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Nooooo! You're one of my favorite news comrades!
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Oh no. Anyways. CW: Blood:
https://colombiareports.com/miguel-uribe-leader-of-colombias-far-right-opposition-shot-in-bogota/
I’ve found some footage of recent -- over the past 48 hours -- Russian missile strikes on Kiev regime weapons/ammunition depots:
Russian missiles striking a Kiev regime weapons depot in Lutsk (very impressive footage): https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2025/06/06/1403932.html
A Russian missile strike caused a large secondary explosion under a factory in Kiev where weapons were stored: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/06/1403486.html
Plus, two other interesting videos...
Anti-fascist partisans blew up a Kiev regime military conscription vehicle in the Odessa oblast settlement of Donskaya Balka, eliminating one conscription officer: https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2025/06/06/1404150.html
Russian soldiers shot down a Kiev regime fiber-optics FPV drone with a pair of scissors (!!!): https://news-pravda.com/eu/2025/06/07/1406583.html
Russian missiles striking a Kiev regime weapons depot in Lutsk (very impressive footage):
What's impressive from this Kh-101 missile strike on Ukraine, is that these missiles flew through the entirety of Ukraine to get there, and even changed target mid flight, retargeting from Starokostiantyniv/UKLS airbase to Lutsk. Only one missile from this grouping was shot down in the end. The deployment of countermeasures (chaff and flares) in the terminal phase or when being targeted has been a feature of these missiles for almost the entire war.
Yeah, this conflict has once again showed that Western-built anti-missile defenses are not very good. I watched another recent video where a US-built Patriot launcher (in Kiev) fires off four interceptors that can't hit anything and then a Russian missile flies right in and strikes the area (apparently destroying the Patriot system's radar):
Apparently the war in Ukraine has seen the use of drones controlled via a fiber optic tether instead of wirelessly to prevent jamming. Which is 1) easily defeated with a pair of scissors or even the propellers of another drone and 2) littering the land with fiber optic wires.
Trump calling in the national guard on the ICE protests in Los Angeles
Multi-stream of people at the protests right now: https://www.twitch.tv/woke
Some fucking clowns from KTVU just doxxed some dude they were interviewing whose girlfriend was kidnapped by ICE by reading his fucking phone number live on air and not bothering to mute.
Thanks for the link, comrade.
The KTVU moment sure makes it sound like their journalists don’t appreciate the stakes, assuming there wasn’t intentionality behind that.
assuming there wasn’t intentionality behind that.
Didn't seem intentional, just complete incompetence
Oh good, this makes me feel much safer
Colombia: Right wing presidential candidate Miguel Uribe shot and possibly killed. No culprits yet.
Natural causes.
I think the bullet just happened to flew itself, weirder things have happened.
😔
@grok, is this true
vaxxed?
skill issue
Wait, he's unrelated to Alvaro Uribe or Rafael Uribe?
That was my first question as well
He isn't although he's still part of other Colombian oligarchic family lineages
dang, sucks for him
Scenes on the ground of continuing resistence to ICE raids in Paramount, California can be found here: https://bsky.app/profile/acatwithnews.bsky.social/post/3lqzzoky4cc24
Larges amounts of less-lethal munitions being used, some of which causing brush fires. Residential areas are being flooded with tear gas. CW for police violence on any clips, I haven't seen anything excessively graphic though but it is all generally upsetting.
video out of Paramount California of people pelting a convoy of trucks with rocks as they invade a city to abduct people and imprison them in camps. They really are turning the USA into israel, huh?
It will only be fair once the Los Angeles Freedom Fighters are equipped with QBZ-95 Assault Rifles and HJ-12 third generation, man-portable, fire-and-forget infrared homing Top-attack anti-tank missiles.
the imperial boomerang
They haven't killed any protestors yet (here, ofc Kent State happened), so not quite Israel.
I'm curious if that will happen once they call in the National Guard. I'm anticipating a Kent State / Bloody Sunday situation soon. :(
I'm sure that protestors are killed in every major protest in the United States.
Whether it's immediate (charlottesville), medium-term (concussions and skull/brain injuries from rubber bullets) or long-term (chemical weapons killing people who were kids in portland in 2020), you're absolutely right
Your link doesn't seem to work for me, is this the clip you were linking? https://xcancel.com/jeremotographs/status/1931425912106680714
srry, guessing direct x links don't work here
They should, but the URL in your link doesn't match the text. The reason people typically share links to mirrors like xcancel is a courtesy to bypass the account wall, not a technical requirement.
oh yeah lol fixed it now
Israel raises record $5bn in bond sales to US investors as Gaza genocide strains economy
Israel has raised a record $5 billion through Israel Bonds, a US-based broker-dealer, to help finance its ongoing war on Palestinians in Gaza, marking a surge in foreign support for the country’s economy despite mounting concerns over domestic fiscal sustainability.
Since the start of the war, Israel has spent some $67 billion to destroy Gaza and slaughter some 110,000 Palestinians, an estimated 80 percent civilians. US taxpayers provided Israel with nearly $18 billion in military aid during the first year of the war alone, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University.
Israel’s war-related spending has ballooned, leading to a record government borrowing of nearly $76 billion last year. While most of Israel’s debt is raised in the local bond market, international placements and Israel Bonds play a vital supplementary role. US states such as New York, Texas, Ohio, and Florida, particularly Palm Beach County, its largest single investor at $700 million, are among the most prominent backers.
But even as capital flows in, experts have warned about the war’s long-term economic toll. Karnit Flug, a former Governor of the Bank of Israel and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, stated this week that increased war spending threatens to collapse essential public services, including hospitals, schools, and public transportation. Speaking ahead of the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society, Flug cautioned that the current path is unsustainable. “Without changes in the government’s course of budget policy and without internalizing the potential snowball effect of sanctions and restrictions, Israel will find itself on a very risky path,” she said.
As taxes rise and public services deteriorate, she warned that the burden is falling disproportionately on high-productivity, tax-paying Israelis—many of whom are the most mobile and capable of leaving the country. Flug urged the government to reassess its budget priorities and reduce dependence on wartime borrowing, citing Israel’s heavy reliance on human capital and infrastructure for future growth.
Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox partners move ahead with Knesset dissolution plan
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) Israeli parties in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition said on 6 June that they are moving forward with an effort to dissolve the Knesset over the government’s failure to pass a law exempting members of the Haredi community from military service.
On Thursday, Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara announced that the army will issue over 50,000 conscription orders to ultra-Orthodox students next month, further fueling outrage across the Haredi community. The attorney general said the matter of drafting ultra-Orthodox into the army “is not progressing sufficiently, as the army urgently needs new recruits, which requires imposing personal sanctions on draft evaders,” according to Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).
Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews of military age have been able to avoid compulsory enlistment into the army for decades by enrolling in yeshivas (religious schools) and obtaining repeated one-year service deferrals until they reach the age of military exemption. Since the war in Gaza began, a manpower crisis plaguing the army has compelled the government to move forward with drafting the ultra-Orthodox into military service – to the chagrin of the far-right, religious parties in the prime minister’s ruling coalition.
international placements and Israel Bonds play a vital supplementary role.
These bonds help prop up the exchange rate of the Shekel, it is not to finance ‘war’ spending. To truly collapse their economy, there has to be embargoes and sanctions from their trading partners.
Also interesting is this:
Iran orders Chinese materials for 'hundreds of ballistic missiles': Report
Iran has reportedly ordered thousands of tons of ingredients necessary for the development of ballistic missiles from China, sources cited by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on 5 June claimed. The sources said Tehran plans to beef up its military arsenal as it engages in nuclear talks with Washington. “Shipments of ammonium perchlorate are expected to reach Iran in the coming months and could fuel hundreds of ballistic missiles … Some of the material would likely be sent to militias in the region aligned with Iran, including Houthis in Yemen,” they added.
Iranian ships docked in China earlier this year were reportedly loaded with over 1,000 tons of sodium perchlorate, needed for the propellant in ballistic missiles. An official cited by WSJ said, “the new, larger contract for ammonium perchlorate could be enough for Iran to produce 800 missiles.”
Last month, the US imposed sanctions on Chinese firms it said were aiding the Iranian ballistic missile program. “Iran remains heavily reliant on China to conduct its malign activities [in the region],” the US State Department said in a statement.
Earlier I asked whether China was more of a help to Israel or Iran, and this is definitely a point in the Iran column. I'd imagined China's help towards the Resistance is more covert, so it's hard to tally up.
The US has been publicly insisting that Iran will not be allowed to enrich uranium in any agreement. Iran has rejected the US demand and says it will continue enrichment with or without a deal.
I haven't been keeping up with the nuclear talks that much; it's an interesting display of confidence and strength compared to the Iran of a decade ago, especially given that Iran's current government is a little more willing to talk with the West than before. Israel and the US are clearly doing a coordinated good-cop-bad-cop routine; "Hey, now, you better accept the deal or my partner... well, he's an angry guy, I can't control him that well, who knows what will happen to you..." and Iran seems fairly confident that they can resist this despite Israel's belligerency.
After Hezbollah did not unleash their enormous missile arsenals, I won't confidently state anymore that if Israel doesn't make peace with Iranian enrichment then Israel is fucked (perhaps the president will be like "Hm, yes, we must try and reach a comprehensive peace deal here..." after thousands of civilians are murdered by Israel, like the Lebanese government did) but if Iran does choose to do True Promise 3 and beyond, then that would be devastating for Israel and the US generally.
Once Hezbollah is back in action and able to apply pressure onto northern Israel again (hopefully sooner rather than later), combined with Ansarallah's constant pressure on Israel, we might really be getting somewhere.