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Japan's ruling parliamentary coalition, consisting of the LDP (purple) and it's junior coalition partner Komeito (in light pink) have lost their ruling majority. They have ruled post-war Japan for almost its entire history. The LDP is currently led by Shigeru Ishiba after Kishida stood down due to a corruption scandal, and ties to the Unification Church.

While geopolitical factors (over the cold war between the US and China, etc) may have played a role, by far the biggest reason for this result in the poor economic conditions over the past few years. Inflation has risen and real wages have fallen, with little relief for the working class via things like tax reductions. While inequality in Japan is not as extreme as in America, it is still profound, with the top 10% possessing 60% of the wealth, while the bottom 50% possess just 5%.

Shinzo Abe previously tried to boost economic performance through monetary easing and fiscal deficits, while Kishida ran on a "new capitalism" which rejected Abe's neoliberalism and promised to reduce inequality. Nothing substantial has resulted from all this, however, other than increasing corporate wealth. Innovation continues to fall, and domestic profitability is low, resulting in decreasing investment at home by Japanese corporations. Labour productivity growth has only slightly picked up since the mid-2000s and is falling again. The rate of profit has fallen by half since the 1960s, and Japan has been in a manufacturing recession - or very close to it - since late 2022. In essence: there is no choice but between stagnation or decline.


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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

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English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
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English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 118 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 108 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Ansarallah says do not vote for Trump or Harris:
https://xcancel.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1851871758200246345

"Trump's danger is not limited to the outside world, but also to America itself, and he may be the cause of its destruction, but it is not appropriate for the Muslims of America to embrace his election so that they are not the deciding vote for his victory. It is preferable for them to abstain from voting for either candidate because both of them are linked to destructive projects for humanity, whether they are bloody or contrary to nature."

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 87 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Me when Ansarallah tells me to do something I was gonna do anyway rat-salute-2

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 108 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (21 children)

There's a lady on tiktok that comes up for me very often and she sets off my psyops alarm bells every time.

https://www.tiktok.com/@openbookshelf

She shows up for me often and has nominally soft socialist-adjacent criticisms of power, authority, current government, wealth, landlords, even anti-monarchism and anti-cop, etc etc etc. But when it comes to the biggest issues? The issues of anti-imperialism? She falls on the side of nato EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

She's a pretty lady, whose brand is basically a caricature of Britishness, she pulls off the British librarian caricature that I can only describe as like Rachel Weisz in The Mummy. Is almost always seen with a mug of tea in her hand and if it wouldn't make it too obvious I think they'd throw the British Union Jack flag in every video but instead they keep that to only a few.

It's like she's tailor-made to suck people in to a kind of up your arse intellectualism that then redirects any potential anti-establishment or revolutionary energy into fucking uselessness.

The biggest giveaway here however is that she worked in China until recently, for the Chinese government she claims, for 3 years. Yet she calls the party by the shibboleth CCP and regularly performs anti-China propaganda unprompted, like it's a job. She does not promote other left accounts. She does not promote events. She exists solely as a sheepdog.

This strategy is what I think should be called "de-influencer", the goal is to stick people into the left that appear left and have a great media image that's attractive and easily something people can be sucked in by, and to use that to suck air out of the sails of real leftist influence in online platforms.

I'm telling you, this woman is a cop. GCHQ, Scotland Yard, MI, some branch of Civil Service, maybe military, I don't know. But she's one of them.

The fact that she stopped working in China at the exact moment in time China cracked down on western agents within their government makes me think she was pulled out because it got dangerous.

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 106 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Jesus christ, bill Clinton gave an incredibly pro genocide speech

Edit:

How many civilians should Israel kill? “I am sorry but we are not keeping score that way.”

He literally did the Hexbear post

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 105 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 103 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Hitler wasn't elected, he was appointed chancellor by the lesser evil candidate.

Kamala has vowed to have a Republican in her cabinet.

These two statements have absolutely no relation whatsoever.

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[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 99 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

Another extreme lula L

Lula doesn't endorse an arms embargo on israel

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 99 points 4 weeks ago (15 children)

Bernie Sanders uploaded a video on his YouTube channel about voting for Kamala even if you’re upset by her position on the genocide. He says “Israel has a right to defend itself” in the first ten seconds.

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 99 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (17 children)

Back online after two weeks of taking care of irl stuff. Random disconnected thoughts incoming:

  • Aunt and her kids have successfully left Lebanon into Syria and then into Iraq, very happy with that. Thank God for the Iraqis, we're forever indebted to them for just how extraordinarily generous they've been with the refugees. Fuck the Egyptians for not even doing 0.1% of that for the people of Gaza.

  • Son is already nearly four months old. Very nice kid tbh, not too many sleepless nights so far.

  • Damn the Ukraine war is progressing very fast now, I don't even have time to learn the names of the villages anymore. Cursed town Ugledar might have been the glue that held together Ukraine's defence in the south-east. Nonstop collapse since Ugledar fell and now we are looking at the first big Russian arrow since the first weeks of the war. South Donetsk is done if Russia reach Andriivka, that entire Kurakhove corner will fall in matter of weeks. Very interesting developments on the Oskol sector as well, don't understand why Ukraine is letting their east Kupyansk grouping get pinned towards the river and not withdrawing behind a very defensible river line.

  • I don't believe the reports about any ceasefire whether in Lebanon or Gaza. The Doha talks about Gaza are just a last ditch effort to provide a "peace in the Middle East" boost for Kamala, there's little real substance there. Same with the Lebanon negotiations, there's no incentive for any side here. Israel continue their forever war, Americans sell guns, Iranians have an excuse to lob missiles at Israel whenever they want now and Hezbollah are inflicting record damage on IDF losers.

  • Help me out Hexxies, who will win the election? My instincts say it's big wet Donnie, but idk these days. How are the polls looking? I read reddit and in their world Kamala will win every single state, while right wings dumbasses on Twitter say that NY is a swing state.

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 97 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

JUST IN: milei fired his Foreign Minister because she voted in favour of lifting the blockade on Cuba at the recent UN assembly.

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 97 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Richard Spencer just endorsed Kamala lol
Said his single issue is continuing the war in Ukraine

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 95 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Wow, watch StateSpox laugh and make jokes when Matt Lee asks about a UN vote condemning the US embargo on Cuba

Lee: You aware of the vote tomorrow

Miller: I wasn’t tracking this on my bingo card

Lee: How is the US going to vote

Miller: I doubt we’ll be voting to condemn ourselves (laughs)

Lee: Last year of Obama’s presidency you guys abstained, as you probably know it’s basically the entire world votes to condemn it and you and Israel vote against, so do you have anything to say about this yearly display of international isolation

Miller: I don’t (smirks)

MUST NOT FEDPOST...

MUST NOT FEDPOST...

MUST NOT FEDPOST...

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https://nitter.poast.org/AssalRad/status/1850980965503680900

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 93 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There are kids in Gaza who are like 6 years old but they aged 50 years in mere days. The heavy toll on their mental health cannot be measured, it's shattered, they are not only not having a normal infancy, they're living and growing in genocidal conditions... I can't even begin to comprehend what goes through their heads, how are they even able to process and make sense of what they do and what they've seen. I'm afraid the damage and the suffering they go through will give them company for the rest of their lives. May they find hope, love and solidarity within their community.

death to "israel" and death to everyone who is complicit of this. Anger, hate and violence against zionists and their genocide denial allies is not only morally justified... it is also desirable.

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 93 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

The Israeli terrorist regime has banned the UN agency UNRWA from operating inside "Israel". This includes the west bank territories.

Death to Israel, death to America

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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 93 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza in one year (170) than all the journalists killed in WW2 (67) and the Vietnam War (68) combined.

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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 92 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Many new comments!

sicko-yes

It’s all from a Zionist troll

sicko-no

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 92 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Holy shit, on some CNN discussion news thing some zionist arguing with Mehdi Hasan wished "his beeper doesn't go off" and that absolutely derailed the program to the point where it looks like over the break they continued without that guy.

this feels like a very skill-less tipping of the hand and seeing how funny it is that liberals are forced by their sham morals to actually intervene, if not just to clear the air of a really distasteful comment. But the comfort you have to feel to foolishly just openly say something like that and misjudge just how behind you everyone is....

if anyone here had any real morals, they'd choose to be more vocal about the genocide of Palestinians because they just got a full view of who they've been supporting all along

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 92 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hope this is legit (CW: Pictures of dead Palestinians left by the actionists):
https://north-shore.info/2024/10/31/sabotage-of-ottawa-factory-producing-parts-for-israels-f-35-warplanes/

Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info

Earlier this week a group of people sabotaged Gastops’ factory in Ottawa, the only place in the world where engine sensors are produced for Lockheed’s F-35 combat jets — including the ones dropping 2,000 pound bombs on Gaza. We cut the wiring inside all of the heat pumps on the Gastops roof, locked them out with official Ministry of Health and Safety lock-out tags, shut off the gas, broke the handles for their systems, and cut the lines to their backup communication system on the way out.

The following letter and photos were left on site:

It’s worth noting that we disabled their heat pumps as it begins to get cold here in Ottawa and as displaced people in Gaza and Lebanon plead with us to help them secure shelter, blankets, clothing, as they freeze in displacement camps. Earlier this month an Ottawa neighbour lost her uncle while he returned to his home in Gaza attempting to bring back blankets for the children so they would not freeze to death. He was murdered by air strike while doing so, likely by an F-35 that Gastops supplies parts to.

People growing tired of politicians continuing to support the slaughter of civilians in Palestine and Lebanon will continue to escalate actions seeking peace and an end to these war crimes.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 91 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

New Slammerslammer

contextBrazilian president @LulaOficial , who has been saying all year that the Israelis are committing genocide, is asked in part:

“Do you think maybe it's time to ask for a global weapons embargo to Israel?”

He gives a relatively long answer talking about strengthening the UN, the Oct 7 death toll, how Hamas should “free the hostages,” and even “greenhouse gas emissions.”

Nowhere to be found: a direct answer to the actual question about a weapons embargo.

From a press conference at the UN on Sept 25, 2024:

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 91 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)
[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 81 points 3 weeks ago

under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan

can you feeeeeeeeel the harm being reduced

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 90 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Kata'ib Hezbollah [Islamic Resistance in Iraq] military official Abu Ali al-Askari on Kamala vs. Trump:

"For us, there is no difference in the American elections between Trump or Kamala Harris coming to power in the administration of American evil. Harris and her so-called Democratic Party behind her may be worse than Trump and his party. We have had successful experiences with him, having subdued him in more than one confrontation. He lacks patience and cannot endure prolonged material depletion, which saved us much effort and time in revealing the true face of America as evil, exposing its weaknesses live on air."

Source

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 90 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

when I see Sanders debase himself I want to believe that it's because the three letter agencies have guns trained on Bernie's children and grandchildren, but deep down I know it's because he was a chauvinist and a zionist all along.

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 89 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Holy shit it really is Hillary 2.0.

Once again the dems said one true thing and called the bigots garbage and so kamala is gonna spend the final 72 hours talking about how trump supporters aren't racist and "she would never say anything bad about a group of people just based on who they vote for"

Libs will say they hope you get executed by fascists if you vote for Jill stein but clutch their pearls at the suggestion that racist dumbasses are garbage.

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 89 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

A German frigate will be taking the long way around Africa to avoid the Houthis
Begs the question of why a German ship would be deployed to the Pacific but whatever, get owned

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 87 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

this article is from before Oct 7 but is nevertheless a powerful article about antisemitism vs antizionism by a Palestinian writer. I'm sure this has been posted before

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/jewish-settlers-stole-my-house-its-not-my-fault-theyre-jewish/

Here is where I stand. There is a Jew who lives–by force—in half of my home in Jerusalem, and he does so by “divine decree.” Many others reside—by force—in Palestinian houses, while their owners linger in refugee camps. It isn’t my fault that they are Jewish. I have zero interest in memorizing or apologizing for centuries-old tropes created by Europeans, or in giving semantics more heft than they warrant, chiefly when millions of us confront real, tangible oppression, living behind cement walls, or under siege, or in exile, and living with woes too expansive to summarize. I’m tired of the impulse to preemptively distance myself from something of which I am not guilty, and particularly tired of the assumption that I’m inherently bigoted. I’m tired of the pearl-clutching pretense that should such animosity exist, its existence would be inexplicable and rootless. Most of all, I’m tired of the false equivalence between semantic violence and systemic violence.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 87 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Libs will come across an influential personality and completely separate them from important context.

They'll celebrate Yacouba Sawadogo, for instance, for being a pioneer of 20th-century agriculture by reinventing traditional methods for water retention amd soil fertility. And yet, there's something missing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacouba_Sawadogo

His methods started to find widespread success in the mid-80s, in his country, Burkina Faso. I wonder what was happening around that time? Oh well, that's not important.

And then 2 decades later the land value of the area he had labored on and improved had shot up and he was struggling to afford the same plot he'd been working for over 20 years. Isn't that just rotten luck? I guess life's just a roller coaster of fortune.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 86 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Before/after shots of Lebanon villages where Israel has been bombing

Looks like 80% of all buildings destroyed to me, very similar to descriptions of the US bombing operations in DPRK during the Korean War.

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 85 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Israel is going in the direction of banning haaretz lol

Looks like a whole of government approach will be taken against Ha’aretz.

Israel’s Ministry of Communications has drafted a proposal to effectively ban the government/public services interacting with Ha’aretz.

Probably one step away from banning the paper as a whole.

https://nitter.poast.org/NaksBilal/status/1851935886549610671

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 85 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Barclays bank has divested from Elbit Systems because of Palestine Action's targeting of them over the last year.

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/10/31/barclays-divest-elbit-palestine-action/

spoilerAfter a year-long campaign against its premises by Palestine Action, Barclays PLC has sold all of its shareholdings in Elbit Systems Ltd (ELST). Until recently, Barclays owned over 16,000 shares in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company.

Barclays: divestment from Elbit, finally

Starting just over one year ago, Palestine Action’s campaign saw activists undertake 54 actions against Barclays premises nation-wide. Smashing branch windows, spraying them in blood-red paint, many of these actions put Barclays sites out of operation for weeks, actions which sought to raise the costs associated with dealing with Elbit:

In the latest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, Barclays owned 0 shares in Elbit Systems Ltd (ELST), down 16,345 since the previous filing, 15 May 2024, worth over $3,400,000.

Until then, recent filings had showed Barclays’ Elbit shareholdings at record high quantities, having steadily increased from zero ten years ago. The most recent SEC filings and NASDAQ data record an immediate total sale of Barclays’ ELST shares, abruptly sold just when Palestine Action’s campaign hit them hardest.

Initial research published in July 2022 by Campaign Against Arms Trade, War on Want, and Palestine Solidarity Campaign showed the bank held shareholdings worth over £1.5billion in companies complicit with Israeli apartheid. Palestine Action adopted the campaign in October 2023 due to the bank’s investments in Elbit Systems — the group’s primary target.

A sustained campaign by Palestine Action

Palestine Action’s 11-month long campaign against Barclays reached its peak on 10 June 2024, when 20 branches had their windows smashed, drenched in red paint, in a co-ordinated nationwide overnight action:

Four days after, Barclays CEO CS Venkatakrishnan penned in the Guardian that the bank is concerned about “overall suffering” in the region, and is very accepting of the type of “peaceful protest” seen in multiple years of campaigning up until this year. But, in a media campaign co-ordinated with former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Venkatakrishnan complained of Palestine Action’s disruptive actions against the bank.

Inadvertently, Barclays CEO affirmed Palestine Action’s strategy, which is to make the cost of dealing in genocide, occupation, and apartheid exceed the potential to profit from it. Throughout this year-long campaign, several activists were arrested:

During questioning, police claimed that many actions caused damage between £250k to £500k in value. Most actions forced bank branches to close for weeks at a time, contributing to the financial disruption to the bank.

There are still many complicit institutions

These actions were taken as part of Palestine Action’s four-year campaign against the premises of Elbit Systems, and against the financial and industrial partners which support them like Barclays.

Elbit Systems is a major supplier of the Israeli military, its contributions including the vast majorities of Israel’s drones, along with mortuary munition and artillery rockets currently being used in Gaza.

The campaign has seen two of Elbit’s weapons factories forced to permanently shut down in Britain, and has forced a number of partners to halt relations with Elbit. Recently, activists have struck at over a dozen premises in Britain of Allianz a major shareholder in and insurer of Elbit.

A Palestine Action spokesperson said of the Barclays decision:

Through a focused strategy, direct action has achieved multiple successes and forced the hands of many complicit institutions. We will remain committed and focused to the task at hand and target any and all institutions and businesses which enable Israel’s biggest weapons firm to maintain their genocidal operations.

That means, if Barclays does reinvest into Elbit Systems in the future, Palestine Action will come knocking again.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 85 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Paypal is staffed with Zionists who purposefully fuck with Palestinian Paypal accounts and purged the company of pro-Palestinian employees:
https://xcancel.com/el_sabawi/status/1852114821879070893

Another deeply troubling discovery from infiltrating these political Zionist chat groups was that most of the participants were members of the risk management and AI teams - those responsible for designing and implementing security and moderation systems.

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 85 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

The BBC is so fucking ghoulish lmao

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 84 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

My hate for liberals burns like a sun:

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 84 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Not content with murdering millions upon millions, not content with creating death factories, not content with sending children, women and the elderly to gas chambers, not content with beheading people, not content with throwing people into pits while they were still alive, not content with throwing millions of people into a war as they launched their worldwide campaign for blood and murder, Germany doubles down and stands firm and proud next to their most precious student, "Israel", as they continue to genocide arabs in their quest for blood and conquest.

History will not be kind to them.

[–] Voidance@hexbear.net 83 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Tucker Carlson claims he was ‘mauled’ in bed by a demon in an attack that left claw marks on his body. Tucker also sleeps in bed with his four dogs. This raises an obvious question - why didn’t the dogs protect him from the demon?

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 82 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (12 children)

"Reporters" from The Federalist caught the Harris campaign organizing astroturfing on reddit-logo.

CW: The Federalist

They ended up getting into a discord server run by a campaign staffer that was organizing volunteers and maybe some other staffers to post/boost/brigade content on Reddit. They found that 126 of the top 1000 posts over the past month on r/politics were from users involved in the astroturfing campaign. The campaign also made a public Google doc that the writer took some screenshots of but, unsurprsingly, forgot to make a copy of lol.

At the end of the article, they call out some funny moderating going on in the Texas sub, which was noticeable to me. I got banned there maybe two weeks ago for saying I wasn't going to vote for Kamala over her support for genocide.

::: spoiler Some screenshots:

Discord messages/ops being organized by Harris staffer:

Some of the subs being targeted and what was posted:

List of reddit usernames involved and local subs being targeted. For some reason the site would let me upload more photos, so here's a link to them instead:

Usernames

Local subs targeted

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[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 82 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

The naval blockade by Ansar Allah has cost the Egyptian economy €6 billion, L PIGPOOPBALLS

maybe shouldn't have taken those containers carrying 150,000 kilograms of RDX for shitty-dookie-real

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[–] REgon@hexbear.net 80 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Danish teen was arrested for "praising" a "terror attack" against Israel. the terror attack was Hamas bombing israel with rockets and the "praise" was this comment on facebook "Yaaaaas😍 🇵🇸"

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[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 79 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (44 children)

in today's hopium news: The US Military Is In A Death Spiral by comrade Indrajit

Teaser:

The US army is the worst army in the world. They're the only army that aspires to worldwide dominance, and they suck at it. It's the only Empire based on losing every war and looting its own treasury. Losing the last war is always covered up by the starting the next war, but if you look at it historically, America has been losing it for decades now. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Palestine, these are all losses or draws.

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 79 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

least racist American soldier

Source

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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 78 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/10/22/apres-sa-suspension-par-ludem-lex-charge-de-cours-yannis-arab-arrete-en-france

Fr*nch authorities broke a few weeks ago in an Algerian person's house and took him, some of his relatives and his pc into prison

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[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 78 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I vaguely remember Obama, still as president, making a speech where he says in no uncertain terms that 'the US shouldn't go into Ukraine' because 'it's way more important to the Russians than to America and therefore Russia will put much more into than the US ever will'. Which goes to show that the guy was a pretty good steward of empire whenever he didn't listen to his dumbass secretary of state. If someone knows what I'm talking about, much obliged.

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