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https://x.com/AlMuqaddimahYT/status/2010290588588146902

" It's not Arabic. It's Urdu. It says

مہ خانہ اشتراک کا اب بھی طلب میں ہے اک ساقی ماسکو میں مگر اک لندن میں ہے

The tavern of communism is still lacking One bartender is in London, while the other is in Moscow "

" His tie reads Vladimir Lenin and his beard and mustache say Russian Revolution. "

Im like partially certain they're referring to this article from last year (like a nine days ago.) Where they're comparing Maduro to Cipriano Castro

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/world/americas/venezuela-blockade-1903-us.html

Cool kids link: https://archive.is/JE1sP

Article isn't too bad, it tells the history behind Cipriano Castro's fall at the hands of American imperialism and how that plunged Venezuela into a corrupt pit by American design.

Castro held on to power for a few years until his failing health (brought on by “debauchery,” U.S. diplomats claimed) led him to seek medical care in Europe in 1908.

His right-hand man, Juan Vicente Gómez, then seized power in a bloodless coup supported by the United States. Castro remained in exile until his death in 1924.

Gómez ruled Venezuela with an iron fist, amassing an immense fortune while using spies and agents to control the nation through force and terror. He granted concessions to U.S. oil companies, kept good relations with world powers and wiped out Venezuela’s foreign debt.

Gómez ruled until 1935 when he died peacefully in his bed at the age of 78.

Seems like a very nice mix between early and later CoD and MoH elements.

Very nice including the internationale in the end / the trailer.

https://youtu.be/cO8z1AjmQxY

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - Nine boats have sunk in Juneau’s harbor this week as record-breaking snowfall overwhelms vessels, according to the harbormaster.

The sunken boats range in size from 16 to 58 feet. Dozens more boats are struggling to stay above water as snow accumulates on their decks and structures.

“Three to four dozen that would have sank if action wouldn’t have been taken,” said Juneau Harbormaster Matthew Creswell. “So just the snow loads are tremendous and boats just can’t handle that.”

Harbor crews are working with limited winter staff to address the emergency. The harbor typically operates with only six to 10 people during winter months, since most workers are seasonal employees who work only during summer.

Officials have called in seasonal workers who live in Juneau year-round to help with snow removal efforts.

“Shovel it off as it comes, because you don’t know when more snow is coming, and you don’t know when there might be an opportunity where you can’t make it down to the harbor,” Creswell said. “If you’ve got a boat in the water in this kind of weather, you need to be down there daily checking it out and shoveling it off.”

With more snow forecast for this weekend, boat owners are advised to check their vessels daily. Salvage efforts are already underway for the sunken boats, according to Creswell.

In town, the roof of a local dojo collapsed after the weight of the snow became too much.

Located at 9447 La Perouse Ave, Chief Instructor Doug Murray arrived at Juneau Shotokan Karate the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 31, to find the dojo filled with snow and chunks of the roof.

“It seemed like it happened maybe about three or four in the morning on Wednesday morning,” Murray said. “I showed up about 8:30 that morning and the, the one picture you see with just everything kind of in, in the photo frame was me taking that picture from the doorway, the outside doorway.”

Fortunately, no one was in the building at the time, but much of the equipment and materials inside were ruined, and Murray said they don’t have renter’s insurance

“It’s like, ‘Holy moly you can’t — cause you would normally just be able to walk straight in and walk right out onto the floor, you know, the workout floor, and — you couldn’t even see it.”

Despite the misfortune, Murray is optimistic about the dojo’s future. As he retires from his engineering day job this week, he was hoping to expand class offerings this year. Now, he’s hoping they can find a new location for the 40-year-old business in the next couple months.

“We’ll move forward, you know, we’ll move forward with it,” Murray said. “So, I am a realist as an engineer, it’s kind of hard not to be. You know there’s a passion for it. I love doing it.”

Alternative title: What the fuck is with Koreans and cults? I fully endorse and support the CPC and their regulation of religion in the PRC, this shit's fuckin bonkers.

I just learned that Korea's not just home to a protestant cult (moonies and all the familial schismic sects) but also an authentic 21st century catholic heresy.

The "miracle" heresy of Naju occurred when some lady chose to convert while suffering from cancer and started to tell people her mary statue started to cry blood. Her claims grew bigger to also include her receiving the true flesh of blood of Jesus Christ during a communion (as in the cracker and grape juice supposedly turned into literal meat and blood instead of the usual spiritual transubstantiation aka ritualistic symbolism thingy) as well as stigmata wounds spontaneously appearing on her body (places where Jesus got nailed to the cross plus poked with a spear). Obviously with something that big going on that deals with the whole spirit shit they're supposed to be the authority on earth, the catholic church went to poke around and see whats up. Long story short, they said she was full of shit, there's no spiritual shenanigans going on, and that she and her movement must recant their false belief or be branded heretics and formally excommunicated from the church. They gave her 20 years to think about it, and IN FUCKING 2008, just 17 YEARS AGO!, she was excommunicated and was branded along with her entire movement a formal catholic heresy with anyone that attempts to follow her teachings or goes to her shrine in Naju recieving an automatic "Latae Sententiae Excommunicatio" (means triggers automatically when you do the thing considered excommunicatable) meaning you're getting a guaranteed formal censure and title of Heretic from the Catholic Church.

Its fucking awesome we're in the 21st century, the era where we can send people to do tik-tok dances on the moon while bathing the earth in nuclear fire, still has ye olde fuckin catholic heresies.

Lot of sectarian ankle-biters running around spitting in each other's faces, time to set a positive example where we show a some appreciation for each other in these last moments of 2025 (if it's 2026 when you're reading this, shut up and act like it's still 2025 until it's 2026 in alaska)

Also what's up with the Portuguese being more cleanly than their Castille spanish cousins across the border