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@cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml on the wretched state of the Green party in Germany

@weeb_lenin@hexbear.net on Honduran elections and Nasralla (not the cool one)

@jack@hexbear.net on ideological reasons for the American empire to target Venezuela

me on Seth Harp's Fort Bragg book as well as the excellent Azov 9/11 article posted by @Tervell@hexbear.net .

Previous posts of the week: Oct 27 | Nov 3 | Nov 10 | Nov 17 | Nov 24

One of the only 3 major RAM manufacturers, Micron, left the consumer market today to focus strictly on production for AI centers.

CEOs never cease to amaze. Voluntarily giving up your entire market share to chase a short term profit is suicidal in the long term.

Modern Business really is the study of learning how to rationalize ignoring long term thinking and benefits.

Reuters followed the fortunes of a group of raw recruits who enlisted as part of Ukraine’s drive to refresh its depleted ranks.

Of the eleven soldiers Reuters monitored, all recruited this spring and with what were likely good conditions of service as young volunteers:

• Four are dead or missing;
• Two deserted; and
• Five are permanently injured.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/band-brothers-how-war-crushed-cohort-young-ukrainians-2025-12-01/

Trump: Maduro has to leave the country. If not we will kill him

Meanwhile Maduro:

The Eurovision Song Contest is going up in flames. Several nations were calling for Israel to be expelled from the contest but the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) bent over backwards to ensure its participation. There was supposed to be a vote but that seems to have been scrapped.

In the immediate aftermath the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have announced their withdrawal from the contest. There might be more to follow.

It genuinely saddens me that we have to burn it all down for this rabid Nazi state. Truly the bourgeoisie cares about nothing but the right to genocide.

China's Long March 12A reusable space launch vehicle is scheduled to launch sometime this month, after a successful static fire test.

They have a chance to mog their private SpaceX wannabe, Landspace, who launched their own reusable rocket a few days ago, and failed to recover it.

Reuters posting slop: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-rejected-maduro-requests-call-options-narrow-venezuela-leader-sources-say-2025-12-01/

They claim Trump had a call that lasted less than 15minutes with Maduro where Maduro agreed to step down with the following demands:

Maduro told Trump during the call he was willing to leave Venezuela provided he and his family members had full legal amnesty, including the removal of all U.S. sanctions and the end of a flagship case he faces before the International Criminal Court, three of the sources said.

He also requested removal of sanctions for over 100 Venezuelan government officials, many accused by the U.S. of human rights abuses, drug trafficking or corruption, according to the three people.

Maduro asked that Vice President Delcy Rodriguez run an interim government ahead of new elections, according to two of the sources.

This is obviously nonsense because I can't see why the US wouldn't take it if it were true.

“Press Statement

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) expresses its deep appreciation to President Xi Jinping and to the friendly People’s Republic of China for allocating 100 million dollars in humanitarian aid to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, help alleviate their humanitarian suffering amid the ongoing aggression by the occupation, and contribute to the reconstruction efforts.

This generous grant comes as an extension of China’s historic and steadfast positions in support of the inalienable rights of our Palestinian people, particularly the right to freedom and independence, the right to self-determination, and the establishment of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas 04, Dec”

Official website -Hamas movement

https://t.me/+kUoQCMfm8bI1NWE0

https://t.me/HamasEnglishMirror/1626

Maduro is still making public appearances right now and it has my anxiety quite high. Why's he so confident that he won't get bombed or shot? He shouldn't be out right now he should be doing Assad's old routine that kept him alive so long.

Shocking news, the US empire will just abandon you when you are no longer useful to them!

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/alleged-dc-national-guard-shooter-felt-abandoned-cia-1235474835/

Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims

https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit

Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex” 16 chances before suspending them, according to testimony from the company’s former head of safety and well-being

Trump says he is terminating any pardons, commutations signed by Biden using autopen

Trump says US will begin land strikes on Venezuela ‘very soon’

Zionazis training dogs to SA prisoners

WARNING NSFW GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION (SA, R*pe, tourture, animal abuse)

Caitlin Johnstone "Sorry if this is Antisemetic, But I think it is wrong to train dogs to r*pe prisoners"

Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, all meeting in the Kremlin, Russia today, with Russian leadership.

Source

The three world powers deciding on their spheres of influence.

The Burgerization of British MPs:
https://nitter.net/MattZeitlin/status/1996962069720031440

after chatgpt was released, british MPs started using phrases in their parliamentary speeches that american congressmen use in their floor speechs

The Burgerization of football:
https://nitter.net/Footballtweet/status/1996993532096319633

🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: There will be a World Cup final HALF-TIME show just like the Super-Bowl. 🎶

An absolutely DISGUSTING development.

Article where someone went undercover at an ICE recruiting event.

Excerpts

spoiler

https://xcancel.com/JeongHaeju/status/1996462116094480464 (CW: cryptobro):

A Google insider has officially been exposed on Polymarket.

This dude just profited $1,000,000 in a single day betting on the Google search markets.

Google accidentally pushed the results early, then removed them, but not before it revealed he went 22/23 on his bets and ballooned to $3.9M in open positions.

This isn’t a lucky streak. He previously made $150K+ predicting the early release of Gemini 3.0 before results were out.

At this point it’s obvious: He’s a Google insider milking Polymarket for quick money.

It’s one of the wildest things I’ve seen on the platform

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic!!! 🇱🇦☭🇱🇦☭🇱🇦☭ (Article from the Lao News Agency)

Pope Leo urges Trump not to try to overthrow Venezuelan president with military force Pontiff calls on US president to ‘seek dialogue’ as White House steps up campaign against Nicolás Maduro. - The Guardian

Pope Leo has urged Donald Trump not to attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, using military force, and to instead seek dialogue.

Trump’s administration has been considering its options as it steps up its campaign against Maduro, who it accuses of links to the illegal drug trade. The country’s authoritarian leader has denied the accusations.

The US has gathered its biggest military presence in the Caribbean since the 1989 invasion of Panama, and launched 21 strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing at least 83 people.

Trump reportedly gave Maduro an ultimatum to immediately relinquish power during a recent call, but the Venezuelan leader declined, demanding a “global amnesty” for himself and allies.

Speaking to reporters onboard the papal flight as he returned from his first overseas trip as pope to Turkey and Lebanon, Leo said the Catholic church was “trying to find a way to calm the situation” because “in these situations it is the people who suffer, not the authorities”.

“On the one hand, it seems there has been a telephone conversation between the two presidents,” he added. “On the other hand, there is this danger, this possibility, that there could be an action, an operation, including an invasion of Venezuelan territory.”

Leo said that if the US wanted to bring about change in Venezuela then it should not use military force, but instead “seek dialogue, including economic pressure”.

The Chicago-born pontiff was elected in May after the death of Pope Francis. During the flight, he also criticised anti-migrant activists who stoke “fears” of Islam and said cooperation between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon should be an example for Europe and the US.

The main purpose of his six-day trip, during which he met a host of religious and political leaders, was to urge peace amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. At the start of the visit, he said a world war was being fought “piecemeal” and was endangering the future of humanity.

Leo also spoke publicly for the first time about what it was like to have been picked to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. He said that during the secret conclave he began to realise that he might be chosen.

“I resigned myself to the fact when I saw how things were going – I said, ‘This could be a reality’,” Leo, 70, added. “I took a deep breath. I said, ‘Here we go, Lord, you’re in charge and you lead the way’.”

He also discussed plans for future foreign trips, and said Africa could be next, including Algeria.

Anyone else remember when this hateful fascist was briefly turned into an international icon and, Astaghfirullah, even a "martyr" because he supposedly was killed by the Baathist government of Syria? A year ago.

Well, here is a literal Mossad spy mourning him as a "friend". Today.

In case youre wondering heres footage of this "kind man fighting the Assad regime" calling to kill Kurdish and Alawite women and children..

FIFA is currently giving Donald Trump a Nobel peace prize consolation prize at the world cup draw, the FIFA peace prize...

Livestream of the event

Some incredible scenes here, maybe it makes me a bad person, but I can't stop laughing! It's absurd

Well Trump's speech is already over, so now the world cup draw continues. Let's see what happens.

Trump, Carney and Sheinbaum are about to carry out the world cup draw together lol. All three of them standing alongside.

Staged first round, Carney draws Canada, Sheinbaum Mexico, and Trump USA.

lol. lmao. https://archive.ph/AafnQ

US raid allegedly killed undercover agent instead of IS official

A raid by U.S. forces and a local Syrian group aiming to capture an Islamic State group official instead killed a man who had been working undercover gathering intelligence on the extremists, family members and Syrian officials have told The Associated Press.

Thailand is seeking to join BRICS and has formally asked India to support their application

Translated page:

Original: https://www.mfa.go.th/th/content/fm-india-th?cate=5d5bcb4e15e39c306000683b

Looks like the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier is preparing to leave the US Virgin Islands after spending only a single day in port, tugboats approached during the evening.

Video

Could be a bluff, could actually be leaving, could be misdirection/theatre (the US is close enough to Venezuela that an aircraft carrier is not necessarily needed).

In case you're wondering how the argentinian media is reacting to the US saber rattling against Venezuela: In general it's near total indifference (towards the potential humanitarian disaster that this would imply) with a tendency to show support towards the US and not to question Trump's motives and overwhelming use of force.

Oh but the sheer horror and indignation they showed during October 7th and when a few iranian ballistic missiles struck the genocidal entity known as "israel"...

This is not my text but I got the approval to share it. The situation in Sudan from the perspective of a union organizer:

To all those concerned about the situation in Sudan—especially the conditions of workers—this is a brief overview of what is happening in my country

The current war in Sudan erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), following many years of power struggles within the state and its security and economic structures. It is important to note that the RSF is not a regular force that originated within the army. Rather, it is a militia created by the ousted President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling party, the National Congress Party, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2003, with the aim of protecting his regime from any attempted overthrow and carrying out security and military operations outside the army’s chain of command.

In 2017, after widespread criticism and the horrific atrocities committed by the RSF in Darfur under the Islamist regime, al-Bashir passed a special law for the force through his parliament, making it nominally part of the Sudanese Armed Forces. However, RSF leadership continued to report directly to the President, maintaining its independent structure and extensive authorities.

After the glorious December Revolution of 2019, democratic civilian forces—including independent trade unions—demanded that the RSF and all other armed movements be dissolved and their members integrated institutionally into the army to form a single professional national military, ensuring that weapons remained solely under the authority of the state. But the military establishment, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, rejected this demand, repeatedly insisting that the RSF was “from the womb of the army.” In October 2021, the army and the RSF jointly carried out a coup against the transitional government, paving the way for the outbreak of war between them after the collapse of the political process and each side’s attempt to consolidate power.

As the conflict expanded, destruction spread far beyond political and military institutions, hitting the heart of the Sudanese economy and leaving the working class among the hardest-hit, most vulnerable, and most economically devastated segments of society.

Throughout the war, Sudanese workers have paid the heaviest price. Thousands of families have been torn apart by killing, displacement, and injury, and thousands of workers have been dismissed arbitrarily under political pretexts and accusations of collaborating with the RSF. In states under SAF control, salaries for workers in state-level ministries have been suspended for more than eighteen months since the war began. In RSF-controlled areas, salaries were halted completely under racist narratives labeling these regions as “RSF strongholds.” The crisis extended far beyond unpaid wages: residents of these areas were denied access to identity documents and passports, students were prevented from sitting for examinations, and the government issued decisions replacing the national currency and restricting its circulation only to SAF-controlled areas—deepening the isolation of RSF-held regions and subjecting their populations to unprecedented economic and social suffocation.

With the total economic collapse and the absence of social protection mechanisms, Sudanese workers found themselves facing a “triangle of death”: hunger, disease, and loss of income. Instead of receiving the protection they desperately needed, state institutions themselves became instruments of further pressure and exploitation.

The ruling authorities dismantled what remained of trade union independence by using the Registrar of Trade Unions to resurrect the historically government-aligned Sudan Workers’ Trade Union Federation (SWTUF), appointing unelected “preparatory committees” to run public-sector unions and professional associations. This campaign was accompanied by attacks on independent unions, which the Registrar labeled as “illegal factional bodies,” misusing Sudan’s ratification of ILO Convention 87 as justification. The objective was not to regulate trade union activity, but to seize workers’ funds and redirect them toward war financing—or embezzle them outright.

These appointed committees were granted sweeping powers to withdraw union funds from banks without authorization from union members or even consultation with the Registrar, in blatant violation of national law and international labor standards. At the same time, coercive salary deductions of up to 30% were imposed on workers under the banner of “supporting the war effort,” while workers themselves received no salaries, no services, and no protection. The Federal Ministry of Finance reinforced this approach by allocating the national budget to the war, a policy followed by states under military control. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Sudan permitted these unelected committees to manage and spend union funds without regulations or oversight, creating a system that devours workers’ rights and resources with complete impunity.

Amid this bleak reality, the Sudanese Professionals and Syndicates Coordination has emerged as the only independent labor coalition still resisting this destruction. The Coordination brings together more than eighteen independent unions. It monitors and documents violations against workers and submits regular reports to the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, the UN Human Rights Council, and the International Labour Organization (ILO), demanding an end to the assault on workers’ rights to free and independent association. Despite extremely limited resources and severe security risks, the Coordination continues to defend the Sudanese trade union movement and resist attempts to erase it entirely.

Today—more than ever—Sudanese workers, among the most marginalized and suffering populations in the war, urgently need genuine global solidarity from labor unions and federations everywhere. Amid the noise of artillery and aircraft, the voice of the Sudanese worker has fallen silent—or has been silenced deliberately. With your support, that voice can return.

We appeal to you to be the voice of those who have lost theirs amid the flames, to stand with us in defending freedom of association, protecting workers’ funds, stopping coercive salary deductions, and confronting the violations that threaten the very existence of the Sudanese trade union movement.

Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are the first big banks to comment about the AI maybe possibly being a bubble. The funny thing is that at the same time, Morgan Stanley still values Tesla's non-existent Robotaxi business as being worth more than the entire US taxi industry (including Uber and Lyft). And it values Tesla itself as being worth much more than the rest of the car industry (around ~99% marketshare) combined

Morgan Stnley has said that Oracle, $ORCL, debt is near 2008 crisis levels

https://www.businessinsider.com/2026-stock-market-outlook-bofa-spx-price-ai-air-pocket-2025-12

Related:

Microsoft Lowers AI Software Sales Quotas as Customers Resist Newer Products

In a rare move, Microsoft has lowered sales quotas for newer AI products as customers resist paying more.

Please blow up ASAP

Telegram link -

Hezbollah media releases video with the title 'We were and we will remain the people of strength

Why is Trump threatening Venezuela's Maduro? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93n4nx5yqro

The Trump administration has doubled the reward for information leading to Maduro's capture

He's here

Where's my money?

A write up in a local paper today about Finland selling its election info basically to Amazon is making the rounds in Smol Bean Nazi Country. This origininally started the rounds about a month ago and here is an English write up on this, in short:

the data for Finland's next parliamentary election, in 2027, will be stored on Amazon cloud servers in Sweden.

When that happens, it will be an historic first, as the country has always kept its election data on domestic servers.

Comments from Aalto University post-doctoral researcher Otto Kässi in the article:

"It's likely to increase suspicion towards the system," he said.

He also dismissed the financial benefit of using AWS, saying that the roughly four million euros in savings over 10 years are relatively small compared to the importance of the country's electoral system.

"This is a fairly small share of the justice ministry's budget," he said, adding that he would have liked to see a broader public discussion about the move.

"I would've liked there to have been a political or public discussion about this, in addition to the decision by civil servants."

According to him, there are ambiguities regarding the data transfer agreement between the EU and US. He suggested that using American cloud services could expose European data to US authorities.

"The common EU-US agreement on the processing of private data in cloud services is unclear, to say the least," Kässi said.

He noted that US laws on intelligence gathering give authorities opportunities to examine European data stored by American operators.

The reason I am posting about this now is that this broke containment in the natohawky very serious rational lib circles after todays write-ups and I've been answering my lib dad who is suddenly distressed and asking wtf is going on. I told him that this is what they wanted, basically. Vassal state doing vassal state things dictated by capitalist imperialism.

Distribution of sweets in wide areas of the Gaza Strip to celebrate the killing of the agent #Yasser_Abu_Shabab

https://t.me/emsekamel/307

These photos are from Khan Yunis

Tel Aviv confirms killing of Israeli-backed militant Yasser Abu Shabab in Gaza's Rafah

Reports say Abu Shabab killed by Hamas Resistance fighters

PressTV

Nobel peace prize is being presented to the Venezuelan woman on December 10 in Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSKy9j_en0

If I were Trump picking a day to start things off and I were mad about wanting that prize...

South Korean president weighs apology to North Korea over allegations of leafleting and drone use

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday he’s weighing a possible apology to North Korea over suspicions that his ousted conservative predecessor intentionally sought to raise military tensions between the war-divided rivals in the buildup to his brief martial law declaration in December 2024.

I finished reading Seth Harp's Fort Bragg Cartel book recently. it's good and touches on a lot of stuff we cover here. The book talks about the nexus of special forces operators doing death squad work in Afghanistan getting involved in drug dealing and crime around Fort Bragg. A couple of unsolved murders of operator types are used as a vehicle to tell the story. I wished there had been more big picture analysis over more detail about individuals' rap sheets, but I found it compelling nevertheless. Fair warning that the book opens with some really disturbing accounts of death squad activities and the absolute brutality of these cowboy operator types. Lots of descriptions of violence and cruelty, so be mindful if you are triggered.

To tie this back to news and future blowback, this article "Azov 9/11" posted earlier this thread is worth reading as a historic analysis of what this class of death squad soldiers and compradors get up to after The War is over. We've already seen a taste of that with (attempted) perpetrator of stochastic violence Ryan Routh, but he wasn't actually any kind of operator. As the American rug is pulled from Ukraine, there will be a lot of skilled combat veterans left high and dry that will disseminate into the west. some will be angry nationalists driven by ideology, but others will be more mercenary soldiers of fortune who gravitate towards around these secretive flows of money and weapons like remora.

Oh yeah, if ISIS is a Israeli proxy, how come ISIS never attack Israelis:
https://xcancel.com/HKX37/status/1995487777417580977

Bonus tweet of a Venezuela bot going apeshit after seeing a passage from the Quran:
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1995615252084654379

not news, but interesting thread about how the US intervention in Somalia and the Battle of Mogadishu is another one of these "US suffers strategic defeat, American chauvinists proceed to claim they won because of the K/D ratio (please don't look into what proportion of the killed were actually civilians)" cases: https://xcancel.com/ripplebrain/status/1996576120154558637

taking a minor yet important step towards ending the ongoing genocide against Indigenous people, with a bill to repeal a key blood quantum provision of the Indian Act passing the senate

per CBC:

The Senate voted unanimously Thursday to advance Bill S-2 with an amendment calling for the removal of the second-generation cut-off from the Indian Act. Subsection 6(2) or the second-generation cut-off refers to a rule in the Indian Act where children are not eligible for Indian status after two generations of one non-status parent. It was added to the act in 1985. Bill S-2 was originally designed as the latest in a series of amendments to Indian Act to address remaining sex-based discrimination in registration, often tied to historical enfranchisement, the surrendering of status to become a "full citizen."

"It was an assurance that we would be eventually assimilated into Canadian society, as the lawmakers of the day knew that we could not survive if we were relegated to only marrying among ourselves to preserve status," Paul Prosper, a Mi'kmaw senator representing Nova Scotia, told the Senate in an address ahead of the vote. Prosper told the Senate the impact of the amendments could affect approximately 300,000 people over the next 40 years.

more inside baseball from APTN from a couple days ago

now the bill goes to parliament. this actually is a big deal for Indigenous people in Canada. Canada's relationship with Indigenous nations is very legalistic, so legal recognition of status for a lot of living and future people is important. 300k people is about 1/6th of the current Indigenous population of Canada

Some big news, the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced the full liberation of the Donetsk People's Republic city of Krasnoarmeysk (AKA "Pokrovsk") and the northern Kharkov oblast border city of Volchansk:

https://www.rt.com/russia/628745-russian-troops-krasnoarmeysk-video/