Get it? "Revolting" is a double entendre! Anyway...
As the Trump administration continues to accelerate the flagrant disregard of "international law", we have seen various European leaders flock to China (alongside Canada), seeking deals. Some trips have been more successful than others - for example, Macron's was fairly dire despite his lavish reception by Xi Jinping, but Starmer's resulted in some actual deals and tariff reductions. The intent of this wave of diplomacy with China is clear: leverage.
Nobody should be fooled into thinking this revolt immediately benefits the developing world, of course. While a relative weakening of the US compared to Europe is progressive in a limited sense (insofar as the US is the locus of imperialism), every indication shows that, when it matters, the European consensus remains aligned in most respects with the US, such as with them and the Zionist entity against Iran, against national sovereignty in Africa (e.g. ECOWAS), as well as in Latin America (either in support or not sufficiently opposing American designs there against Cuba and Venezuela, to name but two countries). It is also unclear how long such a divide will last - perhaps Trump leaving office in 2028 and a slightly less bellicose leader in power will result in many cancelled deals with China.
Despite the very shaky initial steps over the past couple years, Europe still has many miles it must traverse to achieve sovereignty, let alone socialism. For now, it will cheer on the sanctions against millions of vulnerable people and incoming bombing of Iran and Hezbollah, though perhaps it will also share a degree of the economic/military retaliation.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
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What’s this stuff I keep hearing from Americans about the wealthy killing and eating babies? Do people just believe everything they’re hearing with the Epstein stuff?
This is the problem with so-called marxists not understanding dialectical and historical materialism. When the annunaki formed the first humans via genetic experiments in order to enslave us (class analysis; enslaved/owner dialectic), they used the pure souls of children as an energy source. Moloch gave that knowledge to the bourgeoisie and that's where they serve their material (dialectical materialism) power from. This is the history (historical materialism) people need to know in order to understand the contradictions we live in and from where they are derived
I watched that guy recite the entire bible in YouTube poop sound bites for three days
Well thank god for that.
Share a link comrade...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GTh5J0HsIAg&pp=ygUWbW9yc2h1IHJlYWRzIHRoZSBiaWJsZQ%3D%3D
Thank you comrade.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The good ~~Vladimir Ilyich~~ ~~John Brown~~ General Muk Muk would ~~shoot everyone here~~ ~~stab everyone in Harper's Ferry~~ walk everyone involved here into the desert.
We have gotten to the "Scouring through unverified FBI tip line stuff" era of the epstein stuff, and we have people like Nikki Minaj bringing back 10 year old Pizzagate discourse.
So to answer your second question, pretty much yes.
Seriously. Can we please just "wouldn't surprise me if true given the monsters involved, but won't believe it unless there's credible evidence" and move on? Really, really basic application of skepticism, here.
But I adhere to the position that skepticism was effectively murdered decades ago by the propaganda and educational neglect, so....
I've seen emails saying "you have my permission to kill him" and a couple of similar things, one indicating two girls were maybe killed. But nothing extremely specific. Of course, not all emails & official documents were revealed. But Epstein often said "not for email" when discussing sensitive topics, so I doubt they would email each other about that. Not unexpected is that they often use coded language, often using food items as code. But sometimes they just say "I'll bring new girls" or stuff like that. Two real examples are "your littlest girl was a little naughty" and "New Brazilian just arrived"
Interestingly, it looks like the FBI was investigating them in 2009 and they rigged the lottery results. Maybe this was already known, but I've never heard about this. Robert Mueller was informed about it, another big daddy Mueller win!
This reminds me of when there were all those rumors swirling around about Rasputin's debauchery and the corruption of the Russian monarchy, something the peasantry was very willing to believe, and then Lenin and the communists came out to throw water on all of that on behalf of the monarchy and called it a psyop.
I think that there was a tip in there about George h w Bush doing pedophilia, murder, and cannibalism. But the FBI tips for publicly notable people especially presidents is gonna be full of wacky stuff, any tip that was ever given that regards Epstein will be in there and anyone can leave a tip
Probably a psyop to discredit the fact they’re pedophiles
They got really into that around 2016
Is it not true? I thought that part was confirmed?
No, there were anonymous tips that said stuff like that, but nothing substantial.
at this point i expect the anonymous tips to be limited hangout trying to obfuscate the really depraved shit
For the ones that were given after his 2007 case, i.e. when he was already known as an infamous sex criminal, I could also imagine that they were from people having mental episodes. There's a lot of traumatized people who might project experiences they had onto someone they're seeing on TV or that they read about. I'm not an expert but I think that kind of thing can happen during a psychotic episode.
Also, game-of-telephone with conspiracy (theory) shit. A kind of social "psychosis" seems to be possible even if individual psychosis is not.
Honestly what a relief. I know what did happen is depraved but I was genuinely at a loss these past couple days. Legit put me through an existential crisis.
There's a Mexican model that said they were killing and eating people. It's on YouTube. She seemed to be ok with murder but not cannibalism. She was never heard from again.
On the Epstein files there's a written first-hand account of a child who was forced to give birth twice (presumably as a result of rape) and had their baby taken away both times.