CURRENT EVENTS - JANUARY 2026

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

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Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

www.theguardian.com

In some cases, the killings bore the hallmarks of executions. Medical workers at forensic facilities in two different Iranian towns described receiving bodies with close-range gunshot wounds to the head that had been transferred from hospital morgues while still attached to catheters, nasogastric tubes or endotracheal tubes.

“This is highly suspicious,” Ahmadi says. “As a rule, foreign medical instruments are removed after death. Their presence suggests that these individuals died while still under active medical care.”

 

[nycfan]

We’ve got our own issues internally so this story is t getting much oxygen here, but this “spying general” story in China is a pretty huge political moment in China (with rumors swirling of an attempted coup plot).

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

What is a very aggressive walk-back?

 

[UNCMSinLS]

What is a very aggressive walk-back?

Smells like a TACO's cooking in regards to that 100% tariff on Canada. Canada's response has been, is, and will continue to be the same: "FUCK OFF!"

 

[nycfan]

 

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[aGDevil2k]

We live in a shithole country. It's kind of wild to wake up and be in Russia.

 

[donbosco]

Exploring the conversations around the 1936 Olympics should be interesting...as should be attendance figures. I suspect that this World Cup will draw many comparisons across the world.