Biden got cured of Dementia after Trump won?
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https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
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Dark Brandon was not a meme, it was a warning.
It's probably not far-fetched to say "happy = more brain chemicals = improvement in dementia symptoms".
I guess the question is: why is Biden so happy?
He is the second happiest person. Now I’m wondering who she voted for.
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The Cradle article about "Israel's weird abduction of a Lebanese sea captain" where German peacekeepers assisted in the crime.
It brings up some important history of previous incidences:
Tel Aviv's use of such covert raids is nothing new. In April this year, an Israeli death squad infiltrated Lebanon to target a currency exchanger, Hussein Srour, who they accused of transferring funds from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) into Gaza. The squad lured Srour to a villa in Beit Mery, Mount Lebanon, where they kidnapped, tortured, interrogated, and ultimately executed him – all while recording the gruesome act for their superiors in Israel.
In 2006, during Israel's month-long July war on Lebanon, occupation forces raided Baalbek and thought they had captured the late Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, only to discover it was a case of mistaken identity. Instead, the Israelis discovered they had apprehended a plasterer sharing the same name in a failed operation that quickly became the subject of ridicule. They released him soon after.
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The Israeli Mossad has also carried out kidnappings beyond Lebanon's borders. In October 2021, they abducted a retired IRGC officer in Damascus, seizing him while he was strolling near the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital. He was transported to Tel Aviv for interrogation and later released in South Africa.
At the time, Mossad was actively seeking information on missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad, whose plane was shot down over Lebanon in 1986. Then-Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett later admitted that the Syrian abduction operation had yielded no new information, though the Iranian general was suspected of holding crucial knowledge.
In yet another shadowy episode, Israeli intelligence operatives kidnapped a Lebanese agricultural engineer in Cambodia, suspecting him of having ties to Hezbollah. Again, after intense and clearly fruitless interrogations, he was eventually released in Thailand.
It really does prove that you can be given the most advanced panopticon and supreme surveillance state apparatus on the planet but if the people running it are completely incompetent dullards who pop out of the womb and are instantly promoted to vice-admiral, it doesn't really matter.
It's why the whole "We actually knew Hamas was going to attack, we just didn't do anything about it because we just, uh, didn't wanna" is such a hilarious story, because I guarantee that all Sinwar had to do was send messages to Obeida via a cell phone he knew was being tapped about how he was gonna turn Hamas into a thinktank for the advocacy of a Palestinian state by 2070 and these gullible morons in a base in the Gaza envelope were just like "Finally, we knew those cowards would give up. Time to send half our soldiers on holiday to Morocco," and now they're just trying to cover their own asses so they don't get fired. I'm not a Sun Tzu guy but he went hard when he said:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Especially given that I'm pretty sure Sinwar learned Hebrew so he could read and analyze Mossad operations and learn how to counter Israel, and he survived for over a year in one of the most bombed areas in human history.
But all this stuff is phrased in the most intimidating way possible for regular people, like: "Using our bleeding-edge cyberintelligence capabilities and intelligence gathering using top artificial intelligence algorithms..." so they're just like, well fuck, Palestinian opposition is hopeless I guess, when it's demonstrably not
But all this stuff is phrased in the most intimidating way possible for regular people, like: "Using our bleeding-edge cyberintelligence capabilities and intelligence gathering using top artificial intelligence algorithms..." so they're just like, well fuck, Palestinian opposition is hopeless I guess, when it's demonstrably not
I think about this every day. I am quite sure that almost nowhere on earth is subjected to a more comprehensive aerial and sigint surveillance campaign than the tiny area that is South Lebanon at this moment. NATO is running AWACS 24/7 off the coast. And yet, the fighters are able to operate and carry out successful operations. Hiding in the mountains and foothills and delivering death to the child-killing occupation army.
All the tech in the world and the gluttonous imperialists still get dunked on daily.
Western intelligence has been hampered for decades by an obsession with more tech and more data, to the detriment of quality analysis. Just a bunch of spreadsheet nerds with no brain for context or application
Lebanon vs UK for scale.
Yearning for mossed to capture me and release me in a south east asian country without me actually having to pay for a ticket
I dont think so. Those people have permanent damage from torture.
Waking up in a bathtub full of ice sans liver somewhere in Madagascar
Thinking back on that anti-war rally that had Tulsi as it's keynote speaker, and feeling very justified at my criticism of the people who supported that (I'm trying to be nice here since I know there's at least a few people here who supported it at the time).
US anti-war movement ~~always~~ never disappoints.
Our big sweaty Boi is killing gender affirming care, get your checkups by the end of the year I guess.
And even when he is gone and it is the blue team's turn on the presidency again it will take a hundred Stonewall riots to make the libs bring it back.
Trump wishes for a stonewall riot so he can ban all pride marches.
the missing ingredient is an international worker's movement and I am doubtful of any concessions without it
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how many places in Europe are gonna flood before london gets what's coming to it
Death to America
https://thecradle.co/articles/short-on-troops-israel-turns-to-mercenaries
Another initiative by the Netanyahu administration involves cooperation with German intelligence and Zionist organizations in Germany to recruit asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. Over the past seven months, the Values Initiative Association and the German–Israeli Association (DIG) have worked to enlist these refugees from war-torn Muslim-majority countries as mercenaries for Israel.
Offered monthly salaries ranging between €4,000 to €5,000 and fast-tracked German citizenship, many have joined the fight. Reports suggest that around 4,000 immigrants were naturalized between September and October alone.
After the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Germany imposed further restrictions on citizenship applicants from Arab and Muslim countries, requiring them to make pledges not to criticize Israel or show sympathy for Palestinians as a litmus test for naturalization.
In early November 2024, Germany introduced a law for compulsory conscription of these Arab and Muslim applicants, claiming an intent to fill manpower shortages. Yet, this conscription would not involve service in Germany – a stipulation that has left many of these refugees wary of who and where they could end up fighting.
So germany joins the usa in invading Afghanistan and Iraq... destroys the fuck out of them... abandons them... and they leave a bunch of collaborators that the governments have vowed to kill.
Then the ones that managed to flee arrive in germany and are told that the only way they will ever be allowed to settle there is by going and participating in a genocide and fighting for the people who see them as the same as the people they are genociding
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Waffen ISIS
Blowback in 2032
Jeez, I was not aware that we were already at the “compulsory conscription of refugees” stage of collapse. Or maybe the 
s have been watching too much Attack on Titan??
But when Russia and North Korea do it it’s bad. /s I realize it’s not comparable - this is actually disgustingly horrible and won’t make even make it the it into what passes for US news slop.
Isis fighters hiding amongst refugees getting rehired by Israel should have been on my bingo card.
Please let this boomerang into a 5th column.
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North Korean M1989 self-propelled artillery guns spotted in Krasnoyarsk, Russia heading west.
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied (far, far) West Korea from the genocidal American empire
Here is the press statement from The Onion about purchasing Infowars. It says that the Onion plans to completely transition Infowars into a new website by January 2025. I think this is a screenshot of an email maybe. The twitter account Maxwell Tani is a journalist from semafor.com .
The Onion's goal with the acquisition is to end Infowars' relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion's relentless barrage of humor for good. "The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site's users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash," said The Onion's CEO Ben Collins. "Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin."
https://xcancel.com/maxwelltani/status/1857063171900514527
Here is a video clip of Alex Jones announcing the acquisition by The Onion.
https://xcancel.com/JordanUhl/status/1857075969544040582
Social media post by Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion. "We're planning on making a very stupid website."
https://xcancel.com/oneunderscore__/status/1857068633127530939
The Onion don't miss
The economist, talking about elections in ukraine and fading legitimacy of zelensky. Zaluzny is next perhaps