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trump has been surging in the betting markets in the last 2-3 days and now looks to be ahead in most(?) of them. what's the newsmega head take on this? is it the expected fallout from the hurricane(s), the dogshit campaign kamala is running, loaded maga sickos skewing the betting markets, or rumors of a brewing october surprise?

We went from Qaani being a traitor and dying from a heart attack to Qaani not being a traitor under house arrest where he's being interrogated:
https://xcancel.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1844508092005773741

Rules based order did it again, now Unifil People got injuried by Israel.

William Christou

William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for a UN inquiry into Israeli attacks on peacekeepers belonging to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) on Friday, after three separate attacks on Unifil personnel in south Lebanon.

HRW said that Israel’s attacks on UN peacekeepers could be a violation of the laws of war, as peacekeepers, including armed members, are civilians. It further called for the UN to “urgently establish” an international investigation in Lebanon and Israel and that their results are made public.

On Friday morning, a Unifil outpost in south Lebanon came under fire. On Thursday, its headquarters in Naqoura had been repeatedly hit, injuring two peacekeepers after an Israeli tank fired at an observation tower on the base. The Israeli military shot at a Unifil position where peacekeepers were sheltering on Wednesday and an Israeli drone flew up to the entrance of the bunker where they were sheltering, Unifil said.

Unifil said its more than 10,400 peacekeepers would remain in south Lebanon until the situation becomes impossible for them to operate. Peacekeepers are already severely restricted in their movements due to Israeli troop presence in south Lebanon.

The peacekeeping force has been present in south Lebanon since 1978, originally designed to confirm Israel’s withdrawal and ensure that armed groups could not use the area as a launching pad for attacks against Israel. Since 2006, it has been tasked with an observation mission to ensure that armed groups do not operate in the area, in line with UN Resolution 1701 which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Unifil has also had a focus on facilitating humanitarian access and aid to south Lebanon, a mission it continues to this day.

“With over 2,000 people killed and over one million people displaced in Lebanon since mid-September, it is crucial for Unifil to be allowed to fulfil its civilian protection and humanitarian functions”, Lama Fakih, Middle East and north Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said.

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The Russian Federation will begin a strategic offensive along the entire front in the coming days, according to former adviser to the Ukrainian Presidential Office Alexei Arestovich.

"The Russians are building up strike groups. They will attack along the entire front, from Zaporozhye to Kupyansk. They are preparing a strategic offensive. It's a matter of days," he wrote.

It's Arestovich, so take with a big grain of salt.

Now would be a weird time to do big arrow offensives, considering the imminent muddy season. If Russia attacks, I think it will be relatively small, to shape the front line for larger offensives in 2025.

Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime is raising military expenditure for the third time in two years. The reason cited is ever-increasinsing demands from NATO for military buildup.

In 2023 Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament voted through an extra USD 21 bln. to be spent on rearmament over the next decade. In the spring the regime added an extra DKK 6 bln. to military spending. This comes on top of regular military spending and in a decade, each of Denmark's six million citizens will have splurged USD 4500 on death and destruction.

It is not possible to tell how much military expenditure is going to rise as a result of the upcoming round of spending as the regime refuses to answer any questions on the scale of the spending plans. However, messages given by the political elite are near-unanimous in their support for fully acquiescing to every demand from their NATO overlords.

The people, lacking access to a free press, are beset by paranoia and jingoism induced by NATO propaganda and support the the policy. In a recent poll 49% of respondents expressed support for the extravagant military expenditure, only 13% expressed a desire for disarmament and de-escalation.

• Source: DR (state media), October 11th 2024

So, for those who don't know, Paraguay has really close relation with Israel. Paraguay has been ruled by the conservative Colorado party (They are mostly Conservative, Neoliberal and Pro-Taiwan. There are some socdems inside the party though, these were part of the anti-Stroessner guerrilas) since the 1950's, with exception of a brief period in the late 2000's, early 2010's where the Liberals (Sometimes called the Blue Party, they are the Pro-PRC Socdems/Liberals) and Leftist actually won the elections with help from moderate and socdem Colorado politicians.

During the brutal far-right dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Israel, under the goverment of Golda Meir, approved a plan to pay for 60,000 Palestinians to leave Gaza and go to Paraguay, where they would be used practically as slave labor. The Paraguayan regime saw the Palestinians as ideal immigrants, as they thought were not inclined towards communism because they were muslims.

Only 30 Palestinians immigrated to Paraguay as part of it, and they soon became impoverished. Two of them came to the Israeli embassy in Asuncion to claim money they claimed had not been paid to them, shot the embassy secretary to death because they thought she was calling the police, and wounded another employee.

During the trial, the two claimed that they were lured to immigrate from Gaza to Paraguay, and that they were promised that Israel would help them find a job and learn Spanish. They set off after receiving travel documents, $25 pocket money and plane tickets from Israel via London and Rio de Janeiro. In Paraguay they discovered that they had been misled and the promises made to them were not fulfilled.

The Israeli government placed the blame on Fatah members , but the organization denied involvement. The entire deal was eventually canceled.

Boo hoo hoo, nobody fucking cares (CW: cringe Zionist):
https://xcancel.com/SuppressedNws/status/1844362541293764801

UK has denied entry to Mandela's grandson the day before the start of his speaking tour through Scotland on apartheid in South Africa and Palestine.

Obama chastises "the brothers" for not being enthusiastic about . It's ummm HER turn!