Image is from this SCMP article.
Much of the analysis below is sourced from Michael Roberts' great website.
Japan's ruling parliamentary coalition, consisting of the LDP (purple) and it's junior coalition partner Komeito (in light pink) have lost their ruling majority. They have ruled post-war Japan for almost its entire history. The LDP is currently led by Shigeru Ishiba after Kishida stood down due to a corruption scandal, and ties to the Unification Church.
While geopolitical factors (over the cold war between the US and China, etc) may have played a role, by far the biggest reason for this result in the poor economic conditions over the past few years. Inflation has risen and real wages have fallen, with little relief for the working class via things like tax reductions. While inequality in Japan is not as extreme as in America, it is still profound, with the top 10% possessing 60% of the wealth, while the bottom 50% possess just 5%.
Shinzo Abe previously tried to boost economic performance through monetary easing and fiscal deficits, while Kishida ran on a "new capitalism" which rejected Abe's neoliberalism and promised to reduce inequality. Nothing substantial has resulted from all this, however, other than increasing corporate wealth. Innovation continues to fall, and domestic profitability is low, resulting in decreasing investment at home by Japanese corporations. Labour productivity growth has only slightly picked up since the mid-2000s and is falling again. The rate of profit has fallen by half since the 1960s, and Japan has been in a manufacturing recession - or very close to it - since late 2022. In essence: there is no choice but between stagnation or decline.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
Hexbear News Mega America desk, I have caught the electoralist bug and want a sitrep on the upcoming US presidential election - which are the key swing states? what are the battlegrounds to look out for? where are the biggest upsets likely to happen for Harris and Trump?
Give me your informed analysis, give me your spicy takes, give me your conspiracy theories, but please keep them realistic and not the wishful thinking ones. I want to become an “expert” on US electoralism.
Copied from a post I made a few days ago:
This race is the most "who fucking knows" since I've followed US elections.
Some things of I think are of note
- AZ and NV having abortion ballot measures should heavily lean dem (someone else here already mentioned this) but are still tossups
- NC's governor ticket will probably drag Republicans down. Mark Robinson was exposed as a serial gooner (pornshop debt) who is a black Nazi that wants slavery to return (this is not a joke). He strikes me as a worse Herschel Walker/Dr Oz type candidate and I think dems pickup NC because of it. The broader Republican party is trying to run away from him because he's seen as that toxic
- GA will have the most brazenly corrupt election this side of the century, and that's saying a lot since their incumbent governor probably stole his own first election already. Their election board will send Trump electors no matter what (unless there is somehow a massive electoral college win for Kamala which I don't see happening)
- MI goes for Trump on the Stein 3rd party vote and liberals transition from their current state (going mask off) to gleeful celebration of, like, domestic socdem repression
- PA I genuinely have no clue. No confidence whatsoever in a call either way
- Every other state I think is locked in (including WI for dems- this is possibly what I'll be most gut feeling wrong about)
Republicans take the Senate
I think a 269-269 tie is an incredibly possible situation and I think it would fall under funniest timeline theory (for those reading this results in a Trump presidency due to tiebreaker rules favoring him).
Ask any questions you have and I'll try to further expand with the few things that have changed (early voting data) since I made that original post.
The dems chosen path to theoretical victory is through a continued huge delta in suburban white women voters (trying to build off of 2020 and 2022 momentum in this group) flipping from Republican to Democratic tickets. They're performing worse with men across basically every strata available.
Early voting leans dem but those previously huge margins are probably greatly lessened this time around (general trend that early vote is becoming less partisan but still is probably largely in favor of dems)
Georgia changed their rules from 2020 regarding absentee ballots which will likely depress mail-in ballot quantities. Whether those voters instead elect to vote early (GA is breaking early voting records and this is possibly part of it) is yet to be known due to not knowing confounding factors like decreased partisanship in early voting trends.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed.
I saw a chart a few weeks ago that the Democratic gains in PA from the past two cycles have been wiped out. What’s going on with PA? I know about Fetterman but he cannot possibly be the sole reason that the Dems lost almost all their advantage there.
Fetterman's rabid Zionism is (unfortunately) probably immaterial to PA. PA is a hugely white (74%) older (20% over 65) state whose primary stated driver is economic decline (nothing novel here). The people seem to correctly recognize their quality of life and material conditions are declining, but there's no real "reason" being presented by dems as to why other than Kamala's campaign vaguely alluding to price-gouging which she'll do something? about. Trump messages that the economic woes of PA (everywhere really) is due to migrants.
When they democratic ticket switch occurred people largely decoupled Harris from the Biden administration's economic policy but consistent messaging from Republicans seems to have wiped that out.
People are feeling their material conditions collapse due to the continued financialization of basically everything under capitalism and neither party provides real analysis/plausible solutions under the existing system so figuring out specific voter grievances there is hard to figure out outside of individual vibes.
PA also isn't a state that I know a lot about relative to some of the other swing states so my analysis is probably lacking here but I've tried my best.
serial gooner (pornshop debt)
How does this even happen lmao. Is he like buying tons of porn videos or is it sex toys
I think it's even worse that it was in-store viewing services? I haven't thought about Mark Robinson since I made that post originally but it's worth your time reading about because he's that wild of a figure.
The Georgia ballot is so bad it's fucking hilarious, check this shit out
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Although credit where it's due, Jill Stein, Claudia De La Cruz and Cornell West are all on the ballot this year. I've seen elections where it was literally just Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian.
Most accurate non partisan polls I've seen show the election to be at a statistical tie. But I think Trump is the more likely candidate to win as it stands.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/10/28/volkswagen-set-to-close-three-german-plants-and-cut-thousands-of-jobs
"Volkswagen's management wants to close at least three plants, cut tens of thousands of jobs, and also slash pay by 10% for remaining staff, according to a statement from staff representatives."
Volkswagen Passenger Cars CEO Thomas Schäfer said: "We have to get to the root of the problems: we are not productive enough at our German sites and our factory costs are currently 25 to 50 percent above target. This means that some of our German plants are twice as expensive as our competitors."
He stressed that operations "cannot continue as before".
In microchip news:
Intel invests US$300 million in China chip packaging and testing plant
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The US chip giant aims to expand an existing chip packaging and testing facility in China, its largest market
US semiconductor giant Intel said it would expand its chip packaging and testing base in Chengdu, in a show of commitment to the mainland market despite a recent call by a Beijing-backed cybersecurity group to review the company’s products.
In addition to enlarging packaging and testing capacity for server chips, the facility will also establish a “customer solutions centre to improve the efficiency of the local supply chain, increase support for Chinese customers and improve response time”, Intel China said on Monday on its WeChat account.
The Santa Clara, California-based company will inject US$300 million into its local entity, Intel Products (Chengdu), to support the expansion, according to a WeChat post published by the city’s Reform and Development Commission.
Launched in 2003, Intel’s Chengdu plant is responsible for the packaging and testing of more than half of the company’s laptop processors shipped worldwide. Packaging and testing is the final step in semiconductor manufacturing, ensuring the quality and reliability of a product.
The facility plays a critical role in Intel’s global supply chain, while Chengdu provides a “favourable” business environment that paves the way for the company’s “stable growth”, Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger said during a visit there last year. Chengdu is the capital of China’s southwestern Sichuan province.
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“My simple message is, ‘Let’s get it finished,’” said Gelsinger in an interview with The New York Times.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has been frustrated with the U.S. government’s slow progress in providing Intel with its promised CHIPS Act funding. The New York Times shared recent interviews with Gelsinger and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about the CHIPS and Science Act.
The Biden-backed CHIPS Act represents $280 billion of funding for semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, giving the Commerce Dept. the ability to provide 10-figure grants and loans to companies like TSMC and Intel to supercharge a young U.S.-based chip industry. The Biden administration has promised Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding to build its new chipmaking fabs (plus $11 billion in loans and a 25% investment tax credit of up to $100 billion). Still, the company has not seen any of these funds so far.
Missing the funds is a problem for Intel, which is in turmoil due to $1.6 billion in losses in Q2 2024. Intel is cutting 15% of its workforce, representing 15,000 or more workers worldwide. Gelsinger has spent the past three months since the disastrous August earnings call restructuring his company and placating stockholders. He has become “frustrated” with the roadblocks the government has put in between Intel and its CHIPS Act funds.
“My simple message is, ‘Let’s get it finished,’” said Gelsinger in an interview. “There’s been renegotiations on both sides.” The U.S. government put some objectives between CHIPS Act recipients and their money, with milestones including completing building projects, securing customers, etc. “Obviously, with elections, you know, nigh in front of us, hey, we want this done,” said Gelsinger, with the possibility of a new presidential regime lighting a fire of urgency.
This reticence to give out CHIPS Act funding right away apparently stemmed from fears from the government that Intel specifically would not meet its promises. “[There is fear that] Intel is going to take chips money, build an empty shell of a factory and then never actually open it, because they don’t have customers,” said former Commerce Department official Caitlin Legacki.
Gelsinger’s tenure as CEO since 2021 has been marked by a desire to rebuild the company in a foundry-forward direction. One of the major forces behind lobbying for the CHIPS Act, Gelsinger also supercharged the Intel Foundry division, which, despite its extremely high costs, has been deemed crucial for Intel's long-term success. The foundry is set to be spun off into an independent subsidiary, with its overseas operations paused for the next two years while its U.S. facilities are prioritized.
According to reports from last month, Intel is set to receive its first round of CHIPS Act funds before the end of 2024. Gelsinger, as mentioned above, is anxious to receive funds before the election, and Qualcomm is reportedly waiting until the election to make a move on purchasing Intel assets.
Someone in the PNW burnt a ballot box cw:
linkedit: guess they got a few
https://apnews.com/article/vote-ballot-drop-box-democracy-fire-f66c52f774955106fb9e7c8172825cff
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Since everyone's talking about that alleged comedian's racist joke about Puerto Rico being a garbage patch, and I can't think of an interesting discussion topic about Japan:
What strategic value does Puerto Rico currently represent to empire? Previously, a staging ground to place American bases in the Caribbean near Cuba was an absolutely critically important point in the Cold War. As US-Cuba relations cool down, and as the Puerto Rican debt crisis and failure to recover electrical infrastructure from 2017's hurricane Maria post privatization of the electric grid, it seems like our value to empire is reduced. Puerto Rico receives more money in federal funds every year than we produce with our entire manufacturing sector, and the usual culprits for embezzlement, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (FIRE) make up a comparatively very small portion of the economy. Previously, I had concluded that the reason the US keeps us around as a colony was just that, the strategic value. But how is it realized?
Follow up question, how could whatever strategic value Puerto Rico has for the US, in the event of a successful PR independence movement, be leveraged against US empire?
Edit: the claim that the federal funds are greater than the manufacturing GDP is entirely wrong actually, I misremembered that from when I had looked this up before and skimmed the sources and came to the wrong conclusion. I just checked and GDP from manufacturing is around 5x federal funding. Still, there's a huge debt problem that's being handled via austerity instead of economic development. I doubt there's too much potential for development in a country with an enormous brain drain problem and inflated US dollar wages, at least under the colonial status quo. So it still begs the question, what's the plan long term?
As US-Cuba relations cool down
I'm not so sure they are/will cool down though. PR is also important to keep Haiti in check. It is a vital point of US power projection in the Caribbean
I meant since 1991, certainly they're tense now relative to under Obama, but they've cooled down since Cuba has necessarily attempted to bridge the gap with the US.
Puerto Rico might be peripheric in the economic grand scheme but that has value too. You ask what is the long term plan for a quasi-country with a brain drain problem, but when it comes to outskirt provinces sometimes the plan is to be brain drained forever. I don't know if Puerto Rico has natural resources or how much of a real estate market it can develop, but at the end of the day we are talking about the US economy here and what matters is how much of that can be used as collateral to generate debt.
That said, you yourself recognize that economic goals don't necessarily matter. Puerto Rico is territory and states do not let go of those. It's an island that is close to Cuba (I mean, so is Florida), and its at the mouth and heart of the Caribbean. It's close by to Venezuela and Suriname. Even if the US didn't need a base there, at the end of the day Puerto Rico is a part of the world that doesn't even need to open an US base in order to rule it from afar.
Since you might be from the island, could you explain the whole kerfuffle surrounding statehood? From what I understand is might be less straightforward than an outsider like me thinks.
Since you might be from the island, could you explain the whole kerfuffle surrounding statehood? From what I understand is might be less straightforward than an outsider like me thinks.
That's what I was hoping some egghead who's read 10x as much theory as me would explain to me, lol. The situation is, there are three options: Colonial status quo (free associated state with an austerity enforcing financial oversight board, like a little IMF just for us), statehood, and independence. Support for the colonial status quo has collapsed. Support for independence is mostly prevalent in the diaspora. Support for statehood is what's most prevalent across the board locally, but especially among the bourgeiosie and petit bourgeoisie, doubly so for the class of Americans who moved to the island. The federal government will never allow statehood to happen, because as you pointed out, a quasi-country is of economic utility and offers a marginal opportunity for a lot of sectors that need to operate within US borders but still have relatively low wages.
I don't have a sufficient explanation for why the repeated failures of the annexationist movement (the pro-statehood party has been in power since 2016) haven't resulted in increased support for independence. In our upcoming elections, the pro-statehood party is tied with the pro-independence party, yet the pro-independence party has taken a neutral stance towards the status issue because there simply is not enough support for independence locally.
Support for independence is mostly prevalent in the diaspora.
This is what I have issue understanding. Yeah, I guess if you're puerto rican diaspora you face discrimination in the mainland and so you develop some feelings towards the colonial status quo. But even so I'd expect that a growing diaspora would just intensify links with the mainland, and ultimately create a strong voting block towards statehood and any form of economic subsidy. Not independence. If anything I'd expect Puerto Rico's material conditions to suffer with independence.
https://x.com/GUAN_FAHRANZAYD/status/1850253566855832016
Good twitter thread about the algerian missiles program. For anyone that is interested. It is in Arabic.
English article from Fereshteh Sadeghi on the US-israeli attack on Iran last week.
The Iranian army later in the day announced the death of at least four officers, including a colonel, killed during Israeli air raids in Khuzestan. An informed source speaking to The Cradle on condition of anonymity reveals that the number of Iranian casualties is higher than what is officially being reported.
Details about the Israeli air raids or the extent of the harm to the Iranian military are unclear and patchy at best. Both sides have a vested interest in controlling the narrative: Tel Aviv to project power and deterrence, and Tehran to maintain an image of resilience and minimize perceived vulnerabilities.
Israel says it deployed over 100 F-35 fighter jets to conduct the offensive. However, an Iranian conservative lawmaker on Saturday morning claimed that the strikes in Tehran were actually carried out by small drones or quadcopters.
Hamid Rasaei wrote on his Telegram channel that “the Zionist regime’s agents in Tehran were involved in those attacks and Iranian anti-aircraft guns fired at those microdrones.”
The narrative in the west of the country was different. Images of an Israeli missile’s booster falling in Iraq’s Salahuddin province suggest Israel used the Golden Horizon Air launched Ballistic Missile to hit Iranian radars in the western belt of the country.
The use of Iraqi airspace by Israel was confirmed by the Khatam Al-Anbiya Air Defense Base. It has blamed the US military for allowing Israel to fire air-launched ballistic missiles into Iranian territory from 100 kilometers deep inside the Iraqi soil. No such permission had been granted from Iraqi authorities.
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Although the official Iranian media have downplayed the extent and strength of the Israeli strikes, University of Tehran academic and political analyst Mohammad Marandi tells The Cradle that “it was a big operation on the side of Israel and actually a considerable one, as Israelis did harm Iranian radar and defense systems.”
Fouad Izadi points to a stellar performance by Iran's air defense systems, in which “Iran was basically able to minimize the effect of this aggression” by Israel.
Marandi, who served as a consultant for the Iranian negotiating team at the last round of Vienna nuclear talks, agrees with the assessment that Iran’s air defenses performed well: “Iranians had conducted security and intelligence operations ahead of the strikes and succeeded in limiting the extent of damage by dummies and decoys as well as spreading misinformation about sensitive sites.”
As he tells The Cradle, the damage inflicted on Iranian military sites was not grave because “the possibility of a direct confrontation with the United States convinced Iranians many years ago to relocate almost all sensitive sites and strategic production facilities underground. Neither warplanes nor missiles are able to penetrate into those underground facilities.”
“What remains on the ground are small workshops producing missile spare parts and they are scattered across the country, but not near borders, that’s why the strike failed to leave a significant harm,” Marandi adds.
I agree with most of what Mohammad Marandi says here, it lines up with most of the satellite imagery I have been able to view. Some hits on air defence systems and limited hits on above ground missile and drone production facilities.
Unfortunately the air defence systems protecting the skies came at the cost of the lives of the operators (incredibly brave people who sacrificed their lives to protect their country) and leaving those systems out of action until the radars are repaired or replaced, which is particularly concerning in my view. I'd hope for Russia or China to supply some air defence batteries for Iran in the meantime while the systems that were damaged are repaired or replaced. The USA have supplied Israel with a THAAD battery while they re-arm Arrow-2 and Arrow-3, given that context Russia or China assisting Iran with air defence systems can be seen as a response and not an escalation.
I think Ayatollah Khamenei's insight is, as always, spot on: "the enemies are trying to overstate the impact of the strikes, but downplaying them and saying they were insignificant is a mistake."
I will say, after a year of seeing tens of thousands of Arabs being shredded due to US-zionist airstrikes, it is inspiring to see that the damage from this particular strike was so small and so much was intercepted.
Us-israeli deterrence is not anything like what it was and Iran is now a heavyweight in the field.
🇺🇦🇬🇪Snipers trained in Ukraine are arriving in Georgia to organize provocations during mass protests, sources in the region tell TASS.
New euromaidan?
Why are Chinese delivery drivers having meltdowns? by SCMP Deep Dive
Looks like China’s delivery gig industry is reaching its breaking point, in what we call 内卷 (or involution). The means of exploitation is not so different from what I’ve heard about Uber and Lyft drivers have to endure in the US.
I remember reading a while ago an article about how the delivery drivers are mostly putting their wages into assets such as crypto and stocks because their wage cannot give them enough to live or to save. I always knew that the newly formed gig economy was just a re proletarianization of a part of the population and it was a matter of time that the time bomb will go off.
In the 90s, when the liberalization happened, the government promised that social mobility is possible and meritocracy is real within the new arrangement in exchange of removing certain socialist privileges. However, nowadays, I don't think this sales pitch is convincing for the youth
Class inequalities exist even in China, therefore exploitation exists.
The problem is that the right to strike has been removed from the PRC Constitution since 1982. It was first introduced in the 1975 сonstitution by Mao but they removed it after his death. There is very little constitutional protection for workers rights and trade unions in China which was part of the reason why Western capitalists so happily de-industrialized from the Imperial Core and moved their production to China (it allowed them to crush the rising domestic trade union movements in the West that had been increasing their demands for workers rights.)
China has done a lot of great things but labor rights is not at all like the Soviet Union, which is possibly the closest example we have to a workers state despite all its flaws. There have been positive signs of China returning to its Marxist roots since Xi came to power in the mid-2010s, but if you have ever lived in China in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was very clear then that the deep rot of capitalist corruption was already set in that coincided with the turn toward neoliberalism. The current endeavors to reverse course is not going to be trivial. There is still a lot of work to be done.
"why Western capitalists so happily de-industrialized from the Imperial Core and moved their production to China (it allowed them to crush the rising domestic trade union movements in the West that had been increasing their demands for workers rights.)"
The irony is that the argument to move the sweatshops to China was the high education level (quick to learn, highly technical) and gender\economic equality (cheap) achieved during Mao's era created an army of high quality workforce. The state's centralization post- 80s is just a bonus since you can use it to discipline the workers when they start to feel nostalgic for the old days under Mao.
Capitalists love when socialists create high quality workers that they don't have to pay for their education, but want to have the right to squeeze every drop of profits from their labour
Regardless of constitutional labor rights, these gig economy workers wouldn't benefit from any labor laws because their contracts are engineered to fall short of the minimum requirements for the jobs to count as employment. I do wonder what potential there exists for the CPC to crack down on these tricks, but I doubt there's much will to expand the meager labor protections to gig workers too.
The government just decided recently to put Party representatives in private company of a certain size. This is not a mechanism to make sure that the CEO is applying dialectic materialism in this company management, this is basically a way to make sure that the company doesn't do anything that deviate from the greater scheme of the thing for the country (this is not so different from British empire's, Japan 's or USA's capitalist development tbh)
As my grandma from the party used to say: "there is no real reason for normal people (like me) to join the party. Unless you want to start a company and you want to build connection to get financing."
For me as a dumb westerner with no real eyes into China, how effective are the endeavors currently in your opinion to "correct course?"
Your statement is not wrong, but if the government doesn't mediate appropriately and come up with enforcement mechanism against the capitalist excess (which the party initiated and encouraged). It will fail its mandate.
The official CPC's trade union (All-China Federation of Trade Unions) is not an independent trade union and this will just help to breed independent trade unions that would decrease the legitimacy of the ACFTU and moreover the party itself.
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Hezbollah targeting a shelter: https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/1850489072378085692
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Notice the car and bus in both clips.
Another ballot drop-off arson attack has occurred (I believe this is the third), this time in Vancouver, WA.
https://www.katu.com/news/local/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson
There is something morbidly funny to me in the Zionist line that Yahya Sinwar "died like a dog." Basically just confessing that they regularly kill dogs using drone surveillance and tank shells.
It never looks quite good to compare the killing of your enemies to killing a dog, but if you're gonna use it it needs to be embarrassing for the victim and not your own side, like death by starvation or just plain execution.
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I see Walz is going to get the very important Dreamcast Vote. Can't wait to see trump play Simpsons Road Rage now.
I mean anyone who prefers Sega over Nintendo has earned my vote. SEGA defeating Nintendo probably occurred in the Al Gore timeline.
I blame Sega for all those platformers that used a weird-ass control scheme where the rightmost button on the controller was the action button, instead of being the jump button. Dear Altered Beast devs, WTF?
Should've streamed GTA:SA to cash in on its 20th year anniversary. This is how you can tell the Democrats are fake gamers smfh
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One of these structures, known as Taleghan 2, has been previously linked to Iran’s nuclear programme by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
BBC Verify has identified what appears to be damage to a storage unit at the Abadan Oil Refinery based in the south-western province of Khuzestan.
Apparently Israel did (kinda sorta, but not really) strike oil and nuclear sites? Seems kinda like an "I'm not touching you" thing, with minor targets being chosen to avoid serious implications.
The destruction of Taleghan 2 was likely largely symbolic, there's been no visible activity there on satellite imagery for over 7 years, with half built buildings that haven't been worked on since 2016.
