Rosalyn Carter just died. This has no impact on the world at large.

Fucking DolphinMath and HatsuneMiku on worldnews. How much IDF apologia can they spew? Am I just getting mad for no good reason?

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IDF reveals entrance to Hamas tunnel, cache of weapons found in Shifa Hospital complex | The Times of Israel

There's narration in Hebrew - https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1725228478046289920/pu/vid/avc1/480x270/2HDEYLQYVLtXoYE1.mp4?tag=12

Gee, IDF - why making learning about this in English so hard?

That hole in the ground might be the "tunnel shaft". I dunno. There's more at the article.

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I had been looking for the "tunnel shaft" video.

the first article I have seen on the BBC's front-page about Xi's visit to the US: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67423040

reads as if China is close to collapse

Does anyone know what happened to @IbnRiad's twitter? It says the account is "protected." Does that mean banned?

Edit: So here's thr scoop, courtesy of @AryJeay: >It seems that Elon, in order to get back advertisers to his platform, has started cracking down on our accounts. They restricted @EyesOnSouth1 and Riad went private. I'm going to be extra careful too, might post certain stuff on Telegram instead of here from now on.

Telegram channel: t.me/FotrosResistan

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this probably isn't news, but I love dumb guy level carbs and I just had to retune one to match a new better breathing intake tract that suits other needs (now my knee has a place to go). Fucker runs better than it's probably ever run, starts easy and not even slight lean condition anywhere

I dunno what the carburetor equivalent is for EV drivetrains but I'll figure it out eventually before I die

Hamas montage. CW dead IOF troops.

https://streamable.com/tp1r61

Harvard faculty statement to Harvard administration about Harvard's position on the Palestine conflict: https://medium.com/@acfreedomfacstatement/harvard-faculty-response-to-combating-antisemitism-86ca47e87cdf

A picture from Haidar Street in Gaza City reveals a large number of IOF vehicles destroyed and damaged by the resistance.

Zionist one drop rule, but it’s not one drop of cum wasted

An unyielding will to continue’: An Interview with Abdaljawad Omar on October 7th and the Palestinian Resistance

"I think when thinkers offer only nightmares, they are consciously or unconsciously invested in the status-quo. They offer us the monsters so we remain committed to existing structures, to hinge our political wager on sustaining a reality, even if this reality means, as Ghassan Kanafani explicated, that Palestinians live in a world that is not theirs. For Shatz, the nightmare is on the horizon but for us Palestinians we live in the nightmare and have for at least 75 years.

This is a political sin par excellence, because if anything Palestinian resistance operates on a highly tangled architecture of emotions and passions – chief among them to employ its potencies and whatever meagre power to widen the horizon of political possibilities – to crack history open and yes, the nightmare is a possibility and yes, Palestinian resistance is imperfect, but the nightmare is not the only thing one on offer. For some of our so-called allies to foreclose those possibilities is to me ‘unforgivable’. I am less interested in aversions to violence or even to moral condemnations of Palestinian actions, and resistance like any other institution should be criticised. I remain however adamant, as history will show, that what happened in the Gaza envelope is profoundly different to how it was presented. Again this does not mean that Palestinian fighters did not kill any civilians, but the image presented to us is incomplete at best and a more complicated narrative will emerge when the battle subsides.

What this informs us, or tells us, is that many thinkers are capable of a stance that at its heart is anti-intellectual, and to me rejecting thinking is what you expect from fascists, not leftist or progressive allies. Zizek is another example; he speaks of Palestinian actions and resistance as a sign of Palestinian deprivation and desperateness. Indeed, accomplished philosophers and writers all of a sudden become reductionists and ideologues. When Palestinians are desperate [and] they do not turn to resistance, instead they become what Mahmoud Abbas has become – collaborators in their own slow but steady unmaking and erasure."

Least deranged IOF cannon fodder: https://nitter.cz/ytirawi/status/1725425336177865140

You don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with ~~Jim~~ Houthie rebels

Financial Times: US seeks to thwart Russia’s ambition to become a major LNG exporter

The US is directly targeting Russia’s ability to export liquefied natural gas for the first time, in a move that could cause disruptions in global energy markets that Washington has so far been keen to avoid.

European countries continued importing Russian LNG even after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, which triggered an energy crisis after Moscow slashed pipeline supplies to the continent. Until recently, the US has sought to avoid disrupting flows so as not to increase the pressure on allies battling a shortage.

But in early November, the US State Department announced sanctions on a new Russian development known as Arctic LNG 2 — in effect blocking countries in Europe and Asia from buying the project’s gas when it starts producing next year, according to officials, lawyers and analysts. Francis Bond, sanctions specialist at law firm Macfarlanes, said that by targeting the project operator, the US was seeking to “toxify the project in its entirety” and would put “pressure on any non-US companies planning to purchase the flows from Arctic LNG 2”.

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Arctic LNG 2, located on the Gydan Peninsula in the Arctic allowing it to export to both the European and the Asian market, would be Russia’s third large-scale LNG project, bolstering the Kremlin’s ambition of becoming a leading exporter in the field. At full production, it would account for a fifth of Russia’s target of producing 100mn tonnes of LNG annually by 2030, more than three times the volume the country exports now. The project was expected to start shipping LNG to the international market in the first quarter of 2024. Market analysts have said those volumes would alleviate some of the tightness in the global LNG market brought about by Europe’s increased demand.

Arctic LNG 2 is led by Russian private company Novatek, which holds a 60 per cent stake. Other shareholders are France’s TotalEnergies, two Chinese state-owned companies and a Japanese joint venture between trading house Mitsui & Co and government-backed Jogmec, each holding 10 per cent stakes.

The sanctions will hit Russia’s longer-term ambition to increase LNG supplies and rival leaders in the market such as the US and Qatar. “It’s not possible,” said Laurent Ruseckas, a gas expert and executive director at S&P Global. “It’s too hard to get it done when [Russia] is excluded from so many parts of the financial system and global economy.”

Let's put a pin in that last quote and check back in a few months.

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I remember someone linking a UN report or something like that, that concluded Hamas don't use human shields, but now I cannot find it. Anyone got a link?

At al-Shifa the IDF has set up a stage to ease the transition to total Israeli control. The official IDF standup comedian comes bounding out stage left. Lighting isn't working in the operating rooms but he's in the most lit part of the building. He's dressed up as a doctor in a white lab coat, he's wearing the Israeli flag like a Fetterman cape, and he had a stethoscope around his neck.

He speaks into the round part of stethoscope: "Paging Dr. Mengele. Paging Dr. Mengele." He lets the round part hang and he looks around. "I kid. I kid. We're here to liberate you. Dontcha feel liberated?... Oh, crickets. Tough crowd, tough crowd..."

First supervillain president and he's a libertarian with an ugly costume

Today is an especially sad day for all leftist supervillains