In case anyone's wondering why I only share or post satellite imagery or geolocations after any bombings have already happened, and am very strict about OPSEC (even to the point of not reposting posts from resistance figures or media with poor OPSEC), this is why. US CENTCOM has been using social media OSINT (twitter, telegram, WhatsApp, etc) for targeting information, resulting in innocent people dying.

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Remember, this is war, not a circus or videogame. Innocent people just like me and you are dying. Don't post, repost or share incriminating stuff, even if a popular resistance figure posts say, a selfie of themselves next to a US daytime bombing while it's happening (Yes, this actually happened, no, I will not share it). Don't post satellite imagery of "potential military sites". Unfortunately many people online in OSINT communities do not understand this, they either don't realise war is real or they don't consider those on the other side of the world as human.

Ultimately the responsibility is on those doing the bombings (the US Navy in this case), and a group's OPSEC is their own responsibility, and not the responsibility or fault of random twitter accounts, but still, don't play any part in the death of innocent people. There's a reason why Ansarallah in Yemen have put in place a strict official media and social media censorship campaign, which I have posted about before.

Also if the Commiejones moderator on hexbear is still around, thank you for enforcing OPSEC when you were around.

If anyone's wondering, the data I use for the daily Yemen posts comes from the Ansarallah/Houthi owned and ran Al Masirah TV.

Evidence mounts suggesting COVID-19 may have originated in the U.S. | CGTN

investigate Fort Detrick folks, you're hearing it more and more... more and more people are saying it

Amazon displaying tariff prices "hostile and political," White House says

I'm guessing Blue Origin is about to lose some contracts

Firestorms in Israel

Huge forest fires in Israel. So-called 'firestorms' are raging all across Israel, with much of the country experiencing strong winds with velocities up to 110 km/h, reportedly a 'highly unusual' event per Israeli media.

All 'Independence Day' events and gatherings are canceled across Israel due to the firestorms. Israeli tanks and military bases are burning in the firestorm. The firestorm has reached an Israeli military base in Central Israel, with soldiers reportedly trapped inside their barracks and possibly being burnt alive.

Israeli Channel 14: Some of Israel's highways are completely shut down due to the firestorm. 'There are dozens of fires burning across the country, and not a single one of them is located in an Arab area'

Israeli Fire Commissioner: 'The firestorm is spreading at a significant rate. Winds are expected to worsen, and the fires will become more severe the next 24 hours' Not a single one in the West Bank or any Arab community inside Israel. A massive sandstorm has started to appear in the Israeli Negev desert

Israel: 'International aid and firefighting teams will not start working until tomorrow' Israel has requested international assistance to combat the ongoing fires, reaching out to Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, and Italy for support.

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Trump: "We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we're essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we're saving hundreds of billions of dollars. It's very simple."

wow

Rules Based International Order

Israel has used drones to attack a Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in International waters off the coast of Malta.

UPDATE from Thiago Ávila, coordinator of the Freedom Flotilla still in Malta:

We had another mission 15 years ago that was attacked, and 10 of our participants were killed in this mission of the Mavi Marmara. And right now we just suffered another attack, where two drones attacked our boat and put our boat on fire and created a big hole on our boat. There was a distress signal that was sent to all neighboring countries, to all the vessels nearby.

And until very early in the morning, no one had responded to this. This happened now six hours ago. And now that we finally — the fire was put down, and finally, the drones that attacked the boat are out of the region.

But we are very concerned for our participants. This is part of a humanitarian mission that was carrying food and medical aid to Gaza, because Gaza has now been for 58 days under total blockade — that not a single bag of flour, not a single bottle of water has entered Gaza for 58 days under a state of famine in the Gaza Strip.

So we were trying to break the siege and create a people's humanitarian corridor, with people from over 20 different countries and carrying all the aid we could carry. We had members of parliament, we had actors, we had doctors, we had news outlets, we had influencers, we had grassroots solidarity movement activists as well for Palestine.

And we were doing our best. This was a confidential mission. Because they've been attempting bureaucratic warfare on us, we were not disclosing the information until then that we were going, because they've been trying to hinder us. We were supposed to be on the boat three days ago now, and we've been hindered. And now, a few hours before we depart, we were attacked.

And so we are due to share this information, to contact local politicians, to contact everyone you can, so that the Maltese government organize a proper rescue operation, which is not ongoing until now, and it's been many, many hours. We don't want to antagonize this government.

We actually think this government needs to be an ally on a rescue mission, but we really need to denounce the war crime that happened because the boat was 13 nautical miles from Maltese territory, so it's in international waters, but it's nearby Malta, and we need people to denounce this attack, this war crime that just happened against a peaceful humanitarian mission to Gaza. And we need people to put the spotlight as well on the total blockade that Gaza has been suffering for 58 days.

We only went to the boat because we knew there was no other choice to open a humanitarian corridor, so the people of the world were willing to open it.

And we were attacked. So we were urged for your help, and Nicole here is part of our delegation, has been doing an amazing, amazing job, and we count on you to follow up with her, because we really need you right now, and especially the people, the Palestinian people in Gaza need you more than ever.

From elsewhere on Twitter:

We spoke with Jasmine, one of the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla.

She reports that the 30 people aboard the ship are afraid to board lifeboats—fearing Israel will strike them again once exposed. As of now, there are no confirmed injuries, but communication with the ship has been lost.

Jasmine is currently organizing an independent operation with others to reach the Freedom Flotilla after 7 hours without any response to the ship’s SOS. Authorities, embassies, and officials have remained silent.

The ship is sinking in international waters.

Despite multiple calls to embassies, media, and an SOS call and beacon no countries responded for over 6 hours until a Cypriot vessel picked up the SOS call and sent help.

I don't have the national makeup of activists on board for obvious reasons, but if any of them were British then it's highly likely that the British government has actively assisted in the illegal drone striking of one of its own citizens since they provide radio surveillance of that area, as well as surveillance flights and targeting for Israeli drones from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus.

History is repeating itself again, as a reminder; in 2010 Israeli military boarded and stormed a previous Gaza humanitarian flotilla and executed at least 10 activists, all unarmed, some at point blank range, including UK and US citizens.

Irish woman legally residing in US for 30 years detained following visit to ill father in Ireland

...meanwhile our taoiseach is more focused on chastising kneecap for something they said at a gig a year ago

Sachs also refered Carney as "one of his best student". I wonder how Carney is going to further "reform" Canada economically.

Also, never let you guard down on someone Jeffrey Sachs roots for.

“I wished for death to end the nightmare I was living through”.

Received this awful testimony from a colleague who was rounded up in Gaza tortured while in Israeli detention and finally released.

For UNRWA staff humanitarian duty is met with brutality.

Since the start of the war in October 2023, over 50 UNRWA staff among them teachers, doctors, social workers, have been detained and abused.

They have been treated in the most shocking and inhumane way. They reported being beaten up and used as human shields.

They were subjected to sleep deprivation, humiliation, threats of harm to them and their families and attacks by dogs.

Many were subjected to forced confessions.

― Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/03/us/ohio-rodney-hinton-jr-arrest-hnk Cincinnati police fatally shot an armed 18-year-old. The next day, his father killed a sheriff’s deputy, authorities say

https://english.news.cn/20250430/0e0a48cbc7e64a45b3fbe6ac30b3ddc3/c.html

China's State Council Information Office released a report about coronavirus. They go over the Chinese response, the investigation into the origins (not Wuhan) and the US's bungled response. It ends with a call to investigate US biolabs including Derrick as a possible source of the virus

I remember the detrickposting back on the sub, it seems like ages ago now

Former Israeli ambassador on Biden

Archive link

Happy May Day comrades!

Some May Day reporting from Finland. The local reactionary nazis held a gathering in the city of Tampere today. Their gathering was fully protected by the cops who violently arrested 15 counter-protesters and used a growd control rifle on them.

The local bougie newspaper report about this here, you can see some of the nazis protected by the cops. They've essentially built a little pen for the fash and during their pathetic unjoyous little march they protected them from all sides.

The national news piece here.

A short video about the cops shooting a counter-protester who is throwing back a torch the fash threw in the crowd. This video will expire in two days.

The counter-protesters threw eggs and torches toward the fash and in general tried to make their cop protected little march fail.

This picture of one of the counter-protesters goes extremely hard:

Decided to waste my time on Reddit and saw a thread from Liberal hive Fauxmoi frothing over John Cena apologizing to Chinese netiziens over referring to Taiwan as an independent country. The narrative has shifted to the CPC making him do it.

I forget sometimes just how rabid Americans can get over celebrities being friendly with countries they’re told to hate.I’ve met American boomers who still refer to Jane Fonda as Hanoi Jane.

Jagmeet Singh, leader of the federal NDP in Canada, has officially conceded defeat in his riding which has been taken by the Liberals.

The NDP itself is also losing official party status as they were unable to gain 12 or more seats, and will be unable to access certain funds and lose special parliamentary privileges.

Since their high water mark of being the Official Opposition after the 2011 election under Jack Layton, the NDP has triangulated itself to what we see today: a party that refused to leave the shadow of the Liberals.

Yemen strikes the zionist cancer's Ben Gurion airport. 6+ settlers wounded.

Reported footage of the strike

With 256 out of 266 local poll precincts reporting, Canadian Conservative Partly leader Pierre Poilievre is losing his own parliament seat 46-50 to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy

I posted the settlers documentary of louis theroux on tankietube https://hexbear.net/post/4746458

In case the new youtube link or the twitter one get taken down

Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees to vote on ‘Starbase’

Starbase sits on a tiny piece of land near the Mexican border on a small bay that feeds into the Gulf of Mexico. Prefabricated houses, airstreams and palm trees line the streets. An imperious golden bust of Musk stands nine feet tall outside the town. A plaque on its pedestal reads “ELON aka Memelord”.

Last month, vandals defaced the statue by peeling off layers of foam and fiberglass from its cheeks. There is an employee-only restaurant called Astropub with a neon red “Occupy Mars” sign behind the bar. One of the main boulevards is called “Memes Street”.

Apparently Kneecap came out and said they do not, in fact, support Hamas or Hezbollah.

While a little disappointing, I do believe (and UK comrades can correct me if I’m wrong), that expressing verbal support for “designated terrorist groups” actually can land you in jail in the UK.

So if that’s true, I at least kinda understand why they’re saying it.

Well shit. That's why we haven't heard from Medhurst in a while. They nabbed him (a second time) in Austria, and have stolen all his equipment and data and kept legal cases open against him in both countries to silence his journalism.

• The Chris Hedges Report: The West Serves as Israel's Police (w/ Richard Medhurst)

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-army-have-video-game-like-digital-weapons-store-deadly-realistic/

Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians

The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units.

The program assigns points for each type of kill: 20 points for damaging and 40 for destroying a tank; up to 50 points for destroying a mobile rocket system, depending on the caliber; and six points for killing an enemy soldier.

Units will soon be able to use the special digital points they’ve been getting since last year by trading them in for new weapons. A Vampire drone, for example, costs 43 points. The drone, nicknamed Baba Yaga, or witch, is a large multi-rotor drone able to carry a 15-kilogram warhead. The Ukrainian government will pay for the drones that are ordered and will deliver them to the front-line unit within a week.

The scheme is aimed at directing more equipment to the most effective units.

Soldiers will be able to leave reviews on the site to guide future purchases.

“For example, we have increased the number of points for infantry elimination from two to six, and that has doubled the number of destroyed enemies in one month,” Fedorov said. “This is not just a system of motivation, this is a mechanism that changes the rules of war.”

USS Truman lost an F-18 while doing a hard turn avoiding yemenii fire

Neat infographic showing US/Coalition air losses to AnsarAllah since 2015, updated for the recent FA-18 loss.

Note this includes indirect losses such as the one from yesterday and aircraft written off due to technical failures whilst engaging AnsarAllah.

Lol, lmao even

A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/28/politics/us-navy-jet-overboard/index.html

There's a very gruesome video of the aftermath of a recent "israeli" massacre carried out against the Gazans, it's very bad and little kids were struck by them. When I saw it I said to myself that this is the worst I've seen so far, but then I remembered I've said that last week, and the week prior and so on. I fear we are becoming too used to this, we definitely reached an almost complete normalization of the relentless killings.

"Israel" is consistently breaching over and over again the limits of violence, each week they become more and more savage and murderous. And now they suffer no backlash for it.

This is it then. Gazans will be taken out one by one by the zionists. It has been decided by those who can stop this madness, this ridiculous bloodshed, that this will be the fate of Gaza, to be killed either by starvation, water deprivation, unbearable sanitary conditions, bombs, bullets or by their own hand. Let it be known that the image of that little girl today, just sitting there not being really sure what's going on to her, is but a small preview of what's to come to, honestly, all of us if "Israel" is not stopped and thoroughly dismantled. In her, I saw the future of millions.

May zionism suffer a terrible death. May everyone who defend and support this genocide be thrown into the darkest pits of hell and rot there, forever. May Gaza and Palestine win and "israel" die. The future of Gaza and Palestine is now entirely on the hands of it's Resistance, glory to them.

House Judiciary Committee votes to allow deportation (read: expulsion) of American Citizens

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJFfYzFvD8g/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJFbXnqS6uK/

Will the explicit (i.e. congressional consent for) lack of due process in the mass deportations further radicalize the libs or at least make it easier to convince my parents that the dems are not on their side?

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/pakistan-claims-credible-proof-of-indian-military-strike-in-next-24-36-hours/ar-AA1DSaDG

Pakistan's Minister of Information made a televised speech where he alerted the country to "credible evidence" of an imminent Indian military strike, within "the next 24-36 hours".

dow nearly where the liberation started, and yield fallen to 4.6 from 4.9 on 30 years treasuries, another nothing ever happens gang W.

Today Vietnam celebrated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).

A grand military parade was held and veterans were honored: https://www.vietnam.vn/en/khoanh-khac-an-tuong-le-dieu-binh-mung-ky-niem-50-nam-thong-nhat-dat-nuoc

And there were fireworks: https://www.vietnam.vn/en/ruc-ro-man-phao-hoa-tam-cao-o-tphcm-chao-mung-dai-le-30-4

US adds 10 more mining projects onto the "fast track."

Not mentioned in the article is that mining projects that will poison Apache (Resolution Copper mine), Navajo (La Jara Mesa uranium mine), and Ojibwe (Northmet copper-sulfide mine) tribal lands have been "fast tracked" over the past 2 weeks.

Maybe I’m missing discussion about the Canadian federal election, but the Libs have won again.

At least the conservatives were kept from winning, but support for the NDP (the party to the left of the libs) is way down.

The 'Gaza Freedom Flotilla' aid organization has announced that approximately six hours ago, one of its ships was attacked twice by Israeli drones while in international waters near Malta There are reportedly 30 aid workers onboard.

This is the second time since the outbreak of the war on Gaza that Israel has sabotaged the aid organization’s plans to deliver aid, the first being in April 2024, and the fifth instance overall.

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White supremacy. Next question. Link (no transcript yet)

Brookings Poll on Trump’s approach to universities, Israel-Palestine, and antisemitism:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/poll-analysis-trumps-approach-to-universities-israel-palestine-and-antisemitism/

Copying their summary from the top:

• Americans see confronting Trump administration critics and critics of Israel as even stronger driving forces than confronting antisemitism.

• Americans view labeling people antisemitic as more often used to delegitimize political opponents and critics of Israel than to describe people who are genuinely antisemitic.

• Less than half of all Americans are now sympathetic to Israel for the first time since 2001.

US pulls out of formal peace talks between Ukraine and Russia

Speaking to Fox News, Mr Vance said President Trump had brought both sides to the negotiating table, but that the US would no longer lead efforts to mediate peace.

“It’s not going anywhere… it’s not going to end any time soon,” he said. “It would now be up to them to come to an agreement and stop this brutal, brutal conflict.”

Al-Quds Brigades announce two operations against Israeli occupation forces

In a statement, the Brigades reported that their fighters, upon returning from the frontlines, confirmed the detonation of an MK84 bomb—originally left behind by the Zionist enemy—which had been pre-planted to target an enemy military convoy in the same area last Saturday.

The group also claimed responsibility for the precise bombing of an Israeli military D9 bulldozer as it advanced east of Al-Tuffah, emphasizing the operation's high accuracy.

MK84 is a 2,000lb bomb. Congratulations to Palestine on their new space program

Cuban Doctors Prevent Collapse of Grenada’s Health System: PM Mitchell - Telesur English

Today is the 80th Anniversity

Damn, just saw a clip of Gordon Chang in Fox News saying China folded in the trade war, and this is the begnining of the end. Ebil tankies in shambles

Big news from Iran, with the suspension of negotiations between the USA and Iran. Iran has unveiled a new Anti Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) called the Qassem Basir. This is the ASBM version of the land attack Haj Qassem ballistic missile, with a range of 1400km for the land attack version, Iran claims a range of either 1200km or 1300km for the anti ship version (conflicting information currently). Yes, these missiles are named after Qassem Soleimani. This is big news as the current longest range dedicated ASBM in the Iranian arsenal (and potentially Yemeni arsenal) is the Zulfiqar Basir, with a range of 700km, so we're looking at nearly double the range.

Qassem Basir ASBM variant:

View of the target in the bottom half of the image from the missile's electro-optical seeker:

Haj Qassem land attack original variant:

Now, the Zulfiqar, Dezful, and Qassem missiles are all part of the same family of ballistic missiles (which I will call the Zulfiqar family), in that they all use a Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicle (MaRV) of similar design, with Dezful and Qassem being ways to extend the range of the Zulfiqar MaRV, from 700km, to 1000km with Dezful, to 1400km with Qassem. With an ASBM version of Zulfiqar already in existence, it makes sense to use the Qassem as a longer range ASBM platform.

How this missile works and acquires it's target is similar to how other Iranian shorter range ASBMs work, and an extension of the Pershing-II concept (first ever MaRV equipped land attack ballistic missile). The missile is targeted at an appropriate re-entry point, near the actual or predicted location of a ship. During re-entry, the MaRV performs a "pull up" maneuver, then a "glide phase". During this glide, the electro optical seeker, likely an infrared camera, acquires it's target using image matching techniques (Iran calls this AI now, yes the AI mind virus is everywhere), and them plans a trajectory towards it, before performing a final dive to the target, ideally with an impact velocity above Mach 2.

The big breakthrough here is getting the seeker to survive the higher speed and higher altitude re-entry associated with longer range. The Zulfiqar Basir had a burnout and initial terminal velocity of over Mach 7, and the Raad-500/Tankeel of Mach 8. So that was the previous limit. The land attack Haj Qassem had a peak velocity of Mach 12. With the range being reduced slightly for the anti ship version, likely to reduce velocity to ensure survival of the electro optical seeker, peak velocity is likely not as high. But I'd guess a safe estimate is that the seeker can now survive Mach 10+ speeds, a noticeable improvement.

Iran has unveiled this very covertly, under the guise of a "new missile to target Israel and evade THAAD", but the Basir designation (means to see or perceive in this context, used for Iranian ballistic missiles with electro-optical seekers,), and presence of an electro-optical (likely infrared) seeker on the MaRV, tells a different story. This is an ASBM that works in the same ways as other Iranian ASBMs. Yes it can be used to strike land targets in Israel with higher accuracy in GNSS jammed environments (like shorter range Iranian missiles have done in the past versus US military bases, but now at long range versus Israel, solving the accuracy problem for long range Iranian ballistic missile attacks), but that's a dual use capability that could make a hypothetical "Operation True Promise III" counterforce attack more viable in future. The real question for now is, if Ansarallah/the Houthis in Yemen will get their hands on it.

This is a card that Iran has had up it's sleeve and is now being played, the question is, how will they play it. Exclusively for themselves, or will Yemen get it to strike US Navy warships. Without further modifications to increase range involving lighter payloads and suboptimal minimum energy trajectories, it's not viable to hit targets in Israel from Yemen (2000km range is needed for that), and I can't see the electro optical sensor surviving re-entry under those conditions.

4 minute long video is included in the article:

Iran unveils its latest ballistic missile 'Qassem Basir', May 4 2025

Russia revealed hard proof that fascist dictator Adolf Hitler died in his bunker in Berlin 80 years ago:

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Hitler-jaw-apr-2025:e

Report: Israeli soldier who ordered killing of 15 paramedics {in Gaza} works as mercenary in DRC Congo