Bulletins and News Discussion from March 3rd to March 9th, 2025 - Austerity And Its Consequences

Two Alawite families that my mom knows from her university days have been killed in Baniyas. She's in a facebook group with her old classmates and it's just full of obituaries of old people that have been mercilessly slaughtered by the terrorists. I don't know what to say, death just surrounds my people from all angles.

Thank you for featuring Greece, this is the biggest strike or protest we've had at least since the fall of the junta, about 1.5 million of people took to the streets, many of them striking for the first time ever
- It's just radio silence in the western media about it. 15% of a European nation's entire population protesting, and even the rare western coverage is framing it as violent.
  
  It's just radio silence in the western media about it.
  This is how you know the strike is legit and not some shitty attempt at a color revolution.
  
  They’re too busy treating Zelensky like he’s Jesus
  
  If you look through certain news sites about it (e.g. Reuters), there's like a dozen images of fires and police before they meaningfully show crowd sizes. Expected stuff from the western media I suppose.
  
  What country are you referring to? It's in every news section on the radio
- Hell yeah! Good luck to you all!
- Speaking of Greece, they may open the doors to LGBTQ Turks fleeing Istanbul and Ankara.

Boy Boy just came out with a video where they interviewed an Australian who was tortured repeatedly removed, waterboarded, electric shocked to face and genitals, etc) for six months by the CIA at various US black sites all over the world including Guantanamo Bay. He said the Australian Ambassador to Pakistan was even present at one of the times he was tortured! https://youtu.be/xEqrm9OIqro
what the fuck. He said he saw other captives completely lose their minds and weren't able to recall their own names. They accused him of training the 9/11 hijackers with kungfu which he was a practitioner of.
- Me and Satan rn
  
  The biggest problem I have with this quote is that Satan is America. It's a global empire, focused on control and evil. America learned everything from the devil.
- Damn. They certainly do have a gift for sensitive humor centered around the darkest shit in human existence.
  One creepy place my mind goes is...I mean, obviously this is a form of terrorism...but people just disappearing off the street is one thing, and knowing about the horrors you, too, could experience if you disappear off the street one day is another one entirely. Did the CIA actually let the leaks happen so that people could be made aware of just what U.S. "hospitality" is like? Like, you realize our outrage is part of the plan, right? type stuff. Fuckin' bleak.
  For the same reason, I can't really figure out why the imprisonment and torture was indefinite. Seems like it would achieve its goals more effectively if people were released after a few years of hell-on-earth. Fascists psyching them selves out of being even more fascist in their petty racism and hate ("Can't let these TERRORISTS go!"?)?
  
  I think I don't buy their terrorism hypothesis, at least not fully. If the point of the operation is to publicly appear as violent and terrifying as possible to extert control, i.e. psychological warfare, why does almost no one know about it? And yeah, obviously if you go to Iraq then many more people will be aware of the horrible things that were going on in CIA blacksites but it's still not widely publicized. If the point was to terrorize them, why not get a picture of a prisoner being abused to every public location they can?
  I feel like that's the kind of tactics you see Israel engage in, and we usually get better media coverage of the horrible things Palestinian POWs were being subjected to. I don't think it's a coincidence, because the IDF is a terrorist organization. But I don't know that the CIA was necessarily conducting these torture operations for that reason.
  
  Independent journalists like the one interviewed in the video got their hands on a tremendous amount of torture photos and I think there was no way they could silence/kill everyone without it causing even more backlash. I've only seen some of the photos and there are thousands so whatever method they chose to keep these pics suppressed worked.
- Damn. Amazed he’s in a coherent state.
- Death to America
- I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video

Jdpon don stands in solidarity with the oppressed, while aim can’t drop those dipshits

Teen charged after passenger tackled him on Jetstar plane
A 17-year-old boy who allegedly pushed through a hole in the fence at Avalon Airport and got on a plane armed with a gun was overpowered by at least three passengers who spotted his weapon. The teenager, who was dressed as a maintenance worker in hi-vis and wearing a tool belt, was wrestled to the floor of Sydney-bound flight JQ610, which had about 160 passengers on board, just before 3pm on Thursday.
[...]
Police Superintendent Michael Reid described it as a terrifying incident for passengers but said it was too early to establish if it would be treated as a terrorism incident.
https://archive.md/YE0r4 | https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-with-gun-detained-while-trying-to-board-jetstar-flight-20250306-p5lhk9.html
Emphasis my own

YT teenager boards a plane with 160 people, brandishing a shotgun, saying he had a bomb in his bag: terrifying, but not terrorism. Makes you think.

cuck n chad ranking: blast from the past edition

Note: RUS vs UKR back in first row

Gigachad	Chad	Neutral	Beta (Fe)Male	Virgin Cuck
Daily map enjoyers (still caring about Russia capturing a treeline in Bumfuckskoya after three years makes us chads)	Putin (riding out the global war against him by basically doing the same thing for three years, every day is better than the day before for him)	Ukrainian diaspora (I respect the sheer shamelessness of cheerleading for a war that you watch on TV while driving a taxi in Berlin and going to nightclubs there)	Medvedev (somehow the most unhinged poster in this entire war, somebody needs to take his phone away)	Zelensky (getting the cuck treatment in the US by being the most annoying person to ever exist
The people of Gaza (Allah's bravest creation, just their existence and steadfastness makes the zionists shake)	Erdogan (no person in the world gets more undeserved Ws than him, somehow comes out as a winner in everything)	Donald Trump (the whole Zelensky saga is hilarious and a net positive, but he's so unhinged and is leading the world into some fucked up territory)	Jolani/Sharaa (screaming about jihad and justice until Israel is taking his territory, then it's pure silence)	UAE (on a streak of multiple Ls after their loss in Yemen, loss in Sudan and their failure to save Assad)
Hassan Nasrallah (permanent gigachad spot for the Master of the South, I miss him every single day)	Sudanese Army (successfully kicking out the RSF maniacs day by day, respect to those dudes)	Qatar (the most confusing country in the world, made sure that Gaza could breath with the ceasefire, but the biggest backers of Jolani at the same time)	JD Vance (this guy is so fucking annoying, who the fuck allowed a 4chan poster to become vice-president of the most powerful empire in the world)	the EU (never seen such a cucked organization in my life, they only exist to bet on the wrong horses and take Ls)

Chinese Embassy: "If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end."

Cool guy shit
Three US soldiers from Pacific NW accused of sharing classified military information with China
Three U.S. Army soldiers are accused of sharing top secret national defense material and other sensitive military information with a Chinese national and other unidentified buyers in China, according to unsealed court records.
very cool dudes alert

Ansar Allah just declared they will resume their naval operations if aid does not start entering Gaza again within 4 days.

Russia has invited Israel to the 2025 Victory Day Parade in Moscow.
(March 3, 2025 / JNS) Russia has invited Israel to attend its Victory Day commemorations in May alongside representatives of China, Brazil, Slovakia and Serbia—but not Germany, the United States or most European Union’s member states, Russian media reported Sunday.
The annual May 9 commemorations on Red Square in Moscow feature a military parade and speeches by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in recognition of the sacrifices made by his country in its war against Germany in World War II. This year is a round anniversary since the German surrender to the Red Army 80 years ago.
A national holiday, May 9 is a major patriotic holiday in Russia and throughout much of the post-Soviet world. The holiday’s main event is the Red Square parade. In contrast to past anniversaries this year, Russia did not invite the United States, most of the European Union, Canada, Australia and other countries it deems “unfriendly,” according to News.ru.
- The whole de-Nazifying defense comes off hollow if they're just going to cozy up to another Nazi-like regime.
  
  I mean come on, that was already pretty hollow.
  
  That has always been true. WW2 in Russia is a font of propaganda.
  The reality of talking about all these talking point is nobody ever talks through the primacy in relation to each other point. The war in 2022 and 2023 was prosecuted by a literal white supremacist entity. Wagner PMC was founded by a Nazi (Utkin) which is why it's called Wagner. Wagner PMC also has the Rusich Unit which is effectively their Azov.
- Praying bibi accepts and plays with a grenade as he's over Russian airspace because he got the idea from that Wagner guy
- I think Russia invites the president of Israel to the victory parade quite often, ultimately WW2 is known for the Holocaust for obvious reasons, so having the president of what's seen as the Jewish state present is seen as important. I know that Netanyahu has attended previous victory parades before, and that the president of Israel attended in 2005, along with G.W Bush during the height of the Iraq war.
  
  Russia effectively exports white people to Israel, they're very cozy. Russia is Israel's main supplier of oil. Which is why the Ukraine and Gaza Wars have always been funny from the
  perspective.
- And Russia was also forbidden from attending the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January. Satan, whose government policy is verbatim that of Hitler's policies of Lebensraum and Final Solution, used his platform to declare the ICJ/ICC, South Africa and every Palestinian as an extension of the Third Reich, so extremely huge Holocaust revisionism energy there.
  Satan has been granted exemption from the ICC's arrest warrant by much of the EU including Germany and Poland on the grounds of white supremacy.
  Russia's, or more accurately, the USSR's role in freeing much of the camps has largely been disregarded as "Kremlin propaganda" following the war in uKKKraine.
  Inviting "israel" to the Victory Day parade is a massive
- Extremely disappointing but I am curious what the hell he's doing, given the growing relationship they have with Iran. If it goes any further than inviting to parades then I'm curious if Putin is angry at Iran for some reason, perhaps over Syria.
  
  I mean, Israel has ties with virtually all great powers. They cooperate with China on miltech and surveillance. They cooperate with Russia on diplomacy. And they are the real 51st state. Not too long ago we had news of Israel lobbying the US to help Russia keep/retake bases in Syria to counterbalance HTS/Turkey, while also making public overtures towards the SDF. Israel will and does deal with everybody, including those arabs they aren't genociding like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi and so on.
- Russian is one of the most widespread languages of Israel, many israelis are in fact former citizens of the soviet union.

Hasan banned (or just suspended?) from Twitch for saying “if you care about Medicaid fraud you should kill Rick Scott”. Don’t know yet how long the ban is but I’ll update with an edit when I see it.
https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/1896633995661922675#m
- 3 days.
- Hasbara bots tried to get his ass for more than a year, yet he gets banned for the most uncontroversial opinions, like in the past with the cracker saga or "the US deserved 9/11".
- Twitch calls them bans even when they are suspensions for some reason.

Syrian government loyalists accused of executing civilians as violence erupts
The attacks raise major questions over the new Syrian administration which has made efforts to distance itself from its jihadist past.
“What happened from three months ago until today, equals what the Assads did to us in five decades. The Assads were criminals, and these (new rulers) are also criminals,” Bashir said.
CNN trying their hardest to defend the indefensible crimes of HTS with that headline. Jesus Christ, the situation is looking bleak for the Alawites

Sometimes I forget just how brainwashed the NATO countries are until I try discussing the Ukraine war with levels of nuance and it infuriates them.
Saying that trump isn’t working with Putin to take over the world is apparently a very controversial thing with NATO libs. Makes me glad this site exists. Thankfully Guatemalans aren’t nearly as brain broken. We’re more suspicious of China but admiring of Putin (ugh)

A number of schools in Hunan, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in China have recently started implementing a new policy of 2-day off week for high schoolers, and have sparked quite a debate among parents and netizens in China.
High schoolers in Grade 10 and 11 will now get 2 days off per week, and Grade 12 students get to have 1 day off every week.
Currently, there is no weekend for many high schoolers in China (the “higher ranking” a school, the tougher the routine), you get half a day off per week (~2 days off per month).
A typical high school day looks like this: wakes up at 6am, arrives at class room at 7am, starts morning self-study routine, sits through the classes, stays for the evening self-study session, gets home at around 10pm, and if you’re lucky, gets to bed at around 12am. Rinse and repeat every day.
As anticipated, many parents are not happy with the new policy: the gaokao (national unified exam) is so competitive that even a 1-point difference in scoring can make or break your chances of getting into university. Some parents in Hangzhou are worried that their kids might be disadvantaged if kids from the other cities don’t have as many days off.
This has led to an explosive demand for private tuition on the weekends as parents send their kids to tuition classes instead. Previously, tuition was part of the school program and parents pay ~1000 yuan per semester. Now they have to pay an additional 1000-2000 yuan per month.
Some private tuition companies have seen the business opportunity and have begun advertising “weekend packages” for parents, with such slogans as “you can go to work with a peace of mind. we will take over the duty of the school to take care of your kids instead.”
One such “weekend package” as reported by the news which includes tuition for 6 subjects + physical education costs 3680 yuan per month, which is 47% of the monthly income for an average household.
Some parents are now petitioning for the schools to keep their libraries open on the weekend and crowdfunding to pay for the teachers’ “weekend overtime fee”.
Even more absurdity ensued, as some schools received “letters to volunteer to return to school on the weekends” by “very concerned” students.
China can be a magical place sometimes. The level of extreme competition has intensified in recent years to such an extent that it is taking a toll on everyone’s daily lives, and I don’t blame the people who want to emigrate to Western countries at all. I know many Chinese immigrants overseas who don’t want to put their kids through this.

Newsweek: Trump Halts US Aid to Ukraine After Fiery Clash with Zelensky

What is happening in Syria is pure insanity, here's my little breakdown of the wider geopolitical situation from what I'm understanding from scrolling through Arab Facebook and Telegram today.
There are basically two opposing sides when it comes to how to do deal with the new Jihadi government in Syria. One side is pro-cooperation and consolidation of the new government, and the other side is pro-chaos and making it as hard as possible for the new regime to gain any legitimacy both internally in Syria and internationally. Here's how the situation currently looks if we're talking major regional players:
Pro-regime: Saudi, Qatar, Sunni Syrians, most other Arab states and Turkey
Pro-chaos: Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Hezbollah, SDF, minority Syrians and Israel
So we have a rare situation where the interests of Iran and Israel converge and they're both interested in making any effective ruling difficult for the Jihadis. The Israelis' partners in this clusterfuck are the Druze in Southern Syria, and some possible backdoor collaboration with Syrian Kurds in Eastern Syria. The Iranians still have good relations with former SAA members and are popular with Alawites and other Shia-adjacent groups in Syria, which is why they're backing them in Western Syria on the coast. Iranian and Axis media also seems to have shifted towards a more positive coverage of the SDF. I personally don't even have a take at this point, this is all developing way too quickly.

The leader of Yemen's Ansarallah, Sayyed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, issues an ultimatum If the Zionists do not stop violating the ceasefire deal in Gaza, by refusing to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, Yemen will resume naval operations against Israel. Yemen has informed the mediators in Qatar and Egypt that Israel has 4 days to comply, or the Red Sea blockade will resume.
Telegram

libs on resetera dot com, the world's most lib website, are now regularly saying things like, "China is the more reasonable global power", "at least China reigns in its oligarchs", "China is going to push BRICS to dedollarize and the rest of the world will move on when the US collapses"
material reality is simply too powerful, folks
(then they go on to say "Russia has spent decades destroying america from within" so who knows)

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say
If this is true, then so many recently fired hexbears can get their dream jobs of working for Xi-bucks!
I kid, but this is yet another

moment, brought to you by the relentless neoliberal capitalist urge to loot public assets.
- according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed CNN.
  if I could cite my papers in college as lazily as western media I might have actually graduated
  
  According to four people familiar with recent Hexbear intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by VILenin, Wolf Blitzer is Satan incarnate and is currently plotting to explode the earth

I have it in good authority through my job that the Trump admin has dropped ~150 white collar crime investigations/prosecutions since taking office. There were dropped essentially as a matter of policy and not due to lack of evidence. It seems that we are likely entering a new era of scamming and financial crimes.

North Korean media have published photographs of the country's first nuclear-powered submarine, armed with "guided missile nuclear weapons," under construction. Thus, the DPRK is preparing to enter yet another elite club of powers.
Telegram

Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk; Tells Cabinet he has no authority to fire workers - Politico
President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.
According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.
The meeting followed a series of mass firings and threats to government workers from the billionaire Tesla founder, who helms the Department of Government Efficiency, that created broad uncertainty across the federal government and its workforce.
IDOGE’s actions have faced ferocious resistance in court and criticism from Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans.
The Trump-Elon split

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just weakened the Clean Water Act's limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.
Owning the libs by making everyone drink more doo doo water

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-joint-address-chips-act-horrible-bill-2025-3 Trump trying to get rid of CHIPS act. How you run on bringing manufacturing etc and tariffing other countries on their tech.... But go on a grudge tour with this act

China announces plans for major renewable projects to tackle climate change
BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it would develop a package of major projects to tackle climate change as it moves to bring its carbon dioxide emissions to a peak before 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060.
The world's largest producer of climate-warming greenhouse gas said it would develop new offshore wind farms and accelerate the construction of "new energy bases" across its vast desert areas, the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's economic planner, said in an official report published on Wednesday.
"China will actively and prudently work towards peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality," the report read.
Among the proposed projects cited in the report by the state planning agency was a controversial hydropower facility on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, which has raised concerns in India about its potential impact on downstream water flows.
It also said it would develop a direct power transmission route connecting Tibet with Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong in the southeast.
However, coal will remain a key fuel, with the NDRC report saying the country will continue to increase coal production and supply this year even as it plans for trials of low-carbon technology at its coal-fired power plants and to promote initiatives aimed at substituting fossil fuels with renewables.
China has been struggling to strike a balance between fostering economic growth and meeting its environmental goals.
The NDRC said the 3.4% reduction in the amount of carbon emissions per unit of economic growth last year "fell short of expectations", blaming rapid growth in energy consumption as well as extreme weather.
China is not expected to meet its five-year goal to bring carbon intensity down by 18% by the end of this year, and it has not yet announced an annual target for 2025.
It will also struggle to meet a separate target to cut the amount of energy consumed per unit of growth by 13.5% by the end of this year, despite exceeding expectations with a 3.8% reduction last year, analysts said.
"Despite the world record expansion of renewables, an inconvenient truth is that China's economy hasn't become much more energy efficient in recent years," said Yao Zhe, global policy advisor with Greenpeace in Beijing.

It appears he plans to put tariffs on all agricultural imports
- Well luckily, agricultural products are easy to grow in a just-in-time fashion because they aren't dependent on a seasonality or anything
  
  Fortunately there's a LOT of growing season left. Not great to lose a month or two (depending on where you are), but still plenty of time. If it's going to happen, now's not a bad time for it, relatively speaking.
- last time this happened China decreased soybean purchases from US and those farmers lost a fuck load of money so uhhhh
  
  Have fun!
- "Have fun!" at the end there is so funny tho. He is such a weirdo.
- Locavore Trump, one of the weirder developments, but it tracks.

The Estonian Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the phrase "From the River to the Sea" falls under protected speech. - Estonian Human Rights Centre (English page)
Some takeaways according to the article and court ruling include that the average Estonian is ignorant of stuff happening outside the
and that umm... it cost nearly €10,000 to come to that conclusion, lmfao even

Meanwhile, completely legal for 30 years protests in South Africa be like:

we are in the cool zone now

A few thoughts on Syria. “HTS” once again revealed themselves to be exactly what we already all knew them as back in the 2010s: a gang of brutal sectarian extremists and fascist executioners of innocent civilians. Right now, most of their victims are members of religious minorities (especially Alawis). I want to briefly take a closer look at religion in Syria.
So the “HTS” tries to claim that it represents the Syrian majority, which are Sunnis. But there is a tiny little demographic problem with that propaganda talking point of theirs. While most Syrians are in fact Sunnis, most Syrian Sunnis are not Salafis. And “HTS” is a radical Salafist political movement (it’s basically al-Queda rebranded). So they really do not represent the majority of the Syrian population in any way. That’s undoubtedly one major reason why “HTS” does not want to hold any kind of honest elections, because they would obviously lose them.
Another point that I want to touch is that I’ve noticed elsewhere (not here at hexbear) that some people are trying to make apologist arguments for the “HTS” regime by saying something along the lines of “Jolani can’t control his gunmen, the massacres aren’t his fault!” Well, that’s a pretty laughable argument to make. If the new leadership can’t control their own fighters, they won’t be in power long anyways…

92 of the International Republican Institute's destabilization programs in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have been CANCELED following cuts to State Dept. and USAID grants. 175 of the Institute’s programs worldwide are now in limbo because they directly depend on NED funding.
Yet another open admission that the opposition activists, “political prisoners”, and US-bankrolled “religious groups” in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela exist only because of DEEP, LUCRATIVE and sometimes long-standing CONTRACTS.
Washington's political and media mercenaries (see: “democracy activists”) have been making bank 🤑💰💳 in recent decades in Latin America. SecRubio's friends in Latin America are desperately calling him to try to get their payments resumed. He probably had to change his number.
Camila Kawsachun News
Another L for Narco "Nazi' Rubio

Are the Assadists in the room with you right now?
https://xcancel.com/eu_eeas/status/1898487797348225207
The European Union strongly condemns the recent attacks, reportedly by pro-Assad elements, on interim government forces in the coastal areas of Syria and all violence against civilians.

Hours after No Other Land won the academy awards, Israel occupation forces handed a demolition order for a school in Masafer Yatta. Even Shakespeare couldn't have written such a travesty of justice. Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, and elsewhere, deserve liberation, they deserve to live free from occupation in their own sovereign state.
Ofer Cassif Israeli Communist MP

The work report of the government from Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress is out on March 5th, summarized below:
Looking back at 2024
5% GDP growth
Food production reached 1.4 trillion pound for the first time
New employment in the urban area: 12.56 million
Alternative energy vehicle production breached 13 million annually
Target for 2025
GDP growth at ~5%
New employment in the urban area: >12 million jobs
CPI to reach 2%
Food production at ~1.4 trillion pound
Energy consumption per unit GDP to fall ~3%
Important work for 2025
Budget: deficit spending to reach ~4% (from 3%, or +1.6T yuan from previous year)
Government investment: to arrange new local government bonds at 4.4T yuan (+500B yuan), combined government debt to reach 11.86T yuan (+2.9T yuan)
Special debt: to issue special extra long term government bonds at 1.3T yuan (+300B yuan), and new special government bond at 500B yuan
Consumption: to implement targeted policies to raise consumption, to arrange extra long term bond at 300B yuan to support consumption (subsidies to trade in older goods with new goods)
Nascent industries: to further propel the development of nascent industries e.g. commercial airliners, low attitude airspace economy. To cultivate biotech production, quantum technology, embodied AI, 6G and other nascent industries. To accelerate the digital transformation of manufacturing sector. To develop AI networked EV, AI-powered phones and computers, AI-powered robots etc.
Education: to increase the number of higher and middle education degrees, to gradually implement free pre-school education
Market environment: to implement long term mechanisms to resolve problems with outstanding payments by corporations/companies, to increase law enforcement actions against corporate crimes
Opening up: to push for the orderly opening up of internet and cultural spaces, to further the opening up of telecommunications, healthcare, education and various sectors
Housing: to continue implement strong policies to slow the plunging real estate prices and stabilize the market. implement the redevelopment of provincial towns and aging residential housing units. to encourage purchase of stock houses (oversupplied units). to continue the good work on settlement/closing for housing purchases.
Rural development: to revitalize the rural industries, to activate the central government coordinated inter-provincial food production compensatory policy, to increase support for food producing provinces, to expand on channels to improve farmers’ income.
Urbanization: to push for guaranteed housing system for qualified citizens who are turning from farmers into urban workers. to continue the revitalization of urban and redevelopment of old neighborhoods in cities.
Ecology: mechanisms to encourage healthy and green consumption, to encourage new green, low carbon production and lifestyles
Employment: to enlarge the employment opportunities for high school graduates, to strengthen the welfare guarantee for gig workers and new hires. to improve benefits for tech talents.
Healthcare: to optimize the drug procurement policy and strengthen the regulation and evaluation of drug quality (note: this was a huge scandal in China last year when many hospitals procured fake drugs to lower costs), to increase the per capita subsidies of citizens health insurance and basic public healthcare service by 30 yuan and 5 yuan, respectively
Social welfare: to raise the minimum amount of urban citizen pension by 20 yuan, to formulate policies to encourage birth, to provide childcare subsidies
Overall, not that different from last year’s budget, with the exception on the new emphasis on AI. The budget deficit is still on the conservative side, breaking from the usual 3% to 4% this year. It may or may not be enough to boost the slumping consumption, but time will tell. Other than that, nothing indicates fundamental change from the usual policies.

Western press calling those protesting HTS "Assad loyalists".
HTS are killing Alawite civilains.

This video of Jeffrey Sachs dressing down the EU parliament on Russia-Ukraine is good. He more or less calls them all baby brained morons for huffing their own farts so much.
https://youtu.be/VjcMoDFU1xg
- It's like the famous dress-down of Marxists to capitalist: you're not just wrong or immoral, we accuse you of mismanagement. You have a system which benefits you and you can't even maintain it.
  It's beautiful to see. I just wish Jeffrey would reflect all the way back to capitalism's fault in it. He would be a powerful Marxist. Instead he's still a feckless liberal
  
  Definitely. True of a lot of people. Good analysis and then the prescription is revealed and its like..."we just need slightly kinder and gentler policing/concentration camps/colonies/exploitation/etc." WTF dude?!?!? So close. It was RIGHT THERE!
  They need to do more drugs or something. IDK. (Speaking as someone who doesn't really do drugs. But, like, something's gotta shock these libs' brains out of their prisons....)
  Stephen Cohen was a similar voice. And I think he kept Democracy Now semi-accountable on their foreign policy, at least as far as Russia was concerned. Once he died, Amy Goodman jumped fully on board the Russiagate train for a while.... But anyway, another person who was just a little too hung up on the liberalism to be able to let go that death grip (in his case, somewhat literally).
  
  I posted (and stickied) this in /r/BreadTube. Down- votes so far, of course. But I wanted to point out a near-immediate comment I removed:
  This guy is partially responsible for the whole mess we're in. When the USSR collapsed he was a key advisor to several countries that were suddenly in the position of having to reconfigure their societies on several levels. Jeffrey advocated for policies of shock therapy in Russia that led to the plundering of the wealth in the country by a handful of people - he helped to create the oligarchs that stripped Russians of dignity and basically made them easily swayable by the scapegoating tactics of a strongman. It's similar to how the Treuhand stripped East Germany of all of its assets right after the wall fell and now every district in the former east voted for AfD.
  He parrots Putin's propaganda and always conveniently omits the genocide by Russian-supported Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica in the early 90s that a lot of newly reformed European countries saw and decided to get a bit of defence against. It's not like NATO grew for no reason in the 90s. Europe saw thousands of people put into warehouses and executed concentration camp style while Russians were doing genocide tourism and shooting PKM's into Sarajevo.
  Now he goes around talking about how nobody listens to him anymore - boo hoo - you significantly contributed to the creation of the oligarchs and the conditions for Putin to become a dictator instead of a more just society that Russia should have become - it's got so many resources that could have been used to build prosperity instead of this. No thanks, Jeff.
  Jeff was to post-Soviet Russia like Milton Friedman and his Chigaco Boys were to Argentina but with far worse long term consequences for the world.
  It would be great to discuss some of this shit. How it's real...because Sachs literally used to be an establishment Democrat, and so of course he contributed to a lot of destruction and mayhem. It's a good part of why he understands how the machine works and we should listen to him (on that part). But this shit basically always comes from liberals who have to cheerlead NATO and empire, and I don't like to put up with that dipshittery anymore. It's what the conversation always revolves around if you let it sit there and fester.
- I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video

It's wild watching polls turn against Ukraine exactly as we all knew was going to happen from the start. Just have make sure a bunch of people die first before we can start talking peace.

The resistance forces in Syria are not trying to bring Assad back to power. The uprising is a response to HTS' continued oppression of religious minorities. It aims to establish a Syrian state for all, not a return to the Baath government.
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Trump electronically repo'd HIMARS

1-trump says stupid shit
2-the stocks go down
3-buy low
4-backpedals
5-the stocks go back up, they sell.
6-profit
It do be like that. Very rational much efficiency

Hamas response to Trump's statement:
"In response to Trump’s statement directed at Hamas: "Only sick and twisted people keep bodies."
On February 23, 2025, the Palestinian National Campaign for the Recovery of Martyrs’ Bodies announced that the number of documented bodies held by the occupation has risen to 665 martyrs, distributed between "numbered graves" and "refrigerators," including martyrs held since the 1960s and 1970s, along with martyrs from the Al-Far'a refugee camp in the West Bank, who got killed by the occupation forces last Wednesday evening.
According to the campaign, among the retained martyrs' bodies are 259 Palestinians who were martyred since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza in October 2023, alongside 67 Palestinian detainees who lost their lives inside occupation prisons. The list also includes 59 children under the age of 18 and 9 female martyrs, reflecting the Israeli targeting of various segments of Palestinian society.
The campaign noted that these figures do not include bodies held in the Gaza Strip since the onset of the latest aggression, as accurate information about them is not available. However, Israeli sources have revealed that the occupation is holding over 1,500 martyr bodies at the "Sdei Teyman" concentration camp in occupied southern Palestine."

The current rumor is that "tomorrow's big news" teased by Trump is the US leaving NATO.
- I’ll believe it when it happens. (LIKE I WANT IT TO HAPPEN) but I dont trust Comrade Trump thaaat much
- I look forward to seeing American liberals bravely protesting to bring it back. Fuck I can’t stand them
- Please do it JDPON Don.
- ok they can start pulling their troops from EU right now, the EU is ‘not paying enough’ so it’s not worth it to keep them there, very transactional, very shrewd mr trump yup yup
- Is there any good media to show people about nato
- Looks like its tariffs but i'll continue hoping.

Democracy

Mexico and Canada tariffs happening tomorrow, and a doubling of China's tariff
https://archive.is/OFKcm
- Looks like the tariffs are inevitable, but we've heard that before. We will see. He is also promising some agriculture tariffs, he ended the post that announced the tariffs with "have fun" lmao.
  
  tfw no more fruits and veggies
- Newsheads,
  In Canada, if I order something now will I be able to avoid paying the tariff or will I be charged at the door on delivery?
  
  someone please correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought these tariffs would be applied by the US on goods entering the US from Canada. so as long as Trudeau and the libs don't retaliate with their own tariffs on US goods, hopefully you won't pay extra on a shipment from the US.
  
  Canada.ca Link
  Does this mean video game consoles that are imported from the U.S will be tariffed or basically Casino Machines?
  I know most consoles are shipped directly from China but some smaller brands (i.e Analogue, Valve) are imported into U.S warehouses and then forwarded to Canada
- FUCK
  this is going to destroy the economy I'm pretty sure, I'd like to be able to afford to live next year

Zelensky is coming back to the White House, this time with chaperones.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/05/starmer-and-macron-plan-to-accompany-zelensky/

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Massive blackout in Buenos Aires leaves more than half a million without power
More than 600,000 people were left without electricity Wednesday as massive power outage hits Buenos Aires and its southern suburbs – event the Casa Rosada was affected.
A massive blackout affected neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires City (CABA) and the southern suburbs of the capital on Wednesday amid sweltering temperatures. Several power on Wednesday left some 620,000 users without electricity in Greater Buenos Aires – including the Casa Rosada.
Meanwhile temperatures soared above 35 degrees Celsius, with the famous 'sensación térmica' heat index touching 44°C, with a yellow alert issued for "extreme temperatures." Electricity firm Edesur, which serves the southern part of Buenos Aires, stated on X that "a failure occurred in a high-voltage line," affecting multiple substations. The blackout followed another massive one recorded in the early hours of Wednesday.
By mid-afternoon, service had been restored to 70 percent of those affected, while around 200,000 customers remained without power, a spokesperson from the Energy Secretariat told the AFP news agency. At the peak of the outage, some 622,000 users had experienced the cut, said the spokesperson.
The blackout, which even affected the Casa Rosada presidential palace, hit more than a dozen neighbourhoods in the city's centre and south. Disruption was observed at dozens of intersections as traffic lights failed and traffic jams developed. Subte metro services were suspended, with some travellers left in carriages between tunnels.
A large part of the Barracas neighbourhood, in the south of the city, spent hours without electricity amid the sweltering heat. People stepped outside to cool off or sought shade on the street. Some shopkeepers set up petrol-powered generators at the entrances to their businesses. Petrol stations saw queues of people lining up with jerrycans to fill up. Gilda Ávila, an employee at a laundrette in Barracas, lamented that she couldn't use the washing machines.
"I have a ton of clothes to deliver. And in this heat, it's unbearable. Prices keep rising, and nothing gets better," said the 39-year-old woman. In 2024, electricity rates in Buenos Aires rose by 268 percent while inflation reached 117.8 percent, according to a report from the University of Buenos Aires and the scientific institute CONICET – the impact of the removal of large subsidies for public utilities. "This morning, we had to throw away a lot of merchandise," 35-year-old butcher Eduardo Marecos. "We pay nearly a million [pesos a month] for electricity, so going through this is awful."
milei promised we'll be "like Germany" in about 35 years or so, uh... guys.., is he pulling another scam?
Two companies are responsible for energy distribution in Buenos Aires and it's surroundings: Edenor and Edesur, both are born out of the "Shock Therapy" of the early 90s, part of the massive wave of privatizations carried out at the orders of the IMF. Therefore, the entire grid is privatized and there is little to no incentive to invest because money line goes down.
Privatization will be considered a crime against humanity in the future and all who carried out privatizations will be executed by firing squad.

Is there any historical parallel to something as large and complex as the United States trying to run on its own momentum while all the essential bureaucrats and government funding are being purged on a whim? Because that's the position we were in even before Trump decided to blow up the economy.
....is the JDPON Don meme real?

I’m not posting any more links or images, but at least a thousand people have been slaughtered by the Al-Nusra regime. Entire families shot in their homes including women and children, mass graves being dug, and homes are looted and burned. Baniyas has been victim to the latest wave of brutality. The silver lining to this very dark cloud is that the only thing these mercenaries like filming more than their crimes are the repeated ambushes the resistance has been launching.
Finally, the regime is backpedaling after the widespread coverage of their crimes, claiming that those who perpetrate atrocities will be punished. Obviously a lie, but I believe they’ve cracked down on filming in the last 12-18 hours to prevent witnesses

Update on my Russiagate brained dad who called me like 9/11 just happened when Trump yelled at Zelenskyy:
He texted me asking if I know who Jeffery Sachs is. As has been posted here, he's an economist who recently appeared before EU parliament and told the truth about Ukraine.
My dad said he agrees with Sachs' suggestion that the EU stop relying on the US for security and improve economic ties with Russia.
He also apparently just learned from Sachs that no, Russia isn't going to invade Europe for no good reason. Something I've been trying to tell him for a while.
No idea why the sudden change. Maybe he turned off MSNBC for once. Have any succdem independent media guys like Sam Seder or something mentioned Sachs recently? That's probably where he would have heard about him.

A story in three parts: the pause of all US military aid to Ukraine, including that currently in transit: yes that's right, the lastest reporting from Bloomberg states that all US military aid to Ukraine will be paused, until Ukraine's leadership "demonstrates a good faith commitment to peace", according to the reporting. In other words, US military aid is paused until Ukraine signs the natural resource extraction deal with the United States. So not a permanent termination, but a pressure tactic. I've been sitting on this post for a few hours now, just waiting for the official confirmation.
Part one: The New York Times reports of a meeting of senior Trump administration officials, taking place today (3 March 2025), to discuss the matter of aid to Ukraine, including the option of pausing it all.
Europe Races to Repair a Split Between the U.S. and Ukraine - New York Times - 2 March 2025
In Washington, a Trump administration official said Mr. Trump would meet on Monday [3 March 2025] with his top national security aides, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to consider, and possibly take action on, a range of policy options for Ukraine.
These include suspending or canceling American military aid to Ukraine, including the final shipments of ammunition and equipment authorized and paid for during the Biden administration, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Part two: The final straw. Zelensky makes a statement saying that the end of the war in Ukraine is "very, very far away". Trump does not take this well, posting about on Truth Social and sending a thinly veiled threat towards Zelensky during a press conference indirectly addressing Zelensky's comments, reminiscent of Henry Kissinger threatening to coup Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, South Vietnam's president back in 1972.
Trump: "A deal can be made very fast... If someone doesn’t want to make a deal, I think that person won’t be around very long"
Part three: Bloomberg News breaks the story. All current and future military aid to Ukraine had been suspended as of 45 minutes ago.
Trump Pauses Military Aid to Ukraine After Clash With Zelenskiy - Bloomberg News, 3 March 2025, 23:48 UTC
President Donald Trump ordered a pause to all military aid to Ukraine, turning up the heat on Volodymyr Zelenskiy just days after an Oval Office blowup with the Ukrainian president left the support of his country’s most important ally in doubt.
The US is pausing all current military aid to Ukraine until Trump determines the country’s leaders demonstrate a good-faith commitment to peace, according to a senior Defense Department official, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations.
The official said all US military equipment not currently in Ukraine would be paused, including weapons in transit on aircraft and ships or waiting in transit areas in Poland.
The last military aid flight to Ukraine landed in Poland at 15:19 UTC, about 9½ hours ago.
- What's important to figure out is "how out in the cold are they"? Did we pull back intelligence? Are they relying on laughs Britain?
  Like is the Kid Starver MI6 and Royal Airfarce supposed to be supplementing their field. The materiel is pointless without the actual intelligence. The US is essentially their lifeline to geostationary battlefield intelligence. Without that they have absolutely nothing in comparison.
  
  Don't worry, France has been running reconnaissance flights in the Black Sea as of late. I'm sure a couple of Mirages and Beach King aircraft with SIGNIT equipment can replace the entirety of the USA's intelligence apparatus, don't you worry now! The Ghosts of ~~Kiev~~ Paris will push Putin's army back all the way to the gates of Moscow, Macron told me so.
  
  Fun fact: there is only one country in history that has developed, and later abandoned, orbital rockets: Britain. The critical technology for having fully domestic surveillance and they gave it up because they believed American promises about a general launch agreement.
- On April 1, 2025, the U.S. invaded Ukraine in order to depose of the despot Volodymyr Zelensky. The previous week, newly appointed military advisor and highly recognized (by everyone who recognized his other expert credentials, anyway) biological weapons expert Elon Musk had appeared before Congress holding up a vial of white powder, pointing out that it was produced in a Ukrainian biolab whose U.S. origins Vicoria Nuland had totally not admitted to years prior.
  Russian security went into high alert, but was confused by the fact that Trump was invading in order to bring down the U.S.'s own anti-Russia regime. Russia's military operations therefore ground to an uncertain standstill. NATO expansion Mission Accomplished™?!
- One of the few pleasures of the Trump administration is when their petty vindictiveness is directed towards other ghouls. Like Hegseth cancelling his meeting with Kaja Kallas after her transatlantic flight had already landed in DC, or withholding military aid already in transit to Ukraine. Sadly for every humorous instance of base spite there's another directed at the vulnerable.

In Panama news they're selling two ports to Blackrock to appease him and prevent invasion. I suspect we won't hear about the canal again after this but who knows.
https://archive.is/Rpud4
BlackRock to buy Panama Canal ports after pressure from Donald Trump

Since the megathread is about the greek train scandal and crash i'll maybe make an exaustive post describing how deep the corruption goes but as a note since im seeing again a lot of "omg based" reactions to footage of "protestors" clashing with the police in left twitter and such here is a reminder, especially for the west:
In Greece and in a lot of western countries these "black bloc" violent clashes with the police are very often directly started & instigated or even fully done by some dozens of undercover cops and state paid agent provocateurs to, for one give an excuse to the cops to tear gas and break up the larger crowd of the actual protests and beat innocent people up, to scare everyday people from attending protests in the future ,especially people of older age and families with Kids and of course paint a violent picture of the mass actions later in the media, making it the focal point. Some dumbass anarchists and maybe some other lumpen usualy join the fun and stone and molotov throwing after the cops vs undercover cops etc instigate the party.
So its not "wow based expression of worker and anti-state rage" when you see some dumbass molotov suspiciously always falling short of a cop in some footage from Greece or wherever. In this case it was a gladio like tension stretegy made to ruin a mass protest and strike of a million people in Athens alone, organized and pushed by a lot of communist adjustent unions and worker centers that undermines any possible revolutionary leftist cause. Im not saying its the rule and for example the clashes in the yellow vest protests couple of years ago should be painted with the same brush without analysis. But its something to always have that at the back of your head as a leftists attending protests and observing and analysis mass movements

South Korea air force jets accidentally drop bombs on homes, injuring 15
POCHEON, South Korea, March 6 (Reuters) - Fifteen people were injured in South Korea on Thursday after bombs dropped by fighter jets landed in a civilian district, damaging houses and a church during military exercises in Pocheon, the Air Force and the fire department said. The Gyeonggi-do Bukbu Fire Services said in a statement that 15 people were wounded, out of which two were seriously hurt. Pocheon is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Seoul, near the heavily militarised border with North Korea. South Korea's Air Force said eight 500-pound (225kg) Mk82 bombs from KF-16 jets fell outside the shooting range during joint live-fire exercises. "We are sorry for the damage caused by the abnormal drop accident, and we wish the injured a speedy recovery," the Air Force said in a statement. Residents in the area have protested about the disturbance and potential danger from nearby training grounds for years. Residents were evacuated around midday as authorities checked whether there were any unexploded bombs, Yonhap news agency said. Reuters' photographs from the scene showed shattered windows and a church building strewn with debris. The defence ministry said earlier on Thursday that South Korea and U.S. forces were holding their first joint live-fire exercises in Pocheon, linked to annual military drills due to start next week.
South Korea and the United States will kick off their annual Freedom Shield exercise on Monday, said Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The joint drills, which will run until March 20, aim to strengthen the readiness of the alliance for threats such as North Korea, the JCS said. This year's drills will reflect "lessons learned from recent armed conflicts" and North Korea's growing partnership with Russia, it added. "Our planners look across the globe and identify the trends that are changing and we look at how we can incorporate that into our exercises," Ryan Donald, a spokesperson for the United States Forces Korea (USFK), told a media briefing on Thursday. About 70 combined field training sessions are scheduled for this year's exercise, said Lee Sung-jun, a spokesperson for Seoul's JCS.

https://africanstream.media/traore-africa-will-be-self-sufficient-sovereign-independent/
Every day I'm a bigger supporter of this guy

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson on The EU Has LOST its Mind

Teen charged after passenger tackled him on Jetstar plane