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Westoid media is embarrassing itself greatly right now. The big, "reputable" outlets (AP, Reuters, etc) just regurgitated an old, already debunked story about a Chinese nuclear sub sinking.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/asia/china-icbm-test-pacific-ocean-intl-hnk/index.html

China is testing intercontinental missiles for the first time in a long time, nothing to see here, folks.

IDF has dropped leaflets in south Lebanon (DO NOT SCAN IDF QR CODES FOR ANY REASON)

Large number of missiles being reported ("hundreds") all over northern Israel. Some confirmation photos of Iron Dome platforms being hit.

https://files.catbox.moe/5avrjq.MP4

Israel's """"targeted"""" strikes in the city of Beirut.

https://tankie.tube/w/ohYnnmLAR1MeDDwpXUHZnX

EDIT: Another picture from this bombing I believe

Just saw an interview on AusBC news with someone from the american university of Beirut who claimed Hezbollah is unable to do war, lots of footage of smoking buildings in lebanon, nothing of what's happening within 'israel', very cool, I wipe away a tear with a yanky flag hanky

Some Sudanese soldiers are using the red triangle as a patch

مثلثنا الأحمر، الذي أينما حل انتصر
Wherever our red triangle goes, we win

"Israel" just bombed Yemen's port of hodeidah, same place as last time

PFLP announces deaths of three members in Kola strike

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine armed group named the three men as:

Muhammad Abdel Aal, also known as Abu Ghazi, a member of the PFLP’s political bureau and the head of its military security department.

Imad Odeh, also known as Abu Ziad, a member of the PFLP’s military department and a military commander in Lebanon.

Abdul Rahman Abdel Aal, who it described only as a “comrade martyr hero”.

Denmark's authoritarian Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen has weighed in on how to solve "the conflict in the Middle East".

According to her, the "only viable" way to go is the so-called "two-state solution", the liberal fatamorgana that neither indigenous Palestinians nor the zionist settlers wants. She claims that this will "Reassure 'Israel' that the country exists and that it's people can be safe" and that "the Palestinian people also get a state". She did not elaborate on whether that Palestinian state should have similar reassurances.

However, in the words of government broadcaster DR: "Hamas does not recognize that 'Israel' should even be there and the current 'Israeli' government are against a two-state solution". However, the Danish leader knows what to do, the "international community" should simply "take over and say that this is not just a matter for the middle east, it is a matter for the entire world and therefore we must force a two-state solution through."

I am happy to be governed by adults in the room making realistic and workable policies instead of dreaming up naive idealist castles in the sky.

Moody's cuts Israel's rating, warns of drop to 'junk'

Sept 27 (Reuters) - Moody's on Friday downgraded Israel's credit rating two notches to "Baa1" from "A2" and maintained a negative outlook amid escalation of the conflict in the region with Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

"The key driver for the downgrade is our view that geopolitical risk has intensified significantly further, to very high levels, with material negative consequences for Israel's creditworthiness in both the near and longer term," Moody's said.

The downgrade kept Israel's rating three notches into investment grade. However, Moody's warned that uncertainties over the country's security and its longer-term economic growth prospects "are much higher than is typical at the Baa rating level." A drop below that level would mean Israel would lose its investment grade rating.

"The ratings would likely be downgraded further, potentially by multiple notches, if the current heightened tensions with Hezbollah turned into a full-scale conflict," Moody's said.

Typically, a loss of investment grade rating means a spike in the cost of servicing debt, and it could force some investors to sell their holdings - further pressuring lower the market price of Israel's bonds.

Rating agency Fitch downgraded Israel's credit rating to "A" from "A-plus" last month, and kept the rating outlook negative.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/moodys-cuts-israels-rating-warns-drop-junk-2024-09-27/

The Norwegian regime is planning to construct a fence along its border with Russia. So writes NRK (Norwegian state media). The fence is intended to "deter" refugees from crossing the border illegally.

There has been three illegal crossings of the Russian-Norwegian border since the beginning of the Ukraine war.

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/bjrbzxec0

Moody's is going to lower Isntrael's credit rating again. Making for 2 times this year, I'll report on the other agencies as they come up.

Israel rejects french USA ceasefire deal. Israel is off the rails. Imperialists cant control it anymore.

By the guardian:

"Benjamin Netanyahu rules out US-French ceasefire proposal

Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has ruled out a ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hezbollah, saying “The news about a ceasefire – not true. This is an American-French proposal, to which the prime minister did not even respond.”

It said, instead, that “the prime minister instructed the IDF to continue the fighting with full force”. Over 600 people have been killed and thousands wounded in Lebanon since Israel began an intense bombing campaign on Monday.

Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz joined the prime minister in ruling out Israel accepting a US-French proposed 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

In a message posted to social media, Katz said: “There will be no ceasefire in the north. We will continue to fight against the terrorist organization Hezbollah with all our might until victory and the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.”

About 60,000 Israelis have fled their homes in northern Israel due to continual fighting between Israel, Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces based in Lebanon. On the Lebanese side of the UN-drawn blue line that separates the two countries, tens of thousands of Lebanese have also been internally displaced.

Earlier Israel’s hardline far-right finance minister, who has previously described it as his life’s mission to thwart the creation of a Palestinian state, also rejected the idea of a ceasefire. Bezalel Smotrich said “The campaign in the north should end in one scenario – crushing Hezbollah.”

Israel’s military claimed that overnight it struck “approximately 75 terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation” in Beqaa and in southern Lebanon. Authorities in Lebanon reported at least four more people killed this morning, and that 23 Syrians, mostly women and children, were killed by an Israeli strike on Younine in Lebanon during the night.

The US and France had called for a temporary ceasefire to make way for broader negotiations. The joint statement issued by US president Joe Biden and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said: “It is time for a settlement on the Israel-Lebanon border that ensures safety and security to enable civilians to return to their homes. The exchange of fire since October 7th, and in particular over the past two weeks, threatens a much broader conflict, and harm to civilians.”

The Jerusalem Post earlier reported that community leaders of northern Israel are unhappy with the prospect of a ceasefire, with one regional council’s chairman saying “There is a time for negotiations, this is not the time. This is a time for war.” "

Finland places NATO base near russian border https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/nato-to-set-up-northern-land-command-in-eastern-finland?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Israel is doing more terror bombings

⚡️ Spokesperson for the #Israeli occupation army:

We will strike buildings that we ordered to be evacuated in the southern suburb of Beirut

https://nitter.poast.org/ME_Observer_/status/1839772499795485112#m

Chud's are gonna go on about this for a while, searches in conjunction with the assassination attempt by that nafo dude led to cops finding his son had hundreds of child porn images.

Bit Idea for Hezbollah

State that there is currently no leadership and therefor no Decicion making Majority on Cease Fire Negotiation or Further Escalation can be made , until further Notice Hezbollah will follow Nasrallahs last Orders "to not let the evacuated Return to Galilea", You Expect the Consolidation of a New Leadership in 6 to 12 Months or so.

Keir Starmer demands the return of the sausages from Gaza

https://tankie.tube/w/iT4P99uQxw7JEvzB1dnkB8

Defeated in Gaza, Israel can't repair myth of invincibility with barbarism in Lebanon: Pezeshkian

good morning, comrades. several comments in the rules request thread were about solid links and substantive main comments in order to build discussion. while i am not sure strict rules are required (there is something to be said for making sure people aren’t so concerned over self-esteem or “real leftism” that they stop talking), i do enjoy discussion based on links from good sources. also, there are people who post very good links and videos from telegram and twitter of primary events, so i am going to try and link analysis of things that have happened in the past few days.

as such, for at least this week, i will be posting what i think are the top three-ish naked capitalism articles of the day, along with some commentary. think of it as a bootleg and abbreviated rip-off of comrade 72T’s bulletins. if it looks like i have time for it with work and people like it, i will do my best to continue.

A breakdown of the recent German state elections in Brandenburg, as well as a general picture of the German economic and political trajectory (bad). i think it is worth extending some mental sympathy to BSW, since unlike many other ‘patsocs’, they wish to RETVRN to the GDR, a real and decent place, instead of purely nationalist fantasy. Many of the people involved, including Ms. Wagenknecht, were adults when the Berlin Wall came down. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/atlanticism-or-sovereignty-fight-in-germany-continues-with-latest-state-election.html

A good explanation of how the ocean is getting warmer, and also a good example of runaway warming/ climate feedback loops. i will say that i think arctic-news’ estimation of up to 18 degrees celsius warming is a bit sensationalist, but sources i prefer suggest 7 to 10 degrees if no mass action is taken and we actually get worse at emissions (the current trajectory), which is still “we all die” territory. https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/09/high-temperatures-despite-la-nina.html

A very brief report about Ukrainian military activity in Syria. Interesting to think about in context of “is this World War 3 yet?” Also a clear sign of Ukraine lacking a plan for victory (in what universe does a base outside Aleppo effect anything in the Donbass?). Since we know that all Ukrainian ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) is USamerican, you have to wonder what Uncle Sam wanted destroyed in Syria last week (and what the entity was doing to that Iranian base). https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukrainian-special-forces-syria

Israel likely used US-made bombs in Nasrallah assassination: Report

likely used United States-made 900kg (2,000-pound) bombs in the strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and levelled residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs earlier this week, The Washington Post reports.

Citing three experts who analysed videos of Friday’s strikes, posted by the Israeli Air Force, the Post said on Sunday that at least some of the bombs were US-made “BLU-109s and JDAM guidance kits”.

BLU-109s are bunker-buster heavy bombs and JDAM kits are guidance systems that attach to munitions to help attack a specific target.

A 2,000-pound bomb has a destruction radius of 35 metres (115 feet), according to the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA), which conducts defence policy research and analysis.

Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s longtime chief, was killed in Friday’s strike on the group’s underground headquarters. Israel dropped what local media said were “bunker-busting” bombs and flattened about six buildings, while trying to kill Nasrallah.

The attack also devastated the entire neighbourhood, turning several apartment buildings into rubble.

Beirut appears to have been repeatedly struck throughout the night

https://tankie.tube/w/6ohc3DTpTWGZow7WwwMMQD

https://tankie.tube/w/p2bfwYvyFb7cymYhvKxNNx

https://tankie.tube/w/9TcdLC9LhwUr2erw4fqmP2

so here's a question, is there somewhere it was articulated specifically, by Iran/Hezbollah/Hamas leadership, that this 'boil the frog' attrition is their coordinated strategy? And that this strategy was reached because they're nervous about the zionist nuclear arsenal?

this is my read of the predominant interpretation from the news mega posters, but is this something sourced from actors in the conflict or just what people here think is going on?

Missile from Lebanon hits IOF target near Quds, drones swarm Nahariya

A missile fired from Lebanon impacted a target in the occupied West Bank where fires broke out on Saturday night.

An hour after the missile attack, sirens sounded in the coastal city settlement of Nahariya, where unidentified aerial objects were detected flying over the area.

Iraqi Resistance attacks vital Israeli target in Tel Aviv with drones

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says the latest operation was in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese people.

Israeli Media: 'Israel' under attack from Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq

Israeli media reports indicate that the Israeli occupation is facing a 'coordinated and wide-ranging' attack from multiple fronts, causing damage across different areas of occupied Palestine.

No matter how much doomerism we have here, it'll never be as bad as telegram. Plus we don't have religious arguments or actual fascists

a banger of an article in the paper of the smaller finnish communist party (ML), concerning genocide and how finland liked to partake and still does tbh translation below

The policies of the Finnish occupation regime in Karelia during the Second World War are again being discussed in the public eye in the context of a trial in the Republic of Karelia in Petrozavodsk. Finland is accused of war crimes and genocide against the Karelian population.

The events in Karelia are a complex and long story that cannot be honoured in a single article. I recommend to everyone Tomi Mäkinen's series of articles published in Työkansan Sanomat on Itä-Karjalan miehitys ja suomalaisten perustamat keskitysleirit 1941–44 (the occupation of East Karelia and the concentration camps set up by the Finns), and Marja-Leena Mikkola's book Menetetty lapsuus (Lost Childhood), on which the series of articles is based.

Mäkinen's series of articles and Mikkola's book describe Finnish actions from the perspective of Karelian and Karelian Russian survivors. In addition, several skilled writers have published articles on fascism and Finnish fascism in Työkansan Sanomat and on the Ktp website.

In short, the Finns who invaded Soviet Karelia in the Continuation War, inspired by the Greater Finland ideology, finnic tribalism and the practices of their allies in Nazi Germany, set up concentration camps where ethnic cleansing was carried out.

The Finns distinguished between the 'non-ethnic', i.e. Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Tatars and Latvians, and what they considered 'Finns', i.e. ethnic Karelians, Vepsians, Ingrians, Estonians and Mordvians, and sought to turn the ''Finnic'' into Finns.

All those in the camps experienced extreme physical, mental and cultural oppression. Thousands of men, women and children died from forced labour, starvation and punishments.

There is no doubt that Russia could or would use this trial for anti-Finnish propaganda today. The regime in capitalist Russia does not itself have a particular devotion to the rights of minorities. However, this fact should not justify the way in which genocide accusations are handled in Finland. Karelians have the right at any time to bring past events to light and demand accountability from Finland.

The Finnish media's response to the accusations has been to play down the events of the Continuation War, to accuse those involved of being Russian propagandists and to complain about unfair and dishonest historical research which 'claims that Finland was a fascist country that committed genocide'.

Unfortunately, in the light of Finnish historiography, this is not surprising. Finland has always responded to criticism of the state's actions from independence until the end of the Second World War with a strong defensive stance.

The Finnish government has been "forced" to ban political parties, imprison, torture and kill political opponents. The state "accidentally" had links with criminal fascist groups. Finland "had a difficult choice" between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Finland " was forced " to choose the Nazis. And even when they set up concentration camps, the Finns did it for a reason more noble than the other genocidaires. And all the deaths were accidents.

Such whining is all over the history books of our country. All the Finnish rulers from the beginning to the end are just blue-eyed, silly little children who do nothing wrong, but at the same time all the evil is done in self-defence. Refusing to accept responsibility is an extremely dangerous act, both for our past and for our future.

In the current situation, in which the state is again preparing itself for war, such a view of history and cognitive dissonance tends to be forgotten as if by magic. However, this is a time when fascism, war crimes and genocide should be better known and understood.

No matter what the imperialists want, this current war will end one day, and then we will be left wondering how thousands more have died, how the war feels so absurd again.

Genocidal nationalism in our culture is not just about ourselves and our own actions. The tradition of keeping quiet and following the bigger picture was seen again when Finland abstained in October 2023 in the UN vote on the Gaza ceasefire. This vote in Finland was preceded by a barrage of news reports calling Palestinians and pro-Palestinians terrorists and talking about Israeli self-defence.

Here are all the articles that are referenced in the article. i will not translate these but https://www.deepl.com/en/translator is decent with finnish, just work around the words a bit if they seems wonky

The Cradle UPDATE | Lebanese Health Ministry:

"The number of victims of the Israeli aggression has risen to 558 martyrs, including 50 children, 94 women, and 1,835 wounded."

Biden found another $8 billion between the couch cushions to toss into the burn pit that is