Military detects over 90 balloons presumed to be sent from N. Korea across border

The balloons that have fallen so far did not carry leaflets but trash and other waste, the source said, with the military and police currently collecting the fallen balloons.

On Sunday, North Korea said it will scatter "mounds of wastepaper and filth" over the border areas in a "tit-for-tat action" against the distribution of anti-Pyongyang leaflets.

RFK really is a socialite's socialite with how much he got around in New York, eh?

Hello Israelis. I know you are hurt by the feeling that entire world thinks you want a genocide. You are hurt that world thinks you are a blood thirsty monster. I know it feels bad. Here is what you can do to fix this situation.

BURN DOWN THE FUCKING IDF HEADQUARTERS WITH MOLOTOVES. WE GAVE SHIT TO GERMANS SO MUCH BUT EVEN THEY HAD PARTISAN RESISTANCE AND SABOTAGE TO THEIR NAZI GOVERNMENT. IF YOU THINK YOU DESERVE BETTER TREATMENT THAN POST WW2 GERMANS, PROVE THAT YOU PIECE OF SHIT INSTEAD OF SAYING IDF IS NOT KILLING ENOUGH AND YOU HATE NETENYAHU FOR TREATING YOU BADLY. EVEN FUCKING RUSSIANS ATTACKED THEIR OWN MILITARY INSTALATIONS FOR KILLING HALF THE CIVILIANS IN 4 TIMES LONGER TIME FRAME

a very rare thing happend

The funniest part about American tariffs is that they're actually strengthening Chinese relationships with.... Everyone in the world.

What are the tariffs actually achieving? They're NOT achieving replacement industries. New suppliers aren't appearing to produce and supply the products that are getting tariff'd away.

What is actually happening is that the products made by China are being sold to Vietnam and then those products are being sold to the US. Or they're being sold to I dunno, south american countries and so on.

This is strengthening Chinese relations with these countries, which are in turn becoming more reliant on China.

The US is cooked. The only way you're replacing these supply chains is with some sort of command economy. Even something Keynesian isn't really going to pull it off. Markets just won't do what you want them to do in this situation they're always going to just create more hoops to jump through for Chinese goods instead of creating an entirely new producer.

Obviously the problem with this is that you need to move away from neoliberalism to do this. But they're ideologically committed to it.

The White House is saying that the strike that killed so many innocents also killed two Hamas targets that the Israeli military says are responsible for attacks on Israelis.

Brandon now supports 'Netanyahu's' war crimes in Rafah. What ever happened to the red line. Atleast pretend to be mad at Israel

Word is all the big tech companies are in talks with US energy suppliers (esp nuclear plants) to contract a ton of future energy for new AI data centers. These places are projected to use an order of magnitude more power than existing data centers.

Love to live in a rational economy

The IDF shooting at Egyptian troops at the Rafah border crossing earlier today, and killing that Egyptian soldier, has apparently been all over Egyptian news.

No fucking chance, Wang. The attacks will continue until the genocidal entity of "Israel" stops doing genocide.

Politico: Dems in full-blown ‘freakout’ over Biden

Famed Russo-Chinese state propagandist, Politico, is also joining the chorus of panic over Biden and whether there's actually any reason to vote for him.

Some choice quotes:

A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump.

“You don’t want to be that guy who is on the record saying we’re doomed, or the campaign’s bad or Biden’s making mistakes. Nobody wants to be that guy,” said a Democratic operative in close touch with the White House and granted anonymity to speak freely. But Biden’s stubbornly poor polling and the stakes of the election “are creating the freakout,” he said. “This isn’t, ‘Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.’ It’s ‘Oh my God, the democracy might end.’”

Despite everything, Trump is running ahead of Biden in most battleground states. He raised far more money in April, and the landscape may only become worse for Democrats, with Trump’s hush-money trial concluding and another — this one involving the president’s son — set to begin in Delaware.

While he’s long lagged Biden in cash on hand, Trump’s fundraising outpaced the president’s by $25 million last month, and included a record-setting $50.5 million haul from an event in Palm Beach, Florida. One adviser to major Democratic Party donors provided a running list that has been shared with funders of nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose, ranging from immigration and high inflation to the president’s age, the unpopularity of Vice President Kamala Harris and the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [...] The adviser added, “The list of why we ‘could’ win is so small I don’t even need to keep the list on my phone.”

...

But Democratic critics of the campaign’s approach — while agreeing that abortion should be a winning issue — said they’re challenged when pressed by friends to make the case for why Biden will win.

“There’s still a path to win this, but they don’t look like a campaign that’s embarking on that path right now,” said Pete Giangreco, a longtime Democratic strategist who’s worked on multiple presidential campaigns. “If the frame of this race is, ‘What was better, the 3.5 years under Biden or four years under Trump,’ we lose that every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”

Whatever the Biden campaign has been doing over the past two months — and it’s a lot of activity, including $25 million in swing-state ad spending, according to AdImpact — it has had only a limited effect. According to FiveThirtyEight, Biden’s average job-approval rating on March 7, the date of his State of the Union Address, was 38.1 percent. As of Friday, it’s 38.4 percent.

And his standing against Trump has also changed little. On April 22, the day Trump’s criminal trial began, the presumptive GOP nominee held a 0.3-point lead in national polls, according to FiveThirtyEight. Trump is up about a point since then, currently leading Biden by 1.4 points in the FiveThirtyEight average.

“New York Democrats need to wake up,” said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. “The number of people in New York, including people of color that I come across who are saying positive things about Trump, is alarming.”

“The greatest political challenge confronting the president starts with an “i,” but it’s not Israel, it’s inflation,” Torres said. “The cost of living is a challenge that we have to figure out how to manage.” He said Biden should focus on issues around affordability and continue to tout his success in capping insulin costs in areas with high rates of diabetes, like his Bronx district.

Judging from the socdems/social fascists I sometimes watch (e.g. at r/curatedtumblr), the anxiety is also heightening in the non-wonk population, too. Increasingly frequent shit like how you're transphobic if you don't vote for Biden, etc. Entirely plausible that if Biden can't get the cost of living down in the next five months, it is officially Joever. And just bleating "the economy is actually great, the best it's ever been actually" won't change that. You can't gaslight somebody into thinking that they haven't spent noticeably more money on bills lately no matter how many fancy indices you throw at them.

Hundreds of descendants of Nazis hold solidarity march in Israel

For the first time in a year, opinion polls show that a majority of the Israeli population would back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection if ballots were to be held today. A survey presented by Channel 12 News on 29 May found that 36 percent of the electorate prefers Netanyahu over opposition leader and war cabinet member Benny Gantz when asked, “Who is better suited to serve as prime minister?” This marks a significant month-to-month surge from April, when support for Gantz stood at 35 percent, and Netanyahu lagged behind at 29 percent.

In the new survey, the current premier is also seven points ahead of opposition leader Yair Lapid and two points ahead of former prime minister Naftali Bennett. Netanyahu's party, Likud, also saw favorable results in the latest poll, picking up 21 of the Knesset's 120 seats. Nevertheless, Gantz's National Unity party edged ahead, picking up 25 seats. The Midgam Institute conducted the survey on Wednesday among 503 respondents via internet and phone, representing the entire population of Israel aged 18 and over.

The Zionists deserve a leader like Netanyahu. I'm glad to let them follow their wildly incompetent leader to their doom.

There was a midnight raid on the UCSC Palestine encampment. A lot of arrests. From what I’ve heard though, there’s still people in the encampment holding on. Unsure of the details at moment.

Three more UC campuses are going on strike next week. The Palestinian activists are inspiring. Some of the encampments elsewhere have settled for promises of meetings in the future, which has been noticed and refuted by people on the ground. There’s already been meetings between reps and admin staff where those kinds of offers have been refused. While the Union has had made a colossal fuck up that I can’t mention here for opsec reasons, there’s so much good stuff happening. I’m proud to do my part, however small.

I think we can all agree that the funniest thing about the Trump Trial is that he was basically convicted for being bad at corruption.

Why the hell did he use campaign funds for hush money lmfao.

1936: American volunteers form the Lincoln Brigade to fight fascism in Spain.

2022: American volunteers form the Reddit Brigade to support fascism in Ukraine.

the best part of this gaza pier debacle is that we'll eventually find out that it only really cost like $10 million to construct (or whatever a reasonable price is, I'm not a pier expert) and the rest of the hundreds of millions of dollars were due to a contractor and subcontractor and subsubcontractor and so on 15 times down the chain grifting it at every single stage

I get that the mere dollar injection is a big part as to why these massive cost overruns are tolerated as our resident dedollarization expert+doomer constantly explains, but is it still entertaining to watch the projects of American empire fall apart due to sheer ineptitude despite knowing that? yes. I mean they could have just built a functioning pier worth 428 gazillion dollars and achieved the same result but I guess the notion of gaining profit by making and selling things specifically to be destroyed so that you can keep making them and selling them, such as with Western military equipment in Ukraine, is just that in-built at this point

Opens Ukrainian telegram: 500k casualties, so what. We’re coming for you, Putler. See you in Moscow next summer!

Opens Russian telegram: two S-400 complexes destroyed this week. It’s so over for us! That’s just the reality with our corrupt and incompetent military! If NATO had went all in we would have had it much worse!

I am having constant fed fantasies of adventurism. I know it’s not a productive path but goddamn this world is beyond cruelty

I'm guilty on all 34 counts? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time.

Thinking about that article from the Atlantic yesterday that said

It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them.

Every single liberal that says this is lying through their teeth. There is an absolute 0% chance that any of these people would give the go ahead to bomb their home, with family and children inside, because a bad guy was hiding in their basement. Liberals are so ready to talk about their great morality until it comes down to being put into the situation themselves.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1d2tb8y/an_f35_crashed_on_takeoff_at_albuquerque/

F-35 crashed and exploded

Pilot ejected and is injured but unfortunately alive.

The electric sexual tension between the interesting times gang and the nothing ever happens group.

JUST IN: The Yemeni Armed Forces announce 6 military operations:

🔻Targeting the US Eisenhower aircraft carrier AGAIN
🔻An American destroyer in the Red Sea.
🔻The other 4 operations targeted ships belonging to companies that violated the ban.

https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1797009294677655801?mx=1

To anyone still participating in campus protests against genocide and the empire, I highly suggest connecting with STEM students. It will be an uphill battle because it’s very difficult to find an engineer who cares about anything beyond a paycheck, but those who do have morals may provide an advantage to resistance.

Because STEM is full of selfish, evil people here in the west, it’s likely that they have automatic trust in each other and be open about the different programs and events that directly contribute to the military industrial complex. This is especially true for the professors and researchers who are affiliated with military contractors or have projects sponsored by them. These projects are often done on campus and the equipment costs millions of dollars. Chanting and camping out is nice and all, but it’s clear that colleges don’t care and these machines keep on churning behind closed doors.

The other tricky part is that the engineers who are against the American empire are likely Arab and/or Muslim, and there are many here in the states. But the students and staff involved with the military projects are less likely to be Arab/muslim, and you can verify by viewing their project websites. The government’s racist law enforcement may make the only sympathetic engineers understandably uncomfortable getting involved. But it’s still worth reaching out anyway.

We need to start thinking more like the feds. Start putting our people in positions that have control and/or access to useful facilities. The Brits have managed to sabotage some weapons factories, and American universities are less guarded than proper factories. This may require a lot of manpower with high integrity. But it may also only require a couple of people in key positions to get the ball rolling. Another option is making these assholes’ fears come true and actually utilize “outside agitators”; if you know rich people who are not busy (or can crowdsource for tuition), get them to enroll in classes so they’re officially a student and start applying for the jobs around campus. This isn’t working “from the inside” to reform, it’s seeking to actively harm and slow down the murderous machine.

It's kinda surreal watching people I went to high school again post about Palestine. Like posting only goes so far, but its wild seeing how Free Palestine is becoming a majority position.

🚨🚨🚨 is not reliable source of info

Boeing Starliner launch is cancelled again, just minutes prior to the launch time. No immediate reasons given yet.

Boeing really cannot get anything done these days, can they?

So, it turns out the Israeli's lied. The ceasefire that they rejected was pretty much what was agreed upon by the CIA dude. The latter came to the deal with the idea Israel would agree.

It wasn't changed by some rogue Egyptian negotiator as the Israelis said.

In other news, is the current proposal an actual ceasefire proposal or is it "humanitarian pause" with another name? I haven't followed the news much for 2 weeks.

Owned by nazi-founded organization, politico is big mad about ireland

Labour's millionaire private healthcare CEO candidate for Corybn's constituancy just launched his campaign online with the following photo:

People immeadiately noticed that literally every single person is white. In a constituancy that's easily over 45% ethnic minority.

Then people noticed that it looks like some of the placards at the back, where you can't see the people, appear to be photoshopped in to make the already very weak, very white crowd look bigger. Note the different colour grading and sharpness. And the more people looked, the more photoshop appears to be happening. Heads springing out from nowhere, tiny hands on an obviously bigger placard etc.

Also, I just have to highlight this guy

Maldives will ban Israelis from entering the country over the war in Gaza

What I've seen from local liberal media about the most recent act of genocidal mass murder by Israel is that they try to frame it as a retaliations for Hamas rockets, that unfortunately accidentally killed civilians.

Deranged

Palestine Action cut off Leonardo’s Edinburgh factory’s internet access:
https://palestineaction.org/leonardo-internet-access/

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”

Come join the Good Guys (TM), where we'll threaten your family if you try to uphold international law, we'll cut funding to global food security if you recognise a marginalised populations right to self-determination, push for global thermonuclear war if Ukrainian Nazis don't get to ethnically cleanse a third of their countrymen and also no, you won't even get to peacefully protest any of it, what are you, a free-speech absolutist commie-loving Hamas/Putler-supporter?

H5N1 virus in latest human case has mutated, officials say

The slight evolution in the virus is associated with ‘adaptation to mammalian hosts’, according to the Centre for Disease Control

World bank GDP PPP data just updated. (Most recent data for 2022)

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD

#1 China, $31,773,060.55

#2 USA, $25,439,700.00

#3 India, $12,998,139.47

#4 Russia, $5,987,861.45

#5 Japan, $5,862,116.60

Germany falls off top 5, replaced by Russia.

President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia It's so Joever comrades.

WSWS: Seattle museum workers walk out over exhibition equating anti-Zionism and antisemitism

The funniest thing would be; back when al-Awlaki was murdered the SCOTUS said that the president could murder as many US citizens as he wanted with no trial or oversight because once you say the "T" word it becomes a "Political Question" and they can't touch it. So the funniest thing would be Trump winning, declaring the Governor of NY a terrorist, and dropping a hellfire on him as a traitor to America or some shit. Where is the lathe? I demand access to the lathe!

China's electric vehicle company BYD has announced they've developed a new hybrid drive train that promises to deliver a 2,000km (1,250 mile) range on a full tank and a full charge. And one of the new sedans they're putting it in will retail for less than $14k.

Catch me in parking lots at 2:30am doing burnouts in my Chinese car for hours on end. Or don't because

Israel has been worried about war crimes prosecution and actively subverting icc investigations.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed

They also sought to convince the prosecutor that, despite the Israeli military’s highly questionable record of investigating wrongdoing in its ranks, it had robust procedures for holding its armed forces to account.

This was a critical issue for Israel. A core ICC principle, known as complementarity, prevents the prosecutor from investigating or trying individuals if they are the subject of credible state-level investigations or criminal proceedings.

Israeli surveillance operatives were asked to find out which specific incidents might form part of a future ICC prosecution, multiple sources said, in order to enable Israeli investigative bodies to “open investigations retroactively” in the same cases.

They've been spying on the court to find out what cases are going to be prosecuted and then pretending that they were already prosecuting those specific cases themselves.

https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1795478252040908955

A few days late but Yemens national salvation army shot down an MQ9 reaper drone. The proximity detonation left the drone remarkably intact.

This is the 6th MQ9 downed by Yemen in as many months and the 10th one since the start of the US-Saudi led war on Yemen.

Well I'd like to see ol Donny trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam! ◀️ you are now here

(trump easily wriggles his way out of the jam)

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

The Guardian: US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official

Trump found guilty on all 34 counts lmao

News thread favorite John Mearsheimer in Kangerooland talking about "Israel". Covers a lot that we already know. Points he makes include: (as appropriated from the trueanon thread I found this on)

-Israel will never accept a two-state solution or a multi-ethnic democracy as their goal is explicitly an ethnostate. This is why they supported Hamas over the PLO historically, as Hamas provides a perfect foil compared to the PLO

-Israel cannot defeat Hamas, their only real options were ethnic cleansing of Gaza (which failed) or genocide (which is what they are currently doing)

-Israel is unquestionably an apartheid state, however, they are aware of the instability of apartheid (re. South Africa). This leaves ethnic cleansing or genocide as the only long-term solutions

-Post-10/7 Israel needs to deal with the fact that their reputation of deterrence has been badly damaged and they have reached pariah-state level

-Israel will have an increasingly difficult time dealing with external threats due to the advancements in drone and missile technology employed by Iran, Hezbollah, and Yemen

Youtube Link

Sudan commits to building Russian Navy base in Red Sea

Give Yemen some submarines crewed by Russian "volunteers".

it will be so incredibly funny if Trump's polling numbers go up after all this.

chuds freaking out because their beloved leader, the most innocent man who has ever existed, was imprisoned by the woke communist dictator Brandon, while the libs are freaking out even harder as their election prospects continue to sink despite - maybe even because of - putting Trump in prison. I thrive on schadenfreude, so watching both sides eat shit is really

US will be taking it's broken pier back for repairs.

It was totally still working after a big chunk of it floated off, that's just classic pier-teething problems, dummy. But we have to take the pier back now because it's slightly damaged and the starving Palestinians can probably wait longer it's fine.

EDIT: also AP: "after damage from rough seas" - pretty sure it just regular waves bud.

Huge climate news that I go into detail about in this post

Climate scientists in China have demonstrated a method of removing CO2 from the atmosphere (long term!) with the side effect of improving soil quality and increasing crop yields.

BLM black square son

or

AI-generated "All Eyes on Rafah" story post daughter?

Ayatollah Khamenei gives props to the global student movement, welcomes them to the Resistance, and advises them to read the Quran http://english.khamenei.ir/news/10823/As-the-page-of-history-is-turning-you-are-standing-on-the-right

Full text

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I am writing this letter to the young people whose awakened conscience has moved them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza.

Dear university students in the United States of America, this message is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.

You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government's ruthless pressure—a government which openly supports the usurper and brutal Zionist regime.

The greater Resistance Front which shares the same understandings and feelings that you have today, has been engaged in the same struggle for many years in a place far from you. The goal of this struggle is to put an end to the blatant oppression that the brutal Zionist terrorist network has inflicted on the Palestinian nation for many years. After seizing their country, the Zionist regime has subjected them to the harshest of pressures and tortures.

The apartheid Zionist regime's genocide today is the continuation of extreme oppressive behavior which has been going on for decades. Palestine is an independent land with a long history. It is a nation comprised of Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

After the World War, the capitalist Zionist network gradually imported several thousand terrorists into this land with the help of the British government. These terrorists attacked cities and villages, murdered tens of thousands of people and pushed out multitudes into neighboring countries. They seized their homes, businesses and farmlands, formed a government in the usurped land of Palestine and called it Israel.

After England's initial help, the United States became the greatest supporter of this usurper regime, ceaselessly providing it with political, economic and military support. In an act of unforgivable recklessness, the United States even opened the way and provided assistance for the regime's production of nuclear weapons.

The Zionist regime used an iron-fist policy against the defenseless people of Palestine from the very beginning and has, day by day, intensified its brutality, terror and repression in complete disregard of all moral, human and religious values.

The United States government and its allies refused to even frown upon this state terrorism and ongoing oppression. And today, some remarks by the US government regarding the horrific crimes taking place in Gaza are more hypocritical than real.

The Resistance Front emerged from this dark environment of despair, and the establishment of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran expanded and fortified it.

The global Zionist elite – who owns most US and European media corporations or influences them through funding and bribery – has labeled this courageous, humane resistance movement as "terrorism".

Can one call a people a terrorist nation for defending themselves on their own land against the crimes of the occupying Zionists? And is helping such a nation and strengthening it, an act of terrorism?

The oppressive leaders of global hegemony mercilessly distort even the most basic human concepts. They portray the ruthless, terrorist Israeli regime as acting in self-defense ­– yet they portray the Palestinian Resistance which defends its freedom, security and the right to self-determination, as terrorists!

I would like to assure you that today the circumstances are changing. A different fate awaits the important region of West Asia. The people's conscience has awakened on a global scale, and the truth is coming to light.

Moreover, the Resistance Front has grown in strength and will become even stronger.

And history is turning a page.

Besides you students from dozens of American universities, there have also been uprisings in other countries among academics and the general public.

The support and solidarity of your professors is a significant and consequential development. This can offer some measure of comfort in the face of your government's police brutality and the pressures it is exerting on you. I too am among those who empathize with you young people, and value your perseverance.

The Quran's lesson for us Muslims and all of humanity, is to stand up for that which is right: "So be steadfast as you have been commanded" (11:112).

The Quran's lesson for human relations is: "Do not oppress and do not be oppressed" (2:279).

The Resistance Front advances by a comprehensive understanding and the practice of these and hundreds of other such commands – and will attain victory with the permission of God.

My advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.

Sayyid Ali Khamenei May 25, 2024

Simultaneously, the Palestinian Student Movement in Gaza has called for an escalation https://samidoun.net/2024/05/a-call-from-the-palestinian-student-movement-in-gaza-time-for-revolutionary-escalation-of-the-global-intifada/

BREAKING: In an emergency address to the nation, President Biden has announced that Donald Trump will be executed by firing squad. Trump’s last meal was reportedly one covefe, one well done steak, one Diet Coke, and an unsliced block of American cheese.

It's Balkinization time:
https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1795038233534869592

IMPORTANT: Margaliot settlement has decided to CUT CONTACT with the Israeli regime & kicked out all soldiers from Margaliot.

The settlement is COMPLETELY closing. Nobody, including the military, will be allowed to enter or leave the settlement.

Eitan Davidi, Chairman of Margaliot says the settlement doesn’t need protection from Hezbollah but from the Israeli regime, which is crushing the settlement with its decisions. Margaliot is directly harmed by their regime and the Ministry of Agriculture's decisions, causing more damage than Hezbollah's anti-tank missiles.

In an act against Israel, Lula da Silva withdraws ambassador permanently.

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In a decree published today (29), President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appointed Brazilian ambassador Frederico Meyer as the country's representative at the UN Conference on Disarmament. With this decision, the diplomat is permanently removed from Israel, a post he held until February. The decree does not name a replacement for Meyer in Tel Aviv.

The act does not mean a complete break in diplomatic relations with Israel. But it is the strongest gesture Brazil has ever made against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From now on, the embassy will be headed only by the Chargé d'Affaires, reducing the importance of the representation. Diplomatically, it is a sign to the Israelis of the degree of priority and relevance that the Lula government wants to maintain with the Netanyahu government. The withdrawal comes on the eve of a decision by the International Criminal Court on the request of its prosecutor to issue an arrest warrant against Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Israel's head of government is still facing criticism from international organizations and world leaders, such as Emmanuel Macron, who have denounced the killings of Palestinians. As UOL revealed last week, Meyer returned to Israel after three months of the worst diplomatic crisis between the two countries. In February, because of Lula's comments about the Second World War and the situation in Gaza, Israel declared the president "persona non grata". It also called Meyer and demanded that the Brazilian apologize, which he never did.

Lula W

Israel's reprimand took place at the Holocaust Museum, in Hebrew and in front of the ambassador. The act was considered a “humiliation” at Itamaraty. A few days later, to demonstrate his dissatisfaction, Lula summoned the diplomat back to Brasilia, officially for consultations.

Last week, however, he returned to Israel and, in recent days, even signed official telegrams to the other Brazilian ambassadors, indicating that he was in Tel Aviv. But at no point did he inform the Israeli government that he was back in his post.

He has therefore not resumed his post. Now, in the Official Gazette, Lula appoints Frederico Meyer to the “position of representative of Brazil to the Conference on Disarmament in Switzerland, removing him from the Brazilian Embassy in Tel Aviv to the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the UN”.

Although it plays a strategic role, the Conference on Disarmament has been completely paralyzed for the last 20 years, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned of the risk of such a body. Until now, the post was held by Ambassador Flávio Damico.

the Eisenhower's captain posted a video from March 2024 as "proof" that the ship was not hit by the Houthis in the last couple days, and the ship is hightailing it to Jeddah. I now officially believe that Ansarallah did in fact hit the aircraft carrier, though obviously not enough to sink it or anything

edit: now there's a new video showing half the ship, but with an extremely conveniently well-placed dude directly in the way of the camera who is standing still throughout the entire video such that he blocks the view of the other half of the ship. this really is gonna be a whole saga, isn't it

Vamos carajo (my poor attempt at Spanish):
https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1795650134182691056

🇲🇽⚔️🇮🇱 Chaos in front of the Israeli Embassy in Mexico: hooded individuals throw Molotov cocktails and attempt to remove barriers.

❗️ The images captured at the scene show dozens of protesters hurling incendiary objects, stones, and smoke bombs at the police guarding the Legation and shouting slogans against Israel and its war with Hamas.

Violent clashes have also been reported between the protesters and officers, who were attempting to disperse them with tear gas. Several police officers are reported to have been injured.

Edit: https://twitter.com/lifepeptides/status/1795677186319651122

Eide [Norway's Foreign Minister] believes Israel is hiding behind anti-Semitism (NRK, machine translated):

Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says in "Politisk kvarter" that it has previously been effective for Israel to respond to criticism with accusations of anti-Semitism.

But now something is starting to happen, he believes.

– Israel is about to lose its power in that, because the vast majority of people understand that distancing themselves from children being burned to charred corpses in Gaza is not an expression of anti-Semitism.

not that this is really news to anyone, but it feels significant that our foreign minister is willing to publicly say it now

Just when I thought my day couldn't get any shittier, an HISTORIC fighter leaves us:

Mother of Plaza de Mayo Norita Cortiñas dies at 94

The beloved human rights activist was recovering from a hernia operation and a pulmonary infection

Nora Cortiñas, a historic human rights activist who co-founded the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (founding branch), died on Thursday. She was in intensive care after undergoing a hernia operation two weeks ago. She was 94 years old.

Nora Morales de Cortiñas, better known as “Norita,” co-founded Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in 1977. At the time, she was desperately searching for her eldest son, Carlos Gustavo, who was forcefully disappeared by the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983. Gustavo was a political activist, a member of the Peronist party Partido Justicialista and armed organization Montoneros. He was kidnapped on April 15, 1977, and never seen again.

Cortiñas carried on the fight to bring justice to him and the 30,000 people disappeared by the dictatorship. She expanded her activism to other areas regarding human rights, such as the right to safe and free legal abortion and the fight against police and gender-based violence.

Born on March 22, 1930, Cortiñas was a social psychologist and taught at the University of Buenos Aires’ Economic Sciences faculty as head of the “Economic Power and Human Rights” course.

“I was a traditional woman, a stay-at-home mom. I got married to Carlos Cortiñas when I was very young, and we had two sons: Carlos Gustavo and Marcelo Horacio. My husband was a patriarchal man, he wanted me to devote myself to family life,” she said in an interview. “At that time I was a teacher of haute couture and I worked without leaving my home, teaching many young women to sew.”

After Gustavo was disappeared, she said, she started a whole new life. “We are no longer mothers of one child, we are mothers of all the disappeared. Our biological child became 30,000 children,” she said. “And for them, we gave birth to a completely political life in the streets.”

Cortiñas was last seen in public on March 24 at the National Day of Memory, Truth, and Justice march. Despite her age and mobility issues, she was present at Plaza de Mayo in her wheelchair, appearing with her usual white handkerchief over her head and a picture of Gustavo hanging from her neck.

“Deeply concerned in these times about the serious situation our country is going through and always ready to be present wherever there was an injustice, Norita fought until the last moment for the construction of a more just society,” said the communiqué published by her family. The Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the grandmothers of the dictatorship’s desaparecidos, said goodbye to their “sister” in a communiqué, calling her an “undisputed leader of the human rights movement in Argentina.”

“In solidarity with all the struggles of the country and the world, she knew how to connect with the younger generations, who recognize her as an example of coherence and activism,” they wrote. On Thursday, in the weekly march the Mothers do in the Plaza de Mayo since 1977, the demonstrators sent strength and love to her, before shouting: ¡Venceremos!, “We will triumph.”

She was an absolute champion, during the worst days of the dictatorship she went into a clandestine detention and torture center (Mansión Seré) BY HERSELF to look for her missing son. Extremely courageous woman who fought with all her being during our darkest days and continued to do for Memory, Truth and Justice until the very end. Please, do read about Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, extremely important non violent social movements that to this very day are still finding children and grandchildren of Desaparecidos during the last military junta.

Rest in Power, Norita.

Boeing decided not to fix the helium leak from the Starliner spacecraft before sending the first crew to the ISS

Although the oxygen valve on the Atlas V rocket was replaced, Boeing and NASA decided to launch the Starliner with two astronauts to the ISS without replacing a small seal on the helium supply system in the service compartment. The leak affects only one of the 28 engines used to control the spacecraft's altitude, and is small enough to be dangerous, and taking the ship to the workshop and completely rebuilding it is time-consuming and ineffective. Instead, engineers will monitor the leak before the launch on June 1, and if it does not increase, the launch will go ahead.

Literally the world’s richest country and the world’s leading aviation and aeronautics institutions. Surely nothing will go wrong.

Can you imagine Russia doing this with their Soyuz manned missions? Even Roskosmos didn’t stoop down to the level of playing Russian roulette (no pun intended) with human lives, in spite of the common stereotype perpetuated against Russians/Soviets.

If you still think the US industries have not been completely financialized to the point where their only goals are the pursuit of profit for shareholders at the expense of everything else, then I don’t know what to say. Soulless capitalist machines keep grinding on in the meantime.

The Houthis, who control Yemen's capital and most populous areas, have attacked international shipping in the Red Sea region since November in solidarity with the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas, drawing retaliatory U.S. and British strikes since February.

i was curious how the western press is framing the retaliatory strikes by yemeni forces against the genocidal imperial navy. the allies of god in yemen "control the capital and most populous areas" in much the same way that, for instance, the u.s. federal government controls the capital and most populous areas. i will be using this description for the regime in washington from now on.

A U.S. defense official told Reuters they were not aware of any attack on the Eisenhower.

straight up denial? or just a vague way to undercut yemen's narrative. "technically i spoke to someone who is technically a defense official and technically that person was not yet aware of the attack that had just happened. this person is not even necessarily related to the navy, mind you, so there's no reason to expect some nameless defense official to know any details or even be aware of it. but it's certainly my job as an objective reuters journalist to include this uninformative line that gestures in the direction of yemeni claims being false so that my readers draw the correct conclusions."

Yemeni Armed Forces have reportedly struck the USS Eisenhower after firing a number of ballistic and cruise missiles at the aircraft carrier.

https://twitter.com/eyesonsouth1/status/1796492078098325995?s=46

Please, if you're ever going to do propaganda for our Revolution don't do it on AI. Like, please, just.... don't. These men have three arms and for some reason there are big rifles with bayonets behind, like old ass muskets or something. And no, I don't know what the flag is supposed to say. At least the AI got the hammer and sickle right. Also lmao at the AI trying to figure out if the soldiers should have hats or helmets, it's very confused.

It was done by one of those Hinkle/Haz "communists", so yeah.

Thankfully we have not only a much better understanding of what Communism is, we also produce better propaganda.

Simplicius’ weird and chud media criticism / right wing media conspiracy blog started with a quote of Zizek

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Zizek

Two thoughts:

1. That’s a really good quote. Fucking Zizek is a fraud but his wordplay slaps
2. The transition of Zizek from a leftist Jordan Peterson to a regular Jordan Peterson continues as the conspiracist anti-globalist right continue to embrace him, although oddly at the moment when Zizek is taking firmly “globalist agenda” pro-imperialist stances.

The following is Imam Khamenei's letter addressed to American university students following their courageous defense of the Palestinian people.

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I am writing this letter to the young people whose awakened conscience has moved them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza.

Dear university students in the United States of America, this message is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.

You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government's ruthless pressure—a government which openly supports the usurper and brutal Zionist regime.

The greater Resistance Front which shares the same understandings and feelings that you have today, has been engaged in the same struggle for many years in a place far from you. The goal of this struggle is to put an end to the blatant oppression that the brutal Zionist terrorist network has inflicted on the Palestinian nation for many years. After seizing their country, the Zionist regime has subjected them to the harshest of pressures and tortures.

The apartheid Zionist regime's genocide today is the continuation of extreme oppressive behavior which has been going on for decades. Palestine is an independent land with a long history. It is a nation comprised of Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

After the World War, the capitalist Zionist network gradually imported several thousand terrorists into this land with the help of the British government. These terrorists attacked cities and villages, murdered tens of thousands of people and pushed out multitudes into neighboring countries. They seized their homes, businesses and farmlands, formed a government in the usurped land of Palestine and called it Israel.

After England's initial help, the United States became the greatest supporter of this usurper regime, ceaselessly providing it with political, economic and military support. In an act of unforgivable recklessness, the United States even opened the way and provided assistance for the regime's production of nuclear weapons.

The Zionist regime used an iron-fist policy against the defenseless people of Palestine from the very beginning and has, day by day, intensified its brutality, terror and repression in complete disregard of all moral, human and religious values.

The United States government and its allies refused to even frown upon this state terrorism and ongoing oppression. And today, some remarks by the US government regarding the horrific crimes taking place in Gaza are more hypocritical than real.

The Resistance Front emerged from this dark environment of despair, and the establishment of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran expanded and fortified it.

The global Zionist elite – who owns most US and European media corporations or influences them through funding and bribery – has labeled this courageous, humane resistance movement as "terrorism".

Can one call a people a terrorist nation for defending themselves on their own land against the crimes of the occupying Zionists? And is helping such a nation and strengthening it, an act of terrorism?

The oppressive leaders of global hegemony mercilessly distort even the most basic human concepts. They portray the ruthless, terrorist Israeli regime as acting in self-defense – yet they portray the Palestinian Resistance which defends its freedom, security and the right to self-determination, as terrorists!

I would like to assure you that today the circumstances are changing. A different fate awaits the important region of West Asia. The people's conscience has awakened on a global scale, and the truth is coming to light.

Moreover, the Resistance Front has grown in strength and will become even stronger.

And history is turning a page.

Besides you students from dozens of American universities, there have also been uprisings in other countries among academics and the general public.

The support and solidarity of your professors is a significant and consequential development. This can offer some measure of comfort in the face of your government's police brutality and the pressures it is exerting on you. I too am among those who empathize with you young people, and value your perseverance.

The Quran's lesson for us Muslims and all of humanity, is to stand up for that which is right: "So be steadfast as you have been commanded" (11:112).

The Quran's lesson for human relations is: "Do not oppress and do not be oppressed" (2:279).

The Resistance Front advances by a comprehensive understanding and the practice of these and hundreds of other such commands – and will attain victory with the permission of God.

My advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.

Sayyid Ali Khamenei ; May 25, 2024

Well it looks like all the rumblings of a BJP collapse were wrong. Exit polls are finally allowed to be reported in India and it's now widely expected Modi and the BJP will do much better than expected. Many are stating they might get a two thirds majority, allowing for constitutional changes. Not good folks. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-votes-final-phase-elections-both-modi-rahul-gandhi-eye-victory-2024-06-01/

Yemen has announced the targetting of 6 ships. 3 in the Red Sea, 2 in the Arabian Sea, and 1 in the Mediterranean sea - the oil tanker Minerva Antonia. Of the 6 targetted, the Yemeni government has said only 1 (in the Red Sea) was hit and damaged.

Additionally, The Cradle has reported that Yemen has obtained Iranian expertise in missile construction, according to Iranian media.

“Iran’s technical know-how to produce such anti-ship missiles is now at the disposal of the Yemeni military forces,” Tasnim said. Tehran’s first locally manufactured anti-ship ballistic missile, the Qadr missile, was developed over ten years ago by late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Brigadier General Hassan Tehrani-Moqaddam. According to Tasnim, Yemen’s Muhit missile – revealed in a military parade in the capital, Sanaa, in September last year – is directly modeled after the Iranian Qadr missile. The Muhit has a range of around 400 kilometers.

The Armed Forces of Yemen’s Sanaa government – which is militarily aligned with the Ansarallah resistance movement – has possessed surface-to-air missiles for several years. Following the start of the Saudi-led coalition’s war on the country in 2015, the Yemeni Armed Forces revealed its Qaher missiles, which were converted from surface-to-air missiles to surface-to-surface missiles.

Washington and other western nations accuse Iran of smuggling weapons to Ansarallah in Yemen. However, Yemen has been under a tight Saudi-led blockade for nearly ten years, making bringing arms into the country extremely difficult. Sanaa’s Armed Forces are also still in possession of weapons stockpiles from the Soviet era and have been known to locally produce weapons.

Additionally, inside Gaza, it seems Hamas is indeed making the capture of Israel troops a trend - so Israel is doing the classic doctrine and killing their own troops before they can be captured.

Russian Servicemen who finished their deployment in the SMO denazifying NATO contras in Ukraine are sharing their experience by training members of the Syrian Arab Army how to use Russian equipment to denazify NATO contras in Syria.

God bless them all

Napoleon abdicates- 1815 33 years later - 1848

USSR dissolves-1991 33 years later- 👀

We got a whole lot more of the long 21st century it seems

Al Qassam opened an official xitter account and Arabs are already posting out of pocket shit like I'm pretty I saw someone comment "Hire me so I can clean Yahia Sinwar's toes 🥺", would probably last a few hours before bans it

Isn't Trump just gonna appeal and the whole process of appeal will take until after the election is over anyway?

This is the greasiest election season in world history isn’t it

Why did the pilot crashed the F-35? Is he stupid?

China's lander has successfully landed on the far side of the moon.
If it succeeds, it will bring back the first ever samples from the far side. They're still on track for a manned mission by 2030.

Michael Hudson: Agricultural Imperialism in the EU

TL;DR: Ukraine is an inter-imperialist conflict between the US and the EU

A new monthly column for German newspaper Berliner Wochenende.

Ever since World War II, U.S. trade strategists have based their international policy on control of two key commodities: oil and grain. Economically, they have been the mainstay of the U.S. balance of payments, the leading categories of export surplus (along with weapons), especially as the U.S. economy has deindustrialized. And politically, these are basic needs of every economy. U.S. diplomacy has sought to make other countries dependent on American grain. In the 1950s, most notably, U.S. opposition to Mao’s Communist revolution in China sought to impose a grain embargo on that country. But Canada broke the sanctions – creating good will for decades.

U.S. trade strategists have sought to promote grain dependency on U.S. farmers by opposing foreign attempts to achieve grain self-sufficiency. Most notoriously, the World Bank from the outset refused to make any agricultural loans to Global South/Third World countries for the production of food grains. Lending has been limited to promoting tropical crops that do not compete with U.S. farm production. The result is that countries like Chile, with the world’s largest supply of natural guano fertilizer, have squandered their export earnings from copper on buying U.S. grain that they could easily have produced themselves.

As soon as the seven-member Common Market/EEC was created in 1958, its Common Agricultural Policy became the main area of diplomatic conflict between the EEC and the United States. That was one reason why U.S. diplomats promoted the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) as a rival. They had grandfathered America’s heavy agricultural protectionism into trade agreements. President Roosevelt’s Agricultural Adjustment Act, price supports (“parity pricing”), agricultural extension services and other government support made sustained farm productivity gains exceed those of any other country.

So it was no wonder that Europe’s CAP sought to achieve similar gains for its farm sector, and consequent contributions to the trade balance of France, Germany and other member countries. For the EEC, the CAP was the major and most successful economic achievement of the 1960s and 1970s. Europe became a major grain exporter. There was nothing that U.S. diplomacy could do to preserve its former market dominance in this area.

This success made agriculture a key element of French and German diplomacy with the EEC expanded into today’s European Community. Obviously, these two leading farm producers have sought to maintain their own dominant position.

It is only natural that new EU member countries would like subsidies for their own agriculture to achieve similar farm productivity gains and similar supports. This has been an ongoing political fight within the EU. And it has come to a head with the war in Ukraine, seeking access to the European market. Its soils are famously the richest and most productive in the world, making it a natural global exporter of grain, sunflower seeds and other farm products.

But once again, U.S. diplomatic interests are antithetical to those of the EU. American companies have bought up broad swaths of Ukrainian farmland, and seek access to European markets, starting with Poland. Its president Andrej Duda explained the problem in an interview with Lithuanian National Radio and Television:

“I would like to draw particular attention to industrial agriculture, which is not really run by Ukrainians, it is run by big companies from Western Europe, from the USA. If we look today at the owners of most of the land, they are not Ukrainian companies. This is a paradoxical situation, and no wonder that farmers are defending themselves, because they have invested in their farms in Poland […] and cheap agricultural produce coming from Ukraine is dramatically destructive to them.”

The threat to Poland and other European farm producers of low-priced Ukrainian grain has been intensified by two major developments. Ukrainian access to the Black Sea being blocked, leaving rail transport westward as its major alternative to sell its grain. And the U.S. company BlackRock has worked with Ukrainian President Zelensky to organize U.S. and European investment in Ukrainian industrial-scale agriculture to help provide foreign exchange for the country in its NATO-backed war against Russia.

National Ukrainian lobbying interests have joined U.S. diplomatic pressure for tariff-free access to the EU grain market. Polish farmers recently have sought to block Ukrainian grain imports from lowering the prices at which they can sell their own grain. Without price supports for this and other EU farmers, the threat of U.S.-backed Ukrainian farm competition is a major deterrent to Ukrainian membership in the EU.

As such, it revives the U.S.-European conflict of agricultural interests that has been waged for over half a century. Extension of the EU economic supports for Ukrainian farm competition would be, in the sphere of agricultural trade, the equivalent of destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in impairing European prosperity.

U.S. agricultural interests in opposing the EEC’s CAP after 1958 now pit U.S. investment interests against today’s EU farm producers.

Yemen has divine right to heaven

The fuck Biden is making criticising Israel illegal? Isn't this something libs said Trump will do?

they will never send a second submersible

With the EU parliamentary elections coming up next week (and usually having low turnout compared to the regular elections) some Polish NGO decided to put out a propaganda video showing people getting abducted by what looks to be Russian soldiers and then they are about to be shot by them in a prisoner camp but then the captured people remember to and put up their pens and then everything is good after that. POOTIN crisis averted because .

Anyone notice twitter Israeli propagandists post pictures of a market with lots of food and call it present day Gaza?

Does anyone believe that.

Allah/God bless Jenin, I truly can’t understand how they’ve survived from a purely materialist perspective

https://streamable.com/2kejv7

https://streamable.com/t2jwdp

South African elections are on Wednesday this week. As I am going to be ING this week, I, like a complete nerd, decided to look up political party manifestos. It's not looking good folks. Really, it's looking quite bad. Political parties divided along racial, social, and/or ethnic divisions, and not in a good way. The ANC had the opportunity to be the political party that unites us all, but they've blown it with their corruption and austerity. These manifestos suck.

A tool with a summary of all the major manifestos, as well as the actual manifestos

The amount of times "clean coal" and "privatisation" are mentioned by these parties is going to drive me mad. The fact that the "GOOD party" (yes that's it's actual name) led by Patricia De Lille is the most socially progressive party with the best electricity/energy policy is embarrassing. The fact that the white supremacist FF+ has a better electricity policy than half of the major parties is honestly tragic. It's like going to a restaurant where they have 50 dishes on the menu, and they're all terrible.

wishing china would re-hire that one official that said the post soviet states do not exist under international law and made the baltic states throw a fit

AP: US dampens criticism of El Salvador’s president as migration overtakes democracy concerns

Absolute banger of a headline

Do you know who won the U17 Woman Asia Football Cup with

7:0 Bad Korea

6:0 Phillipins

9:0 Indonesia

1:0 China

1:0 Japan

?

spoiler

Pro-Ukrainian spaces on twitter are asking, begging even, the West to let the UA use western made weapons on russian soil in order to "strike back" after the russian attack on that mall or something. If we dig down a little deeper (we don't have to go really far the see the core of the argument), we will understand first that the UA has already used western equipment on russian soil many times in the past, including raids on Belgorod and attacks on Crimea in general and Kerch Bridge in particular. Let alone things like the attack on the Moscow Concert Hall which might have connections with Ukraine or the super mysterious destruction of Nord Stream, something that won't be talked about for decades until someone, who's about to die, opens up about it.

What they really want is for the UA to fully unleash things like HIMARS on civilian targets deep inside Russia, like they did in Donetsk not so long ago. Now they're blaming the West for... kinda conspiring with Russia against Ukraine lmao. That's what I take from their arguments.

https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2024/iran-may-receive-a-virtually-intact-american-mq-9-reaper-drone-through-yemens-houthis

Hmm

another f35 down

While I don't think convictions are enough to mobilize people, I think if they literally arrest trump and sentence him to prison (doubtful), there is going to be an actual significant uptick in right wingers Goin fuckin ballistic and doing crazy shit like blowing up an fbi office or whatever lol.

Highlights from the speech of Hezbollah Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah:

Rafah massacre confirms the brutality, treachery, and betrayal of the Zionist enemy.

We are facing an enemy without values or morals, surpassing the Nazis.

We say to the normalizers: how will you normalize with people who have no limits to their brutality?

American hypocrisy regarding Rafah has played a significant role in recent weeks.

"Israel" challenges the will of the world, the international community, and the International Court of Justice, which ordered a halt to the attack on Rafah.

Look at the international community, which is powerless and weak, merely issuing statements of concern and condemnation.

The horrific massacres should prompt the world to pressure for an end to the aggression.

"Israeli" massacres should be a lesson for us and for those who rely on the international community and laws to protect Lebanon.

The children and mothers of Rafah cry out to all those who are unaware, ignorant, detached from reality, and denying daily facts.

Rafah massacre and the overall foolishness of the enemy will hasten the defeat, collapse, and demise of the Zionist entity.

We see no future for this Nazi entity in our region.

How long until maga communists use the 'Eugene V Debs ran from prison' as a pro trump thing

Pictured: us soldier more aware what the fuck he is doing, than 100 % political natsec analysts (link to video on twitter)

Trump will go to prison and run a dark Eugene Debs style campaign for president, win, liberals will do nothing, then Biden runs again in 2028 against Trump who claims one of his terms didn’t count because of impeachment

Twitter thread on UAE subimperialism in Africa and how they rob multiple African countries of their gold:
https://twitter.com/african_stream/status/1796266916446654927

Biden is doing some remarks about middle east today

Canadian soldiers are crossing the border and invading 4 American states. Namely both the Dakotas, Montana, and Minnesota.

Where Canada's 'super pigs' are most likely to invade the US — and potentially cause millions of dollars in damage

I don't know why some people still believe that ukraine can "win" the war at this point

For all intents and purposes they've already lost. How can they possibly recover from this terrible state they're in?

official account of israel posted this

I feel like we need coked up osint bro to figure out what it means

Egypt: Sisi government raises price of 'bread of the poor' by 300 percent

Russia may launch psychological operation about opening new front from Belarus, Kyiv warns

The Ukrainian Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation forecast the launch of a new Russian psychological operation about opening a new front in the region, aiming to "stir up mass panic" in Ukrainian society.

"We expect a series of provocative statements by the top leadership of Russia and Belarus threatening Ukraine soon," the statement said.

Thoughts? They call it a psyop, which implies that nothing will actually happen. What would be the point of that, though? Maybe they secretly believe that Russia will actually open another front, but they don't want to evacuate the civilians?

Nasser is no longer spinning in his grave but has evolved to become a singularity of pure rage

Mercouris is saying that US refusal to allow Ukraine to fire ATACMS on Russian territory is a concession to Russia's red lines, so my risk of heart attack has gone down.

It turns out you can still access Twitter. You just have to appendage an ?mx=1 at the end of the URL and it will redirect to the Twitter URL without the ?mx=1 instead of x.com. Musk can't even do a simple URL redirect correctly lmao

Putin hitting the griddy

If someone can find a version without the watermarks I think this has emoji potential.

Death to the occupiers

I would like to bring you all back to 2003 when Alan Dershowitz defended his claim that “Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has abolished any kind of torture, in fact as well as in law” by admitting that they were doing “until 1999, was what the US is now doing in Guantanamo,” and “B’Tselem is wrong because they define torture in a way that would include what the US is doing” https://youtu.be/vxXLPBMst4Y

Just had this on my mind as the occupying forces abducted 4 children from a school in Saraa

CONVICTED FELON DONALD DRUMPF

Sure you may have resided here for generations, but I have a gun and the flimsiest plywood known to man, so we live here now. Revolting to see settlements go up in real time

https://t.me/QudsNen/108083

Fucking around: Gaza should be flattened like Auschwitz.
Finding out: We have no other country and I have no other home.

https://twitter.com/TameeOliveFern/status/1796410587146342792

Hamas released more info on the soldiers the new POWs
CW// dead body
https://streamable.com/umtz77

Translation

[Abu Obeida talking]
The occupation forces are digging between the rubles looking for a pieces of their imprisoned, those who they intentionally bombed earlier, and it shoves thousands of soldiers between tight alleyways, and sacrifices them for the personal and private gains of Netenyahu and the interests of his fascist right wing government.

[WA]
Jabalia military camp, saturday 25/05/2024
After the Mujahideen of Al Qassam baited occupation soldiers into a tunnel, the enemy inserted a drone in the eye of the tunnel to explore it and it wasn't able to spot the Mujahideen inside, and right after leaving the tunnel, the Mujahideen moved into the area of the trap according to the plan, the moment the enemy soldiers reached the trap inside the tunnel our Muhajideen fought at from point 0, and managed to kill 2 soldiers and blew up the eye of the tunnel, after that the enemy dug the area surrounding tunnel to reach its path, and shoved their soldiers in thinking that our Mujahideen left, and unlike what he expected... our Mujahideen made another trap and planted a number of hidden IEDs, the enemy entered with a supporting unit and after they reached IED they blew it up and they became in the line of fire of our Mujahideen, then our Mujahideen blew up the tunnel after retreating from it, this left enemy forces between dead, wounded and imprisoned, our Mujahideen have also managed to take hold of the equipment of some of their soldiers.

[What was allowed to be published]
One of the targeted forces, his corpse is with us
You know him very well
Why are you lying to your people? is he one of the mercenaries that you didn't announce since October 7th? Or is your racism visible even when differenciating your dead?!
To the families of the dead and imprisoned, don't believe your government or army
You are invited into recognizing this soldier and the rest of the force units that have fallen between dead, wounded and imprisoned

I think the guy looks somewhat Maghrebi? could be a Moroccan Jew or a Moroccan mercenary depending on if it was racism or a mercenary, another person said he looks Egyptian

In adventurism news, in Germany a fash party's wannabe MP and some activists were injured in a knife attack.

Apparently there are some gnarly videos about it but i haven't checked.

Mélenchon going off on Europe being too ignorant to see that the US is destroying it fuel their upcoming war with China

So, Biden campaign is hiring a meme manager for 75k USD...

They will connect with young voters for sure /s

BREAKING: Iran has increased its enriched uranium near to weapons-grade levels, according to a report by the UN nuclear watchdog:
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1795177047192371348

(Although this source is apparently not that good?)

News Bulletin from Washington DC

Former president Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 felony counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree in the state of New York. For the purposes of sentencing, charges do not stack and Trump faces a maximum of 4 years in prison. Sentencing will most likely take months and will be decided by a judge. Given that the 45th president had a legally clean record before this, the innocous nature of these felonies, and his status as a former president he will most likely receive probation and perhaps a fine

For his part, former president Trump claims the trial was a "disgrace" and "rigged" by Joe Biden. This felony does not prevent Trump from running or holding office, and he will be able to vote in Florida as long as he avoids jail time

Polls show that over 50% of voters say they won't vote for Trump if he is a convicted felon, but the reality of that will be seen

More fucking Nazi shit. Thank god we have the most moral army in the world surrounding those refugee tents and bombing them into the ground

Death to the occupiers

Ethiopian Airlines to manufacture parts in venture with Boeing

Running away from safety regulations

Rains down in Africa status: blessed

Neo-colonial extraction status: demolished

Ukraine’s Syrskyi Says France To Send Instructors To Train Ukrainian Troops

dead frogs possible

More box tanks spotted, this time mid-offensive. The poster claims that a certain number of conversions per company have been ordered by the higher ups, dunno if that's accurate.
Also, the Russian term for these is apparently a Mangal, which is a grill for making kebabs.

Yemen's deputy foreign minister responding to a tweet saying the dprk is looking for new markets for its rockets

If Ansarallah ends up equipped with ICBMs in the near future it would be spectacular.

EDIT: Can't find the tweet. Maybe deleted or maybe not real.

EDIT2: The tweet does have abnormally high view count compared to other tweets on the feed, as if someone with a larger following boosted it and then deleted. Every other tweet this channel puts out has 1k views.

https://youtu.be/RncKjp9UzRc?t=718

The (pro-Russia) Military Summary channel says that Russia may be preparing to accept large numbers of volunteers/mercenaries from Afghanistan to fight in Ukraine.

They also suggest that Russia is checking in with its allies in the CSTO to see if they would join the war should the defense pact be triggered.

I missed this one. It appears the RF is trying to set up reciprocal foreign asset seizures ahead of expected formal seizure of RF assets in the US. Here’s a very short article in Xinhua.

This actually looks like an attempt at de-escalation to me. The seizure of foreign property is an act of war, and the Putin administration seems to be looking for a way to appease RF entities holding those frozen assets in the US without a war declaration, should those assets be subject to formal seizure by the US. Am I reading this correctly?

IMO, The funniest outcome to all this is that Brandon does a touchdown dance and spikes the football thinking that it's smooth sailing, only to lose to Nikki Hailey. I know a lot of people will says a Debbs scenario is funnier, but to me, losing to some sentient bag of tapioca pudding would be funnier.

Danish state media has been talking about the Trump case all morning, which has made my commute unbearable. They also refer to it as "trump being convicted of illegal bookkeeping" which is probably the correct way to describe the case, as it is itself very boring. Only good part is that one of my bosses is a trial lawyer who has been having a field day with recounting all the different ways that the lawyers involved are fucking things up, which is mildly funny.

In other news, a candidate for the European Parliamentary elections has withdrawn their candidacy after it has been revealed that the candidate participated in a "pro-Putin and Pro-russian" forum, which was opened to people who had parents from russian-speaking countries and basically functioned as a cultural exchange program. Naturally all the libs I know are celebrating and every non-white person is pointing out that we're basically prosecuting people in the papers for the crime of having russian ancestry.

All in all, these last few days have been really dumb

New :gender-neutral-toilet: just dropped.

The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo (where decorated war criminals are buried and the museum is basically holocaust denial for Japan's brutality in East Asia) was graffitied today.

The word 'toilet' (in English) was spray painted in red on a pillar during the early morning of 1 June, according to local reports. Work is now underway to remove the offensive truehood.

Original reporting in Japanese from Mainichi Shinbun, carried by yahoo news: https://archive.md/n6kHP

I need a livestream or something of MAGA dipshits crying and shitting themselves. Someone hook me up

Death to the Zionist entity

you know, I realize that I might have gotten something very wrong.

I used to think that fascism would come from Trump, and even defended voting for Biden as a mitigation strategy.

But what if Biden is the one who brings America toward fully mask-off fascism? The signs are lining up for sure. If so, then we’ve been played. Trump might have been the red herring all along.

And if this is the case, I don’t think Trump is going to be able to feasibly challenge Biden electorally. At least the system will make it exceedingly difficult to do so. Trump tried to fuck with Project Ukraine, and now he’s paying for it.

Biden’s polling numbers may be in the gutters, but the entire bourgeois establishment is behind him and even helped him punish Trump. Biden will win in November.

This is how RFK JR. will win the elections:

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TERF island news:

Keir Starmer is walking back on yet more of his own promises:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/27/starmer-im-a-socialist-and-progressive-who-will-always-put-country-first

Keir Starmer has insisted that he is a socialist and a progressive, but said the country does not have the money to allow him to fulfil some of the pledges he made during the 2020 Labour leadership race.

When asked by the Guardian if he would rule out raising tuition fees, following warnings from vice-chancellors and former ministers that universities will be at risk of bankruptcy without increased funding, [Starmer] did not directly answer the question.

[...] “I said that we should abolish tuition fees. Now with the damage that’s been done to the economy, particularly by Liz Truss, it is not possible to do that … I think that is basic honesty with the electorate." “I think it’s more important to stand in front of the electorate and say, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t now afford what I said before because of the damage done to the economy’ … What I’m saying to the electorate is this: I’m going to tell you in advance of the election what I don’t think we can afford to do.”

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Palestine Action just **won** a legal case they've been fighting since 2021 over whether its legally defensible to damage property in order to prevent weapons being sold to Israel (rare dub for the british legal system)

https://novaramedia.com/2024/05/24/damaging-property-justifiable-to-save-palestinian-lives-court-finds/

On Friday, Leicester crown court acquitted two Palestine Action activists accused of criminal damage to an Israeli weapons factory in 2021. The jury was persuaded by the defence’s argument that Joe Irving and Ferhat Ulusu’s actions were admissible on the basis of preventing harm to civilians and property in Palestine.

The 2021 action saw four Palestine Actionists occupy the rooftop of UAV Tactical Systems, a Leicester-based subsidiary of Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems.

[...] The activists – who drank rainwater in order to extend the occupation to six days, and slimmed down the group to two halfway through in order to save food supplies – spray-painted slogans including “Shut Elbit Down” and “Free Palestine”, sprayed red paint on the building’s facade and damaged a skylight in order to expose a drone being manufactured inside.

The action was one of the less disruptive the group – which has been known to cause hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of property damage for Elbit – has undertaken. In court, Elbit Systems’ representatives claimed that installing additional security as a result of the action had cost the company £40,000 per month, £1.6m in total.

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the latest result in the years long clash between Jewish Voice for Labour (evil bigots who antisemitically asked Israel to stop bombing children) and Campaign Against Antisemitism (brave defenders of justice doing the hard work of standing up to human rights organisations) is that the Charity Commission has decided that supporting Israel is actually apolitical so CAA will retain its charity status

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/28/charity-commission-drops-inquiry-into-campaign-against-antisemitism

The Charity Commission has dropped its investigation into the Campaign Against Antisemitism – four years after the regulator was asked to look into allegations of political partisanship against the organisation.

The leftwing Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), which has faced criticism from the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), including being called a “sham Jewish representative organisation”, made a complaint against the CAA to the commission in 2020.

However, earlier this month, the commission wrote to JVL saying that its application had been refused because it was not “a person that is or may be affected by the registration of CAA”, leading to consternation at JVL, given the length of time taken and the regulator’s previous statements.

The veteran human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC said: “There can be no dispute that political campaigning requires investigation. The evidence provided by JVL is of CAA challenging criticism of Israeli policies and conduct towards Palestinians. This is clearly political.

“While combating antisemitism and other forms of racism is clearly a legitimate charitable purpose, attacking expressions of opinion about Israeli conduct towards Palestinians is not.”

Charity regulations state that “an organisation will not be charitable if its purposes are political”.

The Labour MP John McDonnell, who has been criticised by CAA in the past, and Rabbi Chaim Blayer, a community rabbi from north London, have also contacted the commission about the CAA investigation.

The CAA made the initial submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about antisemitism within Labour, which led to the watchdog finding that the party was responsible for unlawful harassment and discrimination.

During Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, the CAA organised protests outside Labour HQ and a petition, the wording of which was changed from Corbyn “must go” to Labour “must act” after a previous regulatory compliance case led to the commission telling it to do so “to ensure it complied with our guidance on campaigning and political activity”.

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Rishi Sunak has denied he will flee the country to become government in exile in California if he loses the election

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-05-27/simply-untrue-rishi-sunak-denies-he-will-move-to-usa-after-election-defeat

The prime minister has said claims he will move to California if he loses the election were "simply untrue." [...] "It's simply not true, I mean, it's just simply not true."

The prime minister also defended his new National Service policy despite refusing to comment on what sanctions people would face if they refused to take part in it.

:sunak:

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also Nigel farage did a racism again (Breaking: Water is Wet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn_9lVvMkX4

no transcript to copy from here but basically after a bit of dancing around the point of who he means when he's referring to the people who hate british values, want to destroy britain and support Hamas, he says its muslims of course and than adds that also there's "middle class girls called Jacasta" involved too