Tragedy has struck in Kocani, North Macedonia, with survivors describing panic and a stampede as people rushed to a single exit A fire and an ensuing stampede at a nightclub in the town of Kocani, North Macedonia have claimed the lives of at least 59 people, with 155 more wounded. Local media quoted Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski as saying the blaze was caused by pyrotechnics used at the venue during a concert. According to media reports, there were around 1,500 revelers inside ‘Pulse’ when the ceiling caught fire in the early ...morehours of Sunday. “The fire started around 2:30 AM [after] the Styrofoam on the ceiling caught fire from the fire crackers that were on stage,” Sakam Da Kazam media outlet wrote, citing a survivor. The man told reporters that this was followed by an explosion that caused the roof to cave in. 🔥 HOW DID THE TRAGEDY IN KOCANI OCCUR? Sparks from the fireworks touched the roof of the old building, triggering a fire. Panic quickly spread, causing a stampede that resulted in 51 deaths and over 150 injuries.#KocaniTragedy #BreakingNews #PrayForKocani #кочани👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/YCmE42igLZ— Balkan View (@BalkanView2025) March 16, 2025 “After that, we all rushed to get out, we all ran towards one door, it was for both entry and exit,” he said. The single-story building previously served as a carpet warehouse, before being transformed into a nightclub several years ago, media reports claim. According to survivors, panic quickly set in as people ran for the single exit, resulting in a stampede. Najmanje 59 lica je poginulo, 35 je identifkovano, od kojih je 31 iz Kočana, 4 iz Štipa. Među poginulima je i policajac iz Probištipa.Broj povređenih je 155.Dronski snimak diskoteke "Puls" u Kočanima, u kojoj je izbio požar.Izveštavamo u saradnji sa @VidiVakaVideo i Гоце.мк pic.twitter.com/s0WHVKBzQV— vidivamo (@vidivamo) March 16, 2025 Sakam Da Kazam reported that the victims were aged 14 to 25, with dozens of survivors hospitalized with crush injuries, as well as carbon monoxide poisoning and burns. Twenty people who are in critical condition will be transferred to neighboring Bulgaria, Türkiye, Greece, and Serbia for treatment, Health Minister Arben Taravari announced. Read more Stampede in India’s capital leaves 18 dead Toshkovski told the media that an “arrest warrant has been issued for four people,” without specifying their identities. He added that the authorities will review the nightclub’s licensing and safety provisions. The North Macedonian government has declared seven days of mourning in the wake of the tragedy....
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The Ukraine conflict epitomizes the technocratic decline foreseen by Oswald Spengler, with Moscow embracing historical destiny while the machine-driven West crumbles under its own hubris The conflict in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It is the West’s last delirious attempt to exert control over a world that no longer needs it. The West, lost in the labyrinth of its own technocratic nightmare, flails like a dying beast, mechanized and blind. The German historical philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), in ‘Man and Technics’ (19...more31), wrote of the Faustian civilization’s ultimate downfall, where technology, once an extension of organic culture, becomes an iron cage, trapping its creators in a world they no longer understand. The Western response to Ukraine is precisely this: Drones, sanctions, media narratives manufactured in real-time, an illusion of omnipotence maintained by algorithms, and artificial intelligence. But reality is slipping through the cracks. The more the West mechanizes, the more it loses its ability to perceive the living, breathing cultures it seeks to control. A ceasefire? A negotiation? The West proposes them like a bureaucrat offering a new tax code, as if war were a spreadsheet that could be adjusted to fit quarterly projections. US President Donald Trump’s emissaries meet with Russian officials, not because they believe in peace but because the old America – his America – has sensed the shift. A world order of raw power is replacing the West’s dream of digital hegemony, and Russia, China, and a thousand-year-old history stand against it. Spengler saw it coming: The machines would overtake the soul, and the West would become incapable of organic thought. This is why they cannot understand Russia – not because they lack intelligence, but because their intelligence has been reduced to an algorithmic process, stripped of cultural depth. The West is thinking in the way that a machine thinks, and Russia, still a creature of history, is thinking like an empire. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses the ceasefire offer because he knows it is a mirage. He speaks of root causes, of history, of a world that is not reducible to transactions and diplomatic maneuvers. The West recoils in horror. This is the fundamental difference: Russia still understands what war means, while the West sees only an endless data stream of casualties, arms shipments, and strategic objectives. Spengler called this the tragic turn of Faustian civilization – when man, having created his machines, no longer controls them. The West does not wage war for power or territory but to maintain the facade that it is still in control. War as process. War as algorithm. The end goal is never victory, only perpetual management of crises. Read more Why a ceasefire in Ukraine is easier said than done Meanwhile, the financial technocrats of the G7 conjure $50 billion from thin air, leveraging interest from Russia’s frozen assets, a sleight of hand that Spengler would recognize as the final stage of Western decay – economic manipulation replacing genuine production, artificial wealth replacing true cultural strength. The West no longer builds. It merely extracts, redistributes, and sanctions, hoping that the machinery of global finance can replace the natural momentum of a rising civilization. Russia, in contrast, returns to the old ways: Industry, military s...
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US President Donald Trump ordered air strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen Saturday that reportedly killed several of the group’s leaders, according to the White House, adding Iran was “put on notice” to cease support for the rebels.