Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique

these are the people that lecture you about anti-semitism and racism

The NYT asks - Why Was There a Broad Drop-Off in Democratic Turnout in 2024? (archive)

Gaza - not mentioned, even though they talk about Harris getting fewer votes than Biden in Dearborn. Grocery prices - not mentioned. Are you better off than you were four years ago? Not mentioned.

Some analysts point out that Ms. Harris was simply the latest political casualty of a postpandemic global trend favoring challengers, no matter the incumbents’ politics, in places like Japan, South Africa, South Korea and Britain.

Mexico? Not mentioned, because then they'd have to point out that incumbent parties that have actually done something to help people out of poverty tend to win reelection.

too lazy to make a post but on amerikkkan celebrities, beacons of virtue.

Imagine donating to campaign to fight fascism (together with 700 mln dark money, but putting that aside), and they pay katy perry cool 1 million for appearance

Won a local by-election that I've been doorknocking for recently

Won't say anymore as it'll definitely dox me but it's a score.

Thank you Reform for splitting the Tory vote.

are you client maxxxing rn, hexbears? I'm my kitty's client

Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles

Big development. Russia previously drew a very clear red line about this.

Speaking in St Petersburg, President Putin sent a clear warning to the West: don’t allow Ukraine to use your long-range missiles to strike Russian territory.

Moscow, he said, would view that as the “direct participation” of Nato countries in the war in Ukraine.

“It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict,” the Kremlin leader continued.

“This will mean that Nato countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”

He claimed that, for missile launches into Russia, Ukraine would require data from Western satellites and that only servicemen from Nato member states would be able to “input flight missions into these missile systems”.

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Politico: "Donald Trump Jr. taunts Zelenskyy about ‘losing your allowance’".

As stated in my post in selfcrit, I'm staying on the site to host the news megathreads and will keep posting as normal.

I already completely made up my mind. My post there wasn't to try and get people to beg for me to return, it was just to be transparent about why I felt like I was a subpar moderator in light of recent events and therefore why I left. I'm the only mod on self_improvement so I can't just leave (literally, the site UI doesn't allow zero moderators AFAIK) so once we've sorted that out, I will no longer be a part of the mod team and I've already left the mod chat.

https://xcancel.com/CallaWalsh

^a comrade going to jail for 60 days for the elbit thingy in new hampshire. Seamus has an interview but its paywalled.

Anyways to brave comrade

Iranian bank cards now operational in Russian ATMs

Iranian citizens are now able to withdraw cash using their Shetab payment system cards in Russia, marking the first phase of integration between Iran's Shetab and Russia's Mir payment networks, Iran's embassy in Moscow announced on November 11.

why are they doing this? 🧠

Do they truly want to pre align to trump out of civility? What kinda brainworms are here?

Sucks to suck:
https://westafricaweekly.com/shares-of-australian-mining-company-fall-32-after-mali-detains-ceo-and-two-executives-on-corruption-charges/

Marco Rubio being Secretary of State is not going to be good. Nightmare level policy towards LatAm. Not feeling optimistic.

Edit: Only way I see out is if Trump spreads the military too much. Admin is going to back Israel against Iran, will escalate with China, is sending mixed signals about Ukraine.

Trump’s expected deputy director of policy, Stephen Miller, has called to deputize the National Guard to carry out deportations.

https://www.masslive.com/politics/2024/11/trump-prepares-immigration-crackdown-with-miller-homan-posts.html

Map of sites struck in Ukraine yesterday:

Seems like the air defenses of the AFU are almost completely non-existent at this point.

Trump has picked Elise Stefanik to be the UN Ambassador for the US.

While I maintain that functionally, Trump and Harris policies will be no different on the ground in Palestine, there is definitely worrying signs already that Trump will also be pretty horrible, in particular for the West Bank.

Stefanik is an uber-Zionist even by US Congress standards. She was the one grilling university presidents over not being tough enough on student protestors. There are rumors that Miriam Adelson donated $100 million to Trump’s campaign on the condition that he support Israel annexing the West Bank. And Israel has tapped a settlement expansion activist to be the next ambassador to the US, who is also very pro-annexation as well.

From Rania Khalek’s twitter:

Lebanon needs air defenses and the fact that no country has even pretended to offer that shows what a cowardly world we live in.

Palestine also needs air defenses.

Israel is dropping bombs on residential buildings every day and massacring entire families. We’re all just helplessly watching bc this world is pathetic.

The only country that can do that is Russia and they’re being stretched to the limit by endless waves of Ukrainian drones and the occasional yet unpredictable long range missile strikes supplied by Western countries. All of their air defense systems are already fully occupied and new production (which is being churned out slowly) obviously goes to the Ukrainian front.

The West kept Ukraine fighting for a reason.

The Besiktas vs Maccabi Tel Aviv game has moved to Hungary and will be played behind closed doors

cowards

lil'marco at the wheeeeeeel

Is he sicko about cuba like desantis or regular sicko?

The Haka in the NZ parliament video has been quite viral on Arab social media circles in the past two days, and it has generated some pretty interesting reactions that I will share here.

Reaction type number 1: why? The most common reaction is people being completely unaware of the history of Maori peoples in NZ, so they share or comment on the video in an attempt to understand the context of the video. Many comments ridiculing the thing, but most were just curious about who these people are.

Reaction type number 2: damn this is cool. Many thought it was cool and that it shows that Maoris are brave people that are not afraid to capture the white man's institution to do their dance and show their culture.

Reaction type number 3: this is a defeated people. This type of reaction was the most interesting in my opinion, because people made a lot of comparisons to Palestinians inside Israel who participate in elections and have representation in the Knesset. It was a lot of "is this really it?", this is a defeated people whose culture and way of life was mostly decimated by colonisers, and now they're standing in the white man's institutions wearing the white man's clothing and doing song and dance. I have to emphasise that most of these reactions actually came from a place of love for native people, but they saw the Haka in this particular context as a sign of humiliation, not strength. One guy wrote that Israel might let three Palestinians do a dabke in the Knesset in 2050 as they sign a law that deports all remaining Arabs in Greater Israel.

Please don't step down as mod of /c/news.

First order of Austerity is gutting the Department of Education.

Cope cages have spread to China

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OK so US presidents can start wars out of spite before leaving office so who do you think Trump will start a war against before he leaves?

@SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net - just came back from touching grass and saw your comment asking me to comment, still catching up with the US election news and still processing.

(also I have no idea what’s going on with the mod situation or whatever that happened over the past week but I hope you stay and run the news mega because this is probably my only attachment to the site)

I will give my hot takes now for the sake of driving a discussion: Harris lost, the Democrats won, Trump a sacrificial lamb, third party movements annihilated, Biden will have the last laugh though he (or his demented mind) probably won’t live long enough to see it

First of all, the US electoral system is designed to PUNISH. What you’re seeing now is the (non-)voters getting disciplined. Trump didn’t exactly win, Harris lost because millions of voters did not turn up to vote for various reasons that we’re all too familiar with. If you refuse to vote for Harris, you DESERVE Trump. That’s what the libs are snickering about now. Arab voters chose to punish Harris for committing genocide in Gaza? Well, how about you getting punished by Trump who will hopefully deport all of you? The libs are going to be enjoying the schadenfreude of seeing minorities and immigrants getting punished under Trump and continue to scold those who refused to support them.

The Democrats will not change their way just because they lost the election. The system is working exactly as intended, and the new Trump administration is being used as a fascist terror regime to scare the (non-)voters back into the fold of the Democrats by 2026 mid-term elections. And because of this, the genocide against Palestinians will almost certainly be ramped up under Trump just to spite on the people who wanted to punish them for the genocide.

The main question is: will the American voters who have decided to sit out this election be scared enough by Trump into voting the Democrats again in 2026 and 2028? If so, then the system is simply correcting itself, and all the Democrats have to do is to be patient and wait 2 years.

To repeat: the US electoral system is designed to PUNISH. American Democracy^TM meant to rule by FEAR.

Meanwhile, the DNC will fundraise like no tomorrow until 2026. Wealthy liberal donors so appalled by Trump’s victory will be dishing out their live savings to protect “American democracy”. What’s unique this time is that the Democrats have also secured enough of the traditional Republican establishment donors who have splintered off Trump’s MAGA party that the DNC will now receive double income from both the Democratic liberal and the Republican establishment. Because of how Citizens United works, the DNC will go into the mid-term with very strong financial backing and will certainly have no trouble running their campaigns (reminder that Harris out-spent Trump 4:1 in this election - they have the money for sure).

As such, the Democrats will continue to rebrand itself as the new Republican Party over the next 4 years, achieving what they have already dreamed of for decades. This is a huge win for the Democrats even when they have lost the election.

Third, Biden has already set off a ticking time bomb when the Fed started to reduce interest rates back in September. There is no indication that anyone will stop the rate cut from now on, with Trump himself wanting to cut the rate even faster.

This is a deliberately timed policy such that when the interest income dried up, it will be at least 6-12 months (depending on the rate at which the deficits are drained) after the election. This means recession - and if you think the last two years of inflation was bad, what’s coming is going to be far worse. Many people will lose their jobs. I don’t know if it will be 2009 GFC level recession, but whoever is in the government over the next 2-4 years will be in hot water trying to resuscitate the economy.

Combined this with Elon Musk pledging to cut 2 trillion deficit, if they really went through with this, we’re going to be looking at an epic proportion of the US economy meltdown (which will also send shockwaves across the world so for those of you living in the Global South, don’t get too excited over this). I doubt the establishment will let it happen but Trump and Musk are both wildcards so anything goes.

Incidentally, the Wall Street will survive this round of onslaught no matter what, as China has already committed to a financial opening up and lifted all foreign investment restrictions for their manufacturing sector. China is definitely going after the foreign investment route, and I will not pretend that this isn’t a Biden foreign policy win for bullying the Chinese libs into agreeing to this bullshit. What is almost certainly going to happen is that the Wall Street will jump all in for the Chinese stock market and buy up Chinese assets while Trump struggle to re-industrialize the American manufacturing sector. Trump thinks he can take on Wall Street, but in the end China will once again save the American bourgeois class from their domestic “threat” (I don’t think Trump is an actual threat, but rather an aberration that needs to be corrected). The working class will suffer, they will blame Trump and the GOP by the next election, and the affluent libs will be as insufferable as you can imagine.

Again it must be repeated just how incredibly well timed the Fed rate cut in September was. I don’t know what the Biden administration was on but they have played their cards and adapted to a very dynamic geopolitical situation extremely well, that’s for sure. (I already wrote about how the Fed rate cut + a global recession will allow the US imperialists to take a big bite on the globe a while back, so I will just skip the entire essay here).

Fourth, this election also sealed the fate of third party electoralism. People would rather sit out than to vote for a third party. The bourgeois establishment has achieved their goals of preventing third party voting (not that it was ever an actual threat to begin with, now that we look back in hindsight) and the ratchet effect of Democratic-Republican bipartisan machine will continue to spin. I don’t think the third parties are ever coming back from this - Bernie Sanders had one good opportunity to run as a third party candidate when getting screwed by the DNC last time, but that opportunity to reshape the American political landscape is now forever lost. It’s either voting for the Democrats or face an ever vicious Republican party - those are the only choices left now. The only way out of this nightmare is a revolution.

Finally, we’ll talk about some wildcard scenarios. While I still think that Trump will follow the neocon strategy as before (or rather, unable to stop the wheels already in motion), the fact that you have Trump and Musk as two crazy people running the show warrants further speculations into the wildcard scenario that may arise. Most worrying is Trump wanting to appoint Musk as the DOGE minister to cut 2 trillion spending. This is going to be a huge drain on the US deficits that are important to flood the Global South and get them hooked on the dollar.

Not understanding how the US monetary imperialism works, they might just fuck this up and screw up the dollar liquidity essential to maintaining the US hegemony, while at the same time landing the US into a huge economic crisis that could be beyond what the establishment had envisioned. I have mentioned about Wall Street flooding the Chinese capital markets, but the US economy is so massive that an epic meltdown of the economy might end up inflicting such a huge blow on the Chinese export economy that even the Wall Street financiers get drowned there. This is obviously not something that the bourgeois establishment would like to see happen, and this could actually trigger WW3 if we are unfortunate enough to end up in this scenario.

Fantastic news everyone

Houthi rebels are brandishing increasingly sophisticated weapons, including missiles that "can do things that are just amazing," the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer said at an Axios event.

Lol. Lmao even. At this point, if I was the Pentagon I would simply hire Yemeni engineers

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante on Wednesday said the Houthis "are getting scary."

"I'm an engineer and a physicist, and I've been around missiles my whole career," he said at the Future of Defense summit in Washington, DC. "What I've seen of what the Houthis have done in the last six months is something that — I'm just shocked."

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/14/laplante-houthi-antiship-missiles-iran

Su-57 maiden flight at China’s Zhuhai Airshow (rehearsal for next week’s main event)

This has got to be the clearest view I’ve ever seen of the Su-57 that is not from a professionally produced video.

Holy crap look at that take off length. Look at the maneuverability of the plane. It’s an insanely beautiful bird.

The US and their dogs allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles doesn't change anything. Russia under Putin are committed to deescalation until the Ukraine war is wrapped up, and Ukraine's biggest issues are in Ukraine itself. Hitting an oil refinery in Rostov won't stop Russian advances in Donetsk. Those strikes might affect Russian supply lines a bit, but Russia has a lot of options with different paths to take to reach the front.

In case anyone was wondering how terrifying it would be for a terrain following stealth subsonic cruise missile to fly directly over your head, video has been captured of such an incident in Odessa, Ukraine. Reddit link, Mirror link Here we have what is likely a Kh-101 missile, which cruises at an altitude of between 30m - 70m (100ft - 230ft) above ground level to minimise detection. The Kh-69 flies even lower, at 20m or 65ft.

Maduro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist. Says he believes in Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao-Zedong, Fidel Castro, Bolivar and Chavez.

https://tankie.tube/w/4niduPYSN8w2j6DK7RZpow

Ooooh bticoin at 88k (

truly the unwisest timeline

*Wait, does this mean electical grid in the global south will get fucked again

fucks sake

https://www.wusf.org/2024-10-23/why-the-garment-workers-of-bangladesh-are-feeling-poorer-than-ever

According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, the average price American retailers paid two years ago for a cotton t-shirt made in Bangladesh was $1.83. This year, it’s $1.65 – nearly a 10% drop.

One reason is increased competition among factories in Bangladesh to sell their wares, so prices are dropping.

At the same time, the country is experiencing a wave of inflation that has meant greater expenses for the workers in their daily lives — and for factories as well.

Mobarak says that Yunus has an opportunity to use his influence to protect workers’ rights.

“He could use his voice effectively to bring international buyers to the table and help them recognize their ethical obligations toward poor Bangladeshi workers,” he says.

So far, Yunus has not publicly addressed this issue.

I love npr passive descriptions here (at least seems like fairly objective reporting without matty saviourism, but jesus christ)

Just a few random thoughts about Russian strategy and current short term goals in Ukraine. I've been religiously following this war since the first few days and I guess like many of you nerds here, one begins to sort of develop an understanding of military affairs after consuming so much content in a short period. My analysis of the current South Donetsk offensive is that it is the most coherent and well-executed campaign since the start of the war. Previous long-term Russian and Ukrainian offensives were like separate islands of small gains, never joining together into one single front that drastically collapses an entire part of the front. Ukraine for example during their 2023 summer offensive attacked in three different directions, south of Orikhiv, west of Bakhmut, and south of Velika Novosilka. All those fronts never had a realistic chance of actually linking up, as they were too far from each other and there was never a real coherent "what happens next" plan. Same with the Russian offensive in the start of the war. They attacked near Kiev, near Kharkov, from the South and north of the old LPR territory, but the first two fronts could never realistically collapse an entire sector and link up to be one continuous front with supply lines entirely located in the captured zones. Even Bakhmut was the same, Russia made a dent in the frontline, but the lack of offensives in Siversk and Toretsk meant that Russia couldn't collapse an entire sector and straighten out the line again, so they only took the city and some territory around it.

Their current southern offensive is different though, with three big arrows that are actually threatening the entire South Donetsk sector for Ukraine. An advance of a few km from each direction now is lethal for the AFU. They would lose one of the most fortified sectors of the front, and escape into open fields with no fortifications all the way to Pavlograd. According to a map of fortifications that I saw last week, the whole section from Kurakhovo to the centre of Dnipro Oblast has barely any defensible ground, and the opening of that sector for Russian troops means that they will be able to outflank Ukraine's north-south trench systems in Zaporozhye, and the east-west systems in fortified central Donetsk. 2025 will be extremely decisive for this war if Trump doesn't pull off a 4D chess peace agreement.

European Liberals realising that American social media is designed for political interference is so funny.

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the latest episode of Oats for Breakfast was an interview with Norman Finkelstein, most of which was about his personal history in the occupied West Bank during the first intifada, but also touching on trump v harris/biden and the war since october 7. Finkelstein is such a pleasure to listen to, truly the ultimate in earnest no-fun scolding. the interviewer on the podcast is a bit milquetoast at times, but that makes the interview even better because of finkelstein's strident moralism and rigor.

one thoughtful point raised by finkelstein was about the risk of fascism with trump's election - he makes the point that fascist states have emerged in history as a response to strong left wing movements. there is no strong left wing mass movement in the US, so there is less incentive for the state to be openly fascist.

So, the Brazilian terrorist (the Liberal Joker lol) was a locksmith and a landlord. Most of his money came from renting out a building to various people. It seems he was married to a random woman, who is also a far-right Bolsonaro supporter, and she confirmed that she saw him googling things about bombs and terrorism, and also confirmed that the couple (before divorcing in 2023) went to protests in 2022/2023, where they begged the Army, the US, aliens and God (that's not a joke, by the way) for a coup.

She said she knew her ex-husband was going to kill Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and called the judge an animal that deserved to be killed, she said that to the Federal Police investigators. And to make things even funnier, this couple also stole money from the government's social programs by falsifying documents, which makes things funny because in the Liberal Joker's manifesto he said he was angry about Lula's Tax Reform because it would target the rich and take money from them to give to useless people who didn't deserve it (he's talking about poor people).

Twitch declares that “Zionist” is a slur, will issue bans for criticizing “individuals” based on their “religious beliefs or background” (genocide, settler colonialism)

https://archive.ph/qwX4r

Direct implications for leftist anti-genocide influencers like Hasan and his platform, also possibly setting precedents for mass censorship and removal of other Palestinian and anti-genocide organizing on major social media networks.

[Post: https://hexbear.net/post/3904798]

Since the Amsterdam maccabi hooligan event, Israel has been trying really hard to influence the narrative put out by media and politicians. The ministry of Diaspora has put out a document detailing supposed ties between Palestinian liberation activist groups and Hamas (lol). They also claim that these liberation groups preplanned the attacks on hooligans, and their proof is literally just a call for people to come join their protest during the match.

These ‘allegations’ would be funny if we did not have a right extremist government that is receptive to them.

Here is Minister Amichai Chikli outlining these conspiracies himself: https://x.com/amichaichikli/status/1856397777548284273

(cw: one mildly NSFW blurred image of Benny Gantz being kissed on the stomach)

The Iranian Handala hacking group hacked into Gallant’s personal computer and released images.

Handala teases Israel’s Aman and says they should answer their public with some questions:

• Explain the secret relationship between Adi Sabag and Gallant in the red bed room on the 16th floor of Matcal Tower and the leak of some classified data by Gallant and the online spying of Adi's mobile at that moment.

2- Explain the secret relationship between Netanyahu's trusted doctor and Benny Gantz at the Savoy Hotel in London and the transfer of some confidential data from Bibi to Gantz by that doctor.

3- The suicide of Noga, Gantz's daughter, after hearing the story of her father's secret relationship, who was only looking for more information from Bibi.

The Iranian Handala hacking group also exposed the identity of “Adi Sabag,” the Inspection Commander of the General Staff of the Israeli Army, for the first time.

Her appearance was unknown to the public.

— Handala writes:

This senior female commander is responsible for many events and criminal decisions of the Israeli army. Now, for the first time, the images of this senior commander are revealed. This is a historic failure for Aman! Do you know how much top-secret data reached us when Adi was in charge of the General Staff Office?

We have said many times that it is painful for you to even imagine what secret organizations we are apart of!

In the post above, Handala exposed the secret relationship between Adi Sabag & Gallant.

from https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1855940843321827819

seems like government of lebanon will sign something

disgusting husks of human beings, absolutely perversion from top to bottom in that department of anything resembling morality

Floods in honduras

https://neuters.de/world/americas/honduras-battles-flooding-tropical-storm-sara-unleashes-heavy-rainfall-2024-11-16/

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Hello liberals, I will give my balance on 's Argentina and how things are as of right now, November 2024. But my talk will not be about the cringe ass ancap, I will talk about Peronism and their role as opposition.

As some of you might recall, milei's violent rethoric against "public" education (and I put public on quotes because I have another definition of what is public and what isn't) triggered a nation-wide response from universities as many of them were occupied by the students. Mine was among the first to do so, not unlikely considering it is an historic hotbed for left wing militacy, even though today it's not as good as it used to be.

Anyways, the movement gained traction but, as with many things, the lack of coordination and some... sabotage from within slowly but surely eroded it. It was to be expected, some universities are not really politicized because of course people who study complex mathematics don't have time to read Marx or something, and others have either shit soccdem or peronist leadership and fighting is not for them. My university ended up abandoning the occupation after like 20 days or so, we fought heavily to keep it running but at the end of the day we had to leave it. During the last assemblies, our struggle was directly against peronists and their party structure, who began to attempt to dissolve the movement to "take the fight elsewhere", in accordance with their general policies.

But nothing is really a failure, no matter how bad it looks. There's always experiences to draw upon and lessons to learn. Our lesson is that you just can't trust peronist-aligned groups, no matter how "radical" they may seem, because they have non-revolutionary agendas and are NOT anti-capitalist, they're just reformists who want to play nice and with some rules. The student's leadership in our university is ideologically aliged with the authorities, all are peronists. Then, a professor in one assembly said "There is fear among the authorities that this kind of assemblies might go out of control and become truly democratic and truly horizontal, some people are indeed fighting not for the common good but for their comfort positions". And he, in just a few sentences, described peronism and how they view the struggle against milei.

There has been a very alarming lack of action from the main confederation of unions, the CGT. They are the ones who say "Okay, general strike" and there will be a general strike, their level of reach and organization is unmatched. Unfortunately, the leadership of the CGT and of the many unions that form it are either all peronists or something else, few if any are leftist. The fact they haven't called for strikes in nearly one year of suicidal policies by milei is indeed alarming, it's especially bad considering the CGT has been active and calling for strikes EVEN against former peronist governments. They're nothing but a rotten group of decadent old white men who weaponized class struggle and left it at the mercy of a grotesque bureaucracy.

So if you don't see much action it's because peronism has an interest to cut a deal and keep people away from doing dangerous commie things. They don't want spontaneous organisation by workers where they take matters into their own hands. After all, peronism is anti-communist despite what some confused folks of the Communist Party think, "United Front" my fucking dick and balls lmfao, losers. I believe that peronism understand milei as a temporary anomaly, that things will "go back to normal" once he expires, they're old fashioned politicians who think the new kind of "outsiders" are short lived. Well, the normalcy we once knew is dead, even more when the latest capitalist crisis cycles are getting worse and worse.

They do want to go out to the streets, but only on their terms. Meanwhile they're trying to craft Cristina Fernández de Kirchner back to a presentable leader, as she just assumed control of the Justicialist Party (main peronist electoral party), but she is responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place. Then, once society reaches a point of near collapse, that's when they'll mobilize and cut a deal with the milei government for some sort of "peaceful transition", maybe in the midst of heavy repression like it happened during the December 2001 Riots. Peronism after all is Capital's safe bet when it comes to "social peace".

Therefore, to me it becomes evident that there must be a concentrated effort to organize the working class OUTSIDE the influence of peronism. It's a job that will take years, or maybe not, who knows. The Trots have been doing that fairly well, if anything since the 2000's they've been consistently growing and taking more spaces than before. And while Trots have a shitton of problems, their general stance is a million times better than peronist "we'll give you a better salary XD" policies that reproduce capitalism. Still, agitation becomes necessary and desirable.

Things will continue to decay, milei might "accelerate" the economy for the midterms but that'll make it crash later down the line. I think our goal as leftists is to convince those who felt betrayed by peronism and who hate neoliberalism to join the ranks of Socialism, and I can tell you slowly but surely more people are feeling just like that.

Update 260 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine - 17 November 2024

Although the NPPs [Nuclear Power Plants] - Khmelnytskyy, Rivne and South Ukraine – were not directly impacted and did not shut down, several electrical substations on which they depend suffered further damage during the strikes, Director General Grossi said, citing information from Ukraine’s national regulator. The main power lines from four of the substations were disconnected. At the moment, only two of the country’s nine operational reactors currently generate electricity at 100 percent capacity.

The IAEA teams based at the NPPs heard air defence activities and sought shelter during the air raid alarms. At the Khmelnytskyy NPP, the IAEA team heard a loud explosion. At the Rivne NPP, two 330 kilovolt (kV) power lines were unavailable, the team there reported.

Of the nine currently operational reactors at the three NPPs, six reduced output during the morning, ranging from just over 40 percent of maximum capacity to above 90 percent. At the moment, only two operate at 100 percent capacity, with one in shutdown for maintenance. All NPPs continued to receive off-site power.

The Russian de-electrification campaign against Ukraine has reached a new stage this morning, with strikes on substations and main power lines connected to nuclear power plants. Critically though, off site power supply was not hit, or at least not destroyed to the extent to fully interrupt it. This is important to ensure proper cooling for the NPPs.

i finally get how my mom feels about my ex's. it's exaclty how i feel about lula bc of how he's treated maduro and venezuela with respect to them joining BRICS. how dare that cretin harm my sweet boy

Death to America

Some Mozambique questions that I have on my mind after recently watching a vlog by a Palestinian-Jordanian vlogger who was in Maputo.

1. How anti-imperialist is FRELIMO these days and how come that they seem mostly kinda hated by the locals?

2. How prevalent is drug use and general crime in the country? There seems to be crazy amounts of drug users in some neighborhoods and even the metal car logo thingy in front of cars get stolen and sold in criminal markets that are semi-allowed in the country.

3. Has FRELIMO achieved some success in terms of addressing widespread poverty and living conditions in the slums? The situation seemed horrible from what I saw in the video.

4. How deep is Portuguese colonial penetration these days? We know that the French never really left the colonies despite the independence of the colonies. What's the situation with Portuguese imperialism?

Hamas calls for ‘Arab-Islamic alliance’ to end "Israeli" war on Gaza, Lebanon | The Cradle

Hamas called in a statement on 10 November for the formation of an “international Arab-Islamic alliance” to bring an end to the war in Gaza and Lebanon, ahead of a summit hosted by Saudi Arabia to address the "Israeli" genocide.

The resistance movement called on all “kings, presidents, and leaders gathered at the joint Arab-Islamic follow-up summit scheduled to be held tomorrow in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure the occupation and its supporters to stop the war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.”

It also called on the participants of the summit to “work to break the siege on Gaza, withdraw from the occupied territories, enable the Palestinian people to exercise their rights to self-determination, establish a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and return Palestinian refugees to their cities and villages from which they were displaced.”

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https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-nvidia-ai-chips-face-issue-with-overheating-servers-information-reports-2024-11-17/

Nvidia ML chips overheating

https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com%2Fpost%2Fliteracy-statistics-2022-2023&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4

Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022

54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level

45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level

44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year

The Top 3 states for highest child literacy rates were Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Hampshire, in that order (highest to lowest).

The Bottom 3 states for child literacy rates were Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, (highest to lowest).

Any American here that could tell me if it's legit. It's shockingly low.

Lathing Trump appointing senators he doesn't like to cabinet positions before unceremoniously firing them after their senator vacancy has been filled by people Trump likes.

Julie Alli (host speaker of Salaamedia) now openly refers to it as "Nazi israel" in addition to the "Zionist Apartheid entity" and she even doubled down since this morning while interviewing the coordinator for the Palestine Solidarity Committe Prof. Usuf Chikte. He also on live radio stated that if Zionists don't want to be called Nazis, then they should not be Nazis.

I should start putting these interviews on TankieTube

I’m glad Mozambique is getting more coverage on here. I was afraid that it would get buried under everything else with it being an African country most aren’t familiar with.

Not even pretending; https://x.com/Zheega123/status/1857487076645810514

Ceasefire deal inching toward a conclusion. Key sticking point was a clause giving Israel freedom of action in Lebanon, appears to have been removed but Israel is getting written guarantee from Biden (which Trump is certain to uphold) of support for such action in the future.

US is at the same time the mediator of US-Lebanon talks, while also giving Israel written guarantees that they can ignore the deal reached in these US/Israel-Lebanon talks and just attack Lebanon at any point with full US support.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-questions-icc-judges-impartiality-netanyahu-arrest-case-2024-11-13/

ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant likely delayed yet again

Seeing a lot of Is'ntrael flag people suddenly very concerned about genocides in Africa.

I couldn't find the article I saw today, but it was about how Xi Jinping and Lula da Silva will meet after the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. It seems that, due to Trump's victory, Lula now wants to join the Belt and Road Initiative (it seems that the neoliberals and liberals who support Lula but didn't like China are really afraid that Trump's government and protectionist policies will hurt them and are now pushing for Brazil to join China/BRI). With Brazil joining the BRI, I think China's plan to build the Bioceanic Railway and the Megaport in Peru will succeed. We'll see, but Trump's victory may have pushed Brazil more towards China. I think the fact that Biden didn't give Brazil the money he promised didn't help relations between these two countries.

Cuba thanks international solidarity for recovery after Hurricane Rafael - Telesur English

NED is going to be present in Johannesburg of all places next weekend. The live broadcast on Salaamedia called out the NED for being a CIA front, very pro-western/Zionist and collaborating with the Apartheid regime. Both the radio/show host and BDS guest speaker Roshan Dadoo also rightfully took offence to the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation for being one of the venues participating in NED's visit.

I wonder if NED's unwelcome visit to South Africa is related to the unrest in Mozambique, as there have been concerns levied of the violence spilling over into South Africa, with the far-right opposition declaring the elections illegitimate. Of course the supports the Apartheid collaborating party. Mozambique is also just 550 kilometers from Durban and Gauteng. Fertile grounds for another Maidan colour revolution to cause chaos for South Africa. ISIS are also present and have made threats to attack since 2016, but these never materialised.

Just 2 months prior, a Zionist-led "peace in the Middle East" conference that was scheduled to be held in Constitution Hill (also in Johannesburg, which includes the old prison and the Constitutional/Human Rights Court) was canceled due to massive outcry and protests.

Imtiaz Sooliman of the Gift of the Givers should absolutely pursue legal action against the SAJBD, SAZF and SAJR and deliver an earth-shattering smackdown like a WWE fighter with a folding steel chair following defamatory statements in public. I personally think about R1.5 trillion ZAR sounds reasonable enough.

Israel Evicts Bedouin Village to Build Jewish-Only Town - Telesur English

btw roughly my feelings as well. if china manages to rapidly sink carbon inputs in next 10 years (as seen on energy mix, so to like ~20% coal), they would be something akin to that. Everyone in africa will need solar, they won't give a shit it's made in china, it could feasibly be giant outlet of exports even under whatever tariffs will be invented (cars are luxury items after all)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/15/sri-lankas-leftist-ruling-coalition-headed-for-landslide-election-win

Left coalition won 2/3rd majority in the Sri Lankan Parliament, they can now change the constitution if they want.

You all think the next front will be in East Asia or even Southeast Asia, but just you wait. It will be in Central America when Guatemala finally takes Belize and El Salvador for ourselves, turning the wheels to bring back the Federal Republic of Central America.

Listen folks, I'm going to make Elon Musk, very handsome patrician, I'm going to make him the doge of Venice and it's going to be great. There's so much waste, the failing Castellani faction and sleepy Marino Faliero—they’ve wasted trillions of ducats, folks. Trillions! And they’ve been giving your tax ducats to illegal immigrants from the Papal States ro come here and make our canals unsafe at night. The crooked Castellanis even tried to frame me and send the Lords of the Night after me, even though I didn't do anything wrong.

We’re going to make Venice great again with Elon! He’s amazing—the most divorced man in Venice, his kids won't talk to him, very sad, but don’t be fooled. He’ll board the Bucentaur in full regalia, throw that golden ring into the sea every year—the best ring toss ever—marrying our serene republic to the sea. More efficient, more patriotic, better than anyone has ever tossed a ring.

It’s going to make life better for every Venetian. They told me, “Donald, you can’t do it! You can't make Elon the doge!” but I'm doing it folks, I'm doing it. He's going to be so great, like when he took over the town criers and put an X on their uniforms, even though all the haters and losers wanted to keep the silly bird. And now it is a huge success, folks. And that’s what he’ll do for Venice

Zionazis bombed aid workers with drone in Khan Yunis - at least 5 dead.

NSFW/L CW dead and dying Video telegram link

Loser shit:
https://xcancel.com/QudsNen/status/1856249160623693844

A pro-Israel rally in Washington was expected to draw 40,000 people, but only about 200 attended, according to media reports.

German leader Olaf Scholz made a phone call to Putin on Friday. He's still nowhere near to abandoning the west's delusional demands of Russian surrender but at least he's opening up to the general concept of diplomacy.

This has made Zelensky and all the NATO ghouls very mad. One of these ghouls is noted war criminal Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly the head of NATO, and before that a catastrophic Liberal Party leader of Denmark. Currently he is an asset for American imperialism, providing shady "consultancy" services to some of Washington's most distasteful puppet regimes and businesses connected to American spy agencies.

In (a statement to state media DR)[https://archive.ph/1uuZo] he says:

It is completely unacceptable if Putin should get anything at all out of his adventure. Because then Xi Jinping (China's president, red.) will conclude: "If Putin can take the Crimean peninsula then I can take Taiwan". That is why we must make sure Putin is not successful in Ukraine.

This is what passes for serious statesman-like analysis in the west. Rasmussen did not mention how the American Bush regime's illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, that Rasmussen himself was an accessory to as Danish PM, has helped create a precedence for unilateral military involvement in other countries.

Rejecting the idea of further diplomacy with Russia, Rasmussen goes on to say:

I think the most important thing we can do to m make peace in Ukraine is to deliver even more weapons to Ukraine and remove all restrictions on the weapons we give.

I am too lazy to look up whether he is in the pocket of the American military industrial complex but I would be more surprised to learn that he's not than to learn that he is. Anyways these are the kind of madmen they put in charge of western military bureaucracies.

german parliament enacts "anti-antisemitism" law effectively banning pro-palestinian speech

i know this is a somewhat older article but the ramifications for german anti-zionism are terrifying and should be brought to international attention.

Tulsi as head of DNI will finally have information that will lead to arrest of Hillary Clinton.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3286907/8-die-knife-rampage-china-suffers-second-mass-killing-week

8 die in knife rampage as China suffers second mass killing in a week

Police say 21-year-old held after attack at college where he had studied had failed his exams and was angry about low pay as factory intern

Uh-huh, what up deng. And btw "the desire to succeed in exams" actually shows the fucked payscale in china

the worm has some good ideas

An interesting piece that tries to answer the question: "Why does everybody in the West think that China's economy is doing very badly when it demonstrably isn't?" from a very capitalist Hong Kong research group thinktanky place:

At an investment conference in Kuala Lumpur recently, I caught up with an old friend and Gavekal client. Over coffee between sessions, we talked about one of the most visible changes of the last few years in Asia: the Chinese cars that have so quickly appeared on roads across the continent. This led us to the comments made in September by Ford chief executive officer Jim Farley. Freshly returned from a visit to China, Farley told The Wall Street Journal that the growth of the Chinese auto sector poses an existential threat to his company, and that “executing to a Chinese standard is now going to be the most important priority.” By any measure, this is an earth-shattering statement.

Making cars is complicated. Not as complicated as making airliners or nuclear power plants. But making cars is still the hallmark of an advanced industrial economy. So, the idea that China is suddenly setting the standards that others must now strive to meet is a sea-change compared with the world we lived in just five years ago.

This led my friend to question how Farley and other auto industry CEOs could have fallen quite so deeply asleep at the wheel. How could China so rapidly leapfrog established industries around the world without all those very well paid Western CEOs realizing what was happening until two minutes ago?

The rest of the piece continues in that more informal style, so I'll just summarize the rest of the article:

During the pandemic, and especially as the Ukraine War was causing chaos, nobody from the West really bothered to visit China, and so haven't seen how things have developed. This is in line with a Dengist strategy of keeping a low profile and not flaunting their capabilities, but it wasn't as if China was stopping them from visiting - CEOs just had other things to worry about with supply chain disruptions.

The author then basically says that China is doing capitalism better than the West, and now the West is (rather hilariously) backing away from jerking off the very concept of globalization and now think tariffs are awesome again.

Next, he talks about how the West has been pretty consistently racist against Asia throughout history, and these racist impulses still very much exist, so they would naturally underestimate China. There's also the fact that China is a communist state, and everybody in the West is brought up on anti-Soviet propaganda (the author doesn't use that word, unfortunately).

He moves on to explaining how the West is assuming that China = Japan 30 years ago, with inaccurate similarities drawn between their economic situations. The West is saying to itself that China will need to do massive fiscal stimulus to keep growing and get out of its "rut", but they don't seem to be considering if this rut is actually intentional, in order to bring down Chinese real estate and focus on more productive endeavors. This graph says it all:

There's no real conception that the collapse in real estate might actually be the policy and not the catastrophic consequence of like, communists not understanding Economics 101. The government explicitly said that this was the goal the entire time. Additionally, the property bust has hit the biggest cities the hardest, especially among millennials, but third and fourth tier cities are doing fairly well (the rural situation is complicated but dissatisfaction is concentrated in older people there). As the first and second tier cities are the most often visited by Westerners, their image of China is disproportionally negative. Meanwhile, in the third and fourth tier cities, there has been an industrial and transportation boom, which has gone almost unreported in the West.

Some more explanations for Western negativity include a general tendency to report bad news more than good news ("China is FIVE DAYS from TOTAL COLLAPSE!" gets more clicks than "Things are doing pretty good in China.") as well as China's lackluster stock market performance relative to its massive improvements, and Americans hyperfocus on stocks.

And, of course, the final contributing factor: that the US is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars to "...raise awareness of and increase transparency regarding the negative impact of activities related to the Belt and Road Initiative, associated initiatives, other economic initiatives with strategic or political purposes, and coercive economic practices.” via the Countering the PRC Malign Influence Fund Authorization Act.

Do we have any users here in The Netherlands? I’m curious to know how this Israeli football hooligan story is playing out with more non-political folks or those who at least didn’t stake out a position on Palestine before. From what little bits and pieces I have heard, it appears that no one is buying the story that the government and the media are pushing, and quite a few “normal” people are taking notice.

COP29 is going on and I've barely seen any coverage on it. I guess everyone realizes the COPs are so useless they're not even paying attention anymore.

Two unrelated thoughts:

1. Trump's batshit crazy cabinet actually proves that voting Trump was the correct accelerationist position. If you wanted to accelerate the downfall of American hegemony and the weakening of American institutions by appointing the biggest dumbasses on the planet, then you got your wish with this 2nd Trump admin. I sympathize with Americans comrades, but chickens come home to roost like the great martyr Malcolm X said.

2. Russians actually entered deep into Kupiansk, I can't believe my eyes. Actually insane development, I didn't expect this at all so quickly honestly. It says a lot about the state of Ukrainian defences at this point. The story of Kupiansk is very interesting and serves as a good blueprint of the future of how Ukrainian territories will be integrated into Russia. Russia took over Kupiansk without a fight in February 2022, because the mayor was an intelligent man who spared the city from unnecessary bloodshed by calling the Russian command and telling them that they're free to enter the city without needlessly destroying infrastructure and civilian life. Civilians stayed, got their wages from Moscow, repairs were done quickly, civilians didn't leave, schools switched to Russian which the population already spoke perfectly, and that angered western media so much. When the Ukrainians took back the city in September 2022, mass arrests took place and sob stories were planted in media. The city was turned into a military hellhole by the AFU and most civilians had to flee. Russia kinda stabbed those people in the back during that disastrous period, but that's another discussion.

I asked President Biden if he thinks that he can get a hostage deal done by the end of his term. He answered, commenting on the number of cameramen in the room: “do you think that you can get hit in the head by the camera behind you?”

Malcolm X’s family sues FBI, CIA and NYPD for $100m over his murder

Lawsuit alleges law enforcement agencies knew of plot to kill civil rights leader but did not act to stop it Marina Dunbar and agency Fri 15 Nov 2024 19.42 GMT

The family of Malcolm X, the militant civil rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100m federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, the CIA and the New York police department (NYPD) of allowing his murder.

The lawsuit, brought by Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz and other family members, alleges the law enforcement agencies concealed evidence they knew of the plot to kill him but did not act to stop it.

“We believe that they all conspired to assassinate Malcolm X, one of the greatest thought leaders of the 20th century,” Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney who is representing the family, said at a press conference. US-crime-ASSASSINATION-MALCOMX<br>Organization of African American Unity member Mustafa Hassan (C), with Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump (3rd L) and Ilyasah Shabazz (2nd L), speaks at a press conference in New York on July 25, 2023, to discuss developments in the murder of her father, civil rights leader Malcolm X. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images) Witness claims police said ‘Is he one of us?’ as they restrained Malcolm X killer Read more

The wrongful death lawsuit was announced at a memorial center on the site in New York City where Malcolm X was killed in 1965. It seeks to answer questions surrounding the assassination, and paint an accurate history of the events, Crump said.

It is also intended to bring reparations to the family. There was no comment from the FBI, the CIA or the NYPD by Friday afternoon.

“This cover up spanned decades, blocking the Shabazz family’s access to the truth and their right to pursue justice,” said Crump in a statement. “We are making history by standing here to confront those wrongs and seeking accountability in the courts.”

Malcolm X became prominent as the national spokesperson of the Nation of Islam, an African American Muslim group that espoused Black separatism.

After more than a decade with the group, he publicly broke with it in 1964. He moderated some of his earlier views on racial separation, angering some Nation of Islam members and drawing death threats.

Talmadge Hayer, then a member of the Nation of Islam, confessed in court to being one of the three assassins. But speculation that the government may have been aware of the assassination plan and allowed it to happen has persisted for decades.

Shabazz was two on 21 February 1965, when she, her mother and her siblings witnessed her father being shot and killed while preparing to speak at New York’s Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. From theguardian

It has been widely speculated whether Trump's administration will be a lunatics clown show that has no concept of foreign policy or regular bloodthirsty neocons itching to start war on every continent.

Does the sudden uptick in support for Ukraine mean that the state have no trust in Trump and are trying to wrap things up before he comes?

As expected, the transphobic Moon of Alabama is the first 'right wing but anti war' website to make the beautiful argument that just because Trump is gonna appoint even bigger warmongerers and neocons than last time, that doesn't mean he'll listen to them. Looking forward to even more copium along the way.

In the Amazon, US President Joe Biden signed the document that creates the International Day of Conservation and also stipulated the resources that will be allocated to the Amazon Fund.

“At first, I thought I was fighting to save the rubber tappers. Then I realized I was fighting to save the Atlantic Forest and the rainforest, and then I realized I was fighting for humanity. (...) Today, I'm proud to be here.” - Joe Biden

Directly from the Amazon, US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian territory. These missiles are highly destructive and are supplied by the US. Previously, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, had suggested that if this were to happen, he might use nuclear weapons in response.

Why Is WaPo Reporting A Trump-Putin Call That Did Not Take Place? | Moon of Alabama

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I've been seeing some libs claiming that apparently black women in the US are buying starbucks to "own the arabs" as revenge for not voting for kkkamala, anybody heard anything about it or are white libs just playing the divide and conquer game again to punish minorities for not bending to their will? Leaning on the latter but it sounded ridiculous enough to ask.

Bit off topic to the general war news since its basically one of those hog tacticool hawking shops doing something really fucking cringe. But anyways

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BTW no shit some loser actually thought this was a good idea. How many days does anyone want to bet before we see some shit on Forbes about Warhammer 40k being Russian propaganda

Death sentence proposed to be upheld for property tycoon in bank swindle:
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/death-sentence-proposed-to-be-upheld-for-property-tycoon-in-bank-swindle-post304089.vnp

Acknowledging Lan's expression of remorse and pledge to compensate all the loss she had caused to the bank along with her contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the High-Level People's Procuracy in HCM City held that these mitigating factors could be used to ease part of the penalty for the charge of "violating lending regulations in the activities of credit organisations". It proposed the sentence be reduced from 20 years to 16 -18 years.

However, it said the mitigating factors were insufficient to warrant leniency on the charges of "fraudulent appropriation of property” and “giving bribes” as Lan had concurrently committed many particularly serious and organised wrongdoings.

The procurators said the death sentence for "fraudulent appropriation of property” should be upheld for Lan, who should aslo face a 20-year jail sentence for “giving bribes”. The combined sentence amounts to death penalty.

yesterday un voted again milei simping aside

Any New Zealanders in here, or people that pay attention to international indigeneous issues?

I only know about whats happening because a video went viral on tiktok of Māori MPs disrupting introduction of a bill by performing the Haka:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYeVT5L9/

I also saw a live video of a pretty big pro-Māori march on tiktok. I believe it matches this nationwide 9-day march that is scheduled to arrive in Wellington on Tuesday:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-parliament-debates-controversial-bill-protesters-march-capital-2024-11-14/

The bill itself seeks to redefine how the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi which is apparently still the basis of the relationship between the crown and the Māori, although its interpretation is constantly evolving. The bill is being proposed by the right-wing ACT, which is a member of the current leading centre-right coalition. It would signficantly affect the rights and well-being of Māori communities according to activists.

Hopefully I am not missing anything huge or misrepresenting anything - this is just a hyperfixation i got onto after seeing the tiktok video. Hopeful that this bill will be defeated!

Kim has called for the mass production of suicide drones

These pretty plainly look like domestic production of Lancet Drones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZALA_Lancet

Great news discussion everyone.

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israelis--french-far-right-threaten-melenchon--other-officia

Dufour highlighted two assassination attempts against Mélenchon, noting that LFI officials have been subjected to ongoing harassment.

Melenchon, regularly threatened with death and having narrowly escaped a terrorist plot orchestrated by four neo-Nazis, condemned the ongoing threats against him and his colleagues on November 12. He described the current political climate as deeply "toxic," marked by a continuous campaign of vilification against members of his party.

Don’t suppose I’ve ever been first, what an honor

The Israeli attack on Iran in late October destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin, according to three U.S. officials, one current Israeli official and one former Israeli official.

New cope bopping around Western media about Israel's response to Operation True Promise 2. Very funny, because the "destroyed" is doing very heavy lifting here. Even the satellite photos that ultimately underline this claim (seen here) show a decidedly not destroyed nuclear weapons research facility, the bulk of which is almost certainly deep underground. What those photos do show is that Israeli strikes blew up like four above ground buildings in this complex, including one "Taleghan 2," which they claim

was roughly 40 meters long and built into a hillside. Prior to mid-2003, when Iran allegedly halted the Amad Plan, the Institute assessed that Tehran used a small test chamber inside Taleghan 2 to test high explosives. The Institute’s analysis of Iran’s nuclear archive also indicated that in addition to a test chamber, Taleghan 2 contained flash X-ray equipment powered by a Marx generator, which could “deliver fast pulses of energy” and “enable a rapid succession of images to be taken” of “high explosives compressing a core of natural uranium, simulating the initiation of a nuclear explosive.” This equipment could enable Tehran to test weapons components using natural uranium in lieu of weapons-grade uranium.

So taking this all together, Israel blew up a bunker that was used to test small explosives that hasn't been used since 2003. Really cool. Iran is fucked now folks, better watch out.

Internet Divided as ‘People’ Names John Krasinski ‘Sexiest Man Alive’

This is the second worst Tuesday night decision in the past week, according to some fans online

I'm in the camp dude is pretty mid.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned and opposed the so-called “Maritime Zones Act” and “Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act,” signed into law by Philippine's President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

I can’t find any actual articles about it yet but infowars.com has been restored and (at least according to the aj twitter) this is because Elon musks lawyers intervened on his behalf.

No idea how this was blocked when they already had a damn auction set up but can’t say I’m terribly surprised

Edit: article

Is Trump basically handing DeSantis a Senate seat by picking Rubio for a Cabinet position?

DeSantis gets to pick Rubio’s replacement until the special election in 2026. 2026 is also when DeSantis gets term limited. So DeSantis can easily pick someone loyal to warm the seat for him and let him smoothly transition from Governor to Senator.

But didn’t Trump and DeSantis have issues? Does Trump realize he’s helping DeSantis?

Pretty cool for Xi to namedrop Mariategui:
https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1857205700381855934

Xi Jinping arrives in Peru to unveil the largest and most modern port in South America, built by China

"As early as more than 400 years ago, the people of China and Peru started friendly exchanges through the Maritime Silk Road and the Manila Galleons..."

"Through the wisdom of our civilizations, our minds find common ground and our hearts resonate... Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui once said, "Spiritually and materially, China is closer to us than Europe. The psychology of our people is more Asian than Western...""

"The world is undergoing faster transformation unseen in a century. Humanity has again come to a crossroads in history. To fully appreciate the grandeur of the Nazca Lines, we must view them from a height because at the ground level, their true splendor remains hidden from view.

To quote a Chinese poem to the same effect, 'Fear not the clouds that obscure your view, for you stand atop the highest summit.'

China is ready to join Peru in embracing a broader vision and grasping the underlying trends of our times from a long historical perspective to champion true multilateralism, promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, jointly implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, and build together a community with a shared future for mankind."

it is november 13 and stalin saved the world from fascism

Ecuador’s Indigenous confederation (CONAIE) has announced the beginning of an “uprising” against the neoliberal government of President Daniel Noboa. Mass outrage was triggered by months of constant electricity blackouts and inaction by the right-wing government.

twitter

Hexbear post

Wapo - https://archive.is/nI1sw

NYT - https://archive.is/rV4As

And politico - https://archive.is/lMrbi

All articles from the last day or so saying how azover it really is

Now, I'll believe a major foreign policy change from trump when I see it, but setting aside that uncertainty, it is notable that the liberal corporate media has switched gears to defeatism/realism like this. Too bad they didn't do that when the population of ukraine was 10m people higher, but here we are.

Maduro praises Lula after president says he won't question Venezuelan justice

After the diplomatic crisis with Brazil, the Venezuelan president said that the interview was “a point in Lula's favor”. The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said on Monday (11) that the Brazilian head of state, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), made a “wise reflection” when he said that he could not question the Venezuelan Supreme Court.

“I saw [Lula's statements] this morning, I thought it was very good. I agree with Lula. Each country has to find a way to resolve its issues, its conflicts, its problems. Brazil with its institutions and its national, sovereign dynamic, and Venezuela with our institutions and our sovereign dynamic too,” said the Chavista.

Maduro said he thought the Brazilian president's speech was “wise”. “I think it was a wise reflection by Lula, I could say: point in favor of Lula,” he praised.

“I don't have the right to question the Supreme Court of another country, because I don't want any country to question my Supreme Court, even when it makes mistakes. Even when it does as it did with me, not allowing me to be a candidate in 2018,” said the Brazilian president.

https://prospect.org/power/2024-11-11-kamala-fell-billionaire-class-cabal/

Aside from wokeness woo-woo, seems like adequate description (?). Only don't think it's even that contingent on trump winning tbh.

Also, gold crashed while bitcoin increased - what gives? Is the vibes of crypto president that much stronger than dollar strengthening? Or are crypto bros more in the dollar need to weaken zone?

(and robert's thonks https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/us-election-2024-inflation-immigration-and-identity/)

Also in case anyone missed it on the old thread:

A post on Iran's missile test as of November 8th, with a cool video at the end of you dislike reading long posts and just want to watch a cool video

Testimony of a British surgeon who spent time in Gaza where he talks about quadcopters coming down after airstrikes and shooting civilians: https://old.reddit.com/r/Global_News_Hub/comments/1gps2bv/british_surgeon_nizam_mamode_testifies_to_the_uk/

Do we know what quadcopter this might be? I have never seen footage of a quadcopter with a gun used in combat yet the claim here is that this was happening day after day? The operational way they're using this must either be really sneaky or so fast in and out that they're never around long enough to be filmed.

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Imagine being paid to churn out this shit:
https://xcancel.com/indica/status/1857303171875713132

What a contrast here

A few days ago a new Chinese built port was inaugurated by xi

In an opinion article in the El Peruano state newspaper, Xi said the Chancay project would generate $4.5 billion in annual revenues, create more than 8,000 direct jobs and reduce the logistics costs of the Peru-China route by 20%.

China's main motivation for developing the megaport, according to Ocharan, was access to neighboring Brazil, where a new railway line is planned to carry Brazilian exports such as soybeans and iron ore to the port.

The rail project is estimated to cost $3.5 billion, according to Mario de las Casas, corporate affairs manager at Cosco Shipping Chancay Peru.

And then this, Blinken announcing that the US is contributing to a new rail line in lima

Which is actually caltrain selling lima some 40 year old diesel train parts for $6m

Definitely a deal worthy of rocking in the free world

The Onion acquisition of Infowars is delayed. The Infowars websites were down yesterday. They are all back online in the past hour. Alex Jones is posting on twitter that he's trying to delay the auction until Matt Gaetz becomes Attorney General, so that Alex Jones can maintain ownership of Infowars.

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion-how-d42e7b2c916205b348628686c8b8dd4a

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/judge-onion-infowars-hearing-review-auction-1236211183/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/15/onion-infowars-sale-hold-alex-jones/

Biden and Trump shake hands

So, now that the election is over. I would expect Russia to really press their advantage in UKR. That or just sit back and keep watching UKR step on rakes.

The Anti-Empire Project Gaza / Lebanon War 406 / 60: Genocide intensifies, war escalates

This is Justin Podur's channel, and here he's discussing things with Jon Elmer. Justin and Jon are my two favorite (English-language) sources for finding out about what's happening militarily on the ground in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank. I've only just started watching but I will highly recommend this video in advance, it will be a good use of time to watch it.

Continuing their state-protected tour of violence, dozens of Israeli fans beat a french fan in the stands of the France v Israel match the other night. Some media has framed it as 'booing and clashes' but more and more videos from the game have been appearing since then.

Police and security did little to nothing to stop the violence as fans further down the stands looked on helplessly, but arrested French fans trying to get others out of the mob of Israeli hooligans. After the match an Israeli fan in an IDF tee shirt was interviewed by the French media grinning and saying the level of security was "wonderful, magnificent, maybe too much even" before pointing out that they had a "small incident in Block K" which they dealt with "directly". There's also video of French fans showing police and security, with video evidence on their phones, that the Israel fans were the aggressors. Of course they were ignored.

Macron and other French ministers were at the match to "show their support for fighting anti-semitism" after Amsterdam. They didn't mention or condemn the Israeli violence against French fans afterward from what I can see.

When the leaders of European states repeatedly and reflexively defend Israeli violence against and above their own citizens as victims - in countries that are already sliding ever-rightward - they're pouring fuel on the kindling of actual antisemitism. It's going to end very badly indeed.

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Nah man, this cabinet is actually insane.

Bolivia: President Luis Arce highlighted achievements of his government - Telesur English

Elon Musk responds to Brazlian First Lady Rosângela da Silva, who criticized him at the social G-20. “They will lose the next election”, said Musk. Janja spoke out against the billionaire. “Fuck you, Elon Musk,” she said.

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Iran's Press TV is looking to hire a reporter in Quds, Palestine.

Fill out the form using this link: https://www.presstv.ir/default/cooperation

The onion bought infowars lmao

Lmao, well good reason not to speculate about appointments, last I will say about the subject

Luis Arce Could Not Present His Annual Report to the Nation in the Bolivian Parliament - Telesur English

I feel silly for asking this but can someone please give me a cliffs notes summary of what's going on in the Russia/Ukraine War since 2022? I just need a really quick run through so I don't feel completely lost when I read the news thread lol.

I have invented a new word: reactionize (-izing, -ized)

I am sick of people using the word "radical" to mean picking up extreme/out-of-the-box reactionary ideology. Fuck that. Don't let them have our adjective, even in a verb or participle form.

Pretty sure this counts as news, as it is at least novel. I used this word for the first time a few minutes ago on Reddit, and I guarantee you that—unlike every other thought I've ever had that turned out to be a duplicate of someone's previous one—this is unique and never-before-seen and I will not accept information to the contrary.

This has been my Bread Talk. Thank you.

Breaking: Trump chooses a pedophile as attorney General, matt Gaetz

Powell says no need for Fed to rush rate cuts given strong economy

DALLAS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Ongoing economic growth, a solid job market, and inflation that remains above its 2% target mean the Federal Reserve does not need to rush to lower interest rates, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday in remarks that may point to borrowing costs remaining higher for longer for households and businesses alike. Powell affirmed that he and his fellow policymakers still consider inflation to be "on a sustainable path to 2%" that will allow the U.S. central bank to move monetary policy "over time to a more neutral setting" that isn't meant to slow the economy.

But what that neutral rate might be in the current environment and how quickly the Fed might try to reach it all remain up in the air, particularly as central bankers assess both the ongoing strength of the economy and the impact the incoming Trump administration's policies, from higher tariffs to less immigrant labor, may have on economic growth and inflation.

This just in - the rate cut might not be happening so soon after all, which means the US recession might get postponed for quite some time.

Interesting move… still waiting to see what follows after this, especially how Elon Musk is going to do the whole deficit cuts thing.

Chapo? Like the drug dealer?

Surplus Absorption, Secular Stagnation, and the Transition to Socialism: Contradictions of the U.S. and the Chinese Economies since 2000

A paper by Minqi Li in Monthly Review that I think people here may find interesting.