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Dutch ex soldier gives testimony on fighting for the Ukraine on the front line:
“I didn’t want anything to do with this whole thing anymore. And I wasn't the only one. A few other foreign boys were also gone, they had seen teams where the Nazi salute was brought every morning.”
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Cuban leader says ‘no one dictates what we do’ as Trump regime demands a deal.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/americas/cuba-push-back-trump-oil-deal-intl-hnk
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House Republican introduces bill to let Trump annex Greenland.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/trump-greenland-annex-republican-bill-congress
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The US attack on the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife was illegal under international law. British and European leaders tacitly supporting US actions through silence is weak and will damage further their reputations in the developing world.
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/british-and-european-leaders-have
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@hannah counterpoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov
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Vietnam is expected to surpass Thailand to become Southeast Asia's second largest economy this year. Vietnam going from poor to developed, is an absolute triumph of the Marxist central planning model.
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/vietnam-s-gdp-could-top-thailand-s-this-year-as-growth-accelerates
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CBS folds again, cancels 60 Minutes segment on Epstein cover-up after DOJ pressure.
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The Federal Reserve is quietly pumping tens of billions in emergency cash into major banks like JPMorgan and Bank of America to cover sudden shortfalls, a pattern eerily similar to the pre-2008 crash. With new rules allowing virtually unlimited bailouts and banks like JPMorgan caught in a risky silver short squeeze, profits are privatized, but losses are dumped on the public.
https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis
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TechCrunch published a decent article about Mastodon and the Fediverse in general https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/01/what-is-mastodon
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I have a pet theory that the West's ideological rejection of material dialectics fundamentally shaped Western approach to economics. It required a new, idealist theory the eschewed the idea systemic behavior, resulting in a modern economic understanding utterly divorced from material reality.
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China’s successes are not being recognised in the West because of a racialised, hierarchical view of the world.
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The official X account of the European Commission quoted the slogan of the Nazi party of Germany (Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer) in a post about... USB Type-C.
https://xcancel.com/EU_Commission/status/2004462313508950137
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The phrase "US kill line" has gone viral on Chinese social media, describing the precarious financial state of many Americans. It refers to a critical threshold where, after essential expenses, a single shock like illness or job loss can trigger irreversible collapse into homelessness. Netizens and U.S.
People in China are realizing that life in the states is actually far scarier than their government was telling them.
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The Canada Border Services Agency is removing people, largely refugee claimants, from the country at a rate not seen in over a decade as the Carney government moves to slow population growth. Refugee lawyers express concern deportations may ramp up further if Bill C-12 passes next year.
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A century after warnings before the Great Depression, today's AI boom echoes 1929's tech optimism. Massive data center investments, projected near $1.6 trillion annually by 2030, are fueled by debt and speculative market behavior. While giants fund expansion with cash, newer firms borrow heavily, creating vulnerabilities if sentiment shifts or demand falters, mirroring past cycles where optimism persisted until doubt took hold.
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US GDP grew 4.3% in Q3, far exceeding expectations and boosting stocks. However, this growth is narrowly driven by massive AI investment, while other sectors remain weak. Tech giants are funding a historic data center rush with record debt, raising concerns of a period where speculative spending outpaces revenue.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/huge-chunk-u-gdp-growth-115430994.html
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Chinese scientists have broken a century-old barrier by creating a heat pump with no moving parts that can concentrate low-grade heat into high-temperature energy. Their device, using a 145°C source, achieved a record output of 270°C. This breakthrough could enable solar farms to directly produce industrial heat for smelting or allow factories to recycle waste warmth for chemical processes.
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No 'out-of-pocket expenses' for childbirth in China from 2026.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/no-out-of-pocket-expenses-childbirth-china-2026-2025-12-15
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The gradual but relentless economic decline of Europe. Chart shows its share of global GDP PPP.
https://www.ft.com/content/abc3002e-a7be-48e2-8197-aeddf937afec
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Oracle just lost $35 billion in market cap in 48 hours.
Oracle's five-year credit default swaps hit 126 basis points. The highest since the 2008 financial crisis. Oracle's free cash flow this quarter was negative $10 billion.
This is the company upon which OpenAI's entire compute infrastructure now depends.
Morgan Stanley's Lisa Shalett last month: "We're in the seventh inning."
Looks like the reckoning just arrived and the bubble is popping.
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