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https://www.palestinechronicle.com/overwhelming-majority-norways-largest-trade-union-votes-for-boycott-of-israel/

Norway’s Largest Trade Union Votes for Boycott of Israel

$22 billion value divestment from stocks the fund has and a complete trade ban

94% for, 6% against

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New at the Samidoun website: The assassination of Nour al-Bitawi and Hikmat Abdel-Nabi: Targeting the liberated prisoners and the resistance

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IT'S OVER AND HE SAID NOTHING

I want to extend my congratulations to both Pakistan and India for Winning this War decisively.

Putin has finally started speaking, coinciding with the possible launch of Geran-2/Shahed 136 one way attack drones on Ukraine.

RT has it live with English translation, you'll likely need a VPN for this if you live in NATOland

AMK Mapping, reporting on drone launches

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Putin wants Russia to hold direct talks with Ukraine in Turkey again with regards to a ceasefire.

Speech over, that's it. An offer to negotiate in Istanbul directly with Ukraine again on May 15th, presumably. A rejection of the EU's plan for an unconditional 30 day ceasefire before any talks begin. War continues now.

Putin statement livestream -Europa Univerallis 5 got announced

Edit: Putin won his war of attrition against my attention span.

Putin is set to make an announcement in 15 minutes...

Nothing ever happens, or will things start happening again?

Seems to be running behind schedule, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says that no questions will be allowed, Putin will just make a statement.

I made up a term: "Ethanic Kleiner". And his fans are simply "Ethanic Kleiners".

If that doesn't count enough as news, the zionist astroturfing on seems to have ramped up again for some reason, the past few days. Maybe zionists getting desperate due to the seeming spat between Trump and Netangotyou?

CNN (yeah I know, media) reports that Vance’s involvement started after the US received “alarming intelligence”. I think later on we’re gonna learn how close this was to going nuclear and it’d make Able Archer 83 blush.

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Simone Tebet, from the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement and the planning minister in Lula's big tent "everybody get in here yes even you" coalition said that:

China wants to "tear apart" Brazil with railways.

Despite the phrasing she didn't mean it in a negative way

CNN Economia posted a tweet with the quote. If you want to feel good for a little while go ahead and look at the quote retweets on that, very funny.

Look what the "europe is a garden" guy said.

'Half of bombs falling on Gaza supplied by us': Former EU foreign policy chief Europe is witnessing 'biggest ethnic cleansing operation since World War II' says Josep Borrell

With the ceasefire now in place between India and Pakistan (preliminary reports suggest that it has already been violated), it looks like much of the unconfirmed reports about large scale cyber attacks, both sides shooting down each others fighter aircraft, and within visual range engagements/dogfights, and entering each other's airspace, were exaggerated by both sides. There is no evidence for any of these claims.

What ended up actually happening was a tit for tat stand-off strike exchange aimed at each other's military bases and storage locations, with air launched cruise and ballistic missiles, and ground launched short range ballistic missiles and artillery rockets being used. The Indian Air Force managed to carry out stand off strikes without losing any aircraft this time, as they should've done during their first attack. That's the whole point of using stand-off weapons, minimal risk to the aircraft and pilots, high survivability. Lesson learnt by India, they carried out a successful attack on Pakistan this time, at the cost of 4 aircraft during the previous attack.

Pakistan responsed with thier own stand off strikes from their Air Force and rocket forces. Pakistani media published photos and videos of ground launched Fatah-1 guided artillery rockets, and Fatah-2 Short Range Ballistic Missiles, being used.

The most interesting claim from Pakistan is the "use of hypersonic weapons" launched from JF-17 fighter aircraft, to target an Indian S-400 air defence site at Adampur. With photos and videos released, the "hypersonic weapon" in question is the Chinese made CM-400AKG Air Launched Ballistic Missile (ALBM), with its passive radar anti ship seeker likely converted for anti radiation use against air defence radars (there is no official anti radiation version of the CM-400AKG). This makes a lot more sense than Pakistani aircraft entering Indian airspace to carry out some sort of Wild Weasel mission against the S-400 with short range anti radiation missiles, a puzzling initial claim. India has confirmed limited damage at Udhampur, Pathankot, Adampur and Bhuj, but denies that the S-400 system was hit. It is unclear what the truth is.

“Limited damage was sustained to equipment and personnel at Indian Air Force stations at Udhampur, Pathankot, Adampur and Bhuj,” said Indian Air Force officer Singh

“Pakistan Air Force’s JF-17 Thunder hypersonic missiles destroyed India’s S-400 system in Adampur,” state-run Pakistan TV had reported.

This is an “attempted misinformation campaign … India unequivocally rejects” it, said Misri, who was also joined by Col. Sofiya Qureshi.

India says Pakistan attacked with ‘high-speed’ missiles, targeted air bases

JF-17 with 2 CM-400AKG ALBMs.

Either way, hit or not, the S-400 system failed to intercept the CM-400AKG ALBM if there's damage. This is in line with previous performances of these high level air defence systems against ALBMs. Patriot systems in Ukraine have failed to intercept Kinzhal ALBMs, S-300P systems in Ukraine and Iran have failed to intercept Kinzhal and ROCKS ALBMs respectively. S-400s in Russia have even failed to intercept ground launched ATACMS short range ballistic missiles at times.

As for why these short range (250-500km) ALBMs, from ROCKS to Kinzhal to CM-400AKG are hard to intercept, one just needs to look at the flight trajectory. Even though they are ballistic missiles, their short range means that they don't exceed altitudes of 50km at apogee, remaining in the stratosphere and allowing for some form of aerodynamic control. They are even capable of pull up manoeuvres and long glide or cruise phases at altitudes above the maximum altitude ceiling of some lower altitude terminal ballistic intercept systems, similar to longer range MaRV equipped ballistic missiles. Time from launch from an aerial attack vector, to impact, is 300-400 seconds.

For defence against these kind of shorter range ballistic missiles, you need specialised systems, like the S-300V and it's variants, including the S-300V4, S-500 and Chinese equivalent HQ-18, the latest version of Patriot in PAC-3 MSE, Arrow-2. To increase their anti ballistic capabilities, some Russian S-400s have been fitted with the missiles from the S-300V4 or S-500 systems. India doesn't have that for their S-400, overall neither side has these systems, so expect more successful attacks if the conflict goes on. Even if India and Pakistan had these systems, these systems can and will fail. 100% intercept is impossible.

Violations reported after India and Pakistan agree to ceasefire.

Portuguese general election are in a week from now, I'm gonna go vote early tomorrow here are some things the ruling party and the PM has done the past month.

PM went on a talk show to sing with the country's most popular singer

Upon being approach by an old woman on the street who said she was hungry the PM told her "you gotta work"

Intentionally failed to uphold a deal made with railworkers unions in order to get them to strike 1 week before an election and now said that the government is willing to revise the laws regarding labour unions.

1 day before the being publicly revealed that more clients of the PM family business company payed millions to it the opposition leader used the information in a debate, which means he had prior access to it, which prompted a PSD spokesperson to say that journalists' phones should be checked to see who informed him.

For no reason declared that around 20k people illegally residing in portugal would be messaged to leave the country, which in itself isn't unusual it's routine procedure, what's unusual is hording the cases together and publicly declare that you're gonna do it.

PM went to visit his wife who is in a pilgrimage in Fatima and called TV stations to report on it

Now what effect will this have? Idk, polls are negligible, some show the ruling party winning which is believable on the basis that people didn't want elections so they'll just vote for the incumbent and others show the socialist party winning due dissatisfaction with the government.

Some polls show the demsoc Left Block, which in 2019 was the 3rd most voted party, being decimated, now that could be due to party scandals, unfavorable media coverage after years of favorable coverage (intended to dislodge the communist's influence in the left of center field), the fact that there's now a pro-war green eurocuck party which attracts a lot of the pro-eu socially liberal you voters that used to vote for them.

Or it could be due to running a weird campaign which, challenge for you reader, you can decide whether it's cringe or not. Here's 2 videos