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Over the last week, Sri Lanka has been hit by their worst national natural disaster since the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Over 2 million people (about 10% of the population) were affected; the death toll is currently climbing past 600; nearly a hundred thousand homes have been damaged or destroyed, transport infrastructure is heavily damaged; industry has been damaged; and farmland has been flooded. The cost of damage so far looks to be about $7 billion, which is more than the combined budget spent on healthcare and education in Sri Lanka.
While there is plenty to say meteorologically about how this yet another concerning escalation as a result of climate change (Sri Lanka does experience cyclones, but they are usually significantly weaker than this), it's important to note that such disasters are, to at least a certain extent, able to warned about and their impacts somewhat mitigated. However, this requires both access to early detection and warning equipment, and an economy in which development is widespread - in this case, particularly in the construction of drainage systems and regulated construction, which has not generally occurred.
The IMF, on its 17th program with Sri Lanka, is doing its utmost to prevent such an economy from developing, as they instead promote reductions in public investment. On top of this, the rebuilding effort for Sri Lanka is already being planned and funded, and such donors include, of course, many Sri Lankan oligarchs, who will rebuild the damaged portions of the country yet further according to their visions, while sidelining the working class.
Perhaps neoliberalism's decay into its eventual death occurring concurrently into the gradual intensification of climate change and renewed wars signifies the rise of the era of disaster capitalism.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
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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.
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Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
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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.
Is oracle part of the AI bubble?
Yep
Oracle raised its forecast for capital expenditure this financial year by more than 40 per cent to $50bn. The outlay, largely directed to building data centres, climbed to $12bn in the quarter, above expectations of $8.4bn.
Its long-term debt including operating leases increased to $116.3bn, up 44 per cent from a year ago.
Oracle has launched an aggressive drive to catch up with much larger cloud players such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft in the race to supply the vast amount of computing power that AI groups including OpenAI and Anthropic need to train and run their models.
the race to supply the vast amount of computing power that AI groups including OpenAI and Anthropic need to train and run their models.
And when they all get to the "finish line", OpenAI will already have filed for bankruptcy lmao
Everything is part of the AI bubble
Everything is bubble
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Proposal for new Entry Requirements for People Traveling to the US
- All social media accounts from the last 5 years
- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years
- IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos
- Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children)
- All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years
- Your family members' dates of birth
- Your family members' places of birth
- Your family members' residencies
- All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your business email addresses from the last 10 years
the document's estimate to how long this information will take to fill out? 8 minutes paper form, 4 minutes website
it would take me like three fucking hours to come up with all this
IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos
192.168.0.1
Hey, why are you located at my WiFi Router? Are you invading my house?
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The Fifa cup is going to be a fiasco.
At least these smelly foreigners will not take the stadium seats away from hard working american Fans.
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- The three numbers on the back of your mom's credit card
Marco needs more v-bucks
Imagine finding out your family member went to the USA and gave the US government all of your phone numbers, email addresses, residencies, date of and place of birth, etc. I could see myself ending all communications with somebody who did that to me.
That makes it very easy for potential communists to be identified and arrested. And we know how many no-contact ghoul familiy members a lot of comrades have.
Is the no-contact thing as prevalent in other countries? I was under the assumption that the particular silliness and vitriolic nature of US politics was more associated with that kind of thing.
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My sister is gonna fucking narc on me what the fuck
time to start buying burner phones and providing her with new phone numbers every month to try to salt your information with bullshit
10 years of business email addresses?? All family phone numbers for 5 years??
Hahahahaha
What not enough space for first pets name either?
And this is for ALL travellers?! Like, holiday visitors or longer visas?
It's kinda cathartic to watch the empire kill its own soft power.
- Average poop color over the last 10 years
Critical support to forcing CBP agents to handle poo poo in a daily basis
just another pile on top of the fucking mountain of reasons to not visit America
honestly a shame, the national parks look nice
People are going to stop coming to this country. Does the US not understand that it's a major global tourist destination? #3 in visitors, #2 in revenue.
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lmao what the hell
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the spineless bilingual North Americans, after spending the start of the year farming reddit karma when Trump was talking about annexing them, now won't even lift a finger when Venezuela's sovereignty is being threatened by the same entity. Even the UK and Colombia have ended intelligence sharing "in the region", but Tim Hortonia continues to operate with the USCG, which works directly with the USN.
Kkkanada is just little america, if annexation talk ever got serious they'd all roll over and expose their belly like the good dog of empire they are. I've said it before that the only reason kkkanada gets viewed as a "good/nice" country is the direct comparison to america ("look we have healthcare, we aren't like those dumb Americans down south!")
I hate this place
Do NOT look at the healthcare
and anytime you criticise it or suggest improvement (why are teeth premium bones? Why aren't prescriptions covered? Etc etc) you just get the same thought terminating aT LeaSt We ArEnT aMErIcA bullshit.
That goes for pretty much everything.
Cops are shit? aT LeaSt We ArEnT aMErIcA
Education is being slashed? aT LeaSt We ArEnT aMErIcA
Trans rights? Housing issues? Unemployment? Applauding Waffen SS veterans?
aT LeaSt We ArEnT aMErIcA
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bilingual North Americans
TIL of a new way to describe Canadians
It's not very accurate, the overwhelming majority of us are Anglo AF.
The UK's done what in favour of Venezuela? genuinely shocked that we haven't sprinted across the Atlantic on all fours ready to lick clean the bloodied toes of the Empire