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As the resident combat footage poster, new Hamas vid just dropped. Hope that guy who flipped down the hill is ok (cw:corpses, no gore)

https://streamable.com/sfo5sf

My fiancee's parents yesterday told me that we shouldn't relocate to the US (we weren't planning to) because black people will try to kill her for being Asian. I find it a little funny that they think Guatemala is safer than the US for her. We've been to the US as well to visit my family and the worst that happened were dudes relentlessly hitting on her every time I wasn't around.

Lula Proposes Support Plan for Homeless Brazilians

The "Visible Streets National Plan" includes initiatives related to health, food, education, employment, and housing.

On Monday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva received dozens of homeless people at the Government headquarters and announced an extensive support plan for them.

"Through this palace, princes, queens, presidents, and businessmen have passed, but it has seldom been open for the participation of the most suffering people, who don't even have a place to sleep," Lula said, referring to a situation that affects around 236,000 people.

He attributed "the blame" for this reality to "a State that has not dedicated itself to taking care of the poorest."

The Workers' Party leader pledged to address this issue and added that it is also necessary to "change the mentality" of those who "walk far away or look the other way when they see homeless people."

The homeless population program includes various initiatives in the areas of health, food security, education, employment, and, above all, housing, considered one of the most challenging issues to be solved in the short term.

Father Julio Lancellotti was moved and gave a beautiful speech: 'You are our President, you look at us and defend us. When the homeless people look at you, sir President, they say: that is our president. He thinks of us, loves us, and defends us."

Endowed with around US$204 million, the plan proposes collaborative efforts with regional and municipal governments, universities, and social movements already dedicated to assisting the homeless.

In the case of housing, the plan aims to facilitate access to popular residence programs that the Federal government already executes, but initially, there will be support to expand the number of municipal shelters.

The event included the participation of Catholic priest Julio Lancellotti, who cares for people living on the streets in Sao Paulo, a city that houses almost a quarter of the country's homeless population.

In homage to the decades-long work he has been doing, Congress named a law after him that prohibits "hostile" architecture to the homeless throughout Brazil. The law was regulated by the government in the same ceremony where the new assistance program was announced.

Israel has announced its worst combat losses in more than a month after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza.

Israel said on Wednesday that 10 of its soldiers had been killed over the past 24 hours, including a colonel commanding a forward base and a lieutenant colonel commanding a regiment, Reuters reports.

The toll was an increase of one on the military’s earlier figure and is the worst one-day loss since 15 soldiers were killed on 31 October.

Most of the deaths came in the Shejaia district of Gaza City in the north, where troops were ambushed trying to rescue another group of soldiers who had attacked Hamas fighters in a building, the military said.

Hamas said the episode showed that Israeli forces could never subdue Gaza.

In a televised address, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said any future arrangement in Gaza without Hamas was a “delusion”.

- The Guardian

Demand today for PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation stands at 81% in the Gaza Strip and 92% in the West Bank.

Nitter

Press Release: Public Opinion Poll No (90) | PCPSR

92% of Palestinians in West Bank want Abbas to resign: Poll

The survey also found that demand today for PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation stands at 81 percent in the Gaza Strip. We reported earlier about a survey by prominent pollster Khalil Shikaki, who found that support for the Palestinian Authority was waning.

- Al Jazeera

The EU ended it's policy of needing unanimous decisions by asking Orban to leave the room so that the remaining PM's could vote yes on moving ahead with negotiations for ukraine accession into the EU.

I was under the impression that nobody really wants Ukraine, and that it won't be easy to integrate or even beneficial for the EU to do so, so I guess those negotiations sure will be something I guess

Do you think the NYT writers ever think about whether they're the good guys?

Outcry as Brazil Congress overrides president to revive anti-Indigenous law

• Brazil’s Congress has pushed through a new law that includes several anti-Indigenous measures that strip back land rights and open traditional territories to mining and agribusiness.
• It includes the controversial time frame thesis, requiring Indigenous populations to prove they physically occupied their land on Oct. 5 1988, the day of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution; failure to provide such evidence will nullify demarcated land. The decision provoked outrage among activists, who say the new law is the biggest setback for Indigenous rights in Brazil in decades.
• Both President Lula and the Supreme Court have previously called the measures in the bill unconstitutional and against public interests, and Indigenous organizations announced they will challenge the law.
• Brazil’s Congress has pushed through a new law containing a series of anti-Indigenous and anti-environmental clauses, overruling President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s previous veto of some of the bill’s most harmful passages. Activists have lambasted the decision, saying it drastically strips back Indigenous rights and poses a threat to the future of the Amazon Rainforest and other Brazilian biomes.

Indigenous advocates reject Chile’s new draft constitution ahead of vote :chile-cool:

Sunday’s referendum will be the second time in as many years that Chileans have voted for a revised constitution.

For more than a decade, architect Julio Ñanco Antilef has campaigned to rewrite Chile’s constitution, a relic from when General Augusto Pinochet ruled the country as a military dictator.

But now, as Chile prepares to vote on a new draft, Ñanco Antilef finds himself in a paradoxical position: hoping to keep the old version in place. “It’s not that we are defending Pinochet’s constitution. It’s just that this proposal is worse,” he told Al Jazeera in a recent interview.

A member of the Democratic Revolution party, Ñanco Antilef was one of the few left-wing representatives to participate in the Constitutional Council that drafted the new version, which is set to go before voters on Sunday. Rather, it was Chile’s far-right Republican Party that led the drafting process, holding 22 of the council’s 50 seats.

The result, critics say, is a draft that favours right-wing priorities at the expense of historically marginalised groups, including Chile’s Indigenous peoples. “It is tied to a business model and favours individual interests rather than collective ones,” said Ñanco Antilef, himself of Indigenous Mapuche descent.

Now, he and other Indigenous Chileans are pushing for voters to reject the draft constitution, even if that means the country will be stuck with the Pinochet-era version for the foreseeable future.

“We are 13 percent of the population,” said Alihuén Antileo Navarrete, a Mapuche lawyer elected to represent Chile’s Indigenous peoples on the council. He argues the draft constitution deliberately “excludes” Indigenous voices from government.

IOF having Mickey Mouse ranks and promotions will never not be funny to me. How the fuck you losing 5 officers in an ambush? Zero privates or NCO's in this army.

so what is the deal with Israel's officers? i heard earlier like all? conscripts got to be sergeants , and there's been lots of jokes about the officers generally being young and inexperienced.

but then where are all the old ones? what's the careerist core?

Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’

about 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground munitions Israel has used have been unguided. The rest have been precision-guided munitions, the assessment says.

A US official told CNN that the US believes that the Israeli military is using the dumb bombs in conjunction with a tactic called “dive bombing,” or dropping a bomb while diving steeply in a fighter jet, which the official said makes the bombs more precise because it gets it closer to its target. The official said the US believes that an unguided munition dropped via dive-bombing is similarly precise to a guided munition.

Idaho In-N-Out 8 hour drive-thru wait

milei gives up after two days and sends a letter to Xi asking him to intervene directly in the currency swap that was signed mere months ago. The same milei who said that "he won't deal with Communists".

In an attempt to quickly rebuild ties with the Asian giant and obtain the US$5 billion renewal of the current currency swap with China, President Javier Milei sent a letter hours ago to Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which he requests his support to accelerate the process and obtain the funds to face urgent expirations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Before and after that meeting, in which Foreign Minister Diana Mondino participated, the short circuits that still separate China from the Milei government became clear, whose statements regarding “not having ties with communist countries” made during the electoral campaign, upset the Chinese government.

Milei's urgency to rebuild ties with China was reflected during the meeting, in which, as LA NACION learned, the President showed himself willing to have a phone call with the Chinese president. Previous loans, such as those obtained by President Alberto Fernández with Sergio Massa as Minister of Economy, were unblocked after direct communication with the Chinese president. The delegation of that country left the President an invitation to visit the Asian giant as soon as possible.

Among the demands that the Chinese delegation brought to Buenos Aires is to replace, or at least announce, the successor of Sabino Vaca Narvaja at the head of the embassy, ​​taking into account that other destinations have already been announced or confirmed, such as the United States (Gerardo Werthein), Brazil (Daniel Scioli will continue) and Israel (they will appoint Milei's rabbi and spiritual guide, Axel Wahnish). Currently, and after the resignation of Vaca Narvaja, Marcela Barone, a diplomat with the rank of secretary, was in charge of the embassy, ​​in one of her first diplomatic assignments. Mondino's announcements to “transparent” the agreements with China also caused discomfort, in reference to the currency swap and other economic agreements for current public and private works.

Unlike the Milei government, Alberto Fernández received the delegation led by Wu Weihua on Saturday at 11 in the morning at the Casa Rosada in a meeting in which Vaca Narvaja participated on his last day as ambassador, the then foreign minister Santiago Cafiero and the general secretary of the outgoing Presidency, Julio Vitobello. Sources from the previous administration affirm that the sending of a “high-ranking” diplomat could help unblock the link and complement the letter sent by the President.

On the other hand, and with his now classic leather jacket and boots, President Milei arrived minutes before 8 at the Casa Rosada. On his second business day as President, the president led a cabinet meeting held for the imminent economic measures that will be announced today afternoon, and special presences. The former head of the Central Bank Federico Sturzenegger, a supporter of economic “shock” policies, participated in the meeting, along with the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, the head of the Central Bank, Santiago Bausili, and the other ministers. Caputo and Bausili, as it turned out, seek to accelerate verbal and factual reconciliation with China, and asked the Foreign Ministry for clear and forceful gestures in that regard.

The former Minister of Justice and proposed as the next Treasury Attorney, Rodolfo Barra, was also seen entering the Casa Rosada, questioned for his participation in the Tacuara philonazi group in the sixties.

Original article in spanish

Turns out being in power makes you a pragmatic eh?

Another massive win for XI JINPING THOUGHT.

So there's an actual dysentary outbreak in the idf? Damn.

Fascism gonna fascism i guess. : /

In Germany, only genocidal settlers are allowed to make hyperbolic comparisons to the Holocaust:

Berlin finds Abbas’s 2022 Holocaust remarks incited hatred, but can’t pursue charges (Times of Isn'treal)

But did they jerk them off?!

I don't know if we had this one already, F16 this time

US fighter jet crashes over Yellow Sea
An F-16 fighter jet belonging to the US forces in South Korea crashed during a training flight over the sea between the Korean Peninsula and China. The US armed forces said on Monday that the pilot was able to escape using the ejection seat. He was rescued from the Yellow Sea by the South Korean Navy and is in stable condition. The plane took off from the US air base in Gunsan in the morning (local time) before an in-flight emergency occurred, it said. The cause of this is being investigated.

they recycle the lies amen

so we now know the amount of Arab people France deems reasonable to sacrifice for the Zionists - officially about 20k, and again officially about 10k children

UK + Germany aren't quite at their limit but are approaching it

for the US it is probably limitless

Beehaw admins: Telling people that radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons isn't a problem at all and nuclear weapons are, in fact, perfectly clean? No problem. Calling them a revisionist piece of shit for that MIC propaganda? REMOVED!

Liberal civility trumps calling out propaganda that pushes for an existential threat to humanity. But Beehaw is totally a friendly place to leftists! LMFAO.

EDIT: BTW, the removed comment was mostly just this quote of a section of an article from the Union of Concerned Scientists:

The partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

The fallout from atmospheric tests created a global health crisis. A 1961 study revealed that strontium-90, a radioactive isotope, was building up in the teeth of children living in the St. Louis, Missouri area, hundreds of miles away from the nearest nuclear test site in the Nevada desert. Efforts by thousands of scientists and the international public raised the alarm about contamination from atmospheric nuclear tests and urged global leaders to act.

By 1963, the international community had negotiated the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits carrying out nuclear tests in any environment that would allow radioactive material to spread across a country’s borders, including atmospheric tests, underwater tests, and tests in outer space.

The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty dramatically reduced and eventually ended atmospheric nuclear testing. But nuclear testing did not slow down. Instead, countries with nuclear weapons shifted to underground test sites.

in response to that one user's statements like:

As for environment, the US nuked themselves over a thousand times, mostly on the Nevada desert. People in the 1950s used to go to Las Vegas to watch the explosions, nowadays they still go for the casinos, and that’s after many of the old dirtier bombs got exploded above ground.

In modern nuclear weapons, the yield and area affected (both by the explosion, and by the fallout) can be controlled with high precision, starting at a level comparable to that of largest conventional weapons. The US honed that skill by turning nukes into a tourist attraction for its own citizens over 60 years ago.

Israeli Diaper Force

The Next Stage in Ukraine - NYT archive.is

After a disappointing second half of 2023 for Ukraine’s war effort, the U.S. and Ukraine don’t fully agree about what to do next. Ukraine’s leaders would prefer to be aggressive and continue trying to retake territory that Russia holds. U.S. officials worry that approach is unrealistic.

someday i hope to read the new york times style guide for reporting about the ukraine war, this paragraph is amazing.

Teacher goes on violent rant and gets arrested for terroristic threat

All over a flag too

The final death toll from the attack is now thought to be 695 Israeli civilians, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners, giving a total of 1,139.

They are trying to destroy Lebanon through different means than bombs. (articlein arabic)

"26% of families residing on Lebanese territory do not send their school-age children to school, while 52% of displaced Syrian families reported that they have school-age children who do not attend school. ...

"The situation of children is not good," according to the report, as mental illnesses associated with the crisis in the country have exhausted even those of school age, with 38% of families reporting that their children suffer from anxiety, and 24% from depression. But in the south, the figures become more serious, where the proportion of children suffering from anxiety reached 46%, and the proportion of those suffering from depression reached 29%. As for the level of Palestine refugee children, about half of them suffer from anxiety, and 30% from depression. ... In a related context, the economic crisis has left deep scars on the material situation of families, and made them "on the edge of the abyss". 84% of the households residing on the Lebanese territory borrow money to buy basic items from grocery stores and foodstuffs, 79% of which are from Lebanese households. The percentage of families sending their children to work has reached 16%, compared to 11% last April, while a third of families among displaced Syrians send their school-age children to work."

https://al-akhbar.com/Community/374169/ربع-الأطفال-في-لبنان-لا-يذهبون-إلى-المدار

I think iran might pass vibe check in next week [1]

1. it was revealed to me in a dream

Videos of Israeli soldier misbehavior in Gaza create a headache for army | AP News

The videos seem to have been uploaded by soldiers themselves during their time in Gaza.

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A video posted by conservative Israeli media personality Yinon Magal on X, formerly Twitter, shows dozens of soldiers dancing in a circle, apparently in Gaza, and singing a song that includes the words, "Gaza we have come to conquer. … We know our slogan – there are no people who are uninvolved."

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Salutes to the yemeni heroes