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Damn, they actually got him:
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2326898

Al-Qassam Brigades Military Spokesman announced on Thursday the martyrdom of Hams military wing’s chief Muhammad Al-Deif in addition to a number of other commanders during the Zionist war on Gaza.

via FT

Donald Trump lashes out at Federal Reserve after central bank keeps rates steady

US president had called on the central bank to sharply reduce borrowing costs

Donald Trump sharply criticised the Federal Reserve just hours after the US central bank defied the president’s calls for deep reductions in borrowing costs and left interest rates on hold. The central bank on Wednesday kept its main interest rate at 4.25 per cent to 4.5 per cent and indicated it was now on pause, with Fed chair Jay Powell saying US rate-setters “do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance”. Trump railed against the central bank on his Truth Social messaging platform, saying, “If the Fed had spent less time on [diversity, equity and inclusion], gender ideology, ‘green’ energy, and fake climate change, Inflation would never have been a problem”. The Fed’s unanimous decision on Wednesday to hold interest rates came just days after Trump insisted borrowing costs should fall “a lot” and vowed to “let it be known” if he disagreed with the central bank’s decision. The Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank’s policy-setting panel, said in its decision that US inflation remained “somewhat elevated” and removed an earlier reference noting “progress” towards hitting its 2 per cent goal. Powell later clarified the changes reflected a “cleaning-up exercise” rather than a shift in policy. The Fed’s statement “tilts a little bit hawkish”, said Sarah House, senior economist at Wells Fargo. “This is a Fed that is less worried about the state of the labour market.”

The pause followed three consecutive cuts — including a 0.5 percentage point move in September — that took the federal funds target range down from a 23-year high of 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent. Powell signalled interest rates would remain on hold until the committee had more time to assess how Trump’s pledges to raise trade barriers, slash taxes and red tape, and undertake mass deportations would affect its efforts to cool inflation. The Fed chair said the new administration’s policies were “not for us to criticise, or to praise”. He also refused to react to Trump’s calls for the Fed to reduce borrowing costs significantly, saying he was “not going to have any response or comment on what the president said” and that there had been no contact between him and the White House since the new president took office. Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University, said: “This rate decision, which was really the only viable choice the Fed had at this juncture, will cue the political pressure. The coming months will be extraordinarily challenging for the Fed if inflation stays sticky above its target level even as Trump piles on intense pressure to cut rates and bring down borrowing costs.” US markets broadly took the Fed’s decision in stride, with government bonds coming under moderate selling pressure. The policy-sensitive two-year Treasury yield was 0.03 percentage points higher at 4.23 per cent by the late afternoon in New York, while the benchmark 10-year yield was flat at 4.55 per cent. Yields rise as prices fall. In equity markets, the S&P 500 was 0.5 per cent lower. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down by a similar margin, after trimming some of its losses during Powell’s press conference.

A little news from Kursk oblast.

Russian forces eliminated another Nazi (18+): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/28/1011722.html

Russian drone operators destroyed another Kiev regime T-64 tank (video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,---Kursk-region,-Destruction-of-enemy-tank:a

In an interview with Breno Altman for the Brazilian news portal Opera Mundi, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said, "With Brazil, there was no crisis, there is no crisis, and there will be no crisis." "There are simply differences between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, differences with advisors; from there, from here. The duty of President Lula and President Nicolás Maduro is to understand each other for our countries, turn the page."

"The new scenario of world geopolitics, the situation of Our America, and prioritize relations between Brazil and Venezuela, peaceful relations, cooperation, brotherhood, and economic progress."

• Brian Mier Telesur Twitter

Each new interview Putin gives to Pavel Zarubin (he's been giving them a lot) becomes longer and less clear.

Imagine the Soviet command in 1945, to whom the Wehrmacht command says: "We won't sign anything with a gun to our temple, pull the army away from Berlin." And Stalin is like: zer gut, bitte schön, I'm leaving-leaving-leaving. Can you imagine?

And now imagine Stalin saying: I won't sign anything with Keitel and Jodl, they are illegitimate, they didn't go through democratic elections, they haven't had elections there since 1933, they can refuse to sign at any time, and then what, go to war again or something. Can you imagine?

Am I the only one who thinks I'm in a madhouse?...

This is the state of Russian diplomacy right now lol.

Putin will fold to Trump, once again deceived for the nth time.

~~if anyone's bored I'm showing one of Stalin's favorite movies on hexbear live right now~~

~~the kids movies are on, if I'm still around after they finish I'll probably try to finish my mover~~

I finished my movie. Here's the link if you want to see it yourself. If you're curious about some history behind the film, let me know.