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This guy used to write for Bloomberg, and people pay money for his opinion blog now. He discovered this after proposing a three state solution to the occupation of Palestine, and after accusing the NYT of faking the CT scans of the kids shot by IDF soldiers.

I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren't just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to "israel", even thought pretty much all armies use them. "israel" uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much "israel" just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.

Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people's tents, a bulldozer that you can't see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of "israel's" plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it's doing it's work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it's extremely symbolic. Here's the video for those who didn't watch it

And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn't bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.

Death to "israel".

Trump is saying Kamala supports "Muslim-hating" and that Liz Cheney is an idiot
Kamala losing the Muslim vote to the guy who did the Muslim ban would be one of the greatest Democrat moments yet

China says Australia 'plagued by systemic racism' after diplomat raises concerns about human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-24/china-accuses-australia-of-racism/104513232

australian here to confirm that China is correct

Jfc Kamala is really doubling down on having Liz Cheney as her hype woman. Apparently they were campaigning together in Michigan today. I swear I’ve seen Liz Cheney have a more prominent role in this campaign than Tim Walz over the last couple weeks.

I saw a poll the other day that showed both Dem voters and independents are really turned off by the idea of having a Republican in Kamala’s cabinet

Kamala has worse political instincts Hilldawg, and that’s saying something.

"I believe we should follow the law," Kamala Harris says when asked by Hallie Jackson if transgender Americans should have access to gender-affirming care.

So there's this spanish-speaking twitter account called "Palestina Hoy" which posts news about the ongoing genocide in Gaza and they said they have been blocked by twitter which prevented people from following them. That is true, when you clicked on follow and refreshed the page, it would say "Follow" again, as if you never decided to follow said account.

In total, this account had like 2k followers, while many of their posts had like 5k+ likes, so it's completely true that they were under blockade. The blockade was lifted after weeks and they went from 2k followers to 302k followers in mere hours.

death to twitter, death to elon musk and death to "israel"

Zionists are currently on a witch hunt for the leaker in the pentagon who released intel on Israel’s upcoming attack on Iran.

This is their current subject of attack, Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian woman who works with the pentagon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Tabatabai

Only problem? She’s a mega gusano shill who is one of the most hawkish people in the administration on Iran.

Ariane Tabatabai (Persian: آرین طباطبایی) is an Iranian-American scholar of political science, writer, and senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Defense. She is a graduate of King's College London and the daughter of Javad Tabatabai, an Iranian philosopher and professor at the University of Tehran. Tabatabai is also a former researcher of "RAND Corporation" think tank, curriculum director and associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, an international civilian consultant for NATO, the Middle East Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and several other research institutes.

Tabatabai, in an article in the Foreign Policy magazine before the 2020 US presidential election, argued that Iran's economy is fragile and will be forced to negotiate, agree and make concessions, demanding that the winning US presidential candidate not return to the nuclear agreement and pressure for more points.

After the Biden administration took office in January 2021, she joined the US negotiating team in nuclear negotiations with Iran, but together with Richard Nephew, she left the team after a few months due to differences with Robert Malley, the head of the US negotiating team, and also because she believed that the US would lift too many sanctions on Iran and consequently the possible agreement would not be strong enough.

Remember this all sell out gusanos and traitors, it will never be enough. Your masters still think you are scum and will dispose of you whenever convenient just because of your nationality and race. I bet she wasn’t the one to leak this, but I sure hope she gets crucified publicly by her “friends” in the state department and pentagon

its crazy that people are willing to vote for genocide

We have comrades here in Iran, hope you all are staying safe.

BREAKING: The phrase "Hitler particle" now has a Wiktionary page

BIG BREAKING: INDIA, CHINA REACH AGREEMENT TO END BORDER CRISIS:
https://xcancel.com/MattooShashank/status/1848295216266227721

Nothing ever happens take: They are temporarily deescalating because the BRICS summit is coming.

The dialectic is ever in motion take: China is preemptively closing a potential front in preparation for a front opening in Korea.

Why is this dumb photo op so funny lmao, absolute state of this unserious country

An actually wholesome video from Ukraine

Ukrainian men escape the military conscription and kidnappings of the Ukrainian regime, scream in celebration after reaching Moldova and play music while dancing. Just dudes being dudes. Honestly really happy for these guys, hopefully they can have a future outside of Ukraine.

Kelly celebratory slop for Weird Al’s birthday

Uncritical support on PTSD waging war on zionist scum that are returning from Gaza.

AOC says to look at voting as to which conditions would be better to organize under. OMFG SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!1

Re-education camps are controversial but militarised camps for every migrant is supported by half of america.

If you oppose militarised camps for migrants you should be a supporter of re-education.

Things happening in Moldova

Ok since it's looking as if Israel are in their final preparations for their attack against Iran, I will be posting the leaked US spy documents on Israel's preparations, along with trying to make sense of what they mean. This is going to be a long and detailed post (lots of potentially terrifying details), so I'll be completing it inside the spoiler tag below.

The documents themselves, and what does this potentially mean?

I'll start by just posting the two military documents, they are written in a lot of military jargon that I'll try and explain to the best of my ability, I have no real expert knowledge, but I'll do my best. Feel free to provide any corrections where you see fit, I apologise in advance for any errors.

In short, preparations for a large attack on Iran have been taking place at Hatserim airfield, involving loading Air Launched Ballistic Missiles (ALBM) onto at least six F-15I (Israeli version of the F-15E Strike Eagle) aircraft at the base, likely of type "Golden Horizon", but not certainly. A minimum of 56 ALBMs have been taken out of storage so far by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) in total at all air bases. 40 of type "Rocks" and 16 of type "Golden Horizon". More on that later. ALBMs being taken out of storage and loaded onto aircraft was also spotted at Ramat David airfield and Ramon airfield.

Israel have also been spying on Iran, within Iran itself, using some sort of stealth UAV of type "RA-01", operating out of a hangar at Ramon airfield. More on that later.

Israel also conducted a large scale practice exercise for their attack on Iran, involving one AWACS aircraft and three aerial refueling aircraft. The AWACS and refueling force is of a similar size to that which was used to conduct long range strikes on Yemen during September. No word on the size of the fighter aircraft force component though.

Israeli air defense systems in Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 continue to be deployed, along with the Navy being deployed.

Lastly, Israel likely has deployed the nuclear armed Jericho II Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) in a defensive position since October 1 2024, the date of Iran's retaliatory ballistic missile attack. There is no indication that this is an offensive deployment or that they will be used in the upcoming Israeli attack. But this is as close as we'll get to the US acknowledging the Israeli nuclear arsenal, and shows that nuclear weapons are in play.

What's interesting from these leaked documents, is that they reveal the existence of two weapons systems of which there is no public information on. The Golden Horizon ALBM, and RA-01 stealth ISR UAV.

The RA-01, based on the size of the suspected hangars and intended role, could be a propeller powered flying wing design drone, similar to an RQ 170 but propeller powered. Other suggestions involve an ISR version of the Ibis HA10 High altitude long endurance concept drone, Public research paper here, with the wings fitted on after exiting the hangar as the wingspan would be too large for the hangars at Ramon. It would also explain the US spy report providing details about a technical crew needed to prepare the aircraft after take offs and landings. I'll attach an image below to illustrate this, and yes, it's the highest quality image available. This is really obscure territory here. This UAV concept was designed with stealth and a flight time of over 24 hours in mind, so it's a viable suggestion. The twitter account that initially suggested it also got deleted, which adds some sort of credibility to the theory I guess? It's concerning that Iranian air defences have not been able to detect or engage this UAV type.

As for what this could mean in an Israeli attack, we'll start with the ALBMs. The concept of this is familiar, the most well known ALBM is probably the Russian Kinzhal, an Iskander SRBM converted for an aerial launch. Israel have a similar weapon in the Air LORA, a LORA SRBM converted for aerial launch. The "ROCKS" ALBM is weapon that we do have public information on. It's a weapon with a range estimated to be between 250-300km which gives it stand off capabilities, uses a single Sparrow booster stage (the sparrow series are a series of ALBMs that Israel uses to test it's Arrow and David's Sling air defence systems, they are designed to imitate Iranian ballistic missiles), and uses GPS and inertial guidance, along with an electro optical seeker, or anti radiation seeker. A ROCKS ALBM with an anti radiation seeker was likely used to destroy an Iranian air defence radar that was part of a S300PMU2 missile battery during Israel's April attack. Drones were used to stimulate Iranian air defences into action, giving away their position for the anti radiation missile to home in on their radar. The fact that 40 of these missiles have been deployed is very concerning and could indicate Israeli intentions to carry out a wider scale Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD/DEAD) operation. This is a capability that Israel has already demonstrated against Iran, that Iran failed to stop last time round. We have also seen how effective this attack vector has been against US Patriot air defence systems in Ukraine, when Russia destroyed them with Kinzhals and Iskanders.

There is much speculation on what the "Golden Horizon" ALBM is as there is no public information on it, with many suggesting that it is the internal nsme for the Air LORA ALBM. I disagree, and think that it is likely a multi stage version of a Sparrow ALBM (in particular blue sparrow), readied for actual combat use. Imagery of such a weapon was posted by the IAF online a few weeks ago. It's still up on twitter actually. This would give this weapon a longer range in comparison to ROCKS, in violation of some of the missile treaties Israel publicly says that they follow, which is likely why it's been kept secret. These weapons would give Israel a great stand off capability with their long range, a range of around 2000km potentially. Israeli jets wouldn't even need to leave Israeli airspace to strike Iran. It was also theorised by some that Israel fired a few of these weapons with inert warheads during their strike on Iran in April.

What happens from here really depends on what Israel targets with their ALBMs. If they target Iran's above ground missile facilities, along with very limited strikes on air defence systems, I can see a potential road to de escalation, with Iran likely launching a limited drone or ballistic missile attack in response, similar to the April attack. If Israel carries out a large scale SEAD/DEAD campaign to open up the possibility for a further aerial campaign, and/or tries to strike Iran's underground missile or nuclear facilities, we could be on the verge of all out war. Such an attack would amount to a declaration of war, and Iran's response would likely make their October 1 attack look small in comparison. The resulting escalation ladder of such events could get really tall really quickly. I don't see Israel being able to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles over the medium to long term, which could lead to a US response if Israel is on the end of a large retaliatory strike.

A ceasefire alone isn't enough. As said, even if the attacks stop now, rebuilding Gaza won't be possible. The blockade must go, other countries (especially the west) must provide financial aid for importing, there has to be some kind of jobs program. Else, people won't have any choice.

What else would it look like? People living in tents until they die relying on foreign aid for living?

I recall seeing a tweet that goes something along the lines of "Sinwar is everything western media wants you to believe Zelensky is" and that got me thinking...

is there a term for something like reverse-projection? I dunno, like, when someone attributes all of their enemies' noble or good qualities to themselves or something.

Trump says on Joe Rogan that John Bolton was a bloodthirsty idiot but he would bring him to meetings anyway to scare foreign leaders

Also says the Ukraine war wouldn't have happened because he would say "Vladimir, you're not going in"

On Kim Jong-un: "I told him to relax and build some beachfront condos"

It's a shame that Trump is evil, he's endlessly funny

Cuba receives solidarity as it begins to recover from total blackout

Countries such as China, Venezuela, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Brazil, Colombia, Russia and Barbados have offered their support to Cuba in the wake of the total blackout.

The west is willing to gamble it's entire structure, it's many decades of dominance and legitimacy, before abandoning "israel" who is carrying out a genocide. Even at times where such genocide can be seen by EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING WORLD and opinion is turning against them every day that passes, they continue to be their unconditional ally and run grotesque propaganda for them. Well, I say let them die together with the zionists. When the zionist entity begins to collapse, the west will go with it.

death to "israel"

"You were the happiest and most optimistic and frivolous person in the platoon. We saw it for the first time in Gaza, when you unauthorizedly burnt a house just to lift the atmosphere."
Another insane excerpt from the funeral of terrorist settler-soldier Shuva'el Ben Natan.

Big Brother pulled an episode so they could edit out a watermelon on one of the contestants shirts
Americans should not be allowed to joke about Chinese censorship anymore

Mexico announces food and agriculture plan that could take the country back to the 1980s

Sheinbaum appears to have a deep interest in boosting beans.

The government aims to boost bean production by about 30% in six years to replace imports of beans, and will set up research centers to supply higher-yielding bean seeds.

“Self-sufficiency in beans is a goal the president has set for us,” Berdegué said.

Bean Queen

López Obrador also appears to have passed on his nostalgia for a 1970s-style Mexico — including passenger rail service, state-owned industries, tight-knit families and small corner stores — to Sheinbaum.

Hell yeah.

https://xcancel.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1849047371608445287

They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the wailing of mothers.

After that, the soldiers came and started throwing the children towards the mothers, and whoever caught a child was ordered to carry him and move away quickly, with no guarantee that the child would be their own.

Many mothers carried children who were not their own, and were forced to leave with them, leaving their own children in the hands of other mothers. This marked the beginning of a new chapter of suffering, with mothers searching for their children in the arms of other women, trying to calm the children they held until they found their real mothers.

Fuck the IOF apologists in the various IOF PTSD threads. "Uh aktually, they got PTSD because they feel bad about committing genocide." No, they got PTSD because Al-Qassam rained on their genocidal parade by turning their genociders-in-crime into red mist. They got PTSD because it dawned on them that the iPhone wasn't worth getting their legs blown off by a Yassin rocket.

I don't know if this has been posted yet:

ARMS Shipment to Israel Blocked by Workers of Piraeus!

• pamhellas.gr, October 18th 2024

WORKERS HAVE THE POWER!

Late last night the COSCO Dockers Union in Piraeus Port, ENEDEP, alerted its members and the unions of the area that a container transferring bullets to Israel was to arrive in Piraeus port so as to be shipped to the Murderer-State of Israel.

From what I've seen, it looks like Kamala/Democrats have lost a bunch of votes from their usual voters (socially progressive whites, minority voters, Arab Americans, some leftists) because they refuse to stop the genocide (which they could do) or at the very least don't support it with those arms shipments. They don't even pretend to care about the Palestinians anymore, back then at the start of Israel's invasion of Gaza, they used to say it was a war against Hamas and not against Palestine or the Palestinian Authority.

But it seems that instead of trying to appease these lost voters, they first decided to manipulate the LGBTQ+ and other minority voters (especially immigrants) by saying that if they didn't vote blue no matter who, they would be sent to concentration camps or kicked out of the US (as far as I know, even if they didn't win the presidency, I'm sure the Democrats could easily block any bill like this in congress or the senate, but that would require the Democrats to actually work). And the first chance the Democrats had to throw immigrants (I don't think I heard Kamala say or offer any thing positive to immigrants, except that she wants a hard border, just like Trump) and LGBTQ+ people under the bus, they did (What the fuck was that about saying Trump wasted money on granting free healthcare to Trans people in jail?).

Now it looks like they've given up on doing anything to actually attract those people and decided they want to get votes from Republicans who don't like Trump. Which is very strange, because most of those who hated Trump in 2016 are now supporting him because they see him as a better option than Kamala/Biden. And those who really don't like Trump prefer simply not to vote. I think only Dick Cheney is really happy with what Kamala is doing.

He really loves Joe

It's a real tweet

So if criticising the idf is antisemitism what do you call this idf soldier holding up the flag of the chetniks who participated in the Holocaust?

NYT says that Kamala has appeared with Liz Cheney more times than anyone else in October

It shouldn't be surprising, but the speed with which Democrats have pivoted to a platform resembling Trump in 2016 is stunning. They support the wall now!

It turns out the IOF scum who offed himself was bragging about bulldozing Palestinian homes a few months ago:
https://xcancel.com/malsaafin/status/1848471577135853978

I'm not familiar with this author/speaker, but there's a blurb from Sarah Kendzior that i've seen circling on instagram that I thought was interesting. It's about liberals accepting atrocities under Biden that they would not under Trump:

The full text is here. I think what I find interesting is that I've never really connected the psychological/social effects of COVID-19 to the on-going genocides in Gaza and Lebanon. Sarah raises an interesting parallel (one that echos Aime Cesaire's takedown of colonialism, imo) between the disregard for our shared humanity required to accept the '911 a day' COVID-related death rate to a similar disregard for humanity that allows them to accept today's genocides. It's an undoing of "civilized" values.

We're at a point now where Lebanon is being subjected to israel's Gaza Doctrine, and it seems like most people don't know or don't care.

If not a complete disregard for humanity, is it boredom? It must be more than race-hatred. Does the death and suffering become too much for our brains to make sense of it, so we stop caring?

Had millions of people not been killed by COVID, would the world be less tolerant to genocide?

Himmler Harris gives an awful answer to "could Gaza cost you the election?" (video)

check out this takedown:

October 7 is both the “first” and “most” tragic event. And the Middle East has “always” been “difficult” and will “never be easy.”

With brutal efficiency, Harris condenses racialized hierarchy, false periodization, weaponization of complexity, and disavowal of US complicity

Kamala Harris was asked just now whether she might lose the election because of the war in Gaza.

Her reply suggests real uncertainty about this issue.

from https://xcancel.com/triofrancos/status/1847763140572041391

Mexico: Claudia Sheinbaums Confirms the Sending of Technical Help to Overcome Cuban Energy Crisis - Telesur English

Woke up to our national TV blasting patriotic music, joking how Iranians ran to rooftops to watch the strikes unlike Zionists who stop their cars and run to shelters. The footages that the media here are showing is pretty similar to Iron Dome interceptions, tiny little explosions in sky. So basically, we have declared ourselves victorious.

Have to let the time and patience do its job and show what have actually happened and whether Israel end it here.

I took a good look at a map of Lebanon today. Israel is on a suicide mission trying to win a war there. It's densely populated hills and mountains as far as the eye can see! It's hard to think of geography more ideal for defense and guerilla warfare.

Death to Israel, of course, and death to America for arming them.

Kim Yo Jong called SK and Ukraine "bad dogs bred by the U.S." after they started spreading the story of DPRK soldiers being deployed to Donbass

FT is now to the left of the NYT on Palestine

Haaretz: British Airways cancels all flights to and from Israel until April 2025

Twitter / Mirror

Probably not a coincidence, nor a moral decision.

Someone stole ben gvir's car lol. They should return it with a 'present'

Government announces it will ‘dissolve’ Argentina’s tax agency

The AFIP will be replaced with a new, reduced agency and over 3,000 jobs are on the chopping block

President Javier Milei’s government announced on Monday that Argentina’s federal tax agency, AFIP by its Spanish initials, will be dissolved and replaced with a new agency in accordance with its mandate to “reduce inefficient structures.” According to Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni, 34% of public service jobs within the AFIP will be eliminated. As of Monday evening, no details had been released regarding the new agency’s operations or what the move means in concrete terms for the country’s fiscal infrastructure.

“AFIP will cease to exist. In its place, the Collection and Customs Control Agency will be created with a simplified structure,” said Adorni in his routine press conference at the Casa Rosada. According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, he did not accept questions after the announcement.

The new and reduced agency, ARCA by its Spanish initials, will be a merger between two preexisting government bodies (the tax and customs general directorates, DGI and DGA by their Spanish acronyms). It will be led by Florencia Misrahi, a lawyer who formerly worked for Cargill and is currently serving as the head of the AFIP. “The Argentina of fiscal voracity is over. What belongs to every Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should have the power to tell them what to do with their property,” Adorni added.

A communiqué released on Monday afternoon described the AFIP as inefficient and highlighted the termination of 3,155 workers hired under former President Alberto Fernández. The communiqué refers to the administration as “Kirchnerite” in reference to Fernández’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, who is often targeted by government discourse.

Adorni claimed that firing the workers would lead to savings of around AR$6.4 million per year. Both the spokesman and the communiqué referred to their employment as “irregular,” questioning the legality of their hiring. “The creation of ARCA is aimed at reducing the size of the state, eliminating unnecessary positions, professionalizing the agency, destroying circuits of corruption, and improving the efficiency of customs collection and control,” read the communiqué.

According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, the AFIP Board of Directors said it did not have “objections with respect to the reduction of political positions,” which the government referred to as “high positions,” because that is a power reserved for the Executive Branch. However, it emphasized that “dismissals will not be tolerated on the basis of political origin.”

lmfao

also announced, out of nowhere, that the media attacked him and said he does not have sex with his sister or his dogs. Nobody ever claimed he has sex with dogs, but this is the current state of things.