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Ok hear me out: Home Alone: Lost in Palestine

• IDF drops leaflets in a neighborhood saying everyone must evacuate because they’ll bomb it
• The family flees to a refugee camp in Egypt, only to realize they forgot their son
• It turns out the IDF fabricated the bombing campaign
• The truth is that the IDF evacuated everyone so they can let settlers take over the Palestinians’ homes
• Palestinian Kevin ends up at a mosque, gets advice from a Maoist guerrilla
• He leaves the mosque - “This is my house. I have to defend it!”
• The settlers get owned over and over again trying to steal the house
• Right when the settlers corner Palestinian Kevin, the Maoist guerrilla from the mosque saves Palestinian Kevin by comically blasting the settlers 20 feet with an RPG

Milei takes refuge inside the federal police HQ.

The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, and the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, monitor the protests in the city of Buenos Aires, at the headquarters of the Argentine Federal Police.

Police block streets during protest against roadblock ban in Argentina.

What's up with the idea that Israel funded Hamas? Is that true, was it hubris that Israel thought they could divide and conquer by supporting one side over the others? Did Israel think they accomplished their goal with this only to be taken off guard as the group they funded came back to bite them? I don't know a lot about it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231221143809/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-begins-flying-migrants-to-sanctuary-cities-with-first-flight-to-chicago

The move from Abbott is an escalation from the strategy in place since April 2022 when he began bussing migrants first to Washington, D.C., and later expanded it to include other cities with "sanctuary" policies that forbid or limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

Abbott’s office said this week that the state has bussed over 82,900 migrants to cities, including Washington, D.C.; New York City; Chicago; Philadelphia; Denver; and Los Angeles. Abbott has said the operation provides "vital relief" to border towns and has promised to keep doing it "until Biden secures the border."

Critics have accused Abbott of performing an "illegal" political stunt, with the mayors of Chicago and New York in particular excoriating Abbott for the buses. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this week accused Abbott of creating chaos across the country.

Mr. putin, give onyx anti-ship missile to freedom fighters in yemen 🙏

Such a shame that powers that be, don't have joker-mode politicians. usa can funnel money to kill their people for 50 years, and they are like "ooh so uncivilized, lets talk more".

Starting with stalin, the fucking lib

‘Russia stopped us from buying fighter jets’ – Ukrainian arms firm

The CEO of a controversial private firm that helps Ukraine procure weapons in foreign markets, has lamented that Russia was able to derail its bid to buy fighter jets.

The company, Ukrainian Armored Technology, was identified by The New York Times in August as the biggest private supplier of arms to Ukraine, raking in hundreds of millions of dollars through what the US media outlet alleged are shady price-gouging schemes.

Vladislav Belbas discussed the firm’s operation and ties with the Ukrainian publication Ekonomicheskaya Pravda in an interview on Thursday.

The proposed jet deal involved a nation “on the other side of the planet,” Belbas told the outlet, but Russia somehow intercepted one of the messages detailing it.

“Soon, a representative of the Russian embassy in that nation started going around with that letter, threatening local officials that Russia would cut some projects in that nation,” the arms trader recalled. The sale was aborted by the seller, he said, offering no further details about the incident.

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“Much of the money that fuels this system comes from European aid,” the report said, citing an inside source. “But European and American officials are loath to discuss Mr. Pashynsky, for fear of playing into Russia’s narrative that Ukraine’s government is hopelessly corrupt.” In 2022, the firm reported sales totaling $350 million, up from $2.8 million the year before hostilities with Russia started, NYT reported.

imo bidens got a good chance of keeping the US' hegemonic position if hes able to steal all of european industry to reindustrialize in a timely and effective manner. in this ukraine and nordstrram has been a resounding success. problem is that hes not appreciably ahead and while private capital has not proven itself to be great at playing from behind, state driven industrial policy's track record in the 20th century speaks for itself.

at this point its basically a competition of whos national/bureaucratic bourgeoisie can inflict the least damage with their neoclassical policies. multipolar axis dropped the ball this interest rate cycle imo because they got worked over by said economists (also were unprepared to capitalize on the actual amount of global antiamerikkkan sentiment), while the amerikkkans got their bluff called by putins intervention/covid and were forced to raise rates earlier than they would have liked.

now we get to sit and wait and see how everyone arranges their pieces in anticipation of the next cycle.

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’m fascinated by how long it took for America to have any kind of non-passive stance on Ansarallah. Like, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world suddenly is seen as treacherous and not worth the risk to use, due to military actions being taken by a Iran-backed militia movement that most of the world doesn’t recognize as a state actor. And it took weeks for the globe-spanning empire that built an entire global order off of the promise of safety provided by its giant navy to get involved? Its like the cops showing up to a domestic disturbance call 3 weeks late and saying “damn that sucks” to the half-decomposed corpse of the victim before leaving.

What are folks’ thoughts on why it took so long for something to be done? Was fear of escalation with Iran region-wide strong enough to deter yanks from doing basic “globe spanning maritime empire” anti-piracy stuff? Do you think it was anxiety about whether their current surface fleet is capable of engaging a force that relies so heavily on missiles and drones? What led to this historically unprecedented reluctance from the USA?

It seems that Milei has ordered public transport to stop today. He really doesn't want people to protest, but that will only delay the protest, not stop it.

The situation will get worse very soon, and I doubt that the police and military forces will be on Milei's side when he stops paying them.

"We dont negotiate with terrorists" one of the worst "principles" ever. Not negotiating because negotiating is unmanly or something.

My god...

The mother of hostage killed by IDF, to the soldiers who shot her son: 'We are not judging you, it is no one's fault but Hamas'

Iris Haim, the mother of Yotam Haim, one of the three hostages who was mistakenly killed by IDF, said in the recording that was given to the soldiers who shot her son that none of the family members is judging them, and that the shooting they carried out "was probably the right thing, at that moment."

"I wanted to say that I love you very much, and that I'm hugging you here from afar, and I know that everything that happened is not your fault at all, and no one's fault except for Hamas," she said.

"Don't hesitate for one moment if you see a terrorist, don't think that you killed a hostage on purpose, you need to protect yourself because that's the only way you can protect us," Haim added.

Huawai confirms satellite mega-constellation

Looks like a Starlink competitor from Huawei (i.e., mostly for rural communities in peacetime and for military applications in wartime), but the article posits that, unlike Starlink, it might be accessible by phone without requiring a bulky satellite dish?