Francis Scott Key Bridge destroyed.

In Baltimore, a container ship rammed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the entire arched structure and spans to collapse. There are dead and wounded; it is not yet known how many cars were on the bridge at the time of the collapse.

The bridge has stood since 1977. (reports about that ship has sunk are unconfirmed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

From the Resistance News Network:

🚨 The sounds of explosions are still heard in Aleppo, Syria, as the IOF launches what local sources are calling the most violent IOF attack on Syria in recent history.

US-aligned terrorist organizations in Idlib exploited the zionist attack and coordinated the launch of several batches of drones with the zionist aggression in order to confuse the Syrian air defense systems.

It was never about Hamas.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right national security minister of Israel, says “the United Nations is a wasteland” in reaction to the UN Security Council vote.

lol

UN Security Council adopts resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire

Amerikkka abstained, and the resolution also calls for the immediate release of all hostages. It's unclear to me if they mean the release of only those being held in Gaza or if Palestinians being held captive would also be released. For some reason I think they only mean the captive Israelis should be released

Hot take: Macron is going full support for Ukraine because they are genuinely worried about a terrorist attack during the Paris Olympics.

I have started tagging hasbara on for my own sanity, and it's actually kinda surprising seeing how much these guys get around once you start tagging them. I am not looking at worldnews or politics, but I've started to notice it's mostly the same usernames over and over again.

Estonia sending one guy to fight the Houthis and Russia in the red sea.

video of the Dali cargo ship colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending ~~the whole thing~~ a good chunk into the water

https://twitter.com/kf18616835/status/1772566837571539264

EDIT: the bridge is a mile long so this is only one section, I shouldn't have said "the whole thing"

Bridge was destroyed by USA as a false flag to distract from their operatives getting caught doing terrorism in Russia.

Maybe infrastructure should be constructed in such a way that 100K ton battering rams don't have to pass underneath them

Gunned down two unarmed Palestinians waving white flags. CW NSFW/L MURDER

Hot on the heels of Air Canada's AI chat bot making up policies, NYC is following suit, giving illegal advice in response to questions:

The problem, however, is that the city’s chatbot is telling businesses to break the law.

Five months after launch, it’s clear that while the bot appears authoritative, the information it provides on housing policy, worker rights, and rules for entrepreneurs is often incomplete and in worst-case scenarios “dangerously inaccurate,” as one local housing policy expert told The Markup.

https://archive.is/n9XF3

yo wtf is wrong with Italians

Praying to every god that Netanyahu dies during surgery. Let's see if God's real.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/middleeast/un-security-council-gaza-israel-ceasefire-intl/index.html

Israel cancels Washington visit after US allows UN Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass

''Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on X his country would not abide by the resolution.

“The state of Israel will not cease fire,” Katz said. “We will destroy Hamas and continue to fight until the last of the hostages returns home.”'

Come on US, do a mutiny on your land aircraft carrier already, just like in 1963

Not posted in a while and this isn't strictly news but I figured if anyone keeps track of Western misinformation around the Ukrainian war and the events leading up to it then you can add this to your "There are no Nazis in Ukraine" section.

I've been having this argument with my brother for a few days now. I had most recently brought up the anti-Roma pogroms post-2014, one of which is described in detail here. Of course this wasn't good enough as a source for my brother even though it directly links to the court's ruling on the Roma's claims for compensation for being forced from their homes by local authorities after anti-Roma riots on the Ukrainian Court website. So I pulled up the court document and had it translated. Some choice quotes from the Judge's decision below:

On the legality of the local assembly's decision concerning the Roma: "The court states that the decision No. 1 indirectly instructed the Executive Committee of the Council of the need to convey to residents of Roma nationality the opinion of the residents of the village on the issue of their residence in the village, which according to Article 8 of the Law 'On Local Self-Government in Ukraine' is a form of direct participation in solving issues of local importance."

Regarding the village head's actions in signing and announcing the assembly's decision: "As for the actions of the village head to sign and announce this decision, in the opinion of the court, they do not have independent significance in the aspect of violation of the rights of the plaintiffs but are actions of writing the decision of the general meeting of citizens for its legitimation in the context of the possibility of further consideration in the activities of the Council and the Executive Committee."

On the court's view of the village assembly's decision's impact: "At the same time, the defendant village head did not personally make this decision; such a decision was made by the territorial community represented by the village council, which is not a defendant in the case and against which claims have not been filed."

On the issue of moral damages: "Since the court came to the conclusion that there are no grounds for recognizing the actions and inactions of the defendants as illegal, there are also no grounds for the recovery of moral damages, taking into account the absence of signs of illegality in the actions and inactions of the defendants."

ukraine experts are forever doomed to believe that the yearly wave of Russians getting called up for regular military service is connected to the war

Another slammer banger

Zionist settler: Khamas terrorists are targeting civilians like us.

Also Zionist settler: We feel that we are civil soldiers.

https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1773013411531497925

Russia offically Acuses USA / BRitian and Ukraine of the Crocus Terror attack ...

Doesn't seem like the greatest development

If I was ISIS I would claim I destroyed the Baltimore bridge

send news

Do you mean send nudes?

No, I mean send news, load up the seventytwotrillion mega

Joe Lieberman has died after falling at age 82.

Dude you know a union is fking useless when the company offers to pay part of your dues

https://archive.is/AfITY

Dipshit know-nothings called "economists" say people wanting to not sell their blood to afford luxuries like food and a roof over their head are lazy entitled idiots that don't know what's good for the economy

Economists say you’re wrong for wanting prices to start falling—and they point to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Here's a fun game, every time you see a ghoul say or write the words "The Economy" replace it with either corporate/shareholder profits, and see how many times you go "oh shit that makes more sense!"

Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high.

First mUh EcOnOmY, and already we can really see what these mongrels are whining about

Maybe they’re not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago. And they’re mostly heading higher still.

THE PRICE IS TOO DAMN HIGH

Consider a 2-liter bottle of soda: In February 2021, before inflation began heating up, it cost an average of $1.67 in supermarkets across America. Three years later? That bottle is going for $2.25 — a 35% increase.

"THE POORS SUGAR WATERS PRICE GONE UP!"

Or egg prices. They soared in 2022, then fell back down. Yet they’re still 43% higher than they were three years ago.

I wonder why

Likewise, the average used-car price: It rocketed from roughly $23,000 in February 2021 to $31,000 in April 2022. By last month, the average was down to $26,752. But that’s still up 16% from February 2021.

Wouldn’t it be great if prices actually fell — what economists call deflation? Who wouldn’t want to fire up a time machine and return to the days before the economy rocketed out of the pandemic recession and sent prices soaring?

Who needs a time machine when you can actually MANAGE THE FUCKING PRICES

At least prices are now rising more slowly — what’s called disinflation. On Friday, for example, the government said a key price gauge rose 0.3% in February, down from a 0.4% gain in January. And compared with a year earlier, prices were up 2.5%, way down from a peak of 7.1% in mid-2022.

Econ ghoul sophistry. They're investing a word for the phrase "we overguessed it would go up by 10%, so aren't you happy the prices went up by 9% instead?"

But those incremental improvements are hardly enough to please the public, whose discontent over prices poses a risk to President Joe Biden’s re-election bid.

INCREASED INFLATION ISNT A FUCKING IMPROVEMENT WHEN THE MINIMUM WAGE HASNT CHANGED SINCE 2009

“Most Americans are not just looking for disinflation,’’ Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, said last year. “They’re looking for deflation. They want these prices to be back where they were before the pandemic.’’

If you won't pay people more, no shit they'll want to spend less you fuckubg leech!

Many economists caution, though, that consumers should be careful what they wish for. Falling prices across the economy would actually be an unhealthy sign.

Many economists are frauds that couldn't tell you how much of the U.S GDP is fake fluff made up of financial transactions between the finance imperialists and how much of the U.S GDP is actual industrial production

“There are,’’ the Bank of England warns, “more consequences from falling prices than meets the eye.’’

The fucking gangsters that are the banksters of England can blow it up their ass

What could be so bad about lower prices?

Bet you're gonna tell us why it's good for people to starve.

WHAT IS DEFLATION?

A fetish that is the inverse of inflation

Deflation is a widespread and sustained drop in prices across the economy. Occasional month-to-month drops in consumer prices don’t count. The United States hasn’t seen genuine deflation since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Causes by finance ghouls destroying themselves and taking the world with them

Japan has experienced a much more recent bout of deflation. It is only now emerging from decades of falling prices that began with the collapse of its property and financial markets in the early 1990s.

Tough shit, maybe they should put their imperialist government on an airplane and dive-bomb it into a volcano.

What's wrong with inflation?

“Although lower prices may seem like a good thing,’’ Banco de España, the Spanish central bank, says on its website, “deflation can in fact be highly damaging to the economy.’’

Throwing your ghoulish selves under a moving tank would help the economy

How so? Mainly because falling prices tend to discourage consumers from spending. Why buy now, after all, if you can purchase what you want — cars, furniture, appliances, vacations — at a lower price later?

FUCK RIGHT OFF INTO THE SEA YOU GODDAMN SNAKES

The reality is that the economy’s health depends on steady consumer purchases. In the United States, household spending accounts for around 70% of the entire economy. If consumers were to pull back, en masse, to await lower prices, businesses would face intense pressure to cut prices even more to try to jump-start sales.

GOOD

In the meantime, employers might have to lay off waves of employees or cut pay — or both. Unemployed people, of course, are even less likely to spend, so prices would likely keep falling. All of which risks triggering a “deflationary spiral’’ of price cuts, layoffs, more price cuts, more layoffs. And on and on. Another recession could follow.

Guess what I think should be cut to stave off a recession

It was to prevent that very kind of economic nastiness that explains why the Bank of Japan resorted to negative interest rates in 2016 and why the Fed kept U.S. rates near zero for seven straight years during and after the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Deflation exerts another painful effect, too: It hurts borrowers by making their inflation-adjusted loans more expensive.

ARE THERE ANY BENEFITS OF DEFLATION?

It’s certainly true that Americans can make their paychecks go further when prices are falling. If food or gasoline prices were to tumble, households would surely find it less painful to afford groceries or their commutes to work — as long as they remained employed.

Fuck off, you try to raise wages, you'll say people will lose their jobs, you try and raise buying power, you'll say people will lose their jobs, you try and say you'll do anything to materially improve the lives of the people and your knee-jerk instinct is to threaten their lives by threatening their employment. You know what we call folks that want to behave like that? Robber-barons and slavers.

Some economists even question the notion that deflation poses a serious economic threat. In 2015, researchers at the Bank for International Settlements, a forum for the world’s central banks, reviewed 140 years of deflationary episodes in 38 economies and reached this conclusion: The correlation between falling prices and economic growth “is weak and derives mostly from the Great Depression.’’

Those few economics can actually use a bit of common sense materialism to figure out they don't actually know shit and base their entire theories off of one fuck up they themselves caused.

But the exception was a doozy: From 1929-1933, U.S. economic output plummeted by a third, prices sank by a quarter and the unemployment rate shot up from 3% to a crushing 25%.

Yet again, who's fault was it?

The bank’s researchers said the biggest economic risk came not from falling prices for goods and services but rather from a freefall in the price of assets — stocks, bonds and real estate. Those collapsing assets, in turn, can topple banks that hold crumbling investments or that made loans to struggling real estate developers and homebuyers.

Oh no, they let the cat of truth out of the bag at the last minute like they always do. It's the finance bros fault!

The damaged banks may then cut off credit — the lifeblood of the broader economy.

Ghouls lived on borrowed debt

The likely result? A painful recession

For us, not them. They'll get bailed out like always.

Yesterday, Mexico's Congress approved a ban on so-called homosexual conversion therapies. The big controversy was the vote of the National Action Party (PAN).

The PAN voted almost unanimously against the bill, which outraged internet users and members of the LGBT+ community. The reason: the party's candidates in Mexico City and for president claim to "defend" the community.

The presidential campaign is about to begin, and the PAN candidate for the presidency, Xochitl Galvez, has already started with this bombshell to explain.

I once read that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the state of Israel.

CW NSFW/L DEAD BODIES

2 day upload

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Over 60 martyrs ascended and over 160 Palestinians are wounded after the IOF once again opened fire on 30,000 Palestinians gathered to receive aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in the northern #Gaza Strip, which has become a death trap.

Machine guns, helicopters, and drones of the US-funded IOF massacred the starving citizens. This is the fifth day in a row that the IOF has opened fire on Gazans in the famine-stricken north waiting for aid.

Over 500 Palestinians have now ascended to martyrdom as a result of IOF fire while waiting for aid in the last two weeks, starting from the Flour Massacre.*

Critical support to... the White House Press Corp for apparently nonstop theft from Air Force One:

Everyone, it appears, is pilfering from Air Force One. And it’s gotten so bad that last month, NBC correspondent KELLY O’DONNELL, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, included a terse reminder to colleagues that taking items off the plane was not allowed and reflected poorly on the press corps as a whole, several individuals who saw the off-the-record email confirmed.

https://archive.is/dboCM

In the series of "usa realizes that it holds all the cards actually", israel will send delegation to usa after cancelling the trip 2 days ago. Apparently they still want to invade rafah though

The wheels on the bus go round and round / Round and round, round and round

DOD in early talks to fund a peacekeeping force in Gaza - POLITICO

U.S. officials have been clear the plan would not include American boots on the ground.

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Spencer Ackerman

The finest minds at the Pentagon are like “hmm, but what if Gaza had a different occupier ”

https://bsky.app/profile/attackerman.bsky.social/post/3korpprtfzq2x

Denmark is selling 24 vintage F-16 warplanes, scheduled to be replaced with F-35's to Argentina. In all likelihood the sale is made on orders from Washington as the evil empire is afraid that China will get the deal, causing American power over Argentina to fade.

Some politicians are angry that the warplanes were not given to Ukraine, like it has already happened with 19 other planes. However Washington chose differently and the Danish government is happy to oblige their masters.

Have you ever been alive just to flex on Joe Lieberman? No? Well you can now.