Breaking non-surprising news - the IDF is evil and they use Gazans as human shields. But CNN doesn't want to use "human shields" so they say: "Israeli soldiers had taken cover behind the detainees."

Doctor says Gaza hospital staff and patients subject to harsh treatment by IDF

A doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza told CNN on Wednesday that he and dozens of staff were taken from the premises by Israeli soldiers to a military screening center nearby.

The doctor, who declined to be named out of fear for his safety, said in a telephone interview that men at the hospital had complied with an order from the Israel military on Tuesday to form a line outside the hospital.

They were then led about 500 meters away to a what he called a "filtration military camp" in Al-Birawi area on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya.

At that location, he told CNN, they were ordered to remove their clothes and were given blue overalls. They were handcuffed and sorted into groups based on their perceived threat level, the doctor claimed.

He claimed the detainees were physically and verbally abused while handcuffed. At one point, the doctor said, when clashes broke out, Israeli soldiers had taken cover behind the detainees.

The doctor’s claims cannot be verified. CNN has asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment on how staff, patients and others at Kamal Adwan were processed after leaving the hospital.

The doctor said that after several hours, the detainees — numbering about 1,000 people —were released and instructed to head toward specific areas in southern Gaza.

Gunfire injured several of the group, he said, as they walked south.

“The IDF continues to act against Hamas strongholds in the north of Gaza, among them the area of Beit Lahia. The IDF takes all feasible precautions to mitigate harm to noncombatants, and is fighting against the Hamas terrorist organization, and not the civilians in Gaza or the medical teams operating there. This while following international law," the IDF said in a statement.

CNN received the same response from the IDF regarding several and separate instances about their operations in Gaza.

Remember, it's not the Israel-Hamas War or the Israel-Gaza War, it's the Palestine-Zionist War. The Zionists are not targeting Hamas, or even just Gaza, but all of Palestine in a total war against a whole people. "Israel" is an illegal entity that should not be recognized as legitimate.

Israeli Diaper Force

Portuguese companies doing four-day week cut hours by 13.7%

More than 70% of the companies have adopted organisational changes, such as reducing the number and duration of meetings, creating work blocks or adopting new software, say the study’s coordinators, which indicates that 95% of the companies rate the test positively.

The four-day week also had an impact on workers’ mental health, with the anxiety index decreasing by 21%, fatigue by 23%, insomnia or sleep problems by 19%, depressive states by 21%, tension by 21% and loneliness by 14%.

Levels of exhaustion from work fell by 19%, and the percentage of workers who found it difficult or very difficult to reconcile work and family fell from 46% to 8%. The majority (65%) of workers spent more time with their families after the start of the reduction in working hours.

The report also indicates that 85% of workers “would only agree to move to a company with five-day working hours if they received a salary increase of more than 20%”.

Ukrainian commander Zaluzhnyi preparing major 2024 counteroffensive

https://english.nv.ua/nation/general-zaluzhnyi-plotting-new-2024-counteroffensive-with-more-western-weapons-says-german-outlet-50377021.html

Gee Zaluzhnyi, what are we going to do today?

The same thing we do every night Zelenskyy, try to take over Crimea!

⚡️| 🌍 BIG SUMMARY of all resistance operations today, December 14, against US-israeli forces

— 🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces:

🔻Carried out a military operation against the container ship "Mercy Gibraltar," headed towards israeli ports, targeting it with a suicide drone, causing a direct hit.

🔻Successfully prevented several ships from heading towards the israeli entity within the past 48 hours.

— 🇵🇸 Al-Qassam Brigades:

🔻(Partially) destroyed 25 Merkava tanks, 8 APCs & 3 military vehicles in various combat axes.

🔻Sniped 4 Zionist soldiers northwest of Gaza City.

🔻Targeted military field command rooms in the southern axis of Gaza City with short-range rockets and heavy-caliber mortars.

🔻Shelled army incursions in the eastern & northern axes of Khan Yunis with heavy-caliber mortars.

🔻Shelled army incursions in the eastern and northwestern axes of Gaza City with mortars.

🔻Targeted an IOF patrol unit with an anti-personnel explosive, causing casualties among them, in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.

🔻Killed at least 10 IOF officers/soldiers in an operation on an IOF infantry force in Hassanin Street in Shujaiya area, using powerful explosive devices.

🔻Targeted an IOF infantry force, inside a building with TBG explosives, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

— 🇵🇸 Al-Quds Brigades:

🔻Shelled military concentrations east of Zaytoun with heavy-caliber mortars.

🔻Shelled military gatherings in the "Natsarim" axis with a barrage of 60mm caliber mortars.

🔻(Partially) destroyed 6 Merkava tanks, 2 APCs & 1 D9-military bulldozer in various combat zones.

🔻Shelled military concentrations in the southwestern axis of "Natsarim" with heavy-caliber mortars.

🔻Sniped a Zionist soldier in the axis of Sheikh Radwan west of Gaza City.

🔻Shelled military concentrations east of the central governorate with a barrage of mortars.

🔻Shelled military concentrations around the Al-Zalal Mosque in the axis east of Khan Yunis with a barrage of 60mm mortars.

🔻In a joint operation with the Al-Qassam Brigades, ambushed a building where IOF forces took refuge, resulting in 6 casualties between dead & injured in the Shujaiya axis east of Gaza.

— 🇵🇸 Martyr Omar Al-Qassem forces:

🔻Clashed & ambushed IOF forces in the axes east of Shujaiya, causing many casualties leading to the IOF admitting its losses after it became too much.

🔻Clashed IOF forces & vehicles on Street 5

— 🇵🇸 Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

🔻Clashed with IOF forces in various axes

— 🇵🇸 Mujahideen Brigades:

🔻Intense clashes with IOF forces in the Shujaiya axes.

— 🟡 Hezbollah:

🔻Targeted an IOF army gathering near Shomera barracks with appropriate weapons.

🔻Targeted Yiftah barracks and a group of IOF soldiers & militants vehicles in its vicinity with appropriate weapons.

🔻Targeted a group of israeli soldiers near Hunin with appropriate weapons.

— 🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq:

🔻Targeted the US base in Shaddadi, south of Al-Hasakah in Syria, with a suicide drone, causing a direct hit.

https://nitter.net/AryJeay/status/1735429044114485536

IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva has congratulated Javier Milei's government on the economic measures announced yesterday by Economy Minister Luis Caputo.

Georgieva says that this is an important step towards the stability and reconstruction of the country

Seen in Oxford today.

Nitter

https://twitter.com/KeatonPatti/status/1735780961353375946

Very sad this isn't real

Read this from a Russian communist channel and the first thought that came to my mind was, I bet half of the news mega users had done something similar:

Now it’s a shame to remember what an idiot I was just a year and a half ago:(((. I went, for example, to wash in the bathroom, turned on the news broadcast at full volume and left the door open - what if I missed the news about the final liberation of Marinka?? Then it seemed that this is a matter of, if not several hours, then several days. Until the Donetsk comrades explained and showed what a modern fortified area is.

Most people are just starting to learn what modern warfare really is in the past 2 years, and why it is almost suicidal to try to rush deeply fortified defense positions.

The IOF's numbers of killed and wounded are absolutely false. Our fighters' testimonies from the field show exponentially higher numbers just from attacks against infantry forces, to say nothing of those killed and wounded in vehicles that are damaged or destroyed.

Our clashes with enemy have revealed how weak & cowardly their army is, relying not on fighters but technology. When the moment of truth and confrontation arises, you find them running and screaming for help like children, as our fighters hunt them like sitting ducks

The only thing we see disintegrating is the criminal enemy army, not our brigades. And what the enemy is hoping for, they shall discover whether sooner or later, is a but a mirage and a great delusion, by the will and power and support of God

Our fighters are increasingly convinced that the enemy is using mercenaries, in this battle that they claim is an existential battle of national dignity.

Our mujahideen hear enemy soldiers screaming for help after every operation, and see their hysterical reaction, firing bullets and bombs everywhere at random to disguise their fear and to cover for the retrieval of the bodies of the dead and wounded.

Israelis malding that resistance rockets are keeping them up at night

Hope the fascist fucks all develop insomnia

"China held its 10th national memorial ceremony on Wednesday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre. During the day, former curator of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders called for the younger generation to remember the painful memories and dedicate themselves to contributing to the development of the nation. .. The Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the city on December 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II."

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202312/1303581.shtml

🚨🇮🇱 🇵🇸 DEVELOPING STORY: Israeli media is also now reporting that an Israeli ship has caught fire after Yemeni terrorist Houthis of Hodeidah attacked an Israeli ship with a cruise missile off the Yemeni coast.

Shipping Scope

Patriots are not in control:

Details have emerged about the destruction of the Patriot air defense system from the Turks. A battery of Patriot air defense systems sent by Germany to Ukraine was destroyed by a Kinzhal missile near Zhitomir, west of Kiev.

There is also a claim that it could have been a battery, partly divided between Kiev and Odessa, and that it was withdrawn to the west after the shelling of the center of Kiev.

Five launchers, one command vehicle, and one air surveillance radar were destroyed.

Also destroyed were 80 ready-to-fire missiles worth $5.5 million and 160 spare missiles in stock. Their value is $1.32 billion.

Over the past eight years, the United States has ordered between 108 and 328 new MIM-104 missiles. In one blow, Russia virtually wiped out a year's production.

During the attacks on Kiev, the air defense system was integrated with the radar of the AEGIS complex and long-range radar detection and control aircraft in Poland and Romania and tried to shoot down the Kinzhals, but was destroyed.

Thus, the number of Patriot air defense systems destroyed in Ukraine has increased to four.

@Slavyangrad

Oh you're not voting for Biden? Have fun when Trump deports you.

Google has lost its anti-trust case versus Epic where Epic accused Google of abusing its monopoly power, trying to force Epic to use Google play store billing inside Fortnite on Android.

A victory for gamers second tier billionaires.

Prices are "liberated" (as if they weren't free enough with 140% annual inflation), direct impact on food. Coming January 1st, subsidies to public transportation and energy are to be eliminated, thus increasing the costs of both. Salaries will remain static, at least the government will most likely not intervene. That's their policy, non intervention, if prices to go up then "people will have to choose not to consume" (Mind you, not to consume food, they said this). There's a lot of uncertainty as to what's going to happen next, some people I know are truly desperate because they don't have the pockets to face the incoming crisis, they just can't, they'll be eaten alive. And this is just the beginning, we're barely three days into the new government.

Unbearable life is about to get even more unbearable, in one day I fell below the poverty line, just like that. It cannot continue like this, it just can't. They can't push everything to it's absolute limit and expect everything to fall in place, eventually it'll explode in their faces. Trust me when I say this: We will not wait for some fucking good for nothing crackers in the West to finally get their shit together and trigger the Revolution when they get tired of exploiting us, making us a "favor", we will do it from here. The Revolution comes from the south, from the places suffering the most excruciating hunger and desperation.

Supermarkets and shops in Argentina see price hikes of up to 50%

Given the end of the price agreement, the heads of big business and corner shops have had rises well above the weekly inflation. They have also warned about shortages on shelves.

Price control agreements signed by Argentina's former economy minister Sergio Massa with suppliers of food and other goods are terminated and the prices of some products at some supermarkets and shops are already increasing by up to 50 percent. Sources in the industry reveal that things are “out of control.” Last week products were hiked massively, even ahead of Tuesday's devaluation of the peso.

“There’s no control, it’s over. A price stampede is coming between 15 and 20 percent,” stated one supermarket chain executive. The president of the FABA Buenos Aires Province Federation of Grocers, Fernando Savore, in turn, points out that up to last weekend hikes of between 30 and 40 percent had already been registered.

“On Tuesday November 21, we started restocking on goods, and they have risen between 25 and 30 percent. Sugar was 900 pesos, now it’s 1,100 pesos, a 32-percent increase. Over the last week, it has climbed to 1,350 pesos,” said the supermarket employee. In parallel, Savore warned about shortages due to economic uncertainty. “Wholesalers have no oil. Before the PASO primaries, sunflower oil was 550 pesos and today it’s above 1,500 pesos. It’s impossible to sell. At today’s prices, people’s pockets won’t be able to cope,” he cautioned.

Following that line, Savore also forecast the discontinuation of certain items with above-average mark-ups which if unsold, expire and bring a loss to corner shops. Local neighbourhood supermarkets (those that aren't chains, locally called 'chinos') are no exception to the rule. Representatives from the sector revealed to this medium that price updates have varied within a range between 12 and 25 percent over the last few days. "There are no goods for various products. They’re being stocked, awaiting the new government’s economic measures,” pointed out a representative in relation to the caution prevailing among many wholesalers and suppliers.

Price controls

Amid the arrival of Javier Milei and his team in the national government, many firms still do not have an official spokesperson to consult and implemented adjustments which seek to offset the delay have been incurred by agreeing on a ceiling under the inflation over the last few months under Precios Justos (Fair Prices) price-control scheme. In late October, Alberto Fernández’s administration extended the programme up to December 31 and, thus, intended to freeze the values of 52,300 mass consumer products. Prior to that, authorised updates were five percent per month. However, the new president revealed that he would free prices to correct delays and distortions and even announced the closedown of the Trade Secretariat, in charge of discussing the value of products on shelves with companies up to December 10.

Alerted by the libertarian’s discourse, thousands of citizens flocked to wholesale and retail supermarkets to stock up before the presidential inauguration. Indeed, there were long queues in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area and elsewhere in the country.

Meat soars

At the same time, meat rose by 20 percent the first week of December and rose by a further 15 percent at the Cañuelas cattle market. Thus, so far this month prices havejumped by 35 percent. The price per kilo on the hoof is now 1,500 pesos, which entails that half a carcass is 3,000 pesos and cuts have escalated to up to 6,000 pesos per kilo on average. According to sources from the sector, the increase will begin to affect butchers within 48 hours. On this subject, former president of the Argentine Farming Federation, Eduardo Buzzi, had revealed days ago that “if they let it flow, we’re heading for meat at 20,000 or 25,000 pesos per kilo,” clearly rejecting the policies of La Libertad Avanza.

“They’re international values in dollars or euros. That’s what a kilo of meat is worth on the counter in European countries, and it’s what it would be worth if we want to compare ourselves with Chinese demand. Some cuts are already worth 5,000 or 6,000 pesos. Let’s imagine if that doubles or trebles,” Buzzi stated on the radio.

Tracking the hikes

The LCG consultancy firm measured a 7.4-percent inflation of food and beverages in the first week of December, which translates into a 4.1-percent jump from the previous seven days. Dairy products and eggs topped the rankings of increases with a 20-percent rise, followed by Household beverages and infusions (8.7 percent), Condiments and other food products (6.9 percent) and Meats (6.4 percent).

“The average inflation continued to accelerate, reaching 12.3 percent, +1.8 points compared to the previous week. The point-to-point measurement accelerated over the next few weeks (17.5 percent),” the report stressed. Between January and October this year, food and beverages had a 134.2-percent rise, above the overall 120 percent rate and were the category which grew the most in 2023. Compared to the same month in 2022, it increased by 153.8 percent.

Viewpoint: Norwegian tanker attack signals new threat to global trade

It seems there’s a global lack of understanding just how connected the world of trade is. Trade is made possible through a web of companies around the world. Ocean carriers and tankers move the world of trade on vessel routes. So while your container may not have a destination of Israel, the vessel that it’s on could be bound for Israel on its route at some point. Nearly every major ocean carrier serves Israel. The fact that Houthi rebels have expanded their targets of Israeli-connected vessels is one that has changed the logistics security game. Some logistics managers have told me they have shippers asking if their cargo can be placed on a vessel that is not calling Israel.

found this shipping news youtuber as well just now interesting has a bunch of details . (as expected, hes lib coping on "Sanktions beeing illegal" ,"Houthies cant do this )

“Israel” just executed children at school

One of the most unintentionally funny paragraphs I've ever seen, courtesy of Bloomberg:

The World’s Fastest-Sinking Megacity Has One Last Chance to Save Itself

Venice is sinking. So are Rotterdam, Bangkok and New York. But no place compares to Jakarta, the fastest-sinking megacity on the planet. Over the past 25 years, the hardest-hit areas of Indonesia’s capital have subsided more than 16 feet. The city has until 2030 to figure out a solution, experts say, or it will be too late to hold back the Java Sea.

Cue Anthoni Salim, the billionaire owner of PT Air Bersih Jakarta, the firm tapped by the government to expand piped water access to the city’s 11 million residents immediately, if not sooner. As of now, one in three Jakartans doesn’t have access to piped water, relying instead on the thousands of illegal wells that dot the city — and deplete the aquifers and weaken the ground, creating prime conditions for further sinking.

If Salim’s ABJ can help deliver on the plan to bring water to every Jakarta household, experts say the city has a chance — and the company will rake in billions of dollars. If it fails, it’s likely that chaos will reign in the world’s second-biggest metropolis. Unabated sinking, combined with intensifying storms and rising sea levels, will be more than Jakarta’s seawalls can withstand, said JanJaap Brinkman, a flood expert at Dutch water research institute Deltares: “There will be so much sea water rushing in, it will never stop. There will be no escape.”

For Salim, who didn’t respond to requests for comment for this story, it’s been a long time coming. He’s amassed more than $10 billion through a handful of industries, including one of the world’s biggest instant-noodle makers, but controlling the capital’s water supply has been a personal priority since a revolution almost dismantled his family’s conglomerate 25 years ago. When the government sought bids to revamp the city’s water infrastructure, Salim’s was one of two companies to raise its hand.

Denmark recently passed a law banning the burnings / desecrations of the Quran, in response to noted Danish lunatic and far right activist Rasmus Paludan, who somehow managed to fuck up the swedish NATO ascension by burning a Quran in front of the Turkish embassy. Pretty much anything Paludan does in Sweden is considered an international embarassment, and he has now declared that he intends on forming a street theater group in order to get around the ban on burning Qurans. See, the law includes a 2nd section, which allows you to burn/desecrate a Quran if it is as part of a "broader artistic work". Of course the law does not define what those words actually mean, meaning that Erdogan might get another chance to do a pro-gamer move to the Swedes in about 3 months. Something that Paludan did that massively complicated matters is that he somehow managed to obtain citizenship in Sweden about 10 years ago, and has been a dual citizen of Denmark and Sweden ever since, which means that Sweden is prohibited from banning him from the country, which he has taken advantage of, by going to either Stockholm or Malmö and burning Qurans to his heart's content.

Also his supposed street theater group plans on having their performance solely in front of the Turkish embassy, which I hope Turkey will take as an opportunity for a little extra-judicial assasination, since very few people in Denmark will miss him.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-16/council-member-in-ukraine-sets-off-hand-grenades-during-meeting/103237610

uhh

The United States has requested Australia send a warship to the Red Sea in response to Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking ships passing through the sea lane.

The rebel group has vowed to block ships heading to Israel until the offensive on Gaza is ended, and yesterday fired a missile at a Norwegian tanker travelling through its strait.

The US request would mark a major escalation in Australia's involvement in Israel's war on Hamas, just a day after the nation signed onto a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Speaking to the ABC, Treasurer Jim Chalmers confirmed the government was considering a US request to send a warship.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-14/us-request-australia-warship-red-sea-houthi-rebels/103227056

::: spoiler jerking off noises

"It is important to recognise we already make a contribution to maritime security in that part of the world, often dangerous part of the world. When we get these kinds of requests from time to time, the usual practice would be for the defence minister to consider that," Mr Chalmers said.

A US Pentagon press secretary yesterday said the international community must support a task force to guard ships in the Red Sea.

"The actions that we've seen from these Houthi forces are destabilising, they're dangerous, and clearly a flagrant violation of international law," the official said.

"And so this is an international problem that requires an international solution."

Meanwhile Labor backbencher Josh Burns, who is in Israel with a cross-party delegation, has criticised the UN ceasefire resolution which Australia signed onto.

Mr Burns said he supported the prime minister's statement in support of a ceasefire — on the condition that Hamas releases hostages it took in the October 7 terror attack on Israel.

But the MP was critical of the motion passed by the UN, which did not include a condemnation of Hamas.

"Any ceasefire has to be a two-sided negotiated outcome. Any ceasefire has to be an agreement between two parties. And the foreign minister, and the prime minister in his statement, has reiterated that Hamas cannot be a part of the future governance of Gaza, and they need to be disarmed," Mr Burns said.

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham, also speaking from Israel, said Australia should not have signed the resolution.

"We have to face up to the reality: Hamas is a violent terrorist organisation who deliberately targeted individuals, civilians, in their attacks, did so in the most barbaric ways and have said publicly given the chance they would do so again," Senator Birmingham said.

"And so the risk of voting for ceasefire, or calling for ceasefire is that Hamas just uses that time to re-arm, to regroup and to repeat those horrors all over again and so the cycle of violence continues."

The greatest minds of telegram solving the United States

U.s judge just gave a former fbi COINTEL officer 50 months prison for violating sanctions in helping some Russian capitalist launder money I think, and he's getting the book thrown at him probably because of the Ukraine War where his ilk would probably get out of trouble after paying a fine

First off lol get fucked you damn ghoul, second off fuck you judge and legal system: 50 months for "helping enemies of the United states" is less punishment than the average sentence for drug possession on federal charges which is approximately 81 months.

You literally get punished harder for doing drugs than you do for committing treason, further proof of the sham nature of the capitalist justice system.

Biden promises continued military assistance to Israel and he says "I am a Zionist," at a Hanukkah event. Then they sing "Hava Nagilah", lift him on a chair, and dance him around the middle of the circle like a groom at a Jewish wedding.