Please ask your friend to accept the deepest sympathies and support here from the dark heart of the imperial core. Ask him for forgiveness for the evil our leaders do in supporting the zionists. We are not all like that.
I would like to ask what the mood is like among Gazans in particular and Palestinians in general. Is there hope for liberation? Are there parts of Palestinian society who doesn't support the resistance but instead believes that more liberal, western approach can solve the conflict?
Russia is suing Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland at the ICJ for not living up to their international commitments to prevent terrorism over their lack of will to conduct real investigations of the Nordstream attacks:
New countries may face pre-trial claims over Nord Stream (from RIA Novosti, machine translation
Zakharova: Russia may make claims for terrorist attack on Nord Streams to new countries
MOSCOW, September 28 — RIA Novosti. Russia has filed pre-trial claims against four countries in connection with the investigation of the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RIA Novosti.
"The Russian Federation has officially filed pre-trial claims against Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland on the basis of the 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism," she said.
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According to the diplomat, other states that may have something to do with this terrorist attack are next in line.
She noted that the bombing of Russian export gas pipelines is a flagrant act of international terrorism, which falls under international treaties obliging states to prevent such acts, investigate their commission and cooperate with other countries to do so. But these obligations are not being fulfilled.
Thus, Switzerland, where the company operating Nord Stream is registered, did not even try to investigate the terrorist attack. Denmark and Sweden, in whose exclusive economic zones the explosions occurred, quickly closed their investigations without publishing any results. And Germany, where the end point of both gas pipelines is located, has still not reported a single positive result of the investigation, Zakharova listed.
"Moreover, the arrest warrants for suspects that Berlin recently sent out, according to its claims, were not executed and as a result, at least one suspect who was in Poland, according to the Polish prosecutor's office, managed to escape to the territory of Ukraine," the Foreign Ministry representative added.
She called the reaction of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk , who said that anyone concerned about the progress of the investigation into the terrorist attacks "should shut up," shameless.
"The West is not interested in conducting an effective investigation into the terrorist attack, despite the colossal damage caused to the European economy and environment by the blowing up of gas pipelines," the diplomat emphasized.
Zakharova recalled that Moscow has repeatedly sent requests to European countries for legal assistance in the investigation, but they have been rejected under far-fetched pretexts or without explanation at all, which contradicts the international legal obligations of these states.
If the issue is not resolved at the pre-trial stage, Moscow intends to appeal to the International Court of Justice , the Foreign Ministry representative noted.
"Russia is firmly committed to seeking to establish and bring to strict accountability all perpetrators, organizers and accomplices of the terrorist attack. International justice is not the domain of the West; it must and will work in the interests of the entire world, including and above all in the fight against international terrorism," she concluded.
The explosions on the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 occurred on September 26, 2022. According to Nord Stream AG, the accident is unprecedented and the repair time cannot be estimated. The Kremlin called this emergency an act of international terrorism.
According to American journalist Seymour Hersh , the explosives under the gas pipelines were planted by American divers during the NATO exercises Baltops 2022, and three months later the Norwegians detonated them. Moreover, President Joe Biden decided on the sabotage after more than nine months of secret discussions with the national security team, as he feared that Germany , which receives gas from Russia through the Nord Streams, would not want to participate in military aid to Ukraine . Washington denies these accusations.
"I support a two-state solution!" is an extremely common liberal deflection technique when they are pressed to have an opinion on zionist atrocities.
In South Africa, the apartheid regime tried having a two-state solution as well by creating Bantustans, pro forma independent countries for black people carved out of South Africa proper, de facto under the total control of the white supremacist rulers of South Africa who controlled their borders and installed corrupt comprador rulers to keep the people in control.
Even if we ignore the fact that nobody in Palestine wants a partition, the indigenous population wants their country to be free, the zionists wants everything for themselves, a two-state solution in Palestine would be nothing but a rebranded Bantustan solution. They would be allowed to have a flag and a football team and a president but the west and the zionists would be in total control. It is highly unlikely that a pro forma independent Palestinian rump state would be allowed to control their own borders, airspace and territorial waters or to have armed forces capable of effectively defending them against the zionists. Being torn in half by the zionist entity, a rump Palestine would have a very hard time developing economically and the nation would be saturated by western NGO's, pumping money into ensuring that elites friendly to western imperialism govern.
In South Africa, the creation of Bantustans gave the regime an excuse to strip black Africans of their citizenship, as they were now considered "citizens" of one of the Bantustans, thereby making their existence even more precarious. One could easily imagine a similar process happening if western imperialists decided to actually make a two-state solution happen.
In the case of South Africa virtually nobody outside the Boer minority saw the Bantustans than anything other than what they were, a legalese fig leaf to justify apartheid. They remained universally unrecognised Internationally and they fell with the apartheid regime. Unlike back then liberals today are ready to play along with the creation of a Bantustan but the fact remains that no liberal reform or milquetoast half-measure will be able to protect Palestinians against the abuses of settler colonialism. They are in danger as long as Zionism holds any power in Palestine. Jews living in Palestine can not be free from hate and fascism before they live as equals with their neighbours. Palestine can only be free when it is free from the river to the sea.
The zionists only killed a man today, the resistance lives on. Hezbollah has prepared for this day all the time. New capable leaders are ready to take over and continue the struggle.
Maybe their lawyer had a "get two genocide cases for the price of one" deal?
Nobody from the Hezbollah leadership ever tell me anything about their strategic decisions but if I were to guess they might think that such a spectacular move would be exactly the kind of thing that would give the yanks a justification for joining the war directly while it would also do little towards defeating the zionists militarily.
Ruby gems
Memory leaks
Layers of abstraction
Master branch
Void function
Probably. These ships are not even Russian, they just have "Russian connections".
In the Danish city of Odense, the mayor is malding that he can't ban ships from legally and peacefully docking in the local harbour:
"Deeply frustrating": Odense mayor wants Russian ships out of the harbor
Russian ships should not be allowed to dock at Odense Harbor and receive services.
This is the message in an email from Odense's mayor, Peter Rahbæk Juel, from the Social Democrats, to the Minister of Transport, Thomas Danielsen, from the Liberal Party.
The call comes in response to reports on how ships with Russian connections are creatively bypassing current sanctions, for example, by transporting natural gas to Russia.
"The ships are being serviced by companies located at the harbor. They’ve done so completely legally - and without Odense Harbor being able to refuse them, which is deeply frustrating," writes the mayor in the email.
Odense Harbor is obligated to accept ships as long as they do not break any laws or sanctions - and officially, they are not, according to the mayor.
- Source: Machine translation from DR (state media), September 27th 2024
Burnt Khalifa 
You have the rainbow which literally means something along the line of "the entire spectrum". That is a neat, simple symbol that can include everyone in the LGBT+ community — But that symbolism doesn't work when you also want to be able to point to a specific area of the flag and be able to say "this is for that particularly group", "this is for that other particular group".
I applaud the intention to be more inclusive of trans and bipoc people and I'm not trying to be dismissive of the unique challenges they face. I'm just kind of mildly grumpy that a side effect of this is worse flag design.
The hand is that of a cop, pulling aside the curtain so he can shoot the dog while it is too busy praying to notice him.
The original pride flag and the trans flag are awesome flags. The new one looks too busy and the symbolism is contradictory.
The Danish military has lost the ability to learn from Ukraine
The Danish military currently lacks the capacity to systematically follow and learn from the war in Ukraine. This is according to a major from the military's development and planning staff, as stated in a September 26th article by DR (Danish state media). The piece, which also seems to serve as a promotional platform for drones, highlights a gap in the military’s ability to adapt lessons from the conflict.
No specific personnel have been assigned to gather insights from the war and apply them to the Danish armed forces. The major expresses the concern bluntly: "If we aren’t evolving, we’ll fall behind when the day comes that we’re the ones who have to stop Russia somewhere."
An analyst from the Danish Defense Academy adds that while many in the military are following the war closely, they do so in their free time without any coordinated institutional effort.
The major attributes this failure to manpower shortages, with other tasks taking priority. He also points out that the military’s development wing was gutted by politicians in the 2018-2023 defense agreement, and rebuilding that capability will take years.
An example is given, courtesy of Danish drone manufacturers. They have amassed substantial practical experience and made lots of money by supplying drone equipment to Ukraine. Despite this, the Danish army has yet to buy any of these drones for itself, causing the Danish military to be behind on modern warfare as well as Danish drone manufacturers to be unhappy.
If there are 653,000 unhoused persons in America and if the average rent is USD 1,712, these money could have guessed each and every one of them for seven months.
When a brutal fascist regime is waging a war of terror against civilians, you think of where your sympathies lie.
So has Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Denmark's controversial foreign minister, who gave this statement to government broadcaster DR on September 26th 2024:
"I can certainly tell the difference between these countries. I know where my sympathy intuitively lies. I know which countries are democracies and which are not. But that doesn’t change the fact that, in the end, everyone has a responsibility to ensure this doesn’t spiral completely out of control."
The statement is an example of democracy washing where the alleged democratic nature of the illegal zionist entity is used to justify their atrocities and shift blame to the victims.
Journalists from a free and independent news outlet might have asked him follow-up questions such as:
- Can an apartheid state be democratic?
- Can a state be democratic when a majority of the people it governs is denied the vote?
- How can war crimes be justified by the perpetrator's system of government?
- Are the lives of civilians living under an allegedly "undemocratic" form of government worth less than those of people living under presumably "democratic" regimes?
Following Chairman Mao's call to go down to the countryside, I spent a day connecting to the dark heart of whiteness and avoided revealing military secrets in the process.
I had never heard of that village until the day that a friend of us called and told us that they had an annual market going on there and asked if we wanted to go. There would be stalls where you could buy all sorts of crap, beer on tap and rides for the kids. So me, my partner, our kids and our friend loaded up our cars and left the multicultural wokery of the big city behind to spend a day among the hardworking salt of the earth people who constitutes the real Denmark.
The market was organised by the village citizens' association in order to raise funds for local amateur sports and similar activities. Upon arrival, we were greeted by members of said association dressed in yellow vests who directed us to park on the muddy patch of grass that was the parking lot for a seven dollar fee. People there still follow the old ways, so when our female friend drove up to them with our queer short-haired teenage daughter on the front seat, they assumed she was the man in charge of the vehicle and tried to solicit payment from her, until our friend insisted that she, as the adult driving the car, was going to pay.
Then we went to the market, a mix of tents, caravans and rides put up on an empty field outside the village. A road divided the grounds into two and we went to the left where we quickly found a beer tent with wooden benches and a stage in front. We bought pints for the adults and sodapop for the kids. The beverages were cold and refreshing as we sipped them from the disposable plastic cups that are ubiquitous whenever beer is sold in a field. Nearby, a stall sold fried pork sandwiches, and we had the dubious pleasure of having direct view of the stand of a fascist party adorned with a big banner airing their latest grievance: "Save Danish agriculture!" Apparently, farming is about to be ended by an upcoming carbon tax.
The police had sent the two youngest and blondest female cops they could find to the market to mill around and smile at people. In police lingo, this is called "safety-creation." You have to hand it to the fuss on this one, the marketgoers were exactly the kind of people who would feel reassured by the sight of cops. Apart from a Native American guy selling pan pipes and dreamcatchers, we hadn't seen a single non-white person among the guests and merchants. We would soon find out why.
A bearded man in his 60's, wearing glasses and a baseball cap, went on stage singing and playing a Stratocaster. He was covering popular 1980s and 1990s pop songs, the kind anyone coming of age in Denmark during those years would know. Was he any good? Certainly not. Was he good enough for the job? Absolutely. He even had the courtesy to move his head away from the microphone whenever there were notes his voice couldn't reach. A few older people were dancing in front of the stage, the sun was shining, and the mood was good.
We browsed the stalls to see what was on offer. The shopkeepers' attitude towards taxation was best described by the "We love cash!" sign prominently displayed at one stall. The goods fell into two categories: old stuff and new stuff.
In the old stuff category, items ranged from garage sale junk to what you’d expect in low-tier antique stores. Several stalls sold old hand tools in varying states of disrepair. One stand's inventory looked like the going-out-of-business sale of a 1995 hardware store teleported to the present day.
The new stuff category offered goods you can't find in proper shops: the world's fakest football jerseys, cigarette lighters with skulls on them, a live poodle, cigarette lighters shaped like guns, supplies for dog and horse ownership, USB-charged cigarette lighters, 20 dollar Gucci watches, and cigarette lighters shaped like muscle cars with watch movements in them. There was also an abundance of food products of inscrutable provenance that were either disgusting health and safety hazards and/or much better than anything you would ever get in supermarkets.
As we browsed the stalls my partner noticed that shopkeepers were treating her weirdly. Being born and raised in Denmark and having a name so stereotypically Danish that JK Rowling could have come up with it, she has also inherited her stunning black hair and slightly darker skin tone from an Italian grandparent. People often mistake her for being Turkish or otherwise non-white. In the immigrant-run stores at home, this usually results in nice discounts, but here, it was a different story.
The shopkeepers clearly didn't like her. When I or our friend looked at the goods, they were nice or indifferent. But when my partner did the same, they immediately stopped what they were doing to closely watch her, as if she might steal their old silverware or porcelain figurines. They had decided she was one of "them." One shopkeeper directly asked her to leave, while another angrily told her to "talk Danish" when she spoke Italian to our kid.
We were deep in the heart of whiteness, so it wasn't surprising to see the Home Guard had set up a stall. The Home Guard is a Cold War relic of civilians LARPing as soldiers a few weekends a year. They offer the easiest way to get a gun and a uniform in Denmark, accepting those too fat and out of shape for the police or military. They hold a special place in the hearts of chuds, some of whom fantasize about being the white vanguard in an upcoming race war.
Their stall featured a jeep and an assortment of rifles, all firmly secured to the table with chains, that the public could hold. We were greeted by a woman in military uniform who looked the exact opposite of how you imagine the ideal elite soldier. "Come in!" she said, immediately trying to recruit me for the defense of the fatherland by enthusiastically mentioning that they had enlistment forms inside. I smiled and nodded.
Unlike me who have not even been a boyscout, my partner over spent a few months as a recruit and she is familiar with military hardware. "Do you have an M/75 in there?" she asked, referring to the long-time standard-issue rifle of the Danish military. "We have all sorts of stuff in there!" The Home Guard woman said, clearly confused. I am not sure if her confusion was caused by the technical nature of the question being above her expertise or if she was thrown off by the question coming from my partner and not from me.
Our kids had great fun holding the guns and my partner reached for her phone to take some pictures. "You can't do that!" the Home Guard guy overseeing the stall said. If pictures of children holding guns was posted to social media it could "hurt the image"of the Home Guard, we were told. The guy explained to my partner that "we don't have child soldiers in Denmark", as if that needed clarification.
We didn't want to stay after this visit to the people keeping us safe from Putin. The vibes in that area were nasty and my partner felt unsafe. We went across the road to the other hand of the grounds and things were a lot better there. We began to see other skin colours than pig pink and people were noticeably less nasty. Signs of civilization like kebab stalls and Asian grocers emerged.
We went to the area where the kids could try different rides. The rides were mostly operated by seasonal workers from Eastern Europe and each ride was blasting it's own playlist of either current hits or 1980's Eurovision songs into the air. As the kids were having fun in a bouncy castle next to the employees' restrooms I noticed how the restrooms were segregated with one reserved for Danish and Polish workers and the two others for Romanian workers.
After the kids had finished their rides we needed refreshments so we went into a big beer tent and sat down at an empty table scattered with the remnants of several of the giant hot dogs, giant burgers and giant kebabs offered for sale nearby. You don't buy normal-sized food at events live this. We looked at the beverages offered, a few sodas, beer by the buckets and lots of moronic shots sold in tiny tubes, and decided that we had had enough for today and that we would grab something to drink from McDonalds. On our way home instead. As we exited the grounds I noticed how someone had been so overjoyed by the selection of beverages offered at the market that they had emptied the contents of their stomach beneath the sign at the entrance.
Spending a day like this, connecting to my cultural roots, was an educating experience and I am happy to report that I had so much authentic Danish folkishness that I will not need to go again any time soon.
I feel stressed and overwhelmed with the constant amount of stuff I have to do all the time. There's work, there's family, there's chores, there's personal finances, there's my health, there's personal relations, there's a thousand little things that screams for my attention. Somewhere in there there's also the desire to one day relax and maybe do something because I want to do it instead of it being something I have to do.
There's just so much and the pile of tasks keeps growing and growing. I don't have the time and energy to do half of what I feel I'm supposed to do and almost no time and energy to do what I have to do. I'm exhausted and stressed and I feel guilty all the time for letting people down.
I feel like I never have the time to do things right or to handle the problems that are draining my time and energy. Instead I'm constantly running around and putting out fires. If I were to put enough time and effort into actually improving some of the things that are stressing me it would mean I would have to let go somewhere else and suffer the ramifications.
I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years back. I got meds and they have improved things a lot but nobody helped me figure out how to organise daily life with ADHD. I don't even know if time management would help, I don't waste my time, I get things done, I just never get enough things done. And besides, what good is a schedule if there's constantly some external factor demanding a change of plans?
How do you manage this?
I hope 2024 becomes a great year for you reading this, for the Hexbear community and for working class liberation all over the world.
Terf Islanders are tiiiiiiired
I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th
It's a red flag with a steam train on it. How cool is that?
The picture is from a recent visit to a railway museum where they had an exhibit about the cold war. Being written by western libs the text next to the flag talked about how civil defence at places like the railway workshops was complicated when "everybody didn't agree on who the enemy was" and called the communists a "fifth column". Apparently, as all workers had to take part in civil defence still and know about plans in case of war, authorities were worried that the large communist presence at the workshop meant that they would tell the USSR about the plans or use their knowledge to sabotage the railways in case of war.
I work in tech. I like the work itself and my coworkers are all nice and polite people. But their views on politics, economics and the world in general is complete dogshit.
Elon Musk? The world's biggest brain genius. Demanding fees for healthcare? Very reasonable and necessary. Inheritance tax? An unspeakable injustice. Jordan Peterson? An insightful intellectual. Learning a second foreign language in school? Waste of time when you could have programming classes instead. Learning ancient history in high school? Stupid and useless when you already know you want to work in tech. STEM? The pinnacle of prestigious human knowledge. Humanities? A ridiculous and useless waste of time. Trades? Probably okay if you're too stupid to do something better. Unions? Outdated and useless. Arts? Does not compute.
All they seem to care about is learning how to code, getting a job or starting a business and succeeding at that by being a lone Randian superman. They have no sense of broader solidarity or for the existence of something of value beyond the hamster wheel of the grindset.
I think these people are a product of an educational system that is set up to produce good employees rather than good citizens. University level education will include a few token classes on broader subjects like history or philosophy but staff and students treats them like something to get over with so you can do the important stuff rather than something of importance. And you can hardly blame them, the dog eat dog world of capitalism doesn't reward an engineer for writing sonnets or knowing labour history and consequently students focus their attention on learning stuff that will make them less likely to end up on the bottom of the hierarchy.
In essence generations has been raised to be very skilled in a few practical technical fields while being completely illiterate about everything else.
How do you deal with these people in daily life? With their idiotic reactionary beliefs and their stubborn refusal to acknowledge any form of culture beyond the handful of IP rights white western cishet males are expected to enjoy?
And how do we prevent STEM lord bullshit under socialism?
