Someone who knows Arabic tell me if the subtitles are actually what he's saying because there's no fucking way lol: https://nitter.net/Binte_Chowdhury/status/1732460648490299599

from Monday https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/business/some-traders-appear-to-have-anticipated-october-7-hamas-attack-research-finds/index.html

Bets against the value of Israeli companies spiked in the days before the October 7th Hamas attacks, suggesting some traders may have had advance knowledge of the looming terror attack and profited off it, according to new research released Monday.

The preliminary research, which hasn’t been peer reviewed, is from law professors at Columbia University and New York University and details a “significant” and “unusual” spike five days before the attacks in short selling in the most popular fund linked to Israeli companies. Short selling is a way to bet against the value of a security.

Those bets against the value of the MSCI Israel Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in the days before the October 7 attack “far exceeded” the short selling activity that took place during the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2014 Israel-Gaza war and the 2008 global financial crisis, the paper finds.

look at this weak ass deboonking https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/business/israeli-regulators-unusual-trading-october-7/index.html

Israel’s top securities regulator said in an updated statement on Tuesday that it has not detected suspicious trading activity on the Israeli stock exchange in the days leading up to the October 7 Hamas attack.

The statement from the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) raises questions about some of the findings in a research paper released Monday that found an unusual spike in bets against Israeli securities just before the attack.

However, that research, from professors at New York University and Columbia University, did not exclusively focus on trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Instead, it relied heavily on short selling activity on a fund listed in New York, and Israeli regulators did not review that trading.

The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) said Tuesday that its technology intelligence system, which regularly monitors trading, did not uncover “significant trading abnormalities” that required further investigation prior to the terror attack.

A proactive examination, carried out immediately following October 7, similarly did not “wield any findings” suggesting “suspicious trading activity,” the ISA statement said.

The Israeli regulator said it did reexamine trading several weeks ago after it became aware of forthcoming research. The ISA said its reexamination “did not raise any concerns regarding suspicious activity on the stock exchange in Israel during the relevant days.”

In fact, the ISA said it found that the average short balances for shares traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange declined during the period just before October 7.

By contrast, the NYU and Columbia research found that bets against Israeli securities trades in Tel Aviv “increased dramatically.”

The new research, which has not been peer reviewed, relied heavily on short selling in a popular fund linked to Israeli companies. That fund, the MSCI Israel Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), trades on the New York Stock Exchange, not in Tel Aviv.

ISA noted in its statement that it supervises trading in Israel and its findings on suspicious trading “reflect only trading activity in Israel.”

Mossad released some "fighting footage"

https://nitter.cz/MOSSADil/status/1733547538655936756?t=yFnZz9oLSqteyXJ0qfYxWw

https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1733547538655936756?t=yFnZz9oLSqteyXJ0qfYxWw

Guatemala's King Cuck has reassured Taiwan that his government will maintain ties with them if he ever manages to become president. This dude is an entire circus. Channels Bernie Sanders to pander to his pro-US SocDems, promises to cut us off from Russian vaccines, calls off the protests that indigenous and student groups were doing over him, and now decides to back Taiwan because he claims countries that switched their allegiance to the PRC were disappointed by the lack of aid and subpar infrastructure.

Taiwan promises infrastructure and aid too but it pales in comparison to what China offers and does a lot more government interference than the PRC does despite what Washington wants people to think.

I say this while currently staying in Taiwan. Beautiful country with great people but the DPP government can fuck right off. Not that the KMT was much better with Guatemala but their policies towards China are less hostile.

The IDF minister has a vibe. He "sees signs" but he didn't elaborate and he has no evidence.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed Friday that he sees signs Hamas is at a breaking point in Gaza.

“Whoever thought a month ago that (they) would extinguish our lights, it is proven day after day what the results are. In the State of Israel, there is light, and in Gaza, there is darkness. This will continue to intensify. I see the signs that indicate (Hamas is) beginning to break inside Gaza,” he told Israeli soldiers during a Hanukkah candle lighting event.

He didn’t elaborate further and didn’t provide any evidence to support his assessment.

The defense minister’s remark comes as the Israeli forces intensify attacks in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military said earlier Friday that approximately 450 targets in Gaza were struck over the past day – the highest number reported since the end of the truce a week ago.

- CNN

It seems that Suriname, like Brazil, has mobilized its troops to the border with Guyana. Unfortunately, I can't find much information about this, as most of their newspapers are in Dutch.

The UN continues to be worse than useless: https://nitter.cz/muhammadsmiry/status/1732738132599091699

I'm starting to lean towards thinking Maduro is acting in his own political self interests.

Maybe in the short term it is preferable for the people of Venezuela that Maduro and his left neo-liberals stay in power because the alternative is the right wing neo-liberals. Its just as possible though that because he is being a neo-liberal and not a communist that eventually the right wing will take over and they will be past neo-liberalism, straight into fascism and the purges will be long and bloody.

I'm convinced of it now as I write this. Maduro is a dem-soc and because he isn't putting the fascists to the wall the fascists will eventually coup him and kill a shit ton of people like they have a dozen times before.

The war he is starting will go horribly because he thinks he has gotten the OK from USA and they will spin around and fuck him. Guyana will be a US proxy war and nobody will help Venezuela as much as they will need. Maduro will become deeply unpopular and the Fascists will coup him and socialist blood will run in the streets.

Essequibo: Annexation vs Incorporartion

"Annexation vs. Incorporation

Mainstream media has also launched a campaign alleging military skirmishes on the border of Venezuela and the Essequibo territory, including accusations of imminent annexation of the disputed territory by Venezuela. The campaign is clearly promoted by US mainstream media. According to Orinoco Tribune Editor Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza, many Western leftists have fallen into the trap of this narrative.

“The fact is that Venezuela is not the aggressor state in this dilemma,” said Rodríguez-Espinoza. “Guyana is by not recognizing the 1966 Geneva Agreement, with its recurrent military drills and high-level visits of US Southern Command officials to Guyana, its active participation in the extinct Lima Group aiming to isolate Venezuela diplomatically, the granting of oil concessions in waters that are not even part of the dispute and belong to Venezuela, with the arrogant position of Guyanese President Irfaan Ali rejecting multiple calls by President Maduro to resolve the issue using diplomatic means.”

“No one in Venezuela is talking about annexation or military aggression against Guyana,” he added. “No one is doing that. But the international campaign outside Venezuela is pushing in that direction, and that is very troublesome. The referendum is to symbolically incorporate the territory as another state and initiate plans to grant social services and Venezuelan citizenship to those living in the area. This is the most diplomatic and peaceful tool to begin exercising sovereignty over a territory that Venezuela has proven, with documents, belongs to it.”

The Venezuelan analyst and Orinoco Tribune editor also added that US mainstream media and the White House are trying to portray the recent Essequibo escalation and the referendum as an attempt by President Maduro to distract from economic problems and the opposition primaries. In reality—according to Rodríguez-Espinoza—the Venezuelan economy is recovering at a steady rhythm, and there is a positive attitude among Venezuelans regarding economic prospects. Meanwhile, few Venezuelans paid much attention to the opposition primaries, as the low turnout numbers demonstrated."

The invincible army

Villain and his henchmen shit

The UN Security Council will discuss the conflict between Venezuela and Guyana tomorrow

Video of IOF forces attempting to flood the Hamas Hyperloop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Mo5t61kO4