Bulletins and News Discussion from March 25th to March 31st, 2024 - Friendship Ended With Taiwan, Now China Is My New Best Friend - COTW: Honduras

imagine being Buttigieg right now.

> get told by Obama to drop out in 2020 in exchange for a cushy cabinet appointment where you do nothing

> be told you can be in the spotlight and run next time

> deaths by car at an all time high

> East Palestine train derailment happens and poisons an entire town

> Boeing planes start unraveling in mid-air

> a major bridge gets rammed into and collapses

> all US infrastructure starts collapsing and annihilates any chance you have at being president

In an interview with Israel today, Donald Trump calls for an end to the war in Gaza: "You have to end your war. You have to do it. We have to reach peace. We cannot allow this to continue. Israel has to be very careful, because you lose a lot of the world. You are losing a lot of support.'

Meanwhile, Fetterman:

Use this one weird trick to get liberals to think and care about material conditions.

Very cool protesters have locked themselves to the side of the USNS Harvey Milk to prevent its departure to Gaza.

https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1773806950561816812

A North Korean IT hero drained $62M in some crypto coin!

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For the next four months I'll be studying a subject called "Economy of Historians" in my University. Turns out the professor is a Marxist gigachad and his classes are four hours long, the first two hours we see general economic theory, from Smith to Keynes, Marx and all economic systems. The last two hours it's just him reading through Das Kapital chapter by chapter, line by line.

This is the evil political indoctrination milei was talking about. HELL YEAH.

By the end of this period I'll be the biggest Marxist around here, so you better buckle up, liberals.

Biden is walking back the sanctions on the individual settlers

They're calling him the most spineless man to ever live

Charges dropped against Ontario pigs that killed toddler

They were pursuing a father that kidnapped his kid, they knew the kid was in the vehicle, and the opened fire anyway and killed both of them. Of course the charges were dropped. KKKlanada cops are just as bad as anywhere else

It’s extremely frustrating to hear politicians demonizing Nicaragua for “eroding human rights” and then praise fucking Bukele for being tough on crime.

George Santos, former US congressman, has announced that he will run again, only this time as an independent. He justifies it by saying that he can't remain in the Republican Party, because of "what has been demonstrated in the House of Representatives".

Please let him win again, it will be so fucking funny.

Have you seen that when Genocide Joe is giving a speech and a group of protestors yell things like "Genocide Joe! How many dead kids is enough for you?" to interrupt the rally... the pro-Genocide Joe crowd begins to chant "Four more years!"?

Are they asking for four more years of genocide?

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Regardless of this, I know History will be the final judge here. And History will not be kind to them.

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Some Zionist with a "NUKE GAZA NOW" sign getting owned in the marketplace of ideas:
https://twitter.com/gfunkposting/status/1773724461553885373

In totally unrelated news, China has now made it easier to get permanent residence in the country.
If I spoke Chinese...

New Gallup polls dropped

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Dumbest people on Earth

guy who thinks that it's ridiculous that madman communist dictator Putin could possibly accuse Ukraine, the nation which has previously and continues to this very day to proudly state that they commit terrorist attacks against Russia, of doing a terrorist attack against Russia

but also thinks that Medvedev himself or something personally drove the boat into the bridge

you couldn't pay me to look at news subreddits or lib twitter so I'm assuming that most of the people there are exactly that guy right now

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in a post that if the UN resolution ordering a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas is not followed, Colombia will break off diplomatic relations with Israel.

Zionist man gets his shit rocked https://twitter.com/i/status/1773798359012090193

Western leftists: Do you condemn Hamas?
Palestinian communists: Do you commend Hamas?
PFLP poster: https://twitter.com/LiuBeised/status/1772311666773913955

archive.today • Gazans Drown Trying to Retrieve Aid From Sea, Authorities Say - The New York Times

The authorities in Gaza said on Tuesday that around a dozen people had drowned while trying to retrieve airdropped aid that had fallen into the Mediterranean. Officials called for an end to airdrops over the territory and an increase in deliveries by land.

Putin - at a meeting with pilots in Torzhok:

This is complete nonsense - the possibility of an attack on some other countries, on Poland, the Baltic states, scares the Czechs. Just nonsense! Another way to deceive your population and extract additional costs from people, force them to bear this burden on their shoulders, that’s all.

Putin on military spending by Russia and the enemy:

Let’s take 2022, military spending, because the results for 2023 are being summed up and calculated, 2024 is too early to say. According to our data, we spent 3.5% of the country's GDP on defense spending. Let’s take data that is not ours, let’s take data from the Stockholm Peace Institute, international data, they have the following calculation: The United States spent 3.5% of GDP on defense, Russia - 4%. Let's say Israel is 4.5%. Ukraine spent 33.5% in 2022. But in absolute terms, what a difference it makes. In 2022, the United States spent, God willing, 811 billion dollars, and the Russian Federation - 72 billion. 72 and 811 - the difference is noticeable, more than ten times.

The United States spends, its defense spending is approximately 40% of global defense spending, 39% of global spending is the United States. And Russia – 3.5%. And, keeping this ratio in mind, are we going to fight with NATO or something? This is just nonsense!

Putin - about attacks on NATO airfields:

If they deliver F-16s, they talk about it, like they are training pilots, I think you understand this like no one else, better than others, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy their planes just as we destroy their tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment today, including multiple launch rocket systems. Of course, if they are used from airfields of third countries, they become a legitimate target for us, no matter where they are located. And the F-16s are also carriers of nuclear weapons, and we will also have to take this into account when organizing combat work.

Putin - on jingoism:

When I listen to our - there are such people everywhere, in any society - jingoistic patriots, including those who say that Russia is only for Russians, then a feeling of anxiety arises in me. Because we have 190 ethnic groups living on the territory of the country and some nationalities are represented by millions of peoples, as soon as we begin to implement these destructive thoughts about the fact that everyone else is strangers here, we will ruin the country. And the main victims will be the Russian people. Therefore, you need to treat this component very adultly, seriously, not wave your arms and wag your tongue, but think when you pronounce every word, every phrase. To think that we have one big united Motherland.

Anyone gets the feeling that the US is going to press for a hot war and prevent truce in Ukraine no matter what?

People are just driving past the barricades in front of the collapsed bridge now

Apparently the Boeing whistleblower made a statement to the effect that if he were to die, it would not be a suicide.

UNSC passed ceasefire resolution, US abstained. Can't wait for Israel to immediately invade Rafah

Matt Christman hacked the cargo ship with his Neuralink chip. GUYNET is active.

AIPAC lobbyist runs to the restroom after confronted by CODEPINK.

Bad actress had to refresh her crocodile tears after called out on money to bomb children instinctively brought out her evil smirk.

Israel's Supreme Court just issued a ruling that the Haredi must register/participate in the draft and is freezing state funding to yeshivas. They can freeze state funding because the funding was part of a law found unconstitutional in 2017 that established the funding and excluded the Haredi from the draft. Since there has been no new law, they are cancelling the funding and saying the Haredi will have to participate in the draft by August. Only some of the yeshivas are getting their funds cut immediately. Most will get funds until August.

So yes, civil war is still on the table.

Cross-post about the Baltimore Bridgen't:

The Baltimore Bridge has collapsed after collision with a cargo ship. The bridge had about 30k daily crossings and it appears to be part of an outerbelt system, so while it will detour lots of traffic (including regional distribution hubs, i.e. Amazon), I think the bigger effect will be on shipping because Baltimore is the 18th largest port by tonnage and the only way in is full of bridge.

Update: The port is indefinitely closed until the channel can be cleared to a depth of 50 feet. My initial guess is 2-4 weeks for port reopening and 6 months-?? for bridge replacement. I have no idea.

The Baltimore Port ranked first in the nation in handling automobiles, light trucks, farm and construction machinery, as well as imported sugar and gypsum. The Port ranked second in the country for exporting coal... Moreover, in 2023, the Port of Baltimore handled a record 52.3 million tons of international cargo, valued at $80.8 billion.

Notably, this may negatively affect rumored union action that was already prompting companies to reroute cargo to the West coast.

Something to consider, I guess.

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The parasites that ruined Florida have been migrating north towards the Appalachians

https://archive.is/OQvMP

Boomers fed up with Florida are moving to southern Appalachia, fueling a population spike in longtime rural communities

I give my deep sympathy to any Appalachian folks here for the encroaching loss of their distinct landscape and historical culture as the scum of the earth destroy it with their golf courses and HOA nazis

Human tank shields

Danish state media is currently running a great headline about how Danish shipping parasite Maersk claims to have been attacked by Ansarallah in the Red Sea, while also further down the main page running a story about how Maersk either rented or loaned the ship that did bridge-9/11 in Baltimore. Just all around a great day to be Maersk

Reddit banned RussianWarFootage, UkraineRussiaReport gone private. Pro-ukraine opinions only on Reddit.

Russia pushes for an end to the sanctions control system against North Korea at the UN.

On Thursday (28) at the UN, Russia blocked the renewal of the mandate of the experts who oversee the application of sanctions against North Korea, a veto denounced by the majority of Security Council members concerned about the development of Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Since 2006, North Korea has been the target of Security Council sanctions, mainly related to its nuclear program, which were reinforced several times in 2016 and 2017. Since 2019, Russia and China have been trying in vain to convince the Council to ease these measures, which have no expiration date.

In this context, Moscow today vetoed a resolution aimed at extending by one year the operation of the committee of experts in charge of monitoring sanctions, whose reports are a benchmark in the field.

"The commission continues to focus its work on irrelevant issues that are not commensurate with the problems facing the [Korean] peninsula," commented Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.

"This veto is not a sign of concern for the North Korean people or for the effectiveness of the sanctions. It is about Russia getting the freedom to violate sanctions in search of weapons to use against Ukraine," denounced British ambassador Barbara Woodward.

In addition to the United Kingdom, the United States also denounced the veto as an attempt by Moscow to hide its growing military cooperation with Pyongyang.

"Russia's actions today have cynically undermined international peace and security, all to promote the corrupt agreement Moscow has signed with the DPRK [North Korea's official name]," said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller

Communists referring to people they want to kill: "Deeply Unserious"

Libs responding to people they want to kill: "Hope this helps"

who else?

cw suicide, Canada, maid

Canada continues their aktion t4 program with the "assisted suicide" of a neurodivergant person with no clear terminal medical conditions. Someone with autism and ADHD struggles to exist in modern capitalist society and of course the solution in killing them. I love being afraid of bringing up mental health and the possibility of being neurodivergant to medical practitioners because their answer might be "have you considered suicide?"

lot of random uyghur discourse on twitter today, zionists commit another massive crime or something?

colbert be like: there is nothing more catholic than support genocide in the holy land

that will be a fun Insurance claim..

Discussions about the rebuilding of the Key Bridge are apparently underway with a projected timeline of 18 months to several years and a projected cost of $400-800 million.

So it'll probably take $1 billion and it will never be completed. Alternatively, we can hire the Chinese to get it done for $20 in 6 days.

CW: keeping it vague but potential courtesy SA warning

In celebrity news, Australian actress Rebel Wilson has publicly accused Sacha Baron Cohen of sexually assaulting her, presumably on the set of Grimsby. It seems that karma may finally be swinging back around for this racist piece of shit.

Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers

My theory on the Crocus attack:

• Extremist elements in the Ukrainian military or intelligence, possibly at a high level, were plotting with ISIS for the attack.
• Someone with knowledge of that rightfully thought "this is fucked" and reported to Zelensky's government.
• Zelensky, having very little power over his subordinates, forwarded the information to the US government.
• US publicly and vaguely warns about the attack just before it is scheduled, hiding their source and drawing scrutiny away from Ukraine should the attack happen.

Ukraine finally managed to blow up the bridge! Fuck you Putler 😡

Francis Scott Key Bridge destroyed.

In Baltimore, a container ship rammed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the entire arched structure and spans to collapse. There are dead and wounded; it is not yet known how many cars were on the bridge at the time of the collapse.

The bridge has stood since 1977. (reports about that ship has sunk are unconfirmed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

Al Mayadeen clip of Al-Qassam snipers owning IOF goons:
https://twitter.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1773129889639551297

Accurate in hitting the mark and no bullet leaves their rifles except to settle in the head of an "israeli" soldier

Damn, they sure have a way with words lmao

https://twitter.com/hahauenstein/status/1773267480506495000

“Yeah the Prime Minister quoted the part of the Bible where God tells them to commit genocide, but do you have a signed and notarized Declaration of Genocidal Intent form? I thought not.”

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.

From the Resistance News Network:

🚨 The sounds of explosions are still heard in Aleppo, Syria, as the IOF launches what local sources are calling the most violent IOF attack on Syria in recent history.

US-aligned terrorist organizations in Idlib exploited the zionist attack and coordinated the launch of several batches of drones with the zionist aggression in order to confuse the Syrian air defense systems.

It was never about Hamas.

UN Security Council adopts resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire

Amerikkka abstained, and the resolution also calls for the immediate release of all hostages. It's unclear to me if they mean the release of only those being held in Gaza or if Palestinians being held captive would also be released. For some reason I think they only mean the captive Israelis should be released

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right national security minister of Israel, says “the United Nations is a wasteland” in reaction to the UN Security Council vote.

lol

I like how all those writers who called themselves "popularists" (i.e. the theory of politics = doing what's popular) have gone silent when it comes to Gaza.

I think Matt Iglesias called himself a popularist but I would need to double check.

Zionist entity drone strikes UNIFIL patrol in Lebanon

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-drone-targets-unifil-patrol--injures-4--sources

It's noteworthy that UNIFIL is widely recognized an enemy asset by the resistance and supporters because of UNIFIL collaboration with the entity, the US, and France in collecting intelligence on Hezbollah and dismantling resistance launch sites.

So the zionists are bombing the UN peacekeepers that work for Uncle Sam.

Addendum: (I believe that a portion of UNIFIL is Chinese peacekeepers who focus on landmine removal. Maybe someone knows better how much autonomy countries get over their detachments of UN peacekeeping forces?)

Estonia sending one guy to fight the Houthis and Russia in the red sea.

I have started tagging hasbara on for my own sanity, and it's actually kinda surprising seeing how much these guys get around once you start tagging them. I am not looking at worldnews or politics, but I've started to notice it's mostly the same usernames over and over again.

Hot take: Macron is going full support for Ukraine because they are genuinely worried about a terrorist attack during the Paris Olympics.

video of the Dali cargo ship colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending the whole thing a good chunk into the water

https://twitter.com/kf18616835/status/1772566837571539264

EDIT: the bridge is a mile long so this is only one section, I shouldn't have said "the whole thing"

I can't believe it why did Putin do this.

Bridge was destroyed by USA as a false flag to distract from their operatives getting caught doing terrorism in Russia.

Gunned down two unarmed Palestinians waving white flags. CW NSFW/L MURDER

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One was told to approach and was shot. The other walking back was chased by a tank and shot. The Zionazis then took a bulldozer and shoved the bodies in a trash pile.

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Maybe infrastructure should be constructed in such a way that 100K ton battering rams don't have to pass underneath them

yo wtf is wrong with Italians

Hot on the heels of Air Canada's AI chat bot making up policies, NYC is following suit, giving illegal advice in response to questions:

The problem, however, is that the city’s chatbot is telling businesses to break the law.

Five months after launch, it’s clear that while the bot appears authoritative, the information it provides on housing policy, worker rights, and rules for entrepreneurs is often incomplete and in worst-case scenarios “dangerously inaccurate,” as one local housing policy expert told The Markup.

https://archive.is/n9XF3

Praying to every god that Netanyahu dies during surgery. Let's see if God's real.

ukraine experts are forever doomed to believe that the yearly wave of Russians getting called up for regular military service is connected to the war

Another slammer banger

Zionist settler: Khamas terrorists are targeting civilians like us.

Also Zionist settler: We feel that we are civil soldiers.

https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1773013411531497925

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/middleeast/un-security-council-gaza-israel-ceasefire-intl/index.html

Israel cancels Washington visit after US allows UN Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass

''Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on X his country would not abide by the resolution.

“The state of Israel will not cease fire,” Katz said. “We will destroy Hamas and continue to fight until the last of the hostages returns home.”'

Come on US, do a mutiny on your land aircraft carrier already, just like in 1963

Russia offically Acuses USA / BRitian and Ukraine of the Crocus Terror attack ...

Doesn't seem like the greatest development

Not posted in a while and this isn't strictly news but I figured if anyone keeps track of Western misinformation around the Ukrainian war and the events leading up to it then you can add this to your "There are no Nazis in Ukraine" section.

I've been having this argument with my brother for a few days now. I had most recently brought up the anti-Roma pogroms post-2014, one of which is described in detail here. Of course this wasn't good enough as a source for my brother even though it directly links to the court's ruling on the Roma's claims for compensation for being forced from their homes by local authorities after anti-Roma riots on the Ukrainian Court website. So I pulled up the court document and had it translated. Some choice quotes from the Judge's decision below:

On the legality of the local assembly's decision concerning the Roma: "The court states that the decision No. 1 indirectly instructed the Executive Committee of the Council of the need to convey to residents of Roma nationality the opinion of the residents of the village on the issue of their residence in the village, which according to Article 8 of the Law 'On Local Self-Government in Ukraine' is a form of direct participation in solving issues of local importance."

Regarding the village head's actions in signing and announcing the assembly's decision: "As for the actions of the village head to sign and announce this decision, in the opinion of the court, they do not have independent significance in the aspect of violation of the rights of the plaintiffs but are actions of writing the decision of the general meeting of citizens for its legitimation in the context of the possibility of further consideration in the activities of the Council and the Executive Committee."

On the court's view of the village assembly's decision's impact: "At the same time, the defendant village head did not personally make this decision; such a decision was made by the territorial community represented by the village council, which is not a defendant in the case and against which claims have not been filed."

On the issue of moral damages: "Since the court came to the conclusion that there are no grounds for recognizing the actions and inactions of the defendants as illegal, there are also no grounds for the recovery of moral damages, taking into account the absence of signs of illegality in the actions and inactions of the defendants."

If I was ISIS I would claim I destroyed the Baltimore bridge

send news

Do you mean send nudes?

No, I mean send news, load up the seventytwotrillion mega

Joe Lieberman has died after falling at age 82.

Dude you know a union is fking useless when the company offers to pay part of your dues

https://archive.is/AfITY

Dipshit know-nothings called "economists" say people wanting to not sell their blood to afford luxuries like food and a roof over their head are lazy entitled idiots that don't know what's good for the economy

Economists say you’re wrong for wanting prices to start falling—and they point to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Here's a fun game, every time you see a ghoul say or write the words "The Economy" replace it with either corporate/shareholder profits, and see how many times you go "oh shit that makes more sense!"

Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high.

First mUh EcOnOmY, and already we can really see what these mongrels are whining about

Maybe they’re not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago. And they’re mostly heading higher still.

THE PRICE IS TOO DAMN HIGH

Consider a 2-liter bottle of soda: In February 2021, before inflation began heating up, it cost an average of $1.67 in supermarkets across America. Three years later? That bottle is going for $2.25 — a 35% increase.

"THE POORS SUGAR WATERS PRICE GONE UP!"

Or egg prices. They soared in 2022, then fell back down. Yet they’re still 43% higher than they were three years ago.

I wonder why

Likewise, the average used-car price: It rocketed from roughly $23,000 in February 2021 to $31,000 in April 2022. By last month, the average was down to $26,752. But that’s still up 16% from February 2021.

Wouldn’t it be great if prices actually fell — what economists call deflation? Who wouldn’t want to fire up a time machine and return to the days before the economy rocketed out of the pandemic recession and sent prices soaring?

Who needs a time machine when you can actually MANAGE THE FUCKING PRICES

At least prices are now rising more slowly — what’s called disinflation. On Friday, for example, the government said a key price gauge rose 0.3% in February, down from a 0.4% gain in January. And compared with a year earlier, prices were up 2.5%, way down from a peak of 7.1% in mid-2022.

Econ ghoul sophistry. They're investing a word for the phrase "we overguessed it would go up by 10%, so aren't you happy the prices went up by 9% instead?"

But those incremental improvements are hardly enough to please the public, whose discontent over prices poses a risk to President Joe Biden’s re-election bid.

INCREASED INFLATION ISNT A FUCKING IMPROVEMENT WHEN THE MINIMUM WAGE HASNT CHANGED SINCE 2009

“Most Americans are not just looking for disinflation,’’ Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, said last year. “They’re looking for deflation. They want these prices to be back where they were before the pandemic.’’

If you won't pay people more, no shit they'll want to spend less you fuckubg leech!

Many economists caution, though, that consumers should be careful what they wish for. Falling prices across the economy would actually be an unhealthy sign.

Many economists are frauds that couldn't tell you how much of the U.S GDP is fake fluff made up of financial transactions between the finance imperialists and how much of the U.S GDP is actual industrial production

“There are,’’ the Bank of England warns, “more consequences from falling prices than meets the eye.’’

The fucking gangsters that are the banksters of England can blow it up their ass

What could be so bad about lower prices?

Bet you're gonna tell us why it's good for people to starve.

WHAT IS DEFLATION?

A fetish that is the inverse of inflation

Deflation is a widespread and sustained drop in prices across the economy. Occasional month-to-month drops in consumer prices don’t count. The United States hasn’t seen genuine deflation since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Causes by finance ghouls destroying themselves and taking the world with them

Japan has experienced a much more recent bout of deflation. It is only now emerging from decades of falling prices that began with the collapse of its property and financial markets in the early 1990s.

Tough shit, maybe they should put their imperialist government on an airplane and dive-bomb it into a volcano.

What's wrong with inflation?

“Although lower prices may seem like a good thing,’’ Banco de España, the Spanish central bank, says on its website, “deflation can in fact be highly damaging to the economy.’’

Throwing your ghoulish selves under a moving tank would help the economy

How so? Mainly because falling prices tend to discourage consumers from spending. Why buy now, after all, if you can purchase what you want — cars, furniture, appliances, vacations — at a lower price later?

FUCK RIGHT OFF INTO THE SEA YOU GODDAMN SNAKES

The reality is that the economy’s health depends on steady consumer purchases. In the United States, household spending accounts for around 70% of the entire economy. If consumers were to pull back, en masse, to await lower prices, businesses would face intense pressure to cut prices even more to try to jump-start sales.

GOOD

In the meantime, employers might have to lay off waves of employees or cut pay — or both. Unemployed people, of course, are even less likely to spend, so prices would likely keep falling. All of which risks triggering a “deflationary spiral’’ of price cuts, layoffs, more price cuts, more layoffs. And on and on. Another recession could follow.

Guess what I think should be cut to stave off a recession

It was to prevent that very kind of economic nastiness that explains why the Bank of Japan resorted to negative interest rates in 2016 and why the Fed kept U.S. rates near zero for seven straight years during and after the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Deflation exerts another painful effect, too: It hurts borrowers by making their inflation-adjusted loans more expensive.

ARE THERE ANY BENEFITS OF DEFLATION?

It’s certainly true that Americans can make their paychecks go further when prices are falling. If food or gasoline prices were to tumble, households would surely find it less painful to afford groceries or their commutes to work — as long as they remained employed.

Fuck off, you try to raise wages, you'll say people will lose their jobs, you try and raise buying power, you'll say people will lose their jobs, you try and say you'll do anything to materially improve the lives of the people and your knee-jerk instinct is to threaten their lives by threatening their employment. You know what we call folks that want to behave like that? Robber-barons and slavers.

Some economists even question the notion that deflation poses a serious economic threat. In 2015, researchers at the Bank for International Settlements, a forum for the world’s central banks, reviewed 140 years of deflationary episodes in 38 economies and reached this conclusion: The correlation between falling prices and economic growth “is weak and derives mostly from the Great Depression.’’

Those few economics can actually use a bit of common sense materialism to figure out they don't actually know shit and base their entire theories off of one fuck up they themselves caused.

But the exception was a doozy: From 1929-1933, U.S. economic output plummeted by a third, prices sank by a quarter and the unemployment rate shot up from 3% to a crushing 25%.

Yet again, who's fault was it?

The bank’s researchers said the biggest economic risk came not from falling prices for goods and services but rather from a freefall in the price of assets — stocks, bonds and real estate. Those collapsing assets, in turn, can topple banks that hold crumbling investments or that made loans to struggling real estate developers and homebuyers.

Oh no, they let the cat of truth out of the bag at the last minute like they always do. It's the finance bros fault!

The damaged banks may then cut off credit — the lifeblood of the broader economy.

Ghouls lived on borrowed debt

The likely result? A painful recession

For us, not them. They'll get bailed out like always.

Yesterday, Mexico's Congress approved a ban on so-called homosexual conversion therapies. The big controversy was the vote of the National Action Party (PAN).

The PAN voted almost unanimously against the bill, which outraged internet users and members of the LGBT+ community. The reason: the party's candidates in Mexico City and for president claim to "defend" the community.

The presidential campaign is about to begin, and the PAN candidate for the presidency, Xochitl Galvez, has already started with this bombshell to explain.

CW NSFW/L DEAD BODIES

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Over 60 martyrs ascended and over 160 Palestinians are wounded after the IOF once again opened fire on 30,000 Palestinians gathered to receive aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in the northern #Gaza Strip, which has become a death trap.

Machine guns, helicopters, and drones of the US-funded IOF massacred the starving citizens. This is the fifth day in a row that the IOF has opened fire on Gazans in the famine-stricken north waiting for aid.

Over 500 Palestinians have now ascended to martyrdom as a result of IOF fire while waiting for aid in the last two weeks, starting from the Flour Massacre.*

Zionazi attacks on Norther Syria co-ordinated with HTS takfiri swine.

At least 30 martyrs. Developing.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/syria--israeli-aggression-on-aleppo-coincides-with-armed-gro

I once read that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the state of Israel.

Critical support to... the White House Press Corp for apparently nonstop theft from Air Force One:

Everyone, it appears, is pilfering from Air Force One. And it’s gotten so bad that last month, NBC correspondent KELLY O’DONNELL, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, included a terse reminder to colleagues that taking items off the plane was not allowed and reflected poorly on the press corps as a whole, several individuals who saw the off-the-record email confirmed.

https://archive.is/dboCM

In the series of "usa realizes that it holds all the cards actually", israel will send delegation to usa after cancelling the trip 2 days ago. Apparently they still want to invade rafah though

Have you ever been alive just to flex on Joe Lieberman? No? Well you can now.

Denmark is selling 24 vintage F-16 warplanes, scheduled to be replaced with F-35's to Argentina. In all likelihood the sale is made on orders from Washington as the evil empire is afraid that China will get the deal, causing American power over Argentina to fade.

Some politicians are angry that the warplanes were not given to Ukraine, like it has already happened with 19 other planes. However Washington chose differently and the Danish government is happy to oblige their masters.

The wheels on the bus go round and round / Round and round, round and round

DOD in early talks to fund a peacekeeping force in Gaza - POLITICO

U.S. officials have been clear the plan would not include American boots on the ground.

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Spencer Ackerman

The finest minds at the Pentagon are like “hmm, but what if Gaza had a different occupier ”

https://bsky.app/profile/attackerman.bsky.social/post/3korpprtfzq2x

The Newgrounds logo in the top left corner is just

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New media blitz discussing rape and sexual assault of israeli hostages during captivity by Hamas. The account quite frankly seems believable enough at first blush. Hamas has apparently released a response criticizing the account's truthfulness, but of course the western press isn't covering that with any kind of detail (such that I can't even find it!) and instead uncritically repeating the claims of the victim and Israeli politicians bloviating about why they have to continue genocide "tO sAvE tHe HoStAgEs" as if their operations have anything to do with that at this point.

Even if the allegations are true, which is at least plausible, the timing and media strategy seems more in response to the recent UN ceasefire vote than actually seeking justice in any meaningful sense of the word.

Are any of you sickos still following the Ukraine frontline stuff enough to know if anything significant has happened since Avdiivka fell? I keep hearing that Russia is advancing basically across the entire line of contact but haven't heard of any big wins in a little while. Rumors of a Kharkov offensive?

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Massive wide spread Spectrum outtage across the country last night. Particularly hard hit was LA.

Wonder if something silly is about to go down?

Major protests in solidarity with the resistance have renewed in Amman, Jordan during the past several days. The focus of the protests is the embassy of the occupier, with which the Hashemite puppet regime retains numerous agreements and close ties. The police enforcers of the Hashemite regime have continued their months-long crackdown against the overwhelmingly pro-Palestine population and responded with the usual state violence.

CW: police, beating, descriptions of violence

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To be clear, most of the reports were from the night before

Libs on Twitter are going full QAnon about the attack in Russia.

Yes I got first!

Well, kind of.

Here's a photo from yesterday's demonstration in memory of the Coup of 1976. Meanwhile, the government, through official channels, officially challenged the 30,000 victims number of the dictatorship and uploaded their own video which tries to "tell the whole story", which goes like there was a war and "the other side" were bloodlust terrorists (Even though by the time the coup happened, the guerrillas were all battered) and the actual number of disappeared people is 8,700 and there's no genocide. This is the first time ever in which a government has made a very clear genocide denial case, at least regarding this case of genocide in particular (This government also denies there's a genocide in Palestine and also it is common for many governments to deny that the "Conquest of the Desert", the expansion of the State through native lands in Patagonia, constitutes a genocide). This is extremely dangerous.

CENTCOM is claiming Ansarallah struck a Chinese-owned ship with multiple missiles

Anybody see anything about this from a source that isn't the great satan?

Geopolitical Economy Report: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN human rights expert explains [20m video]

Includes an analysis that say 99% of Israel's arms come from and (1% from ). Calls for sanctions and an arms embargo.

EDIT: It should be noted that Ben Norton is wrong in this video about the resolution being binding, though. UNSC resolutions can be binding, but this one was not. Which should be no shock to anyone: the U.S. would have vetoed it if it had been a binding resolution.

Al-Qassam Brigades release video of attack using TBG shell against group of "Israeli" soldiers in building:
https://twitter.com/EFPafficionado/status/1773784692086477202

Clip of an ordinary RPG vs TBG:
https://twitter.com/Sensenecai/status/1773787919196582168

It seems Germany restored UNWRA funding and increased it? It's like 45-50 Million USD too. Shouldn't have paused it in the first place but I'm kind of surprised. I think the US might be the only nation left which didn't restore funding at this point.

The Resistance is beginning to take up arms against the traitorous PA:

https://twitter.com/EFPafficionado/status/1774195700944740860
https://twitter.com/EFPafficionado/status/1774200108352983365
https://twitter.com/IbnRiad/status/1774210227061006728

Palestinians forced to swim to get salt water soaked "aid"

Excellent analysis from Hezbollah official news/information outlet: https://english.alahednews.com.lb/75731/269

There is no doubt that those behind the attackers had calculated that their escape towards Ukraine would achieve a certain goal, whether they succeeded in crossing or not. This means that the planner of this attack wanted them to head towards the border with Ukraine.

This leads us to believe that the party behind them wanted them to be arrested or liquidated in that region around the Ukrainian border or for their crossing of the Russian-Ukrainian border to be exposed if they succeeded in doing so.

Therefore, this party wants to suggest that Kiev is linked to this attack in one way or another, similarly to what happened shortly after the Nord Stream bombing, when the Western media deliberately pointed the finger of blame at Kiev. In other words, the planner wanted to leave evidence of Kiev’s role in the terrorist act, regardless of whether that evidence was accurate or not.

The objective of the heinous terrorist act was to create Russia’s 9/11, with the media and intelligence sources blaming Ukraine for it. That is, whoever planned this wants to direct the attention of Russian decision makers towards Kiev and pin the Ukrainian government into a corner leaving them with one option – the option of accepting a political solution imposed by Russia.

Naturally, the narrative that Moscow wanted this is false, as it is not part of its political and moral manners to resort to this type of deception while it is winning on the ground at least.

Hence, the search must focus on those for whom Ukraine has become a burden, those who want to declare Ukraine’s imminent defeat, who are looking for a way to get down from the tree or justifications for a humiliating retreat, and who are afraid to announce this publicly and are looking for a way out of their predicament. This only applies to the Americans and their British allies, after they failed to secure Russian support to backtrack in the Middle East following the Al-Aqsa Flood and its disastrous consequences for Washington and London.

The claims of responsibility by Daesh are nothing but camouflage and deception. Its main goal is to create a space to meet Moscow halfway and to make room for negotiations and a settlement based on what the West likes to claim is a common enemy – Daesh.

In addition, it allows the West to network between different files, especially between Ukraine and the Middle East, for the purpose of bartering on the basis that Daesh is active in Syria and Iraq, where Russian and American spheres of influence intersect and compete.

Washington has always used this terrorist organization to achieve political and geopolitical goals and has always tried to network and barter between the Middle Eastern and Ukrainian files to no avail.

Washington realizes that Russian advances on the global stage from Ukraine and the Middle East to Africa and Asia, all the way to South America is accelerating and is supported by Russia’s allies, especially China and the Axis of Resistance. It also realizes that Washington and its allies have become unable to stop it.

One of the examples of this inability is the Al-Aqsa Flood, in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, in Syria and Iraq. Another is Russia and China’s thwarting of the American draft resolution in the UN Security Council, which Washington needed to address the results of the Al-Aqsa Flood in accordance with its interests. Further evidence of American inability was represented by the Nigerien government’s cancellation of the defense cooperation agreement with Washington.

The role of Washington and London in the terrorist attack in Moscow is clear as daylight. There is no need to pay attention to the false statements and condemnations issued by the White House for this heinous crime. The American dilemma is extensive and is increasing day after day. The fact that opponents of the United States are ignoring the American desire for a settlement is only making Washington mad and hysterical.

What frightens Washington most today is its realization that time is not on its side and that its opponents are playing the game of time. Therefore, it is trying to push them to listen and accept some of its interests. To achieve this, it uses all means, including organized cross-border terrorism.

this guys is speculating that the ship lost power before the crash

So the collaborator oligarchs that are conducting genocide in West Papua had the audacity to ask the Western mining conglomerate Freeport to invest in downstream industries and they are complaining.

Freeport warns copper export ban could cost Indonesia $2 billion in lost revenue

Classic

Elements of the Russian Pacific fleet have reportedly entered the Rea Sea.
Looks like two ships so far. I would assume they're just travelling to some port in Eastern Russia, but given that the Houthis are still attacking US military ships in the area, there is potential for some misunderstandings here

Another one: https://www.palestineaction.org/tamworth-shutdown/

Relentless direct action has secured another victory in the fight against Israel’s arms trade, as Elbit Systems are forced to sell their ‘Elite KL’ factory in Tamworth.

There is a new movie from Russia called Zero Cosmonaut (trailer) based on the Italian hoax about how the USSR sent countless test subjects to die in space before Yuri Gagarin finally succeeded.

In this film, the evil Soviet Union sent a WOMAN (based on the original hoax where some Italian radio operators apparently picked up on a woman’s voice in space, or maybe because women are seen as less valuable so they are disposable for space missions if you want to be a lib about it) who became the first human to enter the orbit before her spacecraft came into trouble and needed to be rescued by some amateur ham radio operators on earth.

You cannot make this shit up! Russia as a country is truly a joke! Imagine turning foreigners’ ridicule of your success into a movie lol.

The premiere is on April 24, 2024. A spaceship with the first person on board, Lyudmila Alexeeva, finds itself in a dire situation. Orbiting in unmanned mode, the ship suddenly stops responding to signals from the Earth control center. Fear and uncertainty grip the cosmonaut, realizing that returning to Earth is becoming less likely.

With no communication with Earth and all hopes dwindling, Lyudmila is forced to make a risky decision - to try to find a way back home on her own. However, just when hope seems lost, an unexpected distress signal is picked up by a ham radio operator on Earth. Now begins a race against time, where every minute could be crucial in saving Lyudmila and her ship. Will she be able to overcome all challenges and return to Earth?

Russia hitting a bunch of powerplants tonight

Bird flu's spread to cows in the US, or at least its finally being detected as shitty as industrial farms and disease control/prevention are in Burgerland

Just read an article that talks about imperialism, neo-colonialism, coloniality, decoloniality and feminism that was funded by the NED.

We believe in collective movements and are interested in further observing the growing connectivity within and without the region, especially in the last few years: from Thailand to Myanmar and Hong Kong, as seen in the Milk Tea Alliance and pro-democracy movements. These show us the power of the people, who are constantly building political solidarity for a common goal. Our shared past (i.e. colonialism) still shapes our shared present struggle for an inclusive democracy.

Anti-imperialism in form but imperialism in substance.

Kulak literally feels the heat of climate change, colonizes pond and expreses their desire for a sterile pool in place of a wildlife filled pond

I knew right away it was a newt. The sucking, or rather, clenching sensation on my skin had become a surprisingly familiar sensation, given all the amphibians also seeking to reduce their body temperature on this extraordinarily hot day in our watering hole.

The first time I sensed it as I floated, I absentmindedly felt up my leg for the cause of that curious feeling. I was shocked when I found the slimy, bright green creature. I tore it off and flung it far away with surely unsurvivable vehemence.

Their first instinct is to throw an animal, good start

I regret doing that as later I learned it was likely endangered.

But not bad you threw it as far as possible, only that it's endangered

Prior to the heat dome, I used to think the effects of climate change on our farm were manageable. I must admit that I did not have a firm grasp on the immediacy and severity of the situation, and I had no idea I would feel it so personally.

As always no one (in the imperial core) thinks climate change will happen to them, it's one of those things that happens to other people on the news and twitter

I can now swim with creepy crawlies without feeling I have to kill them all, but that is the extent of my increased environmentalism.

They accidentally made a wildlife sanctuary pond to fight fires, and now they act magnanimous about not exterminating it so they don't have to share with various animals

MFW the walls start speaking Arabic (CW: gunfire and IOF goons getting owned):
https://twitter.com/revolutionaryem/status/1772335549438902562

Corina Yoris, the candidate chosen by the Venezuelan opposition to replace Maria Corina Machado, has complained that she is not being allowed to register as a candidate. "My rights as a Venezuelan citizen are being violated".

With just a few hours to go until the deadline, the opposition parties authorized by the CNE to register candidates are unable to access the registration system. During Yoris' speech, the campaign put up a television to prove that the system is not accepting registrations.

Yoris is opposed to socialism and communism; she says that the free market regulates prices, that communism was responsible for the death of millions and that the ideology resulted with Venezuela becoming divided.

Holy shit, they keep choosing the most unpopular dipshit to run against Maduro. Her wikipedia page was created literally 2 days ago, she lacks a spanish version of it.

Remember when Trump did his infrastructure week

Good times

Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins comes out against the Garrick club's men-only policy while revealing that he himself is a member of it. For those keeping score, the Guardian is the magazine that broke the story about the club's membership list leaking, but declined to mention that one of their most published opinion authors is also on the list.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/garrick-club-member-women-ban

What's wild to me is that he's one of their better political opinion guys lately. Certainly head and shoulders above Tisdall.

i hope ghana and ivory coast are fucking feasting on those cocoa prices tbh, if their harvest just 60 % of normal they should get some monies. Maybe farmers won't be beyond poverty line for a year

And then they make cocoa cartel (didn't they try recently?), and get rich on euro treat-fiends. And then they plantation owners, and launch preemptive strike on nestle hq and seal team-6 that fucking dipshit lawyer

Israeli is going to begin drafting Haredis tomorrow
The paper tiger is not looking good, folks

also seems like bangladeshi strikes petered out cause they arrested organizers they seem to be having medical professionals strike now.

Which reminds me, wtf happened to south korea licensing strikes?

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered the return of Colombia's ambassador to Argentina, Camilo Romero, following the diplomatic crisis caused by Javier Milei, who called the Colombian president a "terrorist murderer".

Petro is also considering expelling the Argentine ambassador from Colombia. He should make this decision in the next few days. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, after removing the Colombian ambassador to Argentina, has ordered the expulsion of Argentine diplomats in the country. The communiqué does not mention the number or names of those expelled.

There were protests in Argentina and Brazil against their respective dictatorships and in favor of democracy. Milei, being the smartest man, decides to say that the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo movement (which is a movement in favor of democracy, progressive ideas and justice) lied about the victims of the dictatorship. Ancap President defending a dictatorship to own the zurditos.

Meanwhile, in Brazil, Lula da Silva simply banned the army from holding any commemorations, as they were doing during the right-wing governments of Bolsonaro and Micheal Temer. You could say that this is an L for Lula, since he could promote a mega pro-democracy demonstration or you could say that this is pragmatic. The Workers' Party will still take part in the organic demonstration on the 30th.

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Dropped a bomb on a bunch of tents.

Folks, we love our beautiful boaters, don't we?

US Economic Decline and Rise of Greater Eurasia - Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

Alex Mercouris talking about revolution and exploitation? lmao, never thought I’d see the day. The conservative defunding of the NHS must have been hitting his pockets hard. (discussion that starts at ~42:00 mark)

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Excellent article, read the whole thing.

Weapons and resources for the Palestinians and their allies

Today, at most, the right of the Palestinian people to resist by all means, including armed resistance, is expressed in a more or less stammering manner.

This is not very transgressive or extremist, since it is in fact something recognized by international legality itself (UN Resolution 3070 and other provisions). It is sad that it seems very audacious to wield an outright UN statement, but in any case the audacity stops there and other more important things are omitted. What is forgotten is what it says in the following paragraph in which it urges the peoples of the world to give material and all kinds of support to the Palestinian resistance forces to help them in their inalienable right to national liberation.

What almost all Eurocentric leftists supported with Ukraine, sending military aid, is what they should be doing with the Palestinians and their regional allies, but it does not seem to cross their minds to do so.

In an act of the Spanish left a Palestinian woman defends the right to Palestinian armed resistance and the leaders of the Podemos party show hesitation in applauding, perhaps they are afraid to hear it. In other expressions of the left what we find is a passive, opportunistic, cloying or hypocritical radicalism. The parties of the Spanish government are installed there. They combine shouting "Free Palestine!" with supporting the colonial doctrine of the "two States". They combine full relations and arms trade with "Israel", with validating only Palestinian voices exclusively asking for human rights, notably, those who represent the Vichy Regime, called the Palestinian Authority.

In general, the Western Left has silenced the current political subjects of the resistance. Why was the blockade on Gaza breached on October 7? Because "they are terrorists", even the European communist parties have explained this to us. Only a few pro-Palestinian groups have made it possible for the protagonists to express themselves.

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For the time being, material support for the Palestinian Resistance is provided by an alliance heterogeneous in its ideologies and capabilities from Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon or Syria. It is curious how this alliance resembles the one proposed a hundred years ago by Lenin in his Congress of the Peoples of the East. This meeting was attended by tribal leaders, religious sheikhs, intellectuals and revolutionaries from Turkey and Western Asia, because the Soviet leader understood that the heterogeneous anti-colonial struggle was the Achilles Heel of imperialism, and no revolution could be expected within the European colonizing metropolis.

That is where we remain: the centrality of the conflict remains between impoverished peoples across the planet and the oppressors who plunder their resources and lands. And that is where the Western left remains: it oozes a mixture of Zionist heritage and prejudices about native national liberation movements that do not fit into Eurocentric ideological corsets. Add in Arabophobia and Islamophobia and you have the explanation why these heterogeneous alliances with the Palestinian Resistance are not worthy of selective Western solidarity. Along with this, the deep imbrication of the left in the structures of the colonizing powers means that perhaps it only continues as an expectation to manage, in a progressive way, the profits provided to the West by having in Palestine a colony and some Arab minion regimes.

We are all repulsed by armed conflicts, but even more so by the oppressed peoples who are forced to engage in them and resist, precisely in order to live in dignity and peace. And the representation of these peoples is in those who resist, who must be given a voice, and not in those who submit.

If the European left is not capable of overthrowing colonialism, they should at least be bold enough to defend international legality and send arms and resources to the Palestinian Resistance and its allies.

NATO's Attempt to Dismember Serbia Fails: President Vucic

In 1999, NATO forces carried out airstrikes for 78 days against Yugoslavia, leaving over 8,000 civilians dead or injured.

On Sunday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that his country will never surrender its province of Kosovo and Metohija nor join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

On the Remembrance Day for the Victims of the NATO Aggression on Yugoslavia, people gathered in Prokuplje to pay tribute to the victims of the NATO bombings.

"They wanted to destroy our homeland, to destroy Serbia and dismember it, but they failed," Vucic said at a commemoration event marking the anniversary of NATO bombing.

"25 years have passed, and we remain unbroken... We will never consent to the dismemberment of Serbia! Kosovo and Metohija shall never willingly be torn from us," he stressed. Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Serbia rejects it and considers Kosovo its own province.

The event began with a somber commemoration led by Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije, who later stressed in his speech that the bombing revealed "the depth of human cruelty when one chooses to abandon humanity."

President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik condemned NATO's violation of international law and disregard for innocent lives, while praising Serbia's defiance and resilience.

"We remain dignified people who cherish our freedom," Dodik said, emphasizing the importance of unity as reflected in the widespread observance of the Remembrance Day.

In 1999, the U.S.-led NATO forces carried out continuous airstrikes for 78 days against Yugoslavia, leaving over 8,000 civilians dead or injured and nearly 1 million more displaced.

Cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs banned by international conventions were used in the strikes, which also caused wide destruction of infrastructure.

Just found out that Iceland has a supposedly eco-socialist PM… in coalition with two conservative parties.

What?

Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, was assassinated on Saturday, along with municipal network communicator Jairo Loor. Garcia was 27 and was elected last year by the Citizen Revolution, Rafael Correa's party.

Brigitte Garcia was mayor of the municipality of San Vicente, in the province of Manabi. The former presidential candidate for the Citizens' Revolution, Luisa Gonzalez, condemned what she called a political assassination.

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, lamented the death and linked it to drug trafficking, which "wants to bring the state to its knees", and said that he would not be intimidated by these violent acts. The authorities have yet to clarify the motives behind the murder.

What does average Russians think about the Crocus terror attack? Do they believe US/Ukraine did it? That IS-K did it, unrelated to the war? That Putin did a false flag?

Are there any demands being made of the government as to retaliation?

Newsweek - Planes Hit by Mystery GPS Jamming Across Europe [25/03/2024]

Persistent interference with navigational signals in eastern Europe impacted more than 1,600 airplanes—including civilian aircraft—in less than two days, according to open-source analysis, as jamming plagues the airspace around the Baltic Sea.

Jamming lasting just under 48 hours affected 1,614 airplanes, many of which were civilian aircraft flying around the Baltic region in eastern Europe, according to an open-source intelligence account that regularly tracks GPS interference. An initial map, posted by the account, shows extensive jamming across Poland and southern Sweden early on Saturday. A later map appears to show interference limited to swathes of northern Poland.

Interfering with or spoofing Global Positioning System (GPS) and broader Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals can confuse manned or unmanned aircraft, or make their navigation systems believe they are in a different location.

Unnamed pilots told Forbes earlier this year that they had started to switch off GPS navigation when passing close to the Baltic Sea and its surrounding countries in favor of other systems, such as inertial navigation.

A thought experiment for Hexbears (not a spoiler for the Three Body Problem series, I’m not going to say how it played out in the books, but certainly inspired by it):

If America had launched a first strike against China that will wipe out 90% of its population, should China retaliate?

If yes, then hundreds of millions of innocent Americans - who played no part in the aggression - will be killed in a mutually assured destructive process. The retaliation will not in anyway bring back the lives of those who had been targeted during the first strike. It only adds more suffering to the world’s innocents. Worse, it will trigger a global thermonuclear war with a very high probability of wiping out human civilization altogether. The end of humanity as we know it.

In this case, does it make sense to retaliate against a first strike then? Is vengeance that important, even if it means killing millions of innocent people as a result, the end of the entire human race?

Or should the survival of the human race be upheld as the priority, or rather, the utmost priority to harm no innocent, even if it means some people had to be sacrificed in the process because of the “mistakes” of certain bad actors?

Can humanity collectively learn from such “mistakes”, if the receiving side had restrained themselves from retaliating, and thereby giving the rest of humanity a chance for survival and to learn from their previous errors?

Give me your thoughtful/spicy takes.

a mere crypto pleb: buying some hexcoin to get 100 %

a cocoa patrician: buying cocoa beans futures with 6x leverage

tl:dr buy chocolate now lol, jesus christ

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202403/1309489.shtml

Bayrischer Ministerpräsident (Bavarian head of state, CSU) Markus Söder visited China. Looks like it went well.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung is mocking him.