OP @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net it's Pridnestrovie, not 'Transnistria.' 'Transnistria' is what the imperialist and neo-colonials in "the west" call it, to refuse the status of the country because it just means "[the Moldovan territory] past the Dneister (river)," as well as to treat it as simply a historical legacy, not of the USSR, but of its previous administrators: the Nazis.

Pridnestrovians don't want to be called that, consider it a grave insult actually, because it's literally the name the Romanian and German Nazis used for their occupation government when they carried out the Holocaust there (Transnistria Governorate). Pridnestrovie was deeply impacted and affected by the Holocaust, and the Nazi-occupied administrative territory of the "Transnistria Governorate" served as a junction point where Jews from surrounding areas were deported to in 'processing' for enslavement or liquidation or later transfer elsewhere.

It is a point of deep national consciousness, this experience, and of national pride that they did as much as they did to resist Nazism and to shield Jews in the territory ^[^^sci-hub^ ^link^^]^; an uncommon phenomenon in most of Europe which saw huge collaborations and pogroms against Jews.

They by and large do not connect with the legacy of their previous occupiers who lay claim to them. During Catastroika and fashnost leading to the breakdown of the USSR, which caused the vicious resurgence of right wing nationalism, there grew large radical movements of Moldavian and "Greater Romania" fascists, who began demanding things such as the removal of all languages but Moldovan/Romanian, change to latin script, and expulsion of Slavs from the country and eventually in 1990 acquired power in the central government of the Moldavian SSR and started to implement their policies. It is in this environment that the Pridnestrovians had organized ad-hoc independence referendums, which were met with violent resistance by these fascist groups (just as we saw a much more drawn-out version of in the DNR/LNR in Ukraine) and declared independence

because they feared an independent Moldova led by these people would not only directly abuse them as they had already begun to, but also align and possibly even unite with the core country of their previous occupiers and exterminationists in Romania. Pizzachev annulled their independence but they in practicality maintained it and after the failure of the August coup in 1991 they declared independence in secession from the USSR as well as Moldova. They even fought a 2 year long low-intensity war from 1990-1992 to maintain their independence (and in which Ukrainian Nazi volunteers fought against Moldova, but for trying to annex Pridnestrovie into Ukraine) resulting in the death of over a thousand people.

And so they do not wish to be called anything but Pridnestrovie, or the full name Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Young voters have a net +26 approval for an arms embargo on Israel. This includes young Republicans, who are at +16.

Cuba to Ratify Its Aspiration to Join the BRICS - Telesur English

PSA: All payments formerly arriving in Putin Pennies, XiCoin, or Lulag Gold will now arrive in BRICS Bux.

Someone stole ben gvir's car lol. They should return it with a 'present'

Dumbass Burgerlander pilot offers proof that US planes have been bombing Palestinians and Lebanese:
https://xcancel.com/LezTonny/status/1849678294440083553

So now that the Israeli attack on Iran is over, there's been some chatter among war nerds about the fact that Israel struck some air defense sites and... nothing else. There is very little evidence of further damage or attempts to kill Iranian leadership.

In fact, I'm not aware of any credible reports of Israeli jets over Iran at all, which is IDF's main method of operation - using expensive stealth jets that get in close and drop cheap bombs. Saves a ton of money over using missiles if your planes don't get shot down.

The implication is that Israel is unwilling or unable to put jets over Iran, maybe even calling off that portion of the strike at the last minute. That massively limits their offensive ability against Iran. Makes you wonder where Israel goes from here; they can't meaningfully hurt Iran, they can't push into Lebanon, and their soldiers are killing themselves over going back into Gaza. What's next?

Holy smokes! Kamala gets heckled, called a “piece of shit” and booed loudly by anti-war protestors at her Kalamazoo, MI rally.

Apparently there's some horrific footage of massacres in/around the Indonesian hospital in Gaza that a nurse managed to smuggle out, and it's being heavily censored on twitter

BREAKING: Former president Evo Morales survives an apparent assassination attempt in Shinahota, Bolivia. 14 gunshots against the vehicle he’s traveling in. His driver is wounded.

Evo Morales denounces having survived an ambush and assassination attempt on the Villa Tunari - Shinahota highway in the Trópico of Cochabamba during an apparent attempt to apprehend him. Bullet holes can be seen in the vehicle in which he was traveling.

Director of Radio Kawsachun Coca calls for the urgent protection of the radio station after shots were fired on Evo Morales' vehicle this morning, during which his driver was wounded. "We reiterate, at this time we need to close the entire highway of the Trópico of Cochabamba."

Bolivia: Thousands gather at the entrance of the Bolivian National Police in Chimoré in response to the assassination attempt against Evo Morales on Sunday morning. "We are going to encapsulate them here, not even a fly will leave here."

Statement: Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) denounces an assassination attempt against former president Evo Morales

I hope this is a minor face saving strike by the entity, and our Iranian, Syrian, and Lebanese comrades stay safe tonight.

the next crusty boomer shitlib who asks me "what flag is that?" about my Palestinian flag, I am going to deadpan tell them it's the Canadian flag

Most hinged genocide voter: A Kamala Harris supporter yells "I don't give a fck about Gaza btch" at a toddler to a laughing audience. (Context warning: link.)

Looks like the LDP, Japan's long time right wing ruling party that has been beset by scandals after Abe's assassination (greatest assassin of all time keeps racking up wins) has lost its parliamentary majority for only the second time in Japan's post-WWII history. They'll probably still end up forming a coalition in parliament because Japan lacks any actual opposition parties, but it speaks to how much the tide has turned against the LDP in recent years given that they lost to opponents who are bumbling, chaotic messes who basically have no platforms outside of "well we're not the LDP."

Per: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japanese-parties-that-may-jockey-power-after-election-2024-10-27/

Not an Onion headline

Causally reading my city's subreddit and the really just jumped out as I was reading a story about police recovering alot of stolen items from one homeless guy. The usual, "oh why can't we solve this?" Without any clue, suggestions of more police, more mental health institutions, except the heavily down voted guy who said the obvious "give them homes!" That pissed off all the people who I assume are threatened by people having safe places to live.

The thing that really broke my brain was a heavily upvoted comment about how we really need to set these bad folks straight, you know break them through work, and literally wrote out "work shall.set them free". And I'm done with my local subreddit for a long while now. 50 upvotes, the guy who calls it out as being a fucking literal Nazis concentration camp motto is down voted and I can't even anymore.

I really wish Blowback was also available as books or at least ebooks because it can be hard to follow at times in podcast form.

Later our correpondent said that Israeli warplanes attempted to target three bases in the Tehran County, which includes multiple provinces. However, Iranian air defenses were able to intercept the incoming attack.

Our correspondent said that reports on strikes on the Imam Khomeini International Airport and energy facilities are false. However, explosions were heard in the city of Eslamshahr, south of the capital city Tehran.

Sources confirmed to Al Mayadeen that the Imam Khomeini International Airport and the Mehrabad International Airport were not targeted.

Source: Almayadeen

Don't trust fascist sources.

remember all the times over decades we were told that The Candidate had to have a certain policy to satisfy the Cuban gusano community in Florida?

but now that there's a key demographic in a swing state that's crucial to victory, can't budge at all on enthusiastic support for genocide. sorry Michigan Arabs, have you tried being concerned about something that's amenable to capital?

There is a headline right now on The Hill’s website that says “Key Republican: US should consider direct military action if North Korean troops enter Ukraine”. This is one among many similar headlines this week. Just further evidence to what everyone here is saying, that this is an obvious way to manufacture support for direct involvement by NATO. I menan, this whole idea that the west “must” intervene if the DPRK gets involved… like, why? Why is that some kind of red line? I’ve never seen someone reasonably articulate why A leads to B but that’s because it’s bullshit of course.

Edit: it’s funny, reading the article itself there’s this nugget: “The White House said earlier Wednesday that Washington had assessed at least 3,000 North Korean troops are undergoing training at military bases in eastern Russia, with fears they will eventually be sent to Ukraine to fight alongside Kremlin forces” [emphasis mine]

So in other words, a small number of troops are training with a military ally an entire continent away from the fighting. But maybe they’ll end up in Ukraine eventually!

How much do you want to bet there’s more than 3,000 NATO “advisors” in Ukraine right now?

I think if Trump wins we all need to be on high alert for NATO trying to commit actual ground troops to Ukraine before inauguration in order to try and force Trump not to back out.

Settlers killed, dozens injured in ramming operation near Tel Aviv (Al Mayadeen, developing story)

Recent updates indicate that the number of injured settlers has risen to over 50, with at least 10 in critical condition and several killed.

https://t.co/YvGJy3JZJ8

Israeli PM Netanyahu has rejected US Secretary of State Blinken's request to publicly oppose the 'General's plan,' a policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in northern Gaza, according to media reports.

According to Israel's Channel 13, a "very large" attack will soon take place against Iran, after the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system has been completed.
Preparations for the attack are underway.

Casualties are reported in the Israeli attack near Hariri hospital, where no evacuation of the population was requested.
3 dead dozens of injured

Source: IDF

Being a European, I'm gonna do a personal media blackout starting from the Sunday before the US elections. Absolutely no media or news whatsoever until I find out who won the election.

My experiment will be whether I can infer from the general atmosphere change in my life who won it, without anyone outright telling me.

Burgerlander hospitals are resorting to using soy sauce instead of saline, due to a fluid shortage caused by the facility that makes a majority of the saline supply getting wrecked by Helene.

From The Red Stream on Telegram:

BREAKING: Former Bolivian President Evo Morales just survived an assassination attempt as tensions inside the country’s ruling MAS party violently escalate. 14 gunshots were fired, wounding Morales‘ driver.

It's more likely that Netanyahu or someone in his cabinet will personally piss Trump off and he'll cut all funding to Israel out of spite than for Biden or Kamala to do anything positive for Palestine.

Israeli forces storm Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, abducting patients and staff | The Cradle

The Gaza Ministry of Health issued a statement saying, “We do not understand how the world allows itself to stand by and watch the most heinous genocide and the most widespread systematic operation to destroy the health system and kill and arrest patients and medical staff without moving a finger.”

Footage from inside the car shows Morales seeking help as shots hit the vehicle. He denounces that the attack was carried out by armed and hooded men. Morales has asked for international support to leave the country, saying that his life is at risk. Morales is also the target of legal proceedings and faces intense political opposition, with the indigenous movement divided amid the tensions.

Very funny; I got banned from Reddit r/climate for posting this link - Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal, study finds

LINUX HAS FALLEN. Now a piss ass slave to western control. ~~"Open Source" no more!~~ Jokes on me it never was!

XENOPHOBIA / RED SCARE 3.0

Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

Statement from Linus

Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote:

"Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.

It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too."

So to recap: in just over a year, the entity went from commiting a genocide and opening up 2 fronts (Yemen and Lebanon) to commiting a genocide and opening up an additional 2 fronts (Syria and now formally Iran) making for 4 active fronts.

They flew jets over Jordan, and if what Iran said about countries letting the entity use their airspace is serious, then we can expect Jordan to be the target of Iranian BM and drones in the near future.

Depending on how big this strike is, we'll see if Iran destroys western oil and energy infrastructure.

yo dawg I herd you like concentration camps so we put a concentration camp in your concentration camp so you can atrocity while you atrocity

"Israel" sets in motion plan for Gaza concentration camps run by CIA-trained mercenaries: Report | The Cradle

c/news thread

It seems that NAFO fella scratched libs hate the UN now.

There was 0% chance the Germans would actually pay reparations to the Poles, but it's still sad that they've dropped the demand:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/poland-drops-wwii-reparations-demand-from-germany--focuses-o

In 2022, Warsaw estimated that Berlin would need to shell out PLN 6.2 trillion (around $1.5 trillion) in compensation for damages inflicted by the Nazi occupation.

According to the minister, "the ball is now in Germany’s court," with the onus on them to "offer a creative decision." He suggested that the neighboring country could take care of the remaining survivors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and erect a memorial in Berlin to commemorate the tragic events.

Going from demanding $1.5 trillion in reparations to suggesting a cheap memorial tucked away in some obscure corner of some shitty park.

An Iranian telegram channel satirically posted a picture of a well known Iranian actor saying "an IRGC commander were martyred near an IRGC film studio, his name was Hajj Seyed Javad and was a missile General". Israeli telegram channels thought its real and are cheering.

Right wring accounts like Jack Posobiec and Charlie Kirk are going around on twitter telling people the Democrats are about to release an "AI Deepfake" video harmful to Trump. Rumors I have seen are that they have Trump on video groping a GOP donor's daughter, or that they got him saying the hard r. I can't imagine either will make a difference, but should be fun to see the first major political video scandal in the post AI Deepfake US election.

In an incident straight out of a Hollywood movie: Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militants (formally known as the Janjaweed) in Sudan shot down their own friendly transport/cargo plane, owned and operated by their own UAE suppliers. The UAE operated aircraft they shot down was likely bringing in supplies and engineers to repair another friendly UAE operated aircraft that crashed previously.

Video here

AP News article

"Sudan War Monitor" article

The RSF shot down their own plane that was bringing in parts and specialists to repair their own damaged aircraft which they crashed... The level of incompetence and lack of co-ordination on display is staggering. The UAE cannot even stop their own proxies from shooting down their own planes!

Editing to comment on the South African driver's licence being present on the UAE plane, our sub-imperialist arseholes just can't help jump from one sub-imperialist entity to another. If it weren't so tragic it would be comedy.