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Harris has now revisited her answer on the View about whether she would do anything differently than Joe Biden, saying there is one way she would change things up.

“I plan on having a Republican in my cabinet,” Harris said, repeating a promise she has made before. “You asked me, what’s the difference between Joe Biden and me. Well, that will be one of the differences. I’m going to have a Republican because I don’t, I don’t feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea."

"Trump and the Republicans want a christo-fascist ethnostate. Vote for me so we can have a bipartisan fascist ethnostate"

I saw a comment on the TrueAnon sub that said “if any of you youngsters are around in 50 years when the U.S. admits it blew up the Nordstream, let them know we knew.”

We’re basically at this point with the Iraq weapons of mass destruction narrative. I marched; we knew. The lib friend I marched with doesn’t give a shit anymore. (He’s wealthy.)

The 2k ton bombs that Israel dropped on Lebanon were made by the US. US bombs killed Hassan Nasrallah. I don’t see the distinction between the US funding and making the weapons for the genocide(s) (and probably (definitely?) having US troops in IOF) versus having an actually declared war against Palestine/Lebanon/etc (which the US doesn’t even do anymore anyway).

My University held a student's assembly today and decided: The University is now taken and partially managed by it's students until Wednesday, when the action will be temporarily suspended because we will hold a protest. However, if the Argentinian Congress fails to overturn milei's veto on education funding, a new assembly will be celebrated to decide on the next action. An indefinite occupation of the premises is not out of the question. We joined our efforts with the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires and other institutions that have carried out similar actions. This can become a big snowball very quickly.

Wherever this ends, it's valuable experience. Even if we don't achieve political victories, let it be known that we can work together and we can act in solidarity with one another. That's a big win, because we can find the ways to transform the material reality in capitalism, and that is, to me, the way to bring it down.

"People are sick of the bullshit in here."

— Reporter @cosgrove_iv at the State Department confronts Matt Miller on U.S. foreign policy.

I guess there's at least one journalist with a conscience

https://nitter.poast.org/DropSiteNews/status/1843721680532976016

Edit: here's the context of what he said

Reporter @cosgrove_iv confronts Matt Miller on U.S. foreign policy: You're risking nuclear war while financing genocide—people are sick of the bullshit!

"So my question for you is you know we often hear in response to these concerns that while Putin, Khomeini, you know they're terrorists as if they're too inherently evil or immoral for us to negotiate with. But meanwhile, this administration has financed a genocide in Gaza for the last year, and every day you're up there denying accountability for it."

https://nitter.poast.org/halalflow/status/1843724243441238392

rewatching vids of oct 7 reminded me of something I was thinking when it happened. Hamas was putting video out within a few hours of Al-Aqsa Flood start and I suspect they had crews on motorcycles collecting go-pro sd cards and porting them back into Gaza where Hamas propaganda warriors would edit and upload almost in real time. Like it wasn't just an add-on but a significant part of the operation. They were putting out video, info graphics and other related stuff in order to dominate the narrative as soon as possible. This might be the first time the term 'keyboard warrior' was a real thing and they were likely targeted by IOF in the subsequent bombing campaign. o7 to all the people behind the line.

Reuters moment

UK has denied entry to Mandela's grandson the day before the start of his speaking tour through Scotland on apartheid in South Africa and Palestine.

What do I do with this heart-wrentching sick and rage I feel as I move about the world? Everyone going about their business as if we're not actively and in real-time, complicit in a genocide? It's surreal. It's bewildering.

I'm smack in the middle of the hurricane's path, and I know there are good normal people here, but I just feel a sense of giddy excitement that the reactionary fucks that make up the bulk of this cursed population are going to feel 1/1000th of the hardship that we force on Gaza every single day. Florida deserves this.

Jeremy Loffredo of the Grayzone has reportedly been kidnapped by the IOF, this is his last report.

Quite interesting, especially the missile location 1000feet away from Mossad HQ. Looks like Iran missed the target by a small amount.

Say whatever you want about the shitty parts of the Grayzone but operating like this inside Israel is incredibly ballsy, bordering on stupidity but I commend them.

https://tankie.tube/w/rUZFnsoFrSff6xXECD9kwc

Danish newspaper reporting that US Navy vessels were near the Nord Stream pipeline 4-5 days before it was sabotaged with their transponders off

Original article (in Danish)

Did you know that if an immigrant misses a single immigration court hearing, they automatically receive a deportation order?

Anyway, immigration courts in Florida have not stopped holding hearings

Got the official shelter on place warning for Milton. Wish me luck, comrades.

'Prepare for post-Hezbollah phase' US envoy tells Lebanon as Israeli massacres intensify | The Cradle

US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson has asked political forces in the country to “prepare for the post-Hezbollah phase, where its control over the state and its institutions and the state’s border crossings is no longer permitted.” Al-Akhbar reported on 11 October.

She reiterated that “Hezbollah has become very weak after the strikes that were directed at it, targeting its leaders and killing its Secretary-General, and therefore, it can no longer impose what it wants, and there is a new political phase that the country will witness soon in which the party has no place.”

delusional. they are still sticking to this deranged fantasy that killing Nasrallah (and 600 bystanders) somehow made Hezbollah a fraction of its former self. hard to believe this is purely cynical, feels like it could be that syndrome where the failsons running the show have fallen for all the previous generation's propaganda

Brown Rejects Protesters’ Push to Divest Over Israel Ties

Brown University announced on Wednesday that its governing board had voted to reject a student proposal to divest from companies involved in Israeli military and security activities.

The vote, on Tuesday, was the first of its kind in the Ivy League since the start of the Israel-Hamas war one year ago, which has ignited an international protest movement.

Everyone in the news mega called it five months ago

@ziggurter@hexbear.net

@cricbuzz@hexbear.net

Head of Iranian Red Crescent Society said on the national TV that Israel have bombed the Iran's Red Crescent field hospital in Syrian-Lebanese border.

In Finland news the government is going to privatize water next

There was a citizens initiative to counter this in 2021, but as is to be expected it made no difference. There is now a new initiative (essentially a "please don't do this) up, but looks like we are getting privatized water next.

The EU citizen's initiatives are the biggest scam in optics imo. Finns love them, they are doing so much democracy by signing them.

Mondoweiss: ‘A time of painful birth and major transformation’: a senior Hamas leader reflects on October 7 and its aftermath

An interview with senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk. Some selected quotes and commentary:

The October 7th operation halted Israel’s project of regional dominance after it was shattered by just a few hundred Al-Qassam fighters. Israel can no longer claim that it protects the region and the Gulf against Iran, and thus all efforts to integrate it into the region have failed as a result of this operation.

I think this speaks to the fact that KSA and Israel were closing in on a deal for official recognition. But it’s deeper than just diplomatic ties. Israel wants to be “integrated” (I think more like, “in charge”) in with neighbors like KSA, Jordan and Egypt. Diplomatic, military, and economic integration - again, I don’t think Israel has equality in mind, though. That would have been horrible for the Palestinians, and that project is now dead in the water and likely will be for some time.

As for the goals set by Hamas, they have been solidified on the ground, and the national project is now closer to realization, while the Zionist project is further from execution, despite the balance of power and the American support for Israel.

Yes I get that a senior Hamas leader will probably say this regardless but it’s still nice to hear, and I also happen to think this jives with the reality on the ground.

After every setback for the national movement and resistance, the people produced new elements to confront the Zionist movement. After the 1927 revolution came the 1936 revolution. Thirty-six years later, there was the 1947 war, followed by the fedayeen operations, then the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Liberation Army. After 1984 and PLO’s exit from Lebanon, the First Intifada started in 1987, then the second in 2000, followed by wars in 2008, 2012, 2014, and 2021.

This is very dialectical.

We extend our appreciation to the international solidarity movement with Palestine for their humanity and their efforts in confronting war criminals, despite the daily pressures they face. The situation even reached the point where American pilot Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in protest against Israel’s genocide and the Biden administration’s stance on the war. We, along with our people, are deeply grateful to him and his family, as well as to all the free individuals standing in solidarity with our cause.

The Resistance frequently harkens back to Aaron Bushnell, I think he would be proud to know what his sacrifice meant to them.

I’m at my grandfathers house and it always reminds me how I’ll never be as cool as him. He has a few pictures of him with Jacobo Arbenz and talks fondly about the time he met che Guevara during his time in Guatemala.

1 year ago, history began. The news mega probably didn't exist before then. Wild to remember those times

Even with the biggest ancap America fan ever in charge, the US is losing Argentina to China lol.

Frustrated with US, Argentina’s Milei seeks rapprochement with China

In a television interview this week, Milei described China as a "very interesting commercial partner" and said he was "positively surprised by China" - a stark contrast to his earlier rhetoric, in which he referred to China as an "assassin" state while vowing to prioritise relations with Western allies.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/frustrated-with-washington-argentina-s-milei-seeks-rapprochement-with-china/ar-AA1rIIuf

Also in Chinese medical news: Three people have been cured of severe autoimmune disorders using genetically modified donor immune cells

Almost out of a movie: Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, visited south Beirut today and met with the crowd. Amid a reported blockade by the IDF on Iranian planes coming into Beirut, Ghalibaf, former Air Force commander, flew the plane into Beirut himself.

Seamus Malekafzali twitter post (xcancel)

Biden administration no longer supporting an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.

The allowed aid into Gaza is now down to <200,000 kilograms per day, with food and water effectively now illegal in the northern half. Gaza Soup Kitchen North is also now practically defunct, with them stating they have likely served their last meals 2 days ago.

There is less food in Gaza than in Johannesburg's hyper-dense Hillbrow neighbourhood of 75,000 people.

New info on the Nord Stream bombing just came out from the Danish paper Politiken, stating that the harbor master of Christiansø island (Near Bornholm) thought some ships needed rescue as their radios were off, and was turned away by the US military when approached.

Here is the original article in Danish.

https://archive.ph/sekds

For the first few days, the harbor master said he was ‘not allowed to say a thing.’ But today, John Anker Nielsen can reveal that four or five days before the Nord Stream blasts, he was out with the rescue service on Christiansø, because there were some ships with switched-off radios [transponders]. They turned out to be American naval vessels, and when the rescue service approached, they were told by Naval Command to turn back.

The Americans have these small unmanned submarines that can solve any task, John Anker Nielsen has been told. The harbor master’s family has lived on Christiansø for seven generations, and he knows all about the weather and wind conditions in the Baltic Sea. Against this background, he doesn’t give much credence to the theory of a yacht and some Ukrainians diving down to 80 meters

Interestingly, it corroborates what MoA was saying as far back as February 9, 2023 as he corrected Hersh's specifics, which were inaccurate when talking about the timing window. This was days after Hersh's article. Hersh said the bombs were planted months in advance at some NATO exercise, MoA pointed out this was unlikely for various reasons and instead the bombs were planted there by US navy vessels a few days before the blast with transponders turned off. He was exactly correct.

It is unlikely that the explosives were put out while the yearly BALTOPS exercise was still ongoing... The whole exercise took only 12 days. A lot of nations took part. Submarines were involved. The Russian's were around watching what was happening. (They like also had submarines in the wider area.)

Those are not good conditions to do a lot of secret underwater work. It was much easier to do this later, when everyone had turned back to port. The U.S. ships though did not sail home. They stayed around, did some harbor visits and eventually settled down near the island of Bornholm a few miles away from the pipelines where they started to do their work.

To blow such pipelines takes a lot more than just putting a few pounds of C4 explosives on top of them. The pipelines had first to be dug out, must likely with pressurized water. Next explosives had to be placed all around them. Then a trigger mechanism of some kind had to be deployed and fixed on to them. Lastly the explosive laden section would have to be reburied to prevent detection or unforeseen entanglement with some external elements. All this had to be done at least four times. If I had planned the operation I probably would have gone for a total of eight explosive packages.

The whole process takes time. Unmanned submarine like vehicles were needed to carry the hundreds of kilograms of explosives and equipment. Diving time at that depth is not unlimited and there must have been a few crew changes. It probably took three to four weeks to fix the whole issue.

The USS Kearsarge was much longer in the Baltic Sea than Hersh presumes. The explosives were put down sometime between the end of BALTOPS on June 17 and September 22, the date the USS Kearsarge passed Fehmarn to leave the Baltic Sea.

That window was not [extended] by months between the end of BALTOPS and the explosions but by a mere few days between somewhat around September 20 when the Kearsarge went on its way back home and September 27 when the pipelines exploded.

The Kearsarge was likely selected for purpose. The ship has a well deck, which opens to the sea through huge gates in the ship's stern. There, the cargo, troops and vehicles are loaded onto landing craft for transit to the beach. The air cushion landing craft can "fly" out of the dry well deck, or the well deck can be flooded so that conventional landing craft can float out on their way to the beach.

Usually the Kearsarge would be a too big missile target to be in the Baltic Sea. But the well deck comes in handy when one wants to test new underwater equipment or put explosives around pipelines:

In support of BALTOPS, U.S. Navy 6th Fleet partnered with U.S. Navy research and warfare centers to bring the latest advancements in unmanned underwater vehicle mine hunting technology to the Baltic Sea to demonstrate the vehicle’s effectiveness in operational scenarios.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/some-small-corrections-to-seymour-hershs-new-nord-stream-revelations.html

Christiansø is basically right on top of Bornholm. MoA got the motive, the suspect, the location, the timeline all correct - more correct than Hersh and all his CIA contacts who only got the suspect and motive correct. I realize he's since become controversial for some boomer takes, but there's a reason we still read and link to him. He knows what the fuck he's talking about when it comes to NATO navies and armies. He had already unearthed most of this 2 days after the bombings, and Hersh took nearly 5 months to put out a less accurate version of what b just sleuthed out from knowing about NATO navies.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/whodunnit-facts-related-to-the-sabotage-attack-on-the-nord-stream-pipelines.html (2 days after the explosion, had already pinpointed the culprit)

Here's Hersh's original article

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Updated logo of the Military Media of the Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades

How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

Excellent long-form analysis on this by Asa Winstanley.

"I will r-word your mom and your entire family and you. You look like a n-word." - Female Zionist high school student after finding out the streamer is a Palestinian American who loves Palestine

https://xcancel.com/hippyygoat/status/1845003003708756036

SLAMMER commemorates the first anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood

Nothing ever changes

The IOF when Hezbollah comes out fighting even harder after Nasrallah was martyred:

What colonial regimes and it's liberal allies will forever fail to understand is that colonized peoples will not fight for individuals. They fight for the idea of liberation, and you can't kill ideas. The struggle will continue, with ups and downs, but will nevertheless continue until it achieves victory. And there's nothing they can do about it, it's an inherent flaw of colonial regimes.

death to "israel"

Imagine being a Ukraine supporter right now and watching America completely forget about Ukraine and focus on Israel.

Looks like the "tankies" were once again proven to be correct when we said that this conflict wasn't about freedumb.

So, for those who don't know, Paraguay has really close relation with Israel. Paraguay has been ruled by the conservative Colorado party (They are mostly Conservative, Neoliberal and Pro-Taiwan. There are some socdems inside the party though, these were part of the anti-Stroessner guerrilas) since the 1950's, with exception of a brief period in the late 2000's, early 2010's where the Liberals (Sometimes called the Blue Party, they are the Pro-PRC Socdems/Liberals) and Leftist actually won the elections with help from moderate and socdem Colorado politicians.

During the brutal far-right dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Israel, under the goverment of Golda Meir, approved a plan to pay for 60,000 Palestinians to leave Gaza and go to Paraguay, where they would be used practically as slave labor. The Paraguayan regime saw the Palestinians as ideal immigrants, as they thought were not inclined towards communism because they were muslims.

Only 30 Palestinians immigrated to Paraguay as part of it, and they soon became impoverished. Two of them came to the Israeli embassy in Asuncion to claim money they claimed had not been paid to them, shot the embassy secretary to death because they thought she was calling the police, and wounded another employee.

During the trial, the two claimed that they were lured to immigrate from Gaza to Paraguay, and that they were promised that Israel would help them find a job and learn Spanish. They set off after receiving travel documents, $25 pocket money and plane tickets from Israel via London and Rio de Janeiro. In Paraguay they discovered that they had been misled and the promises made to them were not fulfilled.

The Israeli government placed the blame on Fatah members , but the organization denied involvement. The entire deal was eventually canceled.

drops another bipartisanship bomb:

Harris Says She Would Form Bipartisan Council of Advisers

At a campaign event geared toward Republican supporters in Scottsdale, Ariz., Ms. Harris said the council would be an attempt to “put some structure” around policy discussions that reach across the aisle.

“Wherever they come from, I love good ideas,” she said at the Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale. “We have to have a healthy two-party system.”

i wore my free Palestine tshirt all day yesterday

2 guys told me they loved it, 1 in California and 1 in Las Vegas

everyone else in Vegas seems to have a problem with it because there were a lot of stink eyes and not so subtle comments and whispers while pointing or glaring

of all the places I've been wearing these shirts for the past 7 months Vegas is the first place where people seem to be more openly hostile and generally against Palestinians. Obviously just anecdotal but it's very odd to me considering it's almost purely tourists from everywhere else

Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israel’s bombs will kill generations

Waiting for Iran to bomb Israel again so years happen and these Hexbear emojis can finally finish loading

https://xcancel.com/IbnRiad/status/1844385329308156256

My neighbor told me the resistance keeps smoking his rescue teams so I asked how many teams he has and he said he just goes to the barracks and gets a new team afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding rescue teams to the resistance and Herzi Halevi started crying

Someone on Hasan's stream said their family members live in the path of the hurricane and there are wild amounts of misinfo flying around. People saying "don't take the $750 b/c FEMA could repossess your home if you don't pay it back" and people generally downplaying the seriousness of Milton