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 No.22645

Jihad will win


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 No.25554[Reply]

THE GIRLGUN IS GOOD
THE GIRLPENIS IS EVIL

GIRLDOZ HAS SPOKEN
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 No.25555

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what
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 No.25556

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>>25555
GIRLDOZ HAS SPOKEN


 No.25547[Reply]

This is the stupidest fucking shit I've ever heard.
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 No.25550

>>25549
I love that one. RIP Trevor Moore.
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 No.25552

>>25547
>>25549
Watched both of these. My reaction: Damn…
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 No.25553

>>25547
>Why don't they close down the airspace?
>Yes it's inconvenient, yes it's the holidays.
>SHUT IT DOWN!
lmao. leave it to burgoid journalshits to become riled up (or pretend to do so for clout) about transparently nonsense issues


 No.25599[Reply]

Masoud Pezeshkian was elected the new president of Iran on Friday. He's reportedly a moderate. What do you think of him? Will he be up to the challenges ahead for Iran, in its struggle against imperialism and Zio-fascist savagery?
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 No.25600

>>25599
I think he'll be open to restoring relations with the US. Although not at the expense of Iran's relations with Russia or China. He'll likely pursue an open foreign policy, but only to the extend it excludes foreign impositions. Basically this is an offer towards the US to choose economically beneficial relations rather than block-confrontation.

Everybody in Iran sees Israel the way Europeans saw Nazi Germany at the end of ww2. Evil and weakened. Basically Israel either gives up its malevolent comportment in the region or it chooses to self destruct with a Lebanon war. In the latter event, Iran would emerge as the uncontested regional hegemon. Israel doesn't have the leverage to get concessions from Iran.

Iran has all the components for building nukes, they're offering to remain a non-nuclear power as long as Israel doesn't threaten them with nukes.

From the perspective of the west this is the best deal we'll get. And the price is exceptionally cheap: bully Israel to turn down the belligerency-knob.
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 No.25602

Didn't Gaddafi increasingly demilitarize toward the end of his life? We saw what happened to Libya.
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 No.25603

>>25602
>Didn't Gaddafi increasingly demilitarize toward the end of his life?
Qaddafi gave up on Libya's nuclear weapons program. And that likely did shorten his life.

The golden path would have been to max the pursuit of a Pan African Union, and make Libya the center of an African block, that played all the other power off each other. He'd have gotten nuke-technology and imported industrial development out of that.


 No.25557[Reply]

The U.S. military ran a secret anti-vaccination campaign at the height of the pandemic in the Philippines and other nations to sow doubt about COVID vaccines made by China, according to a new investigation by Reuters. The clandestine Pentagon campaign, which began in 2020 under Donald Trump and continued into mid-2021 after Joe Biden took office, relied on fake social media accounts on multiple platforms to target local populations in Southeast Asia and beyond. The campaign also aimed to discredit masks and test kits made in China. "Within the Pentagon, within Washington, there was this fear that they were going to lose the Philippines" to Chinese influence, says Joel Schectman, one of the Reuters reporters who broke the story. Schectman says that while it's impossible to measure the impact of the propaganda effort, it came at a time when the Chinese-made Sinovac shot was the only one available in the Philippines, making distrust of the vaccine "incredibly harmful."
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 No.25558

>>25557
>The campaign also aimed to discredit masks and test kits made in China. "Within the Pentagon, within Washington, there was this fear that they were going to lose the Philippines" to Chinese influence.

Did it ever occur to these people that what they were doing was going to discredit the US and push the Philippines towards China.
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 No.25559

>>25558
No, and tbf they were probably right not to expect that.
When that happens, it'll probably be because of even worse stuff.
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 No.25560

>>25559
>No, and tbf they were probably right not to expect that.
why ?
Are they so arrogant that they think that they're above it all, that their manipulations aren't being accounted for by other countries ? Even if they think the Filipino government can't penetrate US psy-ops the Chinese government almost certainly can and is likely to tip off the countries the US fucks with.
>When that happens, it'll probably be because of even worse stuff.
It kinda depends, the Filipino government may ask the question, what if this had been one of those terrible plagues that wipes out half the population unless people get vaxed. At the very least there is now uncertainty about the level of belligerency they ought to expect from the US.


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 No.25561[Reply]

“The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding,” Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor wrote. “When the president uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/02/wfvt-j02.html

I mean, this is pretty much the definitional opposite of "left wing". This is a mostly right-wing country by law now.
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>>25590
>I'd do nothing about the political situation, and would not consider it in any calculation.
Dumb.

>I haven't for a long time, because politics does not work to give people nice things like you seem to believe for these narratives to work.

I don't believe that.

>and they were destroyed by the avarice of the middle class and their desire to kick down to get ahead. You people did more to hurt me than those at the top, who are happy to let you be their hatchetmen.

Does the American middle class even exist?
Picrel. Which part is the middle class? This looks like two classes.
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 No.25595

>>25592
🦀🗑️
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 No.25596

>>25594
The middle class kept doing it to themselves, and weren't allowed to say no. They cling to some distinction to say "at least we're not retarded", and that's all they will have. You will own nothing - not less, nothing. That's always been the goal, and it's right in front of your face. Why does anyone pretend it is anything else?

That's why you faggots make me so sick.
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 No.25597

>left
>right

stfu uygha, should take this chance and become king. it's every man for him self.
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 No.25598

>>25597
Apes together stronk


 No.26219[Reply]

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s President Luis Arce warned Wednesday that an “irregular” deployment of troops was taking place in the Bolivian capital, raising concerns that a potential coup was underway.

He called for “democracy to be respected” on a message on his X account came as Bolivian television showed two tanks and a number of military in front of the government palace.

Former Bolivian president Evo Morales, also in a message on X, denounced the movement of the military in the Murillo square outside the palace, calling it a coup “in the making.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/bolivian-president-reports-irregular-military-movement-in-capital-raising-fears-of-coup
https://twitter.com/manolo_realengo/status/1806043923627782447

vid unrelated
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 No.26220

Again?

And how come a government/president doesn't have control over its military?
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 No.26221

>>26220
>Again?
Might just be a flash in the pan. Telesur says it's already "neutralized"
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 No.26222

https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1806088019549557005
Pro-coup troops chased out by protestors.
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 No.26223

>>26222
Yeah the hole thing was basically a reminder to the MAS coalition that they have a common enemy.
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 No.26224

Interesting TrueAnon episode on the coup attempt.


 No.25535[Reply]

It's a very odd deal.
The criminal Biden admin is letting Assange go in exchange for a guilty plea.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/06/the-happiest-of-days/
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>>25541
Proofs?
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 No.25543

>>25539
>thinking he will be safe in Australia
They didn't drop the charges he admitted guilt in exchange for getting out of jail. They could haul him right back in as soon as the election is over.

>>25540
>he should probably just apply for citizenship in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc.
Well not North Korea he will starve in a communist country. I bet staying in Australia is probably part of the deal though.
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 No.25544

>>25543
The famine in the DPRK ended a long time ago, and their economic outlook is positive now that they've re-established diplomatic relations with Russia.
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 No.25545

Kevin Gosztola made an interesting point on a journalist panel today: He and likely other peers have been spending all their time the last several days listening to each other, the sources they actually trust to cover Assange honestly and fairly. Conversely, they have spent very little time assessing the corporate mass media's reaction to it. I sure hope someone has been cataloging all the recent libel and slander slung at Assange, these propaganda outlets and propagandists need to be held to account for the immensely destructive things they've done to the journalist profession.

Link to stream:

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/29/watch-revisiting-the-assange-case/
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 No.25546

>>25545
>the corporate mass media
>the immensely destructive things they've done to the journalist profession.

There used to be journalistic activities within that structure, but is that still the case ? Before we yell at these people for failing at journalism, we have to ask our self whether we're not complaining about how spoons are terrible shovels.

Maybe we should consider whether they are more like PR companies now.


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Kevin Reed
06/03/2024

The collapse of the water infrastructure in Atlanta, Georgia, that began on Friday and left a large section of the city without any water expanded on Sunday with two more ruptures being investigated by water department officials.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Sunday that the water department warned residents and businesses near Euclid and North Avenues northeast of downtown and near 1190 Atlantic Drive NW north of downtown. It said that they will likely “experience the kinds of disruptions that have plagued Atlanta since the first water main break was discovered Friday.”

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens declared a state of emergency in the city at a press conference on Saturday night after the massive disruption of water service resulted in a boil water advisory from the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management. Dickens said the city was “working around the clock to bring us safe drinking water in the city of Atlanta.”

The water main collapse that shut down water service in all of downtown Atlanta began after corroded 48-inch and 36-inch pipes burst sometime on Friday at an intersection of three primary water lines in the city. The City of Atlanta released a map showing a large area across the city that has been impacted by the collapse.

Hours went by before the city made any announcements about what was happening or when the water would be restored. The city’s Water Service Interruptions Map identifies the locations where the breaks occurred and simply says, “Crews are investigating a potential water main break …” with no further information.

The water main failure impacted Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Fulton County and Atlanta government facilities and the Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the State Farm Arena. High-rise apartment buildings were also left with no water pressure.

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>>25511
True! But spending a bunch on basic infrastructure maintenance and expansion is, like, expensive!
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>>25512
Waterlines and sewers is the type of infrastructure that works nearly flawlessly in non-failed states. The US is supremely rich, it's a faulty priority problem, not one of expense.
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 No.25514

>>25513
True!
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>>25510
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 No.25516

Atlanta water seems to be back on after 5 days. We'll see.


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 No.25437[Reply]

President Raisi’s helicopter crashes in Iran: What we know so far
A helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and the foreign minister crashed while travelling back from East Azerbaijan.

The world is watching as Iran mobilises emergency crews to search for President Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter – which was travelling in a convoy – went down in a remote area near Jolfa in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province.

He was returning from Iran’s border with Azerbaijan, where he and the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had inaugurated a cooperative dam project, the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries. Twenty rescue teams and drones have been sent to the area where the helicopter came down.

Information is slowly emerging on this incident, but here is what we know so far.



Travelling with Ebrahim Raisi were Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to East Azerbaijan, according to state media.

Did all three helicopters disappear?
No, two of the three helicopters in the president’s convoy made it back safely to the city of Tabriz.
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 No.25442

>>25439
Iran is a large country, and the heli went down in a mountainous region, so that is not particularly surprising. What is surprising however is that they apparently didn't pack a satellite phone. Or at least a beacon.

>>25440
Nah the Israeli likely don't have that capability.
The last time one of their Generals was assassinated, it was the US, and the Iranians retaliated by wrecking a few US military bases. They certainly aren't shy. In the extremely unlikely event that Israel tried to take out political leaders in Iran, it would be open hunting season on Iran-unfriendly Israeli political leadership. Unless we see Israeli figureheads dropping like flies, we can assume they weren't involved in this. Atm. it looks like malfunctioning equipment.

>>25441
Politics would be a lot more fun if they were.
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 No.25443

>>25437
Minor correction, East Azerbaijan is part of Iran. It's near Azerbaijan, but it's not actually Azerbaijanian territory.
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 No.25444

>>25438
I think it looks very suspicious myself. You know, 2-out-of-3 of the helicopters seem to have done fine, it's just the one with the president and foreign minister which went down.

Azerbaijan has also had close relations with Israel from what I understand, and this trip was supposed to be a sign of warming relations between Azerbaijan and Iran. It's not impossible that there was an act of sabotage performed by someone within the Azerbaijanian government.
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 No.25445

Confirmed dead.
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 No.25446

>>25444
>It's not impossible that there was an act of sabotage performed by someone within the Azerbaijanian government.
What you are saying makes sense but, lets hope it's not true, because the guy is dead, and we want countries to have warming relations.


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