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Bulletins and News Discussion from January 6th to January 12th, 2025 - The Fall of Trudeau - COTW: Canada (hexbear.net)

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

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

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

Please check out the HexAtlas!

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

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

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

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

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

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

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Eaton Fire in Los Angeles now approaching Mount Wilson Observatory. Buncha science shit gonna get rekt.

Both the Eaton and Palisades fires are both around 0% contained

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here's how Bernie can still win:

2025: Trump threatens Denmark into handing over Greenland. As part of the deal to hand over the colony without making a fuss, Greenland's government gets a guarantee that it's universal healthcare system will remain unchanged and be funded by the federal government.

2026: The Territory of Greenland is a reality. American citizens begin emigrating to Greenland to get healthcare. Nuuk grows to five times it's current size, making the Inuit a minority.

2027: The US regime attempts to restrict access to Greenlandic healthcare but that is struck down as unconstitutional. Feeling the need to do something popular in the face of the rising threat from the Luigi movement the regime decides to expand Greenlandic healthcare to the entire nation.

2028: Having granted Americans access to healthcare, Trump goes down in history as one of the most popular presidents. JD Vance is elected in a landslide on promises of keeping Trump-care

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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While this isn’t “news” in that this event happened decades ago, but it’s worth noting that when Carter handed over the Panama Canal, it wasn’t an event that went largely unnoticed at the time. To the contrary, it was actually a huge deal. The American population didn’t like it (in the same way they didn’t like Biden pulling troops out of Afghanistan - only bad in that it’s a blow to “national pride”). Reagan and other Republicans criticized Carter for it on the campaign trail. And while I wouldn’t say it was a decisive factor in getting Reagan elected, it certainly played a significant part of it.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

The Panama Canal Zone was 100% a US colony, the Zonians (including John McCain) were all settlers who lived in Americanized roads and houses. It was very similar to Guantánamo, but less militarized, since the US ruled Panama with liberal and conservative puppet governments. All that changed when Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and inspired the students to raise the Panamanian flag inside the Zone, something JFK had promised them, but didn't do because he was killed.

There, the Zonians began to beat up the students with the help of the Canal Zone police and destroyed the Panamanian flag. When people in Panama heard about this, they stormed the Fence of Shame (also known as the Berlin Wall of Latin America). The Zonians became frightened and asked the Panamanian Army and Police for help, but the Panamanian authorities refused. The riots continued until Panama broke off relations with the USA.

The whole situation threw the Panamanian government into chaos and, in 1968, the army took control of the country just a few days after the elections. Although he was not the leader of the coup, Colonel Omar Torrijos took control of the government after the other two generals failed to end the political instability. Omar Torrijos appointed the liberal civilian Demetrio B. Lakas (Jimmy the Greek) as president of Panama, but this was mainly a vice-president/head of government role, as Torrijos would be the real head of state.

Torrijos, despite being part of the armed forces and having studied in the US, as well as being anti-communist, was mostly a social-democratic military dictator, much like Velasco in Peru. He ended up negotiating the Torrijos-Carter Treaties with President Jimmy Carter, and got drunk during the ceremony, which is funny, but people attacked Carter for it. He also agreed to give some independence to the unions and other social groups under pressure from Carter, reorganized the Junta better and created his own social democratic party called the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD).

He had good relations with the Soviet Union, his support for Allende, Cuba, the Sandinistas and other socialist and social democratic movements in Latin America, and also the fact that he was hated by part of the white Panamanian elite in Panama because he created so many social programs. He was so popular that there was a rumor, which may be true, that he basically went to poor villages and gave everyone money or fixed their roads/hospitals.

This angered the US government, so the CIA decided to kill him by destroying his private plane in 1981. The US installed a literal CIA agent as Panama's head of state, General Manuel Noriega. But eventually Noriega decided that he wanted closer relations with the Soviet Union because the US was becoming hostile towards him as he refused to obey some of its orders. The US decided to invade Panama in 1989 and arrest Noriega. They also installed a neoliberal puppet president and disbanded the Panamanian armed forces.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago

After the meeting at US government headquarters, Edmundo González gave a statement to the press. He was not accompanied by Biden and spoke alone for two minutes. According to the opposition leader, the US government is committed to the “recovery of democracy in Venezuela”.

“This is a commitment that we will follow until President Biden's last day here in Washington. Biden's team is not going with us to Venezuela, but they are accompanying us wholeheartedly on our way back to Caracas,” said the opposition leader.

Biden's term, however, ends in less than two weeks and Republican Donald Trump will take over for the next four years. Also according to the former ambassador, the far-right Unity Platform coalition team has been in contact with Trump's team “for a long time” in order to maintain a close relationship when the Republican is in the White House.

Edmundo also mentioned that the intention is to return to a three-party policy in the country, “as we have maintained since the beginning”. He's referring to the 50-year maintenance of the Punto Fijo Pact, signed by Copei, Acción Democrática and the Democratic Republican Union after the fall of Marco Pérez Jiménez's dictatorship in 1958.

The trip to the United States followed a weekend in which Edmundo met with the presidents of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, and Argentina, Javier Milei. In both meetings, the extreme right-wing Venezuelan opposition leader once again stressed his intention to be in Caracas on January 10th to take office: “By any means, I'll be there”.

The opposition leader will still have trips to the Dominican Republic and Panama before Maduro's inauguration. His group, led by the ultra-liberal María Corina Machado, questions the Chavista's victory on July 28 and claims, without providing proof, to have collected 85.18% of Venezuela's electoral records. According to the group's count, these results would give victory to Edmundo González with 67% of the valid votes.

Juan Guaido 2.0 Nalvany Arc?

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump's Invasion of Greenland Would Be 'World's Shortest War' - Politico. Denmark has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of the heavy equipment for the ground forces was donated to Ukraine.

[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Denmark being unable to defend against a US invasion because they gave all their guns to Ukranian Nazis would be the funniest thing ever.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago

It's like an addiction to nonsense. After having more than 24 hours to come up with a convincing explanation for her (non-existent) "kidnapping", Machado managed to make it even more ridiculous. Somehow, in an age where everything is livestreamed, there is no evidence, nor even a minimal description of who was involved. And also, according to Machado, she was detained by armed men who then released her in exchange for her recording a video saying she had not been detained. No further questions, your honor!

Honestly, Machado should have stayed offline for longer and then come up with a heroic escape tale, given how her supporters and the corporate press will just believe anything. But there is more nonsense. Machado said former candidate Edmundo González did not come because the government turned on air defense systems! When in the past it simply barred planes from taking off without authorization. It also would have been easier to just shut down airspace, or even arrest González once he landed

The bottom line is that the US-backed opposition once again created the illusion that it had plans and means to make something happen to stop Maduro from taking office today, when in fact (and all the evidence suggested it) they really had no cards to play

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not exactly news but relevant for the news heads here: over the last few months Proles Pod has released a series of episodes called The Stalin Era from Episode 63-71 and going.

I haven’t listened to it and probably won’t have time to listen for quite a while, but I guess the comrades here might be interested to give it a go and let us know if they’re good or not!

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

More terrible numbers out of Germany

https://archive.is/lU1j3

Demand fell 5.4% in November from the previous month, far worse than the 0.2% decline economists had predicted in a Bloomberg survey.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Cursed Timeline: Trump annex all of Canada, but grants independence to Quebec.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump speaks out in support of the Venezuelan opposition, and calls upon the 'regime' not to harm freedom fighters Maria Corina Machado & President-elect Gonzalez.

Maria Corina Machado, the face of the Venezuelan opposition, was arrested earlier today after a last ditch effort to prevent tomorrow's ratification of the Presidential Election results from July 2024, which resulted in a heavily controversial win for incumbent candidate Nicolas Maduro.

Bipartisan support for terrorism

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago

Argentine Judges Sentence Leftist Leader for Pro-Palestinian Messages - Telesur English

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Attempts to silence critical voices show that authoritarianism is an intrinsic component of Zionism, Alejandro Bodart said. On Friday, the Buenos Aires Criminal Court sentenced leftist leader Alejandro Bodart to six months in prison for allegedly inciting antisemitic discrimination.

The complaint was initially filed by the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA) in May 2022, after Bodart posted the following on the social media platform X: “74 years of catastrophe endured by the Palestinian people at the hands of the racist and genocidal State of Israel. The key, a symbol of their stolen homes and lands, is present in every struggle. For a secular and democratic Palestine, from the river to the sea.”

Subsequently, the DAIA sent Bodart a message requesting that he retract his statement. In response to such intimidating action, the leftist activist refused to apologize, asserting that his message did not contain hateful antisemitic content. “This permanent anti-democratic attitude of seeking to silence every critical voice only strengthens our political conviction that authoritarianism is an intrinsic component of Zionism,” he stated.

In May and August 2024, two lower-court judges acquitted Bodart of the charges. However, after the most recent ruling was appealed, the matter was transferred to the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals, which overturned the acquittal by majority vote.

One of the judges who voted to uphold the acquittal, Patricia Ana Larroca, argued that Bodart’s tweets did not meet the “objective or subjective elements” required to constitute the crime of discrimination. She further stated that “the expressions under dispute are protected by the right to freedom of expression,” ARGmedios reported, noting that Bodart announced he would appeal the decision at all possible levels.

Since October 2024, Israeli occupation forces have killed over 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority of whom are women, children, and the elderly. In light of these events, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of crimes against humanity.

“Other international human rights organizations have also agreed that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Palestine. Even Pope Francis called for an investigation into whether the events in Gaza could be considered extermination crimes against the population,” ARGmedios highlighted.

[–] Eldungeon2@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't think I saw it posted but a couple of days ago the DPRK claimed to have successfully tested a hypersonic missile

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

I wonder what the realistic chances are on Trump’s proposed expansionism. Like for the most part I think they’d be very low, but part of me thinks he could get away with just landing troops in Greenland and saying “this is ours now” without a fight. Europe is totally cucked to America at this point anyway.

His idea for Canada seems to be economic warfare. How dependent is Canada on the US? How fucked would they be if Trump said “statehood or embargo”? (Although I very much doubt that one would happen.)

And we’ve invaded Central American countries before with no repercussions.

Again I think the likelihood is probably pretty damn low, but at the same time it does seem possible, if Trump really wants to push it and the Republicans in Congress obey him.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

I think Trump is continuing the role he had in his first term, as a clown shocking people with a spectacle while less loud people around him push through ultra-right policies. Trump's threats against Canada, Greenland, Denmark and Panama should probably be seen as the "bad cop" part of a good cop, bad cop act.

The act seems to be working, continuing the Biden regime's project of subjugating western vassals and extracting increased tribute payments from them in the form of military spending. In Denmark's case the Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen could not give in to Trump's insulting demands but she was cowering like a whipped dog as she said the line of Greenland's future having to be decided in Greenland, reaffirming the atlanticist mantra "The US is our most important ally!" over and over as she welcomed American interest in Greenland. Prior to that her Liberal Party minister of defence had made a similarly embarrassing performance in which he expressed willingness to let the yanks have greater influence in Greenland.

Denmark has already committed to massively increased military spending in Greenland. Trump's threats are working.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

General who led 2009 coup d'état arrested in Honduras. The former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Honduras, General Romeo Vásquez, was arrested Sunday as allegedly responsible for the murder of a protester by military officers in 2009, days after leading the coup against former President Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009).

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The deputy chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Venancio Cervantes, and the former commander of the Joint Operations Command, Carlos Puerto, both arrested along with Vásquez, will also go to prison. They will be held in the Támara National Penitentiary, 27 kilometers northwest of Tegucigalpa, until January 10, when the first trial hearing is scheduled, the authorities said.

The ex-military men were arrested by a strong police contingent on Sunday morning in Tegucigalpa and La Paz (west) and taken to a capital court, where for hours their statements were taken as defendants “for allegedly being responsible for the crimes of homicide and serious injury”. The charges stem from an armed attack on demonstrators near Toncontín airport in Tegucigalpa on July 5, 2009, the Public Prosecutor's Office said. The demonstrators were awaiting Zelaya's return from Nicaragua after he was taken at gunpoint from his home in Tegucigalpa in the early hours of June 28 of that year by around 200 soldiers who handcuffed him and took him to the airport, where he was put on a plane bound for Costa Rica.

“Elements of the Armed Forces” acted ‘disproportionately’ and fired at the demonstrators with M16 rifles ‘indiscriminately’, the Public Prosecutor's Office said in its request. Obed Murillo died of a gunshot wound to the head, while Alex Zavala was seriously injured. Shortly before his arrest in the morning, Vásquez published two texts on the X network in which he denied the accusations against him and accused the government of leftist Xiomara Castro, Zelaya's wife, of “political persecution” and “manipulation of power”. “They won't be able to silence me! I never gave the order to attack any Honduran,” he added in his latest publication. Since he arrived heavily guarded by the Special Police Forces at the Tegucigalpa Criminal Court, supporters and detractors of the accused have begun to gather at the gates of the court.

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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

The Eaton Fire has jumped the 210 highway and in the process burnt down a significant portion of Altadena.

KTLA Live Stream

the future is what we make it

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[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

such a chaotic moist-boy

Trump shares a video of Sachs where he talks shit about Netanyahu. Netanyahu will come groveling and Trump will give in and help with genocide. It's a tragic and horrific spectacle. The kayfabe is impressive.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

EU's Von der Leyen has not received invite to Trump inauguration, spokesperson says.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has not yet received an invitation to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, a spokesperson said on Friday. "If she receives an invitation, then we will see but there are no plans (to attend the inauguration) at the moment", spokesperson Paula Pinho told reporters during a daily briefing.

Trump has broken with precedent and invited several foreign leaders to the ceremony. Historically they have not attended due to security concerns and have sent diplomats instead. Chinese President Xi Jinping, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni among others have received invitations.

When will people learn Bolsonaro literally can't leave Brazil. At this point I think they are just fucking with him.

According to reports, Xi will not attend but will send a top-level envoy in his place.

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[–] Boise_Idaho@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The Baltics bootlick the West so hard only to be placed in the same tier as Indonesia and the AES i-cant
https://xcancel.com/Gokul_Sahni/status/1877211735364374700

A very interesting proposed list – a lot of countries friendly to the US will not make the cut for the most permissive AI exports.

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago

Trudeau says 'not a snowball's chance in hell' Canada will join US

Lmao I love how this is now international news

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzn4xx0q2o

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Keep hearing a justification of invading greenland is that climate change makes it easier to access more oil....that will further contribute to climate change.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

Trump celebrates changes to Meta and says his threats 'probably' influenced Zuckerberg. President-elect has shown approval for measures such as ending the policy of checking content on the company's networks, Facebook and Instagram.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

President Nicolás Maduro is sworn in for his third term before the National Assembly of Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro receives the presidential sash, presented by President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez. President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua, was present and hugged President Nicolas Maduro.

Nicolás Maduro has entered the National Assembly for the swearing-in ceremony. Today he begins a new mandate for the period 2025-2031. Cheers outside of the National Assembly. President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in on Friday (10) in Caracas and said that his next six years in office will be “marked by peace”. Amid pressure from the opposition, which threatened to interfere in the ceremony, the president said that he “promised peace and delivered peace”.

“We had strength against a public and media articulation by the US, which turned Venezuela's election into a global dispute. It's not Maduro, it's a people growing into a man. If Maduro has meaning, it's because Chávez has meaning. They tried to turn the election into a peaceful country, but the oligarchy is defeated, the US is defeated,” he said.

Maduro will be the longest-serving president in Venezuelan history. If he finishes his term in 2031, he will have been in charge of the country for 18 years and will surpass the liberator Simón Bolívar, who headed the Venezuelan government for 15 years. He was elected on July 28, 2024 with 6.4 million votes (51.97%) against 5.3 million (43.18%) for his opponent Edmundo González Urrutia.

The Venezuelan once again said that Venezuela will develop in the coming years together with the BRICS. According to him, the country has been part of the bloc “for 200 years, because we are part of the world that is pushing for a new history”. The Brazilian government sent the Brazilian ambassador in Caracas, Glivânia Maria de Oliveira. Colombia is represented in Venezuelan territory by Milton Rengifo Hernández, while Mexico has Ambassador Leopoldo de Gyvés de la Cruz in the Venezuelan capital.

Maduro's third term inauguration has seen a number of foreign dignitaries and delegations arrive to participate in the official ceremonies. Seen were also the Bolivian Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, St Vincent PM Ralph Gonsalves and the delegation from Nigeria. As well as Russian, Chinese, Honduran, Belarussian and Ugandan diplomats.

Nicolas Maduro: “I do not come to offer anything, I come to do”.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Kingdom of Denmark changes its coat of arms for the first time in 500 years in response to Donald Trump's threats to invade Greenland and take the territory by force.

The measure taken by King Frederik removes the triple crown of the Kalmar Union (which united Denmark, Sweden and Norway) and places the bear of Greenland and the ram of the Faroe Islands. In his New Year's speech, the king reaffirmed the unity of the Kingdom of Denmark “all the way to Greenland”.

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

Genocide Joe, everyone!

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

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[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rather out of topic rant I will make

I think Iraq war was much more devastating to USA in some other ways people realise. I can not say I know too much but no other war veterans seem to be this much opposed to USA foreign actions than Iraq war veterans. I think it is because it was partially successful war. They successfully killed saddam and destroyed so much doing so. When it was time to rebuild, USA failed utterly. Gave way to creation of groups like ISIS. Soldiers saw it first hand how they destroyed a country to turn it into a ruin. They saw it theirself how much they have ruined. So I guess moral of the story is if you successfully occupy a land, you might suffer long term army morale problems if you ruin the land

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They also learned. No more direct US involvement in major military conflicts apart from auxiliary support role. Importantly, the US stopped Europe from attaining energy sovereignty through buying oil in euro.

It would take another decade before a major energy infrastructure was built to supply Europe with cheap natural gas. The geopolitical vector then turned to the European periphery, but this time, the US would mobilize ultranationalists in Ukraine to do the dirty work.

In the meantime, a full blown hybrid warfare was initiated to destroy the economies of the oil producing countries during the 2010s. Maidan, sanctions from Crimea and MH-17, the shale revolution, Syrian Civil War were all unleashed simultaneously to destroy the oil producing economies of Russia, Iran and Venezuela and permanently put them on the back foot. The strategic goal being to cut Europe off potential energy suppliers and obliterate its status (and the euro currency) as a major challenger to the dollar regime - a thorny problem to the US since the collapse of the USSR.

Even today, the US is no longer directly involved. It is the Ukrainians and Israelis and ISIS/HTS who are dying on the front, while the US slowly drips its military equipments to the frontline to ensure that it will not run out of munitions beyond its capacity to replenish.

Without sacrificing the lives of a single soldier, the US has sunk the European economy. Russian pipeline is dead. Nigeria pipeline is dead. Qatar pipeline is dead. The US remains the sole supplier of natural gas to Europe, and it will have total control over European politics and economy for the foreseeable future.

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Russia's ambassador to Denmark has made a statement in opposition American schemes for an annexation of Greenland. He said to corporate newspaper Berlingske:

The question of Greenland's future must be decided on the basis of the Greenlanders' own will, within the framework of Danish law and without outside interference.

Russia has called for strengthening stability in the Arctic region. The ambassador warns that unilateral attempts by the US to strengthen its presence in Greenland would worsen the situation in the Arctic which Russia will need to take into account in its military planning.

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[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I just realized these fires are happening in the middle of winter season in LA. If they aren't getting any rain what are the fires going to be like in the summer? They're 4.5" below what they should be at this time. This feels like just the beginning.

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[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

To understand the political landscape of Canada (more specifically the Quebecois' side). The book Mediocracy by Alain Deneault is pretty good.

https://www.amazon.ca/Mediocracy-Politics-Extreme-Alain-Deneault-ebook/dp/B07D42426J

The book basically explains that the politic of common sense and technocracy is well installed in the Canadian politics to the point that there are no real solutions (aka political\economical reforms) which opens the door to fake populism mostly right wing populism.

I don't think this is really news to anyone here, but it does show that we are not so different from any Liberal Democracy around the world.

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[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

So it's done (unsurprising). Next step is to determine who will be the interim leader for the party. My prediction is that it's going to be a dinosaur nobody from the party. If that is the case, the next Party Leader for the election will have the high chance to be someone recently known and freshly groomed like Freeland or Joly.

I will expect Freeland because to her popularity

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