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More exciting things still continue to happen in South Africa - Hamas has sent a delegation there recently and pretty much was given a warm welcome by Mandla Mandela and Solly Mapaila, alongside interviews on major Islamic broadcasts.

The SAJBD and SAZF continue to cope and seethe as is tradition. The forecast of rainy weather in Johannesburg until at least next Monday is actually their tears.

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Eliyahu David Kay's semen was not recovered in time.

The joy of the Saraya Al-Quds Resistance fighter when he lit the enemy tank

time: Esequibo was part of the deal when the US negotiated the new oil deal with Venezuela, and the Biden admin signed off on some sort of deal/annexation in return for the oil plus whatever else Venezuela is giving the US.

Denmark passes law to ban Koran burnings

based? /r/denmark is 'having a normal one'

A "gap"? Make a small change and it's Blinken giving an interview to The Onion - "There does remain a gap between, exactly what I said when I was there, the intent to protect civilians and the actual ~~results~~ slaughter that we’re seeing on the ground."

Blinken notes 'gap' between Israel's intention to protect Gaza civilians and 'actual results'

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has said there a “gap” between Israel’s “intent to protect civilians” in Gaza and what has been happening on the ground.

Blinken, speaking at a news conference in Washington after a meeting with the UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, said: “It remains imperative that Israel put a premium on civilian protection.” He added:

There does remain a gap between, exactly what I said when I was there, the intent to protect civilians and the actual results that we’re seeing on the ground.

- The Guardian

Israeli media revealed that the UAE and “Israel” reached agreement to establish a land bridge between the port of Dubai and the occupied port of Haifa, to bypass the Red Sea after the Yemeni operations

This route would be impossible without it passing through Saudi Arabia

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I hate succdems so much. Kaare Dybvad, My country's minister of integration (ie. racism), has been at it again, talking to the right-wing press about how the genocidal massacres has revealed "a form of extremism we haven't seen before", how "we thought education [of non-white immigrants] would lead to adoption Danish values" and how "no majority Danes [ie. white people] has any trouble condemning Hamas".

He also parrots zionist propaganda abusing the Holocaust to justify the occupation of Palestine, saying that "In a Danish context the Holocaust plays a special role and you have to understand that". I hate this ghoul so fucking much. Last time he made himself noticed it was to berate a woman who wrote a book about working less to have more time with her family and call her a lazy parasite. Before that he was minister of housing and happily implemented an explicitly racist housing policy that destroyed cheap public housing where it was misty needed. And no, I'm not going to post a link, as his hateful screeds are behind the paywalls of right-wing media.

According to the IDF what is their description of everybody in Gaza?

I have a nasty feeling that phrase is going to be used non-stop in the coming months to explain all sorts of horror.

Yes, it's true - he was only 10. But he was no angel and...

Video clips on how Al-Qassam use unexploded ordinance underwater and water pipes Zionists use to steal water from Palestinians to fashion missiles: https://nitter.cz/revolutionaryem/status/1733137165486326063

So your settler relatives died in the Al-Aqsa Flood.

Why should I care?

-blackredguard probably

today's MoA is mindblowing if the nyt is correct about how the biden regime tried to get more ukraine funbux

choosing to pre-emptively tie ukraine bux, genocide bux and the border altogether is amazingly bad dealmaking from the president who is supposed to be good at congressional deals. 'hey i know how to get this very divisive funding over the line - let's link it to an even more divisive issue like border control'

"As an Israeli Lebanese Christian"

That's Adolf Hitler

god what a cursed combination. didn't Israel actually give citizenship to all the lunatic right wing Lebanese militia members who committed atrocities?

PM of Japan is considering removing all members of Abe's party from the cabinet

English Article from Ha'aretz

Israeli Police are permitting a Far-Right March through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem Tomorrow. The group "Sons of Mount Moriah" is marching to, and calling for the dissolution of the Waqf (Jordanian-based Religious Authority over Islamic sites in Jerusalem–Al-quds) and "A renewal of complete Jewish Control over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount"

Coup Attempt in Guatemala, again...

Guatemala's Public Prosecutor's Office has announced that the results of the country's elections are null and void.

They claim that the data in the voting records does not tally with that presented by the country's Electoral Court, the agency will ask for a re-run.

The country's Electoral Court also said that it will ask for Arévalo's immunity to be withdrawn in yet another criminal case

from natopedia:

Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom as a dominion on 26 May 1966 and became a republic on 23 February 1970, remaining a member of the Commonwealth. Shortly after independence, Venezuela began to take diplomatic, economic and military action against Guyana in order to enforce its territorial claim to the Guayana Esequiba.[22] The US State Department and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), along with the British government, also played a strong role in influencing political control in Guyana during this time.[23]

Since its independence in 1824, Venezuela has claimed the area of land to the west of the Essequibo River. Simón Bolívar wrote to the British government warning against the Berbice and Demerara settlers settling on land which the Venezuelans, as assumed heirs of Spanish claims on the area dating to the 16th century, claimed was theirs.

i'll admit i know fuck all about guyana. interesting time to press the claim

is there a collection of all the times israeli politicians and military officials have said "we want to kill every palestinian" or something? and of all the biggest lies they've told? i'm arguing with my mother who isn't willing to completely condemn israel

[Video:] Israeli military airforce bombed and destroyed an entire residential neighborhood in the village of Aaytroun in southern #Lebanon.

This is a dangerous escalation that we have never seen before in this war.

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Biden is doing his "Red light! Green light!" shtick yet again.

Earlier this week, CNN reported that the US expects Israel to wrap up major combat operations in Gaza “by January”.

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US official: We have not given Israel a cut-off date for Gaza war

Addressing the Aspen Security Forum, White House aide John Finer said the US has “not given a firm deadline to Israel” to end its military operations in Gaza.

“It’s not really our role, this is their conflict,” Finer said.

“That said, we do have influence, even if we don’t have ultimate control over what happens on the ground in Gaza, and we are trying to use our influence to steer that conflict in the most constructive, in our view, way possible,” he said.

- Al Jazeera

this new video is crazy. shows an al-Qassam supersoldier firing an RPG directly at IOF troops.

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'There is no safe place at all' - BBC News

One man the BBC spoke to in Khan Younis says he is living in a house – comprising two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom – that has 200 people in it, "all of them on top of each other".

He says that he cannot find food for his children, and that he has a baby on the way that he cannot buy nappies for. He adds that pharmacies and hospitals are "completely devoid of any medicines".

He adds:

There is no safe place at all. Wherever you go, you will hear similar tragic stories."

Another man in Khan Younis says he has three young children that he struggles to feed.

"Everything is very expensive here whether milk, nappies or biscuits. I try to buy biscuits three times a day for my kids, but sometimes I fail even to secure such a simple thing," he says, adding that sometimes fights break out when trying to get water.

Some of the striped "Khamas members" were identified to be "Fateh members, older ones are workers in the authority of Ramallah, younger ones are in the young programs, one is a barber and another is a bird store owner, a lot of them were in the same family"

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan regarding the pictures about detaining civilians:

The occupation arrested and abused unarmed civilians with no connection to military operations in Beit Lahia

The photos of civilian detainees who do not carry weapons and the claims that they are from the resistance are lies.

The Gazan Resistance has damaged or destroyed over 70 vehicles in the last 72 hours.

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US Embassy in Baghdad struck with rocket(s)

Video https://t.me/thecradlemedia/10670

al mawt li amrika

the idf are now dropping leaflets with "Eventually the Flood overtook them while they were engaged in wrongdoing." on them

Israel is losing even Jake Tapper. Never thought I'd see the day that happens.

Maduro announces the activation of the identity and identification plan for the population of Guayana Esequiba.

An office will be installed in Tumeremo, Bolíva state. Applications for identification cards have arrived in droves, impressive.

Venezuela continues to do things inside its border (apart from the air base they built inside a territory they obtained during a border skirmish during the Pérez Jiménez dictatorship).

Uncofirmed reports that Algeria is preventing US military from using their airspace and that Israel has issued an ultimatum to Hezbollah to retreat north or be attacked.

Yemen intercepted another ship.

Might be another one of those week-years

Your Tuesday Briefing

I'm having a busy December. You know how it is.

Over 2000 fossil fuel lobbyists were present at COP28 this year - a record number. This occurs as the leader of COP28 talks about how we don't actually need to reduce the size of the fossil fuel industry, and carbon capture is sufficient (most carbon captured in current programs is piped underground into oil reservoirs to boost their production).

The Kremlin has announced that Putin will visit the UAE and Saudi Arabia tomorrow, and then the next day meet with Iran.

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan seem to be heading towards a border demarcation deal which could put an end to decades of border violence.

Xi Jinping and Lukashenko met in Beijing yesterday to strengthen coordination, etc etc.

Chinese scientists have developed the Havana Syndrome gun, which can fire microwaves while attached to drones, allowing electronic warfare on mobile platforms to disrupt enemy radars on planes.

After Nepal's Supreme Court allowed the registration of same-sex marriages earlier in the year, and some government infighting, a couple of the same legal gender have become the first in Nepalese history to be officially married - although one is a trans woman whose legal gender is still nonetheless male. Sunil Babu Pant, a key figure in the LGBTQIA+ movement was present at the registration.

The United States has announced that Ugandan officials and their family members, if they have been found to play a role in the repression of members of marginalized or vulnerable populations (environmental and human rights defenders, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, etc) will not be allowed visas. This measure was prompted by the recent decision of the Ugandan government to enforce life imprisonment or even the death penalty on people who have gay relations or "promote" them.

Niger is ending two EU security and defence missions in the country - EUCAP Sahel Niger, and EUMPM - and simultaneously welcomed a Russian delegation led by the Deputy Minister of Defense to discuss military matters. Additionally, Burkina Faso and Niger are quitting the G5 anti-jihadist force, which was created in 2014, initially consisting of those two countries, Chad, Mauritania, and Mali (Mali quit the G5 last year), as it is failing to achieve its objectives and France has an outsized role in it.

Nigeria accidentally killed 85 people in a drone strike in Kaduna state - intended to kill insurgents, but instead killing dozens of civilians and injuring many others to gathered to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Mohammed.

An attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau has led to President Embalo to dissolve the opposition-dominated parliament, whom he accuses of having relations with the National Guard, which clashed with the Presidential Guard last week.

Argentinian trade unions have stated that they will not accept any rollback of rights or delays in bargaining negotiations, and rejected Milei's threats to paralyse public works and privatize railways and airlines.

The US, Japan, and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system by the end of December, as the steps towards an Asian NATO continue.

IBM has announced the first ever quantum chip with over 1000 qubits, following the doubling-every-year roadmap.

ABSOLUTE MAD LADS DO IT AGAIN

Despite the budget crisis, the traffic light coalition wants to stick to its unrestrained rearmament course for the coming years. At the same time, however, the market-radical government camp, together with the right-wing opposition, is rhetorically using heavy artillery against the poor, calling for further cuts to social benefits and compulsory work. Anyone who thought that things couldn't get any more anti-social in the Ampel legislature should be warned.

German article

Not looking too good for the great social democratic welfare state of Germany.
But nothing else should be expected from a SPD led government.

Wer hat uns verraten?

So a funny thing happened in milei's inauguration. In his first speech he spoke about Argentina freeing itself from spanish colonization and after a period of "internal struggles", we became a world power (LMFAO), but then thanks to "collectivism" (He thinks Peronism is collectivism) and the political "caste" we became basically shite. The King of Spain was present in the inauguration, and he had to applaud not only to the fact that his country lost a lot of colonies but also to the "political caste" remark. Look, if there's anybody on earth who's a caste, good-for-nothing people living off the state it's literally the fucking monarchy lol, lmao even.

Shit's pathetic.

I did not see the inauguration because I don't have the stomach to see it. But as far as I know, foreign dignataries present were: , the King of Spain, Jair Bolsonaro and some "israeli" dude, I think the ambassador or something like that, genocide joe sent someone I think. So much for "Argentina becomes part of The World (TM) again", all shitty foreign representatives. Zelenskyy is on his way out, Bolsonaro has been exhiled to fucking miami and can't go back to Brasil without risking prison, the "israeli" dude I don't even care, Zionism is also on it's way out, genocide joe will die soon . The fact that Xi is not here tells you that this is going to suck so much.

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Military dot com says

No, the US Military Isn't the Rebel Alliance from 'Star Wars'

Lol. Lmao even.

Is the U.S. military a fighting force for good engaged in a battle against darkness and evil like the Rebel Alliance from "Star Wars," or a hegemonic superpower bent on subverting everything to its will like the Galactic Empire?

who can say?

Apparently, it depends on who you ask. In a photo recently published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service this week, a U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams main battle tank assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division is seen flying a red-and-black flag emblazoned with the telltale symbol of the Rebel Alliance from the beloved science fiction franchise during gunnery at the service's McGregor Range in New Mexico back in September.

Certainly, the Defense Department's obsession with "Star Wars" is well-documented, and many U.S. troops and DoD personnel see themselves as part of the Rebel Alliance. In fact, this isn't the first time that Army personnel have been spotted making their allegiance to the rebel force known: A 2019 Army press release regarding soldiers assigned to the East Africa Response Force (EARF) preparing to deploy to Gabon also features a photo of a Rebel Alliance flag flying above an installation at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, a major hub of U.S. military activity in the region.

If you've ever wondered if the stormtroopers thought they were the good guys, you got your real-life answer.

When queried by Task & Purpose about the presence of the Rebel flag at Lemonnier, a U.S. Africa Command spokesman responded that the command and the EARF "certainly support restoring order ... And if groups like al-Shabaab or other terror groups are on the wrong side of our forces then it will be a very bad day for them." (The spokesman also noted that the flag was likely raised by an individual soldier "with intent to bring a light moment of morale to an otherwise very serious business and mission.")

Imagine thinking the goal of the Rebel Alliance is "restoring order to the galaxy" and not "liberating the galaxy"

If the Army sees itself as the Rebel Alliance, then who exactly is the Empire in this scenario? According to the AFRICOM spokesman, it's anyone who opposes "order," which in the case of the EARF is violent extremist organizations like ISIS that have flourished across the Middle East and Africa in recent years.

American-created ISIS, by the way.

But as any fan of "Star Wars" knows, this characterization doesn't really make sense. In a 2018 conversation with James Cameron, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas noted that while he was initially inspired by rebellions like the American Revolution to create the political dynamics and themes of the film franchise, America had gradually morphed into its own form of "empire" by the time the Vietnam War broke out. Indeed, the victory of the Ewoks as a small group using asymmetric warfare over the highly organized Galactic Empire in "Return of the JedI" was an explicit allegory for the Viet Cong's success against the U.S. military during the conflict. "The irony is that, in both of those, the little guys won. The highly technical empire -- the English Empire, the American Empire -- lost," Lucas told Cameron. "That was the whole point."

Surprise, soldier. You're larping as a goddamn commie.

Lucas's point persists today. The U.S. military may currently be the dominant armed force on the planet, with China and Russia as not-so-close second in terms of defense spending, but despite this, the Pentagon recently found itself all-but-defeated after a 20-year conflict with a less-advanced group of insurgents in Afghanistan and embroiled in a "defeat ISIS" mission in Iraq and Syria with no end in sight. (Even the "order" element of AFRICOM's 2019 statement evokes shades of the Empire.) President Ronald Reagan may have declared Russia the "evil empire" in his famous 1983 speech in an appeal to classic black-and-white, "good vs. evil" morality, but in terms of actual real-world military dynamics, Lucas' allegory may be far more accurate, minus the whole "blowing up planets" thing.

I thought ISIS was already more or less stomped out by the Axis of Resistance. Maybe the CIA is keeping a few cells cooking to cause some instability in the region.

Also lmao the writer is, probably accidentally, saying the Soviet Union and her allies were the good guys of the cold war

If the Army doesn't get it, at least the Space Force does, sort of: in 2021, the freshman service branch swore in a major general with Imperial Stormtroopers and Darth Vader looking on -- and when asked if the DoD endorses the values of the Empire, then-Pentagon spokesman John Kirby demurred: "We support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic." Not exactly the most affirming answer. Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt, Combined Force Space Component Command commander, is sworn into the U.S. Space Force by Second Lt. Wellington Brookins during an International Space Day celebration at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

Space farce. Really nailing the point of the whole evil empire schtick.

Sorry, folks, but if you believe in founders' intent, then you have to trust Lucas' interpretation of his own work here. The U.S. military is the Galactic Empire -- and unfortunately, no number of Rebellion flags will change that.

GET FUCKED IMPERIALIST SCUM

didn't think vuvuzela would become the 3rd front