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Image is from Futurama.


Happy holidays, fellow godless communists. We are in year three of the Five-Year Plan to eliminate all Christmas cheer and create a world free of the joys and festivity of Christmas. Nobody should have to be reminded that in our concrete brutalist communist strongholds, NO ornaments are allowed in December. Please report any Christmas trees, snowflakes, baubles, and presents to the evil secret police, and anybody caught violating their Volcel Pledge by having a tentative kiss under a mistletoe will be shot on sight.

Developments lately have been grim. Our Supreme Communist Dictator Brandon is being removed from office by Christmas-loving patriots, and soon, Christmas will adorn the White House for another four years. This is obviously very disappointing, but while Christmas joy is strictly prohibited, good vibes are still strongly encouraged. Revolutionary optimism (a term we only bring out when things are going very badly and we need to be delusional) shall triumph over defeatist rhetoric by stooges of the Christmas regime.

We must have hope. Our foreign allies aiding us in destroying Christmas now possess hypersonic weaponry, allowing us to compete with and overcome the engine technology powering Santa's sleigh. Abroad, they have destroyed factories and hit cities with missiles travelling at unimaginable speeds into precise targets, while the Christmas regime struggles to produce their own such missiles, as they are still reliant on aircraft bombing campaigns. Precision has a quality all its own, or something along those lines. We just have to hold out another two years or so, and I swear to you: we will live in a world without this accursed holiday.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 110 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': Inside the Minds of IDF Soldiers Who Commit War Crimes

https://archive.ph/O8rGB

CW: Nazi shit that is so Nazi one of the soldiers has to literally ask "Are we the fucking Nazis?!"

Here is a tweet with screenshots of text if you don't want to read the whole thing: https://xcancel.com/shaabiranks/status/1871208919994958023

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 81 points 2 weeks ago

I couldnt bring myself to read this article after seeing a few of the quotes. The one i saw about breaking a kids arm made me want to throw up

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 105 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Back from my self-imposed Hexbear exile, I needed to turn off news (which dramatically failed) and stop reading some of the weird ass tantrums here. Now some unrelated points as usual:

  • Situation in Syria is slowly reaching a new chaotic state. Numerous sectarian clashes between HTS and Alawites, and Kurds vs Turkish-backed fighters in the north. The main cities are still calm and in an optimistic mood though, I was in a video call with my cousin on Monday and he filmed some of the markets and main squares in Damascus, it looked pretty calm and people are still in some sort of revolutionary euphoria. Iraq 2003-2007 is still definitely on the cards, sectarian battles and stuff like that will escalate and reach a climax before things settle. The new government from a pure bureaucratic standpoint are doing okay imo though, things are slowly returning to normal and somehow functioning.

  • Russian crossing of the Oskol was strangely uneventful, they just crossed from 2-3 points and established a pretty solid bridgehead on the other side of the river. I expected some grand battle when they would inevitably cross the river one day, but it was pretty anticlimactic and Ukrainian troops on the west bank of the river seem to be unprepared and outnumbered even by some Russian troops without heavy equipment. Kurakhove, Velika Novosilka and Toretsk seem to be wrapping up by the end of January, next step is probably Pokrovsk until some bigger Russian movements by summer 2025. The war in the current pace still doesn't reach any final stage until summer 2026.

  • Visiting Iraq with the wife and the kid in around a month, you'll get a trip report and some non-doxxing pics if things permit.

  • I don't like how things are going in Iran, the country seems to be entering a hard period of decline and they'll be Syria'd by Trump and Israel if they don't get their shit together soon.

  • This website has some of the dumbest drama I've ever seen lmao, grow up

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[-] MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net 97 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 95 points 2 weeks ago

Luigi is pleading not guilty
Kinda interesting that the state went for the terrorism angle but the feds are treating it more like a targeted murder. It's somewhat contradictory and could make it difficult for some of the charges to stick.

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As well as the state-level charges, he is also accused of federal (national-level) stalking and murder offences that could lead to a death penalty sentence.

You think they’ll risk him becoming a martyr to make an example?

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 92 points 2 weeks ago

Remember when the Israeli football hooligans were rioting and the BBC tried to pass footage of them beating someone as the opposite?
Today, 45 days later, they are "happy to correct the record."

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

we used stills and footage from the night to accompany the conversation. This included footage shot near the Amsterdam Central Station appearing to show a large group chasing and attacking an individual.

However, the author of the clip said separately on social media she had filmed Maccabi supporters attacking a Dutch man and so its inclusion during this segment, and some previous use when reporting reaction to the disorder on the BBC News Channel, could have given the impression that this was illustrating attacks on Israeli fans.

made-it-the-fuck-up No you were explicitly stating a bold faced lie to whip up for political means and public manipulation for the privilage of Zionazis to terrorize a foriegn civillian population.

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[-] Clippy@hexbear.net 91 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

this is a few days old but nobody posted it i think

Human Rights Watch determines israel is committing acts of genocide

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza Authorities’ Widespread Deprivation of Water Threatens Survival

  • Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza by intentionally depriving Palestinian civilians there of adequate access to water, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths.
  • In doing so, Israeli authorities are responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for acts of genocide. The pattern of conduct, coupled with statements suggesting that some Israeli officials wished to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, may amount to the crime of genocide.
  • Governments and international organizations should take all measures to prevent genocide in Gaza, including discontinuing military assistance, reviewing bilateral agreements and diplomatic relations, and supporting the International Criminal Court and other accountability efforts.

this is following the previous amnesty international report that determined that israel is committing acts of genocide in gaza

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 90 points 2 weeks ago

Oh look only took them 14 months to state the obvious

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[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 87 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Only 12 aid trucks (roughly 200,000kg) of aid has entered the northerh half of Gaza since October 2024, or in a span of 2.5 months. Source: Oxfam

piSSraeli sources of claim the amount of food in Gaza has increased to ~3,200kcal per day, equal to Sweden. The actual figure is between 20 to 50kcal, less than a quarter of Auschwitz

200,000 kilograms is what is needed to adequately feed a single 25-story apartment tower such as the Tygerberg's 1,100 residents in the same span of time.

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[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 87 points 2 weeks ago

Feels like we sort of passed over the massive news of the Northvolt (Europe's only EV battery producer) collapse a few weeks back, so I'm going to re-up it here to highlight how monumentally fucked the European automobile industry is long term. Not exactly news to anybody here that's been paying attention, but the staggering mismanagement of what is so obviously a key and strategic piece of European industry is perhaps still baffling. The article's name is "The Northvolt dilemma: can European EVs avoid relying on Asian batteries?", and as the Betteridge law of headlines states, the obvious answer to this question is "No."

Two months before Northvolt filed for bankruptcy in the US, Robin Zeng, known as China’s “battery king”, had a quick but grim answer as to why European battery makers were struggling to make good products. “They have a wrong design . . . they have a wrong process . . . and they have the wrong equipment. How can they scale up?” the chief executive of CATL told Nicolai Tangen, the head of Norway’s $1.8tn oil fund. “So almost all mistakes together.” The bleak assessment from the world’s biggest electric vehicle battery manufacturer captures the scale of the failure for the industries behind the critical technology for Europe’s decarbonisation, leaving governments, companies and investors at a loss as to how to recraft the continent’s strategy to compete with China.

Northvolt’s demise means the battle for dominance of the European market is likely to play out between Asian battery makers. LGES and SK On both have European plants, in Poland and Hungary respectively, while CATL has a factory in Germany and a second site in Hungary due to begin production next year. But Tim Bush, a Seoul-based battery analyst at UBS, said there was little prospect at present that the Asian battery makers would be able to help the EU to meet its target for 90 per cent of the continent’s EV batteries to be produced locally by 2030. Bush noted that Korean battery makers were already paring back their investments in Europe, having invested billions of dollars in plants in North America that have been running at low utilisation rates because of lower than expected consumer demand for EVs. Potential Chinese battery investments on the continent were also likely to be complicated by the ongoing trade dispute between Brussels and Beijing over EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, he added. “The Koreans are not expanding, the Chinese have suspended construction and Europe’s new entrants are dropping like flies,” said Bush.

With European start-ups still behind in their ability to manufacture batteries at scale, industry executives say the only solution may be to continue their reliance on Asian participants until homegrown companies can absorb technology knowhow on battery chemistry, mass production and equipment manufacturing. “We need to find a deal with China because we won’t be able to compete . . . without the support of the Chinese companies that control the mining industry, chemicals, refining and their capacity and competence,” Luca De Meo, Renault’s chief executive, told reporters last month.

So basically, the Europeans destroyed their only chance of domestic battery consumption by epic mismanagement, and their acquiescence to USAmerican empire means they're fucking up their opportunity to draw Chinese EV investments into Europe proper due to tensions and sanctions, and the US/South Korea can't even begin to supply the necessary battery supply for the EU, so their car industry is basically fucked. The USAmerican destruction of European industry proceeds apace...

Source: https://archive.is/4Ys7n

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago

Is jacobin fucking high?

One of Karl Marx’s most persistent points, from “On the Jewish Question” forward, is that despite the formal freedoms that we enjoy in a liberal state — the right to freedom of speech, for example, or freedom of religion — we are socially and in fact unfree. (As Bruno Leipold reports in his Citizen Marx, a lot of Marx’s evidence for this claim, particularly about religion, came from travelers’ reports to America, which Marx read assiduously.) That is what it means to live in a liberal society, says Marx: formally free, actually unfree.

But lately I’ve been wondering whether we are not living in the reverse. Despite the efforts of right-wingers to bend the state in a repressive, less free direction, society seems more and more resistant to these efforts. Producing a situation that is, in some sense, the mirror image of what Marx described.

You are totally free, unless you protest anything state deems important. Or strike in important industry. Look at my leftist "intellectuals", we are boned sadness-abysmal

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We joke about the war on Christmas, but it’s literally happening in Syria as Christians have reportedly been murdered in Wadi Al-Nasirah and threatened with expulsion in Maaloula. Less immediately harmful, but symbolic, is the arson of the Christmas tree in Suqaylibiyah

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47621

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47623

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47625

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago

moderate rebels

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 79 points 2 weeks ago

Felt the urge to dust off some research on family friends and rediscovered that I'm 4 degrees of separation from Assad. Solid ones, too. Guess that's less signficant now must-go stalin-gun-1 assad-must-stay

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[-] CDommunist@hexbear.net 78 points 2 weeks ago

Baking hope in Gaza: Making Christmas cookies in a displacement tent

Khan Younis, Gaza – From a makeshift kitchen with a sand floor and a nylon roof, and lacking the most basic equipment, Mayess Hamid prepared Christmas cookies this year.

Hamid, 31, has been making cakes and cookies for about 10 years, working at one of Gaza’s largest cake shops before it was destroyed in Israel’s continuing war on the besieged enclave.

Like many in Gaza, she lost her job when the bakery she worked at was bombed.

“I wanted to start the year with optimism and make Christmas cookies to distribute to the children around me in the camp,” she says as she kneads.

“The war turned our lives upside down. I lost my income, and my home was destroyed,” says Hamid, who has been displaced nine times since her family left Zeitoun, east of Gaza City, and has now settled in al-Mawasi in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

“My children are excited, waiting eagerly and trying to help, especially with decorations,” she adds, arranging the cookies in a baking tray.

Making cookies was challenging because of basic food shortages that are so severe that some parts of Gaza are in famine.

Israel has largely blocked the entry of aid and commercial shipments since the beginning of the war.

Drawing from her experience, she substitutes unavailable materials with things she can find.

“Before the war, I decorated cakes with ready-made sugar paste. Now, I use a mix of liquid cheese and powdered sugar, and it works,” she says.

Lacking Christmas cookie cutters, Hamid drew stencils on paper using her phone, cut them out, and shaped the dough by hand using a knife.

“Even simple tasks like baking cookies have become challenges during the war,” she says, arranging the cookies and preparing to bake in a nearby clay oven the whole camp relies on.

“From gathering materials to shaping dough and baking, each step feels unfamiliar and complicated.”

As the second batch of cookies bakes, Hamid begins to decorate the first inside her small tent.

“The war may have taken my home and life as I knew it, but not my passion for decorating and attention to detail,” she says, glancing around her tidy tent.

While trying to bring a festive feel to the displacement camp, Hamid cannot hide her sorrow that the world celebrates Christmas as usual, while Gaza endures a second year of war and devastation.

“We try to smile, but our wounds run deep, and there is little we can do. We feel forgotten.”

At the same time, she still clings to hope that this Christmas will bring peace. Her sole Christmas wish is for the war to end.

“Just let the war stop. Let the killing and destruction end so we can live in peace with our children,” she says.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 77 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

hope pope fucking drop kicks biden when he arrives in vatican.

Excommunicate his ass first, so that he knows he is going to hell

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[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago

Why does nobody get called out for being a LIB in the news megathread when they don't link their source 😤

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago

Former President Bill Clinton is in the hospital after developing a fever

Fuck Jimmy Carter, but it would be hilarious if he outlived Bill Clinton because he's even worse.

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[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 75 points 2 weeks ago

Fatah banned Al Jazeera in the west bank. Traitorous pigs not even willing to allow Qatari comprador media to operate. Fuck Abbas. Hope his tortured body gets paraded around the streets of Al-Aqsa, like how Mussolini was

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago

i know im being a nerd but i think such kind of assessment gives too much importance to billionaires' wealth. ofc, the obvious is that it confuses a stock measure, net worth with a flow measure, GDP. billionaires (and the corps) need be gulaged or executed because of their control over the politics, not for their money.

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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[-] fever@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago

Yemen deserves to be the leader of the Resistance. They are not corrupt and consequently their nation is more united than any other country in the Resistance. They also do not suffer from 'self-overthrowing policies' syndrome that Iran suffers from. I hope Hezbullah recovers from the damages that it received for supporting Palestine. And I hope my country, Iran, do fix itself before its too late. So many talented smart people leave this country because of what Zionists call "our assets in Iran", that is extremists, especially the ones acting like one to get seats and ruin this country.

Merry Christmas. Wish you a happy year.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 73 points 1 week ago

This MAGA civil war over H-1B visas is pretty funny, ngl.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago

Elon Musk, using a cheesy voice modifier on his “Adrian Ditmann” account, says MAGA “will have to fucking deal with it” because “Elon is the only one to give these fucking crackheads a voice. You ungrateful motherfuckers, seriously.” “You keep crying censorship this, censorship that, you're not censored, your takes just suck. Get over yourselves.”

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 69 points 2 weeks ago

“You keep crying censorship this, censorship that, you're not censored, your takes just suck. Get over yourselves.”

heartbreaking

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Shortly after Trump's speech, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino released a video declaring that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to belong” to his country. Without mentioning Trump by name, Mulino addressed Trump's complaints over rising fees for ships crossing the canal, saying they are set by experts who take into account operational costs, and supply and demand factors.

“The tariffs are not set on a whim” Mulino said. He noted that Panama has expanded the canal over the years to increase ship traffic “on its own initiative,” and added that shipping fee increases help pay for improvements. “Panamanians may have different views on many issues” Mulino said. “But when it comes to our canal, and our sovereignty, we will all unite under our Panamanian flag.”

Trump then took to his social media site to offer in response, “We'll see about that!" He also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!”

Trump is going to push Panama towards China and Venezuela, isn't he? At this point it's US tradition to antagonize a Latin-American country until they seeks closer relations with either Russia or China.

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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago

Israel strikes Yemen airport as WHO chief prepares to board plane

Israeli warplanes struck multiple targets across Yemen on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said, including the country’s largest airport, where the head of the World Health Organization was about to board a flight.

The strikes targeted military infrastructure used by the Houthi rebels, the IDF said. The militant group has for months launched missiles at Israel, two of which broke through Israeli air defenses in the past week, causing damage and injuries.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, said the airport was bombarded as he was set to board. A member of his plane’s crew was injured in the strike, he said in a post on X. He said he and his United Nations colleagues were safe but that “the air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged.”

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 70 points 1 week ago

China is building new detention centers all over the country as Xi Jinping widens corruption purge - CNN

China has built or expanded more than 200 specialized detention facilities nationwide to interrogate suspects ensnared in Xi Jinping’s widening anti-corruption drive, a CNN investigation has found, as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown beyond the ruling Communist Party to a vast swath of public sectors.

Since taking power in 2012, Xi has launched a sweeping campaign against graft and disloyalty, taking down corrupt officials as well as political rivals at an unprecedented speed and scale as he consolidated control over the party and the military. Now well into his third term, the supreme leader has turned his relentless campaign into a permanent and institutionalized feature of his open-ended rule.

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 69 points 1 week ago

Now well into his third term, the supreme leader has turned his relentless campaign into a permanent and institutionalized feature of his open-ended rule.

jagoff

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 69 points 2 weeks ago

Cubans protest against US embargo outside US embassy in Havana

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans, led by former president Raúl Castro and current president Miguel Díaz-Canel, protested this Friday (20) outside the US embassy in Havana against Washington's trade blockade, a month before Donald Trump's return to the White House.

The “March of the fighting people against the blockade and the permanence of Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism” started from the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, an iconic esplanade in front of the US embassy, located on the Cuban capital's main seafront avenue, known as the Malecón. “We are marching now to tell the US government to let the Cuban people live in peace. Down with interference!” said Díaz-Canel, addressing the crowd, who were waving Cuban flags.

Despite being 93 years old, former president Raúl Castro, who officially retired in 2021, was at the head of the march, along with the Cuban president. “Tear down the blockade” and ‘We're not terrorists, take us off the list’, chanted the participants. “We need them to open their doors to us so that we can trade with all countries,” Rogelio Savigne, 55 and head of transportation at a state-owned company, told AFP. “If there hadn't been the blockade, the difficulties we're going through wouldn't be like this,” said Faustino Miranda (85), a pensioner.

Díaz-Canel denounced that, “when they persecute and prevent financial transactions [...], they are denying the people of Cuba food, medicine, fuel, goods, supplies and essential commodities for survival.” During his first term in office (2017-2021), Trump, who takes office on January 20, interrupted the historic rapprochement that both countries had begun in 2014 under Barack Obama (2009-2017). Trump applied 243 measures that reinforced the embargo, which has been in place since 1962, including the reincorporation of the island on the US list of “countries that sponsor terrorism”, along with Iran and North Korea. Democrat Joe Biden barely eased these sanctions and kept Cuba on the list, which blocks financial and economic flows to the island.

According to the authorities, around 700,000 people attended the demonstration in Havana, a figure that AFP was unable to verify independently. Mobilizations like this were started by Fidel Castro in the 1980s and have been organized at times of strong tensions between Havana and Washington.

Some Syria news.

This news summary shows video footage of the protests in western Syria against the Western-backed “HTS” regime. The West’s “HTS” puppets opened fire on the peaceful protesters, revealing the true nature of this new “CNN democracy”: https://southfront.press/syria-is-boiling-amid-new-wave-of-crimes-of-armed-groups-loyal-to-new-government/

Syrian patriotic resistance forces (composed of former Syrian Arab Army troops) continue armed resistance in Tartus province against the “HTS” regime (note, yesterday the resistance eliminated 14 “HTS” gunmen in Tartus): https://thecradle.co/articles/clashes-erupt-in-western-syria-after-locals-ambush-hts-fighters

In addition, the resistance also eliminated four “HTS” gunmen in Balkasa (northwest of Homs): https://tass.com/world/1894101

The “HTS” regime also appointed a UN-designated al-Queda terrorist, Anas Hassan Khattab, as its new “intelligence chief” (I wonder how CNN will try spinning this...): https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/26/739791/Syria-nas-Hassan-Khattab-HTS-Israel-al-Bashir-Golani

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 69 points 2 weeks ago

China has sanctioned seven American military companies and their senior executives in response to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, including Insitu Inc., Raytheon Canada, Raytheon Australia, and Hudson Technologies Co.

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[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 68 points 2 weeks ago

Turkish foreign minister says no room for Kurdish militants in Syria's future

The new Syrian government is either gonna allow or get assistance from Turkey to wipe out the SDF aren’t they?

HTS called for all weapons and arms within the country to come under their control, and I highly doubt SDF is gonna comply.

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 67 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Israel slaughters 5 journalists by bombing their broadcast van

https://t.me/jeniincamp/92581

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 66 points 2 weeks ago

Fox News reports that on the same night a U.S. Navy F/A-18 'Super Hornet' was shot down over the Red Sea, the USS Gettysburg fired an 'SM-2' interceptor missile at another F/A-18, missing it by about 30 meters.

Wtf is this? Biden is executing Order 66?

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago

The U.S. has sanctioned Bidzina Ivanishvili, founder and honorary chairman of Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party, for 'undermining the democratic and Euro-Atlantic future of Georgia in favor of the Russian Federation.'

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 66 points 2 weeks ago

Biden has had a hard time being president since the 2020 election race due to his age and the health problems that came with it, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.

From the very beginning, his entourage adjusted the presidential schedule, noting that Biden gets tired if meetings drag on, makes mistakes and has various "limitations." He was distanced from ministers, Congress and other high-ranking officials, isolated from the scrutiny of the public and the press.

His closest aides and advisers, such as Sullivan, Richetti and Brainard, often acted as intermediaries, and even Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had a hard time getting face-to-face meetings with Biden, including at key moments like the “disastrous” withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. And when they met with Biden, his interlocutors were asked to be clear and concise.

One lawmaker who did speak one-on-one with Biden noted that the president lacks stamina and relies heavily on his staff. Biden was especially bad in the mornings, so they tried to schedule meetings later. And sometimes they cancelled them altogether if the president was having a "bad day."

The president was literally led by the hand by his aides, especially during trips or public appearances. The White House, however, denies that the president's schedule was changed due to his health.

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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 66 points 2 weeks ago

By the way, I absolutely do not accept the irony regarding Putin's statement that military tasks in Syria were solved brilliantly by Russia. They were solved brilliantly at that time. No irony. Russia preserved Syria as a state and gave it 8 years of a quiet life.

But circumstances tend to change, and those who, resting on their laurels, do not feel this, lose. Putin won the war in Syria, but lost the peace. The saddest thing is that such a matrix can be reproduced today (as it is regularly reproduced with dreary predetermination) with Ukraine.

You can win the war but still lose the peace. Can Putin keep the peace in Ukraine? That’s the question.

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 65 points 2 weeks ago

The case of Uri, the man born in the USSR (a "Soviet Refugee" as he likes to present himself) who is now an "israeli" settler and lives in stolen land. Here's the case of a man who is a complete lost cause, a man who you simply cannot reform and integrate back into society as a functioning member because Genocide is rooted deep within their soul and only death runs in their veins.

There's a special kind of piece of shit in the world. Sure, there are a lot of people who simply hate the Palestinians (for whatever reason) and would like to see them dead. There are people who show no compassion towards them, who see them are mere numbers that will one day show up in history books as "total deaths". They're completely unable to see them as fellow humans, therefore they're completely unable to share the same feelings with the Palestinians. There's also a lot of people, people with good intentions, who see the hardships of the Palestinians and immediately form a connection with them, empathy as it is called. It's natural to humans. Zionists are contrary to human nature because not only they inflict severe damage into the people they have decided to hate (people who have done no wrongdoings to them to begin with) but they are unable to see it as well.

Uri is different. Uri is able to see Gazan's sufferings, the hardships. He knows they are starving, they are cold, they have nowhere to go. They know life is shit for them right now. Uri sees all that and almost forms a bond with the Gazan, he knows when he's cold there's a Gazan kid who is also cold, and hungry. But instead of going along with our nature, of having empathy, he throws all that out and feels good. He feels good at the fact that Gazans are starving and dying by the hundreds. He can see and feel their suffering but he loves it. He can see them as human beings, he knows suffering is a thing, but he absolutely loves to idea of inflicting suffering upon people that have done nothing to them but do "get in the way" of his pathetic ultranationalistic project.

He is a massive piece of shit because he tricks nature itself. He tricks all of us with his words, first time I've seen it I was thinking the guy was being empathetic with the Gazans, but no, it's the contrary. He's a special kind of piece of shit, one that knows some people are in the absolute shit right now and asks for more. He's aware, almost feeling sorry, but he keeps on going, just like the many Nazis who knew what they were doing and kept doing it anyways. It's not that he doesn't care about Gazans, he does but in a sinister way.

This is but one sample of many within the "israeli" society in particular and western society in general who feel that way. There are people who deny there's genocide either because they really believe there is no genocide or because they're too afraid to be one of the baddies and there's people who don't waste time and celebrate genocide while asking for more. The latter is at the bottom of human decency, the scum of the scum, the irreparable.

It is also important to remember that everything that "israel" does will be accounted for in the future. We are firm believers in the "fuck around and find out" formula, it just never fails. "israel" will find out, don't you ever think the pain, the misery, the destruction, the death and the suffering they've inflicted upon millions will just go about unpunished. Everything they do, and I really mean everything, will come back at them like a boomerang. It's not "karma", it's them digging their own fucking grave.

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Some news from occupied Palestine, Syria, and Yemen.

Zionist genocidal airstrikes on northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital massacred 53 civilians: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/27/739822/Hamas-Israel-raid-Hospital-war-crime

Washington’s “HTS” puppets in Damascus stated to “NPR” that they want to be “at peace” with the fascist and genocidal Tel Aviv regime: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/27/739832/Syria-militant-governor-Damascus-peace-Israel-Golan-Heights

US and British imperialist warplanes attacked Yemen’s capital, Sana’a: https://thecradle.co/articles/us-british-jets-rain-fire-on-yemeni-capital-in-new-late-night-attack

In response to yesterday’s Zionist attacks on Yemen, the Yemeni Armed Forces conducted a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile strike on Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/27/739798/Missile-fired-from-Yemen-hits-Tel-Aviv

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 65 points 2 weeks ago

mr president, a second south korean president has been impeached

Lawmakers from Yoon and Han's ruling People Power Party (PPP) protested after National Assembly speaker Woo Won-shik announced that only 151 votes would be needed to pass the impeachment bill.

This meant that, unlike the 200 votes required for Yoon's impeachment, no votes from ruling lawmakers would be needed this time for Han to be impeached in parliament.

Ruling party MPs gathered in the middle of the voting chamber chanting, "invalid!" and "abuse of power!" in response, and called for the Speaker to step down. Most of them boycotted the vote.

The opposition first filed an impeachment motion against Han on Thursday after he blocked the appointment of three judges that parliament had chosen to oversee Yoon's case.

Korea's Constitutional Court is typically made up of a nine-member bench. At least six judges must uphold Yoon's impeachment in order for the decision to be upheld.

There are currently only six judges on the bench, meaning a single rejection would save Yoon from being removed.

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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

US could buy Nord Stream – Vucic

The Serbian president has made the prediction following recent reports about an American investor’s bid for the pipeline

The sabotaged Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could become the property of a US investor in a year, and gas supplies from Russia to the EU could be resumed through the connector, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has suggested.

Vucic shared his view about the future of the pipeline in an interview with the German news outlet Handelsblatt published on Friday.

“I dare to predict: In a year at the latest, Nord Stream will be owned by an American investor, and gas will flow from Russia to Europe through the pipeline,” the Serbian leader said. “Mark my words. One year until Nord Stream is up and running!”

Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that US financier and investor Stephen Lynch had asked permission from the US Treasury Department to buy the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, if it is put up for auction next year.

lol. that would be extremely funny. imagine Gazprom selling gas to Europe through a pipeline owned by the Americans.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 64 points 2 weeks ago

Telegram link

Video shows Zionazi automated robots placing explosive boxes at the gates of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 64 points 2 weeks ago

IOF today don’t know how to fight, all they do is sit in air-conditioned room, use Xbox controllers, plant bombs and drop missiles, eat hot chip, and hasbara

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Another massacre allegedly perpetrated in the Homs countryside. Any talk of “continuing to Al-Quds” has evaporated as the new government instead focuses its violence and persecution on Syrians while making peace with its backers in Jerusalem who take credit for toppling the regime

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47731

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47693

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47729

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47691

Cw blood https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47722

Cw gore, killing, torture https://t.me/syrianchristian/440

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago

Brazilian liberal, pro-Lula da Silva mayor upsets the Zionist community in Brazil with a Christmas message.

In a Christmas message, Alexandre Kalil, former mayor of Belo Horizonte, published: “Just a reminder that Jesus was Palestinian, a refugee, poor, persecuted, tortured and murdered for preaching equality, social justice and love”.

Alexandre served as president of Clube Atlético Mineiro, a football club based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil that competes in Campeonato Brasileiro, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro. Alexandre is of Syrian descent, he is the only son of former club president Elias Kalil. Alexandre Kalil's career in Atletico started in the early 1980s, managing its volleyball team. He was also the football director and the president of the deliberation council.

[-] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago

On todays no shit news

Support for Ukraine ‘until it wins’ falls sharply in western Europe, poll finds

https://archive.is/trbPO

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