The fact that this Estonian ghoul is the “chief diplomat” is such a tell.

Of course they did and plan to ban knives. In a country where using a utility knife and owning one is basically givdnand everyone has one or several, they are very smart.

Today as I was on my way to see a client who has been repeatedly severely abused by men, I saw a headline about this with the cops stating that “no sings of hate towards women have been established in the case”.

Sure. This guy targeted three girls, planned this for six months. And the pigs conclude that the victims all being girls is completely irrelevant and not at all a choice.

Nothing like the smell of pathriarchy in the morning. Also fuck s

Short Finland news:

First up, some warmongering:

Finland is using frozen Russian assets to provide Ukraine with heavy ammunition, the government announced on Monday.

The Defence Ministry said Finland will deliver heavy ammunition to Ukraine, financed through profits generated by frozen Russian assets.

The initiative is part of a broader EU effort to support Ukraine with military supplies funded by the interest accrued from Moscow’s frozen assets. Finland is one of the member states implementing this programme.

Second, some more warmongering:

Russia building up base along Finnish border, New York Times reports.

Satellite imagery reveals large tents, shelters for fighter jets and warehouses for military vehicles — but Nato officials say the activity is nothing like the buildup along the Ukrainian border before Russia’s 2022 invasion.

Third, some TikTok shenanigans. Background to this is that a local PM from the far right Basic Finns party has come out with strong opposition to this data centre:

Social media giant TikTok told Yle that the company remains fully committed to the Kouvola project, despite political concerns over the company’s links to China.

“We have high expectations for this investment,” said Christian Hannibal, TikTok’s head of public policy in Finland.

He said the facility under construction in Kouvola’s Koria district will play a major role in TikTok’s European operations. It is part of the company’s 12-billion-euro ‘Project Clover,’ aimed at ensuring that European users’ data is stored and processed within Europe. Of this total, one billion euros is allocated to the Finnish data centre.

The other Project Clover data centres are located in Norway and Ireland and serve the same purpose — storing TikTok users’ data.

This links to concerns raised by Finland’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Wille Rydman (Finns), who warned that China could potentially bypass US chip restrictions via the data centre in Finland.

The Rydman guy is fully revealing who’s pocket he really is in with these “concerns”.

Jesus christ…
To anyone who has had to deal with such:

Yes and the solution is obviously to build more surveillance and control around young people, the group ever up to be the base of a moral panic. The comment reads like foreshadowing for Amerikkkan style school surveillance, they’ll be suggesting more cops and security checks next I’m sure.

If I understand their party structure correctly, they can’t expel him as the local chapter refused to expel him. But they can instead expel the entire local chapter next which would likely further radicalize the people who stood up for him. I could be wrong about this, this is my understanding from the coverage I’ve read about this.

I love how vague they always are about what makes this guy “rogue”. Definitely rooting for him, the Left alliance has spent a lot of time and energy in purging actual left voices from the party.

Some more Finland news, small stuff edition. Posting this because I did not expect to see anything about this on the English side of national news that is always mindful of “country branding”.

What makes this interesting is that this is one of the only few politicians who was against NATO and had been demonized ever since. He is in the natoleft party still, but talks very much like a communist. The region he is from is notoriously bourgeois and a White stronghold, the arsehole of the country.

Yrttiaho was a staunch opponent of Finland’s accession to Nato and has criticised sanctions on Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In Finland news: A stabbing in a school. The 16 year old who did it apparently used chatgpt to plan his violence.

There have been widespread reports that the suspect, who Yle understands is a 16-year-old boy, published a manifesto saying he planned to use a knife in the attack and that his intended targets would be female pupils.

According to the manifesto, he wanted to do something “significant” and “exciting”, with the stated aim of going to prison for two to four years.

The manifesto also claims he had no friends and did not want any. He reportedly planned the act for about six months, allegedly using ChatGPT as an aid.

Eternal throwback to the etchics essay I wrote at uni when starting to study genetics, late 90s.

The conclusions I got to then kept me safe from this grift, but I am sure my extended family from one side that is obsessed with their kulak heritage has sent in all the samples to justify their rabid nationalism.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

It’s clearly petition* time!

*The ghoulish art of giving people a false sense of agency by asking them to sign one.

Well true, this is known

But could there have been a slower spreading variant first, circulating in stealth mode in the world? I fully believe that Western neoliberal healthcare could have missed these if they were singular unexplained pneunomia looking things in the elderly or anyone, we just treat symptoms if people aren’t dying.

Maybe whatever got introduced to China was already a variant that was able to take off better? Tourism could have a role here that nobody would want to look into as that too is important to the economy.

I know that the og variant got completely eradicated from my country and the following one was introduced by a single group of petty bourge alpine skiiers that travelled to Austria. It took months for the new variant to take off here, but it was traced back to those tourists.

Afaik even cats can get it. Stray cats are common in touristy places like the mediterranean cities. Who knows honestly, but the white paper does claim it wasn’t found in wildlife around Wuhan.

Well this. We know now that it thrives on fur farms for example. What if it originated in those, plenty of such farms in the “West”. In Finland for example the conditions are notoriously bad and there is no oversight.

I remember when it finally got aknowledged that white-tail deer are a coronavirus reservoir. Our local food and safety department announced that there is no need to test anything because there is no risk for spillover and covid-19 isn’t foodborne. They just stated that. So the motivation to test, track and understand just isn’t there in capitalist states.

The bird flu also thrives on fur farms and the “solution” this country chose was to allow the fur farmers to shoot the birds, even rare birds, around the farms to protect their industrialized animal cruelty business.

Huge malpractice, cruelty and overproduction issues were also revealed in local salmon farming. Dead birds in the tanks, the fish are suffocating and sick.

I don’t necessarily think the lab leak is likely, but I definitely think it could have started somewhere else than China and been imported there. Due to the general lack of oversight, lack of systems to notice a novel pathogen and just neoliberal capitalism being the way it is.

The Chinese hypothesis seems to still be that frozen food was the source.

The Chinese Century, let’s goooo!

Any predictions or thoughts from US comrades on how long usaians will roll over and play nice with all that is happening?

Happy May Day comrades!

Some May Day reporting from Finland. The local reactionary nazis held a gathering in the city of Tampere today. Their gathering was fully protected by the cops who violently arrested 15 counter-protesters and used a growd control rifle on them.

The local bougie newspaper report about this here, you can see some of the nazis protected by the cops. They’ve essentially built a little pen for the fash and during their pathetic unjoyous little march they protected them from all sides.

The national news piece here.

A short video about the cops shooting a counter-protester who is throwing back a torch the fash threw in the crowd. This video will expire in two days.

The counter-protesters threw eggs and torches toward the fash and in general tried to make their cop protected little march fail.

This picture of one of the counter-protesters goes extremely hard:

Vindicated. I definitely had it autumn 2019. Almost died on that hill and got longcovid. All the covid symptoms that came out later were like lightbulb moments for me. Every single one.

So I’ve thought about this a alot. The reason it was “the vaping illness” or whatever everywhere in the West is that neoliberal “efficient” healthcare only ever treats symptoms. And it does that in a very atomized way.

Since the western brainpan has categorised all things to separate units with borders, like the human body and related medical fields, it makes it so that nobody ever looks at a patient as a whole. The general practitioner kind of should, but they have no time, no allowance to test anything and are told to treat symptoms and refer to one of these units if absolutely necessary. Mostly they treat symptoms and send you home.

So you go in with your flu or GI symptoms first, they treat the symptoms, but never test for anything, because testing costs money.

Then you go back two weeks later with fatigue, heart palpitations and a different doctor treats those symptoms, not looking two weeks back to the flu symptoms.

In the middle of all this, you visit the ER once for something related like chest pain. They treat the symptoms, but don’t tie it back to anything either.

Repeat this until you are in there hospitalized for what looks like acute renal failure/pneumonia or whatever covid can do and get told “it has no explanation” and still isn’t related to anything prior, even though you know it is a result of the same illness you have been having for three months.

This is a system feature. Doctors are not insentivized to test, just to treat symptoms. If it looks mostly like the cold/flu and the afterplay is missed, nobody is going to look for a novel pathogen. And when it does get too big to ignore, start talking about a vaping illness and call it good. Afaik none of those cases were tested for anything other than the most basic stuff.