The Inimitable Emu

@NewsWireLK Shut the fuck up you dessicated corpse

“Future wars won’t be fought with bombs or missiles, but with IT,” says Maithripala Sirisena. He recalled how a 17-year-old schoolboy hacked his official website during his time as President. Instead of punishment, he invited the boy and his family, supported him, and even gave him a phone and laptop. “Today, he’s a millionaire in IT. If I had jailed him, he might have become a criminal.”

A reminder of Vijay’s praise of Prabhakaran whilst campaigning. Politicians around the world, particularly in Tamil Nadu, continue to speak on Eelam Tamils and the independence struggle in the run up to elections. They must be held accountable for their words.

The UAE continues to carry out terrorist attacks across Sudan, including our capital city Khartoum & international airport, a place that had just reopened as millions of Sudanese began returning home, trying to rebuild & restore normal life. May Allah punish the UAE like no other

‘The truth is that everyone here will die.’ This is what Tamils told the United Nations. They were begging them to stay. They would leave. Sri Lanka would go on to kill tens of thousands. _____ remembermay2009.com

She identifies as from Tamil Eelam - not Sri Lankan. Sri Lankan institutions, once again, quick to try and claim Tamil success.

@DullClayCutter @liuzhao_cn Stop misgendering me if you're going to dunk on me properly.

@liuzhao_cn @veryemutional2 The reason you cannot follow his logic is because they have none.

The biggest problem with liberal China studies isn't pointing out China's flaws — China obviously has plenty. The problem is pretending these are uniquely Chinese, while the liberal world is spotless: no PRISM, no xenophobia, no labor exploitation, no Islamophobia…

"If anyone has survived this starvation, it is this chicken. She survived my knife through nine displacements. Every time I reached for her neck, someone stopped me: my wife, Ayloul, and Zein [my children], who found in his chicken friend something worth saving. In a tent whose thin strips were colder than the hunger surrounding it, she felt she was a burden to us—eating anything, moving so lightly no one could hear her. Even her clucking was faint, and her gaze seemed to apologise for still being alive. But what truly saved her wasn’t us. It was the egg. Every three days, she laid one egg—warm— in a time when even a loaf of bread had disappeared. We would divide it: half for Zein, the other half for Ayloul, and I would postpone my hunger, filling myself just by watching them. And between one egg and the next, a question circled in my mind: Do I slaughter her, so we can eat for two days, or keep her alive… so we can endure longer? Even when my friend Hamed broke his arm and needed any protein in this void, I decided to slaughter her for him. He looked at her for a long time, then said: “No, Malek… I can’t bear this guilt. I won’t drink her broth… I won’t be the reason.” In that moment, I understood: we were saving ourselves from ourselves. It was a test of the last part within us that had not yet turned savage. We could not bring ourselves to harm a chicken— yet this vile world found it easy to abandon our children." - Malek Shinbary, Palestinian from Gaza

17 years ago, Sri Lanka intentionally starved hundreds of thousands of Tamils - many to death. A senior UN official said it was "amongst the worst cases of malnutrition he had ever seen". No one has been ever held accountable.

245th human skeleton unearthed from Sri Lanka's second largest grave in Chemmani. By Sunday (03 April) 243 bodies have been recovered in excavations conducted under the supervision of Jaffna Magistrate Selvanayagam Leninkumar.

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Bombing a Doctors Without Borders clinic.

May 2, 2009. The only remaining hospital in Mullivaikkal was bombed. Twice. 9am. Then 10.30am. At least 64 killed. 87 injured. This is the aftermath. Never forget. _____ remembermay2009.com

Its not lost on me that pro-Palestine sentiment has become more palatable as the decolonial and anti-imperialist aspect of it has dwindled in favor of social democratic compatible phrasemongering about taxes and "foreign influence"

@Yinka_freeman @Chetuyachinago Petrodollar is collapsing, we're headed to a global economic crisis, military is hemorrhaging money. If anyone could collapse the US it would be the guy who bankrupted a casino.

@Chetuyachinago If you are printing money and the rest of the world continues to fund the going concern, it really doesn't matter. The US is too "big to fail"

The supreme irony here is that the US government is actually burning more money just to sustain this illegal blockade on Iranian ports than Iran is currently losing due to the blockade. The reason for this is because maintaining a blockade of this scale is a colossal logistical nightmare. Washington has already deployed about 40% of all its active Naval warships to the Persian Gulf and the surrounding Arabian Sea. This maritime assembly alone consists of ships that are effectively mini cities floating in the sea. We are talking about the USS Gerald R. Ford and Abraham Lincoln, both equipped with nuclear reactors with a combined cost of $20 billion. Both are kitted with a phalanx of Naval destroyers costing $2 billion alone to build. These destroyers have their own gas turbine engines that depend on marine diesel to run. Operating at a high-tempo blockade posture which requires constant maneuvering, high-speed vessel interceptions, and maximum power routed to the Aegis combat radars, a single destroyer burns through tens of thousands of gallons of fuel daily. When multiplied across the entire fleet, the fuel bill alone reaches millions of dollars per day. This does not even include the cost required to keep the personnel alive in those floating cities. A Carrier Strike Group houses upwards of 7,500 sailors and aviators. Keeping a steady supply of refrigerated food and drinks, along with handling waste and other utilities, we are looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars per day. And since these ships are mounted on saltwater, which can corrode the expensive rare earth minerals used in the construction of these ships and radars, they need a constant supply of expensive replacement parts and thousands of man-hours just to prevent multi-billion-dollar combat systems from degrading into useless scrap. Now this is just the cost to keep the ships floating on the water alone. To ensure absolute containment and prevent any Iranian tankers from breaking out of Bandar Abbas, the Navy is forced to maintain a relentless, 24/7 Combat Air Patrol. This requires the constant deployment of the F-35C Lightning II, an advanced stealth fighter jet that drains an exorbitant $42,000 for every single hour it is in the sky. Its workhorse counterpart, the F/A-18 Super Hornet, demands $30,000 per flight hour. Operational doctrine dictates that multiple squadrons of these jets must be perpetually airborne to blanket the Iranian coastline, so the daily expenditure for aviation fuel and rapid-cycle maintenance easily exceeds 5 million dollars per day. This figure does not even include the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye radar planes and EA-18G Growler electronic warfare jets that must simultaneously hold the airspace to jam coastal defenses. Now this is just the offensive side alone. On the defensive side, to protect the 13-billion-dollar carriers from Iran’s asymmetric swarm tactics, these destroyers are systematically forced to fire SM-6 interceptor missiles, with each carrying a staggering price tag of $4.3 million. Their targets are mass-produced Iranian attack drones that cost Tehran less than $20,000 to manufacture. So the US Navy is continuously neutralizing cheap, disposable threats with irreplaceable, premium munitions. Because of this catastrophic imbalance, the Pentagon is burning through an estimated $758 million every single day just to replenish the high-end interceptors wasted on these radically lopsided engagements. Also, regional allies have quietly locked the US out of their ports and airspaces just to avoid angering Iran and leading to further escalations. The Navy has been stripped of the ability to dock, refuel, and resupply cheaply. Instead, they are entirely dependent on a massive, agonizingly slow pipeline of USNS supply ships that must drag millions of gallons of fuel and provisions thousands of miles across the open ocean. Even with all of this security detail and massive naval infrastructure, Iran is still shipping out a good percentage of its oil. Iran already calculated a possible US blockade and quietly built the 1000km Goreh-Jask Pipeline, which cost up to $2 billion for Iran to set up. This pipeline has the capacity to carry up to 1 million barrels of oil per day. Because Jask is located on the Gulf of Oman, any oil loaded there completely bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. This means Iranian tankers can load up and enter the open waters of the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean without ever having to sail through the US Navy's choke point inside the Persian Gulf. Considering that Iran is still able to sell a good percentage of its oil, the US blockade may very well be economic suicide. But what looks like a catastrophic geopolitical blunder on paper is, in reality, the most efficient corporate wealth transfer mechanism of the twenty-first century. To call the billion-dollar daily price tag of this Iranian blockade a "waste" is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the American empire actually functions. The money is not evaporating into the humid air of the Persian Gulf, nor is it sinking to the bottom of the Arabian Sea. It is being meticulously and legally laundered directly into the back pockets of the military-industrial complex. Every Tomahawk launched, every F-35 flight hour logged, and every piece of radar equipment vaporized by retaliatory strikes represents a mandatory, fast-tracked replenishment contract for legacy defense titans like Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Boeing. As for Silicon Valley, this war is like a dream come true. The sheer scale and complexity of this blockade have created a desperate need for advanced software. Companies like Palantir, Anduril, and a legion of venture-backed tech startups are currently gorging on defense contracts, selling artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms to the Navy. They are deploying AI-driven targeting software to process the chaotic radar clutter of the Strait of Hormuz, machine-learning models to hunt for Iranian "Ghost Fleet" tankers, and automated logistical systems just to manage the agonizingly slow supply chains keeping the fleet alive. This is why America keeps going to war every year. War is the only way these tech empires and military industries balance their books, and they lobby and buy politicians that will ensure this enterprise never comes to an end.

@t_NYC In a way, this is also why you people keep trying to divide the world into the USA and The Rest Of Humanity. The empire has insulated you from having to raw dog the world and take it as it comes. So when something doesn't jive with your personal worldview y'all lose your minds.

@t_NYC 1) OP is absolutely not joking, 2) I regret to inform you that love of violence is a universal human trait not confined to Americans. I grew up in a civil war and still enjoyed violent movies, especially as a child, because children live in a world of violent imagination.

Eleanor is 6 years old and at some point this year she started(normal childhood development for kids her age) to become really sensitive to images that depict violence or potential harm. The idea that we should force her or any child to watch violent movies is so American

@TomiLaffly I have a theory that the reason our generation is so attached to Michael Jackson is because his music represents one of the rare times our fathers were just guys having fun instead of being an authoritarian asshole.

This, and the other way around too: your mom’s favorite movies, violent and otherwise, and your dad’s favorite songs in the car.

@bornposting This is no good for us though. Our generation is full of Disney and Harry Potter adults. 😔

my dad is a boomer so he spent my childhood showing me his favourite clint eastwood films so ngl, this might be it

Don't forget randomly picking up some violently gory pornographic adult novel they had forgotten about (or in a library if they weren't big readers) at roughly age 10 and receiving an Education™ 🤭 Hand to God, these things are crucial to forming functional adults.