPD will hold you responsible and hold you accountable—someone has to.
Henry Cuellar, an anti-abortion Democrat that Pelosi and other party leadership worked hard to defend from a primary challenge by progressive Jessica Cisneros (which he won by only 300 votes), has been indicted on taking $600,000 in bribes from Azerbaijan (the country that recently ethnically cleansed an entire country out of existence). lmao get fucked.
POV of Yemeni drone hitting a bulk carrier:
https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1785385900664340827Israel? The right to defend itself
Unarmed college protesters beaten by militarized police? Just gotta take it Jack
One of those weeks where decades happens. But it will be all for naught because the US is a surveillance state that has successfully atomized each and every citizen
Suspected arson at Portland police training facility damages at least 15 patrol cars (CW: Fox):
https://twitter.com/fox12oregon/status/1786009306648793309There probably hasn't been another time in the last century where there was more of an opening for a third party candidate to actually win the presidential election, and it's funny the best that America can come up with us RFK Jr. Gruesome Gavin could have declared himself independent candidate for president and grabbed the DNC by throat, but he doesn't have the spine.
US authorizes Russian bank transactions for energy payments amid sanctions
The sanctions will be removed until November 1...
Reports: Biden calls Japan 'xenophobic' at an election campaign event
lmao blue libs seem to make a religion out of this kind of hypocritical lecturing even tho it damages their geopolitical and domestic prospects
Motherfucker crushed Trump's deportation record and wants to talk sideways out his mouth about "Immigrants are what makes us strong" lmao
Same time the Japanese establishment deserves this kind of ally, hope they whine and cope so hard it makes Biden say something worse
Now that things are apparently happening in the Russia Ukraine conflict again I, and I think a lot of others, would appreciate a map post about it every once in a while, even if it’s zoomed in enough to see the change in control because the lines are probably not going to be as large as what we saw in the first few weeks of the war.
I just think it’d be nice to see if anything noteworthy happens
A poisonous cloud is hanging over Berlin after a chemical factory blaze, with firefighters warning deadly hydrogen cyanide could develop.
People were warned to close all windows, stay inside and switch off ventilation units after the fire hit the firm that makes weapons supplied to Ukraine.
The blaze is at Diehl Metal Applications in Berlin's Lichterfelde district, which is a sister company to the Diehl Defence concern, manufacturer of the deadly IRIS-T missiles.
Mr Stoltenberg said: "Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. Ukraine will become a member of NATO. The work we are undertaking now puts you on an irreversible path towards NATO membership, so that when the time is right, Ukraine can become a NATO member straightaway."
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_225160.htm
There goes the possibility of any country called "Ukraine" existing once this war ends. Russia would be fools to leave them with even Lvov after this.
Israel’s Ambassador to UN:
“We always knew that Khamas hides in schools we just didn’t realize that it’s not only schools in Gaza it’s also Harvard, Columbia and many elite universities”
https://nitter.poast.org/SuppressedNws/status/1786121965163388976#m
Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and US public broadcaster Voice of America over their coverage of a report accusing its army of mass killings. Broadcasts have been stopped and the websites of both organisations banned for two weeks, officials said.
The report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a US-based group, accused the Burkinabè military of massacring at least 223 civilians in February.
Soaring US munitions demand strains support for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan
The U.S. has transferred tens of thousands of its bombs and shells to Israel since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. But it hasn’t given Israel everything it wants. That’s because the U.S. military lacks the capacity to provide some of the weapons Israel requested, according to Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ... Put simply, the U.S. assesses the health of its own inventories before sending weapons abroad. At times, those stocks don’t have any margin — and in some cases, the U.S. is even dipping below minimum inventory requirements, according to congressional staffers and former Pentagon officials.
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In addition to Israel, the Biden administration has sent an enormous quantity of materiel to Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion. Meanwhile, the U.S. is gearing up to rush an influx of arms to Taiwan in hopes of deterring a possible Chinese attack on the island, which Beijing considers a rogue province. The U.S. Defense Department already struggled to maintain robust munitions levels in the decades before the recent wars in the Middle East and Europe. But the shipment of arms to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan has placed intense pressure on the Pentagon’s inventory, forcing it to make challenging risk management assessments as it tries to move the defense industry from peacetime production to a wartime footing.
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The shortages are in part symptoms of a chronic issue, said a senior defense official, granted anonymity to discuss the closely held process. The Pentagon has long used munitions as a “bill payer,” neglecting their purchase in favor of platforms like ships or planes in the annual budgets, the official added. Over time, the low orders led to some companies exiting the market, which in turn reduces the number of businesses that will build those munitions and the speed at which they come off the line.
see, this is why you're supposed to have a state-owned arms industry, since when you leave things to the whims of the free market, obviously a ton of companies are going to go out of business during peacetime, like what do you expect to happen
... the U.S. could use Javelin anti-tank missiles or Tomahawk cruise missiles against at least four major competitors: China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. But the military doesn’t necessarily expect to fight all four adversaries at once and may calculate requirements based on fighting two enemies at a time.
well damn, I sure hope we don't end up facing a couple crises at once! now, that'd be a real bad situation for us
... The U.S. often serves as a “backstop” for European allies, Clark noted, pointing to NATO’s heavy reliance on American munitions in its 2011 Libya campaign. “It’s not so much, are we going to have enough weapons to sustain our own capacity for a ground war, because we probably do,” Clark said. “It’s, do we have enough to sustain our own capacity to fight and also support our European allies who may need augmentation because clearly they don’t maintain the magazines to sustain themselves.” Others interviewed about the munitions requirements process also noted it lags behind real-world events and is closely tied to the Pentagon’s war plans, which usually project short conflicts instead of the reality of longer, protracted wars.
well, good thing protracted wars never happen!
But the U.S. could still quickly run through certain munitions even in a short conflict with a major adversary like China. A wargame conducted by the Center for a New American Security think tank and the House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party last year found the U.S. would run out of long-range, precision-guided munitions in less than a week in a fight with China over Taiwan. Outgoing committee Chairman Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., subsequently told Defense News that America’s inventory of long-range anti-ship missiles stood at 250 last spring, noting a conflict with China would require at least 1,000.
Since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, the U.S. has also used weapons that could be relevant to an Indo-Pacific battle, like the Standard Missile-6 and Tomahawks, to respond to Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping lanes off Yemen’s coast. “Is it a sustainable, long-term strategy to use million-dollar munitions to shoot down drones and loitering munitions that are $10,000, $15,000, $20,000 a piece?” Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., asked Gen. Michael Kurilla, the U.S. Central Command leader overseeing forces in the Middle East, during a House hearing in March.
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The Pentagon hopes the foreign aid legislation will allow it to continue large-scale arms transfers to friendly countries. And as the department replenishes systems to those three partners, it hopes the additional munitions demand will pump resources into lagging munitions production lines. A significant chunk of that will go toward increasing domestic munitions capacity in the U.S. ... But even with the foreign aid legislation, expanding industrial base capacity is no simple task. ... Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress in October that some contractors have required employees to work additional shifts to keep up munitions production rates, highlighting labor shortages in the industrial base.
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A former senior Pentagon official who now works in the defense industry, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to talk to the press, told Defense News the Pentagon is generally willing to take more risks on munitions inventory levels than in other areas, expecting that Congress will quickly fund replenishment efforts. “The mentality in the Pentagon is if I do get in a fight, Congress is going to be real responsive to give me as much money as I need,” the former senior defense official said. “Right now, we’re having a problem replenishing artillery for a war in Europe that we’re not even in.”
WESTERN STATE SPONSORED MEDIA NOW GOING BACK ON THEIR PREVIOUS INSISTENCE THAT HAMAS WAS JUST ABOUT TO ACCEPT THE FLOUNDERING ZIONIST ENTITY'S CEASEFIRE 'OFFER'
THE PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE GLOBE STAND WITH PALESTINE. THE RABID DOG NETANYAHU AND HIS ZIONIST REGIME IS NO DOUBT FEELING THE PRESSURE WHEN EVEN SETTLERS THEMSELVES ARE CALLING FOR HIM TO GO
Extraordinary story that just happened in France ahead of Xi Jinping's visit, straight out of a spy novel, and that very much looks like an attempt to disrupt the visit.
Yesterday, one of the flagship programs of French TV, Envoyé Spécial, published a report where they show an alleged "clandestine operation of the Chinese police in Paris" in which there is an attempt to forcibly repatriate a Chinese "dissident" back to China. This is the trailer for the show: x.com/EnvoyeSpecial/status/1…
However, the Chinese embassy in France just published the most extraordinary (never seen a statement like this by a Chinese embassy anywhere) and detailed rebuttal to the story. It's here in French: (http://fr.china-embassy.gov.cn/fra/zfzj/202405/t20240502_11292331.htm Let me translate it in full:"On the evening of May 1, France 2 broadcasted a report based on lies and a completely fabricated narrative in which two Chinese diplomats were accused of 'forcibly repatriating a dissident. The magazine Challenges also published a report on the same case. The Chinese Embassy wishes to express its strongest protest against this report and intends to publish the facts to restore the truth.
The so-called 'dissident,' a certain Ling Huazhan, arrived clandestinely in France in September 2023, traveling through the Netherlands and Germany. In October 2023, he received an expulsion order from France from the police of the ninth district of Paris for disrupting the normal operation of several Chinese restaurants in the district. At the end of January 2024, GHU Paris psychiatry & neurosciences contacted the Chinese Embassy stating that they were treating a Chinese national (whose identity as Ling Huazhan was confirmed) who wanted to commit suicide. However, when the Embassy was discussing this matter with the hospital, Ling Huazhan voluntarily left the hospital on February 15.
On March 4, Ling Huazhan approached the consular service of the Chinese Embassy. According to him, he had been deceived into participating in activities of the "Falungong" cult and now realized that he had made mistakes. [...]I somehow missed this. A student snuck up on the sniper lol https://twitter.com/togdali/status/1783654267041005923
Milei resumes price controls after health plans skyrocket in Argentina
The government has established that prices cannot exceed the inflation index and has threatened to fine companies
Following the skyrocketing prices of health plans in Argentina in recent months, Javier Milei's government ruled on Thursday (2) that companies offering pre-paid medical services will not be able to increase the monthly fee above the country's official inflation index.
Health insurance prices have skyrocketed in the South American country since the publication, in December 2023, of Milei's Decree of Necessity and Urgency, which eliminated controls on insurance prices, among hundreds of measures to deregulate the economy.
The day after the decree was published, at least two major health plans announced increases in their monthly fees of around 40% for January.
The Country of the Week is the United States!
Zero stars
Students at Birzeit University in the West Bank expelled the German ambassador from the university, attacked his car, and threw shoes at him; he fled the scene running:
https://twitter.com/FlyingBeagle_/status/1785249395732029631Reminder for Americans:
It shouldn't even be needed to point it out, but read Lenin and the documents of the 3rd international , get the fuck out there, organize and agitate. Talk to people about Marxism (covertly if you have to, that's why you must study and have the ideas clear in your head), get them to organize too. Go to events, call friends to join, take the microphone, get other people on the microphone too.
Don't let this opportunity fizzle out, you libs
The students and faculty who get arrested/blacklisted/suspended/expelled will now have a very strong case for political asylum in a more Palestine-friendly country. You won't get expelled or arrested for waving the Palestinian flag in the UJ-APK central plaza. At least not without involving the Constitutional Court.
Most importantly, Death to AmeriKKKa
When you are losing the College Democrats. I was a member of the college Dems for a bit, so this doesn't surprise me that much. Mine were pretty much all in for Bernie except for a few. Ironically many of them are probably to the left of Bernie now on Palestine lol.
There is an old Soviet poster I know I’ve seen before but for the life of me I can’t find it. It has a sort of Nazi ghost/skeleton pinning a medal on a US soldier in Vietnam, with Nazi ghost saying something like “job well done”. I want to see if I can photoshop it to make it look like IOF. Anyone know what I’m talking about?
Calls for a strike during finals week. This is the perfect opportunity to strike since finals week is crunch time for academic staff. An actual strike will grind university operations to a halt. There might also be room for malicious compliance like giving everyone A's.
I lost the comment, but I just saw someone write "And none knows the soldiers of your Lord except He." Al Mudaththir 31, under a post of the protestors... So yeah the protestors are Mujahideen now
Turkey Has suspended all trade with Israel ? Its Erdogan so he will claim everything , but based on the reactions , it seems real ?
COTW: United States
What's that, North American Israel or something? On a more serious note, I've been reading a lot about the "discovery" of the Americas recently and it's just crazy how random British, French and Spanish guys just got given ships and some money and were told to like fuck off and find something useful out west. Imagine being some loser smelly French guy and stumbling upon something as majestic as the Mississippi River. Or imagine being the Spanish dude that found Florida and suddenly saw the wildest swamps possible. Or the Brits that sailed into the most frozen fucked up parts of Canada and only found some delicious fish types that didn't exist anywhere. What an insane time for humanity. Yeah I know that those explorer guys were mostly bootlickers and had awful intentions, but the timeline of these "accomplishments" by the European explorers is astonishing. 30 years between Columbus first voyage and the fall of Tenochtitlan feels unreal.
(CW: ear piercing tones) Zionists at UCLA using the sounds of crying children to torment student protestors
BBC News at 10 goes even further than the bullshit clashes rhetoric:
On tonight's BBC News at Ten, the narrative about the campus protests moved even deeper into the realms of mendacious fiction.
Earlier in the day the BBC led with a fake headline – "Rival protesters clashed" – even though the footage clearly shows outside pro-Israel agitators violently attacking a peaceful camp set up at UCLA by anti-genocide demonstrators, and throwing fireworks into their midst.
Tonight, the BBC went further, precisely reversing the roles of aggressor and victim. It falsely attributed responsibility for the violence not to the pro-Israel groups attacking the anti-genocide protesters, but directly to the victims of the attack. The anchor stated: "In Los Angeles, demonstrators at a camp set up by people who oppose Israel's military action in Gaza clashed with counter demonstrators."
In other words the BBC is claiming, contrary to all the visual evidence it and others have presented, that it was the anti-genocide protesters initiating "the clashes" rather than the reality that the pro-Israel groups are the aggressors.
This is not accidental. This is meant to deceive audiences, to justify police brutality and to further efforts to crush the popular movement trying to stop a genocide. These media lies are integral to winning popular legitimacy for further curbs on suppressing our right to protest.
Hasan is going way too easy on Asmongold in this dumb debate, bro needs some Piers Morgan energy
Edit: Hasan just let himself get clip-chimped by this dumbass motherfucker making deranged lolibertarian takes about pRitVite ProPeRtY, apparently Hasan doesn't know how to debate ancaps, this is why you read theory folks
Labour lost the West Midlands mayoralty race to the Tories, and an "anonymous" Labour source told the BBC ""It’s the Middle East, not West Midlands, that will have won Andy Street the mayoralty. Once again Hamas are the real villains."
https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1786351932438655395
Another told a reporter for TheTimes, "We have beaten him as a general rule, but the Muslim vote has collapsed to the Galloway-backed independent.”
https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1786338217240809578
Unsurprising that the people who bleated on about a supposed anti-semitism epidemic in the Labour Party turned out to be satanically racist themselves. Deir Sturmer will obviously not investigate. The Tories have already denounced the comments as "vile".
gov updateBackwalking previous anti-China posturings, the main chancellor said racist shit. They really can't help themselves.
Then the gov said "she has no racism in her soul"
Shiraz university in #Iran 🇮🇷gives #scholarship to the students of #American 🇺🇲and European universities who have been expelled for supporting #Palestine 🇵🇸
It also would hire the professors who have been fired or threatened to be fired #campusProtests
https://twitter.com/Soureh_design2/status/1785018766310641975
EDIT: oops Al_Sham already posted this. oh well
A group of white frat bros at Ole Miss in Mississippi mocking and making racist gestures at a black woman who was protesting in support of Palestine. (CW:racism) https://nitter.privacydev.net/ashtonpittman/status/1786223536446525567?t=eY9C7gPLvfGm0praLpxDYQ
The video below also shows just how incredibly outnumbered the protestors were, genuinely terrifying to see.
https://nitter.privacydev.net/JiraViolet/status/1786089424146555067?t=ylQDgeWm5dl7CVz1fwFTDg
the zionists have reportedly been leaving booby-trapped explosive cans of "food" behind in Gaza
(cw: gore) https://twitter.com/ME_Observer_/status/1784650941649555497
Our agents at the University of Manchester have activated
Trust the Plan
The brazilian army, in bolsonaro`s years in government, has bought armored cars from the IOF in an amount which is close to $450 mllion. This has went into the neoliberal right local media and they are making a huge talk about it. The army fears Lula vetoes their sale, as the brazilian army and our national intelligence are intimately tied to the IOF and ABIN (The intelligence) obeys to orders from mossad, as when they tiped the arrest of people claiming they were hezbollah.
Now its another chapter in how Lula tries to show if he and PT are really left-wing or not. He can veto the sale. I think he will not do it. Lets see if he will.
I've been thinking a lot about how the advances in drone technology should and likely will make their way into protests as a means of broadcasting/capturing the parts of protest that the capitalist media won't show, as a means of scouting/surveiling police presence and movements, and as a way to investigate and doxx counterprotesters by remotely following them when they leave the protest.
Ayo Russia finally captured an Abrams tank somewhere around Avdiivka.
"Hello my enemies 👋 it’s a stupid move!" - Ali Mortada on Zionists attacking the student protestors:
https://twitter.com/aliimortada/status/1785613398496944341Israel ‘too cowardly’ to respond to Iran’s retaliatory strikes: Yemen’s Ansarullah https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/05/03/724874/Yemen-Ansarullah-resistance-movement-Israel-too-cowardly-Iran-strikes
Naturally, Formula 1 is completely terrible and I should be sent to the gulag for still watching it since the 1990s out of childhood nostalgia, knowing full well it’s absolutely haram. But...
It’s pretty hilarious that Trump showed up at today’s race, hung out in McLaren’s garage, and then dubbed himself Lando Norris' lucky charm after his first ever win. What’s funnier is that Lando then said, “Donald is someone that you've got to have a lot of respect for in many ways,” which left fans upset that le epic bacon Twitch streaming driver would say such a thing
Imagine being surprised that someone from one of the UK’s richest families, competing in a sport formerly managed by someone who praised Hitler for being “a man who got things done” and someone else whose father led the British Union of Fascists, would have right-wing sympathies
Doxx of some of those Zionist fratbros:
https://twitter.com/Solidarity_Star/status/1786480372378706286
https://twitter.com/yumcoconutmilk/status/1786420513792782730The US allegedly suspended arms shipments to Israel last week
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunition-shipment-hold
Seems like the US is genuinely trying to stop a Rafah invasion? There are currently bulldozers and Merkavas with cope cages prepared outside Rafah.
I wouldn't put it past the US to put this out as useful disinformation though, it's beneficial to the US to look like they're against it and it's beneficial to Israel if they're still supplying them since they're reliant on those supplies.
my subconscious has once again presented the most evil scenario it can come up with unprompted:
it says that President Biden and his campaign team have decided to denounce Israels actions as genocide, and they decided this all the way back in february but in order to win the election they're gonna wait until the end of october to do it
thanks subconscious that's very evil
I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent for Congress in Ohio, was removed from the site.
(To clarify, this was post-Zionist-attack and pre-pig-raid. I guess that's the day before yesterday now? Sorry, time blurs for me sometimes, with weird sleep habits, work, interrupted stream/video watching between shit....)
Keir Starmer: I agree with the Americans' plan for transsexual genocide, but they're not going fast enough. We must ensure they don't receive any medical care whatsoever.
The new fiscal rules will affect single workers with an annual gross salary of about US$2,000 and married workers earning about US$2,570.
Juan Carlos Schmid, the secretary of the Union of Dock and Beacon Workers (DRAGYBAL), announced that on May 6th, Argentine workers will carry out a strike affecting all air, land, port, and maritime transportation activities in protest against fiscal policies.
This action will take place just three days before the call for the second general strike made by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) to demonstrate deep opposition to the severe austerity policies implemented by the far-right President Javier Milei.
Additionally, the Union of Oil and Soybean Workers (SOEA) in San Lorenzo, where one of Argentina's largest agro-export ports is located, will begin an indefinite strike on Monday against Milei's income tax and labor reforms.
"The indefinite strike will affect 80 percent of the oil mills. It will begin after the opening of the Parliamentary session that will address income tax and labor reform," SOEA said.
This mobilization adds to the strike also announced for the same day nationwide by state workers responsible for food sanitary quality (SENASA), which could impact the shipments of flour and soybean oil, essential products in the nation's exports.
These upheavals condemn one of the most controversial points of the fiscal package, which foresees the reinstatement of the fourth category of income tax.
The new fiscal procedures will affect single workers with an annual gross salary of about US$2,000 and married workers with two children earning about US$2,570.
I completely forgot that the person who made the Goku drawing also made this
In addition to the strike authorization vote we're having next week, for UAW 4811 (the UC grad worker union), we're having leadership voting right now. Since our pay negotiation strike last year, and the spectacular displays of worker betrayal we've seen, we've been working on cutting out the more corrupt/collaborationist caucus in the union, but we only like halfway seized power in the aftermath. I'm really hoping they don't gain ground back, especially right before this potentially huge vote next week.
Prime minister of India is now labelling Muslims who vote during the ongoing elections as Jihadis
https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1785927821321179232?s=19
Also this genocidal rhetoric clip from the party's official channel
https://twitter.com/t_d_h_nair/status/1785691862839263733?s=19
NSFW/L people buring alive
"Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel," Blinken said at a meeting of the World Economic Forum in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
"The only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas. They have to decide and they have to decide quickly," he said. "I'm hopeful that they will make the right decision."
THESE PEDOPHILES THINK THEY CAN PRESSURE HAMAS INTO ACCEPTING A TERRIBLE DEAL BY CALLING THEM MEAN WORDS IN STATE SPONSORED RAGS LIKE REUTERS AND THE LIKE
A second phase of a truce would consist of a "period of sustained calm" - Israel's compromise response to a Hamas demand for a permanent ceasefire.
WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT? "SUSTAINED CALM"? THIS IS PATHETIC. UNLIMITED BEEP BEEP ON BLINKEN COMRADE ROAD PLEASE HUMBLE THIS FREAK
Sana'a University offers full support of the protests and pledges to support any student and academic who have been persecuted:
https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1786049938083684595
In solidarity with these protests and demonstrations, and as a practical stance in support, Sana’a University opens its doors in all its specializations to welcome, with the utmost appreciation, honor, and respect, all academics and students who have been unjustly dismissed from their institutions.
We extend our warmest welcome and utmost respect to these individuals, offering them a safe haven within our academic community. They may contact us through the university’s email: info@su.edu.ye.
Mainstream media collaborating to manufacture ammo for zionists/cops to use as justification for increase violence against the protestors https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1785526485367050385
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/claims-that-student-protestors-are
Claims That Student Protestors Are Chanting 'Death to America' Are Bullshit
But Washington is falling for the hoax, urging an FBI crackdown
Negotiations for a potential hostage deal and truce in Gaza appeared to reach a critical moment Saturday, with Hamas set to offer its response to the latest proposal, and Israel indicating an offensive in the city of Rafah could be imminent if no agreement is reached.
With Arab and American mediators pressing intensely for a temporary ceasefire, several reports Saturday said Hamas was prepared to accept the latest proposal, in light of assurances from the United States that there will be a “sustainable cessation” of the war.
It was not clear whether such a response would be a straightforward approval of the proposal on offer, or one that comes with various caveats.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo Saturday, as was CIA Director William Burns, for meetings with Egyptian mediators.
The truce deal is believed to be composed of several potential phases, with the first phase seeing a limited release of “humanitarian” hostages for a truce of several weeks, while further phases featuring further releases and a more solid ceasefire are possible.
Citing unidentified sources, the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper said American mediators had promised that Israel would completely withdraw from Gaza under the third and final phase, and the war would effectively end.
An unnamed Hamas source gave a similar statement to Israel’s Channel 12 news.
Hamas, Al-Quds reported, was for the first time poised to agree to launch the first phase without a guarantee of the war’s end, based on those assurances and its belief that it still holds significant cards in the form of hostages who will not be released under the first phase.
In response to the reports, an Israeli official, speaking anonymously to the media, repeated Jerusalem’s insistence that “Israel will under no circumstances agree to end the war as part of an agreement to free our abductees.”
The official added: “The IDF will enter Rafah and destroy the remaining Hamas battalions there — whether there is a temporary pause to free our captives or not.”
The same official put out a second statement later to the same effect, saying saying any claims Israel had agreed to end the war “are untrue.”
A number of media outlets named the official who put out the two statements as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Signaling discord within Israeli leadership, war cabinet minister Benny Gantz criticized those comments.
“I advise the ‘official sources’ and all other decision-makers to wait for official updates, to act with restraint and not to become hysterical due to political reasons,” he said in a statement, apparently referencing far-right pressure on Netanyahu not to agree to a deal that could be perceived as a win for Hamas.
Gantz added that when Hamas does submit a response, the war cabinet will convene to deliberate it.
Saudi newspaper Asharq also reported that an agreement was close and echoed that Hamas would announce its response to the proposal “in the coming hours.”
The Palestinian, Saudi and Channel 12 reports all said that the US had guaranteed Israel will withdraw all troops from Gaza upon completion of the third phase of the agreement. None of the reports included comments from US officials.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Israel had given Hamas one week to agree to the hostage deal on the table, or it would launch its long-pledged offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city.
The latest proposal for the hostage deal reportedly includes a first phase lasting up to 40 days, in which at least 33 of 128 hostages held in Gaza would be released, along with an IDF withdrawal from parts of the Strip.
The first phase would allow for the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for hostages.
The potential second phase would last for 42 days and see the release of all other living hostages and the sides completing arrangements for sustainable calm in Gaza.
The third and final phase, which would see an exchange of bodies, would also last 42 days.
The Hamas source quoted by Channel 12 said “compromises were reached” regarding the number of Palestinian security prisoners to be released in exchange for each Israeli hostage.
The issue of allowing the import of “dual-use” items into the Strip — supplies that Israel fears could also be used for military purposes — was still being ironed out, the Hamas source added.
“The results today will be different. We have reached an agreement over many points, and a few points remain,” one Egyptian security source told Reuters.
An unnamed Palestinian official with knowledge of the mediation efforts said that “things look better this time, but whether an agreement is on hand would depend on whether Israel has offered what it takes for that to happen.”
Egyptian media on Saturday reported “noticeable progress” in talks to secure a deal. A consensus has been reached over many of the disputed points, the Egyptian Al-Qahera news reported, without elaborating.
On Friday, the Axios news site quoted senior Israeli officials who said they saw “early indications” that Hamas could agree to the first stage of the Egyptian-crafted, Israeli-backed proposal for a deal — involving the release of women, children, the elderly and the sick — even without an Israeli commitment to end the war, but with fewer hostages to be freed in exchange for more Palestinian security prisoners.
If so, the Israeli officials expect Hamas to set stricter requirements that could lower the number of hostages it will agree to release on so-called “humanitarian” grounds, and increase the number of Palestinian security prisoners to be freed in return, the news site said.
Netanyahu has been threatening to enter Rafah for months, claiming repeatedly during that period that an invasion was imminent.
Galloway did an interview with Novara Media (trots). His views on Palestine were amazing. His views on LGBTQ+ were EXTREMELY confusing. On the one hand he says he proudly voted to legalise gay marriage in the UK and for gay couples to adopt. He even says that gay marriage and hetero marriage are "equal" (his exact word), but in the same sentence he literally says that gay relationships are "not normal". What the fuck does he even believe? He says that while he believes LGBTQ+ people should be treated with "respect and compassion", it should not be taught to children- that seems to be his sticking point. Content warning, he has the usual "frocks" line about trans people. He also calls himself "gay-friendly" and notes that every political office he has held has had gay people in it, and claims in one every member was gay.
Another quote: "If someone is in a gender that there were born into which is the wrong gender then they have my sympathy, my respect, and my affection... [but] I don't want my children taught that a woman can have a penis." How can he be this dumb?
Massive betrayal by the UAW who put out the red carpet for the pigs:
https://twitter.com/afropessimistic/status/1786826093372309649Further context: By "Tongva steps," they mean that UCLA "decolonized" by naming a bunch of shitty steps after the Indigenous nation of Los Angeles.
dropping a couple tactical resources here from our anarchist friends at crimethinc:
https://crimethinc.com/2003/11/20/blocs-black-and-otherwise
https://crimethinc.com/2008/10/11/fashion-tips-for-the-brave
Vladimir Putin: Read another book.
I’m already seeing the pattern repeat itself on my former campus. People are setting up encampments in solidarity and you can see people on the side in their own little world, focused on finals only to end up with an email job in the next year
Nothing’s going to change until those people get uncomfortable and I just don’t know if that’s possible without an act of war (historically speaking). All of this just seems like 2020 with a little less power
Death to America. Me and all my homies in the news thread hate it for real 😤😤
Local elections 2024: full council results for England
The main takeaway is that the Tories absolutely ate shit. They lost 156 councillors, leaving them with 157 - a colossal 50% decrease. Labour won 95 councillors, bringing their total up to 501.
My hatred for the Tories is enough to sustain me here. Labour under Starmer will almost definitely be awful for the left but I would like every Tory on this planet to die.
Also the subheading on this article is ridiculous. "Results from more than 100 English councils, as well as for several mayors, are announced. So far the Conservatives have lost control of some key councils, but have won the Tees Valley mayoral contest." As if its like a 50/50 gain/loss for the Tories, even though, as far as I can tell, they've lost way, way more than they've gained. Who the fuck wrote this.
To be clear, results are still coming in. The numbers I said above have now changed
Statement from UCWVA-VCU in support of VCU students and the VCU Liberated Zone:
https://ucw-vcu.medium.com/the-work-of-education-is-to-help-students-build-a-better-world-327d2e1c9df4I visit a variety of lib subreddits to keep on an eye on what the libs are thinking and feeling. With a doubt, the smartest of them are r/neoliberal users. They are the theory readers of the liberals, their theory being Milton Friedland speeches, the FT, and German GDP reports. They view the world through an ideological framework, have mostly consistent politics in their heads, and are the mostly likely to criticize Brandon and US economic and foreign policy. They are still Democrat partisans, but more level headed than most other libs. They are also the most willing to read criticism of Israel as long as it comes from mainstream, "credible" news sources since they are all news junkies. They are the most rational about China of all libs, but this is by the standards of libs
The hogs of liberals are r/destiny. Slop addicts whos only driving force is to make marvel quips about palestinians being murdered and being terminally online about getting mad at streamers. They are blue chuds who's only interested is seeing their enemies getting owned. There is no discussion of value on r/destiny, there is no news coverage of Israel, good or bad, at best their is brief twitter clips. they consume no news or information, only pure streamer slop. They are the id of liberal reddit
Presumably nothing will come from this (because nothing good ever happens) but it would be great if China could start prying Europe away from the US.
From Resistance News Network on Telegram:
The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain - Saraya Al-Ashtar - announces the targeting of a vital target in the city of Umm Al-Rashrash in occupied Palestine ("Eilat"), on Thursday, May 2, 2024, by drone, in victory for our resisting people in Gaza.
We affirm that our operations will not stop until the siege is lifted and the aggression ceases against the resisting Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Issued by: The Drone Air Force of the Islamic Resistance in Bahrain – Saraya Al-Ashtar
Finally !!!
Berlin: The Berlin Administrative Court is calling on the federal government to explain the criteria according to which weapons are delivered to Israel without violating international law. (!!!)
What is required is a description of the considerations underlying the previous approval practice as well as a concrete statement by May 15, 2024, as can be seen from a letter to the federal government dated April 26, which Junge Welt has received >since Monday. The background is an urgent application submitted by Berlin lawyers in February.
The court therefore assumes that NO ARMS DELIVERIES to Israel that fall under the "War Weapons Control Act" will be approved until a decision on the urgent application is made, and is threatening an interim decision prohibiting these if the federal >government does not comply.
The Relevant Paragraf is this it seems : https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/krwaffkontrg/__6.html
"(Export is forbidden if ) There is reason to believe that granting the approval would violate the Federal Republic's obligations under international law or endanger their fulfillment, "
Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway
- A caravan of Indigenous Mapuche activists recently concluded an 847-km (526-mi) trek down Argentina’s Chubut River, meeting with communities along the way to raise awareness of the issues they face along the shared waterway.
- From each trawün, or gathering, they determined that Indigenous access to land and water is diminishing, that large-scale projects on their lands are going ahead without their prior informed consent, and that Mapuche communities need a unified stance toward state decisions.
- Huge swaths of land along the river have been bought up by private interests, including foreign millionaires, cutting off access for the Mapuche to the Chubut that they consider not just a physical resource but a spiritual entity.
- The Mapuche are also concerned about policy changes under Argentina’s new libertarian administration, which has already kicked off a massive deregulation spree and could lift a ban on open-pit mining in the region.
Doxx of Zionist pieces of shit by a Moroccan TA at Stanford, including one turd who's currently serving in the IOF:
https://twitter.com/hamza_elboudali/status/1785439995735560471Okay I'm posting this in news even though I don't have a link, but my source is super solid...
In the first round of arrests at UT Austin the Travis county DA cited "copy pasted" probable cause affidavits as reason for dropping the charges. This time around the campus police took their time with the paperwork, which is why we haven't heard yet whether the charges are going forward. They were instructed to "personalize" all the PC stuff and ... they're still copy pasted, at least some of them are. With the thousands of hours of video and all the effort they could muster they still couldn't do it, as far as is known the only difference from last time is that they're trickling in gradually rather than all being filed at once.
"France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère)."
Patsocs in the replies malding after Hinkle and Haz got kicked out for being loser patsocs:
https://twitter.com/themattdimitri/status/1784716190742626571Today I learned that dishwashers don't just drain automatically if they don't complete their cycle. I thought they dripped down into a pipe or something. But no, they have to pump the fucking water into the sink pipe. I didn't know this and I had standing water under my floor for days. Probably gonna have to replace some of the flooring.
lmao why he chewing like that?
The jack booted thugs are going in the UCLA encampment
Japan's ruling party loses all 3 seats in special vote, seen as punishment for corruption scandal
Japan's governing party has lost all three seats being contested in parliamentary by-elections Sunday
TOKYO -- Japan’s governing party, stung by an extensive slush funds scandal, lost all three seats in parliamentary by-elections Sunday in a major setback for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in seeking reelection as his party's leader in the autumn.
The loss is considered punishment by voters for the Liberal Democratic Party scandal that erupted last year and has undermined Kishida’s leadership. The party’s loss of power is unlikely, however, because the opposition is fractured.
“The results were extremely severe,” LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi told reporters. “We humbly accept the severe results, and we will do our utmost to regain the trust from the public as we continue our effort to reform and tackle the challenges.”
The liberal-leaning main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan clinched all three seats in Shimane, Nagasaki and Tokyo, according to final vote counts posted on prefectural election committee websites.
The LDP previously held all three vacated seats. It did not field its own candidates in the Tokyo and Nagasaki by-elections because of the apparent low support for the party. It focused instead on defending the seat in the Shimane district that was vacated by the death of former LDP House Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda, who was linked to a number of alleged irregularities, including the ongoing slush fund scandal.
Akiko Kamei, the CDPJ candidate who beat former Finance Ministry bureaucrat Norimasa Nishikori from the LDP in Shimane, said her victory in the district known as a “conservative kingdom” sent a big message to Kishida. “I believe the voters’ anger over LDP’s slush funds problem and the lack of improvement in daily lives in the prefecture became support for me,” she said.
CPDJ leader Kenta Izumi said the by-elections were about political reforms. “There are many voters across the country who also want to show (similar) views,” he said, adding that he will seek early national elections if reforms by the governing party are too slow.
The losses could reduce Kishida’s clout as LDP lawmakers may try to bring him down to put a new face ahead of the next general election. Such a move would dash Kishida’s hope for running in the party presidential race in September for another three-year term. As prime minister, he can call a snap election any time before the current term for the lower house expires in October 2025.
Kishida has fought plummeting support ratings since the corruption scandal erupted last year. He has removed a number of Cabinet ministers and others from party executive posts, conducted internal hearings and drafted reform measures, but support ratings for his government have dwindled to around 20%.
The scandal centers on unreported political funds raised through tickets sold for party events. Ten people — lawmakers and their aides — were indicted in January.
More than 80 governing party lawmakers, most of them belonging to a major party faction previously led by assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have acknowledged not reporting funds in a possible violation of the Political Funds Control Law. The money received from the long-term practice is alleged to have gone into unmonitored slush funds.
So the law in Georgia is pretty similar to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in the USA, right? The one they used against RT and such, saying they are foreign agents.
Guess which lobbying group is not considered a foreign agent even though they literally and obviously lobby for another country and they were even involved in espionage?
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Israeli air attacks kill at least 10 Palestinians in Rafah as Hamas fires rockets at the Karem Abu Salem crossing, killing three Israeli soldiers and wounding 11 others.
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The latest round of negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza has ended in the Egyptian capital Cairo, but crucial gaps remain between Israel and Hamas.
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The Israeli cabinet has voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in the country. The communications minister says the orders against the network “will go into effect immediately”. Al Jazeera calls the move a “criminal act that violates human rights”.
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At least 34,683 Palestinians have been killed and 78,018 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive.
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https://archive.today/www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/dartmouth-professor-police-protests.html
May 3, 2024
Police Treatment of a Dartmouth Professor Stirs Anger and Debate A video showing Annelise Orleck, 65, being taken to the ground intensified criticism of the decision by the college’s president to call in officers. By Vimal Patel
The video is jarring: A gray-haired woman tumbles, gets up to reach for her phone, held by police officers, and is yanked and taken to the ground. “Are you kidding me?” a bystander asks.
“What are they doing to her?” another adds.
Annelise Orleck, a labor historian who has taught at Dartmouth College for more than three decades, was at a protest for Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday night, when she was knocked to the ground. Dr. Orleck, 65, was zip-tied and was one of 90 people who were arrested, according to the local police.
The professor walked away with a case of whiplash. But a short video clip of the episode flew around the internet, intensifying the debate over the relatively swift decision by Dartmouth’s president, Sian Leah Beilock, to call in police to arrest students and clear out an encampment.
Unlike other campuses where tents were tolerated for days, the police action at Dartmouth began a little more than two hours after the encampment first appeared, according to the college’s newspaper, The Dartmouth, and students who observed the events on Wednesday.
Dr. Beilock defended her decision.
“Last night, people felt so strongly about their beliefs that they were willing to face disciplinary action and arrest,” Dr. Beilock said in a message to campus on Thursday. “While there is bravery in that, part of choosing to engage in this way is not just acknowledging — but accepting — that actions have consequences.”
Dr. Beilock did not directly address the treatment of Dr. Orleck, who called the message “outrageous.” …
Forgive me if it's been discussed earlier in the thread, but Isaac Chotiner interviews Elliott Abrams. Some blatant lies that would be astonishing in their boldness if it were not . . . Elliott Abrams. Israel! Chile! Guatemala! El Salvador! Almost everything he says necessitates a bracketed correction.
The ending:
A lot of people still think of Iran-Contra when your name comes up. Do you think that’s fair?
Well, it’s fair because that’s what comes up when you Google my name.
Right. Do you feel reformed in some way?
Reformed from what?
Oh, just the crimes. People should always have a chance to reform.
I think that’s a really offensive and, frankly, quite despicable question.
BoJo turned away from the polls for not bringing his voting loicense:
https://twitter.com/PoliticsMoments/status/1786114864621949031"The times of genocide and extermination of an entire people cannot return. If Palestine dies, humanity dies," President Petro stated.
On Wednesday, President Gustavo Petro met with thousands of Colombians to celebrat the International Workers Day in the Bolivar Square Bogota, from where he made an unexpected foreign policy announcement.
"The Government of Change informs that as of tomorrow diplomatic relations with Israel will be broken," he said, adding that this decision is due to the fact that that country "has a genocidal government and president."
“The world could be summed up in a single word that vindicates the necessity of life, rebellion, the raised flag, and resistance. That word is called Gaza," Petro stressed.
"It is called Palestine. It is called the children and babies who have died dismembered by the bombs,” he added.
“The times of genocide and extermination of an entire people cannot return. If Palestine dies, humanity dies,” the leftist leader said as thousands of people in downtown Bogota applauded and shouted his name “Petro, Petro, Petro.”
During the massive event in Bolivar Square, Petro also referred to the need to promote labor reform in Colombia to reduce social inequality and dignify workers.
To exemplify the importance of these changes, he recalled that right-wing governments treated domestic workers and other manual workers as if they were slaves who had no right to labor benefits or decent working conditions.
bye biden -> bubiden -> bibiden -> bibi den
it was right in front of us
The union that gathers the workers of the oil milling plants in Argentina called for a strike starting next Monday and for an indefinite time in protest against the changes in the labor laws included in the package of reforms promoted by Javier Milei.
Pepe Mujica reveals he has cancer
The former president of Uruguay was diagnosed with a tumor in his esophagus and was unable to undergo chemotherapy or surgery; “we'll see how this story continues,” said the politician.
The former president of Uruguay, José “Pepe” Mujica, announced on Monday (29/04) that he had been diagnosed with a tumor in his esophagus.
At a press conference held in Montevideo, the former Tupamaro guerrilla, who governed the country between 2010 and 2015, revealed that he learned the news last Friday (26/04), after undergoing a series of tests.
The former leader also explained that the situation he is facing is “doubly complex”, since he has been suffering from an immune disease for years (which he did not want to reveal), which makes it unlikely that the cancer can be treated with chemotherapy, or even surgery to remove the tumor.
“Obviously, it's a very compromised condition. The doctors are evaluating all this, doing cell analysis and seeing how this story will continue,” said Mujica.
During the interview, the former Uruguayan president added, in a serene tone, that “I want to tell you that more than once in my life death has been around my bedside”.
“It has been shepherding me all these years. Certainly, for obvious reasons, this time it seems to have come with a scythe in hand. We'll see what happens,” said the politician who to this day is an icon of the left in Uruguay.
Amazing, a X (formerly known as Twitter) poster who will go unnamed is in their 7th month of claiming October 7th was a false flag, sourcing entirely western news sources especially Haaretz in their new Substack
I can forgive confusion right off the bat, and little a "wow this reminds me of 9/11" as a treat, but letting your defeatism intensify after the last few weeks is jawdroppingly uninformed.
Israeli army tells Palestinians to temporarily evacuate parts of Rafah ahead of an expected assault
The Israeli army has told Palestinians to begin evacuating eastern Rafah, according to an Israeli Defense Force statement on Monday, signaling that a ground invasion is imminent.
People were told to move to Muwasi, an Israeli-declared humanitarian area near the coast. The army said it had expanded assistance into the area, including field hospitals, tents, food and water.
The announcement comes amid fragile cease-fire talks and ahead of a highly anticipated ground offensive that Israel has been vowing to undertake for months to weed out the remaining Hamas militants.
On Sunday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed Hamas wasn’t serious about a deal and warned of “a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah.”
His comments came after Hamas attacked Israel’s main crossing point Sunday for delivering assistance, killing three soldiers.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2021987
Microsoft on Friday provided a peek at a comprehensive framework that aims to sort out the Domain Name System (DNS) mess so that it’s better locked down inside Windows networks. It’s called ZTDNS (zero trust DNS). Its two main features are (1) encrypted and cryptographically authenticated connections between end-user clients and DNS servers and (2) the ability for administrators to tightly restrict the domains these servers will resolve.
anyone networking-savvy want to explain how Micro$oft is trying to fuck people with whatever this is
Clip on how Al-Qassam militants set up booby traps with explosives:
https://twitter.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1785130579299631142Debated whether I should post this here or in /c/the_dunk_tank.
From crisis to prosperity: Netanyahu's vision for Gaza 2035 revealed online
This international coalition wants to bring over 5,500 tons of aid to the Palestinian people.
On Thursday, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international initiative to send humanitarian aid directly to Gaza, denounced that Israel is exerting pressure to prevent its ships from sailing to the Palestinian territory.
"Israel prevented the departure from Istanbul of the Flotilla ships with hundreds of human rights observers, international press, and 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid," said "Heading to Gaza," a Spanish organization taking part in the coalition.
The Freedom Flotilla accuses the Zionist state of pressuring Guinea-Bissau to remove the flag from the Akdeniz ferry, the flotilla's flagship that has not been able to leave the Tuzla shipyards in Istanbul since April.
Another ship affected by Israeli pressure is the cargo ship Anadolu, also flagged in Guinea-Bissau, which is currently anchored in the roadstead in front of the port of Iskenderun, where it has loaded more than five thousand tons of humanitarian aid destined for Gaza.
On April 25, Guinea-Bissau authorities sent an inspector to Istanbul. A day later, after an unusual inspection of the humanitarian ship, they announced the withdrawal of the flag.
Finding no technical impediment for the ship to sail, the Guinean authorities demanded that the Humanitarian Relief Foundation İnsani Yardım Vakfı (IHH), a Turkish organization that owns the ship, sign a document pledging not to sail to Gaza. It, however, refused that request.
The decision to remove the flag is not final yet, while the IHH Foundation continues to negotiate with Guinea-Bissau to find a solution, IHH spokesperson Mustafa Özbek said.
"We are making progress with Guinea. If efforts are unsuccessful, flags from other countries will be acquired. Our goal is to set sail within a few days," he pointed out.
On April 26, a spokesperson for the Israeli Army said that any arrival of aid to Gaza other than by air, land crossings or the Israeli port of Ashdod will be considered a "provocation," as reported by EFE agency.
In a joint statement issued that same day, United Nations special rapporteurs Francesca Albanese, Michael Fakhri, and Balakrishnan Rajagopal called on Israel to "comply with international law, including recent orders from the International Court of Justice, on ensuring the unhindered arrival of humanitarian aid" for the Gazan population.
The second presidential debate of México happen yesterday and it a little better than the first one
Gálvez (PAN-PRI) continue her strategy of attacking Sheinbaum and acussing her of corrupsion while saying she wont be weaking the current goverment programs and labot right while also saying she will give companies a far deal unlike AMLO, called Morena a narcoparty.
Sheinbaum (Morena) also acusse Gálvez of being corrupt and her coalition parties, also she defended the current president unlike last debate defending the Tren maya and the refinery of dos bocas and also that she will continue the politics of the current president
Maynez (MC) took the time to attack both a bit but mostly talk about his program (lib stuff) and tried to answer the moderators questions
Also currently the PAN is coping about the Morena party twitter sharing a meme about Death saying " A real man never speaks ill of Lopez Obrador" saying its satanic among other things
They are all Bourgeois parties at the end of the day
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👁 Murder of Russell "Texas" Bentley, basic facts:
🔹A white Niva stolen from near “Avtobaza” was found blown up and burned out at the brick factory in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, almost at the front line. Inside were Russell's remains.
🔹The body was incinerated. Collected fragments were taken from Donetsk for DNA analysis.
🔹Two separate criminal cases, the “disappearance” and the “murder” cases, were combined into a single case and taken under the control of the Main Military Investigative Authority of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation due to the magnitude of the public outcry. Donetsk tried to hush it up, but Moscow did not allow it.
🔹He was kidnapped by soldiers of the 5th (tank) brigade, the commander of which took the blame of his subordinates.
🔹Russell's wife took Russell's destroyed phone from the Niva at “Avtobaza” on April 8, before it was stolen. The phone was restored on April 10 and transferred to the Investigative Committee on April 11. There were no photos, videos or outgoing calls made after 16:15pm on April 8 found in the phone’s memory. Had it been the case, the phone would have been kept as evidence.
This is the end of my report on the facts. Personally, I will add that the best memory of Russell would be the continuation of his work of helping people, in whose memory he is still alive. As Texas himself had repeatedly asked, he should be buried next to his close friend, Donetsk bard Sergei Lysenko , who died in the Northern Military District and was buried in the “Zakharchenko square”. Eternal memory... and in songs too. It’s a pity that they never had time to record “Heart” - don’t put off life until tomorrow, because tomorrow it may no longer exist. Live. Take action. Today, here and now.
Vlad Filin, April 28, 2024
Russiagate still going strong in /r/chomsky I see. LMFAO.
"leftist" mods who do the "fully hands-off" thing, or the actual dumbass liberal shit of policing "civility" but not e.g. actual fascism, are beyond useless.SEA Headlines
VietnamPlus - Vietnam secures remarkable economic successes since national reunification
Bernama - ASEAN FOUNDATION COLLABORATES WITH HUAWEI TO HARNESS DIGITAL POTENTIAL
The Manila Times - China-Asean interpersonal exchanges pushed
The Bangkok Post - Asean centrality in a changing world
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things to different people, but broadly, it can be seen as a regional framework that supports Asean's role as the dominant regional platform to overcome common challenges and engage with external powers.
For citizens of the Asean community, they know its intrinsic value as it has kept the region stable and resilient throughout its more than five decades of existence.
In a fast-changing world, questions are frequently asked about whether the Asean centrality concept should be redefined. Indeed, the concept of Asean centrality was one of the major issues that Asean leaders discussed in the bloc's latest meeting in Hanoi last week.
The discussion on Asean centrality is lively and stimulates questions and even cynicism. At a lunch retreat, Vietnamese scholar Nguyen Hung Son, vice president of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, gave a good account of the evolution of Asean centrality. He said back in the 1980s, when the concept of Asean centrality did not exist, the region was depicted as "flying geese", meaning that member states, such as Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, had the potential to develop quickly.
In the following decade, Asean was perceived as a "driver" for regional cooperation. Questions were raised about whether it was just a driver and whether the passengers (member states) were setting the direction. No matter what the answer was, Asean would go on to assume that it was in the driver's seat, which helped to drive regional processes. Complaints were also made about there being too many hands on the wheel. As Mr Son observed, when Asean entered the 21st century, the bloc turned itself into a "central hub"--akin to an airport able to provide navigation and protection services. But when it came to regional issues that required the bloc's reactions or action, Asean was seen as a "talk shop" or the "Nato" (no action, talk only) of Asia.
Today, Asean centrality is recognised for its part in driving high economic growth in the region. But what form will Asean centrality take over the next 20 years?
Asean is currently wrapping up its new Asean Vision 2045, which envisages a bloc that is future-ready, future-proof, nimble, and agile. In the not-too-distant future, it is projected that the Asean region will become the world's third-most populous region and fourth-largest economy, with a fast-growing middle class that will outweigh the ageing population. Moreover, given its diversity and good connectivity, the region will become an innovative society.
Mr Son said he believes that Asean should be bolder in the future. It should become the leading "goose" of growth, a pioneer in green transformation, digital connection and innovative economics. Asean also can be an example of turning contestation and confrontation in the South China Sea into cooperation and connectivity.
In addition, Asean can serve as an example of how to successfully address multiple crises, such as climate change and water and food security in the Mekong region, thus providing solutions to other regions.
On centrality, Mr Son concluded with a proviso that the concept must not make the bloc complacent; Asean, after all, must not shy away from attempting to lead and shape in future.
In retrospect, similar observations were made in 1977 when Asean opened up for dialogue, market access, and assistance with foreign partners. At that time, Asean officials were only concerned about locations and setting agendas. They insisted all meetings be held in an Asean capital and all agendas fixed by the rotational chair and its members. Back then, the Asean centrality concept was merely a procedural affair.
Subsequent economic cooperation and engagement with the dialogue partners increased the bloc's confidence that its agenda should be further discussed and shared with others. From the 1990s onwards, the bloc has increased Asean-led mechanisms that take in dialogue partners on cooperation on matters related to political/security, economic, social/cultural, and development. At the 9th East Asia Summit in Nay Pyi Taw in 2014, its key agendas were initiated by the US, especially on global health issues and epidemic disease (Ebola).
Because Asean aims to be the main driving force in the region and prevent any hegemony from outside, active engagement from dialogue partners such as the Asean Regional Forum, the East Asia Summit, and the Asean Defence Ministerial Meeting is a must. Luckily, Asean is not a military grouping; it only promotes peace-making and peace-keeping. It has never weaponised conflicts, near or far. Today, Asean centrality has already gained traction as the great powers, particularly the US, China and EU, continue to woo Asean.
During the first special Asean-US summit in California in February 2016, the Obama administration, for the first time, openly supported the Asean centrality and Asean-led mechanism in the evolving regional architecture. Other dialogue partners such as China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand have long accepted Asean centrality as a pivotal tool for forging closer cooperation and partnership between the bloc and dialogue partners.
To make Asean centrality sustainable and relevant, its members' governments and their lawmakers must show goodwill and implement all Asean agreements and policies in a way that only promotes the bloc's centrality.
Meanwhile, younger generations also need to be exposed to Asean affairs in a more holistic way, not fragmented as it is currently. For instance, the region's school children should be able to sing the Asean Way, the bloc's anthem. Activities and programmes promoting the Asean identity and strengthening the sense of belonging should be encouraged.
With its convening and convincing power, Asean centrality 2.0 can go global and create a milestone, especially the efforts to build a better and peaceful world.
Taking advantage of the current situation, with the ongoing desire of the US-China to improve their strained relationship, Asean could provide a neutral venue for them or, for that matter, any conflicting parties to exchange views and mend their relationship because the bloc does not take sides.
The Conversation - Long before politicians called to ‘stop the boats’, First Nations people welcomed arrivals from Indonesia
Antara News - RI, Malaysia propose ASEAN-GCC collaboration for new economic power
These men are your friends, they fight for freedom (Tulkarem Brigade)
Yesterday I had a discussion with some oncoming PSL members about the history of class struggle within the United States. It's apparently a lot more extensive than I originally thought, given the settler colonial origins...
I might return to continue this comment, but I am in the middle of Calculus class lol
Update on the first quantum copper mine in Panama
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-panama-bar-first-quantum-191848277.html
Recap here is that this was a giant copper mine in Panama that was recently found to be constitutionally illegal by Panama after local dissent. The mine officially stopped operating last year. The current stage now is that Panama and first quantum are working out a care and maintenance plan - this is basically a plan of what needs to be done to prevent catastrophes from occurring while final closure is planned and executed.
A major challenge with this and many other mines is acid rock drainage. Sulphide minerals that contain copper generate acid runoff when exposed to air and water. This can be extremely bad for rivers and water bodies nearby. When mines are well operated, a thorough plan is developed to go from operations straight through to closure. In this case, the mine operation was interrupted and so things will necessarily be on a different track. Revamping a closure plan will take time, hence an interim care and maintenance plan. This interim period could last a long time - years to decades depending on what closure activities are needed, decision making on the same, and financing of the same.
In this case, hopefully the $200m of copper concentrate on site can be sold by Panama and used to pay for closure costs.
if french had any balls they would strike during olympics, alas
WKCR.org , or Tunein.com/radio/WKCR-FM-899-s30119/
Live updates from Columbia's student reporters. Most recent update is that all the station students made it back inside safely. Updates are slow, as to be expected, but the music is gas in the meantime
https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1ckvg5i/ru_pov_upgraded_turtle_tank/
New turtle tank video just dropped. Are those animal cages bolted onto the sides?
its "Aimé Césaire" boomerrang i heard , that they credited faucault with it in Academia is in itself a form of Colonialsim.. as he only mentioned the Concept in a speech while its apperently mostly from here
Thoughts on Klippenstein leaving The Intercept to become a fearless truth teller on Substack? Taibbi and Lee Fang and The Intercept gang like Greenwald all strike me as narrative pinball machine bumper
removedintelligence community patrons. But Klippenstein is visibly one of the least ghoulish. Did I miss him being a gigantic lib? I don't really follow journalists obsessively but hopefully you do.
near me
carlson interviewing dugin. Russian right figures are too thick to realise you can't make alliance out of conservatism with prime imperial power, they want your resources not your trad
just wanna give a shout out to all the posters who made this 1000 comment weekly mega possible
bike holding pro Palestine line.
