Re: Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Mr Badger]

Many locals are gathered at the scene to watch the events unfold.

The Lebanese army and Hezbullah are deployed to the scene.

Reports claim 6 were killed in total and another 6 injured. At least 3 were confirmed by Hamas.



https://t.me/LebUpdate/36623

[刘汉]

Many locals are gathered at the scene to watch the events unfold.

The Lebanese army and Hezbullah are deployed to the scene.

Reports claim 6 were killed in total and another 6 injured. At least 3 were confirmed by Hamas.



https://t.me/LebUpdate/36623

With the USS Ford gone, Hezbollah should attack in full force now. I want to see the Zionists shitting their pants.

[Mr Badger]

The Washington Post, citing the Pentagon, claims that it was Israel that carried out the operation to eliminate Salah al-Arouri in Beirut.

A tough response from Hezbollah is expected. Residents of Israeli settlements on the border with Lebanon are advised to stay in shelters.

https://t.me/intelslava/54368

[Mr Badger]

Members of the armed wing of the Shiite Hezbollah party completely blocked all passages to the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital after an Israeli drone attack on Hamas headquarters. Our correspondent reports this from the scene.

Overpasses leading to Shiite areas of Beirut have been closed. According to residents, their mobile communications have been turned off.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/82659

[Zambeezi]

I've been through that video of the possible Kinzhal arrival in Kiev: There are eight frames in total showing the missile.

I've used frame interpolation to slow down the arrival and have made a short clip.

I don't know where to post this and wondered if it would be ok for the Rumble channel?

absolutely ok.
If you want to upload direct to Rumble i can PM the access credentials to you...
or
If you want to hand off through your Telegram account i can download from there and upload to Rumble myself.
you choose

[Zambeezi]

U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil Corp has formally exited the West Qurna 1 oilfield in southern Iraq and handed over its operations to PetroChina as lead contractor, a deputy oil minister told Reuters on Monday.

Senior Iraqi oil officials met with executives from ExxonMobil, PetroChina and Basra Oil Co on Monday at the West Qurna 1 field near Basra to mark Exxon's complete exit and the handover of its operations to PetroChina.

[Zambeezi]

President Abraham Blinken  
First Squawk
@FirstSquawk
BLINKEN, UK FOREIGN SECRETARY CAMERON DISCUSSED IMPORTANCE OF COLLECTIVE MULTILATERAL ACTION TO ADDRESS ATTACKS ON COMMERCIAL SHIPPING IN RED SEA -U.S. STATE DEPT

[Zambeezi]

like Galloway said 'birth pangs'... (world is in labor)

“Praise be to God who honored us with the martyrdom of Sheikh Saleh. He asked for it and obtained it... Palestine is a birth and victory is coming.”

Sister of the Hamas leader Saleh Al-Arouri pic.twitter.com/5eq7ZC2hDs

— Brian’s Breaking News and Intel (@intelFromBrian) January 2, 2024

[Zambeezi]

COVID infections on the rise as new year begins
A rise in COVID-19 infections has prompted at least five states to reinstate mask requirements at health care facilities. Elise Preston reports.
Source: CBS Evening News (YouTube) pic.twitter.com/N8WCIl3ZnZ

— Camus (@newstart_2024) January 2, 2024

I agree with the late Prof. Burkhardt, the COVID-19 vaccines should have not been EUA authorized and been pulled off the market a long time ago--they are not safe for human use. @TLAVagabond @MI4VaxChoice @C19VaxInjured @MIChildrensHD @ICANdecide https://t.co/VB5C3CGK7J

— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH (@P_McCulloughMD) January 2, 2024

[Qui]

HEZBOLLAH LEADER HASSAN NASRALLAH HAS SAID IN THE PAST ASSASSINATION IN LEBANON WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

“Any assassination on Lebanese soil against a Lebanese, Syrian, Iranian or Palestinian will be met with a decisive response. We will not allow this to be tolerated and we will… pic.twitter.com/4MmT9IY9Oo

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) January 2, 2024

[Qui]

Expect the Americans, the French and the British ambassadors to rush to the Lebanese officials and ask them to mediate so #Hezbollah de-escalates.

It won't happen because Hezbollah cannot avoid the response; otherwise, tomorrow, Israel will hit another and then another...

— Elijah J. Magnier (@ejmalrai) January 2, 2024

[KneelB4Zod!]

FOOTAGE: From the scene of the assassination of the Qassam leaders in Lebanon. https://t.co/kBF8K9jaPJ pic.twitter.com/jVgXygNiJT

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 2, 2024

And it's only 2nd of January...

[KneelB4Zod!]

The moment the zionist regime conducted a drone strike on a Hamas office in the southern Suburb of Beirut, Lebanon pic.twitter.com/aK23HWIjzm

— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) January 2, 2024

[KneelB4Zod!]

Kiev: AD-missile just gives up. Let’s hunt some fish instead! pic.twitter.com/dD0GSjTvWC

— Zlatti71 (@djuric_zlatko) January 2, 2024

[Qui]

BREAKING: A senior Israeli official told me Israel is preparing for a significant retaliation by Hezbollah for the Arouri assassination including by launching long range missiles on targets in Israel

— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) January 2, 2024

[Qui]

: - Regarding the assassination in Beirut that claimed the life of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri and at least six people total, the Israeli attempt to control the information sphere has begun, but with some hiccups, so to speak.
- Netanyahu's advisor Mark Regev just told…

— Ahlul Haqq News (@AhlulHaqqN) January 2, 2024

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/1516

Navigating Empires - Power and Control Are Not Straightforward Matters Anymore

As we embark on the journey of 2024, we would like to present to you a most excellent analysis highlighting todays imperialistic economic structures and means of control and dominion.
 
The analysis appeared in a 10 minute video speech at the Middle Nation Telegram channel. 

But, since the information load is so compressed and worth closer study and reflections, we decided to turn the speech into a text, which is easier to handle when it comes to consequential thinking. 

Below, you find the video, followed by the transscript in 3 posts. 
The content has not been changed, but we highlighted some passages, added punctuation and sectionalised to ease the reading.

@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/1517


https://youtu.be/3hMHE50N4Mc?feature=shared


Navigating empires 
On the complexity of securing genuine independence and sovereignty in an age of opaque imperial powers

Transcript, part 1

"Power and control are not straightforward matters anymore. You know, empires and imperialism exist in different forms today than in the past.

Economic empires exist. Private sector empires. Shareholder empires. Empires of debt. Oligarchical empires. And all of these various types of empires overlap and intersect.

You know, there are spheres of influence that operate like soft empires. Blackrock and Vanguard are imperial structures. 

These new sort of opaque versions of empire can all occupy the same geographical territories at the same time. 

And in some cases, or in most cases actually, the governments of those territories are comparatively minor or subordinate. Subordinate management structures in their own lands. 

The governments are just nodes in a larger power network. 

It's not the same everywhere, but it's certainly the case in the West. 
I mean, in the global South, in the developing world, in some Muslim countries, it's less the case. 

But to a great extent, that's only because the global power networks have just not absorbed them yet. They haven't been integrated into the virtual territory of any of these other empires. 

So national governments in those parts of the world still are able to exercise some degree of sovereignty. But that's likely to change very soon with the pivot to the global south. 

You know, BRICS and the redirection of the global economy to the global south means the integration of the southern hemisphere into those overlapping, intersecting private sector power networks, those empires. 

This poses an extraordinarily complicated challenge, and it renders everything that we previously thought about liberation movements.

You know, independence movements, revolutions, and so on, it renders all of that completely obsolete. 

Even ideas about political Islam, [an] Islamic State, Khilafa, and all of that. All of these notions have just become too simplistic in light of modern power dynamics. 

Today, you have to secure your sovereignty in multiple spheres at the same time against the domination of multiple other imperial powers, undefined imperial powers.

- to be continued in part 2

@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/1518

Navigating empires, transcript
 
Part 2 - part 1 here

I mean, you can declare your independence, you can declare you now have an islamic government, a Khilafah, or what have you. 

You can declare all of that tomorrow, but what would that even mean? 

What sovereignty would you have? 
What real independence would you have, when you're still embedded within this dense interlocking set of power networks? 
When your economy is located within the shared virtual territory of multiple empires?

I mean, look at what those powers did to the Syriza government in Greece for instance. 
Listen to Janis Verifakis talking about the IMF and the European Central Bank, and how Greece's banks were threatened with a total cut-off of credit and liquidity. 

Or when Manuel Zalea in Honduras was toppled in a coup, because he wanted to raise the minimum wage, and, what used to be the old United Fruit Company now Chiquita Brand International, they supported the coup with hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. And then, after the coup, you know, they paid lobbyists to make sure that the coup was legal and constitutional. And then, the IMF opened the tap for massive loans to the country. 

But you could look at what's happening in Russia right now.

You know, there's just endless examples. 

No node in the network can have independence or sovereignty, and it can't make autonomous decisions.

Independence isn't something that you can just declare. 

It's something that you have to build up over time, and that's largely an economic, not a political, project. 

You have to build the capacity to extract yourself from the network. 

And that means, not only developing your self-sufficiency, but also the ability to resist external coercion. 

Russia worked on that, and they started to take it very seriously after Crimea. And that's why they're not going to be able to do that [to Russia].
They're [Russia] going to have to do it, they're able to even function now under the sanctions. 

The UAE has also been developing this for a very long time and taking it quite seriously. And they're doing very well with that. 

This requires incredibly tactful maneuvering within the imperial power networks that you're already in. Counterbalancing interests discreetly and strategically, trying to increase your own power without threatening or conflicting with others. 
It requires a coldly objective assessment of your position in the networks. 
An assessment of your resources and your impact on everyone else's interests. 

No revolution is going to achieve that for you. No jihad. No Declaration of Independence. No declaration of a Khilafah or the enactment of the Sharia. 

Those types of things are all at this point empty gestures that will not suddenly make you viable and sovereign. 

And again, there's just too many examples to go through to prove that. 

You know, the most neglected aspect of all of this, in my opinion, is the people. 
And the failure of the people to recognise Private Sector power as the most and the major controlling force in their lives, which needs to be brought to accountability. 

The whole direction of political activism, of organising and so on, in my view, needs to be to shifted from government to the Private Sector look. 

In islam, we have understood from day one that leadership, that policy making, governance, is all determined. 
No matter what state structure you have, no matter what sort of government system you have. 

It's all determined by the highest ranks of influential people. 
In the society, the people that we call "the people who tie and untie", the people who connect and disconnect, what you [in the west] would call "the movers and shakers". 

That has always been the case, and it always will be the case, in every society, in every system, everywhere.

- to be continued in part 3

@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/1519

Navigating empires, transcript

Part 3 - part 1 here

Because, this is just a reality of human society. Some people have more influence than others. 

And that's the case today, in the west, in the east, in the global south, in the global north, and in the muslim world.
 
And those people, and the institutions that represent them, need to be brought into the focus of activism - of lobbying, of campaigning, of pressure. 

To make them accountable and responsive to the public.

That's private sector power. And private sector power is itself embedded in networks of workers and consumers, and other stakeholders. 

But, when those networks of consumers and workers and stakeholders are inactive, are complacent, are dormant or destructive, are distracted, that is how private sector power is allowed to operate independently, selfishly and with sovereignty. 

Because no one is paying attention and everyone is preoccupied with sort of the official power dynamics instead of the real existing power dynamics. 

In other words, they're busy thinking about the government and completely overlooking the powers that eclipse governments. 

Even though there are innumerable ways, that the people can impact the private sector more, than they can impact the government. 

They have you focusing on the least important and the least meaningful dimension of the power structure. 

And ironically, they have you directing your anger and your resentment at governments, while very often celebrating the very oligarchs and billionaires, and brand names, and companies, that the government is serving against your interests.

I mean, you'll admire say someone like Elon Musk or Bill Gates or Warren Buffett or whoever you like. You'll admire these people while hating the politicians who do their bidding.

And sometimes, you hate them because they do their bidding, but your discontent is never directed at the ones, who are being obeyed. 

It doesn't make any sense does it? 

So, the relationship between the public and business seriously has to be transformed. 

And this in and of itself, I think, could get you much farther towards having a nation with genuine sovereignty and independence. 

But it requires the awareness of the people, and the participation of the people, and redefining the relationship between the private sector and the population.

@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

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[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/putingers_cat_chat/179394

https://youtu.be/tykybyzkMus?si=Kcq27O3trIhjDpLe


Epic profane rant by whoever this is.

........... 

It's about sending people with Down syndrome to the trenches. You should watch it, he's spot on.

 

And now it's age restricted. 

[Böhse Tante]

I've been through that video of the possible Kinzhal arrival in Kiev: There are eight frames in total showing the missile.

I've used frame interpolation to slow down the arrival and have made a short clip.

I don't know where to post this and wondered if it would be ok for the Rumble channel?

absolutely ok.
If you want to upload direct to Rumble i can PM the access credentials to you...
or
If you want to hand off through your Telegram account i can download from there and upload to Rumble myself.
you choose

Oh, Mr Badger has an account there? 

Hey, where are you there, old Badger? 

[Mr Badger]

I've been through that video of the possible Kinzhal arrival in Kiev: There are eight frames in total showing the missile.

I've used frame interpolation to slow down the arrival and have made a short clip.

I don't know where to post this and wondered if it would be ok for the Rumble channel?

absolutely ok.
If you want to upload direct to Rumble i can PM the access credentials to you...
or
If you want to hand off through your Telegram account i can download from there and upload to Rumble myself.
you choose

Oh, Mr Badger has an account there? 

Hey, where are you there, old Badger? 

Just woke up from short nap Well I'm just Mr Badger. on T-gram, I don't have a group or anything like that, so I don't have the ability to post on my own "wall" as it were.

[Zambeezi]

check yer PM mr. badger

[Zambeezi]

Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities, killing 5 and injuring more than 100 civilians
https://archive.is/zdyXL
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kharkiv-kyiv-2b23b1163c859a645b485d5c38035369

Maersk suspends shipping through Red Sea ‘until further notice’
https://archive.is/wip/D2XuS
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/business/red-sea-houthi-attacks-maersk/index.html

[Zambeezi]

March in Jenin (West Bank) after the martyrdom of Saleh al-Arouri. pic.twitter.com/yVfGbwCk6E

— S p r i n t e r (@Sprinter99800) January 2, 2024

[Zambeezi]

exact same template UK/US. cause chaos/tribalism destroy societal/national cohesion. deliberate.

'17,000 asylum seekers have just... disappeared.'

A shedload of others have been given amnesty.

Our Government are endangering the public deliberately, not protecting it.

This is treasonous.

PITCHFORKS!!!pic.twitter.com/p5bdO84E17

— DD Denslow (@wolsned) January 2, 2024

[Böhse Tante]

Just woke up from short nap Well I'm just Mr Badger. on T-gram, I don't have a group or anything like that, so I don't have the ability to post on my own "wall" as it were.

But are you there in anyone's channel or chat? My name is Renée C. there. For example here a comment inone of my favourite chats:

https://t.me/putingers_cat_chat/179612

Ah, now I understand what I am. When I see I have no chance I attack.

[Zambeezi]

Zionists.Zionism.

The original nationalities of the leaders of the dirty entity
They came from Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, and they are Khazar Ashkenazim, and they have no connection to the descendants of Jacob, peace be upon him.
Just the scum of nations
They will be gone soon inshallah pic.twitter.com/GxZ22WSpIn

— YLD (@YLD720) January 2, 2024

#سليماني_الروح
Never Forgive,
Never Forget.

The best revenge for the martyrdom of our commanders is the elimination of all forces of western/zionist occupations in all of west Asia.#انتقام_سخت pic.twitter.com/TkpYYZIUb4

— Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان (@Marwa__Osman) January 2, 2024

Former American officer Scott Ritter strongly criticizes Israel and predicts its imminent end due to specific reasons! #ScottRitter #IsraelCrisis #MiddleEastPolitics pic.twitter.com/4jEgI6lZim

— SilencedSirs (@SilentlySirs) December 26, 2023

Thank you #ScottRitter for speaking the Truth.#Palestinians are the Bravest People in Existence; they are NOT leaving #Gaza or #WestBank & REFUSE to YIELD to #Israel!#Zionists will NEVER understand BELONGING to a land where one will DEFEND it with LIFE regardless of the odds. pic.twitter.com/C0Hm0zv9nT

— Alpha100 (@100_alpha) January 1, 2024

May Allah protect our brother #ScottRitter https://t.co/re6iXkkI3q

— محمد مستفيض الرحمن (@D2kRashid) December 27, 2023

wake up. this is not Ezekiel 38/39. You were taught to glorify Israel over Christ. Christian Zionism. idolatry and heresy. from the pit. spit.

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/asklyt/5719

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/vom-kleingangster-zum-armeesprecher-3904897.html



A Weddinger in Israel: From a petty gangster to an Army spokesman
He was a king of petty gangsters, back in his Weddinger youth: dealer, sprayer, knife engraver. And he was a Jew, [...] threatened. Arye Sharuz Shalicar was looking for his identity – and has found it. He went to Israel and is now a spokesman for the army.

.......... 

"Wedding" is a district of Berlin.

[khnum]

Zionists launch 'massive coordinated attack' on Christians in Jerusalem

Israelis even used “nerve agents” in their attack on Christian faith leaders and community members.

Armed Zionist terrorists launched a “massive and coordinated physical attack” against Christian clergy and other members of the Christian community in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, where violent Zionists, backed by Israeli law enforcement officers and members of the Israeli government, have attempted to carry out ethnic cleansing to clear the way for Jewish 'settlers' and business interests, reports National File.

An “URGENT COMMUNIQUE,” issued by the Chancellery of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, announced that “A HUGE AND COORDINATED PHYSICAL ATTACK WAS LAUNCHED ON BISHOPS, PRIESTS, SERVANTS, SEMINARIANS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN JERUSALEM,” on 28 December.



Source

This should be handed out AS A FLYER in every gold tooth private jet flying shithouse rat megachurch in the USA

[KneelB4Zod!]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1742273896190009854

[KneelB4Zod!]

Accurate. pic.twitter.com/P5EHRkMnEh

— Hassan Mafi ‏ (@thatdayin1992) January 2, 2024