CoralMarks

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[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 104 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Not really news but still pretty funny and I just heard about it for the first time.
A different kind of blowback:

Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.

france-cool

[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Afghanistan: Taliban negotiate with USA

The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan, have negotiated with the USA about a prisoner exchange, as Taliban spokesman Sabihullah Mujahid told journalists in Kabul on Wednesday. Two US citizens are in custody in the country. They are to be exchanged for Afghans who are interned in the US prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba. The talks took place on the sidelines of a recent summit with UN representatives and Afghanistan envoys from various countries in Qatar. Nothing is known about the results so far.

[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 86 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Balloons from North Korea disrupt air traffic

The balloons full of garbage that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been sending to South Korea for weeks are having an impact on air traffic. More than 110 flights have been disrupted by the balloon launches that have been going on since the end of March, said South Korean MP Jeong Jun Ho on Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Transport. More than 10,000 passengers were affected. The DPRK is using the balloons to respond to previous actions from South Korea in which propaganda material was also sent north in balloons.

juche-boi

[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If anyone else wants to have a look here is a download link.

Some choice quotes on the current situation from the title article which is for the most part just a liberal history of Germany after WW2:

Here too, Botho Strauß was right: Russia is a force of tradition that is turning against the dynamics of the Western way of life.

Germany was too greedy for cheap gas from Russia, has to break away from it with difficulty, and is now paying for having been driven more by economics than politics. Inflation, prices are soaring. A weak economy is plaguing the country, which has, among other things, relied on the combustion engine for too long. German engineers are somehow having a hard time with the electric car. No German government has taken climate change seriously, to the dismay of many young people.

The good news from recent times: Germany unexpectedly becomes world champion in basketball.

The bad news: violence against Green and Social Democratic election campaigners, an echo of Weimar conditions on German streets. Anti-Semitic excesses break out during protests against Israel's actions in the war against Hamas, especially at universities. Some Jews no longer feel comfortable in Germany, they are afraid. In the country of the perpetrators, which has pledged to "never again". Nevertheless, this is not a "failed state"; all in all, this is a successful country that has set the framework for a pleasant life for its citizens: freedom, security, stability, progress. For its allies and neighbors, it is a fair, peaceful partner. Congratulations, Federal Republic of Germany.

[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Is the robot at the end something they captured from the IOF?

Seems to be this thing. So I would assume definitely captured from the IOF.

[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Johnathan Shite kelly

[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

While looking for some numbers on this I came up on a news article about people arrested at Palestine protests and it had this line from the pigs union which I thought sums up pretty well the cops attitude to all of this:

The police union (GdP) condemned the attacks on the police. “We are experiencing the effects of a religious war on the streets of the capital, in which our emergency services are becoming the targets of religious fanaticism.”

Couldn't find much on how many Jews where arrested at Palestine protests. Some tidbits on the situation in general I picked up though:

In an especially absurd case, a Jewish Israeli woman was detained for standing alone in a public square while holding a sign denouncing the ongoing war waged by her own country.

Shortly after the start of the war, the Berlin police banned demonstrations organized by Jews such as “Jewish Berliners against Violence in the Middle East” on the grounds that anti-Semitic messages could be spread there. This development is extremely dangerous. Jews who speak critically about Israel are silenced or accused of self-hatred.

[–] CoralMarks@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Props to the sqirrel antifa division keeping the porkies on edge rat-salute-2
Hope nobody got hurt though

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Continuing on from yesterdays revolution in 1894, the French, with a bit of help of the Soviet Union, were able to establish the Paris commune. Which at some point just flipped the whole of France communist.

Now I was looking at my relations and it's not looking good smh

In other news, in 1903 Teddy Roosevelts US declared war on us to force us to go capitalist.
In return I now could also define some wargoals and I chose to do the opposite to them.
If they lose, which looks like a likely outcome at this point(we got a bigger army and they already tried doing naval invasions when it was still Russia), they will have to become a council republic, ban slavery and liberate California.

We'll see how it goes....

 

Just finished the revolution, which I kind of stumbled myself into, and was able to form the Soviet Union in 1894.

I thought this was pretty early, what year where you all able to get communism to kick off in your saves?

cat-com

 

Dear readers,
One wall, two posters: In Hamburg, unknown people at Rote Flora changed the clear statement against Hamas into a statement of solidarity with Palestinians. It should no longer be written on the wall that the killing of Jewish people in Israel and around the world is not a liberation struggle. Anti-imperialist movements have been criticized for years for uncritical solidarity. The occupied cultural center in the Schanzenviertel has not changed its position. “Free the world from Hamas” is now hanging there. This demand reflects that Hamas is an Islamist terrorist organization. On October 7th of this year, the Islamists, who have controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, confirmed that they were, above all, carrying out terrorism by targeting civilians, murdering the defenseless, executing babies and children, raping women and displaying the dead. That day, Hamas hoped to murder as many Jewish people as possible. They killed people true to their fundamentalist Islamism. On that one On that day, Hamas didn't just take over 250 people hostage by kidnapping them from Israel. They also took hostage the approximately two million people in Gaza, who serve as human shields alive and as propaganda material when dead. Propaganda and contempt also seems to come from parts of the Israeli government post October 7th that articulated scenarios, such as the relocation of all Gazans to the Sinai or the use of nuclear weapons.

With all justified compassion for the civilians in Gaza: If you are a leftist, you do not demonstrate with reactionaries, if you are a feminist, you do not show solidarity with the rapists and murderers of Hamas who are close to the Iranian regime. If you are an anti-fascist, you stand with the Jews and against anti-Semitism, especially in Germany. Any secret joy for the organization driven by religious fanaticism is no less an anti-Semitic reaction. The criticism of parts of the migrant communities and the left-wing solidarity spectrum because of anti-Israel positions and/or anti-Semitic sentiments is not new. It has been expressed for years and often comes from the respective milieu. In the current discourse, some politicians and journalists are now taking a harsh tone against migrants and “the” left. And they suggest that the entire migrant left and all migrants living here stand in unison against Israel. A generalization that also applies to other leftists. The fact that the German section of Fridays for Future is quickly drowned out when it spoke out clearly against one-sided “Free Gaza” solidarity. It is even more quickly drowned out that anti-Semitism is not just virulent in majority society, but omnipresent. But let's not talk about the Aiwangers and Walsers of this society. Let us also not remind you that the German fraternity decided to exclude Jews at the Würzburg Burschentag in 1822. Let's better forget that "Death (...) is a master from Germany". Anti-Semites are always the others - especially the strangers, the immigrants.

Your editorial team
MAGAZINE #derrechterand 205/2023 3

Just got this in the mail and immediately cancelled my subscription.
Like literally reproducing every Israeli propaganda talking point that has been debunked already and calling yourself leftists, all the while scolding every actual leftist that is not a Israeli lapdog. Infuriating.

German original

The cover translates to "Against all antisemitism - without question!"

germany-cool

 

As the Soviet army approached and the end of the war came closer the vast majority of Auschwitz prisoners were marched west by the Nazis, into Germany. Those few thousand remaining were thought too ill to travel, and were left behind to be shot by the SS. In the confusion that followed the abandonment of the camp, the SS left them alive. The prisoners were found by Soviet forces when they liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.

Vasily Gromadsky, a Russian officer with the 60th Army liberating Auschwitz recalls what happened.

"They [the prisoners] began rushing towards us, in a big crowd. They were weeping, embracing us and kissing us. I felt a grievance on behalf of mankind that these fascists had made such a mockery of us. It roused me and all the soldiers to go and quickly destroy them and send them to hell."

“We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate. Being so alone a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human worth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.”

– Eva Mozes Kor, age 10, child survivor of Auschwitz

Eva Mozes Kor, age 10, was one of several hundred children, many of them twins, who were left behind. She and her twin sister Miriam had been subjects in Dr. Josef Mengele’s medical experiments. She describes what it was like to see the liberating Russians.

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