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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-us-sovereign-wealth-fund/

Is there any real benefit for the US creating a sovereign wealth fund? Isn't that functionally what the IMF is? I'm sure Michael Hudson could give a 90 minute lecture on the topic, but doesn't the US have so many tools to inject dollars around the world this is pointless.

Perhaps this will be the slush fund in lieu of USAID and NED.

Just a small update (or large in geopolitical meaning) on US military action around México and El Salvador. The US Coast Guard and Military planes that flew to El Salvador over Mexican airspace were not deportation flights as previously thought (the exact same US Coast Guard plane was used in deportation flights previously and photographed doing so by the Coast Guard themselves at the time, which is why deportation flights were suspected), these planes were actually part of a rescue operation/mission to look for a missing member of the US Coast Guard that fell overboard while operating off of the coast of Guatemala.

Therefore, there is no current deal between El Salvador and the USA with regards to deportations and housing "violent gang members" in jails, despite hints at it by Rubio. Also, the use of Mexican airspace for this rescue operation was an exceptional case, and given that US military deportation flights to Guatemala still avoid México's airspace, I think it's safe to say that Mexico will not allow the US military to use their airspace in future, outside of this rescue mission.

However, US reconnaissance flights are continuing on the border, and with plans designate the Sinaloa Cartel as a foreign terrorist organisation, these flights near their strongholds, and Mexican National Guard deployments there, start to make more sense.

Coast Guard Searching Eastern Pacific for Missing Service Member, USNI News, 6 February 2025

Westerners laughed at us Arabs because our revolutionary energy of the 50-70s got transformed into some kind of Failson Republics with the likes of Bashar Al Assad getting to power and Uday Hussein, Gamal Mubarak and Saif Al Islam Gaddafi getting really close to power. Not to mention all the weirdo hereditary political party leader families like the Jumblatts, the Gemayels and the Aouns in Lebanon. Well who's laughing now huh? Our monarchies are mostly ruled by fresh cool guys like MBS and Tamim bin Hamad, and even the republics have fresh faces these days. While westerners are now forever stuck with whatever gets produced by the Trudeau, Trump and the African comprador political dynasty failson factories.

The large wet boy that cried tarrif

Musk's net worth to drop from about $433B to $401.8B... Tariffs. Lol remember when dude lost 180 billion like it wasn't a thing. What a system. https://thehill.com/business/5130784-elon-musk-donald-trump-tariffs-doge-net-worth/?ICID=ref_fark

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/03/briton-18-killed-by-russian-drone-minutes-into-first-mission-in-ukraine-report

Magnitude 8 earthquake south of the Cayman Islands, possible tsunami warning (warning twitter link)

We have found that a lot of US Treasuries are actually woke.

Trump suggested DOGE has found irregularities in US treasuries & intimated that may lead the US to disregard some.

“Maybe we have less debt than we thought,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on the way to the Super Bowl.

In Finland news:

Finnish national news is doing its wholesome "would you look at our great defensive alliance"-posting in the English section of the news.

But they don't forget to add a bit of ominous scare mongering:

According to the Commander of the Lapland Air Wing, Colonel Saku Joukas, the jets and their crews are prepared for anything — even though the mission is a routine one for Nato.

jfc https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1iiee56/ea_uses_real_explosions_from_israeli_airstrikes/

So a friend of mine just told me that shortly after the Elon Musk sieg heil salute there was a video recorded from behind him which showed him click his heels together when he did the nazi salute (both times), eliminating any doubt whatsoever what his intention with that gesture was.

Now, try as he might, he can't find the video anywhere - he seems to think it's been completely scrubbed from the web.

Anybody else seen this? Clearly Google has scrubbed it, but I also briefly checked Yandex and I'm not seeing anything there either.

Any ideas on how to track this down?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-india-official-says-2025-02-03/

US military flight deporting migrants to India, official says

There has been no protest from the Indian Government btw.

Kind of the opposite, bootlicking

Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said New Delhi is open to the return of undocumented Indians in the United States. His comments came following a meeting with U.S. foreign secretary Marco Rubio in Washington during which illegal immigration was one of the issues discussed.

“New Delhi has been proactive in saying that we also have no reason to support illegal immigration and that we would, as in the past, cooperate in deportation of those who have been identified by our authorities as Indian citizens. At the same time, there is a push from the US side to try and ensure that legal migration is streamlined which is an important source of talent for the country. For us, a lot of our talented young people would have opportunities if these aspects are simplified, whether it is access to H-1b visas or green cards, I think this should be a part of the narrative with the United States,” Former Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla recently told IANS.

Anyone here ever heard of DIILS? some DoD thing I've never heard of but sounds bullshit

Friend of mine has an interview to do remote work for a tribal government and at first it sounded amazing because they'd be working with a tribe instead of some fuckin corpo, but then I just found out they work with the DoD through this DIILS shit, so there's no way this isn't some fucked up warcrime shit, right?

Apparently Mexico rushing 10000 troops to the border to stop drug flow and the white house may delay the tariffs until march as a result

Greenland’s Siumut Party Calls for Referendum on Independence Ahead of Elections

Greenland’s social democratic Siumut party has altered its strategy on independence, abandoning its prior stance of awaiting a statehood commission’s findings to instead push for a referendum during the next government term. Chairman Erik Jensen announced the shift ahead of March 11 elections, aiming to activate Section 21 of Greenland’s 2009 Self-Rule Act. This would force negotiations with Denmark on independence terms, followed by a referendum. If approved, Denmark’s parliament would have to vote on sovereignty. Should talks fail, Greenland retains the right to unilaterally declare independence at any time under international law.

The move follows internal pressure from Siumut members, including MPs Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam and Kuno Fencker, who urged immediate action. The party’s coalition partner, Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), criticized the decision. IA's member of Danish parliament Aaja Chemnitz warned that simultaneous commission work and negotiations could weaken Greenland’s position and criticised the announcement from taking attention from pressing issues during the ongoing campaign. Prime Minister Múte B. Egede (IA) has not commented on the announcement yet.

Key challenges loom. Greenland relies on an annual Danish block grant for a third of its public revenue, a contentious issue given Denmark’s likely reluctance to continue subsidies post-independence. The transfers to Greenland has been a recurring grievance for Danish reactionaries for decades as it tickles their racism as well as class hatred. A similar dispute sank the Faroe Islands’ independence talks in the 2000s when the Danish government refused to continue funding for now than two years post independence.

Pro-independence advocates hope to retain ties to Denmark through a compact of free association and continued funding for a period. In addition to a challenging geography and small population Greenland has a shortage of skilled workers, requiring foreign support for healthcare, education, and administration.

Greenland's government has stated their intent to join America's NATO pact. However an independent Greenland would not be able to fulfil Washington's demands for aggressive military posturing against Russia so the continued presence of foreign troops is a given.

Increased calls for Greenlandic independence has made Denmark's other colony reconsider relations to the metropol. In the Faroe Islands, the traditionally unionist Sambandsflokkurrin party has called for expanded autonomy, including increased control over foreign policy and is working on getting their own WTO delegation.

• Source: DR (state media), February 6th 2025

Danish mainstream media are absolutely insufferable in their coverage of the upcoming German elections and the AfD Nazi party. They’ve settled on this smug, condescending narrative, acting baffled and amused that Germans could possibly see the AfD as anything other than a legitimate political party. The message is clear: Germans should look to Denmark to learn how to "tame the outer wings" by bringing them into the fold of polite politics.

And, of course, "the outer wings" is just disingenuous horseshoe-theory bullshit—equating the left, which at most flirts with weaksauce democratic socialism, with nazis that froths at the mouth at the mere idea of someone not gouging themselves on pork sausages all day. Not to mention, these so-called "wings" weren’t tamed the same way. The left was crushed through generations of subversive efforts—marginalization, sabotage, and relentless demonization of anything left of the Social Democrats. Meanwhile, the far right was "tamed" through appeasement, with respectable mainstream parties and media coddling them, normalizing their racism, adopting their hateful beliefs and handing them a megaphone to spew their bile.

But back to Germany. Danish media are openly mocking the idea of banning the AfD. Their galaxy-brain take? Germans should just stop voting for the AfD if they don’t like them. Because apparently, the way to stop fascism is to step aside, do nothing, and hope the magic ballot box takes care of it.

I hate journalists. Then again, these are the same people who cover the American Trump regime’s mass deportations in the by bringing in “neutral experts” to declare that “something had to be done” about “illegal immigration.”

Argentina announces withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO). President Javier Milei imitated United States President Donald Trump, who had already anticipated the same decision, placing the organization in a financial crisis

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