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Of course that Iraqi Kurdistan goes straight into civil war mode the moment I start looking for plane tickets. I'm still seething over my canceled trip to Iraq because of that fucker Netanyahu btw. In slightly related news, my son turned 1 yesterday, and he celebrated that by somehow pushing over a drawer and destroying it in the process. Fucking Mossad agent.

In other unrelated news, I should probably address the current instability in Lebanon here, as the government is openly colluding with Israel in an attempt to disarm Hezbollah. At the same time, I'm genuinely tired hexbears, the barrage of bad news just isn't stopping these days. This is probably counter-revolutionary or defeatist or whatever, but I still haven't recovered from the martyrdom of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. I have struggled to engage with any Hezbollah news or content in the past few months, I just can't get over that he isn't with us anymore. The death of my own grandparents didn't affect me even 10% of Nasrallah's martyrdom. I desperately want to go to Beirut soon, but it's still risky security-wise and I'm just dreading the thought of actually seeing his grave, I just can't do it.

"Death to idf" is honestly the centrist position at this point.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/poll-overwhelming-majority-of-jewish-israelis-share-genocidal-belief-there-are-no-innocent-people-in-gaza/

Iran receives Chinese surface-to-air missile batteries after Israel ceasefire deal

The Islamic Republic is trading oil for Chinese air defence missiles as it looks to rebuild capabilities destroyed by Israel, sources say

So, apparently during the 2024 campaign, Kamala Harris did an interview with the liberal podcast @SubwayTakes that was SO bad that they decided not to even release it because the host didn’t want to get blamed for her losing…

https://x.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1942426170823201065

“Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Say Their Living Conditions Are a Form of Torture

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They report inadequate and maggot-infested food, inability to bathe, flooding, denial of religious practice, and more.

Various Iranian lawmakers are warning President Pezeshkian, stating that if he does not change the weak behaviour of the government, the Parliament may move towards impeaching him.

Amirhossein Sabeti, to President Pezeshkian's interview with Tucker Carlson: 'Your weak responses to the American reporter were against national unity and shameful. Apparently, you have not yet learned from your previous unwise and dishonorable negotiations with America and would like to be deceived once again. If the government's foreign policy does not change, the parliament's approach to the government will change.' (Impeachment)

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Pam Bondi says missing minute from Epstein security camera footage was routine procedure

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Zionist sources report that the number of soldiers killed in the resistance strikes in northern #Gaza tonight has risen to six. This comes after the mangled body of a soldier, previously thought missing, was recovered.

According to early reports, resistance fighters initially targeted a vehicle or convoy of vehicles with a minefield. A rescue force was then targeted with explosives upon its arrival. A second rescue force, hoping to rescue the first, was also targeted. A third IOF rescue force was targeted with explosives, and the initial ambush site was targeted with small arms and shoulder-fired rockets repeatedly in order to confirm kills.

Intense mortar fire from the resistance was also reported near the scene, leading to the delay of further rescue operations and reportedly leading to a number of soldiers burning to death within their vehicle which was targeted.

While zionist media has so far only acknowledged six killed and 11 wounded soldiers, the number is likely much higher. Five zionist-run hospitals - Asota, Soroka, Beilinson, Tel Hashomer, and Ein Kerem all prepared to receive casualties from the security incident. Typically, 17 casualties (as currently claimed by zionists) from the Gaza Strip would be distributed among two hospitals.

Multiple sources called this ambush among the deadliest security incidents since the start of the zionist aggression on Gaza. Netanyahu‘s meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff was interrupted so that he could be briefed on the incident.

Netherlands football hooliganism: Prosecutors drop 'Maccabi Tel Aviv' assault cases after CCTV footage was "deleted" (?)

From today: Eyewitness accounts at U.S.-run Gaza aid site say accusations of Hamas attacking GHF employees are fabricated

After the U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused Hamas of attacking two American employees at its distribution center, eyewitnesses and local journalists say the GHF fired grenades on the crowd first before aid-seekers threw them back at them.

Further supporting the witness accounts:

Although the sites where GHF distributes aid are monitored by cameras from all angles, it did not publish any video or photo evidence to support its claim that Hamas members threw hand grenades at its staff, a local journalist told Mondoweiss. Had the story been true, the journalist said, such footage would have been widely broadcast.

On this day in 1972, Palestinian revolutionary icon, prolific writer, thinker, and fighter Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut, Lebanon.

Kanafani's niece Lamees Najim was with him when the bomb planted in his car was detonated, and both of them were killed.

Kanafani was the spokesman for the Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), founded by George Habash in the early 60's.

He became known as the "commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ballpoint pen."

Ghassan Kanafani was 12 years old when he was forced into exile with his family during the 1948 Nakba, and he grew up to not only tell the story of Palestinians, but pioneer a legacy of revolutionary thought geared towards liberation.

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/39211

Want to share an article I read in the Financial Times over the weekend. Really lays bare the reality of the global situation, where even the most ghoulish financial columnists can no longer deny the shifting global power dynamics to China. The whole article is worth reading, but I'll share some choice quotes here.

In the aftermath during the 2010s, the world tilted irrevocably towards the east. Today, it is hard to avoid the impression that it is tilting further China’s way. The contrast between the turmoil in Donald Trump’s America and the mood of calm progress exuded by Beijing is striking both in style and substance.

And take a look at how they admit that even the "massive real estate meltdown" a few years ago that most Western commentators said would cause "China's collapse" has been handled with relative grace.

As for China, it undoubtedly faces substantial macroeconomic challenges. Growth has slowed and youth unemployment is in double digits. In 2020-21 Beijing deliberately stopped the most dramatic process of urbanisation and private property accumulation in history, redlining further credit to its most inflated private developers. Unsurprisingly the ensuing real estate slump has produced a lasting hangover. But the remarkable thing is that, unlike in Europe and the US in 2008, this has not morphed into a systemic crisis. If China’s annual growth rate stabilises at around 5 per cent, it will have to be counted as the most successful soft landing in the history of economic policy. If further stimulus is required, one would expect the policy process in Beijing to be laboured, but to result in an intelligible outcome.

Also some fun riffing on AI:

The White House favours gutting any effective regulation of artificial intelligence, even as more and more experiments confirm that existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms. China’s platform giants are ploughing huge resources into AI too. The results are no more predictable. But if there is any prospect that AI development poses a threat to the social and political order Beijing deems acceptable, can anyone be in doubt that it would be halted in its tracks? That is what the humbling of the platform oligarchs in 2020 betokened. What analogous guarantee is there in the west? The contrast is stark. On the Chinese side technocratic, top-down managerialism to please any centrist pining for the 1990s. In the US, policy as post-truth reality TV.

Overall a good look at how some of the ghoulish businessmen understand view the world at this moment in time; certainly not encouraging for the United States.

Another one:

Active shooter killed in attempt to ambush Border Patrol agents in Texas

An active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday, law enforcement sources say.

Agents and local police returned fire and killed the gunman. No federal agents were hit, but one McAllen police officer was struck. Law enforcement sources say the officer is in stable condition.

Weird shit happening, can't really believe these stenographer's reports of what law enforcement claims but I haven't seen any other information about this one or the other ICE shooting in Texas.

LMAO remember the 'Forward party'?

Andrew Yang says he's been in touch with Elon Musk and his team as the tech mogul moves to create a third party to upend America’s political system.

ISS took a picture of a massive Sprite lightning

https://spaceweather.com/

Ongoing ambush in Beit Hanoun targeting the occupying Nahal Brigade. 2 dead per the cradle, a dozen injured, vehicles disabled and set aflame, rescue force ambushed, and a ~~possible PoW captured by the resistance~~ Nvm dudes a head without a torso

Helicopters have been transferring dead and wounded https://t.me/mmirlb/32094

The National Education Association votes to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-national-education-association-just-voted-to-cut-all-ties-to-the-anti-defamation-league/

China releases plan to improve rural workers' skills, CCTV reports Reuters

HONG KONG, July 7 (Reuters) - China on Monday released a plan outlining 14 specific tasks to promote retraining of the rural workforce to improve their job prospects, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The announcement comes after China in April announced a 10-year plan to build an agricultural powerhouse, amid escalating tensions with the United States, an economic slowdown and challenges posed by climate change.

The plan, issued by several government departments including the Commerce Ministry and National Development and Reform Commission, announced policies including vocational education for rural workers.

China has close to 300 million rural migrants in cities, with around 100 million of them reaching retirement age over the next 10 years, according to official data.

To improve employment security of rural labour, it said it would "strengthen housing security, create favourable conditions for rural workers in cities to enjoy basic public services equally and integrate into the local society as soon as possible," CCTV said.

The report said the scheme would help support job-seeking services for rural labour and support the employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates.

The plan would help improve the supply and quality of workers and better meet employers' needs, CCTV said, citing Zou Yunhan, deputy director of the Macroeconomic Research Office of the Economic Forecasting Department of the National Information Center.

Seems like a pretty good plan.

Since chuds (and Zionist libs) have absolutely nothing better to do than desperately sifting through old Zohran tweets to find something they can make stick, they now found a tweet of him saying:

Each according to their need, each according to their ability

https://xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1265738795317673988

Which, as usual, has led to lots of angry seething replies calling him a dIrTy CoMmUnIsT.

It's not just random twitter nerds, because even Democrat politicians have joined the chuds in trying to dig up dirt. Eric Adams, which some Democrats are trying to rally behind for the general, posted about it: https://x.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1942289955478233475

Trump has recently proposed a 500% tariff on goods from countries that trade with Russia, including India and China (who buy ~70% of Russia's oil output), as well as a 10% additional tariff on goods from countries that "align themselves with BRICS.

this shit again

According to CGTN, these are the latest tariffs issued by Trump:

• 25% - Japan
• 25% - South Korea
• 25% - Malaysia
• 25% - Kazakhstan
• 30% - South Africa
• 40% - Laos
• 40% - Myanmar
• 25% - Tunesia
• 30% - Bosnia
• 32% - Indonesia
• 35% - Bangladesh
• 36% - Cambodia
• 35% - Serbia
• 36% - Thailand

Apparently, Trump also sent these letters to a few countries, including Japan and South Korea.

It looks like Elon/xAI finally managed to get their "AI" Grok to not be woke, after saying that it needs to be 'retrained'. Now it is talking about 'leftist Jews' and praising Adolf Hitler (directly by name!). The funny thing is that it is also using the vocabulary of the soy right, like 'facts don't care about your feelings'.

But don't worry, this is all OK because Elon supports Israel.

[edit] From the RollingStone Magazine;

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

New concentration camp just dropped

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/katz-calls-for-plan-to-confine-all-gazans-in-humanitarian-city-to-be-built-over-ruins-of-rafah/

yemen made a nice video on the Magic of the Seas and the importance to follow their demands.

Apologies for the late thread. Mondays, am I right?

dear god we live in unending hell and only a century of humiliation on the imperial core will begin the process of reparations

In Canada news, the last federal election saw the center left ndp get wiped in favour of the libs and the cons, to the point that the party leader, jagmeet singh, stepped down. The ndp is now doing a leadership contest for their next leader. Yves engler, noted critic of Canadian foreign policy and pro-palestine activist threw his hat in the ring.

He's good. Dimitri lascaris had a similar history and message and ran for leadership of the green party of canada a few years ago. He came close but was defeated by status quo Elizabeth may. Will engler do better this time? Sentiment is much more against Israel than it was a few years ago, so charges of antisemitism will probably not land as well. We'll see.

Trump's 90-day delay of tariffs on basically every country except China expires in two days. It looks like Trump is already issuing some kind of letters to delay tariffs yet again. Not yet clear how exactly this will look, maybe just another blanket extension. We will see soon.

Meanwhile;

Trump announces a 25% tariff on Japan and South Korea

On Russian long range air attacks on Ukraine, since another is taking place.

Russia has fully committed to Geran 2/Shahed 136 one way attack drones for the bulk of their long range strike capacity, as the optimal way to deliver the payload of a 80-100kg warhead. The jet powered Shahed 238/Geran 3 has seen limited use still, with no signs of that changing. It's not long before we start to see 500 Gerans, and 1000 one way attack (OWA) drones total (including decoys) being launched per attack. Current highest numbers are around 300 Gerans and 600 OWA platforms per attack. Even at a very optimistic 90% interception rate, 300 Gerans is 30 impacts, 500 is 50. Sure it's not a half ton warhead from a ballistic or cruise missile impacting at high speed, but dozens upon of impacts per attack is not sustainable for Ukraine.

Some of the Gerans have been upgraded with a electro optical sensor (infrared camera), an onboard Nvidia Jetson mini SoC for image and video processing, and a potential datalink capability. This should allow for Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA) and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) at minimum, with Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC) navigation being possible. In short, these Gerans should be able to navigate, recognise and accquire targets independently without the use of satellite navigation (GPS/GNSS/GLONASS), like the Tomahawk Block II cruise missiles used in the Gulf war. This would make jamming efforts futile. Russia should look into putting similar systems on their glide bomb kits.

If the datalink capability works as intended and is not jammed, in flight updates to the mission and target set, the ability to hit moving targets, and human-in-the-loop guidance can also be used. Again, Russia should seriously look into putting such technology on their glide bomb kits.

There has also been a serious ramp up in the production of decoys, called Gerbera. These are made of polystyrene/styrofoam, shaped like a hybrid of the Iranian Arash 2 and Shahed 136, and often have no warhead at all. Given the above, they are very cheap and easy to make, similar to many hobbyist projects. Up to half of the OWA drones launched per attack are Gerbera, to act as decoys and overwhelm air defence systems.

With the losses incurred to the Russian strategic bomber fleet, Russia has massively increased the use of the Iskander-K system to launch cruise missiles to supplement cruise missile attacks, to make up for the less frequent and lower number of attacks by Russian strategic bombers. Iskander-K is a ground launch platform for Kalibr cruise missiles, launched from TELs similar to the Iskander-M ballistic missile TELs. While the Kalibr cruise missiles are not as advanced or stealthy as the Kh-101s launched by Russian strategic bombers, they are filling in for now.

On the ballistic front, Russia has switched from using longer range Iskander-1000 or Kn-23B ballistic missiles, back to the Kinzhal air launched ballistic missiles, for striking targets at longer ranges (greater than 500km). The Iskander-M and regular Kn-23 have still seen plenty of use.

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