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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Just learned that the original name for the county seat in Southhampton County, VA, where Nat Turner's rebellion took place, was Jerusalem. The town name was changed Courtland after residents got sick of people in Norfolk calling them "the Arabs from Jerusalem".

I've been thinking about some the parallels between the 10/7 and Nat Turner's rebellion, specifically in the response from Zionists in comparison to the response from US slave owners (and their response to the abolition movement in general). I just got back from touching sand and if I can find the time when I'm not working, I might try to find some juicy quotes from slave owners that sound like they could have come from a Zionist.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago

Elon Musk's X is having trouble finding an executive to represent the company in Brazil. After Musk's announcement about closing the office in the country, executives who had been approached turned down the offer, fearing that they would be arrested for disobeying court orders.

The concern of potential representatives is due to the decisions of Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who has already signaled the possibility of imprisonment if X does not comply with orders to remove profiles.

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

So when Sweden joined NATO, did all of NATO's maps suddenly become interactive?

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Grand Rapids, Mi mistakenly collected $81K in holiday parking fees. It won’t issue refunds

Article.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Holiday parking on Grand Rapids streets is supposed to be free. But for years, people were paying on holidays because of a mistake on a smartphone app.

It’s a story you probably have never heard before, because city officials kept quiet about it after the problem was discovered in 2022. By then, the app had been mistakenly allowing holiday payments for more than three years, apparently since the MOTU parking app was introduced in Grand Rapids.

Nobody noticed until Shannon Tanis says she parked on a downtown street on a holiday and used the app.  

“I had paid and I was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I realized there was supposed to be free (parking) on holidays,'” she said.  

She says the app didn’t warn her off or refuse the payment. She did some research.

Tanis says she keeps a critical eye on local government, so she knew who to call: City Comptroller Max Frantz.

“Shannon reached out to me,” said Frantz, the official city financial watchdog. “She had done some testing herself and some documentation.”

Frantz says he checked some audit reports and found that the MOTU app was indeed collecting money on holidays when city policy dictates free parking. The app was supposed to block payments on holidays, but the comptroller says that message somehow never got to the app contractor.  

“For some reason, that transmission didn’t occur or there was an issue with it,” Frantz said.

He says city parking officials fixed the problem. Now, they say they program the app every year to make sure it prevents holiday payments.

All told, according to Frantz, there were more than 36,000 unnecessary parking payments totaling more than $81,000.  

Tanis, who discovered the mistake, says the city government should refund the money.  

“They just need to do the right thing,” she said.

Tanis contacted Target 8 investigators after she saw our story in June about a city policy that puts a four-year limit on refunds of water and sewer overbilling and a man who says the city overbilled his business thousands of dollars for 10 years and only paid back part of it.

The city decided not to refund the mistaken parking payments, either.

“I had suggested to the director of MobileGR at that time that at minimum he consider evaluating what a refund would look like,” Frantz said.  

He says it would have been possible to refund the thousands of parking payments, but it would take a lot of work. He says he’s comfortable with the city decision not to.  

“I think there are a lot of things to take into consideration,” he said.

“The remarkable thing about this story,” Frantz said, “is that it really just took one resident to document something and get in touch with someone at city hall willing to take a hard look at this.”


This is on top of the city destorying a block with a massive water main break and not covering any of the damage their neglected infrastructure caused saying they are "immune".

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The Zionist entity really treats their Mizrahi population with complete contempt. Imagine losing your legs to a Yasin rocket only to have doctors make you a foot shorter.

https://xcancel.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1831694235151540330

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

Most moral army/only democracy in the Middle East siccing dogs on hostages

https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners/2103

cw: torture, ethnosupremacy

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Russia has taken out enough offensive Ukrainian Air Defence platforms to deploy "Orion" medium altitude drones in the Kursk region. The drones have been filmed using the Kh-BPLA missile to take out armoured targets, such as Ukrainian tanks, on the ground. This the first recorded use of this weapon, and this is apparently the second. The Kh-BPLA missile is a 9M133M Kornet-M anti tank missile that has been modified to be launched by a drone or helicopter (it is usually launched from the Kornet-D platform, a ground vehicle), with a range of 8km with the tandem-HEAT warhead, and 10km with the thermobaric warhead. It uses laser designation for guidance. The drone operator only has to designate a target once, and the drone's computer will automatically track the target as the missile flies towards it. A big improvement over systems that require the target to be designated manually by the operator throughout the entire flight.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago (8 children)

N.Y. Official Charged With Taking Money, Travel and Poultry to Aid China

Prosecutors say that Ms. Sun blocked Taiwanese officials from having access to the governor’s office, eliminated references to Taiwan from state communications and quashed meetings between Taiwanese officials and state leaders, including Ms. Hochul. She also ensured that state officials did not publicly address the persecution of Uyghurs, a primarily Muslim ethnic group that for more than a thousand years has lived in a region of what is now China, prosecutors said.

Taiwan, the "country" that the U.S. government does not recognize.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

AMLO gave his last goverment report yesterday

{Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has defended his legacy in the final state-of-the-nation address – an annual report on his government – a month before he is set to leave office and be replaced by his close ally Claudia Sheinbaum.

Speaking for two hours in Mexico City’s sprawling Zocalo Square, Lopez Obrador bade farewell to enthusiastic followers on Sunday as he seeks to advance a major overhaul of the country’s courts.

On October 1, Lopez Obrador will hand power to a fellow member of his Morena party, Sheinbaum, who was elected in June to be the country’s first woman president.

Presidents in Mexico are limited to a single six-year term, so Lopez Obrador could not seek re-election.

Sheinbaum will also inherit a package of constitutional reforms initiated under Lopez Obrador, including the judicial overhaul plan

At the core of the proposal is a plan to elect federal judges – including Supreme Court appointees – by popular vote. Lopez Obrador has said the change is needed to root out corruption.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Court orders Kennedy’s name removed from Michigan ballots

Article

(The Hill) – A Michigan court ordered Friday that former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name be removed from the state’s general election ballot, overturning previous efforts to keep his name on the ballot.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Kennedy, who suspended his White House bid in August and endorsed former President Trump, can have his name withdrawn from Michigan’s ballot. The decision, written by a three-judge panel, is a win for the environmental lawyer. 

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) previously denied Kennedy’s request, and a lower court ruled Kennedy’s name must remain on the ballot. Friday’s decision overturns those rulings.

“While the request was made close to the deadline for defendant to give notice of candidates to local election officials, it was not made so late that laches should apply,” the three-judge panel wrote, referring to the doctrine that would let a court deny a push for relief because an opposing party was slow to act.

“Additionally, we conclude that the absence of any statutory authority prohibiting his withdrawal gave plaintiff a clear legal right to have his name removed from the ballot. Defendant had no ability to disregard that request,” added the judges, Michael Gadola, Mark Boonstra and Mark Cavanagh.

Angela Benander, spokesperson for the Michigan secretary of state’s office, said in a statement to The Hill that the office will be “appealing to the Michigan Supreme Court.” 

Kennedy has pushed to have his name removed from the ballot in battleground states such as Michigan, saying he wants to ensure he won’t be a spoiler in places where Trump and Vice President Harris are locked in a tight race.

Kennedy is suing to get his name off the ballot in Wisconsin, after the state’s election commission opted to keep him on.

On Friday, a North Carolina judge halted the Tar Heel State from distributing mail-in ballots that have Kennedy’s name on it.

Harris currently leads Trump by less than 2 points in Michigan, according to a polling index from The Hill and Decision Desk HQ.


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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Turkey applied for BRICS membership and immediately became based? They just beat up a US Marine lol.

[–] SeekTheDeletion@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

Turkey gets away with so much due to their straddling the geopolitical line. I want to see them do their own 9/11 and get away with it like the Saudis did

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

In other ukkk isntrael news...

The UK has suspended some arms licenses. 30 out of 350 to be exact. They do not cover the major components for things like F-35s however - one of the bigger volume items made here.

The rationale given is one of explicit legalese over "uncertainty" about whether they "could" be used in Gaza in capacities that violate international law, while making it very clear that they are not claiming Israel has, will, or is doing that.

In other words, it seems that the leaks from the end of the previous government saying that legal advisers had explicitly told the government they were in violation of international law and could potentially be named in international arrest warrants were accurate. And now that the new Labour government has checked that too, they're crossing off the items that potentially already have a strong potential against them in order to try and keep themselves off an potential legal action that might bar them from international travel.

Any idea that they seem to be softening their position on military and intelligence support of Israel seems to be countered by the fact that there's been a notable, aggressive push of anti-terror legislation use against pro-Palestine journalists and Palestine Action who (as well as securing many acquittals under traditional law) have actively been targeting some of the arms companies exporting the very items that the UK will now suspend export of.

BBC source article here

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

(I have nothing funny to say about this. I think the article and milei do a fine job by themselves)

Milei: ‘I am today the most relevant politician on Earth’ – bar Trump

Javier Milei has declared himself to be one of the two most important politicians in the world today, naming the other as former US president Donald Trump.

Javier Milei has declared himself to be one of the two most important politicians in the world today, naming the other as former US president Donald Trump. Argentina’s head of state made the remarks in the television interview, during which he lashed out at his critics, describing them as “Lilliputians.”

“It hurts them that I am today one of the two most relevant politicians on planet Earth. One is Trump and the other is me,” Milei boasted in an interview with the LN+ television news channel on Sunday night.

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Milei, 53, declared that is considered to be “maximum exponent and defender of the ideas of freedom in the world’, highlighting his meetings with top Silicon Valley minds like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

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Slamming his critics as “inconsequential,” he argued that they were simply jealous of his success.

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Milei mocked the “the Lilliputian agenda of inconsequential Argentine politicians, invisible rats, who will never be able to aspire” to his level of importance.

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Painting himself a modern Gulliver freeing himself from the shackles of his adversaries, he asked of the opposition: ”What vision can a rat have of a giant? Nothing.”

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Milei has repeatedly expressed his administration for Trump, who he met for the first at conservative summit in Washington back in February.

Visibly delighted at meeting the US Republican leader, the Argentine leader broke with diplomatic tradition to state that he hoped Trump is re-elected in November’s US election.

"President! How nice to meet you. It's a great pleasure to meet you, President. It is a great honour for me. Thank you for your words to me. I am very happy, it is very generous. Thank you very much, thank you very much, I mean it. You are a great president and I hope you win. I hope to see you again. Next time, as president,” said Milei as he shook Trump’s hand.

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Trump, in turn, has praised Milei, not quite as vociferously. In August, during a public conversation with X owner Elon Musk on the social network, the US leader said that he was doing “a great job.”

Milei is in the process of beefing up his public image. Last week, he published a teaser trailer from a new six-part documentary series that will tell the tale of his rise to the Presidency. The doc will be published on Musk’s X network and – in the words of its promoters – will draw back the curtain on “the phenomenon that’s captivating the world.”

“I am not famous as an economist, but like a rockstar,” Milei says in one piece of footage released to promote the documentary about “the most epic campaign in history.”

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago (7 children)

How many Zionazis got killed recently? Could do with some uplifting news.

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And though defending democracy was a dominant theme of the Democratic National Convention last month, in the 2022 midterms, Democrats failed to field a single candidate for fully half of all partisan offices — well over three times the rate of Republican no-shows.

NYT

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago (6 children)
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[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

It looks like Ukraine committed the last of its strategic reserve to Pokrovsk last week and it's already expended. Russia took fairly moderate losses given it was at least 5 extra fresh brigades

Running the numbers, they might have 2 full brigades left in reserve, total, and it's far from clear if they're in flighting condition.

I'm not optimistic about Pokrovsk being taken this year, but then it doesn't need to be to force the south east flank collapse Russia has wanted for 2 years now

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

Nazionists failed to consider it is so easy to make insulting puns about israhell

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