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Trump electronically repo'd HIMARS

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)

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.

Macron apparently given some unhinged bellicose speech

Truly funny how you can see continuity of trump saying europe should spend on military, biden causing a war, and euros now think it’s their own idea to spend more on military, just breathtaking

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.

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."

jdpon chuck joins the crusade against the dollar

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.

German borrowing costs soar by most since 1997 on ‘historic’ debt deal

https://www.ft.com/content/1886054a-3ff3-4186-bcf9-8dba9b206a56

The capitalists really love military spending. They are soying so hard.

Also, when German yields rise ("safest") , other Euro countries rise even more.

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

Sheinbaum talked JDPON Don into delaying tariffs on most Mexican goods until April 2

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/trump-administration-floats-exemptions-tariffs-canadian-mexican-goods-rcna195110

Western press calling those protesting HTS "Assad loyalists".

HTS are killing Alawite civilains.

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

Petro wins, US military deportation flights suspended

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-deportation-flights-paused-cost-c37c577a

The so called european so called court of so called human so called rights (ECHR) rejected presidential candidate georgescu's appeal against the annulment of the recent so called romanian so called presidential elections

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-357-legitimate-maneuver

big brain maneuvering of germans to abolish debt brake before new government

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:

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

Derek Chauvin: Ben Shapiro launches effort to pardon Derek Chauvin - CNN

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has publicly called for the president to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for federal crimes related to George Floyd’s 2020 death – drawing derision from the Minnesota attorney general who helped put Chauvin in prison but amplification from one of Trump’s most powerful advisers.

Shapiro’s proposal could spring to mind several questions, including: “Could a president do that?” (Answer: Yes); and, “What would it matter, since Chauvin also is in prison on state charges?” (Answer: It’s complicated).

Shapiro’s effort to solicit a pardon for Chauvin, a White man convicted of murdering a Black man in a case that sparked massive nationwide protests over the way police treat people of color, comes amid the Trump administration’s efforts to push back on diversity, equity and inclusion programs and what some see as gains made toward racial justice since Floyd’s death.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted his administration’s forceful crackdown on DEI programs, and vowed “our country will be woke no longer.” And a congressman recently introduced a bill that would withhold some federal funding in Washington, DC, if the mayor does not remove the district’s Black Lives Matter mural and rename the eponymous plaza located near the White House.

In an interview with CNN Thursday, one of Floyd’s brothers, Terrence, said the call to pardon Chauvin has been hard for his relatives who have slowly begun to heal five years after George’s death. “We were supposed to see progress,” Terrence Floyd said. “So many people promised things, especially if we (are) going to go with the DEI, so many things was promised to us as a people – not just to Black and brown people – as a people. And they’re backpedaling.”

Here’s what Shapiro has called for, how some have reacted, and what experts say could come of it: Shapiro casts Chauvin’s conviction as an injustice

At the end of Tuesday’s episode of his video podcast “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Shapiro called for Trump to pardon Chauvin of his federal conviction, essentially arguing, counter to what a state jury found, that Chauvin wasn’t responsible for Floyd’s death.

The roughly three-minute segment, which Shapiro also posted on X, urges viewers to sign a petition asking Trump to consider a federal pardon. Elon Musk, the billionaire helping lead Trump’s government efficiency initiatives, later reposted Shapiro’s segment, writing it’s “something to think about.”

Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck and back for more than nine minutes on May 25, 2020, after officers responded to reports suspecting Floyd used a counterfeit $20 at a Minneapolis corner store. Floyd, 46, was handcuffed and lying face down on a street as he repeatedly pleaded, “I can’t breathe.” He was eventually taken away by an ambulance and declared dead at a hospital, authorities said.

A county medical examiner ruled Floyd’s death a homicide and identified the cause as “cardiopulmonary arrest” that occurred during “law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression” – findings he stood by at Chauvin’s trial. Heart disease and fentanyl use were contributing factors but not the direct cause, the medical examiner testified.

In April 2021, a Minnesota jury found Chauvin guilty on state charges of unintentional murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. He was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on those state charges, and the US Supreme Court later rejected his appeal of the state conviction.

In June 2021, Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to federal charges of depriving Floyd of his civil rights, and also depriving a 14-year-old of his civil rights by using excessive force in a separate 2017 case. Chauvin is now serving both terms concurrently.

When Shapiro addressed the case in Tuesday’s podcast, he conceded at the outset that pardoning Chauvin would be “incredibly controversial.” “But I think it’s absolutely necessary,” he said.

Chauvin shouldn’t have been convicted of murder, Shapiro argued, in part asserting some of what Chauvin’s defense attorney had claimed at trial: that Floyd died of factors other than Chauvin’s intervention, including preexisting health conditions.

Shapiro also argued “there was massive overt pressure on the jury to return a guilty verdict regardless of the evidence.” Floyd’s death and Chauvin’s conviction, Shapiro said, “led to vast chaos and it led to the destruction of racial comity in the United States.”

The White House declined to comment Thursday on whether Trump is considering a pardon for Chauvin.