The first few days of COVID lockdowns, when it was only supposed to be for two weeks, is such an interesting time to look back at. No one in the world knew what was going to happen next

Amazing. The Dems have moved past ignoring and laughing. Now they believe the attacks on the Green Party are worth giving it the publicity.

Today the DNC is releasing its first-ever ad focused on third-party candidates.

Trump “likes” that Jill Stein is in this race—because Jill Stein can’t win, but she can help Trump win.

[campaign ad vid]

xcancel link
Melon Shitter link, if you must.

Electricity is back now, fucking climate change. I'll be back at updating and posting stuff

How Might Iran React to a Major Israeli Attack?
https://xcancel.com/SinaToossi/status/1843368522224685197

Iranian officials, media, and analysts close to the government have been signaling potential responses to an Israeli strike on Iran.

They are heavily emphasizing Israel's small size and its vulnerable critical infrastructure, such as oil and gas fields, power plants, refineries, desalination facilities, and the Dimona nuclear reactor.

The message they intend to signal is clear: if Israel targets key Iranian infrastructure like its oil facilities, Iran will retaliate in kind, potentially crippling Israel's economy.

For example, one Iranian analyst highlighted the following energy vulnerabilities in Israel:

🔻"Oil and gas contribute approximately 39% and 42%, respectively, to Israel's energy mix, with more than 80% of its total energy supplied by a few key facilities, making the regime vulnerable to military attacks.

🔻"In 2023, Israel imported 225,000 barrels of oil per day, 60% of which came from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. The imported oil is processed at two refineries: Haifa and Ashdod.

🔻"Israel’s gas production and consumption in 2023 were 23.5 and 12.6 billion cubic meters, respectively, with surplus gas exported to Egypt and Jordan. The regime’s gas production is heavily reliant on the Leviathan and Tamar fields, which contribute equally.

🔻"Israel’s gas infrastructure is so vulnerable that the destruction of a single gas field would halt its exports to Egypt and Jordan. If both fields were destroyed, 42% of Israel’s total energy supply would be eliminated."

There is also much more open talk of potential nuclear breakout in Iran currently.

Notably, Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Khomeini, and a figure known for his moderate and pragmatic stance, recently suggested that Iran may need to build a nuclear weapon while simultaneously expressing support for negotiations.

Meanwhile, Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei, during a his Friday prayer sermon, stated that Iran's October 1 missile strike was the "minimum" of its capabilities to “punish” Israel.

Concurrently, Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi has been traveling the region, continuing to push for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon and call for de-escalation.

All this is to say, Iran is clearly preparing for various scenarios.

If Israel responds with significant force, particularly targeting Iranian infrastructure, Iran is likely to counter-escalate proportionally, potentially spiraling the situation into full-scale war.

However, if Israel's response is more measured and largely superficial—amplified in the media to manage Israeli public perception—escalation might be avoided, at least temporarily.

Nonetheless, tensions are unlikely to fully subside until the wars in Gaza and Lebanon reach a conclusion.

I've seen a lot of articles and youtube videos about how this war triggered Israel's death throes, and the parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa & Rhodesia, but those media which highlighted the internal contradictions of Israel, its collapsing economy and international standing, often overlook how desperate the US is to have a satellite state in the West Asia enough to brazenly establish its support for Israel.

All this, despite the damage to US prestige and diplomatic credibility (notwithstanding that the US state does not nor needs to care about internal dissident or crisis) because the US can brute force its support and suffer little to no economic or political repercussions.

Israel is a nuclear powered state with very powerful supporters in the US and Europe, as part of a symbiotic relationship these powers have with each other, to ensure the economic and political dominance of the larger political community known as the "West".

My larger concern is what Norman Finkelstein has been saying recently: Israel has defeated Hamas in Gaza by destroying Gaza itself. Therefore, the probability that Israel has the power and support needed to enact its depraved agenda of ethnic cleansing and genocide, and survive its repercussions on the world stage for a decade before it goes back to the status quo of pre October 7th, is a very plausible future.

Israel has managed to pursue this for over a year now.

If you think about it, the US believes that they live in a Dark Forest universe. They truly believe that they have to annihilate their opponents before these emerging states/powers surpass their own technologically and escape their sphere of influence.

I am seriously starting to believe that this is the reason Obama likes the Three Body Problem series so much, while taking the wrong lessons from the books, which was a cautionary tale about how the most “rational” belief of destroying your opponents before they have the capacity to do it against you may let you overpower them in the short run, but ultimately lead to the mutually assured destruction of our world. It emphasized that a bit of irrationality, naivety and delusional about our opponents are sometimes needed to put a stop into this chain of madness.

We’ve been very lucky that Putin, who is in control of thousands of nukes enough to blow up the world several times, does not see the world in the same Dark Forest state as the US does. Putin is naive and even delusional about a rapprochement with an imperialist West for years, and yet it was exactly this attitude that kept the peace for as long as we have (even with the war in Ukraine, there is a lot of restraint from escalating further).

I love seeing the headlines about Hurricane Milton being "not as bad as expected." It was just a mild climate change-fueled nightmarish natural disaster where millions of people were displaced and thousands of people, some already impoverished, lost possessions and lives. Don't think about it, Americans. It definitely couldn't happen to you. Enjoy your slop.

After Elon Musk backed down and agreed to comply with Brazilian law, the Supreme Court has decided to follow the Attorney General's advice and unblock X.

خلّفت الأمطار الاستثنائية التي هطلت على النيجر منذ يونيو 339 قـ تيلاً وأكثر من مليون متضرّر، بحسب ما أفاد الإعلام الرسمي.

ونقلت وكالة أنباء النيجر عن مديرية الحماية المدنية التابعة لوزارة الداخلية قولها إنّه حتى 23 سبتمبر تسبّبت الفيضانات بسقوط "339 قتيلا و383 جريحا" كما خلّفت 1,176,528 متضررا.

Floods in Niger kill 339 people, injure 383 and left 1,176,528 without homes

News from Argentina

Now 13 yo can legally do stonks

Lolbertarians and lowering legal age limits, name a better duo

Finland to take part for the first time in annual Nato Steadfast Noon -nuclear war rehearsals that start on the 14.10.

The Left Alliance is voicing opposition to this, stating that there has been no discussions about this in parliament. Failing to aknowledge for the fact that they themselves voted for Finland to join NATO knowing fully well that this would follow.

But to uphold the mask of some kind of left politics they've put up a stern post critizining this move, a post that of course changes nothing. Link in Finnish.

Even Norway does not take part in these, but Finland is now speedrunning imperialism as the local bourge has finally been able to seal the deal on NATO after almost a century of propaganda. Nothing is being discussed in public or if it is, it's all glorifying american imperialism. Making Donald Duck the go to reading material for kids in Finland really paid of for the fascists.

IDF tanks forced their way into UN peacekeeping camps, and used chemical weapons on UN workers apparently.

Supposedly the Ukrainian troops in Kursk are getting cooked right now. The fog of war is still pretty thick, but:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/126087

The Russian Armed Forces have pushed through the left flank of the Kursk group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces , report Ukranian sources

They call today "extremely terrible" because in the Novoivanovka area, the only forces that the Russian Armed Forces encountered from the Ukrainian side were artillerymen and UAVs.

https://t.me/intelslava/68224

A large group of Ukrainian Armed Forces fled across the border in the Kursk region using equipment, [Russian General] Apty Alaudinov said.

Somewhat related: I saw a few videos recently of large train shipments of vehicles with North Group markings. Notably, there were lots of MRAPs, which I'm starting to think are a good indicator of planned offensives (both Russia and Ukraine seem to use them that way).

Worst U.S. whooping cough outbreak in a decade has infected thousands

BREAKING: Nicaragua to break relations with Israel by decree in the coming hours, fulfilling the instruction of the National Assembly and President Daniel Ortega.

https://xcancel.com/KawsachunNews/status/1844868460611842411

In a story on the Ukraine - Russia front that was missed with everything going on in the Middle East, video has emerged of a Russian stealth 5th generation Su-57 fighter jet shooting down its own friendly partnered S-70 stealth drone at high altitude, after it lost control of the drone, to prevent technology from the drone falling into enemy hands. This occurred relatively deep inside Ukrainian territory, around the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk Oblast. Videos emerged of some of the wreckage of the S-70 drone on the ground.

While it is obviously not good that Russia lost one of their handful of stealth partner drones, this incident reveals some key information and battlefield firsts. Russia, now with visual evidence, has become the first nation to deploy 5th generation stealth aircraft over highly contested enemy airspace. The stealth capabilities of the Su-57 are very real. It went undetected by Ukrainian air defence systems, including the US manufactured Patriot system, and the remaining Soviet/Russian S-300 systems Ukraine has, while over 20km inside Ukrainian airspace (when measured at the frontlines of the conflict, much further inside Ukraine if measured from 1991 borders) at high altitudes that these systems should have no issue covering. Western copium about the Su-57 not being a true 5th generation stealth aircraft, based off of images of outdated prototypes, has now been disproven by actual evidence.

This also really brings to the forefront two other realities: Ukraine's air defence is very degraded, and Russian commanders are confident that the Su-57s stealth capabilities are enough to carry out deep strikes without being detected with regards the current state of Ukrainian air defence. I have already talked about the stealth one two punch that the Su-57 offers with its stealth cruise missiles in the Kh-69 before, and how this enables Russia to effectively extend the range of these cruise missiles and strike deep inside Ukrainian territory. The most obvious example of this has been the strikes against energy infrastructure using the Kh-69 cruise missile.

Editing to say: Key takeaways from this? Ukraine should be very glad that Russia only have a handful of Su-57 aircraft and S-70 drones, if they had the same amount of these aircraft as the USA has F-22s, the aerial campaign against Ukraine would look very different. Secondly, Iran should be worried about their air defence capabilities against stealth aircraft. The backbone of Iran's air defence is the Russian S-300PMU2 system (NATO name: SA-20B), and locally produced variants of it. We already know that Israeli stealth aircraft in the US made F-35 can bypass the Syrian S-300PM (NATO name: SA-10B) air defence systems with some effort, but still with relative ease. With Iran currently having the most advanced S-300 systems, even more advanced than the S-300PMU (NATO name: SA-10C) systems Ukraine has, some might think that they would do better against stealth aircraft. But that is quite a gamble to take when a lot of the radar technology in the more advanced variant of the system Iran has is simply an evolution of older systems, systems which have now proven to be incapable of detecting both Russian and US made stealth aircraft. Iran ideally needs S-400 systems soon to adequately deter the stealth threat.

Rules based order did it again, now Unifil People got injuried by Israel.

William Christou

William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for a UN inquiry into Israeli attacks on peacekeepers belonging to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) on Friday, after three separate attacks on Unifil personnel in south Lebanon.

HRW said that Israel’s attacks on UN peacekeepers could be a violation of the laws of war, as peacekeepers, including armed members, are civilians. It further called for the UN to “urgently establish” an international investigation in Lebanon and Israel and that their results are made public.

On Friday morning, a Unifil outpost in south Lebanon came under fire. On Thursday, its headquarters in Naqoura had been repeatedly hit, injuring two peacekeepers after an Israeli tank fired at an observation tower on the base. The Israeli military shot at a Unifil position where peacekeepers were sheltering on Wednesday and an Israeli drone flew up to the entrance of the bunker where they were sheltering, Unifil said.

Unifil said its more than 10,400 peacekeepers would remain in south Lebanon until the situation becomes impossible for them to operate. Peacekeepers are already severely restricted in their movements due to Israeli troop presence in south Lebanon.

The peacekeeping force has been present in south Lebanon since 1978, originally designed to confirm Israel’s withdrawal and ensure that armed groups could not use the area as a launching pad for attacks against Israel. Since 2006, it has been tasked with an observation mission to ensure that armed groups do not operate in the area, in line with UN Resolution 1701 which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Unifil has also had a focus on facilitating humanitarian access and aid to south Lebanon, a mission it continues to this day.

“With over 2,000 people killed and over one million people displaced in Lebanon since mid-September, it is crucial for Unifil to be allowed to fulfil its civilian protection and humanitarian functions”, Lama Fakih, Middle East and north Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said.

Ahahahaha fuck you occupiers, maybe if you stopped colonizing you wouldn’t have to worry about being blown up at dinner. Dozens of casualties with multiple confirmed deaths at a base south of Haifa.

~~Just a telegram rumor, but apparently Herzl Halevi may have been killed in the attack~~

In case you missed it, the satanically racist WaPo is attempting to incite an anti-Chinese pogrom with their latest “report” on the subversive hivemind orientals

Time-lapse map showing the missile strikes on the Zionist entity since the beginning of the war:

https://xcancel.com/leb313shihin/status/1843435528227828067
🔴 Gaza 🟢 Lebanon 🟠 Iran 🟣 Yemen 🔵 Iraq

Least genocidal state department ghoul

🚨 “Carpet bomb the Irish area and then drop napalm over it”

• @MattRJBrodsky, US foreign policy advisor

https://nitter.poast.org/StopArabHate/status/1843310944266621260#m

New UN OHCHR report on Israeli war crimes against Palestinians

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/10/un-commission-finds-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-israeli-attacks

Exceptionally clean just dropped. Not sure whether it's a new clip but it's a good one so fuck it

"O Lord they killed the women and kids.."
"O Lord, so accept [this act] from us, O Lord."
"Allah is the greatest and glory to Allah and Islam!"

Been looking at the Spanish press (through Google news mostly) looking to see if any newspaper or online news brought the attack to the F-35 Teledyne clean room in UK, and I've found NOTHING. Only a Spanish project called SpanishRevolution has given the news as far as ive seen. Two idiots from GreenPeace will pour half a can of soup on the glass in front of a painting and it becomes worldwide news, but real acts of activism such as hurting the factory of weapons that are currently used to genocide children, are consistently silenced. Insane that people pretend we live in countries with freedom of press.

Will there ever be a reckoning for these celebrities who have endorsed Kamala? It makes me fucking SICK! Fucking fascist hell hole of a country.

Generalplan Ost with Zionist characteristics:
https://xcancel.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1845326161703796953

⚠️ 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘

israeli occupation forces are implementing General’s Plan for ethnically cleansing Palestinians from northern parts of #Gaza.

𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍’𝒔 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔:

▪️The israeli occupation military is enacting a plan that will effectively ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population in northern Gaza after a siege that could last months.

▪️Conceived by retired israeli Major-General Giora Eiland, the plan aims to empty northern Gaza of its 400,000 residents to make way for a “closed military zone.”

▪️The plan calls for the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, warning that those that remain will face starvation.

▪️"The right thing to do is to inform the approximately 300,000 residents who remained in the northern Gaza Strip… we are ordering you to leave," Eiland said last month.

▪️"In a week, the entire territory of the northern Gaza Strip will become military territory."

I present this graph without comment on why sanctions on russia failed

Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=384056

What even is America's interest in keeping Cuba starved? Is it afraid of having a communist country that close?

Why can't the U.S. just economically sanction the hurricane?

Trump saying global denuclearization was close. Just lmao pure grifter https://www.rt.com/news/605494-trump-global-nuclear-deal/

Is Israel just taking out its impotency on the civilians of Palestine and Lebanon? Because they damn sure haven’t eliminated Hamas or Hezbollah

For context, Al Jazeera war crimes documentary. Sick to my stomach, everyone involved deserves Nuremberg https://youtu.be/kPE6vbKix6A

Hilarious how they keep cutting to the British guy who says “destroying civilian possessions and doing [REDACTED] in prisons is against international law”

Unimportant, but this also confirms the stereotype of Israelis having shitty music taste, we get big room “may your village burn” and psytrance blowing up houses

Don’t watch the doc if you don’t want your whole day ruined

From UNIFIL on X, posted a few minutes ago after the IOF attacked them:

Despite putting on protective masks, fifteen peacekeepers suffered effects, including skin irritation and gastrointestinal reactions, after the smoke entered the camp. The peacekeepers are receiving treatment.

Some news from the Lebanon and Kursk fronts.

Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces repelled a Zionist invasion attempt near the border village of Labbouneh: https://tass.com/world/1854053

Russian forces liberated the Kursk oblast villages of Novaya Sorochina and Pokrovsky: https://sputnikglobe.com/20241009/russian-troops-liberate-novaya-sorochina-pokrovsky-in-kursk-region---mod-1120486146.html

Local elections in Belgium and in its biggest Flemish city, Antwerp, it is a neck to neck mayoral race between the ruling Flemish nationalist Party and the openly ML workers party. Gonna be real here and assume we are not going to be the winners, but the fact that one of our biggest cities, with one of the major ports of Europe, came this close to a red mayor is noticable in and of itself.

The campain the nationalists set up was fucking dumb tho. Going all in on the European tradition of xenophobia, islamophobia more specifically. "They go and get their votes at mosques! They praise the Taliban!". Our sitting mayor also said that the workers' party's position that headscarfs and other religious symbols should be allowed in public positions is 'apartheid' (all while being a vocal supporter of the zionist entity)!

I just realized that the war has gone on long enough that Children of the Dead Seed may have already been born.

Palestine Action handshake IRGC

fucking up F35s

Honestly the further we go on with this the more absurd the whole compromise with Biden gets “okay I won’t have a second term but Kamala can run. Uh also I’m just gonna keep being president in the meantime”

It’s impossible for us to know if this will be the key poison pill for her but it’s actually BIZARRE that you wouldn’t just… Have her run AS president? Like jfc the opportunity is right there???

We can’t know how different things would be if people got a little demo of her as president but from the perspective of running a campaign it just makes so much more sense to do it like that!

This dynamic just comes off as weird and confusing to people. She has to walk a fine line where she has to differentiate herself from Biden but she can’t do that TOO much because she’s literally part of the current administration.

I don’t know how stubborn Biden was but when they got the concession from him not to run a second term these stupid motherfuckers should have twisted the knife and kept pressuring his old ass until he capitulated. Should have got Obama, pelosi and all the wonder libs together and yelled at him!!

I feel like I’m going crazy with how stupid these decisions are. As a communist I don’t fuck with her no matter what but damn they had a fucking opportunity six months ago to make this actually make sense to people and they didn’t do it!!!!