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Border between Lebanon and Syria is looking tense. Ceasefire may not be long for this world

“There are mobilizations from both the Syrian and Lebanese sides. The Lebanese army is bringing reinforcements to the border, in addition to mobilizing members of the Bekaa tribes. Syrian factions are also installing rocket launchers.”

https://t.me/Syria115/1578

GOP discovers the infinite migrants hack.

Take all of the migrants our sanctions created back or we are going to do more sanctions.

Apparently the JFK files confirmed the Hungarian opposition as CIA backed

What would it take for the rest of the world to give israel the proper pariah-state treatment and sanction / politically isolate them?

Random headline from Danish state media news website:

The EU started as a peace project. Now the countries have to prepare for war to preserve the peace.

(It's about a EU commission report saying that if we don't build a Death Star within five years, Putin is going to come and eat our poodles or something. Call me a lib, I'm not linking to this filth)

I would hate to live in authoritarian "jungle" countries like Russia or China where the media spews regime propaganda in the face of people.

Terrorists back in Gaza

I hope to see many of them soon, through a backup camera

Niger orders three Chinese oil officials out of country, sources say

NIAMEY, March 14 (Reuters) - Niger's junta has ordered three Chinese officials working in the oil sector to leave the country, two sources familiar with the decision told Reuters on Friday, in the latest move by regional military governments to assert greater control over resources.

The request for the departure of the Niger-based directors of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the West African Oil Pipeline Company (WAPCo) and the joint venture oil refinery SORAZ was communicated Wednesday, the sources said.

The Chinese officials were given 48 hours to leave, and one source close to the government said on Friday they were out of the country.

The other source, who is close to the affected companies, said the directors were asked to leave because of disputes over pay for local staff and the pace of work on projects.

Separately, Niger's tourism ministry last week rescinded the license for a Chinese-operated hotel in Niamey, citing discriminatory practices.

Spokespeople for the military junta, which took power in a coup in 2023, and the West African country's oil ministry did not respond to requests for comment.

WAPCo and CNPC did not respond to requests for comment. SORAZ could not be reached for comment. Niger last year signed a memorandum of understanding with CNPC worth $400 million linked to the sale of crude oil from its Agadem oilfield.

The Niger junta has torn up defence agreements with the United States and former colonial power France. Authorities also took control of French nuclear fuels company Orano's Somair uranium mine.

Military governments in Mali and Burkina Faso have similarly used legal disputes to assert greater control over resources including gold.

Niger is not playing around with its nationalization, it seems. After kicking the French out, they’re even kicking Chinese officials out wtf. At least try to re-negotiate or something.

Maersk shareholders to vote on banning Israel arms transfers over Gaza genocide | The Cradle

:::spoiler article Shareholders in Danish shipping giant Maersk are set to hold a vote on 18 March for a proposal to cease weapons shipments to Israel for as long as it is waging war on Gaza.

The vote comes as Israel has renewed its genocidal campaign against the strip, killing over 420 Palestinians since early Tuesday morning.

Weapons transfers to Israel are “in violation of international conventions, assuming that military equipment, weapons, and components were used in Israeli army operations where international conventions are breached,” shareholder Zen Donen told AFP.

Yet the shipping firm’s board does not support the proposal.

“The premise of the proposal is not correct, as the company is not transporting arms to Israel,” the company said, despite recent investigative reports in Danish media claiming otherwise. The reports show that Maersk has shipped armored combat vehicles and other military hardware to Israel.

The Eko activist group has drafted its own proposal demanding the firm’s transparency – which the Maersk board has also rejected.

Denmark has not implemented an arms embargo restricting weapons shipments to Israel, like other European nations have.

UN experts have recently called for countries to impose bans on arms exports to Israel.

“All States must ‘ensure respect’ for international humanitarian law by parties to an armed conflict, as required by 1949 Geneva Conventions and customary international law. States must accordingly refrain from transferring any weapon or ammunition – or parts for them – if it is expected, given the facts or past patterns of behavior, that they would be used to violate international law,” UN experts said in late February.

“The need for an arms embargo on Israel is heightened by the International Court of Justice’s ruling on 26 January 2024 that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza and the continuing serious harm to civilians since then,” they added.

Maersk ships transporting goods to Israeli ports were targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) last year as part of Sanaa’s pro-Palestine blockade. This caused the company to face a significant crash in profits due to expensive reroutes.

The YAF recently announced a decision to resume attacks on all Israeli ships in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab strait, and the Gulf of Aden in response to Tel Aviv’s ceasefire violations and blocking of aid to Gaza.

This has prompted violent US attacks on Yemen, which the YAF has responded to by targeting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman several times.

The Maersk shareholder vote coincides with a brutal campaign of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

According to the director of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, wounded Palestinians are dying “every minute” due to a severe lack of medical resources.

Hmm

“In retaliation to the continued brutal American aggression against our country, on the anniversary of the great Battle of Badr, and as an extension of Islam's march against tyranny and arrogance, these operations by the Yemeni Armed Forces come as

Over the past few hours, the Yemeni Armed Forces have successfully targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the northern Red Sea with two cruise missiles and two drones, and targeted a US destroyer with a cruise missile and four drones.

The targeting of the aircraft carrier is the third in the past 48 hours. The enemy was struck by a state of confusion, which prompted many of its warships to retreat towards the northern Red Sea region, and an air attack that was being prepared against our country was thwarted.

The US aggressor bears all the consequences of militarizing the Red Sea and expanding the scope of confrontation by continuing its aggression against Yemen, which negatively impacts international shipping traffic.

The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will not cease targeting all hostile targets in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until the aggression against our country stops. They are prepared, relying on Allah, to confront any American or Israeli escalation in the coming hours and days.

The Yemeni Armed Forces salute all our beloved Yemeni people who took to the streets today in response to the call of Sayyid Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi (may Allah protect him) on Al-Furqan Day, the anniversary of the Great Battle of Badr, to affirm their faith-based, jihadist stance in support of the Palestinian people and in rejection of the American aggression against our country.

The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and affirm that they will continue to ban the passage of Israeli ships from the declared zone of ​​operations until the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted.

Sana'a: Ramadan 18, 1446 AH March 18, 2025 AD

Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

http://t.me/army21ye “

During today’s long phone call between Trump and Putin, they agreed upon a 30 day ceasefire on energy and infrastructure related targets only. Some in the White House and elsewhere had been hyping up the talks, suggesting that a real 30 day ceasefire and “conflict freeze” would be agreed upon (so that Washington could rescue the Kiev regime military from its ongoing destruction). Russia, of course, rejected that kind of laughably self-defeating proposal.

Here’s also a little other news from Russia’s special military operation.

The Kiev regime attempted invading Belgorod oblast, near Demidovka. Russian defenders repelled the attack, eliminating around 60 attackers, one tank, and seven other armored fighting vehicles: https://www.rt.com/russia/614450-ukrainian-cross-border-attacks/

Russian investigators uncovered evidence that Kiev regime troops massacred 17 civilians and buried them in three unmarked graves in Kharkov oblast, north of Kiev-occupied Kupyansk, before fleeing the area: https://tass.com/politics/1929761

A surrendered Ukrainian soldier stated that Western mercenaries shoot retreating Kiev regime troops in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/03/17/1151006.html

A Russian ground drone destroyed another Kiev regime military position (video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Use-of-ground-drone-against-Ukrainian-fascists!!:1

Does anyone think that Iran will respond to the re-continued genocide or no?

Food is starting to run out in Gaza as Israel resumes bombing raids. “My son cries all night from hunger, and I have nothing to give him,” says one resident. The ceasefire has been broken and Israel has suspended the entry of food and medicine.

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