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Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades: 

— Al-Qassam fighters successfully sniped a zionist soldier with a Al-Qassam Ghoul rifle south of the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.

Elections in portugal tomorrow, lots of my comrades are optimistic but personally I'm bracing for impact, the communist party has been hammered for 2 years for its anti-nato position on russia-ukraine and for opposing arms shipments, even now the media doesn't shut up about that even though the general secretary has been campaigning hard on wage increases and the cost of inflation all over the country. Plus the socialist party has been in power for 9 years so there's a lot of tiredness with the left, also there's a new eurocuck green party that certainly is going to take a chunk from the anti-EU left (BE and PCP). The far right will surely get 3th place with at least 10-12%, and the center right social democratic party made a coalition with the very right wing christian democrats which is not even in parliament anymore and also with, incredibly funnily, the monarchist party in a coalition called "Democratic Aliance" which is a rehash of an 80s coalition with the same name and parties, so far they say that they won't make a deal with the far right to govern but it's hard to see how there can be a right wing majority without the far right. The market radical liberals are probably going to maintain their 5%

The socialist party's leader has the reputation of being in the left wing of the party (and he was caught on hot mic during the debt crisis saying "I don't give a fuck about our creditors we can drop the atomic bomb and say let's not pay") but he's made the whole party support him by talking to the right and center while also saying he wants a left majority and make a deal with the left parties like in 2015-2019 with the "geringonça". If that happens so be it, it would be better than a right wing government, but I'm skeptical that the left parties can get the major parts of their program done though a socialist party government, like housing, wages and especially important for the communist party union laws.

Polls have the right and left very close but polling has failed bigly in the last elections not predicting the socialist party absolute majority.

Danish Regime Refuses To Help Refugees Stuck In Bureaucratic Limbo

Unmoved by human suffering Denmark's social democratic-led right-wing regime is rejecting all talks of processing the asylum cases of asylum seekers who are stuck in the refugee detention camps of the American satellite state, unable to have their cases heard due to rigid and bureaucratic EU asylum rules.

THE WEST'S DESCENT INTO FASCISM — Under the Dublin convention that governs EU asylum law refugees can only have their cases processed in the first country they were registered in. The system was set up to deter what mouthpieces of the regime denounce as "asylum shopping". These rules means that Mediterranean countries bears most of the responsibility for processing asylum claims. As a result the mismanaged and underfunded Italian asylum system has refused to accept refugees from other EU countries since December 2022, leaving asylum seekers unable to have their cases processed anywhere. Human rights organisations estimates that between 70 and 100 refugees are trapped in Danish detention camps because of this.

Regime Rejects Humanitarian Pleas

The human rights NGO Danish Refugee Aid, supported by the pro-democracy Red-Green opposition party, has urged for processing their cases following a report on Ketily, a 34-year-old refugee from Eritrea who has been stranded in Denmark for almost 1.5 years. However their pleas for mercy falls on deaf ears.

With the callous disregard for human suffering that is so typical of the capitalist world, Christel Schaldemose, a member of the EU's rubberstamp legislature for Denmark's ruling social democratic party rejects the idea of allowing the refugees to have their cases processed in Denmark, instead she calls for strict adherence to existing rules. Evading responsibility she states that it would be best if the Italian system could handle the refugees and and goes on to say: "We need migrants and asylum seekers to have their cases resolved more quickly in the countries already handling them. We cannot allow migrants to come to the EU and live without a legal basis for residence. If there is no need for protection or residence, the European states must improve their efforts to send people back to their home countries".

Far Right: The Refugees Are Rule-breakers

Her refusal to help the refugees is shared by her fellow EU legislator Anders Vistisen who represents the far right Danish People's Party. "I certainly don't believe they should be given special treatment just because they've prolonged their case by staying in Denmark." the islamophobic hardliner says. He accuses the stranded refugees of "breaking the rules" by "travelling through several safe countries to seek asylum" and claims that allowing the refugees to have their cases processed would be "preferential treatment" as it would mean the stranded refugees would be treated better than "all those who follow the rules and have their cases processed where they first entered the EU".

Unlike his social democratic comrade, Vistisen is not content with making impotent wishes for the problem to simply not exist in the first place. Vistisen claims that the fact that Denmark received 541 refugees through the Dublin system in 2022 while only deporting 472 to other EU countries is evidence that the system has no effect. Instead he proposes a more radical solution, calling for Denmark to leave the Dublin and Schengen conventions to enable a ramping up of border controls.

Lloyd Austin has taken time out of his busy schedule of pissing all over himself to be here today.

"we're cracking down on big landlords, who use anti-trust law - are using anti-trust law - are abusing anti-trust law..."

"I say to America, when Kamala sits down, she stands back up" (over and over again)

Your Monday Briefing:

Syphilis treatment drugs are in short supply, and it’s a disease which can spread from pregnant mother to the baby in the womb and often results in death, and if not, in severe deformities. Cases of syphilis are on a dramatic rise even before the shortage of shots. 20 years ago, there were three manufacturers of syphilis shots, and then Pfizer acquired the other two companies, became the sole US supplier, and there are now frequent manufacturing issues.^PP^

Slovakia’s foreign minister met with Lavrov in early March and has faced a lot of criticism from the opposition and the country’s liberal President, Caputova, because diplomacy with your enemies is for pussies and real, heroic men sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives and destroy a country in order to inconvenience a nuclear superpower as much as possible and then actually fail at doing even that, strengthening that nuclear superpower.^BNE^

Armenia is freezing its participation in the CTSO and a permanent exit appears imminent as Armenia blames Russia (not entirely without merit) for their recent defeats. While the US tries to stir up trouble in the Caucasuses to try and weaken Russia and Iran, what’s actually happening is that everybody is banding together against Armenia.^NC^

Putin has proposed a raft of new projects to update the 12 National Projects, which were launched in 2019, in order to improve the conditions of the public. For example, Putin has proposed a six-year long-term financial plan of Russia’s development, as well as progressive tax rates, doubling public and private investment in research and development, new housing construction, support for families with children due to the demographic crisis, extending life expectancy, and so on.^BNE^

A study has found that China will need 6 terawatts of renewables (2 TW of wind and 4 TW of solar) by 2060 to become carbon neutral on time. This is double China’s current energy generation and over five times the generation of the United States. This would also require a large amount of land dedicated to those energy sources.^SCMP^

According to a government official, China’s middle-income population has passed the 500 million mark, or a rise of 100 million over five years.^SCMP^

The Turkish government is keeping a close eye on credit card spending, which has increased 126% year-on-year in January and inflation is at 65%, leading to panic-buys by people ahead of possible measures that would curb that credit spending.^BNE^

With Nigeria in its worst economic crisis in years, with inflation at 30% and the naira at an all-time low against the dollar, citizens are taking food from storage facilities after calls from one of the most powerful trade unions demanded measures to quell hunger. The government is reacting by boosting security rather than distributing food.^AN^

Ghana is planning to establish a $450 million manganese refinery and is banning the export of raw bauxite, and thus refine minerals inside the country and foster economic growth. Ghana is also Africa’s leading gold producer.^BNE^

Haiti has declared a state of emergency and curfew to try and regain control after an explosion of violence over the weekend, with armed gangs storming prisons and releasing those inside. Additionally, there was gunfire towards police stations and the international airport, notably as the Prime Minister Henry was out in Kenya to try and hurry along the deployment of police to Haiti which the US and Canada wants so desperately.^AN^

With a lot of talk making me think we're coming towards either negotiations or escalation... Let's assume it's over soon... What happens with Russia when the war is over? Does it all go back to normal or does Russia face serious post-war turmoil?

Serious question. I've been thinking about what happened to Russia as a result of ww1, and then Afghanistan's contribution to the USSR collapsing can't be minimised..

How stable do we really think it is? Does a political reckoning happen later?

Samoans coming through big time 😏

so like non-ideal, fool-proof plan of forceful taiwan return for china:

1. make dumb air taxis popular

2. airdrop 500 k troops by uber-air

Ideal plan, also non-fool-proof (requires usa not being empire): become richer than taiwan and work shorter hours

Dragon Ball's Goku and More Appear in Bizarre Message From Brazil's Vice President

Dragon Ball, Naruto, Pokémon and more appear in an anime-themed social media post thanking Japan by Brazil's Vice President Geraldo Alckmin.

Popular anime series like Dragon Ball, Naruto and Pokémon appeared in a bizarre "Thank You" message to Japan by the Vice President of Brazil.

Geraldo Alckmin, the Vice President of Brazil, expressed his gratitude to the Japanese automotive manufacturer Toyota for investing heavily in the South American country.

As a way of saying thanks, Alckmin uploaded an image of himself in Japanese attire, looking down graciously upon Japan and its popular anime characters.

The anime characters featured in Alckmin's image are Goku (Dragon Ball Z), Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura), Naruto Uzumaki as a child (Naruto), Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya) and Pikachu (Pokémon)

No Usagi Tsukino?!

While the assortment of anime characters may seem random, they are from series that have a strong history of popularity in Brazil.

Similar to the '90s anime boom in North America, Brazil experienced a surge of its own with the arrival of Saint Seiya on TV. Its success paved the way for more mainstream anime airings like Dragon Ball Z and Pokémon, developing a strong anime presence in the country that continues to grow to this day.

That said, One Piece fans online are confused by Alckmin's omission of Monkey D. Luffy, given the series' international appeal.

Socdem with Shitpost Characteristics :troll:

Thoughts on the moon? Good/bad? I'm kinda iffy

veblen feels more and more right in these trying times, society is just a huge dick measuring contest and production is mostly a means to the ends of having the hugest dick

its only when the dick measuring contest runs up against physical limits and material reality reasserts itself that our collective heads are screwed on correctly again and 'progress' resumes

but once enough surplus is achieved, it's right back to measuring dicks

lol i just independently derived the weak/strong/good/bad/men/times thing

to achieve socialism we must discover new ways of measuring dicks

A new U.N. report sheds light on how climate change is driving some climate-vulnerable nations deeper into debt, locking them into unsustainable cycles of economic crisis and hampering their governments’ ability to provide basic services to citizens.

Focusing on the Bahamas, the report looks at how natural disasters impact public debt and the realization of Bahamians’ human rights.

Attiya Waris, the report’s author and U.N. independent expert on foreign debt, found that the effect of five major hurricanes since 2012 has forced the country of about 400,000 people to take on billions of dollars in debt for reconstruction while imperiling its tourism-dependent economy. As a result, the Bahamian government has been less able to spend on programs like food assistance, business loans and unemployment benefits—the need for which increases after climate-induced natural disasters.

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian, the most recent major hurricane to hit the Carribean nation of about 700 islands, caused a staggering $3.4 billion in damage, equal to roughly one-fourth of the country’s GDP. The category five storm killed upwards of 70 people and ripped apart homes and businesses, affecting an additional 30,000 people.

In the aftermath of the storm, the country’s then-finance minister K. Peter Turnquest announced that the government would cut taxes, rather than raise them to fund the recovery, given the hurricane’s deleterious impact on the economy and the need to help business restart. To fund the clean up, temporary shelters, food assistance and other expenses, the government was forced to borrow roughly $500 million, he said.

100% probability that the US aid drop airplane will start getting followed by Israeli aircraft dropping bombs

Have folks seen the "tactical jet suit?" Because it is very funny

Biden: "fly to Moscow"

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1765934457222017061