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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.


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Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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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.

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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 46 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The Venezuelan government says it has arrested seven mercenaries who were planning 'terrorist acts' on the eve of Maduro's inauguration.

The operation was announced on the same day that opponents were arrested in the capital; the ceremony is scheduled for January 10. The Venezuelan government confirmed on Tuesday (7) the arrest of 7 more mercenaries who were part of a plan to destabilize the country. According to President Nicolás Maduro, two of those arrested were Americans, three Colombians and two Ukrainians. Their aim was to promote attacks against Venezuelan authorities.

According to Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the detainees were trained in paramilitarism and the attack plans were to be carried out as of Wednesday (8), on the eve of Maduro's inauguration, scheduled for January 10. The authorities, however, did not give details of how these actions would be carried out. The arrests of the seven agents are in addition to the arrests of another 125 mercenaries from 15 countries, who also had the aim of promoting “terrorist acts”.

At a press conference, Cabello said that María Corina Machado is linked to the attack plans, as well as former Colombian presidents Iván Duque and Álvaro Uribe. The mercenaries' countries include Colombia, the United States, Peru, Spain, Italy, Uruguay, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Lebanon, Albania, the Netherlands, Israel, Argentina, Guyana and Yemen. Last Monday (6), Maduro himself denounced a new attempt to kill his vice-president, but this time orchestrated by the Argentine government. The action would be carried out by Argentine policeman Nahuel Gallo, who was arrested on December 8 trying to enter Venezuelan territory.

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[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months 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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[–] HidamariSou@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Mainstream media glosses over role of Ukrainian far-right in Wpg hate crimes - People's Voice

Mainstream media in Canada is glossing over the role of far-right Ukrainian groups in acts of hate. Specifically, coverage of the recent appearance of swastikas on a southwest Winnipeg community centre have failed to acknowledge the presence and significance of the spraypainted “M.K.Y.” next to the hate symbols. MKY (or MKU) is an extreme-right accelerationist Ukrainian group that recruits online and encourages acts of racist acts of violence.

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (42 children)

Calling all Newsheads, I'm going to put together a 2025 News Mega Bingo Card, reply to this post with any suggestion you have and I'll put it together sometime later in the week to give time for submissions!

Edit: if there are more than 25 submissions I'll go with the highest voted comments

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is kicked out of Trump’s cabinet but pretends he quit

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[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

democrats work across the aisle on a sweeping tax cut for the wealthy

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[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 43 points 5 months 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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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It appears Richmond, VA has no tap water after a winter storm caused cascading power failures (grid and back-up) at a water treatment facility, causing the facility to be flooded. Grocery stores are selling out of potable water and other beverages. Real Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic hours.

Twitter: https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1877175191891013921 / Nitter: https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1877175191891013921

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[–] companero@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Destroyed German tank in Kursk, Russia, surrounded by dead sunflowers. Symbolic.

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[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months 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 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The Brazilian government filed an out-of-court notice for Meta to explain the possible effects of changes in Facebook and Instagram guidelines.

Government lawyers gave a 72-hour deadline for an explanation of the alterations in fact checking and fake news that may affect children, adolescents and women, for example.

In addition, a government working group was created with consultation to the rest of the Powers and civil society to follow up on the measures to protect freedom of expression, without tolerating the violation of fundamental rights.

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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

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

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months 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.

"The last sentence would be: well, Denmark, what you gonna do about it?

"That's the new reality with regards to Trump."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp313e41jy1o

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Made the mistake of checking up on NATOpedia articles about Russia and Ukraine.

Using the Russian spelling for Russian legal entities? Nah, the LPR is definitely called Luhansk People's Republic.

An article about a classification of legal entity that exists solely within Russian law (Republics of Russia)? Umm, actually Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk don't count because there isn't international recognition of those legal entities' status in Russian law.

Ukraine's claim of North Korean troops? Treated as fact.

Russia blew up their own dam for some reason? Fact.

The images on the main page about the invasion are all Russian casualties or supposed Russian war crimes. Obviously Ukraine hasn't had any losses worth showing, and they definitely haven't committed war crimes.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago

In a statement, the Paraguayan government has acknowledged Edmundo Gonzalez's victory in the July 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela. It has therefore given Venezuelan embassy officials 48 hours to leave Paraguay. Edmundo Gonzalez met this afternoon in Washington with US President Joe Biden. Edmundo Gonzalez met this afternoon in Washington with US President Joe Biden.

Paraguay is well known for recognizing fake goverments such as the goverment of Taiwan

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Really hoping the Chinese don't cave and sell TikTok. It will cause way more chaos if they just go dark lol.

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

LE PEN (father, not daughter) JUST DIED!!! crab-party

edit: replaced the source in French with a source in English

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[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

such a chaotic moist-boy

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

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