Argentines March Against Milei's Economic and Security Policies

"Milei announced a declaration of war against the people's labor, social, and civil rights," stated the activists calling for the protests.

On Wednesday, human rights defenders, social activists, workers, students, teachers, and retirees will march in Buenos Aires to reject President Javier Milei's economic adjustments and security protocol.

This marks the first major mobilization against the far-right administration and coincides with the anniversary of the 2001 social upheaval that led to the resignation of then-President Fernando de la Rua.

The mobilization aims to defend the right to protest, which is under threat with the protocol announced by the Security Ministry. Among the groups participating in the march are the Worker Pole, the Left Front, Great Homeland, the Communist Party, the Railway Union, "Memory, Truth and Justice," the Peace and Justice Service, and the Teachers' Trade Union.

The march will have two columns starting at 4:30 PM local time from the Congress and the Obelisco. They will converge at Mayo Square where social activists will read a document agreed upon by various groups.

"Milei announced a declaration of war against the people's labor, social, and civil rights. It includes a mega-devaluation, the freezing of funding for popular dining facilities, and significant increases in service fees," stated the activists calling for the protests.

They also denounced a protocol that seeks to preserve the so-called "public order" because it undermines constitutional rights, including the right to protest.

Last week, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced an anti-protest protocol that includes prison sentences, charging protesters for the expenses incurred in deploying security forces, and deporting foreign demonstrators.

"The protocol establishes that any demonstration that is carried out with blockades of streets or routes constitutes the commission of a flagrant crime and enables the security forces to evict or disperse the protest," Piensa Prensa reported.

"At the same time, it contains provisions to collect information, criminalize, persecute and stigmatize participants in public demonstrations and the political, social and union organizations involved," it added.

On the eve of the first major protest against Milei, Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello announced that citizens participating in or promoting street blockades will cease to receive public support through social programs.

How do y'all think this conflict would have played out if Iran had decided that building a nuclear weapon was actually in its best interest?

Engineered famine. I really have no words anymore.

just caught a blip of the BBC world service on the radio describing their upcoming progrmming: "as war continues in south sudan, we talk to an american senator about how to resolve the conflict"

or something like that. It was really blatant

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Bans-Exports-of-Rare-Earth-Tech-as-Critical-Minerals-Race-Heats-Up.html

Note this is a technology export ban, not rare earths export ban. A common phrase is that rare earths are not rare and that is correct, but China does a lot of rare earth mining and the vast majority of the world's refining. Refining of these minerals is quite high tech as far as mineral processing/metallurgy goes because rare earths are all quite similar and so are hard to separate. It is also hard to refine them to be sufficiently pure for the high tech applications they are used in. I suspect that western onshoring of rare earth tech is harder than people expect. there is little institutional memory and skills for these topics in the west after decades of outsourcing and also because the rare earth refining needs have changed over the past decades to reflect advances in technology.

Hamas has infiltrated my bathroom and just clogged my toilet. Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable precision strike plunger? I don’t like use an auger because it takes forever to clean. I saw something called a “ToiletShroom” which is basically a pseudo-auger that’s easier to clean, but it breaks easily. I’ve seen recommendations for a plunger called the Konky Beehive but i don’t know if it’s shills or actually good.

@carpoftruth@hexbear.net, in relation to your comment on rare earth extraction and how it's not necessary that complicated as it's mainly know-how about chemical engineering, there's this article from this September. Not sure if you have any thoughts

Chinese scientists make key breakthroughs in rare earth mining

A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reveled major breakthroughs in rare earth mining on a meeting on Sunday. The discoveries will helpshorten mining time by about 70 percent, reduce the impurity content by 70 percent and increases the recovery rate of rare earths by about 30 percent.

The findings were made by He Hongping's team from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. They presented the research results at a scientific evaluation meeting in Meizhou City, South China's Guangdong Province.

This new mining technology is mainly applied to the mining of weathered crust rare earth ores, a characteristic resource in China. It aims to solve the problems of present in-situ leaching technology in ecology, resource efficiency, and to promote efficient and green utilization of rare earth resources in China.

Professor He's team creatively developed a new way of using electric currents to extract rare earth elements (REEs), compared to traditional methods which uses ammonium chloride as leaching agents to extract REEs. The new technology is more environmental friendly as it avoids soil contamination caused by leaching agents, which responded to Chinese government's demand for environmental protection and green and efficient mining.

With a 5,000-ton earth-moving scale demonstration area, professor He's team was able to test his findings on soil and achieved design outcomes on the ground. This key technology and its results have helped He's team publish 11 high-level papers in journals such as Nature Sustainability, and to obtain 7 patents for inventions. Citing a report from Nature Sustainability, Anouk Borst, a geologist at KU Leuven called the strategy "A game changer, providing that it is feasible on a large scale."

At the evaluation meeting, experts of the Evaluation Committee listened to the report of the He's team, reviewed the relevant information and visited the demonstration site. After discussion and deliberation, the Evaluation Committee unanimously agreed that He's finding is a World-Class technology.

Europe will be on the brink of total economic collapse and total right wing electoral victory and the European "left" will still be insisting that real clintonism has never been tried.

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.

Player tip: 99% of neocolonial powers stop shelling insurgencies right before they're finally demoralized, surrender unconditionally and accept the puppet government. 8 more years of bombing Yemen and we'll get a second democracy in the middle east.

Argentines Reject President Milei's Economic Deregulation

Through a decree, the far-right politician reformed over 300 laws to establish "the foundations for the reconstruction of the Argentine economy."

On Wednesday night, thousands of Argentinians protested against the state downsizing policies, privatization of public assets, and economic deregulation proposed by President Javier Milei.

Through an "urgent" decree, Milei reformed over 300 laws to establish "the foundations for the reconstruction of the Argentine economy."

Among other things, his decree transforms all state-owned enterprises into anonymous societies for subsequent privatization, repeals the rental law, authorizes the total or partial transfer of the shareholding of Aerolineas Argentinas, and prohibits setting limits on exports.

The decree also includes other measures aimed directly at deregulating economic activity. These include the repeal of the Supply Law, which imposes sanctions on companies in cases of shortages of certain products, and the repeal of the Shelves Law, which obliges supermarkets to offer a minimum of products manufactured by small businesses.

Protest calls spread rapidly after the national broadcast through which the far-right President announced his package of economic policies. Citizens gathered in the vicinity of the Congress to continue the protest that thousands had carried out hours earlier, marching through the streets of downtown Buenos Aires to Mayo Square in front of the Presidential headquarters.

The nighttime mobilization was also felt in various neighborhoods of the capital, where residents staged a loud protest from their windows and balconies by banging pots and other household items. The protest action was heard in neighborhoods such as Caballito, Almagro, and Avellaneda, but also in middle and upper-class areas such as Palermo and Belgrano.

"Milei subverts the democratic republican order and disrupts the division of powers. His unconstitutionality is evident. We will not tolerate an attack on social security and labor and social rights," said Hector Daer, the secretary of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).

Anyone have the video of Yemeni fighters capturing that vessel and dancing with the crew or whatever?

If Venezuela and Brazil invaded Argentina that would be pretty cool and neat.

When you got tired of losing to Russians and want to lose to Hamas as well: https://nitter.cz/talhaahmad967/status/1737242405135593756

Orban continues to block the $50b over 4 year ukraine aid package from the EU. Hungary is up for $10-20b of eubux, so he wants that and the EU wants him to stay in line. A lot of euro seething in this one but not that interesting, continuation of big question marks for who is going to pony up the bux for project ukraine.

https://archive.is/GCgzD

"What we have always desired from day 1, is a direct war between us and the Americans & Israelis, not through their silly proxies.": https://nitter.cz/AryJeay/status/1737466205076599043

Anybody have a link to that classic video montage of Xi waving during a parade with news clips over top of him about China eliminating poverty and the bloomer at the end? Need it for a friend.

Danish media is reporting that shipping company Mærsk has announced that they are preparing to resume operations in the Red Sea. According to reports the announcement has been made after the United States started the cartoonishly villanously named "Operation Prosperity Guardian" to help maritime traffic break Yemeni sanctions on the illegal zionist entity.

the souls of the revolutionaries live on in each of us that stands for the liberty of all, lenin is with you

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/14/a-master-of-terror/

Prabowo first arrived in East Timor in 1976 soon after the invasion. He commanded the unit that captured and then killed East Timor’s legendary first prime minister, Nicolau Lobato, in 1978. Lobato’s body was paraded before the Indonesian and Western press, and to this day his souvenired severed head has not been returned to Timor for burial.

In 1983, Prabowo bypassed a superior officer and undermined a peace process underway between a moderate Indonesian military, and then resistance leader, now Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. He is also the subject of accusations that same year of commanding massacres of as many as 200 civilians, mainly men, in the southern village of Kraras, an area now known as “The Valley of Widows.”

In 1985 Prabowo attended the commando training course in the U.S. at Fort Benning, the notorious U.S. Army’s “School of the Americas.”

Ancap Update:

The spokesman for the Argentine Presidency, Manuel Adorni, said that the police operation set up on Wednesday to cover that day's demonstrations would have to be paid for by the organizers.

The cost of the operation on Wednesday was 60 million pesos (74,000 dollars): the Polo Obrero, the Evita Movement, Libres del Sur, Barrios de Pie and 10 other organizations will have to pay it.

In total, the amount is the equivalent of more than 60 million pesos.