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Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years Live Science

Macron unveils ‘sublime’ Notre-Dame Cathedral after ‘impossible’ restoration Le Monde

Many worlds, many selves aeon

What Food Was Served at the First Thanksgiving in 1621? Smithsonian (Anthony L). As you are still working on your leftovers…

Why are People Still Dying Needlessly of AIDS? Politics – not Science – is to Blame Health Policy Watch

Nietzsche’s Eternal Return in America American Affairs (Anthony L)

#COVID-19

Climate/Environment

Human-caused ocean warming has intensified recent hurricanes IOPScience

Thawing permafrost threatens dozens of mountain huts in Switzerland SwissInfo

Heavy rains and flash floods in parts of Southeast Asia have hampered work at palm and rubber plantations, interrupted power supply and forced the evacuation of thousands of people Bloomberg

Seoul has recorded its heaviest November snowfall since records began over a century ago in 1907 BBC

As the Great Lakes basin hits record-warm temperatures, it reminds us of what’s coming: Intense, lake-effect snow Weather Network

China?

Chinese Ship’s Crew Suspected of Deliberately Dragging Anchor for 100 Miles to Cut Baltic Cables Wall Street Journal. Recall we linked to Reuters yesterday, and its second sentence said US intel didn’t think the Chinese intended sabotage.

Taiwan’s president set to visit Hawaii and Guam, drawing Beijing’s ire CNN

China’s Global Civilization Initiative & Restoring the Westphalian World Order Glenn Diesen

Chinese bond market grapples with ‘Japanification’ Financial Times

Beijing vows retaliation if Biden curbs Chinese chip firms again Asia Times (Kevin W)

Questions & answers on China as a major creditor power CADTM (Robin K). A great piece which I should write up a bit.

Africa

Starmer attempting to rush through Chagos handover before Trump enters White House Telegraph (Li)

Chad ends defence cooperation agreement with France Reuters

Do click through to read the full tweet (Chuck L):

South of the Border

Cuba decrees contingency plan, new restrictions as energy crisis deepens Reuters

Everything is expensive!’ Bolivia faces a shocking economic collapse Associated Press

European Disunion

“D-Day” paper puts FDP leadership in need of explanation BlueWin (Micael T)

Germany has a plan for a possible World War III The Diplomat in Spain

Le Pen slams France’s ‘unjust’ budget as markets brace for government collapse Politico

Denmark paralyzed: nationwide mobile network failure halts trains and emergency services The Insider

Romania orders election recount after shock far-right win DW

Georgia: Violent clashes break out in Tbilisi as government suspends talks on joining EU Guardian

Old Blighty

MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate BBC

Israel v. The Resistance

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Live: Israeli tanks enter Lebanese border village, Macron calls for ‘immediate’ end to ceasefire violations France24

Two days into Lebanon ceasefire, Yemen’s Houthis say will continue attacks on Israel AlArabiya

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The ‘Ceasefire’ in Lebanon is a Ticking Bomb Drop Site (guurst). Still germane

New Not-So-Cold War

Russia’s hybrid warfare may trigger NATO defence clause, Germany says EuroNews. Getting crazier with every passing day: “…the frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine had extended to the Baltic region and across Europe.”

Donald Tusk calls for naval patrols in Baltic Sea to counter Russian sabotage Financial Times

Putin says Russia would use all weapons at its disposal if Ukraine got nuclear weapons Reuters

Putin orders Satan II to be ready to deploy for nuclear war WION

Fahrenheit 7232 Scott Ritter

NATO wants a punch in the face. They’re running into trouble again... Marat Khairullin

Zelenskyy says Ukrainian territory should be under ‘Nato umbrella’ to stop war Guardian (Kevin W)

Zelensky Finally Breaks: Willing to Accept NATO Membership for Territory Swap Simplicius. This is hardly a concession. Zelensky agreed to no NATO in the Istanbul talks and Putin has maintained that any deal has to return to those terms + recognize realities on the ground.

Trump’s Ukraine envoy pick proposed forcing peace talks by withdrawing US weapons Guradian

Syraqistan

Rebel groups launch attacks on Syria’s Aleppo city Al Jazeera (Kevin W). Note that Dmitry Orlov (admittedly partisan but that does not make him wrong) depicted Syria and Russia as caught by surprise but contends that the mobilized Russia can handily contend with Syria, albeit possibly at the cost of slowing operations in Ukraine a tad.

Trump 2.0

Exquisite Americana London Review of Books (Anthony L)

2024 Aftermath

The Consultant Con The Baffler (Anthony L)

Antitrust

Canada’s Antitrust Watchdog Sues Google Alleging Anti-Competitive Conduct in Advertising Reuters

AI

Core copyright violation claim moves ahead in The Intercept’s lawsuit against OpenAI Nieman Journalism Lab. Paul R: “A couple of similar cases have been tossed but this one is still alive.”

Canada’s Major News Organizations Band Together To Sue OpenAI toronto.com

Class Warfare

Amazon workers across the globe are on strike for Black Friday Endgadget (Kevin W)

The Renters’ Republic Charlie Dulik (ma)

Antidote du jour (via);

And a bonus (Chuck L):

A second bonus (guurst):

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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  1. The Rev Kev

    ‘Arnaud Bertrand
    @RnaudBertrand
    This is quite funny: many people on Chinese social media (like in this video 👇) are talking about how Chinese 3-wheelers electric vehicles (called 三蹦子, San Beng Zi) are becoming really popular in the U.S. and how it’s becoming such a trend that the U.S. has launched an anti-dumping investigation. Apparently, 200,000 of these vehicles were sold in the U.S. in 2023!’

    Has anybody seen one of these things on the roads at all? They do look like fun and I can see a lot of people using them for local travel. Maybe even farmers to carry light loads as well. Not a fan of how it looks like that kids just sit in the back unsecured though. In a car accident on the road, they would go flying.

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      2. PlutoniumKun

        Years ago an American friend showed me his beloved ex US postal Jeep DJ, they were super cheap surplus, and apparently a kind of cool thing to use for students back in the 80’s in California. She told me it cost her $100 by mail order (presumably, it delivered itself).

        It’s largely a regulatory thing that these sort of low power mini vehicles are making a comeback as they can sneak in under regulations for cars – from the Citroen Ami quadracycle (essentially, a car that falls below the legal power and weight definition of a car) to all sorts of EV bikes used for delivery. They make a lot of sense in urban areas. It’s noticeable that they’ve wiped out the classic fixie riding cycle messenger due to their higher capacity – its a big pity, as I’m sick of nearly getting wiped out in cycle lanes by delivery guys in souped up EV vehicles of one sort or another. I live near an area of dense 19th century terraced housing, and a lot of people have opted for these over a car, especially for moving kids around.

        Eventually, regulation will catch up with the multiplicity of these vehicles, but there is always a lag time.

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        1. The Rev Kev

          I am not so sure of that to be honest. Think back when SUVs came in and how they escaped a lot of regulatory oversight because they were classified as light trucks and not cars. Their classification still remains fuzzy after what, forty years? The same could happen with these light vehicles-

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUV

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        2. Yves Smith Post author

          Here they are effectively illegal for farangs. The Thai police pull you over and harass users because they assume they operate them in competition with Thai business, like passenger transport or operating a food cart.

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        3. Mo

          In California the electric bikes can be dangerous. I almost got hit by one in the bike lane, a whisper silent killer. They go 28 mph and no age limits or license.

          If they were a slightly faster 30 mph the law says you’d need to be 16 and get a motorcycle license to ride one. go figure

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          1. PeterfromGeorgia

            The “whisper quiet” killer aspect is under appreciated. I spent about 5 years tear assing around Shanghai on an electric moped – generally in dedicated, 2 meter wide bike lanes. People are conditioned to listening before they step on to the road (whether looking at their phone or not) and so I regularly saw avoidable accidents where pedestrians literally stepped right in front of a fast moving, multi hundred pound vehicle – with predictable results. You literally cannot hear them at all prior to impact.

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        4. jefemt

          Not with Elon and Vivek at the Helm!! Other than the pesky tariffs… The video was hilarious- must-see tee-vee. The cost of the UPS brown e-bike delivery van was absurd! I guess if the builders are trying to live in Seattle, it’s gonna be e-spensive!

          In terms of potential and possible positive impact on society, I maintain the e-bike is the far superior notion, over A I.

          Despite Bucky Fuller’s insistence in the inherent stability of the triangle, those trikes can topple. What was a popular ORV ATV design in the 80’s and 90’s went away due to the number of fatalities and serious injuries.

          Still and all, the simple golf-cart has appeal. Look at any golden- age retirement village in the sunbelt— golf carts rule. Makes perfect sense.

          Circling back to the optimism/pessimism on climate change, perhaps the biggest positive effect of e-bikes and e-tuktuks is the paradigm shift to appropriate technology for the transportation need, and folks acceptance that it does not need to be a four-door one tone 4WD pickup with 500 horse-power.
          Individual analysis, personal finance and means-analysis, then purchasing decision and action are driving the bus- consumer demand. It may be nibbling at the margins, but it may be a glimmer of a possibility.

          Now , if we can get folks to realize that having a motor of any sort is silly— the motor is the body, the most efficient use of calories input, for consequent output (EROI)– behold the multi-speed bicycle. Elegant.

          When the Revolution Comes, Will Your Bicycle be Ready?

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      3. JustAnotherVolunteer

        In my rainy home town there has been a multi-year effort to build and sell the Arcimoto at a price point over 18k at base. Electric, three wheeled, not much protection from the weather. Cute but I think they are sinking for the third time with no more bail outs in store.

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    3. FreeMarketApologist

      Never seen any of these, though in NYC there are a lot of electric bikes with long attached trailers used for package deliveries (appear to be principally Amazon). Are they Chinese-made? Probably, as I don’t think any US company is making service-oriented e-bikes or trailers. I’ve never seen an UPS-branded cart like that shown in the video, though UPS was experimenting with them in Europe some time ago.

      It would be nice if the US had a domestic economy powered by actual physical engineering expertise and manufacturing excellence, rather than restraint of trade.

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    4. albrt

      I live in Phoenix. Tons of Chinese ebikes, but not a single one of these three-wheelers. I think people would buy them if available for $5,000.

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    6. jhallc

      Coming to a retirement community near you soon!
      Just don’t take a corner too sharp, as with any tricycle they will go over much easier than a four wheel vehicle.

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      1. doug

        Yes, I worked briefly as a youth at golf course on carts. They had both 4 wheel and 3 wheel. The 3 wheelers turned over easily, and were phased out. These tuk tuks have a bit longer wheelbase, so maybe that steadies them a bit.

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    8. Victor Sciamarelli

      The Italian company Piaggio (think Vespa) has been making these types of 3-wheel vehicles since 1948. The model is refered to as APE (Bee). You see them across small towns and cities, especially with narrow streets, because they’re perfect for all sorts of light work and deliveries. And they are inexpensive to buy and cheap to operate.

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  3. Janal

    Is it possible for Naked Capitalism to reduce its reliance on Twitter, aka “x”? I left Twitter about a year and a half ago and will never go back.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      I have never been been on Twitter but those links show up fine – without all the clutter of comments and the like. For better or worse, Twitter is where a lot of information gets spread these days. It is what it is.

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      1. Steve H.

        John Robb: A good rule of thumb is that the value of a social network is a square of the number of participants (Metcalfe’s law).

        : This means that the difference in the *value* between two similar networks of different sizes is wildly disproportionate to the difference between the number of participants.

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    3. Yves Smith Post author

      Not unless you are willing to put together 55 links for us every day for no pay.

      Even though you attempted to be polite by posing a question, this amounts to an effort to censor our content.

      Your issues with Twitter are YOUR issues. The tweets are readable without having a Twitter account. I can view them in Safari with no log-in, meaning you don’t need to have an account.

      Your comment is an ad hominem attack, which is a violation or our written site Policies. I notice that you voice no objection whatsoever to the content of the tweets we choose, but the fact of Twitter.

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  5. Carolinian

    Re Trump and Ukraine–this Seymour Hersh from a few days ago seems important.

    “Trump’s casualty numbers might have been off, but his consistency, especially when pressed, adds to the credibility of what I have been learning in recent weeks: that an understanding about the mechanisms for ending the war has been debated and discussed and even tentatively outlined between informal advisors to Trump and Putin and their teams. I was told by one American that ‘the lines are open” between those representing the two men, with some vague “assurances sent and received.'”

    https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/bidens-last-hurrah-against-russia

    This sounds credible to me. What possible motive could Trump have for continuing Biden’s war of choice? If there’s one message so far from the transition it is that this time Trump does have a more disciplined desire to act on his ideas and not merely hand a “so there” to those who laugh at the “short fingered vulgarian.” That doesn’t mean it will happen, but if Hersh has it right then that’s good news.

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    1. jefemt

      Seems to me America’s MIC, the Blob, the Deep State, Congress and it’s funders, NATO, Europe, and Zelensky may be persistent flies in Trump and Putin’s cocktails?

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  6. GramSci

    From Covert Action, on the Uhuru 3 who are to be sentenced in Tampa on Dec 16. Longish recap of COINTELPRO etc, but with some tidbits that were new to me.

    «Unsurprisingly, liberals who support BLM are nowhere to be found during the Biden administration’s inquisition of the Uhuru Three. As one of the last vestiges of the authentic Black left among an ever smaller few that assess the Russia-Ukraine conflict accurately, the APSP inevitably became casualties of the neo-McCarthyite atmosphere. Thankfully, the jury was mostly able to see through the obvious political motivation behind the government’s case.

    Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess, and Jesse Nevel still face up to five years in prison and are scheduled to be sentenced in mid December, after which they immediately plan to appeal. See https://handsoffuhuru.org/.»

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    1. The Rev Kev

      Trump, if he was so inclined, could get a lot of kudos by giving those three pardons. Not only would it be the right thing to do but it would also highlight how the Biden regime railroaded those three into prison. Or will Trump side with the US Justice Department – who have been on his case for years now trying to throw him in the slammer. You know, if Trump had lost the election, there would have been a solid chance that he would have been in a prison cell too.

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  7. The Rev Kev

    ‘Hadi
    @HadiNasrallah
    It’s so funny to see all those zionists who claimed that Hamas are “terrorist jihadists who behead babies” are now cheering for actual terrorist jihadists who behead babies in Syria just because they are fighting Assad’

    Everything old is new again. I see that they brought the White Helmets out of retirement. And once more you have columns of Jihadists driving down a road out in the open – which kinda sucks when the Syrian or Russian air forces spot you as some of them have discovered. But this offensive seems to be a multinational effort. The Israelis are involved as you will note that this offensive occurred as soon as that truce with Hezbollah took place. Almost certainly the US was giving those Jihadists intelligence based on satellite data about the dispositions of the Syrian army. The Ukrainians are there with their drone training. Turkiye is very heavily involved here and this will cause some friction between Erdogan and Putin as once again Erdogan proves that you can only trust him as far as the door. Of course as has been shown in the great Ukrainian offensive, when you go on the offensive it also means that you are right out in the open. Articles say that the Jihadists have captured 400 square kilometers but my maths say that is an area about 20 by 20 kilometers so about 12 miles by 12 miles. That sounds more like a kill box that. It may be that this is an attempt to restart the war in Syria all over again and bring down the government but I don’t think that the Syrians will allow that. There has been talk of the US being slowly forced out of Syria, especially if Syria and Turkiye come to an agreement so ultimately this may be an attempt by the US to remain in Syria through proxies and spiking any Syrian-Turkish agreements.

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    1. mrsyk

      The war restart on Syria, why? The timing is suspicious, keeping Putin busy maybe, or are we trying to tease out a mis-step by Erdogen? Or maybe team Zion just needs to bomb sh*t every day, really doesn’t matter who.

      Difficult this morning to comment on anything under the Israel v. The Resistance heading without cursing. Is this M Schneerson influential at scale? Dude’s trippin.…completely different species… Lol, paging Joseph Goebbels.

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    2. Milton

      Everything old is new again. I see that they brought the White Helmets out of retirement.

      In US NFL parlance, that is akin to wearing throwback uniforms.
      I wonder if the playbook will be similar as well.

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  8. PlutoniumKun

    Questions & answers on China as a major creditor power CADTM (Robin K). A great piece which I should write up a bit.

    Great article, although it doesn’t really grip with the core question – whether the loans are distorting internal investment in a way beneficial or detrimental to the borrower. An example would be the much hyped Chancay Port in Peru. This may make sense from the point of view of the Chinese investor, but makes little sense for the Peruvians – they already have a port with capacity in Lima, and the strategic need for a new port is in the south, on the Chilean border, not north of Lima where Chancay is located. Ultimately, these loans have to be repaid, and if the investment doesn’t generate sufficient money, they will be a drag on the countries economy.

    Historically few if any developing countries have prospered on the basis of large scale lending in foreign currencies. Successful high growth countries either have generated capital internally or through windfalls (Japan, for example, benefited enormously from indirect US investment during the Korean War), or by direct foreign investment, in which the investor, not the host country, takes on the risk. Borrowing in a foreign currency simply leaves a developing country highly vulnerable to economic ebbs and flows over which it has little to know control, and this is particularly so when the borrowing is tied to resource extraction. It is usually only sensible in very specific circumstances. Foreign lenders, whether western or Chinese, never do this out of the kindness of their hearts.

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    1. Mikel

      This summed it all up…for me:

      “And what is true for Africa is also true of the countries of Latin America and Asia. Those who direct Chinese policy see Sub-Saharan Africa as a territory from which raw materials are extracted to be sent to China or to other consumer countries without further processing. This perpetuates the role that has been imposed on Africa in the world economy by the traditional imperialist powers: that of being a source of cheap raw materials produced by low-paid labour. China is reproducing the same policies used by the Western capitalist powers and institutions like the World Bank and the IMF.”

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  9. Acacia

    Re: NATO wants a punch in the face

    And as Mike Tyson famously said: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face”.

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  10. The Rev Kev

    “Germany has a plan for a possible World War III’

    A lot of NATO countries are trying to spook their people and make them frantic with worry about WW3 and get them in a panic and to have them stock their cupboards full of food for when the Russian invasion heads their way. Sounds like that at one of the last NATO summits that this was agreed upon general strategy so that people would be willing to spend more on the military aka the MIC, to give up more of their personal freedoms and to maybe accept that censorship is good for them while cracking down on any group or political party that dissents from this view. This is what I am seeing across Europe. But when you boil it all down, it is all about creating conditions so that some groups make a lot of money. Same with Project Ukraine which even Lindsey Graham came out and said that it was all about money.

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    1. Joker

      Germany has a plan for a possible World War III The Diplomat in Spain

      In Zelensky’s voice:
      I also have a plan. I have many plans. Podolyak. Podolyak. How many plans we have? Many plans. Many plans.

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    2. Polar Socialist

      If you think about it, the other option is to allow the peace to break out with Ukraine agreeing to stay out of NATO for ever, Europeans may start to ask why there had to be a devastating war to reach an agreement that was on offer for 33 years…

      Even worse would be some kind of pan-European security arrangement raising from the ashes of Donbass – what would NATO do if there was no threat to it’s member?

      Pick a fight with China?

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    3. Mikel

      So far, in all phases of the World War of the last 110 years, having a strong industrial base has mattered – especially when the big time fighting started.

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  11. Bugs

    There’s an interesting review by Thomas Fazi of Angela Merkel’s new book “Freedom”, where he questions the book’s vagueness on the period between 2014 and 2022 and Merkel’s apparent inattention to it. He gives her the benefit of the doubt regarding her comments that Ukraine used Minsk II to strengthen its military for the eventual confrontation, interpreting it to mean that she was stating a fact in retrospect, but was not complicit, which I think is believable.

    Worth a read in the context of the current slow rolling disaster here in Europe, which imho mostly all of which is directly due to the arrogance, laziness and general stupidity of the administration of Joseph Robinette Biden.

    https://unherd.com/2024/11/angela-merkel-architect-of-german-decline/

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    1. Polar Socialist

      For me more context, here’s an interview of A. Arestovych (rumble.com) during the Ukrainian presidential campaign in 2019.

      He spells out the plan and the likely consequences with great clarity. At the time he was an officer in the Ukrainian Ground Forces Intelligence Office and shortly after former president Kravchuk positioned Arectovych as his spokesman in the Trilateral Contact Group due to his vision and understanding of the issues related to the TCG.

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  12. jhallc

    Re: Romania election-
    The winner of round 1 elections, Calin Georgescu, is labeled by every western media I see as a “far right radical”.
    From what I can see, He left the far right party to be an independent and is not a big fan of the West/NATO, much like Orban in Hungary. Here’s a bit from an Aljezeera article – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/25/who-is-calin-georgescu-romanian-right-wing-candidate-leading-the-election

    “According to his website, he holds a doctorate in soil science and has worked for Romania’s Ministry of Environment. A university professor, he also worked with the United Nations as a special rapporteur in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights between 2010 and 2012, and as the executive director of the Global Sustainable Index Institute between 2015 and 2016.”

    Sounds dangerous as hell to me! Apparently he also fails to check the “Putin is Satin” box.

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    1. CA

      https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/opinion/wolfgang-streeck-populism.html

      November 28, 2024

      This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
      By Christopher Caldwell

      Who could have seen Donald Trump’s resounding victory coming? Ask the question of an American intellectual these days and you may meet with embittered silence. Ask a European intellectual and you will likely hear the name of Wolfgang Streeck, a German sociologist and theorist of capitalism.

      In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it out with clarity. Mr. Streeck may be best known for his essays in New Left Review, including a dazzling series on the cascade of financial crises that followed the crash of 2008. He resembles Karl Marx in his conviction that capitalism has certain internal contradictions that make it unsustainable — the more so in its present “neoliberal” form. His latest book, “Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism,” published this month, asks whether the global economy as it is now set up is compatible with democracy. He has his doubts.

      Understand Mr. Streeck and you will understand a lot about the left-wing movements that share his worldview — Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain and the new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance in Germany. But you will also understand Viktor Orban, Brexit and Mr. Trump.

      Mr. Streeck (whose name rhymes with “cake”) argues that today’s contradictions of capitalism have been building for half a century. Between the end of World War II and the 1970s, he reminds us, working classes in Western countries won robust incomes and extensive protections. Profit margins suffered, of course, but that was in the nature of what Mr. Streeck calls the “postwar settlement.” What economies lost in dynamism, they gained in social stability.

      But starting in the 1970s, things began to change. Sometime after the Arab oil embargo of 1973, investors got nervous. The economy began to stall. This placed politicians in a bind. Workers had the votes to demand more services. But that required making demands on business, and business was having none of it. States finessed the matter by permitting the money supply to expand. For a brief while, this maneuver allowed them to offer more to workers without demanding more of bosses. Essentially, governments had begun borrowing from the next generation…

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  15. CA

    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202411/1323166.shtml

    November 15, 2024

    ‘From Chancay to Shanghai’: New China-Peru BRI project to become hub, gateway port of Latin America

    China and Peru are located on opposite sides of the world, separated by the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. In the past, this distance seemed unimaginable.

    However, a new port project is making such a distant journey less difficult.

    The Chancay Port project is a collaborative project between China and Peru under the Belt and Road Initiative. Located in the Chancay district of the province of Huaral, Peru, the port is approximately 80 kilometers from the capital, Lima.

    Chancay Port is positioned as Peru’s gateway port and regional hub, connected by a tunnel to the Pan-American Highway, directly linking it to the capital Lima. This enables goods to conveniently reach Peru and other Latin American countries, significantly enhancing trade efficiency, according to the People’s Daily.

    On Thursday, this significant project, symbolizing the friendship between China and Peru, finally opened for operations.

    The first phase of the Chancay Port project began in 2021 and includes four dock berths. The port’s maximum depth is 17.8 meters, allowing it to accommodate ultra-large container ships with a capacity of up to 18,000 TEUs.

    The design throughput capacity is 1 million TEUs annually in the short term, and 1.5 million TEUs in the long term. With over 80 percent of the project completed, the main structures of the docks were finished earlier this year, according to the People’s Daily.

    He Bo, deputy general manager at COSCO SHIPPING Ports Chancay Peru, has witnessed the significant progress of the port over the past three years.

    “Hills have been leveled, beaches turned into storage yards, breakwaters and docks stand tall in the water, port cranes are on land, and buildings for production and office purposes have sprung up,” He told the People’s Daily.

    “From Chancay to Shanghai” is a phrase well-known among locals…

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  17. Mikel

    “The precedent set in Gaza is going to spread everywhere… it signals the demise of the rule of law. When I was in #Gaza, I felt like it was the prelude to the end of humanity.”

    – Dr. Tanya Hassan, a witness to Israel’s genocide of civilians

    It could be argued that this was a precedent set in the Americas…
    Now it can watched almost in real time on media.

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  18. more news

    https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1862546158381670875
    CANADIAN JOURNALIST FACES PERSECUTION FOR BRANDING NAZIS AS NAZIS, DENIES ALLEGATIONS
    A journalist in Canada has been charged with vandalizing a war memorial in Edmonton, after allegedly spraying “Nazi Monument 14th Waffen SS” on a monument that honors members of the 14th Waffen SS Division.
    The journalist, Duncan Kinney, is being charged with “mischief relating to war memorials” and may face up to 10 years in prison as a result, The Maple reports.
    The alleged act of vandalism took place in August 2021.

    https://www.readthemaple.com/police-treat-nazi-monument-as-war-memorial-in-alleged-vandalism-case/

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  19. Mikel

    Live: Israeli tanks enter Lebanese border village, Macron calls for ‘immediate’ end to ceasefire violations – France24

    From the article:

    “Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has denounced recent rebel attacks in Syria as “a US-Zionist plan following the Zionist regime’s defeat in Lebanon and Palestine”, Iran’s state media reported.”

    Then:

    “Two children and a woman were crushed to death Friday as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory, medical officials said.”

    “The Gaza Strip has descended into anarchy, with hunger soaring, looting rampant and rising numbers of rapes in shelters as public order falls apart, the United Nations said on Friday.

    Palestinians are suffering “on a scale that has to be seen to be truly grasped”, Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Palestinian territories, said after concluding his latest visit to the devastated Palestinian territory.”

    “Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians overnight and on Friday in the Gaza Strip, many of them in the Nuseirat refugee camp at the centre of the enclave, medics said, after Israeli tanks pulled back from parts of the camp.”

    “The head of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, said in a televised address on Friday that the group had scored a “great victory” against Israel even greater than that declared after the two foes last fought in 2006.

    It was Qassem’s first address since a ceasefire deal this week ended more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The conflict left much of Lebanon’s south, east and the suburbs of its capital in ruins, and Israeli strikes eliminated much of Hezbollah’s military leadership.”

    What parts of main Israel fit the description of being “in ruins”?

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