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Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.


The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump's return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.


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Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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.


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[-] miz@hexbear.net 69 points 2 days ago

thinking about what we're seeing about America's disaster response capabilities and remembering that the Pacific Northwest is seventy years overdue on a two hundred and fifty year cycle for a 9.0 megathrust earthquake, where the expected damage is "everything west of highway 5 is gone"

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[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago

It seems like the sunset fire in Runyon canyon is done so that's at least good news. The whole city of LA won't be burned to the ground.

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The whole city of LA won't be burned to the ground.

kitty-birthday-sad

[-] sictransitgloria@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

good news

wait am I meant to be sad the US is burning to the ground?

[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago

I don't generally root for millions of working class people's homes and communities to be destroyed.

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[-] polpotkin@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago

I got an old church community cookbook from my hometown to see if I could get any old regional heritage recipes from it, because all of my family's recipes were destroyed in a fire. Almost half the recipes had jello as a major ingredient, and some other ones were real bangers like "baked fish with ritz crackers on top". I could feel my skin turn a few shades whiter.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

Lmfao I love an old cookbook. Some treasures re: baking, but then the salad section stretches the definition of the word

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[-] Boise_Idaho@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

biden-point This is your problem now, Jack! sad-boi
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/08/biden-administration-will-not-revoke-hts-terror-designation/

US officials told the Post that the decision about the terrorist designation will now be up to the Trump administration. They said HTS must show that it has really broken from al-Qaeda for the designation to be lifted, though HTS’s history did not stop the US from supporting the HTS takeover of Syria.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Plausible deniability when something really really bad happens

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

If Jolani got couped by the US that would be so damn funny

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

A color revolution in Syria against the Al-Qaeda offshoot that currently runs it would stretch the concept of Critical Support to it's limit.

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Honestly cool, I like dropping the little factoid during discussions about syria

[-] Cunigulus@hexbear.net 72 points 2 days ago

I really get the sense that there's some kind of directive out to downplay natural disasters in the media in the US in recent years. It used to be something like the LA fires or Hurricane Helene destroying parts of NC would get days-long media extravaganzas - it was a good way to boost viewership and grab attention. Now the reporting is present, but kind of pushed off below the fold. I think maybe whoever does the soft censorship when it comes to geopolitics etc.. is suppressing US natural disaster coverage, maybe to prevent people from freaking out over climate change? Maybe to combat the general feeling of malaise and dysfunction settling in?

Am I crazy or do any of you get the same impression?

[-] Voidance@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In Australia after the massive bushfires a few years back, the right wing /mainstream narrative afterwards was that it wasn’t the fault of climate change, but rather of green environmentalists preserving forests too much and thus creating more dangerous fires

[-] SupFBI@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is it that, or is it that these things have become so frequent that people are now inured to them?

Also:

We live in a world where everyone is immersed in their own media bubble. People aren't watching news/linear TV like they used to. Streaming has upended the social cohesion that linear TV once provided. It's yet another means of alienation.

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[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It appears Richmond, VA has no tap water after a winter storm caused cascading power failures (grid and back-up) at a water treatment facility, causing the facility to be flooded. Grocery stores are selling out of potable water and other beverages. Real Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic hours.

Twitter: https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1877175191891013921 / Nitter: https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1877175191891013921

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

In a dire turn of events, reports emerging from America US indicate that the city of Richmond, located in the troubled nation's Virginia province, has been plunged into chaos following a catastrophic failure at a water treatment facility. The incident, triggered by a winter storm, has left residents without access to tap water after both the main power grid and backup systems failed, causing widespread flooding at the facility.

Observers note that this is yet another symptom of America’s crumbling infrastructure, a result of decades of economic mismanagement and neglect. The once-great superpower now finds itself grappling with basic utilities, a stark reminder of its decline.

As desperate citizens flock to grocery stores, shelves are rapidly being stripped of potable water and other essentials, exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis. Images of long lines and empty shelves are raising concerns about the American regime's ability to provide for its people.

Despite the mounting crisis, the central government in Washington remains indifferent to the suffering of its civilian population. Instead, it continues to funnel astronomical sums into its bloated military, prioritizing weapons and warfare over the basic needs of its own people.

[-] Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

You gotta call police STATE SECURITY FORCES somewhere in there.

[-] sempersigh@hexbear.net 61 points 2 days ago

Holywood hills has caught fire now and it’s expanding rapidly and literally as I type this a small spot fire just popped up adjacent to it so… damn

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is propaganda, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_International

They were spreading a story about a woman taking off someone’s head covering and it stunk of “reports from North Korea say that Kim is eating everyone’s hair”

[-] Boise_Idaho@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago
[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

Hires from:, voa, a radio free offshoot, yeah I saw some clues

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You learn something new everyday. I was reading a China doomerism article on Naked Capitalism today which I have some issues with and won’t be commenting on, but I came across this quote supposedly from Xi Jinping:

To promote common prosperity, we cannot engage in ‘welfarism.’ In the past, high welfare in some populist Latin American countries fostered a group of ‘lazy people’ who got something for nothing. As a result, their national finances were overwhelmed, and these countries fell into the ‘middle income trap’ for a long time. Once welfare benefits go up, they cannot come down. It is unsustainable to engage in ‘welfarism’ that exceeds our capabilities. It will inevitably bring about serious economic and political problems.

At first, I thought this must be some Western propaganda smear and maybe mistranslation. Then I looked it up, turns out it’s real… It was actually published in Qiushi (CPC’s theory website) back in 2022 on an article titled “To correctly identify and grasp the major theoretical and practical issues of our country’s development” based on Xi’s speech to the Central Economic Work Committee in December 2021:

(the exact quote in Chinese)

要完善公共服务政策制度体系。促进共同富裕,不能搞“福利主义”那一套。当年一些拉美国家搞民粹主义,高福利养了一批“懒人”和不劳而获者,结果国家财政不堪重负,落入“中等收入陷阱”,长期不能自拔。福利待遇上去了就下不来了,搞超出能力的“福利主义”是不可持续的,必然会带来严重的经济和政治问题!

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This actually explains why China has been so reluctant to just give people money directly to boost consumption. Turns out this neoliberal brainrot is deeper than I thought (I have been defending Xi all this while and now I am getting disappointed) - they really believe that giving people money is bad and you can only create the money after earning the revenues from selling stuff first.

It makes total sense now why China has been struggling to boost domestic consumption since Covid and why the central bank doesn’t simply inject the money.

Because handout is bad! People will turn lazy if they get free money without work! What the fuck, China! How is this different from your typical GOP rhetoric?

Just give people the fucking money and at least half of the problems will be solved.

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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago

"They got notifications yesterday that their homes probably burned to the ground...but, the good news is, I'm a great-grandfather as of today."

Genocide Joe, everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLKlULkm8g

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Destroyed German tank in Kursk, Russia, surrounded by dead sunflowers. Symbolic.

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