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Please god let someone do something extremely funny today

In other news, the Communist Party of Kenya announces that it has purged opportunist and revisionist elements on Twitter

Pure delusion:
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1842270115796058568

According to Israeli Channel 13, the security cabinet has taken a decision to respond to the Iranian retaliatory operation 'Truthful Promise-2.'

Officials say they want to carry out a major attack on Iran that does not to lead to an exchange of fire in the near future, as to not distract from the goals of the current war.

my friend (not in gaza): "all the news is about 'sirens sound in'... that's the thing if we had warning sirens they would be sounding for a year without end"

The western left is afraid of its own shadow and completely useless, exhibit #586254:

During yesterday's opening of Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament, the small pro-democracy centre-left Red-Green party was met by pointless bad-faith attacks by right-wing regime representatives for having met with PFLP representatives and for having house an event featuring anti-imperialist author Torkil Lauesen. Back in the 1970's and 80's Lauesen was part of a group that raised funds for the PFLP through bank heists.

The right demanded that Red-Green not-party-leader Pelle Dragsted answered a silly bad-faith question of whether you could remain a member of the party if you sympathise with the PFLP. True to his spineless nature, Dragsted did not tell them to go fuck themselves or attempt a defence of the Palestinian resistance movement it his own party members. Instead recited milquetoast liberal phrases about how the alleged transgressions had been done by individuals who didn't reflect official party line and how the Red-Greens condemns "any kind of violence and terror against civilians".

Western leftists has had their minds poisoned by generations of anti-communist propaganda and had had their spirit completely broken by the disaster of the 1990's counter-revolutions. Parties with roots back to militant labour activism and bold antifascist resistance has turned into some of the most conflict-averse liberal teddy bears on the planet. They are so afraid that some reactionary knucklehead is going to be mad at them or that some lanyard duel is going to accuse them of not being civil enough that they have turned completely harmless.

I still have no idea what it is that Chappel Roan does but libs sure as hell are making me aware that she exists. Haven’t seen them this worked up over a celebrity since Susan Sarandon.

"Sandton Drive" in Johannesburg is getting renamed to "Leila Khaled Drive" in 2 weeks time. Apart from the Zionist tears, the AmeriKKKan embassy on the street has to update their address, lmao

The embassy when it says 1 Leila Khaled Drive, Sandton Johannesburg:

Me muting every single video because the settlers are so fucking annoying.

Lmao Israel banned the UN secretary general from entering the country

Lol

In other dying empire news, the US Navy's recently released Navigation Plan has the primary goal of preparing the Navy for war with the PRC by 2027. The plan also reads like a hybrid between marketing speak and a r/worldnews comment

A brief recap of events for today (September 30, 2024) on the Palestine/Lebanon front.

Zionist genocidal attacks on Lebanon killed 136 people (including six paramedics) over the past 24 hours. In response to the attacks, Hezbollah resistance forces conducted a Nour missile strike on the northern Zionist settlement of Kafr Giladi. In addition, the resistance also conducted rocket strikes on Safed, the Katsarin military base, and the Naqoura military base (using Fadi-2 rockets).

Islamic Resistance in Iraq forces conducted drone strikes on targets in Haifa.

Yemeni air defenses shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone.

At the very end of the day, the fascist Tel Aviv regime started invading parts of southern Lebanon.

Israeli sources to Sky News Arabia: 14 Israeli occupation soldiers killed in confrontations with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

https://xcancel.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1841451902753526072#m

incredible video to see the speed of hypersonics veerus normal ballistic (in the bckround)

Hezbollah confirms killing 17 Israeli officers and soldiers attempting to infiltrate Lebanon in today’s confrontations

https://xcancel.com/eyesonsouth1/status/1841894586714628581?s=46

The zionist terror regime bombed a humanitarian train in Syria, destined for Lebanon. Another day, another 100 war crimes by the genocidal regime

United Nations peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Unifil, are no longer able to move in southern Lebanon as a result of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, the UN said.

“Our UNIFIL Blue Helmets remain in position in the mission’s area of responsibility, while the intensity of fighting is preventing their movements and ability to undertake their mandated tasks,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told a media briefing.

“Given the intensity of the rockets going back and forth, they are not able to do patrolling".

Sounds like some heavy fighting has started.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the UN to recommend the use of force to stop Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza.

Erdogan invoked a six-decade-old Security Council resolution.

“The UN General Assembly should rapidly implement the authority to recommend the use of force, as it did with the 1950 Uniting for Peace resolution, if the Security Council can’t show the necessary will,” Erdogan says after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.

If Israel starts shooting Turkish soldiers does that mean the US has a NATO obligation to nuke Tel Aviv?

They lost some F-35. this is certain. Its very likely the thomas friedman bullshit was US intelligence work to protect israel from the fallout of its own arrogance when the missiles destroyed important things and that the IOF believed they would be able to protect their military assets, so they kept part of its stealth fighters in the ground and part of its military HQs manned. This with the general attempt by most of worldwide media (tied up to US media interests and US journalist training as we all know) were very likely attempts to not allow the harm to israeli and american deterrence spill public. They didn't even had the sufficient missiles to fire from the destroyers, which means whatever happened, they got to know about the strike too late for properly preparing the US apparatus for intercepting a higher number of missiles.

The US media and paid agents passing as independent analysts in twitter and other places are attempting to cause fear by disregarding the iranian government, their president and their intelligence apparatus. Do not fall for this. Its their traditional method of completely rewriting history on the go to hide their military losses and psychological warfare to convince NATO military superiority as something that cannot be opposed by any power. The anglo-european white supremacist alliance is the new fascist axis and they will use all kinds of propaganda and dirty tactics to keep anglo-european imperialism afloat, and they will not think twice in defending a settler colonial state which is a vacation place for american billionaires with ancestry to the settlers and their local base for exploring and exploiting the resources and land of middle-eastern states and peoples.

Full satellite imagery has been released on the results of the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Nevatim Air Base in Israel. For now, 33 direct hits can be seen:

Note that this is not counting the hits from attacks on other bases.

Last week in the news mega, I made a comment about how state department narratives get laundered through network news by having incompetent "journalists" asks terrible questions with no follow up to state dept pros. The fact these news anchors don't actually know anything is the point. The people they have on to interview just work them over and reinforce the narratives that they want Americans to fully accept. Was watching another clip today of the same news anchor team (CBS Mornings) give a somewhat hostile interview to Ta-Nehisi Coates. I was getting annoyed so I decided to look up the bios of these three news anchors. The point isn't to pick on them specifically, they are just indicative of a wider issue in one the main ways Americans get their news (I would suspect more Americans watch network news than cable news).

First of the three anchors is Gayle King. She has some professional experience as a local news reporter but what she's really famous for - and presumably why she's an anchor on CBS' morning news show - is being Oprah Winfrey's best friend. By the way, I was acquainted with a local news reporter. She was a very nice person but would make Ron Burgundy look like Walter Kronkite.

Second, we have Nate Burleson. Nate is not in any way a journalist. He is actually... a former American football player (WR for the Minnesota Vikings). I am not making that up.

Finally, we have ostensibly the most qualified "journalist" Tony Dokoupil. He was the one who was asking the hasbara questions to Ta-Nehisi ("why have the Palestinians turned down every offer for peace?" and "Does Israel have a right to defend itself?") By the way he has two kids and an ex-wife who live in Israel, no bias there. He did get a degree in "Media Studies" and wrote for Newsweek for a few years... but honestly so have a lot of people. This guy seems completely unremarkable as a journalist and he doesn't seem to have won any awards or written anything memorable other than a book about what is was like to have a father who was a drug dealer. But he's in control (to an extent) of how millions of Americans get their news.

Having incompetent journalists who don't ask hard questions is just how capitalism and imperialism reproduces itself in the minds of Americans.

Russian ambassador urges Russian citizens to leave Israel:
https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1841805797350662452

dont mind me googling "netanyahu slandering the lion of syria" for headlines I can use to make a meme when the time comes

Death to America

Holy fuck everyone put on Al Jazeera, so many direct hits and it's just beautiful

A full-scale war is indeed bad but...

Jonathan Panikoff, the director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council...

“A full-scale war, or even a more limited one, could be devastating for Lebanon, Israel, and the region. But from it, unexpected opportunities will also come — to undermine Iranian malign influence in the region, for example, by actively impeding its efforts to reconstitute Hezbollah. And a new administration should be prepared to take advantage of them."

NYT: A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran

Ghoulish fuckers must revel in their fantasies of mass death and suffering.

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I posted that before I read the next paragraph. Holy mother of fuck.

That is what old wars and hot wars do. They create new power dynamics, vacuums to be filled.

In the neoliberal hell that is Finland the government that managed to make striking illegal earlier this year is now pushing through a change into labor practices to have a pay gap in lower paying jobs. This would mean the wages can never go above a certain level. They are calling this "an export focused wage model", loosely translated.

Our self-proclaimed "left" party Left Alliance is countering this by asking people to sign yet another petition.

Scoop: U.S. wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president

U.S. officials say the White House wants to take advantage of Israel's massive blow to Hezbollah's leadership and infrastructure to push for an election of a new Lebanese president in the coming days.

Why it matters: Lebanon hasn't had a president for almost two years, which has increased instability and exacerbated the political and economic crisis in the country.

• Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, top militia commanders and other Hezbollah members were killed by Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks, weakening the influential militia.

• The Israeli attacks killed more than 1,100 people in Lebanon, including dozens of women and children, the Lebanese health ministry said without specifying how many of the people killed were Hezbollah members. Hezbollah in recent weeks stopped publishing the number of casualties it suffered.

Good old regime change was likely the decision for Israel to assassinate Nasrallah. I kept thinking about what Michael Hudson said the other day that Terrorism has become the only non-Atomic war alternative for the US empire to shape the geopolitical conflicts to advance its interests.

Americans need to pack up their shit and go home. They probably have a few days to withdraw, if that, before they drag us into another war.

Wake up

687 new comments in the news mega

So it's happening, huh

Iron dome has officially shat its pants, what a glorious day. I wish Nasrallah was there to see this

🎶CAN WE PRETEND THAT MISSILES OVER TEL AVIV ARE LIKE SHOOTING STARS?🎶

🎶I COULD REALLY USE A WISH RIGHT NOW 🎶

Ansarallah should take this moment to push a few buttons while US Navy is all eyes on Iran.

⚡️⭕️ IOF announces the start of the invasion of #Lebanon:

In accordance with the decision of the political echelon, a few hours ago, the IOF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbullah targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.

They add that these targets are located in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel.

so far no incursiona reported in Lebanon

It's official now. I have an horrible pit in my stomach

https://nitter.poast.org/ME_Observer_/status/1840888777503621543#m

FP article on Ukraine is quite funny. Russia wants to leave captured territory in exchange for Ukraine being neutral, the US wants to offer Russia territory in order to get Ukraine into NATO - https://archive.is/Ylpt9#selection-4797.0-2364.61

“Land for [Nato] membership is the only game in town, everyone knows it,” says one senior western official. “Nobody will say it out loud . . . but it’s the only strategy on the table.”

I'm just struggling with the feeling that we're living in Bizarro World when it comes to Israel. They've been starving and massacring Palestine nonstop for coming up on a year, Lebanon starts attacking in solidarity with Gaza, and now Israel is invading Lebanon like they're the victim and need to defend themselves. Meanwhile Syria and Iran are potentially in Israel's sights, and us Westerners are supposed to support Israel? It's so blatantly obvious that they are the aggressors and main destabilizing force in the region, and all of this is completely their fault. Yet you talk to any lib or turn on the TV, and Israel is just the smol lil bean who's encircled by enemies on all sides. I fucking hate all of it.

Things in the southeast are very bleak

CW: Death, Trauma

Iran didn't tell the US shit before wrecking the Zionist entity:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/if-you-attack-us--you-ll-be-on-the-verge-of-collapse--demise

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi affirms that no messages were exchanged between Iran and the US prior to the operation.

What is the appropriate response to us “celebrating” Oct 7th? Should we celebrate it? I mean, what we saw was an incredibly heroic attempt of a colonized people to break their chains. It has in some ways been a success beyond imagining. I truly believe this will be remembered as the very beginning of the end of the Zionist entity. However, the cost to people of Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon is almost beyond comprehension. So what is the correct response? Sober remembrance of the fallen that day and every day since?

Weapons grade cope in this morning's Economist. (In their Espresso app so I can only share the text, no link)

When an Israeli bomb killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah, last week it also decapitated a fearsome militia and dealt a blow to Iran’s “axis of resistance”, a constellation of proxy forces. His funeral is rumoured to be held on Friday. Since then, Iran has fired directly on Israel. But it appeared to fail in its objectives of hitting two air-force bases and a military-intelligence facility. Most of the missiles were intercepted and destroyed mid-air.

"Most of the missiles" is truly incredible reality invention, especially given we've more and more satellite evidence Iran successfully hit those airbases.

Iran is ending this year weaker than it began. Although it has warned Israel against hitting back, Israel’s retaliation will probably be of a far greater magnitude. And the proxies that are its first line of defence are struggling. Hamas is markedly weaker after a year of war in Gaza; the Houthis’ income has been cut along with the flow of goods from Hodeida, Yemen’s main port. As Iran mourns Nasrallah, it also mourns the depletion of its power.

They really are living on another planet. Hamas is still functioning and scoring hits on a war machine a hundred times its size after a year of war, Hezbollah is holding off an Israeli invasion, and Yemen has successfully reshaped global shipping lanes with its own power projection. Iran just carried out the largest single day ballastic missile strike in history, has joined BRICS, and negotiated a détente with Saudi Arabia. How exactly is it getting less powerful?

< me

< October 7th settlers' graves

< Them in hell

I'm concerned that Israel is going to commemorate the day with its response to the Iranian attack. Nothing about the American response recently has given me confidence that they won't strike oil and nuclear infrastructure.

There are rumors that Israel struck Maher Al Assad, brother of Bashar Al Assad yesterday, some of the Resistance sources are notoriously silent on that, so right now I'm assuming he's dead. That's someone that I won't mourn at all, I'm not happy about the Israelis killing people, but Maher is such a notorious piece of shit so he's better off dead. One day when I'm more emotionally stable and focused, you'll get a full breakdown of Syria and how bad Assad's rule really is. We like the Assad memes, but I do really hate him and his leech family. He's better than the Jihadis, but that's not a high bar tbh.

Good action, but why does Palestine Action keep on posting their faces while doing felonies?

Simple things you can do that will change your life forever:

• Eat fruit

• Do exercise

• Execute "Destiny"

• Eliminate the genocidal state of "israel"

• Sleep well