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Bulletins and News Discussion from March 31st to April 6th, 2025 - Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake Hits Mandalay
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Image of destruction in Mandalay, Myanmar, from Al Jazeera.
As if the ongoing civil war wasn't enough, Myanmar has now been struck by a very powerful earthquake, resulting in 2000 deaths and thousands more injured as of the time of writing. Estimates are that the death toll could reach 10,000. Infrastructure like roads and bridges are damaged, and the hospitals are overwhelmed. The earthquake struck during Eid prayers, resulting in even higher casualties as several mosques collapsed. 20 million people already required humanitarian assistance in Myanmar, and now the situation there will be even worse. International rescue teams have rushed into the country, and aid is being raised, though with USAID experiencing the... changes that it is, the United States will be of even more limited help than usual. So far, China has sent $14 million, while USAID has supplied $2 million. In Thailand, the death toll seems considerably lower, though there has still been significant damage; a skyscraper under construction collapsed in Bangkok.
Myanmar is located very close to the boundary between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. In particular, the country is divided in two by the north-south oriented Sagaing fault. This fault is typically strike-slip; that is, each side of the fault moves horizontally past each other. The earthquake's depth was 10 kilometers, which is pretty shallow, and its proximity to the surface amplified the felt force of the earthquake. Additionally, the soft soil in this region tends to further amplify seismic waves through a process called liquefaction. Combine all this with the lackluster building codes due to many years of impoverishment and civil wars, and this explains why the death toll, and the expense to the country in general to repair damage, will probably be extremely high.
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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.
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Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
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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.
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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.
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A photo of one of the penguins: 
Is it a mere coincidence that @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net goes dark just two weeks before the most interesting day in global trade in a years?
went on 
to read reactions to the tariffs news, and didn't even have to scroll down to a hit a "trump works for putin!!!!!!111!!" comment
lmao
Colonel Cassad found some very impressive flyby videos of China's artificial island and military base on "Mischief Reef" (in the South China Sea).
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/9756480.html (just scroll down to the videos if you can't read Russian)
It's amazing and, at an ideological level, shows the true power and superiority of market-socialism over neo-liberal capitalism.
Realistically, can the US actually reindustrialise? Or are the tariffs just to extract more money from workers? That can't be sustainable...
Genuinely what is their plan here?
We are already an industrialized country. The question is can we take back our seat at the head of manufacturing industry, which is maybe?
The main issue is a lack of workforce. The reason for the lack of workforce is two-fold. The first problem is that the U.S. is just now coming around on the philosophy of lean manufacturing, and actually focusing on improving the efficiency of their workforce and not wearing them down to nubs, but this adoption.is literally going company by company, with companies that have adopted it finding great success, but the monopolies are slow to pivot because they don't have to be quick on the draw. The second problem is that there are still more jobs that are lucrative and easier than manufacturing, which is a soul-crushing job at the worst of times, and a tiresome but simple job at the best of times. There is much more money in being a middle-man than actually producing something.
To elaborate, this is the main reason why the tariffs won't work. The problem is literally one of pay, prestige, and incentives, and what they should be doing if they want to bring back manufactured is targeting easy money flows connected to online advertising and entertainment, and raising the minimum wages on manufacturing jobs specifically. Basically, you have to tariff service, finance and entertainment profits in order to stimulate the real production economy. The issue is that all of that is an unlimited speculation gambit that, in theory, cannot be 'over produced', while manufacturing has very real diminishing returns and can lead to over production. This is something that will never happen with any modern politician at the head because they are embedded into the entertainment economy and media.
The U.S. absolutely can further it's industrialization, the issue is that the very political economy prevents that from happening in an actually useful way, so all that ends up happening is a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich with no actual production benefits, which works out for everyone in charge so they don't actually care if it did work or not, or they will lie and fudge the numbers to say it did work.
the plan is that in the short term this is redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich
If you do 5 to 6 times 2008 to lower the salary for us workers to be competitive.
Or
You massively fund education, free housing, state commanding economy, do redistribution to facilitate social mobility.
You might also need a one party government to be stable enough to stay in power for 30 40 years. And probably 2-6 millions immigrants per year for substantive growth
Not this way, and even less likely under the capitalist system. Capitalists undertake investments when there are profits, if tariffs collapse demand, who knows.
Which is why UAW saying tariffs are good is kinda myopic. It's not just tariffs on Chinese cars. People need to have money to buy the cars.
No qualified workers, no supply chain, no logistics, no capital interest in investing in production. My math says hell no.
would take decades and climate stalin at that
Factories take time to build. America could eventually reindustrialize, but not fast enough for this tariffs to make sense. And that's assuming that industries find it worthwhile to industrialize here anyhow.
I've seen multiple Slava Ukraini libs be like: "Of course he doesn't impose tariffs on Russia or North Korea!", really showing how dumb these folks are. 
This is how they got the numbers:
https://nnitter.net/Karl_Was_Right/status/1907603432795681271
They calculated “tariffs charged to the USA” by literally just dividing the trade deficit with imports. And then slapped 10% on everyone we have a surplus with
We’re ngmi
Bonus tweet:
https://nitter.net/h0serr/status/1907540799027315162
Mf putting tariffs on air
-107.3% for Australia, that’s why he was talking about how beautiful and good it is lmao
Yea they are unthinking as always.
JDPON Don is becoming more real the more time passes. 
watching tariff announcements like 
need it as emoji
You gotta respect the commitment to the bit. Things don't suck right now because, uh, out of control income inequality and corporate rent seeking, it's because of... trade.
In case anyone is wondering, airstrikes in Yemen have been continuing for over 9 hours now, and I'm still providing updates here
Keep ‘em coming
I wish I didn't have to and the bombs would stop falling. But as long as the bombing continues, I will be reporting on it.
Thank you for providing these.
Just four hours after market close and it’s already looking like a bloodbath
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27lexnwdxo
Slovakia backs plan to shoot 350 bears after man killed in attack
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The Republic of Slovakia has declared war on hexbear after fatal incident involving engrossed genitalia covered in feces. Prime Minister Robert Fico denounced the corresponding event as an “Inappropriate act” which shall will not be tolerated in a modern society and has appalled all slovak citizens to come together in the country’s most darkest hour.
More news at 12.
Islamic Resistance Front in Syria has ambushed occupation forces in Daraa
https://t.me/syriajusticearchive/4296
“Islamic Resistance Front in Syria - Southern Command: Full Combat Alert & Battlefield Report
➖ By order of the Supreme Commander of the Islamic Resistance Front in Syria "Olay Al-Bas", all resistance cells across southern provinces have been placed on maximum alert and commenced assigned operations under direct command coordination.
Military Bulletin: At this hour, our forces are repelling an occupation army incursion on the Nawa-Zeil axis, inflicting confirmed casualties and downing one enemy drone.
"This is resistance until victory or martyrdom." “ ➖ https://t.me/DEQNEWS/10712
Casualties per israeli media
🇸🇾/🇮🇱 Hebrew Channel 14: wounded in the ranks of the Israeli army during their ground operation in an ambush west of Nawa in the countryside of Daraa.
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Full additional tariff list
Add at least 10% on top of the yellow numbers, 20% for china
Keep in mind all countries globally have to pay 10%, even if not on this list
Seeing Argentina on there with all the milei pandering 
If Mexico not being on that list at all isn’t an oversight, then Sheinbaum really has Trump wrapped around her finger, huh?
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