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  • I recently read this article posted on lemmy on how big the AI bubble is regarding the US empire economy and …its huge.

    In context of this article about some of the novel ways that the child-killing zionists are integrating AI technologies into their weapons systems and military; basically using Gaza as a testing ground for these capabilities. Of course the demons are bragging about it. One of the described methods discusses using bombings and sonic booms to triangulate locations of intercepted communications transmissions:

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    .In late 2023, the Zionist regime was attempting to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas’s Jabalia Central Battalion, who was allegedly involved in planning the October 7 attack. The regime’s military intelligence intercepted Biari’s communications with other Hamas members but was unable to pinpoint his exact location. Therefore, they turned to an AI-powered audio tool—one that analyzed various sounds such as sonic booms and airstrikes.

    After the approximate location of Ibrahim Biari’s communications was identified, Zionist military officials were warned that the area—which included several apartment complexes—was highly populated. They stated that to ensure Biari’s death, multiple buildings needed to be targeted in the airstrike.

    The operation was approved and carried out.Since then, the regime’s military intelligence has also used this audio tool—alongside maps and images of Gaza’s complex underground tunnels—to search for hostages. According to two Israeli officers, the tool has improved over time to identify individuals with greater accuracy.

    The audio tool is just one example that demonstrates how the regime has used the Gaza war to test and rapidly deploy AI-supported military technologies on an unprecedented scale.

    Many of these efforts resulted from collaboration between active-duty soldiers in Unit 8200 and reservists working at tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta. According to these individuals, Unit 8200 has established a central hub called the “Studio,” which serves as an innovation center and a place to connect experts with AI projects. Reservists from the aforementioned major companies are involved in this unit. The Studio’s primary mission is to rapidly adapt artificial intelligence technologies to meet military needs.

    While the regime rapidly continued to develop its artificial intelligence arsenal, the deployment of these technologies has led to mistaken identifications, wrongful arrests, and civilian deaths. According to European and American defense officials, no other power has been as active as the occupying regime in testing AI tools in real battles. This situation provides an initial glimpse into how such technologies might be used in future wars, as well as a warning of how these technologies could malfunction or be misused, resulting in the killing of civilians.

    Meta and Microsoft declined to comment on the killings carried out in the Gaza war using artificial intelligence, but Google, in an effort to clear itself of accusations, stated: “We have employees who serve as reservists in various countries around the world. The work these employees do as reservists is not related to Google.”

    Avi Hasson, CEO of the nonprofit organization Startup Nation Central, which connects investors to companies in the occupied territories, said, “Reservists from Meta, Google, and Microsoft have played a vital role in advancing innovation in drones and data integration.” He added, “Reservists brought specialized knowledge and access to key technologies that were not available in the military.”


    Its noteworthy that Microsoft, Amazon, and Google stocks are all up ~50-60% since Oct 7 2023. Nvidia of course is up ~ 300%. Palantir has gone up 1000% but most of that is since trump was “elected”.

    I previously pointed out that the “tel aviv” stock exchange has doubled since Oct 7 and goes up when fighting gets more intense while declining during ceasefires. A depressing stock chart for Elbit the ‘israeli’ weapons company being targetted by Palestine Action and makes murder drones among other things.

    It’s hard not to perceive this as an AI-driven genocide bubble.



  • Syria: Poverty Skyrockets Despite Currency Stabilization

    https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/syria--poverty-skyrockets-despite-currency-stabilization

    Two contrasting developments in recent weeks underscore the disparity. First, more than 800 Korean cars have arrived in the country, bringing the total to over 100,000 newly imported vehicles, worth an estimated $500 million to $1 billion. Second, the UN Development Program launched a bread subsidy project in six provinces, reducing the price of a loaf from 4,000 to 2,400 Syrian pounds, with plans to expand the initiative nationwide.

    This contradicting image unveils the deepening inequality in household spending shaped by post-regime changes. From rising unemployment on the one hand - now exceeding 50% due to the mass dismissals from military and security apparatuses, and civil institutions - to gains in the exchange rate and growing remittances from abroad on the other.

    Earlier this year, prices dropped, but the relief was short-lived as structural problems persisted. Many public and private employees face delayed or suspended salaries due to new banking restrictions. Thousands have been placed on unpaid leave under the guise of “downsizing,” with health insurance programs suspended

    Wage earners, who represent 62.5% of the country’s workforce, are among the most affected. Public sector employees, nearly half of that group, are hit the hardest. **The SCPR reported that public salaries fail to meet even the most basic needs across all regions. In former regime-controlled areas, salaries now cover only 5.6% of basic expenses.









  • Saudi Arabia and France are Leading a ‘Political Genocide’

    https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/08/6461/

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    Amid the ongoing Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, as the siege, starvation, and daily massacres intensify, the dimensions of international and regional complicity are being exposed with increasing brazenness and openness. At the heart of this complicity, both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the French Republic are playing a suspicious role, attempting to reimpose what is called the “two-state solution” as a political exit, precisely at a time when people are being annihilated, the land is being burned, and homes are being demolished on top of their inhabitants.

    What Paris and Riyadh are promoting is nothing short of an open political genocide, recycling of a failed and dangerous project, one that seeks to liquidate the Palestinian cause under the guise of so-called “international legitimacy.” And yet, what is being proposed occurs entirely outside the framework of all UN resolutions related to the Palestinian question, flawed as those resolutions may be. It is a continuation of what was started by Camp David, Oslo, Wadi Araba, and the Abraham Accords — the systematic violation of Palestinian rights and the fragmentation of the goals of the Palestinian national struggle.

    How is it possible to speak of “two states” in the context of comprehensive occupation from the river to the sea, of accelerating colonial settlement in the West Bank, and of collective massacres being committed against children, women, and men in Gaza? How can a people who have resisted for over seven decades be offered a state on paper, without sovereignty, without an army, without the right of return? And why is a people fighting on behalf of the entire Arab nation being asked to surrender all of its rights?

    France has always been a principal partner in the Western colonial and imperialist project in our region. Today, it continues this filthy role through its full support for the Zionist entity, its refusal to halt arms exports, and its brutal repression of any public expression of support for Palestine on its own soil. Paris falsely and brazenly presents itself as an “honest broker,” while it stands firmly in the same trench as Washington and Tel Aviv, hosting conferences that seek to entrench the system of occupation. Indeed, it has managed to dilute the positions of several European countries, including Ireland, Norway, Belgium, and Spain.

    As for the repressive, obscurantist Saudi regime, after years of ideological, religious, and political preparation, it no longer even pretends to be ashamed of its strategic partnership with the Zionist entity. It openly presents full normalization as a “rational” path that the rest of the Arab states should follow. For the rulers of Riyadh, Palestine is nothing more than a bargaining chip to improve the terms of U.S. protection. They are not embarrassed by their open conspiracy against the resistance or by their pressure to disarm it and strip it of legitimacy, even if the price is the extermination of two million people in Gaza. This comes as no surprise: this is the same bloody regime that led a criminal war against the people of Yemen.

    The essence of the so-called “two-state solution” is nothing but the legitimation of the Zionist entity, the enshrinement of defeat, and the consolidation of a racist colonial entity on 90% of the land of Palestine — not just the 78% commonly cited. In return, it proposes a weak, fragmented, and functional Palestinian entity confined to the few remaining besieged islands in the West Bank and Gaza, whose presence will not exceed more than 10% of the land, without any guarantees for the right of return, the dismantling of settlements, or the release of prisoners. This is not a project for a just solution; it is a liquidation project. It seeks to strip the Palestinian people of the essence of their cause: liberation and return.

    The New York Declaration: Total Capitulation and a State on Paper

    In this context, the danger of the so-called “New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question,” issued recently, becomes apparent. It states: “We welcomed the commitments made by Mahmoud Abbas on behalf of Palestine, contained in his letter dated 9 June 2025, including the pursuit of a peaceful settlement to the Palestinian issue and the continued rejection of violence and terrorism.” The statement continues: “We also welcomed his affirmation that the Palestinian state should be the sole authority responsible for providing security in its territory, but it does not intend to be an armed state.”

    This formulation does not merely mark an attempted official declaration of the end of the Palestinian national project and total surrender to the conditions of occupation and Zionism. It also represents the death of the so-called “Palestinian state,” even by the standards of the “Authority” itself, which has tried to market this idea among our people. A “state” without land, without arms, without resistance, without decision-making power, without sovereignty, one that accepts Western and Saudi guardianship, is nothing more than a security appendage of the Zionist system. It has nothing to do with the aspirations of our people for liberation and sovereignty. It is even more grotesque than the infamous limited “self-rule” project.

    The bitter irony in this repulsive scene is that the Zionist enemy itself does not even accept this content-less program, as it refuses even “Mahmoud Abbas’s vision” and the Oslo liquidation agreements, despite the fact that these were originally crafted to protect it, consolidate its occupation, and constrain our people’s resistance. So perhaps we can take some comfort in the fact that the Zionist war criminals and their backers are working to sabotage this project! In the presence of impotent and complicit Palestinian leaderships and Arab regimes, Zionist colonialism leans on them to carry out the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.

    This dangerous phase demands absolute and uncompromising Palestinian, Arab and international popular rejection of this treacherous liquidation project. It requires us to seize back the initiative from the hands of these puppet regimes, and to escalate the popular, political, financial, and military support for the Palestinian resistance by all means necessary. The experience of the past decades has proven that the Zionist enemy understands only the language of force, and that rights are not restored through negotiations and false mediations, but through armed struggle and comprehensive resistance.

    All of occupied Palestine, from the river to the sea, is the sacred right of the Palestinian people, and it is non-negotiable. The right of return for refugees is inalienable, not subject to delay or bargaining. Anyone who promotes the fragmentation or diminishment of these rights is part of the liquidation project, whether they cloak themselves in religion or raise the banner of secularism and democracy. No perfume from Paris or Riyadh will mask the stench of their treacherous project.