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The war against Putin's Asiatic hordes is fought on many fronts. In Copenhagen, a Liberal Party alderman has proposed to annul the Russian embassy's right to use 23 public owned parking spaces as a way of harassing diplomatic staff and to virtue signal the car brain credentials of the local Liberal Party. The proposal has however been shot down by Denmark's Moderate Party-controlled ministry of foreign affairs, citing diplomatic considerations.

• Source: TV 2 (state media) October 15th 2024

Brazilian President Lula da Silva falls in the bathroom of the presidential palace and is taken to the Syrian Lebanese Hospital. The President of the Republic hit his head and, on medical advice, canceled his trip to Russia for the BRICS summit.

Lula's doctor says the president had head trauma, “but everything is fine”. In an interview with CNN, Dr. Roberto Kalil said that CT and MRI scans had been carried out, which showed a small amount of bleeding in the front of Lula's head. He will be under observation for the next few days.

Lula was treated at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital with a cut on the back of his head; doctors recommend avoiding long trips, but he can keep to his normal schedule. Foreign Minister to lead Brazilian delegation to Russia during BRICS summit Mauro Vieira, who was already going to be part of the delegation, was appointed to head it after Lula canceled his trip to Kazan.

I have seen some people saying this was probably an excuse, so Lula wouldn't have to meet with Putin and anger too much the US. But anyway, I am glad Lula is doing alright.

Update with information from the fedshit I posted before. Might be iffy info tbh but the rumour mill is churning and this is the closest to possibly-correct information I've found on what might be happening out there.

🇰🇷❌🇰🇵❗️ — South Korean forces on Yeonpyeong Island have been placed on alert as unusual movements have been detected at North Korean coastal artillery positions.

➡️ There has also been a sudden withdrawal of Chinese fishing boats from the waters near the island.

➡️ Days ago, South Korean media reported that, exactly as reported by North Korean State Media KCNA, as of 8:00 PM on the 13th, it had switched eight artillery brigades in forward areas to a “fire standby” posture.

➡️ These eight artillery brigades were ordered to be fully armed, and it is known that over 700 170mm long-range artillery pieces, 240mm multiple rocket launchers, 300mm multiple rocket launchers, and the North Korean version of the KTSSM (tactical surface-to-surface guided weapon) “Hwasong-11Ra” are deployed.

➡️ This means that 700 long-range artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers are armed and aimed at our military and key facilities, and can be used immediately if necessary.

➡️ On this day, North Korea’s coastal artillery was also captured in the open in the West Sea border area.

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WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT A BAD HOLIDAY CONSUME SEASON

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Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too.

Is this true? I thought last we checked the average amerikkkan was big into genocide and such. Would be nice to see a bit of humanity from them. Was the perception different in the 50s?

America should just follow indonesia mask off approach and just have kamala be the vice president of trump or vice versa.

Spoilering for doomerism

Some news from Gaza, Kursk, and Odessa.

Palestinian resistance forces released more recent combat footage from Gaza, showing RPG, mortar and IED strikes: https://southfront.press/israeli-army-loses-two-more-soldiers-to-palestinian-tank-hunters-in-gaza/

Russian forces inflicted serious losses on Kiev regime invaders in Kursk oblast over the past 24 hours: https://sputnikglobe.com/20241020/ukraine-loses-over-310-soldiers-in-kursk-region-in-24-hours---russian-defense-ministry-1120607795.html

Someone (possibly an anti-fascist partisan) shot to death Gennady Beybutyan near Odessa, a local oligarch involved in the Kiev regime’s military conscription. He led the so-called “Law Enforcement Assistance Unit” that attacked accused draft evaders: https://www.rt.com/russia/605990-ukraine-murdered-help-draft-officers/

https://al24news.com/en/algeria-mauritania-armies-sign-cooperation-protocol/

Algeria and mauritania sign military cooperation protocol. Interesting to note that at the same time morocco bombed mauritanian civilians in the liberated territories of western Sahara and just recently unveiled a drone developed with the help of the entity. Morocco took the habit since normalization to bomb civilians from other nations in western Sahara as a response.

Should Zelensky's government be afraid of far-right groups?

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241011-should-zelensky-s-government-be-afraid-of-far-right-groups | archive link - https://archive.is/9C6qS

newsmega stay winning, 2.5 years after feb 2022 we have mainstream news reporting on the factional infighting of the ukrainian government and the influence of far right nationalists as a barrier to peace. I guess that famous video of zelensky getting sandbagged by ukrainian nationalists back in 2019/2020 when he was trying to get ukrainian militias to stop firing into the donbass actually was important after all.

it's very clear how much the story of ukraine as a western proxy aligns with the story of afghanistan as a western proxy in the 1980s. in both cases, far right marginal/not dominant elements of society are materially supported by the west with military gear/$/trianing, their message is amplified through western soft power and media channels, and they become the de facto government of the proxy. they hop in the driver's seat of the proxy in a non-democratic way, and proceed to use the proxy as a whole as a battering ram against the western enemy while placing no value on the health of the people or country of the proxy.

re: twitch banning israel

~~Twitch must have a (corporate) good reason for the ban. They almost certainly didn't do it out of a moral responsibility. (prove me wrong twitch, i dare you)~~

~~I think it's likely because they've recognized a significant algorithm abuse (bot/shill) campaign, which could constitute as fraud or laundering due to the monetized nature of the platform. Spotify has had a lot of issues over the years which you can read about. If there was a campaign and a large part of it was coming from a specific subset of IPs, it would be a crude but potentially effective strategy to just pull the plug on them.~~

~~It sounds like existing users are still allowed, though, which pretty clearly indicates that they wanted to recognize a legitimate pre-existing israeli userbase (and which will likely prevent major retention loss after a few months of protests).~~

~~If that's the case it's kind of funny blowback. But I worry about what it means if a bot/shill campaign reached twitch's threshold for concern right now. Psyops tend to shortly precede physical ops, and if I'm not mistaken the whole world is waiting for Israel's next move.~~

~~edit: some people are saying this policy has been around for several months now so take that into consideration with my last paragraph~~

I take it back! I take it all back.

u/sewer_rat_420 reports that the policy has been active since 10/7/23. Like many others, I saw the big reaction and believed the comments saying it was new. Because that would make sense, right? Too much sense apparently. This is a clown world after all.

I'm filing this one under "lessons learned." Sorry for propagating misinfo.

And since I totally, definitely learned my lesson, here is a source for it being an old policy and more details about it: https://xcancel.com/TwitchSupport/status/1848191418377830708

North Korea is now effectively joining the war against Ukraine, Zelensky said. "The DPRK is actively joining the war on the side of the Russian Federation. According to the GUR, Russia has plans for the fall and winter that take into account support from the DPRK," he said.

I guess Khaled Mashal is the new leader of Hamas. Any opinion on this guy?

Seems like a moderate tbh. And most Westerns will ignore what he said about being against fanaticism and being pro-tolerance, and will continue to accuse Hamas of attempting to create an Islamic state in Palestine that will kill all christians and jews.

Hey fellow multipolarity enjoyer. Have you received your 500₽ BRICS voucher card?

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Today (16th October) is the 60th anniversary of the first successful test of a nuclear bomb by China

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202410/16/WS670f6f65a310f1265a1c7ed2.html

(Article is about the reopening of a museum to commemorate China's success in missile and satellite technology)

Zelensky is threatening NATO that he'll cook up some nukes.

[Checks the MSM headlines] Wapo: "During Profane Rally, Donald Trump Fixates on Arnold Palmer, says he was 'all man' in the shower."

False. He was half Iced Tea, Half Lemonade

US probes leak of ‘top secret’ documents on Israel’s Iran plan

The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel’s plans to attack Iran, three unnamed US officials told The Associated Press news agency.

A fourth US official said the documents appear to be legitimate.

The documents – attributed to the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency and marked “top secret” – indicate Israel is moving military assets into place to conduct a strike in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on October 1.

It is unclear how the US and its European allies are planning to prevent a spiralling escalation of the direct violence between Iran and Israel.

The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military assistance annually, and an additional $18bn in aid since the war on Gaza began in early October 2023.

EXCLUSIVE:

An informed source within the U.S. intelligence community has shared with us an extremely sensitive 'top secret' U.S. intelligence document from the NGIA, dated October 15-16, detailing Israeli preparations for an extensive strike inside Iran

According to the report, the U.S. has observed the Israeli Air Force handling ALBMs (air-launched ballistic missiles) like 'Golden Horizon' (at least 16) and 'ROCKS' (at least 40) at Hatserim airbase since October 8. If all of these are used, it would be a major attack.

From October 15 to October 16 the Israeli Air Force also handled several ASMs (air-to-surface missiles) at Ramot David and Ramon airbases, indicating an imminent attack.