Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach

The number of settlers killed by the resistance has reached 350. 2,000 are injured. Among the settlers killed are several high-ranking IOF officers and 30 zionist policemen.

In just 24 hours, more settlers have been killed than in the first year and a half of the Second Intifada, the most successful anti-colonial period in Palestinian resistance history. This does not account for the uncounted dead and missing settlers, of which there are hundreds.

September was world's hottest on record by an 'extraordinary' margin

Last month’s average global temperature was 0.93°C above the 1991-2020 average for September. This is the warmest margin above average for a month in 83 years of records kept by the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”

Hezbollah situation seems extremely measured thus far. Seeing it suggested that a ground invasion of Gaza would trigger serious hezbollah involvement though. And what else is Israel realistically going to do here? Settlers out for blood now, and leadership more than happy to oblige. But, you can’t rescue prisoners with air strikes so what other option is there? Hard to see a prisoner exchange being a palatable resolution for Israel. Is this just bound to escalate and draw hezbollah in?

The coach of the Swedish national handball team has been convicted for making a joke at the Copenhagen airport about having a bomb in his bag. In an attempt to get an acquittal or a reduced sentence, his defense council tried to argue that the man was clearly joking and that the joke would not be perceived as a real threat. One of the arguments he gave in favour of this was that the coach "didn't look Arab or looked like someone from the Middle East where terrorists usually comes from".

Before making the statement the defence counsel specified that he "didn't want to sound racist".

what a thing to wake up to

GO PALESTINE

Former Israeli officials are calling the massive Hamas military offensive against Israel a “catastrophic” intelligence failure that will have immense and swift political ramifications.

On 7 October, Hamas fighters breached the Gaza border fence and swept into Israeli towns and settlements, killing some 100 soldiers and settlers while taking others captive back to Gaza, including the commander of the Israeli army’s southern region. Hamas also fired thousands of rockets into Israel.

The unprecedented Hamas offensive was allowed to happen by “disarray” in the Israeli armed forces and intelligence services, said Chuck Freilich, the country’s former deputy national security adviser. This is a catastrophic failure in regards to Gaza,” he told Politico. “It’s a failure in terms of intelligence, operationally,” Freilich said. “It’s clear we were caught totally unprepared by this. The divisional headquarters responsible for Gaza was occupied, they’re in disarray, and so the whole response has been delayed.”

Freilich predicts the intelligence failures will have significant political repercussions for the Israeli government. “There’s always a short-term rallying around the flag. But once the dust settles we’ll have major political ramifications,” Freilich said. “After the Yom Kippur war, it took three and a half years for [then Israeli Prime Minister] Golda Meir’s government to be toppled — I don’t think it will take that long this time.”

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Amos Yadlin, a former IDF intelligence chief, also compared Saturday’s events to the “intelligence failure” of the Yom Kippur War in which Syria and Egypt initiated the conflict, taking the Israeli army by surprise. Similarly, Eli Marom, the former head of the Israeli navy, stated on live television, “All of Israel is asking itself: Where is the IDF, where is the police, where is the security? … It’s a colossal failure; the hierarchies have simply failed, with vast consequences.”

Peter Beaumont of the Guardian noted the Hamas offensive was enabled by an “intelligence failure for the ages” and came despite Israel’s sophisticated technological surveillance systems and network of human informants among Palestinians.

He noted that according to members of Israeli intelligence’s 8200 Unit, “the net for developing sources is almost all-encompassing” in the occupied Palestinian territories. Members of Unit 8200 “were told to seek individuals with financial and health problems, those vulnerable because of sexual impropriety, efforts duplicated in entry and exit interviews for those Palestinians allowed to leave the coastal strip.”

Israel also employs sophisticated surveillance technology, such as Pegasus spyware, to monitor Hamas’ communications. Israel also monitors the Gaza border fence using a network of regular patrols, cameras, and ground motion sensors while employing remote-controlled mini-cannons to deter Palestinian fighters and protesters from breaching the fence.

Despite this, Israeli intelligence was unaware of Hamas’ preparations for the major offensive and did not observe Hamas fighters gathering to breach the border fence.

We need a new doohickey emote, but it is the para-gliders

One thing this post doesn't go into is the fact that a Blue Ocean Event signals a dramatic loss of albedo, meaning that a significant amount of heat (~90%) which would have been reflected back will instead be directly absorbed into the ocean and surrounding atmosphere.

So not only will it be the end of the thermal buffer that the ice caps afford us but it will turn that buffer into a heatsink.

Couple this with the disruption to the polar vortex and shit's gonna be a catastrophic climate event.

Rightwing Z guys in shambles over their based friends Orban, Gaetz, Trump all supporting Israel and lining up with the neocon blob

Australia concludes China decoupling ‘impossible’ after carrying out series of classified studies

Australian authorities conducted three separate internal studies in the past eight years to determine whether the commodity-exporting nation could completely diversify its supply chains from China – but all said the task was impossible, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

The unanimous and non-partisan judgment helped to justify Canberra’s renewed trade engagement with Beijing late last year despite obstacles such as Aukus, a regional security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and its treasury department jointly administered two studies, one in 2015 and another in 2020, both of which concluded “no other markets could replace China as a market for Australian commodity exports”, one source said.

“Diversifying away from China in the supply chain would be tough,” said Dong Xuyang, an analyst at Climate Energy Finance, an independent think tank in Sydney. “Whether people like it or not, the reality is that China is dominating the global renewable industry as a result of insufficient effort from the rest of the world. And China is producing these products at the scale and speed the global energy transition needs.”

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are beefing. Max apparently fired Ben for being critical of the Grayzone's anti vax pivot. I stopped even bothering with the Grayzone after their anti vax and transphobic pivot.

Meanwhile, here on TERF Island:

Successful lobbying from the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and other industry groups means the millions of tonnes of food wasted by companies each year can be kept secret.

Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey in August cancelled a proposal to require large businesses to measure and publish how much food they waste, meaning the true scale of the problem will remain hidden. Coffey’s own department had advised that mandatory reporting would reduce food waste, save businesses money and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

But the NFU argued in a submission obtained through freedom of information law that public reporting would “just provide more red tape” and create a risk of “bad press” that could threaten contracts. A few trade associations and big food companies also lobbied against the proposal, including the Association of Convenience Stores, Kellogg’s, Pizza Express and Associated British Foods, which owns Kingsmill, Jordans, Allinson’s, Ryvita, Twinings and other food brands. However, the majority of large supermarket chains, food manufacturers and hospitality businesses supported mandatory reporting, as did Costa and McDonald’s.

Businesses making and selling food waste 1.9 million tonnes of edible food a year, according to research by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) charity. Another 2.9 million tonnes of edible food is wasted on farms, equivalent to 18 million meals a day, according to separate research by the environmental group WWF. Food waste on farms is caused partly by supermarkets cancelling orders at the last minute or setting tight specifications on the size and appearance of fruit and vegetables.

"No, we can't have this law go through, because it'll make us look bad!"

"Ah, fair enough. That's a good reason to cancel it. Off you go then."

:steinbeck-sad:

Biden is literally building the wall.

Evo Morales will stand for the presidency, Luis Arce expelled

Here’s a nice counter to Cornel West’s “both sides” bullshit, from someone else running for president:

https://nitter.net/votesocialist24/status/1710688176610693449#m

Here to announce my ascent to godhood

I feel like a while ago support for Palestine was a bare minimum bar even most liberals could clear. It seems you can't even expect that much. Seen a switch flip in so many liberals, the textbook about-face when they see the oppressed actually start fighting back. Unless, the oppressed people aren't particularly oppressed and wear Nazi symbols, I guess.

death to america

“Both sides” from Cornel West

https://x.com/cornelwest/status/1710672264411189547

A massive cyber attack against zionist infrastructure is currently underway, targeting many vital networks. This act underscores that the Palestinian resistance is not alone, as these cyberattacks come from its many allies in the Arab world and beyond.

If this isnt just them emptily boasting,
\1) wtf??? How did they accomplish this???
\2) this really would mean they’ve got some big backers internationally
\3) could explain why Israel seams so caught off guard

Day 2: Xi pls open third front in Taiwan

Friendship with Ukraine war has ended, now Israel war is my new best friend.

Looks like the focus change has arrived early!

Alright I need a break for a bit, definitely seen too many bodies this evening and it's never pleasant no matter whose side it is.

joining the war on hamas on the side of hamas, IDF DELANDA EST, THE WEST ARE HYPOCRITES

Active fighting at the Jenin checkpoint in the northern West Bank.

If this happens earlier in the week megathread hits 2k comments easy lol

2030 World Cup hosts have been finally announced - it will Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with three matches played in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay to celebrate the 100 year anniversary. Look at how quickly Ukraine got dropped lol.

I feel like the speaker of the house/shutdown drama is gonna be totally bypassed now because the rhetoric will shift to Israel being in danger because of it and if there’s one thing they can all agree on it’s that so the dems will probably cave to more of their demands in a show of “unity for Israel” god the country is so fucking stupid

Israel is tankie because they don't support property rights

Palestinian resistance reports 600 dead settlers now.

There are claims by Twitter accounts (unsure if true) that the Gazans are only 10km from the West Bank; this would effectively split Israel in two halves.

Drones being fired into Israel from Gaza.

Why the ‘Global South’ isn’t running the IMF, a truly disgusting piece by the Financial Times.

If there’s one song the purported voices of the self-styled “Global South” all like to sing, it’s that overbearing rich countries unjustly dominate international finance in general and the IMF in particular. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil this year denounced the fund for “asphyxiating” economies with its tough lending conditions, somewhat ignoring the IMF rescue that saved his country from sovereign bankruptcy in 2002 during his first presidency. More concretely, the Brics summit in August called for more representation at the fund for low and middle-income countries.

But this is a trickier issue than it looks. The debate over who should run the IMF — which holds its annual meetings in Marrakech next week — exposes deep flaws in the idea that developing countries have a common interest and identity.

Certainly, rich countries are over-represented on the fund’s board. The EU and other advanced European economies have around a third of the “quotas” that determine voting power but less than a quarter of global gross domestic product. The convention that the fund’s managing director is always European is also ridiculously outdated and sometimes farcical. One, the Spaniard Rodrigo de Rato, ended up jailed for embezzlement; another, the Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn, blew up his career in a succession of sex scandals. It’s also fair to argue that the IMF, especially during the 1980s and 1990s under pressure from the US Treasury, imposed excessive coercive deregulation on crisis-hit borrowers and was widely perceived as a debt collector for rich countries and investors.

A review of IMF quotas is currently under way, and it seems fair and geopolitically astute for advanced economies to cede some voting power. But in reality that would open up divisions between emerging markets — and in particular present China with a serious dilemma about its role in the global financial safety net that protects developing countries from crisis. A reshuffling of power in the IMF according to current economic heft would reveal a familiar lopsidedness — the disproportionate role of China in the rise of emerging economies. An admittedly mechanical exercise in updating quotas according to the latest data on GDP, economic openness, variability and currency reserves would increase China’s voting share from 6.4 per cent to 14.1 per cent, while the US’s quota would fall from 17.4 per cent to 14.8 per cent and advanced Europe’s from around 32 per cent to 29 per cent.

The current US administration, unsurprisingly, wants to increase the IMF’s overall lending firepower without changing the current voting weights. India, the second-ranked EM, would rise to just 3.5 per cent of total quota. Some middle-income countries, including Brazil and Mexico, would actually see their share fall.

Take a deep breath, because here it comes...

But with power should come responsibility. In recent years China, a major bilateral lender to developing countries, has prolonged the suffering of debt defaulters such as Sri Lanka and Suriname by refusing to participate in creditor committees backed by the IMF, holding back rescue lending programmes and attracting criticism from the US.

The fund correctly shifted tack around 20 years ago and became much more willing to press sovereign debt restructuring on reluctant private and public creditors. But China disingenuously portrays its loans as assistance from one developing country to another and resists writedowns. This is absurd and unjust. Beijing cannot credibly be a custodian of a multilateral institution while simultaneously undermining it with a vast opaque parallel system of bilateral lending.

Overall, China is an opportunistic multilateralist that participates enthusiastically in institutions it can influence (the Brics and parts of the UN system) and disengages from those it cannot (the G20). There is no guarantee it wants to play a constructive role in the IMF.

Now, it’s true that US criticism of Chinese unilateralism in economic governance looks like rank hypocrisy. America itself acts unilaterally all over the place, imposing financial sanctions on its foes and undermining the WTO by openly defying international trade law. But the IMF performs an invaluable role and is one place where the US generally operates at least in the vicinity of multilateral principles. It would be wise to keep it that way.

Holy fucking shit. Oh my god.

On top of China’s conflicted interests, political rivalries between EMs also hold up a shift of power at the IMF. One reason Europe keeps a lock on the fund’s leadership, for example, is that developing countries have never united around a rival candidate.

As a strategic adversary of China, India is notably suspicious of Chinese influence. Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University in the US, says: “India in particular has been wary of quota reforms because its share relative to that of China would shrink.” A lack of consensus for change means the current review will probably end in the US getting its way and the voting shares remaining unchanged.

That’s not the best outcome, but it’s the only one that can command consensus. The rich countries have undoubtedly made mistakes, sometimes big ones, in running the IMF. But it’s not just their defence of that historic privilege that holds back reform. The rivalries and conflicting interests among emerging markets play an important part, too.

The only thing that will suck if Palestine is liberated will be Netanyahu setting up a government in exile on Long Island

A Senior U.S. Defense Official has stated that they believe an Israeli Ground Invasion of the Gaza Strip will likely begin sometime in the next 48-72 Hours.

Also

Israel has formerly requested ammunition from the US, expecting a need for it on the northern border.

Not sure how much ammunition the US has left lmao.