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Would the bourgeoisie engineer a nuclear war in the middle east to stop climate change? @Droplet@hexbear.net has a theory the news mega will may find interesting.

Source: https://hexbear.net/comment/5042923

Can someone with climate science knowledge help out with the following hypothesis:

Let’s say the US wants to engineer a nuclear war in the Middle East to “cool” the global temperature for a determined period of time. This can be done by provoking Israel to use its nukes in a “last stand” as it is being militarily defeated by the regional forces, as an example.

According to the climate model proposed by Robock et al. (2007), a regional nuclear conflict in the subtropics that detonated 100 Hiroshima-size (15 kt) nuclear weapons (0.03% of the global nuclear arsenal) could lead to a release of 5 Tg of smoke into the atmosphere, resulting in global climate change of -1 degree Celcius (which would revert the global temperature, at least transiently, back to the Little Ice Age period between 1400s and 1800s, and would also result in significant changes to precipitation rate, crop growth etc.).

Guess what, Israel/Palestine is located exactly within the subtropical band.

Let’s say several hundred millions of people die from the nuclear fallout (far away from the Imperial Core), and hundreds of millions more die to starvation due to crops failure, the global temperature goes down, the global population gets trimmed, reducing demand for global resources, the imperialists subsequently take advantage of the chaos and instability resulted to harvest the capital assets in the Global South.

Is this something that would be dreamed up by the bourgeois class in the Western imperial core?

Namibia Removes Laws Prohibiting Same-Sex Relations

The measures prohibiting gay relations, dates from the colonial era and subjected to severe punishment any man who maintained a love or sexual relationship with someone of the same gender.

On Friday, the Namibian authorities removed from the constitution two laws that prohibited the affective or carnal relations of homosexuals.

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The measures prohibiting gay relations, dates from the colonial era and subjected to severe punishment any man who maintained a love or sexual relationship with someone of the same gender.

Following the decision an extensive demonstration of the LGBTIQ+ community, which supported and welcomed the decision of the Namibian court, stating that despite the new measures “there is a long way to go”.

Despite the small steps taken by the community, Namibia’s gay, lesbian and transgender people in recent months have been persecuted by the citizenry and the government itself.

An example of this was SWAPO politician Jerry Ekandjo, who introduced a bill in parliament. It includes an amendment to the Marriage Act 1961 which defines marriage exclusively as the union between a man and a woman. It would also criminalize witnessing a same-sex wedding and generally promoting same-sex marriages.

On the other hand, at the end of April 2024, a transgender woman was brutally murdered in an informal settlement in Windhoek. According to the police, the 30-year-old woman was found with dozens of stabs and mutilations.

Despite changes to the law, it would not be uncommon for LGBTIQ+ activists and individuals to be persecuted unconstitutionally, say community members in Namibia.

French-backed “rebels” sabotage pipeline running from Niger to Benin:
https://twitter.com/marcus_herve/status/1804988223979974694?mx=1

The Patriotic Liberation Front, which is fighting for the release of former president Mohamed Bazoum, who was overthrown in the last July coup, said it was behind the attack earlier that week.

Consequences of the tragedy in southern Brazil:

Recently, there were heavy rains in the southern region of Brazil, which is made up of three states, all of which are governed by opposition parties. The most affected state, Rio Grande do Sul, is under the control of the PSDB (Social Democratic Party of Brazil, which is actually a neoliberal party). The fascists of the PL (Liberal Party, currently Bolsonaro’s party) obtained the majority support of the party’s previous voters, who were mainly wealthy, middle-class, white, male Brazilians.

Lula da Silva decided to do what any normal, sensible head of state would do. Give aid and support to the states and people affected. He sent the Army, Navy and Air Force to help with rescues and maintain order. He created an emergency council to deal with this and selected a member of his party (PT, Workers’ Party, which is a mostly socdem party with some demsoc politicians in it) as the head of this council. This member is someone who was born in the affected state.

Since the powers of the Executive allow the president to grant aid and order things to help a state without the approval of Congress, Lula began to interact with the governor of the state to see what he needed. The work the governor was doing seemed very bad and poorly done. As he is a neoliberal, it seemed that he wanted the private sector to solve everything. In addition, the state has a series of debts that he wanted to be forgiven, but this was refused.

What happened was that the governor was overshadowed by the Emergency Council created by the federal government due to the incompetence of the governor and his allies. Meanwhile, the Bolsonarist opposition (which doesn’t like the governor because he defeated the Bolsonarist candidate) decided it would be a great idea to spread lies about the tragedy and the army operation. Talking about Haarp’s conspiracy theory and how global warming was fake, and this was God’s way of punishing the state (a state that is mostly white and Catholic, and voted for Bolsonaro in 2018 and 2022).

So, recently opinion poll results were released, showing that not only Lula, who was previously rejected by the majority of the population, now has a good margin of approval, but also the candidates in his party’s coalition in Southern Brazil. Meanwhile, the governor is now more rejected than before. So how does Jair Bolsonaro react to this? By posting a video of Jordan Peteson saying that it was all HAARPS’ fault, that Global Warming doesn’t exist and that this is God punishing the State, that they don’t deserve to receive donations because they support the “communist” Lula da Silva and are ungrateful.

Something not right about that shooting in Arkansas. Fordyce has six cops on the police force and 5 of them showed up in the grocery store parking lot within 4 minutes of the shooting? Thats 6 cops to cover seven days a week 24 hours a day there shouldn’t be more than 2 or 3 on duty at any one time. Shooter has no criminal history. Police believe most, if not all, of the rounds were fired from a 12 gauge shotgun. Shot 13 people in a town where everyone is armed. Witnesses are saying they tried to call 911 but the service was down. Now the Arkansas state police are saying it was a completely random event nothing to see here. hmm

http://www.chinaview.cn/20240624/57611246ec584b3fb747e943f8c0b433/c.html

Iran’s parliament calls on gov’t to blacklist Canada’s army

TEHRAN, June 23 (Xinhua) – The Iranian parliament on Sunday put forward a motion requiring the country’s administration to designate the Canadian army a “terrorist” entity, the official news agency IRNA reported.

This is in retaliation to Canada designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity.

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Israeli press seems to be making a lot of hay about the Beruit International Airport being a staging ground for Iranian weapons. The classic stovepipe straight from military “intelligence” to credulous media stenography, no different than the Iraqi WMD bullshit in 2003.

They are establishing a pretext to bomb it.

Russian Ministry of Defence regarding today’s massacre in Crimea by Ukraine with cluster munitions:

“The US is responsible for this massacre, and they will get an answer. All flight missions for American ATACMS missiles are programmed by American specialists based on their own US satellite intelligence data.”

“Therefore, the responsibility for the deliberate missile strike against the civilian population of Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied this weapon to Ukraine, as well as with the Kiev regime, from whose territory this strike was launched. Such actions will not go unanswered.”

It seems that some Russian newspapers are saying that the attack was carried out by US drones from Bulgarian NATO bases, but I haven’t been able to find any reliable confirmation of this.

New Caledonia Indigenous independence leader transferred to mainland France for pre-trial detention

NICE, France (AP) — A pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia was transferred to a prison facility in mainland France to await trial on charges relating to two weeks of unrest in May that left nine people dead, the public prosecutor in the territory said Sunday.

Christian Tein, an Indigenous Kanak leader of the pro-independence party known as The Field Action Coordination Unit, was flown to mainland France overnight Saturday, along with six other activists, prosecutor Yves Dupas said in a statement.

The seven Kanak activists were transferred to pre-trial detention on “a specially chartered plane” because of “the sensitivity of the procedure,” Dupas said. Moving the detained activists into custody 17,000 kilometers (10,500 miles) away from their homeland would allow the investigation into their alleged wrongdoings to continue “in a calm manner and without any pressure,” he said.

The Kanak people have sought for decades to break free from France, which first took New Caledonia in 1853.

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Lula da Silva will visit Noam Chomsky and former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) in Sao Paulo

Lula’s friend, the American Noam Chomsky, 95 years old, was discharged from hospital last Tuesday (18). The information was released by the Beneficência Portuguesa hospital, in São Paulo, where the philosopher was hospitalized.

During the 2022 presidential campaign, Lula met with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who declared his support for the PT candidate in the second round of the race against former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

A traditional rival of Lula during the 1990’s, the liberal, FHC declared at the time that he was voting for Lula because of “a history of fighting for democracy and social justice”.

Lula’s friend, 95-year-old American Noam Chomsky, was discharged from hospital last Tuesday (18). The information was released by the Beneficência Portuguesa hospital in São Paulo, where the philosopher was hospitalized.

He suffered a massive stroke in June 2023, as reported by Mario Sergio Conti in the newspaper “Folha de S. Paulo”. Chomsky is married to a Brazilian woman and, in recent years, adopted Brazil as his second home.

I’ve got some excellent news slop for the news mega. I know you’re all going to absolutely love this one:

A lawyer who has been appointed by the British government to represent the Skripals appeared in court where he acknowledged that despite representing the Skripals, he has not been appointed by them, he has not met them, and in fact has had no communication with them at all.

Furthermore the British government argues that not only should the Skripals not be called or even allowed to give evidence, furthermore the witness / victim testimony of the Skripals should not be made available to the courts either, except subject to redaction by the British government.

In fact, the Skripal transcripts will be so redacted, the officials and lawyers admitted in court, it is uncertain what the Skripals believe had happened to them, and why [acknowledged government counsel]

As for evidence that novichok was used on the Skripals at all:

The British have presented no evidence of Novichok on the Skripal home door handle; in the blood, skin, and urine testing of the Skripals in hospital; or in subsequent inquest and court proceedings.

The alleged Russian attack weapon – a perfume bottle atomiser – did not materialize for months until July 2018, when police claim to have found it on a kitchen bench in the home of another alleged victim, Dawn Sturgess, ten days – repeat ten days — after exhaustive police searches of the house had failed to find it.

Oops the only actual evidence of novichok was just sitting there on the kitchen table of an unrelated person this whole time. Case fucking closed with that chain of custody.

In addition to not being allowed to give testimony or to have any contact at all with their own legal representatives, it’s now not even clear if the Skripals are alive.

Sergei Skripal has not been seen in public since the day of the alleged Novichok attack, March 4, 2018. He has not been heard on the telephone by family members in Russia since June 26, 2019. Yulia Skripal was last seen in a government-directed interview at a US bomber base in England in May 2018; her last telephone call to Russia was heard on November 20, 2020. The Skripals have not been seen or heard from since.

The claim that this is due to witness protection doesn’t make any sense since that apparently wasn’t a concern and they were permitted to contact their family and even give interviews (under government supervision on US military bases) until 4 years ago, but now not even a judge can access even the most indirect proof of life, let alone discover their account of events.

Assuming they are still alive (and if so, likely being held in some US military facility since that was their last known status), it appears the British government has used their vast national security powers to impose a secretive gag order:

The judge then asked Holborn to speak for the Skripals. “A line does have to be drawn somewhere,” he began. Then he drew the line the British government is insisting on – nothing from the Skripals since the police interviews of six years ago, and nothing in the transcripts which the government doesn’t want to be known publicly. In short, a gag.

The British government absolutely does not want the Skripals to talk, not even via a lawyer indirectly or even through the vehicle of their police testimony, not even to a court.

The British government absolutely refuses to provide any evidence that novichok was used on the Skripals.

The judge then asked the Home Office lawyer Cathryn McGahey KC to respond. She confirmed there is a gag on the Skripals,

She then told the judge not to call the Skripals to testify either in writing or in open hearing. “Even if they were to be called,” McGahey said, “different considerations may very well apply to different topics, and the topic of preventability [read MI6] is one which will almost certainly be fraught with difficulty, unless there were very strict control over the questions. And most of the material is likely to be closed anyway.”

No questions are to be allowed for the Skripals; no answers from them, either.

Hughes has refused to say in open court that he has verified the Skripals are alive and free to instruct lawyers to represent them.

Very very odd for a lawyer to have zero contact at all with the people he “represents”.

Holborn also refuses to confirm that his clients are alive.

Ominous as fuck for the government to refuse to to even claim they are alive.

https://johnhelmer.net/british-government-invents-phantom-skripals-to-refuse-to-testify-in-the-novichok-inquiry/

Sevastopol has been struck by four ATACMS loaded with cluster warheads. More than 125 people are injured and a number in critical conditions.

In case there is still any illusion about Washington “ramping down” the conflict in Ukraine, this should remind you that we have not seen even the slightest indication of them willing to do so.

Correction: 4 ATACMS were shot down but one exploded in the air with the fragments of its cluster submunitions falling over the coastal region injuring a lot of people.

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