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Bulletins and News Discussion from October 7th to October 13th, 2024 - Happy International Paragliding Day!

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One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.

Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • '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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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"

  • 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.”

  • Mass-murdering war criminal Barack Obama compares Trump to Commander Fidel Castro

    He said that black men are inventing all kinds of reasons and excuses not to vote for Kamala. “Because part of it makes me think, part of it makes me think that, well, you're just not feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're inventing other alternatives and other reasons for it.”

    “The women in our lives have been supporting us all this time. When we have problems and the system isn't working for us, they're the ones out there marching and protesting. And now, you're thinking of standing aside or supporting someone who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that's a sign of strength, because that's what it is to be a man? Putting women down? That's not acceptable.”

    Obama compares Trump's speeches to those of Fidel Castro during a Democratic rally. The reaction has not sat well with many, who have reminded the former American president of his history of rapprochement with the Cuban government.

    With sarcasm and laughter, Obama described Trump as a 78-year-old narcissistic and boastful multimillionaire who has not stopped "complaining" since he launched his first campaign in June 2015. "You have the tweets in uppercase. The ramblings and diatribes about crazy conspiracy theories. You have the two-hour speeches, the word salad. Simply... it's like Fidel Castro, over and over again," he said.

    "Constant attempts to sell you things: Selling you gold sneakers and a 100,000-dollar watch and, more recently, a Trump Bible," he added in reference to the Republican candidate’s attempts to profit economically from his image.

    "If anyone cared about what Obama says, Hillary Clinton would've been president," said Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.

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

  • Cosplay leftist is my new favourite insult for the libs playing dressup as socialists and anarchists to look and feel good about themselves but taking liberal political actions in all other ways.

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