Apple apparently wants Wechat to pay them 30% of every financial transaction that takes place on the platform. So it's basically them wanting to take 30% of a huge chunk of transactions made in China.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/releasing-names-alleged-nazi-war-criminals-canada-could-embarrass-federal-government-bureaucrats

Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats told

Large numbers of soldiers from a Ukrainian Waffen SS division fled to Canada after the Second World War.

A list of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could remain secret as federal officials come under increasing pressure to censor the records because they could prove embarrassing to this country.

Those consulted included members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, records show, but Library and Archives Canada, also known as LAC, did not include Holocaust survivors nor Holocaust scholars who had advocated for a full release of the list of alleged Nazi war criminals, Jewish and Holocaust academics say.

Some of the individuals and organizations consulted by LAC argued against releasing any of the information, warning it could be embarrassing or lead to prosecutions of the alleged war criminals.

“A few stakeholders were concerned that the release of the report would result in new legal action (criminal prosecution, citizen revocation, or otherwise) being brought against the individuals named in the report,” a summary of the library’s discussions noted.

Other stakeholders who advised LAC worried the list would embarrass Canada’s Ukrainian community or be used by Russians for propaganda purposes, the records show.

Large numbers of soldiers from a Ukrainian Waffen SS division fled to Canada after the war.

Jaime Kirzner-Roberts of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Toronto questioned why survivors of the Nazis’ genocide campaign were not invited by LAC to give their views on whether the list of Nazis and their collaborators should be made public.

The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies was also shut out from attending the advisory meetings and was not aware they had been conducted.

In September 2023, Immigration Minister Marc Miller acknowledged “Canada has a really dark history with Nazis in Canada.”

U.S. Charges Hamas Leaders in Oct. 7 Massacre in Israel and Other Terrorist Attacks

Federal prosecutors charged Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, and five senior members of the group with planning and carrying out years of terrorist attacks in Israel, including the Oct. 7 massacre, according to a sweeping complaint unsealed on Tuesday.

The criminal complaint, originally filed in New York in February, implicated two other senior members of Hamas not previously thought to be directly involved in the attacks. It also listed the number of Americans believed to have died at 43.

For some reason, the U.S. has never indicted anyone for Israel's murders of Shireen Abu Akleh or Tawfiq Ajaq, or for that matter their own murders of Anwar or Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.

(Why is this in the U.S. courts, anyway? If they call it terrorism, they get to indict anyone for anything no matter what jurisdiction it happened in?)

(Edit - Every count of the indictment includes the phrase "in an offense begun and committed out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district of the United States".)

Come on comrades, you are missing out on juicy Ukraine news:

• A military training center in Poltava, Ukraine was struck, killing at least 40 people and injuring over 150 more, including Swedish/NATO training instructors: https://archive.is/g8EHu
• Several members of Zelensky's cabinet resigned, expecting a large reshuffle of government: https://archive.is/8rX72

Update on the Brazil vs. Musk situation:

Elon Musk retweeted this:

BREAKING: U.S. seizes Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's airplane in the Dominican Republic, CNN.

And then he said:

Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of 𝕏 and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too. Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial.

Dude is still pissed that the Brazilian goverment seized all the stuff he had in Brazil, since he didn't pay his debt. Lol.

Also, he said that Starlink will not block twitter in Brazil. But that is also funny because the Brazilian goverment can easily block the signal on the ground, and only 200k people use Starlink in Brazil. lol.

And now some really GENIUS move by Elon Musk, he decided to make an "expose" of conservarive judge Alexandre de Moraes, the problem is that, besides being fake news and no one in Brazil seeing it (the target audience, and he posted in English lol), is that he fucking doxxed all the people he was "trying" to protected. He literally showed where they live, their ID and full name, besides their twitter account handles.

"was known to the FBI"

On Al-Aqsa Flood and the Required Palestinian Discourse

Excerpt:

Today, we are not interested in supporting Hamas or Islamic Jihad because they are Islamic movements, nor are we standing in defense of the Popular and Democratic Fronts because they represent the Palestinian left. What concerns us about these factions and movements is that they are national liberation movements, growing in the eyes of the people, and their presence increases with the increase of their military activities, their military strength, their social political influence, the clarity of their political vision, the strength and solidity of their discourse, and their firmness in confronting the enemy.

It is also no longer acceptable for factions to go to Beijing or other foreign capitals and issue a statement that mimics the two-state solution and the like. It is time to tell the Chinese and others that Palestine is no less important to Palestinians and the Arab people than Taiwan is to China, and that the enmity between Palestinians and the Zionists is no different in its magnitude from the enmity that existed between the Chinese and the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of China. The Zionist massacres in Gaza are no different in their brutality from the Japanese massacres in the Chinese city of Nanjing. And the experiments conducted by the Japanese Unit 731 on Chinese civilians are no different in their brutality from the practices of the Zionist entity against Palestinians.

China’s position today towards the Palestinians’ struggle should be no less solid and supportive than China’s position with the Vietnamese. The hundreds of thousands of Arab martyrs from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and others rose for the Arabism of Palestine and its liberation, and they did not sacrifice themselves for the two-state solution or for any other deformed agreement.

Without a doubt, the political position of the Palestinian resistance negotiators has reached unprecedented levels of strength, firmness, and commitment to core principles. This approach has earned widespread popular support. The reason for this is not, as some claim, that Gaza has nothing left to lose. Rather, it stems from the resistance’s battlefield prowess and the hard-learned lessons from a century of struggle and the failures of negotiated surrender. They have seen through every deception and ploy of the enemy. The resistance and its leaders have proven their dedication by sacrificing their families, homes, and lives for the cause.

The Palestinian resistance is an integral part of a large camp extending from Lebanon to Iraq to Syria to Yemen and Iran, to the Arab people in their various countries and places of existence, and free peoples in friendly countries in South Africa, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and others, reaching to universities and streets of the US and Europe and elsewhere, forming in their entirety a great rising resistance camp in the face of imperialism, Zionism, and colonialism.

These days mark the anniversary of the first Zionist conference in Basel, Switzerland (August 29, 1897), where the Zionist movement began preparing and mobilizing to build its entity in Palestine. Today, after all these years of conspiracy and killing, in the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood the Palestinian resistance carried out an operation breaching one of the world’s most fortified lines, and the Lebanese resistance was able to strike the enemy’s most important military bases and remove the threat of a hundred thousand Zionists from the northern settlements. The Yemeni armed forces closed one of the most important waterways in the world, neutralizing the two most powerful naval forces in modern times.

The great victory that began on October 7, 2023, returned Palestine to its Arab, Islamic, and international roots, and shook the pillars of the Zionist project. This victory must be completed by defeating the occupation and foiling its plans. This requires us to act as victors. It is our right and duty to act as victors.

Latest report from ASPI, who produced that widely talked about report early last year about how China has taken the lead in 37 out of 44 critical technologies that they track, or about 84%. They have expanded their scope this year to 64 technologies, in which China leads 57 of them, with the US leading the other 7. Just 20 years ago, the numbers were essentially reversed.

ASPI notes that, in the US, "private-sector research is increasingly concentrated in US technology giants"; back 20 years ago, the technological lead was spread across several more (typically US-based) corporations, but now only the largest corporations/monopolies truly matter when talking about the private sector. Massive Chinese corporations do not play nearly as big a role in this regard. In the public sector, US institutions like NASA still matter greatly, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences is an absolute colossus, by itself leading in 31 out of 64 technologies.

China is the top player in the following categories of technologies:

• Advanced information and communication technologies (7 technologies)
• Advanced materials and manufacturing (13 technologies)
• Energy and environment (8 technologies)
• Unique AUKUS‑relevant technologies (3 technologies)

China is only mostly the top player in the following categories of technologies:

• Artificial intelligence, computing and communications (China leads 5/6, with the US coming out ahead in Natural Language Processing, presumably due to ChatGPT)
• Defence, space, robotics and transportation (China leads 6/7, with the US coming out ahead in small satellites, presumably due to SpaceX)
• Quantum technologies (China leads 3/4, with the US coming out ahead in Quantum Computing)
• Sensing, timing and navigation (China leads 8/9, with the US coming out ahead in Atomic Clocks)

The competitive field is:

• Biotechnology, gene technologies and vaccines (4 for China, and 3 for the US; the US leads in vaccines, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy, and genetic engineering)

I count 14 technologies in which China is bigger than every other country put together.

Other findings were:

• India is gaining in a variety of fields, but is still quite far from being the top player in any particular technology; their best shot for a top spot in the next few years is biofuel research.
• The UK is falling fairly quickly, though they have made a couple gains in things like electronic warfare.
• If you consider the EU collectively (as some hilariously did for the Olympics) then they are still quite competitive and even take the lead in two technologies (small satellites and gravitational force sensors). In the EU, Germany is ranked first, then Italy, then France.
• South Korea is doing much better than Japan.
• Iran has gained significantly over the past 20 years in defence-related technologies; now in the top 5 of eight technologies, when around 2003, it struggled to reach even 17th place in a single technology.
• The combined power of AUKUS can just about match China in some technologies (like adversarial AI), but still trail China in others like advanced robotics.

Palestine Action's habit of fucking shit up has caught the attention of the Terf authorities:
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1830614899309101542

I asked the Foreign Secretary what role Britain has played in flying surveillance aircraft over Gaza, and whether the British army base in Cyprus is being used as a staging point for flights to Israel. He refused to answer.

With the recent surge in articles about supposed Russian election interference and funding of anyone who criticizes Democrats, I decided to take a look at what the at r/politics are up to, and yep, Russiagate is back in full force.

Putin landed in Mongolia, an ICC adhering country, and wasn't arrested. Media speaks of incredible humiliation

Bolsonaro is in the hospital again lmao

so ukraines ambassador to japan just paid his respects at the war criminal shrine the other day

idk if fake news or not but it is weird that its basically not been reported on

apparently got scrubbed from ukrainian embassys twitter right after it got posted lol

Transgender boy, 16, beaten by large group of teens in Massachusetts (cw bruises, description of beatings, transphobia, minor)

Lula da Silva: “The world is not obliged to put up with Elon Musk's extreme right-wing free-for-all” According to the President of the Republic, the Supreme Court's decision could serve as an example for other countries

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party) praised the decision by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to suspend the operation of X (formerly Twitter) in Brazil.

Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved the judicial reform proposed by the Mexican government, which proposes, among other things, the direct election of Supreme Court judges.

Yes 359 votes (MORENA, PT,PVEM)

No 135 votes (PAN, PRI, MC)

Witness the complete failure of US export controls on advanced computer chips. Not surprising, given these chips are small and easy to smuggle, but still funny to see the Financial Times admitting that US efforts to hobble China are not working in the slightest.

The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processors are easily reaching the Chinese market despite Washington’s export restrictions.

Four small-scale Chinese cloud providers charge local tech groups roughly $6 an hour to use a server with eight Nvidia A100 processors in a base configuration, companies and customers told the Financial Times. Small cloud vendors in the US charge about $10 an hour for the same set-up.

The low prices, according to people in the AI and cloud industry, are an indication of plentiful supply of Nvidia chips in China and the circumvention of US measures designed to prevent access to cutting-edge technologies.

Per here: https://archive.is/RBpos

U.S. Tells Allies Iran Has Sent Ballistic Missiles to Russia - Wall Street Journal, 6 September 2024

European officials say Europe and U.S. are working on a sanctions response to Iran’s move

time for your 23rd round of sanctions everyone!

The shipment involves a couple of hundred short-range ballistic missiles, according to Western officials. Iran has a variety of such weapons, with a range stretching up to around 500 miles.

As for why Iran has all these short range missiles and Russia and the US don't, it has to do with nuclear restrictions during the cold war. So research on short range ballistic missiles did not take place.

A graphic with the range of the Iranian SRBMs over Ukraine when launched from Russian territory.

Ukraine is using flamethrower drones to light up trenches now

Didn't know that was allowed but apparently it is. How long till mustard gas makes a comeback? Acid drones maybe, like those Israeli settlers used on Palestinians recently?

Jordanian Truck Driver mercs 3 Zionazi officers.

If I were Elon, I would simply not owe billions of dollars to guys who famously dismembered a journalist

Anyone else just remember that Genocide Joe is still the president?

Ben Garrision Brazil slop

No sex appeal. Lack of labels. He's fallen off hard.

Day 6 of the zionist invasion of Jenin.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/ukrainian-group-says-it-plans-court-challenge-to-prevent-release-of-names-of-alleged-nazi-war-criminals

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress says it plans to go to court to stop the federal government from making public the names of alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to this country.

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress or UCC is now circulating a letter asking for donations to finance the proposed legal challenge in federal court.

The organization, which states that it represents the Canadian-Ukrainian community, wants to raise $150,000, according to a copy of the Aug. 28 letter obtained by the Ottawa Citizen. Article content

“It is appalling that the Canadian government could attempt for no good reason to subject innocent Canadians, their family members and descendants to public scorn,” wrote Ihor Michalchyshyn, CEO and executive director of the UCC in his fundraising plea.

A number of the alleged war criminals on the federal government list are believed to be originally from Ukraine or other eastern European nations.

burn this so called country to the ground

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240906154126/https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/ukrainian-group-says-it-plans-court-challenge-to-prevent-release-of-names-of-alleged-nazi-war-criminals

https://english.almasirah.net.ye/post/42335/Commander-of-USS-Eisenhower-Aircraft-Carriers-No-Longer-Safe-from-Ballistic-Missiles-and-Drones

Aircraft carriers are no longer safe from ballistic missiles and drones, following historical attacks by the Yemeni military on these carriers in the Red Sea, the commander of the USS Eisenhower, Christopher “Chowdah” Hill, has revealed.

Chowdah?

Regarding the intensity of Yemeni attacks while the carrier was stationed in the Red Sea to protect the Israeli entity, Hill explained that they had to reorganize crew schedules due to continuous fatigue and nighttime alerts.

Hill confirmed that the increasing pressure has affected crew morale amidst ongoing operations in the Red Sea.

Has anyone done a breakdown of the US DOJ indictment of Hamas leadership? The headlines talk about how sexual violence was prevalent on Oct 7th, but last I heard the UN looked into those claims and found no evidence whatsoever. So I assume the basis of the indictment is just taking everything “Israel” has said at face value and calling it evidence; but I also don’t feel like subjecting myself to reading dozens of pages of hasbara.

Some more news from the front.

Kursk update, Kiev regime invaders continue suffering massive losses (over 10,100 troop fatalities in the first month of the border incursion): https://southfront.press/kiev-forces-take-more-losses-during-failed-attacks-in-kursk-videos/

Belarusian air defenses have been shooting down Kiev regime drones flying over its airspace recently: https://southfront.press/long-list-of-provocations-ukrainian-drones-violated-belarusian-airspace/

The “Library and Archives Canada” is refusing to release a list of 900 Nazi war criminals hiding in Canada, because revealing this information would “help Russia”: https://www.rt.com/news/603596-canada-nazi-list-release/

Times like these I wished Russia actually funded Communist movements in the west smh.

SeventyTwoTrillion trying to make the news mega beat the trans mega this week by turning the news mega into the trans mega

Cackling at the recruitment video "Would you rather be gay or go to war???"

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin stated that greenlighting deep strikes in Russia with US weapons will not be decisive, and that the US will instead focus on helping Ukraine defend its territory.

Source: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Discusses Weapon Use in Ukraine Conflict

Seems like Russia has a redline that the US and NATO finally won't cross. Might have to do with the fact that Russia threatened to arm Ansar Allah/The Houthis with advanced weaponry in a potential response. Export controls on advanced weaponry that have existed since the cold war are there for a reason. The US choosing to break those agreements woud have opened the doors to a new reality that they are unprepared to deal with at the moment, as there would be no reason for Russia to follow such controls if the US does not. A diplomatic win for Russia.

This is extremely good. Two hours of documentation of Israeli lies and Palestinian resistance by a Jewish anarchist. A must-watch IMO.

The Gaza Ghetto Uprising

UK Quietly Ties Nuclear Arsenal to Washington

In one of its first, but little-noticed foreign policy moves, Labour has amended the Eisenhower-era 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA) that is crucial to Britain’s Trident nuclear missile system.

Officials deleted a long-standing sunset clause that required it be renewed every 10 years.

All references to an “expiry date” have been removed “to make the entirety of the MDA enduring, securing continuing cooperation with the U.S.,” according to a memorandum signed by Defence Secretary John Healey.

Trident missiles themselves are obtained from America and a cross-party report concluded that the life expectancy of Britain’s nuclear capability without U.S. support could be measured in months

lmao

Israeli military vehicles close off the emergency entrance and besiege the Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem.

Cradle Telegram

'Investigative journalist' Sam Cooper of The Bureau - a China-obsessed, shitty Canadian news site larping as the Intercept - has been caught fabricating news stories about 'China connected Canadian figures' meeting with Chinese spies and drug traffickers in a Macau casino because people noticed that the 'leaked CCTV footage' the story was based on was in fact a scene from a 2014 HK action comedy staring Chow Yun-fat.

The Bureau have quietly removed the story from their website, but neither them nor anti-China hack Sam Cooper have acknowledged the issue.

Well, Macron appointed a new prime minister. Guess which party they're not part of.

Newfoundland journo pins Trudeau with question about Palestinian genocide, Trudeau wriggles out of it

God he's such a fuckin worm

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-kamala-harris-polls-national-1947838

Kamala Harris' Lead Over Trump Being 'Steadily Cut'—Poll

According to a new ActiVote poll, conducted between August 25 and September 2, Harris leads Trump by 1.6 points, on 50.8 percent to his 49.2 percent, a lead within the poll's margin of error of 3.1 percent.

Her lead is down from the 5-point lead she had over Trump in ActiVote's last poll, conducted among 1,000 likely voters between August 15 and 23.

"Harris' poll numbers improved steadily for about three-four weeks after Biden dropped out, followed by a period of two weeks where it hovered around a 5-point lead. In the past five days that 5-point lead has been steadily cut to just under 2 percent," ActiVote pollster Victor Allis wrote.

Nancy Pelosi killed brat and now they don’t have any messaging strategy

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/09/06/about-fifty-french-mercenaries-were-killed-in-konstantinovka

according to russia, 50 frogs boiled

China pausing on gold buying spree 4th month

Prices at near record high. Come on October suprise crash this baby right before the election.