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[–] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 3 hours ago

settler Drop Site News is working for kHamas.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The establishment democrat (ie Schumer, Jeffries, etc) line is that Trump is not doing the Iran war in the correct way. Schumer likes that there is a war with Iran, but believes that if a Democrat had been President then the US would be winning that war. They apply the same reasoning to the kidnapping of Maduro. Schumer met with Maria Machado after she gave her Nobel Prize to Trump. The word that Schumer uses is 'incompetence' as if there was a 'competent' way to start wars with Venezuela and Iran.

The Democrats are going to try to run candidates which say they are going to do a war with Iran in a 'competent' way and then they'll lose to far right populists who claim to be anti-war.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Your takeaway from this whole conflict should be that Iran is far more rational and restrained than Israel or US. US assassinated the leader of their country. US blew up an elementary school, killing 160 children. US started the war with Iran this year. Israel started the '12 day war' with Iran last year. Israel assassinated the Gaza negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in 2024. Trump assassinated Iranian Military Leader Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Trump ended the JCPOA Iran denuclearization agreement in 2018 on behalf of Israel.

Iran has been taking abuse from the US for the last decade and responding with restraint. US is the aggressor. Iran is the victim.

 

A message to the President of the United States: The outcome of war cannot be determined by tweets. The results of war are determined in the field — the very place where you and your forces do not dare to approach. It’s better to name this operation ‘Epic Fear’ instead of ‘Epic Fury.

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2033617974603497547#m

https://xcancel.com/PressTV/status/2033588032998179032#m (video mirror)

[–] dead@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

lathe-of-heaven Vintage Pizza Hut makes a return. Donald Trump stars in Gorbachev-style Pizza Hut ad.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This kind of graphical error has existed for over a decade by bad deinterlacing, not from AI. Sometimes video is recorded or stored in a way where the pixels from 2 frames are interweaved together. This used to be used frequently in high motion scenes in movies. Motion requires more video bit rate, interlacing reduces the bitrate required. On old CRT televisions, interlacing was not visible.

Netanyahu is waving his hands around in the video. The boomer film crew did the video production wrong and it smashed 2 frames together.

Example, Frame 1 shows the interlaced video. Frame 2 shows the bad deinterlacing.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

(I'm rate limited. I'll post the last couple in a bit.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)
 

KPA Long-range Artillery Sub-unit in Western Area Conducts Firepower Strike Drill

Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- A long-range artillery sub-unit of the Korean People's Army in the western area conducted a firepower strike drill on March 14.

The drill involved twelve 600mm-calibre ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers and two artillery companies.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, observed the firepower strike drill on the spot.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated briefly that the drill was aimed at making the army do what it should do.

He said that the drill would expose the forces hostile to the DPRK, the enemies within the 420-km striking range, to uneasiness, making a signaling wave stronger than the aimed, and give them a deep understanding of the destructive power of tactical nuclear weapon.

He affirmed that the drill is a regular one for checking the DPRK's defensive posture and war deterrence and such drill will be frequently conducted in the future, too.

He authorized Full General Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration accompanying him, to command the drill, and came out to the launching position to give an instruction on the firing method.

At the central command post, Jang Chang Ha gave an order to open fire.

Making the deafening sound rending the air, multiple rocket companies opened fire in waves.

The launched rockets battered the island target in the East Sea of Korea about 364.4 km away with the accuracy of 100 percent, proving once again the destructive capability of their concentration strike and the system's military value once again.

After overseeing the firing drill, he spoke highly of the soldiers of the artillery sub-unit for being prepared for deftly handling the state-of-the-art multiple rocket launcher system. Then he once again praised the combat performance of the 600mm-calibre ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers, saying:

"It is indeed a very deadly yet attractive weapon.

Worldwide, there exists no tactical weapon that surpasses the performance of this weapon system.

This will be so in the coming few years.

Certainly, however, we will never mark time till that time, being content with this.

I always hold our defence scientists in respect and appreciate them for developing such a weapon system.

As I have already stated, our powerful attacking capability is, in effect, for defending ourselves.

It is because the most powerful attacking capability precisely means a reliable defence capability.

It is, in the true sense of the word, a means of deterring war.

But in case such deterrents of a defensive nature do not prevent foreign forces from launching an armed >provocation or invading our state to jeopardize the security of its sovereignty, they will immediately be used for their second mission, i.e., as a means of massive, destructive strike.

As I have said several times, if this weapon is used, the opponent's military infrastructure within its striking range can never survive.

Our Party and the government of the Republic will maintain durable peace by means of powerful military capabilities.

Peace is something that should be defended rather than desired."

Kim Jong Un stressed the need for all units of the army at different levels to organize and wage high-intensity practical maneuvers under the simulated conditions of an actual war, true to the Party's policy of bringing about a radical turn in training, and maintain their full response posture to thoroughly frustrate any provocation by the enemies with overwhelmingly strong power. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2026.03.15.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/22497160a763c2e470e5ddc90af96fac.kcmsf

https://archive.is/Cr4uI

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/north-korean-leader-kim-oversees-test-launch-multiple-rocket-launchers-kcna-2026-03-14/

[–] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

DPRK announced that this would happen 5 days ago. They said that they would counter the annual military drills being performed by US and South Korea. DPRK referenced US's attacks on Iran, to say that US military drills are pretext for invasion. DPRK is doing the missile tests to deter invasion from US. I would guess that DPRK will release a statement about the missiles in around 4-5 hours from now; they usually post announcements at 6pm EST

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "Strong is the will of our state to defend peace and security in the Korean peninsula and the region" on March 10:

At a critical time when global security structure is collapsing rapidly and wars break out in different parts of the world due to the reckless acts of the outrageous international rogues, the U.S.-ROK war drill is being staged in the ROK. This will result in further destroying the stability of the region.

On March 9 the enemy states launched the large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield, intensively revealing once again their inveterate repugnancy toward the DPRK and habitual hostile policy toward it.

The drill, involving more than 18 000 troops of the ROK and the U.S. forces, is to be staged day and night for 10-odd days across the territorial ground, sea, air, outer space and cyberspace of the ROK. It is not a "military game" but provocative and aggressive war rehearsal of those simulating and planning the confrontation with the DPRK.

The enemies are again calling it "annual" and "defensive" but no matter what justification they may establish and how the elements of the drill may be coordinated, the clear confrontational nature of the high-intensity large-scale war drill staged by the most hostile entities in collusion at the doorstep of the DPRK never changes.

Given that the danger has escalated in recent years as a result of the drastic increase of command and actual field mobilization exercises to apply and get familiar with new modern war manuals and methods appropriate to the actual conditions of the Korean peninsula, accompanied by nuclear elements, such training is being further supplemented by practical and provocative military elements including information warfare and AI technology this year, too. This is another proof of the confrontational nature.

The recent global geopolitical crisis and complicated international events prove that all military maneuvers of the field warfare troops, to be conducted by the enemy states, assume no distinction between defence and attack, training and actual warfare, and that they should be suppressed through an extraordinarily overwhelming and preemptive super-offensive, rather than a responsive or proportional action, in order to get fully prepared to cope with them.

Our head of state has already clarified that it is undoubtedly a law and iron principle that the most powerful offensive capability constitutes the most reliable deterrent.

The muscle-flexing of the hostile forces near the areas of our state's sovereignty and security may cause unimaginably terrible consequences.

The enemies should never try to test our patience, will and capability.

We will watch to what extent the enemy violates the security of our state and what it is playing.

We will perfectly counter the strategic threats to the security of the state and the region through the bolstering of destructive power, including all available special means which cannot but be overwhelming, and the responsible exercise of such deterrent.

We will also constantly and repeatedly convince the enemies of our war deterrence and its fatality.

We will have the terrible destructive power, which the enemy dare not respond, to firmly defend the peace of the country.

The security sphere of the DPRK is absolutely inviolable and strong is the will of our state to thoroughly defend the security environment in the Korean peninsula and the region. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2026.03.10.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/273bb98acafca11358995dde785ec157.kcmsf

https://archive.is/OvWep

[–] dead@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

I think Al Jazeera is maybe trying to make the point that DPRK is firing missiles in response to aggression from US, Japan, South Korea. Some western media outlets like to pretend DPRK's missile tests are unprovoked or irrational or motivated by evil.

On March 9, 5 days ago, DPRK actually signaled that they would conduct these missile tests in response to US/ROK military drills being performed.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/273bb98acafca11358995dde785ec157.kcmsf

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-says-joint-us-south-korea-drills-harm-regional-2026-03-10/

[–] dead@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

"is that ham processed? If it's processed I don't want it" Ma'am, that is an eleven pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than deli meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest. We also have a lower sodium variety if you would prefer that.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago

right after the stock market closed.

 

https://www.prensa-latina.cu/2026/03/04/ecuador-declara-non-grata-a-mision-diplomatica-de-cuba/

Ecuador Declares Cuban Diplomatic Mission Persona Non Grata

Quito, March 4 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador today declared the Cuban ambassador to Quito, Basilio Gutiérrez, and all diplomatic personnel of that mission persona non grata, giving them 48 hours to leave the country.

March 4, 2026 | 2:34 PM

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, through its Directorate of Ceremonial and Protocol, notified the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Ecuador that the decision was adopted in accordance with Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

The measure applies to Ambassador Gutiérrez and all members of the diplomatic, consular, and administrative staff accredited in Quito.

The notification, which is circulating on social media, does not mention the reasons for the declaration or whether it will imply a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry indicated that it would provide more information on the matter later Wednesday afternoon.

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