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“Former” war criminal students assault Palestinians at Columbia U with chemical weapon

But please tell me more about how the fragile Zionists crackers hallucinating about Hamas coming to shit in their pants is a more pressing concern

The end is near: https://archive.is/20240115190309/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-wants-china-join-global-peace-summit-2024-01-15/

Switzerland to host Ukraine peace summit at Zelenskiy's request

Summary

• Date and venue for summit to be determined
• Zelenskiy wants China to be involved
• Russian invasion enters third year next month

North Korea Labels South Korea a ‘Principal Enemy,’ Will No Longer Work Toward Reconciliation

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country will abandon its decades-old policy of seeking reconciliation with South Korea as tensions continue to soar on the Korean Peninsula.

In a speech on Monday, Kim called for Pyongyang to change its constitution to label Seoul as an “invariable principal enemy.” If war breaks out, Kim said North Korea’s goal should be to take over South Korean territory.

“In my opinion, we can specify in our constitution the issue of completely occupying, subjugating and reclaiming the ROK [Republic of Korea] and annex it as a part of the territory of our Republic in case of a war breaks out on the Korean peninsula,” he said, according to The Pyongyang Times.

Kim said a statue erected in Pyongyang in 2001 to commemorate former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s reunification proposals should be removed. “We should also completely remove the eye-sore ‘Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification’ standing at the southern gateway to the capital city of Pyongyang and take other measures so as to completely eliminate such concepts as ‘reunification,’ ‘reconciliation’ and ‘fellow countrymen’ from the national history of our Republic,” he said.

The North Korean leader blamed the tensions on the US and joint military drills it has held with South Korea. The US and South Korea resumed major war games in 2022 after South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol came into office. Yoon vowed to take a much harder line than his predecessor, Moon Jae-in, who pursued Korean reunification.

The US-South Korean drills are extremely provocative toward the North, as they have included rehearsing the assassination of Kim. The US has also deployed bombers and other strategic assets to the region, including docking a nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time since the 1980s.

North Korea typically responds to the provocations by firing missiles or other types of weapons, and the two sides are stuck in a cycle of tit-for-tat escalation. The Biden administration has shown no interest in de-escalation as it likely views the deployments to the Korean Peninsula as part of its military buildup against China in the region.

Kim said instability “of the regional situation is soaring due to the US-led escalation of military tensions” and that the “danger of the outbreak of a war to be caused by a physical clash has considerably aggravated and reached a red line. We do not want war, but we also have no intention of avoiding it.”

North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly has followed Kim’s speech by abolishing government organizations responsible for communication with the South and working toward reconciliation, known as the National Economic Cooperation Bureau and the Mount Kumgang International Tourism Administration. The Assembly said the two Koreas are in “acute confrontation.”

Well, now's a good a time as any

If you ever want to attack a foreign, sovereign state, just declare them to be terrorists first.

Claire Daily calling out butcher biden on the European Parliament, and also calling Von der Leyen Frau Genocide

https://nitter.net/ClareDalyMEP/status/1747323130060697682#m

Comparing the lemmy.ml and lemmy.world front pages right now is sort of terrifying.

lemmy.ml:

1. AfD plans to turn Germany into authoritarian state, vice-chancellor warns

2. US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn't yet stopped ship attacks

3. North Korea training, providing weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis

4. Britain has flown 50 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel

5. Infertility: Chemical substances omnipresent in everyday life are among the causes

Reasonable enough, right? Now compare it to lemmy.world:

1. Washington to Israel: Turn the lights back on in Gaza

2. NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia

3. Netanyahu Says 'From the River to the Sea,' a Phrase Zionists Claim is Genocidal

4. Putin could attack NATO in '5 to 8 years,' German defense minister warns

5. Poland is 'Next' After Russia Wins Ukraine War, Putin Ally Says

THREE OUT OF FIVE ARTICLES are just blatant warmongering trying to manifest a future Russia-NATO war. And this is a community that is supposed to be less extreme than Reddit's group of bloodthirsty clowns.

Washington Post: As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign

The Biden administration is crafting plans for a sustained military campaign targeting the Houthis in Yemen after 10 days of strikes failed to halt the group’s attacks on maritime commerce, stoking concern among some officials that an open-ended operation could derail the war-ravaged country’s fragile peace and pull Washington into another unpredictable Middle Eastern conflict.

What is Genocide Joe's deal? Does he really want nothing more than to kill brown people? I genuinely don't see how this strategy can do anything but make things objectively worse.

Brandon designates Ansar Allah as a terrorist group

cope

apparently nikki haley cheated on her husband while he was in the military

Ansar Allah: “We consider all American and British ships and warships participating in the aggression against our country as hostile targets within the target bank of our forces.”

Nytimes brought the needle back for the most inconsequential thing of all time lmao

New slammer JDPON meme

~~I have blueskkky codes if you nerds want them~~ i have no codes now

Blinken Stranded After Boeing 737 Breaks Down on Davos Trip

All that media posturing and speculation from Reddit libs that Trump was done for because they live in an urban bubble where Trump is despised were proven wrong. Trump won overwhelmingly in Iowa as was expected. He was more than double what DeSantis had.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1224749221/trump-wins-republican-iowa-caucus-2024

Biden aides told lawmakers that a lack of additional aid to Ukraine would result in a Russian victory in "potentially weeks, months at best"

heard that they classified some group in yemen as terrorists? the "houthis"? idk anything about that but i support the brave and heroic Yemeni Armed Forces in all that they do

It's really not Boeing's year, huh?

Boeing 747 engine catches fire, turns back and lands in Miami.

Wasting company time to make this:

Inspired by this post

Al Jazeera WATCH: Journalist questions bombing of Gaza university - CW video of demolition of civilian building....

Israa University in Gaza was demolished by the Israeli army with 315 mines on Wednesday after its forces occupied the campus for more than a month. The dramatic video has been making waves across the internet.

A US journalist got into a tense exchange with US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, questioning why Israel would go to such lengths to destroy civilian infrastructure.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen were unrelated to Israel's war with Hamas militants in Gaza.

The UK participated in last week's US-led air strikes across Yemen against Houthi forces in retaliation for months of attacks on Red Sea shipping.

Previously, the Houthis said their attacks targeted Israeli-linked vessels in response to Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza.

Speaking in parliament, Mr Sunak said the UK's "limited" strikes were a direct response to Houthi attacks on international shipping.

"We shouldn't fall for their malign narrative that this is about Israel and Gaza," he said.

Houthi attacks in Red Sea delay arrival of critical Yad Sarah medical equipment

https://www.timesofisrael.com/houthi-attacks-in-red-sea-delay-arrival-of-critical-yad-sarah-medical-equipment/

Yad Sarah, one of Israel’s largest non-profit charitable groups, warned on Sunday that the disruption of shipping in the Red Sea, caused by assaults by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants, is causing delays in the delivery of critical medical equipment and could lead to severe shortages, as Israel is almost four months into war with the Hamas terror group.

Almost felt a twinge of sympathy, but then

Since the outbreak of the Hamas war, Yad Sarah, one of the country’s largest medical aid volunteer organizations, has already supplied an entire year’s worth of “critical medical and rehabilitation equipment,” to soldiers and civilians, Cohen said.

Get fucked. I hope that your need for emergency supplies increases and is never fulfilled.

The attacks are working.

The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units shot down a US occupation MQ9 Reaper drone. -Sabareen News

Looking closely at China's GDP numbers, they're actually insane. China saw 5.2% net GDP growth on 0.34% CPI and net neutral foreign trade. Retail sales grew +7.2%, infrastructure investment grew +5.9%, manufacturing investment grew +6.5%, and real estate dragged down -9.6%. In every sector that matters, China is blowing growth numbers out of the water.

The judge called the men "hapless" petty criminals who were "easily manipulated" by the government in a sting operation, and said the case was "notorious".

The four men were convicted of terrorism charges in 2010 and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Friday's order by the judge asked for Cromitie's sentence to be cut to time served plus 90 days. It did not reverse the conviction.

Judge McMahon said that Cromitie was a small-time "grifter" who was broke and unemployed when he was enlisted in the FBI-driven plot and provided fake bombs to plant in exchange for $250,000 in the "jihadist mission."

Cromitie enlisted the other three men to serve as lookouts, according to the judge.

"The three men were recruited so that Cromitie could conspire with someone," the judge said.

"The real lead conspirator was the United States. The FBI invented the conspiracy; identified the targets; manufactured the ordnance."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-21/us-judge-orders-release-of-man-in-newburgh-four-terror-sting/103372702

Houtis strike a US cargo ship off Yemen.

The IOF continues to desecrate cemeteries in order to steal corpses (CW: desecrated graves): https://nitter.cz/m7mdkurd/status/1747566710838677540

What happened to the fucking website

Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis | naked capitalism

In a study published Jan. 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that nearly 1 in 4 hospital patients who died or were transferred to intensive care had experienced a diagnostic error. Nearly 18% of misdiagnosed patients were harmed or died.

In all, an estimated 795,000 patients a year die or are permanently disabled because of misdiagnosis, according to a study published in July in the BMJ Quality & Safety periodical.

Women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis, said David Newman-Toker, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the lead author of the BMJ study. “That’s significant and inexcusable,” he said.

Researchers call misdiagnosis an urgent public health problem. The study found that rates of misdiagnosis range from 1.5% of heart attacks to 17.5% of strokes and 22.5% of lung cancers.

Maternal mortality for Black mothers has increased dramatically in recent years. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, non-Hispanic Black mothers are 2.6 times as likely to die as non-Hispanic white moms. More than half of these deaths take place within a year after delivery.

Research shows that Black women with childbirth-related heart failure are typically diagnosed later than white women, said Jennifer Lewey, co-director of the pregnancy and heart disease program at Penn Medicine. That can allow patients to further deteriorate, making Black women less likely to fully recover and more likely to suffer from weakened hearts for the rest of their lives.

Racial and gender disparities are widespread.

Women and minority patients suffering from heart attacks are more likely than others to be discharged without diagnosis or treatment.

Black people with depression are more likely than others to be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia.

Minorities are less likely than whites to be diagnosed early with dementia, depriving them of the opportunities to receive treatments that work best in the early stages of the disease.

Misdiagnosis isn’t new. Doctors have used autopsy studies to estimate the percentage of patients who died with undiagnosed diseases for more than a century. Although those studies show some improvement over time, life-threatening mistakes remain all too common, despite an array of sophisticated diagnostic tools, said Hardeep Singh, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine who studies ways to improve diagnosis.

“The vast majority of diagnoses can be made by getting to know the patient’s story really well, asking follow-up questions, examining the patient, and ordering basic tests,” said Singh, who is also a researcher at Houston’s Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. When talking to people who’ve been misdiagnosed, “one of the things we hear over and over is, ‘The doctor didn’t listen to me.’”

Racial disparities in misdiagnosis are sometimes explained by noting that minority patients are less likely to be insuredthan white patients and often lack access to high-quality hospitals. But the picture is more complicated, said Monika Goyal, an emergency physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., who has documented racial bias in children’s health care.

In a 2020 study, Goyal and her colleagues found that Black kids with appendicitis were less likely than their white peers to be correctly diagnosed, even when both groups of patients visited the same hospital.

Demanding schedules, which prevent doctors from spending as much time with patients as they’d like, can contribute to diagnostic errors, said Karen Lutfey Spencer, a professor of health and behavioral sciences at the University of Colorado-Denver. “Doctors are more likely to make biased decisions when they are busy and overworked,” Spencer said. “There are some really smart, well-intentioned providers who are getting chewed up in a system that’s very unforgiving.”

Doctors make better treatment decisions when they’re more confident of a diagnosis, Spencer said.

In an experiment, researchers asked doctors to view videos of actors pretending to be patients with heart disease or depression, make a diagnosis, and recommend follow-up actions. Doctors felt far more certain diagnosing white men than Black patients or younger women.

“If they were less certain, they were less likely to take action, such as ordering tests,” Spencer said. “If they were less certain, they might just wait to prescribe treatment.”

It’s easy to see why doctors are more confident when diagnosing white men, Spencer said. For more than a century, medical textbooks have illustrated diseases with stereotypical images of white men. Only 4.5% of images in general medical textbooks feature patients with dark skin.

That may help explain why patients with darker complexions are less likely to receive a timely diagnosis with conditions that affect the skin, from cancer to Lyme disease, which causes a red or pink rash in the earliest stage of infection. Black patients with Lyme disease are more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced disease, which can cause arthritis and damage the heart. Black people with melanoma are about three times as likely as whites to die within five years.

The covid-19 pandemic helped raise awareness that pulse oximeters — the fingertip devices used to measure a patient’s pulse and oxygen levels — are less accurate for people with dark skin. The devices work by shining light through the skin; their failures have delayed critical care for many Black patients.

milei at Davos:

"The Socialists maintain that we humans are damaging the planet and that it must be protected at all costs, even going as far as advocating for the bloody agenda of abortion".

lmao?

A good thread on the pattern of lies and propaganda by Zionist legal groups in Oz. Includes the fact that the Aussie police never prosecuted anyone for the supposed chants of 'gas the jews' and other anti-semetic shouts at a protest because the organisation had faked the audio and couldn't provide the original video to the police.

New Jersey soldiers prepare for deployment to Syria and Iraq

US sending national guard units to the ME. Is this normal? Wouldn't they usually just use regular troops for this?

Yemen has been deterred

Houthi-fired missile strikes a US-owned vessel off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions

Due to repeated attacks from Iraqi Resistance fighters, the US is evacuating an occupation base in Syria. (Tasnim News Arabic -- Iranian State News Agency)

Paraphrased:

Sources in Syria report the evacuation of the US military base Hemo in the northern Syrian province of al-Hasakeh due to repeated attacks by Iraqi Islamic resistance groups. Hemo base, located 4 kilometer west of the Kamishla airport, is considered one of the most important US bases in the Syrian Arab republic with at least 350 permanent US military personnel. The base is also a training center where the US military trains Syrian Democratic Forces fighters (aka Kurdish US contras).

The US also sent reinforcements to the city of al-Hasakeh with helicopters and aircraft (to help the evacuation I think? it's unclear from the article)