War on Gaza: Poll reveals most Germans oppose continued Israel arms sales

A new survey has revealed that 60 percent of Germans oppose arms exports to Israel, with a majority of voters from the country's three ruling coalition partners supporting restrictions.

According to a poll by Forsa, 50 percent of Green Party voters opposed weapons sales, while 60 percent of Social Democratic Party supporters and 52 percent of Free Democratic Party voters also rejected continued arms exports.

Opposition was particularly high in the former East Germany, where 75 percent of respondents rejected arms sales to Israel.

Last week, German media reported that several German leaders blocked the sale of weapons to Israel, despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s insistence that arms sales would continue.

https://mobile.chinadaily.com.cn/cn/html5/2024-10/25/content_011_671aa1f6ed50ccabe1506a0f.htm Israel hit Lebanese troops. Its interesting that they are not in direct war with Lebanese army itself and the army is just onlooking. Israel says their beef isn't with them as well

North Korean units in Ukraine to be led by Commander Paek Gojin.

Ким! Где снаряды!

Kim! Where are the shells!

South Korea threatens to send arms, personnel to Ukraine. South Korea is renewing its threat to send weapons to Ukraine, days after releasing intelligence alleging that North Korea plans to deploy a large number of troops to support Russia’s invasion. - Voice of America

South Korea will consider sending Ukraine “weapons for defense and attack,” according to the Yonhap news agency, which cited an unnamed senior presidential official on Tuesday.

Yonhap also reported Seoul may send military and intelligence personnel to Ukraine to analyze North Korean battlefield tactics and assist in interrogations of captured North Koreans. In a statement, South Korea’s National Security Council called for the “immediate withdrawal” of North Korean troops from Russia and pledged unspecified “phased countermeasures.”

Last week, South Korea’s intelligence agency said North Korea already has sent about 1,500 special forces to Russia to join the war in Ukraine, and it is planning to deploy a total of 12,000 troops from an elite unit. U.S. and NATO officials have said they cannot confirm the North Korean troop deployment but have condemned North Korea-Russia military cooperation, including Pyongyang's supply of artillery and missiles for use in Ukraine.

The Ghost of Pyongyang? Imaginary DPRK soldiers?

Western countries have long urged South Korea, one of the world’s biggest weapons exporters, to directly arm Ukraine. South Korea has resisted, fearing this could prompt Russia to expand military ties with North Korea, which seeks advanced weapons targeting Seoul.

I thought there was a longer gap between the shooting and the crying: https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1849055989435093460

Iran mocks Israel’s ‘weak’ attacks as hardliners call for reprisal

A billboard in Enghelab Square, Tehran, on Saturday. The Persian reads: ‘If you want war, we are the master of war’ and the Hebrew: ‘Israel must be wiped from the face of the earth and this is the beginning of the story.’

Guardian article

Cuba has now fuel for Gradual restoration of electrical service telesur

Minister Vicente de la O Levy expects the country’s electricity supply to be fully restored by Tuesday.

On Monday, the the state-owned company Union Electrica (UNE) confirmed that around 50 percent of Havana’s residents now have power, nearly 72 hours after the total blackout that affected the entire island.

The UNE also emphasized that its “people are not resting” as they work to restore the National Electric System (SEN) following the “national zero power coverage” event that occurred on Friday, which has only been gradually addressed amid repeated setbacks in recent days.

On Sunday, authorities announced that the current strategy to address this crisis is to reorganize the SEN into three regions to facilitate the startup of different generation units. The goal is to reconnect the SEN as quickly as possible to gradually restore service to the nearly ten million inhabitants of the island.

Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy expects the country’s electricity supply to be fully restored by Tuesday. The first total blackout was recorded last Friday morning, following an unexpected shutdown of the Guiteras thermoelectric plant, one of the largest in the country and considered key to SEN’s stability.

I don't want to say anything early

Here's more info on the hospital for which Israel is creating a narrative to bomb

Israel Makes Sensational Allegations Against Sahel Hospital in Beirut (Gaza Playbook)

Avichay Adraee, the Israeli spokesperson for Arab media writes in a post on X that Hezbollah is storing “hundreds of millions of dollars” in cash and gold beneath Sahel Hospital in Haret Hreik, alleging that these funds are earmarked to finance the group’s terrorist activities. The hospital conceals secret entrances and exits leading to a shelter below, he said.

Adraee goes on with news that Israeli aircraft are currently surveilling the site, and called on the Lebanese government and international organizations to recover these purportedly stolen funds and prevent their use for terrorism.

In response, Fadi Alameh, the hospital’s director, strongly rejected the accusations, called for Lebanese Ministry to investigate & asserted that Sahel Hospital has no ties to any political parties. The hospital, he confirmed, had been forced to evacuate.

https://nitter.poast.org/DropSiteNews/status/1848455800131620980

Manic absurdity strikes me now as I watch Trump recieve the endorsement of Muslims from Michigan as being a potential peacemaker president.

Most moral nazi army in the world

Dozens of Palestinians in Jabalia were abducted and taken to Israeli torture camps.

https://nitter.poast.org/ireallyhateyou/status/1849040092314194219

https://archive.ph/vqYed

According to Newsweek, occupied Korea is posturing at sending troops and “advisors” to Ukraine to counter the North Koreans. Absolute clown stuff. Acting like there will be a ton of DPRK prisoners when there are just some DPRK “advisors” currently and Russia is winning and taking prisoners at a way higher rate.

Occupied Korea wants to send troops and involve itself in a losing war where there advisors will get killed and captured as Ukraine collapses? It’s a clever way to get more troops to Ukraine without NATO involvement I suppose.

Praying for the safety of everyone under attack by the zionist regime. whatever cheap victory they're after, the zionists are bringing themselves closer to their own end.

death to israel

> Because, after all, we must resign ourselves to the inevitable and say to ourselves, once and for all, that the bourgeoisie is condemned to become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous; that it is an implacable law that every decadent class finds itself turned into a receptacle into which there flow all the dirty waters of history; that it is a universal law that before it disappears, every class must first disgrace itself completely, on all fronts, and that it is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs.

Pretty good call outs of the Genocide Joe administration from the State Department diplomat who quit (with only a bit of backhanded shit like calling Hamas a "terrorist" organization):

• Democracy Now - "We Have Lost All Credibility": Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending Complicity in Gaza (20m video)

Also, apparently Blinken went straight from Israel to Saudi Arabia. Hmm.

So the second wave is here, and thus far there haven't been any reported impacts. Lots of anti-air over Tehran though. I can't imagine this is it, but again thus far it's a distinctly unspectacular Response. Hope everybody in Iran is staying safe.

Mark Hamill is so cringe.

Boeing communication Satelite, that has been in Space since 2016, suddenly explodes in an "instantaneous and high-energy" event, creating as many as 80 pieces of trackable Orbital Debris

Was Israel part of the supply Chain, by chance?

Iran's Army (aka Artesh) have announced martyrdom of two soldiers which were killed by Israeli strike.

Also an Iranian newspaper, Asr Iran, wrote:

The fact that some internal sources have said that no damage has been done to Iran's military facilities and that all missiles fired from airplanes have been intercepted, is not true news; Israel has really been able to target some Iranian military centers, but it seems that the amount of destruction is low, regardless of the announcement by the official authorities.

One of the characteristics of an attack at night is that any explosions and fires can be seen from far distances with greater clarity. On the night of the attack, many Iranians across the country were awake and took videos of the affected areas with their phones in hand. None of these videos show a huge explosion and fire. Whereas if the explosions were serious, they would be clearly visible and could not be hidden.

If the missile silos were hit, "very, very terrible explosion sounds, from a single point, multiple times and at sub-second intervals" should have been heard, and its fiery effects could be seen from tens of kilometers away and for a long time. Such an image has never been seen. Even if it is assumed that the explosion of the silos is underground and does not have an external appearance, naturally the simultaneous underground explosions of tens and hundreds of rockets are recorded and published in real time by the seismic measuring devices that work at the global level. It turned out that there was no such thing.

Therefore, without shouting slogans, it should be accepted that Israel has hit several military targets in Iran, but the scope of destruction was limited, and this confirms the same theory that the recent attacks, rather than having a military aspect, had the task of transferring a verifiable political message; as if Tel Aviv have said to Tehran: As you reach us, we reach you, so it is better to be cautious towards each other and not to go further.

A major fire broke out at a US military warehouse in Busan, South Korea.
https://twitter.com/AlRadwan1234/status/1849445182971969832?mx=1

This situation in Lebanon gets even more troubling when you realize they have the largest refugee population per capita already.

The amount of coverage the alleged “DPRK soldiers fighting in Ukraine” story is getting seems way more disproportional than what the story should merit, even if it’s true. I mean… so what? If this was being portrayed as “Putin is desperate for more soldiers”, ok that at least makes sense from a propaganda standpoint.

I think the answer is what I am now seeing in multiple news outlets: that South Korea may respond by sending equipment and maybe personnel to Ukraine. I think story is all a ruse to give South Korea cover to materially support Ukraine, which is maybe difficult for it to do without a pretext?

It was bound to happen, but they officially opened up a new front with fucking Iran.

God bless the martyrs

Per The Cradle’s Telegram channel:

BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces:

"We carried out a strategic military operation targeting an Israeli military base east of occupied Yaffa with a 'Palestine-2' hypersonic ballistic missile."

"The missile successfully reached its target, bypassing both the US and Israeli interception systems."

Apartheid Antony returned from his gunboat diplomacy tour. Israel attack against Iran very soon?

CW: electoralism

Harris needs progressive voters

(Fundraising email sent from the Bernie group, “Our Revolution”)

Recounts all the terrible things the Democrats are doing, takes no agency for them and has no answers other than we must vote blue for the “chance to go on offense to win progressive policies” and to “defeat Trump.”

Chapo just won the election in Mozambique! Let's see reddit ban the sub now

Are other fascists as fucking whiny as Zionists because Jesus Christ:
https://xcancel.com/JehadAbusalim/status/1849833002508935321

Like, were the Nazis and Franconists and Banderites this fucking whiny as well?

Edit: Okay, this part is pretty funny. It's literally them going "OOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" for 4 seconds. I kinda want to see the deranged eulogy in its entirety now:
https://xcancel.com/ahmad__slman/status/1849908716415357404

Syria state media claims car explosion in Damascus caused by Israel. Israel claims responsibility, says it was a strike on a commander of Hezbollah. Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/22/video-israeli-military-claims-killing-of-hezbollah-commander-in-damascus

Is it just me or it's looking REALLY bad for dems?

Britain's joined the big boys club of allegedly illegally interfering in US elections

If the trump campaign can prove Labour party resources are being used by the Labour for Kamala group then they can legally fuck them up apparently

From the FT

Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report

Israel’s military forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and is suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus close enough to injure 15 peacekeepers, according to a confidential report outlining a dozen recent incidents in which the IDF attacked international troops in Lebanon.

Unifil has called these incidents a “flagrant violation of international law”.

When western troops are attacked it's flagrant violation of international law, when civilians are murdered by the hundreds of thousands is just sparkling self defense.

The attacks have drawn international condemnation. But Israel has stood firm. On Sunday, Unifil said an IDF bulldozer deliberately demolished an observation tower and perimeter fence of a UN position in Marwahin.

https://archive.is/FBasv