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when is Nasrallah's speech and are there plans to stream it on live.hexbear.net

Speech is in 8 minutes and Al Jazeera is just playing a China bad piece

Gazans react to the video released by Al-Qassam Brigades: https://nitter.cz/AoR3138/status/1720904709777527277

Is there a word or phrase that describes a situation where something is undefined/unexplained but to create misdirection it's still mentioned over and over and over again?

The NYT editorial board came out with this: A Humanitarian Pause in Gaza.

I did a ctrl-f for "pause" and it seems they didn't actually define what a humanitarian pause is or even could be in theory. They did say this...

A pause in hostilities [is not] the equivalent of a cease-fire.

That's like saying an apple is not the equivalent of an orange.

Palestinian ambassador to UN says Israeli strike on Jabalya refugee camp was a crime

Ambassador Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, said the Israeli strike on the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza was a crime and urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take action.

Mansour made the comments upon leaving a UN meeting on Tuesday, saying the ICC should hold those responsible for the lethal airstrike.

“Those who are responsible for giving the orders for that crime should hear something from Mr. Khan from the ICC,” Mansour told CNN in reference to ICC prosecutor Karim Khan. “If he has the courage, and I hope he does. We appreciate the fact that [he] came to the crossing, Rafah crossing, and he made a statement there. But it would be also nice to issue a warrant of arrest for those who are responsible for such crimes," Mansour said.

When asked whether Egypt should allow the entry of refugees from Gaza, Mansour replied “no.”

Some context: According to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces, the airstrike targeted and killed Ibrahim Biari, whom it described as one of the Hamas commanders responsible for the October 7 attack on Israel, which left than 1,400 people dead and hundreds taken hostage.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-31-23/h_02a679011417d5e7db852530397b7608

Good new Ian Welsh post: Notes On The Structure Of American Imperial Collapse (State of the World 2023, #1)

China is more dominant than the US was in its prime. (Well maybe not in 1946.)

Now this sort of thing is a leading indicator. Countries who were dominant are able to control more of the world’s resources than they deserve for some time after they lose their dominance.

Be clear, the US has LOST its dominance already. It’s all over except for the shooting. It doesn’t look or feel like that because of generations of accumulation and because the dollar is used for most world trade.

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This time it’s going to happen faster, because the US has abused its central position in financial networks in ways other countries, like Russia and China won’t tolerate.

Nothing that new for my knowledgable hexbear comrades, but I found Welsh’s writing to be a useful bridge for well meaning lib friends to get a bit more of a materialist view of the world

How do you become the religious leader of a guerrilla resistance army and not learn how to write a speech? Man did the dude repeat himself and go off on tangents and meander through. I get the feeling that a few minutes afterwards he said "Ah Fuck. I forgot to talk about [thing that was really important]"

Just a few hours after I pointed out it was bullshit but the Labour ghouls were coming for him anyway, Andy McDonald has been suspended.

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

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A call from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to all the honorable people of our nation and the free people of the world:

In the face of the flowing blood in Gaza, words no longer work: Rise... Revolt... Storm the embassies of the aggressor nations... Burn them... Destroy them.

Demand a halt to the flow of oil and gas to countries complicit in the aggression.

Time is of the essence, and history is unforgiving... Be assured that the people of Palestine will not let you down.

O free people, the fascist enemy seeks revenge on the Jabalia refugee camp, as well as the Nuseirat and Shati' camps, committing horrific massacres, which exceed in brutality what the Nazis did in their dark history, using six tons of destructive American bombs. A tragedy that appeals to human conscience; anyone who remains silent towards this killer is complicit in the genocide and depriving Palestinians of their humanity.

A morally, politically, and militarily defeated entity wants to claim victory over our Palestinian blood.

The Jabalia camp is the womb of the revolution and a symbol of Palestinian resilience and resistance, standing first in the battle of honor and duty, a spirit characterized by its strength, steadfastness, and high bravery. With its ground campaign, the enemy wants to cover its inevitable failure with massacres against Palestinian civilians, saluting the men of resistance in their various formations who are facing this aggression, and our steadfast people who reject displacement plans despite the genocidal war waged against them by the enemy.

Great Gaza, with the stature of its heroes and the blood of its children, is our roots deep in the ground. It will rise from the ashes.

Verbal stances don't shoot down planes or prevent missiles from falling on the heads of the innocent. Therefore, we call:

• To expel the ambassadors of aggression.
• A cry of anger and dignity to the entire the Arab street to stop the flow of oil and gas to countries complicit in the aggression.
• It is time to close the American military bases in the Arab countries.
• For the workers' unions in global ports to refuse to unload or load any weapon shipments from or to the zionist entity.

Let us trust in our people, our self, our dignity, our freedom, and our right to life.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

31 October

For for those of you wondering if there would be a response to the Israeli strike on the civilian car in Lebanon:

🚀 An Israeli vehicle was hit in Kiryat Shmona, it was reportedly moving so there are casualties.

https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1721218136316273131

https://nitter.net/AryJeay/status/1721218136316273131

Assuming that Hezbollah used something guided for this, the response would be in line with what Nasrallah outlined as Hezbollah's approach would be towards escalation I'm his speech.

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

Read this article to understand how neoliberal economist are the dumbest motherfuckers on the entire planet. Some choice quotes

Nordhaus’s models tell us that at a temperature rise somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, the global economy reaches “optimal” adaptation.

Among most scientists, it’s lunacy to discuss optimization of anything anywhere when the globe hits even 2 C warming. Climate researchers Yangyang Xu and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, in a widely cited 2017 paper, defined 1.5 C warming as “dangerous” and 3 C or greater as “catastrophic,” while above 5 C was “beyond catastrophic,” with consequences that include “existential threats.”

“The risk of multi-breadbasket failure is increasing, and rises much faster beyond 1.5 C of global heating. … Such shocks pose grave threats — rocketing food prices, civil unrest, major financial losses, starvation, and death.”

By contrast, when Nordhaus looked at the effects of 6 C warming, he did not forecast horror. Instead, we should expect “damages” of between 8.5 percent and 12.5 percent of world GDP over the course of the 21st century.

In an email to The Intercept, Nordhaus characterized his colleagues’ critiques as “a distorted and inaccurate description of the work and my views. [...] He declined to elaborate on any distortions or inaccuracies.

Lmao, thanks for confirming idiot.

Nordhaus calculates GDP of a particular location as fundamentally related to the temperature of that place. So, if in 2023 it’s a certain temperature in London, and the GDP in London is such-and-such, it’s reasonable to assume that when latitudes north of London rise in temperature in the future, GDP will rise to be the same as London’s today. Make of this what you will — it’s foolishness on a grand scale, and yet it’s central to the Nordhaus model.

The fourth fatal error Nordhaus makes is the most farcical. In a 1991 paper that became a touchstone for all his later work, he assumed that, because 87 percent of GDP occurs in what he called “carefully controlled environments” — otherwise known as “indoors” — it will not be affected by climate. Nordhaus’s list of the indoor activities free of any effects from climate disruption include manufacturing, mining, transportation, communication, finance, insurance, real estate, trade, private sector services, and government services.

The one below is my favourite, agriculture is only 3% of GDP, so if it disappeared the economy would be fine.

Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization.

Hezbollah: Earlier this evening, we targeted 19 IDF sites across the border at once, using ATGMs and other weapons

I guess the latest Israeli PR move is to have some journalists go on Twitter and claim to have seen some video of all these “Hamas atrocities”. No you can’t see it or verify it, just trust me bro.

Edit: this is what I’m refereeing to

https://nitter.cz/benjaminbutter/status/1720114810191282512#m

https://nitter.cz/Orlygoldschmidt/status/1720110445699240012#m

Cooking a pumpkin soup this evening and used some Aleppo peppers and I couldn’t help but think of Gary Johnson’s “Aleppo moment”

Please russia purge the right it would be funny

they're not going to because they're at a tipping point between far right nationalism and a left nationalism/small possibility of actual communist revival

Israeli commander says forces ‘at the gates of Gaza City’

Brigadier General Itzik Cohen said that Israeli troops were deep inside Gaza, “at the gates of Gaza City”.

Speaking to reporters in southern Israel, he said Israeli forces have “we have destroyed much of Hamas’s abilities”, including by attacking strategic facilities and underground tunnels.

He added his division, the 162nd Division, had “received an important task, to go and decisively finish Hamas”.

-Al Jazeera

Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera

There's a 1 minute video.

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Israel bombs the Jabalia refugee camp with a 2,000 pound bomb for the 27th time and a talking head on CNN says "Some may say yet again that this is excessive but the IDF located a Hamas leadership war council meeting room under the school. The Israelis say a meeting was in progress and war is a dirty business..."

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Edit

The BBC has an Onion-like headline about it.

UN agency: Another sad day as school hit

This conflict has gotten me interested in learning more about the early history of Islam & how it expanded to become the dominant religious force in the middle east, but one thing I've inadvertently learned along the way is that Amman, the capitol city of Jordan, used to be named Philadelphia until the 630s AD. The city was originally the capitol city of the Ammonite Kingdom, but was renamed to Philadelphia after the Macedonians conquered the region, and then renamed again to Amman once the Muslims conquered it.

(I guess this is all just to say that I never really realized that Philadelphia was a Greek name and/or that I never realized that there were other cities named Philadelphia before the one in the US lol)

Real

Hezbollah's 'Ridwan' Special Forces uploaded this image

The caption reads:

'I swear by the palm of the hand that lifted the door of your Marhab, with the cry of 'Ya Haidar' we will uproot you from existence.'

Marhab was the most notorious Jewish warrior in Arabia during the time of Muhammad (s). He was killed by the Prophet's close companion Ali ibn Abi Talib, also known as 'Haidar', during the battle of Khaybar, a Jewish fortress in Arabia.

Islamic history states that Ali was given miraculous power by God, lifting up the gates of the Jewish fortress with one hand, before entering and defeating the enemy, and killing Marhab in one-on-one combat.

Looking forward to a big succulent nothingburger of a speech.

IDF spokesman Eddie Evil: "It wasn't gluten free therefore it was a legitmate target."

WATCH: Exclusive Al Jazeera video shows aftermath of Israeli bombing on Gaza City bakery

An exclusive Al Jazeera Arabic video shows the destruction following an Israeli bombing that hit a bakery on al-Nasr Street in Gaza City.

According to the report, there were dozens of casualties from the attack on the bakery, in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza.

Israeli forces have previously targeted another bakery in central Gaza, adding to the food shortage in the Palestinian territory.

Nitter

I've been away for 2 days. Did anything noteworthy happen? Are certain factions still writing angry letters or making threats about doing something?

cursed lathe: libs will start using genocide joe but as a name for stalin

Hezbollah's 'Ridwan' Special Forces posted a cryptic message on Telegram:

وَٱسْتَمِعْ يَوْمَ يُنَادِ ٱلْمُنَادِ مِن مَّكَانٍۢ قَرِيبٍ

'And listen! On that Day the caller will call out from a near place."

It is an excerpt from the Quran.

More from former UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness

Gunness has said there is a very real prospect of communicable diseases spreading in Gaza amid widespread displacement and the lack of clean water and other critical supplies.

“That’s the prospect, and let’s be clear, this is a matter of political choice,” he told Al Jazeera.

“This is a humanitarian catastrophe which world leaders in giving Israel a greenlight to continue … the war, they are responsible for this.”

-Al Jazeera

What is it about getting elected that just ruins someone's morals?

It sounds like he genuinely believed what he was saying here, but now he's fully behind Israel.

Like if I got elected, would that somehow happen to me despite me very much not wanting that to happen?

The attempted trial of French leftists for a 'terrorist conspiracy' seems to be falling apart, but knows if that matters or it's just a show trial by the state. Jacobin