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@sempersigh@hexbear.net with a thoughtful post on moralism vs materialism

resident materielist @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net on the limits of Russian missile strikes against Ukraine imposed by aircraft refueling needs

@MelianPretext@hexbear.net on modern colonialism and double standards of foreign interference in Bosnia

Me, on Indigenous political economy in the context of resource extraction in Canada

@FuckyWucky@hexbear.net, @goldroger@hexbear.net, and @jackmaoist@hexbear.net on who really likes Modi anyway

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The environmental damage the US will cause should they bomb or invade Venezuela isn’t talked about enough. I used to doubt we’d get 4.5+ degrees by the end of the century but the US and their brainless Latin American lackeys seem determined to make it happen.

Pete Hegseth has Ordered a Military Strike on a Surviors of a Previously Bombed Vessal , apperently with the verbal order "kill them All" ... Meaning ordering Military Strikes on Helpless survivors. (washington Post) This is a clear Violation of the Hague convention :"it is especially forbidden [...] to declare that no quarter will be given" Article 23 (D).

but even that would first need a "War" to be present , so he simply Ordered the Murder of Survivors (kill them all) . Making the hole commandchain liable for "well not even war crimes / but Murder" and explaining this Democrat video . Crime is Punishable by Death in US Law .

JAG (i know that from this Series) , > UNANIMOUSLY considers both the giving and the execution of these orders constitute war crimes, murder, or both.

(proably connected with the Mark Kelly thing)

Warning this is not fun viewing:

This video of the IDF just straight up assassinating two Palestinians who are just peacefully surrendering is seriously bleak. First the kicking, then they tell them to go back in and kill them, then the drop they fucking garage door on top of them. Just endlessly evil.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1994099203212034430

Russia has deployed the Berserker corps

We are the generation that will see terrible cruelty and death as the empire crumbles. But we will be the generation that plants the seeds of revolution that will come from the despair.

I fear for Venezuela, I fear for Colombia.

I fear for Palestine.

But if death comes for me, I will gladly accept it if it moves the world a millimeter closer to revolution.

Death to America, Death to Israel.

Also, first

zionist media reporting 13 injured iof pigs during an incursion to beit jinn near damascus. the residents resisted and iof had to evacuate their piggies, bombed the village. 9 syrian martyrs being reported

https://xcancel.com/HedgieMarkets/status/1994458830768419284

AI data centers are crushing the US aluminum industry by outbidding smelters for electricity. Aluminum smelters need 10-20 year power contracts at $30-40 per megawatt-hour to operate profitably. Amazon and Microsoft are willing to pay over $100 per megawatt-hour. Alcoa is now considering selling assets to Big Tech companies that might get more use out of the power generation equipment than the aluminum it produces.

The Problem

Producing one metric ton of aluminum requires about 14 megawatt-hours of electricity, enough to power an average US home for nearly a year and a half. A new domestic smelter would need as much electricity annually as Boston or Nashville. Only six smelting sites remain in the US, with just four operating commercially, producing under 1% of global supply. Even at full capacity, US smelters could only meet one-third of domestic demand. Meanwhile, data centers need aluminum for cooling units, server racks, and radiators. Goldman Sachs expects aluminum prices to fall 15% by Q4 2026 as international supply increases, further squeezing margins.

My Take

This is the AI infrastructure buildout eating itself. Data centers need aluminum to build more data centers, but the power demand from existing data centers is making it impossible to produce aluminum domestically. The companies creating the demand are outbidding the suppliers who would fill it. Alcoa's CEO said they haven't seen competitive long-term energy prices in the US, and "the opposite of that is occurring." The Aluminum Association says rebuilding domestic capacity would take five years, five new smelters, and $25 billion. But why would anyone build a smelter when Big Tech will pay three times the electricity rate you need to stay profitable? This is what happens when one sector can outbid everyone else for power. The AI boom doesn't just strain the grid, it restructures who gets access to electricity and at what price.

It looks like Labour party is fixing the hearing against Palestine Action

https://xcancel.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1993417828091711694

Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up:

The High Court judge who granted a legal challenge to the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action – the first time in British history a civil-disobedience organisation has been declared a terrorist group, one now treated as on a par with al-Qaeda – has been removed at the last minute.

The judicial review hearing is due to start tomorrow without Justice Martin Chamberlain. He will be replaced with a panel of three judges.

Justice Chamberlain did not suffer any timetabling conflicts. The Justice Ministry declined to offer any explanation for such a highly irregular change.

https://open.substack.com/pub/quadzillahikes/p/dc-shooter-served-on-cia-assassination

Long form article on the milieu of death squads operating in Afghanistan that gave rise to the DC shooter, imperial boomerang

Some people are saying its a terrific boomerang, the best of all time

They (the US media) will just call every strike drug-related. They know it is weak, but what is the job of a journalist if not reprinting US press releases. My guess is that they are begging the government to come up with something better. NYT;

DHS using the term remigration which is legit ethnic cleansing term originating from European nationalists should alarm people more

“In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Hezbollah’s Message to His Holiness, the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV

Your Holiness, The Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — with utmost respect,

Greetings and peace be upon you,

To begin, we express our full welcome and deep appreciation for your honorable presence and your visit to Lebanon — this beautiful country, blessed by God with its unique geographic location and harmonious religious diversity. This diversity, embodied in a shared life and broad consensus, is essential to the stability of its political system and the security of its nation.

Your predecessor, Pope John Paul II, once declared that Lebanon is “not merely a nation, but a message.” Indeed, Lebanon — with its rich mosaic — represents a civilizational bridge between the followers of the two heavenly messages, Christianity and Islam, and among all religious, cultural, and secular traditions across the world.

When human beings are placed at the center of concern for all faiths — and even for secular ideological systems — one can truly hope for the possibility of achieving lasting peace and security.

We read in your guidance and messages a firm commitment to human rights and the imperative to respect and protect them. These rights, however, extend beyond the individual to the broader sphere of peoples and nations.

The conflicts taking place across the world today stem, in large part, from the refusal of some actors — leaders, parties, groups, or states — to acknowledge or respect the rights of others, whether due to differences in religion, race, language, or interests.

It is no secret that the erosion of respect for human rights by certain entities fuels greed, domination, and the use of force instead of justice.

The tragedy witnessed in Gaza over the past two years — and still ongoing — is the result of the Zionist occupiers stripping the Palestinian people of their rights to their land, homeland, and self-determination, as well as the international system’s failure to embrace justice as the basis for resolving the long-standing conflict between an indigenous people and an occupying force.

Similarly, the suffering of the Lebanese people — caused by the Zionist occupation of parts of our land and its continuous aggressions and threats to our security and stability — reflects the enemy’s ambition to control our waters, land, and gas resources, and to impose political, security, and expansionist conditions without limit.

There is no doubt that the Zionist occupation receives — regrettably — unconditional support from major powers that share its ambitions to dominate our region and exploit its resources, with no regard for the rights of our people.

What the “Israeli” enemy has committed in Gaza against the Palestinian people is an act of genocide; and what it continues to commit in Lebanon is an ongoing and condemned aggression.

We, in Hezbollah, seize the opportunity of your blessed visit to reiterate our commitment to shared coexistence, consensual democracy, internal security and stability, and the protection of national sovereignty. We stand alongside our army and our people in confronting any aggression or occupation targeting our land and our nation.

We also hold firmly to our legitimate right to reject foreign interference aimed at imposing tutelage on our country, undermining our national decision-making, and usurping the constitutional authority of our institutions.

If our religious conviction affirms that the followers of Jesus Christ — peace be upon him — are messengers of love, justice, and human dignity, then we rely on your principled stance in rejecting the oppression and aggression inflicted upon Lebanon by the Zionist invaders and their supporters.

This is the message we deliver to Your Holiness during this visit, in which you express your care, affection, and solidarity with all Lebanese. We wish you comfort and safety during your stay, praying to Almighty God to grant justice, security, and relief to the oppressed across the world.

With our sincerest regards,

#Military_Media”

https://t.me/mmirlb/33816

Following the official NOTAM (notice to all airmen) issued to do with Venezuelan airspace a few days ago, Trump has decided to issue a NOTAM of his own, via truth social:

Truth Social source

Right now the only airlines flying over Venezuelan airspace are low cost Venezuelan airlines flying older aircraft like LASER.

Yesterday zelensky's right hand man Yermak tells the Atlantic that no territorial concessions are acceptable to zelensky/ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky, in the next phase of talks to end the war in Ukraine, intends to draw a red line at the most contentious issue on the table: the Russian demand for Ukraine’s sovereign territory. As long as he remains the nation’s president, Zelensky will not agree to give up land in exchange for peace, Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Andriy Yermak, told me today in an exclusive interview.

By appointing him to lead Ukraine’s negotiating team despite the scandal, Zelensky made clear to the people of Ukraine that Yermak continues to enjoy his trust, he said. The people of Ukraine “see that I have been beside the president all these years during all the most difficult, tragic, and dangerous moments,” Yermak said. “He trusted me with these negotiations that will decide the fate of our country. And if people support the president, that should answer all their questions.”

Today, Yermak's offices are being raided by NABU, the more western/NGO aligned anti-corruption force that Zelensky tried to take over and hobble earlier in the summer

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) are conducting searches at the office of Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, in the government district on the morning of 28 November.

Seems like things are going well

Edit: and yermak has resigned

A large swath these Americans have no moral issue with invading venuzuela they’re just opposed to it because they don’t want it to impact their pocket book and are worried about precious Americans dying in a conflict.

53 percent support wanton murder because that won’t affect them and hey the government says they have drugs so kill them!!

The media website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, published an article honoring Imam Jamil al-Amin, Black revolutionary and POW who transitioned to the next life in US federal prison on Sunday due to deliberate medical neglect.

Once known as the Minister of Justice, he has become the man who gave his life for justice, Imam Jamil al-Amin. This American freedom fighter, spiritual leader and anti-imperialist revolutionary has returned to Allah after being in American prisons for the last 23 years. He was a prisoner of war. The war launched by the United States against Black America.

https://english.khamenei.ir/news/12001/Imam-Jamil-al-Amin

huh... what are all those US ships in the Caribbean even doing? https://archive.ph/JJn1l

Second Russian Tanker Appears Off Venezuela After Seahorse’s Cat-and-Mouse With U.S. Navy

A second vessel tied to Russia’s shadow fleet has joined the sanctioned tanker Seahorse off the coast of Venezuela, days after the Seahorse was involved in a cat and mouse game with U.S. Navy forces, according to people familiar with the ship movements.

Good news everyone! Adolf Hitler has won his 5th reelection.

I just got a copy of Seth harp's book "The Fort Bragg Cartel" and fuck me if it isn't harrowing. There have been a number of chapo episodes about the antisocial behaviour and attitudes of delta force and if anything the dry boys paint a generous interpretation of the "operator" types. Based on the description of horrible, sociopathic crimes depicted in the first couple chapters of the book, the delta force scene sounds like a grotesque parody of Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas with brutal, instinctive violence replacing any search for the American dream. I'll share a more detailed review once finished.

Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said the govt has proof that drug gangs are laundering money through hedge funds in Deleware. Some of the funds are used to purchase and smuggle automatic weapons back to Brazil. Lula will bring this up in negotiations w Trump, he says.

Folha reports that Lula will suggest a partnership with the US government to go after Brazilian organized crime groups in the US. Frankly, the fact that it's allegedly happening in Biden's tax haven state of Deleware might interest the Trump administration

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🚨 And we're live! 🚨

The shortlist for our permanent name has just been published. Now it's over to you!

Members can now vote for their preference on the Your Party members' portal from now until 4pm Sunday 👇

man, brits are shit at picking names

In Canadian Indigenous news, here is a story about the relationship between the Tahltan Central Government (TCG) and Skeena resources, owners of the Eskay Creek mining project, which is on Tahltan land in northern BC. This article is not written with a Marxist lense, but it is not hard to see the material forces at work. I encourage reading the whole thing.

As Canada's role in the future world economy is likely to be driven by the resource sector, I believe these issues are worth understanding for news heads. This is where the rubber meets the road with respect to the political economy of Indigenous decision making. Canada is by far the most obvious location for friendshoring to serve American resource needs, and the vast majority of the Canadian resource sector falls under Indigenous consultation obligations.

Questions are being raised inside a B.C. First Nation after $10,000 was offered to each member ahead of a crucial vote on the future of a major gold mine.

Unlike other mines, Eskay Creek is subject to Canada’s first ever consent-based decision-making agreement with a First Nation. Signed in 2022 between the province and the Tahltan Central Government, the agreement explicitly states the project cannot proceed without the nation’s free, prior and informed consent.

The nation's leadership stoked some members’ concerns even further when, on Nov. 20, it said it had negotiated a $40-million “upfront payment” that would be distributed in $10,000 payments to eligible individuals.

The article goes on to describe different financial and ownership relationships between parties as well as potential conflict of interest.

TCG has a lot of capacity compared to most First Nations governments in BC and are located in a highly desirable area for resource extraction, colloquially known as the Golden Triangle. TCG has a strong track record of negotiating agreements with resource extraction companies and the province which give them an unprecedented amount of say in project development, and implementing UNDRIP.

Nisga'a Lisims Government, home of the first modern BC treaty from 2000 (The Nisga'a Final Agreement) and benefactor/partner in the Ksi Lisims gas terminal project is also in the same general area. See my previous post on Ksi Lisims from a few months ago.

One of the key constraints to understand is the size of First Nations governments relative to the economic size of the projects in question. TCG is about 3000 people and Eskay alone is a several billion dollar project, which is one of several major mines in the territory, with more in development. The possibility for regulatory capture increases in these circumstances. It's the regulatory equivalent of the old joke that if you owe the someone a thousand dollars you've got a problem, if you owe someone a million dollars, they've got a problem. This issue is common to anytime a large industry player comes to a small jurisdiction (think of the sway Walmart has in a small town).

There are also limits to what specialized technical expertise exists in a community of 3000. There is tremendous traditional knowledge in First Nations communities, but this experience does not extend to the detailed design and operation of large open pit mines, tailings dams, pipelines, or shipping terminals. It's easy to dunk on technocracy, but the reality is that if a community decision is made to support resource development in a Nation's territory and to use the economic activity associated to support the Nation's community, then there is need for people with a high degree of training to understand, regulate, and make decisions related to these complex resource projects. That kind of person ideally comes from the community itself, but there is a limited local workforce to draw from, especially Indigenous communities that have suffered from genocide, residential schools, poverty etc. in living memory.

The Canadian legal system including the Indian Act is structured to support assimilation. It does so more softly than it did 100 years ago and there is less focus on cultural assimilation, but incentives for economic assimilation are just as strong as ever in a country founded to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.

New telegram for DPRK info. I think most of it is kcna reposts but the admin also intends to write original posts on the DPRK.

https://t.me/PyongyangNews/100

“KCNA: New Houses Built at Vegetable Farms in Pyongyang.

New houses have been built at the Ryokpho Vegetable Farm in Ryokpho District and the Oryu Vegetable Farm in Sadong District, the historic places associated with the leadership exploits of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang Municipality.

The modern houses demonstrating the validity and vitality of the programme for the rural revolution in the new era picture the future of the countryside thriving day by day along with a new life and civilization.

Present at the ceremonies of moving into new houses held on the spots were officials of the Party and power organs, builders and agricultural workers in Pyongyang Municipality and Ryokpho and Sadong districts.”

lands strikes

lands

https://xcancel.com/distant_earth83/status/1994123548760395954

Russian troops are burning out anti-drone nets using a UAV-mounted flamethrower on one of the fronts in the Special Military Operation zone.🔥

Statements from the A-APRP on the coup in Guinea Bissau. The tl;dr is that the coup is a fake coup because the current president doesn't want to step down after losting the election and the military forces who instigated the coup are loyal to him anyways.

https://xcancel.com/AAPRP/status/1993974597343998460:

https://xcancel.com/AAPRP/status/1994087091211260395:

The Times: [UK] Army halts use of Ajax fighting vehicles after 31 soldiers fall ill

The British Army has been forced to stop the use of its Ajax armoured fighting vehicle after dozens of soldiers fell ill due to vibration and hearing problems, The Times can reveal.

Soldiers emerged from the £10 million vehicles vomiting while others were said to be shaking so violently they could not control their bodies after war games on Salisbury Plain, sources said. Others had weakness in their legs.

The absolute state of the Bri'ish military.

Al mayadeen

Heavy rain floods Gaza’s displacement camps, threatening tens of thousands amid disease spread and collapsing health services, as urgent calls rally for international action.

What is it with the notable increase in even radlib racism against Indians/Pakistanis so recently? Why does it smell like manifacturing consent for something. I am aware that it has always been quite normalized, but rhetoric has exploded recently and even lib spaces have an "askhually 👆 🥸 " moment

“Rad'a (resistance security) thwarts the threads of betrayal and foils a kidnapping plot targeting one of the resistance cadres

In a precise security operation, the field force of the Resistance Security "Rad'a" succeeded in foiling an attempt to kidnap one of the resistance members inside the Gaza Strip, led by a group of mercenaries working for the occupation.

During the ambush, the force managed to seize the vehicle used in the attempt and confiscate the military equipment held by the group members.

The Resistance Security affirms its firm commitment to pursuing occupation mercenaries and dismantling their networks, and calls on our people to immediately report any suspicious activity or elements linked to the enemy, to strengthen the internal front and protect our resistance members.

Rad'a.. The Field Force

Follow: t.me/R1Gaza

4 traitors neutralized per emsak

https://t.me/emsekamel/238

The Brazilian government has donated helicopters to Uruguay and Paraguay as part of a military cooperation initiative and strengthening diplomatic ties between the neighboring countries. The Ministry of Defense to transfered Bell Jet Ranger III (IH-6B) aircraft, currently in use by the Brazilian Navy, to the Uruguayan National Navy and Paraguayan Police.

According to the Minister of Defense, José Múcio, the aircraft are in limited operational condition and are being gradually replaced by more modern models, such as the H-125 Esquilo.

Despite this, the helicopters remain suitable for training and logistical support activities. According to the minister, the donation represents a way to take advantage of available resources and, at the same time, strengthen the integration between the armed forces of the three countries. The aircraft are currently used for the practical training of Brazilian naval aviation officers, enabling them to operate weapons systems and perform technical and administrative functions.

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Imperialists malding that Russia begins with an R instead of an H:
https://xcancel.com/CSIS/status/1993409503325548891

China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (CRINK) are increasingly cooperating to challenge the U.S. and global governance. New charts show how China and Russia anchor CRINK cooperation and how the war in Ukraine has accelerated CRINK alignment.

Second anti-Sheinbaum protest loses momentum

World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI

Just as Diderot’s Encyclopedia in the eighteenth century became an instrument for enlightenment that contributed to the French Revolution by making knowledge available to masses of people who had been kept in ignorance, so artificial intelligence—properly developed and democratically controlled, utilized by the revolutionary Marxist-Trotskyist party and placed in the service of the working class rather than capitalist profit—can become an instrument of socialist consciousness.

I am pleased to announce today that the International Committee has taken measures to harness the power of AI for the purposes and interests of the working class movement. Within a few weeks, we will be releasing Socialism AI, a revolutionary application of augmented intelligence to the development of socialist consciousness and the organizational capacity of the international working class. It is a chatbot which will enable users to pose political, historical, social questions, problems of organization and tactical initiative, and receive a response which draws on the vast archive of Marxist thought. First and foremost, the archive of the World Socialist Web Site itself, which encompasses well over 100,000 articles.

Yup I'm sure these guys have definitely solved the problem with LLMs and it won't just end up leaving people with an even more confused idea of socialist theory!

Today, the 29th, the UN celebrates the international day of solidarity with the palestinian people

Narendra Modi apparently has 70%+ approval.

France. National assembly voted to nationalise Arcelor-Mittal.

In your mf ass lakhmi i hate you. My people invented blast furnace. The whole industrial revolution and everything that happened because of it good or bad, it started from there. Those plants, they were OURS. Our ancestors had built it, generations worked there, they made the city rich. Then some french twats sold them to some idians and suddenly it was all gone. Now there's nothing to do but drugs. Mr Mittal never put a foot in the fucking plant I bet.

Their argument was that the proletarian in western country "costs too much" compared to the third world worker that you can exploit at will and pay them with the money from the worldwide colonial theft.

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20251128-french-mps-vote-to-nationalise-arcelormittal-as-ministers-warn-of-illusion

MoA posted a good Venezuela-related analysis today:

"The whole Trump South America policy is not about drugs or Venezuela but about U.S. control over the whole continent with the help of right-wing proxy leaders.

Meanwhile the U.S. military continues to strike random fisherman near Venezuela (archived) with drones and missiles.

[...]

I still very much doubt that Trump will order military strikes on Venezuela. Chances are high that any such operation would end in a quagmire. It would lessen the chances of any other policy success he might want to have."

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/11/trump-pardons-drug-smuggler-threatens-venezuela.html

In 2006, two academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, wrote a paper called “The Israel Lobby,” which argued that a loose group of Israel supporters used their connections and financial resources to tilt US foreign policy in Israel’s direction.

The savage response to the paper was like nothing academia had ever seen. We can now report that Jeffrey Epstein helped coordinate the counterattack with Alan Dershowitz, while Larry Summers was Harvard president. And Les Wexner was one of the largest donors to the Kennedy School, if not the largest. Epstein controlled Wexner’s money.

In other words, a loose group of powerful supporters of Israel used their financial resources and connections behind the scenes to destroy the reputations of two academics who wrote a paper arguing that a loose group of Israel supporters was using their connections and financial resources to shape American foreign policy. Story here

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1993509279442079750

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobby

It's Your Party.

They've jezzed it.

Soyuz MS-28 has been rolled out on the launch platform of Baikonur Cosmodrome and will be launched in the coming hours.

The paint job features beautiful drawings of children fighting cancer, depicting their “innermost desires”:

This is also a joint Russia-US mission that will carry an American astronaut, Christopher Williams, together with Mikaev and Kud-Sverchkov, as shown on the mission patch:

Today is the day that the United States' declaration of the Venezuelan government (whom they call Cartel de los Soles) as a foreign terrorist organisation goes into effect.

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The Venezuelan government has responded, English translation

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