An overwhelming majority of Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the ADL as a source for the Palestine conflict. A ban on the ADL for anti-Semitism is expected soon as well.

It still amazes me that the general public/mainstream media just forgot about Nord Stream like nothing happened or it never even existed.

This is like undeniable proof of the invented reality of the western public consciousness.

No real investigation by journalists (apart from Hersh), western state agencies said they'll drop the case, walk away, nothing happened.

I bet that at least half of liberals never even heard the official cover story and they still think it was Putler.

Mindblowing.

!! Breaking News !! Redditors have analyzed the body language of President Putin and General Secretary Kim and have determined that Mr. Kim is the man in the relationship.

https://tlgrm.ru/channels/@proofzzz/22810

"So, Kim, here's the story... We are going hunting with Shoigu, and uncle Lukashenko is sitting in the back. I was driving then, like I am now.

I look at the road... and see Biden running-crossing it. I veer to the left, and he goes the left. I go right, and he's to the right! We just barely missed each other! Suddenly I hear a pop from behind. And uncle Luka says to me: Vladimir Vladimirovich, if I hadn't opened the door, Biden would have gotten away!"

Looks like I'm going to be pulling another multi day crisis posting session soon when this Lebanon offensive happens.

Seen a video of a released palestinian hostage that was kept by "Israel" for some time. He's showing clear signs of torture, both physical and psychological. His eyes are wide open, he's constantly moving and he's having trouble speaking and recalling his own identity. Much love and care to these men and women.

That just makes me think about the immense psychological damage "Israel" is inflicting upon the palestinians in general and gazans in particular. Even if the bombings and shootings end tomorrow, the damage is impossible to calculate. Lots of people are fully broken inside, they've seen hell with their own eyes. You can't easily go back from that, if at all.

Death to the Genocidal Entity that is "Israel". They will answer for their crimes.

The guy that Biden sent to "mediate" in Lebanon, Amos Hochstein, was born in Israel and literally served in the IDF lmao.

Not getting good feelings about at all about this Lebanon war talk, it has never felt this close honestly. Spoke with family in Beirut today and it just feels inevitable at this point. At same time there's like a disgusting voice inside of me that almost wants a war, my brain knows how horrible it will be for my country and its people, but the pure anger and hatred makes me blind and I just need to see Israel suffering. I believe in Hezbollah and Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, literally everything that has happened in the last 18 years has been building towards this decisive moment. I hate how conflicted this all makes me feel, Nasrallah's speech today was the closest I've felt to the point of no return since the blessed October 7th

Checking the megathread every morning to see if Israel has been destroyed yet

Elon Musk’s dumb satellite internet is ripping a massive hole in the ozone layer by treating satellites like they are disposable items

Holy shit Hitler youth is back in Germany

This is Germany: #HitlerYouth Reloaded

Last Saturday, the neo-Nazis #JungenNationalisten held a #Solstice celebration in a small Village in Northern Saxony. Even small children were allowed to march along with torches, an #NS rune was set on fire.

https://nitter.poast.org/recherchenorth/status/1804009303482695897#m

Damn. Allegedly China Just Cured a Patient’s Diabetes for the First Time. Using stem cells.

Wake up babe new Israeli polling. Highlights:

Only 40% of Israelis are confident of their victory in Gaza
2/3 of Israeli jews want an invasion of Lebanon, with 1/3 after Gaza is wrapped up and 1/3 immediately
Netanyahu remains hated

The Guardian continues to be on their state department propaganda bullshit:

Fucking finally! I can't believe we had to wait this long to dramatically escalate a bullshit war that should have ended two years ago.

How could Putin do this when the west has been so reserved and cautious?

Two most important results of Putin's visit to Pyongyang.

• Russia stated that it no longer intends to comply with the sanctions imposed by the West, both through the UN Security Council and without it, which severely limit the interaction between the two countries. What was long overdue. After this step, horizons open up, limitless and mutually beneficial - from legal labor migration to the development of trade and industry in both countries.

• Putin announced that North Korea could become one of the first countries to receive modern weapons systems in response to Western supplies to Ukraine. Which will change the balance of power not only in the region, but also in the world. If earlier Pyongyang’s statements about its intention to reach Washington with a missile were purely theoretical, now it is naked practice and only a matter of political will. There is no need to say how they feel now in Seoul and Tokyo.

And what Russia will receive in return - from shells and MLRS to the North Korean corps on the outskirts of Kharkov - will become clear in the near future.

Putin also took Kim on a ride around Pyongyang in the Aurus, and visited the Orthodox Church of Holy Life-Giving Trinity in Pyongyang before leaving.

Next stop - Vietnam.

France has been handing out fines for people shopping with watermelon pins on lately. Tweet

yawn

It really feels like they’ve been saying this bullshit every week for like 6 months now

Two minutes of Palestine Action smashing shit:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1803464683254362511?mx=1

After seven actionists broke in on Monday morning and caused over £1million worth of damage, the site remains SHUT DOWN.

I won my wiki edit war to get Kiui's gender changed from "Female" to something else, page got locked after reverting to my changes. This is very important and newsworthy and not at all extremely petty.

Orano, a French uranium mining firm and nuclear fuel producer, has been ordered by Nigerien authorities to pack their bags and hit the road:
https://twitter.com/african_stream/status/1804231367015960971?mx=1

A story in four headlines

(credit to John Pang)

China sinks US warship with ballistic missiles

in simulations, claims PLA

US offers assurances to Israel this week in the event of full-blown war with Hezbollah

Senior US officials reassured a delegation of top Israeli officials visiting Washington this week that if a full-out war were to break out on Israel’s northern border between Israel and Hezbollah, the Biden administration is fully prepared to back its ally, according to a senior administration official.

US officials made clear this week that the Biden administration would offer Israel the security assistance it needs, the senior administration official said, though the US would not deploy American troops to the ground in such a scenario.

Is Cyprus about to be dragged into a war between Israel and Hezbollah?

On June 19, Hassan Nasrallah, the powerful leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, warned Cyprus that if it helped Israel attack Lebanon, it would become a target.

Israel’s army says it has approved an offensive on Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, and its foreign minister has said an announcement on whether Israel will go to war is imminent.

This came after Hezbollah released footage it said was taken by one of its drones over the Israeli city of Haifa, showcasing its ability to infiltrate deep into Israeli territory, and sending an implicit threat.

So, if Israel declares war on Lebanon, what does this mean for Cyprus? Here’s all you need to know:

Cyprus has traditionally allowed Israel to use its airspace for air drills, but never during active conflict – and it doesn’t look like Cyprus will start now. After Nasrallah’s threat, Cyprus announced that it would remain neutral and not get involved in any war.

However, the United Kingdom has bases in Cyprus, which it uses to conduct military operations in the region. The UK allegedly used those bases to launch attacks against the Houthis in Yemen. The bases have also reportedly been used to arm Israel in its war against Gaza and south Lebanon.

“Cyprus’s declaration of neutrality can be viewed as a strategic win for Hezbollah,” said Imad Salamey, a political scientist at the Lebanese American University.“This response … suggests an indirect message from the EU that there is no appetite for backing an Israeli military campaign.

The Al-Jazeera documentary (on YouTube, presumably on the AJ website too) The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza is very good and is a good video to show libs who might be sympathetic but have largely tuned out to what’s happening. CW for the fact that you see the Gazans’ suffering up close.

"The government of Ho Chi Minh City has, is, and will always support and create fertile opportunities for foreign investors, including Israel's, to invest and conduct safe, effective long-term business in the city."

Lmaooo

🟢 Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat Al-Rishq: — Netanyahu's request from America for "tools to finish the mission quickly" is an explicit admission of his failure to achieve anything so far.

After tens of thousands of tons of explosives, ammunition, and American spy planes, Biden has only one tool left to offer Netanyahu, known for his stinginess and corruption: the price of a plane ticket back to Poland.

Within a month of taking office, President Putin visited China, Belarus, Uzbekistan, North Korea and Vietnam. Perhaps this is some kind of world record for the activity of the country's leader after the inauguration

Putin doing a socialist world tour. Ironic it’s a capitalist doing this

I will remind everyone that the last time Putin won the presidential election in 2018, the first country he visited was Austria to secure further economic cooperation with the EU.

Canada has designated Iran's IRGC a terrorist organization. Would like to see how Iran is gonna wriggle their way out of this jam

Moderate fascist Bernie Sanders : “Israel has the right to defend itself”

This was an event by Bernie and AOC to get people to for Biden, but the counter protests were more calling for an end to the war and unendorsing Biden for his role in the genocide

US federal interest payments have now exceeded its defense spending

Neoclassical model debunked in a single chart.

Raising interest rates because the government has “printed too much money” led to more money being printed as a result of interest payout, simply by virtue of the gigantic volume of the US treasuries, something that I have been saying for more than a year now.

Joe Biden has succeeded in creating more wealth for the rich than any of his predecessors has ever managed, and this is why he, not Trump, will have the full backing of the bourgeois class.

UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left

Droughts and flooding have become so common in some of the poorest places on Earth that the land can no longer sustain crops, the director of the World Food Programme’s global office has said.

Martin Frick told the BBC that some of the most deprived areas had now reached a tipping point of having “zero” harvests left, as extreme weather was pushing already degraded land beyond use.

He said that as a result, parts of Africa, the Middle East and Latin America were now dependent on humanitarian aid.

Mr Frick warned that without efforts to reverse land degradation globally, richer countries would also begin to suffer crop failures.

The Global Environment Facility estimates that 95% of the world’s land could become degraded by 2050. The UN says that 40% is already degraded.

When soil degrades, the organic matter that binds it together dies off. This means that it is less able to support plant life – reducing crop yields – and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

Soil is the second largest carbon sink after the oceans, and is recognised by the UN as a key tool for mitigating climate change.

“There's too much carbon in the air and too little carbon in the soils,” Mr Frick said. “With every inch of soil that you're growing, you're removing enormous amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere.

“So healthy soils – carbon-rich soils – are a prerequisite to fixing climate change.”

Land degradation can be caused by modern farming techniques removing organic content from soil, but also prolonged droughts interspersed with sudden, extreme rainfall.

Scientists say many extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of climate change.

While it is hard to link climate change to specific droughts, scientists have said global warming has made certain ones, like the recent one in East Africa, more likely.

Mr Frick said that in Burundi, in East Africa, months of heavy rain and flooding had damaged 10% of its farmland, making it unusable for the upcoming harvest season.

He pointed to a UN report, released in March, which found that cereal crops in the Darfur region of Sudan were 78% below the average for the previous five years amid civil war and drought.

We're not gonna make it are we? People I mean

The new agreement between Russia and DPRK includes building a road bridge over the DPRK-Russia border.

The agreements were signed between the governments of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation on building a motorcar bridge over the River Tuman on the DPRK-Russia border and on cooperation in the fields of public health, medical education and science.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/f8b605dd8138953cff78bf29e179e369.kcmsf

"They've gone full mask off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products," Snowden — emphasis his — wrote in a Friday post to X-formerly-Twitter, adding that "there's only one reason for appointing" an NSA director "to your board."

"This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on earth," he continued. "You've been warned."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/snowden-openai-calculated-betrayal

Putin and the Pioneers, Hanoi, today.

Hey uh, how about we all try to evoke the good memories of USSR locked away in some distant part of Putin’s brain?

While we’re at it, how about we re-enact the memories of Cuban Missile Crisis by sending Russian warships to perform naval exercise in Cuba?

I’ve got some excellent news slop for the news mega. I know you’re all going to absolutely love this one:

A lawyer who has been appointed by the British government to represent the Skripals appeared in court where he acknowledged that despite representing the Skripals, he has not been appointed by them, he has not met them, and in fact has had no communication with them at all.

Furthermore the British government argues that not only should the Skripals not be called or even allowed to give evidence, furthermore the witness / victim testimony of the Skripals should not be made available to the courts either, except subject to redaction by the British government.

In fact, the Skripal transcripts will be so redacted, the officials and lawyers admitted in court, it is uncertain what the Skripals believe had happened to them, and why [acknowledged government counsel]

As for evidence that novichok was used on the Skripals at all:

The British have presented no evidence of Novichok on the Skripal home door handle; in the blood, skin, and urine testing of the Skripals in hospital; or in subsequent inquest and court proceedings.

The alleged Russian attack weapon – a perfume bottle atomiser – did not materialize for months until July 2018, when police claim to have found it on a kitchen bench in the home of another alleged victim, Dawn Sturgess, ten days – repeat ten days — after exhaustive police searches of the house had failed to find it.

Oops the only actual evidence of novichok was just sitting there on the kitchen table of an unrelated person this whole time. Case fucking closed with that chain of custody.

In addition to not being allowed to give testimony or to have any contact at all with their own legal representatives, it’s now not even clear if the Skripals are alive.

Sergei Skripal has not been seen in public since the day of the alleged Novichok attack, March 4, 2018. He has not been heard on the telephone by family members in Russia since June 26, 2019. Yulia Skripal was last seen in a government-directed interview at a US bomber base in England in May 2018; her last telephone call to Russia was heard on November 20, 2020. The Skripals have not been seen or heard from since.

The claim that this is due to witness protection doesn’t make any sense since that apparently wasn’t a concern and they were permitted to contact their family and even give interviews (under government supervision on US military bases) until 4 years ago, but now not even a judge can access even the most indirect proof of life, let alone discover their account of events.

Assuming they are still alive (and if so, likely being held in some US military facility since that was their last known status), it appears the British government has used their vast national security powers to impose a secretive gag order:

The judge then asked Holborn to speak for the Skripals. “A line does have to be drawn somewhere,” he began. Then he drew the line the British government is insisting on – nothing from the Skripals since the police interviews of six years ago, and nothing in the transcripts which the government doesn’t want to be known publicly. In short, a gag.

The British government absolutely does not want the Skripals to talk, not even via a lawyer indirectly or even through the vehicle of their police testimony, not even to a court.

The British government absolutely refuses to provide any evidence that novichok was used on the Skripals.

The judge then asked the Home Office lawyer Cathryn McGahey KC to respond. She confirmed there is a gag on the Skripals,

She then told the judge not to call the Skripals to testify either in writing or in open hearing. “Even if they were to be called,” McGahey said, “different considerations may very well apply to different topics, and the topic of preventability [read MI6] is one which will almost certainly be fraught with difficulty, unless there were very strict control over the questions. And most of the material is likely to be closed anyway.”

No questions are to be allowed for the Skripals; no answers from them, either.

Hughes has refused to say in open court that he has verified the Skripals are alive and free to instruct lawyers to represent them.

Very very odd for a lawyer to have zero contact at all with the people he “represents”.

Holborn also refuses to confirm that his clients are alive.

Ominous as fuck for the government to refuse to to even claim they are alive.

https://johnhelmer.net/british-government-invents-phantom-skripals-to-refuse-to-testify-in-the-novichok-inquiry/

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Israeli press seems to be making a lot of hay about the Beruit International Airport being a staging ground for Iranian weapons. The classic stovepipe straight from military "intelligence" to credulous media stenography, no different than the Iraqi WMD bullshit in 2003.

They are establishing a pretext to bomb it.

Say what you will about Milei, but you have to admit it’s pretty impressive how in a few months he has turned Argentina into the first ever 5th world country

Putin - at a gala reception on behalf of the President of Vietnam:

The great statesman of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh said: “In any matter, think first not about yourself, but about your compatriots, about all the people. Be in the forefront when it comes to hardship, and take the back seat when it comes to reward.” We will try to follow these traditions. In our interactions with Vietnamese friends, we will certainly follow these wise tips. All our joint efforts are aimed at improving the well-being of citizens of the two countries. We will continue to act in the interests of our peoples, in the name of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

One of the Anti-communist founders of DSA writes article spitting on the legacy of American communists and says DSA is becoming just as bad as the old CPUSA because they won't condemn hamas, confirming my bias that todays DSA - somehow - collectively is a more communist party in substance than todays CPUSA.

https://archive.is/pMud1

What the Failure of American Communism Should Teach the Left

Ideological fervor is no substitute for popular support.

By Maurice Isserman

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/391796

Israeli media: The Cypriot president wrote a letter to the Lebanese president to explain matters, then he discovered that Lebanon was without a president

https://x.com/AlMayadeenLive/status/1803667432373985350

Israel is making claims that Hamas smuggled prisoners of war into Sinai, guess this is the excuse they'll be using to invade Egypt

India, Mexico and Brazil chose not to endorse Zelenskyy's unilateral Ukraine peace summit communique. Argentina's ultra-neoliberal President Javier Milei gave it his full support - anything for his US masters.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has blown a white supremacist dog whistle, calling Brazil "uncivilized" because it didn't sign his "Ukraine Peace Summit Communique". Like China, India and Mexico, Brazil doesn't believe peace negotiations can take place without dialogue between both parties.

Lousiana passes state law that the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every school classroom

While most were busy arguing to shorten the work week to 4 days, conservatives in Greece have legally extended the work week to 6 days along with a bunch of other anti-worker legislation.