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I'm here to publish the list of proposals, made both by the mod team in internal discussions and from proposals made by users last week, to be voted on by the news heads.

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The polls are now open.

Semper post, news hogs.

Edit: P.S, I know some of the proposals are kinda scuffed looking, if they pass I'll format them so they look like the others on the rule sidebar. chalk it up to my laziness lol

Satan and his little family

I've spent a lot of time touching grass over the past month, but I'm back at my desk now. I noticed something in the actual Moody's downgrade article that was glaringly left out of Western media coverage:

Furthermore, the backed foreign-currency senior unsecured rating was affirmed at Aaa. The instruments benefit from an irrevocable, on-demand guarantee on principal and interest payments provided by the government of the United States of America (Aaa negative), with the government acting through U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Notes benefit explicitly from "the full faith and credit of the US" and as per prospectus, USAID is obligated to pay within three business days if the guarantee is called upon.

https://ratings.moodys.com/ratings-news/429502

The US, through USAID, has fully guaranteed some amount of what I assume are dollar-denominated debt offerings from Israel, and (at least in theory) is fully and immediately responsible for paying the principal and interest in full on these instruments, should Israel default on them. How many countries do y'all think we do this for? I'm going to guess not many.

Israel says it will not agree to ceasefire in Lebanon until Hezbollah disarms Al Jazeera - 07:40 GMT

Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz says the government will not agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster.

“The only way that is acceptable for Israel to stop the fire is to move Hezbollah north of the Litani and disarm it,” Katz was reported as saying.

The implementation of all UN Security Council resolutions is also required for a ceasefire in Lebanon, he added.

“As long as these do not occur, Israel will continue its actions to ensure the security of the citizens of Israel and the return of the residents of the north to their homes.”

Katz added that Nasrallah’s assassination was one of the most justified countermeasures Israel has ever carried out, and that he was planning more attacks against Israel.

Obviously, the entity has been emboldened by the assassination. I hope this snuffs out any illusions of a negotiated ceasefire held by the Iranians and other forces in the region. The war will only end with the dismantling of the Resistance, or the dismantling of the entity.

I don't know about you but resistance operations didn't slow a bit since Nasrallah's death, i think they'll be fine.

FOCAC 2024: The People's Republic of China wants to grant financial aid without compensation of 17 billion CFA francs to Burkina Faso

Can't find the mega but wtf Hexbear is leaking into Twitter

I'm like two weeks late but here goes the joke "9/11 was a surgical operation against the most evil people that directly control the terrorist entity known as 'Amerikkka', collateral damage was reduced at a minimum"

Maher al Assad , brother of Bashar is missing after Israeli Strike on his Villa ..

https://xcancel.com/moqawima2/status/1840457206220599555

People ask how has the resistance in Gaza suffered less security and intelligence threats than the resistance in Lebanon? Gaza does not have a US embassy.

The Norwegian regime is planning to construct a fence along its border with Russia. So writes NRK (Norwegian state media). The fence is intended to "deter" refugees from crossing the border illegally.

There has been three illegal crossings of the Russian-Norwegian border since the beginning of the Ukraine war.

In case you were still on the fence about Resistance trench

https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/32333

They have since deleted this post lmao

Some fun brainworms here...

Explain why Hainan is not marked as part of China on this map: https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/china/

Hezbollah protesters in Melbourne may face police, visa scrutiny

A protester with a photo of Nasrallah during a pro-Palestine rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on Sunday.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke threatened to consider canceling visas for people supporting such groups.

“Any indication of support for a terrorist organisation is unequivocally condemned,” Burke said in a statement on Sunday.

“It draws the immediate attention of our security agencies.

“There is a higher level of scrutiny if anyone is on a visa.

“I have made clear from day one, that I will consider refusing and cancelling visas for anyone who seeks to incite discord in Australia.”

https://archive.md/dnsqv

What a fucking joke, Posy Parker is coming back to australia in under a month for a "conservative conference", and they're getting ready to round up Brown kids. I saw somewhere that a 13 year old got pepper sprayed in the face for carrying a Hezbollah flag yesterday as well.

I still don’t really buy the whole “Israel is trying to pull the US into a war” line. I think the US knows perfectly well where this goes, and has for a very long time, and are making their own calculations about what the best moments are to apply what sort of pressure or action. Like I just refuse to believe the entire US military and state apparatus is like “fuck are we getting pulled into something here? What do we do?” The end goal is rooting out any uncontrolled opposition to global capitalist order, methodically and systematically. Overcoming contradictions, or redirecting them into new usable/controllable forms. Of course by the very nature of fire you can only control it for so long. I think for the US that process is much different and longer than any of us understand though. But the US clearly has aims for Iran and China as it does for Russia. And I don’t buy the ruling class would allow itself to “get dragged” into something it didn’t want or wasn’t actively trying to use. Lying to Iran is a great example of this

Another Reaper downed in Yemen. We're up to 11.

VIDEOS are coming out of NC, TN, GA, ect. Appalachia and Smokey mountain regions got wrecked hard. Like permanently changed landscape hard. Mostly the absofuck ton of rain flooding these valley towns like Asheville and Chimney Rock. Roadways bridges HULK SMASH. Jamed with logs ripped off from landslides and busted riverbanks.

Layers of mud and sediment blanket entire towns.

This is not going to be a quick or easy cleanup. The toll on lives is increasing as well. 64 was the latest number from what I've seen.

Ashville, NC

NYP stating 1000 people unaccounted for in NC

PFLP announces deaths of three members in Kola strike

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine armed group named the three men as:

Muhammad Abdel Aal, also known as Abu Ghazi, a member of the PFLP’s political bureau and the head of its military security department.

Imad Odeh, also known as Abu Ziad, a member of the PFLP’s military department and a military commander in Lebanon.

Abdul Rahman Abdel Aal, who it described only as a “comrade martyr hero”.

Israel likely used US-made bombs in Nasrallah assassination: Report

likely used United States-made 900kg (2,000-pound) bombs in the strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and levelled residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs earlier this week, The Washington Post reports.

Citing three experts who analysed videos of Friday’s strikes, posted by the Israeli Air Force, the Post said on Sunday that at least some of the bombs were US-made “BLU-109s and JDAM guidance kits”.

BLU-109s are bunker-buster heavy bombs and JDAM kits are guidance systems that attach to munitions to help attack a specific target.

A 2,000-pound bomb has a destruction radius of 35 metres (115 feet), according to the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA), which conducts defence policy research and analysis.

Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s longtime chief, was killed in Friday’s strike on the group’s underground headquarters. Israel dropped what local media said were “bunker-busting” bombs and flattened about six buildings, while trying to kill Nasrallah.

The attack also devastated the entire neighbourhood, turning several apartment buildings into rubble.

It's hard not to feel stabbed in the back by Iran. All that Resistance Axis talk, but we're slowly realising that we're just their Ukraine, they want the fight to be to the last Lebanese, Gazan and Syrian, but not to the first Iranian. This is just brutal, we lost our finest men in Haniyeh, Nasrallah and countless others, while they're doing fucking deals under the table. This is not an equal relationship anymore, we're just the bumper for their safety. May God have mercy on Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis, they would weep if they saw the state of the Axis today. I don't want to be full on doomer, but the concept of the Axis itself is eroding under this Iranian inaction and lack of will.

So Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, believes that Iran should not get involved in a large-scale war.

Which means that Israel will kill him soon.

NYT - Live Updates: Israel Making Raids in Lebanon to Set Up Possible Invasion, Officials Say

Fuck I bet Nasrallah knew about the deal for a ceasefire if Iran didn't counterattack and that made him think he was safe meeting an IRGC leader in Beirut, particularly in a densely populated highly civilian area.

So not only did they lie to Iran but they used the lie to Iran as a means of luring out and killing both Nasrallah and an IRGC leader (Deputy Commander Abbas Nilforoushan)

https://xcancel.com/fresh_sadegh/status/1840511947839619357#m

Protests outside the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. There is reportedly a meeting underway there, presumably relating to Pezeshkian's failed sellout deal.

Allegedly Pezeshkian has put out a statement saying that they were promised a ceasefire if they did not retaliate for Haniyeh's death and they were lied to. (Obviously)

Goes to show how strong the demand is for a ceasefire. Every single time ive heard somebody reporting from Gaza it seems like every day the people are desperate to know when a ceasefire will arrive, making the demand on the side of the negotiators so high up as a priority but obviously the Zionists and US are just using it as a form of political warfare as thousands die.

Also seeing reports of a thwarted terrorist attack in Iran today. If this new status quo becomes consolidated, it looks like the regional war started yesterday.