Trump taps Mike Huckabee to be his ambassador to Israel.

A few highlights:

• He has previously spoken out against efforts to negotiate a ceasefire deal
• Huckabee was a longtime evangelical minister before running for political office and regularly leads "The Israel Experience" trips that take tour groups to sites with Biblical and historical significance
• In Jan. 2017, Huckabee spoke in the West Bank in front of a banner vowing to "Build Israel Great Again" while touting the policy shift Trump's administration would bring.
• He refuses to call the settlements in the West Bank settlements, and prefers to call them "communities". He also refuses to use the word "occupation", or even call it the West Bank.

President Joe Biden welcomes President-elect Donald Trump to the White House. “Welcome back,” Biden told Trump.

lil'marco at the wheeeeeeel

Is he sicko about cuba like desantis or regular sicko?

Zionazis bombed aid workers with drone in Khan Yunis - at least 5 dead.

NSFW/L CW dead and dying Video telegram link

btw roughly my feelings as well. if china manages to rapidly sink carbon inputs in next 10 years (as seen on energy mix, so to like ~20% coal), they would be something akin to that. Everyone in africa will need solar, they won't give a shit it's made in china, it could feasibly be giant outlet of exports even under whatever tariffs will be invented (cars and funkopops are luxury items after all). Desalination plants and grid infrastructure aren't

North Korean M1989 self-propelled artillery guns spotted in Krasnoyarsk, Russia heading west.

Seeing a lot of Is'ntrael flag people suddenly very concerned about genocides in Africa.

Any New Zealanders in here, or people that pay attention to international indigeneous issues?

I only know about whats happening because a video went viral on tiktok of Māori MPs disrupting introduction of a bill by performing the Haka:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYeVT5L9/

I also saw a live video of a pretty big pro-Māori march on tiktok. I believe it matches this nationwide 9-day march that is scheduled to arrive in Wellington on Tuesday:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-parliament-debates-controversial-bill-protesters-march-capital-2024-11-14/

The bill itself seeks to redefine how the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi which is apparently still the basis of the relationship between the crown and the Māori, although its interpretation is constantly evolving. The bill is being proposed by the right-wing ACT, which is a member of the current leading centre-right coalition. It would signficantly affect the rights and well-being of Māori communities according to activists.

Hopefully I am not missing anything huge or misrepresenting anything - this is just a hyperfixation i got onto after seeing the tiktok video. Hopeful that this bill will be defeated!

You all think the next front will be in East Asia or even Southeast Asia, but just you wait. It will be in Central America when Guatemala finally takes Belize and El Salvador for ourselves, turning the wheels to bring back the Federal Republic of Central America.

Our big sweaty Boi is killing gender affirming care, get your checkups by the end of the year I guess.

A large protest against budget cuts in higher education in The Netherlands that was planned for tomorrow in Utrecht has been cancelled due to (paraphrasing:) ‘threats of violence by pro Palestine protesters who planned to hijack the protest.’

This can not be seen without the context of the unrest in Amsterdam last week. Dutch media and politicians have been trying really hard this past week to paint anti genocide protesters in a very bad light, and this situation is no different. Several pro Palestine organisations have stated that they stand wholeheartedly behind the protests against the budget cuts and were joining to show their support. People are speculating that this support is being framed as hijacking now by the mayor of Utrecht and the police.

https://nos.nl/l/2544350

Pretty cool for Xi to namedrop Mariategui:
https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1857205700381855934

Xi Jinping arrives in Peru to unveil the largest and most modern port in South America, built by China

"As early as more than 400 years ago, the people of China and Peru started friendly exchanges through the Maritime Silk Road and the Manila Galleons..."

"Through the wisdom of our civilizations, our minds find common ground and our hearts resonate... Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui once said, "Spiritually and materially, China is closer to us than Europe. The psychology of our people is more Asian than Western...""

"The world is undergoing faster transformation unseen in a century. Humanity has again come to a crossroads in history. To fully appreciate the grandeur of the Nazca Lines, we must view them from a height because at the ground level, their true splendor remains hidden from view.

To quote a Chinese poem to the same effect, 'Fear not the clouds that obscure your view, for you stand atop the highest summit.'

China is ready to join Peru in embracing a broader vision and grasping the underlying trends of our times from a long historical perspective to champion true multilateralism, promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, jointly implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, and build together a community with a shared future for mankind."

I can't believe that Jackson Shithinkle lied to us guys.

Wonder if redditors are like "all I hear about the Russia Ukraine war is all of these grand Ukrainian victories, yet it never seems to end"

Danish municipalities caught using Google Translate in child protection cases

In Denmark, municipalities handling child protection cases have faced criticism for using Google Translate to communicate with non-Danish-speaking families in situations as serious as child removal cases. In one instance, officials warned an Ukrainian refugee mother that her children could be taken away if she didn’t comply with an action plan by pushing a smartphone through the mail slot in her front door and letting the Google Translate app play the message machine translated to Russian. Later that night all her children were forcibly removed.

She had become unable to take care of her children after suffering a mental breakdown when learning about her husband being severely wounded in the war. For six months leading up to the removal of the children, a for-profit company hired by the municipality had sent social workers to assist her and assess her parenting skills. The social workers did not speak Russian or Ukrainian, instead they communicated with the family in English, a language the mother doesn't speak, or through Google Translate. The mother did not understand what the purpose of the visit was or what was required of her.

According to Statistics Denmark, 44 Ukrainian children has been removed from their homes by authorites, either with or without the parents' consent. There are no statistics on the use of Google Translate in these cases but state media DR knows of at least three instances where authorities used machine translation.

Legal experts say this practice violates Danish law, which requires that authorities communicate in an understandable and accurate way with parties in child welfare cases, typically requiring qualified interpreters. Human rights advocates warn that relying on Google Translate risks misinterpretations that could isolate vulnerable families and lead to family separations without due understanding.

Municipalities claim that machine translations are mostly used in low-stakes interactions with citizens but defend the approach, citing a shortage of interpreters, but critics argue that automated translation is insufficient for such high-stakes interactions.

• Source: DR (state media), November 14th 2024

If he has any spare time from doing evil shit, I hope RFK legalises psychedelics

I couldn't find the article I saw today, but it was about how Xi Jinping and Lula da Silva will meet after the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. It seems that, due to Trump's victory, Lula now wants to join the Belt and Road Initiative (it seems that the neoliberals and liberals who support Lula but didn't like China are really afraid that Trump's government and protectionist policies will hurt them and are now pushing for Brazil to join China/BRI). With Brazil joining the BRI, I think China's plan to build the Bioceanic Railway and the Megaport in Peru will succeed. We'll see, but Trump's victory may have pushed Brazil more towards China. I think the fact that Biden didn't give Brazil the money he promised didn't help relations between these two countries.

Patrick Lancaster found some Cubans fighting for Russia aganist

The Far-Right Terrorist, member of the Liberal Party (Far-Right, Conservative, Bolsonaro's Party), who attacked the Brazilian Supreme Court had an explosives belt around his body and was dressed as the Joker.

The US and their dogs allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles doesn't change anything. Russia under Putin are committed to deescalation until the Ukraine war is wrapped up, and Ukraine's biggest issues are in Ukraine itself. Hitting an oil refinery in Rostov won't stop Russian advances in Donetsk. Those strikes might affect Russian supply lines a bit, but Russia has a lot of options with different paths to take to reach the front.

Thinking back on that anti-war rally that had Tulsi as it's keynote speaker, and feeling very justified at my criticism of the people who supported that (I'm trying to be nice here since I know there's at least a few people here who supported it at the time).

The Onion acquisition of Infowars is delayed. The Infowars websites were down yesterday. They are all back online in the past hour. Alex Jones is posting on twitter that he's trying to delay the auction until Matt Gaetz becomes Attorney General, so that Alex Jones can maintain ownership of Infowars.

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion-how-d42e7b2c916205b348628686c8b8dd4a

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/judge-onion-infowars-hearing-review-auction-1236211183/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/15/onion-infowars-sale-hold-alex-jones/

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

US bans flights to Haiti for 30 days after Spirit, JetBlue planes are hit with gunfire

Paris prosecutors ask for 5 years in prison and ineligibility for Marine Le Pen. The French far-right leader is accused of misusing European Parliament funds to pay party members when she was an MEP.

Ironic that I am posting something with this title as an anarchist, but apparently its use of the word is also somewhat ironic. LOL. Anyway, very good discussion: Tankie Therapy Session #26: Liberals are the problem

I especially appreciated the discussion of how the liberal establishment is hell-bent on exacting revenge for the community defense done in Amsterdam.

The Israeli attack on Iran in late October destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin, according to three U.S. officials, one current Israeli official and one former Israeli official.

New cope bopping around Western media about Israel's response to Operation True Promise 2. Very funny, because the "destroyed" is doing very heavy lifting here. Even the satellite photos that ultimately underline this claim (seen here) show a decidedly not destroyed nuclear weapons research facility, the bulk of which is almost certainly deep underground. What those photos do show is that Israeli strikes blew up like four above ground buildings in this complex, including one "Taleghan 2," which they claim

was roughly 40 meters long and built into a hillside. Prior to mid-2003, when Iran allegedly halted the Amad Plan, the Institute assessed that Tehran used a small test chamber inside Taleghan 2 to test high explosives. The Institute’s analysis of Iran’s nuclear archive also indicated that in addition to a test chamber, Taleghan 2 contained flash X-ray equipment powered by a Marx generator, which could “deliver fast pulses of energy” and “enable a rapid succession of images to be taken” of “high explosives compressing a core of natural uranium, simulating the initiation of a nuclear explosive.” This equipment could enable Tehran to test weapons components using natural uranium in lieu of weapons-grade uranium.

So taking this all together, Israel blew up a bunker that was used to test small explosives that hasn't been used since 2003. Really cool. Iran is fucked now folks, better watch out.

More than half of the Senate's Republican senators are saying off the record that they see no chance of approving the nomination of former Congressman Matt Gaetz for the post of attorney general of the United States, reports NBC.

Gaetz resigned as a congressman last Wednesday, just days before the House Ethics Council voted to impeach him in an investigation into sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. As attorney general, Gaetz would be in control of the files detailing the evidence uncovered by the FBI

What you people think? I thought he had more chances of being approved than people like Elon Musk and RFK JR. since he already is a Republican.

Trump Draft Executive Order Would Create Board to Purge Generals

Is there any reason to believe the entirety of the "west" isn't just a massive engulfing black hole of evil that was created as part of a thousand-year conspiracy to ruin and enslave the world? I've seen literally no evidence of them ever doing anything good, in fact, I don't even think they're capable of any sort of good or decency. This is a belief that came about from the constant string of the "west" consistently making the most evil fucking choices possible, so if you want to convince me otherwise better show me something that suggests otherwise lol.