[-] [email protected] 66 points 4 days ago

BBC bans ‘high-risk’ broadcasts after Bob Vylan - Russia Today

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The BBC has announced that it will no longer broadcast or livestream performances deemed ‘high risk’. The British public broadcaster faced backlash after airing a set by punk-rap duo Bob Vylan at the Glastonbury Festival, during which the group chanted against the Israeli military.

The group’s lead vocalist encouraged the crowd to chant “Death, death to the IDF” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, inshallah, it will be free” during the performance last weekend. Videos circulating on social media show the crowd echoing the chants, with some waving Palestinian flags.

“We deeply regret that such offensive and deplorable behaviour appeared on the BBC and want to apologise to our viewers, listeners, and in particular the Jewish community,” the broadcaster said in a statement released on Thursday.

The BBC noted that the band was classified as ‘high risk’ ahead of the festival, along with six other acts, but was still permitted to perform with “appropriate mitigations.” The company admitted to “errors” in the compliance processes and confirmed that Bob Vylan’s set has been permanently removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.

The outlet pledged to provide on-site editorial policy support at major music festivals and events moving forward. It also announced plans to issue clearer guidance on the criteria for withdrawing a livestream.


[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago

Zionist entity sought to kill Khamenei according to a TV interview in the entity Source: Russia Today

Apparently they weren't able to because he went into serious hiding. He didn't contact or accept contact with any of the new people who replaced the assassinated IRGC generals. There was a report a day or so ago about there being problems reaching him for negotiations because he didn't have any comms where he was and it was difficult to get to him so I believe this and this also shows the lengths the entity will go to decapitate its enemies. If he'd been a little less serious about protecting himself and remained in operational command they'd have dropped a bunker buster on his head just like Nasrallah IMO. This also I think is a serious threat in the near future if Bibi gets another indictment dropped on his head or whatever and would likely lead to the war they desperately crave which would force a US intervention. They said they'd do it without US approval too. Iran needs air defense.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Pizza index is supposedly really going off right now. Add to it both the zionists and Trump in threatening but very vague ways telling Iranians to leave Tehran and I think by tomorrow evening one of these or more will be true:

  1. The zionists are going to nuke Tehran and by issuing the warning they'll claim they tried to save lives and how moral they are blah, blah, blah. They told Trump and he said fine.

  2. The US is getting involved and attacks tomorrow, massive planed bombings across Tehran, possibly something resembling carpet bombing which Trump has shown a past admiration for in speech at least if not actions. Even if not indiscriminate like carpet bombing likely enough massive strikes by the US on various things including infrastructure and attempts to kill leadership that they expect if people don't flee that hundreds or thousands of civilians will die.

  3. It's a bluff. I don't believe this likely at this point. It could I suppose be a faint designed to make them think they'll get hit there when they intend to hit their nuclear installations first. But it seems like this wouldn't be that effective.

In either case Iran's lack of effective air defense is going to be a real problem. In either case I predict the zionists and US will deploy a cyber-weapon and electronic warfare to bring down what air defense Iran has before they start their attack whether nuclear or conventional.

They intend to kill Kohmeini as well as decapitate the military and civil and religious leadership of Iran to weaken it and finish it off. If the US is getting involved they will pound Iran's nuclear sites with bunker buster after bunker buster, they will hit them continuously for days and at least cause set-backs if not destruction. Decapitation if carried out successfully I think has a good chance of working, not next week but soon enough incompetent or compromised folks will be in charge and blunder or act the way the zionist entity and west want them to act leading to further failures eventually triggering a Syria or Libya style collapse with regional Arab puppet armies sent in along with proxies like MEK, ISIS, etc, maybe even Turkey to lead an on the ground invasion and toppling of remaining problems. This may take months or a year. Hezbollah was taken out of the picture after all by this tactic.

I was reading a piece that speculated the samson option wasn't just nuclear. That noted the zionists develop medical devices, code for all kinds of critical infrastructure and systems and the samson option could be designed to bring the world to its knees. Basically saying the only way for the world to be safe when the zionist entity falls is if the entirety of it is engulfed in multiple overlapping nuclear strikes preventing them from issuing the go code to start it. And I believe they'd do it. And because I believe they'd do that I believe they'd also nuke Tehran and get away with it.

Another speculation I've seen is the zionists will blow up the temple mount/third temple area and blame it on Iran to get the Muslim world angry at Iran and to be able to begin construction on the Jewish third temple prophesied in the bible (thus important to Christian zionists) which leads to the end times. If that were part of the package deal of nuking Tehran America's deranged Evangelicals would take it in a heartbeat as they're desperate for the apocalypse.

I hope everyone stays safe, I hope the US doesn't get involved and I hope nukes are not used but I am getting such a bad feeling about this.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago

On his part, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed "Israel" took “unilateral action against Iran,” warning that Tehran should not target the US in response to the Israeli attack.

“Our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for [their] self-defense,” Rubio stated.

“President Trump and the Administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners,” he added.

“Let me be clear: Iran should not target US interests or personnel."

Oh? Word? Cool so it's just between Iran and the zionist entity calling itself 'israel'. So if Iran decides to shoot a bunch of missiles and drones at this entity, US naval forces will not shoot those down or attempt to disrupt their course right? RIGHT? RIGHT?!?! Because that would make you a party to the conflict wouldn't it. Fucking special privilege demanding fucks.

[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago

I hate, hate, hate the phrase "housing reform". It's not the housing that needs reforming you fucks. We don't need to gut safety standards to the bone and kill even more people so the poor landleeches can make more money and escape responsibility, we don't need micro-homes made out of shipping containers, we don't need special home loans for minority business owners who own and operate a successful business for 3 years in an underprivileged community.

It's a way of smuggling in lowering the quality of life with ridiculously small living spaces that aren't adequately insulated or connected to utilities, lowering safety standards as in here, lowering already low accountability for slumlords. Anyone who utters this is an enemy of humanity.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 2 months ago

Trump: Prepares for war of aggression, talks aggressively of containing China, inherits island chain forward operations encirclement from decades of American policy of encircling and hemming in China with bases and partnerships including missile deployments and forward bombers and radar. Arms separatists on Taiwan, violates the basis of diplomatic relations, is president of incredibly war-mongering empire with long history of aggression including wars against three neighbors (Vietnam, Laos, Korea) in the past 75 years. Has think tanks openly plan wars of aggression against China and talk of how long they'll have military supremacy against them in a war.

Xi: Sees this stuff happening and prepares for purely DEFENSIVE war against this incredible and long-telegraphed aggression which he and previous administrations have done everything in their power to delay including taking economic hits and keeping their heads bowed to keep trade up between the powers. Talk is very diplomatic in tone, attempts to resolve tensions diplomatically, encourages trade and interconnectedness and globalization to decrease chances of conflict, talks of win-win cooperation, has exactly one foreign military base and its a tiny one in Africa next to a much larger US one.

Bourgeois propagandists: These are exactly the same, this is all coming down to aggression from BOTH sides (but really those sneaky Chinese who are forcing us to do this).

[-] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago

Very interesting they're letting him actually do this. I would think the bourgeoisie would not like this kind of hit. He still has time to do "incredible deals" whereby these countries agree to buy $100 of US goods and he drops the tarrifs while tooting his horn but things do kind of look like the bourgeoisie (those near levers of power anyways) are serious about forcibly decoupling and reshoring pronto to be able to fully enact the plan of isolating, blockading, sanctioning, and trying to turn up the pressure on and destroy China or at least prevent their rise and displacement of US power.

I mean it's either fail children running the show which I still can't buy because they'd love their enemies to think them more foolish and incapable than they are and we don't have that luxury OR the whole plan for drawing back, child labor, small yard, high fence, using the sword of empire to attempt to force the world to buy more US stuff to displace competitors OR they're on some sort of dark enlightenment trip and think capitalism is over and the only way to avoid socialism is turning the barbarism machine way up and trying to create some sort of techno-feudalism or something else at home.

Why does it matter? Well if they're just incompetent then indeed the fall of the US is in order in the near future lea-w but options 2 and 3 spell very, very, very dire times for those in the imperial core as it's a very orderly managed decline that's liable to be able to potentially draw it out many more decades into the future and inflict incredible amounts of suffering on those of us stuck here in the mean-time (beyond just treats being more expensive).

[-] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I love how people who must be new to America were claiming that oh jury nullification would happen, oh surely their defense attorney would be incompetent to not get at least one person fucked over by health insurance companies on the jury, etc, etc. Exhibit A. The judge is the arbiter of what is and isn't fair including in jury selection and this judge already knows what they want I'm sure. All they have to do in their mind is preside over proving he was the shooter and it wasn't someone else. Then throw the book at him, send him to the worst prison, have the DA and mayor hold a grinning press conference where friendly press asks a softball about the "small minority of extremists celebrating the shooter" to which they reply they're next and that the proles had better learn their place because the truncheon is out and they will not tolerate so much as online joke-threats against the precious C-suite class.

Just more of business as usual two-tier justice system (bourgeoisie and their important servants and everyone else especially proles). Post SA threats against women? Against minor girls online? Sorry cops can't do anything internet isn't real, stop worrying about it even though they sent you pictures of your house and have been doing this for weeks in graphic detail. Post like one joke meme about a C-suite person who lives 3000 miles from you with a guillotine that they never even see? Warrant for no-knock raid signed immediately, terrorism charges prepared, dog shot dead, press announcement of no tolerance made about the raid by visibly angry and stern DA or cop.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago

Seymour Hersh is now reporting that the zionist occupation plans to annex the west bank in the next couple of weeks so that it's a fact on the ground by the time Trump gets into office.

Words cannot begin to express the anger and rage I feel.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago

I knew this was coming. I was just thinking yesterday how it's amazing how he hasn't been deplatformed already but given Trump, the circling of wagons ever tighten for the zionist occupation with propaganda like about the soccer hooligans. The hammer was inevitably going to fall on Hasan and the fact he makes Twitch money is not going to be enough to save him.

He needs to be prepared to move his audience to a sovereign platform not under control or influence of imperialist outrage machine and he needs the plan for that ready yesterday.

Not easy to do but at least some way he can keep in touch if the hammer falls and drag some portion of his audience which would end up being much smaller admittedly with him.

Because I am positive that the new trifecta of Republicans are going to go for the old red meat and plenty of it, fearmongering about "radical left" and all that and Hasan is perfect for that. So while this outrage may or may not get him deplatformed from Twitch once it rises to the notice of Mr. Bezos that one of his machines is elevating an anti-imperialist anti-capitalist, I think we can be pretty sure the pressure will be dialed up to 11 sometime between January and summer of next year. The Democrats and liberals are all in on it and attacking the left after their loss to Trump, they'll merrily join and call for more information control, more censorship in other words painted in rosier terms.

When they pass laws to even further strip the 1st amendment of protections for anyone against empire it will be with the strong urging, support, and design of Democrats. And yet their blueanon voters will howl how Trump is the one who wants to censor and control things while their party urgently works to build a better machinery of control for him or anyone else instead of doing the obvious thing which is to push back on all attempts at censorship, to rebuke in times like these government power and meddling. Hopefully a few liberals notice this.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago

Here we go. Now did they have an ounce of sense and just pound the desert and a few unimportant places and claim otherwise in their propaganda so Iran has an out not to retaliate in kind? Or more likely did these deranged zionists hit important things and Iran has to hit back even harder and kill US troop scum manning their air defenses as well? At which point the US can either leave with its tail between its legs like Reagan did Lebanon in the 80s or escalate in some way including potentially war.

I hope the people of Iran remain safe regardless of outcome. I hope the colonizers of the zionist occupation continue to feel and be very unsafe as they should be until they stop their genocide and dismantle their apartheid regime.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago

Oh fuck the lemmy.ml thread is full of scratched liberals screaming about Russia bad and Russians bad and this is good actually. .world and .shitworks continue to be a mistake.

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