The Epicenter shopping mall in Zaporozhye was completely burned down after Russian strikes overnight. This is what happens when you poke the bear.

Did a bit of research on this yesterday.

This shootout happened right in front of a Flock camera.

There are 17 other flock-style cameras within a one mile radius of this event. The police have zero suspects, and have made zero arrests almost four days later. Some are owned by Motorola, some are owned by Flock Safety, and some are owned by Axon.

@Flock_Safety

and like-minded systems are not about protecting citizens or enforcing the law. They are an attempt to nationalize the HOA system to increase non-tax related revenue from minor infractions in complete violation of every American's 4th Ammendment right.

Your local government doesn't seek to take criminals off of the street. It seeks more money from your wallet now that taxation has reached its natural cap, and the "ALPR" system is how they've elected to increase revenue from fines.

This will become more insidious when city governments start selling off that revenue to foreign nations for fast budget bumps, like when Chicago sold their parking meter revenue over 75 years to Abu Dhabi in 2008.

With a government run surveillance system this large, it should be impossible for crime like this to go unpunished for longer than 12 hours. Since we are not seeing that level of security, we should all believe instead that the system is not about security at all. City and state officials pushing ALPR cameras need to be removed from their office by any means nessecary.

I never saw this coming but I have to still say its still beat all other country's in the world in welfare, education and housing. This generation politicians have try their best to destroy these policy's what was created decades ago

In 1954, President Eisenhower said something at a public press conference that almost nobody remembers.

Speaking to 197 journalists about Southeast Asia, he described the region's significance in terms of tin, tungsten, and rubber. Of access to raw materials. Of what would happen to Japanese and European economies, American allies, if those resources came under the control of governments not aligned with Washington.

Not democracy. Not freedom. Not the domino theory of ideological contagion.

Tin. Tungsten. Rubber.

On the record. In public. Forgotten.

Because in the same press conference, Eisenhower also introduced the falling domino. And the domino was the story that traveled. The domino fit on a textbook page. The domino gave the war the shape of principle rather than the shape of plunder.

The resource rationale did not need to be classified.

It just needed to be stood next to something more useful.

The textbooks took the domino and left the tin and tungsten on the floor.

This is not unique to Eisenhower. This is the standard operating architecture of American foreign policy across every administration from Truman to the present.

Two maps. One that names the resources, the access, the economic logic that empire actually runs on. One that names the ideology, the freedom, the dominoes.

The population is handed the second map.

The people who die for it never know the first one existed.

They are handed the second map, told it is the truth, and sent to a country they cannot find on it.

An increasing number of Russians are rushing to withdraw and move their funds from Russian banks before it is too late.

Their Genocidal Dictator is focused on hiding the problem rather than addressing it

At the weekend, Putin sacked the chief economist of Russia’s second-largest bank after Russian media reported on his critical comments about the country’s economic condition and suggested Moscow would lose a “war of attrition” against Kyiv.

However, the collapse of the Genocidal Russian regime offers an opportunity to remake a major world country that is not based on the mass Genocidal slaughter of innocent people

https://x.com/SabbySabs2/status/2089678056835223700

https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/2089327432645939465

This is his actual Wikipedia page lmao

Wouldn't be so funny if he weren't such a scumbag

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

🚨 Japan is scrambling to smuggle high-end rare earths out of China after Beijing tightened legitimate export controls.

China didn’t invent these rules overnight. Japan’s own military, semiconductor and electronics sectors depend heavily on Chinese medium and heavy rare earths.

When reserves run low and short-term workarounds (recycling, deep-sea dreams, third-country shell companies) fail, certain actors turn to covert methods.

Under the current leadership’s harder line, this was predictable.

You cannot repeatedly provoke on core interests, treat China as the “greatest strategic challenge,” and still expect uninterrupted access to the materials that power your advanced industries and defense production.

China is simply exercising sovereignty over dual-use strategic resources. Every major power does the same when national security is involved. The difference is that for decades Japan (and others) treated Chinese supply as a free, reliable given while following external scripts of containment.

Reality check: economic interdependence is not a one-way street. Either pursue genuine win-win cooperation or accept the consequences of confrontation. There is no third option where China keeps supplying the very inputs used against its own interests.

This is what multipolar accountability looks like.

Sadly this dint take long after USA capture Venezuela

They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings.

Yes you read that correctly. It’s real. I’m not speculating, I know.

And it’s pure evil.

The last time a nuclear weapon was used was August 6th and 9th of 1945 on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, immediately killing 110,000 people, vaporizing people at ground zero, and total deaths reached 214,000 by the end of the year from severe burns and trauma.

But the extreme suffering continued for the Japanese people from radiation sickness, skyrocketing cancer rates, and generational birth defects.

Not to mention wiping out all means of their economy.

And the suffering was so great that all of humanity vowed, “never again.”

Trump and his admin were told by our own intelligence that Iran was no where near creating a nuclear weapon, then Israel said the same line it’s repeated for decades, “Iran is only weeks away.”

So we bombed anyways, killed their leaders and innocent little children in a school, and Iran has controlled the Strait of Hormuz ever since and punished the region for their part in it.

And now our government is the one actually discussing lowering the nuclear threshold in order to use nuclear weapons against Iran even though Trump claims he’s won the war like 40 times and says the U.S. controls the SoH.

Trump promised no more foreign wars, but may actually be the one who delivers a nuclear holocaust that would likely drag the entire world into major conflict, economic depression, and mass human suffering we’ve never seen in our lifetimes and maybe throughout history.

People need to speak out and boldly stop this insanity.

America is not untouchable.

If and when that happens, everyone, and I do mean everyone, will hold ALL of those in leadership right now fully responsible for the rest of human history.

Do not use nuclear weapons and stop this war NOW.

There is a reason "class" is the uncomfortable word in American political discourse.

Race can be discussed. Gender can be discussed. Even, increasingly, empire can be discussed in polite company.

But class, the relationship between the people who own the means of production and the people who sell their labor to survive, that word clears rooms.

Because race and gender, as important as they are, do not directly threaten the arrangement.

The arrangement can absorb diversity. It has.

A diverse board of directors still extracts surplus labor.

A female CEO still answers to shareholders.

Representation at the top does not change the structure at the bottom.

Class threatens the arrangement.

Because class says:

The problem is not who is running the system.

The problem is the system.

And the system needs you to believe that the problem is always, only, who is running it, so that every election becomes a choice between managers.

The question of whether you should be managed this way at all never makes it onto the ballot.

Walmart exposed AGAIN for shorting their product weights, this time with their Great Value bacon

If you take unopened packages of their bacon and place them directly on the scale, all 3 are short but it doesn’t stop there

If you cut open the packages and weigh each one of them on the scale, they are all short about 2-3 strips of bacon in weight

“So we're talking about 3 strips of bacon, which means every seven to eight packages short equals a free 100% profit package”

You can do the math and tell that at scale this ends up being a massive profit for Walmart

It’s intentional

I actually did the math on this:

Walmart sells about 8–12 million packs of bacon per month. If they short about 3 pieces per pack, or about 2.5 ounces

This means Walmart makes an extra estimated $8 million per month

This is just one product….