hajj is going great

russia has entered the southers outscirts of New York

today is the national day of Iceland, it is celebrated on the birthday of the most prominent leader of the nationalist independence movement, Jón Sigurðsson, who married his niece, as was the style of the time. He may also have died from syphilis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2024_Ukraine_peace_summit#Themes_and_joint_communiqu%C3%A9

Iraq, Jordan, and Rwanda have withdrawn their signatures from the Ukraine "peace" summit joint communique.

Sorry about the source. There's no good article about all three yet, but it seems to be real.

Heartwarming:

"On the eve of his arrival, Vladimir Putin looked back on Russia and North Korea’s long history in an article published on the Rodong Sinmun newspaper.

Putin wrote that Moscow was “the first among the world’s states” to recognise and establish diplomatic ties with Pyongyang.

“Our country helped the Korean friends to build their national economy, create a healthcare system, develop science and education, and train professional administrative and technical staff,” he said.

The Soviet Union also“extended a helping hand” to North Korea during the Korean War, the Russian President added in the piece.

“I am convinced that our joint efforts will take our bilateral interaction to a higher level, which will facilitate mutually beneficial and equal cooperation between Russia and the DPRK." "

Drone boats are crazy, black ops 2 was so right, the millenium challenge could have never predicted this

Cw: birds on the Tutor being blown to shit https://t.me/PalCommie/958

Damn this appears to be a test? I’ve lied to you all and spread misinformation, see emizeko for the real shit

The real shit

clare daly and mick wallace both got got

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxxjzlg89zo

The schoolchildren being lured by rebels on TikTok

Fighters belonging to breakaway groups associated with Colombia's largest rebel movement are posting videos on TikTok to entice young people to join them.

The BBC has investigated the growth of guerrilla "recruitment" videos, with dissident factions yet to agree to a peace deal with the Colombian government.

“One or two start the trend and it becomes fashionable in the classroom,” says Lorena (not her real name), a 30-year-old teacher in Cauca, a rural region in south-western Colombia.

She says as she enters her class, she is often met by students filming themselves on their smartphones, drawing symbols inspired by the now-demobilised Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla group (Farc) on the blackboard, or dancing to revolutionary tunes.

A taste of things to come as climate change gets more insane

PODGORICA, June 21 (Reuters) - A major power outage hit Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and most of Croatia's coast on Friday, disrupting businesses, shutting down traffic lights and leaving people sweltering without air conditioning in the middle of a heatwave.
Montenegro's energy minister said the shutdown was caused by a sudden increase in power consumption brought on by high temperatures, and by the heat itself overloading systems. Power distribution is linked across the Balkans for transfers and trading.
"This was just waiting to happen in this heat," Gentiana, a 24-year-old student in Montenegro's capital Podgorica, told Reuters. Temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across the southeastern European region.
Electricity and wifi networks went down from around 1 p.m. (1100 GMT), officials and social media users said. Suppliers in the four countries said they started restoring supply by mid-afternoon and power was largely back by the evening.
At the start of the blackout, traffic light failures caused gridlock in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo and the cities of Banja Luka and Mostar, Reuters reporters said.
Many lost water in Podgorica as pumps stopped working, locals reported. Air conditioners shut down and ice cream melted in tourist shops. Cars also ground to a halt in the Croatian coastal city of Split, state TV HRT reported. Ambulance sirens rang out across the city, it added.
"The failure occurred as a result of a heavy load on the network, a sudden increase in power consumption due to high temperature and the high temperatures themselves," Montenegro's energy minister, Sasa Mujovic, said in a TV broadcast.

https://archive.is/Q1THa#selection-1323.46-1344.1

The Bundeswehr is buying 8.5 billion € worth of 155 mm shells from Rheinmetall. (n-tv | archive)

Actually it's a "framework contract" for "up to" 8.5 billion, upped from 1.3 billion previously. They want to start shipping by the beginning of 2025, and want to produce 100,000 per year by the second year, and 200,000 eventually. Mainly this is to replenish stocks in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Estonia, but Germany wants to send some of it to Ukraine.

This is... not that much. I guess Ukraine can hope to get three weeks worth of extra ammunition in 2026 from that.

Slovakia 1-0 Ukraine after 20 mins. A breakthrough on the flank put Ukraine's defence in a pincer before the Slovak winger closed the pocket into Ukraine's goal. A familiar movement for us in the news mega, very reminiscent of the battle of Popasna

Nuclear capabilities

sourced from: STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Discussion:

Mossad files after the zionist entity falls, I think even if they went full force destroying the files and the documents that there will be enough interesting stuff to look at, they will probably go straight to burning it instead of cutting the paper, they've learned their lesson from Iran.

Watching the Ukraine v Romania match, and the Ukrainians are really having trouble with their counter-attacking strategy here. Their opponents have settled into a well-organised and manned defensive line which the Ukranians have failed to breach, instead only making themselves vulnerable to the enemy offensive. Romania have taken a 1-0 lead with a truly hypersonic strike and will hope to further press their advantage by rotating fresh players into the squad later in the game.

Following a racially-motivated stabbing of a 12 year old girl at a shopping center in Oulu, Finland last week, a teenage boy stabbed a "foreign-looking" man at the same shopping center in a copy-cat attack. The injuries are not life-threatening, and the boy can be tried criminally since he is over the age of 15.

Huh, the US banned Kaspersky as Spyware yesterday.

https://youtu.be/IZ1E5MTSgs0

happy "Titanic Titan and the waterpressure" anniversery..

Statewide 911 emergency services outage in Massachusetts

Sudan has accused the U----- A--- E------- of arming a paramilitary force in the country’s 14-month civil war, prompting a clash at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). (AJ)

The AlJazeera article is so skewed to what the

said it's not even funny. Also, I am told the

envoy speaks in English, what a joke.

Under Communism, the Political Commissar comes into your common housing unit and takes all your jewelry which will be given to the State, then sold to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and with that money buy new tanks to kill people when they protest. Under the Anarcho-Capitalist Wonderland, you have to sell your jewelry, which you might have a strong sentimental attachment to, in order to survive because The Market (TM) demands you to. Problem is, one is a complete lie and the other is very real. Can you guess which one is which?

SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S JEWELRY, COMMIE

Argentines pawn the family jewels to make ends meet

*Hundreds of Argentines are selling their jewellery at gold dealerships every day as a last resort to face the economic crisis. *

In Argentina's strangled economy, one sector is thriving: the pawn shops buying up gold and other family treasures that many are forced to sell to pay their bills. "When you are drowning in debt, sentimentality falls to the side," said Mariana, 63, who went to a hub of gold dealerships in Buenos Aires to sell a watch her grandfather gave her father as a graduation present.

Reminder that indebtedness is one of the key components of capitalism. Everyone has and should have a debt, this is how the economy functions.

Inflation of around 270 percent year-on-year has gnawed away at her pension as a court employee, and she will use the cash for housing expenses and overdue health insurance payments. With an austerity-hit economy in recession, as President Javier Milei carries out his vow to slash decades of government overspending, Mariana – who asked not to give her last name – is far from alone.

While a neighbouring shoe store hasn't had a single customer in hours, hundreds line up daily at El Tasador, one of the main cash-for-jewellery pawn stores in the heart of Buenos Aires, where "we buy gold" signs abound. "There have been a lot of people lately, I think because of what is happening in the country," said Natalia, one of the four appraisers at the store, who did not give her surname for what she called “security reasons.”

She said the surge in clients came from "people who perhaps had pieces that they did not plan to sell and decided to do so because they cannot make ends meet."

Natalia said the business had been swamped with over 300 daily transactions – triple the amount seen a year ago. "We have increased staffing and working hours because we cannot cope."

Victorian jewels and cufflinks

Daniel, a 56-year-old unemployed accountant, enters several stores to have a silver keychain appraised but leaves dejected. He was barely offered the price of a few Subte subway rides. "The situation is difficult. Life in Argentina is very expensive," he sighs.

Carlos, who manages a small jewellery store, said he has a constant flow of customers but no-one is there to buy. "They bring in anything to be appraised, especially at the end of the month, when the bills arrive." The most usual thing is the sale of small gold pieces.

Natalia, a gemologist, said her store, next to the busy Once railway terminal, is frequented by customers from all walks of life.

While half of Argentina's population now lives in poverty, it was once one of the world's richest countries between the 19th and early 20th centuries, and many people have something valuable to pawn. "The classic thing is the wedding ring, but they also bring Victorian jewels, from the 'belle époque' that come from grandparents and great-grandparents, unique pieces," said Natalia.

Even a few decades ago it was common for men to have gold cufflinks, or for women to be gifted a gold watch when they turned 15, she added. "Gold has always been sold. What has changed is why it is sold," said Natalia.

But the use of these pieces has long ceased for security reasons. This, added to the economic constraints, reinforces the desire to sell. "Before it was to remodel a house, buy a car, throw a party. Today it is because, 'I can't make ends meet', 'my utilities have increased' or 'I'm out of work.'"

Thorough destruction of the Capitalist regime! Death to those who stand in the way of working people!

BREAKING: Kendrick Lamar has been elected to the chair of the West Coast Supreme Soviet

Lula da Silva will visit AMLO in Mexico

The trip to Mexico promised by President Lula da Silva right after the Claudia Sheinbaum election, to "thank" comrade Andrés Manuel López Obrador, should take place in September.

The president wants to combine his visit to Mexico City with a trip to the UN General Assembly in New York. AMLO's successor will take office on October 1st.

US airbase signs a visa-free agreement with Israel:
https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1803443484117852520?mx=1

This decision, approved by Israel at the request of Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, will be effective on September 19, 2024.

Sorry if its already been discussed, but what the news peeps opinion of Biden's announcement of a legal path for up to 500k undocumented migrants? As is Dem tradition there's a bunch of means testing that seems to be behind it. I get the feeling that this is a big nothing burger that's being announced to give the illusion that Biden is a fair president after his border order from last week.

Noam Chomsky didn't die.

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In reality - he suffered a stroke 7 days ago. There is not a single google result showing that he died. Sites like Jacobin & New Statesman are using SEO manipulation. Sometimes I hate the internet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=noam+chomsky+dead