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so i guess low scale blockade until cia given 240 days runs out? neat for iran.
Rioters set homes, vehicles and buses on fire across Belfast in a night of destruction fueled by anti-immigration anger. Fire crews scrambled to extinguish burning cars as crowds gathered in the streets and police cordoned off areas. The unrest erupted after a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder following an alleged attack in north Belfast. At least two homes were seen engulfed in flames as the rioting spread through residential areas. Northern Ireland's political leaders condemned the violence, with First Minister Michelle O'Neill calling for calm and urging communities not to let extremists set the agenda
https://nitter.net/MiddleEastEye/status/2064487043871522879
another day in europe slow march to ~~fash~~ glorious azov freedom fighters.
Yesterday, a Local Facebook Group (Manchester) had someone claiming a non white council house resident stole her cat with zero evidence, and then claimed non-white children were luring cats into the same estate to steal them.
No doubt the shit Facebook promotes gets triple or quadruple racist to the baseline when this shit flares up, but just felt like the hitler particles were a bit thicker yesterday even beyond the epicenter of racial violence.
Every single time someone non-white does anything in my childhood street the local neighbourhood whatsapp blows up that someone is suspiciously casing houses even when it's something like an extremely obvious delivery person who is lost.
An arabic guy knocked on a door and all hell broke loose about how he was trying to raid this woman's house. Video very clearly looked like he was confused and trying to ask for directions.
None of these people were like this 15 years ago. They have changed and become fearful little hitlerites from online conditioning. I feel like home cameras don't help, everyone having home cameras like doorbell cams is making people even more fearful and paranoid. They're constantly getting false alarms, false notifications, staring at their cameras seeing shadows that don't exist, etc etc.
so cats are walking mean streets of manchester?
Peru vote is looking good? 55% of the foreign votes counted and 97% of the total vote.
50.075 % SANCHEZ
49.925 % KEIKO

getting wins by 1/1500 margins must feel good for the robustness of process believers. also is keiko zenon-ing her way into smaller margins? cursory images suggest before she lost by 2.68% and 0.24%
SoftBank's effort to secure $6 billion OpenAI margin loan falters
https://nitter.net/edzitron/status/2064560323181568246
please crash mr. stock market
The bank is real soft now! Maybe they should consider using their other valuable investments as collateral for a loan, like WeWork!
Why does an entity worth infinity dollars need a loan? lol
cause softbank plays as money ~~launderer~~ lender to open ai who promises 200 billions every week to first tech ceo they meet, and because they also own stock in open ai, they can't get out of it.
It's like paying for your failson golf clubs, you can't refuse him and he needs them clubs or your buddies will clown on you for his failures, but you don't waste your own money, so you try to get a loan on the success of his golfing career to buy him clubs.
And then that debt can be used as collateral to secure more debt from somewhere else, but at scales so large that interest trends towards figures you'd never see as a prole.
no that debt is sold either to private equity who will sell it to brad landers of the world or to the banks who will sell it to brad landers of the world. how debt @ 8% for the asset with depreciation rate of 20% and negative cashflow will be paid for is anyone guess.
Finnish state media is reporting (article in finnish, couldn't find an english translation) that the police, customs, and border guard have "already been using Palantir's technologies for a long time". At least since 2013, according to the article. They have not specified what they are using it for, other than "prevention of crime".
I kind of already knew this, but it is becoming more and more apparent that this cursed Hitlerite chihuahua country is going to go full throttle into the Great Satan's fascist abyss. Some other european cuck-nations have at least made some more or less milquetoast expressions of resistance to the yankoids' technohitler bullshit, but not us, not even performatively; we're all in. I've also been informed that Flock apparently has an office in Tampere and that microsoft is building a giga data center in Vaasa... 我需要学习中文 and get the fuck outta here...
"Prevention of Crime" is likely some sort of facial recognition and "crime prediction" system-of-systems that we've also got in the UK. Typically involves a computer saying <insert minority/social class> communities have more crime therefore these people should be brutalised until the material conditions causing the crime change - which, of course, they never do.
Bajillions of dollars to the "aggregate data until it becomes meaningless" machine.
Isreal once again turning their drones into skin-walkers
The most disturbing thing is thinking about how they got these sound clips
Literally from Andor.
I haven't seen Andor, but if they do it on that they may have been inspired by real life, this isn't the first time Israel has done it
It begins again :saree-smile: 

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NYT - Jordanian air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran toward the Azraq region, according to a military statement published by Jordan’s official news agency on Wednesday. The military said the debris from the interceptions caused no material damage or casualties. The Iranian military had said earlier that it fired missiles at U.S. military facilities in Azraq.
The area is home to Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, an important hub for U.S. military operations in the region. The base was damaged during the early days of the war, according to satellite imagery.
The conflict has gone fully regional overnight. US struck 20 sites across Iran. Iran responded with strikes on US military bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan.
Impact at US Navy base in Bahrain confirmed on footage. Kuwait sirens active.
Both sides significantly intensified their exchange of fire over the past 24 hours.
- Slava Intel
^(leaving^ ^this^ ^here^ ^because^ ^top^ ^level^ ^meta^ ^comments^ ^are^ ^frowned^ ^upon^ ^now^ ^i^ ^believe)^
does the war just not matter to anyone anymore? like we had 100+ comment
last week over a succdem mayor and yet an exchange of bombing bigger than anything else since the "ceasefire" is getting like 0 activity
There's less content to post. Fewer videos of hits are being uploaded because an explosion that civilians have seen 10 times is just an explosion to them now, so they post less of it.
With less content there is less to comment on.
I would be posting video content if it were more frequent but it's so sporadic that it's barely worthwhile. I do the live-posting style when something is happening that can be posted in a live-posting way, but when videos by civilians are so sporadic they're often hours or days after the actual events.
I think a factor in this is that MarmiteLover123 is taking a break from posting here. Their posts were always really in-depth and up-to-date, and made it really easy to track and predict these events. As a news mega lurker, I always appreciated their posts.
I think hexbear was not working so well yesterday, i wasnt seeing anything posted for about 20 hours, could be some of that at least
Every time people get excited it all suddenly all dies down into nothing again, so I think people are more reserved on it now. How many times have we thought "this is the start of a regional hot war!" only for it to end in 3 hours and we wait another 3 weeks before anything happens?
Until iran goes economical (intel/desalination plants/oil refineries in gulf) i believe everything to be, in a way, kayfabe by iran. usa just sporadically degrades some of their capabilities, iranians preserve thaad stockpile like it’s their own instead of symmetrically wasting high altitude interceptors or fighter jets resources hunting drones nor do they go full sicko
not that i want war, peace would be fine too, but these random skirmishes and constant threats without meaningful action are the worst alternative. every time it's such a fuss, so many serious threats being thrown around. we gonna bomb this, we gonna bomb that, we gonna exterminate these, we gonna end those. no you won't, shut the fuck up. no escalation and no resolution from either party, just a standoff that only makes sense for those involved and aware of all the little things we don't know. even the strait is like 1/3 open already
even the strait is like 1/3 open already
I don't think it's even 10% open, where are you seeing that?
Probably here? [CNN] with estimates here ranging from about 13-19% of prewar oil traffic(or~29% if you want to stretch the definition of open to include bypassing the strait via pipelines). Even if accurate, it still doesn't factor in the increased cost of transit by all possible means of bypassing the closure or paying the tolls.
reads like banker cope tbh. there was a post in here today that had like <10% from one of the shipping companies/cartels
like, these are the same futures market makers who were predicting the strait fully open by the end of may as their worst case scenario just a few weeks ago, now turning to some fresh rationalization for futures prices
I think it's because it's late at night in the US and people are waiting for the Iranian counter-attack rather than just report on US bombing random targets.
I think it mostly just the reality of how info flows about these things. Minimal reporting that is hard to verify initially and takes time to corroborate/investigate. So it is like a buffer/queue process where these early news bits provide little to discuss, but once the longer phases of investigation from various sources start to accumulate, it seems like a torrent of info and discussion for a while as a synthesis starts to form from the fog of war.
Or how the mega is having hourly updates of a Peruvian election.
Iran Strikes Air bases in Jordan including F-35 hangars
🔺 IRGC Claims Strikes on U.S. Air Base in Jordan, Says 21 Targets Hit Across Region
The IRGC issued a statement claiming it struck 21 targets at U.S. air and naval bases across the region and separately targeted Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan, according to Khabar Fouri.
The statement said IRGC aerospace forces used long-range solid-fuel missiles to destroy four targets at Al-Azraq, including F-35 fighter hangars and a command and control center. The IRGC also reiterated its earlier claim of shooting down a U.S. MQ-9 drone over Jam County in Bushehr Province.
“Our forces are ready to deliver a crushing and decisive response to any renewed aggression by the enemy,” the statement said, adding that “the consequences of any renewed aggression lie with the American enemy.”
The claims could not be independently verified.
(No videos yet, this is like 10 mins old as of writing)
IRGC: 4 important targets including the F35 fighter jets' hangars at the airbase and the command and control center of the child-killing US army in Al-Azraq, Jordan were targeted and destroyed. (Via Fars News)
The reason alerts in the Gulf took so long, is because the target was actually Jordan The initial 4 missiles launched from Khomein were aimed at Jordan and arrived more than 40+ minutes ago. Muwaffaq Salti Airbase is in eastern Jordan, somewhat remote, so no sirens sounded—explaining the delay in reporting. Attack on Bahrain came afterwards.
- Middle East Spectator
Peruvian Elections Update Reloaded:
96.54 % of the Vote Counted
- ROBERTO SANCHEZ (LEFTIST): 50.11% (+ 0.06%) - 8.957.971 votes
- KEIKO FUJIMORI (FAR-RIGHT): 49.88 % (- 0.06%) - 8.917.735 votes
They are now counting the Foreign Votes
39.99 % of the Foreign Vote Counted
- KEIKO FUJIMORI (FAR-RIGHT): 62.58% (- 2.45%) - 75.160 Votes
- ROBERTO SANCHEZ (LEFTIST): 37.42% (+ 2.46%) - 44.942 Votes
Surprised at how poorly Fujimori is doing with the foreign vote.
Polymarket has like 94% odds for Fujimori lol why
If I had an account I would be tempted to try my luck
Polymarket doesn't understand that Peru es Clave

I had to check the es.NATOpedia article for 2021 to compare since I couldn't find the foreign votes in the runoff on the English version for some reason, and most of the links seemed to be dead. Seems like foreign turnout dropped quite a bit this time around in addition to Fujimori performing worse.
I think this is probably people tired of Fujimori + Trump, I could be wrong though
According to sources on twitter, statement from Public Relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:
"Following the successful operation by the IRGC Navy in striking 21 targets at US air and naval bases in the region and shooting down an MQ9 drone over Jam County, and due to the continued hostile actions of the enemy, the forces of Islam and the brave air combatants of the IRGC targeted and destroyed 4 important targets, including F35 fighter jet hangars at the airbase and the command and control center of the child-killing US army in Al-Azraq, Jordan, using long-range solid-propellant missiles. Our forces are ready to deliver an overwhelming and decisive response to any new aggression by the enemy, and the consequences of any further aggression lie with the American enemy."
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2064528993861173571#m
Not much footage of strikes that I've seen aside from a webcam shot of Bahrain, possibly the US Navy's 5th Fleet base being hit: (small flash in the top-right corner) https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2064524824861397180#m