Bulletins and News Discussion from February 10th to February 16th, 2025 - There Is Noboa Alternative

President Trump said on Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on key allies in the region to back his audacious proposal to relocate the entire population of the territory in order to redevelop it.

The president also said from the White House that if Hamas did not release all the remaining Israeli hostages by “12 o’clock on Saturday,” the cease-fire agreement with Israel should be canceled.

“All hell is going to break out,” Mr. Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office, while acknowledging that the choice over ending the cease-fire ultimately fell to Israel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-jordan-egypt-gaza-development.html

Kinda wild that the Americans elected this guy all by themselves and he's going to just destroy their own country over the next four years and no one else has to lift a finger - and they love him for it.. Like who would have guessed when Survivor aired in 2000 that a reality TV star would eventually unravel the whole place. It just blows my mind to watch this in real time.

The president also said from the White House that if Hamas did not release all the remaining Israeli hostages by “12 o’clock on Saturday,” the cease-fire agreement with Israel should be canceled.
“All hell is going to break out,” Mr. Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office, while acknowledging that the choice over ending the cease-fire ultimately fell to Israel.
The first serious challenge to Trump's madman diplomacy, where he threatens the opponent with overwhelming force if they don't provide some concessions. Let's see if this will work with Hamas, Israel, Qatar, Iran, etc. This is all about leverage here, Hamas is not going to give up all the remaining hostages, and thus all the leverage they have, until they get some guarantees with regards to phase 3 of the ceasefire, the rebuilding and governance of Gaza. Hamas wants to remain in a position where they have some leverage, and with Israel withdrawing from the Netzarim Corridor for the start of phase 2 of the ceasefire and giving that up, this is the only opportunity Hamas has to be in this position where they have this much sway, so they will make use of it. I just hope this doesn't end up escalating to where Gaza is getting bombed again...
cut aid to Egypt
This is not what the "realist zionists" want to hear. The US has essentially been paying Egypt off since the Camp David Accords to not fight isntrael and all the US interventions. Egypt has been #2 in US milliary aid for decades because at least they had enough sense to charge a high price for, let's be honest, betraying the rest of the Arab world. But the Egyptian government sees that aid as payment for services rendered, not charity. Cutting that aid will only increase tensions between Egypt and the Zionist entity and could even provoke Egypt into searching for a new ally for its defense needs.
Not to say Egypt would go to war over this though, they are way too reliant on US equipment to afford that (its like 85% American procurements). Despite that overreliance, Egypt is still not in a situation where they will rapidly collapse if the US ends military aid, so despite the high cost this isn't as much leverage Trump probably thinks it is. Bush and Obama tried yanking on this chain during the Arab spring, when the Egyptian government was on much shakier ground, and Egyptians didn't budge. Nothing came of it because those ghouls knew the US was getting to much out of the aid to cut it over trying to support a color revolution. So I really don't see Egypt moving over this threat. If trump does actually cut the aid, then LMAO I'm sure China will be happy sell whatever Egypt needs replacements for.
- Russia could use a new base in the region
- Do you think Egypt and Iran would improve relaons if this came to pass?
That's right, keep pushing till it breaks! Keep pushing until the nothing ever happens memes are banished forever!

jfc is this the new American past time or something.

not really liking seeing more of this when i have to fly next week
wish me luck lol
also how tf does it just veer off
- Commercial air carrier operations are a lot more stringently regulated than private jets, if that helps. At least until Muskrat & Co. abolish the FAA.
ATC IS IMPORTANT

I am finding it hard not to catastrophize on the rumblings that the administration may start openly defying court orders. On a domestic front, it seems like a point of no return towards naked fascism.

(NBC News) Legal experts warn of 'constitutional crisis' as JD Vance and Elon Musk question judges' authority over Trump

Those in power have been legally eviscerating the world for decades, maybe one silver lining of this pivot is that people will stop adhering so much to 'civility' and 'norms' and actually start opposing this kind of thing with real force.
Given that scotus ruling that the president can just shoot anyone he doesn’t like, they have a point.
Nah let’s fucking go. The American courts are probably the most reactionary system in existence, they are irredeemably fascist already. Let the whole thing collapse, break all the rules, let’s stomp this stupid fucking constitution into the mud and be done with it
- Let the whole thing collapse, break all the rules, let’s stomp this stupid fucking constitution into the mud and be done with it
  Die partei, die partei, let's burn it all down
  And genossen, we'll take back the crown!
In spite of the position here that power doesn't need to listen to its own rules, and that the state isn't a chess board but rather a tool used to maintain class society, it is still somewhat scary to me that this is happening, because it makes things a bit harder to predict.

I'm just going to address the latest Israeli PsyOp that has hit the news media, primarily being spread by the German outlet Bild, and Turkish newspapers. This PsyOp being that Israel has obtained a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb from the United States, and that they plan to use it against Iran's hardened nuclear facilities.

There are two problems with this idea. The first is the idea that the MOAB is a "bunker buster" bomb that can be used for this mission. The truth is that it's not a bunker buster bomb, as the name states it's an air blast bomb, it does not penetrate deeply into the ground before exploding, it actually detonates above the ground. The lightweight aluminium casing of the MOAB is not designed to penetrate anything either. So it cannot be used to strike against deep bunkers in the mountains, such as Iran's nuclear facilities. There appears to be some confusion here, people confusing the huge overpressure effect that can occur when a MOAB is dropped in a valley or an open cave complex (as it was in Afghanistan) with bunker buster/penetrator capabilities.

The second issue is the delivery method. The only way of delivering the MOAB is to fly a modified C-130 transport aircraft directly over the target, and drop it out of the back of the plane. Israel have C-130s, but flying one over Iran would be a suicide mission, it would be shot down instantly. So the MOAB would never reach Iran.

The truth is also, that no such deal for a MOAB has occurred. I managed to track down the primary source of the misinformation that all these articles are quoting, and it's a Fox News segment between Sean Hannity and Steve Witkoff, in which Witkoff says that Israel already has "bunker buster bombs", likely referring to the 2000lb BLU-109. The MOAB is never even mentioned. These articles are completely fabricating and hallucinating something that was never even said.

The bomb that Israel would need to strike Iranian hardened nuclear facilities is the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which is only carried by the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber of the United States Air Force. The United States did use the B-2 and MOP combination in Yemen last year, in a clear warning to Iran. Israel will not get this capability, the United States reserves it for only itself. Which is how the power dynamics play out, meaning Israel cannot "go it alone" with air strikes against Iranian bunkers deep in the mountains. They would require the participation of the United States. Israel can "go it alone" in other ways against Iran as they have shown, but not in that specific capability.

The second issue is the delivery method. The only way of delivering the MOAB is to fly a modified C-130 transport aircraft directly over the target, and drop it out of the back of the plane. Israel have C-130s, but flying one over Iran would be a suicide mission, it would be shot down instantly. So the MOAB would never reach Iran.
Never actually knew the delivery of a MOAB is a fucking C-130, that'll be an easy target in a conventional war imo. At least, this system against a conventional enemy is unreliable to say the least, like I can't imagine one or a couple of slow C-130s trying to strike say a Russian grouping with a MOAB, they will never make it. This leads me to believe the MOAB was designed with COIN in mind, to be used against enemies that have little to no way of countering an air force's operations.
- The MOAB can trace its origins to the "Daisy Cutter" bombs that were used in Vietnam to clear sections of forests so that helicopters and/or paratroopers could land. It's just a much bigger version of that. Modern day use seems to be for psychological impact against enemies that can't effectively counter it. A weapon of intimidation and anti personnel weapon against large groupings of insurgents.
- to be used against enemies that have little to no way of countering an air force's operations.
  Isn't that basically all NATO nations strategy? 'step one: establish air superiority, step two: ???, step three: profit'
- Israeli PsyOps are just so pervasive, they even hit all lots of resistance media outlets. I still remember when the news megathread accurately predicted Israel's attack on Iran (in terms of what Israel would hit and the tactics), then Israeli PsyOps started a few hours before their attack, which drove us all into a panic. It's part of why I created this account, to try find the primary sources of information, post them, and analyse them ourselves, instead of relying on journalists and outlets which don't know their arse from their elbow, are days behind on reporting, use AI LLMs for their research getting key information wrong in the process, etc.
Also want to add the really depressing truth that if there is any future deal for sending a MOAB to Israel (none exists currently and I don't expect any to materialise in future, but in the very rare case it happens), the target will not be Iran. It would be Gaza or southern Lebanon...
- The MOP is not your ordinary bunker buster bomb, it's a 30 000lb/14 000kg bomb that's only 20% explosive by weight, consisting of just under 6000lbs of plastic bonded explosives. The casing is made of hardened metals like tungsten, and the bomb only explodes when it stops penetrating, or at a certain depth, depending on the fuse used. Early documents on the bomb's design state that it can penetrate over 200ft/60m of reinforced concrete. And each B-2 Spirit stealth bomber carries two of them. No one really knows how far it can penetrate. Nasrallah's bunker in Beirut was destroyed by 2000lb bunker buster bombs called the BLU-109, between 60-80 were dropped on the bunker and surrounding buildings. These bombs can penetrate up to 12ft/4m of reinforced concrete.
  This video shows the impact of a one of these BLU-109 2000lb bunker buster bombs, how it penetrates the earth before exploding. The MOP weighs 15 times more and can penetrate a depth 17 times deeper than the BLU-109.
  Twitter source
  Xcancel mirror
  Now imagine a crater 17 times deeper, that's the penetration capabilities of the MOP...

\ https://xcancel.com/MintPressNews/status/1889035808747016366#m

Richard Medhurst arrested again, this time in Austria after literally being accused of being a member of Hamas.

Even if he were a member of hamas, whatever that means I doubt there's a party card or something, what did he do besides report?
- what did he do besides report?
  I never followed him very closely, but as far as I can tell, nothing. At most maybe he did a donation drive or something, but so did a whole lot of people. It's just about trying to silence a prominent voice for Palestine and a ruthless critic of Western empire.
- I keep my Hamas membership card in my wallet, right behind my Antifa Supersoldier badge.
- He refused to let British cops into his phone and laptop to protect his sources late last year. Terrorism related charges there too.
Oh shit so he didn't make it to an embassy for asylum afterall?
If he has even just a brief moment of respite, Medhurst needs to immediately seek asylum in either Ireland or South Africa.
the OG nazis

so trump enacted 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum from ALL countries entering the US

seems to mostly harm canada (and the US itself)

data from USGS

So these tariffs are now officially ON?
is he cranky because his team lost or something?
He did this in his last term IIRC. Don't really understand it. There's possibility A where he thinks this can bring back manufacturing to the US, which is just impossible. Possibility B is he wants to do his "external revenue service" and needs to tariff everything so he can totally abolish income tax, which is also a dumb idea.

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

We are fast approaching a new era when people no longer have to learn anything or to make any important decision when they can simply ask a word prediction black box what to do.
Funny that so much of science fiction had predicted that humans created super sentient artificial intelligence being and got destroyed, when reality is much more farcical than that: humans start worshipping an autocomplete algorithm that sounded like a real human, and just like in the superstitious past when oracles were consulted, now we let a word prediction algorithm trained on internet garbage to rule our lives.
- R E T V R N to making decisions based off the incoherent rambling of a priest tripping their face off of a cocktail of psychedelics instead of the lame autocomplete gibberish robot
- humans start worshipping an autocomplete algorithm that sounded like a real human, and just like in the superstitious past when oracles were consulted, now we let a word prediction algorithm trained on internet garbage to rule our lives.
  Skynet.
  Landru.
- ChatGPT/Siri for president, 2028
- turns out Frank Herbert was fucking cooking with the Butlerian Jihad
"knowledge workers" i think you mean chatbot enthusiasts

Trump cutting USAID funding to South Africa has, unexpectedly, emboldened South Africa in it's legal war against the Apartheid entity, with a combination of a collapsing international law, the end of Phase 1 fast approaching alongside the month of Ramadan and the relations between South Africa and the US at their worst in history, only short of American bombs being pointed towards Gauteng. Trumpet has also gifted isnotreal the infamous GBU-43 MOABs

The main talking points over the last week has been Afriforum's potentially treasonous calls for US "intervention" in South Africa, Trump's segregationist rhetoric levied at the Post-Apartheid state and an actual emerging effort by South Africa to expel the US out of the UN, even taking considerations to work around the expected US veto.

Primarily from Salaamedia and Newzroom Afrika

the Boer,

the settler

This is from December, but I only learned of it today. Trump's team has suggested eliminating the FDIC. This would most likely cause an immediate bank run, no? I know I'll be stuffing cash under the mattress the second I hear about the groyper gang making moves on the FDIC, especially with all the other Jenga pieces Trump is carelessly ripping out of the tower.

There might be a run from smaller banks to larger too big to fail ones. It's difficult to tell.
In third world countries, deposit insurance is much smaller or non-existant. Most people keep bulk of their savings in the larger banks.
Even without FDIC, The Fed backstopped even non-bank institution debt in 2008. Will they still do that?
- After Rand Paul audits the fed? I doubt it.
  Keep your savings in gold.
- The only things I am relatively certain of are that the Trump admin does not understand how the money printer works, and regardless of that they seem ideologically bent on dismantling any institution that doesn't directly benefit them. I think they would sooner try to bail out only themselves (and close/loyal allies), and leave everyone else SoL. Even if the largest banks can weather a bank run, that's still a lot of people that had their savings in smaller banks that suddenly can't pay for food or shelter. Admittedly, I don't understand enough about the Fed to understand what mechanisms, if any, they may have to prevent this.
  I'm struggling to imagine a scenario where shutting down the FDIC doesn't lead to some form of rapid collapse, so obligatory nothing ever happens

By Mondoweiss

Hamas just announced a delay in releasing captives scheduled for next weekend, citing Israel’s obstruction of aid—blocking the entry of tents and rebuilding material into Gaza. Hamas says this obstruction is “a new war” on Gaza, escalating tensions amid the fragile ceasefire deal.

An Israeli official denies these accusations but no official government statement yet. Israel’s war cabinet is set to meet tomorrow, meaning another day of uncertainty. Qatar has warned Israel that blocking humanitarian aid jeopardizes both the second and first phases of the ceasefire deal. The message is clear: aid entry is non-negotiable.

Hamas is likely waiting for mediators to intervene, but ultimately, everything depends on Netanyahu’s real intentions—does he want the deal to collapse? Hamas’s announcement itself isn’t a breach of the deal. But if they fail to announce the names of captives to be released by Friday, that would be a breach.

This move by Hamas could be an escalation to pressure mediators amid Trump’s recent comments about “owning” Gaza and expelling Palestinians. Meanwhile, Israeli war minister Yisrael Katz is calling Hamas’s move a breach and has ordered the army to prepare at maximum alert for “all scenarios.”

Hamas’s bet is that mediators will resolve this before Friday, avoiding the need to take further action. Another Israeli official claims Hamas has been making these accusations for a while. But an Israeli delegation has now left for Doha—suggesting Hamas timed this move to push rebuilding aid to the top of the agenda.

The core issue? Israel is blocking heavy machinery to remove rubble and reconstruction materials, worsening the humanitarian crisis from Israel's genocide. Meanwhile, families of the captives have called on the Israeli government “not to take any measure that would jeopardize the ceasefire and hostage release deal.”

This bodes poorly for the ceasefire correct?
- Israel refusing to honor the ceasefire and repeatedly violating it and ignoring the terms does bode poorly, yes

local Swedish news has been covering THE BOATS and THE CABLES in the baltic sea for months now with a very predictable pattern of headlines

boat discovered; seized on suspicion of cable sabotage; PUTIN'S SHADOW FLEET?

a few days later

boat released; no evidence of cable sabotage found; PUTIN'S SHADOW FLEET?

send more boats please

Didn't they already admit that they determined that one to be an accident?
- the first one, yes
  but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again
  putins shadow fleet HAS to be somewhere around here

Gestapo raided the Education Bookshop in Al-Quds, arresting it's owners Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna, with their detention also just extended by 8 more days. The primary "evidence" to justify arrest is a colouring book from South Africa, titled From the River to the Sea. The cover includes the Al Aqsa Mosque, two variants of the Handala, one Palestinian, the other South African and a cityscape of Johannesburg with the Hillbrow Tower.

This is also the very first arrest made directly as a result of possessing South African material.

Cover of the colouring book in question:

Death to ameriKKKa, Death to isnotreal

Last week I joked on how Musk took inspiration from milei now that he's carrying out his crusade against whatever remains of the "New Deal"-ish State. And I can see similarities...

I think "DOGE" is kinda inspired in Argentina's "Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State", an all-powerfull shady institution led by someone who was not directly elected, who is a massive piece of shit, who can intervene anywhere and who has political experience working with previous (failed) administrations, always on the heavy neoliberal side of things. Naturally there are differences, the extent of the "reforms" are going to be different depending on each country given that the US is institutionally and demographically seventy two trillion times bigger than Argentina, so the process of dismantling the State of certain elements is going to be different and will have different effects.

But the principle remains the same: A specific institution was created to spearhead all the efforts to scrap the State and for that task is given ridiculous powers to do so. Both are led by somewhat unelected officials with free reign over anything they desire, neither Elon Musk or Federico Sturzenegger (the guy in charge of the dismantling of the Argentinian State) have clear specific roles within their Governments, they are appointed at the will of their respective Presidents and their actions represent their own will.

The goals are also the same but will have different impacts. In Argentina the goal is to end, once and for all, the massive privatization campaign that began in the 1970s, continued heavily in the 90s, suffered setbacks in the mid 2000s up to 2014 and resumed with various degrees of intensity after. The complete privatization of all "public" aspects of the State is to be carried out by this shady Ministry and they cannot be hold accountable. The same goes for "DOGE": Eviscerate the Federal and "Public" institutions to pave the way for relentless privatization, whether that is education, transportation, infraestructure or energy, you name it.

Whether this actually represents the end of both Argentina and the US as entities remains to be seen, in principle Capitalism at it's core cannot reproduce itself for too long without the State intervening in certain areas, after all, a Ministry of Education is essential, and since both countries are intimatelly tied to Capitalism's very existence, their own existence is therefore in jeopardy. However, perhaps, Capitalism is mutating into something truly hideous and new, it's last mutation, perhaps being the "An"Cap one, before it finally succums once and for all.

death to "israel" btw.

the last episode of radio war nerd had some good discussion of similar precedent during the reagan years and some secretive government waste/efficiency body that was created in the early 80s. i don't know enough to really compare the two but I appreciated their perspective anyway
Federico Sturzenegger
I wonder what his abuelito was up to between 1930-1945

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/15481

Hamas announces that the release of the next batch of Israeli hostages, originally scheduled for Saturday February 15th, will be postponed

This decision comes in response to repeated Israeli violations of the ceasefire and obstructions to aid entering Gaza.

Shoot the fuckers instead
- I'm surprised they haven't already.

For this year’s observance of International Environment Day the United Nations is focusing on the plight of forests worldwide. In Haiti, there remains less than one percent tree cover. Most deforestation is caused by the local population’s need for land to farm, wood to build with, and charcoal to cook with. The result has left immense tracks of land bare to the elements, hastened massive soil erosion and increased land slides and flash flooding.
View of a deforested hilltop near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

©UN Photo/Logan Abassi, 2011-06-07

- There are places along the border between Haiti and Dominican Republic where there are parks on the DR side and you can see how lush the island probably was all over

Preparations underway for visits by Xi to Moscow, by Putin to Beijing — Kremlin

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Mutual visits by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin to Moscow and Beijing, respectively, are being arranged to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told the media.

A celebration will be held in Moscow on May 9 to mark the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, while Beijing will host a celebration in September to honor the anniversary of the end of World War II.

"Yes, such visits are in preparation. We attach great importance to the symbolism of these dates, both in remembering those significant events and recognizing the contributions of our countries to the fight against Nazism, as well as to our bilateral relations. This is why we are actively working on these visits," Peskov stated.

Russia’s ambassador to China Igor Morgulov said earlier that Xi Jinping accepted an invitation to take part in celebrations in Moscow on May 9 marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and in turn invited Russian leader Vladimir Putin to China for the celebrations due in early September.

So I've been super sick with the flu since thursday which effectively kept me from sleeping during the night which gave me some time to check out what the germans been up to and really nothing really can do as good a job as the logo they used for one 'politics debate'

Really liking the red white and black there....

Anyways that debate was bad but at least somewhat bearable but there was the Scholz vs Merz debate which basically went like this.

Merz (CDU): There's too many foreigners you haven't been doing enough to send them back!!!!

Scholz (SPD): Ehrm, actually you'll find that no other Bundeskanzler sent back more asylumseekers than me, no one turned them away at the border until I showed up and did it in a grand manner.

Merz: We are spending too much on social security! Our government expenses are out of control and Scholz is not able to cut the excesses because he isn't brutal enough

Scholz: Actually I personally brutalized tons of social security recipients and so what Mr Merz is saying is completely wrong

This has animated a few people to move towards Die Linke so they are now polling around 5% and might make it into government but it won't matter after this debate it becomes clear that a CDU-SPD coalition will probably be what is going to happen as SPD seems proud on being conservative and cruel shitheads.

German politics
What even is the logo from/inspired by? It's basically the celtic cross not uncommonly used by fascist/white nationalist groups
- My guess would be a cross you make next to a party during the election... or maybe it's supposed to be a target? That said I find it baffling that no one during production pointed out how similar the logo is in it's color scheme with the swastika, and yeah celtic cross is another one that has clear associations for fascists even in Germany.
Imo SPD will use the poor election result to purge anything even approaching social democraticness in their own ranks and go more right as that seems to have been the play of every party so far.
Someone asked AI models who to vote in the German election.
Somewhat surprisingly they all said vote Die Linke. AfD came in last.
Looking at the individual results, they all answered "Yes!" to the question: "Should Germany keep supporting the Ukraine militarily?"
- DeepSeek does NOT understand the core of international geopolitics.
- I have a prompt that makes Deepseek marxist. Here is the response I get, even with internet search turned on:

Place your bets regarding: the judges blocking all the Trump orders; Nothing Ever happens y/n?

They'll ignore the courts as much as they can
Judge threatened to be fired, possibly successful, then nothing happens.
- It will never happen, but man it would be cool to see some Federal Marshalls exchange gunfire with Musk's Blackwater guys. Or even just get really confused, hold each other at gunpoint, and then both sides deflate and give up. Either would be funny.
Unless the defiances broadly and consistently went against the interests of capital, leading to a business revolt that would force Trump’s hand, I guess the only enforcement mechanism would come down to whatever generals want to stick their neck out for either a future more lucrative political/military-industrial career if successful, or a future book deal if not lol
I don't know if the administration is going to openly/explicitly defy these court orders at this point, but they will certainly continue to implicitly or "accidentally" ignore them and get less than a slap on the wrist for that.

Marco Rubio being called Narco Rubio is still pretty funny lol

First

Left-wing presidential candidate @LuisaGonzalezEc denounces anomalies during the counting process and warns that there are about 2,600 vote tally sheets with inconsistencies (this amounts to upwards of 700,000 votes).

- Making some assumptions about that Other vote, and also assuming the indigenous vote would still rather González over Noboa then maybe the center-left will win this time around?
Everyone's just doing this now huh? He's probably right, it's just funny

Bipartisanism wins in Ecuador: Noboa and González head to presidential run-off Hexbear Post

In an unprecedented election, the candidate of the ruling party and the candidate of the Citizen Revolution party monopolized more than 88% of the valid votes, even though there were almost 16 candidates.

Right-wing Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and progressive Luisa González clinched first and second place in the first round of Ecuador’s presidential elections, winning a combined 88% of the valid votes. The two candidates will dispute the Presidency of the Republic on April 13.

Oaxaca Indigenous leader’s killing leaves land defenders’ safety in doubt Hexbear post

Arnoldo Nicolás Romero, a commissioner in Oaxaca’s San Juan Guichicovi municipality, was found shot dead on Jan. 21, hidden behind bushes in a private ranch not far from his community.

After Romero’s death, the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus (UCIZONI) released a statement that condemned his killing and demanded that authorities “promptly” initiate an investigation into his death.

Israel has displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, UNRWA says Hexbear Post

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said in a statement on Monday that the number of Palestinians Israel has displaced in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of its ongoing offensive has reached 40,000.

Dubbed “Operation Iron Wall,” the ongoing Israeli military invasion overtook the northern West Bank in mid-January, leading to the forcible displacement of thousands of residents. On February 10, UNRWA said that “the forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank is escalating at an alarming pace.”

seems American electioneering has done its work. What fucking morons would willingly sacrifice themselves to a neoliberal ghoul.
After Romero’s death, the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus (UCIZONI) released a statement that condemned his killing and demanded that authorities “promptly” initiate an investigation into his death.
I have some trust that the government isnt being a piece of shit, because killing leaders of indigenous groups is fucking shitty
Aaaaaaaaand Israel does a new genocide god fucking dammit

@0__0@hexbear.net

I'll answer your question. First, Ecuador was in a state of chaos during the 1990s, which led to the 2000 military coup against the neoliberal government. The coup was orchestrated by far-left military officers and CONAIE (Organization of the Indigenous). Lieutenant Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez took control of the country, tried to install a Chavista-style government, but failed and Gustavo Noboa (the vice-president at the time and father of Daniel Noboa, the current president) took control of the country with the help of right-wing military officers and the US.

Lieutenant Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez was eventually democratically elected in 2003, but he betrayed the left and promoted neoliberalism, which led to a new crisis. Gutiérrez was ousted and his vice-president, Alfredo Palacio, took power. Palacio's economic minister was Rafael Correa. Correa managed to resolve the economic and political crisis and became so popular that he was eventually elected president, governing with a socialist ideology. During Correa's government, the economy was working well, security was also good and a lot of money was spent on education and healthcare. The US attempted a coup in 2010, but Correa destroyed the coup by literally walking into the headquarters of the coup leaders and slapping them in the face, after which the building was stormed by SWAT forces loyal to Correa and Correa supporters.

Correa chose his vice-president as his successor, Lenin Moreno. But then Lenin betrayed Correa and went back to promoting neoliberalism. And then the Ecuadorian right and the US started waging legal war against Correa, who had been exiled to Belgium. All this led to more crisis and chaos in Ecuador, which is currently suffering from a huge crisis of violence.

Second, Idk if the left is going to lose, if the Correaistas convince Leonidas Iza (CONAIE candidate) to support them, theres literally nothing Noboa can do, legally, to win the election.

But then Lenin betrayed Correa and went back to promoting neoliberalism
You forgot to mention the CONAIE-Correa split, the CONAIE was very important in getting Lucio Gutiérrez elected and then getting him ousted from the government after he sign an agreement with the IMF pro-privatization, so they are a very important.
Correa then lost their supported when he introduce a bill to privatize water in ecuador, which led to them doing the same thing they did with the last guy and started the 2015 protests with mass movilizations and general strikes to show their discontent. And since then the split has continue.
so the question is will Luisa Gonzalez try to gain back the indigenous vote to secure the win or ignore them and try to win with a 1% diference
- Yes, theres a lot I left out, like how Ecuador dollarized their economy and other stuff such as the border conflicts with Uribe. If Correa and CONAIE unite again, that would mean the temporary defeat of the Ecuadorian Right, but the new goverment will have to deal with an economic and security crisis, besides the fact there will be US troops in Peru and inside Ecuador.
- She supported drilling in the national parks, so I doubt it. She's the lesser of two evils, but hardly interested in preserving the Amazon.
Iza is a leftist. Gonzalez is not.

Mayor of Reykjavík dissolves coalition on a whim

We could get a wholly leftist city council because of this

- per capita, the only metric that matters!

Some videos for today from Russia’s special military operation.

Russian FSB recently arrested a Neo-Nazi that attempted recruiting for the Kiev regime’s Nazi “Azov Battalion” in Moscow (unsurprisingly, his body was plastered with one million Nazi tattoos): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--An-Azov-supporter-who-was-trying-to-persuade-Russian-military:5

Russian drones destroyed Kiev regime armored vehicles inside a military warehouse: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Destruction-of-Ukie-militants'-equipment-in-Kharkiv-region:f

A Russian ground drone destroyed a Kiev regime fortified position: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Courier-robotic-ground-drone-sneaks-inside-a-Ukie-bunker!:9

And a special bonus picture -- the dictator Zelensky has become less popular in the US: https://news-pravda.com/img/20250210/536ad608efbd5a66fbb65d3ba3dfaa5d_o.jpg

That second video is incredible. What a payload those drones carried for their size. Also curious what happened to leave the doors battered and opened

Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-openai-bid-4af12827

Archive is acting up for me so no archive link

On Monday, President Javier Milei asked Sonia Cavallo, daughter of former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo, who served as Argentina's ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), to resign. The 51-year-old woman had been appointed in April 2024 despite not residing in the country.

Hours earlier, Domingo Cavallo had been called "unpresentable" by Javier Milei, after raising questions about the government's exchange rate scheme. Cavallo was quickly added to the list of economists denounced by Javier Milei, which includes Carlos Melconian, Ricardo López Murphy and Roberto Cachanosky, among others.

“Domingo Cavallo is often referred to as one of Milei’s mentors. In La Libertad Avanza they insist that it was he who sent Kikuchi to the team, as a kind of support or blessing,” says Juan Luis González in his book El loco.

However, a few months after Javier Milei took office as president, Cavallo began to make some criticisms about the economic direction. In May, Cavallo questioned the fact that he continued to accumulate reserves, although "not to intervene in the market but to feel comfortable with a greater liberalization of the exchange market," amid a slowdown in the rise of prices.

These comments unleashed the fury of Javier Milei, who was quick to call his former idol an "unpresentable." "How is he going to make the dollar go up if I'm taking away all the pesos that are floating around? The dollar has to fall like a piano. I'm going to tell him, especially the unpresentable Cavallo," said the President this Monday, in an interview on A24.

Lmao

Imagine losing you job because of a facebook post your dad made

small news but Google maps changed the Gulf of Mexico to gulf of America

But those abroad still see Gulf of Mexico (with gulf of America in brackets lmao)

but wait where are my international rules and norms
they do this with a few things, mainly border disputes which show differently depending on where you are. still pretty fucked
Deeply unserious
- now thinking about it , did they do somthing like that before with the gulf of California thats not touching california ?
Not really new, you can see the border move depending of where you are using google map. (ei. Sino-Indian-Pakistan border)
Renaming it is so stupid. Would Americans assume the Irish sea was named that because Britain decided the Irish should have it? The fact that it's called the Gulf of Mexico implies American hegemonybecause Mexico is treated as the 'other' in the name.

Scientists Warn Trump's NIH Cuts Will Drop 'Atomic Bomb' On Health Research https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nih-cuts-science_n_67aa3b53e4b0ade4a9a36a1e

H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".

Dear fucking god I thought that had to be a joke

Sponsored by Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), you couldn't create a more joke of a country
This is what happened when you have fascism that is based on shopping malls and having a pool in the backyard. Living in a fascist occupation is enough but living under reddit kommissariat is just humiliating
I can't wait for some stupid American renaming gaza strip as Walmart strip.
I can't wait in 20 years when the Burgerreich builds bronze statue modeled after Elon's favorite funko pops
That’s Russian flag, no?
- DPRK

Hexbear.net's domain is being auctioned as we speak

chapo.chat and shrekland.net still working
- What's up, chapo.chat gang check in.
  Mods/Admins, what's up? Do we need to pony up to buy the domain? I could chip in a few buckaroos if necessary.
This is capitalism's fault
This is indirect proof that Hexbear is part of the USAID psyop program being threatened by DOGE funding cuts.
does anyone understand how this works, would the domain be instantly put up for auction after one missed payment or something?
is it going to be stuck in limbo for at least a week?
That's fucking wild, don't you just love capitalism?

Left-wing presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez denounces anomalies during the counting process and warns that there are about 2,600 vote tally sheets with inconsistencies (this amounts to upwards of 700,000 votes).

Luisa: "We have about 2614 minutes with inconsistencies according to our reports. We have had to face members of the security forces closing the doors of the precincts. They don't allow our delegates, our observers, to enter, who ask them to recount the tally sheets.

Luisa: "There have been anomalies. In Manabí, scanning suddenly stops because the scanners were damaged, the internet goes down. If inconsistencies are solved in Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas, most likely we'd be first in this race."

Luisa: "We do distrust the CNE, I have to say it clearly, I've said it this entire time. We have a CNE president who has not shown that she is the president of the CNE nor that the rules are clear before the electoral contest, but that she is a campaign manager of Mr. Daniel Noboa."

Luisa: "One more lie. [Daniel Noboa] said he won in a single round. They put out an exit poll where they say he wins with 50%. False. We knew that this was false. An exit poll contracted by president Noboa and endorsed by the CNE, which was obviously lying.

Camila Kasawchuan News

Sam Altman says OpenAI bid is sign of Elon Musk's 'insecurity' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3vSkHAHIs4

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
yewtu.be
inv.nadeko.net
yt.artemislena.eu
piped.video

Is there some sane (~~confirming my biases~~ following production distribution) leftist analysis of tech industry?

(i think morozov slightly bypasses it in fighting against tech feudalism, but doesn't go into the weeds).

Say we take facebook/google, their business is ads, which displaces i guess local press (don't need to advertise in local newspaper when you can do geographic ads). Amazon kills local stores and on site servers. Apple makes stuff in locked in system and the only one different from everyone else (pure ip lock in), maybe comparable to nvidia and tesla, that they make unique physical goods protected by ip and goodwill. Uber connects users to drivers, destroying taxi phone operators and licensing, kinda like automated switchboard with union busting on top.

you may find what you're looking for in Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
Rolling analysis podcast: Better offline Tech won't save us
- i doubt i could find charts of number of taxi drivers + supporting staff vs number of uber drivers in audio form
It's definitely textbooky but Digital Labour and Karl Marx by Christian Fuchs is great. It's more focused on labor/digital production structures and was published back in 2014, so a little dated but it's something

last

https://xcancel.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1889028085242122606

mr. uranium, pull the plug on france

That has to be the one of the most pathetic attempts at a joke I've seen by a politician. Macron has zero charisma in this clip.
- french accent doesn't help here tbh

News from UNICEF, 2025-02-07, via ReliefWeb (link below)

Gonzalez supported drilling in the national parks and opposes abortion rights. She supports social spending, but is hardly a leftist.

There are better parties (eg Popular Unity and Pachakutik) but because the news didn't talk about them, very few voted for the actual leftists.

I misread that as Gonzalo for a moment and was having such a
moment
- González is the candidate for the correistas in Ecuador
- Gonzalo opposing abortion rights because he wants to wait for the baby to be born before killing it is a great and terrible bit

~~Chapo.chat bookmarkers stay winning 5 years later~~

wrong mega

oh damn nakedcapitalism turned off comment section

to fallen conspiracy folks

They finally realized how many chuds there are in the comment section lol.
To be honest it’s one of the best comment sections I’ve seen in a site, and I’ve learned a lot from the boomers there over time. Will miss the place for sure.
- they had couple of nice banking boomers, one russian doomer, vaccine cranks and some wild transphobes

The City of Konstantinopil is about to be put under siege.

After Basil Zelenskious has tried to rally support in the West for it Defense and even joined the Churches together, a decisive Battle is about to Start. With the east expected to throw its new Siege Cannons into Battle against the Numerous Merchanaries from the European Citystates.

1453 moment

Last week threads is incorrect week

Senegal Does Away With French Names
https://africanstream.media/senegal-does-away-with-french-names/

Catch a cab in Dakar, Senegal, and you might think you’ve taken a wrong turn and ended up in Paris, thanks to the street names like Avenue Georges-Pompidou, Rue Félix-Faure and Rue Jules-Ferry, among others.
Things are changing, however, under President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who rode an anti-colonial wave into power in March 2024. The duo appear to be on a mission to bolster Senegalese identity and cut ties with France despite worries that they had backed away from their anti-colonial campaign promises.
Seven months into his presidency, Faye called for French troops to pack their bags and leave Senegal, marking a significant pivot in the West African state’s foreign policy. This move is another blow at Françafrique, or the lingering sphere of French influence in West Africa. Senegal is now in league with other states in Africa’s Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Chad, all of whom are busy dialling down their French connections, both cultural and military.
Faye tapped Sonko to head the National Council for Memory and Management of Historical Heritage, a new government agency tasked with renaming streets. The Dakar-based Front for Anti-imperialist, Popular and Pan-African Revolution (FRAPP) is leading the charge for a more Senegalese flavour in the capital’s nomenclature. FRAPP members argue that so many French colonial street names keep painful colonial memories alive.
One particularly bitter memory is the massacre of ‘tirailleurs senegalais’ (Senegalese troops serving the French colonial army) on 1 December 1944. When they protested for better pay, French colonial soldiers opened fire, k*lling as many as 400, according to scholars. Then, in 2012, then-French President François Hollande admitted France’s role in the massacre. He promised to hand over French archives on the incident on its 70th anniversary, but that never happened.
However, on the 80th anniversary, Faye rewrote Senegal’s story with physical markers to ensure the Senegalese never forget their heroes.

Baltic states enthusiastically jump on sinking ship:
https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1889204691323511214

“The Baltic States are switching on energy independence. No more reliance on Russia. No more external control. From this moment on, you are fully connected to Europe,” von der Leyen said."

(edit: deleted the post that was once here, wrong megathread sorry)

Clara Mattei (author of The Capital Order) has become the Director for Heterodox Economics in Tulsa Oklahoma, and last weekend they had their inaugural conference.

Michael Roberts covers it in more detail here.

Sad that they don't just make it a straight up school of Marxism, but I guess that's probably not an easy sell to donor-alumni. But at least one cool thing came from the conference so far: a database tracking the rate of profit in different countries/sectors.

I could have sworn that database existed for years. Also previous article about pettis is interesting

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is SeventyTwoTrillion, Poster of Posters;

Look on my News, ye Mighty, and despair!

russian honeypot hexbear.net has fallen

fucking russian sanctions, can't even pay for domain smh

Ivan you forgot to buy domain, we lose website.
Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is my DNS records!

in news kerfuffle, as of yet capitated king of jordan was simping for trump so much, nearly agreed to be participant in ethnic cleansing, but then walked back (maybe) in a post this newfound position.

I absolutely hate the King of Jordan. I think there has to be a special category in the @LargePenis@hexbear.net "gigachad-cuck rankings" reserved just for him, it's impossible to be more subservient and pathetic than he is.