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Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of Yahya Sinwar (www.whitehouse.gov)

submitted 4 weeks ago by weeen@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 69 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Biden:

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead.

This is a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world.

Here’s my full statement.

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https://xcancel.com/POTUS/status/1846984629573542269

Bulletins and News Discussion from September 16th to September 22nd, 2024 - This Megathread Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan - COTW: Afghanistan by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

[CW child abuse] Huw Edwards: Former BBC presenter given suspended sentence

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over indecent images of children

this is the guy who announced the queens death

Huw Edwards has been spared jail for accessing indecent images of children as young as seven.

Prosecutor Ian Hope told the court Edwards had been assessed as posing a "medium risk of causing serious harm to children".

In sentencing remarks, district judge Paul Goldspring added he was at "considerable risk of harm from others" if he had ended up in prison.

random bullshit go defense incoming:

A separate report conducted by a psychosexual therapist said: "The feelings of being desirable and unseen alongside Mr Edwards's unresolved sexual orientation created a perfect storm where he engaged in sexual infidelities and became vulnerable to people blackmailing him."

The judge also said that Edwards was of "previous good character" and, until now, had been "very highly regarded by the public" - whom to many he had broken the news of the late Queen's death.

[...]This created an "enduring cognitive dissonance and low self-esteem", which was "compounded by a sense of being inferior" by not getting into Oxford University and going to Cardiff instead and "being therefore something of an outsider at the BBC".

0 time in prison. Another banger https://www.google.com/news.sky.com/story/huw-edwards-what-was-his-defence-after-disgraced-veteran-bbc-presenter-avoids-jail-13216325 https://news.sky.com/story/amp/huw-edwards-former-bbc-presenter-given-suspended-sentence-over-indecent-images-of-children-13214373

completely unrelated:

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

https://www.google.com/theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

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Palestine Action underground cell manual (elbitsites.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by weeen@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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They've forced multiple Elbit weapons factories to close down recently, the co-founder also got arrested for 'expressing support for hamas' lmao

Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: Nicaragua by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1835171408256942149

Pope Francis: "China is a country with a capacity for dialogue and understanding that goes beyond other systems of democracy."

Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: Nicaragua by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 76 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://xcancel.com/pawelwargan/status/1834901542782021887

Harris is positioning herself as a Reaganite warlord in a chilling ad that makes clear as day that the Cold War—which proved unbearably hot for the tens of millions of lives the US destroyed in the Third World—was and will continue to be the consensus project of US imperialism.

LMAO - "[Reagan] 'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall,'

[JFK] 'And when one man is enslaved, all are not free,'

American presidents, Republican and Democrat, have always defied Russia's communist dictators, and defended American ideals.

Kamala Harris gets this. [Kamala] 'If we stand by, while an aggressor invades its neighbour with impunity, they will keep going,'

Kamala Harris will stand up to Putin, protect our allies, and keep us safe."

Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: Nicaragua by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/shooting-massachusetts-pro-israel-rally

One shot and another arrested after clash at Massachusetts pro-Israel rally

https://xcancel.com/LeiasLegacy84/status/1834546491978875171

The shooter, Scott Hayes of Framingham, has been harassing and trying to intimidate nonviolent anti-genocide protesters for nearly a year. A look at his social media:

[Photo of one of his tweets and him posting a picture of a gun]

(Apparently he's an Iraq war veteran?) https://xcancel.com/RashTheHorse/status/1834990231285559657

The shooter is also an Iraq War veteran. For all those braindead leftoids who think there's anything worth engaging in the fascist US military. "Bro 1917!!" There is no 1917. This is the Wehrmacht at 1941 in Babyn Yar. Complete fucking scum who should be viewed as the enemy.

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"One way of getting into postwar Canada 'was by showing the SS tattoo,' Canadian historian Irving Abella told '60 Minutes' interviewer Mike Wallace. 'This proved that you were an anti-Communist.'" (xcancel.com)

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victim pensions

kkkanada is an actual nazi safe haven

They will coax homeless people into assisted suicide but they don't want to give up their nazis.

Uncharted 🤣 by weeen in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

someone in Germany stubs their toe

the polls: i-am-adolf-hitler

The level of debate over Gaza in the US by weeen in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 70 points 2 months ago

American politics is just splitting people into two groups and convincing both that the other group will destroy the country if it gets in power

Bulletins and News Discussion from August 26th to September 1st, 2024 - Ruto Must Go - COTW: Kenya by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

[CW s----- abuse]

Also remember that Obama blocked the release of 2000+ images of s----- abuse/torture in Abu Ghraib for fear that it would shock the public

A woman who was being tortured inside wrote a note begging Iraq to bomb the prison:

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BAGHDAD, 23 May 2004 — The scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was first exposed not by a digital photograph but by a letter. In December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the jail west of Baghdad managed to smuggle out a note. Its contents were so shocking that, at first, Amal Kadham Swadi and the other Iraqi women lawyers who had been trying to gain access to the US jail found them hard to believe. The note claimed that US guards had been raping women detainees, who were, and are, in a small minority at Abu Ghraib. Several of the women were now pregnant, it added. The women had been forced to strip naked in front of men, it said. The note urged the Iraqi resistance to bomb the jail to spare the women further shame.

Source: https://www.arabnews.com/node/249910

Bulletins and News Discussion from August 26th to September 1st, 2024 - Ruto Must Go - COTW: Kenya by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago

Images of the Haditha masscare that the US military tried to keep from the public have been released.

[CW Details of massacre]

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On the morning of November 19, 2005, a squad of Marines was travelling in four Humvees down a road in the town of Haditha, Iraq, when their convoy hit an I.E.D. The blast killed one Marine, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, and injured two others. What followed would spark one of the largest war-crime investigations in the history of the United States.

During the next several hours, Marines killed twenty-four Iraqi men, women, and children. Near the site of the explosion, they shot five men who had been driving to a college in Baghdad. They entered three nearby homes and killed nearly everyone inside. The youngest victim was a three-year-old girl. The oldest was a seventy-six-year-old man. The Marines would later claim that they were fighting insurgents that day, but the dead were all civilians.

After the killing was over, two other Marines set off to document the aftermath. Lance Corporal Ryan Briones brought his Olympus digital camera. Lance Corporal Andrew Wright had a red Sharpie marker.

Briones and Wright went from site to site, marking bodies with numbers and then photographing them. Other Marines, including one who worked in intelligence, also photographed the scene. By the time they were done, they had made a collection of photographs that would be the most powerful evidence against their fellow-Marines.

Marine bragging about keeping the photos secret:

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The impact of an alleged war crime is often directly related to the horror of the images that end up in the hands of the public. The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison became an international scandal when graphic photos were published. The Haditha killings had no similar moment. A few of the images that the Marines had made ended up in the public domain, but most have never been released.

In an oral-history interview for the Marine Corps, in 2014, General Michael Hagee, who was the commandant of the Marine Corps at the time of the Haditha killings, bragged about keeping the Haditha photos secret.

“The press never got them, unlike Abu Ghraib,” Hagee said.

The interviewer, Fred Allison, a Marine Corps historian, interjected, “The pictures. They got the pictures. That was what was so bad about Abu Ghraib.”

“Yes,” Hagee replied. “And I learned from that.” He said, “Those pictures today have still not been seen. And so, I’m quite proud of that.”

Source [CW Includes selected photos of the massacre at the bottom] https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-the-dark/the-haditha-massacre-photos-that-the-military-didnt-want-the-world-to-see?utm_brand=tny&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned

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Banger one star reviews from the Vietnam War Remnants Museum (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by weeen@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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Don't go to the actual museum in Vietnam, watch the netflix show instead. michael-laugh

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ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago by weeen@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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Fear grips UK's Muslim communities as far-right riots spread nationwide by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, they outnumbered the 'pro-british' 'protestors', as the media calls them, in many places but the nazis (a guy just got arrested with a swaztika tat) have done insane damage, they burned down a library in Liverpool

https://x.com/C_Hendrick/status/1820009252477362450

Fear grips UK's Muslim communities as far-right riots spread nationwide by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 60 points 3 months ago

won't happen, the black mold on her walls told her to focus on women's boxing this week dean-frown

Fear grips UK's Muslim communities as far-right riots spread nationwide by weeen in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

here they've blocked exits of a hotel holding asylum seekers before setting it on fire

edit: really depressing video https://x.com/TheBluSocialist/status/1820131223798464767