Every leader at G7 is polling negatively

Liberal democracy moment

Intel suspends planned $15 billion expansion of southern Israel chip plant

Chip giant makes no link between war in Gaza and decision to freeze extra investment in factory being built in Kiryat Gat, says it remains ‘fully committed’ to the region

Uh huh, sure, lmao. Hope this is the beginning of a trend

Decades-Long Conspiracy Unveiled: Sabotage of Yemen's Agriculture

Yemen has the highest rate of food insecurity of any country in the world. And the US and UK have been using biological weapons to sabotage their agricultural industry under the guise of "Aid."

CIA-linked members confessed to orchestrating these actions, with involvement from British and Dutch embassies. Key actors like the US Department of Agriculture and the FAO were implicated, with USAID's pivotal role dating back to the late 1980s.

Local USAID operatives outside Yemen continue gathering intel, obstructing advancements in agricultural practices. A Seed Center for Seed Inspection facilitated the entry of inferior seeds, some infected with pests, while spiny weeds were spread instead of vegetable seeds.

USAID targeted fertile soil with contaminated seeds, aiming to render it unsuitable for cultivation, alongside spreading scale insects to hinder wheat production. Spy Shayef al-Hamdani confirmed USAID's role in spreading epidemics among agricultural crops under the pretext of pest control. USAID's interventions were carried out through implementing partners, including international organizations, spreading epidemics in specific crops under the guise of controlling pests. USAID played a pivotal role in executing these plans through its operatives both within and outside Yemen.

We need to integrate a doomsday clock into the website that changes depending on how many new comments were made in the news mega in the past hour

Did anyone else have the idea drilled into their head during school that Communism created mass poverty and a failed state? I’ve noticed that a lot of European countries that view Communism as a failed relic to leave behind are okay with the failed ideology of fascism.

I think a part of it has to do with fascism not having the same “failed state” stereotype given to it. I remember hearing implications that Nazi Germany was an evil place but had a strong economy. Something you won’t hear being said about the USSR. At least at the basic public school levels.

Wouldn’t surprise me if intellectually incurious people just assume that fascism will create a strong economy that will wipe out undesirables while Communism will make everybody equally poor.

Israelis getting rejected from hotels abroad. Not just happening in Japan but some reports of greece and thailand too.

https://nitter.net/pissvortex/status/1801510006442827891

I'm an electoralist now.

Can we put Julian Assange on a ballot?

EDIT: I forgot Assange is australian...

Lol. Lmao, even.

Biden loses all focus on G7 Summit photo op and meanders away to stare at a parachuter, has to be rounded up by other G7 Summit leaders to continue the photo op.

America is such a joke lmao they are babysitting this man and he’s running for president AGAIN.

US lifts weapons ban on a high-profile Ukrainian military unit with a checkered past

I'll give you one guess to figure out which "high profile Ukrainian military unit "with a checkered past" they're talking about.

Click here for answer (a 30 sec YouTube clip)

Personally I'm surprised it took them this long to say they're officially assisting these scum-sucking brigades.

And no I'm not copy-pasting the article. It's literally not worth the effort of dunking on, nor is it worth reading.

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In rare W, IDF soldier kills someone who actually deserved it: IDF soldier commits suicide, after filming himself demolish Palestinian homes. ( link)

On Friday, June 10th, Cuba inaugurated it's third photovoltaic solar park, "La Criolla", in the province of Villa Clara donated by the Chinese goverment within the Belt and Road Initiative.

Havana syndrome is 100% real. Last night I was hanging out at a Latin club with a few friends and we met a few new acquaintances there, some of which were Cuban. The party was great, we danced a ton and drank even more. I had maybe 5 mojitos. Then today, boom. I wake up almost completely incapacitated. There’s this nonstop buzzing that is so aggravating and giving me a headache, plus I feel sick to my stomach despite having nothing to eat or drink since last night. I now have reason to believe these so-called acquaintances we met were Cuban government agents, and they were sent on a mission to make me have a bad Wednesday.

Thank god the government is looking out for people like me and will pay me between $150K and $200K for my suffering.

Another cargo ship has been abandoned due to damage from Houthi missiles 🫡

US military ran several anti-vax disinformation campaigns during covid.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

White House has begun blasting “Cry Me a River” by Justin Timberlake to drown out Pro Palestine protestors

https://twitter.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1801088368031179029?mx=1

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-pledges-truce-ukraine-exits-occupied-areas-drops-nato-bid-rcna157146

Putin has laid out demands for an immediate peace. Nato has already rejected them but they are:

1. Withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow

2. Renounce plans to join NATO.

3. Ukraine’s non-nuclear status,

4. Restrictions on its military force (I assume this means something like Japan)

5. Protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population in the country

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has already commented: "I don't think Putin's proposal on Ukraine is peaceful. NATO countries will continue to provide military support to Ukraine"

The more I learn, and get invested, about Cuba the worse I feel, because it genuinely feels like that is the AES state most committed to international socialism but it's also going through a very hard time right now. Let's hope multipolarity results in some unembargoable (new word I invented) trade block that Cuba can join.

how am i still shocked at the sheer might of western media brainwashing. Its like literally fucking everywhere.

ONION: Pros And Cons Of Inviting Benjamin Netanyahu To Address Congress

Starmer accuses Sunak of 'Jeremy Corbyn-style' manifesto

Absolutely fucking rent free in Keith’s head. The Corbyn manifestos were fully costed and Keith der Sturmer stood on them as a member of the shadow cabinet.

Can’t wait for the look on his face when the press turns on him.

I'm about to start my "Uhm..actually, Hamas saved Israelis from the Hannibal Doctrine by taking them hostage on 10/7 " arc

When imperialist ghouls feel they can start saying the quiet part out loud after they realize that most Westerners have been sufficiently propagandized at this point for it to not be an issue anymore.

Javier Milei has been accused of allegedly being part of a pedophile network.

I kind of noticed that westerners treat the oppressed as non existent entities, or ghosts.

Looks like Western governments and Western media have finally gotten their ducks in a row w/r/t Biden’s “peace plan”. Olaf Scholz, the US ambassador to the UN, and others now saying “it’s on Hamas to accept this deal”. Despite the fact that Israel hasn’t agreed to shit and Hamas is politely asking that language in the agreement that obviously allows Israel to resume the genocide once they get their hostages back (which they will even more obviously taken advantage) be clarified and changed.

It’s gaslighting right before our very eyes.

After reading theory for so long I tried reading a normal book for popular audiences and I'm like whoah I'm not a slow reader any more!

EU is finally giving Russian frozen assets to Ukraine. Quite nice since it's the final nail in the coffin for Europe since lose any trust when it comes to finances of any other country outside NATO.

Here's a bit idea: Israeli settlers who fled Israel back to their homes in America lobby Biden's government to cancel 4th of July on the ground that fireworks triggers their PTSD

The War is Costing the Israeli Economy $600M a Week Due to Absences of Palestinian Workers

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has laid bare the Israeli economy’s heavy reliance on Palestinian labor, with the absence of these workers costing the Israeli economy an estimated $600 million per week, equivalent to about 6% of its weekly GDP.

Prior to the outbreak of hostilities on October 7, 2023, around 100,000 Palestinians from the West Bank held permits to work in Israel, primarily in construction and agriculture. However, shortly after the initial Hamas attacks, Israel restricted entry for these Palestinian employees.

To fill the gaps, Israel has recruited workers from India and Sri Lanka, but the labor shortages have still taken a major toll. In Q4 2023, the Israeli economy contracted by 19.4% compared to the same period in 2022, the biggest drop in nearly four years. Private consumption plunged 26.9%, business investment fell 67.8%, and exports declined 18.3%

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

We having another cuban missile crisis? Why are there 4 russian warships and a US submarine in Cuba right now?

Not news I'm going to Cuba in a couple months and I'm very excited. Been learning Spanish for a while now and can understand shows and everyday speech. (Though uh, admittedly I have a hard time with Cuban accents lmao)

Any recommendations? Going to Havana for just 4/5 days.

#neveragain just means next time we'll succeed. what did we learn from the holocaust? make it look like an accident. we don't need to build auschwitz again, we'll just turn the whole world into a gas chamber.

It's hard for me to put into words just how much I despise Israel. I had to deal with some product in the back at my job today from there. I tucked it away in the back, hopefully nobody ever finds it.

Today has seen even greater escalations on the border of Palestine and Lebanon.

I suspect thay sometime between July and September the US-israeli zionist forces in occupied Palestine will begin a massive operation in Lebanon against Hezbollah.

It will be a repeat of 2006. Before the July war, the Gaza resistance had captured IOF soldier Gilad Shalit. The IOF was unable to retrieve him despite a savage campaign against Gaza so they chose to invade Lebanon instead. Entire villages were destroyed and Beirut was bombed but the IOF was routed and took heavy damage. (Look into the story of Hezbollah leveling Heifa train station its really quite awe inspiring).

A ceasefire in Gaza will only accompany an escalation against Lebanon.

If I'm wrong about this I'll eat my shoe

not many people know this, but MSNBC stands for My Small Nuts Balls and Cock

EDIT: whoops, wrong thread. sorry

Two cop ladies wanted to use a Bar's restroom but they were denied entry and then kicked by the staff and customers

let them pee their pants, let them shit their pants. never give a single inch to any pig, ever. they had fun bashing people's heads with batons? now you pee your pants and will smell bad all the way back home, pig.

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Incredible video of a zionist melting down at jews for palestine.

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1800327418986520887

In response to the zionist enemy's assassination of Hezbollah field commander Talib Sami Abdallah, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon has carried out its largest rocket attack since the start of the war.

Targets included:

• The Northern Corps command center at the Ein Zeitim base.

• The Northern Corps' reserve command center at the Galilee Division reserve deployment base and its warehouses in "Amiad".

• The "Plasan" military industries factory, specializing in armoring and protecting vehicles for the enemy army, in the Sa'sa settlement.

• The air surveillance and operations management unit headquarters for the north at the Meron base.

Image of the Plasan factory (pre-rockets) below

Trying desperately to come up with a "Biden was holding them back!" Joke but I'm dried up, god Fedvans sucks so much lol

the US really needs to get its shit together and balkanize

I am not ready for the absolute wanking of Carter's image after he dies. I don't care if he was the "least violent" US president, he's a mass murderer! I am glad he attempted penance the rest of his life and called Israel an apartheid state, but he was a fucking rube used to overthrow communism and crush working people and willingly went along with it. I will piss peanut farmer piss directly on his fucking grave

DeSantis declares state of emergency after torrential rain leaves South Florida roads underwater

On Wednesday, over 12 inches of rain fell in North Miami and Hollywood. Miami's June monthly* average rain is 11 inches historically, so Miami-Dade and Broward counties got an entire month's worth of rain in less than 10 hours.

1 month ago signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida law

EU tariffs on chinese EVs. The EU is prepared to sacrifice all of its industries for the USA. My advice: avoid initiating a car tariff war with the largest car market.

FT: Colombia halts coal exports to Israel in protest against war in Gaza / archive (two days old, somebody may have posted this in last week's thread)

Colombia is Israel’s largest supplier of coal, according to the American Journal for Transportation. Coal exports to Israel were worth $320mn in the first eight months of last year, according to government data, while Colombia’s leading mining agency reports that taxes, royalties and other payments related to coal exports to Israel are worth around $165mn per year to the treasury.

The headline reads "halts," but it has not yet happened and does not impact any shipments which have already been approved. Hopefully this is the beginning of an earnest boycott and not some Erdogan PR bullshit where they simply keep selling to the settler state through an intermediary. Either way, the coal industry is pissed.

What do hexbears think about Putin's recent peace offering?

All the major MSM had a headline story for Putin's speech but didn't go into any details and all rejected it out of hand. I had to go back to Mercouris june 14 video and transcribe them:

1)All Ukrainian troops completely withdraw from annexed territories - they are Russia now

Donetsk Luhansk Kherson Zaporizhzhia

-Russia will guarantee Ukrainian troops safe passage out of the territories

2)Formally declare abandonment of Ukrainian plans to join NATO, no nukes in Ukraine, de-militarisation, de-nazified leadership, non aligned with West

3)Drop all financial sanctions against Russia

When you're just trying to browse geopolitics news on Twitter, and you have to run into straight up reactionary garbage. Wtf does a trans Olympic athlete losing an appeal and being disqualified have to do with BRICS news? Stop trying to associate us with Western imperialism. Fuck offfffffff.

studentsforpalestinefinland
URGENT! COME SUPPORT OUR ENCAMPMENT TOMORROW
The University of Helsinki is planning to evict us tomorrow under the pretext of a greenwashing conference. They have given us until noon to leave.
Join us at 10.00 at the encampment for a briefing on how the demonstration will proceed and to show your support for Palestine and the global student movement!

un voted for usa-described ceasefire, incredible to watch how usa spins around saying israel agreed to it

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/europe/ukraine-prison-soldier-recruitment-intl-cmd/index.html

From prison to the trenches: Inside Ukraine’s attempt to turn inmates into soldiers

The push to recruit inmates into the military appears at first glance to parallel a campaign of prison recruitment by Russia’s mercenary company Wagner early in the war, and continued by the Ministry of Defense since last year. The lives of thousands of Russian convicts have been expended in so-called “meat grinder” assaults, particularly in the fighting for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

But Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska, speaking to CNN in Kyiv, rejected the comparison.

“In Ukraine, motivation is largely based on patriotism. Our prisoners join the army voluntarily. In Russia, it was voluntary and forced. I personally saw (Russian) prisoners who were forced to join Wagner,” he said, adding that in Russia, inmates were recruited into the notoriously brutal private military company, whereas in Ukraine, they are joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“This is a regular state military service with all the guarantees: salary, social insurance, payments in case of injury, death, and so on. This is a completely different story in terms of motives and mechanisms.”

patriotism

WaPo reports Sen. Federman was driving over 30 mph over the speed limit when he rear ended another driver (she was taken to hospital in ambulance)

Southern Baptists voted on Wednesday to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization. The vote was an indication that ordinary evangelicals are increasingly open to arguments that equate embryos with human life, and that two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, “fetal personhood” may be the next front for the anti-abortion movement.

ordinary evangelicals

(NYT [Archive])

One week without Suriyakmaps and life has never felt this empty, I need to know which wheat field Russians have taken or I'm going crazy

Don't tell my wife this Hexbros, but I need name suggestions for my soon to be released son. We're both Arab for context. She wants to name him something cool and hip like Rayyan, but I want to give him a powerful name like Fahad (leopard) or Hassan (Nasrallah reference), or maybe even Qassam (no I won't do this)

China Urges US To Immediately Stop Illegal Unilateral Sanctions

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Washington’s sanctions have created victims all over the world, Chinese diplomat Lin pointed out.

On Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian said that the normal economic and trade interactions between China and Russia should not be used as a tool to smear and contain China. He also urged the United States to immediately stop slapping illegal unilateral sanctions and play a constructive role in ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict and restoring peace.

Lin made the remarks at a regular press briefing in response to a media query concerning a new U.S. anti-Russia sanctions package that includes more than 300 companies, banks and dozens of individuals from Russia and other countries, including China.

Lin said the mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Russia is inherently logical and highly resilient, and is in the interests of both countries.

“China firmly opposes all unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction. The normal economic and trade interactions between China and Russia should not be interfered with or disrupted, still less be used as a tool to smear and contain China,” he said.

On the Ukraine crisis, it is quite clear to the international community who is calling for dialogue and striving for peace, and who is fueling the fight and inciting confrontation, Lin said.

The United States on the one hand continues to pour weapons and munition into Ukraine, yet on the other shifts the blame of undermining peace and protracting the crisis to other countries, Lin said, adding that it even sees the crisis as an opportunity to slap sanctions and suppress others. “All of it reveals Washington’s calculations, hypocrisy and what a bully it is,” he added.

The U.S. sanctions have created victims all over the world, severely undermined other countries’ sovereignty and security, caused humanitarian tragedies and disrupted industrial and supply chains, Lin said.

Since the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, the United States has even doubled down on sanctions. Wielding the big stick of sanctions does not solve problems, the Chinese diplomat said, adding it will only be a major source of risks for the world.

“China did not create and is not a party to the Ukraine crisis, and we will not accept smears, pressuring or blame-shifting,” Lin pointed out, stressing that China will take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard the lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies and citizens.

BREAKING: A military aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing, a statement from the president’s office has said:
https://twitter.com/african_stream/status/1800211812472012997?mx=1

Chinese retail coffee giant Luckin Coffee signs Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Brazilian government, agreeing to pay $500 million for 120,000 tons of Brazilian coffee exports over the next fiscal year, a significant increase from $280 million in the 2023/24 fiscal year.

They do be laying BRICS.

So since half of Europe's far right is concentrating in Hungary because of the curious case of Ilaria Salis, some nazis thought the best way to assert their innocence is to smash up the IMT's (or the 147th Internationale or how they call themselves now) local chapter's meeting, this turned out not to be a smart move and some of them got busted by cops immediately. Nazis are absolutely fuming on their telegrams.

(Sidenote: some of the trots were taken by police too to question them and apparently they sold a newspaper to someone at the police station).

Amal Saad, scholar of Hezbollah:

With the downing of the third Hermes 900, one of Israel's most advanced drones, Hizbullah has now eliminated 12% of Israel's reported fleet of 25 such drones. It has now downed a total of 7 Israeli drones since October, resulting in a significant financial loss for Israel. However, the true significance lies in the fact that Israel's once unchallenged aerial supremacy is now under threat. In addition to downing drones, Hizbullah has challenged this superiority by targeting Israeli jets, compelling them to retreat from Lebanese airspace on two occasions last week, infiltrating Israel with its own drones without being detected or intercepted, and even striking Israel's Iron Dome.

Coupled with how Hizbullah has turned the tables by not only creating a buffer zone inside Israel for the first time in its history, forcing tens of thousands of Israelis to flee northern settlements, but also by using the Galilee as a research and development lab to test its weapons - a reversal of Israel's long-standing tactics against Lebanon - it's clear that Israel is now facing the most significant threat in its history and is fighting a new type of enemy.

Hizbullah's current approach marks a significant shift from its previous strategy, which focused primarily on preventing an Israeli occupation and achieving victory by simply surviving. No longer content with defensive measures, Hizbullah has now taken the offensive against Israel, engaging in a protracted war of attrition. The movement’s goals have expanded far beyond mere survival and the liberation of Lebanese territory; it now seeks to compel Israel to change its behaviour and calculations by imposing unprecedented costs. Furthermore, rather than countering Israel's "complexity" with Hizbullah's "simplicity," as Nasrallah characterized the 2006 war, Hizbullah is now confronting complexity head-on with audacity and more advanced weaponry.

There was also a major ambush operation by Hamas today, where they toppled a building on top of an Israeli force. Israel is probably claiming 2 soldiers lightly grazed and -1 deaths, as in a new Israeli soldier popped out via mitosis

My dad has some fabulous brainworms and talking to him is like staring into a maelstrom of western nastiness interspersed with a few inexplicably sane ideas that does not fit into any of the rest.

• Large parts of Sweden is ruled by cartoonishly brutal Muslim gangs
• Muslims and Africans should be ethnically cleansed from the west
• Muslims and Africans who can not be deported should be worked to death in camps
• However, Nazis are ridiculous morons, and the rise of the AfD is concerning
• The GDR was brutally looted in the 1990's
• People are voting AfD because the established politicians have not solved the real problems. The real problem is the existence of non-white people
• Meloni and le Pen are okay though because they're not fascists
• It was a mistake to create "Israel", they should have given the Jews Schleswig-Holstein instead
• "Israel" is a democracy which means they're good
• "Israel" is incredibly racist
• Palestinians should "negotiate" instead of doing armed resistance. They should "make themselves useful" for America and maybe offer them access to natural resources.
• If Khamas wins it will be much worse for Palestinians than today because then they will live under "a Muslim dictatorship like in Iran" which is worse than getting bombed
• Wokeness has gone too far
• Conservative catholics are nasty, their theatrical forms of worship is off-putting and they're driving people away from the church
• The Donbas should never have been part of Ukraine
• However, "we can not allow" Russia to win in Ukraine
• Ukraine is going to win the war once the west decides to take it seriously and gives them all the good gear they have been holding back until now.
• China is more scary than Russia because the Russians are primitive
• China is doing imperialism by offering countries material benefits. This is worse than the western way of forcing themselves on the global south.
• Western democracy is precious and shows how civilised we are, however all western politicians he can think of are corrupt arseholes.

I believe him to be a completely ideologically representative sample of the average westerner.

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In Ukraine - Russia war news:

The Ukrainians seem to be committing to their asymmetric strategy, they know that they can't beat Russia on the frontlines, so Ukraine is launching an increased amount of attacks against high value targets within Russia. One of the most significant of these is the loss of a Russian Su-57 5th generation stealth fighter jet while it was on the ground, as confirmed by Russian telegrams. It is the first combat loss of a 5th generation fighter aircraft in history, and Russia currently only has a handful of Su-57s that are operational, so a very costly loss. It was unprotected on a runway, and not in a concrete hangar, which is a major oversight from Russia.

In general Russian aviation has lost quite a few high value aircraft throughout the war, both to friendly and enemy fire, including an Su-34 NVO to friendly fire at the beginning of the war (one of only 10, and one of the few fully capable SEAD and EW aircraft at Russia's disposal), and the suspected loss of various AWACS jets both to enemy and friendly fire, and the loss of the Mach 3 capable MIG 31 aircraft, which were also on the ground and unprotected while they were bombed. The Su-57 loss has a tactical impact, as Russia has made extensive use recently of the stealth kh-69 cruise missiles, which the stealthy Su-57 can carry deep into Ukrainian territory to extend their effective range, due to it's own stealth capabilities, to enable strikes on power infrastructure deep in Western Ukraine. A double stealth 1-2 punch. However multiple fighter jets in the Russian Air Force can carry the kh-69. The recent MIG 31 losses also have an impact, it is the only normal sized fighter plane/non bomber that can carry the Kinzhal, and flies to high and fast for most Ukrainian air defences to shoot down.

All in all these losses will not change the trajectory of the war or the reality of the frontlines where Ukraine has no answer to Russia, and losses are to be expected, but it does show that Russian aviation's doctrine is well behind battlefield realities. The lack of proper SEAD/EW aircraft and outdated SEAD/DEAD doctrine, the failure to build protective hangars to protect high value aircraft, and friendly fire incidents are not things an air force of Russia's size should struggle with. It's almost as if there has been no modernisation since the end of the cold war.

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Argentina protesters facing charges include family selling sausages, man leaving subway

Dozens of people were arrested on Wednesday as they protested President Javier Milei’s Bases Law outside Congress

At least 33 people arrested during protests against the Bases Law on Wednesday have been accused of crimes including attacks on Argentina’s constitutional order. Argentina’s presidential press team has called the protesters “terrorist groups” who attempted to “perpetrate a coup d’etat” — allegations prosecutor Carlos Stornelli quoted in his charge sheet. But relatives of the detained say some were arrested while leaving peacefully, while others had only attended to sell food.

Their situations raise questions about the proportionality of charges, the criminalization of protest in Argentina, and whether those arrested played any role in the violence.

The Bases Law, previously known as the omnibus bill, is President Javier Milei’s broad-reaching flagship reform package. It strips away many economic and labor regulations, permits the privatization of numerous Argentine state companies, and courts investment from large multinationals. It was passed by the Senate late on Wednesday night, although the final version depends on whether deputies approve modifications introduced by the upper house.

Social movements, community assemblies, trade unions, rights organizations, and outraged citizens protested in Congress Square as senators debated the bill. Demonstrators threw stones and sticks and burned garbage dumpsters. A massive police operation responded with tear gas, water cannon, and rubber bullets. Hundreds of people were injured and five opposition deputies were hospitalized after being tear gassed. At least one car was flipped onto its roof and incinerated.

Article sucks on this part. The protest was mostly peaceful and by like 17:00hs people and their orgs began to leave, that's when the police advanced over the remaining protesters. Once again, the bellicose actions of the police plus WELL IDENTIFIED undercover cops began the "riot".

"He wasn’t doing anything but they took him"

Matías Leonel Ramirez was selling sausage sandwiches from a grill. He had driven to the protest. When the police advanced, he stayed with his car to protect it. “He couldn’t leave because he couldn’t get the car out,” said Yesica Maciel, Ramirez’s wife. “A squadron of federal police came by and took him for no reason. He never threw any stones, he’s not with a political organization, he has no criminal record.”

Since his arrest, Ramírez has been transferred to a prison. Maciel and Ramírez, who live in the suburb of San Fernando, have a 17-year-old daughter and are also raising Ramírez’s niece. “He didn’t run, he didn’t resist when they grabbed him, because he thought that since he wasn’t doing anything, they weren’t going to take him. But they took him anyway,” Maciel said.

“All my husband wanted was a couple of pesos so we could eat, because we have a family and our money isn’t enough to live from day to day.”

Musician Santiago Adano, 38, went to the protest with his local community assembly. They left the protest when the situation started heating up. “They have that logic of looking after themselves, because there are retired people in the assembly, so logically, they left,” said his sister, Lucila Adano. “I was chatting with him, and suddenly he stopped replying. Then friends started sending me videos, and it was him.”

He was arrested leaving the subway station, as his friend returned to the square to check on his car. Video footage of Adano’s arrest shows at least 16 officers carrying him away. “They dragged him for like a block,” Lucila said. “They were squeezing his neck, he was completely red and saying he was suffocating, and would they please let him go?”

“The last thing I saw was him fainting.”

Other detainees include three generations of the Ocampo family — father, daughter, and granddaughter. Like Ramírez, they were selling food at the protest. The detainees have been in custody since Wednesday night. Prosecutor Carlos Stornelli has asked Judge María Servini to order all of the detainees be placed in pre-trial detention. Her decision was pending at the time of writing.

Stornelli has charged the detainees with fifteen different crimes including inciting collective violence against institutions by instilling public fear, arson, possession of explosives, and attacking the constitutional order to disturb the free exercise of the Senate. The last charge is punishable by up to 25 years in jail. The Security Ministry said it would file a legal complaint over “damages it suffered to its equipment” and said that more arrests are to come. Vice President Victoria Villarruel said the Senate would also file a legal complaint against “the criminals that yesterday attacked the democratic institutions.”

“We are going to make them pay for all the material damages directed towards the historic buildings and sidewalks of the National Congress,” Villarruel said in a post on X. “ The Argentina of sedition and anarchy is over.”

Manipulating concepts adulterates facts

Human rights groups have called the move a criminalization of protest. “The arrests were made at random. The government posted that there was terrorism and coup d’état, the prosecutor made accusations, and 35 people are being used to generate fear to go to a march,” the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) posted on X. “The goal is political: to instill fear in anyone who mobilizes against the government,” they added. CELS called on Servini to release the detainees.

Mariela Belski, executive director of Amnesty International Argentina, wrote in an Instagram post that the violence during the protests aimed to “cause damage and disturbance” — but rejected the state’s classification of the events as an attempted coup. “A coup d’etat has the aim of overthrowing a government and its institutions. Manipulating the definition of concepts is a way of adulterating the facts,” Belski wrote. “At such dramatic moments for society, this attitude only adds confusion and impoverishes public debate.”

Some of the comrades have been released already, but others still remain "in custody" as of this moment. Local orgs and trots have mobilized and demanded the release of all hostages. For some, the memories of the 1976/1983 dictatorship, which used to "suck" targeted people off the streets and their homes to disappear them, came rushing back, which is why a quite seizable movement was instantly organised to demand the immediate release of all hostages.

milei and his adminsitration have doubled down not only on rethorics (calling protesters terrorists) but also on the level of violence. And no government can sustain itself in power by cracking skulls open with batons.

They might have scored a win in the Senate, the tiebreaker fell to the Vice President who of course voted yes. Even after all the bribes, all they could manage was a tie. However, despite their victories, internal contradictions are becoming stronger and stronger.

If Trump gets elected, he should pardon Hunter as a power move.

Noam Chomsky had a massive stroke in June 2023 and is being treated in Brazil

95-year-old American linguist is being treated in a São Paulo hospital, and health explains silence on Israel-Hamas war. He's married to a Brazilian and has a house in SP.

Possible Taliban redemption arc?
https://twitter.com/resistance_sa/status/1801704587432439917?mx=1

The Taliban have requested from Iran and the Palestinian resistance to be granted the opportunity to send forces when it becomes possible to participate in the fight against Israel.

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God has decided to punish Austria for voting for nazis, by flooding the country

I measure the importance of news by how many new comments are in the news thread

Officials in the Foreign Relations Ministry tell journalist Monica Bergamo that Lula da Silva won't appoint an ambassador to Israel until the genocide in Gaza halts and Netanyahu leaves office.

Hamas popped an APC and killed all 11 IOF soldiers inside

Suspicious accounts 'with Nigerian following' being used to push pro-Reform UK content on TikTok

Of course the takeaway is that it's Russia lol, smolbean uk billionaires would never do this

resisting the urge to reply to zionists on reddit making insanely racist arguments with " (red triangle) "

Hey Germany, how's your second war against Russia going?

Rheinmetall opens repair facility for combat vehicles in Ukraine

The dumbest motherfuckers on the planet are running the various appendages of the fourth reich. Fixing that hardware in-theater is a great plan!

BIDEN: "She know long! She knew suhlongasuhijeruhhnied, our freedom can never be secured"

Just a stutter, lmao.

Link is a chud account tho, https://nitter.poast.org/RNCResearch/status/1800335769539694742#m

Old news, but Slovenia also recognized Palestine recently

Cuba after Mexico, I see what you did there !

1 way to insure you won't get assassinated as a leader of a country, don't be named Abe

I made a post about this in the podcasts comm, but I think the news heads here should be aware of it. The latest episode of Electronic Intifada interviews a political economist involved in BDS. They cover the possible economic collapse of Israel. Really interesting stuff.

US Supreme Court Lifts Ban on Bump Stocks

The US Supreme Court has lifted a ban bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessory used in America's deadliest mass shooting. In a decision on Friday, the court said the government did not have the right to ban the accessories... The court said a semi-automatic rifle with an attachment does not qualify as a machine gun under federal law.

The Supreme Court’s opinion, written by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, said the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms had “exceeded” its authority. The court, quoting part of the legal definition of machine guns, said rifles with a bump stock "cannot fire more than one shot 'by a single function of the trigger', and even if they could, they would not do so 'automatically'".

Calling all Russian bots. Calling all Russian bots. It is now open seasons again to hunt down and cook up some nafo hotdogs on the grill.

Lol. Lmao. is so fucked

Nature is healing

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1800181501608542694

Cw: people getting ragdolled, no gore.

Russian Language map:

2010 Election results - Yanukovych was pro Russian candidate:

milei posting more AI generated images and general cringe. Here he says that there have been "great news" from e*rope thanks to the victories of the far right parties in the latest elections. He also claims responsibility for their victory, saying his Davos speech (where he spoke about Communism, the imminent fall of western civilization and LGBT bad) inspired millions to "open their eyes" and vote for fascists and neonazis. . Wait a second, I thought libertarians were supposed to hate fascism and nationalism?!?!? .

Anyway, that doesn't surprise me at all. What I love is the AI rendered image. It's him holding europe? But it's fucked up. Ukraine is shredded, Finland shredded, northern Russia grew a mutation of some sort and huge chunks of it and Belarus as completely missing, even though neither of those countries are in the EU. For some reason parts of Turkey and Syria are shown. He's holding the UK, please I beg him to crush it. Unfortunately Ireland was indeed crushed. Iceland is missing, RIP. Also why does he have medals? What is the instrument that is hand is holding that's literally puncturing Spain? Some sort of compass?

I cringe a lot when I see AI generated images but I can't stop looking at them. The more you look, the worse it is. Like the presidential band and part of his body are cut when you look at it near Sicily, it's just gone. The stars of the EU flag are not aligned. His index finger of his left hand is fucked up, is that a cigarette?

Palestine Action fucks up more bank branches:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1800086647846904202?mx=1

Perhaps this isn’t the most important thing, but just something interesting to know about Cuba:

Initially, the World Baseball Classic fielded a “Cuban” team that wasn’t sanctioned by the government of Cuba or the Cuban Baseball Federation. So it was run by MLB and was made up of defectors. Then in 2023, for the fifth WBC, the Cuban Baseball Federation was allowed to field a team directed by them. It included Cuban nationals who didn’t defect and haven’t been trash talking Cuba since playing in MLB. So the team included some legit pros like Yoan Moncada and Eloy Jiminez. They got beat but for the first time it was a truly “Cuban” team. I have hard time criticizing people for their funko pops and stuff because I spent more than I should to get a 2023 Cuba WBC baseball cap.

The situation with baseball player defectors is tricky. On one hand, I feel it just isn’t worth the negative press Cuba gets for trying to stop baseball players from defecting. I get it when you’re talking about like doctors or engineers. But pro athletes are particularly socially necessary. Just let them go.

OTOH, the US policy of granting citizenship (or permanent residency, I don’t remember which) to anyone in Cuba really does tie Cuba’s hands here. What Cuba has done economically despite the blockade is nothing short of heroic. Cuba can boast better living standards than the rest of the Caribbean. But… it’s still a poor country (which would be significantly poorer if it was run by capitalists subservient to US hegemony). If there was any other poor country whose people could get US citizenship or permanent residency just by being there and defecting, then you can bet that most people who came there as part of a sports team would take that offer. And even if athletes aren’t quite socially necessary, that’s gotta be pretty demoralizing that if every time your baseball team goes to play in the US, half the players don’t come back. This has nothing to do with “authoritarianism”, it’s the position that any country with any system of governance would have to deal with.

So Cuba doesn’t really have any good options here, but it’s the fault entirely of US policy.

China has recently re-allowed direct flights to Cuba

Why were they disallowed in the first place?

NYT: Pro-democracy activists sentenced to life in prison! "The convictions show how the authorities have used the sweeping powers of a national security law imposed by Beijing to quash dissent across broad swathes of society." (Archive)

The reality: "‘Dragon Slaying Brigade’ leader Wong Chun-keung says he spent money raised through crowdfunding on petrol bombs, but also on trip to Thailand, betting and loan repayments" , "Wong has admitted to a joint conspiracy charge of planting two bombs in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019" (SCMP)

Edit - A connected trial but not the same one. But we definitely don't hear anything about the second trial in the Western press.

Via https://mronline.org/2024/06/10/what-western-mainstream-media-wont-tell-us-about-china/

Bolivian President Arce says BRICS have broken the hegemony of the United States

The Bolivian president stressed that his country is aiming to join the bloc

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The BRICS economies have been able to break the hegemony of the United States, said Bolivian President Luis Arce at the plenary meeting of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). “Today, the world order is changing towards a fairer and more balanced state, based on multipolarity and multilateralism,” he said. “The economies of the BRICS bloc have managed to break the hegemony of the United States, and they are the hope for the development of cooperation and complementarity between countries.”

The Bolivian president stressed that his country is looking forward to participating in BRICS because it offers “tremendous prospects for transformation and transfiguration along with accelerated industrialization”.

The BRICS group has seen two waves of expansion since its creation in 2006. In 2011, South Africa joined the four founding nations: Brazil, Russia, India and China. In August 2023, six new members, including Argentina, were invited to join the group. However, Argentina declined the invitation at the end of December. Five new members - Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia - were integrated into the BRICS family on January 1, 2024.

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) will be held from June 5 to 8. This year's theme will be “The Formation of New Growth Areas as the Cornerstone of a Multipolar World”. Scheduled events include meetings for small and medium-sized enterprises, creative industries, the SPIEF Youth Day, as well as the Drug Safety, SPIEF Academy and SPIEF Junior forums. SPIEF is organized by the Roscongress Foundation.

First polling in France: RN on 31%, left alliance 28%, Renaissance (Macron’s party) 18%.

I hope macron eats shit and dies

look at this dying empire not even able to paint its Ships .. You are an Embarresment for dying empires !

Everyone goes around saying "oh China is doing this but at what cost?" or "China achieved that but at what cost?" But nobody says "Yeah, Capitalism developed the productive forces like no other but at what cost?"

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China recently scrambled fighter jets and threatened a dutch warship that was launching helicopters off the coast of Shanghai.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-responds-after-its-figher-jets-confront-dutch-warship-1911168

23 June has become "Shit in the river day" in France.

Yeah but the U.S. media said that all of these blew themselves up though

More than eight months into Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza, the territory’s healthcare system is barely functioning, with the World Health Organization reporting this week that there have been 464 Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system since October 7, affecting 101 health facilities.

https://truthout.org/video/israel-has-carried-out-464-attacks-on-gazas-health-care-system-since-october-7/

To stop the far right, France's leftist parties come to agreement for legislative elections and announce union: “Popular Front”. “A page in the history of France is being written with the New Popular Front”, say the parties in a joint statement.

François Hollande, former president of France, celebrates unity of the left in the legislative elections: “To prevent the far right from coming to power, there comes a time when we must go beyond our differences.”

Wild speculation time:

Something about Macron’s troop deployments seems very performative.

Perhaps performative in the more obvious sense that he wants to boil the frog and sending in “trainers and advisers” is the thin end of the wedge before sending in troops to make NATO intervention in Ukraine a fait accompli.

But what if it’s performative in another way?

We all know what the outcome of this war looks like. Russia takes the eastern provinces and maybe more, perhaps up to the Dnieper in the south but probably not that far in the north, probably also takes Cherson but probably not Odessa, and maybe Kharkiv maybe not, depending on how good a resistance Ukraine puts up before the negotiations really start. Ukraine won’t be allowed to join NATO and no NATO bases but probably will be allowed to have some security guarantees with the major western players and perhaps even a relationship with NATO that stops short of allowing forward deployments.

So a few significant uncertainties, sure, but the broad shape of it is clear now.

Zelenskyy probably needs to go before this deal can really happen, and there would need to be some force that the Ukrainian public trusts that can prevent the Nazi faction from simply installing another Zelenskyy.

France is in conflict with Russia and has lost out big in Africa and is being poked in the eye in New Caledonia, but is also hitting back to some extent in Armenia.

The UK is a wreckage and Germany is not very strong. Poland is already taking an antagonistic posture towards Ukraine that will probably only get worse especially after the conflict is over and Ukraine has a settlement with Russia.

We don’t need to talk about Italy or Spain or anyone else in Europe.

Leaving France.

They are hostile to Russia and engaged in an active “great game”.

But this great game has at least some ground rules and operates mostly as a struggle over spheres of influence while respecting national borders. It’s constrained great power shit between two second tier military powers.

Germany would continue to be the US’s most loyal dog in Europe and will lead the Central European & Baltic alliance, funding strong defensive works but also putting the brakes on the more rabid Russophobia because Germany even today is against actually getting directly involved in shit and definitely against doing anything that isn’t preapproved by Washington.

France as the regional power delegated control of the rump Ukrainian state would be advantageous to the US by keeping Europe still split between two deeply linked but identifiably distinct power blocs, it would place a power hostile to Russia as the designated subhegemon in southern Eastern Europe and would complement French influence in Armenia to a degree by inserting France into the Black Sea making it the obvious choice for Georgia if Georgia decides to throw down again or in the event of another color revolution. And France has at least historical links with the general region, having recently been a colonial power in the area and having shoved its Gallic nose into the Middle East again and again since the crusades.

France as subhegemon in a rump Ukraine would be an adversary to Russia, but still it would probably be acceptable to Russia to divide Ukraine into two spheres of control, assuming that Russia does not want or cannot occupy all of Ukraine - or both it doesn’t want and actually cannot occupy all of Ukraine which seems to be the case in fact.

So assuming Russia will realpolitik this and accept it both cannot and strategically should not occupy all of Ukraine then it needs to accept that rump Ukraine will be within the western sphere of influence.

And if they don’t want that sphere of influence to be NATO itself, and since they likely both cannot and don’t want to completely dominate Ukraine militarily, then they need to accept some kind of western presence / sphere of influence that stops short of NATO.

What’s more while France is definitely a dog of the US empire, it’s a bit of a Husky. It doesn’t like to do what it’s told. It’s not Germany and will prioritize French interests over US interests, which makes it a good compromise position for Russia since a French presence is Ukraine is actually very different to a NATO presence in Ukraine while still being a western anchor. It also doesn’t hurt that Macron does the same macho bullshit that Putin does and they speak a similar language.

French “advisers” in Ukraine could fairly quickly gain key influence over the military and promote the more pragmatic military faction to force the hard nationalists to accept a compromise and they would be a friend of Ukraine while doing it.

Escalation from “just a few dozen advisers” to actual boots on the ground is a process that will take at least the rest of this year and into next, which is also when the new round of western military aid will start to run out, meaning this is the window for Ukraine to cut a deal.

6-12 months to cut a deal, a suitable western subhegemon that will reliably maintain hostility to Russia while still playing the “great game” and accepting realist compromise in a rules-of-the-jungle based world order.

Acceptable to Russia as preferable to nato, acceptable to the US, acceptable to Ukraine as saviors. Choreographed.

Lmao Macron Dissolved Parliament and is holding a snap election

What do we make of Hamas accepting the UN ceasefire agreement? The fact that Blinken is pushing it makes me feel like it can’t be good… but Hamas did accept it and I don’t think they would abide an agreement with major poison pills in it.

More property damage by Palestine Action:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1800821588398637206?mx=1

Gaza aid leader faces backlash over Labour Party run

Melanie Ward, CEO of the Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) charity, faces major backlash from volunteers and workers after deciding to run as a Labour Party candidate in Scotland. Some 2,250 healthcare workers, medical volunteers, supporters, and donors signed a letter expressing concern.

On June 5, a protest letter was filed by workers and volunteers at MAP, expressing their dismay to the board over Ward’s candidacy with the UK Labour Party. To run for the position of MP in Scotland’s Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, Ward has taken a leave of absence but has not stepped down from her position.

Despite Ward’s pledge to make real progress for the Palestinian people if elected to Parliament, MAP is currently without an acting CEO during a healthcare collapse in Gaza. Some fear her actions could jeopardize the aid organization’s efforts on the ground, leading to threats of referring MAP to the Charity Commission.

Ward has a history of affiliations with pro-Israel lobby groups, starting with her first trip to Palestine, organized by the Israeli Embassy-funded Union of Jewish Students (UJS). She blogged about meeting Israeli politicians and visiting settlements but shifted her perspective after a second visit to the West Bank. However, her relationship with UJS continued, including participating in a 2017 UJS panel called “Bridges Not Boycotts,” opposing boycotts of Israel.

Ward also supported the anti-Semitism “witch hunt” during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, which purged much of Labour’s pro-Palestinian base, including many Jewish anti-Zionists. She tweeted, “Farewell to Jeremy Corbyn, who really was a truly terrible Labour Party Leader. He will be missed not one little bit by those of us who want to see Labour in government again.”

In 2016, she signed a letter calling for Corbyn’s resignation, shared an article urging the public not to vote for him and tweeted the former Labour leader in 2015, “Corbyn unable to think of situation where he’d commit Forces to military action. Should think a bit harder if he wants to be PM,” in response to his anti-war stance.

I always thought MAP was a pretty good org (and it’s possible/probable they are, just bad leadership) but no reason to give them money so long as Ward is in charge and good orgs like PCRF exist.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1dhbgws/ua_pov_countries_that_have_signed_the_ukraine/

Final map of countries that signed the joint communique at the Ukraine "peace" summit. Pretty much just with a sprinkling of a few extra countries.

Sen. John Fetterman was at fault in car accident and seen going ‘high rate of speed,’ police say

Maybe Macron wants reelection and wants to be dethroned because he doesn't want to swim in the Seine River, which is probably full of shit? Will we see Le Pen swimming in shit??

More dumb ass airforce cope

https://archive.is/k15Wg

US Navy Operations Specialist explains why although the S-400 SAM System radar can detect the F-22 and F-35 it can’t achieve “weapons lock” on them

So before we've seen these dipshits and clowns say u.s stealth jets have fuckin romulan cloaking technology that the pesky Chinese communists are weak against, now we're seeing a bit of the truth come out with the fact that stealth planes aren't actually stealthy and the u.s government's enemies can detect them with the tech they already have.

That said they make a playful addendum saying that they can see the jets but they can't hit them.

Stealth fighters

The F-35 Lightning II is the most advanced node in 21st Century Security: It brings stealth, sensor fusion, and interoperability to enable access in contested environments and enhances situational awareness.

Like the F-35, the F-22 brings an unrivaled stealth capability to the fight: the Raptor is designed to project air dominance, rapidly and at great distances and defeat threats attempting to deny access to our US Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps.

The F-22 was built to be an air-to-air superiority fighter and the F-35 was built to be a strike fighter. These airplanes complement each other and when the Raptor and Lightning II come together, it brings out the strength of both airplanes.

Like dried squid and peanut butter being grilled over a charcoal fire.

But can radars of advanced air defense systems like the Russian S-400 Surface to Air Missile (SAM) detect the F-22 the F-35 thus putting them at risk in a high threat environment?

Lol fucking forgot an "and" between the two shitbirds.

The S-400 SAM System radar can detect the F-22 and F-35 but it can’t achieve “weapons lock” on them

Eric Wicklund, former US Navy Operations Specialist, explains on Quora;

Fuck off with making dogshit articles based off of random shit you see on knock-off reddit

‘Yes, it can… “eventually,” but this fact comes with a significant caveat, one Russia doesn’t want you to know. That caveat is: By the time an S-400 can get a lock on F-22/F-35, these planes have already fired ordnance to destroy the S-400 radar.

‘When using radar against anything, there’s a difference between “detection” and obtaining a “weapons lock.” They are not synonymous. Without a weapons lock, you cannot successfully engage what you are tracking. So, an S-400 can get a “weapons lock” on F-22 or F-35 at about 20–30 miles depending on conditions (the actual figure is classified).

That means this jackass is talking out of his ass because he sure as fuck doesn't have the security clearance to know the truth. It's literally vibes based.

’The bad thing for the S-400 is either the F-22 or F-35 can release a JDAM or SDB II bomb long before that happens. An F-35 can release an AGM-88 HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation) missile waaay before (from 60 miles away) that S-400 gets that lock. What this means is that these planes can complete their mission (destroying the S-400) before the S-400 can even begin its mission.

The S-400 is doomed from the start

‘In short…the S-400 is doomed from the start. ‘Pundits will claim that the Nebo-M radar used in the S-400 system can “detect” a stealth fighter from further out. That is true, but since it is doing this with an L-band radar, about all it can do it “detect.”’

Wicklund concludes;

‘As I pointed out above, “detection” isn’t good enough to attack a stealth aircraft. You need that “weapons lock” and Russia needs their X-band radars to get that. But they won’t get that before missiles and bombs, set on destroying the Russian radars, are already screaming in.’

Team of the President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum Suffers a Car Accident

The accident left one dead and two injured, State Civil Protection reported

On Friday, the team of Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum suffered a car crash on the Sabinas-Monclova highway as they were heading to the event of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The accident left one dead and two injured, State Civil Protection reported. According to statements, the jeep carrying Sheinbaum´s team hit a van, which triggered a second impact with another vehicle.

The victim was an elderly woman who was in one of the hit vehicles.

So far the name of the deceased and the two others who were injured, who were transferred to the nearest hospital, is unknown.

“We deeply regret that one person died in the other vehicle. Those who came in the two impacted vehicles are receiving attention from the federal, state, and Sheinbaum’s own team,” the president’s team said.

This Friday, Claudia Sheinbaum started a work tour through Durango, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, in which she will be accompanied by López Obrador.

my favorite NGO is called "Hezbollah" ...

Edit: okay i didnt expect IDF to answer with trebuchets

I hope the author of moonofalabama, b, is doing ok. He had some kind of medical thing a couple weeks ago and it's now a few days past his expected return without posts. The MoA twitter account was a little active about a week ago though

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I love when I got an email from my boss telling me "Hey I broke this thing and can't fix it, it's your responsibility now, good luck"

At least this one was easy

Here are some quotes from my country's government broadcaster about the west's Ukraine summit in Switzerland:

... large parts of the word stands behind Ukraine in the war against Russia while Russia today looks even more isolated

Even though several important countries made themselves noticed by not being present the summit has shown a solid global support for Ukraine

That [the absence of BRICS] doesn't change that a massive number of the world's countries has now sent a clear message that they back Ukraine in the struggle that once a peace agreement is to be signed it should be based on Russian withdrawal and that Ukraine's terrirtory should be what it was before Russia attacked

The purpose of the summit was to begin a proper peace process where all participating nations could present ideas on how to work towards a lasting peace in Ukraine.

About the Russia peace offer:

But his [Putin's] criteria for peace can best be described as an insult to the Ukrainians and the proposal was also blankly rejected by the summit's participants.

No wonder westoids think like they do when this is the reality that is presented to them.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/gaza-aid-leader-melanie-ward-labour-party/287603/#

A CEO of a pro-Palestine charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is running for an election under the anti-Palestinian Labour party. This will leave the charity without leadership and volunteers are upset and are asking her to resign.

Melanie Ward, CEO of the Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) charity, faces major backlash from volunteers and workers after deciding to run as a Labour Party candidate in Scotland. Some 2,250 healthcare workers, medical volunteers, supporters, and donors signed a letter expressing concern.

On June 5, a protest letter was filed by workers and volunteers at MAP, expressing their dismay to the board over Ward’s candidacy with the UK Labour Party. To run for the position of MP in Scotland’s Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, Ward has taken a leave of absence but has not stepped down from her position.

And you bet she hates

Ward also supported the anti-Semitism “witch hunt” during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, which purged much of Labour’s pro-Palestinian base, including many Jewish anti-Zionists. She tweeted, “Farewell to Jeremy Corbyn, who really was a truly terrible Labour Party Leader. He will be missed not one little bit by those of us who want to see Labour in government again.”

In 2016, she signed a letter calling for Corbyn’s resignation, shared an article urging the public not to vote for him and tweeted the former Labour leader in 2015, “Corbyn unable to think of situation where he’d commit Forces to military action. Should think a bit harder if he wants to be PM,” in response to his anti-war stance.

I've always been worried about the leadership behind some of these charities since they take in a ton of money these days and they seem to be based in Western countries. Now my worries have been justified.

Edit: read more here: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-elections-2024-palestinian-charity-ceo-standing-labour-candidate-faces-calls-resign

I’m continuously impressed at how influential Bukele has been for Central America and the rest of Latin America. I don’t think any other politician from that country has been as influential. Every election in Central America brought him up in regards to how crime should be dealt with. Even Castro in Honduras imposed harsher anti-crime laws.

He’s a young guy too so chances are that he’ll continue to have influence over the region even after his terms are over.

Just learned that one of the Workers Party of Britain candidates in this election ran as a Conservative (Tory) candidate in a previous election. Radicalized or opportunist? Lol. Think I'm over the Workers Party of Britain.

I don't really want to read the new Christian Parenti article, but I am curious how many times he uses the word "woke" in it, because between the title, the summary, and the first 2.1 sentences before the paywall, we're already at 8.

https://catalyst-journal.com/2024/06/the-cargo-cult-of-woke

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https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-azov-brigade-us-arms-ban-lifted-russia-1913372

Nazi commander tells journalists they will use U.S provided weapons effectively.

Ukraine's Azov Brigade Sends Direct Message to US After Arms Ban Lifted

Ukraine's Azov Brigade will "prove the effectiveness" of the U.S.' decision to lift a long-standing ban on providing weapons to the unit, according to the brigade's commander.

See, I wasn't lying

"We will justify the responsibility entrusted to us, and with our discipline, resilience and bravery in battle, we will prove the effectiveness of this decision," Colonel Denys Prokopenko said in a statement posted to social media on Saturday.

Earlier this week, the U.S. State Department reversed a decision made back in 2014 to stop the Ukrainian brigade receiving American weapons.

Hmm I wonder what happened back in 2014

The move comes as Ukraine, despite a number of successes in the Black Sea against Moscow's naval fleet, struggles to hold off incremental but steady Russian advances in eastern Ukraine.

Lol they gotta fit in some cope somewhere to deal with the constant stream of Ls from the frontlines.

As military aid from Washington dried up earlier this year, deep anxieties settled in over the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian front lines. The U.S. then passed a long-awaited military aid package in late April.

Jerk-offs not even mentioning all that sweet genocide material's being redirected to the fascists in Israel so they can be used on people that can't defend themselves, as the bombs and guns were designed to be used for.

The Azov Brigade rose out of the volunteer Azov Battalion, with its roots in far-right and ultranationalist ideology. The fighters were on the front lines fighting pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine from 2014; the battalion's founders were accused of having neo-Nazi sentiments.

Bite your tongue and drown in your own blood.

The brigade's current members have rejected these ties, distancing themselves from the battalion's reputation since the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022. The brigade is now a part of Ukraine's National Guard, and has been lauded as one of the most effective fighting forces, noted particularly for its role in battling Russian forces in the Moscow-controlled southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Their virulence has spread through the entire state.

Also they're the most effective nazi brigade in eating shit since ww2.

The Kremlin has repeatedly attempted to justify its invasion by claiming a "neo-Nazi regime" is in charge in Kyiv. This has been emphatically rejected by Ukraine and the international community.

"Such a sudden change in Washington's positions shows that they stop at nothing in their attempts to suppress Russia, using Ukraine and the Ukrainian people as a tool in their hands," Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said in remarks referring to the State Department's decision, as reported by Russian state media earlier this week. The U.S. is "ready even to flirt with neo-Nazis," he added.

I wonder how the journos were reporting on Ukraine prior to the war. They certainly weren't saying Ukraine had a nazi problem, nosiree.

"I would like to congratulate all the soldiers of the 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov and the entire civilized world on the victory over Russian propaganda," Prokopenko said on Saturday.

I guess everyone that says otherwise are uncivilized. Something something Garden and jungle.

An unnamed State Department spokesperson told the BBC that "Russian disinformation" had tried to "conflate" the current Azov Brigade with "a militia formed to defend Ukraine against Russia's invasion in 2014," or the Azov Battalion.

Didn't know reality was Russian disinformation. But what do I know, it isn't as if me and my party hasn't been keeping close tabs on this for over a decade now.

Under the U.S.' "Leahy Law," the Washington government cannot use funds to help foreign security forces when there is "credible information" suggesting the unit has committed gross violations of human rights.

Publicly.

"Eligibility for U.S. assistance will not only increase Azov's combat effectiveness, but, most importantly, will help save the lives and health of the brigade's personnel," the brigade said in a statement on Tuesday.

At the cost of Ukrainian and Russian conscripts and civilians of both countries. Giving nazis arms historically is a very bad idea.

"This is a new page in the history of our unit," the unit added. "Azov is becoming more professional and more effective in defending Ukraine against the invaders."

God willing, a page shy of a bitter and conclusive end to your unit.

The Azov Brigade has not yet received U.S. weapons, Azov's deputy commander, Lieutenant Colonel Sviatoslav Palamar, told The Washington Post on Tuesday.

And may they continue to not receive any and continue to die violent and painful deaths

The Russian submarine "Kazan" is still in the port of Havana, Cuba.

No, a remote village in the Amazon has not become addicted to pornography

A New York Times report on the arrival of high-speed internet in a remote village in the Amazon ended up bringing a warning about the dark side of the web itself.

Article (Translated from Portuguese)

In April, I hiked more than 80 kilometers through the Amazon rainforest to visit the remote villages of the Marubo people. The 2,000-strong indigenous group had recently been connected to high-speed internet, and I wanted to understand how this had affected their lives.

In a week-long visit, I saw how they used the internet to communicate between villages, talk to distant loved ones and ask for help in emergencies. Many Marubo also told me they were worried that the connection with the outside world would shake their culture, which they have preserved for generations in the forest. Some elders complained about teenagers glued to their cell phones, participating in gossip groups and watching pornography.

As a result of the investigation, the story that the New York Times published on June 2 was partly about introducing the Marubo people to the evils of the internet.

But after publication, this perspective took on an entirely different dimension.

Last week, more than a hundred websites around the world published headlines that falsely claimed that the Marubo had become addicted to pornography. Alongside these headlines, the websites published images of the Marubo people in their villages.

The New York Post, a New York tabloid, was one of the first to say last week that the Marubo people were "addicted to pornography". Dozens of media outlets quickly followed suit. The headline on the TMZ website was perhaps the most blunt: "TRIBE CONNECTION TO STARLINK PROVES PORN ADDICTION!!!"

The Post and TMZ did not respond to the Times' requests for a statement.

Similar headlines have proliferated around the world, including in countries such as the UK, Germany, Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Nigeria, Mexico and Chile. RT, the Russian state media, published a text with the claim in Arabic. There were countless videos, memes and posts on social media.

The Marubo people are not addicted to pornography. There was no suggestion of this in the villages, nor in the New York Times report.

Instead, the report cited a complaint made by a Marubo leader that some teenagers had shared pornography in WhatsApp groups. This is especially worrying, he said, because Marubo culture disapproves even of kissing in public.

Many of the sites that distorted this information are news aggregators, which means that their business model largely revolves around repackaging reports from other news outlets, often using sensationalist headlines in order to sell ads.

As these sites also post links to the original report, they are generally protected by law, even if they misrepresent the content.

Today, these types of sites and misleading headlines have become yet another part of the internet economy. To an experienced web user, these tactics are familiar.

For the Marubo, however, the experience was disconcerting and infuriating.

"These allegations are unfounded, untrue and only reflect a biased ideological current that disrespects our autonomy and our identity," said Enoque Marubo, a Marubo leader who brought Starlink to his villages, in a video posted on his networks on Sunday evening.

According to him, the Times report overemphasized the negative aspects of the internet and "resulted in the dissemination of a distorted view".

Alfredo Marubo (all Marubo use the same surname), the leader who said in the Times report that he was worried about pornography, also spoke out on Tuesday in a statement through his indigenous association. He said that misleading headlines have the potential to generate "irreversible exposure to people's image and, for this reason, we feel exposed in the face of the misinterpretation of true news".

Eliesio Marubo, a lawyer and indigenous rights activist, is one of the best-known figures among the Marubo people. That's why, when the headlines went viral, Eliesio said he received tens of thousands of messages and tags in comments on social networks. Many mocked the Marubo people, he said.

Eliesio said the report opened up an important debate about the sudden arrival of high-speed internet in remote indigenous groups. This discussion shows the promises of the internet, but illustrates its dangers with misinformation.

"The internet does bring a lot of ease," he said, "but it also brings a lot of difficulty."

"We uncovered a large American-Israeli spy NETWORK .............................. operating in various institutions SINCE 2015! "

The network collected important information on various FIELDS ............................... and provided it to hostile intelligence AGENCIES!

The network was able to influence decision-MAKERS ....................................... penetrate state AGENCIES .................................. and work to attract OFFICALS!.

The network worked to influence, control, and strike the ECONOMY ............................................... by collecting information and carrying out acts of SABOTAGE!

The network worked to harm agriculture by increasing agricultural pests in the COUNTRY ......................................... with the aim of encouraging agricultural IMPORTS!

The spy network sought to harm health in the country by spreading EPIDEMICS ...................................... harming education and spreading moral CORRUPTION!.

The network provided American and Israeli INTELIGENCIA ........................................... with military information with the aim of weakening the army and its CAPABILITIES !

The American-Israeli spy network conducted intelligence ACTIVITIES ......................................................... targeting the military and manufacturing capabilities of our armed FORCES!

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Financial Times: Russia overtook US as gas supplier to Europe in May

Blah blah blah, context and quotes at the start, the meat of the article is here:

The US overtook Russia as a supplier of gas to Europe in September 2022, and has since 2023 accounted for about a fifth of the region’s supply. But last month, Russian-piped gas and LNG shipments accounted for 15 per cent of total supply to the EU, UK, Switzerland, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia, according to data from ICIS. LNG from the US made up 14 per cent of supply to the region, its lowest level since August 2022, the ICIS data showed.

The reversal comes amid a general uptick in European imports of Russian LNG despite several EU countries pushing to impose sanctions on them. Russia in mid-2022 stopped sending gas through pipelines connecting it to north-west Europe, but continues to provide supplies via pipelines through Ukraine and Turkey. Flows in May were affected by one-time factors, including an outage at a major US LNG export facility, while Russia sent more gas through Turkey ahead of planned maintenance in June. Demand for gas in Europe also remains relatively weak, with storage levels near record highs for this time of year.

The reversal was “not likely to last”, said Marzec-Manser of ICIS, as Russia would in the summer be able to ship LNG to Asia via its Northern Sea Route. That was likely to reduce the amount sent to Europe, while US LNG production had picked up again, he said. “Russia has limited flexibility to hold on to this share [in Europe] as demand [for gas] rises into next winter, whereas overall US LNG production is only growing with yet more new capacity coming to the global market by the end of the year,” he added. The transit agreement between Ukraine and Russia also comes to an end this year, putting at risk flows through the route.

the US can't even subjugate their vassals correctly. good god.

Busting out the siege weaponry in Northern isn’treal

Cw: flaming trebuchet https://t.me/jeninqassamm/8605

What a weekend it's been I had to count votes, not for the EU election, and there was the EU election that did a bunch a thing namely my favorite country to hate, Germany did a thing.

AfD won and is not the second largest political party, which most people paying attention doesn't come as a suprise since they've been polling really strong, however they did less than their normal polls only getting 16% instead of the 20% they polled in the recent couple rounds.

So were the polls wrong and in the upcoming elections AfD won't reach 20%? I don't think so, AfD is not exactly a 'EU-Aligned' party and I think quite a few AfD voters don't see the EU as legitimate and would probably not vote in an EU election. So they'll probably do even better in the upcoming state elections which I mean yeah germany is going full throttle fash now, they've been idling their fash engine but guess what germany is back to their old tricks.

Anyways since I am not a german I went to look for some people that are and I found them and translated them. Enjoy

Das gute Ergebnis für Volt freut mich. Hoffe es reicht noch für einen Sitz für die Piraten.

I'm happy about the good result for Volt . Hopefully there's enough for another seat for the pirates.

Im Kreml knallen die Sektkorken.

*In the Kremlin they are opening champagne bottles *

Because this is all russias fault not a single german is at fault here nope just russia puppeting poor innocent germany.

There's a couple fuck nazis which you know good but that's the lowest bar ever so let me give you another gem.

Bin ich einfach nur das Simpson meme oder hat ein Großteil der Deutschen den Verstand verloren? Laut der Umfrage, die in der Tagesschau abgebildet ist, geben viele an, dass sich die Grünen nicht genug um die Wirtschaft kümmern und auch nicht genug um die zukünftige Klimapolitik, wenn einfach an allem Lindner Schuld ist? Habeck wollte jetzt schon auf verschiedenste Weise die heimische Wirtschaft unterstützen, aber andauernd fährt Lindner ihm mit der Schukdenbremse in die Parade. Bei den Bauernprotesten haben sich die Bauern vom Lobbyverband treiben lassen, der zufälligerweise enge Verpflechtungen mit der Nahrungsmittelindustrie hat, welche dafür verantwortlich ist, dass die Bauern so unter Preisdruck stehen. Und Sowohl die FDP, als auch die SPD lässt sich in Sachen Migration von der AfD treiben, aber dann wirds wieder den Grünen angehängt? Was ist falsch mit den Leuten? Blicken die da echt nicht durch?

Am I just the Simpson meme or has a majority of the germans lost their minds? According to a poll in the Tagesschau many say that the greens don't care enough about the economy and not enough about future climate politics, when everything is the fault of Lindner (FDP so not greens) Habeck wanted to support the national economy through several ways and every time Lindner stops him with the national debt. The farmers lobby led the farmers protests which have close connections to the food industry, which is responsible for the low prices. And FDP as well as SPD let them selves get moved by the AfD on issues like migration but that's the fault of the greens? What's wrong with people? Are they dumb or something?

For those that do not understand anything the SPD (call themselves soc dem) the greens and the fdp (neoliberals) made a coalition and somehow someway only the policies that the fdp, a party that only has 5% of the votes by the way, go through everything else gets blocked somehow. So for the americans the FDP are you Joe Mansions your Kirsten Cinemas etc. the greens and the spd really want to do things but that darn FDP just stops them. Habeck is their green guy and hasn't been able to do anything at all which is really unfair I mean come on, and then people don't vote for the guy that doesn't do anything are they crazy? Oh also SPD and FDP do basically the AfDs migration policy and the greens are in a coalition with them so yes the greens also have fucking garbage politics this isn't hard.

Anyways don't worry the brightest german fedditor has the answer why people don't vote for the greens that don't do anything except be really enthusiastic about genocide and sending weapons to people can get blown up

Springer Presse hat einen astreinen Job gemacht. Mit Ansage. Und alle fallen drauf rein. Die Leute sind wirklich unglaublich dumm.

That's right guys, gals and nonbinary pals it's the press' fault. Like don't get me wrong fuck right wing media but again if the so called left-wing parties did anything to materially make peoples lives better they wouldn't get fucking demolished like this, but I guess that's just not possible.

I've said it too many times but I will not stop saying it, deeply unserious country and it should be broken up in at least 10 smaller countries and best case scenario would be a hundred tiny german principalities that would make Charles V say "Das ist ein bisschen viel oder?"

Also I cleaned up the exhaust vent above my kitchen before I wrote this so imagine the most greased up guy ever writing this.

Do you ever find yourself filled with hate for no real reason? Like you can't get happy at all.

I think my happy pills are wearing off and I'm realizing what a shitty world I live in.

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Someone should tell PressTV that Caleb Maupin is not the expert they think he is.

Feel like spending your fathers day weekend grilling some nafo dogs over charcoal? there's two live ones begging to get rolled.

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omg joe frenchmiddlename corncob butass hugged his (alleged) son who is a FELON and also maybe didnt' fill out paperwork correctly! press like if ur a real patriot who smokes crack every 20 minutes (the objective correct amount of time between crack smoking sessions)

edit: i've edited this like 7 times just adding more unhinged shit don't mind me who knows whats real anymore