Milei's supporters cancel their pro-Milei demonstrations.

"In response to our call for this Saturday, opposition groups are organizing very quickly to hold a counter-march. For this very reason we have decided to cancel it in order to promote social peace on festive dates."

Still cant believe they are calling it "Operation Prosperity Guardian." Its like they think working class people realise they mean "Operation protect private profits with public money." ...Oh right... western working class people are too deep in financial troubles to bother reading international news.

Houthi and the blowback

I have a suspicion that I can't shake that Biden's popularity decline among 35 unders is actaully the result of student debt payments starting back up in October and not the result of the Palestinian genocide, which just happens to be concurrent

I mean the idea a majority of Americans oppose any genocide was already stretching my suspension of disbelief

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I have blueskkky codes if you nerds want

What's going to happen the first time a US carrier group gets sunk?

Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi in a tweet a few minutes ago :

"America repeatedly sought direct communication with the Republic of Yemen in Sanaa, but this was rejected. We are not honored to communicate directly with the killers of children in #Yemen and #Gaza. #America_is_terrorism"

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The South African government urged its nationals to avoid joining the Israeli occupation forces as such acts may contribute to the violation of international law.

"The South African government is gravely concerned by reports that some South African citizens and permanent residents have joined or are considering joining the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the war in #Gaza and in the other occupied Palestinian territories," the Department of International Relations and Cooperation said in a statement.

"Such action can potentially contribute to the violation of international law and the commission of further international crimes, thus making them liable for prosecution in #SouthAfrica," the statement said, adding that any person joining the IOF without the necessary permission of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee is breaking the law and can be prosecuted.

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Ancap Update: :ancaptain:

Crackdown on protests

Patricia Bullrich, Argentina's Security Minister, said that during the demonstrations tomorrow, December 20, there will be drones taking pictures of the protesters to identify those who "impede traffic".

This is important because yesterday, the Minister for Human Capital said that the government would cut off social benefits from identified demonstrators.

The Governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, has said that he will not apply the security protocol proposed by Bullrich

China :troll:

The government of China, led by Xi Jinping, will not renew the Swap with Argentina, governed by Javier Milei.

According to El Diario, the funds will remain frozen until the new Argentine government establishes formal relations with China.

China was supposed to pass on the sum of U$6.5 billion to Argentina, leading it to believe that the Argentine government used national resources in October and November to pay the IMF installments.

Milei recently asked Sérgio Massa to help him with the Chinese.

lol

The Swap was supposed to be used to pay off Argentina's loans with the IMF, but that wasn't the case in October or November, which leads us to believe that national reserves were used.

El Diario (In Spanish only)

Argentina: President Javier Milei signed a decree of necessity and urgency, which was already published in the Official Gazette, declaring an "emergency" in the energy sector and raising electricity and gas rates.

Someone superimpose Biden saying “I did that!”

colorado has the chance to do something cool, and get a communist party as the primary opposition to the democrats

Ukraine going to surrender?

From: https://twitter.com/KitKlarenberg/status/1737473751166472514?t=_7Sky4qL5HWFY747UJ3Sow&s=19

Your Thursday Briefing

Poland's new PM, Donald Tusk, has taken the public broadcaster off the air, and the heads of the TVP state broadcaster and Polish Radio were replaced to "depoliticize" them and have them provide "reliable information". The fascist PiS party has said that this indicates Poland is heading towards dictatorship, while the PiS-controlled media regulator has said this is “an act of lawlessness and recalls the worst times of martial law,” a reference to 1981. Polish nationalists have been trying to occupy state TV offices to protest.

South Korean carmaker Hyundai has announced that it is selling its factory in Russia for $77. Not $77 million or thousand, just 77 bucks. This means they will have a loss of $220 million. It wants to transfer its St. Petersburg assets by the end of the month. Non-western brands will likely fill the void; Russia is already China's largest car export market.

Ethiopia and Egypt have once again failed to reach an agreement over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which will ultimately produce 6000 MW, enough to turn Ethiopia into a net exporter of electricity. Egypt obviously does not want the downstream water to be curtailed, while Ethiopia wants to generate electricity, but despite repeated attempts to find a compromise between them, none have been reached so far. Ethiopia is not pausing its operations despite a lack of agreement, continuing to fill up the reservoir and get the dam fully online.

In the midst of an economic crisis caused by gestures vaguely, Ghana, the world's second largest cocoa producer, is having production increasingly disrupted by illegal mining and smuggling. To survive, farmers are having to sell their land to illegal miners, which is more profitable than growing cocoa. Ghana has gone from ~1 million tonnes of cocoa in 2020 to 750,000 tonnes for 2022-2023, and ~700 tonnes for 2023-2024. Ghana's government tries to increase the profitability of cocoa production by first buying the cocoa and then selling it on to private corporations and thus can boost prices for producers (and agreed to a 63% increase this year) but this is insufficient.

A town in Michigan has successfully fought the insidious communist influence of China by protesting against an American subsidiary of a Chinese company that wanted to build an electric vehicle battery cell factory in their town which would have provided 2500 jobs. Xi Jinping is reportedly day-drinking after failing his mission to destroy American democracy by establishing a surveillance network in Michigan via tracking microchips maliciously inserted in the batteries. Long live the gasoline car!

Russian Defense Minister Shoigu has estimated that Ukraine has lost over 383,000 troops, killed and wounded, since the beginning of the war, as well as 14,000 tanks, IFVs and APCs, 553 warplanes, 259 helicopters, 8500 artillery pieces, and MLRSes.

still thinking about overhearing my mom call her cat "my little houthi" weeks ago and when i said ??? houthi like the houthis? she said yeah and kind of shrugged. like why not. cooking as usual

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The west really just handed china and russia shipping a massive cost/time advantage on a silver platter huh

milei: "Elon Musk called me and told me he's very interested in our lithium, the US Government is also very interested"

Fuck me, we're going to give all our resources away with this fucking baboon, it's going to be much worse than before. Also the massive 300 measures package (through decree, like some they're some royal motherfuckers) that he announced contains measures that are going to deregulate internet and communication services to allow, and I shit you not, "the entry of companies like StarLink". He announced on national television that he's going to do a little corruption by bringing in his loser friend the aparheid loving child molester fuck of elon musk.

May both find death at the hands of the people they exploit.

Still, this 300 masures decree is not yet in full effect, first it has to be approved by the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate, just one chamber's approval is required. And I think even the Supreme Court has to weigh into this issue, and I'm not sure they're fully convinced of it. He already called for extraordinary sessions already, there will be lots of lobbying (corruption, as we call it in the bad countries) so it's all up in the air.

We will destroy them. We have to, for the sake of our future generations and for the people suffering right now.

Ansarallah media guy:

For nearly twenty years, we have been waiting for the moment of direct confrontation with America and Israel.

O God, praise be to You for enabling us to fight the lords of disbelief and tyranny.

May God’s peace be upon the martyrs who sacrificed in order for us to reach this stage to which we prayed to God to guide us.

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Bernie Sanders’s Incoherent, Pernicious Gaza Cease-Fire Position, Explained by one of the boys

The reason Sanders opposes a longer cease-fire is that he explicitly supports the logic of Israel’s stated aim to overthrow Hamas. In doing so, he is advocating what is effectively a time-out so that Israel can present Congress with a more humane alternative to its current strategy of what President Joe Biden himself calls “indiscriminate bombing.” (It’s rare that a sitting president casually admits he’s a party to a war crime, but we live in strange times).

Landlord making his tenet sign that "I love Israel unequivocally even though I live in Nebraska" lease agreement.

This website is full of fedora tipping marxists wouldn't last two fucking seconds fighting against the IDF that's if HAMAS didn't kill you first for being CHRISTIAN, I hate this website.

I’ve seen so many more “nuance” defenders both irl and online when it comes to Israel, basically claiming that those supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel are treating things like a sports match and how the radical left has gone too far this time

LMFAO the absolute fuckers ripping the mask off

LIVE: Argentina's first massive demonstration against milei's government and it's measures

Nothing major so far, but "anti-riot" police is present, constantly provoking the crowd.

IDF spokesman "It is necessary for the IDF to re-re-re-re-re-re-bomb the hospital because we are defeating Hamas there for the seventh and final time." The very next day he says "It is necessary for the IDF to re-..."

It is clear that milei's government will be absolutely insane and terrible, and to make it even worse he wont even leave good meme material behind, like Trump. You see, Trump was terrible, but at the very least you can laugh at the guy and his photo with the burgers, or throwing toilet paper, or saying things like "She just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time." and so many other glorious moments. But this mf is as stale as a rock, he has little charisma and never said anything funny in his entire fucking pathetic life. The good memes he'll leave behind are not related to him but his policies, like me being able to pay taxes in cum because that's a legal currency now or something.

Slammer

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Activists, wearing clothes resembling blue press vests worn by Palestinian journalists, have staged a “die-in” protest outside the Melbourne offices of one of Australia’s largest news organisations. The protest was held outside the offices of the The Age newspaper, which is owned by the Nine Network.

- Al Jazeera

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slammer old meme

also twitter is dead, i have blueSSkkky invite codes if anyone wants

Quick update on my post about the cops who crashed into a gay bar in St Louis. Apparently, the rookie cops who crashed were apologetic, but the backup cops who arrived afterwards were the ones who attacked and arrested the bar co-owner. And they had beaten up and handcuffed him within 20 seconds of arriving. The guy who beat the bar owner has 14 years of experience in STLPD.

Btw the above doesn't excuse those rookies speeding, running red lights for no reason, driving distracted, or (potentially but we'll never know because there was no toxicology) driving under the influence.

Do mercenaries who die in Gaza also get their semen harvested or is it just Israelis?

China suspends $6.5Bln currency swap with dollar-strapped Argentina

China has reportedly halted a $6.5 billion currency swap deal with Argentina, and the suspension will persist until President Javier Milei demonstrates a clear commitment to engaging with Beijing, as per Argentine media reports.

The move comes only 10 days into the tenure of the new president, who campaigned on severing connections with China. This emphasizes the challenge that Milei will encounter in attempting to fulfill those campaign promises.

Asked to confirm the reports, Zhicheng Xie, the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Argentina, refused to do so.

Likewise in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin declined to either confirm or deny the reports. He stated that China remains dedicated "to cooperation with Argentina on the basis of equality and mutual benefit."

https://hexbear.net/post/1401936

Very normal spd behavior, meeting with bankers and waiving taxes they didn't even pay. :olaf-shining:

Reading Lenin's Imperialism... hits different with all that has been happening in the last 2 decades or so

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi wins third term as president of Egypt

Nippon Steel Corporation is acquiring U.S. Steel.

U.S. Steel statement

United Steelworkers statement

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