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Those who were around in the early days of the news megathread may remember Pedro Castillo, the left-leaning leader of Peru who was deposed in December 2022. He was replaced by Dina Boluarte, the first woman to be President of Peru, who described herself as a progressive but afterwards routinely sided with Peruvian conservatives and American interests. To say she was unpopular is an understatement of titanic proportions - she descended to such lows that she was, at one point, the single most unpopular leader on the planet. As with most deeply unpopular leaders that side with the West, she kept power for a bafflingly long time.
However, on October 10th, after a period of protests against the government, she was impeached and removed by Peru's Congress in a unanimous vote. José Jerí was sworn in as the new President, who was previously the President of the Congress and is a member of a centrist Peruvian party. The government is trying the classic strategy: keep doing the same thing as before, and sacrifice an unpopular figure - here, Boluarte - in the hopes that this appeases the crowd.
Is this strategy working? It doesn't really seem to be - protests are not only continuing, but strengthening, as it is clear that neoliberalism will not reformed and the brutality by police will not stop (there was very recently a high-profile case in which a musician, Mauricio Ruiz, was murdered). Controversies surrounding Jerí, including allegations of SA, are already being reported. If Jerí is deposed, the next person in line to try their hand at ruling will be the former army general Roberto Chiabra, who would be the ninth President in less than a decade.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
CW SA/R*PE
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir Nobody's Girl claims that
she was forced to have sex with three powerful politicians . Although, for legal reasons, the book does not identify them by name, social media users have been able to identify them as:
Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel, who, whileremoved her, "savagely" beat her and choked her until she passed out.
New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson.
George Mitchell, former Maine senator.
All three have previously been named by Giuffre, who was found dead in her Australian home in April.
Death is to good for those monsters.
Just curious, when there is is a removed portion in someone's post, is that through mod action? It seems perhaps a bit silly to me to censor that word when you've already provided a CW and moved it into a spoiler.
It's the site filter, it's automatic
There's a few words in the word filter that might raise an eyebrow for being a little over enthusiastic but ultimately if it improves the site for some people that would prefer those words be filtered it's not a huge deal or anything.
Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks y'all !
I’m a little surprised governors from such small states had this kind of connection.
the size of the state doesn't matter that much, but because the presidential candidate pool is often drawn from governors (especially the perception after Clinton's win in 1992) it meant that they were probably priority targets to get blackmail on early. Richardson was talked about as a democratic candidate during several cycles
Is there any known case of such a black mail happening? Not specific the Epstein. Like ever in all history.
The point of blackmail is you don't find out about it
ya but you know history being as it is, sometimes stuff comes out. Either on purpose, by accident, or long after the fact.
the premise of this conspiracy theory is that evidence of sexual activities involving teenagers would absolutely destroy any person's life and the threat of releasing such turns them into powerless puppets. neither of those are plausible.
given the supposed vast nature of this plot, there should occasionally be some indications that it ever happened.
there's always been crazy shadow government stuff happening
I think conspiracy mindset is a misleading view of capital-H History, but conspiracies did happen, and they often involved blackmail
You linked to a 30thousand word wikipedia article which doesn't mention the term "blackmail" even once. Is tyhere something specific in there or is it more of a vibe?
You're a bit rude aren't you? "You can lead a horse to water..."
link 2 about the VERY SAME TOPIC 5 sec MINIMAL GOOGLING
I'm sure the Mafia-linked fascist had a rolodex full of politicians names because he always forgot their phone numbers
link 3 minimal search again, I am VERY SORRY wikipedia didn't use the specific word "blackmail", so you can easily find it with ctrl+F
Sorry I didn't realize you were intending just to inspire me to an internet rabbit hole. Your first MINIMAL GOOGLING link does mention blackmail in passing. So what? I am not questioning the existence if black mail in general.
The other VERY SORRY has following detail
Sounds more like the nature of the situation was to collect previously existing information, much of it related to the government. Not to specifically send teenaged girls to create video or other evidence of sexual activity?
All this demonstrates is that blackmail does sometimes become public so if some form of black mail is widespread, there ought to be specific examples of the type.
I'm not going to do hours of research to prove your point for you.
George Mitchell now is probably more well known for the Mitchell Report than he is for being a governor.
The report he led was a inquiry into PED use in Major League Baseball, and was considered a watershed moment because for the first time it put actual names down as being PED users.