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 No.476326[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

The nuclear threat is back. But we don't see any nuclear panic like in the 1980s. Why is that? Why does nobody care?

I am not some prepper retard but even I am getting nervous.

Just look at this shit
A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
>This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
>As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in August, the world has entered “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”

and also this
US Nuclear Test Raises Concerns of New Arms Race With Russia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/us-nuclear-test-on-day-of-kremlin-s-treaty-abdication-fuels-doubt

https://archive.ph/EoqWY
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 No.486782

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>>486780
Impending nuke warnings are down to 5 minutes or so. Rich people won't have time to get to their bunkers. If somebody survives in a luxury bunker it will be the maintenance and cleaning crew. Sweet irony.

>Critics warn these bunkers create a false perception that a nuclear war is survivable. They argue that people planning to live through an atomic blast aren’t focusing on the real and current dangers posed by nuclear threats, and the critical need to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

That doesn't work, wrong psychology. They should sell bunker-sealing-kits with a bunker-map, instead. You know something to block-off bunker-doors and seal-up the air-exchange-vents from the outside. The left-behind F-U kit. Psychology wise that might be more convincing, than explaining the logistics errors of trying to treat nuclear war like a contingency problem. People didn't investigate and understand the material consequences of nuclear war and based on that attempted to create a nuke-proof habitat. I think people treat this like a game of musical chairs where they pay to reserve a chair.

>preppers start nuclear hysteria

>anti-nuke activists say that preparing for the war is le bad because it implies the nuclear war is survivable
>the government says that buying or building expensive bunkers is not necessary because you can survive the nuclear blast just hiding under the table
First as a tragedy then as a farce.

There is a case to build houses and buildings underground tho, because temperatures below ground are stable and energy use for heating or air-conditioning would go down to a small fraction. Most people probably would only run a water draining pump and ventilation . Since building-roofs would be at ground level they could be little parks or gardens. Windows could be simulated with stereo-cameras and 3d-effect screens. It would also somewhat harden civilization against war. If we hide industrial society a little the reactionary anti-prosperity strain that took over a lot of environmentalism would fade away too.
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 No.486925

>>486782
>That doesn't work, wrong psychology. They should sell bunker-sealing-kits with a bunker-map, instead. You know something to block-off bunker-doors and seal-up the air-exchange-vents from the outside.

But how will that help?
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 No.486933

>>486925
>But how will that help?
If a nuclear war breaks out, it does nothing, just like the bunkers.

The bunkers are imaginary protection from nuclear war.
The bunker-sealing-kits are imaginary bunker-spoilers.

If you wanted to weather a nuclear war for real you need a fully fledged underground habitat, one that is self sufficient in everything, a fully fledged biome that yields food, geothermal energy, resource gathering , artificial atmosphere generators, … It would need to support a population of about 100000 people. More like a giant space station. You have to plan for unforeseen complications. A nuclear war could ruin the surface in ways that we can't predict. That means you need to include the capacity to rebuild civilization underground. The means to expand the underground habitat until a level of economic power and technological sophistication is achieved that enables terra-forming the ruined surface so that it once again supports human live. It means committing to a scifi scenario where the next 10000 years, humanity might have to larp as mole-people. We could technically do this, but lets face it, we won't.

Most people think that a bunker only needs to be a underground hotel room that has enough provisions. Explaining why that's wrong is complicated. Some rich people might see a bunker as nothing more than the ability to live out the rest of their lives, once nuclear war has extinct humanity, so they get to have the last party.

So with all that in mind, it's easier to tell people that those left behind will ruin their bunker and therefor the only option to deal with a nuclear war, is not having the nuclear war in the first place and idk throwing the WW3 lobby into a vat of boiling acid or something.
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 No.487611

Welcome to Idiocracy
Elon Musk orders mass firings of hundreds of nuclear weapons security employees
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa
>Scenes of confusion and chaos unfolded over the last two days at the civilian agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, as the Trump administration's mass firings were carried out before being "paused" on Friday.

Trump administration wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345
>The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.
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 No.487638

>>487611
I think this might be related to plans for reducing nuclear weapons. That wouldn't be a bad thing.


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 No.485822[Reply]

this fuckin piece of shit this no good fuckin walking genocidal goiter with hair & teeth
if this piece of shit showed up in my neighborhood I'd shove him in a garbage pail and throw it off the nearest cliff
I'm embarrassed to have even saved his pic for this thread I'm gonna immediately delete it after I post this

What do you think of him, /leftypol/?
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 No.487581

>>487571
that guy just keeps stepping in it
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 No.487589

100 YEARS
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 No.487592

>>487589
Yeah that seemed like a bad joke, pledging 100 years regime support a few weeks before the US pulls the plug on it. But they might have a ulterior motive for this, they might want to set up a Ukrainian exile government that claims to be the real government of Ukraine in order contest what ever post-war government Ukraine does. They might pull stunts like disrupting the UN general assembly and other typical neocon wrecker antics.
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 No.487612

Now Starmer is saying that Ukraine will definitely totally be in NATO some time in the future. The absolute desperation of the British ruling class. When is the Zelensky curse gonna strike this guy down?
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 No.487613

>>487612
>Now Starmer is saying that Ukraine will definitely totally be in NATO some time in the future.
the zionist and neocon backed starmer regime is turning Nato into a monkey-house, maybe the future of Nato is having Rump-Ukraine as its only member.

>The absolute desperation of the British ruling class.

I haven't checked, but i get the impression that they bet too much on project Ukraine, the level of hysteria can't all be explained away by racist hatred of Russians.

> When is the Zelensky curse gonna strike this guy down?

There has been a shift in domestic political pandering, maybe that is a indication the starmer is loosing his political base, and he's on the way out.


 No.485932[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting

Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive earlier this week from their base in the Idlib countryside, a slim strip of land in Syria’s north-west. It took only three days for the fighting to reach Aleppo, with insurgents capturing territory around the city’s outskirts for the first time in four years as Syrian government forces pummelled rebel-held areas.

Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported on Friday afternoon that the insurgents had entered Aleppo, while unverified images and video circulating online showed armoured vehicles and armed uniformed militants on its streets. The Associated Press said residents reported hearing missiles striking its outskirts.

The fighting over the last three days had killed 27 civilians, including eight children, David Carden, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told Reuters.

The rebels have rapidly recaptured dozens of towns and villages in the Aleppo countryside, seizing a military base, weaponry and tanks from Syrian government forces, while some Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups based elsewhere in north-west Syria joined the fighting.

The UN said Syrian government forces based in Damascus carried out at least 125 airstrikes and shelled areas across Idlib and western Aleppo controlled by the rebels in response to the offensive, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 46 others, and displacing 14,000 people.

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 No.486991

>>486987
>Israel bodied Iran and its entire axis.
Isreal has mainly bodied bloodied children in Gaza.

>Now with Syria fallen there's an open corridor

Those linchpin theories usually don't pan out.

>for IAF sorties to take out Iran's

Iran seem to have a potent air defense system these days. The last time Israel attempted an air-raid, was a few months ago. They fired fighter based long range stand-off weapons into Iran. By all appearances those ran into a veritable air-defense buzz-saw and very few targets were actually hit. After that Israel called off the followup strikes they had previously announced.
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 No.487598

# Iran's Axis of Resistance After Assad: Strategic Decline and Adaptation in a Shifting Middle East

The ousting of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 has precipitated a fundamental realignment of Middle Eastern geopolitics, dealing a severe blow to Iran’s decades-old strategy of regional dominance through its "Axis of Resistance." This network of state and non-state allies—including Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraqi militias, and Yemen’s Houthis—has served as the cornerstone of Tehran’s foreign policy since the 1980s, enabling it to project power across the Levant and counter U.S.-Israeli influence. However, Assad’s fall has shattered the logistical backbone of this axis, severing Iran’s land corridor to Hezbollah in Lebanon and exposing the fragility of its proxy-first strategy. With Syria now in disarray, regional adversaries like Turkey and Israel are capitalizing on Tehran’s weakened position, while internal debates within Iran’s leadership reveal diverging paths forward: doubling down on asymmetric warfare or pivoting to conventional deterrence. The Islamic Republic’s ability to adapt to this new reality will shape not only its regional standing but also the future stability of the Middle East.



## The Strategic Importance of Syria to Iran’s Axis of Resistance

### Syria as Iran’s Geopolitical Linchpin
Syria’s centrality to Iran’s regional strategy cannot be overstated. For over four decades, the Iranian-Syrian alliance provided Tehran with a critical conduit for projecting influence westward to the Mediterranean, enabling the steady flow of weapons, funds, and personnel to Hezbollah in Lebanon[1][3][6]. This "Shiite Crescent"—stretching from Iran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon—allowed Tehran to maintain a credible deterrent against Israel while counterbalancing Sunni Arab rivals like Saudi Arabia. The Assad regime’s survival during the Syrian Civil War (2011–2024) depended heavily on Iran’s military and financial support, which included deploying Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) advisors and mobilizing Shia militias from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan[1][6].

The collapse of this corridor following Assad’s ouster has left Iran scrambling to maintain supply lines to Hezbollah, its most capable proxy. Analysts note that without reliable overland routes through Syria, Tehran must now rely on riskier air and sea shipments, which are more vulnerable to Israeli interdiction[3][6]. This logisticPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.487600

>>487598
Nice war propaganda, PNAC.

>it risks triggering preemptive strikes by Israel or the U.S.

For all the very obvious bullshit in this piece, this item especially sticks out. Israel has already launched multiple "preemptive" strikes on Iran in the past year. The US's conduct in Iraq showed that no actual threat of any sort of "WMD" is necessary - they'll just start a war of aggression and claim it's "preemptive." The idea that Iran is racing to produce nuclear weapons and the US is making any calculations based on "preventing" that is a total fantasy. It's not how the US operates.

Time and time again, the US (and its proxies) have made shit up as a pretext to invade other countries.
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 No.487601

>>487598
This does not present a solid argument why Iran won't be able to have influence in Post-Assad Syria. If Iran build up a network of proxies allies all throughout west Asia since the 1980s. They prolly just continue doing that in Syria. Given Israel's escalating atrocities, they probably motivated a lot of people to oppose Israel.

Your LLM just declares the situation has "irrevocably changed" but it hasn't. It also declares Hezbollah is out of the game, when in reality they fought Israel to standstill again. By the way Hezbollah formed independently from Iran, as a response to an Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

The only true change is that Iran has tech-ed up and Israel no longer has better military hardware. That last exchange of hostilities (the back and forth airstrikes) had Iran at an advantage. The Iranian missiles punched through Israel's air defense systems, while the Israeli strike with fighter-jet based stand-off weapons, was mostly repelled, and follow up strikes had to be called off.

The "nuclear calculus" is that the Russians have convinced Iran that it can generate sufficient deterrence without nukes. And that probably is true, Israel is very small and a sufficiently powerful conventional arsenal will do the trick.
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 No.487602

>>487601
>The only true change is that Iran has tech-ed up and Israel no longer has better military hardware. That last exchange of hostilities (the back and forth airstrikes) had Iran at an advantage. The Iranian missiles punched through Israel's air defense systems, while the Israeli strike with fighter-jet based stand-off weapons, was mostly repelled, and follow up strikes had to be called off.
Ha ha ha, foolish anon
You believed your lying eyes!
I have it on good word passed down from the Biden state department, renowned for its honesty, that akshually the last Israeli attack on Iran destroyed Iran's air defenses! They were located in the sky far above Iran, which is why almost all of the Israeli missiles exploded up there! That's also where Iran stores its drone motherships!


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 No.482869[Reply]

Why did the Western far-left become the 2SLGBTQRPGMMO+++ rainbow mafia?
It genuinely is perplexing to me that Western leftists seem to hold even the most absurd AGP sex fetish shit and BPD tumblr furry xenogender larping as the most ultimate leftist purity test, yet then will accept literal fucking Capitalists into the movement wihtout hesitation.
I used to think this shit was exaggerated, but it's honestly not, most western leftist spaces are just rainbow mafia/idpol obsessed and you can't push back on even the most absurd, eye rolling narratives, without getting asked to leave, or if online, copping a ban, this includes communities like leftypol(dot)org.
Even holding the same policy positions, as most Communist Parties in the Global South, will get you banned from basically any Westoid "Leftist" space. Leftypol lets you claim Xi is based or whatever, but if you actually espouse his policies, enjoy your ban because it doesn't align with Western Idpol shit.
Why is the Western left like this? Don't they realise that this shit makes them look like absolute pozzed student larping retards to the majority of the working class?
Would most Western "leftists" even want to live in a Working Class led society? They do realise the Working Class is largely soft-Socially Conservative right?
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 No.487532

>>487516
>Why are we lumping dengism and neoliberalism in the same category?
Please look up when both orders started, and remember that the economy for the past few centuries has been international in scope. If you look at many of the products in our post neoliberal world you might notice that many of them say made in China.

>living standards in China are through the roof

Can you go into detail about what that means in practice?

>In the same time frame wages have stayed stagnant in neoliberal countries

Why is your default metric for the virtue of a political order are the wages it's workers receive?
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 No.487533

>>487532
By
>Why is your default metric for the virtue of a political order are the wages it's workers receive?

I meant
Why is your default metric for the virtue of a political order the wages it's workers receive?
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 No.487537

>>487532
>>487533
>Why is your default metric for the virtue of a political order the wages it's workers receive?
Not that anon, technically the metric would be delta-wages, as in how much do wages increase over time.

I think that after decades of real wage stagnation under Neo-liberlaism it should be obvious why.
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 No.487579

>>487537
I know what the wage system entails, and it is obvious to me that it is not good for the people it entraps no matter what they are bribed with.
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 No.487607

>>486491
Because of some insecurity and standard set up by the previous imageboards they went to, desperately not wanting to be anything like the sjw boogeymen. It's also a very easy and smart way for right wing opportunists to sneak in reactionary viewpoints against minorities or other people, "You don't want to be 'woke', right?"
>>487439
>Immigrant/Ethnic Minority politics is inherently antagostic to the native population, and for the most part leftists here are just being played as useful idiots by people who largely disagree with everything the Left actually stands for. Your average Black dude or Muslim chick opposes 90% of the shit Leftists or even Liberals believe in.
Like this absolute fucking anti materialist ooga booga spiritual trite. You side with this dude and get rid of black or muslim dudes, you crippled your own movement by getting rid of people who relate to you on class boundaries, and then he'll get rid of you when you only got reactionary idpol'ers left. Ironic,because this is LITERALLY what many right-wing gays say about nonwhite people, though he probably thinks they're all "faggots" and not in the imageboard sense.
Anyways, I think it's fucking retarded and even though I think a lot of the gay shit is silly and irrelevant(even when not talking about working class issues specifically, you can't compare transphobia to shit nonwhite people have faced, hell unscratch that, their issues are directly connected with labor 9/10 times), I won't pretend they're worse than people who will actively violently refuse leftist issues and solutions. I don't give a shit, I prefer them and their cringe flags over that. Attacking them for their gay shit helps no one, it just gives the right more talking points and seem like their valid in picking boogeymen.


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 No.487363[Reply]

Mankind now wrestles between the dogma of tradition and the techno-feudalist dominance of the modern age, and now our very struggles; wars are capitalized and induced by seemingly ordinary men with dead eyes and a forced grim.

Widespread industrialism annihilating millions in the courses of history, our planet seethes with unrest, the frames of reel the ordinary man is too familiar with: the skeletonization of cities and the tons of broken bottles and used tissues that bob on the surface of our freshwater—a mirroring of a larger vision; a grand flock of black swans, that of gas masks and pale steeds.

The metropolis and its machines have no match against primal wrath, the supreme weapon—an envoy of writhing hurricanes, and volcanic spew, forging the soil we march over. From magma; the father of structure, new life and order arises, a testament to the transformative qualities of fury.

The world is constantly in a state of instability, although It may predictably orbit, our world is in a constant state of adaptable chaos and the only way to destabilize our current systems global is to induce them in speeds that rival our orbit.
The difficult task is crafting the metaphorical bolt of lighting needed to disorientate and what exactly will induce the most change, societal arrest, a global—screeching halt to industrialism and the rapidly consuming forces of which make up techno-feudalism, allowing us to return to a more simpler age.

Unpredictability and uncertainty is the very essence of systemic collapse, and such we must embrace these forces as they carry us onto a new age, where only the most sinister survive, this will only purge the most useless breeds; allowing for the ones who tend towards savagery to thrive in their newer existence. Misanthropy often arises and is bred out of the weakest aspects of human nature, the anti-human sentiments of the modern age arise out of the frustrations of how members of our species could be so underwhelming or horrid beyond our wildest fantasies; however, it is crucial to note that the strong reactions that we give to those who tend towards savagery such as mercenaries and serial killers are almost entirely crafted by dogmatic institutions such as the church and the state, and inflicted onto us on very young ages to pressure us into following orders.

Even some of the wildest and chaotic of our species can become like second brothers and sisters to you, if you gave them a chPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.487471

there ara few designs with passive reservior of water just above the reactor (just enough to flood it all, just by gravity)

it is relavively simple and it wont melt basically
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 No.487560

>>487471
Water cooling reactors did have some problems in the past. If the core gets extremely hot, it can thermalize water, meaning it gets split into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. That can potentially cause detonations that could damage the containment vessel.

It's not a huge problem, most reactors are water cooled and operate without any safety issues. But if you design a new reactor, there's better options now.
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 No.487563

>>487560
The other issue is that water has a narrow temperature range where it remains a liquid. When dealing with very high temperatures, water has explosive potential simply from the phase change from liquid to gas.
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 No.487564

>>487563
if theres' alot of water it can be no problem

you can build such a reactor slightly underwater for instance
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 No.487565

>>487564
chinese create 'heating' small reactors at north
pool type reactors
they use them for district heating

and they naturally have more safety features
they're constantly flooded or underwater

they're also more simple and cost less


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Farmers launch an indefinite strike in India’s Karnataka state
The farmers and agricultural workers gathered in the capital from different parts of the state under the leadership of Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha affiliated with the left wing All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and other groups affiliated to All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU). They carried red flags and shouted slogans against corporate exploitation.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/11/farmers-launch-an-indefinite-strike-in-indias-karnataka-state/

China builds space alliances in Africa as Trump cuts foreign aid
China has forged nearly two-dozen pacts with African nations in its bid to surpass the U.S. in space. Investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and giving China more eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-builds-space-alliances-africa-trump-cuts-foreign-aid-2025-02-11/

Israel will resume war in Gaza unless more hostages freed this week, says Netanyahu
Netanyahu’s ultimatum was delivered during a video address posted to social media account on Tuesday. “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon – the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated,” he said. It came a day after Trump told reporters: “If all the Gaza hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12pm, I would say cancel the ceasefire. Let all hell break loose.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/israel-will-resume-war-in-gaza-unless-all-hostages-freed-this-week-says-netanyahu

Turkey detains more opposition members over alleged PKK ties, TRT says
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 No.487552

GOP Ready Plan to Gut Medicaid to 'Pay for Tax Cuts for Billionaires'
Internal divisions within the House GOP caucus have hinged on the overall size of cuts to federal spending in their yet-to-be-released budget blueprint, with competing proposals ranging from $1.25 trillion in cuts up to $2.5 trillion. Of that overall number, hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts may come in the form of block grants to states, caps on per capita costs, and work requirements.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-medicaid-cuts

CTU rejects fact-finder, moves closer to strike
Citing possible tariff-driven inflation and withholding of federal funds under President Trump, the report forecasts an uncertain financial picture for the district. It supports CPS' proposed 4% to 5% annual raises, plus CTU's proposals to add 90 new librarians hired by 2029 and more family engagement coordinators, Chalkbeat reports.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/02/10/ctu-cps-fact-finder-strike

Judge orders restoration of federal health websites
The temporary restraining order was granted in response to a lawsuit filed against the federal government by Doctors for America (DFA), a progressive advocacy group representing physicians, and the nonprofit Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293387/judge-orders-cdc-fda-hhs-websites-restored

ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
“In order to prevent adversaries from successfully targeting ICE Senior leaders, personnel and facilities, ICE requires real-time threat mitigation and monitoring services, vulnerability assessments, and proactive threat monitoring services,” the procurement document reads. If this scanning uncovers anything the agency deems suspicious, ICE is asking its contractors to drill down into the background of social media users.
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 No.487553

AI-fuelled warfare is the terrifying reality that the tech sector refuses to discuss
As global leaders, policymakers and tech innovators convene at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Monday, a glaring omission in its agenda raises concerns: the lack of any meaningful dialogue on the militarisation of artificial intelligence (AI). This oversight is particularly alarming given recent revelations about the involvement of both Microsoft and Google in supplying the Israeli military with AI technology, which has concerning implications for human rights and international law. Reports from DropSite News, +972 Magazine and The Guardian reveal that Microsoft’s Azure platform has been used extensively by Israeli intelligence units to power surveillance systems, contributing to systematic human rights abuses. Recent revelations have also highlighted Google’s deep involvement in supplying advanced AI tools to the Israeli military as part of the $1.2bn Project Nimbus contract. During the October 2023 Gaza offensive, Google’s Vertex AI platform was reportedly deployed to process vast datasets for "predictions" where algorithms analyse behavioural patterns and metadata to identify potential threats. Proprietary Israeli military systems such as Lavender, The Gospel, and Where’s Daddy? also played a central role in the Gaza war. Lavender, an AI-powered database, reportedly flagged more than 37,000 individuals as potential assassination targets during the first weeks of the war, with operators spending as little as 20 seconds reviewing each case. Where's Daddy? tracked individuals via their smartphones, enabling precise air strikes that often targeted entire families. Such tools demonstrate how AI is being weaponised against civilian populations, raising urgent concerns about accountability and compliance with international humanitarian law.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ai-fuelled-warfare-global-tech-sector-refuses-discuss

A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises
Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers — Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General Atomics of San Diego — to build prototype versions of its proposed Collaborative Combat AircraftPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.487555

>China has forged nearly two-dozen pacts with African nations in its bid to surpass the U.S. in space. Investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and giving China more eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries.
Whatsha been doing ?

China:
<space building with 20+ countries

US:
<stirring up chaos in the middle east and eastern Europe
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 No.487556

>>487555
The US policy is complete fucking idiocy.


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 No.487545[Reply]

>mfw there's nothing mutual about it
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 No.487605

I think single moms need money


 No.487320[Reply]

when it will be over for eu

what do you think on european union in general
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 No.487517

>>487510
>>487511
I know that there are ships that use LNG turbines. I only absentmindedly skimmed over how that worked, so take this with a grain of salt: You can't burn LNG directly because it's super cold. So there are 2 stages, the first one uses the cold LNG as the cold side of a heat engine, and hot exhaust from the second stage as the hot side. The first stage extracts some energy from that temperature differential and warns up the LNG. Then the warmed up LNG goes into the second stage where it gets burned normally. While these are efficient and economical, they are absolutely huge relative to the power they produce, and will never fit into a tank.

Hydrogen fueled tanks are technically plausible, because fuel-cells can use hydrogen to make loads of electricity. But you also have to consider logistics. Which means that unless the civilian economy also begins using lots of hydrogen, so that a large hydrogen infrastructure gets build, you can't use it for tanks. If you build one specialty facility that generates your tank fuel, a opponent only needs to hit that facility and all your tanks are neutralized. Until there's lots of trucks and other type of heavy machinery power by hydrogen, H2-tanks are not viable.

You are also correct that tank production is very energy intensive, since tanks usually are made out of 30+ tonnes of steal. Tanks definitely are toys for energy rich societies, which Europe really isn't at the moment. Also we found out during the Ukraine war that Neo-liberal economies are not capable of mass-producing shells for tanks or artillery. It felt like a regression to artisanal production. Which indicates that the decay of industry is worse than we thought.

Unless there is a hard break from neo-liberal austerity policy, and there is at least 10 years of significant state directed industrial build up, heavy weapons are out.
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>>487511
>tanks that violently explode when you target their fuel
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>>487531
do you think normal tanks aren't like that ?
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>>487535
actually gas ballons explode rather not violently so if you mount them some where outside in the save place (at the top)
they most likely won't damage a tank (at least the polymer ones)


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 No.487413[Reply]

Idk wtf this is or how it's "not a strike," but I'm all for it

inb4 le cringe democrats! - don't know or care who's behind it, this is good, everyone is invited to shut down the American state, even if they're cringe


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China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google.
“The U.S.’s unilateral tariff increase seriously violates the rules of the World Trade Organization,” China’s State Council Tariff Commission said in a statement. “It is not only unhelpful in solving its own problems, but also damages normal economic and trade cooperation between China and the U.S.”
https://apnews.com/article/china-tariffs-us-trump-150fab3a44ec055845e47c82bde544c2

Amid Environmental Concerns, Hong Kong’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Project Presses Ahead
A massive new development project, centered around the San Tin Technopole, will transform farm and village land – including manmade wetlands crucial for regional wildlife.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/amid-environmental-concerns-hong-kongs-silicon-valley-project-presses-ahead/
https://archive.ph/k8Sae

Private schools’ withdrawal from NTF-ELCAC welcomed by student leaders
The decision is welcomed by youth leaders, who have noted how NTF-ELCAC’s activities in schools turned into red-tagging and harassment of legitimate student organizations and leaders, which has endangered lives.
https://davaotoday.com/human-rights/private-schools-withdrawal-from-ntf-elcac-welcomed-by-student-leaders/

Panama court is asked to cancel Hong Kong firm’s contract to run canal ports
A subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings – owned by the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing – has operated two of the canal’s five ports since it won the tender in 1997. “After a detailed analysis of the contract … we decided that an action for unconstitutionality was the appropriate means” to challenge the concession, Julio Macías, one of the lawyers behind the suit, told AFP.
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 No.487405

>It will also investigate Google.
I hope this doesn't boomerang and cause US officials to chicken out on the current Google anti-trust lawsuit.
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'We'll Own It': Trump Floats US Takeover of Gaza—After Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians
"We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings—level it out and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area," Trump continued.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ethnic-cleansing-gaza

State Dept orders shutdown of USAID overseas missions, recalls staff, sources say
The U.S. State Department has ordered the shutdown of overseas missions of U.S. Agency for International Development and is working to recall thousands of staff worldwide, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/state-dept-orders-shutdown-usaid-overseas-missions-recalls-staff-sources-say-2025-02-05/

Trump administration will consider redrawing boundaries of national monuments as part of energy push
Among the sites most at risk are Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, where state officials fought against their creation. Grand Staircase-Escalante holds large coal reserves, and the Bears Ears area has uranium. Trump reduced the size of the two monuments during his first term, calling them a “massive land grab.” He also lifted fishing restrictions within a sprawling marine monument off the New England Coast.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-interior-burgum-national-monuments-review-feec95054f630916a8b4d76bbc4839b7

Trump advisers weigh actions to dismantle education department – report
US officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the education department that are not written explicitly into statute, or move certain functions to other departments, according to the paper, citing sources.
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Saudi Arabia: 20,000 killed in vanity construction project
Recent reports into NEOM – an impossibly ambitious series of megaprojects being constructed by the Saudi Arabian monarchy in the desert – have revealed the slave-like conditions of the workers, which have already led to 20,000 deaths. NEOM – “the city of the future”, a “new world wonder”, and a “revolution in urban living”, according to its website – is a collection of sci-fi megaprojects dreamt up by absolutist Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) and his well-paid contractors. They are currently under construction in a largely barren desert region of Saudi Arabia, the driest and hottest part of the whole country. Among its plans are: the only ski resort in the Middle East; an island retreat with glow-in-the-dark, marble beaches; a floating, octagonal industrial complex; and an upside-down underwater skyscraper that can only be accessed by submarine. In other words, a playground for the rich.
https://marxist.com/saudi-arabia-blood-spilled-on-vanity-construction-projects.htm

V. I. Lenin: Principles Involved in the War Issue
Let us carefully consider what rejection of fatherland defence implies, if we approach it as a serious political slogan that must really be carried out. First. We call on the proletarians and the exploited of all the belligerent countries, and of all countries faced with the danger of war, to reject defence of the fatherland. We definitely know now, from the experience of several of the warring countries, what this actually implies in the present war. It implies rejection of all the foundations of modern bourgeois society, the undermining of the very roots of the modern social system, and not only in theory, not only “in general”, but in practice, directly and immediately. Is it not clear that this can be accomplished only if we go beyond the firm theoretical conviction that capitalism has fully matured for its transformation into socialism and accept the practical, direct and immediate carrying out of such transformation, i.e., the socialist revolution? Yet that is nearly always lost sight of in discussing refusal to defend the fatherland. At best there is “theoretical” acceptance of the fact that capitalism is ripe for transformation into socialism. But imPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.487412

Holy shit BASED news anon


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