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Military detects over 90 balloons presumed to be sent from N. Korea across border

The balloons that have fallen so far did not carry leaflets but trash and other waste, the source said, with the military and police currently collecting the fallen balloons.

On Sunday, North Korea said it will scatter "mounds of wastepaper and filth" over the border areas in a "tit-for-tat action" against the distribution of anti-Pyongyang leaflets.

RFK really is a socialite's socialite with how much he got around in New York, eh?

Hello Israelis. I know you are hurt by the feeling that entire world thinks you want a genocide. You are hurt that world thinks you are a blood thirsty monster. I know it feels bad. Here is what you can do to fix this situation.

BURN DOWN THE FUCKING IDF HEADQUARTERS WITH MOLOTOVES. WE GAVE SHIT TO GERMANS SO MUCH BUT EVEN THEY HAD PARTISAN RESISTANCE AND SABOTAGE TO THEIR NAZI GOVERNMENT. IF YOU THINK YOU DESERVE BETTER TREATMENT THAN POST WW2 GERMANS, PROVE THAT YOU PIECE OF SHIT INSTEAD OF SAYING IDF IS NOT KILLING ENOUGH AND YOU HATE NETENYAHU FOR TREATING YOU BADLY. EVEN FUCKING RUSSIANS ATTACKED THEIR OWN MILITARY INSTALATIONS FOR KILLING HALF THE CIVILIANS IN 4 TIMES LONGER TIME FRAME

a very rare thing happend

The funniest part about American tariffs is that they're actually strengthening Chinese relationships with.... Everyone in the world.

What are the tariffs actually achieving? They're NOT achieving replacement industries. New suppliers aren't appearing to produce and supply the products that are getting tariff'd away.

What is actually happening is that the products made by China are being sold to Vietnam and then those products are being sold to the US. Or they're being sold to I dunno, south american countries and so on.

This is strengthening Chinese relations with these countries, which are in turn becoming more reliant on China.

The US is cooked. The only way you're replacing these supply chains is with some sort of command economy. Even something Keynesian isn't really going to pull it off. Markets just won't do what you want them to do in this situation they're always going to just create more hoops to jump through for Chinese goods instead of creating an entirely new producer.

Obviously the problem with this is that you need to move away from neoliberalism to do this. But they're ideologically committed to it.

The White House is saying that the strike that killed so many innocents also killed two Hamas targets that the Israeli military says are responsible for attacks on Israelis.

Brandon now supports 'Netanyahu's' war crimes in Rafah. What ever happened to the red line. Atleast pretend to be mad at Israel

The IDF shooting at Egyptian troops at the Rafah border crossing earlier today, and killing that Egyptian soldier, has apparently been all over Egyptian news.

No fucking chance, Wang. The attacks will continue until the genocidal entity of "Israel" stops doing genocide.

There was a midnight raid on the UCSC Palestine encampment. A lot of arrests. From what I’ve heard though, there’s still people in the encampment holding on. Unsure of the details at moment.

Three more UC campuses are going on strike next week. The Palestinian activists are inspiring. Some of the encampments elsewhere have settled for promises of meetings in the future, which has been noticed and refuted by people on the ground. There’s already been meetings between reps and admin staff where those kinds of offers have been refused. While the Union has had made a colossal fuck up that I can’t mention here for opsec reasons, there’s so much good stuff happening. I’m proud to do my part, however small.

Hundreds of descendants of Nazis hold solidarity march in Israel

For the first time in a year, opinion polls show that a majority of the Israeli population would back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection if ballots were to be held today. A survey presented by Channel 12 News on 29 May found that 36 percent of the electorate prefers Netanyahu over opposition leader and war cabinet member Benny Gantz when asked, “Who is better suited to serve as prime minister?” This marks a significant month-to-month surge from April, when support for Gantz stood at 35 percent, and Netanyahu lagged behind at 29 percent.

In the new survey, the current premier is also seven points ahead of opposition leader Yair Lapid and two points ahead of former prime minister Naftali Bennett. Netanyahu's party, Likud, also saw favorable results in the latest poll, picking up 21 of the Knesset's 120 seats. Nevertheless, Gantz's National Unity party edged ahead, picking up 25 seats. The Midgam Institute conducted the survey on Wednesday among 503 respondents via internet and phone, representing the entire population of Israel aged 18 and over.

The Zionists deserve a leader like Netanyahu. I'm glad to let them follow their wildly incompetent leader to their doom.

Politico: Dems in full-blown ‘freakout’ over Biden

Famed Russo-Chinese state propagandist, Politico, is also joining the chorus of panic over Biden and whether there's actually any reason to vote for him.

Some choice quotes:

A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump.

“You don’t want to be that guy who is on the record saying we’re doomed, or the campaign’s bad or Biden’s making mistakes. Nobody wants to be that guy,” said a Democratic operative in close touch with the White House and granted anonymity to speak freely. But Biden’s stubbornly poor polling and the stakes of the election “are creating the freakout,” he said. “This isn’t, ‘Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.’ It’s ‘Oh my God, the democracy might end.’”

Despite everything, Trump is running ahead of Biden in most battleground states. He raised far more money in April, and the landscape may only become worse for Democrats, with Trump’s hush-money trial concluding and another — this one involving the president’s son — set to begin in Delaware.

While he’s long lagged Biden in cash on hand, Trump’s fundraising outpaced the president’s by $25 million last month, and included a record-setting $50.5 million haul from an event in Palm Beach, Florida. One adviser to major Democratic Party donors provided a running list that has been shared with funders of nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose, ranging from immigration and high inflation to the president’s age, the unpopularity of Vice President Kamala Harris and the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [...] The adviser added, “The list of why we ‘could’ win is so small I don’t even need to keep the list on my phone.”

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But Democratic critics of the campaign’s approach — while agreeing that abortion should be a winning issue — said they’re challenged when pressed by friends to make the case for why Biden will win.

“There’s still a path to win this, but they don’t look like a campaign that’s embarking on that path right now,” said Pete Giangreco, a longtime Democratic strategist who’s worked on multiple presidential campaigns. “If the frame of this race is, ‘What was better, the 3.5 years under Biden or four years under Trump,’ we lose that every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”

Whatever the Biden campaign has been doing over the past two months — and it’s a lot of activity, including $25 million in swing-state ad spending, according to AdImpact — it has had only a limited effect. According to FiveThirtyEight, Biden’s average job-approval rating on March 7, the date of his State of the Union Address, was 38.1 percent. As of Friday, it’s 38.4 percent.

And his standing against Trump has also changed little. On April 22, the day Trump’s criminal trial began, the presumptive GOP nominee held a 0.3-point lead in national polls, according to FiveThirtyEight. Trump is up about a point since then, currently leading Biden by 1.4 points in the FiveThirtyEight average.

“New York Democrats need to wake up,” said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. “The number of people in New York, including people of color that I come across who are saying positive things about Trump, is alarming.”

“The greatest political challenge confronting the president starts with an “i,” but it’s not Israel, it’s inflation,” Torres said. “The cost of living is a challenge that we have to figure out how to manage.” He said Biden should focus on issues around affordability and continue to tout his success in capping insulin costs in areas with high rates of diabetes, like his Bronx district.

Judging from the socdems/social fascists I sometimes watch (e.g. at r/curatedtumblr), the anxiety is also heightening in the non-wonk population, too. Increasingly frequent shit like how you're transphobic if you don't vote for Biden, etc. Entirely plausible that if Biden can't get the cost of living down in the next five months, it is officially Joever. And just bleating "the economy is actually great, the best it's ever been actually" won't change that. You can't gaslight somebody into thinking that they haven't spent noticeably more money on bills lately no matter how many fancy indices you throw at them.

I think we can all agree that the funniest thing about the Trump Trial is that he was basically convicted for being bad at corruption.

Why the hell did he use campaign funds for hush money lmfao.

the best part of this gaza pier debacle is that we'll eventually find out that it only really cost like $10 million to construct (or whatever a reasonable price is, I'm not a pier expert) and the rest of the hundreds of millions of dollars were due to a contractor and subcontractor and subsubcontractor and so on 15 times down the chain grifting it at every single stage

I get that the mere dollar injection is a big part as to why these massive cost overruns are tolerated as our resident dedollarization expert+doomer constantly explains, but is it still entertaining to watch the projects of American empire fall apart due to sheer ineptitude despite knowing that? yes. I mean they could have just built a functioning pier worth 428 gazillion dollars and achieved the same result but I guess the notion of gaining profit by making and selling things specifically to be destroyed so that you can keep making them and selling them, such as with Western military equipment in Ukraine, is just that in-built at this point

1936: American volunteers form the Lincoln Brigade to fight fascism in Spain.

2022: American volunteers form the Reddit Brigade to support fascism in Ukraine.

Thinking about that article from the Atlantic yesterday that said

It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them.

Every single liberal that says this is lying through their teeth. There is an absolute 0% chance that any of these people would give the go ahead to bomb their home, with family and children inside, because a bad guy was hiding in their basement. Liberals are so ready to talk about their great morality until it comes down to being put into the situation themselves.

I am having constant fed fantasies of adventurism. I know it’s not a productive path but goddamn this world is beyond cruelty

I'm guilty on all 34 counts? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1d2tb8y/an_f35_crashed_on_takeoff_at_albuquerque/

F-35 crashed and exploded

Pilot ejected and is injured but unfortunately alive.

The electric sexual tension between the interesting times gang and the nothing ever happens group.

To anyone still participating in campus protests against genocide and the empire, I highly suggest connecting with STEM students. It will be an uphill battle because it’s very difficult to find an engineer who cares about anything beyond a paycheck, but those who do have morals may provide an advantage to resistance.

Because STEM is full of selfish, evil people here in the west, it’s likely that they have automatic trust in each other and be open about the different programs and events that directly contribute to the military industrial complex. This is especially true for the professors and researchers who are affiliated with military contractors or have projects sponsored by them. These projects are often done on campus and the equipment costs millions of dollars. Chanting and camping out is nice and all, but it’s clear that colleges don’t care and these machines keep on churning behind closed doors.

The other tricky part is that the engineers who are against the American empire are likely Arab and/or Muslim, and there are many here in the states. But the students and staff involved with the military projects are less likely to be Arab/muslim, and you can verify by viewing their project websites. The government’s racist law enforcement may make the only sympathetic engineers understandably uncomfortable getting involved. But it’s still worth reaching out anyway.

We need to start thinking more like the feds. Start putting our people in positions that have control and/or access to useful facilities. The Brits have managed to sabotage some weapons factories, and American universities are less guarded than proper factories. This may require a lot of manpower with high integrity. But it may also only require a couple of people in key positions to get the ball rolling. Another option is making these assholes’ fears come true and actually utilize “outside agitators”; if you know rich people who are not busy (or can crowdsource for tuition), get them to enroll in classes so they’re officially a student and start applying for the jobs around campus. This isn’t working “from the inside” to reform, it’s seeking to actively harm and slow down the murderous machine.

JUST IN: The Yemeni Armed Forces announce 6 military operations:

🔻Targeting the US Eisenhower aircraft carrier AGAIN
🔻An American destroyer in the Red Sea.
🔻The other 4 operations targeted ships belonging to companies that violated the ban.

https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1797009294677655801?mx=1

It's kinda surreal watching people I went to high school again post about Palestine. Like posting only goes so far, but its wild seeing how Free Palestine is becoming a majority position.

🚨🚨🚨 is not reliable source of info

Owned by nazi-founded organization, politico is big mad about ireland

The funniest thing would be; back when al-Awlaki was murdered the SCOTUS said that the president could murder as many US citizens as he wanted with no trial or oversight because once you say the "T" word it becomes a "Political Question" and they can't touch it. So the funniest thing would be Trump winning, declaring the Governor of NY a terrorist, and dropping a hellfire on him as a traitor to America or some shit. Where is the lathe? I demand access to the lathe!

What I've seen from local liberal media about the most recent act of genocidal mass murder by Israel is that they try to frame it as a retaliations for Hamas rockets, that unfortunately accidentally killed civilians.

Deranged

Maldives will ban Israelis from entering the country over the war in Gaza

Labour's millionaire private healthcare CEO candidate for Corybn's constituancy just launched his campaign online with the following photo:

People immeadiately noticed that literally every single person is white. In a constituancy that's easily over 45% ethnic minority.

Then people noticed that it looks like some of the placards at the back, where you can't see the people, appear to be photoshopped in to make the already very weak, very white crowd look bigger. Note the different colour grading and sharpness. And the more people looked, the more photoshop appears to be happening. Heads springing out from nowhere, tiny hands on an obviously bigger placard etc.

Also, I just have to highlight this guy

H5N1 virus in latest human case has mutated, officials say

The slight evolution in the virus is associated with ‘adaptation to mammalian hosts’, according to the Centre for Disease Control

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”

Come join the Good Guys (TM), where we'll threaten your family if you try to uphold international law, we'll cut funding to global food security if you recognise a marginalised populations right to self-determination, push for global thermonuclear war if Ukrainian Nazis don't get to ethnically cleanse a third of their countrymen and also no, you won't even get to peacefully protest any of it, what are you, a free-speech absolutist commie-loving Hamas/Putler-supporter?

WSWS: Seattle museum workers walk out over exhibition equating anti-Zionism and antisemitism

Palestine Action cut off Leonardo’s Edinburgh factory’s internet access:
https://palestineaction.org/leonardo-internet-access/

President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia It's so Joever comrades.

World bank GDP PPP data just updated. (Most recent data for 2022)

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD

#1 China, $31,773,060.55

#2 USA, $25,439,700.00

#3 India, $12,998,139.47

#4 Russia, $5,987,861.45

#5 Japan, $5,862,116.60

Germany falls off top 5, replaced by Russia.

China's electric vehicle company BYD has announced they've developed a new hybrid drive train that promises to deliver a 2,000km (1,250 mile) range on a full tank and a full charge. And one of the new sedans they're putting it in will retail for less than $14k.

Catch me in parking lots at 2:30am doing burnouts in my Chinese car for hours on end. Or don't because

Israel has been worried about war crimes prosecution and actively subverting icc investigations.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed

They also sought to convince the prosecutor that, despite the Israeli military’s highly questionable record of investigating wrongdoing in its ranks, it had robust procedures for holding its armed forces to account.

This was a critical issue for Israel. A core ICC principle, known as complementarity, prevents the prosecutor from investigating or trying individuals if they are the subject of credible state-level investigations or criminal proceedings.

Israeli surveillance operatives were asked to find out which specific incidents might form part of a future ICC prosecution, multiple sources said, in order to enable Israeli investigative bodies to “open investigations retroactively” in the same cases.

They've been spying on the court to find out what cases are going to be prosecuted and then pretending that they were already prosecuting those specific cases themselves.

https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1795478252040908955

it will be so incredibly funny if Trump's polling numbers go up after all this.

chuds freaking out because their beloved leader, the most innocent man who has ever existed, was imprisoned by the woke communist dictator Brandon, while the libs are freaking out even harder as their election prospects continue to sink despite - maybe even because of - putting Trump in prison. I thrive on schadenfreude, so watching both sides eat shit is really

News thread favorite John Mearsheimer in Kangerooland talking about "Israel". Covers a lot that we already know. Points he makes include: (as appropriated from the trueanon thread I found this on)

-Israel will never accept a two-state solution or a multi-ethnic democracy as their goal is explicitly an ethnostate. This is why they supported Hamas over the PLO historically, as Hamas provides a perfect foil compared to the PLO

-Israel cannot defeat Hamas, their only real options were ethnic cleansing of Gaza (which failed) or genocide (which is what they are currently doing)

-Israel is unquestionably an apartheid state, however, they are aware of the instability of apartheid (re. South Africa). This leaves ethnic cleansing or genocide as the only long-term solutions

-Post-10/7 Israel needs to deal with the fact that their reputation of deterrence has been badly damaged and they have reached pariah-state level

-Israel will have an increasingly difficult time dealing with external threats due to the advancements in drone and missile technology employed by Iran, Hezbollah, and Yemen

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