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Lebanese opposition leader calls for Hezbollah to withdraw from country’s south

Samir Geagea, the head of the Lebanese Forces party, has said that the country’s Shia militia Hezbollah should withdraw from the country’s south, as the threat of all-out war with Israel rises.

“It would be better if Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah withdrew from the south and handed it over to the army, instead of giving his speech tomorrow, and his promotional films – ‘it’s not time for them’,” Geagea said in a post on social media.

:nasrallah-who-must-go:

Hezbollah: Earlier this evening, we targeted 19 IDF sites across the border at once, using ATGMs and other weapons

people who wear shorts in sub freezing weather will be the shock troops of the revolution tbh

BRG posting hits again

Good new Ian Welsh post: Notes On The Structure Of American Imperial Collapse (State of the World 2023, #1)

China is more dominant than the US was in its prime. (Well maybe not in 1946.)

Now this sort of thing is a leading indicator. Countries who were dominant are able to control more of the world’s resources than they deserve for some time after they lose their dominance.

Be clear, the US has LOST its dominance already. It’s all over except for the shooting. It doesn’t look or feel like that because of generations of accumulation and because the dollar is used for most world trade.

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This time it’s going to happen faster, because the US has abused its central position in financial networks in ways other countries, like Russia and China won’t tolerate.

Nothing that new for my knowledgable hexbear comrades, but I found Welsh’s writing to be a useful bridge for well meaning lib friends to get a bit more of a materialist view of the world

The official pod is doing a livestream about the propaganda surrounding the current events in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/live/CMUKcjCG7xM?si=lpxonik866upNzAH

All this just to tell me to play RAID: Shadow Legends?

Anyone know of any good articles or otherwise detailed explanations of why the one-state solution is the only correct solution, and how ethnostates like Israel do not in fact have a “right to exist”?

Police investigate destruction of Israeli hostage memorial at Bondi Beach

New South Wales Police say they are investigating after a memorial to Israeli hostages taken by Hamas was disrupted at Bondi Beach.

Over 200 towels, thongs and posters of victims were put up on a fence along the beach by the Australian Jewish community early this morning.

"Officers from Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command had commenced an investigation following reports of an alleged incident at Bondi Beach," a New South Wales police spokesperson said.

"Anyone with information should call Waverly police."

No mention of what happened. Did someone steal a towel? Scrawl swastikas along the pavement? We just donot know. "Disrupted".

One month after barbaric bombardment swift still haven't switched off isnreel from civilized world, curious

why is he giving a shoutout to will menaker now? what's going on?

Jewish fascist uses the terms monster and Nazi but not to accurately describe himself.

Former Israeli minister calls for ‘erasure’ of Gaza

Galit Distel Atbaryan, a member of parliament from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, has tweeted that Israel’s divided politicians should unite and instead erase “all of Gaza from the face of the earth”.

Distel Atbaryan, who was public diplomacy minister until mid-October, and was previously information minister, wrote the incendiary tweet after she said she viewed footage of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7.

The politician added that “Gazan monsters” had the option of heading to Egypt or dying, and said that there should be “fire and smoke on the heads of Nazis” in the occupied West Bank.

-Al Jazeera

Brian Berletic and his circles are pushing the idea that the US is actively trying to provoke Iran, and wants this to turn into a conflict that they can present Iran as the aggressor in. They're citiing a think tank paper where the strategy put forward would be to use Israel as a proxy to incite Iran into a conflict.

https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/brian-berletic-on-the-foundations-of-the-israel-gaza-conflict

My (generally good on Palestine) lib friend texted me about Hamas mutilations during the Al-Aqsa Flood. I haven't been following the specifics of what specifically happened on that day because I figured we're in a fog of war and figured I'd wait until an actual report, but now I feel like I need to know some details.

My impression was that most of the charges of mutilation (like the 40 decapitated babies) were basically only coming from unsupported IOF claims - is this correct or am I just in a bubble? Were there charges of mutilation and/or SA that are generally agreed by both sides to have occurred?

(I plan to defend the Flood in my response either way, I just don't want to be caught off guard)

In other news

https://www.rt.com/russia/586535-ekaterinburg-russia-snow-penis/

"Dropping an anti personnel grenade on manned forces in Beit Hanoun" 1st of November 2023

https://streamable.com/vcw6fv

How do you become the religious leader of a guerrilla resistance army and not learn how to write a speech? Man did the dude repeat himself and go off on tangents and meander through. I get the feeling that a few minutes afterwards he said "Ah Fuck. I forgot to talk about [thing that was really important]"

Hezbollah has announced their new gaming console, it would seem

Saw a video of an alt-righter harrassing Dan Crenshaw for supporting Ukraine. It was very telling how Dan would smugly chuckle off being called a war monger or caring more about Ukraine than domestic issues, but getting called a dwarf was what caused him to snap.

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

Read this article to understand how neoliberal economist are the dumbest motherfuckers on the entire planet. Some choice quotes

Nordhaus’s models tell us that at a temperature rise somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, the global economy reaches “optimal” adaptation.

Among most scientists, it’s lunacy to discuss optimization of anything anywhere when the globe hits even 2 C warming. Climate researchers Yangyang Xu and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, in a widely cited 2017 paper, defined 1.5 C warming as “dangerous” and 3 C or greater as “catastrophic,” while above 5 C was “beyond catastrophic,” with consequences that include “existential threats.”

“The risk of multi-breadbasket failure is increasing, and rises much faster beyond 1.5 C of global heating. … Such shocks pose grave threats — rocketing food prices, civil unrest, major financial losses, starvation, and death.”

By contrast, when Nordhaus looked at the effects of 6 C warming, he did not forecast horror. Instead, we should expect “damages” of between 8.5 percent and 12.5 percent of world GDP over the course of the 21st century.

In an email to The Intercept, Nordhaus characterized his colleagues’ critiques as “a distorted and inaccurate description of the work and my views. [...] He declined to elaborate on any distortions or inaccuracies.

Lmao, thanks for confirming idiot.

Nordhaus calculates GDP of a particular location as fundamentally related to the temperature of that place. So, if in 2023 it’s a certain temperature in London, and the GDP in London is such-and-such, it’s reasonable to assume that when latitudes north of London rise in temperature in the future, GDP will rise to be the same as London’s today. Make of this what you will — it’s foolishness on a grand scale, and yet it’s central to the Nordhaus model.

The fourth fatal error Nordhaus makes is the most farcical. In a 1991 paper that became a touchstone for all his later work, he assumed that, because 87 percent of GDP occurs in what he called “carefully controlled environments” — otherwise known as “indoors” — it will not be affected by climate. Nordhaus’s list of the indoor activities free of any effects from climate disruption include manufacturing, mining, transportation, communication, finance, insurance, real estate, trade, private sector services, and government services.

The one below is my favourite, agriculture is only 3% of GDP, so if it disappeared the economy would be fine.

Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization.

In less than a week, we went from "let's turn Gaza into Dresden" to "let's turn Gaza into Hiroshima."

The deranged Zionist libertarian is back: https://nitter.cz/moshefeiglin/status/1719605249806135439

From here

Couldn't sleep, guess I'll have to nap a bit on the bus down

Can't wait for the blockbuster, many teasers from Hezbollah and Iranians so far, and they look fire

I have a feeling the PA, given it's current treatment of it's own people in the West Bank during this is a complicit lapdog. Shaking hands with and offering to replace Hamas in Gaza seems like it's willing to accept steep Palestinian loses and further entrenchment of zionist invaders. (I'm not indignifying them with the term "settlers")

https://archive.ph/PWzd2

Insulting propaganda and whitewashing from the nyt

The aircraft are MQ-9 Reapers operated by U.S. Special Operations

The unarmed surveillance flights are not supporting Israeli military operations on the ground, according to the Defense Department officials. Two officials said the goal was to assist in locating hostages, monitor for signs of life and pass potential leads to the Israel Defense Forces.

What a joke.

I edited this so it's the entire update.

What did we learn from the IDF's Daniel Hagari?

A few moments ago we heard from IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari who was giving the Israeli military’s daily press briefing. Here’s a summary of what he said:

• Israeli fighter jets attacked the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, resulting in senior commander Ibrahim Biari being killed

• Several other Hamas members who were with the commander in the building and underground were also killed

• The attack also caused the collapse of Hamas’s underground infrastructure – the purpose of this infrastructure was to carry out terrorist activities against the Israeli forces

• Hagari said Hamas continues to use the civilian population as shields intentionally "and in a very cruel and brutal manner"

• Hagari repeated the IDF’s call for people in the north of Gaza to head south

 

As a reminder, the BBC is not able to immediately verify most battlefield claims

- BBC

Rant - the BBC update page is fucking shit.

Islamic Resistance in Iraq announce attacking a vital israeli target on the coast of the Dead Sea on Thursday morning in response to the massacres in Gaza

Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.

so basically we 'av all our rotten eggs in one baskit

“I wouldn't take in an Israeli refugee because…”: Comedian Phil Chapman

video - https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1720517429028114432/vid/avc1/480x852/kaVvsuW6FUBWHU6_.mp4?tag=14