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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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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 52 points 5 days 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 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago

I think this was part of the USA's plan, they forced their allies to give guns to Ukraine, and that also disarmed them, making them weak to even attempt resisting the US. The US also forced Argentina and Ecuador to do the same thing. They attempted this shit with Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Colombia, but those countries refused, only Colombia granted Ukraine some medical aid.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

You're over-estimating Danish military capabilities. Denmark has been unable to defend itself against the great powers since 1801. You can argue that there was a short period during WWI when they bloated the military budget and spent it all on fortifying Copenhagen where they made it not worth the bother for Germany to attack but even then I doubt they would have been able to withstand in the long run.

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago

timmy-pray

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 51 points 5 days 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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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ukrainian telegram channels coming up with the funniest shit:

ukkkraine signed bilateral defense treaty with denmark, so they could call them to protect against seppos agony-limitless

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago

Gonna be a war with one of those wikipedia articles where all the nations involved seem like they were picked at random

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago

Surely, they apply the same criteria to everyone

https://www.state.gov/genocide-determination-in-sudan-and-imposing-accountability-measures/

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 5 days 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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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've queued up the c-span stream of the US supreme Court hearing about the TikTok ban on https://live.hexbear.net/c/news

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago

Nvm, it's over. TikTok's lawyer did say "lol y'all need to admit you're scared of propaganda but that's still free speech" as his closing argument (heavily paraphrasing)

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days 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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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I completely missed the news about Anita Bryant being fucking dead. Rest in piss. rip-bozo

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 72 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 children)

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1877474174652002533

Modern Nazis like the AfD are so shit, they don't even have the 'dull the Germans by giving them jobs' part, they only have Islamophobia.

Kalecki's saying "One of the important functions of fascism, as typified by the Nazi system, was to remove the capitalist objections to full employment." no longer applies

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 63 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

they nationalized industries like crazy

lol. The Nazis were the first to re-privatize the economy during the Great Depression after European powers nationalized their economies during WWI, which led to unprecedented socialist movements all over Europe and especially that revolution in Russia.

The mass privatization that begin in the late 1960s-1970s was based on the re-privatization effort of Nazi Germany, where that part of history has been conveniently scrubbed when academics talk about the history of neoliberalism and where the roots of marginalist/neoclassical economics were concerned.

From the Economy of Evil:

In February 1933, as Chancellor, Hitler met with the leading German industrialists at the home of Hermann Goring. There were representatives from IG Farben, AG Siemens, BMW, coal mining magnates, Theissen Corp, AG Krupp, as well as a locust of Bankers, investors, and other Germans belonging to the top 1%. During this meeting, Hitler said, "Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy."

In 1934, Nazis outlined their plan to revitalize the German economy. It involved reprivatization of significant industries: railways, public works project, construction, steel, and banking. On top of that, Hitler guaranteed profits for the private sector, and so, many American industrialists and bankers gleefully flocked to Germany to invest.

The Nazis had a thorough plan for deregulation. The Nazi's economist, stated," The first thing German business needs is peace and quiet. It must have a feeling of absolute legal security and must know that work and its return are guaranteed. The interferences in a business which occurred at first, perhaps as a result of too much zeal, have become intolerable."

Germany had the most robust social-democratic movement, and consequently, the best worker protections in Europe codified by law. This was a significant impediment to businesses "operating freely without interference."

…

On January 20, 1934, the Nazis passed the Law Regulating National Labor. The act explicitly took power away from the government to set minimum wages and working conditions. The act stated, "The leader of the enterprise makes the decisions for the employees and laborers in all matters concerning the enterprise, as far as they are regulated by this law." Employers lowered wages and benefits. Workers were banned from striking or engaging in other collective bargaining rights. Worker conditions were so deteriorated that with the head of the AFL visited Nazi Germany in 1938, he compared the life of an average worker to that of a slave. Workers in Nazi Germany worked longer hours for lower wages.

“Adolf Hitler was a socialist” lmao

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[–] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Her grandfather Hans Weidel was a Nazi judge, appointed directly by Adolf Hitler. He joined the NSDAP at the end of 1932 and the SS in January 1933.

From 1941 he was an army judge, one of 3,000 judges in the Nazi military justice system, and from 1944 a chief staff judge.

She knows what she is doing, she should hang for it, as her grandpa should have.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Coup/Presidential Crisis in Ecuador

The Ecuadorean National Assembly returned decree 500, in which President Daniel Noboa asked for a “few days' leave” to campaign, to the presidency, and put in his place a Vice-President appointed by him, rather than the elected one. The Assembly has asked the president to take an official leave of absence. And they have said that they will only recognize the legitimacy of Veronica Abad, the Vice-President elected in 2023, together with Daniel Noboa.

A coup d'état will take place in Ecuador, says Vice-President Abad. The Vice President of Ecuador, Verónica Abad, said today that “a coup d'état will be carried out” in the next few hours by the government itself, when President Daniel Noboa entrusts the presidency to “his secretary.” Cynthia Gellibert.

At a press conference in the capital, Abad addressed the international community and said that the coup orchestrated by the Executive affects national and regional stability. “The constitutional order has been broken. The president and his improvised cabinet have repeatedly violated the Constitution and are carrying out a coup d'état for the democratic history of Ecuador,” he told journalists.

Abad opposes abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and 4th wave feminism. She says she defends freedom of religion, individual rights, private property, small government and free markets. She has also shown sympathy for politicians including Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, and the far-right Spanish party Vox. The Citizen Revolution party, a democratic socialist Correaista party, has declared its critical support for Veronica Abad. Insisting that she take over the presidency until the 2025 elections.

Meanwhile, Daniel Noboa insists that there is a conspiracy between his party, his ministers and Congress to bring down his government. He also insists that the power outages are not due to cuts in the infrastructure budget, but to a plot by one of his ministers against him because they want to remove him from power.

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[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days 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 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

Norway's government plans to increase the nation's civil defence. The number of conscripts assigned to civil defence will be increased from 8.000 to 12.000.

In addition Norway plans to be 50 percent self-sufficient by 2030 and increase emergency stores of grain to have enough to cover the nation's needs for three months by 2029.

In addition the Norwegian government is increasing funding to voluntary civil defence organisations, working on a new cyber preparedness plan as well as a "strategy to strengthen the public's resilience against desinformation" that will be presented this spring.

Source: NRK (state media), January 10th 2025

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

I always laugh when I remember than most militaries in europe consist of just a few thousand guys

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[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 45 points 5 days 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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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 64 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Lmao. I do prefer this more naked imperialism from the US, it's more honest. Well perhaps not more naked, just directed towards the imperial periphery this time.

But the disquiet brought on by Trump's refusal to rule out military intervention to seize Greenland remains.

Karsten Honge said Denmark would have suffer whatever decision the US takes.

"They just need to send a small battleship to travel down the Greenland coast and send a polite letter to Denmark," he said, only partly in jest.