Israel bombed my hometown Beirut. Very strange feeling, because I'm not sad nor angry. The feeling in shia and revolutionary circles is more "thank you Israel", because we want this war. We want to have a direct reason to hit Tel Aviv, we want our troops to burn the occupied Golan, we want our missiles to fill the settlers with fear and panic. Alhamdullilah and may Allah accept the martyrs. My eyes will not be filled with the sight of Beirut for a long time, which really pains my heart, but if our collective sacrifices result in even one hour of pain for the zionists, then it was worth it.

فَٱرْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ

"Then watch for the Day when the sky will bring a visible smoke"

Quran - Surat Al Dukhan - 10

this isn't them "going all out", it's not them casting off their self-imposed shackles and fighting their enemies with all their previously undisplayed strength, they're just pissing everybody off and losing as fascist regimes always do before they fall

"Different parts of the IDF are fighting each other, IDF can't coordinate w/ the police, lawmakers are fighting the army & each other, there is attempted violent takeover of military property underway & big (select) groups of citizens are armed.

Closest i've ever experienced to state breakdown. It has all the ingredients for the gov't to try & justify imposing martial law on citizens - unprecedented

Hamas, Hezbollah could never have imagined how much they would succeed. This is better than they even dreamed."

Recently released classified documents show that claims of Soviet "brainwashing" during the 1950's were run to counter claims of US biological warfare in Korea

This isn't really new information, but it's interesting that the feds just admit it now

No political death has ever hit me as hard as the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh did today. What a catastrophe. I have been legitimately feeling paralysed today, could barely eat the whole day. I have much to say about this, but we all need to process this tragedy first. God give us all strength and power, these last two days have been draining emotionally and it will only get worse and worse. As for the man himself, our history when we're victorious will be very kind on him, may Allah grant him the highest ranks of Paradise. They killed his children, his grandchildren and then killed him.

I'd like to leave this here, the Martyr Ismail Haniyeh leading friday prayers in Qatar:

https://youtu.be/nxDGQvuQh1Q

Reddit is so astroturfed these days it's insane. The broadcast local news my parents watch has stories about the riots in Britain but r/news and r/worldnews has almost nothing

It took 19 days for the US to announce the final results of it's 2000 presidential elections, in which the loser of the popular vote was declared President. But after 4 days, members of Congress have decided the oil-rich nation of Venezuela is moving too slow.

Not a bad fucking summary, TBH (it ignores the political importance of some of those people murdered, but that's more on the provocation front than the how-bad-a-crime-it-is front):

Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa)

In 48 hours:

Israel bombed civilians in 5 countries.

Israel debated if it's okay to rape Palestinians.

Israel killed the man they’re negotiating with.

Israel violated UN resolutions, Geneva and Vienna Conventions.

Israel killed the journalists covering these events.

liberals when racist right wing goons try to steal an election in the USA.

liberals when racist right wing goons try to steal an election in the global south.

France's gymnastics program is so fucked that one of their gymnasts quit to represent Algeria instead and she just won gold

Holy fucking shit, the Venezuela opposition sucks at this. They are posting the so called "leaked" "real" results, but the text is all in english. WHY THE FUCK WOULD VENEZUELA USE ENGLISH ON THEIR ELECTORAL SYSTEM?

Behold

The ultimate take

British fascists set fire to hotel housing asylum seekers

Starmer’s Britain

dems really be playing game of thrones shit over the silliest position in empire

Well it turns out the italian boxer who got wrecked by the algerian boxer lady in the olympic games is actually a cop lmfao

She also retired from boxing after her defeat. ACAB lmao.

guys help, I just bombed Iran and now I think that they might want to attack me. Should I preemptively strike them to defend myself against this unprovoked aggression?

Lmao Joe's big supreme court reveal is just some proposals for Congress to pass. Term limits (of 18 years) and a "stricter code of conduct" (lol). He's not even doing anything, just meekly asking Congress to pass this for him.

Clashes in Britain: Migrant militants with samurai swords and knives took to the streets of cities to hunt nationalists and football fans

The International Boxing Association will award the Italian cop boxer Carini the full 100k dollars awarded to Olympic gold medalists as a consolation prize for having to fight a boxer who is better than her. The vast majority of western media also continues to push the false narrative that Imane Khelif is trans, including numerous state propaganda channels.

Edit: I want to add that most of the state propaganda channels that are pushing the conspiracy theories against Khelif do not recognize the authority of the IBA and considers it a corrupt organization but now their secret "gender tests" are the word of God.

Civil war baby, let's fucking go:
https://xcancel.com/BenzionSanders/status/1818013939206357280

The IDF is withdrawing multiple battalions from the Gaza Strip and sending them to defend the Beit Lid base which is under siege by fascist militias.

am i just going crazy or has 2024 been the most 21st century year so far? it feels both so uninteresting yet truly horrifying

If you really think about it, everytime someone posts on hexbear, that's news. Me posting in the "regular" mega about how I want get Chinese food for lunch? That's news, none of you knew that until I posted it. Someone posting their opinion on a movie? That's news, I didn't know their opinion before on that movie. So really, all posts on this site are news, which makes all posts part of the news mega.

I wake up. Israel's power grid is still functioning.

(cw: torture) UN did a report on Zionist treatment of detainees in occupied Palestine

https://xcancel.com/AdHaque110/status/1818742248919777307

gruesome details, don't read if you aren't ready to be engulfed in a red mist of anger

Chinese Olympic swimmers breaking world records while embarrassing the rude anglos who shunned them and disrespected the Chinese coaches

Iran has the right to defend itself

Someone just said to me "we should round up all these fucking rioters and send them to australia again".

Dude is cooking. Good idea.

I don't know if this is needed, but "CW: Animal Abuse" just in case

The Gaza Ministry of Health has declared a polio epidemic in the Strip.

The WHO spokeswoman says a variant of polio is spreading rapidly in Gaza due to lack of access to vaccination:

It is actually a variant that originally developed a long time ago. … Wherever we see it appearing, we give it a big vaccination response, and that usually stops it.

But we have to have the security. We have to have the means to get the vaccine to Gaza and to the children. Vaccines are of no use if they are in a vial or on a truck. So there is an answer, but the answer is that we need a ceasefire.

I am astounded by the nationwide white nationalist riots in the UK. Is there a modern antecedent in the imperial core for these types of riots? Things don't feel this terrible in the US or France, countries that until now I considered significantly more racist than the UK.

99% of colonial regimes stop killing resistance leaders just before they decide to give up and stop fighting

Israel appears to be gunning for the world record of "how many missiles of differing nationalities can we provoke to rain down on our country," which is certainly an interesting goal. Maybe they'll hit Turkiye next. Maybe they'll get really spicy and try and get the DPRK into the game.

Nicolas Maduro: "Social media creates a virtual reality controlled by our new archenemy, Elon Musk, who'd like to come with an army to invade Venezuela. Thank god you showed your face. We knew you were behind all the bots with your money, with your satellite."

"He intends to control the world. Elon Musk already controls Argentina. He's after your lithium, people of Argentina. He already controls Ecuador. He's the representation of fascist ideology in the world. Economic power supporting the fascist ideology of extreme right"

Olympics news:

Imane Khelif

She won against the racist transphobic Hungarian 5-0 in every round

Seeing the "Don't Fall for Maduro's Free Palestine rhetoric" posts.

Erdogan, being Erdogan, has done a piece of political theatre to appease popular opinion and has threatened to intervene in the zionists' genocide against Palestine. The illegal zionist entity, who is not a NATO state, is now demanding that Turkey should be thrown out of NATO and has contacted the US as well as every NATO vassal state to make these demands.

‘It Just Doesn’t Seem Right’: Michigan Farmer Forced to Dump 40,000 Pounds of Cherries to Make Way for Import Crops

Santucci continued in the Facebook post aimed at unleashing his frustrations, and raising awareness about an agreement imposed by the Cheery Board that he believes is outdated and harmful.

“I have people who would buy them if I could sell them.”.

The type of cherries grown, and left to rot by Santucci because of the rule, are tart cherries, which have a “very short shelf life.” Santucci grows about 30 acres worth of them each year, but a marketing order passed in 1937 (after a notably tumultous up-and-down in the cherry industry left many cherry farmers out of business) imposes limitations on how much can be sold in order to make way for imports, which led to the wasting of a large portion of his cherry crop.

The act is a “vain attempt to prop up the price of cherries,” 

Most efficent market economy.

Malaysia issues a travel warning to the UK:
https://xcancel.com/MacaesBruno/status/1820097223910191553

I hope Iran really goes hard after Israel's power grid / power generation. A country as small as Israel can only have so much in the way of power distribution.

I am a bit embarrassed to admit that a decade or so ago, I got really into prepping. I wasn't a reactionary or anything, but I was fascinated by the question of what could potentially shut down society. Got really into reading about the Carrington Event and EMPs that come from launching nukes in the atmosphere.

I think it's easy to underestimate just how much of our lives depend on electricity. If you don't have power, very few people can work or get around. You can't buy anything and stores can't open. No internet or telecommunications. Basically, society completely shuts down and shit hits the fan. People in Gaza are able to get by without electricity because they are in survival mode and they've had to build their lives around unreliable electricity anyway. But your average Israeli will have no way to cope with losing electricity.

In burgerland tech news, the CEO of Bungie invited an employee to see his new cars and then laid her off 2 days later

Did Israelis actually protest against banning rape?

Civility fetishists in 1978:

Rhodesia has a right to defend itself!

A person I know is getting gender affirming surgery soon. That's cool and newsworthy.

Israel beheaded Al-Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul with a bomb. If you see a video of a bombed car, note that it’s nsfl. Death to the occupation

What's causing the Islamophobic riots across the UK, and why now?

1. The riots have been instigated by the Zionist asset Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ('Tommy Robinson'), who has been working for the State of Israel since 2009 as part of the so-called 'counterjihad' Islamophobia movement established by that state. When his organisation, the English Defence League, was incorporated in 2011, two years after its inception, it was named the English & Jewish Defence League. The Jewish Defence League, a Zionist terrorist organisation, has been a key part of violent Islamophobic street thuggery in the UK over the past decade.

2. Yaxley-Lennon is one of the most high-profile actors in the State of Israel's Online Influencers Programme in response to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm. He and others, like Oli London, Noa Tishby, Hen Mazzig, Arsen Ostrovsky and Emily Schrader (and many others) are paid to distribute Zionist propaganda, of which pushing back against pro-Palestine protests and sowing Islamophobia are two important and interlinked aims.

3. The recent Islamophobic riots in the UK should be seen as the latest phase of the State of Israel's war on British Muslims, who it sees as originating the protest movement in the UK. These riots are designed to punish Muslims for their anti-Zionist sentiment after various other methods to suppress opposition to Zionism by the State of Israel have been thwarted. The State of Israel's attempts to use its assets and operatives in the British political and media class — such as Suella Braverman and Michael Gove — to thwart pro-Palestinian protests have failed. Zionist counter-protests have failed to mobilise significant numbers. Sporadic Zionist thuggery and the use of other assets — such as Iranian secularist extremists — have also failed to intimidate Muslims. So now the State of Israel is weaponising its cannon fodder on the white nationalist far-right, who have greater numbers than either Zionist street thugs or Iranian monarchists and secularist extremists.

4. Finally, there are also questions about which actor authored the idea that Muslims were responsible for the ostensible triggers for these events. MI6 and its assets (eg Paul Mason) are desperately trying to pretend this was a Russian disinfo op. But the original stories did not come from Russia. Where did they come from?