President Trump said on Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on key allies in the region to back his audacious proposal to relocate the entire population of the territory in order to redevelop it.

The president also said from the White House that if Hamas did not release all the remaining Israeli hostages by “12 o’clock on Saturday,” the cease-fire agreement with Israel should be canceled.

“All hell is going to break out,” Mr. Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office, while acknowledging that the choice over ending the cease-fire ultimately fell to Israel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-jordan-egypt-gaza-development.html

Kinda wild that the Americans elected this guy all by themselves and he's going to just destroy their own country over the next four years and no one else has to lift a finger - and they love him for it.. Like who would have guessed when Survivor aired in 2000 that a reality TV star would eventually unravel the whole place. It just blows my mind to watch this in real time.

jfc is this the new American past time or something.

I am finding it hard not to catastrophize on the rumblings that the administration may start openly defying court orders. On a domestic front, it seems like a point of no return towards naked fascism.

(NBC News) Legal experts warn of 'constitutional crisis' as JD Vance and Elon Musk question judges' authority over Trump

I'm just going to address the latest Israeli PsyOp that has hit the news media, primarily being spread by the German outlet Bild, and Turkish newspapers. This PsyOp being that Israel has obtained a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb from the United States, and that they plan to use it against Iran's hardened nuclear facilities.

There are two problems with this idea. The first is the idea that the MOAB is a "bunker buster" bomb that can be used for this mission. The truth is that it's not a bunker buster bomb, as the name states it's an air blast bomb, it does not penetrate deeply into the ground before exploding, it actually detonates above the ground. The lightweight aluminium casing of the MOAB is not designed to penetrate anything either. So it cannot be used to strike against deep bunkers in the mountains, such as Iran's nuclear facilities. There appears to be some confusion here, people confusing the huge overpressure effect that can occur when a MOAB is dropped in a valley or an open cave complex (as it was in Afghanistan) with bunker buster/penetrator capabilities.

The second issue is the delivery method. The only way of delivering the MOAB is to fly a modified C-130 transport aircraft directly over the target, and drop it out of the back of the plane. Israel have C-130s, but flying one over Iran would be a suicide mission, it would be shot down instantly. So the MOAB would never reach Iran.

The truth is also, that no such deal for a MOAB has occurred. I managed to track down the primary source of the misinformation that all these articles are quoting, and it's a Fox News segment between Sean Hannity and Steve Witkoff, in which Witkoff says that Israel already has "bunker buster bombs", likely referring to the 2000lb BLU-109. The MOAB is never even mentioned. These articles are completely fabricating and hallucinating something that was never even said.

The bomb that Israel would need to strike Iranian hardened nuclear facilities is the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which is only carried by the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber of the United States Air Force. The United States did use the B-2 and MOP combination in Yemen last year, in a clear warning to Iran. Israel will not get this capability, the United States reserves it for only itself. Which is how the power dynamics play out, meaning Israel cannot "go it alone" with air strikes against Iranian bunkers deep in the mountains. They would require the participation of the United States. Israel can "go it alone" in other ways against Iran as they have shown, but not in that specific capability.

https://xcancel.com/MintPressNews/status/1889035808747016366#m

Richard Medhurst arrested again, this time in Austria after literally being accused of being a member of Hamas.

so trump enacted 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum from ALL countries entering the US

seems to mostly harm canada (and the US itself)

data from USGS

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

Trump cutting USAID funding to South Africa has, unexpectedly, emboldened South Africa in it's legal war against the Apartheid entity, with a combination of a collapsing international law, the end of Phase 1 fast approaching alongside the month of Ramadan and the relations between South Africa and the US at their worst in history, only short of American bombs being pointed towards Gauteng. Trumpet has also gifted isnotreal the infamous GBU-43 MOABs

The main talking points over the last week has been Afriforum's potentially treasonous calls for US "intervention" in South Africa, Trump's segregationist rhetoric levied at the Post-Apartheid state and an actual emerging effort by South Africa to expel the US out of the UN, even taking considerations to work around the expected US veto.

Primarily from Salaamedia and Newzroom Afrika

the Boer, the settler

This is from December, but I only learned of it today. Trump's team has suggested eliminating the FDIC. This would most likely cause an immediate bank run, no? I know I'll be stuffing cash under the mattress the second I hear about the groyper gang making moves on the FDIC, especially with all the other Jenga pieces Trump is carelessly ripping out of the tower.

By Mondoweiss

Hamas just announced a delay in releasing captives scheduled for next weekend, citing Israel’s obstruction of aid—blocking the entry of tents and rebuilding material into Gaza. Hamas says this obstruction is “a new war” on Gaza, escalating tensions amid the fragile ceasefire deal.

An Israeli official denies these accusations but no official government statement yet. Israel’s war cabinet is set to meet tomorrow, meaning another day of uncertainty. Qatar has warned Israel that blocking humanitarian aid jeopardizes both the second and first phases of the ceasefire deal. The message is clear: aid entry is non-negotiable.

Hamas is likely waiting for mediators to intervene, but ultimately, everything depends on Netanyahu’s real intentions—does he want the deal to collapse? Hamas’s announcement itself isn’t a breach of the deal. But if they fail to announce the names of captives to be released by Friday, that would be a breach.

This move by Hamas could be an escalation to pressure mediators amid Trump’s recent comments about “owning” Gaza and expelling Palestinians. Meanwhile, Israeli war minister Yisrael Katz is calling Hamas’s move a breach and has ordered the army to prepare at maximum alert for “all scenarios.”

Hamas’s bet is that mediators will resolve this before Friday, avoiding the need to take further action. Another Israeli official claims Hamas has been making these accusations for a while. But an Israeli delegation has now left for Doha—suggesting Hamas timed this move to push rebuilding aid to the top of the agenda.

The core issue? Israel is blocking heavy machinery to remove rubble and reconstruction materials, worsening the humanitarian crisis from Israel's genocide. Meanwhile, families of the captives have called on the Israeli government “not to take any measure that would jeopardize the ceasefire and hostage release deal.”

local Swedish news has been covering THE BOATS and THE CABLES in the baltic sea for months now with a very predictable pattern of headlines

boat discovered; seized on suspicion of cable sabotage; PUTIN'S SHADOW FLEET?

a few days later

boat released; no evidence of cable sabotage found; PUTIN'S SHADOW FLEET?

send more boats please

Last week I joked on how Musk took inspiration from milei now that he's carrying out his crusade against whatever remains of the "New Deal"-ish State. And I can see similarities...

I think "DOGE" is kinda inspired in Argentina's "Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State", an all-powerfull shady institution led by someone who was not directly elected, who is a massive piece of shit, who can intervene anywhere and who has political experience working with previous (failed) administrations, always on the heavy neoliberal side of things. Naturally there are differences, the extent of the "reforms" are going to be different depending on each country given that the US is institutionally and demographically seventy two trillion times bigger than Argentina, so the process of dismantling the State of certain elements is going to be different and will have different effects.

But the principle remains the same: A specific institution was created to spearhead all the efforts to scrap the State and for that task is given ridiculous powers to do so. Both are led by somewhat unelected officials with free reign over anything they desire, neither Elon Musk or Federico Sturzenegger (the guy in charge of the dismantling of the Argentinian State) have clear specific roles within their Governments, they are appointed at the will of their respective Presidents and their actions represent their own will.

The goals are also the same but will have different impacts. In Argentina the goal is to end, once and for all, the massive privatization campaign that began in the 1970s, continued heavily in the 90s, suffered setbacks in the mid 2000s up to 2014 and resumed with various degrees of intensity after. The complete privatization of all "public" aspects of the State is to be carried out by this shady Ministry and they cannot be hold accountable. The same goes for "DOGE": Eviscerate the Federal and "Public" institutions to pave the way for relentless privatization, whether that is education, transportation, infraestructure or energy, you name it.

Whether this actually represents the end of both Argentina and the US as entities remains to be seen, in principle Capitalism at it's core cannot reproduce itself for too long without the State intervening in certain areas, after all, a Ministry of Education is essential, and since both countries are intimatelly tied to Capitalism's very existence, their own existence is therefore in jeopardy. However, perhaps, Capitalism is mutating into something truly hideous and new, it's last mutation, perhaps being the "An"Cap one, before it finally succums once and for all.

death to "israel" btw.

Gestapo raided the Education Bookshop in Al-Quds, arresting it's owners Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna, with their detention also just extended by 8 more days. The primary "evidence" to justify arrest is a colouring book from South Africa, titled From the River to the Sea. The cover includes the Al Aqsa Mosque, two variants of the Handala, one Palestinian, the other South African and a cityscape of Johannesburg with the Hillbrow Tower.

This is also the very first arrest made directly as a result of possessing South African material.

Cover of the colouring book in question:

Death to ameriKKKa, Death to isnotreal

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/15481

Hamas announces that the release of the next batch of Israeli hostages, originally scheduled for Saturday February 15th, will be postponed

This decision comes in response to repeated Israeli violations of the ceasefire and obstructions to aid entering Gaza.

For this year’s observance of International Environment Day the United Nations is focusing on the plight of forests worldwide. In Haiti, there remains less than one percent tree cover. Most deforestation is caused by the local population’s need for land to farm, wood to build with, and charcoal to cook with. The result has left immense tracks of land bare to the elements, hastened massive soil erosion and increased land slides and flash flooding.
View of a deforested hilltop near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

©UN Photo/Logan Abassi, 2011-06-07

So I've been super sick with the flu since thursday which effectively kept me from sleeping during the night which gave me some time to check out what the germans been up to and really nothing really can do as good a job as the logo they used for one 'politics debate'

Really liking the red white and black there....

Anyways that debate was bad but at least somewhat bearable but there was the Scholz vs Merz debate which basically went like this.

Merz (CDU): There's too many foreigners you haven't been doing enough to send them back!!!!

Scholz (SPD): Ehrm, actually you'll find that no other Bundeskanzler sent back more asylumseekers than me, no one turned them away at the border until I showed up and did it in a grand manner.

Merz: We are spending too much on social security! Our government expenses are out of control and Scholz is not able to cut the excesses because he isn't brutal enough

Scholz: Actually I personally brutalized tons of social security recipients and so what Mr Merz is saying is completely wrong

This has animated a few people to move towards Die Linke so they are now polling around 5% and might make it into government but it won't matter after this debate it becomes clear that a CDU-SPD coalition will probably be what is going to happen as SPD seems proud on being conservative and cruel shitheads.

Place your bets regarding: the judges blocking all the Trump orders; Nothing Ever happens y/n?

Preparations underway for visits by Xi to Moscow, by Putin to Beijing — Kremlin

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Mutual visits by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin to Moscow and Beijing, respectively, are being arranged to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told the media.

A celebration will be held in Moscow on May 9 to mark the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, while Beijing will host a celebration in September to honor the anniversary of the end of World War II.

"Yes, such visits are in preparation. We attach great importance to the symbolism of these dates, both in remembering those significant events and recognizing the contributions of our countries to the fight against Nazism, as well as to our bilateral relations. This is why we are actively working on these visits," Peskov stated.

Russia’s ambassador to China Igor Morgulov said earlier that Xi Jinping accepted an invitation to take part in celebrations in Moscow on May 9 marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and in turn invited Russian leader Vladimir Putin to China for the celebrations due in early September.

Marco Rubio being called Narco Rubio is still pretty funny lol

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Left-wing presidential candidate @LuisaGonzalezEc denounces anomalies during the counting process and warns that there are about 2,600 vote tally sheets with inconsistencies (this amounts to upwards of 700,000 votes).

Bipartisanism wins in Ecuador: Noboa and González head to presidential run-off Hexbear Post

In an unprecedented election, the candidate of the ruling party and the candidate of the Citizen Revolution party monopolized more than 88% of the valid votes, even though there were almost 16 candidates.

Right-wing Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and progressive Luisa González clinched first and second place in the first round of Ecuador’s presidential elections, winning a combined 88% of the valid votes. The two candidates will dispute the Presidency of the Republic on April 13.

Oaxaca Indigenous leader’s killing leaves land defenders’ safety in doubt Hexbear post

Arnoldo Nicolás Romero, a commissioner in Oaxaca’s San Juan Guichicovi municipality, was found shot dead on Jan. 21, hidden behind bushes in a private ranch not far from his community.

After Romero’s death, the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus (UCIZONI) released a statement that condemned his killing and demanded that authorities “promptly” initiate an investigation into his death.

Israel has displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, UNRWA says Hexbear Post

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said in a statement on Monday that the number of Palestinians Israel has displaced in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of its ongoing offensive has reached 40,000.

Dubbed “Operation Iron Wall,” the ongoing Israeli military invasion overtook the northern West Bank in mid-January, leading to the forcible displacement of thousands of residents. On February 10, UNRWA said that “the forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank is escalating at an alarming pace.”

@0__0@hexbear.net

I'll answer your question. First, Ecuador was in a state of chaos during the 1990s, which led to the 2000 military coup against the neoliberal government. The coup was orchestrated by far-left military officers and CONAIE (Organization of the Indigenous). Lieutenant Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez took control of the country, tried to install a Chavista-style government, but failed and Gustavo Noboa (the vice-president at the time and father of Daniel Noboa, the current president) took control of the country with the help of right-wing military officers and the US.

Lieutenant Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez was eventually democratically elected in 2003, but he betrayed the left and promoted neoliberalism, which led to a new crisis. Gutiérrez was ousted and his vice-president, Alfredo Palacio, took power. Palacio's economic minister was Rafael Correa. Correa managed to resolve the economic and political crisis and became so popular that he was eventually elected president, governing with a socialist ideology. During Correa's government, the economy was working well, security was also good and a lot of money was spent on education and healthcare. The US attempted a coup in 2010, but Correa destroyed the coup by literally walking into the headquarters of the coup leaders and slapping them in the face, after which the building was stormed by SWAT forces loyal to Correa and Correa supporters.

Correa chose his vice-president as his successor, Lenin Moreno. But then Lenin betrayed Correa and went back to promoting neoliberalism. And then the Ecuadorian right and the US started waging legal war against Correa, who had been exiled to Belgium. All this led to more crisis and chaos in Ecuador, which is currently suffering from a huge crisis of violence.

Second, Idk if the left is going to lose, if the Correaistas convince Leonidas Iza (CONAIE candidate) to support them, theres literally nothing Noboa can do, legally, to win the election.

Mayor of Reykjavík dissolves coalition on a whim

We could get a wholly leftist city council because of this

Some videos for today from Russia’s special military operation.

Russian FSB recently arrested a Neo-Nazi that attempted recruiting for the Kiev regime’s Nazi “Azov Battalion” in Moscow (unsurprisingly, his body was plastered with one million Nazi tattoos): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--An-Azov-supporter-who-was-trying-to-persuade-Russian-military:5

Russian drones destroyed Kiev regime armored vehicles inside a military warehouse: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Destruction-of-Ukie-militants'-equipment-in-Kharkiv-region:f

A Russian ground drone destroyed a Kiev regime fortified position: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Courier-robotic-ground-drone-sneaks-inside-a-Ukie-bunker!:9

And a special bonus picture -- the dictator Zelensky has become less popular in the US: https://news-pravda.com/img/20250210/536ad608efbd5a66fbb65d3ba3dfaa5d_o.jpg

Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-openai-bid-4af12827

Archive is acting up for me so no archive link

On Monday, President Javier Milei asked Sonia Cavallo, daughter of former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo, who served as Argentina's ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), to resign. The 51-year-old woman had been appointed in April 2024 despite not residing in the country.

Hours earlier, Domingo Cavallo had been called "unpresentable" by Javier Milei, after raising questions about the government's exchange rate scheme. Cavallo was quickly added to the list of economists denounced by Javier Milei, which includes Carlos Melconian, Ricardo López Murphy and Roberto Cachanosky, among others.

“Domingo Cavallo is often referred to as one of Milei’s mentors. In La Libertad Avanza they insist that it was he who sent Kikuchi to the team, as a kind of support or blessing,” says Juan Luis González in his book El loco.

However, a few months after Javier Milei took office as president, Cavallo began to make some criticisms about the economic direction. In May, Cavallo questioned the fact that he continued to accumulate reserves, although "not to intervene in the market but to feel comfortable with a greater liberalization of the exchange market," amid a slowdown in the rise of prices.

These comments unleashed the fury of Javier Milei, who was quick to call his former idol an "unpresentable." "How is he going to make the dollar go up if I'm taking away all the pesos that are floating around? The dollar has to fall like a piano. I'm going to tell him, especially the unpresentable Cavallo," said the President this Monday, in an interview on A24.

Lmao Imagine losing you job because of a facebook post your dad made

Scientists Warn Trump's NIH Cuts Will Drop 'Atomic Bomb' On Health Research https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nih-cuts-science_n_67aa3b53e4b0ade4a9a36a1e

small news but Google maps changed the Gulf of Mexico to gulf of America

But those abroad still see Gulf of Mexico (with gulf of America in brackets lmao)

Left-wing presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez denounces anomalies during the counting process and warns that there are about 2,600 vote tally sheets with inconsistencies (this amounts to upwards of 700,000 votes).

Luisa: "We have about 2614 minutes with inconsistencies according to our reports. We have had to face members of the security forces closing the doors of the precincts. They don't allow our delegates, our observers, to enter, who ask them to recount the tally sheets.

Luisa: "There have been anomalies. In Manabí, scanning suddenly stops because the scanners were damaged, the internet goes down. If inconsistencies are solved in Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas, most likely we'd be first in this race."

Luisa: "We do distrust the CNE, I have to say it clearly, I've said it this entire time. We have a CNE president who has not shown that she is the president of the CNE nor that the rules are clear before the electoral contest, but that she is a campaign manager of Mr. Daniel Noboa."

Luisa: "One more lie. [Daniel Noboa] said he won in a single round. They put out an exit poll where they say he wins with 50%. False. We knew that this was false. An exit poll contracted by president Noboa and endorsed by the CNE, which was obviously lying.

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H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".