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I was checking Wikipedia's page on Self-Coups. And there was this there:

Notable events described as attempted self-coups:

Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Ongoing events, since he assumed office on December 29, 2022)

Is this related to the reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court?

I've just seen someone claim 'Tim Waltz was also an excellent VP pick who appealed to progressives.' I'm not yank so could someone break down if there is any truth to that? tbh not knowing about about him I assumed he was a stereotypical 'safe' center-right white guy, is he closer to a Liz Warren or even a Sanders,?

Video of ICBMs hitting Dnipro

https://tankie.tube/w/5GZDqFPzqG7Zwy1ocy8WAF

More alleged ATACMS strikes on Kursk, Russia by the United States and Ukraine within the last two hours. It seems that the use of the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) weapons system by Russia, in the MIRV and submunition capable Oreshnik IRBM, has not deterred the US and Ukraine from launching strikes and attacks against Russia within Russia's internationally recognised borders. Expect a Russian response if these do indeed turn out to be ATACMS missiles.

Video:

Reddit source

TankieTube mirror

You can see the alleged ATACMS missile in it's terminal phase of flight, as well as hearing an apparent sonic boom, just before the explosion at the beginning of the video, I'll screenshot it and post it below:

I have a question: how many red lines did Russia lay out that eventually got violated?

In der Schweiz weist das Bundesamt für Justiz darauf hin, dass die Schweiz das Römer Statut, das die rechtliche Grundlage des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs bildet, ratifiziert hat. Sie müsste Benjamin Netanjahu und andere Beschuldigte daher grundsätzlich verhaften.

In Switzerland the Federal Department of Justice says that they've ratified the Rome Statue, which forms the legal basis of the ICC. Therefore they would have to arrest Benjamin Natanyahu and other people that have been charged as a matter of principle.

Russians getting their mojo back with that missile strike. Probably feels good after west saying Russia is just a gas station and they don't have paved roads.

Another IOF loser getting sniped:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1858322733777428749

Does anyone have sources on how much US/UK involvement is required to launch these missiles? It is guaranteed that they provide intel and potential targets. From there, does Ukraine program the missiles? According to Wikipedia, it seems the Storm Shadow missiles are guided by GPS, which—despite its ubiquity—is US military tech. It also appears the missiles need to be loaded with satellite images for target matching. Apparently, they can relay images of a site just before impact and presumably that won't be going directly to Ukrainian military staff but more likely somewhere in the US/UK?

I was almost impressed for a second by some of the tech, but then I remembered that Russia has missiles flying at up to 3 km/s, and now I’m not as much.

Federal Police have now identified 35 Military personnel including 10 Generals, 16 Colonels and an Admiral as involved in coup plan to assassinate President Lula, Vice President Alckmin and Supreme Court Minister Moraes. Arrests imminent. - Brazilwire

Jair Bolsonaro's former Aide de Camp, Lt. Col. Mauro Cid, has been summoned to testify to the federal police about the December, 2022 assassination attempt planned by top military allies of Bolsonaro, for Lula, VP Geraldo Alckmin & Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes

After arresting 4 special forces officers, including a former instructor at the School of the Americas, and a Federal Police agent for the assassination attempt yesterday, police now say they have enough evidence to arrest 35 Military personnel. According to the Fed. Police, many of the assassination planning meetings took place in the mansion of Bolsonaro's former Minister of Defense and 2022 VP running mate, General Walter Braga Neto

According to investigators, and armed army special forces soldier was stationed 3 blocks from Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes' home on the planned night of the assassination, which was only called off due to a change of schedule in the Supreme Court. Keep this in mind when you think about Greenwald spending the last 2 years pushing the Bolsonaro family's "authoritarian" narrative against Justice Moraes, who is in charge of the Supreme Court's investigation into the architects of the failed coup attempt.

Back to Mauro Cid (R), he's been called in for interrogation today because during a plea bargain deal, he testified that close allies of Bolsonaro had planned to kidnap Lula, Alckmin and Moraes. Leaving out the assassination part violates the terms of his plea bargain. Brazil's Federal Police announce that Jair Bolsonaro knew about the assassination plot against President Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes.

It seems like this "Letter to the Army Commander from Senior Officers of the Active and Brazilian Army” is the coup draft they would have read after they took over the goverment.

JAIR BOLSONARO IS INDICTED BY THE FEDERAL POLICE FOR ATTEMPTED COUP D'ÉTAT. The report is 884 pages long and will be submitted to the Supreme Court today.

It's Bolsover?

Zelensky has been spotted in Kupyansk. the kiss of death from a front line Ukrainian city

‘Bomb cyclone’ threatens Northern California and Pacific Northwest

Somebody better release satellite images of the Oreshnik strike

just how fked are we, newsheads?

capitalism DEFINITELY is when no food.

Argentina snubs G20 summit launch of Brazil's global anti-hunger alliance

*Argentina the only G20 country not to sign up to a global anti-hunger initiative set to be launched at the opening of leaders summit in Brazil. *

Argentina was the only G20 country not to sign up to a global anti-hunger initiative set to be launched at the opening of a G20 summit in Rio, host Brazil said Monday. The decision by Argentina – led by President Javier Milei – deepens a political gap between the nation and neighbouring Brazil, whose left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is championing the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty.

A total of 81 countries signed on to the flagship initiative – including 18 of the 19 nations in the G20 – but Argentina was not among them, according to a communiqué. Its membership is "under negotiation," a source in the Brazilian Presidency told the AFP news agency.

The Global Alliance is an ambitious initiative pushed by Lula, a former steel-worker. It aims to eradicate hunger and poverty by 2030 and reduce inequality. Milei and Lula, whose countries share a border, have had a tense relationship even prior to the Argentine's election last year.

An ally of US president-elect Donald Trump, Milei has imposed radical austerity measures in Argentina to bring down high inflation. The policies sent the poverty rate in the country soaring to 52.9 percent in the first half of this year, 11 percentage points higher than in the previous six-month period.

Milei was the first world leader to see Trump after the Republican's win in the US presidential election. He attended a gala at the Republican's Mar-a-Lago Florida estate last Thursday.

The Argentine leader has several times labeled Lula a "communist" and "corrupt."

The Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty also has the support of international organizations such as the European Union and the African Union – both G20 members – as well as financial institutions and NGOs, bringing the total number of signatories to 147. The initiative's goal is ambitious: to reduce world hunger, which affected 733 million people last year – nine percent of the global population – according to the UN.

For Lula, who grew up in poverty before a trade unionist and eventually president of Latin America's biggest economy, the initiative is dear to his heart. At a national level, his left-wing policies have already lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty.

I sometimes don't even know what they're trying to achieve. Hunger good I guess? It's even worse when we consider that these global programs never really have impact on the matter, because hunger and poverty are essential to Capitalism, but still they have to signal that any kind of movement towards improvement, no matter how insignificant, must be squashed. Just sign the fucking thing you pathetic motherfucker.

death to "israel" btw

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With Russia's missile strike last night involving an ICBM or IRBM with a conventional payload, there has been a lot of talk about the potential nuclear threat or nuclear capabilities. Which is valid of course, such weapons usually carry nuclear warheads.

However, I managed to find this interesting quote from 2012 from Sergey Karakaev, commander of the Russian strategic missile forces, on the development and construction of Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) or Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) weapons. Such weapons are intended to deliver a precision guided conventional weapons strike anywhere on the globe, within an hour from launch. It is a capability that the US in particular has been pursuing since the Bush Jr administration, first looking to convert a Trident SLBM to a conventional payload, and then on the development of hypersonic weapons. This caused tensions between Obama and Putin in 2013. Anyways, here is the quote from Sergey Karakaev from 2012.

In addition, according to Sergey Karakaev, commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, a liquid fuelled rocket, with its greater payload potential, will allow Russia "to realize such opportunities as the creation of high precision strategic weapons with non-nuclear warheads and a practically global range".

Russia can create non-nuclear, high precision weapons based on intercontinental rockets in the event that the USA also works on designing such a weapon", Karakaev points out.

• Source - Space Daily, 31 December 2012

It seems as if Russia has demonstrated this capability. This existence and deployment of this potential CPS system by Russia changes a lot of calculations around escalation in a potential NATO - Russia conflict.

From videos and pictures of the strike, which I'll post below in a spoiler tag, we can see six seperate re-entries into the earth's atmosphere, and each re-entry contains multiple submunitions, based on screenshots of the video, about six submunitions per re-entry event. So six re-entries with 6 submunitions each, for 36 hits total. That's quite a payload if it came from one missile. If being the keyword.

Some news and combat footage from Lebanon and occupied Palestine.

Lebanese resistance forces continue inflicting losses on Zionist invaders in southern Lebanon: https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollah-clashes-with-invading-troops-across-south-lebanon-as-massive-airstrikes-hit-beirut

A collection of recent Lebanese rocket and drone strikes on Zionist military targets: https://southfront.press/in-video-hezbollah-hit-israeli-bases-with-guided-missiles-suicide-drones/

fuck you [adds another 3 months to the war]

Trump's FCC pick Brendan Carr posted this

https://xcancel.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1857419658812440927

leading to me desperately needing to post this:

fact chucking

The Romanian presidential election is coming up this Sunday, as far as I am aware nobody here has said a single thing about it so far and I must say it's probably better that way. While many romanians love to make fun of the US and how much of a charade its "democracy" is I genuinely believe Romania might have the most stagnant political scene and the most transparently undemocratic "democracy" in Europe. There are 14 candidates and they all either range from center-right to George "" Simion.

@RomCom1989@hexbear.net tovarăș, what are your thoughts on this upcoming election? That is if you have any, I would not blame you if you didn't, this country's internal politics are so stagnant and geopolitically irrelevant I didn't even know an election was happening until someone told me about it yesterday.

Right winger got arrested in Algeria upon arrival: (used google translate with some corrections)

Sansal, a puppet of the anti-Algerian revisionist movement [Arabic]

Algeria - The comical uproar raised by some French political and intellectual circles over the case of Boualem Sansal is further evidence of the existence of a “hateful” movement against Algeria. It is a lobby that does not miss any opportunity to question Algerian sovereignty.
The arrest of Boualem Sansal, the alleged intellectual revered by the French far right, has also awakened the professionals of indignation. The anti-Algerian and pro-Zionist names in Paris have risen up as one man: Eric Zemmour, Mohamed Sifaoui, Marine Le Pen, Xavier Driencourt, Valéry Pécras, Jack Lang, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, and of course Tahar Ben Jelloun, his Moroccan friend who is recovering from sciatica from bending over to kiss the hand of his King Mohammed VI. They have all come to the forefront to defend this professional revisionist who has fallen into the trap of his own doing.

The article is from the Algerian Press Service, which is owned by the Algerian government, no their articles aren't like this usually.

More funny shit from the failed assassination attempt against Lula da Silva, Geraldo Alckmin (VP, probably known for posting Wojak and other memes on his twitter account) and Supreme Court Judges Alexandre de Moraes (The one that fucked with Elon Musk) and Flavio Dino (Brazilian Communist Party Member and Former Governor). They were using their whatsapp group (yes, they were using this shit to plot a coup), they named their group "Copa 2022", to pretend it was a World Cup group but also because Copa sounds like Coup. Coup 2022. Holy fucking shit these people are fucking stupid, they fucking had a document with the whole coup only changing some of the names of people they wanted to kill/arrest, they left the files on the printer, and the printer was literally inside Lula's Office (which was Bolsonaro's office before). No fucking wonder they couldn't do shit, and the US/CIA was against this.