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Think I’m out after today. Been a good five years news heads. Maybe I’ll jump back in if WWIII starts. Cheers

For anyone who is interested in left wing/historical materialist inroads to discuss Christianity, i have been reading a physical copy of Parables as Subversive Speech : Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed William R Herzog that i found in a used bookstore.

I cannot recommend it enough, it goes into various aspects of ancient Palestinian history from the worth of a talent to the treatment of day laborers by landowners' hired help, to the proportion of people within various classes in the time period discussed.

https://archive.org/details/parablesassubver0000herz

context- I am an ex Catholic turned transsexual communist, and while I may not follow the tenets of the Church anymore and have resentment for the harm it did to me and countless others, I recognize that it has provided comfort and can be a difficult framework to negotiate with. I'm sharing this less as "see, the Church is cool after all!!" and more "if you have the patience to actually sit down and talk to people, this may be a useful reference."

my new lodestar, bring me salvation, vanquish the dropshippers (linky to vague posting thread hawking logistics services, so ymmv, but i've seen similar number like a week ago, although they were talking that truck industry could get fucked from this, cause no orders, rapidly dropping prices, leases on trucks exploding)

Hundreds of officers belonging to the UAE-backed 'Yemeni National Resistance' have defected to Ansarallah (the Houthis), and gathered in the capital Sanaa for briefing. These officers defected from the UAE-backed 'Yemeni National Resistance', their territory is on Yemen's Western Coast

They are led by General Tareq Saleh, nephew of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Houthi ally that defected to the side of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in 2017. It seems almost all of their high command have defected.

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Potential significant news for those who get their scoops from Telegram.

Telegram pledges to exit the market rather than "undermine encryption with backdoors"

US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 39th night in a row.

Multiple rounds of airstrikes have targeted Taiz, Hodeidah and Saada Governorates, along with Kamaran Island.

More airstrikes in Ma'rib Governorate.

Ballistic missile launched at Israel from Yemen, was reportedly intercepted.

Warning for potential graphic imagery of casualties during ongoing airstrikes:

Al Masirah TV twitter

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The Yemeni Armed Forces released a statement earlier today, about shooting down another MQ-9 Reaper drone, along with launching cruise missiles and drones at US Navy warships. Their anti drone air defence systems are proving very difficult to suppress under current SEAD doctrine.

In more US military movements to the region, two E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft arrived in Saudi Arabia today, and a third could be on it's way. This is quite a significant development, to move airborne warning and control aircraft to the region.

Lots of strategic bomber movement within the United States tonight, with a B-52 now tracking east over the Atlantic Ocean. We may see yet another bomber deployment, on top of the 10 USAF bombers currently forward deployed (6 B-2s in Diego Garcia, 4 B-1s in Japan).

The B-52 is currently approaching two mid air refueling aircraft over the Atlantic.

Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’

I am kinda sad to hear Pope Francis passed away, even though it was coming eventually. And I say this despite being somewhat atheist myself. In Argentina, Francis is know to some as "The Pope of the Atheists" because he was well liked among important groups of people for his militancy, not only at the head of the Catholic Church, but also during his days in the Argentinian Church. I have grown a great deal of respect for the man, of course I had a lot of disagreements with him but I don't think he was your regular super conservative Pope, far from it. It's kinda good to see he was deeply moved by the Genocide in Gaza, and he was personally invested in denouncing it until the very end of his life. That I can respect, despite our "spiritual" and political differences.

He really got under the skin of milei as well, he absolutely despised the Pope. Years ago he even called him, publicly, a "fucking Communist SOB" that is a "representative of the Devil in the Holy See". A while back he was shown a fragment of a interview an argentinian journalist did to the Pope, where he said that we should all be aware of "men without history that pretend to become saviors", he specifically mentioned that "this was the case with Adolf [Hitler]" and milei took great offense lmao and became very angry because he thought the Pope was talking about him. He is, indeed, a dangerous man without history, someone who has a messiah complex.

Francis also mantained some relationships with local Communist leaders and Socialists, especially those linked with the Church and/or doing charity work among the needy. His persona ideology however could be something along the lines of Social Justice. Truth is, he wasn't a rabid anti-Communist like pretty much all the other Popes, quite refreshing.

Israel's official Twitter account has deleted its condolence tweet for Pope Francis due to his statements in support of Palestine.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/22/experiments-to-dim-the-sun-get-green-light/

okay so it turns out that after all ..

🇰🇵 🤝 🇷🇺 DPRK officially announces sending troops to Russia in accordance with strategic partnership agreement — KCNA

On the occasion of the liberation of Kursk, Comrade Kim Jong Un specially stressed the following:

"They who fought for justice are all heroes and representatives of the honour of the motherland.

In praise of the heroism and bravery of the proud sons of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a monument to the battle feats will be soon erected in our capital city and flowers of praying for immortality given by the motherland and the people will be placed before the tombstones of the fallen soldiers.

The fighting spirit and heroism of the soldiers who demonstrated the great name of the strong and the glory of the victors will shine long in the high platform of respect and honor generation after generation.

The motherland should hand down forever the soul of them who fought to defend the great honor and take important state measures to specially and preferentially treat and take care of the families of the brave soldiers who participated in the war."

Death panel. Only literally this time. And it's privatized. Palantir is not just a defense and marketing surveillance company; it's in healthcare, insurance, finance, your taxes, etc.

• Palantir: The New Deep State

China's Thorium Revolution - 60.000 Years of Cheap Energy - found this on my FYP, never heard of either of these guys, but the guest is completely over China's thorium reactor while the host seems pretty stunned at the claims about its potential. Near the end, the host asks what his guest thinks about claims of "China stealing their thorium tech from the US" and is answer is a blunt, "no the US literally handed them their thorium research," and even goes so far as to point out that the US had no interest in further developing thorium reactors because they have no use in creating weapons.

Kristi Noem's purse, which had $3,000 in cash, had been stolen while she was dining with her family at a restaurant. Inside the secretary of Homeland Security's purse were also blank checks and DHS login credentials.

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I'm not crying, you're crying

(original was in Portuguese, translated to English), not a lib

gold at $3459 per ounce

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1k8asmk/ru_pov_i_would_like_to_separately_note_the/

The big cheese himself, General Gerasimov, has confirmed the participation of DPRK troops in the recapture of Kursk.

The PLA deploying their thirst traps to win the hearts and minds of Vietnam:
https://xcancel.com/XH_Lee23/status/1916059226734268449

who could have expected

Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, in an official statement:

'I offer my condolences on the passing of Pope Francis to all Catholics worldwide and his followers.

Pope Francis dedicated his life to promoting Christ's teachings of peace, justice, freedom, and interfaith dialogue.

The highlights of his life and leadership were his humanitarian positions against anti-human behaviors in the world, especially his explicit positions and condemnation of the Israeli regime's genocide in Gaza, and the demand to end the killing of innocent Palestinian women and children.'

Ukrainian and European peace deal counterproposals to US at talks in London

Ukraine and Europe continue to huff their own farts. A peace deal is not looking very likely if this is their starting point.

New stats for lefties poll dropped

Labour wiped out, but with a catch

https://xcancel.com/LeftieStats/status/1915398634713075828?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index fell to -8.1 points in April

6-month outlook for general business conditions plummeted to -7.4

The 6-month outlook for new orders fell to -6.6, the lowest in history.

Prices paid outlook spiked to 65.6

Less stuff being bought and produced, but what is being bought and produced is at higher prices. If only there was a word to describe this.

We are so back

🚨🟢 Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades: —

Watch: The complex "Breaking the Sword" ambush against enemy forces near the separation fence east of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Al-Aqsa Flood.

— Notes: 0:26 - Our fighters were able to carry out the Breaking the Sword ambush on Al-Awda street, east of Beit Hanoun:

• Targeting a "Storm" military jeep during the ambush.
• Targeting the support force that came to the place with an anti-personnel Television-3 explosive device.
• Targeting a newly established position of the enemy forces with four RPG shells and a number of mortar shells.

0:56 - Newly established enemy military position on Al-Awda street.

1:05 - The passing of a zionist truck and a zionist jeep while waiting for the target.

1:15 - Targeting the "Storm" zionist military jeep belonging to the enemy leadership.

1:45 - The overturn of the jeep and liquidating those inside it.

1:57 - Targeting a newly established enemy military position.

2:21 - Targeting the newly established enemy military position.

https://streamable.com/26sh8n

🟢 A leader in the Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades to Al-Jazeera: — The Beit Hanoun ambush occurred in the buffer zone from which the occupation forces had not withdrawn.

The well-executed ambush took place on Al-Awda Street in Beit Hanoun, just 300 meters from the separation line.

JD VANCE FUCKING KILLED THE POPE

A state of emergency will be declared in Bandar Abbas due to the possible spread of hazardous substances due to the fire in Shahid Rajaee Port. Saudi Foreign Ministry: 'Saudi Arabia is willing to provide any help or assistance that Iran may need'

It is likely that large amounts of sulfur have been released into the air, causing difficulties breathing, irritation to eyes, and inflammation of the lungs. 8 people confirmed dead so far. The Minister of Roads, Farzaneh Sadeq, visited the site of the fires. The chief of the local firefighting department complains they don't have enough equipment to extinguish the fire.

The situation is very bad. The fire is spreading to other areas of the port, including areas with flammable containers, and more explosions are likely to happen. The order has been issued to completely evacuate the entire port and all its surrounding facilities.

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Big news in the announcement of the latest US Military budget plans, in a GOP proposal. It seems that after being on the receiving end of Iranian designed ballistic missiles, and with the rise of ballistic missile proliferation in Russia, China, India, North Korea, Israel, and even Pakistan, and with the death of the INF treaty that previously banned the development of these weapons for the USA and Russia, the US wants advanced Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicle (MaRV) equipped ballistic missiles, including Anti Ship Ballistic Missiles (ASBMs) and their area denial capabilities, for themselves. The US Army alone wants to spend over 800 million dollars (there are more expenses not in the screenshot) on the development and production of modern ballistic missile systems. This is a historic moment, and admission that these weapons are valuable battlefield assets (which I have been saying for years now), despite the distorted information from the cruise missile lobby. This cruise missile lobby in the US is being reigned in for the first time in over three decades (Pershing-II MaRV equipped ballistic missile was retired in 1991). ASBMs have acted as a very effective area denial weapon for Ansarallah/the Houthis in Yemen against US Navy warships and aircraft carriers, even without landing a single hit. The carriers don't dare get within ASBM range.

Source, PDF file format

If anyone wants an example of some of the outlandish lies told by the cruise missile lobby in the USA over the past four plus decades, here's an excerpt from the book "Lighting Bolts - First MaRV":

As for why the focus worldwide is on MaRV capable ballistic missile systems and not hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs), with HGV programmes being cancelled or making up only a small amount of a missile force compared to MaRVs for say China, here's some required reading: Hypersonic weapons are mediocre. It’s time to stop wasting money on them..

Main problem HGVs have is that their launch is the exact same of that as ballistic missile, a rocket booster straight up into the sky, easily detectable by early warning satellites. However, because HGVs spend a lot more time gliding in the atmosphere with large amounts of drag, they take longer to reach their targets than ballistic missiles, which spend the majority of their flight exoatmospheric. Another problem is that this drag effectively limits HGV maneuverability, even a perfectly performed turn can result in an HGV losing 10% of its energy, on a single turn! Here are some slides from a UK MoD analysis of HGVs, showing just how limited the turn capabilities are. And these calculations are based on an impact velocity of Mach 2, not even close to hypersonic (Mach 5). If the constraint was charged from Mach 2 to Mach 5, the turn/divert capability would be much less! Remember, HGVs have no propulsion system once seperated from the rocket booster, they're gliders.

Expect future hypersonic weapons development to be focused hypersonic cruise missiles well above Mach 5 like the Russian Zircon (there's no point in creating a hypersonic cruise missile that's barely hypersonic, see the US Navy cancellation of the HALO missile), and hypersonic boost vehicles (attaching some sort of rocket motor to the HGV) like Iran's Fattah-2 concept, to negate the energy loss from pure gliding. I also expect we'll see some copies of Iran's Fattah-1 MaRV equipped ballistic missile. The Fattah-1 MaRV was the first MaRV to put a thrust vector control sustainer rocket motor on the MaRV itself, allowing for trajectory changes or corrections while exoatmospheric, and for improved glide phase performance with an additional source of energy.

The fact of the matter is that MaRV equipped ballistic missiles can outperform HGVs in many scenarios (which is why I go on about MaRVs being "game changing" weapons all the time), and even if a MaRV equipped ballistic missile is expensive, HGVs are far more expensive still.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp348ygjgy3o Ukraine may have to give up land for peace - Kyiv Mayor Klitschko

Seriously hate this war

Some news from the Kursk front. Russian forces fully liberated the Kursk oblast border areas today. Russia confirmed that some DPRK troops (including elite Special Operations Forces) participated in the Kursk border area’s liberation.

Russian forces liberated the last Kiev-occupied Kursk oblast village, Gornal: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250426/russias-kursk-region-completely-liberated-from-ukrainian-forces---kremlin-1121935136.html

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated, “The soldiers of the Korean People's Army, in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and the DPRK, which entered into force on December 4, 2024, fought shoulder to shoulder in one trench and shed blood with our soldiers and officers in the Kursk Region and made a significant contribution to the liberation of the Russian land from enemy invaders.” https://sputnikglobe.com/20250426/n-koreas-solidarity-on-liberating-kursk-region-demonstrates-high-allied-level-relations---moscow-1121938683.html

Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov stated, “The DPRK military, acting shoulder to shoulder with the Russian military in Kursk Region, showed resilience and heroism.” https://www.rt.com/russia/616356-north-korean-troops-kursk/

Trump wants to give out a $5k 'baby bonus' CW racism, Eugenics.

Vancouver police say several people have been killed and multiple others injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd at a street festival Saturday evening.

The incident happened shortly after 8 p.m. near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was taking place.

Police said the driver is in custody.

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Just happened hours ago, I'm not really plugged into socials so I'm not sure what's known or fake

The European Parliament is in the “final stages” of discussions with Beijing about removing sanctions on its members, smoothing the way for normalised relations with the bloc, according to a spokesperson for the lawmaking body.

“Discussions with the Chinese authorities are continuing and in their final stages,” the spokesperson said.

Chris Hedges interviews Norman Finkelstein. The Fink is right about a lot of stuff, I think. Such as Israel accelerating not because Trump "gave him the green light', but simply because Trump is taking the media spotlight constantly, and Israel knows very well how to take advantage of that. And, unfortunately, that the resistance (nor anybody else) probably doesn't stand much of a chance of keeping the zionists from "finishing the job".

• Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report

Unfortunately the Fink also shows his brainworms and blames "wokeness" for a lot of the attack on academic freedom. Hedges doesn't really challenge him on that, but does kind of shunt the conversation away from it. Probably still worth watching/listening to.

Almost 4 in 10 say neither party fights for people like them

once again, japanese bond traders - pathetic effort, haven't breached 5%

forex markets do be wilding though

new conspiracy theory, what if bessent is deep soros mole, and soros plans to do another heist of the century, this time on the dollar?

Zelensky: 'Ukraine will never recognize Russian-occupied Crimea as part of Russian territory, it is the sovereign territory of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people

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