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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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.
Just four hours after market close and it’s already looking like a bloodbath
If the chart is real, this means 20% tariffs on all EU products, 24% on Japan, 34% on China and so on.
Can someone TLDR what they mean by effective tariffs charged to the US by currency manipulation? Are they saying USD is artificially inflated by… the Global South? Are they saying dollar imperialism was imposed on the Americans???
Wisconsin Supreme Court election being called for Susan Crawford (D).
if he wants to buy votes he needs to learn from US history: build a political machine, and give public services to immigrants
Tamany Hall was abolished, but only for the poor. The rich still get to give their bribes and get preferential treatment in return, you just aren’t allowed to do patronage for the working class.
Tesla, Nvidia lead ‘Magnificent 7’ losses premarket as EU tariff retaliation looms
“Magnificent Seven” stocks are sliding premarket, led by declines in Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), and Apple (AAPL), after China announced retaliatory tariffs against the US and the European Union prepares its own set of countermeasures.
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“Roughly 50% of earnings in the Magnificent 7 come from abroad,” Sløk wrote. “That is higher than for the S&P 500, where the share is 41%. With trade making up a bigger share of GDP in the rest of the world than in the US, the trade war will have a disproportionately more negative impact on the rest of the world.”“As a result,” Sløk continued, “the Magnificent 7 will be hit harder on their global earnings than other S&P 500 companies. Their earnings could be even more negatively impacted if Europe retaliates in the form of a digital services tax.”
Tesla dropped 6.7%.
Nvidia: Down 4.5%.
Apple: Down 4%.
Meta (META): Down 3.3%.
Amazon (AMZN): Down 3.2%.
Microsoft (MSFT): Down 2.4%.
Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL): Down 2.3%.(don’t know how to link the specific section I quoted, sorry)
i’m quite worried that neolib axis of eu/usa are not doing too good in the economy department and might decide that reason alone is enough to go to war to “wash away the sins” (iran for usa/ukraine for eu). euros are the most brainwashed people on the planet, followed by americans.
Which is why i support them going to war over greenland with each other. Frozen wastes give ample place for maneuvers without touching indigenous population.
That sounds so crazy that it just might happen
If the yanks actually tried to take Greenland by force, Denmark would offer to send troops to help them. These people are the most subservient bootlickers ever.
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?
Hundreds of thousands of protestors come out to the streets in Spain in the first nation-wide protest against housing and rent prices.
With more than 100k protestors in Madrid and similar figures in other big cities such as Barcelona, protestors have claimed the right to safe and affordable housing, with chants such as “un desalojo, una okupación” (for every eviction one squatting), “los terroristas sois los rentistas” (the landlords are the terrorists), or “nativa o extranjera, la misma clase obrera” (native or immigrant, same working class).
The more radical of the unions organizing the protest want to pave the way for a nationwide rent strike, i.e., tenants not paying rent until the state guarantees affordable housing through expropriation, price limits, and public housing projects.
If I were in charge of Tesla I’d call it the Thundertruck and hire ACDC for a promo
e: posted in wrong thread
imagine: a slammer post with the text ‘the economy will stop’. JDPON Don is fully dripped out. He is standing next to a stock market chart from the 1929 crash. The line drops below the x-axis, cratering into a pit that goes straight to hell. He is standing in ‘boomtown’. A US bomber is leveling the city
Lmao Degrowth Donald is taking control
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.
also, mini congrats to car-havers, oil is near 60 already, opec also decided to celebrate liberation day.
mbs be like
having solidarity with palestinians
hating shale oilHe’s fired
