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I have invented a new word: reactionize (-izing, -ized)

I am sick of people using the word "radical" to mean picking up extreme/out-of-the-box reactionary ideology. Fuck that. Don't let them have our adjective, even in a verb or participle form.

Pretty sure this counts as news, as it is at least novel. I used this word for the first time a few minutes ago on Reddit, and I guarantee you that—unlike every other thought I've ever had that turned out to be a duplicate of someone's previous one—this is unique and never-before-seen and I will not accept information to the contrary.

This has been my Bread Talk. Thank you.

link to the guardian about Amsterdam last week

genuinely surprised that the guardian is still talking about this as the original framing falls apart. Still not a good article, but some super surprising admittances to find here.

https://search.app/?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com%2Fpost%2Fliteracy-statistics-2022-2023

Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022

54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level

45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level

44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year

The Top 3 states for highest child literacy rates were Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Hampshire, in that order (highest to lowest).

The Bottom 3 states for child literacy rates were Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, (highest to lowest).

Any American here that could tell me if it's legit. It's shockingly low.

Pretty cool for Xi to namedrop Mariategui:
https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1857205700381855934

Xi Jinping arrives in Peru to unveil the largest and most modern port in South America, built by China

"As early as more than 400 years ago, the people of China and Peru started friendly exchanges through the Maritime Silk Road and the Manila Galleons..."

"Through the wisdom of our civilizations, our minds find common ground and our hearts resonate... Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui once said, "Spiritually and materially, China is closer to us than Europe. The psychology of our people is more Asian than Western...""

"The world is undergoing faster transformation unseen in a century. Humanity has again come to a crossroads in history. To fully appreciate the grandeur of the Nazca Lines, we must view them from a height because at the ground level, their true splendor remains hidden from view.

To quote a Chinese poem to the same effect, 'Fear not the clouds that obscure your view, for you stand atop the highest summit.'

China is ready to join Peru in embracing a broader vision and grasping the underlying trends of our times from a long historical perspective to champion true multilateralism, promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, jointly implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, and build together a community with a shared future for mankind."

Maduro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist. Says he believes in Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao-Zedong, Fidel Castro, Bolivar and Chavez.

https://tankie.tube/w/4niduPYSN8w2j6DK7RZpow

EDIT: The quality of this is shit I'll reupload.

EDIT2: Reup https://streamable.com/cijwwe

The onion bought infowars lmao

You all think the next front will be in East Asia or even Southeast Asia, but just you wait. It will be in Central America when Guatemala finally takes Belize and El Salvador for ourselves, turning the wheels to bring back the Federal Republic of Central America.

Is Trump basically handing DeSantis a Senate seat by picking Rubio for a Cabinet position?

DeSantis gets to pick Rubio’s replacement until the special election in 2026. 2026 is also when DeSantis gets term limited. So DeSantis can easily pick someone loyal to warm the seat for him and let him smoothly transition from Governor to Senator.

But didn’t Trump and DeSantis have issues? Does Trump realize he’s helping DeSantis?

Some combat footage and news from occupied Palestine, the Donbass, and Kursk.

Footage revealed that an Iraqi resistance drone strike on the Zionists’ Ein Yahav military base in the Araba Valley caused significant damage: https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1838911444013691346

Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People's Republic settlement of Voznesenka (northwest of Novoselidovka): https://sputnikglobe.com/20241114/russian-forces-liberate-voznesenka-target-ukrainian-military-infrastructure-1120882693.html

Another collection of recent Russian strikes on Kiev regime military equipment and positions in Kursk oblast (18+): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Kirpi-mortar.mp4?_=7

A Russian FPV drone strike recently destroyed another British-supplied “Challenger 2” tank in Kursk oblast: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/British-Challenger-2.mp4?_=4

From Rania Khalek’s twitter:

Lebanon needs air defenses and the fact that no country has even pretended to offer that shows what a cowardly world we live in.

Palestine also needs air defenses.

Israel is dropping bombs on residential buildings every day and massacring entire families. We’re all just helplessly watching bc this world is pathetic.

The only country that can do that is Russia and they’re being stretched to the limit by endless waves of Ukrainian drones and the occasional yet unpredictable long range missile strikes supplied by Western countries. All of their air defense systems are already fully occupied and new production (which is being churned out slowly) obviously goes to the Ukrainian front.

The West kept Ukraine fighting for a reason.

Powell says no need for Fed to rush rate cuts given strong economy

DALLAS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Ongoing economic growth, a solid job market, and inflation that remains above its 2% target mean the Federal Reserve does not need to rush to lower interest rates, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday in remarks that may point to borrowing costs remaining higher for longer for households and businesses alike. Powell affirmed that he and his fellow policymakers still consider inflation to be "on a sustainable path to 2%" that will allow the U.S. central bank to move monetary policy "over time to a more neutral setting" that isn't meant to slow the economy.

But what that neutral rate might be in the current environment and how quickly the Fed might try to reach it all remain up in the air, particularly as central bankers assess both the ongoing strength of the economy and the impact the incoming Trump administration's policies, from higher tariffs to less immigrant labor, may have on economic growth and inflation.

This just in - the rate cut might not be happening so soon after all, which means the US recession might get postponed for quite some time.

Interesting move… still waiting to see what follows after this, especially how Elon Musk is going to do the whole deficit cuts thing.

I couldn't find the article I saw today, but it was about how Xi Jinping and Lula da Silva will meet after the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. It seems that, due to Trump's victory, Lula now wants to join the Belt and Road Initiative (it seems that the neoliberals and liberals who support Lula but didn't like China are really afraid that Trump's government and protectionist policies will hurt them and are now pushing for Brazil to join China/BRI). With Brazil joining the BRI, I think China's plan to build the Bioceanic Railway and the Megaport in Peru will succeed. We'll see, but Trump's victory may have pushed Brazil more towards China. I think the fact that Biden didn't give Brazil the money he promised didn't help relations between these two countries.

Ecuador’s Indigenous confederation (CONAIE) has announced the beginning of an “uprising” against the neoliberal government of President Daniel Noboa. Mass outrage was triggered by months of constant electricity blackouts and inaction by the right-wing government.

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Hexbear post

Xi Jinping and Biden to meet in Peru amid transport strike in the country

Presidents of China and the United States participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in the Peruvian capital. Apec aims to promote the free exchange of products between member countries. Biden and Xi are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine, protection against cyber attacks and communication between the two countries' militaries.

Trump has already announced that his Secretary of State will be Marco Rubio. He will be responsible for guiding US foreign policy and is in favor of putting pressure on China. As a senator, he advocated aid to Taiwan, measures to restrict Chinese commercial operations in the United States and punishments against Beijing for the way it treats Hong Kong and the Uighur minority.

While the meeting between the two is fraught with tension over the question of what Trump's stance will be in the US-China trade war, the summit is also taking place in the midst of a general strike by Peruvian transport workers. Demonstrators closed several roads in the country and gathered in the capital Lima to protest and march peacefully.

This is the second strike by Peruvian transport workers in a month. In October, Peruvians held a 72-hour general strike to demand government measures to guarantee the safety of taxi drivers, truck drivers, bus drivers and transport workers in general. They denounce a series of extortions and murders committed against these workers by criminal groups, which have resulted in 9 workers being murdered in these conditions.

According to the government, 5,600 soldiers have been deployed to operate on the roads and 13,000 police officers are working in the capital on behalf of Apec. This is the third summit the Peruvian city has hosted. The country's Congress has also authorized the temporary entry of 600 US military personnel to work during the summit. Until the publication of this report, the cities of Cusco and Puno had seen the biggest protests. These two cities are strategic for access to Bolivia.

The demonstrators are calling for Law 32.108, which changed the definition of organized crime in the country, to be overturned. The regulation was approved by Dina Boluarte's government and determined that a group of three or more people “with a complex structure and greater operational capacity to commit serious crimes, with the aim of obtaining, directly or indirectly, control of the value chain of an illegal economy or market” would be considered a criminal organization.

Surplus Absorption, Secular Stagnation, and the Transition to Socialism: Contradictions of the U.S. and the Chinese Economies since 2000

A paper by Minqi Li in Monthly Review that I think people here may find interesting.