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⚡️🔥Heated statements by Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesman for Yemen’s Ansar Allah party, discusses the potential of Saudi Arabia and UAE joining the American coalition to protect Israeli ships in the Red Sea :

"If Saudis and UAE do not join this coalition to protect Israel, then the region will remain calm. But if they do, winter is coming, and #Yemen will destroy their oil facilities and attack oil ships, Europe will be cut off from energy by #Russia and #Yemen"

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I love Yemen so much, the most based people on earth

"This group can't be supported because they're homophobic" is the same shit racist white people use every time BLM protests make national headlines. Suddenly every attack on black trans women and homosexuals became an issue before going back to being ignored once the protests died down.

Ukraine Israel Guyana guys fighting each other for US military aid.

Israeli army tells WHO to remove medical supplies from southern Gaza: Tedros

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the World Health Organization was notified by the Israeli miliary that it should remove supplies from its two medical warehouses in southern Gaza “within 24 hours, as ground operations will put them beyond use”.

“We appeal to Israel to withdraw the order, and take every possible measure to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and humanitarian facilities,” the WHO director-general said in a post on X.

Death to

Israel must be destroyed

Venezuela decides its time to add another decade in a week

Find it extremely funny/sad that people argue that US billionaire oligarchs are less evil than those in Middle Eastern oil states. The argument, after you navigate through all the facades of actually existing capitalism, basically boils down to stating that US billionaires are less evil because they don't directly make the decisions that result in government oppression, war and human rights violations to the degree that oligarchs in oil states do, it's just that the entire apparatus that allows US oligarchs to be so wealthy is based off of all those same things.

I do not find this "argument of abstraction" convincing, to say the least. Even if this somehow makes US billionaire oligarchs slightly less evil than their oil state counterparts, it is definitely not something to be proud of.

And that's before even acknowledging how those oil states came to exist in the first place. Without Western support, both capital and military, it would be impossible for these stares to exist. Saudi Arabia even admitted this recently.

In general people really do not understand how "actually existing capitalism" functions and how it is synonymous with imperialism and polarisation. You cannot seperate the means of this wealth accumulation from imperialism. One can even take this further and argue that imperialism is not merely a stage of capitalism as Lenin stated, but synonymous with capitalism itself.

Taking this further, one can argue that capitalism and it's evolutions can only be understood as a single global system comprised of polarisation (the centre - periphery model), where the periphery countries do not lag behind those in the centre, but whose structure has been changed to enable polarisation by force. Thus, imperialism is not merely the subjugation of one nation by another, which is the colloquial definition, or a specific stage of capitalism, but imperialism is rather “precisely the amalgamation of the requirements and laws for the reproduction of capital; the social, national and international alliances that underlie them; and the political strategies employed by these alliances”.

Weird how everyone in Gaza who's in a position to effectively communicate and demonstrate what Israel is doing keeps dying. Probably just a coincidence!

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I can’t stop thinking about this Telegram comment. They know deep down what their government is doing is genocide and they fucking love it. But they’re rightfully concerned with how their unbridled glee watching the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians affects outside perception.

These people are psychologically identical to Nazi concentration camp personnel

It's fucked up how Castillo is in jail without any sentence and Fujimori, a man that commited genocide, is free.

and it only gets worse from there

UNLV mass shooter was career college professor, source says, but unknown whether he had a connection with school

Looks like yesterday's campus shooting was possibly workplace violence motivated.

About 2,000 Israeli soldiers disabled since war started: Report

Israeli media are reporting that 2,000 wounded Israeli soldiers have been recognised as disabled by the defence ministry, and 5,000 soldiers have been wounded since the beginning of the war.

Since October 7, at least 420 soldiers were killed.

Saudi Arabia has requested the United States to exercise restraint in its response to attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea.

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"please don't get our oil fields blown up again you idiots"

Lmaoooooooooooo quite possibly the most deranged article I've read in recent times.

https://archive.is/sw48h

The #UnitedStates used its veto power to shoot down a UN resolution demanding a ceasefire in #Gaza after more than 2 months of war against Palestinian civilians.

With this decision, the United States further proves its sponsorship of the genocide that has claimed the lives of at least 17,000 #Palestinians, including more than 7,000 children.

The blood of all the Palestinians murdered and will be murdered will forever haunt the United States and its allies.

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Laos is 5th gen stealth country, nobody should talk about laos or the state department will notice them

Who is really behind the Israeli mass slaughter of the people of Gaza?

Here is the answer to that question:

Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.

“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”

Period.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/who-is-really-behind-the-mass-slaughter-in-gaza.html

Norm Finkelstein compares himself to Alan Dershowitz.

"To live or to perish" — Norman Finkelstein on the Six-Day-War and its mythology - Mondoweiss

June 3, 2017

My eldest brother lived in Israel for a short while. He was there during the 1973 war. He was a bit of a loner. He went there in search of family. When he returned we argued bitterly. But he later turned against Israel with a vengeance. I suppose it was a feeling of betrayal, as the truth slowly sunk in. Now he makes me look like Alan Dershowitz.

Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service

"Official" Palestinian Gaza death toll now up to 16,200. Real numbers are most likely higher.

Glory to the martyrs. Infinite liquid shits on the

I'm South American and Guyana is like one of these weird dudes in your workplace that is ALWAYS there but never speaks to anybody like, I dunno, they're weird. In our image of South America we kinda don't include them, maybe Brazilians and Venezuelans do because they share borders, but people from Guyana or Suriname are never mentioned like ever, two full countries that don't even participate in discussion with their regional neighbors or anything like that. Yo, they don't even play football in CONMEBOL, what the fuck? Can you imagine Messi shredding Guyana 9-0?

Wow so you loony leftists won't admit that Hamas drugged and brainwashed the hostages to say they were treated nicely, huh? You won't believe it because it comes from an IDF general who's codename is "Baby Killer" and you think he's 'bad'.

I'm finally in Taiwan and holy shit I forgot how awful the jet lag was. I'm on Hexbear trying to keep from falling asleep. Not much has happened. Met up with some old friends and then went to visit my fiancee's family. They heard about the issue in Guatemala and asked if we'd been to jail or had someone try to kill us lmao

It's nice to be in a city where I'm not as worried about street gangs or loose pitbulls and their stupid owners. The Christmas decorations are very pretty too. Being here makes me hate the "West Taiwan" memes even more. Average person here is just as ordinary as anywhere else and fucking nobody refers to mainland China that way. They just want to live their lives and not get involved in a conflict. A few of my friends were annoyed by the Nancy Pelosi incident because they were worried she was going to cause war to break out. Others said that they weren't as worried because PRC can only saber rattle.

They also need to relax with the single use plastics. I thought the US was bad with their usage of them. Even got a plastic bag for one Taiwanese dollar at a night market.

"Israel" have admitted to 7 soldiers/officers being killed today.

Usually they only announce 2-3 indicating that they are taking higher casualties

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Israeli forces are flooding Gaza with seawater, under the pretext of destroying the tunnels. This will result in the long-term destruction of groundwater & aquifers, rendering agriculture & drinking water impossible, eliminating life for decades. This is a crime against humanity

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SBU assassinates a guy in Moscow. Ukrainian MP who defected.

Assassinating a guy for picking the winning side, after they already know they lost. These people must have a death wish.

Netanyahu Will Be Tried as 'the Gaza Butcher', Erdogan Predicts

“Gaza is Palestinian territory. Gaza belongs to Palestinians and it will remain so forever,” he said.

On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan predicted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be tried as a war criminal in a manner similar to that in which former Serbian President Slobodan Milosvic (1941-2006) was tried.

"Netanyahu, who is now the ‘Butcher of Gaza’, beyond being a war criminal, will definitely be tried as the Butcher of Gaza just as Milosevic was judged," Erdogan said while opening the meeting of the Economic and Trade Cooperation Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC) in Istanbul.

Milosevic was arrested in 2001 and accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of being responsible for war crimes and genocide that occurred during the Balkan war in the early 1990s. The trial against him, however, was never completed due to his death in prison in The Hague in 2006.

Erdogan also criticized Western countries for giving "unconditional support to Israel to kill more children" and blamed the United Nations for being an institution incapable of bringing peace or hope to humanity.

At the COMCEC meeting, the Turkish Leader also referred to the regional danger posed by Israel's possession of nuclear weapons.

“We are not going to let the issue of Israel having nuclear weapons be forgotten. Does Israel have an atomic bomb? They do, but if you ask, they say 'no'. “We know very well what that means,” Erdogan stressed.

“I would like to remind the Israeli rulers who pursue different ambitions once again that Gaza is Palestinian territory. Gaza belongs to Palestinians and it will remain so forever,” he said, as reporte by TRT World.

Since the bombing of Gaza began on October 7, Israeli occupation forces have injured 41,316 people and killed over 15,000 Palestinians, with 75 percent of them being children, women, and the elderly.

https://archive.is/5x2cx

Another fun story from the f-35 train wreck saga:

The Air Force is trying to save 2 severely damaged F-35s by merging them into a single 'Franken-bird' aircraft

The US Air Force on Thursday said its engineers in Utah are trying to restore two damaged F-35s by rebuilding them into one fully operational stealth fighter.

While military engineers have attempted similar restorations with other aircraft, the project to create what maintenance experts called the "Franken-bird" is the first among F-35s, the Air Force said in a statement.

To assemble the Franken-bird — an F-35A Lightning II — the Air Force said it's put together a "dream team" of experts from Lockheed Martin, the F-35 Joint Program Office, the 388th Fighter Wing, and the Ogden Air Logistics Complex.

One of the jets they're working on saw its landing gear collapse in June 2020, while the other F-35 suffered an engine fire in 2014.

No seriously,

The aircraft that caught fire is estimated to have sustained $50 million worth of damage, with the rear two-thirds of its body burned, per an Air Force report at the time.

Now, the Air Force said it's trying to replace the damaged nose of the F-35 that was damaged in 2020 with parts from the jet that caught fire.

"All of the aircraft sections can be de-mated and re-mated theoretically, but it's just never been done before," said Scott Taylor, Lockheed Martin lead mechanical engineer, in the statement. "This is the first F-35 'Franken-bird' to date. This is history."

Taylor said the Franken-bird team has been documenting the project meticulously, hoping their work can develop standard repair procedures for other F-35s in the future.

Lol

The team is working out of Hill Air Force Base near Salt Lake City, where engineers had to design and build "entirely new, unique specialized" equipment, tools, and fixtures to perform the repairs away from the F-35 plant in Texas, the Air Force said.

They're trying to mormonize the f-35 lmao

All of this can fit into a Conex cargo container so it can be transported and used for other purposes in the future, Taylor said.

The project is estimated to take around five years to complete, even with the team now being months ahead of schedule. It was conceptualized in January 2020, according to Taylor, and is set to be finished in March 2025, according to the Air Force.

Two more years before we hear news of this one crashing

A single F-35A costs around $70 million to manufacture, according to Lockheed Martin.

The name Franken-bird is also a reference to the Franken-tiger fighters that the US Navy bought in the late 2000s. Northrop Grumman engineers created the Franken-tiger by replacing the nose of an F-5E built for Switzerland with the nose of an F-5F.

Fuck Joe Biden

28% of israelis were considering leaving israel in july (Times of Israel), I would love to know how that changed in the past months.

The United States is today announcing a new package of weapons and equipment to support the people of Ukraine as they defend their country and their freedom against Russia’s aggression.

This package, which uses the limited resources that remain available to help Ukraine, provides up to $175 million of arms and equipment under previously directed drawdowns. Capabilities provided in today’s package include air defense munitions, additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rockets Systems, artillery ammunition, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles, anti-armor missiles, small arms ammunition, demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing, equipment to protect critical national infrastructure, and spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.

https://www.state.gov/biden-administration-announces-additional-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

Season 10 of blowback is gonna be lit

I am just picturing some azov shithead driving around in an s class paid for by selling this shit on the black market

Sure some of you've seen the pictures of the Palestinian civilians who were stripped and paraded around today. I don't know why so many have decided that they're 100% iron clad Hamas fighters (which would still be a war crime) when even the IDF said that they rounded up all the men from an area to later see if they were part of Hamas.

Remember the fake Mossad operation on Brazil to arrest Hezbollah terror operatives?

They arrested a pagode (kind of samba) musician...

Brazil's Federal police just ordered the release of ALL accused due to lack of evidence.

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Operation Trapiche aimed to investigate people suspected of involvement with extremist groups. At the time, arrest warrants and search and seizure were served in three states. Part of the investigation was based on an FBI document, the U.S. government intelligence service

Next, the PF identified that the two suspected men had no connection to Hezbollah and, therefore, asked for the release of the Justice. The request was approved by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF).

I've been tracking this dumbass story since it came out, nice to have some resolution

Disease spreading as 1.8 million people squeezed in area the ‘size of an airport’

Israel’s push to relocate Palestinians in Gaza to a small area in the south is making it impossible to deliver aid and driving up the risk of disease, Bushra Khalidi, a Ramallah-based legal expert and rights campaigner with Oxfam, warned.

“Squeezing people into a space that is basically as big as London’s Heathrow airport… is inhumane and makes it impossible to distribute aid to people,” Khalidi told Al Jazeera. “Gaza was already overpopulated… [now] we’re talking about 1.8 million people in an airport.”

.@BernieSanders won't support additional U.S. aid to Israel, accusing it of violating international law in Gaza and West Bank: "I do not think we should be appropriating $10.1 billion for the right-wing, extremist Netanyahu government"

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In Germany, more than a million children live in permanent poverty. Politics could alleviate misery. The federal government has other priorities

According to a study published on Wednesday by the children's fund UNICEF, 17 out of 39 OECD and EU countries have been able to reduce the risk of poverty by ten percent since 2012. Poland, Slovenia, Latvia and Lithuania even reduced it by 30 percent. Poland, for example, by investing in family benefits, and Slovenia because it increased the minimum wage.

The Federal Republic of Germany is one of the countries in which child poverty has not been decreasing for years, but is actually increasing. According to the study with the telling name “Child poverty in the midst of prosperity,” 15.5 percent of people under 18 in this country are currently poor. 7.9 percent or more than a million children are there permanently. And that is measured conservatively, as a UNICEF spokeswoman explained to jW. The Joint Association, for example, comes to a poverty rate of more than 21 percent among those under 18 years of age. In the overall assessment of the UNICEF study, Germany still comes in 25th place out of the 39 countries examined. And therefore in the lower midfield. Countries like the USA, Great Britain, France and Switzerland are worse.

Things are going great in Germany

I don't know why but for the first time in a long time I decided to check out r/worldnews to see how the assorted low level CIA/MI6 analysts and actual redditors brainwormed enough to believe them are doing now that even the MSM is acknowledging that Ukraine is going to lose and it's all looking pretty grim for them; a lot of people having struggle sessions about whether Ukraine should start drafting women and children en masse, a lot of "Russia will win a pyrrhic victory and will then collapse" cope, a few people just straight up denying reality and claiming that Ukraine is winning. Also, predictably, a shit ton of racism directed at Palestinians for distracting Daddy America from Zelensky's wholesome crusade.

CW: Death

Cops in Spokane just executed someone for allegedly trying to shoplift from a walmart.

It's got all the hallmarks, "gun was found on the suspect," "both officers injured," "the suspect tried to tase me!"

https://web.archive.org/web/20231204122203/https://www.krem.com/article/news/crime/officer-involved-shooting-walmart/293-8cff9af5-4483-410d-90f7-1b44b742c82c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gak-wz1YnjY

Reporting that at least 40 IOF troops ended up in an eye-specialty hospital with serious eye injuries in the past two days alone, resulting from shrapnel

40 in two days just for eye injuries, I imagine this speaks of grim numbers of other injuries and deaths.

Notice that Hamas didn't say not to vote for Trump