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Bulletins and News Discussion from November 4th to November 10th, 2024 - This is a Giant Problem (hexbear.net)

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Image is from this article on the excellent Canadian environmental journalism outlet, The Narwhal.

The Giant Mine just outside of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada is one of the country's largest recognized environmental liabilities. The mine's 100 plus year history illustrates the continuity between resource colonialism in the late 19th/early 20th century and neoliberalism at the turn of the millennium.

There were several gold rushes in northern Canada/US in the late 19th century, such as the Klondike. The Giant gold strike on was first discovered by settlers about the same time as the Klondike, but as Giant is on Great Slave Lake (named for an Anglicization of the name of local peoples, not after slavery) instead of the Pacific Ocean, it is much less accessible and didn't take off like the Klondike. Parallel with displacement of local Yellowknives Dene people https://ykdene.com/, the town of Yellowknife sprung up around small mining operations through the 30s. It wasn't until after WW2 that the mine was developed at a large scale. Starting operation in 1948, Giant was owned by a Canadian mining conglomerate through the 80s, then some Australians, and for the last ten years of its operating life, by Americans, who went bankrupt and abandoned the property in 1999. The Canadian federal government is responsible for the site and its remediation now, similar to the way the EPA has Superfund sites in the USA.

The project is infamous for poisoning the people and environment of the surrounding area through arsenic poisoning. The ore at giant is arsenopyrite, an arsenic sulphide mineral that often contains gold. Roasting it in large furnaces or kilns releases the gold as well as fine arsenic trioxide dust. The most infamous arsenic poisoning incident was in 1951 when a Yellowknives Dene toddler in died after eating contaminated snow in the fallout area, 2 kilometers from the processing mill's smokestack. Over the years, improvements to the mill reduced the amount of toxic dust released to the environment. This is better than blasting it into the air wildly, but meant that the site accumulated hundreds of thousands of tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust that they chucked in empty mine workings underground. Unfortunately, arsenic trioxide dissolves in water as easily as sugar and so represents a tremendous risk to groundwater and waterbodies nearby, like Great Slave Lake and Yellowknife's water supply.

Arsenic issues contributed to labour disputes as well. In 1991 the union workers of the plant went on strike, refusing management's demand to reduce their salary and wanting better safety measures for workers . The company brought in Pinkertons and strikebreakers, backed by RCMP thugs. The situation escalated, culminating in a bomb planted on a train track deep in the mine. When it was triggered, it killed 6 scabs and 3 Pinkertons. For the next year, the RCMP interrogated mine workers, their family and community without determining who did it, supporting the company in their refusal to sign a new contract until an arrest was made. Finally a worker named Roger Warren confessed to doing it alone and was sentenced to life in prison. He was released in 2014 and died in 2017.

Since 1999, the site has been the responsibility of the Canadian federal government and is being every so gradually remediated. Operated through what are effectively private-public partnership contracts, environmental engineering companies are attempting to clean up and isolate the huge amounts of arsenic trioxide dust. The concept is move the dust into specially ventilated chambers of the underground mine, where it is frozen in place and thus prevented from leaching into groundwater. Active remediation is supposed to be finished in about 15 years at a cost of $1 billion CAD, but will surely take longer and cost more than this. Also, freezing material in place will definitely work because the climate isn't changing, and the Canadian north is definitely not seeing extreme levels of temperature rise.

After active works are complete, the site will require perpetual care.

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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[–] companero@hexbear.net 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu571ehtsjzyd1.jpeg

(Image uploads don't seem to be working, sorry for reddit link)

This is the first official picture of China's J-35A stealth fighter (previously known as FC-31), from the Zhuhai airshow.

It was originally built for export, then the navy decided they wanted a version for aircraft carriers, and now the air force looks like they will adopt it as well.

It has a more focused design than its US-made counterpart, the F-35, which will likely mean it's better at its job and cheaper/easier to build in large quantities.

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[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 56 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

[#Myanmar (#Burma) 🇲🇲: "Joker Guerrilla Army" and People's Defense Forces (#PDF) ambushed and killed Junta Officers in #Myaing, #Pakokku.

The fighters were armed with M16A1 rifles, BA-63 rifle, AR-15 rifles and Type 56 AK rifles. Also an MA-3 MK 2 carbine were captured.](https://x.com/war_noir/status/1854449423666778483)

look at this fuckin emblem lmao

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 56 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The narrative building is starting. Torygraph has a long ass article out on a proposed peace plan.

https://archive.is/wIXXv

spoiler

Donald Trump may call on European and British troops to enforce an 800-mile buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian armies as part of a plan to freeze the war between the two countries.

Details of the plan emerged as Volodymyr Zelensky warned that any attempt to make peace by appeasing Russia would mean “suicide” for Europe.

The plan is one of several being considered by Mr Trump, who said before being elected as US president that he would start peace talks before he enters office in January.

The idea, outlined by three Trump staffers, would see the current front line frozen in place and Ukraine agreeing to shelve its ambition to join Nato for 20 years.

In exchange, the US would pump Ukraine full of weapons to deter Russia from restarting the war.

The US would neither contribute troops to patrol and enforce the resulting buffer zone nor finance its mission.

What the proposed demilitarised zone could look like:

“We can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European,” a member of Trump’s team told the Wall Street Journal.

“We are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine. And we are not paying for it. Get the Poles, Germans, British and French to do it.”

‘It’s not our children who are dying’

On Friday, George Osborne said it was not realistic for the UK to keep backing Ukraine without US support following Trump’s victory.

“Is it realistic to expect a complete victory for Ukraine, the complete ejection of Russia from Ukrainian territory? And if it’s not, you know, it may suit our vanity in the West to say ‘plucky Ukrainians’, [but] it’s not our children who are dying,” the former chancellor said.

“It’s also totally unrealistic, in my view, to think that Europe alone, including the UK, can go on supporting Ukraine without the support of the United States, even though Joe Biden actually is rushing to spend the $61 billion that Congress recently voted in terms of American aid for Ukraine before he leaves office.”

Ukraine has signalled that it is willing to listen to Mr Trump’s plans to end the war, but has also said it will resist any deal that would look like a Russian victory.

Speaking at a summit of European Union leaders in Budapest, Mr Zelensky said: “There should be no illusions that a just peace can be bought by showing weakness. Peace is a reward only for the strong.”

“Since the July summit of the European Political Community in Great Britain, there has been much talk about giving in to Putin, retreating, and making some ‘concessions,’” he added. “This is unacceptable for Ukraine and suicide for all of Europe.”

Europe should write its ‘own history’

Several European leaders at the summit have called for immediate increases in defence spending in response to fears that Mr Trump will cut aid to Ukraine and roll back support for Nato.

“Do we want to read the history written by others – the wars launched by Vladimir Putin, the US election, China’s technological or trade choices,” said Emmanuel Macron, the president of France. “Or do we want to write our own history. I think we have the strength to write it.”

Ursula von Der Leyen, the chief of the European Commission, said Europe must pull together in the same way it did in response to the Covid pandemic, but did not mention Mr Trump directly.

Mr Trump has never explained in detail what kind of a deal he believes can end the war.

But allies have presented various plans which proceed from the idea of freezing the current frontline.

JD Vance, the vice president-elect, suggested in September that Russia would have to hold on to its current gains as a condition of peace.

The remainder of Ukraine would stay an independent sovereign state and its side of the line would be heavily fortified to prevent a second Russian attack, he said.

In exchange, Russia would get a promise of Ukrainian neutrality.

“It doesn’t join NATO, it doesn’t join some of these sort of allied institutions,” Mr. Vance said in an interview with the Shawn Ryan Show podcast in September. “I think that’s ultimately what this looks like.”

In June Keith Kellogg and Fred Fleitz, who advised Mr Trump during his first presidency, presented him with another proposal that called for America to cut aid to Ukraine unless it entered peace talks.

Mr Zelensky has previously ruled out exchanging land for peace and says Nato membership is the only way to guarantee Russia does not re-invade.

A ceasefire that leaves Russia in control of land it has captured and does not include serious security guarantees could prove unpopular and would probably trigger elections in Ukraine.

Volodymyr Fesenko, a Ukrainian political analyst, said Ukraine would not resist American pressure for talks because of the danger of a suspension of aid.

He said the Ukrainian government might accept shelving Nato membership if it can get security guarantees akin to the US agreements with South Korea and Israel.

Russia expects ‘new territorial realities’

The Kremlin has yet to comment on possible peace plans, but Russia has few incentives to make peace immediately because its forces are making steady gains on the battlefield and it believes it can sustain the economic strain of the war for at least another year.

Dmitri Trenin, a well-connected Russian political commentator and former GRU officer, said on Thursday that the Kremlin would not take seriously any plan based merely on a freezing of the current frontline.

It would also need concessions related to “the nature of the future Ukrainian regime, its military and military-economic potential, as well as the military-political status of Ukraine” as well as “new territorial realities,” he wrote in Kommersant, a Russian broadsheet.

The version of the plan Mr Trump opts for is likely to depend on his choice of cabinet.

Mike Pompeo, who served as Mr Trump’s Secretary of State during his first term and is now tipped to head the Pentagon, has criticised the Biden administration for providing too little help too slowly and is likely to resist a deal that could be interpreted as a Russian victory.

Richard Grennell, Mr Trump’s former ambassador to Berlin and envoy to the Balkans, has said he would back “autonomous” zones inside Ukraine.

That suggests a repeat of the failed Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015, which saw Russia try to use areas of Donbas it controlled as a trojan horse for controlling Ukrainian foreign policy.

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 56 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

So what's the over/under on Iran launching Operation True Promise 3 before the election tomorrow is called? My gut tells me they don't give a shit, and the attack will happen regardless of who's elected and neither Trump nor Harris will meaningfully change US policy in West Asia so who cares, but there is always a chance Iran decides to do something Extremely Funny, not an October surprise but a November surprise.

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 55 points 2 weeks ago

this seems like a big deal

Netanyahu sacks defense minister Gallant, says 'trust cracked' | The Cradle

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 55 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It was in these dark days, when the realm’s banners still struck fear in the hearts of the world, that Kamala the Awkward took the field against the Orange Troll King. Since deposing king Brandon the Feeble-minded, she had clung fiercely to ancient rites, hoping to summon divine favor. Her coronation in the City of Wind had been filled with incantations and prayers, and she had prostrated herself before the gods. In the Temple of the Border, she swore oaths to defend the purity of the blood against the dark hordes of the south. To the Temple of the Wailing Crusaders she offered gold and armour enabling the high priest Benyamin the Crybully to sacrifice legions of children to ward off evil spirits.

Her court sages had foretold that such piety might move the gods to bless her with victory. Yet, the heavens remained silent, unmoved by Kamala’s efforts. The peasant soldiers who made up her dwindling army were simple people unmoved by Kamala's noble piety, their spirits dulled by the endless miseries of the bad harvests that had followed in the wake of the Great Pestilence and the War of the Orcish Hordes.

Meanwhile, the Orange Troll King performed his own rites at the shelves with a fervor that outshone that of Kamala the Awkward. Hints of plunder lured many peasants to fight under his golden banner.

The final battle for the Throne of Skulls took place under a slate-gray sky. Kamala’s captains, worn and weary, struggled to rally their ranks, but the men wavered, drained of both hope and resolve. The Orange Troll King's legions swept over them like a flood, a horde fierce and unstoppable, their savage cries drowning out Kamala’s commands and scattering her knights.

It was done. Kamala the Awkward’s forces broke like a withered reed in the winter wind, and the Orange Troll King emerged triumphant. His hulking form, twisted and monstrous, towered over the battlefield and his horrid laughs rolled over the broken banners of his enemy. The Throne of Skulls, long coveted, lay open to him, and he would the Great White Hall. With him came his lieutenants: Vance of the Couch, muttering half-insane proclamations of prophecy and destiny, and Elon the Divorced, lost in his own details.

From across the Great Ocean messages arrived bearing news of foreign vassal kings—rulers who once swore fealty to the House of Brandon—now bending the knee to the Orange Troll King.

As winter tightened its icy grip, the people whispered among themselves, fearing that the ancient spirits had truly forsaken them, leaving the realm to the darkness that now reigned supreme.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 55 points 2 weeks ago

During the campaign, Trump advocated increasing protectionist tariffs to stop imports, especially from China, in order to stimulate domestic production and, consequently, the US economy.

This could have repercussions for Brazil, since the country has China as one of its main trading partners. The Republican has also threatened to retaliate against those who exchange the dollar for the Chinese currency, the yuan, in commercial transactions.

De-dollarization is one of Brazil's main flagships with the BRICS, precisely to expand trade in the local currencies of the countries in the group and, in practice, to circumvent the dollar Trump may also boycott the climate summit to be held in Brazil, which could be emptied without the presence of the United States. In addition, he has repeatedly denied certain climate consensuses, such as the effects of global warming.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

I heard on local NPR that Japan's "left-wing" government was voted out this year.

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[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Moldovan elections final results: Sandu 55.33% to Stoianoglo 44.67% with a 54.34 voter turnout

Diaspora came to the "rescue" again,it seems. My initial prediction of it being a 10% diff seems to have come true, mostly based on the fact this happened last time: initial opposition lead,only for the diaspora to quash it.

So yeah, Eastern Europe is a diasporacracy,where the voices of those who don't even live there matter more than those who do. By the way,if you're tired of American electorialisn,you may have to look forward to me doing some Romanian electorialism come the 24th,seeing as we'll have our own presidential elections.

We're a semiparliamentary republic,so these don't matter as much,but the prime minister does have to be approved by the president,so it's still not insignificant. But I should warn you, it'll be a shitfest of pro-NATO bootlickers,but maybe some useful analysis will come of it,who knows?

My hope is that I'll give a good enough overview and maybe even show you all a bit of the circus going on (we had a local tv station,that was bought by CNN some years ago do "town hall" style debates with the candidates and then a debate where each contender sent two supporters to debate with the other person's picks,it was a circus,with the journos trying to mimic actual journalism but failing,the most pointless questions and more,I'll see if I can find a way to make them accessible to the English speakers here) and show you a glimpse of the hellscape that is Romanian politics

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[–] SubstantialNothingness@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Apparently the FBI foiled a right-winger looking to take out a power station in Tennessee.

https://archive.ph/YcmoA

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[–] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

US contamination news, perhaps someone should maintain a column on that here, we have surely missed some delicious muckraking

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use any drugs made by a compounding pharmacy in California after regulators realized the pharmacy was making drugs that need to be sterile—particularly injectable drugs—without using sterile ingredients or any sterilization steps. The products made by the pharmacy, Fullerton Wellness LLC, in Ontario, California, include semaglutide, which is intended to mimic brand-name weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. Fullerton also made tirzepatide, which is intended to mimic weight-loss and diabetes drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro. The FDA became aware of the problem after a patient submitted a complaint to the regulator that a vial of semaglutide from Fullerton Wellness had an unidentified "black particulate" floating in it. Semaglutide, like tirzepatide, is injected under the skin and is intended to be sterile.

Source is Conde Nasty's AssTechnica

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[–] DeHuq2@lemmygrad.ml 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Russia has sent 450 goats to North Korea, I repeat, Russia has sent 450 goats to North Korea https://www.fontanka.ru/2024/08/12/73946750/

recently also 150 moar goats https://petrograd.ru/news/2024/11/8/74084

contract for 3000 goats in three years https://spb.vedomosti.ru/economics/articles/2024/08/28/1058595-lenoblast-v-techenie-treh-let-postavit-severnoi-koree-poryadka-3000-koz

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago

god bless them for their spirit:

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The German coalition government (socdems, greens, liberals) is over. Scholz fired finance minister Lindner (liberal) after he proposed reelections.

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (22 children)

Rumours of the Trump proposal for ceasefire in Ukraine are being thrown around. Some highlights:

The proposals all break from Biden’s approach of letting Kyiv dictate when peace talks should begin. Instead, they uniformly recommend freezing the war in place—cementing Russia’s seizure of roughly 20% of Ukraine—and forcing Ukraine to temporarily suspend its quest to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

One idea proposed inside Trump’s transition office, detailed by three people close to the president-elect and not previously reported, would involve Kyiv promising not to join NATO for at least 20 years. In exchange, the U.S. would continue to pump Ukraine full of weapons to deter a future Russian attack.

Under that plan, the front line would essentially lock in place and both sides would agree to an 800-mile demilitarized zone. Who would police that territory remains unclear, but one adviser said the peacekeeping force wouldn’t involve American troops, nor come from a U.S.-funded international body, such as the United Nations.

This actually seems like a ceasefire agreement that Russia might agree to? Or at least a start to negotiations. We'll see what happens but if this is the attitude Trump is going to take with negotiations he might actually be able to deliver relatively quickly. Obviously the EU and Ukraine will not like these terms, but they're vassal states for a reason.

Per the WSJ

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 53 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

IOF dumbasses failed to kick down a door on their first try before magdumping an empty room:
https://xcancel.com/Lebnews2004/status/1853825699104063648

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

By August 14, 1945, the US Navy peaked at 6,768 active ships, by 1950 that number shrank to 634 ships

Later that same year in 1950 due to the Korean War the US Navy expanded back up to 980 active ships before topping out at 1,122 ships in 1953 at the end of the war and remained at a stable 900 ships for the rest of the fifties

Between 1958-1974 the US Navy slowly shrank until stabilizing again at around 550 ships until Reagan's 600 Ship-Navy Campaign Plank

The 1980s plan to rebuild the U.S. Navy, known as the 600-ship Navy, was a campaign plank of Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. The plan included: Recommissioning Iowa-class battleships, Keeping older ships in service longer, A large new construction program, and Increasing production of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers

The 600-ship Navy was the most expensive peacetime military buildup in U.S. history, costing $1.5 trillion over five years

The US Navy peaked at 594 ships in 1987 before experiencing a sharp decline between 1989-1992

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

🇫🇷⚡️🇮🇱 Diplomatic incident in Jerusalem.

As the French FM was visiting, the Israeli police entered the French-owned Eleona church compound in Jerusalem, where the consulate is located, & arrested 2 French gendarmes. (AFP)

“I will not enter the Eleona Domain today, because Israeli security forces entered with weapons, without prior French authorization, without agreeing to leave today,” Barrot said at the scene, calling the standoff “unacceptable.

Video

Source

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago

doesn't hit the jackpot tho sadness

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago

https://xcancel.com/cheriblossom__/status/1853903459277516942

The Chief of the Air Force is stuck in the streets of Tel Aviv due to large protests and street blockades

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago

Marching orders from the Zionists to MSM:
https://xcancel.com/marcowenjones/status/1854875737183895657

Four almost identical headlines in BBC, NBC, CNN and CBS....

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I had a "Remind me" bot notification on reddit come in to gloat at a NAFO dork in one year as they were braying for blood in particularly deranged ways, and refusing to acknowledge that the privatization scheme in Ukraine was a bad thing actually, and so too was sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into a meat grinder just to lose slowly anyway.

Since then, I got banned from World News in like the first few weeks of the active phase of genocidefor posting amnesty international and other humanitarian organizations assessment that Israel is an apartheid state/has committed crimes against humanity in the past (before Oct 7th) and thus violent resistance was justified, so I can't comment directly in the same chain. I went to PM the dork, but their entire account got suspended during that time lmao. #bothsides strikes again I guess.

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Here is the footage of pissraeli hooligans refusing to respect Spanish flood victims. Use it with plenty of salt against libs https://fxtwitter.com/TabZLIVE/status/1854703886784708843

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Immigrants Have Become Scapegoats in U.S. Politics - Telesur English

Article

As politicians turn to immigration as a defining issue in the campaign, genuine solutions appear increasingly out of reach. The United States, a country built by waves of immigrants, is now grappling with a dilemma of illegal immigration, which has become both a flashpoint and a partisan weapon in American politics.

As Republicans and Democrats turn to immigration as a defining issue in the presidential election campaign, genuine solutions appear increasingly out of reach. Instead, immigration has become a high-stakes game, with each side focusing more on how to exploit the issue than addressing its complex underlying causes.

In recent months, immigration has soared to the top of voters’ concerns. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that about 60 percent of Americans now view immigration as important to their vote, up significantly from previous years.

While Republican and Democrat politicians have both responded with intensified rhetoric, they have done little to bridge their divide on how to handle the issue. Instead, state and federal authorities are caught in conflicts that reflect the country’s deepening partisan split.

Last year, Republican-led states including Texas and Florida transported undocumented immigrants to Democratic strongholds like New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago. Early this year, in order to deter migrant crossing, Texas deployed National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, laid concertina wire border barriers and prevented federal agents from monitoring the border, highlighting the lack of a coordinated national approach.

As the presidential election looms, Democrats and Republicans are doubling down on immigration as a means to rally their bases. Democrats continue to advocate for policies that portray them as champions of immigrant rights, emphasizing humane treatment and protections. While the Democratic stance resonates with their core supporters, it also serves an electoral strategy: immigrants and their descendants represent a growing and potentially reliable base for the party.

However, with an increasing number of voters in favor of stronger immigration control, Democrats have started to shift their position. In June, President Joe Biden issued an executive order restricting asylum claims, limiting legal pathways at the U.S.-Mexico border in a rare departure from the party’s traditional stance. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has echoed this shift, advocating for both legalization pathways and stronger border enforcement.

Republicans, meanwhile, have adopted an increasingly hardline stance, framing immigration as a national security threat and opposing any form of legalization for undocumented immigrants. The Trump camp has ramped up its rhetoric, promising to conduct mass deportation if elected and blaming undocumented immigrants for issues like housing shortages and inflation, aiming to weaken support for Democrats among minority and union voters.

However, despite both parties’ claims to prioritize voter interests, neither side has developed practical, actionable solutions. Democrats and Republicans alike focus on exploiting immigration as a wedge issue, stirring up partisan animosity without tackling the root causes of the problem.

The immigration issue has exposed structural weaknesses in American governance. Historically, U.S. immigration policies were skewed in favor of Europeans, while those from Asia and Latin America faced heavy restrictions, pushing many into illegal pathways.

Undocumented immigrants have been an indispensable element in the U.S. society for decades. They have filled the need for essential yet low-paying and high-risk jobs that citizens largely passed up, promoted consumption, and brought benefits to the U.S. economy. However, the group remains marginalized and vulnerable.

A recent Pew Research Center survey revealed that three-quarters of U.S. voters believe undocumented immigrants primarily take jobs that Americans don’t want to do, with 90 percent of Harris supporters and 59 percent of Trump supporters sharing that view respectively.

Despite this wide acknowledgment of immigrants’ contributions, both legal and undocumented immigration have emerged as charged topics in the Nov. 5 election. At the forefront of the debate is a growing call for control, with some even pushing for large-scale deportations.

Why, after years of dependency on immigrant labor, has immigration become such a heated political issue in the United States? The answer lies, in part, in a shifting economic landscape that has seen newcomers painted as scapegoats.

In a time of economic uncertainties, critics argue that recent waves of undocumented immigrants now compete with low-skilled American workers, intensifying existing domestic job pressures. The decline in social mobility, as class divisions harden, compounds these anxieties.

The U.S. has seen the biggest gap between the rich and the poor since the Great Depression in 1929. As noted by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz during the 2022 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality, hosted by the Institute of Politics, the United States has “more inequality than other countries and remarkably less equality of opportunity than almost any other country.”

Locked into this tense economic environment, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle face mounting public pressure. Once willing to negotiate and collaborate on nuanced immigration reform, Republicans and Democrats now find themselves at an impasse. And miserably, immigrants have fallen victim to deepening political polarization.

Neither side can afford to alienate wealthy donors or find palatable solutions to create enough jobs, increase incomes and narrow the gap between the wealthy and the poor to alleviate voters’ frustrations. As a result, rather than seeking a bipartisan approach to address immigration constructively, they have taken to using undocumented immigrants, who cannot vote in the elections, as convenient scapegoats in the political battle.

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Small bit of news: ancaptain , who is trump-dapper biggest fan, still hasn't been able to congratulate the former for his presidential victory by phone. All he could manage for was a very pathetic tweet where he said "We'll help you Make America Great Again", what a colonized piece of shit. Look, I fight for the liberation of colonized peoples, but not for those who willingly allowed themselves to be colonized, in this case, argentinian ancaps. Regardless of this, it seems that the orange fascist is ignoring him lmfao.

However, milei will force a personal meeting in the next CPAC clownshow. Wait a fucking minute, I thought libertarians were not conservatives WHAT IS GOING ON HERE

Anyways, milei has been hoping for Trump's victory. In his mind, a Trumpian government will benefit Argentina because uh, he'll tell the IMF to release money or something. Funnily enough as the ancaps celebrated they were joined by some peronists who think Trump is Peronist and he will benefit Argentina due to his "isolationist" policy, as in he wont intervene in the region. Peronists not understanding Imperialism Episode #337176.

oh and death to "israel" btw

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