Deadly combo: Heat wave, ancapistan, privatised energy distribution and new year's eve.

Power outages hit Buenos Aires metropolitan area

More than 900,000 households lost electricity Tuesday evening across the Greater Buenos Aires area, with over 10,000 still without power on Wednesday

A power outage left more than 900,000 homes without electricity Tuesday night, according to the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE). As a heat wave pushed temperatures higher across the country ahead of New Year’s Eve, more than 10,000 households remained without power Wednesday morning, according to ENRE figures.

The outage began Tuesday evening and initially affected more than 45,000 users. By 6 p.m., the number had fallen to about 25,000, most of them Edesur customers. Edesur is one of the two main electricity distributors in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

A new demand peak around 9 p.m. triggered another massive outage that extended overnight. By 4 a.m., Edesur said on its social media channels that more than 50% of customers affected by a failure at the Bosques substation had regained service. The company added that technical teams remained on site to restore power. At that time, though, ENRE reported that the number of users without electricity had peaked at more than 950,000.

Power outages were reported in the districts of Quilmes, Lomas de Zamora, Lanús, Berazategui, Ezeiza and Almirante Brown, as well as in several neighborhoods of Buenos Aires City, including Recoleta, Flores and Caballito. Edesur said the outage was caused by a failure at its Bosques substation in Buenos Aires province, disrupting service at several substations across Buenos Aires City and Greater Buenos Aires. Service will be restored “in stages,” the company said.

Weather forecasts predict maximum temperatures near 40 degrees Celsius, a scenario that could strain the electrical grid again and lead to further outages throughout the day and during the evening festivities. Edesur and Edenor handle most of the electricity distribution in the Greater Buenos Aires area, a densely populated region where peak consumption often tests the infrastructure.

It is worth noting that Edesur is a privatised company owned by ENEL Américas which itself is part of ENEL S.p.A., an italian privately owned multinational dedicated to energy distribution. Edesur is mostly responsible for energy distribution in Buenos Aires' southern metropolitan areas, working-class neighborhoods where some of the poorest people live. ENEL has said in the past that Edesur is of "no strategic value" to them and therefore it's well below in the list of priorities. ENEL has began talks to sell Edesur to potential buyers but milei spoke with the CEO in person to stop it, arguing that "better opportunities for investments will arise in the near future" thanks to his "chainsaw plan". Such investments are still nowhere to be seen. The energy bill is expected to increase in 2026 too, and whatever subsidies are left will also be revised and possibly eliminated.

Meanwhile, as the heat wave marches on and this absolutely horrible year draws to a close, the fear of another massive blackout lingers on. God forbid the people who has given everything to keep themselves somewhat afloat have a moment of respite to celebrate with their family and friends.

Death to "israel"

UPDATE: Anarcho Capitalism? No no, I was saying Narco-Capitalism!

‘Fiscal innocence’: how Milei’s no-questions-asked law encouraging savers to use their stashed dollars works

A new law raises the threshold of how much money Argentines can spend without reporting it to tax authorities and encourages people to use the dollars stuffed ‘under their mattress’

President Javier Milei scored two wins on Friday: the congressional approval of his first budget bill, and the creation of a new law that applies the principle of innocence to tax evasion, with the goal of allowing Argentines to use their savings — especially dollars — with less supervision from authorities. The law, known as “fiscal innocence,” modifies the Argentine tax system, loosening controls and raising the threshold of how much money Argentines can spend without justifying where the funds came from.

One of its main goals is to encourage people to use the dollars they keep “under the mattress” — a term used to describe the money that is kept outside the bank system and that, therefore, is not part of the country’s cash flow. “Although the Argentine judiciary system states that we are all innocent until proven guilty, regarding tax issues we were all guilty until proven innocent,” Milei said in an interview with Radio Mitre on Saturday.

In an X post after the law passed, the president wrote that the new legislation is “revolutionary” and that it will “bring back the freedom” to use savings. “We are protecting Argentines’ savings forever. No government that comes after us will be able to rob the savings of good citizens.”

A new simplified income tax regime was created as part of the law. It will allow taxpayers who sign up to the scheme to no longer have to periodically inform authorities what their assets are, reducing bureaucratic steps. Their taxes will be calculated on the basis of their formal earnings. The regime only applies to residents with income exclusively of Argentine origin.

Economy Minister Luis Caputo said that, with the new law, people can make a dollar deposit in their bank and start using the money immediately and that the only requirement banks should ask for is to be registered in the simplified income tax regime. “If your bank starts asking for more information, don’t waste your time,” he wrote on X, recommending that people go to the state-owned Banco Nación instead.

If the bank asks you where did you get these 50,000 USD just tell them to fuck off and die.

The law has raised concerns over the possibility that it could be used to commit crimes such as tax evasion, money laundering and even drug-trafficking without the state stopping them. Months ago, when the government filed the bill, Milei said that he did not care how Argentines use their money and where it comes from, and that if there is an issue it should be solved by the judiciary, adding that the criminal sphere should be completely separate from fiscal controls.

Narcos will have a field day with this law.

Tax evaders, he also said, “are heroes, not criminals”, a phrase the anarcho-capitalist has repeated often, to signal his criticism of the high level of taxation Argentina has had in the past, to finance its constant fiscal deficit.

How the new regime works

The new fiscal law allows Argentines to use up to close to US$70,000 without having to declare its origins to the national tax agency ARCA. Up until now, taxpayers were considered to be engaging in tax evasion if they were unable to prove the origin of any expense above US$1,000, a number the government considered outdated.

Now, residents will start being investigated when they make unjustified money movements starting at AR$100 million (almost US$68,000). Undeclared movements of AR$1 billion (US$680,000) or more are now considered to be aggravated tax evasion, which carries a potential jail time of up to nine years. With the new law, ARCA will also pardon those who cancel their tax debt and interests, meaning they will not file a criminal complaint against them. This benefit can only be used one time per person. If a complaint has already been filed but the taxpayer pays the debt, interests and an additional 50% fine, the authorities will remove the complaint.

The statute of limitations for tax debts was also lowered from five to three years, meaning those who don’t pay will be let off the hook quicker. If registered in the new simplified income tax regime, people with annual earnings below AR$1 billion (US$680,000) and assets below AR$10,000 billion (US$6.8 million) will not be considered large taxpayers and ARCA will no longer look into their spendings or their assets.

The agency will only take into account the income the taxpayer informs and their deductible spendings to calculate how much they have to pay for their taxes. This means that those taxpayers will be able to buy assets or make large money transfers without being obligated to inform the nature of those movements to the tax agency or bank. “Now, you will be able to spend all you want and no one will be controlling you or collecting taxes based on your declared income,” Milei told Radio Mitre.

Now the question is, will Trump, the Great Crusader Against Drug Traffickers, bomb milei's attempt at building a narco state?

The biggest issue for milei today is getting US Dollars. There are three ways for him: Privatisations (which will see in 2026), Loans (which will never end) and going after people's savings. Argentina has A LOT of US Dollars but they're out of circulation, meaning people are keeping them somewhere in their homes stashed away from the banks and the state, milei wants them. This law is made not just to benefit some particular shady people linked with milei but also to suck up argentine's savings and get them in circulation. This practice of buying US Dollars and keep them as savings is common in Argentina, it's a reliable way of protecting your finances from inflation (like buying Euros or Gold) because the US Dollar rarely depreciates compared to the Peso, which is agonizing. This practice became very popular after the Corralito in 2001, where a fuckton of people lost their savings in US Dollars which were "safeguarded" by the same banks that left the country during these terrible years, never to be seen again. A lot of people lost their entire life savings in mere moments, which led to increased rates of suicides.

Anyways, and as always: DEATH TO "ISRAEL"

Is Bahrein a player in regional geopolitics? Because to me it is probably the most overlooked country of those in the region. I never hear anything about them, it is always Saudi or Qatar or the UAE doing some shit (usually murdering people) but Bahrein is "just chilling in their island". I assume they're Saudi-aligned?

And what about Kuwait? Another often overlooked nation, much larger and with a lot of oil reserves.. do they not have a say in regional matters?

The fuck is a "lithuania"?

I think the "happy [whatever] to everyone including [my enemies]" line Trump drops got old, repetitive and cringe.

renew your jokes you pedophile fuck

Boy... October 7th really did set things in motion huh? Looking back at it, when we first saw the videos of our brave men and women crossing the Wall of Hate with motorcycles, pickup trucks, paragliders... didn't we all feel something really big was going to happen?

There is no going back now, we live in a new world. The brave palestinians who launched an all-out assault against the zionist monster changed the world, with nothing to lose and a lot to win. May that be the date that marks the beginning of "israel's" final moments on Earth.

FIFA and UEFA to uphold ban on Russia from participating in international competitions at least until the 2026 FIFA World Cup

Meanwhile, FIFA and UEFA member "israel" killed a fuckton of FIFA-registered palestinian players in Gaza, dismantling a FIFA-regulated tournament in the process as well. You can sit comfortably waiting for them to take action against the zionist entity.

death to "israel"

I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren't just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to "israel", even thought pretty much all armies use them. "israel" uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much "israel" just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.

Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people's tents, a bulldozer that you can't see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of "israel's" plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it's doing it's work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it's extremely symbolic. Here's the video for those who didn't watch it

And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn't bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.

Death to "israel".

My University held a student's assembly today and decided: The University is now taken and partially managed by it's students until Wednesday, when the action will be temporarily suspended because we will hold a protest. However, if the Argentinian Congress fails to overturn milei's veto on education funding, a new assembly will be celebrated to decide on the next action. An indefinite occupation of the premises is not out of the question. We joined our efforts with the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires and other institutions that have carried out similar actions. This can become a big snowball very quickly.

Wherever this ends, it's valuable experience. Even if we don't achieve political victories, let it be known that we can work together and we can act in solidarity with one another. That's a big win, because we can find the ways to transform the material reality in capitalism, and that is, to me, the way to bring it down.

I've seen it, the videos coming out of Gaza of the huge crater made by the US-made bomb dropped on a refugee camp by the zionist genocidal entity. This, coupled with the very recent video of a palestinian emergency worker carrying the lifeless body of a young girl amid the rubble, whose head is completely cracked open and is later seen being filled with pieces of cloth just to give it some proper form for a proper humane burial... It's over, it's completely over. If the continued stream of horrific information that comes out from Gaza doesn't turn you into a radical anti-Zionist and anti-Genocide person, you're dead to me and to everyone else. There is no more room for doubters, either you're against this genocide or you fully embrace it and celebrate it. Large portions of the western world fall into the latter. Let us not forget about the decadent comprador regimes and royals who plague the Arab World, those like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia... whose lack of response directly aids the genocidal effort of "Israel".

There is no more discussion to be had, it cannot get any clearer than this, it is impossible. "Israel" has done everything they can to show the world their genocidal intentions, they're very open and shameless about it. Whoever doubts, at this stage, is supportive of genocide.

Watching a livestream from Gaza at the moment. It's night, and it's very eerie. Pretty much the entire city is pitch black, only a few lights can be seen in the distance. But the sounds, that's where it gets terrifying.

The nights are not calm, the Palestinian does not sleep, the night in Gaza is full of activity and dangers. There's the constant sound of an aircraft engine, it's very likely that this is at least one UAV flying above the city, watching them closely from above. From time to time, a jet engine can be heard, and not long after, an explosion. The explosions are heard intermittently, they break the silent of the night, they wake people up, and those who are not asleep will most likely rush towards the explosion to begin the horrible task of removing debris and see who can be pulled out alive... The average palestinian in Gaza does not sleep, they can't, they know that any minute now could be their demise. There's no shelters, no fancy Iron Dome, just counting on your blessings that the incoming missile doesn't hit your place. These nightly sounds are all meticulously crafted to break the Palestinian's spirit, every sound is there to remind them they're stuck in this concentration camp called Gaza.

To every fucker both-siding this conflict: First, suck every nanomillimeter of my third world cock. Second, watch 5 minutes of live night footage from Gaza. Tell me if the average brooklyn colonizer piece of shit in Tel Aviv has to live through the same horrors EVERY. FUCKING. NIGHT.

Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody

Completely unsurprising lmfao. The majority of SS volunteer formations absolutely sucked in combat, exceptions being for example "Nordland" but their actions were completely reckless and suicidal, achieving nothing in return. "Galizien" was among the terrible ones, units like these were good in nothing else than "anti partisan activities", and that often means pure war crimes -- hanging suspected partisans, surrendered partisans or general combat with irregular units, where the Germans conducted their war with no rules whatsoever. But when the time to face the actual Red Army came, these units were almost always utterly swept aside by the Soviets. After a good few days of intense beatings, their remnants would pull back and reorganize far from the front, where they resumed "anti partisan activities". "Galizien" took part in supressing the Slovak National Uprising, which they did by massacring civilians.

Also being volunteer formations make every single soldier absolutely guilty of every terrible action their units did, if some soldiers were forced into service there might be an argument, but there isn't, because each one of these fucks knew what they were doing. I am glad the Red Army brought ultimate justice to these pieces of shit, althrough this one might have slipped away.

And he slipped away to Canada like a fucking rat. And years later, Canada would give this fuck a standing ovation. Canada. Ask Canadian WW2 vets what they thought of the SS, ask any of their Normandy vets what they would do to any prisoner belonging to the "SS Hitlerjugend" division, this unit has a very particular history with Canadians. The SS commited numerous war crimes against Canadian troops in WW2, and these motherfuckers are now giving them standing ovations? Man fuck the west, fuck every bit of this worthless concept. Fuck all liberals, motherfuckers are an insult even to their own history.