I just realized these fires are happening in the middle of winter season in LA. If they aren't getting any rain what are the fires going to be like in the summer? They're 4.5" below what they should be at this time. This feels like just the beginning.
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Bulletins and News Discussion from January 6th to January 12th, 2025 - The Fall of Trudeau - COTW: Canada
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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.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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
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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.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1877474174652002533
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Modern Nazis like the AfD are so shit, they don't even have the 'dull the Germans by giving them jobs' part, they only have Islamophobia.
Kalecki's saying "One of the important functions of fascism, as typified by the Nazi system, was to remove the capitalist objections to full employment." no longer applies
Her grandfather Hans Weidel was a Nazi judge, appointed directly by Adolf Hitler. He joined the NSDAP at the end of 1932 and the SS in January 1933.
From 1941 he was an army judge, one of 3,000 judges in the Nazi military justice system, and from 1944 a chief staff judge.
She knows what she is doing, she should hang for it, as her grandpa should have.
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they nationalized industries like crazy
lol. The Nazis were the first to re-privatize the economy during the Great Depression after European powers nationalized their economies during WWI, which led to unprecedented socialist movements all over Europe and especially that revolution in Russia.
The mass privatization that begin in the late 1960s-1970s was based on the re-privatization effort of Nazi Germany, where that part of history has been conveniently scrubbed when academics talk about the history of neoliberalism and where the roots of marginalist/neoclassical economics were concerned.
From the Economy of Evil:
In February 1933, as Chancellor, Hitler met with the leading German industrialists at the home of Hermann Goring. There were representatives from IG Farben, AG Siemens, BMW, coal mining magnates, Theissen Corp, AG Krupp, as well as a locust of Bankers, investors, and other Germans belonging to the top 1%. During this meeting, Hitler said, "Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy."
In 1934, Nazis outlined their plan to revitalize the German economy. It involved reprivatization of significant industries: railways, public works project, construction, steel, and banking. On top of that, Hitler guaranteed profits for the private sector, and so, many American industrialists and bankers gleefully flocked to Germany to invest.
The Nazis had a thorough plan for deregulation. The Nazi's economist, stated," The first thing German business needs is peace and quiet. It must have a feeling of absolute legal security and must know that work and its return are guaranteed. The interferences in a business which occurred at first, perhaps as a result of too much zeal, have become intolerable."
Germany had the most robust social-democratic movement, and consequently, the best worker protections in Europe codified by law. This was a significant impediment to businesses "operating freely without interference."
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On January 20, 1934, the Nazis passed the Law Regulating National Labor. The act explicitly took power away from the government to set minimum wages and working conditions. The act stated, "The leader of the enterprise makes the decisions for the employees and laborers in all matters concerning the enterprise, as far as they are regulated by this law." Employers lowered wages and benefits. Workers were banned from striking or engaging in other collective bargaining rights. Worker conditions were so deteriorated that with the head of the AFL visited Nazi Germany in 1938, he compared the life of an average worker to that of a slave. Workers in Nazi Germany worked longer hours for lower wages.
“Adolf Hitler was a socialist” lmao
Nazis literally invented the modern usage of the term "privatization"
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Weidel's big icon is Margaret Thatcher btw. She even said she wants to be the modern Thatcher.
From the opening paragraphs of Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany:
Privatization of large parts of the public sector was one of the defining policies of the last quarter of the twentieth century. The privatizations in Chile and the United Kingdom, implemented in the 1970s and 1980s, are usually considered the first privatization policies in modern history (e.g. Yergin and Stanislaw, 1998, p.115). A few researchers find earlier instances: Some economic analyses of privatization (e.g. Megginson, 2005, p. 15) identify partial sales of state-owned firms in Adenauer’s Germany in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the first large- scale privatization program, and others argue that, though confined to just one sector, the denationalization of steel and coal in the United Kingdom during the early 1950s should be considered the first privatization (e.g. Burk, 1988; Megginson and Netter, 2003, p. 31).
None of the contemporary economic analyses of privatization takes into account an important, earlier case: the privatization policy implemented by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. The modern literature on privatization, the recent literature on the twentieth- century German economy (e.g. Braun, 2003) and the history of Germany’s publicly owned enterprises (e.g. Wengenroth, 2000) all ignore this early privatization experience. Some authors occasionally mention the re-privatization of banks but make no further comment or analysis (e.g. Barkai, 1990, p. 216; James, 1995, p. 291). Other works, like Hardach (1980, p. 66) and Buchheim and Scherner (2005, p. 17), mention the sale of State-owned firms in Nazi Germany only to support the idea that the Nazi government opposed widespread state ownership of firms and do not carry out any analysis of these privatizations.
And it’s all the same. Neoliberals (British marginalists/neoclassicals) derived much of their economic theorems from studying contemporary fascist regimes, and became its successor in a more perfected form.
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"2001 GMV Yukon" that thing is begging to die at this point.
A little news from Kursk oblast. All of the Kiev regime’s recent attacks failed – they could not capture a single settlement. Meanwhile, over the past few days, Russian forces liberated the Kursk oblast settlements of Leonidovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Kruglenkoye.
In addition, over 20 Kiev regime invaders (from the “82nd Airborne Assault Brigade” and the “225th Separate Assault Battalion”) surrendered to Russian forces in Kursk oblast, near Berdin (videos): https://southfront.press/testimony-of-ukrainian-soldiers-captured-in-russian-kursk-region/
More drone strikes on Kiev regime armored vehicles near the Kursk oblast settlement of Berdin (video): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20890-Berdin.mp4?_=1
Russian drone strikes on Kiev regime positions in Kursk oblast (video): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20924_1.mp4?_=1
Lmao. I do prefer this more naked imperialism from the US, it's more honest. Well perhaps not more naked, just directed towards the imperial periphery this time.
But the disquiet brought on by Trump's refusal to rule out military intervention to seize Greenland remains.
Karsten Honge said Denmark would have suffer whatever decision the US takes.
"They just need to send a small battleship to travel down the Greenland coast and send a polite letter to Denmark," he said, only partly in jest.
"The last sentence would be: well, Denmark, what you gonna do about it?
"That's the new reality with regards to Trump."
you mean towards the imperial core, right?
Yeah Imperial periphery is like Croatia, Greece, Romania or Bulgaria. Those who exploit the least of the west and are exploited the most by the west.
the original comment is about denmark
Yeah that's what I meant
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stated they also will not obey the ICC ruling and the Nazi entity will protect Satan if he enters the country - Al Jazeera
This is the same Poland who is tied with Estonia for being fanatically obsessed with NATO/NAFO and idolise Boer terrorists such as Janusz Walus, already ensuring tensions ahead of time (and even ahead of piSSrael) with South Africa once the Apartheid ended. It's been almost a decade since South Africa attempted to leave the ICC on the grounds of the court's illegitimacy, time to go for seconds maybe?
Xi, launch the rockets
They want those american bases and american financial aid so they can recreate the PLC.
fucking poland
Pucking foland
The opposition takes to the streets in an empty march in Caracas on the eve of Maduro's inauguration.
María Corina said that this Friday will be the 'final sentence of the regime'; her alleged arrest has been denied by the government. The opposition has tried to create a climate to interfere with Nicolás Maduro's inauguration. Videos on social networks, calls for marches and an international tour of countries governed by the right were the main tricks used by the extreme right that questions the result of the July 28 elections. But what was seen on Thursday (9) was a demonstration that brought together around 3,000 people in eastern Caracas.
Ultra-liberal María Corina Machado called on opponents to hold what she called a “march for freedom” on the eve of the presidential inauguration. The group claims that the former Unity Platform candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, will be sworn in on Friday (10) in a move that has not been detailed by the opposition.
bruh i honestly thought maybe maduro's party cooked the books a little bit (i dont care if they did or not, in fact if you're going to cling to the stupid form of liberal democracy i support rigging the election every time), but holy hell if they could only get 3000 people protest there's no way they won the election lol
Most of Anti-Maduro voters have left Venezuela a long time ago, this is why they are so dependent on Colombian, American and Ukrainian mercenaries.
It's funny. A lot of them are now in America, and now these MAGA-type regime changers can't bare to even see their gusanos' faces
No wonder they wanted Maduro desperately gone ~~so that they can deport them back, like Europeans and Turks did with Syrian refugees~~
I'm actually a bit surprised Qassam doesn't use drones too much against the genocidal entity. We have seen a bunch of those on Oct 7th and a few afterwards, which includes that famous shot of a drone dropping a small grenade on a gathering of iof soldiers. Tbh I expected to see more of that, and perhaps even FPV drones which would disable enemy armour.
Huh, perhaps they couldnt get ahold of a significant number of drones due to the blockade and the limited number they have are used to plan for ambushes or observation, who knows. Also FPV drones are a novelty too, but the ones that drop explosives aren't. It's a shame because they could inflict a fuckton of casualties on the colonizers.
It's probably difficult for them to acquire drones, since they are under an embargo and total siege by Israel, and Egypt has also closed its border
probably difficult to get electricity for them too no?
Most likely, these consumer drones use known frequencies and are trivial to jam. It is one thing on a large front like Ukraine, but Gaza is relatively small, and Pissrael has practically unlimited resources when it comes to deploying surveillance technology.
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Don't think I saw it posted but a couple of days ago the DPRK claimed to have successfully tested a hypersonic missile
Requesting a quick @[email protected] summary of what to expect out of the Joseph Aoun presidency, if you're in a good place and have the time, please and thank you.
Has anyone proposed using MOABs yet?
I think the US used bombs to put out a fire on Sweden a couple of years ago iirc
Well, the USSR put out a fire with a nuke, why not use a MOAB!?
I believe Trump used one of those in Afghanistan
On 13 April 2017, a MOAB was dropped on an Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) cave complex in Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It was the first operational use of the bomb. Two days later, an Afghan army spokesman said that the strike killed 94 ISKP militants, including four commanders, with no signs of civilian casualties.However, an Afghan parliamentarian from Nangarhar province, Esmatullah Shinwari, said locals told him the explosion killed a teacher and his young son.
Former US military official Marc Garlasco, who served in the George W. Bush administration, said that the US had not previously used the MOAB because of worries that it would inadvertently hurt or kill civilians. United States President Donald Trump did not say whether he specifically authorized the use of the MOAB, simply remarking he has given the military "total authorization" and praising the US military as the greatest in the world: "We have given them total authorization and that's what they're doing and frankly that's why they've been so successful lately"
Sorry, I mean on the LA fires lol
I thought this was about Ukraine or Trump's invasions, lol. I think some people in the US, including Trump, have proposed attacking a hurricane with nuclear weapons before, so you never know. But I doubt they'll let Trump do something cool like blow up California.
The Baltics bootlick the West so hard only to be placed in the same tier as Indonesia and the AES 
https://xcancel.com/Gokul_Sahni/status/1877211735364374700
A very interesting proposed list – a lot of countries friendly to the US will not make the cut for the most permissive AI exports.
"Well, actually, you forgot Poland" 
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I'm already bored of news of the fires. Back to nothing ever happens hours
Shit's getting worse