Bulletins and News Discussion from March 18th to March 24th, 2024 - Ra Ra Rasputin - COTW: Russia

Russia requests that Germany recognize the Siege of Leningrad and other WWII war crimes as genocide

Broke: the Russian government is illegitimate because Putin wins 85% of the vote and has no serious challenger

Woke: the Russian government is illegitimate because a supermajority of citizens and a majority of republics voted to retain the Soviet Union and its dissolution was an illegal act counter to the will of the people

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Another study finds that Havana Syndrome is still fake

So where’s the international show of support for the Russian people in the aftermath of this attack? Have we lit up buildings with the Russian flag? Where’s the “je suis Russia”?

TOPPLE. BEHEAD.

Argentina's government rules out free dengue vaccine despite record deaths

Presidential Spokesperson Maneul Adorni says there is no plan to make Dengue vaccine free and compulsory to citizens despite a record number of deaths this year.

President Javier Milei’s government will not include a vaccine for Dengue fever in its national vaccination calendar. Speaking at a press conference in Buenos Aires on Monday, Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni shot down suggestions that the state would make the jab free and compulsory to citizens despite a record number of deaths this year.

Adorni, who also questioned the vaccine’s effectiveness, said talks over its inclusion on the national vaccination calendar are “not on the agenda,” though the decision could be revisited in the future. "Immunity is achieved over time, so vaccinating now would mean that immunity will be achieved in four months, where the mosquito is no longer a problem, even though its effectiveness has not been proven," said Adorni.

Argentina has seen 79 deaths from dengue over the last eight months, 69 of which have been registered since the turn of the year. In the past week, 22 people have died after infection from the virus. Infection numbers are soaring. So far in 2024, more than 102,000 cases have been reported, which is 86 percent of the 120,000 cases registered in total, another record.

Milei said in an interview last Sunday that the dengue crisis is "part of Kirchnerism's negligence" – a reference to the government which preceded his in office. He accused them of “not having run a good campaign a year ago.”

For those seeking vaccination, the TAK-003 vaccine, also known as Qdengam, produced by the Japanese laboratory Takeda, is available in Argentina privately. Each dose against the virus, which is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, costs about 70,000 pesos (about US$80 at the official exchange rate), while the minimum wage is set at 202,800 pesos (USS$232).

Eduardo López, an infectious disease doctor at the Buenos Aires Children's Hospital, contradicted Adorni’s remarks. "Studies show that vaccines are safe and effective," he told the C5N news channel.

Andrea Gamarnik, a virologist, specialist in the dengue virus and researcher at the CONICET scientific research institute, denounced on the X social network that Argentina is "in the worst dengue epidemic in history" but that experts are not "allowed to work" because, she believes, the government is dismantling the scientific system.

A month ago, tens of thousands of people around the world shared videos of mosquito swarms in Argentina. That particular one was an invasion of Aedes Albifasciatus, a species that grows especially after the rains and in open, grassy places, unlike Aegypti, which grows mainly in cities and spreads Zika and chikungunya as well as dengue.

Both my mother and sister have dengue, both had serious fever but are now recovering. Hospitals wont give them tests, stating that "they don't have any" or are reserved for some special cases. "Come back tomorrow" they say. So far I've been able to avoid the disease, but I work in the streets so it's a matter of time one of these little fuckers bite me.

Also, oncologic patients are getting their help completely shut down by the government, leaving them to fend off by themselves against predatory pharma practices. The state decided to fuck off and the market will never help, we're all being left alone.

I try to mask it all off with some jokes and whatever, try to sound positive. But deep down I'm reaching a breaking point. Everywhere I look there's misery, hunger and desperation and it's all catching up to me.

Nasrallah thanks the people that voted uncommitted in the Dem primaries

It is believed more than half of Brits have been exposed to conspiracy theories about Princess Kate.

Payton said the Russians have likely helped to fuel the cruel online storm which has been circulating around the Royal Family in recent weeks.

The Sun last week called on the world to "Lay Off Kate" after she was criticised for editing her Mother's Day family photo - before vile fake tales started spreading.

Why is the royal family allowing Russian propaganda to dominate the news cycle when Kate could just like hold up todays newspaper?

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I wanted to write a short primer on missile terminology at the start of the week, but my phone deleted most of it so I ran out of energy. Here it is again.

#Aerodynamics: Hypersonic: Technically a buzzword, but is regarded at Mach 5 (aka 5x the speed of sound). In US Military terms, this refers to a weapon that can perform maneuvers at this speed above. Ballistic missiles travel at above hypersonic speeds or above by virtue of all their other properties, but don't fill the US military definition as they don't do maneuvers in response to incoming fire. Even the original V2 approached hypersonic speeds. This speed makes the weapon difficult to intercept, as there's less time to intercept and any change in direction is "larger" for the purposes of interception. However, most cruise missiles and anti-tank missiles are not hypersonic, and are even subsonic. Hypersonic velocities introduce some aerodynamic and physical/mechanical complications that slowly increase depending on the local air pressure and multiple of the speed of sound. As a counter-example, a Mach 10 projectile 60 km above the Earth's surface will not produce the same plasma envelope or heat as the same profile projectile 2 km above the Earth's surface. Be wary when seeing this term in the media, it sometimes refers to ballistic missiles, which is nothing special unless they can course correct.

Supersonic: An actual technical term that means above the speed of sound in a given context. You know this. At sea level (and for many military applications), this is roughly 340 meters a second (1200 kmph or 760 mph). There are a bunch of aerodynamic qualities that change around this speed. I say around as air flowing past a bit sticking out (say, a wing, or radio antenna etc) will cause air to flow faster than the speed of sound, creating lateral forces that affect the vehicle (vehicle: plane, missile, bullet etc). Those lateral forces mean a vehicle will want to be solidly above or below the supersonic threshold. The lower the air pressure (usually, the further up) reduces the speed of sound, but also reduces the supersonic effects (to zero, as you slowly go up into the stratosphere). For long ranged air-lining, a higher altitude where your jet engines still run is better, but for other purposes it varies a lot.

Subsonic: Slower than the speed of sound. You are this, probably.

Missile Types: Ballistic Missile: A vehicle (plane, missile, or bullet) that follows approximately a ballistic trajectory. Usually, such a vehicle will expend all of its fuel on the way up (at most), and rely on orbital mechanics to maintain its speed on the way down. Longer ranged ones will avoid the Earth's atmosphere for a lot of the journey. This means that such a vehicle will be very speed<->weight/fuel efficient. If it isn't striking a moving target, it also needs the least amount of redirection by weight. Its main disadvantages are that its very easy to detect by RADAR, since it by definition goes over the horizon very far away, and that it can get difficult to course correct for many reasons. As the air pressure goes down due to altitude, your aerodynamic surfaces matter less. As the pressure and speed increase, both heat and RADAR are less effective on the way down. Nonetheless, they are very hard to shoot down. Famous examples: V2 Rocket, Iskander, Kinzhal, and ATACMs. They're also cheaper per range/weight.

Cruise Missile: A missile that follows the curvature of the Earth (instead of ballistic trajectory), usually powered by a jet Engine and are usually subsonic. Compared to Ballistic missiles, they're easier to guide and harder to detect by RADAR. However, once they are detected, they are easier to shoot down. They can even be chased and engaged with fighter aircraft. Some of them have a lower powered RADAR that lets them follow terrain up and down, making their visibility extremely low when going cross-country. Cruise missiles have an ascending, descending, and a cruise trajectory, and generally behave like a plane (indeed, the original Kamikazes planes were called early cruise missiles, but the V1 is closer to what we'd call a cruise missile). They have similar vulnerabilities to planes. Various methods of making them harder to shoot down, coating them in RADAR absorbing paint, making them faster during one stage (often descent, for things like the Zircon), RADAR following terrain, Jinking maneuvers on descent, hardened noses etc. Famous examples include the V1 Buzz-bomb, Tomahawk Missile, Zircon... Anti-ship missiles are often a variation of this, flying lower and with less range but otherwise performing the same function.

Missile: Much talk of missiles, traditionally it means something that isn't powered in flight (e.g. an arrow, rock, bullet etc), but nowadays means an unmanned powered flight weapon (e.g. a cruise missile, ballistic missile etc). Nonetheless, it is always separated from the operator and firing mechanism, as is tradition.

Anti-Aircraft Missile: The Ballistic and Cruise Missiles usually go to destroy battlefield assets of one sort or another. AA missiles specifically destroy missiles and aircraft. They tend to be the fastest rocket powered missiles for their size. Things like the Patriot or the S-500 are AA missiles, and are capable of catching up to and destroying other missiles even if the other missile has passed the launch point. The tend to fly in a straight-ish line, always heading for the predicted trajectory of the target.

Drone: Often powered by an electric motor, subsonic, and intended to loiter in the battle space until needed, as opposed to launched for mission. Blurry term.

Motors:

Rockets: Rockets are high power per weight, high power per time, and extremely cheap. Their disadvantages are running time and they are less able to be controlled (there are fuel rockets, but that's generally outside the scope of a military context). They are mostly used on Ballistic and AA missiles, and the final portion of some cruise missiles. The smallest missiles (MANPADS, MANPAT?, etc) also tend to use rockets for their simplicity, tolerance to size, and cheapness.

Jet Engines: Jet Engines offer very high power to weight ratio, weight to range, and medium efficiency. They're usually found on cruise missiles and aircraft. Some cruise missiles final stage may seem like they attain rocket-like velocities, but in-fact use scramjets to attain this velocity. They tend to be very high cost for all dimensions (range, efficiency, volume etc), but fulfill a niche in between traditional combustion engines and rockets.

Piston Engines: Outside the scope of missiles and aircraft nowadays, though they used to be used in aircraft. They are cheap, have high tolerances and fuel efficiency, and can adjust their power for a purpose very well. They tend to be quite heavy for their power output though. Poor torque at low RPS compared to all other engine types. We don't see these on missiles or aircraft atm and I don't see it except in some extremely niche cases.

Electric Motors: These tend to be somewhere around Jets and Pistons, though they tend to have quite high weights to volume and power. They offer very high torque at low RPS compared to jets and lots of power variability, and much lower mechanical complexity compared to equivalent Jet and Piston designs. As the line between missile and drone gets blurred, I imagine we'll see this blurred. However, for the time being, if something is electrically powered and seems like a missile, it is a "drone".

Motor vs Engine: Motor provides motive force generally, engine provides motive force with internal combustion. Colloquially, these are pretty interchangeable. However, if you need to... Steam Engine, Jet Engine, Electric Motor, Pressure Motor. Usually, this is rotary. Rocket engines, despite being a combustion system, often get called motors.

Guidance systems:

RADAR: The standard method of tracking aerial targets and sea targets. Metal reflects Radio very well compared to air or water, or even soil, so this can be tracked very easily. Sometimes, especially for smaller projectiles (e.g. AA guns), the RADAR is on the ground and the projectiles pull into the reflection from the target until they are close enough. Missiles can also track into such a reflection; Semi-homing RADAR (Fox-1). For larger systems, a RADAR array can be mounted on the projectile (active homing RADAR, Fox 3). This is used in civil and military aviation constantly, but can also be used for reversing your car, speed detectors etc. Can be jammed, but not as easily as you'd think.

Infrared/thermal/heat-seeking: (Fox 2) The main method other than RADAR for tracking aerial targets. Aircraft tend to run hot. Thus, an infrared camera can track a projectile into a target for much cheaper. Most military aircraft carry flares to guide heat-seeking projectiles away, to varying degrees of success. This also tends to be pretty short ranged; infra-red gets soaked up by the atmosphere pretty quickly. Also, for faster missiles, the nose cone gets hotter as the velocity increases, which reduces the ability of thermal optics to see any target.

Manual or external guidance: Receiving data from somewhere else to guide the missile. Wire-guiding on anti-tank weapons is a classic method of this, however the modern Dong Feng uses transmissions from an AWACS to guide to target. These tend to vary quite wildly and their counter-systems also.

Aerodynamic Control: Uses fins and wings to control the direction of movement. Only applicable for low altitude missiles, and less applicable for supersonic vehicles (but not inapplicable, you just have to design around it)

Gyroscopic Control: Stabilisation control that allows you to adjust heading based on previous velocity. Used in conjuction with other controls.

Vectored Thrust Control: Uses thrust from the Motors to control the direction of movement. The only valid method of control when outside the atmosphere.

I’ve seen a lot of takes lately about ISIS being essentially a US asset at this point. Tracks with what I know of US methods historically, but wondering if anybody has anything substantive or specific on this.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data

Talking to a red fash from a former eastern block country is so disorienting.

Them: Immigrants are taking up all our housing.

Me: Actually housing problems are a result of housing being treated as a vehicle for profit

Them: I agree, commie blocks were good, the market can’t handle housing properly

Me: So???

Them: Immigrants are taking up all our housing.

It’s basically just the Patrick wallet meme.

tempted to download tiktok as a show of my support to the Peoples Republic of China

"The Attackers on "Crocus" did not intend to become suicide bombers: the criminals were caught attempting to flee to Ukraine

FSB head Bortnikov reported to President Putin on the detention of 11 individuals, among whom are all four terrorists directly involved in the attack on "Crocus". The effort to identify the remaining accomplices continues, but conclusions about the situation are forthcoming, and they are disheartening for Ukraine.

The perpetrators of the attack did not intend to become "martyrs." They wanted to live long and happily after their horrific crime. That’s exactly why they quickly retreated, not waiting for the assault to begin and did not try to take hostages. This does not resemble the typical actions of Islamist terrorists, but rather resembles the actions of mercenaries from sabotage groups, who were promised cover, escape, and a generous reward. None of the scoundrels intended to die for ideas or anything similar — it was purely cold calculation.

As for who sponsored them — this can be understood by the direction of their escape. " - Readovka

Edit: to clarify this is the telegram interpretation of what happened. What is known for now is that 11 ppl were arrested, the terrorists were heading towards ukraine and "they had approppriate contacts there", whatever that means.

Edit 2: anyway it does look a lot more like ukraine had to do something with this. Whether it was official or some mercenaries told to go rogue is not at all clear yet.

Edit 3: BBC reporting curiously omitting the part of the FSB statement about where they were captured, where they headed and who they had contacts with.

Cats are always saying this stuff

Blue MAGA like, how can I be anti-arab when I support ISIS?

Has blue MAGA started claiming Russia did it yet

Hey, let's check on what our favorite Slovenian clown has to say about Putin:
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1769801014356451544

He is a dark conservative religious fanatic. That's why I - to provoke people - as you know, I said: give nuclear arms to Ukraine!

They are no less than Arabs.

Also getting interviewed by Piers Morgan lol

I mentioned this in the last thread.

His handlers told him why he's down and he started shouting.

US Navy aircraft carrier faces relentless battle against Houthi attacks (BBC, 18 Mar 2024)

[...] Captain Wroe says the Houthis have posed the greatest challenge to the US Navy in recent history.

"This is the most since World War Two," he says. That was the last time the US operated in an area where they could be fired upon every day.

The tempo of operations on the aircraft carrier itself has also been unrelenting - with dozens of sorties being flown round the clock. [...].

Up in the carrier's flight control tower, Commander George Zintac, known as the Air Boss, is having to choreograph their movements - with a jet either launching or landing in just over a minute.

He's been in the US Navy for more than 30 years, but says "this is probably the most flying I've done on a deployment - everyday we're flying a tonne".[...]

Unlike the Houthis, they're away from home with few creature comforts. Every meal on board is literally feeding the five thousand. The food bill on the carrier alone is $2m (£1.6m) a month.

Captain Chris Hill, the commanding officer of Ike, says "people need breaks, they need to go home".

But he says they don't yet have dates for when that'll happen. So one of his tasks is to maintain the crews morale and resilience.[...]

Captain Hill says: "It's difficult to define winning and losing in this kind of conflict."

No evidence of Havana syndrome brain injury, US studies find - Reuters, 2024-03-18

American politics be like; "America is going to commit genocide, bucko. So you need to decide which geno-side you're on!"

The Democrats campaign promise is "Our genocide will not effect people you care about"

And the GOP's promise is "our genocide will effect people you hate"

This is a bad and everything sucks. The political class now has the thumbs up to openly, explicitly use genocide as a policy tool to whip the voting masses. We've gone from "They'll take your guns/abortions!" to "Vote for us or we will let them kill your family. Hell we'll fucking help them do it".

“State media says”

jfc nyslimes

From Reuters

White House spokesman John Kirby said there was "no indication at this time that Ukraine, or Ukrainians were involved in the shooting." Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova questioned how the U.S. knew this and said Washington should immediately pass any information it had to Moscow, or stop making such statements. "On what basis do officials in Washington draw any conclusions in the midst of a tragedy about someone's innocence?" Zakharova said.

Putler would have actually lost the election but all the ballots for the other candidates happened to be in those trucks Ukraine bombed

Yugopnik self-critting for being a Zizek simp for so long: https://twitter.com/yugopnik/status/1770055442854519226

Being a rather frequent flyer from Boston, I want to talk about the Biden administration's vendetta against JetBlue. JetBlue is a airline carrier operating in the US.

The US airline market is made up of the Big 4 (United, American, Delta, Southwest) followed by regional (Alaska, Air Canada), low cost (JetBlue), and ultra-low-cost (Frontier, Spirit) carriers. The Big 4 dominate passenger volumes (160M+/year), while the others sit in the 40M/year range.

JetBlue is an airline carrier that's primarily focused on the Northeast (New York, Boston, etc.). Spirit and AA have more national networks, which crucially means more slots for flights. AA also has a robust international network.

Naturally, you might think that having more competitors for the Big 4 would be something desirable for the Biden administration... And yet?

JetBlue and American Airlines had signed an agreement termed the Northeast Alliance. This agreement allowed JetBlue passengers onto AA flights (and vice versa) and route coordination along with various status recognition and loyalty program integration benefits. In 2022, the DOJ began a trial claiming JetBlue and American Airlines were being "anticompetitive" in their operations in the Northeast. In 2023, the ruling forced the Northeast Alliance to disband within 30 days. The core elements of the Northeast Alliance were designed to help JetBlue and AA compete with Delta and United in the New York and Boston markets. This, naturally, fell through.

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines had signed an agreement aiming to merge. The DOJ also claimed that this merger was "anticompetitive" as it would remove ultra low cost carrier seats from the industry. This merger was also terminated by the DOJ.

In this context, it's important to note a couple of things:

Spirit Airlines is not doing well. Domestic leisure travel demand has not rebounded as they'd hoped and their planes are not in the best shape. They're worth a fifth of what JetBlue was offering to purchase them.

JetBlue is not doing well. They're running losses and had hinges the entire company on one of the two partnership deals going through. Now, with both deals blocked and losses racking up, they're forced to cut service and cut routes while raising fees. As a result of this, JetBlue is currently paying pilots to not fly.

American is the straggler of the Big 3 (Delta, United, American) traditional carriers. Their profit margins are lower than the competition post-COVID.

This is to say, while Delta and United have been doing great throughout this entire ordeal, JetBlue is fucked, Spirit is fucked, and American is slightly fucked. This is the type of competition that the Biden administration encourages: one where the entrenched players aren't touched and smaller/less successful players can go fuck themselves.

Lol if you type anything about someone being a supporter of genocide into a youtube comment it gets shadow removed by an automated system.

when I'm in a reaping competition and my opponent is Ukraine sowing hundreds of drones and missiles in Belgorod

Everybody huge news has dropped that nobody has really metabolized yet, although I'm skeptical as I'm not seeing any mainstream news reporting on it yet. It's possible these two just look very very similar. For one thing, Chechnya is nowhere close to Tajikistan so I'm not sure how it would be reported that he's Tajik if he was Chechnyan/Ukrainian.

Edit: upon further review, the terrorist is speaking Tajik in an interrogation video released of him so it’s unlikely to be a known Chechen criminal. I’m gonna say this is deboonked.

This is the arrested leader of the attack on Crocus:

His name is Rustam Azhyiev, he's a Chechen.

According to this article from August 2023, Rustam is a veteran of Syria (fought for jihadists against Russia) who then went to Ukraine in 2022 and gained citizenship there to continue fighting Russians. The leader of the attack is a Ukrainian citizen, a terrorist from Syria and jihadist. He was likely the one that recruited the other Tajik nationals to join in the Ukrainian plan, and the Ukrainians obviously hoped they could blame ISIS and Tajiks/Chechens instead of themselves being implicated.

The mission was for Rustam to get across the border back to Ukraine, where FSB states Ukrainian intel had contacts awaiting them. Rustam then would get squirreled away to safety and the other Tajiks would be blamed. These are professional mercenaries, not ideological martyrs, because they work for money and flee for their own safety.

Unlimited genocide on TERF island

Reddit IPO began today. Was pumped by private investors and is now declining now that retail investors have been let in.

Surprisingly porn has not been banned on reddit, nor has any amateur content been forced into age verification.

When the dust settles and some data on major shareholders emerges it will be interesting to see what funds are the biggest shareholders. Most of the big ones have a Vice Clause that forbids them investing in things like porn. Will be quite fun showing them loli content and asking why they're investing in child pornography.

I feel like I need to further explain the electoral college to the non-yanks here. Most are, of course, already aware that it's completely fucked up. But most of even these people are under the impression that state "points" are awarded to whoever wins the popular vote in each state. This is not true. In fact, ordinary American citizens have no right at all to vote for a presidential candidate. This is not an exaggeration, it's not a joke. The president is installed by the electors, who are under no obligation to honor the vote in their state. They are the only ones with the powers to cast votes for presidential candidates, and who they decide to vote for is at their sole discretion. It has happened before where an elector ignores the vote in their state. Again, the electors are not required in any way to agree with the vote in their state.

When you fill in the circle next to "Genocide Joe", you aren't voting for him, you're voting for the people who pinky promise to do so on your behalf, but who will face no consequences if they don't.

Strictly speaking, this means that the votes for each candidate are essentially a non-binding poll that may or may not be honored.

Random facts that I learned today:

In 2008, Ukraine held a television polled called the “Greatest Ukrainians” and Yaroslav the Wise came first with an astounding 40% of the votes.

However, it was later revealed that the voting had been manipulated because Stepan Bandera was the one having a huge lead in the poll:

The Chief of Great Ukrainians project, journalist Vakhtang Kipiani, informed the public in his blog, that the voting system had been manipulated by unknown persons. He stated that a couple of days prior to publishing the results he was aware of a possible win for Yaroslav the Wise. Prior to that, with a huge lead in first place was the controversial Stepan Bandera. For example, the winner, Yaroslav I, received 60,000 votes in one month and almost 550,000 in just one day. Mykola Amosov, who took second place, received almost 150,000 votes in just one day. Kipiani said that if these manipulation hadn't taken place Yaroslav would not have won.

Interestingly, in the same year, Russia also held a television poll called the “Name of Russia” and Alexander Nevsky came first place as the most influential Russian.

However, it was also disputed in that the voting had been manipulated as Josef Stalin was the clear winner in the poll:

Stalin had led the poll early on and narrowly missed the top spot.

The dictator took 519,071 votes compared to Nevsky's 524,575.

Communists said the vote had been "cunningly" manipulated to prevent Stalin or first Soviet leader Lenin (who came sixth) winning because the Kremlin was embarrassed at their popularity.

In a statement, the Communist party said it had "no faith in the organisers of the voting project", who had decided Stalin and Lenin were "bad lads" who should not win. The results prompted the "same level of trust as in the central electoral commission", it said, in reference to Kremlin rigging of the presidential election in Russia earlier this year.

AP: Hong Kong approves new national security law to quash dissent

I'm sure if the US bans TikTok they'll have a similar headline, right?

Alex Jones is doing better than Joe Biden on Gaza

(CW: IDF drone footage in video in embedded Tweet)

Israel has lost the high ground. This is not war. It is robotic mass genocide. Section 1091 of Title 18, United States Code, prohibits genocide whether committed in time of peace or time of war. Genocide is defined in § 1091 and includes violent attacks with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Canada to halt arms sales to Israel after non-binding vote in house of commons

Canada stalls approval of non-lethal exports to Israel

Surprisingly based NDP?

DROP OUT BIDEN! DROP OUT YOU FUCKING SACK OF SHIT OLD GENOCIDAL FUCK

DROP OUT AND NOMINATE HILLARY AS THE CANDIDATE. COME ON, I NEED TO SEE HER LOSE AGAIN

(It's her turn)

In news NDP motion on Palestinian statehood passes after major amendments

The Liberals completely gutted the motion so it has no teeth and basically doesn't amount to anything. Thanks Jaghmeet.

I think it's a good reminder that back when people were floating Budanov as the new leader of the war effort, everyone expected him to do a shitty job as army chief but for there to be an uptick of intelligence ops. So it's no wonder the 'ISIS' gunmen tried to flee to Ukraine.

https://archive.fo/qyTaP

TikTok Threat Is Purely Hypothetical, U.S. Intelligence Admits

The archive has the old title but yeah

The Pentagon is funding a classified program codenamed "CARCOSA"

hexbear admin has some explaining to do

And the Communist Party remains a relic of a bygone era, disconnected from the young people who might hypothetically propel a revolution.

yeah

A Latvian woman was arrested for wearing a hat with a red star near the parade of Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS veterans.

https://twitter.com/MilitaryEye/status/1768990408401465393?s=19

Just thinking about how Nuland promised "Nasty Surprises" for Putin in 2024

whoever taught natoids about false flag attacks i hate you. these losers are fucking insufferable

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/isis-leaders-ukraine-tukey-syria-caliphate-al-bara-shishani-a9211676.html

A story from a few years ago on the arrest of a senior isis guy in ukraine and the general path of isis guys into ukraine from the mid east

How Ukraine became the unlikely home for Isis leaders escaping the caliphate

Ukrainian authorities announced last week they had arrested a top Isis commander in Kiev in a joint operation with the CIA. He appears to be one of many to have made Ukraine their home

(as a destination for isis fighters leaving Syria) Ukraine offers several advantages over the competition too: the common Russian language, chaos of war, unprofessionalism of local security services, and the low risk of extradition to countries such as Russia.

Mironova estimates “hundreds” of former Isis fighters have decamped to Ukraine. But it is not the numbers that should be of primary concern, she said. The cluster of terrorists in Ukraine were by their nature a “self-selecting” elite: “This isn’t a random selection. The slower guys stop as soon as they get to Turkey. After all, it is a multiple-step operation to get to Ukraine. The ones who get there are the dangerous ones.”

I am actively exercising self-discipline not engaging with certain western shitlibs gloating about the terror attack in Moscow.

Putin is Schrödinger's dictator isn't he? When something bad happens to ordinary Russians, it's backlash for supporting Putin. But when they talk about elections/democracy etc. then Putin is a dictator who cannot be removed except with force. Which is it western liberals?

The obvious instigator of the Moscow terrorist attack is the evil empire or one of it's proxies. The question is what they were counting on achieving. A callous desire to inflict harm on random "enemy" civilians probably had something to do with it but it seems like a really lazy explanation.

The attack has no military purpose. Maybe the plotters are hoping to demoralise the Russian public, thereby hurting the war effort and making the people demand an end to the war. But things rarely works like that and spectacular terrorist attacks like this are much likelier to increase public support for punishing those responsible.

The only motive that kind of makes sense is that the attack was plotted in order to increase morale in Ukraine. The Kiev regime has been putting hundreds of thousands of their people into the meat grinder and they have no military results to show for it. A large attack like this can feel like a win in Ukraine and motivate the military to keep fighting.

Biden campaign tests Trump’s name-calling strategy with ‘Broke Don’

Transforming into a shitty, watered-down version of your opponent is an interesting strategy. "Broke Don" isn't even funny.

Still can't get over the fact that the demonrats are literally pushing to build the wall while chanting "four more years!"

The president of Vietnam has resigned: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/party-central-committee-agrees-to-let-vo-van-thuong-cease-holding-positions/283222.vnp

Additional context is the previous president resigned a year ago: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/na-approves-resolution-on-relieving-nguyen-xuan-phuc-from-posts/247252.vnp

NATOpedia claims that both presidents were forced to resign after facing corruption charges. It seems like the CPV is methodically purging corrupt officials in their anti-corruption campaign.

https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-avoid-large-gatherings-over-the-next-48-hours/

from March 7th. wtf.

This shit is so sketchy

Ukraine blaming Russia for the attack so suddenly really doesn’t help their case.

NSFW: SA and violence.

Brutal attack on rights activist rocks Argentina on eve of coup anniversary

spoiler

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H.I.J.O.S. human rights activist and daughter of dictatorship disappeared brutally assaulted and sexually abused at home by assailants who threatened her and identified themselves by using slogan linked to President Javier Milei.

Argentina’s increasingly tense social climate and the dangers of President Javier Milei’s aggressive rhetoric have been thrust into the spotlight after it emerged that a human rights activist had been the victim of a brutal sexual assault.

The victim, the daughter of a disappeared abductee during the 1976-1983 dictatorship and a member of the H.I.J.O.S human rights group, was brutally assaulted at her home in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, by assailants earlier this month who identified themselves by using the slogan of President Javier Milei, according to reports. The news emerged Thursday, on the eve of the annual march commemorating the coup that brought the military junta to power some 48 years ago.

Rights groups and politicians expressed horror at the news, which H.I.J.O.S described as a targeted “political attack.”

The activist – who is not ready to reveal her identity – "was tied up, beaten and sexually abused" by two armed men who forced their way into her home in a "political attack motivated by her human rights and feminist militancy," denounced the organisation that seeks to recover the identity of babies appropriated during the dictatorship.

The victim was attacked upon entry into her home after returning from work. The assailants were waiting for her and sexually abused and threatened her with death before leaving the message: "We did not come to rob you but to kill you, we’ve been paid to do that." Before leaving, they scrawled on a wall: “VLLC” – a reference to “Viva la libertad, carajo,” Milei’s trademark political slogan.

"We know you work in human rights and we want you to shut up, next time we're going to kill you," the attackers allegedly said, according to H.I.J.O.S. member Diego López Torres. Owing to the repercussions of this case, Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni was asked on Thursday morning about the attack and the government’s reaction to it. “We expect the courts to advance with the clarification so that those responsible pay for their actions,” he said.

‘Legion of trolls’

President Milei had not commented on the incident at press time, though many of his supporters online sought to cast doubt over the attack and question its veracity. The ‘@TraductorTeAma’ account on the X social network, one of Milei’s most vocal supporters online, claimed the incident was a Kirchnerite invention, writing: “We don’t believe them at all.” The Unión Cívica Radical were among the political parties to condemn the attack, expressing solidarity with the victim in a statement on X and calling for “the punishment of those responsible.”

News of the incident comes just two days after the Marea Editorial publishing house, which specialises in human rights, denounced a digital campaign by “a legion of trolls” who defended the dictatorship in response to a publication about the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. "The ideological tension that today characterises the political climate in Argentina escalates in all spheres and Marea's networks were no exception," the publishing house said in a statement.

The shocking attack comes amid a politically tense climate because of the government's position on the dictatorship, which human rights organisations and parties from the centre-left consider "denialist." Both Milei and his vice-president, Victoria Villarruel – who is close to the military and has relations with a number of jailed dictatorship-era criminals – question the number of disappeared agreed upon by human rights organisations (30,000) and claim that the real figure is far less (around 8,700).

Unconfirmed reports this week claimed that the government intends to announce a decree on Monday ordering that all military personnel convicted of crimes during the dictatorship and who are aged over 70 will be entitled to serve out the rest of their sentence under house arrest. Defence Minister Luis Petri denied those reports in a press conference on Thursday.

According to reports on Thursday, the government is making a video to mark March 24 that will outline the Milei administration's position. It is expected to include a call for a "complete memory" of the era – a remark linked to the two demons theory that downplays state terrorism and has been voiced regularly by Villarruel. Since 2020, 77 attacks related to dictatorship denialism have been registered, six of which occurred so far this year, according to the Registro de Ataques de Derechas Argentinas Radicalizadas (RA-DAR) (“Registry of Attacks by Radicalised Argentine Right-wingers”).

I've said this some time ago when I described to people who was milei and who were the people surrounding him. Despite all the economic madness, the inflation, devaluation and so on, the most macabre part will forever remain his attitude towards the Military Junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 and especially, it's 30,000 victims. And I've said, about this specific topic, they're not coming back just to do some revisionism and denialism, because that's what they've been doing for decades now. No, they're also back with revanchism. The attack on HIJOS' militant is something different, it's just not a couple of trolls saying "It wasn't 30,000" on social media, this is different, this is emulating how the military and the police acted in the 70s and 80s, direct and planned attacks towards identified victims that includes sexual violence. They're sending a message to all of us.

Tomorrow, 24th of March, marks another anniversary in which the Military Coup of 1976 is remembered. Each year, Human Rights activists summon people to gather in the main plazas to commemorate the victims and the Desaparecidos from that period. But tomorrow's 24th is special, because it's not only there to remember those who we lost, it is there to prepare us for what's to come.

If the president himself continues to "like" tweets from straight up genocide denalists, then we're getting in trouble. If we continue down this road, things will get really bad.

So it's sort of obvious how this will go down:

Russia will blame either Ukraine (and by proxy the US) or Islamic extremists (never let a good tragedy go to waste), the US will blame either "random terrorists" or Putin (never let a good tragedy go to waste), and Ukraine is about to be obliterated by the spike in enlistment whether they did it or not.

The CIA fake ISIS strikes again

Unworthy of the day: Russians in Estonia

spoiler

75 percent of Russians living in Estonia voted for Vladimir Putin in Sunday's election. This is below average compared to the official overall result of 87 percent. One could interpret the numbers in this way and continue the idea in the direction that if 75 percent in a country whose public offers plenty of "alternative perspectives" on Putin and his system were not impressed by them, then perhaps the internal Russian result would be too could have come about without too much effort for counterfeiting.

But no, you shouldn't think like that. In view of these figures, the Estonian newspaper Postimees instead considered whether Russians living in Estonia could still be allowed to take part in local elections under these conditions: “These citizens can take part in local elections and thus influence Estonian politics. Putinists are a security threat in Estonia, no matter how you look at it." (Quoted in the press review by the Federal Agency for Civic Education on Tuesday.)

In general, the Russians are ungrateful, even those who are oppositional. They fled abroad before the war instead of following Alexei Navalny's example and are therefore, as the FAZ complained on Monday, no longer available as personnel for the internal Russian opposition. The consequence from Frankfurt am Main: even more “massive” support for Ukraine. If Putin cannot be overthrown from within, then from without. And then the commentators are surprised that Putin declares this milieu to be foreign agents and the fifth column of the creature. Elections are only real when the right person wins. If not, they weren't.

the f35 is the most innovation method of converting 2 trillion dollars into north virginia mansions owned by weapons contractors that the US has ever invented

https://www.gao.gov/assets/870/861566.pdf

2+ decades, close to 2 trillion dollars, and the overall fleet is currently sitting at 55% mission capable (i.e. can take off and land) and a cool 30% rate for fully mission capable (i.e. could take off, potentially do something useful in combat and land)

1 week of active combat and the fraction of combat mission capable f35s would be in the single digit percents

Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing sources, claims that the attackers may have been wearing fake beards and mustaches, and they're pointing to them belonging to the Ukrainian-backed Russian Volunteer Corps

kommersant.ru/doc/6592262

Gaza is facing a hunger crisis

Mediators say ceasefire talks are progressing — but there are still "a lot of differences." Catch up here

Interesting take by a member of the Ansarallah political bureau:
https://twitter.com/M_N_Albukhaiti/status/1771492578610778280

Russia must deal with the Crocus Center attack as an American attack, because one of America's goals in this attack is to stir up strife between Russian Christians and Muslims.

America has transferred many ISIS and Al-Qaeda fighters to Ukraine to fight against the Russian army.

I don't know how serious the divide is between Russian Christians or Muslims or whether this attack would exacerbate that divide. If so, then Russia would have to completely combat the false jihadist narrative by openly blaming the US and Ukraine for the attack.

‘My reasons are personal and political’: Leo Varadkar stands down as Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach

For context, the Taoiseach is equivalent to prime minister in Ireland and Fine Gael are one of the two major neoliberal parties. Varadkar is a snake who has led imperialists to plunder Ireland, and has allowed it to be a tax haven in the EU. He has openly shown contempt for the working class as he left all public services to be neglected and underfunded, and Ireland has been seeing big emigration of young college-educated people for the past decade. He's probably stepping down due to pressure from Fine Gael members, because FG has only grown less popular and more hated over the past decade. They're polling very badly for the next general election next year and 10 Fine Gael TDs (equivalent to members of parliament) have left the party since being elected.

He's a bastard and I wish he had died instead of getting to resign

I’m not trying to be conspiratorial or anything, but just so you know, the US Senate and Congress are passing a $1.2 trillion spending bill tonight where 70% of that goes to defense.

It has already passed the House, and Senate is going to decide. If the spending bill does not go through, then the US government goes into shutdown mode.

Genocide Joe continues to coddle fascist Bibi after Chucky the Shume hurt the Zionazi's fee fees.

That come to Jesus call was an ass kissing call.

terrorist attack underway in a moscow concert hall, french news said 12 deaths so far and attackers are heavily armed, and set fire to the whole building. Cant post sources my comments are like hidden or something

https://thecradle.co/articles/ex-isis-chief-appointed-as-commander-of-us-backed-militia-in-syria

From earlier this month, not sure if anyone posted in an early megathread. The American 'Al-Tanf' military base in Syria trains Al Nusra militants, put under the command of "ex"-ISIS commanders. For those who are skeptical when we all talk about CIA = ISIS.

Okay so us officials are really jumping the gun quickly with this Isis connection faster than they normally would for attacks like this IMO.

While there was misinformation shared earlier that made me dismiss it outright I’m seeing a lot of sources like Reuters zeroing in on this now. I’m on my phone so I can’t do a deeper dive corroborating whether this is accurate but it looks like they’re gonna pin this on ISIS-K. What’s interesting is I’m pretty sure I saw footage of the Russians actually arresting someone earlier?(kalibrated telegram)

I find it unlikely the west would have the guts to muddy the waters with a false perpetrator if the Russians actually have someone in custody. (Then again I have seen “professional” journalists immediately give credence to “isis takes responsibility” stories without realizing how dubious that is. The fact that Russia is involved here could mean they’re being even less careful)

Edit: the video of someone being arrested seems to be removed and I don’t see anything anywhere confirming this occurred

We all know is a hellsite, however, there are some bright spots. Apart from left-leaning subs, curiously enough, r/soccer is one of the few places where the liberal brainrot has not fully reached all of the subreddit's members. It's quite a relief to see that in any topic involving anything related to "Israel" and Palestine, the comments are overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian. If in doubt, check this thread: Eran Zahavi (Israel) missed penalty vs. Iceland 80', it's just full of people saying fuck "Israel", calling them out for their genocide and also mocking them.

Compare this to places like worldnews, where the comments are all from zionist fucks collectively wishing for more dead children and more buildings destroyed in Gaza. Soccer has a very diverse community, there are people from literally all over the world... and the pro-"Israel" shitheads are very few. Like in real life. Unfortunately, the mods are always locking threads where Palestine or "Israel" are discussed, but that's another story.

So, in a way I am saying "Not all reddittors". You can send me to the gulag now, if you desire.

I try very hard to maintain my love of humanity in the face of overwhelming despair. Sometimes it can be very hard not to hate people, to not pray that some day death will rain down from the sky onto the oppressors and that they will know even a fraction of the torment that they are inflicting. I want to tell myself that the average person, even the average citizen living under fascist governments, is a decent person worthy of life and dignity. I don't want to be someone who poisons my soul by wishing ill on others, even if they might rightfully deserve it.

Anyways here's an article about how Israelis are so stressed out by their genocide that they're becoming fat.

Biden is giving people 10k off on a purchase of a 400k$ house. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1770246376644841644?s=19

The ruling hindutva party of india literally just froze all funds of the main opposition party two months before elections. This is after it came out that the ruling party took an unprecedented amount of bribes from corporations to fuel its election campaign.

Been reading crappy chinese webnovel slop again, now 500 chapters in the translation quality suddenly drops to just slightly better than pure machine translation

oops, wrong mega

NSFW/L

https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1770895103785046489

Graphic scenes: An Israeli army drone pursued four civilian youths who attempted to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles in Khan Younis at the start of last February.

Hard to describe how fucked this is. Just truly evil.

Edit: with English subs: https://twitter.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1770919234278740269

MSM will blame the Cosa Nostra before they admit Ukrainian responsibility

A specter haunts the newsmega, the specter of prigo

what do they think is the appropriate percentage of votes for putin to get?

AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel

Too little too late, but at least it's something.

is back on the menu

https://www.readthemaple.com/already-approved-military-exports-to-israel-will-continue/

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly won’t revoke existing permits for exports of military goods to Israel despite this week’s motion in Parliament calling on the government to “cease the further authorization and transfer of arms exports to Israel.”

Joly will only take the non-binding motion’s language to apply to future applications for permits to export military goods to Israel, which was effectively the government’s position before the motion passed.

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https://archive.is/HBCM2

Federal culture minister Roth commissioned an opinion from a constitutional expert, Christoph Möllers from Humboldt-University Berlin, about the legality of having recipients of art grants sign antisemitism provisions (like propsed in the state of Berlin for example). Yes, Claudio Roth is the one that clapped at the Berlinale during the anti-apartheid speech and then was hounded by the Springer press. In her defense she put out a statement about how she was clapping for the Israeli Jew, forgetting to mention there was a Palestinian on stage as well. That one.

So he looked at the legality of having artists and institutions declare their commitment to diversity, and against racism and antisemitism (in general and also according to something like the IHRA definition, which conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel), if they want to receive government grants.

Findings:

• Since basically everyone receives these grants in Germany, this is pretty delicate, because it de-facto impacts artistic freedom. The vast majority artists and cultural institutions cannot realistically get out of these pledges, even if they can in theory.
• A commitment to diversity is too vague and would leave the signees unsure about what they can and cannot do.
• A commitment against racism and antisemitism is more concrete, but the IHRA definition is subject to scientific debate, and the state weighing in on this violates academic freedom.
• In order to enforce this, a new control mechanism would have to be implemented, which would be rife for abuse and might narrow the space for artistic expression.

So basically he thinks this would be unconstitutional and a bad idea.

Polling isn't looking so hot for Brandon:

Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s healthcare facilities | Al Jazeera

The Israeli army’s raid on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City is now in its fourth day. According to the army, the raid has killed more than 140 and led to 600 arrests. But this attack isn’t Israel’s first on a medical centre in the Gaza Strip. Our team put together this graphic showing the scale of Israel’s assault on the strip’s healthcare sector:

Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime has lost it's majority in parliament for domestic policies. A liberal MP has switched to the fascist "Denmark Democrats" party, as he wants to be more racist.

The regime is still able to stay in power as MP's from Greenland and the Faroe Islands are protecting them against a vote of no confidence but they are no longer able to pass legislation on domestic issues on their own and will have to seek support from other parties, either from the centre-left opposition or, more likely, from their ideological siblings among hard right and fascist parties.

Today an MP from the defunct "New Right" fascist party has also switched to the "Denmark Democrats", making the fascist paarty the third-largest in parliament.

US reportedly considering plea deal offer for Julian Assange

The US government is reported to be considering a plea deal offer to Julian Assange, allowing him to admit to a misdemeanor, but his lawyers say they have been “given no indication” Washington intends to change its approach.

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The report said a plan under consideration would be to drop the current 18 charges under the Espionage Act, if Assange pleaded guilty to mishandling classified documents, a misdemeanor offence. Assange would be able to enter the plea remotely from London and would likely be free soon after the deal was agreed to, as he has already spent five years in custody in the UK.

However, Assange’s legal team said they were not aware of any change in the prosecution strategy.

One of Assange’s defence attorneys, Barry Pollack, said in a statement: “It is inappropriate for Mr Assange’s lawyers to comment while his case is before the UK high court other than to say we have been given no indication that the Department of Justice intends to resolve the case and the United States is continuing with as much determination as ever to seek his extradition on all 18 charges, exposing him to 175 years in prison.”

They make this all public in the news cycle before even telling Assange's laywers.

The ruling hindutva party of india now has arrested the head of one of the biggest opposition parties in India for bogus reasons. He is the current chief minister of Delhi which is the capital region of India.

Kate also has cancer lol

Stumbled across a piece of research being performed by the London School of Economics for the benefit of the banking sector

https://lsecentralbanking.medium.com/understanding-the-escalating-frequency-and-duration-of-strikes-across-the-uk-5c9d42be6b2f

They're looking into the rise in strikes in the UK, and the research aims to answer the question of what causes it so that they can then consider how to manage it I presume.

The Analysis and Conclusion are well worth a read. Too long for me to post them both here though. The Conclusion is:

Conclusion

In conclusion, the recent surge in strikes within the UK economy, spanning various sectors such as healthcare, education, and rail, can be analysed using the Ashenfelter and Johnson model. The model provides valuable insights into the dynamics between unions and firms, shedding light on the factors influencing the frequency and duration of strikes.

Overall, in the current economic climate, factors such as the cost of living crisis, decoupling of wages from productivity, and government spending cuts have led to a significant decline in real wages for public sector workers and resulted in a dramatic increase in Y0. Coupled with a substantial budget deficit and austerity, the government’s ideal wage increase (Yt) has decreased and remained low. This increasing gap between the two wages has contributed to the increasing length and frequency of strikes.

Ideally I think unions and organisers should be getting educated on this kind of research, in particular models like this Ashenfelter shit. Not because I think it's correct but because it is what their opponents are using, if they are using them as models then they are building strategy around them as being correctly capable of guessing union behaviour/outcomes. Understanding them is a means of being unpredictable and being able to predict employer behaviour will allow strategies to be undertaken that abuse it.

Organisers can be more agile than employers.

So apparently the moscow attackers are Tajiks.

Some sources say two of them were caught on the road towards Ukraine. There's a pretty gnarly photo out there with one of the alleged attackers with his left eyelid cut off/eye gouged.

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Here's my thoughts about what preceded the Moscow attack. It's obviously very fishy, but I think this is another moment of disunity between Kyiv and Washington, of their policies not playing well with each other

The perpetrators more or less admitting they mostly did it for money and didn't want to die is EXTREMELY out of character for Jihadists, and them trying to make a break for Ukraine is a weird red flag. It hints at some kind of Western connection to the attack, but then you've got America strangely pre-empting it with a warning about a terror attack in Moscow weeks before. Not something you typically do if you're trying to make sure the attack happens in the first place.

I feel that Ukraine tried covertly arming and coordinating with Islamist groups like ISIS in an attempt to foment chaos/ignite a war with Chechnya or disorder is other Islamic regions of the Federations. The Ukrainian government is in a do-or-die position where they might feel pressured to do something underhanded and unethical like this. But then at some point, they either ran the idea by the Americans and got a "Hell No" response, or they were trying to keep it under wraps but the Americans found out anyways.

Accepting that the attack was going to happen whether they liked it or not, the Yanks are stuck with a dilemma. If they keep their lips sealed and let a catastrophic terror attack happen in a geopolitically convenient place, they risk it being discovered that they knew in advance but didn't stop it, humiliating the US diplomatically for being hypocrites and tanking Biden's reelection chances.

The harm reduction option is to adhere to Duty to Warn, maybe try to limit civilian deaths by discouraging public gatherings (if that's even a concern for US leadership), all while having the plausible deniability of being able to say "Well we knew something was going to happen, but we didn't know our friends in Ukraine were involved!". Or even to just outright say "That's propaganda, we didn't know Ukraine would do this/Ukraine wouldn't do this! Look, we even warned you that we knew something was going to happen? Why would we do that if we knew/collaborated?"

A proxy state's interests aren't always totally aligned with their overlord's, and there have been plenty of times in the past where US Military leadership has seemed openly aggravated with Ukrainian strategies. As the situation grows more desperate, Ukraine will become more and more willing to resort to questionable/Machiavellian plays to somehow turn the tides, even if it actively harms US interests. At the end of the day, it's the Ukrainian officers and politicians who will end up at best unemployed and at worst on trial if Russia wins, not any members of the Biden administration.

ISIS telegram released bodycam footage of the attack that was previously not available or known. Seems like ISIS definitely is involved in some capacity, although the attackers were paid for their “work” so it still seems like we’re missing the final piece of the puzzle of who funded the operation

Libs on Twitter are celebrating the 25th anniversary of NATO bombing Yugoslavia.

Inger Støjberg, convicted criminal, darling for Denmark's far right and leader of one of the American puppet state's fascist parties, has proposed that applicants for Danish citizenship has to sign a loyalty oath to the illegal zionist entity. The succdem minister of integration (ie. racism) has chosen not to run with the ball though, declining to give interviews. Denmark's foreign minister is talking about the need for a ceasefire, although he still refuses to connect the dot between the actions of the zionist ocvupiers and the man-made famine in Gaza.

Even my lead-poisoned boomer dad who will believe any conspiracy theory about Muslims and the woke has lost his taste for the illegal zionist entity and their atrocities.

Zionism is slowly becoming a weird fringe position in the west and being an outspoken zionist is becoming an embarrassment.

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Fortune - Intel wins $19.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding as ‘historic’ semiconductor spending spree heats up

If Intel meets performance targets in the deal, it’ll be eligible for $8.5 billion in federal grants, an additional $11 billion in CHIPS Act loans and a 25% Treasury tax credit. A senior administration official said that the Intel grant was expected to be the largest single grant administered through the CHIPS Act, and once the Commerce Department and Intel agree on final terms, the government expects to start delivering funds by the end of the year.

So, three years after Congress passed the CHIPS act, they're finally thinking about possibly doing the first major disbursement by the end of the year.

Oh boy, America is really showing China what they can do when they eventually get off their asses because the graft checks finally cleared the bank.

This is the real reason Brandon went to Arizona, nothing to actually do with the primaries.

https://twitter.com/L_ThinkTank/status/1771257013651034337?t=5TSyzFG1sdc-htoAyvtNDA

special forces have entered a few minutes ago, theres like 40 of them holy hell

tfw your Western handlers can no longer ship you weapons:
https://twitter.com/marcus_herve/status/1769371930606325983

Now, it looks like the terrorists are having a hard time getting their usual supplies of weapons. After all, how can their sponsors supply them when the AES is now controlling the land and airspace?

Russia and China veto US "ceasefire" resolution at UN

In honor of the mega's image this week, I dug through my account to find this edit:

The scotland Hate Crime bill is simply magical. It purports that anything published online and read in Scotland, is considered posted from Scotland. This means you could commit a crime in Scotland without ever leaving your home or having set a foot in the country. Furthermore, every single thing published before the bill passed is now retroactively subjected to the new law, meaning ten year old content read in Scotland and reported as a Hate Crime will then be eligible for prosecution.

This is possibly the most fantastical piece of legislation ive ever read, I burst out laughing numerous times, sent it to friends studying law and several replied with variants of "what the fuck." Given the tenuous nature of the bill and how fucking vague it is, theres zero doubt this will be weaponized to persecute palestine activists and leftists of all stripes.

Found this rabid comment on r/thedeprogram quoting an r/israel user: https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1biqqy1/netanyahu_i_made_it_clear_to_biden_we_must_enter/kvm7kgo/?context=3

Independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he does not support a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. | The Guardian

Speaking to Reuters, he told it Israel was a "moral nation" that was justly responding to Hamas provocations with its attacks on Gaza. Asked if he supported a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, Kennedy told Reuters: "I don't even know what that means right now." Kennedy said that each previous ceasefire "has been used by Hamas to rearm, to rebuild and then launch another surprise attack. So what would be different this time?" he said.

Recent polling has suggested Kennedy is backed by 15% of registered voters in the US, nowhere near enough to attain the presidency, but in a position where he could take votes from incumbent Joe Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Earlier this week Trump said that Jewish people who voted for the Democratic party "hated Israel" and "hated their religion".

US House Speaker ‘may’ invite Israeli PM to address Congress | Al Jazeera

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s considering inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.

“It’s one of the things that we have in mind, and we may try to arrange for that,” Johnson told reporters. He said it’s “very important” for the United States to show solidarity and support for Israel “right now in their time of great struggle”.

Johnson said he held a “lengthy conversation this morning” with Netanyahu and reiterated House Republicans’ “strong support for Israel”.

Last week by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for new elections in Israel and criticised Netanyahu’s leadership. Johnson said, “We think it is not only foolhardy, it’s dangerous for him to be trying to suggest how Israel should run its domestic affairs in the midst of their conflict.”

What's going on with ukraine rn? Something about huge missile attack?

It seems that the US has chosen some politicians to elect Haiti's interim prime minister, while right-wing paramilitaries, gangs and left-wing groups continue to clash with the police and advance on the capital.

These right-wing gangs and paramilitaries are the remnants of the old Haitian army and the death squads of right-wing dictator François Duvalier and his son. When Haiti's first democratically elected president was elected in 1991, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Catholic socdem, he tried to destroy these groups after being temporarily removed in a coup by the Haitian elite.

Then, some of Aristide's supporters created a left-wing paramilitary group called Chimères to help the government. These groups ended up engaging in a low-intensity guerrilla war against the US, France, the UN and pro-coup groups in the 2000s, after they illegally removed Aristide from power.

Now, these groups are fighting for control of the country after the US and French puppets failed to do anything but line their pockets with public money and foreign aid.

Compilation of the IOF getting owned:
https://twitter.com/revolutionaryem/status/1770893496662032866

It's old footage, but it's cool to see them in one compilation.

Getting reports now that the attack was committed by three guys in a boat

has Ukraine issued a commemorative postage stamp for the Crocus City Hall attack yet?

Extreme trigger warning on this one, possible deaths

this is bad https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1771234606898974776?t=oNDolrRdePX3darQJhorIw

Shooting and blast reported at concert hall near Moscow - agencies

~10 dead, ~50 wounded according to reports.

There appear to be at least two perpetrators (edit: looks like at least four now) according to a video, which suggests an organized attack.

So Russia has been incredibly restrained in their smo in ukraine. I wonder if that will change now.

I had to stop telling people "Kill the X in your head" bc the saying "Kill the Cop in your Head" is apparently unknown so I just get banned for blah blah blah violence. Which, if I'm going to be banned for inciting violence, let me actually incite some fucking violence first.

You know what the terrifyingly bleak part of this whole ordeal is? It's more than likely that, if the US wasn't responsible for the attack in Moscow, that their loud and very public announcement that an attack was going to happen by March 9th forced the terrorists to tighten their operation and reschedule, losing the heaps of intel that intelligence and law enforcement parties presumably had on the attack beforehand. Blood. On. Their. Hands.

Least racist Zionists (CW: Cartoonish racist levels of Blackface):
https://twitter.com/BesDMarx/status/1770992250488488272

Apparently gunmen have stormed a police station in the Armenian capital.

I've heard from Armenians from the country that there's a lot of hatred towards the police as they really protect Pashinyan and tend to violently put down protests, moreso than they used to.

This also happened a few years ago before the color revolution by a group called Sansa Tsrer.

Fuck the dems for real, but I'm pretty sure the dems are intentionally trying to lose this one in hopes that the recession will happen on Trump's second turn and have the GOP be blamed for it. Then run on the recession in 2028.

Fuck this society, literally no incentive to run things well, it's all about finding people to hold the bag. It's not incompetence, they just want you to suffer.

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Heavy fucking trigger, live video inside the amphitheater, so many people trapped, this is insane https://twitter.com/GilbertCollard/status/1771238953087037634

Bodycam footage released with ISIS intro of the shooting at Crocus

Seems like someone already mentioned

gonna be one of those weeks huh?

Huawei Tests Brute-Force Method for Making More Advanced Chips

Bloomberg always has such cute takes on semiconductors. They should probably hire staff that at least somewhat understands the minutiae of the field.

I feel like my friend is trying to hang an invitation to his wedding over my head over my support of Palestine. It seems kinda passive aggressive. Like, he's saying he's disinvited other people, and "most Jews conflate Zionism with Judaism, and it's only the ultra orthodox who don't".

Folks, let's say the U.S. actually did have nothing to do with the terrorist attack on Russians. Would you really expect that they then wouldn't immediately come up with a lie saying they knew Ukraine didn't do it? Come on. The U.S. is going to issue that propaganda no mater what.

Not saying not to suspect them (or Ukraine). Just saying that, short of some kind of (accidental†, of course) actual admission, nothing the U.S. says should likely move the needle one way or another on what we suspect or believe.

† Probably DuE tO BiDeN'S StuTTeR™ and totally not his senility, stupidity, and general incompetence. I mean—true story‡—I once knew a guy with a stutter who accidentally blurted "I killed my whole family and half my n***** neighbor's household" when he meant to say, "Let's have a potluck next Tuesday."

‡ LOL

When your special one visits you ❤️👉👈

CIA chief William Burns travels to Argentina for meetings

Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse meets with the head of the US intelligence services at the Casa Rosada; CIA head latest in a long list of officials from Washington to visit Buenos Aires since President Javier Milei took office.

William Burns, the director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency of the United States), arrived in Argentina on Wednesday for meetings with government officials in Buenos Aires. Arriving from Brazil, where he met with government officials in Brasília, the CIA chief was expected to stay two days in Argentina’s capital, though his itinerary was not released to the public.

Government sources confirmed that Burns, the head of the United States’ intelligence services, met Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse at the Casa Rosada on Wednesday. No public confirmation of the encounter was provided.

The meeting was also attended by the head of Argentina’s own intelligence services, the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Silvestre Sívori, and US ambassador to Argentina, Marc Stanley. Various topics were discussed by the officials, from bilateral cooperation and the progressive penetration of China in Latin America to recent cyber-attacks carried out from Russia, reported Noticias Argentinas.

According to the news agency, Washington has been closely monitoring criminal drug organisations active in Argentina and is concerned about their links to terrorist cells deployed in the Triple Frontier area that answer to the Islamic group Hezbollah.

Burns is the latest top official to travel to Buenos Aires since President Javier Milei was sworn-in as head of state last December. The visit of the CIA director comes just weeks after the visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Chief of United States Southern Command Laura Jane Richardson is due to visit the country in April to assist with Argentina's purchase to US F-16 fighter jets through the Danish government.

Since his inauguration, Milei has notably shifted Argentina’s foreign policy, aligning himself with the United States and Israel, among others. In recent public remarks, Burns has expressed concerns over the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and said that he believes that the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked a turning point in the reconfiguration of forces internationally and brought the post-Cold War period to an end.

Wednesday's meeting was not the first between Posse and Burns. The duo first encountered each other last January 31, when Argentina’s Cabinet chief travelled to Washington and they spent more than an hour in talks. Rumours that Burns would meet with Milei during his stay in Buenos Aires were unable to be confirmed by press time.

When there are drugs, the CIA is there. The city of Rosario has been a hotbed of drug related homicides and general violence, extreme poverty, corrupt government officials and mafias that have taken over a seizable chunk of the city for many years now. The port itself, which connects to the Río de la Plata, is literally controlled by these gangs. Now, this is not like a typical drug cartel scenario, Rosario and Argentina altogether are not the final destination of drugs that are coming over from other places, Argentina serves as the exit point from which the drugs are shipped to Europe. They are consumed here but not really. Moreover, these gangs are nowhere near as big, powerful or influential like the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco Nueva Generación or the Medellín Cartel, these cartels literally operate military-grade weapons and gear, our "cartels" can, at best, have a bunch of FN FALs stolen or, "gifted" by the army.

The violence is indeed bad and the proposed solutions by milei and his cabinet are way over the top. They want to emulate the "Bukele Formula", just jail whoever has a tattoo and be done with it, eventually you will jail (some of) the bad guys. So like two weeks ago, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich decided to show a number of heavily armed policemen watching over half naked and bald prisoners, to whom she referred to as "captured gangsters", just like Bukele does in his country. This immediately backfired and that same night, rival gangs allied and sent gunmen to just kill normal people. One bus driver, one taxi driver and one gas station worker were executed in cold blood, no robberies, nothing, just killed. This was their message to the government and their display of "authority". The situation escalated and now Bullrich ordered the Armed Forces to actively participate in clean up and security operations within the city, and you know where this ends.

Even Bukele shared his word about the situation in Rosario and said that, yes, it's bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as it is in El Salvador, that his methods should not be applied there because there are easier solutions. But they went ahead regardless.

Crime is indeed running rampant in Rosario, innocent people are indeed afraid and are dying due to drug and gang related violence. Poverty is at the base of this issue, and if you don't fix the material conditions of people, the problem will persist. Now, why is the CIA here you ask? Oh I don't know, they have quite the history with drugs. Do they want a cut from this rather lucrative business? Are they here also to advice the government on dealing with dissent? The social panorama is looking very bad and no economic program can be applied if the people are against you. I don't have to teach this to anyone on Hexbear, we know what this means.

Al-Shifa Hospital surrounded by Israeli military tanks

Faith in humanity, slipping. Convinced that Westerners are too dumb to live

My new cope theory is that Macron is talking about sending troops to increase Ukrainian morale.

The Ukrainian army needs manpower but there's a lot of internal resistance to lowering the age of conscription and Zelensky dares not openly press the issue. Companies don't want to lose their younger workforce and people aren't feeling good about Ukraine's performance on the front right now. They need something to point to so they can make the population more amenable to conscription.

They can't achieve success on the front right now so Macron steps in and offers a (seemingly) strong commitment that they are willing to go all-in. Then the regime in Kiev can push through new waves of conscription. The French announce they are standing back and standing by now that the manpower issue has been resolved.

I don't know, I think the French would, out of all the European states, understand that it is not a good idea to send forces into Ukraine. I feel similar about the idea of France sending troops to how I felt before Russia invaded: I thought they wouldn't do it because it wasn't a smart idea. So I could definitely be wrong.

The Euros are not okay: Danish MEP Anders Vistisen who represents the far right "Danish People's Party" has become a podcaster. The podcast is called "Plague Over Europe" a direct plagiarism of the title of a famous 1930's liberal critique of fascism.

The subject matter of the podcast is crime committed by "immigrant men". Vistisen sees his podcast as a "public service" since the media, so he claims, does not cover "immigrant crime" as a separate subject.

Please Xi, invade this deeply unserious continent and civilize it's population of benighted savages.

Deep state dipshit whining about new U.S Army tank being too well designed and thought out for actual combat conditions and not even bigger and bulkier than the Abrams tank

https://archive.is/Vou3V

Cryptofascist marble bust avi Twitter soying over Chinese pastiche of Western European buildings. (Warning: Dangerous levels of copium)
https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1769904859455623449

The Kyiv Post reported a 'pre-election scoop' last Friday about how POO TIN will win:

Video evidence alleges that the Kremlin has distributed special pens with ink that disappears for use in the weekend’s presidential elections, enabling Putin’s United Russia operatives to change votes to those endorsed by Moscow, independent sources reported.

The independent Russian news site Sirena was told by sources in Kursk and Rostov-on-Don who were setting up polling stations ready for the start of today’s presidential election that they were provided with pens to place in polling booths that “contain a secret.” The pens arrived in boxes sealed with the official emblem of Russia’s Central Election Commission.

The sources provided video evidence of how the ink from the pens could be made to disappear which Sirena posted on its Telegram channel. The ink used to mark the voters ballot paper seems normal but can be made to disappear when it is heated.