Democrats Push Biden To Take Stance On Palestine | HuffPost Latest News

A group of 60 House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to emphasize the U.S. does not support forcing Palestinians out of Gaza and to firmly resist any Israeli plans that would include expulsion as a resolution to the Israel-Hamas war.

In a letter sent to Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Thursday and shared exclusively with HuffPost...

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“We aim to prevent any confusion or misinterpretation that this funding request could in any way signal U.S. support for the potential transfer of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip. We ask for a clarification of the U.S. position,” the legislators write.

https://nitter.net/Suriyakmaps/status/1747658124213776509#m

Ukraine is either withdrawing or being pushed out from Krynky, after seemingly taking heavy losses there over a long period.

I wonder which it is. If Russia is specifically pushing them out, it could signal a Russian attempt to "tie up loose ends" before doing something else.

Hey, does anybody know when the ICJ is expected to make their decision on israel?

Will icj torpedo its undeserved fame or will it be done via security council

Torpedoing on technicality seems much better ghoul optics, like south africa forgot to put comma in some header

There was (still is?) gunfire between the Egypt and Occupied Palestine. Only seen on twitter so far, so be cautious. https://nitter.cz/eyesonsouth1/status/1747020809237868852?s=46

Edit: Seems to be related to drub smuggling operations. https://nitter.cz/ME_Observer_/status/1747022277726646564#m

Second Edit: Or maybe not, who the fuck knows: https://nitter.cz/IbnRiad/status/1747031677602324838#m

I received a telegram from the Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un regarding the next disinformation campaign: confuse white people by saying that the Houthis are Yeomi

The houthi guys jacket is great

THEY DID IT. THEY HIT THE FUNNY BUTTON ON THE THIRD FRONT. LET'S FUCKING GOOO https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67978584?src_origin=BBCS_BBC

Toxic landslide treathens village as oligarch owner evades responsibility

In Denmark, villagers are fearing for the survival of their community as an avalanche of polluted dirt is inching closer to their homes. Nordic Waste, the company responsible for the environmental disaster, has filed for bankruptcy, leaving its oligarch owner, Torben Østergaard-Nielsen, seemingly absolved of responsibility.

The disaster started in mid-December when a landslide at a storage site for polluted dirt sent more than three million cubic metres of soil in motion, lubricated by the clay that was lining the site to prevent pollutants from seeping into the soil below. Since then it has been sliding downhill towards the village of Ølst and the nearby stream with a speed of 40 to 60 centimeters an hour. It is too early to say what caused the landslide but experts are suspecting that the record rainfall of 2023 and potential overfilling of the storage facility by the company were attributing factors.

In the worst case the village will be buried under five metres of toxic dirt and pollutants from the soil will damage flora and fauna of the nearby stream as well as the fjord it drains into for decades to come.

Nordic Waste gave up on cleanup efforts and abandoned the site on December 19th. Since then municipal authorities has been working around the clock, removing dirt to slow down the flow. More permanent measures are needed though if the flow of dirt is to be stopped and nearby landowners has been notified that authorities might seize their land to construct barriers to contain the spill and re-route the stream.

Oligarch owner shielded by bankruptcy

Authorities demanded that Nordic Waste provided an economic guarantee of DKK 205 million to cover cleanup efforts, and today the company, possessing only DKK 15 million in equity, responded by filing for bankruptcy, leaving the financial burden of the cleanup with public coffers.

The company is owned by Torben Østergaard-Nielsen, a secretive oligarch who became rich by selling fossil fuels. In 2021 the CEO of a fuel oil company owned by Østergaard-Nielsen received a prison sentence and the company reviewed a large fine for selling jet fuel to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Having hoarded an estimated fortune of DKK 42 billion, the oligarch could easily foot the bill for cleaning up his mess but unfortunately the dark arts of corporate law shields him from legal responsibility for Nordic Waste's wrongdoing. In the years leading up to the disaster Østergaard-Nielsen has extracted hundreds of millions in profits from the company. Money he now gets to keep.

In a PR move only a tone-deaf oligarch completely detached from reality could come up with Østergaard-Nielsen has created a charitable "climate fund" with a donation of DKK 100 million to "ensure action that solves the problem with climate change and landslides" as it says on a press release from one of the oligarch's other companies that also claims that the disaster currently unfolding has shown that "climate change is major and we don't have the necessary knowledge to foresee the consequences". Half of the money will go to help affected residents of Ølst.

Government vows action

Østergaard-Nielsen first running from the bill and then adding insult to injury by lowballing the victims with charity has catapulted him into national disdain. His callousness is beyond the pale even for the nation's succdem-led right-wing government. In a press meeting the ministers of justice and the environment , denouncing and shaming the oligarch, are pledging to use the full extent of the law to hold him responsible. Unfortunately the law doesn't extend very far in these situations and unless an actual criminal intent can be pinned on the oligarch personally, everything he has done has been completely legal.

The ministers went on to promise amendments to environmental and bankruptcy law expanding the legal responsibility of owners. However, allowing the bourgeoisie to evade responsibility is the main purpose of bankruptcy law and it remains to be seen how much of a fight the government really wants to pick with the business elite it usually loves to cozy up to, particularly with the Liberal Party, a crucial coalition member, being heavily dependent on financial support from oblique business interests.

Meanwhile, Ølst residents question how the disaster could occur, as Nordic Waste operated the site close to the vulnerable waterway with approved permits from the local council. Opposition councillors has raised concerns about landslide risks at the site for years only to be dismissed by local authorities, underscoring a systemic failure that has left the village in a state of peril.

Random brain takes: india will born a new socialism and/or fascism in the next 20 years:

Peasant population

Legacy of being looted by empire

Racism (with inbuilt caste shenanigans)

Climate change

Unflattering china comparison

No colonies

not news exactly, but interesting article (well, excerpt from a book) with some insight on the Ukraine war, and more broadly about the difference between the Soviet/Russian and Western approaches to war (archived)

The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat

Throughout the Cold War period, the Soviet Union saw itself as the spearhead of a historical struggle that would lead to a confrontation between the “capitalist” system and “progressive forces.” This perception of a permanent and inescapable war led the Soviets to study war in a quasi-scientific way, and to structure this thinking into an architecture of military thought that has no equal in the Western world. The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war. It is the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks—the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war. The corollary of this approach is that our frustrations are translated by unscrupulous media into a narrative that feeds hatred and increases our vulnerability. We are thus unable to find rational, effective solutions to the problem.

The way Russians understand conflict is holistic. In other words, they see the processes that develop and lead to the situation at any given moment. ... The reason the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process; whereas we see it as a series of separate actions. ... That is why we place the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, or the start of the Palestinian conflict on October 7, 2023. We ignore the contexts that bother us and wage conflicts we do not understand.

Correlation of Forces

The Objectives and Strategy of Russia

Blood thirsty motherfuckers out there

heartwarming video of a toddler shaking hands with Hamas fighters, this was a balm for my soul

twitter | nitter

Houthi and the Blowback

Would the USA be better or worse if it was a catholic country?

A woman overcomes a security cordon and pulls the hair of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte. The scene took place in the city of Ayacucho and the aggressor was arrested by the police after the incident.

🧵Thread revisiting the fabrication that Zionist intel agencies "knew about" Oct 7th in advance. Koba's thread below is a fantastic staring point, but we also need to be aware of the way in which Hamas played a masterclass bluff that negated any intel the IOF may indeed have had. [2023 Dec 11]

start of a long but excellent thread that examines this claim and talks about Yahya Sinwar's strategy, recommended

Lula criticizes the subordination of Brazilian justice to the US during Operation Lavarajato and says that the Abreu e Lima Refinery is a 'fruit tree'

President Lula (PT) celebrated the resumption of investments in the Abreu e Lima Refinery, in Pernambuco, in a speech with fierce criticism of Lava Jato, the United States and former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), in a ceremony with oil workers on Thursday 18th.

With operations starting in 2014, RNEST was the target of Lava Jato for alleged damage to public coffers, but the courts concluded in 2021 that there was no damage to the state from the project.

At the ceremony, Lula said that the United States had been against the existence of Petrobras since it was created in 1953 under Getúlio Vargas. The president criticized what he called the "elite with a mongrel complex (an expression used to refer to a collective inferiority complex felt by some Brazilian people in comparison to Europe or the United States.), subordinate to the interests of others and with little interest in this country".

"Everything that happened in this country was a conspiracy between some judges, some prosecutors, subordinate to the US Department of Justice, who never accepted Brazil having a company like Petrobras," said Lula.

Lula once again said that the first year of his term served as a period of "recovery" and compared the government's measures to the process of cultivation and harvesting. According to him, RNEST is "the first leafy tree of the harvest".

"The first year was the year of clearing the land and planting new things. This year is the year of the harvest. And the first leafy tree we are harvesting is the RNEST operation," he said. Lula demanded a survey of the financial losses to the public authorities as a result of the interruption of Abreu e Lima's operations and criticized the dismissal of workers during this period.

He then referred to Bolsonaro as a "psychopath". "How much has this country lost in its international competitiveness, to the point where we elect a psychopath to be president of the Republic?" Lula asked. "Someone who lives on lies, on malice, on offending others. And it's easy, because for him, everyone here is a thief. As if he and his children were examples of a family."

According to the government, Petrobras expects to earn 100 billion dollars a year from the full operation of the refinery. The state-owned company expects to create 30,000 jobs. The aim is to complete construction of the refinery's Train 2 by 2028. In addition, the government wants to inaugurate the first unit for transforming sulphur oxide and nitrogen oxide into a new product. Another intention is to expand production at Train 1 by 2025.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by and trading as the portmanteau Petrobras, is a state-owned Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Petrobras was created in 1953 under the second government of Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas with the slogan "The Oil is Ours" (Portuguese: "O petróleo é nosso"). It was given a legal monopoly in Brazil.

Last musing of the day: have any of the dipshit new atheists followed through on israel biblical rhetoric? Or silly little books moniker is reserved only for enemies of the state? *Ive looked through richard dawkins feed, nothing there, aside from march against anti-semitism, amazing bruh

The gardener with a sudden face turn

EU's Borrell says Israel financed creation of Gaza rulers Hamas

I wonder what olaf internal monologue sounds like, like progression from organizing protests against nato missiles, to gassing g8 protestors, to supporting genocide and german rearmament.

this dude: "Peshraw Dizayee" was just assasinated by ballistic Missile , now i dont want throw accusation , but most people dont get assassinated by ballistic Missiles .. so if anybody got some juice on him ..

This is a good Palestinian youtube channel, and specifically a good short video on the indoctrination Israel uses to pump out little fascist zionists

And speaking of loser Uyghur separatists, guess who our favorite mediocre basketball player met with: https://nitter.cz/EnesFreedom/status/1746924461633208804

what have the saudis been saying about recent american airstrikes on yemen or preparations for a more involved boots on the ground operation?

Microsoft has reported that some of their internal emails has been accessed by hackers from the Midnight Blizzard group who western souces accuse of being supported by the Russian state. Although claiming that "only a small percentage" of their emails were targeted, Microsoft has admitted that the emails belonged to their top leadership and legal departments.

According to reports by Reuters, the hackers gained acces through a so-called "password spray" attack where compromised passwords were used to access connected accounts.