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A small plane crashed near the Roosevelt shopping center in Philadelphia. The aircraft was a Learjet 55, used for medical transportation, and had taken off from Philadelphia bound for Missouri. About 30 seconds after take-off, it lost lift and crashed.

Witnesses reported that the plane was already on fire before the collision, resulting in a large explosion. Mayor Cherelle Parker confirmed that emergency crews were immediately called to contain the fire and search for possible survivors. The exact number of victims has not yet been officially confirmed. The US Federal Aviation Administration reported that there were two people on board, while other sources indicate that there were six occupants: four crew members, a pediatric patient and a companion.

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Are tariffs now in effect? I haven't seen any real official confirmation, just lots of articles saying they will go into effect and a couple ones saying they won't (that were later denied by Trump).

If yes, I wonder how quickly the tariffs will spiral down the chain, I'd imagine that would happen fairly quickly for food stuff. I hope that Canada or Mexico don't fold, that will just make it more likely that other countries fold as well.

The CELAC extraordinary meeting of Heads of State and Government called for Thursday has been cancelled. The Pro Tempore Presidency says Honduras has received systematic opposition from Member Countries on the issue of Haiti and concerning the issue of migrants.

The statement by the Pro Tempore Presidency (Honduras), says that certain Member Countries have privileged other principles and interests different from those of the unity of the Latin American and Caribbean region as a Community.

Some progressive governments are evidently on a short leash and simply not prepared to take the plunge and oppose the empire Moments ago, President Xiomara Castro announced the enactment of the national emergency strategy for the protection of Honduran migrants. It includes an action program for Hondurans in an irregular migratory situation in the US, as well as those in transit & returned to Honduras.

President Xiomara says she'll instruct institutions of the newly created Migration Governance Council to immediately carry out in the next 72 hours, a technical mission of verification and support to migrants on the southern border of the US and the northern border of Mexico.

President @XiomaraCastroZ: "The displacement of people either within or outside [Honduras] has worsened with the implementation of a neoliberal economic model that deepened dependence, inequality, environmental degradation and violence." Deportations of Hondurans from the United States have decreased by at least 50% between 2000 and 2024.

• 2022: 88,000
• 2023: 58,000
• 2024: 44,000

There are an estimated 1.8 million Hondurans currently in the United States, of which Honduras has been informed that 261,651 have deportation orders and are not in the custody of the U.S. Immigration Service. 1,349 have deportation orders and are in custody. XC says the immediate expulsion of migrants from several Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Honduras, "undoubtedly generates a humanitarian and economic crisis in our nation" and reiterates willingness to maintain a close dialogue with the US on the matter.

The decreed and enacted national emergency strategy for the protection of Honduran migrants includes an action program for: 1. Hondurans in an irregular migratory situation in the United States 2.Honduran migrants in transit 3. Returned Honduran migrants. The strategy includes strengthening of agreements w/governments of transit countries, Guatemala and Mexico, coordinating of voluntary humanitarian return flights for Hondurans in Mexico, new consular offices where Hondurans reside, passport/national ID issuance will be sped up.

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Gustavo Petro fires his foreign minister and swears in a new one following the curfuffle with the U.S. (preceded by a curfuffle with Venezuela). Two weeks ago, a Venezuelan official penned an article saying Luis Murillo answers to the State Department and Juan Manuel Santos.

Laura Camila Sarabia Torres (born March 20, 1994) is a Colombian political scientist. During the 2022 presidential campaign, Benedetti offered his work team to collaborate in Gustavo Petro's campaign. There Sarabia and Petro met and worked together. Petro noticed Sarabia's work capacity, so once he was sworn in as president he offered him the position of Chief of Staff, a position that was later reformed and officially became known as Chief of the Presidential Office.

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An MP from the far right Chega party (which has 50 seats and is 3rd place), Miguel Arruda, has been named a suspect for the crime of stealing bags from airports and filling his office with them. The same day this was revealed a Vinted account (online shopping plarform) thought to belong to Arruda and featuring a ton of clothes being sold for 1 euro each (what a steal!) was deleted. He kicked himself out of the party's what'sapp group before the party leader got the chance to do it but he's decided to keep his seat (and salary).

It's ironic because the party and its MPs are constantly talking about "bandits" and wanting to send politicians to jail. The guy was also elected from the Azores archipelago district, which means he has a very thick azorian accent and that made his interview trying to deny the accusations pretty funny, he just said "I don't feel like I'm guilty". This past week 2 pranksters managed to get him on a call by pretending to be far-right activists and when they asked him about his relation to Mario Machado (a far right criminal who was in jail for years for killing a black person in the 90s and after being released basically made a joke about wanting to sexually assault a leftist activist and got sued into being in jail again) he said "I belong to mario" 2 times, he's since clarified that he was just joking. Raising questions about explicit connections between Machado and the Chega party.

Apparently there was a small "earthquake" in Poltava, Ukraine today. That's where the Russian missiles struck yesterday, which reportedly targeted a gas processing plant.

The delay between the missile strike and the "earthquake" is odd. Maybe there was a fire which eventually blew up the gas?

Today’s news from the Donbass and Kursk oblast.

Russian forces continue advancing near the Kiev-occupied DPR city of Krasnoarmeysk (AKA “Pokrovsk”): https://southfront.press/russian-army-grinds-ukrainian-reserve-brigades-foreign-mercenaries-surrounds-pokrovsk1a/

The Western imperialist disinformation campaign about “North Korean troops in Kursk” is collapsing: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/cianyt-remove-north-korean-soldiers-from-ukraines-front-line.html

The West’s Ukrainian Nazi proxies brutally murdered 22 civilians in the Kursk oblast village of Russkoye Porechnoye (this atrocity is the true face of “Maidan democracy”): https://www.rt.com/russia/611953-kursk-village-ukrainian-massacre/

New Guaido 2.0. Lore: New henchman. Michael Barkin is the new US Chargé d’affaires at the "Venezuela Affairs Unit," an imaginary embassy run out of Bogotá, Colombia.

Some media is now reporting Trump tariffs are delayed to March 1st. No real clarity on the situation.

Update on the deportation flights situation: Perú becomes another country to accept US military deportation flights, military deportation flights continue to Honduras, México still holding out, no updates on any other nations involved.

There were two US military deportation flights that took place since the last update, and these are the 7th and 8th total. Flights RCH116 and RCH686 both flew from Harlingen, Texas, United States; to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. RCH116 then proceeded to return home to Harlingen, United States; while RCH686 continued on from San Pedro Sula, Honduras; to Lima, Perú; before returning to the United States. This (RCH686) becomes the first US military deportation flight to Perú and the first two legged flight outside of US airspace. All flights continued to avoid México's airspace.

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Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over [Treasury] payment system