Palestine Action fuck up the roof of a factory:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1775070451057709440

SZ is reporting about Ukrainian efforts to build fortified lines (in German)

The gist is: It's not going so well, Ukraine failed to construct defensive lines in the past two years, and now, they do not have the equipment and manpower to this quickly. Quote (machine translation):

Instead of a continuous line, Synjehubov's men are building "resistance positions" on strategic heights from which advancing Russians can best be taken under fire.

So far, the military governor admits, there has only been "actual construction work" on "30 percent" of the positions selected by the Ministry of Defense for the second line of defence. The work on the inspected position will also take several more weeks, and there is still no sign of dragon's teeth against advancing tanks, let alone guns or other weapons.

Majority of ASEAN people favor China over U.S., survey finds

According to the State of Southeast Asia 2024 survey, compiled by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 50.5% of respondents opted for China and 49.5% preferred the U.S. if ASEAN had to pick sides -- the first time Beijing edged past Washington since the annual survey started asking the question in 2020. Last year's survey showed 38.9% preferred China and 61.1% chose the U.S.

Other findings of the survey include that 59.5% of the respondents see China as the most influential economic power in Southeast Asia, far ahead of the U.S. at 14.3%. Meanwhile, 43.9% said China is the most influential political power in the region, versus America's 25.8%.

Philippines and Vietnam are being a bit cringe, but all others look good

like wot if iran bombs israel embassy in jordan tho. But also its fucking nuts: both to attack embassy and that generals are sitting there

An earthquake offshore Taiwan with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked the city of Taipei on Wednesday morning

COTW: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Did 72T noticed my comment from last week??!!

I want to believe. I really have to force myself to write something now. No excuses anymore.

like wot if tsunami hits taiwan and china sends pla😉 to help with the clean up 😉

The Ohio secretary of state has sent a letter to the Ohio Democratic party warning that Joe Biden could be left off the November election ballot in 2024

the Democratic National Convention scheduled for 19 August where the party officially nominates its candidate for president is past the 7 August deadline to certify presidential candidates on the Ohio ballot

…

I am left to conclude that the Democratic National Committee must either move up its nominating convention or the Ohio General Assembly must act by May 9, 2024 (90 days prior to a new law’s effective date) to create an exception to this statutory requirement,”

Lmao, just incredible stuff from the Dems again

For Cuba the New Report of Sonic Attacks Are a Propaganda Operation

"The program that has made the CBS network, a powerful network of the United States, is unsustainable and inexplicable".

Johana Tablada, deputy director general of the United States of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba (MINREX), during an interview with AP, spoke about the alleged sonic attacks on the staff of the United States Embassy in Havana and the political operation behind them.

The Cuban diplomat said that the "Havana syndrome," the name given to the media campaign that denounced the sonic attacks, is non-existent, and that there is no evidence of any disease caused by the stay of American personnel in Cuba.

According to the words of Tablada, the reaction of the MINREX, is of concern, "it is not an investigation: the program that has made the CBS network, a powerful network of the United States, is unsustainable and inexplicable," added the diplomat.

On the investigation he stated, "the presentation of witnesses pulled by the hair, which have nothing to do with the history that from the beginning was an operation, today is presented again, not as a journalistic investigation, but as a political operation, as a propaganda operation".

"There are solid scientific reports, commissioned by the Trump administration, that deceived him for two years, such as the "Jason Report", which clearly concludes, to say the least, that the symptoms that may have been real cannot be attributed to an extraordinary cause, such as an attack, but they are linked to natural conditions, pre-existing diseases or environmental issues," said Johana Tablada.

"There is also the report of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, of a committee of Cuban experts, which also agrees on that result," he added.

The diplomat also recalled the actions of Avril Haines, national director of intelligence, who conducted another study in conjunction with other international agencies and all the conclusions were the same there was no attack.

Tablada denounced the omission of this and other information that is being made of the subject, "omits in this work the testimonies of people who were allegedly affected and who have been published by the press in the past, such as the letter made by the people who were in Havana at the time and ask the State Department not to take them, who do not feel attacked, attacked or in danger".

"Who wants to keep talking about a story that’s fiction? Who is interested in reviving in an electoral year the false accusations that led to dozens and dozens of additional coercive measures against Cuba and whose main objective was, in 2017, to impose a "stop" and abruptly stop a process of improving Cuba-US relations?" , reflects the Cuban diplomat.

"Cuba was definitely not interested in interrupting that process. Senator Marco Rubio was interested at the time, he was interested in the incoming Trump administration, the US government," he said.

The deputy director declared that the issue is of interest to Cuba, since the Caribbean country is presented as a threat to the national security of the United States, again, "Cuba is interested because it tries to present Cuba once again as a threat to the national security of the United States, and because, even if Cuba is not the supposed main actor, put the Cuban territory as the place that lends itself so that foreign powers or foreign countries can do acts against the United States".

The deputy director of MINREX concluded the interview by stating that the victims of the political campaign against Cuba was not diplomacy, neither the US nor Cuba; in the words of Johana Tablada, "here the victims have really been the truth, the journalism"

If Ukraine collapses, will Lockheed stock price increase or decrease? Should I sell my shares already? Or will Israel save them?

Reuters - Senegal's newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Wednesday said his government would conduct an audit of the West African nation's oil, gas and mining sectors. The announcement followed a campaign promise to re-negotiate the terms of oil, gas and mineral contracts with foreign operators in the country, which is set to begin producing oil and gas this year.

tl;dr Companies based in UK, USA, Australia, Nigeria, France, and Morocco hold major stakes in Senegal.

Argentina's Peronist Union for the Homeland bloc has announced that it will present a request to the Mercosur Parliament on April 29 for Ecuador to be suspended as an Associated State. The group has asked the countries to support it.

You know, maybe it's actually good this time that I got a weeklong ban from Twitter. Sure, I can't troll the Diaper Forces or send threats to the African Christian Democratic Party, but April Fool's has undoubtedly already turned that dumpster fire into a nationwide conflagration when all the come out to play.

Early scenes from Taiwan

BBC doing something good?

Gaza evacuation warnings from IDF contain many errors, BBC finds | BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcwK3-akI8k

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/electric-war-goes-west-depopulation-turns-into-displacement-turns-into-civil-war-in-galicia.html

John Helmer on the second de-energization campaign of Russia against ukraine. He posits that this time they are pushing to depopulate kharkiv, eastern ukraine both to make seizing territory easier and to create a refugee crisis in Western ukraine/Poland. He draws on and links some specific sources of stats on displaced people in ukraine to make the case that more people are leaving ukraine to Poland now than since the beginning of the war.

these fucking nerds blocked IbnRiad in Europe

Below is a list of headlines mentioning the US from Danish state broadcaster DR's coverage of the Gaza genocide. The headlines are from march and until now.

Just reading the headlines (like most people do) would leave you with a completely distorted view on the evil empire's rule in the genocide. You would believe that Genocide Joe and his merry band of humanitarians were doing their gosh darnedest to stop the killings and that the US was something like the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders.

I have no reason to believe that DR is different from other western mainstream media in this regard. Alternative and heterodox media sources comes with their own caveats but if all you read is what passes for objective quality journalism in the west then you are going to end up misinformed and believing in fairy tales.