Teacher goes on violent rant and gets arrested for terroristic threat

All over a flag too

The Next Stage in Ukraine - NYT archive.is

After a disappointing second half of 2023 for Ukraine’s war effort, the U.S. and Ukraine don’t fully agree about what to do next. Ukraine’s leaders would prefer to be aggressive and continue trying to retake territory that Russia holds. U.S. officials worry that approach is unrealistic.

someday i hope to read the new york times style guide for reporting about the ukraine war, this paragraph is amazing.

The final death toll from the attack is now thought to be 695 Israeli civilians, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners, giving a total of 1,139.

Beehaw admins: Telling people that radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons isn't a problem at all and nuclear weapons are, in fact, perfectly clean? No problem. Calling them a revisionist piece of shit for that MIC propaganda? REMOVED!

Liberal civility trumps calling out propaganda that pushes for an existential threat to humanity. But Beehaw is totally a friendly place to leftists! LMFAO.

EDIT: BTW, the removed comment was mostly just this quote of a section of an article from the Union of Concerned Scientists:

The partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

The fallout from atmospheric tests created a global health crisis. A 1961 study revealed that strontium-90, a radioactive isotope, was building up in the teeth of children living in the St. Louis, Missouri area, hundreds of miles away from the nearest nuclear test site in the Nevada desert. Efforts by thousands of scientists and the international public raised the alarm about contamination from atmospheric nuclear tests and urged global leaders to act.

By 1963, the international community had negotiated the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits carrying out nuclear tests in any environment that would allow radioactive material to spread across a country’s borders, including atmospheric tests, underwater tests, and tests in outer space.

The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty dramatically reduced and eventually ended atmospheric nuclear testing. But nuclear testing did not slow down. Instead, countries with nuclear weapons shifted to underground test sites.

in response to that one user's statements like:

As for environment, the US nuked themselves over a thousand times, mostly on the Nevada desert. People in the 1950s used to go to Las Vegas to watch the explosions, nowadays they still go for the casinos, and that’s after many of the old dirtier bombs got exploded above ground.

In modern nuclear weapons, the yield and area affected (both by the explosion, and by the fallout) can be controlled with high precision, starting at a level comparable to that of largest conventional weapons. The US honed that skill by turning nukes into a tourist attraction for its own citizens over 60 years ago.

they recycle the lies amen

They are trying to destroy Lebanon through different means than bombs. (articlein arabic)

"26% of families residing on Lebanese territory do not send their school-age children to school, while 52% of displaced Syrian families reported that they have school-age children who do not attend school. ...

"The situation of children is not good," according to the report, as mental illnesses associated with the crisis in the country have exhausted even those of school age, with 38% of families reporting that their children suffer from anxiety, and 24% from depression. But in the south, the figures become more serious, where the proportion of children suffering from anxiety reached 46%, and the proportion of those suffering from depression reached 29%. As for the level of Palestine refugee children, about half of them suffer from anxiety, and 30% from depression. ... In a related context, the economic crisis has left deep scars on the material situation of families, and made them "on the edge of the abyss". 84% of the households residing on the Lebanese territory borrow money to buy basic items from grocery stores and foodstuffs, 79% of which are from Lebanese households. The percentage of families sending their children to work has reached 16%, compared to 11% last April, while a third of families among displaced Syrians send their school-age children to work."

https://al-akhbar.com/Community/374169/ربع-الأطفال-في-لبنان-لا-يذهبون-إلى-المدار

So far 56% to reject the far right constitution in Chile

Videos of Israeli soldier misbehavior in Gaza create a headache for army | AP News

The videos seem to have been uploaded by soldiers themselves during their time in Gaza.

[...]

A video posted by conservative Israeli media personality Yinon Magal on X, formerly Twitter, shows dozens of soldiers dancing in a circle, apparently in Gaza, and singing a song that includes the words, "Gaza we have come to conquer. … We know our slogan – there are no people who are uninvolved."

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Never ask a Polish nationalist what was going on in eastern "Poland" between the years 1917 and 1939

Medical staff shot and killed inside Kamal Adwan Hospital

Hani Mahmoud Reporting from Rafah, southern Gaza

Israeli forces stormed the hospital under heavy gunfire and artillery shelling.

Tanks pushed deeper at the gates and the entire facility is under heavy bombardment. There are confirmed reports from a source on the ground that some of the medical staff inside the hospital were shot and killed inside the hospital.

Some patients with severe injuries inside the hospital have died due to the constant power outages and a severe shortage of medical supplies.

Loudspeakers are being used to call anyone aged above 15 to come out of the building with their hands in the air.

From what we understood from our source, Israeli forces will blindfold them, strip them of their clothes and take them to undisclosed areas for interrogation.

This is very similar to what happened in Khalifa school and the other two UNRWA schools in the past few days where all males were blindfolded and taken to undisclosed areas for interrogation.

I think iran might pass vibe check in next week [1]

1. it was revealed to me in a dream

Does anyone have a concise explanation of Israel Palestine that I can send to a lib I know? All I'm getting is: "give me an article" and I'm getting annoyed when they refuse to accept what's happened/happening

The IOF is doing tik tok dances to gain support now

Slammer pic in response

In a transcarpathian village a rep (reportedly ex soldier who got disabled in the war) walked in and casually threw three grenades in the middle of the room on a council meeting, there's video of it, it's harrowing shit.

You know Israel is a country of morons when they've pissed off their masters this much: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67732895

(France calling for an immediate ceasefire, UK and Germany also calling for one but not immediately)

Stupidest most unhinged genocidal maniacs in the planet, jesus christ.

Things are going great;

3 high quality pollsters have Michigan presidential race at

NYT Siena 🟥 Trump 48-43 Biden

EPIC-MRA 🟥 Trump 46-41 Biden

CNN/SSRS 🟥 Trump 50-40 Biden

https://twitter.com/umichvoter/status/1734256842010661079

Nice remark about Yahya Sinwar from a Shin Bet officer

Full article

♪ i can drink beerly now the wife is gone ♪

The same exact people that have wanted to throw queer people of buildings the past two years now want to tell you to not support Palestine because they will throw you off buildings (is there any evidence of this?)

Pretty good al-Mayadeen overview

Who is Yahya al-Sinwar, the artist behind Operation Al-Aqsa Flood?

"...In 1988, aged 25, al-Sinwar was arrested for the third time and sentenced to life in prison for foiling Israeli espionage and subversive measures in Gaza.

Al-Sinwar's 23-year sentence in Israeli prisons

Forcefully separated from the praxis of the liberation movement, Yahya al-Sinwar spent the prime days of his adulthood in Israeli prisons.

...

From Liberated Prisoner to Liberator of Prisoners

In 2011, al-Sinwar was liberated with a batch of 1,027 others in a prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation.

During his homecoming celebrations in Gaza City, al-Sinwar expressed his wishes that the Resistance would liberate all remaining prisoners in Israeli jails.

After joining Hamas, he rose quickly within the ranks, replacing Ismail Haniyeh as the Political Chief of Gaza in 2017.

Yahya al-Sinwar, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, today spearheads the revolutionary efforts to liberate his kinswomen and kinsmen."

Warning: Copium of this purity will readily sublimate at room temperature, where it will quickly dissolve and form an aqueous solution through water vapors in the air. Do not handle without a fume hood.

China’s running away with production in strategic industries as US, G7 suffer rapid declines

China’s efforts and investment in advanced industries has paid off as it continues to gain market share from the rest of the world in sectors including computers and electronics, chemicals, basic metals and motor vehicles, according to a report by a US-based technology group.

As of 2020, China was the world’s leading producer in seven of the 10 industries covered by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation (ITIF) report released on Wednesday. According to the “China Is Running Away With Strategic Industries” report, China was the world’s leading producer in computers and electronics; chemicals; machinery and equipment; motor vehicles; basic metals; fabricated metals; and electrical equipment. The United States, meanwhile, was the world’s leading producer in pharmaceuticals, IT and information technology services and other transportation.

"Other transportation" is basically aircraft, which figures I suppose. One wonders how much of the AI and blockchain boondoggles are contributing to US IT services, versus how much is actually meaningful. I also wonder how much pharmaceuticals being hilariously overpriced is inflating US figures there too.

But while the rest of the world outperformed China in just pharmaceuticals and IT and information technology services, the report said, the dominance might not be sustainable as the Chinese government has targeted biopharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence as key industries for development. “China now dominates the strategically important industries in ITIF’s Hamilton Index, producing more than any other nation in absolute terms and more than all but a few others in relative terms,” the ITIF said.

To match the advanced-industry share of China’s economy, US output would have to expand by US$1.5 trillion, or by 69 per cent, which would require doubling output from all 10 industries except for IT and information technology services. “China’s rapid growth in market share across the 10 industries in the Hamilton Index mirrored rapid declines for the United States and for G7 and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nations as blocs,” the ITIF said.

“But notwithstanding the passage of the Chips Act, the political will in the United States to implement and fully fund such an agenda appears to be relatively low, especially as neither political party wants to address the massive budget deficit to free up needed funding for such a strategy,” the ITIF said.

https://nitter.net/davidrkadler/status/1734578875802194294#m

President Javier Milei — after vowing to break economic relations with China because of his hatred for “shithead communists” — has officially requested the renewal of its currency swap with Argentina as one of the very first acts of his Presidency.

Patricia Bullrich, Argentina's Security Minister, has announced the country's new public order protocols. (spanish only)

Some of them are:

-The state will send the charge for security operations to the group that called the demonstration.

• Severe penalties for road closures;

• The country's four security forces will be involved, as will the security forces of the provinces in their respective territories;

• When minors are involved, the child protection agencies will be called in;

• Cases that occur in flagrante will be monitored for crimes.

New laws will be sent to the country's Congress to apply these new protocols

IIRC, Patricia Bullrich is the same person who was minister during the De La Rúa government and who was there aggravating the economic crisis and ordering the police to beat up the demonstrators.

These laws are very similar to those being applied in Peru. It's a very strange coincidence.