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Exam shows stability and Brazilian President Lula da Silva is 'able to carry out his work routine', say doctors. The President fell in the bathroom of his official residence on Saturday, hit the back of his head and needed five stitches. The presidential administration canceled the official trip to Russia on medical advice.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party) was clipping his toenails when he fell off a stool in the bathroom of his official residence and hit his head last Saturday. The chief executive was finishing clipping his nails on one foot when he moved to start clipping the nails on the other foot, ended up unbalancing himself and fell off the stool he was using for support.
Btw, I recently saw a very strange video on Twitter of an elderly man (probably around 65/66 years old, who claims to be a journalist) saying things like: “Lula is a liar! Either he's dying or he's lying! He can't be president because he's going to die! Why doesn't he appear in public? All his photos are staged, just like that other Brazilian president (the first civilian president after the military dictatorship) who hid the fact that he had cancer and died a month later. How dare Lula and his RADICAL supporters criticize Bolsonaro, you see, why doesn't Lula talk to me? Why does he only talk to his RADICAL left-wing outlets? Lula didn't say he had the libido of a 20-year-old, and if anyone wanted to compare him to Biden, they'd just have to ask Lula's wife how good he still was in bed (Lula is the same age as Trump, by the way). Another lie! Lula doesn't have the libido of a 20-year-old!”
It was very strange for me to see someone who seemed to be on a normal news program talking like that, as if he was having a breakdown, so I checked the guy on Wikipedia and it seems that he was a member of the Fernando Collor government (which lasted about 2 years, stole poor people's bank accounts by freezing them and giving them worthless money). And he hasn't lived in Brazil since 1992. I have no idea what that was about, but it looked like the guy was really pissed off because Lula said he had normal sex with his own wife.
clipping his toenails when he fell off a stool in the bathroom of his official residence
Oof owie, darn I can't possibly go to putin's summit and draw the ire of the imperialists with this horrendous injury darn it all to heck
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party) was clipping his toenails when he fell off a stool in the bathroom of his official residence
Happens to the best of us.
Also that's pretty unhinged from that journalist saying that everything is staged.
I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren't just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to "israel", even thought pretty much all armies use them. "israel" uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much "israel" just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.
Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people's tents, a bulldozer that you can't see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of "israel's" plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it's doing it's work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it's extremely symbolic. Here's the video for those who didn't watch it
And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn't bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.
Death to "israel".
Caterpillar supplies tractors both to Israel for this purpose and to U.S. government entities (cities, counties, cops) for destroying street villages at home.
Bulldozers are particularly important for israel because of the nature of urban warfare. They want to use tanks, but if you blow up buildings and there's rubble everywhere, the terrain is too rough for tanks. Hence, bulldozers to clear paths.
This in turn creates narrow tracks where armoured vehicles will go, making it easier for resistance fighters to target them in kill zones.
Most other militaries don't make such heavy use of bulldozers because there is not the same focus on urban warfare. For israel in Gaza, the entire theatre is urban.
In an incident straight out of a Hollywood movie: Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militants (formally known as the Janjaweed) in Sudan shot down their own friendly transport/cargo plane, owned and operated by their own UAE suppliers. The UAE operated aircraft they shot down was likely bringing in supplies and engineers to repair another friendly UAE operated aircraft that crashed previously.
The RSF shot down their own plane that was bringing in parts and specialists to repair their own damaged aircraft which they crashed... The level of incompetence and lack of co-ordination on display is staggering. The UAE cannot even stop their own proxies from shooting down their own planes!
Editing to comment on the South African driver's licence being present on the UAE plane, our sub-imperialist arseholes just can't help jump from one sub-imperialist entity to another. If it weren't so tragic it would be comedy.
Unlimited friendly fire on the RSF and UAE.
May the RSF keep shooting down their own supply planes indefinitely.
Bunch of RSF/Janjaweed militants were mercenaries for the Saudis fighting in Yemen as well against Ansarallah.
Absolute chumps, born to lose
With how bad the RSF appear at actual warfare when they're not trying to commit genocide, it's no wonder they lost against Ansarallah. Ansarallah are operating hypersonic ballistic missile prototypes, while the RSF can't even co-ordinate an incoming cargo flight without shooting it down.
It was actually hilarious how bad they got whooped by Ansarallah. I remember one battle where the Saudi mercenaries were equipped with tanks, helicopters and APCs and Ansarallah only had RPGs and AKs, and the battle ended in total Ansarallah victory when they captured all of the tanks and APCs lol
Literally just like walking up to them and yoinking the driver out like master chief. We are grateful to the Saudis for providing war equipment to our brothers in Yemen.
Ansrahalla also had one (1) Hind Helicopter that still wreaked devastating havok on them for some 4 years or so..
I still remember those videos from what feels like 10 years ago of Ansarallah destroying export specification Saudi M1 Abrams tanks with RPGs and ATGMs. The drivers of the tanks genuinely seemed surprised to be behind the wheel, they would stand completely still while being fired upon and wouldn't even rotate their turrets to return fire. All that oil money and this was the best they could do?
Well then they would rain down bombs on Yemen in their impotent frustration after all their hired mercenaries eat shit, using American fuel and intel and logistical support. They still couldn’t beat Ansarallah.
I think people underestimate the incredible power of the atlanto-zionist censorship apparatus in announcing imperialist losses. In the following I will primarily be citing nazi media outlets.
Consider the following:
According to zionazi own media outlets, censorship by the regime is close to achieving record levels. And, of course, this data is itself censored!
The official casualty count from the Iranian missile strike True Promise 2, in which over 100 Iranian ballistic missiles connected with their targets, is still one person: a Palestinian man in the West Bank who was struck by shrapnel of some kind from either a booster drop or an interception. I guess all those military facilities and air bases were just empty 🤷♀️
According to the iof official website, only 356 occupation soldiers have died since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza. This is less than one a day despite the plethora of video evidence showing daily operations against the enemy on multiple fronts. I guess the settlers really must be bulletproof or something 🤪
The US fleets in the Red Sea have been targetted for over 9 months with drones and ASBM's in what they have even said is "the most intense fighting since World War 2." The only casualties officially announced are two Navy SEALS who "drowned" and a helicopter that "crashed on a training mission". The US navy must be certainly invincible 🧠🧟♂️
The limited number of official American deaths in Ukraine have been limited to so-called "foreign volunteers". This is despite the fact that "NATO trainers" are routinely kalibrated and iskandered while channels like "Track a Nazi Merc" are documenting the thousands of known mercs being liquidated in Ukraine.
Takeaway:
There is obviously a large number of dead that are basically written off as missing or dead at a later date from "accidents". Yet, I have never seen anything news articles about families or communities demanding to know about these things.
What you are witnessing is a massive conspiracy and cover-up that goes incredibly deep and is incredibly effective at hiding dead bodies, even of their own nazi footsoldiers.
A comrade pointed out to me that relatives of the denazified soldiers are paid monthly sums compensation and the continuation of this is likely premised on not revealing certain information publicly.
The enemy is far weaker than it reveals. The incredibly effective information manipulation apparatus creates a powerful illusion, but it does not compensate for material strategic failures.
Yeah, all that and only 40,000 have died in Gaza. Even the UKR war you still see how western propaganda reports Russia is losing thousands of men in Kursk every day. Like make your lies believable at least
This is because the Palestinians are holding themselves to an obsessively high standard for reporting. Each body must be conclusively identified for it to count towards the record. As Palestinian civil society is destroyed, their capacity to record the dead diminishes. This number is in no way reflective of the total deaths from military attacks by themselves, let alone the thousands more likely dead from the humanitarian/sanitation/starvation crisis.
I'm not familiar with this author/speaker, but there's a blurb from Sarah Kendzior that i've seen circling on instagram that I thought was interesting. It's about liberals accepting atrocities under Biden that they would not under Trump:
The full text is here. I think what I find interesting is that I've never really connected the psychological/social effects of COVID-19 to the on-going genocides in Gaza and Lebanon. Sarah raises an interesting parallel (one that echos Aime Cesaire's takedown of colonialism, imo) between the disregard for our shared humanity required to accept the '911 a day' COVID-related death rate to a similar disregard for humanity that allows them to accept today's genocides. It's an undoing of "civilized" values.
We're at a point now where Lebanon is being subjected to israel's Gaza Doctrine, and it seems like most people don't know or don't care.
If not a complete disregard for humanity, is it boredom? It must be more than race-hatred. Does the death and suffering become too much for our brains to make sense of it, so we stop caring?
Had millions of people not been killed by COVID, would the world be less tolerant to genocide?
If not a complete disregard for humanity, is it boredom? It must be more than race-hatred. Does the death and suffering become too much for our brains to make sense of it, so we stop caring?
"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."
DPRK reports that it is still planning retaliation against ROK propaganda leaflet scattering and that they found more leaflets scattered on Oct 21.
The DPRK detective agencies' investigation into the drones from the ROK is going on and the truth behind the despicable provocation of the ROK military gangsters will be analyzed further in detail.
No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed.
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Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Tuesday:
The reckless infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK by the ROK military gangsters is a hideous military provocation that can never be pardoned.
Seoul will have to experience at first hand so as to know properly how dangerous act it committed and how terrible and fatal the consequences it brought on itself are.
A military provocation against a nuclear weapons state may be led to horrible situation, unimaginable for politicians and military experts in any big or small country in the world with their normal thinking to experience. So, there will be no such instance except one recently made by lunatics of the ROK and Ukraine.
Such deed can be done only by lunatics in the Seoul and Kiev regimes.
Seoul and Kiev are exact counterparts in going about begging and letting loose reckless remarks against nuclear weapons states at random without follow-up capability.
It seems to be a common feature of bad dogs bred by the U.S.
The DPRK detective agencies' investigation into the drones from the ROK is going on and the truth behind the despicable provocation of the ROK military gangsters will be analyzed further in detail.
No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed.
A lot of political motivational rubbish sent by the ROK scum was discovered and removed in many parts of the DPRK on October 21, too.
The brute courage of the Seoul authorities to jump into fire with brushwood on their backs, far from reflecting on their conducts and being prudent, will bring the danger of destruction of all the scum. And they will be denounced by everyone else. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.10.22.) .
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/b02ea907dce5b8c1e3f89bc1ff090dcf.kcmsf
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