My sources for the preamble come mostly from here, here, and here.
The thread image depicts Kenyan police, trained by the Zionist entity, in a meeting with President Ruto before being sent to Haiti, sourced from this article.
As has been planned for the last couple years, foreign police officers have been inside Haiti for a few months now. It will surprise nobody to learn that this has not gone very well. Gangs continue to control much of the country, and violence has continued in the form of massacres and forced relocations (approximately 1.3 million). Something like 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is under the control of one gang or another.
The aim by the US was to import 2500 police officers to Haiti from a wide variety of countries. One of those was Kenya; President Ruto had to fight his own country's courts to force this through, and ironically is now apparently considering withdrawing those officers once the UN mandate expires on October 2nd. The issue here is not only the limited manpower (Haiti has a population of 12 million), but also very pedestrian things, like the fact that the officers who arrive don't even speak the language.
The situation in Haiti appears to be a fairly standard operation of American national control, in which both battling sides are being supported by the US in order to create maximum disorganization and prevent a coherent political force from arising and thus threatening their Caribbean interests. While the US funds foreign forces to arrive in Haiti to "control the situation" or similar justifications, the Haitian gangs get their weapons smuggled in from the US itself. That this is happening alongside escalations against Venezuela is obviously not a coincidence - in a world in which American interests are being gradually shrugged off, and where the American state military is becoming rapidly more impotent and unable to dissuade and defeat even tiny states like Yemen, total imperial dominion of their immediate surrounding territory must be ensured by any means necessary.
The police and the gangs are likely designed to be mutually reinforcing, without even much kayfabe of fighting each other. As an example, once the Kenyan police arrived, they immediately began brutalizing anti-government protestors instead of focussing on gang activity. They were trained by the Zionist entity, after all.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
The chinese labor force is like 750 million people. 600 out of 750 million working Chinese obviously dont have a monthly income of 150$ per month. The original source of this figure was from a chinese state study 11 years ago! that surveyed household/family income and divided it by the number of people in the family, publishing it as "average discretionary household income per capita". Discretionary income if im not mistaken is the income after the cost of various taxes and necessary spending (housing cost and rent, basic average monthly basket of food and clothing) is substracted. These stats were reproduced years later using 5-10 year old data using houshold disposable income inputs which again is a reduced figure compared to general monthly income. What this means eventualy means is that 600 million Chinese people (working people, kids,infants, college students, elderly, unemployed) somewhere during the 2010-18 period belonged to households where the total income coming into the household minus the expences mentioned (with one definition or the other) , divided the number of people in the household, was 1000 (140$) yuan or less.
My household in Greece for most of the last decade would have had a per capita (disposable/ or discretionary) household income of around 350 Euros? Less depending on the definition? And this is probably the case for like 30% of Greek Households. So like 40% of Chines housholds (most likely mostly rural ones) were 40% of the way to struggling but making end meet Greece Household status 5 to 10 years ago in nominal terms. With 2nd and 3rd tier Chinese cities having like half the cost of living of the bigger Greek cities. And more rural towns having almost certainly lower. We can go back and forth on this but this is quite acceptable and expected actualy. It doesnt make me reconsider anything. It even reinforces my priors. Greek Household consumption as a % of GDP is like 68% btw
It also reinforces my desire to try and not engage with your posts like. You are too smart to use an already misrepresented stat that has been used as an clickbait by YT videos and people like Drew Pavlou and purposefully phrase it in a similar way to them, where most people who will read your comment will come away with "WOW i cant believe like half of Chinese people make like 100 bucks per month!! It sure just seems like neoliberal China is on the menu. I guess Chinese growth and improvement of QoL isnt what it was made out to be at all". It simply doesnt sit right to me
The fact that i tried to touch on a specific subject asking specific questions with figures and analogies about what the math and numbers of what you are descibing is gonna work out and you touched on none of it and instead made the same kind of general comment i have read a bunch of time already is also a bit tiring. Either way whatever take care
You didn’t read the link at all, it says very clearly that 1000 yuan is average annual income, not wages. That includes everyone who don’t work e.g. retirees, children, disabled etc.
To be fair, it’s all in Chinese so I won’t blame you for not wanting to use machine translation, but at least try to read the source first before arguing.
Again, you are arguing against actual data from the Chinese government. I am literally posting sources from the People’s Daily because I know people like you won’t accept anything less lol.
And don’t forget that for the past two years, I’ve been talking about consumption problems, involution, price wars for at least 6-9 months before the Chinese government came out and made them official. Meanwhile plenty of people here thought I was bullshitting. I am giving you the first dips, ok?
If you live in China, the vibe change is very real. Nobody, not even the government, can continue to pretend like there isn’t a huge problem right now. It was fun back in 2022-2023 but now reality has really sunk in. Even the most ardent nationalists who keep posting “China winning” stuff are now starting to change their talking points now lol.