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George Galloway: "I'm no Jeremy Corbyn you see. I won't turn the other cheek. If you slap me I'll slap you back"

I know he has his bad sides but this is the energy the left needs. Generations of polite boyscouts has done nothing but to make the western left irrelevant and weak.

How it started:

How it's going:

George Galloway's response to the Prime Minister is fucking good: https://youtu.be/J7p7CAyxHgg

Context

Happening today: https://skwawkbox.org/2024/03/01/starmer-challenger-calls-for-new-left-mass-movement-outside-labour-party/

Starmer challenger calls for new left mass movement outside Labour Party

Former ANC MP and arms trade campaigner will address activists from around UK tomorrow at Collective launch – and poses real threat to friend-of-genocide ‘Labour’ leader

Some tweets about the Flour Massacre:

Ground level view (CW: sounds of gunfire): https://twitter.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1763184975199818094

Bird's eye view: https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1763182831574884660

Screenshot of the bird's eye view with dead bodies labeled: https://t.me/QudsNen/97590

The IOF fucked up because even Zionist protestors are protesting the Flour Massacre: https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1763463757462725075

https://nitter.poast.org is the only Nitter instance that still works at this point. And it's probably going to go down soon.

The Pentagon will lift the ban on flights by the grounded V-22 Osprey next week, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday, following a high-level meeting where Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin endorsed the military services’ plans for a safe and measured return to operations.

lol, lmao

Far-left RAF terror suspect Daniela Klette arrested - DW

Apparently the nasty comments and edgy remarks made on Aaron Bushnell’s reddit account largely came from Destiny fans after he sent them there.

There’s few people I would like to see die and Destiny is one of them.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/after-threats-abuse-british-lawmakers-question-their-safety-over-gaza-2024-02-28/

After threats and abuse, British lawmakers question their safety over Gaza

have you considered the true victims of the genocide are some of the people responsible for carrying out the genocide?

ps is that the Iranian flag used by the diaspora? the Iranian diaspora truly is the worst diaspora why do they suck so bad

"US to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza — how it can help and why it’s so complicated" https://apnews.com/article/airdrops-israel-gaza-palestinians-biden-9e6cfb3a2c7d909ca2a8a2abd25793ca

No paywall, text in reply.

WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

The U.S. believes the airdrops will help address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, but they are no replacement for trucks, which can transport far more aid more effectively — though Thursday’s events also showed the risks with ground transport.

The fucking risk, AP, is that Israel will open fire on any gathering of people, no matter how docile or noble (hospitals). Not just "general risk."

Maddeningly both sides-y too.

The Biden decision comes after at least 115 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 others were injured on Thursday trying to access aid in northern Gaza under disputed circumstances, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.

u N d E r D I S p U t E d C i R c U m S t A n C e S

Rishi Sunak stood before the lectern outside number 10 today to give a speech where we thought something would be announced.

Instead, he talked non-stop about how forces exist in the United Kingdom that are trying to tear apart the very fabric of "our democracy", he talked about how extremists had taken over our streets (pro palestine protestors), he likened all pro palestine supporters to islamic extremism, and he specifically namedropped Galloway's win in the by election yesterday as a threat to our democracy. The only real thing of consequence in his speech was where he told the police that they should start actually policing the protests (inviting them to crack heads) and that the government would "have your back when you start doing this".

I never thought a speech by Rishi Sunak could leave me feeling so upbeat and optimistic but here we are. It's afraid.

Speech here: https://youtu.be/xlEKUxptTTA

Transcript: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-address-on-extremism-1-march-2024

The redacted part is about Galloway: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-downing-street-speech-gaza-israel-mps-safety-b1142682.html

Aleppo - widespread use of solar panels - From industry to infrastructure and households. The use of solar energy is becoming widespread in Syria. Due to US occupation of Syrian dams and resources, people in the government areas are trying to get their energy needs from Sun.

The endurance of Humanity is always something to behold and says something about the future, at least to me

Look at the user account that posted this, and the subreddit that they posted it to.

Yes it's their official account. Why is the torygraph posting to Green and Pleasant?

Another mod banned them, I'm tempted to allow them and to monitor it. I don't think they have anything to gain by being a poster in GaP, but GaP could gain a lot if they intend to start some drama with GaP at the center. I'm taking it as another sign an election is imminent.

With just how awful everything is this feels like me just adding stuff to it but here goes.

Germany currently is diving headlong into fascism after germans patting themselves on their collective backs for protesting the AfD and them polling 2% worse now (21% to 19%) all is fine again.

So fine that the German Landstag is currently thinking about forcing asylum seekers to work. Literally enforced labour, don't say slavery though because they'll be paid handsomely, 0,80€ per hour. Germany is quite literally doing a repeat of the last century and with the given trajectory they'll literally have work concentration camps up by the 2030s, only this time they've learned and will only do this against Muslims.

And worst is that germans feel very good and accomplished about themselves because again went on the street to hold up a cute little anti-AfD sign, when all politicians are currently falling each other trying to pass the latest fascist law and policy.

Expelling US troops: Iraq's resistance efforts gain steam in Baghdad

by The Cradle.

The article's a little too long to quote in full so I'll be picking the most important parts out.

Against the backdrop of the widening, US-backed and armed Israeli war on Gaza, the US airstrikes against Iraq and Syria were meant to deliver a strong message of deterrence to Iran's allies in the Axis of Resistance, who are targeting US military interests in West Asia in response to the carnage in Gaza. But the strikes have instead served mainly to embarrass the Iraqi government and its domestic allies, prompting a reevaluation of the country’s relationship with Washington and reviving calls for an end to the US military presence in Iraq.

Despite a steady stream of US threats and intimidation tactics employed to deter the Iraqi resistance since late last year, these factions have incrementally increased and expanded their engagement in the region-wide war, driven by their commitment to the Palestinian resistance and its liberation goals. The Iraqi groups have a specific goal: pressure Washington until it forces a Gaza truce – a strategic target that reflects the unity of purpose among the resistance factions in Iraq and the region.

...In Iraq’s case, the greatest military burden was assumed by four of the resistance factions identified by Kataib Hezbollah Secretary General Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi: his own group Kataib Hezbollah, Harakat al-Nujaba, Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, and Ansarallah al-Aufiaa. As one IRI official tells The Cradle: "The fronts are opened at the discretion of the leaders (of these groups) themselves, based on religious, ideological, and moral commitments stemming from the nature of the Iraqi character in the first place."

Over the past few months, the IRI has demonstrated its versatility by employing a variety of tactics and weaponry in around 188 separate military operations against US targets. These range from missile strikes on US bases in Iraq to drone attacks against US occupation forces in Syria, and even include the targeting of distant Israeli territories such as Ashdod, Haifa, and the occupied Golan Heights. An official source in the IRI confirms to The Cradle that "We bombed with ballistic missiles American bases, even those in Iraq, and this was not limited to distant targets in the depth, or in the occupied territory."

However, as tensions escalated, strains in the relationship between Baghdad and Washington became palpable. The Iraqi government found itself caught between the embarrassment of complicity and the challenge of maintaining control over security affairs. Even some of the resistance factions themselves felt the squeeze of external pressures, notably Kataib Hezbollah, who on 31 January announced a temporary suspension of operations against US forces and Israeli targets. The halt came in the immediate aftermath of the killing of three US soldiers in Tower 22 along the Jordanian-Syrian border, in an Iraqi resistance operation unprecedented in its depth which was viewed as a direct challenge to Washington's perceived invincibility. As expected, the operation caused a spike in tensions, causing some ferocious shuttle diplomacy in the following days and provoking a strong, disproportionate US military response.

For factions like Kataib Hezbollah and Al-Nujaba, the decision to suspend operations was a calculated move to gauge Washington's response. Yet, the US military's targeted assassination of Kataib Hezbollah commander Abu Baqir al-Saadi caught them off guard, eliciting a sharp condemnation of the US attack from Baghdad. Saadi’s faction, it should be noted, is part of the Popular Mobilization Units that defeated ISIS, and is therefore under the umbrella of the Iraqi armed forces. This time, the Iraqi government had no choice but to side with the resistance, while the IRI issued a stern warning to the US in which it signaled a return to operations.

...What cannot be ignored, however, is that these diplomatic initiatives followed a series of coercive measures by the US Treasury to diminish the value of the Iraqi dinar against the US dollar. While Iraq - both officially and among its various political factions - insists that leveraging the volume of Iraqi oil exports as a bargaining chip in the global market is an ineffective negotiating tool, there are those who anticipate seizing the opportunity of market scarcity to increase their share by two million barrels. Sudani mission is a difficult one. He must hammer out a solution that fulfills his government's commitment to remove foreign military forces forces from Iraqi soil without triggering negative US repercussions.

According to leaks, the Iraqi prime minister reportedly reached an agreement with the IRI to suspend its military operations against US bases in order to facilitate his negotiations for the complete withdrawal of international coalition forces from Iraq. Yet, any decision in this regard risks eliciting a negative response from Washington, which brandishes an ever-present arsenal of pressure tactics. This is particularly concerning given that Iraqi oil revenues are still required to pass through the US Federal Bank before being released to Baghdad. Members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives are actively working to proceed with a law to remove foreign forces from Iraq, with majority representation from Shia-dominated central and southern Iraq. However, Sunni factions remain ambiguous in their stance toward the coordination framework blocs' efforts to enact such legislation. In addition, Kurdish parties, notably the Kurdistan Democratic Party, vehemently oppose any consideration of US military withdrawal from Iraq.

In response to these dynamics, the Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed Moscow's willingness to bolster Iraqi forces following the departure of unwanted foreign troops. The Russian offer has compounded the pressure on Washington, prompting a reassessment of the waning US strategic position in West Asia.

Meanwhile in the Red Sea: https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/doppel-panne-im-roten-meer-deutsches-kriegsschiff-zielt-auf-us-drohne-87336152.bild.html

Deutsch:

Unfassbare Doppel-Panne bei der Deutschen Marine vor der Küste des Jemen!

Die Radar-Systeme des deutschen Kriegsschiffs erkannten eine über ihr kreisende Drohne fälschlicherweise als feindlich. Die „Hessen“ feuerte daraufhin zwei Raketen auf sie ab.

Doch in Wirklichkeit handelte es sich bei dem unbemannten Fluggerät um eine US-amerikanische Drohne vom Typ MQ-9 Reaper (20 Meter Spannweite, 30 Millionen Euro teuer).

Glück im Unglück für die Amerikaner: Beide deutsche Abfangraketen vom Typ SM2 erreichten ihr Ziel aus technischen Gründen nicht, sondern stürzten unverrichteter Dinge ins Meer.

English:

Incredible double mishap in the German Navy off the coast of Yemen!

The German warship's radar systems incorrectly recognized a drone circling overhead as hostile. The “Hessen” then fired two rockets at them.

But in reality the unmanned aircraft was a US MQ-9 Reaper drone (20 meter wingspan, 30 million euros).

A blessing in disguise for the Americans: Both German SM2 interceptor missiles did not reach their target for technical reasons, but instead fell into the sea without achieving anything.

lol

lately whenever I read about the genocide in Palestine, I get flashbacks of those videos of Pete Butt fans dancing to high, high hopes

I'm convinced that doing big controversial posts on reddit on a Sunday is most effective because 99% of the feds don't work Sunday. You get much less glowy shit.

Aight fuck it, here's milei trying to embrace a clearly uncomfortable Trump at CPAC

Be aware, it's extremely cringe.

The general mega is catching up to the news mega. It's joever

EXTREMELY critical support to the British communists in their spanking of genocide starmer

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eus-von-der-leyen-proposes-using-frozen-russian-profits-ukraines-military-2024-02-28/

EU's von der Leyen proposes using frozen Russian profits for Ukraine's military

do it, continue to damage the west's credibility, make no one trust you again

US Senate approves spending stopgap to avert government shutdown lol how are they STILL kicking the can down the road on this, it's been 5 fucking months

Israeli police break up ultra-Orthodox Jews’ military service protest

steals 650 acres in the West Bank.

Some people are claiming Aaron Bushnell's reddit account is /u/acebush1. Last comment on the account: "Whiteness erases culture"

Israeli army morale plummets over 'lasting victory' in Gaza

by The Cradle.

A growing number of Israeli service members, from senior commanders to rank-and-file soldiers, are expressing doubts that a “lasting victory” against the Palestinian resistance in Gaza is an achievable goal, according to interviews conducted by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). “Fighting the enemy is like a game of whack-a-mole,” an Israeli reservist fighting with the 98th Division in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis told the US daily. He said many soldiers believe the government lacks a plan and wonder what their efforts are for. “It will be very hard to destroy Hamas.”

Nearly five months after Tel Aviv launched its campaign of genocide in Gaza with the stated aim to “destroy Hamas,” the Israeli army has destroyed most of the enclave's buildings and infrastructure, killing tens of thousands of civilians in the process, but is nowhere near eradicating the resistance. Furthermore, the WSJ cites Qatari sources as saying Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar recently told officials from the Palestinian group in Doha: “Don’t worry, we have the Israelis right where we want them.”

The message reportedly added that the Qassam Brigades "were doing fine" and stood at the ready to confront Israel's planned invasion of the southernmost city of Rafah, where over one million displaced Palestinians are taking refuge. Despite Israeli claims of having killed “12,000 Hamas fighters” since October, the Qassam Brigades and the Quds Brigades – the military wings of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), respectively – have continued to fiercely confront the invading troops across the entirety of the Gaza Strip. The WSJ highlights that, after a two-week ceasefire in November, the Palestinian resistance markedly switched its strategy to confront Israeli forces, moving away from large-scale firefights to small-scale ambushes and “zero distance” attacks that have caused great pain to Tel Aviv.

Israel claims only 242 soldiers have lost their lives in Gaza since the start of the ground invasion, plus an extra 300 during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October. However, in December, Hebrew media revealed that hospital records contradicted the army's claims about the number of casualties, as Tel Aviv was reportedly undercounting by half. Moreover, the official numbers of wounded only included soldiers in the army, excluding wounded security personnel such as special reconnaissance fighters and members of SWAT units, the police, Border Police, Shin Bet, and emergency and rescue units like Magen David Adom. “The human losses announced by the security establishment are usually binding on hundreds of media institutions, and these are allowed to work basically according to this rule. The death toll always comes from one source, and no one questions it," The Cradle’s Palestine Correspondent reported last year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not backed away from his promise of “total victory” against the Palestinian resistance, ignoring global calls to stop the mass murder of civilians in Gaza. His recently-revealed “day after” plan for Gaza stipulates that Israel will maintain freedom to carry out military and security operations across the strip indefinitely. Netanyahu also seeks to oversee the total demilitarization of Gaza – excluding weapons "necessary to maintain public order" – and has plans for a "deradicalization" of Gaza's civil, religious, educational, and welfare institutions. Nevertheless, the WSJ reports that many within the military believe the government’s “reluctance to flesh out a plan for who should govern Gaza after Hamas is leaving a political vacuum that could help Hamas to grow back.”

Welp, looks like Hungary just voted Sweden into NATO.

My leftie partner is Swedish and is very distraught, I'm trying to remind her that this changes absolutely nothing (as we see with earlier military treaties with the US), and also looking at Swedish foreign policy during the cold war (pretty clear which side they were on).

Also it's really really fucking funny how long this shitshow has taken. Welcome to the hellzone fellow Ikea shoppers.

Opinions of Gazans on Bushnell's self-immolation: https://twitter.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1762090633873752093

Liberals who want NATO to start a war with Russia are in my view essentially the same kinds of people that would commit murder-suicide when things aren't going their way.

AP: French President Macron says sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’

He added that “we will do everything needed so Russia cannot win the war.”

I hate that we're (once again) watching the US government support pure evil, comparable to the nazis, yet we're powerless to stop it

It shows that the empire isn't a paper tiger yet, I guess

I read that poll from a while ago that most Israelis support the events in Gaza.

But I was thinking, that 20% of the population are Palestinians with Israeli citizenship; Israel's demographic has that minority of people. How could 97% support the genocide if 1/5th of the eligible voting/citizen population is Arabian. I get that even Palestinians with Israeli citizenship live under an apartheid regime, privileged in comparison to their kinsfolk in the West Bank and Gaza, but that poll seems suspicious.

One must imagine the USAmerican left being competent

Supreme Leader Sunak is going to do his first speech in Downing Street since he was given power over the hermit kingdom a year or so ago. Apparently the speech is going to be about the need to 'defend democracy'. Could be the most mask off we have seen him so far.

edit: Triggered by what happened in parliament last week and even moreso by George Galloway's win last night

edit: "New robust framework" being presented to parliament this this month. Terrifying stuff. I wonder what it will introduce? It is sounding extremely terrifying. Deporting people they deem in violation of their "values", there is a lot more

edit: a source is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68451380

The Danish military is relaxing physical requirements for new recruits in what the regime terms a modernisation. Height requirements are being removed, the minimum BMI is being removed and the maximum BMI is being made a guideline rather than a demand. Mental health requirements are being relaxed as well, for instance medicated ADHD will no longer save young Danes from conscription.

On the more colourful side, a maximum bust size requirement for women is being removed. An archaic rule that has not been used in decades that made it possible to reject potential recruits for "sexual deviancy" is also being abolished.

The Danish regime has embarked on an aggressive rearmament effort that includes a desire to expand the use of forced conscription. Although regime propaganda disks of modernisation, thr relaxed physical demands is probably intended to help recruitment efforts.

The New York Post is reporting that, the day before his death, Aaron Bushnell told one of his friends that his job invovled processing top secret intelligence data, and that info of US soldiers on the ground in Gaza fighting Palestinians has crossed his desk.

The Kremlin being accused of killing Navalny to prevent a prisoner swap is just amazing.

They’d be the ones in charge of allowing the swap!

American media will publish literally anything.

are we back, Transnistria bros?

With the news of Russia destroying an American made Abrams tank in Ukraine, I think it's important to note that the export models of the Abrams tanks are significantly worse than those the US itself uses. They have no depleted uranium armour to protect them, and none of the latest optics and ammunition. Same story with the Soviet export model tanks Iraq had during the Gulf war of the 90s, they had none of the lastest features the Soviet tanks had. So I'd expect more Abrams tanks to be destroyed.

Workers in the DPRK are allowed to leave the country for work? Clearly this is a slavery plot. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-does-secretive-north-korea-have-no-problem-sending-workers-overseas/ar-BB1j002Z

Your March 3rd Briefing

We are so back.

The world has run out of cholera vaccines as outbreaks continue to occur throughout the world. This is due to all cholera vaccines coming from a single vaccine manufacturer, EuBiologics in South Korea, who has limited production capacity. Other companies are projected to enter the market soon, and hopefully by 2025 things will be largely back to normal.^S^

A broad coalition of EU lawmakers have called for a ban on all Russian energy, including gas, presumably as secret communist agents to accelerate the collapse of the EU.^E^

Increasing numbers of Arabs and Muslims are planning to vote for Donald Trump out of spite due to Biden’s fervent licking of the blood and mud on Netanyahu’s jackboots.^MEE^ From the Red Clarion: The Democrats Have Nothing Left To Offer You.

After many protests in the UK particularly over Gaza, Prime Minister Sunak has ordered a crackdown on protestors which would essentially make any act that isn’t sitting silently in a public field a criminal offence. A human rights campaign group is suing the government due to this.^NC^

AMLO proposed a package of 20 constitutional reforms in early Februrary, which is unlikely to survive congressional pushback but nonetheless represents the government’s latest attempt to reorient away from neoliberalism. Canada is also quite angry at AMLO, as Canadian companies have interests in 70% of Mexican mining operations, and AMLO wishes to grant property rights over Mexico’s energy and mining assets to all Mexican citizens.^MR^

Libertarian President Milei has stated his intention to implement reforms by decree due to the democratically elected parliament opposing him.^MP^

Algeria hosted leaders from 13 countries in Algiers, including Russia, Iran, Qatar, and Venezuela, in order to co-ordinate on natural gas investments. Algeria is the second largest supplier of natural gas to Europe, after Norway. However, despite aggressive plans to expand production up to 2030, infrastructure is limiting the amount of gas that can actually be supplied - and domestic needs from a growing population also need to be balanced.^AN^

Ghana has passed an anti-LGBTQIA+ bill which makes same-sex relationships, sexual activity, and public displays of affection illegal. People who support or fund related activities could face up to a decade in prison. This has faced international comdemnation from several countries, and the UN has called it "profoundly disturbing".^AN^

UN peacekeepers have begun withdrawing from the DRC, in which 12,000 troops have been located since 1999, with the government accusing the UN of not doing their goddamn jobs, which does seem like a fairly accurate view of how things have gone in practice.^RT^

At least 25 million Sudanese are suffering from hunger or malnutrition as the war continues to decimate the country. Less than 4% of the $2.7 billion in assistance that Sudan needs has been provided by donors so far this year, and last year, last than half was funded.^MEE^

Russia's Rosatom has received applications from several African countries for the construction of new nuclear power plants, such as South Africa, which has expressed interest in a floating NPP. An Egyptian NPP is under construction and Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Uganda also want them.^BNE^

Chinese company Transsion, with its three brands of Tecno, Infinix and iTel, have 48% of the African market share and are expanding into other markets, and experienced large growth in 2023 in both Africa and the Middle East, surpassing Samsung. This is due to a combination of relatively low prices, better marketing, and producing camera phones which work better with darker skin tones.^SCMP^

China has warned New Zealand not to harm its own security interests after it expressed interest in an AUKUS security partnership on cyberwarfare, AI, and hypersonic weapons.^SCMP^

The US has approved a $75 million weapons package to Taiwan which involves the Link 16 communications system - which completes Taiwan as the final link of the “transnational coalition kill chain”, giving Taiwan access to the jam-resistant tactical data network for co-ordinating NATO weapons systems that can be linked with countries like Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the US.^GPE^

The Biden administration has announced that they’re launching a probe into Chinese smart cars to protect the American car industry, with all the usual “Xi Jinping himself is spying on you through the car cameras and hidden microphones and, uh, kills a Ughyur every time you brake, or something.”.^RT^

The US has revealed that they have struck 230 targets in Yemen in response to their blockade; notably, the focus on big number rather than effect (HUNDREDS of sanctions on Russia!!!) is a tacit admission of the actual impotence of the attacks. In general, we’re seeing a rather uninspiring repeat of the propaganda that the US has used against Russia; that they’re running out of missiles, etc. ^NC^

Zionists posting footage of George Galloway being incredibly based in a desperate attempt to own him