Image is of Trump's initial set of reciprocal tariffs. Source is CNN and Reuters.
It's difficult to keep up with the news around the tariffs; they get instated, then dropped, then reinstated... for example, on Friday, Trump said that certain electronics like smartphones would be exempt, causing markets to rally a great deal, but now the Commerce Secretary has said that they might not be exempt? The state of play right now, if you haven't been keeping up this week, is that the US recently announced a 90-day global pause on implementing the tariffs he had planned (that is, 25% on certain Canadian and Mexican goods, and at least 10% on every other nation) but nonetheless increased tariffs on China to 145%.
Meanwhile, China has been - quite remarkably - standing their ground, increasing tariffs on the US to 125%, and putting restrictions on rare earths. Xi Jinping has been in Vietnam and has made statements against a tariff war there, saying that it would have no winners. Meanwhile, a Chinese spokesperson has essentially said that China can endure the tariff war due to the increasing demand from its domestic market in combination with its growing economic ties with other countries.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
What’s the deal with 9/11?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqP8moItcc here's a BBC newscasts talking about how WTC7 aka the Solomon Brothers Building has collapsed, 20 minutes before it did, you can see the intact building behind her
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KRAMER (busting in) You guys hear about Building 7?
Thank you Karl
Building 7 canonically just did that
If this were the TA sub, I’d say look into the dancing israels and the balcony art project on the 91st floor of tower 1. Two different things.
What's the deal with balcony art project? I'd never heard of it before I found these pics https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinTowersInPhotos/comments/1he23xt/art_studio_at_the_91st_and_92nd_floors_of_wtc1/ but nothing jumps out as weird, is it related to the Israeli 'art student' breaching secure buildings?
Oh right that does sound weird, strange there's no pics of the actual thing just the setup
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I've heard the dancing israelis thing was debunked, again, ive done no research, but does that still hold up in 25?
https://youtu.be/ezvIMPU1qHc?t=3
obviously ignore the beginning text. they were interviewed on israeli tv
Lmfao I see why you couched it in ignore the beginning text
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What do you mean by debunked? It's a fact that there were Israelis dancing across the river from the towers taking pictures, the worked for the Israeli government so were deported there, there cover was a moving company(Urban Moving Systems, a very intelligence sounding name if your familiar with that world), that had also recived a grant of $498,750 from the Federal Government Assistance Program
. and there were traces of explosives found in their van, ~~even NATOpedia confirms this~~ whaaaat I STG there used to be wikipedia page for this, does anyone know how to check for deleted wiki pages for this? I tried archive but if the page wasn't literally named Dancing_Israelis it's no good
shit source especially with 'Israel did it in the title' https://wikiremoved.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it/Dancing_Israelis (edit: the removed word is a term for a ghost, also a CIA agent but also a slur for black people unfortunately, please dm me if anyone can't work out the url)but it has real US news sources about them at the time ABC
and NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/us/nation-challenged-detainees-dozens-israeli-jews-are-being-kept-federal-detention.html paywalled if someone wants to get the archive version I'm in work atm but may update later
That page also has useful details from FOIA requests such as
So I'd give the page a read if you want to go deeper than the mainstream source I've posted in this and my other comment, but be critical of the website as a whole for sure, but a lot is we'll citationed with more legitimate source
Apparently on Israeli TV 2 of those arrested said that they did not accept responsibility for the event, but made the enigmatic claim that they were in New York that morning "to document the event",
My personal thoughts are that 9/11 wasn't a mossad operation, but that they may have had some foreknowledge, not of the 'every Jewish person working in the towers got an email not to go to work that day' bullshit, but of the same kind of knowledge the CIA(that even the US acknowledges that if there had been better communication between agency it could have been stopped, personally I think it more sinister than stupid even if hanlon's razors says the opposite), and iirc German intelligence(who tried to warn the us) that Al-Qaeda was planning something big around that date involving airplanes(I mean even
predicted that one a few months beforehand) So the 'dancing Isralies' imo were probably just a general Mossad team(you should look into the Israeli art students attempting to breach secure facilities in year or so before https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/06/internationaleducationnews.highereducation) perhaps supplied with some sort of briefing 'be on the lookout for any terror attack' or maybe had no idea, but could work out that the very large and noticeable terror attack that just happnened would be used as a casus belli to kill millions of muslims, so their dancing was not for 'yay our evil paln just went off without a hitch' rather 'fuck yes the US is going to bomb so many of out 'human animal' enemies'
Ultimately this leads back to my original understanding of 9/11 being “they (government and Mossad) knew it was going to happen and weaponized it against whoever they wanted.” Which is much easier to process than all the building 7/controlled demo/false flag stuff
Haha it's funny that clashes with my own view which is the attack on the towers were planned and executed by Al-Qaeda, and that it was known about by the Cheney cabal and various intel agency and allowed to happen for there 'new pearl harbour' needed as casus bellis for the wars, like you said.
But I also believe that WTC7 was 'controlled demolition'(maybe not in the traditional sense) , with the CIA office contained there, all the documents burned up including records that would be able to trace billion/trillions in embezzled money
and proof like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqP8moItcc this BBC newscasts talking about how WTC7 aka the Solomon Brothers Building has collapsed, 20 minutes before it did, you can see the intact building behind her
There are other videos out there of similar incongruity's
And the fact that no skyscraper(which people forget wtc7 was, it just looked small in comparison to 1&2, it would be the tallest building in many countries) before or since as collapsed due to just fire and not being hit by a plane which it wasn't, but yeah idk enough about the physics to know if the speed of collapse etc proves it, basically vibes based analysis lol
Hey sometimes vibes based is all we got. I'll finish the video; it sure seems like they're saying "collapsed" a lot. Weird. Didn't know there was a cia office in 7 also.
just one more source posting it to have in my history more than anything: this awesomely old-school website has a download of a ABC live interview with Giuliani where he says
again before the actual collapse, although I suppose it could be argued a veteran fire fighter could tell when a structure is fire damaged enough to collapse(even if this was an unprecedented even i.e a skyscraper)
https://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc_giuliani.html
Yeah there's lots of circumstantial evidence floating around, like the well timed shorting of the airline industry which by themselves can be written off as coincidence but taking the totality sure makes it seem that there a lot more went on behind scenes than the 'official story'
I'll guess we'll never know for sure, unless there's a worldwide communist revolution and the only way Cheney can get his next heart transplant is too give up the goods on the whole shebang lol
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Ah found a good source that would pass a lib sniff test https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885
Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?
June 20, 2002, 5:42 PM
June 21 -- Millions saw the horrific images of the World Trade Center attacks, and those who saw them won't forget them. But a New Jersey homemaker saw something that morning that prompted an investigation into five young Israelis and their possible connection to Israeli intelligence.
Maria, who asked us not to use her last name, had a view of the World Trade Center from her New Jersey apartment building. She remembers a neighbor calling her shortly after the first plane hit the towers.
She grabbed her binoculars and watched the destruction unfolding in lower Manhattan. But as she watched the disaster, something else caught her eye.
Maria says she saw three young men kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building. "They seemed to be taking a movie," Maria said.
The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said.
She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van.
The plate number was traced to a van owned by a company called Urban Moving. Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was spotted on a service road off Route 3, near New Jersey's Giants Stadium. A police officer pulled the van over, finding five men, between 22 and 27 years old, in the vehicle. The men were taken out of the van at gunpoint and handcuffed by police.
The arresting officers said they saw a lot that aroused their suspicion about the men. One of the passengers had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock. Another was carrying two foreign passports. A box cutter was found in the van. But perhaps the biggest surprise for the officers came when the five men identified themselves as Israeli citizens.
‘We Are Not Your Problem’
According to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" — referring to the World Trade Center attack. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem." The other passengers were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari.
Jesus they don’t shut up do they
Good question. I never heard it was debunked. It’s been years since I looked into it.
I may have misread some dipshit in Reddit. Best to do my own reading
Add this one in for the gumshoes.
The one day that something happened
This reminds of that tragedy
Jesus I should have phrased this in a serious way because yall love to riff
George Bush's only policy decision I agree with was to do 9/11.
Thankfully we all agree America deserved 9/11. I’m trying to get a little deeper than that
I forgot