The motherfuckers did it again, fuck this earth. One of the explosions in Sour/Tyre yesterday was less than 100m from my cousin's office. We fucking lost contact with him for hours until everything settled and we got a thumbs up in the family group chat. How is this blatant terrorism even fucking justified by these absolute freaks. So many young beautiful people leave us every single day in Lebanon, for what? The continuation of the biggest terror state since Nazi Germany. My hatred and rage are genuinely reaching uncontrollable levels, fuck everyone from Sykes to Ben Gurion to Sadat to Clinton to Abdullah

if you go into the Lebanon sub on every thread is full of people talking about how Hezbollah is an embarrassment and Israel has just won this war, and if you check their post histories every single person making those comments is either american or israeli lmao

(Translated by RNN)

A Lebanese resident on an online post: — Yesterday, after what happened, I was just like all these pure and good people, feeling like I was hit on the head, even though I didn’t shed a single drop of blood. But the blood that was shed was the blood of my brothers.

The scene on the street felt like a scene from the horrors of the Day of Judgment—the fear, the panic, the blood, the chaos... all of it.

After donating blood, I went back home very late, sad, defeated, and broken.
Everyone assured us that the security incident was over, but the psychological impact it caused inside us seems to be lasting a while.

A day after the incident, you can feel the people are gloomy, burdened... sad, or more accurately, all of us are broken.

A young [wounded] friend of ours, a character, one of the most humorous people you'll ever meet, always smiling. I thought "now, for sure, he must be psychologically devastated." I went up to visit him at the hospital a short time ago, hoping to ease his pain. I faked a smile and entered:

"Swear to God, you played it right. Now you get the injured soldier's pension, and your situation is settled for good. You’ll patch up the ceiling and get married."

"Injured? Who's injured, huh?! I lost an eye and two fingers, that's all. Do you think I was a sniper? I still have another eye and three fingers on my right hand, so I can aim and shoot. Anyway, you donkey, when I shoot, I close one eye. Now, this one closed on its own! And for shooting, you only need two fingers; I have an extra one... let them dare!"

I swear to God, even if our homes were destroyed over our heads and there was only one of us left, with both legs amputated and his left hand cut off, and only one finger on his right hand, he would crawl through the rubble, find his target, and shoot.

We are many.
We do not break.
We do not die.

it is so enraging that the dominant narrative surrounding israel poisoning supply chains with explosive-stuffed tech, then remotely and blindly detonating these explosives and injuring thousands of civilians would immediately be paraded around by Westerners as "israel's targeted attacks against Hezbollah"

But it's not even surprising, because these are the same rotten souls who claim israel is "fighting Hamas", even though israel has killed tens of innocent thousands of Palestinians, in addition to maiming and debilitating tens of thousands more, and leaving 2 million Palestinians with no safe place to go, little food or water to consume, and little to no access to necessary healthcare.

I fucking hate it all.

The US could stop all of this anytime they want. Just as WW1 was allowed to start because Austria knew that whatever dumb fuck move they made Germany would back them, Israel assumes it can act with impunity because the US stands behind them. Literally all that Biden would have to do, all that Harris would have to suggest, is that the US move from unconditional to conditional support. ‘You guys can commit genocide if you want and we won’t stop you, but we won’t subsidise it either and if it leads to a larger war you’re on your own.’ If that message was seriously given Israel would chill tf out faster than any country in history has. In that sense the US and the Dem’s are just as responsible for this genocide and the oncoming war as Israel is.

Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges “invasion” of land on US/Mexico border

Apparently they're saying SpaceX has invaded land that CAH bought to prevent the Trump border wall.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/cards-against-humanity-sues-spacex-alleges-invasion-of-land-on-us-mexico-border/

"Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump's very stupid wall. Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire—Elon Musk—snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage."

"If we win, we'll equally split the lawsuit's net proceeds among all 150,000 of our original subscribers, up to $100 each," the company said. "While this isn't enough to compensate our subscribers for the anguish they've suffered witnessing Elon Musk defile their once-verdant land⸺where wild horses galloped freely in the Texas moonlight⸺we think it's a pretty good start."

Lmao if you paid $15 to CAH several years ago, they're gonna give you $100 when they win.

Nasrallah's speech, courtesy of political_aya on Twitter:

The reason for my speech today is the updates during the past 2 days. I had not intended to speak before October 7 on the anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood to give an overview and assessment of the past year, but these events require a speech. I must first, before everything, congratulate all Muslims on the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and the birth of his grandson Imam Jaafar Sadeq (AS). We were also meant to commemorate the late Sheikh Hassan Trad today. However, the events do not allow for that.

I must extend my deepest condolences and warmest congratulations to the families of the martyrs, both the ones who rose during the past 2 days, and the ones on the frontlines too. We must also thank the Lebanese authorities, the Ministry of Health, hospitals, clinics, medical centers and organizations, nurses, and doctors. We must also thank everyone who rushed to donate blood and those who offered their organs. We must thank every person who helped transport the wounded to the hospitals. Some people carried them and rushed them to the hospitals, others on motorcycles and their cars. The medical sector is working tirelessly day and night to treat the wounded. One of the blessings of the blood that was shed is the unity we have seen in Lebanon, which we had not seen for a very long time. We extend our thanks to all parties, nations, leadership figures...who condemned this act and offered their condolences, and thank the nations who have sent aid and helped transport the wounded for treatment.

On Tuesday, the "israeli" enemy conducted an attack through detonating pager devices simultaneously. These devices are used by many sectors of Lebanese society, and even in the world, and not only by Hezbollah personnel. On Wednesday, the enemy repeated the attack, detonating walkie-talkie devices. It is not necessary for a brother to be carrying the device to be harmed. It is enough for it to have been set on a table. The enemy has crossed all red lines and all laws in this attack. This is a massive terrorist attack, genocide, a massacre. "The Tuesday & Wednesday massacres" is what we will call them. This is a war crime, a declaration of war...you can call it anything. When the enemy planned out this attack, they assumed there were at least 4,000 pagers spread out across all of Lebanon. This means that the enemy had the intention of murdering 4,000 people in a single minute. By repeating the attack on Wednesday, the enemy had the intention of murdering at least 5,000 human beings. God the Almighty saved us with His Mercy and Generosity. The number of martyrs was lower than the enemy had aimed for because of how the people, ambulances, medical workers...all rushed to save lives. Some pagers were also out of order. Thankfully, this saved many lives.

We formed an extensive investigative committee to study all scenarios, possibilities, and theories, and have reached an almost-definitive conclusion. We are realistic people; this attack was certainly a huge blow on the security and humanitarian level. This attack is unprecedented in the history of Lebanon and our battle against the Zionist enemy, and possibly even the history of the world. This was certainly a huge blow, but this is war; one day our enemy harms us, the other we inflict harm upon them. This enemy is backed by the US and the entire West and has the most advanced technologies recruited for their benefit. I can tell you with utmost certainty that this attack did not break us and will not break us. On the contrary, it will only increase our resolve and determination to continue on in this battle.

Why did the enemy do this? When the blessed Al-Aqsa Flood began, the Southern Lebanese support front was opened. This front has inflicted huge losses upon the enemy since October 8, as they have repeatedly admitted themselves. I am not concerned with what those who do have input or data say, and those who do not follow up on what the enemy says. The enemy cries, "We have lost the North!" They say this is the first time they receive a defeat of this nature in the North. The Southern Lebanese front has been a very effective front alongside the other support fronts. The enemy has repeatedly sent us messages to close this front. They resorted to threats of war, and attempted to differentiate between Lebanon & Gaza. Tuesday afternoon, after the first attack, the enemy sent us a message through official and unofficial channels, threatening that if we do not close our front, they have more in store for us. And so the attack on Wednesday came.

In the name of the martyrs, the wounded, the ones who lost their eyes and palms, and in the name of every person who has taken on the responsibility of supporting Gaza, we tell Netanyahu and Gallant: the Lebanese front will not stop until the war on Gaza ends. Through this attack, the enemy wanted the people of the Resistance to turn against the Resistance. This goal failed on Tuesday and Wednesday when we all saw the stances of the people and the wounded who hope to recover to return to the battlefield. The enemy thought they would destroy the formations and command and leadership units of the Resistance to create a state of chaos and confusion in Hezbollah's leadership. This did not happen for even a moment. What happened these past 2 days did not bend us, nor did it break our spirits or affect our capabilities or leadership. It did not affect our presence on the battlefield. On the contrary, it increased our strength and resolve.

Recently, the entity had been talking about shifting the center of gravity to the North in order to return the settlers. Does Netanyahu think he can achieve that? They think they can create a security zone in South Lebanon so that the settlers can live in peace. I tell Netanyahu: You cannot bring your settlers back to the North. Do as you wish; whatever you do, you will not bring them back unless you end the war on Gaza. This is a challenge between us, and I assure you, by God's will, they will not return.

The commander of the Northern region said their troops will enter South Lebanon. We wish they would do that! It requires massive intelligence efforts to track the troops at the border to target them. It would make our job easier if they came here. We would "welcome" these troops if they came to the South. You may see it as a threat, but to us, this is a historic opportunity! The security zone you dream of in the South will be turned to hell for you troops. You will face the ones you attacked on Tuesday and Wednesday, who have only become more determined to fight.

Allow me to speak with a different tone today, for this attack was done covertly: the reckoning will come, and it will be severe. I will not speak about a date or time. You will know of it when it happens; you will not hear about it before. We will keep plans and intentions for our severe response limited to our tightest circles. You will not hear anything, you shall only see. I hope the Lebanese people hold on to the sense of unity we witnessed the past 2 days, and pay no mind to the petty ones who try to create strife and division.

The enemy's foolish, narcissistic, savage leadership is leading the entity to its demise, to the abyss, God-willing. If they choose to escalate against Lebanon, that will only cause more settlers, these occupiers and land thieves, to flee from the North. I pray to Allah the Almighty to aid our Palestinian people in Gaza, who are being massacred before the world. I pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded to they could return to the battlefield. Your words for us are deeply moving & leave us embarrassed. The enemy does not understand the deep cultural and sentimental relationship the people and the Resistance have. They have failed and will fail to achieve all their goals. God-willing, grand victory awaits us. The days, weeks, months, and maybe even years are between us. This is a huge battle, and it may be a long one.

Videos coming out of Lebanon's hospitals show what Israel did was a massacre, victims especially children badly wounded. There is probably more martyrs in upcoming days.

I want to point out something, that is what we see here is Israel's response to Yemen's ballistic missile that was fired two days ago which landed near Tel Aviv, terrorizing Israelis.

Israel not only terrorized but killed people in response, now even I am worried as a Iranian living in Iran. What if Israel pull something similar here? Well, if that's what it takes to bring Israel one step closer to its downfall so be it.

Zionist holding the monkey's paw: I wish the IDF will rid the world of terrorists in the Middle East.

The monkey's paw curls

https://xcancel.com/QudsNen/status/1837152721259868424

According to Israeli media reports, Israeli occupation soldiers mistakenly identified an Israeli soldier as a Palestinian militant, firing over 400 shots at him as he approached a military camp in response to a call-up.

Twitter is now prohibiting the red triangle

The "Uncommitted Movement" issued a statement today that they:

• Will not endorse Kamala Harris over not meeting any of their demands
• Urge their supporters to vote in the Presidential election
• Urge their supporters not to vote for Trump or any third-party/independent candidates for president.

With "friends" like these...

many news heads have rightly said that this pager (and now radio) attack makes sense only as a direct prelude to invasion, and the zionist entity seems to have wasted this opportunity. i also saw a comment, before the relevation that two hezbollah fighters had discovered the pagers, that “israel” has a tendency to pull the trigger on operations as soon as they are technically feasible. this sort of strategic flailing seems odd, but it also lines up with the conclusions of a US army analysis of the 2006 “israeli”-hezbollah war.

it’s about 60 pages of actual content, and it’s interesting for a number of reasons (there’s a good section on the missiles hezbollah used for people into that). now there’s a two decade sized grain of salt that should be taken here, but i doubt i could get access to current “israeli” planning, let alone in english. the biggest conclusion for recent events is that the zionist entity has focused on counterinsurgency and air power, degrading its combined arms capabilities and doctrine to the point that it does not have them.

specifically, “israel” has fallen for the US air force’s greatest lie - that air power and bombing can stand as a combat arm independently from ground operations. as such, the head of the military at the time was an airman, and the doctrinal changes created were both confusing and biased against ground combat. additionally, the long time focus on ‘counterinsurgency’ in Gaza (the phrasing is not mine) has led to reserve mechanized equipment not being replaced, tank and mechanized crews not being trained, and minimal training at the division or batallion level. the lack of training in large formations and the fact that doctrine became more confusing as the formations got larger led to failure, broadly.

to provide an illustration, i’ll run through the actions of two divisions in the last act of the war. the UN had passed a ceasefire resolution, and for reasons that are not completely clear, “israel” planned a last hurrah offensive. the symbolic goal was the litani river. division 91 of the iof was meant to be driving towards the mediterranean, but stalled out completely. In an inquiry after the war,

The investigation concluded that commanders within the division “did not fully understand their orders” and “were not present with their troops during important battles and even failed to fulfill basic missions.” The investigation also found fault “in the way tactical orders were composed, sometimes without a time element. Since the orders were not clear, they were changed, in some cases, on an hourly basis. Brigade commanders did not properly understand their missions. . . . They didn’t know what their goals were and how long they had to fulfill their missions.” Remarkably, according to the report, “an entire battalion sat in the same location for several days without moving and when the commander finally received orders to push deeper into enemy territory he was confused and failed to fulfill the mission.”

division 162 was looking to take Ghandouriyeh, a town that sat on a crossroads and high ground. they had to cross a valley, Wadi al-Saluki, to get there. first, the general sent air assault elements to secure the high ground over the valley. the air assault successfully landed near two towns, cleared several occupied buildings, did not take the high ground, and then reported that they secured the high ground. 24 tanks were sent up the road, and a collapsed building in front of them and an ied behind them had them trapped. each merkava had a smoke screen to make missile aim harder. dozens of anti-tank missiles then struck the column. not a single tank deployed smoke, and 11 tanks were hit. what infantry that was near was pinned by fire, and tank crew requests for artillery or air support were denied out of fear of friendly fire. the advance stopped at that town.

to me, this paints a clear picture of modern military material (tanks, electronics, aircraft, artillery, and infantry) manned by people who don’t know how to use them. there is no feature of the actions of these divisions where their equipment failed them. moreover, i would expect any competent force with air assault, artillery, and armor elements to be able to seize a lightly defended town 10 kilometers from their border.

so the iof is made up of a large number of uncoordinated small groups, and collectively has little sense of how to put these pieces together. and you might say, “well maybe they fixed some of that in the last twenty years”. i think the fact that modern merkavas have the trophy system answers whether or not that happened. it’s a very cool toy, designed to blow up an oncoming anti-tank missile mid air. strapping sensitive explosives to the front of your tank means that your infantry cannot be anywhere near it. so we see dozens of unaccompanied merkavas and bulldozers parked somewhere that a resistance fighter can run up to, unopposed. we also might see a hot shot intelligence officer cook up some pager plan, report it to his commanding officer, and have it approved without anyone thinking that operations are only effective in sequence and with support.

CERN is expelling hundreds of Russian scientists
What a dumb thing to break neutrality for lol

Hillary Clinton Suggests Posting Russian Propaganda Should Be A Crime

"I think it's important to indict the Russians, just as Muller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016," Clinton said, referring to 2018 indictments against Russian individuals and companies accused of election tampering to boost support for Trump in the 2016 election.

"But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda. And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence, because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States."

They really want to make saying “we should stop propping up Ukraine and pursue a peaceful end to the conflict” a crime, along with pretty much anything that challenges US hegemony, don’t they?

11 months into this war and people still need to be reminded.

The intellectual martyr, Basil Al Araj's 3rd rule on the nature of war: "Never spread the occupation's propaganda, and do not contribute to instilling a sense of defeat."

Do not spread enemy propaganda in a psychological war. STOP SHARING PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF THE INJURED PEOPLE FROM TODAY! Stop forwarding media outlets like Reuters who claim to have so-called sources in the resistance.

Always always wait until official confirmation

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Alright my little war piggies, its time to run wild!

There's a battle between real users and hasbara/CIA bots on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/VSYV4QxVso

Someone said Muslims control the media LMAO

https://xcancel.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1836156436855877718

High level intel sources tell @gsdebinski and Tyler Huffman:

• TWO Hezbollah members found out about Israel's hack, one was "neutralized"
• Decision to detonate pagers early took place before 2nd alerted superiors

I don't know if this is true, but it does explain why the explosions weren't synchronized with an Israeli invasion.

Hezbollah was at their weakest in the immediate aftermath. Every day that passes will allow them to regain strength. And the element of surprise is totally gone now.

I think Biden should have Trump Executed on live and then kill himself. This will be a heroic sacrifice that will save the world.

Media making sure to say that the attack was "targeting" Hezbollah.

And I read a couple of articles that fail to mention the brand of the pagers that were blown up.

I really don't know how to live without constantly feeling rage that shit like this is happening and so many people just keep on living their lives without a care in the world or at least question the narrative presented to them.

Hezbollah is bombing the Israeli Ramat David air base in Haifa for the second time tonight and a third wave is targeting the lower Galilee. Direct hits are reported. Israelis can’t sleep. Get use to it Haifa. You are the new Kiryat Shmona.

Israel had a bad night

For the first time, an American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at an American University has ended over Palestinian rights.

This actually happened a few days ago.

The MIT Coalition for Palestine shares a major victory: #MIT Activists end the first American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at a University.

The Scientists Against Genocide Everywhere (SAGE) Movement at MIT continues 🕊️ More at mitsage.org

Berlin police chased down a young boy waving a Palestinian flag, ultimately arresting him. Footage shows the distraught-looking boy being taken away by a large number of riot police at the edge of a pro-Palestine protest in the German capital. (CW: Child abuse)

really makes you think

hello fellow news enjoyers

lots has been going on in the world since i last posted. A ghetto uprising in Gaza sparking into a full on multi-front war of resistance. Russia's slow grind finally paying off with desperate and collapsing Ukrainian forces, this Kursk adventure seems to be facing the same fate as the last Kursk adventure, with Russia re-taking a big chunk of the salient today. Once an offensive has stalled and started moving into retreat, we can safely say it was thwarted. Multiple coups and coup attempts throughout the world, the only ones in our favor seemingly in the Sahel.

The latest looks like Israel continues to escalate towards Lebanon. After the two waves of terror attacks in Lebanon yesterday by Mossad, now the IDF airforce is heavily bombing Southern Beirut, and Netanyahu is releasing press statements about regaining the settlements in northern occupied Palestine on the Lebanese border. Apparently the General Staff of the Zionist Entity have approved a plan for an offensive in Lebanon. Armored units, special forces & helicopters are arriving at the border. The airstrikes may be preparation and softening for the offensive.

Also, it's cute that America pretends to not know about the pager attack when they advised all of the staff in the American hospital in Beirut to swap pagers 10 days ago. Echoes of Crocus terror attack where American made ominous warnings days before about an upcoming terror attack in Russia but wouldn't provide any details.

Angry settler filming the fires in northern occupied Palestine and screaming "NASRALLAH"

https://xcancel.com/RFN3138/status/1837797846709330166

Now we know the real reason why the West has such a hard on for Taiwan. It's not just for commercial reasons. Spy agencies have infiltrated the fucking manufacturing processes. This is going to increase the pace of governments turning away from Western tech products.

Not only is the West putting backdoors into hardware and software. They're putting EXPLOSIVES in the fucking stuff.

Still no arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

Putin got his in 3 weeks. It has been 4 months since Chief Prosecutor Khan requested the warrant for Netanyahu.

This is so evil ... absolutly evil , and proably planned so long ago .. . Nurses Doctors etc.. and now the second unfathanable evil is them claiming that every victim (Nurses , Doctors , Rescuers) is "hezbollah" since they had pagers that exploded..

currently there is another wave of explosions ... Radios and Walki Talkies apperently .. fucking Insane ..

This attack is going likely going to have long-term consequences for western electronics sales, especially outside the West. I wanted a Huawei phone before, but I really want one now, and I'm in the US. I have very little doubt the US signed off on this and I am surprised no one stopped to think about how this would fuck the money up. I'm sure they think they can just ban Chinese electronics and everything will be fine.

it's fine. Normalising terrorism will never backfire

Settler mob attacks West Bank elementary school under army protection: Students and staff members were assaulted by crowbar-wielding settlers at a school northwest of Jericho | The Cradle

A few thoughts.

I guess there's an object lesson in here that if you are procuring equipment for a movement, you gotta inspect it. Whether it is technology, arms, food, medicine. You gotta crack them open. At least a normalized sample.

This pager thing seems to be a supply-chain attack (there would be a lot of collateral damage to other RF systems if this were simply triggered by RF interference), which raises the question, when did these devices go into circulation? This operation was likely months, if not years in the making. I doubt these devices were distributed last week.

The paranoiacs might look at this incident as proof of the Zionist régime's omnipresence, but it should be considered simply as another step on the escalation ladder. It is an option the Zionists had at their disposal which has now been spent. One less trick up their sleeve.

This shit is pretty embarrassing, and the Zionists will be riding on their high horses for a while, but it doesn't significantly change the situation. "Israel's" economy is in dire straits, with no tourism, large areas made uninhabitable by the resistance, a severe deficit in agricultural laborers, tens of thousands of businesses closing for good, mounting domestic contradictions, and a brain drain and exodus more broadly.

Finally, when you combine a crisis with a disruption of communications infrastructure, it is fertile ground for intelligence gathering. I hope people are being smart about information being shared through irregular channels.

Atlanto-Zionists airstrike Beirut.

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/20342#

Habibi wake up Hezbollah just struck Ramat air base base in Haifa

So, the two US mercs that were part of the, not a joke, Zairian group that attemptrd a coup in thr DRC were sentenced to death.

"There is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon. Lebanon will be annihilated. It will cease to exist." - Israel's Minister of Education

Russia derangement syndrome is getting stronger the closer we get to the election. I'm seeing daily articles about some "HUGE EXPOSURE OF RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA CHANNELS" but nothing ever actually happens to the "Russian propaganda channels" I know of.

It's almost like all that talk is just a bunch of hot air for liberals to seethe at. Liberal ragebait articles.

Zionists are all over Wikipedia trying to downplay the Israeli terrorist attack.

Another extremely evil move by Israel, but they can only really pull this trick once. Now Hezbollah is going to be thoroughly inspecting every vaguely electronic item that goes through their hands. For injuring a couple thousand random people, Israel has thoroughly burned their ability to infiltrate resistance organizations this deeply ever again. They could have injured the same number of people with conventional weapons easily, but they wanted their terrorism to be theatrical above all else.

I’ve been watching Trump talk about Israel on Hasan’s stream for a bit now. Honestly, Trump is truly disgusting. The way he talks about Israel is disgusting. It’s worth noting that Trump will still be REALLY BAD for Palestine.

And I will fully admit, watching Trump talk about Israel elicits an emotional reaction in me. It was making we waver. I was starting to think maybe - MAYBE - I should go ahead and hold my nose and vote for Kamala, because she can’t be as bad as him right. Or at least losing to her will make this asshole and his supporters mad.

And then, in my mind I saw the face of Nasrallah amongst a sea of Hezbollah flags. I thought about how much Hezbollah has had to deal with from Israel. How much poking them with a stick they’ve endured. How they’ve had to see Israel act like an out of control child. It must be so hard for them to not respond out of emotion. And yet, they haven’t. They kept a cool head for nearly a year now. And because they didn’t respond reflexively, I truly believe Hezbollah will destroy the IOF and even maybe bring about the end of the entity in time. So, be like Nasrallah and don’t give in to the need for immediate satisfaction.

(No, I’m voting for Kamala and never was, just to be clear)

MBS made a new statement saying that there will be no normalization with Israel until a Palestinian state is established with East Jersusalem as it's capital. Noteworthy in that I am pretty sure the Saudis have not explicitly stated a capital in East Jerusalem as a capital being a requirement before. Whether or not they will keep there word is a different story, but a KSA-Israel deal has been one of the main Middle East foreign policy goals of the Biden admin. One has to wonder if MBS has been feeling some heat internally for his foreign policy moves.

House Passes Bill to Label Products From West Bank Settlements “Made in Israel”

The House passed a bill on Wednesday to label products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as originating from “Israel,” essentially recognizing Israel’s annexation and ethnic cleansing of the region in what opponents of the bill say is a “hateful” attempt to erase the very existence of Palestinians in Palestine.

The bill would make permanent an extremist Donald Trump-era policy to mislabel products from Palestine. Under the proposal, products from areas encompassing the majority of the West Bank would be labeled as a “Product of Israel” or “Made in Israel.”

. . .

The bill passed 231 to 189, with 16 Democrats joining Republicans in voting “yes.” The Democrats who voted in favor represent some of the most extremist pro-Israel Democrats in the House, as well as some of the most conservative in the caucus, including Representatives Ritchie Torres (New York) and Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey).

LETCHER COUNTY, KY sheriff just shot and killed a judge at the Whitesburg court house. iirc Whitesburg is where the trillbillies are from.

in new york , police shoot a "fare evasion suspect" and another cop , then got thanked for its Bravery.

Soon everything will be fixed.

Palestinians mutilated, tossed off rooftop by "Israeli" forces in West Bank’s Qabatiya: The bodies of two young Palestinians were seen being paraded through the streets of Qabatiya on an "Israeli" bulldozer | The Cradle

Estonia will preemptively attack Russia to protect NATO

Assuming the report about 2 Hezbollah members almost revealing the deception is true; then this can't be seen as anything other than a serious strategic defeat for Isreal and a commercial disaster for western electronics, despite it also being a tactical and propaganda victory for Israel

Apparently this was supposed to be some kind of trump card deployed in the early hours of an invasion to sow chaos and knockout communications behind the lines

Now that card is used up and every single org (even those allied with Israel) are gonna be checking their inventories for these boobie-traps, in the end the resistance security apparatus has been made stronger and Israel has lost one more tool in their arsenal and a pretty substantial one at that

the normalization of gun violence in the US is crazy. 14 year olds with AR-15s shooting up their schools. Presidential candidates dodging bullets every few weeks.

And it’s all so dang normal now that they will barely last a news cycle.

Fires still raging on in portugal. It's getting pretty bad

And get this, just last week we donated our ONLY 6 KAMOV FIREFIGHTING HELICOPTERS to, guess who?

Also a 28 year old brazillian worker died in one of the forest fires because he had gone into the forest to retrieve his company's equipment.

Just came across some random meme channel video about "explaining the exploding pagers in lebanon meme". Fucking demons that westerners and their allies are. But a red upside down triangle is a hate symbol and makes them piss their pants. Death to the west.

The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is being restarted, exclusively to power Microsoft's data centers.
First time a US nuclear plant has ever been recommissioned

Reddit really is a horrible website full of liberals lol. I was looking at some memes about the neoliberal mayoral candidate in Brazil who hit a far-right guy over the head with a chair and then threw the chair at him live on TV during a debate, because the guy accused him of being aremoved and made fun of the fact that a member of his family had died. Then the far-right guy left crying in an ambulance because he thought he broken his rib and today he had a meltdown because someone brought the same kind of chair near him during a march he was doing.

Anyway, on reddit, someone made a post on some English-speaking subreddit and the comments were flooded with liberals saying: “I hate violence! That's not democracy! When he attacked the far-right guy, he became just like the far-right guy!” and some Brazilian gusanos insisting that the guy isn't far-right, even though the guy openly said he likes Bolsonaro and Trump, he said he wants to be the new Bolsonaro or some shit, honestly, this guy has a strange accent. And, of course, most of these Brazilians come from the south of Brazil, from mostly pro-Bolsonaro places (the same state that was destroyed because the Liberal and Conservative parties there stole the money that was supposed to be set aside for natural disasters and had to beg Lula for help).

The Taiwanese pager company said that they're just giving their brand to the product but the pagers are actually manufactured by a hungarian company. The hungarian company said they didn't make the pagers, they're just an in-between, but refuse to say where the pagers were made.

all the business press going "there is no alternative to IMF austerity" on Sri Lanka.

smaller countries like Sri Lanka always gets fucked over more under capitalism. not saying other global south countries are less vulnerable but with smaller countries IMF can force even a well meaning pro-worker Government into doing what they want. no coups or assassinations required.

India really is the best candidate for the next socialist state imo, large population, one of the larger countries, enough resources, relatively industrialized and the Indian Rupee is more widely used internationally.

Large scale Zionist air strikes currently taking place in southern Lebanon. The fuckers are really going for it

incoming doomer opinion: the Battle of Huế proves that South Vietnam and the US are still absolutely in this fight and we'll probably see this war wrapped up soon as the Tet Offensive is failing

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/niger-us-troops-withdrawal-t84623

U.S. troops withdraw from Niger, except for the embassy

Brazilian lawyer hired as X's legal representative quits position. Vanessa Souza, a lawyer currently based in England, was hired in the middle of this month as X's legal representative in Brazil, but the deal between her and Musk fell through even before the announcement.

Seeing some people call this resistance fight the 'Gaza Ghetto Uprising' and like damn

that hits hard

Given the scale of what took place and the response from the West not just to dismiss it but to justify and even celebrate it; given that this act of terrorism occurred exactly a week from 9/11, I think it's time to finally talk about 9/11 and though, yes, while inserting the two decade boilerplate about condemning terrorism and recognizing the innocent lives lost, to assess what it really meant.

Who “won” after 9/11?

It has been said endlessly in the two decades since 9/11 that the attacks that day permanently ended the unipolar euphoria of the US Cold War victory: it derailed the consolidation of US unipolarity by diverting it into two decade-long West Asian entanglements. Especially nowadays with the US unipolar status in complete disarray, you frequently see US policy makers and the Washington think tank blob cry crocodile tears about what a "gift" 9/11 was to China. This is not necessarily untrue, Bush had been priming for a confrontation with China even as he allowed its entry into the WTO. Then 9/11 happened and it wasn't until Obama, exactly ten years later, that finally formalized the policy shift of the "Pivot to Asia,” which due the innumerable contradictions of US hegemony forcing it to react to Europe and (once again) West Asia, is still a “work in progress” in the present day.

The US fixation with its West Asian conflicts did allow China a breathing space for much of an additional decade until Trump finally took the US jumping with both feet into the New Cold War. Though there was always the Washington think tank cope as the US got bogged down that the puppet Afghanistan project was actually a 5D chess move that would allow a US presence right on the doorstep of Western China and meant the two decade occupation would allow the US to have its cake and eat it too, the total rout of the US with its 2021 Saigon moment nullified even that.

There used to be rather infamous op-eds from NYT and what-not, once the 9/11 self-censorship taboo faded a little, asking rhetorically if "Bin Laden won?" From the perspective of US unipolar hegemony, it does look like the attack did an incalculable damage not through the event itself but the US outsized reaction to it. However, is US hegemony really what matters most to the US political ruling class, "über alles?"

The specific attacks of 9/11 didn’t attack the elementary schools, they didn’t attack LGBT clubs, they didn’t attack parades; Americans would target those places themselves. They attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. If the other plane didn’t crash land in Pennsylvania, the consensus based on its DC bound flight path after two decades is still that It would have likely been flown into the White House or the US Capitol building. As such the targets were principally the financial elite, the military elite and the political elite.

There was supposed to have been a precedent set with Pearl Harbor that the United States was never to be attacked, or in Roosevelt’s own words in his “Day of Infamy” speech: “will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.” The consequence for Pearl Harbor was the two nuclear bombs and the permanent semi-occupation and vassalage of the perpetrating Japan to the present day.

Pearl Harbor: the previous attack on “America”

As Daniel Immerwehr wrote in “How to Hide an Empire,” in the eyes of the US political elite like Roosevelt, an attack on Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles from Washington DC, was more of an opportunity than a threat to themselves. Not only that, in the just recently forcibly annexed settler-colonial holding of Hawaii (still not a state) far from the continental US, there was a chance that the average American also would fail to see it as a threat. As such, Roosevelt’s draft edits allude to an anxiety that the American people wouldn’t get it at all:

[…] when it came to Hawai‘i, Roosevelt felt a need to massage the point. Though the territory had a substantial white population, nearly three quarters of its inhabitants were Asians or Pacific Islanders. Roosevelt clearly worried that his audience might regard Hawai‘i as foreign. So on the morning of his speech, he made another edit. He changed it so that the Japanese squadrons had bombed not the “island of Oahu,” but the “American island of Oahu.” Damage there, Roosevelt continued, had been done to “American naval and military forces,” and “very many American lives” had been lost. An American island, where American lives were lost—that was the point he was trying to make.

Roosevelt insisted: “Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.” Yet taken from the eyes of the American ruling class, Pearl Harbor, in comparison to 9/11, is respectively akin to someone setting your front lawn (which you just expanded in size by forcibly seizing from a neighbor) on fire compared to literally coming for your jugular with a knife. You can see someone setting your lawn on fire as the greatest possible threat to you only if you can never even conceive the possibility of someone being able to take a blade to your throat. The greatest threat to the ruling class was supposed to be just to their way of life, not to their very lives themselves.

The Unthinkable becomes Thinkable and the Impossible is actually Done

9/11 not only negated the historical meme that Americans propagandized themselves with that “they were geographically gifted” on their stolen continent and “untouchable,” buried under lines of defence from enemies with territorial meat-shields like Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Britain, Western Europe and West Berlin that would-be adversaries would be forced to chew through first like layers on an onion; it also struck at not principally the working class masses but the literal elite themselves. Generations of American imperialism was supposed to have created an utterly vast breathing space and this “lebenstraum” was meant to make the continental US on which the US ruling class inhabit untouchable.

Even in the scenario of "World War 3," so long as it remains conventional, in the geo-strategic calculus of the US ruling class, those immense territorial meat shields that it set up (for China: the first island chain, then the second, then the third; for Russia: the former USSR territories like Ukraine, then the former Warsaw Pact NATO, then Western Europe) mean that it would take a "World War 4" for a conflict to conceivably reach the continental US, let alone threaten the elite themselves who could scurry into their bunkers in Cheyenne mountain if things get too hot.

9/11 cut past all of this calculus like a hot knife through butter and brought the truly utterly unthinkable to realization, not only was the US squatter state on occupied Turtle Island subject to attack but the ruling class themselves were the ones specifically targeted. It’s like the hierarchy of needs where you never realized, through your privileged material conditions, there was an even lower base on the pyramid of your needs that you had been always standing on and which could be pulled out from under you.

This is the reason for the overwhelming and psychopathic US military response and the two decade commitment to devastate West Asia. The lesson needed to be taught that that what was make thinkable and possible must be made unthinkable and impossible again. Of course, there is no putting the genie back in the bottle, but though the emperor was revealed to have no clothes, the world needed to be made to pretend he was still fully clothed - at gunpoint.

Through this, it didn’t really matter whether Iraq and Afghanistan could be built into stable client regimes to service US hegemonic interests, but that as much devastation as possible should be done so that every time someone glances at the misery of contemporary Iraq and Afghanistan, they would link it to the US and think that “this all happened because 9/11 attacked the US.” By such aims, the bigger the bloodbath, the better. Through this, the US ruling class really did achieve their goals, despite the ultimate failure of both invasions and occupations.

The Contradiction of Life and Way of Life

Does all this mean that the much bemoaned “wasted decade” for the US is actually a rare species of camouflaged victory if you look further into it? No, that would stretch the provided thesis too far. What the US reaction to 9/11 shows that there is a contradiction between the interests of US hegemony, which benefits all Americans through the dividends of its financial imperialism and the interests of the US ruling class, which benefit only itself and its preservation, which 9/11 was experienced as a startling reminder to them.

That there exists a distinction between the two, though in normal times both are aligned and in near perfect sync, is what 9/11 exploited and the US response has shown to exist more clearly than in any other moment in American history. The outsized retaliation by the ruling class to reassert their “untouchability” through the “counterterrorism decade” was actually a net negative for both normal Americans and for the system of US hegemony, but the ruling class did not care because 9/11 was what shown them that - when forced to choose - their individual life were more important than their way of life.

To put it in analogy, this is akin to a business owner unhesitatingly sacrificing the profitability of their own business, making it far less competitive to rivals, by a fire sale of assets and diverting earnings to pay for their own emergency surgical procedure. At that point, to that individual, there are bigger things at stake when made to realize they are forced to choose, even though what normally matters is their business and it suffers through this opportunity cost. Becoming cognizant of this contradiction is the most revealing lesson of the US response to 9/11.

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Some positive news in this sea of torment, death and terrorism:

The DPRK's Women's U-20 National Football Team won 1-0 over the genocidal entity, the "United States", and have reached the final of the 2024 Women's U-20 World Cup, ready to face Japan.

The DPRK has a pretty impressive Women's U-20 record, they won the 2006 final against China in Russia, reached the final and lost to the "United States" in 2008 in Chile, won the final against France in 2016 in Papua New Guinea and now have reached their fourth final in Colombia.

They won their three group stage matches (6-2 vs Argentina, 9-0 vs Costa Rica and 2-0 vs Netherlands), in the Round of 16 they beat Austria 5-2, in the Quarter Finals they beat Brasil 1-0 and now they've beaten the "US" 1-0 in the Semi-Finals.

Let's go ladies!

Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode, security source says

deleted reuters link

wtf

edited: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/17/israels-war-on-gaza-live-38-killed-as-israel-risks-becoming-pariah?update=3184475

i just wanted to link to something. my bad, no more reuters

Anti-woke Final Fintasy 16, set in "Whites-Only" fake medieval Europe, "did not meet sales expectations"

https://www.eurogamer.net/square-enix-admits-final-fantasy-16.html

The pagers that were being used were apparently made in Taiwan.

EDIT: Just saw CCTV video of one going off on the Lebanon subreddit. Definitely explosives and not thermal runaway.

Israel straight up bombing Lebanon now.

https://t.me/QudsNen/123446

theres now a video going around of Israeli soldier throwing a Palestinan from a Rooftop in Jenin , Westbank.

Murdered US activist shot 'directly in the head' by "Israeli" army: The "Israeli" military had claimed 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot 'indirectly and unintentionally' during a protest in the West Bank | The Cradle

EDIT: Should probably note here that Zhao DaShuai is quite open about being People's Armed Police Propaganda Bureau

youtube has reminded me that the US is scrapping the nato standardized ammunition scheme just to cut sig sauer a fat check how are these people running an empire dude

Were the pagers only being carried by the armed wing of Hezbollah, or am I correct in assuming that a lot of political/social wing members were also carrying them?

(CW: Explosion injury) Channel 4 News opens their segment on the Israeli attack by joking "Israel calling?"

Reddit is so astroturfed it’s funny “DAE think Hezbollah should resign cuz of this failure???”

So Israel successfully pulls off their Bond villain-ass plot, and they aren't immediately invading in the chaos it caused? What's the goal there? If it's just to kill people, sending planes to bomb would work and not give away the secret plan. Maybe I'm overestimating their intelligence, but if I had sabotaged a country I wanted to invade, I'd wait until I was about to invade to activate it.

Doctor Ziad Mohammed Al-Dalou, the Deputy Director of the Internal Medicine Department at Al-Shifa Hospital, ascended to martyrdom in detention three days after his abduction by zionist forces on March 21st, 2024.

He is one of dozens of prisoners who have ascended to martyrdom due to zionist abuse and torture. Additionally, he is one of 900 health workers who have ascended to martyrdom, representing about 1 in 40 martyrs.

Glory to the martyrs.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/57812

Editor’s note: they killed him in 3 days??? He was just kidnapped this week

Israel bombing Lebanon right now.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/21/israels-war-on-gaza-live-inconceivable-toll-of-human-suffering-in-gaza?update=3193056

8 minutes ago:

The National News Agency reports an unmanned aerial vehicle fired two missiles at the border town of Dahra.
Earlier, the Israeli military said dozens of warplanes are attacking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon as cross-border exchanges intensify and fears grow of all-out war between the decades-old enemies.

1 hour ago:

The situation is getting much more intense, especially in the southern part of Gaza where confrontations between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces in Rafah city are still raging. The combat is particularly heavy in the eastern and central areas of Rafah.
This is despite the Israeli army’s claim that it managed to “dismantle” Hamas’s Rafah Brigades in the city last week.
Also, one of the main medical warehouses has been hit in Rafah without any sort of warning, causing a great deal of destruction. There was no word on casualties.

I'm guessing that medical warehouse might have been that massive explosion seen here?

• Reddit/TrueAnon
• Twitter photo

CW - transphobia, other horrors

Uh

Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.

Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”

. . .

Robinson listed his full name on his profile for Nude Africa, as well as an email address he used on numerous websites across the internet for decades.

https://www.rt.com/news/604290-israel-lebanon-brink-war/

https://www.rt.com/news/604338-pager-plot-years-abc/

Apparently it wasn't just pagers and walkie talkies but also laptops and car radios and had been planned for up to 15 years.

Newest from Hungary: According to NYT's anoonimus sources the hungarian company was founded by Israel precisely so they can put explosives into Hezbollah's (and by this they mean whomever is around the pagers at the time of explosion) pockets.

Newest from Palestine: Hezbollah doesn't stop and according to zionazi media already yeeted a soldier with a guided missile.

Before this week, I had assumed that Israel was attempting to get Hezbollah to attack them in order to give Israel just enough casus belli to pull the US into it.

While that may be part of it, the terrorist attacks this week (including the destroyed apartment building just now) have made me think it’s all just Israel trying to get Hezbollah to invade Israel so Israel doesn’t have to invade Lebanon. Israel is just going to keep ratcheting up the horror until Hezbollah decides they have to do something (which they won’t, Hezbollah’s only offensive capabilities are with missiles).

I don’t think we should assume that just because the entity’s military leadership are fascists that they are also completely irrational. If a bunch of commies on this poxy website can see how obvious it is that Israel will get rolled if they invade Lebanon, it has to be even more obvious to someone like Gallant who is evil but also seems like a realist.

So right now we have a situation where Hezbollah cannot invade Israel, and Israel cannot invade Lebanon. Each wants the other to invade, but they both know it’s a death sentence for either of them to attempt it. So what I think we’re seeing is a game of provoking the other to invade, and Israel probably thinks they are in the better position because they have more latitude to do evil shit.

(All of this is probably obvious to most, just summarizing it all here).

Something bad or violent happened in America? Well, it was definitely caused by some poorly defined "mental illness" and it couldn't possibly be an expected outcome of four hundred years of bloodshed, oppression, poverty, and unspeakable cruelty.

Definitely just those crazy people. We should probably make them illegal.

State of Hexbear rn

Picture of an IOF bullet fired by Apache helicopters which the occupation has been using to target civilians since the start of the genocide war.

Hezbollah announces targeting the Rafael military-industrial complex, which specializes in electronic equipment and is located in the Zvulun Valley north of occupied Haifa. The complex was hit with dozens of "Fadi 1," "Fadi 2," and "Katyusha" rockets in an initial response to the brutal massacre committed by the Israeli enemy in various Lebanese regions on Tuesday and Wednesday (the massacre involving pagers and walkie-talkie devices).

https://t.me/mmirlb/22740

(Picture is not of the Rafael facility but nearby)

Incoming doomer opinion: doom will come to Israel one fucking way or another comrades

1965 Soviet Film Обыкновенный фашизм. (Ordinary Fascism) is entirely made up of Nazi archival footage captured by the Soviets and narrated with cynical voice over.

https://youtu.be/MLR3g6E2pZA

At 1 hour and 35 minute is a series of photos that nazi soldiers took as souvenirs of them lynching civilians and carrying out other unspeakably horrible crimes. Yet they are grinning about it. The narrator says "they seem nice".

It is revealed that the nazi soldiers kept these stacks of "souvenir" photos along with pictures of their wives and children.

I am reminded of this film after seeing another video of iof soldiers celebrating their destruction of Gaza.

So, latest update about the Norwegian owner of the company linked to the terror attack in Lebanon...

He was on a business trip to the U.S. when the attacks happened. VG, a Norwegian news outlet, writes that he got on a plane to Boston on Tuesday, but never attended the conference he was scheduled for:

The man was to attend a conference in Boston on behalf of his Norwegian employer, according to VG's information.

VG has seen documentation that the Norwegian arrived in the USA on Tuesday.

Nevertheless, he never took out his name tag or registered at the conference, the organizer told VG.

He's (probably?) still in the U.S., but no one has heard from him since Wednesday 👀

Preliminary reports that Israel did it again

⚠️ A new of sabotage attacks in Beirut and all Lebanon, objects are exploding in houses and everywhere!

https://t.me/LebUpdate/42975

Appears to be walkie talkies this time

https://t.me/LebUpdate/42983

🥀 Lebanon's health ministry says nine people have been killed and more than 300 are wounded in the walkie-talkie blasts across Lebanon this afternoon.

Some of the devices that exploded are almost a decade old, bought off the civilian market.

https://t.me/LebUpdate/42988

pictures

MEE - Florida lawmaker sparks outrage for celebrating Turkish-American activist's killing in West Bank

Randy Fine, the Republican state representative for Florida, is facing a wave of anger and accusations of Islamophobia after celebrating the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old Turkish-American activist who was fatally shot by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank.

"Throw rocks, get shot. One less #MuslimTerrorist. #FireAway," Fine wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to a post announcing Eygi's killing last weekend.

This is a Florida State Representative and a white one attacking Palestinians at that, so I expect nothing to happen to him.

Hezbollah announces 6 martyrs, presumably as a result of the pager attack

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: — Unity of blood: a step on the path of victory.

Long live the joint Lebanese-Palestinian struggle in the face of zionist terrorism

Mourning people I’ve never known. Glory to the martyrs

(1) Hezbollah mourns Ahmad Mahmoud Wahbi from Adloun in southern Lebanon, martyred on the path to Al-Quds.

🚩 @ResistanceTrench

https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/31124

(2) 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇸🇾 Picture of martyr Ahmad Wahbi with martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani during the fight against ISIS terrorists in Syria

🚩 @ResistanceTrench https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/31125

Following the trend of doing everything the US is doing Germany also tried doing the 'We will build chips here jack' even go so far as to pay Intel 10bn € to build a factory (total cost was 30bn €) that project is now 'paused for two years' same as that TSMC factory in the US

I looked up the EU "terror list" just for fun. I knew it was a list of scary Muslims but I would have imagined that they would have put a few token white guys in there.

But no, out of 21 designated "terrorist" organisatios, 17 are from the Muslim world. All 21 are from the global south. Was it really that hard to find some small group of politically insignificant Nazis and add them to keep up appearances?

What Israel did is the technological equivalent of poisoning the well. How such a rabid insane state can exist is just wild.

US envoy visited Israel before current escalation

Amos Hochstein , US President Joe Biden’s envoy, was in Israel on Monday – a day before the first wave of communications devices exploded in Lebanon.

According to Israeli media reports, Hochstein warned Israeli leaders against an escalation on the Lebanese front.

But Netanyahu’s office said that the prime minister told the US envoy that Israel “will do what is necessary” for its security.

Washington says averting a regional conflict is its top priority in the Middle East.

But critics say Israel’s apparent defiance against the Biden administration’s goals underscores Washington’s unwillingness to meaningfully pressure Netanyahu to avert an all-out war.

The new failed Trump assassin is obviously another freak as usual, but I low-key respect him for his unwavering dedication for his dumbass causes. We need this energy on the left. This guy was spamming Zelensky on twitter for any chance to help, he actually went to fucking Ukraine in some dumbass belief that he could somehow help out, he hated Trump so much that he was actually ready to kill him. It's hard to not respect a true ideologue in these days, when most libs fold at any true pressure. Good for him honestly, he truly did his best along the whole journey and almost died like a true martyr and could've gone to liberal heaven. The guy who tried this in July was just a massive loser, this new guy has some very respectable dedication all the way. It's a shame that he's not a leftist.

Death to Israel this is more supervillain shit

Full Hezbullah statement on the pager explosion

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Initial statement issued by Hezbullah:

"At approximately 3:30 pm on Tuesday 09-17-2024, a number of message receiving devices known as “pagers” exploded, which were owned by a number of workers in various Hezbullah units and institutions.

These explosions, the causes of which are still unknown, led to the martyrdom of a child and two brothers, and the injury of a large number of people with various injuries.

Hezbullah's competent agencies are currently conducting a wide-ranging security and scientific investigation to determine the causes that led to these simultaneous explosions.

Likewise, medical and health agencies are treating the wounded and injured in a number of hospitals in various Lebanese regions.

We ask God Almighty to have mercy on our righteous martyrs on the road to Jerusalem, and we pray for the wounded and injured to recover quickly.

We call on our honorable people to be aware of the rumors and false and misleading information that some parties are spreading in a way that serves the psychological war in the interest of the Zionist enemy, especially since this is accompanied by the Zionist enemy’s speeches of intimidation and threats and what it calls changing the situation in the north.

We affirm that the resistance, at all its levels and various units, is at the highest level of readiness to defend Lebanon and its steadfast people."

Tuesday 9-17-2024 13 Rabi` al-Awwal 1446 AH

Isisrael destroyed Motorola Solutions didn't they? They injured a bunch of Lebanese people and even killed a few but really who is going to buy a Motorola pager ever again? What police officer is going to wear a Motorola radio when it could be hacked and blow up? What sane person is going to buy from a company that intentionally or unintentionally allowed for their devices to be turned into bombs used in a terrorist attack?

If Motorola Solutions is as cooked as it looks how does the usa respond? This is a direct attack on american Capital. A $74 billion dollar company is going to get wrecked because ISISrael cant see past their bloodlust.

U.S. Authorities Were Warned About Suspected Trump Gunman

Let's be honest, Iran has no other option than to make nukes. They are already treated like shit, isfake has shown such bloodlust that shows this is the only way. Even if the zionist entity dissolves in most peaceful way, there will be threat of nuclear attack to them at last minute. You are not missing out by not getting western goods that probably have some bomb on them

Yemen got another Reaper
Third this week I believe

New banger
That is the actual missile Yemen used yesterday btw, Palestine wingtips and all.

The next 9/11 should be just some hacker group blowing up all Iphones in America

CPUSA: “For non-Black radicals to champion separatism through the resurrection of the old national question interpretation, the Black Belt Thesis, is to resurrect Jim Crow.”

I hate the CPUSA

It sounds like Israel believes Hezbollah will finally retaliate tonight with a massive rocket attack. It's 21:00 in Lebanon, so the night is young.

Israel claims to have destroyed many Hezbollah launchers, which... honestly I don't really doubt at this point. Hopefully they have plenty of decoys and hidden launchers.

Inshallah, we will see the Zionazis pooping their diapers tonight

When you see someone on the internet saying that they are not fans of dying in a nuclear holocaust and that they would love their rulers not to escalate things to that point, those are not real people. It is fake Russian comments, disinformatskaya intended to scare you into not supporting total war against Putin's Asiatic hordes.

We already know that real westerners love getting nuked and that they would never support peace. But now the FBI and a bunch of Euro mainstream media says they have the receipts to prove it.

Here is Danish government broadcaster DR's version of the story (machine translation):

Secret Psychological Warfare Plan Revealed: Russia Aims to Strike the West with a ‘Nuclear Psychosis’

Internal Russian documents show how scare campaigns are designed to make Europeans fear a new world war.

Read more...

[video]

• The propaganda company Social Design Agency in Moscow created a video on “information attacks” against the West, planned in close cooperation with the Kremlin.

In meeting after meeting, people from President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle have spent months planning how Russia can instill fear in Europe and the rest of the West.

This is done in close collaboration with a propaganda company in Moscow that spreads streams of disinformation, fake stories, and millions of pro-Russian comments on social media platforms like Facebook and Telegram.

The goal is to make Europeans fear nuclear war, hoping they will pressure their governments to stop supporting Ukraine.

This is revealed in internal documents, videos, and other materials from the Russian company Social Design Agency.

The company has fabricated stories, including claims that Europe will face power outages and a shortage of fever-reducing medicine, which will result in “a surge in child mortality,” according to a draft of an influence campaign.

Social Design Agency has also crafted numerous fake social media posts where imaginary Europeans express fear of nuclear war:

“I don’t want my country to enter an open confrontation with Russia. Isn’t it clear that our actions could lead to World War III? Russia is not our enemy,” reads one of the messages the company aims to spread through fake profiles.

Another document outlines how Social Design Agency plans to influence public opinion polls so that at least 50% of people in European countries feel “fear for the future.”

“If the Kremlin is unhappy with conditions in the international system, this is one of the channels they can try to influence. And the message in these campaigns is effective because we all fear nuclear war,” says senior researcher Flemming Splidsboel from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), who studies information operations and has reviewed several of the documents for DR.

FACTS: The Basis of This Story

• The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, public service stations NDR and WDR, and the Estonian media outlet Delfi have accessed material from Social Design Agency and shared it with DR and other media.
• The material includes thousands of internal files from 2022, 2023, and 2024, such as employee lists, emails, campaign concepts, reports, meeting notes, texts for fake articles and social media posts, comments, memes, and cartoons, documentation for publications, and cost summaries.
• Together with newly released documents from the FBI about Social Design Agency, the material offers a deep insight into Kremlin propaganda strategies.

Documents Provide Deep Insight into Russian Operations

Page after page, the internal documents reveal how Social Design Agency operates.

On the one hand, the company meticulously monitors Western media and opinion-makers, producing daily reports on the news landscape.

Additionally, Social Design Agency analyzes the target audiences for Russian propaganda—mainly European citizens—to determine how they can be emotionally manipulated, according to one document.

Afterward, the company develops the actual content for the campaigns, which is then distributed through replicas of real news sites and on social media using artificial intelligence.

“By thoroughly preparing our information attacks and having a clear understanding of the project's goals, we firmly believe we will succeed,” states a message in a video from the internal material of Social Design Agency.

You can watch the video at the top of the article, where the founder of Social Design Agency explains the company’s work.

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• Here’s an example of one of the countless memes Social Design Agency has developed for social media. (© DR News)

Claims to Have Spread Millions of Fake Comments

The documents paint a picture of a company that produces vast amounts of disinformation to promote Russia’s cause.

In one report, Social Design Agency claims to have posted 33.9 million fake comments on social media in the first quarter of 2024 alone.

The company also claims that in the same period, it produced 39,899 original posts, including videos and memes or cartoons.

Many of the company’s comments and texts have limited reach. However, international media outlets that accessed the company’s material have found several instances of real people sharing content from Social Design Agency.

Senior researcher Flemming Splidsboel views the campaigns as an attempt to pressure Western governments to force Ukraine to submit to Russian demands:

“The goal could clearly be to initiate negotiations so that Russia can secure the areas in Ukraine they have already conquered and annexed,” he says.

Media Partners in the Investigation

• Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR in Germany, Delfi in Estonia, DR, Dossier Center, Schemes in Ukraine, De Standaard and Profil in Austria, NRC in the Netherlands, RFE/RL in the Czech Republic, Shomrim, VSquare, and Frontstory in Poland.

Multiple Meetings with Putin’s People

This is far from the first time Russia has been linked to influence operations targeting Western voters.

Recently, the FBI released documents specifically addressing Social Design Agency’s role in these efforts.

The FBI documents describe at least 20 meetings between Russia’s presidential administration and the Moscow-based company in recent years.

DR also has access to summaries from these meetings, which, according to the FBI, were written by Social Design Agency’s founder, Ilya Gambashidze.

These include notes from a meeting on March 12 of this year, where Ilya Gambashidze summarizes the thinking behind influence operations against Western countries:

“We need to scare them,” he writes in the meeting notes.

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• Content from Social Design Agency is meant to amplify Russia’s message that the U.S. has dragged Europe into a conflict over Ukraine with significant consequences, says Flemming Splidsboel. (Photo: © Meme from Social Design Agency)

Aims to Create a ‘Nuclear Psychosis’

According to the FBI, former Russian Prime Minister Sergey Kiriyenko coordinates Social Design Agency’s influence operations on behalf of the presidential administration.

This is confirmed by a European intelligence source to Süddeutsche Zeitung, with whom DR collaborated on the story.

Sergey Kiriyenko is now the First Deputy Chief of Staff for the Presidential Office and is often described as President Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man.

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• Here’s a picture of President Vladimir Putin with Sergey Kiriyenko from June of this year. (Photo: © Alexander Kazakov, Ritzau Scanpix)

According to the FBI, Kiriyenko participated in a meeting with Social Design Agency on April 16, 2022, where he discussed various topics to be spread as propaganda.

At this meeting, Sergey Kiriyenko reportedly summarized the goal of creating “a nuclear psychosis” in the West.

Involvement of such a high-profile figure underscores, according to Flemming Splidsboel, that Social Design Agency’s operations are deeply connected to the core of the presidential administration.

“All in all, this suggests a large Russian campaign that comes from the top and is clearly a high priority,” says Flemming Splidsboel.

Neither the Russian presidential administration, Social Design Agency, nor Ilya Gambashidze responded to questions from DR and the other media partners involved in the investigation.

Israel apparently raided an Al Jazeera bureau and has attacked 400 sites so far in Lebanon

Thoses brain chips that elon is pushing will be for sure filled with explosives. But the more I think about it the more stupid this whole pager attack was. China win again by doing nothing

Thread on Motorola's collaboration with the Zionist entity. The pagers were Motorola pagers:
https://xcancel.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1836083424702194070

Some unconfirmed rumors floating around in Twitter:

There were multiple brands involved, including Motorola and a Taiwanese brand:
https://xcancel.com/zenonymous11/status/1836133420038263292

The American University of Beirut hospital had a device refresh where they quietly replaced their pagers 10 days before the terrorist attack (CW: the subsequent tweet shows someone lying in a pool of their own blood):
https://xcancel.com/Somali_ICS/status/1836168564480352310

In light of what happened, it is relevant to take a look at some ressources:

https://antonyloewenstein.com/books/the-palestine-laboratory-how-israel-exports-the-technology-of-occupation-around-the-world/

Antony Lowenstein - Palestine Laboratory which gives some insight on how the surveillance technology but also military hardware are tested on Palestine to be sold into the world. I think we can see Israel conflicts with its neighbouring countries as a giant tradeshow to sell the tech to potential buyers.

I also find it insightful some interviews by Electronic Intifada done with Shir Hever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA&t=2839s

He is the author of the article done on Mondoweiss regarding the prolonged war can inflict a blow in Israeli economy. What I find relevant is the case he mentioned on France's Carrefour expansion into Israel. Carrefour wanted to expand into the country, but there are concerns regarding the ethical practice of some of the expansion, the company didn't want to expand inside Palestinian settlement (not for any moral arguments, but there are fear that it can be complicit in Israeli colonization and occupation). However, the Israeli court rules out that Carrefour can't decide where they can or can't open a store which to according to Shir implies that there are some political exceptionalism Israel can exercise on people who wants to do business in the country, which can lead to people thinking twice in investing into a country that doesn't allow you to have a legal even playground.

TLDR, the states exceptionalism is not good for the civilian sector of global capitalism to operate in, expecially if corporation know the trajectory of the next generation wouldn't have a positive opinion regarding the Israeli state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGVnqFK7jm0

In the second interview, Shir mentioned that Israel's main export is really in its military and surveillance sectorw, he does say that October 7th does make potential buyers question its military hardware performances, but I think today's cellphone's attack does give some Israel a good demonstration on some of its potential in terms of surveillance and population control.

I think it's important to not neglect today's attack in its context especially regarding the current state of the world which climate change causing social instability can push some states appetite to consider buying Israeli savoir faire in order to control its population more efficiently (border control, policing tech, surveillance, etc.).

In the future, we will all be Palestinians

It seems that Haiti has once again turned into a dictatorship. The pro-US Haitian elite has dissolved the presidential role and created a Presidential Transitional Council that controls the entire country, at least the parts it controls that are not under the control of the Haitian right-wing militias. The postponed the elections to 2026, which were originally supposed to be held in 2019.

DPRK (North Korea) wins U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia. The North Korean team won against Japan, 1 - 0.

Well so much for my "you only get to do this trick once" bit yesterday. So we've got to be looking at the prelude to invasion, right? Two attacks in two days? This one with larger explosions but a smaller number of targets (way less folks seem to have walkie talkies than pagers)? I just don't understand the calculus otherwise. What a shitshow, godspeed to the people of Lebanon.

Damn, no wonder why the US wants to ban Tiktok:
https://xcancel.com/abierkhatib/status/1836986916291408003

I’m repurposing a comment I left on a post about Palantir’s involvement in the pager attacks (posted to c chapotraphouse).

Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared as the main interview on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday. He is an enthusiastic believer in the moral authority and superiority of the US.

He says the future of modern warfare will be peer to peer and drone to drone. “You’re going to be using software to control small instruments and there’s going to be hundreds of thousands of them.” He mentions fighting China and Russia specifically.

I don’t know if this is news but interesting to hear him say a lot of evil shit out-loud on a pretty mainstream platform. Also I watched it after the pager attack happened so it took on extra significance.

edit - fixed spelling of guy’s name

Saudi Arabia: Crown Suspends All Relations with Israel Until it Recognizes Palestine - Telesur

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The Crown Prince stated that «the Kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital».

Saudi Arabian heir to the throne, Muhammad bin Salman, strongly condemned on Wednesday the war crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and said his country would not recognize Israel without a Palestinian state.

During a speech to the members of the Shura Consultative Council, which he delivered on behalf of King Salman, the Crown Prince stated that «the Kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital».

He then stated that without this status his country «will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel».

He rejected «the crimes of the Israeli occupation authority against the Palestinian people, ignoring international humanitarian law in a new and painful chapter of their suffering».

Saudi Crown Prince and PM Mohammed bin Salman stated that normalization of relations with Israel is impossible without an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital

He also emphasized the commitment of the Saudi authorities to a good-neighbourly policy, which is why he aims to improve regional and international security through diplomatic solutions to crises in countries such as Yemen, Sudan, Libya and others.

On behalf of the Palestinian people and their leaders, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed bin Salman’s speech and the firm positions of Saudi Arabia at all levels in support of the Palestinian people and their just cause.

He also highlighted the efforts made by Riyadh to stop the ongoing aggression against Gaza and the West Bank, their lands and holy places, and to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Israel submits challenges to ICC on Gaza arrest warrant requests

The Israeli foreign ministry said that its first legal brief outlined the ICC’s “manifest lack of jurisdiction” in the case. The second paper, it said, argues that the ICC prosecutor breached court rules by “failing to provide Israel with the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate by itself the claims raised by the prosecutor, before proceeding.”

Is this something they have a right to? Like a mass murderer being arrested and saying "you can't do that, you didn't allow me to investigate myself to see if I murdered all those people!" After they were filmed shooting a crowd.

Iranian media constantly assuring that its ambassador in Lebanon is just slightly injured, now they say he had a "little" eye surgery and he is good and all.

Meanwhile a low ranking conservative official raised questions about Raisi's helicopter crash and whether Israel did the same thing to the electronics aboard the helicopter that it did to Pagers in Lebanon.

I purpose adding more Hijab Police to streets because thats apparently more important than the national security 😒.

We fucking feasting comrades, what else shamans blessed russia to do

Hey news nerds, just a quick check in, are we within five years of me fragging my officer after getting drafted into WWIII, or no?

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What Lula da Silva said when his microphone was cut off by the UN - Forum Magazine (Portuguese Only)

President Lula da Silva was talking about the UN Security Council when his microphone was cut off; he continued speaking nonetheless.

Article (Translated)

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had his microphone cut off at the end of his speech at the opening of the Summit of the Future, held in New York, United States. The event is a preparation for the general debate at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which will take place next Tuesday (24).

Convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres, the Future Summit aims to discuss the future of humanity, addressing crucial issues such as climate change and the fight against poverty.

In one of the most striking moments of his speech, Lula strongly criticized the institutions of global governance, including the UN itself. He had just questioned the General Assembly and claimed that the UN Security Council has been losing legitimacy when his microphone was cut off.

“Most bodies lack the authority and means of implementation to enforce their decisions. The General Assembly has lost its vitality and the Economic and Social Council has been emptied. The legitimacy of the Security Council shrinks every time it applies double standards or omits itself in the face of atrocities,” the president had fired.

Soon after, the master of ceremonies thanked Lula for his speech, at which point the microphone was cut off. The president, however, continued speaking, even without the amplified audio.

“The Global South is not represented in a manner consistent with its current political, economic and demographic weight. The UN Charter makes no reference to promoting sustainable development. We need the courage and political will to change, creating the tomorrow we want today. The best legacy we can leave future generations is governance capable of responding effectively to the challenges that persist and those that will arise. Thank you very much,” Lula concluded.

The event organizers cut off Lula's microphone in order to follow protocol, which provides for a speech lasting a maximum of 5 minutes for each speaker. At that point, the Brazilian president was about to exceed this limit. Before the Brazilian president, the representatives of Sierra Leone and Yemen also had their microphones cut.

China urges its citizens to leave Israel 'as soon as possible

doomer opinion: I don't think hizbullah will let me join 😔

In honor of today’s doomer discourse, I present you all with this absolute gem of a comment from comrade @DiscoPosting@hexbear.net in one of the news megas in the days after Oct 7.

A subcommittee in the Copenhagen city government has passed a proposal to name a strip of land "Palestine Square". The new square, that was unnamed until now, is situated in the city's Nørrebro neighborhood and houses a skate park and several cafes.

The proposal was due to be voted on last October but was withdrawn because of the Al-Aqsa Flood. A conservative councillor voted against, calling the proposal "a terrible cause" so the proposal will be put up for a vote in the city council. It is likely to pass as the four left to centre parties who made the proposal controls a majority.

Copenhagen has had a, much larger "Israel" Square since 1968.

Israeli captives’ families do not want all-out war with Hezbollah

Al Jazeera is reporting from outside Israel because it has been banned by the Israeli government.

There has been an escalation clearly over the last week, and many in Israel are worried.

They are concerned that if an all-out war erupts with Hezbollah, it will drag other actors in from the region – from the entirety of the Middle East – and it will not lead whatsoever to a [Gaza] ceasefire deal that would see the release of the remaining 100 captives still held in Gaza.

In fact, family members of Israeli captives spoke to American media this morning, saying that they do not want a war.

Because they know if another war is opened, if Israel does involve itself with a full-scale war with Hezbollah on that border, the chances for a ceasefire deal will be zero.

So like, not that the IDF wouldn't intentionally maim bystanders, but this has got to be bullshit right? From what I understand the explosives were embedded into the material of the batteries which is what made them so hard to detect. A 10 year old pager doesn't, I assume, normally have electronics that would allow it to know "whether others were in close proximity", so adding this in would totally fuck with the whole covert Trojan horse idea, simply disassembling the thing would reveal the extra electronics. Also we know at least one of them exploded inside the box it came in

Won't someone please think of the brands?!?!?!?

The New York Times finally identifies the real victims of the anti-immigrant pogroms:

Many advertisers have tried for years to avoid sharing space with content about polarizing politics, pandemics, hate speech or misinformation, for fear of damaging customer perception and risking public censure. That ads appeared anyway on YouTube ahead of falsehoods about Haitian migrants underscores the difficulty advertisers face in maintaining brand safety in an especially volatile election year.

. . .

Having an advertisement land next to misinformation can be financially damaging — the share of people who click on such ads is 46 percent lower than for ads that avoid being twinned with toxic content, according to Integral Ad Science, a company focusing on brand safety.

New "Israeli" massacre in central Gaza as jets flatten residential block: Dozens are trapped under the rubble of homes bombed by "Israeli" warplanes in Al-Bureij refugee camp | The Cradle

"Israel" blocks over 80 percent of food aid from entering Gaza: Over 85 percent of Gaza remains under forced evacuation orders, preventing most Palestinians from accessing the small trickle of aid "Tel Aviv" allows to enter the strip | The Cradle