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Mark Hamill is so cringe.

I don't want to say anything early

Pretty good call outs of the Genocide Joe administration from the State Department diplomat who quit (with only a bit of backhanded shit like calling Hamas a "terrorist" organization):

• Democracy Now - "We Have Lost All Credibility": Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending Complicity in Gaza (20m video)

Also, apparently Blinken went straight from Israel to Saudi Arabia. Hmm.

Here's more info on the hospital for which Israel is creating a narrative to bomb

Israel Makes Sensational Allegations Against Sahel Hospital in Beirut (Gaza Playbook)

Avichay Adraee, the Israeli spokesperson for Arab media writes in a post on X that Hezbollah is storing “hundreds of millions of dollars” in cash and gold beneath Sahel Hospital in Haret Hreik, alleging that these funds are earmarked to finance the group’s terrorist activities. The hospital conceals secret entrances and exits leading to a shelter below, he said.

Adraee goes on with news that Israeli aircraft are currently surveilling the site, and called on the Lebanese government and international organizations to recover these purportedly stolen funds and prevent their use for terrorism.

In response, Fadi Alameh, the hospital’s director, strongly rejected the accusations, called for Lebanese Ministry to investigate & asserted that Sahel Hospital has no ties to any political parties. The hospital, he confirmed, had been forced to evacuate.

https://nitter.poast.org/DropSiteNews/status/1848455800131620980

In an incident straight out of a Hollywood movie: Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militants (formally known as the Janjaweed) in Sudan shot down their own friendly transport/cargo plane, owned and operated by their own UAE suppliers. The UAE operated aircraft they shot down was likely bringing in supplies and engineers to repair another friendly UAE operated aircraft that crashed previously.

Video here

AP News article

"Sudan War Monitor" article

The RSF shot down their own plane that was bringing in parts and specialists to repair their own damaged aircraft which they crashed... The level of incompetence and lack of co-ordination on display is staggering. The UAE cannot even stop their own proxies from shooting down their own planes!

Editing to comment on the South African driver's licence being present on the UAE plane, our sub-imperialist arseholes just can't help jump from one sub-imperialist entity to another. If it weren't so tragic it would be comedy.

I thought there was a longer gap between the shooting and the crying: https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1849055989435093460

Praying for the safety of everyone under attack by the zionist regime. whatever cheap victory they're after, the zionists are bringing themselves closer to their own end.

death to israel

> Because, after all, we must resign ourselves to the inevitable and say to ourselves, once and for all, that the bourgeoisie is condemned to become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous; that it is an implacable law that every decadent class finds itself turned into a receptacle into which there flow all the dirty waters of history; that it is a universal law that before it disappears, every class must first disgrace itself completely, on all fronts, and that it is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs.

Most moral nazi army in the world

Dozens of Palestinians in Jabalia were abducted and taken to Israeli torture camps.

https://nitter.poast.org/ireallyhateyou/status/1849040092314194219

Footage from inside the car shows Morales seeking help as shots hit the vehicle. He denounces that the attack was carried out by armed and hooded men. Morales has asked for international support to leave the country, saying that his life is at risk. Morales is also the target of legal proceedings and faces intense political opposition, with the indigenous movement divided amid the tensions.

South Korea threatens to send arms, personnel to Ukraine. South Korea is renewing its threat to send weapons to Ukraine, days after releasing intelligence alleging that North Korea plans to deploy a large number of troops to support Russia’s invasion. - Voice of America

South Korea will consider sending Ukraine “weapons for defense and attack,” according to the Yonhap news agency, which cited an unnamed senior presidential official on Tuesday.

Yonhap also reported Seoul may send military and intelligence personnel to Ukraine to analyze North Korean battlefield tactics and assist in interrogations of captured North Koreans. In a statement, South Korea’s National Security Council called for the “immediate withdrawal” of North Korean troops from Russia and pledged unspecified “phased countermeasures.”

Last week, South Korea’s intelligence agency said North Korea already has sent about 1,500 special forces to Russia to join the war in Ukraine, and it is planning to deploy a total of 12,000 troops from an elite unit. U.S. and NATO officials have said they cannot confirm the North Korean troop deployment but have condemned North Korea-Russia military cooperation, including Pyongyang's supply of artillery and missiles for use in Ukraine.

The Ghost of Pyongyang? Imaginary DPRK soldiers?

Western countries have long urged South Korea, one of the world’s biggest weapons exporters, to directly arm Ukraine. South Korea has resisted, fearing this could prompt Russia to expand military ties with North Korea, which seeks advanced weapons targeting Seoul.

CW: electoralism

Harris needs progressive voters

(Fundraising email sent from the Bernie group, “Our Revolution”)

Recounts all the terrible things the Democrats are doing, takes no agency for them and has no answers other than we must vote blue for the “chance to go on offense to win progressive policies” and to “defeat Trump.”

So the second wave is here, and thus far there haven't been any reported impacts. Lots of anti-air over Tehran though. I can't imagine this is it, but again thus far it's a distinctly unspectacular Response. Hope everybody in Iran is staying safe.

Chapo just won the election in Mozambique! Let's see reddit ban the sub now

yo dawg I herd you like concentration camps so we put a concentration camp in your concentration camp so you can atrocity while you atrocity

"Israel" sets in motion plan for Gaza concentration camps run by CIA-trained mercenaries: Report | The Cradle

c/news thread

A major fire broke out at a US military warehouse in Busan, South Korea.
https://twitter.com/AlRadwan1234/status/1849445182971969832?mx=1

Iran's Army (aka Artesh) have announced martyrdom of two soldiers which were killed by Israeli strike.

Also an Iranian newspaper, Asr Iran, wrote:

The fact that some internal sources have said that no damage has been done to Iran's military facilities and that all missiles fired from airplanes have been intercepted, is not true news; Israel has really been able to target some Iranian military centers, but it seems that the amount of destruction is low, regardless of the announcement by the official authorities.

One of the characteristics of an attack at night is that any explosions and fires can be seen from far distances with greater clarity. On the night of the attack, many Iranians across the country were awake and took videos of the affected areas with their phones in hand. None of these videos show a huge explosion and fire. Whereas if the explosions were serious, they would be clearly visible and could not be hidden.

If the missile silos were hit, "very, very terrible explosion sounds, from a single point, multiple times and at sub-second intervals" should have been heard, and its fiery effects could be seen from tens of kilometers away and for a long time. Such an image has never been seen. Even if it is assumed that the explosion of the silos is underground and does not have an external appearance, naturally the simultaneous underground explosions of tens and hundreds of rockets are recorded and published in real time by the seismic measuring devices that work at the global level. It turned out that there was no such thing.

Therefore, without shouting slogans, it should be accepted that Israel has hit several military targets in Iran, but the scope of destruction was limited, and this confirms the same theory that the recent attacks, rather than having a military aspect, had the task of transferring a verifiable political message; as if Tel Aviv have said to Tehran: As you reach us, we reach you, so it is better to be cautious towards each other and not to go further.

Apartheid Antony returned from his gunboat diplomacy tour. Israel attack against Iran very soon?

Are other fascists as fucking whiny as Zionists because Jesus Christ:
https://xcancel.com/JehadAbusalim/status/1849833002508935321

Like, were the Nazis and Franconists and Banderites this fucking whiny as well?

Edit: Okay, this part is pretty funny. It's literally them going "OOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" for 4 seconds. I kinda want to see the deranged eulogy in its entirety now:
https://xcancel.com/ahmad__slman/status/1849908716415357404

It was bound to happen, but they officially opened up a new front with fucking Iran.

God bless the martyrs

Syria state media claims car explosion in Damascus caused by Israel. Israel claims responsibility, says it was a strike on a commander of Hezbollah. Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/22/video-israeli-military-claims-killing-of-hezbollah-commander-in-damascus

https://archive.ph/vqYed

According to Newsweek, occupied Korea is posturing at sending troops and “advisors” to Ukraine to counter the North Koreans. Absolute clown stuff. Acting like there will be a ton of DPRK prisoners when there are just some DPRK “advisors” currently and Russia is winning and taking prisoners at a way higher rate.

Occupied Korea wants to send troops and involve itself in a losing war where there advisors will get killed and captured as Ukraine collapses? It’s a clever way to get more troops to Ukraine without NATO involvement I suppose.

Britain's joined the big boys club of allegedly illegally interfering in US elections

Cuba has now fuel for Gradual restoration of electrical service telesur

Minister Vicente de la O Levy expects the country’s electricity supply to be fully restored by Tuesday.

On Monday, the the state-owned company Union Electrica (UNE) confirmed that around 50 percent of Havana’s residents now have power, nearly 72 hours after the total blackout that affected the entire island.

The UNE also emphasized that its “people are not resting” as they work to restore the National Electric System (SEN) following the “national zero power coverage” event that occurred on Friday, which has only been gradually addressed amid repeated setbacks in recent days.

On Sunday, authorities announced that the current strategy to address this crisis is to reorganize the SEN into three regions to facilitate the startup of different generation units. The goal is to reconnect the SEN as quickly as possible to gradually restore service to the nearly ten million inhabitants of the island.

Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy expects the country’s electricity supply to be fully restored by Tuesday. The first total blackout was recorded last Friday morning, following an unexpected shutdown of the Guiteras thermoelectric plant, one of the largest in the country and considered key to SEN’s stability.

The amount of coverage the alleged “DPRK soldiers fighting in Ukraine” story is getting seems way more disproportional than what the story should merit, even if it’s true. I mean… so what? If this was being portrayed as “Putin is desperate for more soldiers”, ok that at least makes sense from a propaganda standpoint.

I think the answer is what I am now seeing in multiple news outlets: that South Korea may respond by sending equipment and maybe personnel to Ukraine. I think story is all a ruse to give South Korea cover to materially support Ukraine, which is maybe difficult for it to do without a pretext?

War on Gaza: Poll reveals most Germans oppose continued Israel arms sales

A new survey has revealed that 60 percent of Germans oppose arms exports to Israel, with a majority of voters from the country's three ruling coalition partners supporting restrictions.

According to a poll by Forsa, 50 percent of Green Party voters opposed weapons sales, while 60 percent of Social Democratic Party supporters and 52 percent of Free Democratic Party voters also rejected continued arms exports.

Opposition was particularly high in the former East Germany, where 75 percent of respondents rejected arms sales to Israel.

Last week, German media reported that several German leaders blocked the sale of weapons to Israel, despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s insistence that arms sales would continue.

Follow up to my earlier post about far-right accounts trying to vaguely get ahead of some anti-Trump story they found out was dropping. A former model accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in front of Jeffrey Epstein immediately after Epstein introduced her to him at Trump's penthouse at Trump Tower. I don't really know who this is going to sway at this point who didn't already think Trump was a creep.

::: spoiler CW: SA

The Guardian: Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a ‘twisted game’ with Jeffrey Epstein, former model alleges

Stacey Williams says the ex-president, whose spokesperson denied the allegations, touched her in an unwanted sexual way in 1993, after Epstein introduced them

A former model who says she met Donald Trump through the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein has accused the former president of groping and sexually touching her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993, in what she believed was a “twisted game” between the two men.

Stacey Williams, who worked as a professional model in the 1990s, said she first met Trump in 1992 at a Christmas party after being introduced to him by Epstein, who she believed was a good friend of the then New York real estate developer. Williams said Epstein was interested in her and the two casually dated for a period of a few months.

“It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” Williams said.

The alleged groping occurred some months later, in the late winter or early spring of 1993, when Epstein suggested during a walk they were on that he and Williams stop by to visit Trump at Trump Tower. Epstein was later convicted on sex offenses and killed himself in prison in 2019.

Moments after they arrived, she alleges, Trump greeted Williams, pulled her toward him and started groping her. She said he put his hands “all over my breasts” as well as her waist and her buttocks. She said she froze because she was “deeply confused” about what was happening. At the same time, she said she believed she saw the two men smiling at each other.

Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for Donald Trump’s campaign, provided a statement denying the allegations, which said in part: “These accusations, made by a former activist for Barack Obama and announced on a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false. It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”

Williams, who is 56 and a native of Pennsylvania, has shared parts of her allegation on social media posts in the past, but revealed details about the alleged encounter on a call on Monday organized by a group called Survivors for Kamala, which supports Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The Zoom call featured actor Ashley Judd and law professor and academic Anita Hill, among others. Survivors for Kamala also took out an ad in the New York Times this week, signed by 200 survivors of sexual and gender violence, which was meant to serve as a reminder that Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse in a court.

After the alleged incident, Williams said that she and Epstein left Trump Tower, and that she began to feel Epstein growing angry at her.

“Jeffrey and I left and he didn’t look at me or speak to me and I felt this seething rage around me, and when we got down to the sidewalk, he looked at me and just berated me, and said: ‘Why did you let him do that?’” she said on the Zoom call.

“He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused,” she said.

She described how the alleged incident seemed to her to be part of a “twisted game”.

“I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways, I felt this sensation of revisiting it, while the hands were all over me. And I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat,” she said in an interview with the Guardian.