"Only Israel has the right to nuke the entire world and completely exterminate humanity if it's on the brink of collapse." - Average Zionist poet

Ancap Update:

The Argentine Chamber of Deputies today rejected a motion presented by Javier Milei's party, Liberty Advances to condemn the reaction and words of the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, against the Argentine president. Only the Republican Proposal, by Maurício Macri, supported the initiative, which was rejected by a large margin.

“I deeply admire this man”, says Oliver Stone at the screening of the documentary “Lula” in Cannes

Tickets sold out as soon as the box office opened for the screening of “Lula”, by Oliver Stone and Rob Wilson, this Sunday (19) at the Cannes Film Festival, outside the official competition. Many people queued at the door in the hope that there would be last-minute cancellations and that they would be able to get in.

The screening in one of the rooms at the Palais des Festivals was packed and the film's crew was warmly applauded. The veteran American filmmaker said before the screening that the documentary is “about a special person in today's world, a unique leader”. Oliver Stone recalled some of the highlights of the Brazilian president's life and added: “I deeply admire this man”.

He also said that he knows “that many of the elite hate Lula” and asked the people in the audience “not to hate him”. The general director of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémeaux, tried to reassure the filmmaker by saying that the audience, made up of many Brazilians, would “love him and understand him”. Finally, he joked: “Let those who don't like Lula raise their hands!”, provoking laughter.

“Lula” was shown in the “Special Sessions” section of the Festival's official selection. The film portrays the life of the Brazilian president, focusing on his imprisonment between 2018 and 2019, his election in 2022 and his “triumphant” return to power.

The directors had privileged access to interviews with the Brazilian president and his advisors. The main interview, conducted by Oliver Stone with the then PT candidate for re-election, took place during the 2022 election campaign. He also spoke with Glenn Greenwald, founder of the website The Intercept, to reveal the intricacies of Operation Car Wash, which led to Lula's imprisonment.

The film emphasizes the importance of “Vaza Jato”, published by Greenwald, for the release of the PT leader. The film denounces the so-called “lawfare”, or political instrumentalization of justice, and the involvement of the United States in the Car Wash operation. In addition to unpublished interviews, the classic documentary is constructed with archive footage, enhanced by an instrumental soundtrack. For Brazilian audiences, “Lula” doesn't bring much new - the film's message is aimed at an international audience.

At the end of the screening, which was widely applauded, co-director Rob Wilson said he hoped the audience would “realize that it is possible for democracies around the world to have a politician like Lula, who, once in power, keeps the promises he makes”. Stone has made other films with Latin American themes, such as the fictional “Salvador”, in 1986, with James Woods.

During his career, the director has also made documentaries about personalities from the continent, such as the three projects about Fidel Castro, released between 2003 and 2012, or “My Friend Hugo”, about former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Several scenes from these films were reused in “Lula”, which is competing for the “Golden Eye” award for best documentary selected at the Cannes Film Festival.

I have been CENSORED by the WOKE mob in Hexbear dot com!

Huh. TIL Michael Hudson is Jill Stein's policy advisor.

Abby Martin interviews UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who talks about her (anti-colonial) radicalization.

Today I'm gonna turn my living room into a laser shooting range. I use laser cartridges in my guns, little laser pointers that fit snug in the chamber and flash a dot on where the bullet would hit. They make them so you can practice shooting indoors, quietly and on the cheap. I got tired of quickshotting the same lamp over and over and I thought "if only I had moving targets"

Then the laserbulb went off in my head and I started looking up good budget projectors. There's a pretty decent one I can go pick up today for like $70, although if anyone has recommendations for a really good one under a hundred, I'm all ears.

Anyway I plan to point it at my wall and start drawing up targets in Inkscape, then have it randomly shuffle through slides to make the targets move unpredictably. Might fuck around and add the House of the Dead 2 music

can we please see some brit bongs get blown up with Zircons or beheaded by Wagner psychos

Oh hey what a surprise, small modular reactors are a joke, at least in the west.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/with-the-coalitions-nuclear-fantasy-demolished-by-csiro-labor-must-get-cracking-on-renewables/

For the record, here's my small modular reactor roadmap - wait for China to do it. If it makes sense, they will and then we can buy them. Boom done, I just saved the taxpayer several billion dollars that would otherwise be hoovered by oil and gas interests

Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime supports an independence Palestine — at some point in the distant future.

When asked whether Denmark should follow the lead of Norway, Ireland and Spain and join the consensus among the international community on Palestinian sovereignty, foreign minister and boozed-up grifting centrist Lars Løkke Rasmussen rejected, giving the following reason:

That decision is reserved for a situation where there is a state. To be a state, you need to have a territory you control and some authorities that can control it. And that's not exactly the situation right now.

If you squint really hard you can kind of see the contours of a good-faith argument based on a realist theory of stratehood. But don't be misled, the man is a scoundrel who would rather see thousands of non-white children burn then he would upset his masters in Washington.

He then goes on to do the liberal sleight of hand where he says something that sounds like the opposite of what he's actually saying. In this case he's making "we'll never recognise Palestine" sound like he actually wants to go just that:

We reserve it for that day, or for a time when there is an irreversible peace process that will surely lead there

He follows up with the usual phrases about supporting a "two-state solution", the thing literally nobody wants but who has become the go-to thought-terminating cliché for liberals who doesn't want people to get mad at them.

Rasmussen describes what he sees as the issues preventing the imagined "irreversible peace prices":

Right now, we have a Hamas in Gaza that does not want any two-state solution. They want to eradicate Israel. We have a government in Israel that also doesn't seem to have much appetite for a two-state solution,

So actually both sides are bad. One side is worse than the other though as it wants to "eradicate" the other whereas the other simply don't have "much appetite" for a lukewarm liberal compromise. Rasmussen doesn't seem to wonder how it can be that the good side has a civilian body count orders of magnitude greater than the bad side.

Instead of recognising Palestine, Rasmussen wants to "use his efforts differently", namely to:

… promote a process where we get people to meet with each other in the same room. And yes, it is a Danish ambition and has been for 10 years, that the day can come when we can recognize Palestine.

If just the victims and the perpetrators of the genocide could talk it all out and find a compromise, and if just that commentary could be guaranteed to work flawlessly until the heat death of the universe, then maybe, some day the Danish government could be arsed to recognise Palestine.

The Bloom | Breakthrough West Of Klishchiivka And South Of Staromaiorske. Military Summary 2024.5.22

Ukraine is on a clear direction out of the Stale ..with Klishchiivka and Robotine , Russia has now reconquered everthing that Ukraine once Took in the counter offensive , and we see the ominous trains again rolling west from Tula and Novosibirsk with the always russian music ,. Its like its January 2022 ..

Reuters - Slovak PM Fico's attacker may not have acted alone, says minister [19/05/2024]

The suspect in an assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico may not have been just a "lone wolf" as previously believed, the interior minister said on Sunday, as security services try to shed light on an attack that sent shockwaves through Europe.

Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said an investigation team had been set up, which would also look into whether the suspect acted as part of a group of people that had been encouraging each other to carry out an assassination.

One factor suggesting the involvement of other persons was that the suspect's internet communications were deleted two hours after the assassination attempt, but not by the suspect and most likely not by his wife, Estok said.

This indicated "the crime may have been committed by a certain group of people," Estok told a news conference.

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Link to the reference for the joke I’m making above for those who don’t know it

Debunking "Amnesty International" ~~CIA~~ lies about the Islamic Republic of Iran and shaheed Ebrahim Raisi during the time of the late 80's

https://youtu.be/ivSS_YBq_hY

Description: Amnesty International has alleged that the Iranian authorities in the summer of 1988 carried out the mass executions of peaceful political prisoners for their opinions. This presentation refutes this as a complete distortion of what actually happened and why Amnesty has, in fact, become a supporter of terrorism and the abuse of human rights.

Can't believe Telesur is using the tweet I've posted earlier for their news article lol:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/New-Information-About-President-Raisi-Accident--20240521-0018.html

ABC - Ukrainian colonel presses for more US arms as his brigade battles Russian onslaught: Reporter’s notebook [23/05/2024]

Despite the advances made but the Russians, [Col. Oleksandr Bakulin] pushed back at the idea that Ukraine is losing the war, saying, “I personally think that we have already won this war. The question is at what point it is going to end, and at what stage.”

This guerilla history series on the history of China is excellent. the guest is very articulate and insightful throughout the series

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-taiping-boxer-rebellions-w-ken-hammond-modern-chinese-history-pt-1

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-chinese-revolution-civil-war-w-ken-hammond-modern-chinese-history-pt-2

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-great-leap-forward-cultural-revolution-w-ken-hammond-modern-chinese-history-pt-3

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-deng-reform-period-w-ken-hammond-modern-chinese-history-pt-4

Tourism to Venezuela Grew by 220 Percent

The agreement for direct flights between China and Venezuela will further boost this industry in the coming years.

On Tuesday, Tourism Minister Ali Padron announced that the number of international visits to Venezuela increased by 220 percent in the first four months of 2024 compared to 2023.

This growth is the result of greater air and land connectivity with neighboring countries such as Colombia and Brazil, as well as the arrival of visitors from Europe, Russia, and Poland.

Venezuela received about 1.6 million foreign tourists, surpassing pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. Padron also highlighted a 20 percent increase in domestic tourism, a percentage that demonstrates the revitalization of the industry within Venezuela.

The Bolivarian minister emphasized that the signing of the agreement for direct flights between China and Venezuela will further boost his country's industry in the coming years.

New economic prospects in the tourism sector will also open with the signing of similar agreements between Venezuela and other Latin American and European countries.

The Venezuelan tourism industry has important natural assets thanks to the availability of a variety of ecosystems and landscapes unique in the world.

For example, in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela, is the Los Roques Archipelago, which is known by international tour operators for its impressive landscapes of crystal clear water and white sand.

"This place has been a national park since 1972. It has an impressive biodiversity, 221,120 hectares made up of crystal clear waters, and over 300 cays, islets and sandbanks," Estampas Magazine recalled.

Currently, the Tourism Ministry is also promoting the establishment of Tourism Development Zones (ZDT) as part of a long-term strategy for the sustainability of this industry.

Update on the American port in Gaza

The faces of Jenin

There are rumours about Saudi king being hospitalised for pneumonia