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TikTok is even worse, fuck you mean free Syria with a Palestinian flag in bio (I know what they mean, im aware of Hamas supporting the rebels, I’m expressing myself)

https://tankie.tube/w/gU79E7CdeF1FZC36BwQQi5

What's up with Talal Nasser of Hamas? This interview aired on Dec 2nd (yesterday). In it, he says they support the Syrian revolutionaries (HTS and other factions) against Assad. He says they gave Hamas $20million. He says that they are not led by the americans or israel but are instead a true revolution of the people.

With a Hamas official taking this position I'm now confused as shit.

South Korea ex-defence minister arrested over President Yoon's martial law

Absolutely fucked trans rights decision inbound!!! https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lcigrws4hs24

I've seen some silver lining takes, one that a weak Assad barely holding things together was more in the interests of the west than what just happened, and another that Israel's invasion past the Golan heights will over-extend them even more. IDK what to think of that, but could it be possible?

https://disinfowatch.org/disinfo/canadian-killed-sumy-false/

Interesting article claiming that this Canadian officer totally wasn't owned by a Russian FAB-1500 in Sumy. Instead it goes on to say he actually died of "medical complications" while stationed in Casteau, Belgium. It strangely doesn't specify what those complication were. Not sure what happened one way or the other, but I do suspect that a patient catching a glide bomb would in fact present with some complications.

I hope Russia, China and Africa are ready for what's coming.

Some Syria news for today.

Foreign ministers of Iraq, Iran, and Syria will hold a meeting tomorrow (Friday) in Baghdad (this could be significant): https://ina.iq/eng/36837-foreign-ministers-of-iraq-iran-and-syria-to-hold-meeting-tomorrow-in-baghdad.html

Syrian forces reportedly withdrew from the city of Hama. However, Syrian Lieutenant General Ali Mahmoud Abbas stated that Syrian forces are still within the vicinity of Hama. Presumably, at new defensive lines to the south, near Homs: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/05/738555/Defense-Minister--Syrian-army-is-still-in-Hama

Syrian and Russian Aerospace Forces’ strikes eliminated another 300 Western-backed terrorists in Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama provinces: https://tass.com/world/1882921

Crypto gamble bros btfo

Chad: Goverment Breaks Military Relations with France - Telesur English

South Korea opposition formally present President Yoon impeachment bill to parliament - Live TV

South Korean defense minister offers resignation over martial law controversy. South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun apologized on Wednesday for causing public concern following President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt to impose martial law, offering his resignation.

The decision came after Yoon declared emergency martial law in an unexpected late-night statement but subsequently lifted it hours later as the opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to reject it, News.Az reports, citing Yonhap. "I have offered my will to resign to the president, taking responsibility for all the turmoil caused by the emergency martial law," Kim said in a statement sent to reporters.

Yoon impeachment vote happening 3am EST. Us West Coasters will break the news after midnight. Opposition party holds 192 seats so they need 8 defections to pass it. Yoon’s party denounces the attempted coup but rejects calls for impeachment lmao “he was just joking guys”

France Must Close Its Military Bases From Senegal: President Faye - Telesur English

Today’s Syria news – government forces continue pushing back Washington’s al-Queda proxies.

Syrian forces liberated more settlements in northern Hama province from al-Queda occupation (Karnaz, Tal Meleh, Jalma, Jubbayn, Hayalin, and Sheikh Hadid): https://tass.com/world/1880987

Syrian forces also took back control of a key highway linking the Hama province cities of Mahardeh and Suqaylabiyah (15,000 volunteers have also joined Syrian forces in Hama): https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/02/738373/Syria-retakes-highway-Hama-north-Takfiri-terrorists

Syrian military and Russian Aerospace Forces strikes eliminated over 400 Western-backed terrorists in Aleppo and Idlib provinces over the past 24 hours. The strikes also destroyed five command headquarters and seven ammunition depots: https://sputnikglobe.com/20241202/syria-russia-hit-5-headquarters-7-arms-depots-of-terrorists-in-aleppo-idlib---damascus-1121068916.html

Washington’s Kurdish “SDF” puppets also made a deal with al-Queda and Turkish “SNA” proxies to flee Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud district: https://thecradle.co/articles/us-backed-kurdish-militia-withdraws-from-aleppo-in-agreement-with-hts

Washington’s al-Queda proxies roaming the streets of Aleppo have started looting and kidnapping the city’s civilian population: https://tass.com/world/1880809

❗️Statement issued by the General Command of the Syrian Army and Armed Forces:

"Our people have been facing for several days, and especially since this morning, a systematic media and terrorist war aimed at destabilizing the security of the homeland and citizens and spreading chaos and panic in a way that serves the enemy's agenda.

Media platforms affiliated with terrorists have not stopped publishing misleading videos and false news about the events taking place across Syria's geography.

Our valiant army continues to carry out its qualitative operations against terrorist gatherings at high rates in the directions of the Hama and Homs countrysides and the northern Daraa countryside, inflicting hundreds of deaths and injuries on the terrorists, dozens of vehicles and vehicles, and many headquarters, warehouses, weapons and ammunition."

Bold prediction I'll probably be wrong on: The CEO killer will get off on a hung jury, in one of the most reported on cases of jury nullification ever. This is going to cause a huge legislative and judicial shitstorm, which will eventually result in sweeping changes to the legal system to prevent jury nullification.

Damn, shame cdu polls so well (fucking boomers) and left so shittily, they can’t crash into french situation. Year of no governments would be exactly what europe needs

Given the situation seems dire it seems credible. This seems like it's too late though, unless the US would start using their assets in the region to help.

i am so tired honestly. my entire family are sending me t*ktoks about political fash man in romania and voooting and shit. my brain has become fully liquid at this point

every critique against georgescu is "soros backed" and "the mafia is trying to get him out" and that dogshit news channel "realitatea plus" "demasked the usr party's mafia". help

One of the most well-connected spaceflight journalists, Eric Berger, has bumped his earlier 50/50 coinflip prediction of the possible cancellation of SLS up to 75% likely. This is certainly due to Trump nominating Jared Isaacman to be his NASA Administrator. Isaacman is the rich guy who's flown twice on SpaceX's Crew Dragon on privately-contracted flights, not through the NASA astronaut corps. He was also the guy who did that suit-test spacewalk a few months ago on one of those private flights. Isaacman won't have the authority to cancel SLS on his own but it's definitely a capital-M Message to the US senate to fall in line. It's probably the most of moments, because fuck SLS.

There have been 14 Administrators and only 3 have ever flown to space. Richard Truly, Charles Bolden, and the current one Bill Nelson. Bolden was Obama's pick. He has expertise and flight experience, but his whole management style at NASA was "don't rock the boat even when the boat needs to be rocked". Nelson deserves an asterisk on his "spaceflight" record, he only did it once on the Space Shuttle, and it was basically a political publicity stunt as he did no actual work on the flight. In NASA's astronaut corps Nelson's nickname is "Ballast". Nelson has been merciless in helping Biden and the US senate cut NASA's science program budgets.

Isaacman is a very interesting pick. I was expecting someone much worse, like some flat-earther or a climate change denier or just some idiot Trump ally looking for a cushy job to coast in. Isaacman is none of those things. He's someone with a very high level of technical knowledge and personal spaceflight experience doing actual work in space (the aforementioned suit tests, which are neither safe nor easy). He's popular in NASA's Science Directorate because for years he's been penning letters to US politicians to increase funding for existing and planned science missions. One of the most notable was his letter directly to Biden to try to reverse cuts to the Chandra space telescope program. Chandra is a very special kind of orbiting telescope. It sees in X-rays which our atmosphere blocks. There's not many orbiting X-ray telescopes, and Chandra is one of the best of them. Chandra is vital for observing very high-energy events and objects. It's still fully functional and likely will be for another 10 years. The budget cuts were just plain bureaucratic cruelty.

For those unfamiliar with SLS, it's the US senate's ongoing project to keep sending billions in cash to the former Space Shuttle contractors. It's a dreadful rube-goldberg of a rocket with Boeing as the prime contractor. It's made from leftover Space Shuttle components and tooling, like the RS-25 main engines, the solid rocket boosters (the kind that killed the Challenger crew), the big orange hydrogen/oxygen propellant tank, etc. SLS is the 2nd attempt at this sort of rehash program. The earlier cancelled Ares rocket series was the first attempt. SLS has an expected per-launch cost of about $4 billion (on top of the $20 billion and counting development costs), with a construction rate of about one every 18 months. And it has less payload capacity than the original Saturn V. You can easily play spot-the-similiarities between the three launch systems. The US senate micromanages NASA's budget. "Space is expensive" because the US defence contractors paying US senators' bribes want it to be expensive.

The Lebanon ceasefire is such a cruel joke. Israel keeps violating it and when the ceasefire inevitably collapses because Israel keeps killing people we all know Hezbollah will be blamed.

BRICS Countries Respond to Trump’s Threats on Tariffs and Alternative Currency - Telesur English

lmao this rickety ass empire

Javar Larijani, top advisor to the Supreme Leader, Imam Khamenei: 'Resistance forces have entered the field, and are organized. The Syrian Arab Army can clearly no longer defend Syria, this matter should have been in our hands from the beginning.'

Does anyone know how useful forensics would even be in this sort of scenario? I don't know much about the subject, but I feel like if your hand is brushing against a table or something that's gonna be heavily diluted by all the other people that are also touching everything given it's a public space with a bunch of foot traffic?

Yeah unless you've got 10k troops to drop into Damascus I think Assad's toast. If he has a brain at all he's gone to UAE.

I guess it's Assadover? Unless Iraq, Iran and Russia somehow can reverse all of this, which it's not impossible, just highly difficult.

Parliamentary resolution to dissolve martial law passed - what happens now? https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20241204006100001?input=tw

Assad is being overthrown rn. I guess it's over for Syria. Now we will see if Yemen can resist being the next target of the US, but I suppose they are in a better position than Assad's goverment was.

For the first time, Iranian drones have taken off from the Islamic Republic, and are in the skies of Homs.

• From Telegram, it can be fake

Syrian Ministry of Defense: 'There is no truth to the news circulated by some media outlets and pages affiliated with terrorist organizations about any withdrawal of any units of our armed forces present in the vicinity of the city of Homs and its countryside. They are fully prepared and ready to carry out their duty to confront any terrorist assault.'

Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, after consultations in Baghdad:'Whoever denies the obvious Zionist role in the terrorist advances in Syria, is either blind or dishonest. The Islamic Republic of Iran has always supported Syria and will continue to do so with all its weight and with everything Syria needs and demands. The security of our neighbours is the security of ourselves; terrorists must be fought and annihilated in their infancy, before they spread into the entire region.'

'Iran has not and will not abandon its allies in times of difficulties, just like we expect our friends and allies to stick by us.' 'Iran has witnessed first hand how its own allies left it and betrayed it, one by one, during the Iraqi imposed war against us in the 1980's. We refuse to do this to others. Once a friend, a friend till the end.'

Namibia elects Nandi-Ndaitwah as country’s first woman president

But

Her win cements her governing South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) party’s 34-year hold on power since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 – a contested outcome.

Opposition parties have rejected the results after the election was marred by technical problems, including shortages of ballot papers and other issues, causing election officials to extend voting until Saturday. Long queues meant that some voters gave up on the first day of voting after waiting for up to 12 hours.

The opposition parties say the extension was illegal and have pledged to challenge the results in court.

The candidate for the main opposition Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), Panduleni Itula, trailed Nandi-Ndaitwah with 25.5 percent of the vote, according to the commission.

“The rule of law has been grossly violated and we cannot call these elections by any means or measure as free, fair and legitimate,” Itula said on Saturday.

While in power for decades, SWAPO has disenchanted young voters due to high youth unemployment rates and enduring inequalities.

IPC is neoliberal, look at their manifesto, this was mentioned before anything related to welfare where they posture as socdem.

In addition to reducing the number of Ministries we will merge or close some of the thirty 30, parasitic organisations living off Government funds.

Privatization

Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry:

'We are following the dramatic events in Syria with extreme concern. As a result of negotiations between Bashar al-Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, he decided to leave the presidential post and left the country, giving instructions to transfer power peacefully

Russia did not participate in these negotiations. At the same time, we appeal to all parties involved with a strong call to renounce the use of violence and resolve all governance issues by political means.

In this regard, the Russian Federation is in contact with all groups of the Syrian opposition. We call for respect for the opinions of all ethno-confessional forces of Syrian society, and support efforts to establish an inclusive political process based on the unanimously adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2254.

We expect that these approaches will be taken into account by the UN and all interested players, including in the context of the implementation of the initiative of the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Syria, Georg Pedersen, to urgently organize inter-Syrian inclusive negotiations in Geneva.

At the same time, all necessary measures are being taken to ensure the safety of our citizens in Syria. Russian military bases in Syria are on high alert. There is currently no serious threat to their security.'

Can anyone confirm this? I saw footage of what seemed like riots around the Russian Controlled-Syrian land. Also I saw some people talking about reestablishing a Alawite State, and some group called Alawite Muslim Defence League, no idea what was that about.

US Launches missile strike on Syria (Al-Jazeera)