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Bulletins and News Discussion from January 6th to January 12th, 2025 - The Fall of Trudeau - COTW: Canada (hexbear.net)

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Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.

The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump's return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.

Please check out the HexAtlas!

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago) (1 children)

Coup/Presidential Crisis in Ecuador

The Ecuadorean National Assembly returned decree 500, in which President Daniel Noboa asked for a “few days' leave” to campaign, to the presidency, and put in his place a Vice-President appointed by him, rather than the elected one. The Assembly has asked the president to take an official leave of absence. And they have said that they will only recognize the legitimacy of Veronica Abad, the Vice-President elected in 2023, together with Daniel Noboa.

A coup d'état will take place in Ecuador, says Vice-President Abad. The Vice President of Ecuador, Verónica Abad, said today that “a coup d'état will be carried out” in the next few hours by the government itself, when President Daniel Noboa entrusts the presidency to “his secretary.” Cynthia Gellibert.

At a press conference in the capital, Abad addressed the international community and said that the coup orchestrated by the Executive affects national and regional stability. “The constitutional order has been broken. The president and his improvised cabinet have repeatedly violated the Constitution and are carrying out a coup d'état for the democratic history of Ecuador,” he told journalists.

Abad opposes abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and 4th wave feminism. She says she defends freedom of religion, individual rights, private property, small government and free markets. She has also shown sympathy for politicians including Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, and the far-right Spanish party Vox. The Citizen Revolution party, a democratic socialist Correaista party, has declared its critical support for Veronica Abad. Insisting that she take over the presidency until the 2025 elections.

Meanwhile, Daniel Noboa insists that there is a conspiracy between his party, his ministers and Congress to bring down his government. He also insists that the power outages are not due to cuts in the infrastructure budget, but to a plot by one of his ministers against him because they want to remove him from power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

I fucking hate Noboa, traitor to the people and the Correaista movement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (2 children)

Norway's government plans to increase the nation's civil defence. The number of conscripts assigned to civil defence will be increased from 8.000 to 12.000.

In addition Norway plans to be 50 percent self-sufficient by 2030 and increase emergency stores of grain to have enough to cover the nation's needs for three months by 2029.

In addition the Norwegian government is increasing funding to voluntary civil defence organisations, working on a new cyber preparedness plan as well as a "strategy to strengthen the public's resilience against desinformation" that will be presented this spring.

Source: NRK (state media), January 10th 2025

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

"Voluntary civil defense organizations"...so militias?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

AFAIK they are not armed but are doing rescue work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

I always laugh when I remember than most militaries in europe consist of just a few thousand guys

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump speaks out in support of the Venezuelan opposition, and calls upon the 'regime' not to harm freedom fighters Maria Corina Machado & President-elect Gonzalez.

Maria Corina Machado, the face of the Venezuelan opposition, was arrested earlier today after a last ditch effort to prevent tomorrow's ratification of the Presidential Election results from July 2024, which resulted in a heavily controversial win for incumbent candidate Nicolas Maduro.

Bipartisan support for terrorism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 minutes ago (1 children)

Maria Corina Machado, the face of the Venezuelan opposition, was arrested earlier today

FINALLY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

She was released soon after. This is some really weird falseflag psyop that failed and had the opposite effect that the US wanted.

Now they are saying she is being held hostage and forced to make videos lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Trump's Invasion of Greenland Would Be 'World's Shortest War' - Politico. Denmark has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of the heavy equipment for the ground forces was donated to Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Denmark being unable to defend against a US invasion because they gave all their guns to Ukranian Nazis would be the funniest thing ever.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

I think this was part of the USA's plan, they forced their allies to give guns to Ukraine, and that also disarmed them, making them weak to even attempt resisting the US. The US also forced Argentina and Ecuador to do the same thing. They attempted this shit with Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Colombia, but those countries refused, only Colombia granted Ukraine some medical aid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago

timmy-pray

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 hours ago

EU's Von der Leyen has not received invite to Trump inauguration, spokesperson says.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has not yet received an invitation to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, a spokesperson said on Friday. "If she receives an invitation, then we will see but there are no plans (to attend the inauguration) at the moment", spokesperson Paula Pinho told reporters during a daily briefing.

Trump has broken with precedent and invited several foreign leaders to the ceremony. Historically they have not attended due to security concerns and have sent diplomats instead. Chinese President Xi Jinping, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni among others have received invitations.

When will people learn Bolsonaro literally can't leave Brazil. At this point I think they are just fucking with him.

According to reports, Xi will not attend but will send a top-level envoy in his place.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The Kingdom of Denmark changes its coat of arms for the first time in 500 years in response to Donald Trump's threats to invade Greenland and take the territory by force.

The measure taken by King Frederik removes the triple crown of the Kalmar Union (which united Denmark, Sweden and Norway) and places the bear of Greenland and the ram of the Faroe Islands. In his New Year's speech, the king reaffirmed the unity of the Kingdom of Denmark “all the way to Greenland”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 minutes ago

Sounds insecure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

The Kingdom of Denmark changes its coat of arms for the first time in 500 years in response to Donald Trump's threats to invade Greenland and take the territory by force.

liberalism

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So like does anyone have any tales on Maduro

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

One time I was walking down the street with an ice cream cone and a propeller hat and Maduro was sitting on a public bench. As I walked past him he tripped me, he lowered his face down to mine on the sidewalk as tears streamed down my face and called me a little "piss baby" and walked away. I am not a piss baby!

It's very common he does this a lot.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I completely missed the news about Anita Bryant being fucking dead. Rest in piss. rip-bozo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

packwatch

Gone and Forgotten

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/trhxianl/status/1877397900180795752

one pov on lebanese president selection

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

To me, all the recent changes look like a desperate but sincere attempt to get the ceasefire agreement to work, with the Lebanese government being pressured to do this by the mediators of the agreement, in the United States and France. After it was initially reported that only 25% of the Lebanese army force that was agreed to showed up, suddenly we get a large ampunt of photo ops or the Lebanese army advancing in South Lebanon and destroying Hezbollah equipment, along with Israeli withdrawals in those areas. And these operations coincide with the election of this new Lebanese president. It seems as if the Lebanese state is desperate to make this ceasefire agreement work to try and buy some peace.

All in all the twitter thread was good until the last tweet, which is honestly just cope. How is the election of a president, to enforce a ceasefire agreement that looks to de-militirise Hezbollah, in any way going to generate any kind of guarantees that would be upheld? The resistance had to fold here to maintain political stability, as mentioned earlier in the thread.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

yea it's pro-hezbollah so obv.

isntreal is happy (their foreign minister congratulated lebanon), but like i wonder what regular average lebanese thinks over this (e.g. not former vassal militia of pisrael and not hezbollah). Are they happy their army is a little useless resource drain? do they think hezbollah shouldn't have done anything? obviously they are happy with ceasefire, but the rest is like ???

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Why the fuck treatlerites care so much about looting in fire zones? It is gonna be burnt down, who cares if someone steals it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago

They hate poor people, and they also hate "losing" to poor people. They think poor people are having an advantage over them by breaking the law. This is also why they hate social programs, they think it's "unfair" and that poor people should just starve to death quietly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago

Well you see, insurance claim over stolen goods is different from burnt out goods, and if your commie mind cannot comprehend such distinctions (....) ..which is why you can shoot looters using helicopter mounted railgun.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago

smug-explain speech-rubi-l-1 Poor "people" could get good treats speech-rubi-l-3

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago

Structural Calvinism.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Rather out of topic rant I will make

I think Iraq war was much more devastating to USA in some other ways people realise. I can not say I know too much but no other war veterans seem to be this much opposed to USA foreign actions than Iraq war veterans. I think it is because it was partially successful war. They successfully killed saddam and destroyed so much doing so. When it was time to rebuild, USA failed utterly. Gave way to creation of groups like ISIS. Soldiers saw it first hand how they destroyed a country to turn it into a ruin. They saw it theirself how much they have ruined. So I guess moral of the story is if you successfully occupy a land, you might suffer long term army morale problems if you ruin the land

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They also learned. No more direct US involvement in major military conflicts apart from auxiliary support role. Importantly, the US stopped Europe from attaining energy sovereignty through buying oil in euro.

It would take another decade before a major energy infrastructure was built to supply Europe with cheap natural gas. The geopolitical vector then turned to the European periphery, but this time, the US would mobilize ultranationalists in Ukraine to do the dirty work.

In the meantime, a full blown hybrid warfare was initiated to destroy the economies of the oil producing countries during the 2010s. Maidan, sanctions from Crimea and MH-17, the shale revolution, Syrian Civil War were all unleashed simultaneously to destroy the oil producing economies of Russia, Iran and Venezuela and permanently put them on the back foot. The strategic goal being to cut Europe off potential energy suppliers and obliterate its status (and the euro currency) as a major challenger to the dollar regime - a thorny problem to the US since the collapse of the USSR.

Even today, the US is no longer directly involved. It is the Ukrainians and Israelis and ISIS/HTS who are dying on the front, while the US slowly drips its military equipments to the frontline to ensure that it will not run out of munitions beyond its capacity to replenish.

Without sacrificing the lives of a single soldier, the US has sunk the European economy. Russian pipeline is dead. Nigeria pipeline is dead. Qatar pipeline is dead. The US remains the sole supplier of natural gas to Europe, and it will have total control over European politics and economy for the foreseeable future.

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