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Thai hostage sister statement

new footage from the Hamas Tunnels

Israeli Anti-Furniture Brigades performing their mission effectively and efficiently.

Receiving reports that the Hamas front known as "IKEA" - that is, the Islamic Khamas Evil Army - might be the next target for Israeli bombing raids.

Broke: The UN is Hamas.

Woke: The IDF is Hamas: https://nitter.cz/MayadeenEnglish/status/1726773772110151768

Relative to gdp per capita, wages are at their lowest point in history.

Also a reminder that the "spike" in wage growth in 2020 was illusory as many more low wage workers were laid off or fired compared to higher wage workers.

Here is versus productivity. Can someone explain to me how productivity grew when a bunch of people were laid off?

Your Saturday Briefing

The EU's Hydrogen Bank has begun operating, offering a total of 3 billion euros over 10 years to incentivize hydrogen producers to kickstart operations to meet a target of 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually by 2030. 3 billion euros will facilitate less than 3% of that goal. Germany has its own domestic hydrogen scheme, H2Global, which has a total of 5 billion euros assigned to it - or less than 5% of that annual 2030 goal.

Afghanistan has announced the closure of its permanent embassy in India, as India has failed to provide visa extensions for Afghanistan's diplomats due to their non-recognition of the Taliban government.

China has published a document: "Vision and Actions for High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Brighter Prospectors for the Next Decade" which outlines the direction the BRI will take over, uh, the next decade. It wants to do more cooperation in green development, digital cooperation, health cooperation, technology innovation, organic integration of trade, as well as making industrial and supply chains more resilient. Meanwhile, according to medical experts, the outbreak of disease in youth in China is unpleasant, but not especially concerning - these are all known diseases so no COVID-19 sequel, and it seems to be happening because these children didn't experience these kinds of diseases over the lockdowns, so are now catching up all at once.

In New Zealand, after over a month of negotiations in the aftermath of the October 14th elections, the conservative National Party leader, Christopher Luxon, signed a coalition deal to form a government with two fascist parties, ACT and New Zealand first, thus forming the most far-right government in decades.

The dengue fever epidemic in Burkina Faso, which has infected over 120,000 people this year, appears to be accelerating, as while 570 have died from it this year, about 360 of those have been in the last month or so. The government has launched an anti-mosquito spraying campaign in the two largest cities, Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, with over 1500 homes and 700 public spaces sprayed.

Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, has expressed its intention to become a member of BRICS within the next two years, stating their desire to be "multiple aligned" - they also want to join the G20.

The Madagascar opposition collective consisting of 11 candidates - including two former presidents - has said that it would not recognize the results of the first round of the presidential election due to irregularities. It appears that the incumbent president, Andry Rajoelina, has won a solid lead of 59%. 60% of registered voters did not vote.

South Africa, Colombia, and other countries are ramping up production of tuberculosis and HIV drugs, taking on international pharmaceutical companies like J&J to obtain patents. In September, under pressure from South Africa, J&J announced that it would drop a patent in 130 countries for bedaquiline, used for treating tuberculosis. There is some precedent here, from when Nelson Mandela successfully took on pharmaceutical companies in 2001 to produce AIDS drugs. Meanwhile, in Colombia, the government has declared that it would issue a compulsory license for HIV drug dolutegravir without permission from the patent-holder.

An article on the optimism of offshore wind power projects in the Great Lakes - an ideal place to put them - in the 2010s, which were then cut down before construction began due to a mixture of fossil fuel company opposition and public opposition.

In Honduras, the current left-wing government under Xiomara Castro is fighting a $11 billion case against Honduras Prospera, a US company started by a group of libertarians including literal vampire Peter Thiel, which sought to establish a private government and create a free market paradise on a Special Economic Zone on the island of Roatan under the previous America comprador government in 2013, but which Castro's government banned. This is but one case of the nearly 400 ongoing ISDS cases, which are frequently written into bilateral trade agreements that allow corporations to sue governments for decreasing their profits, like trying to decrease tobacco smoking.

The Amazon rainforest is facing an unprecedented drought that will likely continue into mid-2024, with the lowest river levels seen in over a hundred years, due to a combination of the eastern El Nino (warm water in the eastern equitorial Pacific); the central El Nino; and the Atlantic dipole, in which there is warmer water in tropical North Atlantic Ocean and colder water in the South Atlantic.

Russia fired a large wave of drones at Kiev last night. Ukraine, of course, shot down all of them - the hundreds of houses without power just happened to lose it because of, uh, falling drone debris. Of course.

Israeli military cemetery directors revealed to Israeli media on Sunday that they are burying large numbers of Israeli soldiers killed, especially after the ground invasion of Gaza.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-military-cemeteries--we-receive-a-dead-soldier-every

yemeniis released a childrens song about the Ship

Norman Finkelstein looks strikingly like Julius Caesar and seems to love engaging in the same type of public antics.

The released Palestinian hostages should be moved to a friendly country like Egypt or Jordan because I fully expect Israel to be petty enough to try and murder these people later.

Woman who hate crimed a man with his child because he wearing on a kufiya turns out to be Iranian. What's up with the Persian diaspora?

lmao Democrats please pied piper RFK in attempt to take votes from Trump. The backfire would be hilarious.

How is this real? Hellworld is taunting us.

I'm a bisexual female atheist who advocates for liberalism and limited government. My rights would be protected in Israel. I would be murdered by terrorists in Gaza.

More settler POWs are being released right now, plus a group of Thai workers

Terminal Zionist cope is accusing the IDF of being Hamas: https://nitter.cz/Idgafwarvet/status/1727146667143794798

Funny watching chuds defend the Dublin riots.

Jan 1988 - ISRAEL HAUNTED BY COMPARISON WITH S. AFRICA

written a month into the First Intifada

Oh so Joe BIDEN pardons two turkeys but not our boys from Jan 6th?

Michael Hudson posting continues, on why left wing governments in the Global South will inevitably be replaced by right wing governments. The answer is neoliberalism, and dollar hegemony. Left wing movements in the Global South cannot succeed so long as the world remains dollarized.

Among the BRICS+ countries, Argentina is a case in point. Its foreign dollar debt has grown largely by IMF sponsorship. The IMF’s main political function in US foreign policy has been to enable pro-American client oligarchies to move their money out of countries whenever there is a chance of a left-wing or simply democratic reformer being elected. Convert their Argentinean currency into dollars lowers the peso’s exchange rate. Without IMF intervention, that would mean that as the exchange rate falls, the wealthy classes engaging in capital flight receive fewer and fewer dollars. To support the currency – and hence, the hard-currency dollars that capital-flight actors receive – the IMF lends the right-wing government dollars to buy up the excess pesos that the client oligarchy is selling off. That enables Argentineans to move their money out of the country to obtain a much higher amount of US dollars than they would if the IMF were not lending money to the right-wing puppet government.

When the new reform government comes in, it finds itself loaded down with a huge foreign debt owed to the IMF. This debt has not been taken on in a way that helped Argentina develop its economy and earn dollars to pay back the loan. It is simply a result of IMF support of right-wing governments. And the IMF then tells the new government (whether Argentina or any other debtor) to pay off its foreign loans by lowering the wages of labor. That is the only way that the IMF recognizes for countries to “stabilize” their balance of payments. So the reform government is obliged to behave just like a right-wing government, intensifying the class war of capital against labor. The “cure” for their balance-of-payments deficits thus becomes even worse than the original disease, that is, its rentier oligarchy moving their money out of the country.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/michael-hudson-a-brics-bank-how-would-it-really-function.html

Insane to me to see people just play calvinball with their own made up bullshit.

"Oh Stockholm Syndrome isnt real? Actually its plainly obvious in thousands of abused women" like NO that is not what the fucking syndrome is about in the slightest what are you talking about? Stockholm Syndrome is when someone is hostile to you but you like them anyways?

And then also the fucking shit with like "Oh its not real? Then why does the FBI say it happens in 8% of kidnapping victims?" and its like, because there are made up criteria that claim to be the result of some actual hyperspecific situation in the brain, and sooner or later someone will correspond to those criteria but that doesnt validate the hypothesis behind it!

The sun actually setting doesnt validate the hypothesis that theres a guy pulling the sun on a chain to do it!

Hezbollah claims of Israeli losses:

354 Soldiers dead/wounded
275 Attacks against military sites
77 Communication systems
21 Jamming systems
15 Military gatherings
35 Intelligence systems
70,000 Settlers evacuated
21 Armored vehicles
170 Cameras
47 Radars
3 Drones

Zionists disturb the peace with terrible Hamas performance art

Small ray of "hope": Milei is having trouble building a cabinet, and there are already signs of internal conflicts even though he takes charge on the 10th of December. Here's the thing: Milei made an alliance with former president and insane neoliberal Mauricio Macri, the guy who pretty much runs the standard right wing anti-peronist coalition. He did that to pretty much have a clear shot at winning the election, and he did win so it worked out.., kinda. Now this shows two things: One is that Milei is a fucking amateur who puts all his eggs in a single basket and his goals are very short sighted and the other is that he sold his soul to an absolute ghoul, the demon, and now he must pay the price.

Now Macri is no employee of anybody, he likes to be the boss, now Milei must returns some favours. Macri-aligned people are slowly beginning to displace Milei's people to fill in the vacant spots in his cabinet, and might have to concede more and more. He lost the Ministry of Economy, a very strong ministry indeed, to one of Macri's employees, and that's a big hit. Former candidate for Governor of the Buenos Aires Province for the Ancaps was removed from her post as the head of Social Security, I wouldn't be surprised if she gets replaced by someone close to Macri. This is all very bad, and it can get worse considering he doesn't have majority in the Chamber of Deputies or in the Senate, he'll have to negotiate A LOT with the Juntos por el Cambio people. He's kinda fucked, at least for now.

Reality is slowly beginning to settle in for the ancaps. Their victory is indeed bad, and of course Macri gaining a lot of influence within the government is terrible news, but they're slowly realizing that their victory also comes at a high price, leading to internal strife. Their political instincts are like really bad, they could have gotten second place in the elections, lose to Massa but also claim a "moral victory", because they could have gotten a high number of votes without having to make suicidal alliances, probably selling the idea of "look how many people follow our ideals even though we lost". This could have made them build a lot of power for the future, directly challenging the standard opposition for the right wing votes and Peronism for the working class vote.

We have to see him in action as well. He's very honest about his ideals, he truly believes in what he says. But there are no economic, political or social bases for anarchocapitalism in this country, material reality always plays a huge role in the application of political and economic programs, here and everywhere. There's a chance that he'll get immediately frustrated at not being able to carry out his program, then he might lose an internal power struggle with Macri and he'll be the actual man in charge. Or perhaps Macri winning influence might provoke an institutional collapse, some people truly believe Milei is completely unfit to be president and he wont last 4 full years. But this is just my guess.

Nothing have started yet and he's failing already.

Hamas seeks to extend truce with Israel with some conditions

Nov 26 (Reuters) - Hamas announced in a statement on Sunday that it is seeking to extend its four-day truce with Israel should serious efforts be made to increase the number of Palestinian detainees released from Israel.

Azerbaijan accuses France of stoking ‘new wars’ in Caucasus

“(France) is pursuing a militaristic policy by arming Armenia, encouraging revanchist forces in Armenia, and laying the groundwork for provoking new wars in our region,” Aliyev said in written comments to an international conference in Baku.

In a statement read out by his foreign policy advisor, Aliyev said Paris was “disrupting stability not only in its former and current colonies, but also in the South Caucasus, where it is supporting separatist trends and separatists.”

Home to a large Armenian diaspora, France has been routinely criticised by Azerbaijan for harbouring “pro-Armenian bias” in the Caucasus countries’ territorial conflict.

“The wrong messages from the French government actually create illusions in the Armenian government… that they can again launch a military aggression against Azerbaijan.” He accused Armenia’s government of “thinking about revenge” after Azerbaijan regained control over the Nagorno-Karabakh region this fall.

NAFO: Cope harder, ruZZian vatniks. NATO will never abandon Ukraine.

NATO: https://nitter.cz/USNATO/status/1726615865980813706