Has there been an alternative assessment of Israeli losses in Gaza? Their self-reported numbers sound low, but I haven't seen any published figures from Hamas/Hezbollah. Is anyone tracking this? Is there any indication that Israel can or can not sustain this level of losses indefinitely? Mercouris downplayed the RPG/tank videos early on saying "Israel has many thousands of tanks", but how many experienced tank crews do they have to operate them?

Israel's channel 12: "Tony Blair to head team on voluntary evacuation from Gaza"

FUCKING TONY BLAIR. Must refrain for fedposting too hard

On the 12th day of Christmas, the Resistance gave to me:

Twelve dying Zionists
Eleven Kornets firing
Ten tanks exploding
Nine ships delaying
Eight burning barracks
Seven Yassins blasting
Six diapered settlers
Five frightened kings! 🇰🇼 🇦🇪 🇧🇭 🇴🇲 🇸🇦
Four Shahed drones
Three front lines
Two helis downed
And an empire brought to its knees

Ancap update:

Argentina is out of BRICS, reports Javier Milei.

The announcement was made in a letter to the five leaders of the bloc. The announcement of the new BRICS countries was made on August 24, during the group's summit in Johannesburg.

In addition to Argentina, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia and Iran were invited to join BRICS from 01/01/2024.

"Brazilian government said that Buenos Aires' position was received with "zero surprise" in Brasilia. In November, Argentina's foreign minister, Diana Mondino, had already indicated that her country would not join the bloc."

Give their membership to Venezuela or Bolivia

President Milei Rejects Joining Argentina to BRICS

During his presidential campaign, he said that Argentina would align itself with the U.S. Israel, the EU, and the "free world."

On Friday, the Argentine Foreign Affairs Ministry formally announced that President Javier Milei will not incorporate his country into the economic cooperation bloc formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS).

The decision was communicated through letters dated December 22, sent to Lula da Silva (Brazil), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Narendra Modi (India), Xi Jinping (China), and Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa).

In his letter, the far-right politician, who assumed the Argentine presidency on Dec. 10, expressed that Argentina will not participate as a member of BRICS.

“As you are aware, the foreign policy imprint of the Government that I have presided over for a few days differs in many aspects from that of the previous Government. In this sense, some decisions made by the previous management will be reviewed. Among them is the creation of a specialized unit for the country's active participation in BRICS,” Milei said.

"Serious: Argentine dictator Javier Milei decided to withdraw his country from the BRICS. I am imagining the concern of China and other nations upon knowing that their bloc will not have the presence of a country whose crazy leader allowed that salaries would be paid with bananas."

“I would like to inform you that at this stage the incorporation of the Argentine Republic to the BRICS as a full member as of January 1, 2024 is not considered appropriate,” he added.

In August, during the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, those countries decided to invite Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran to join the bloc. This invitation was positively received by the then-President, Alberto Fernandez (2019-2023).

During his campaign, however, Milei had already rejected this proposal, arguing that Argentina would align itself with the United States, Israel, the European Union, and the "free world."

Currently, BRICS collectively will have a production equivalent to 36 percent of the global GDP and a market representing 42 percent of the world's population. So far, Argentina has sent 30 percent of its exports to that market.

Apparently, the IOF are hacking into the security cameras of civilians in southern Lebanon because all of their surveillance equipment got rekt by Hezbollah: https://nitter.cz/political_aya__/status/1740436945212232104

We call on our dear people, especially in the bordering villages in the area where Resistance operations are taking place, to disconnect the private cameras in front of their homes, shops and institutions from the Internet, and to contribute to further blinding the enemy to some of the activities or movements carried out by the Resistance and its Mujahideen in the region.

Pure unadulterated copium: Ukraine Doesn’t Need All Its Territory to Defeat Putin

New

https://twitter.com/revolutionaryem/status/1739374528461967620

https://nitter.net/revolutionaryem/status/1739374528461967620

Under British occupation, India experienced 12 famines that each killed millions of people.

@Middle East Observer

Channel 7 Hebrew:

An #Israeli soldier suffers from difficult psychological conditions while he is near Ashkelon on leave for several days to rest after the fighting in #Gaza..

He woke up at night and took another soldier's weapon and opened fire on the soldiers accompanying him, wounding a number of them before he was controlled and referred for psychological treatment.

Israeli Channel 12:

A soldier from the Paratroopers Brigade returning from #Gaza opened fire after waking up from a nightmare and wounded his comrades

The soldier's incident was referred for investigation by the Ministry of Defense, and it was decided not to investigate him due to his health condition

Argentines to Go on General Strike Against Milei's Reforms

Among other things, the far-right President intends to govern by granting himself legislative powers for 4 years.

On Thursday, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Argentina's largest labor union, called for a general strike and a march to the Congress on January 24th to protest against the decree of urgent necessity and a bill that grants "superpowers" to the far-right president Javier Milei to govern discretionally for two years.

The general strike will take place one day before the date on which the Milei administration intends to have Parliament vote in favor of his neoliberal reform package, which seeks to deregulate and liberalize the Argentine economy and downsize the State.

As political processes are currently happening in Argentina, however, parliamentary approval could become just a formality, since Milei's anti-worker reforms began to come into force de facto from December 29.

On Wednesday, Milei also sent another bill to Parliament to declare Argentina in "public emergency" until the end of 2025, a measure that could be extendable until 2027.

If this bill is approved, the far-right President could govern his four-year term by attributing himself broad legislative powers in matters related to the economy, finance, taxes, social security, defense, goods and services tariffs, energy, and public administration.

"If a president is allowed to assume all public power for a period of two years renewable for two years, we will live in a country where the president will have all the power, and institutions will not be respected," CGT Secretary Hector Daer said, warning that Milei's intentions are against collective and individual rights.

Among other things, Milei's new bill includes electoral regulation reform, changes in the Penal Code to control street protests, a deep labor flexibility, the privatization of 41 large state-owned companies, and authorizations to incur more public debt.

"The mobilization is a clear fight against the reinstatement of the conservative neoliberal model in its cruelest version," said Luis D'Elia, the leader of the Federation of Land, Housing, and Habitat, one of the organizations that blocked roads on the outskirts of Buenos Aires as a protest measure on Thursday.

After assuming the presidency on December 10th, Milei, a far-right politician who claimed that his dead dogs communicate with him and advise him on state matters, launched a "shock" plan to supposedly balance the Argentine macroeconomy.

One of the released POWs talked in an interview and revealed the HORRORS that she was hiding, of a 10 year old kid denying her candy

https://nitter.net/MarinaMedvin/status/1740835136537800983#m

https://vxtwitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1740835136537800983#m

You know, since Kissinger died, something's been scratching at the back of my brain: what's left of the US administrative Realist camp? Brzezinski, Kissinger, H.W., even Powell, are all gone. Obama? Oliver North?

Venezuela denounces the arrival of British Navy vessel HMS Trent to the coasts of Guyana, calling it “an act of hostile provocation and a violation of the recent Argyle Declaration”.

Looks like UKR has retaliated by bombing Belgorod, with cluster bombs they're saying now too

https://www.rt.com/russia/589937-deadly-ukrainian-attack-belgorod/

This is old news but Belize also suspended diplomatic ties with Israel last month. They're the only Central American country to do so and the second Commonwealth nation to do so. This just makes Guatemala look even worse. They have a much smaller Palestinian population than we do and are doing more to protest Israel while we bootlick even harder.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/world/belize-suspends-diplomatic-ties-israel-ceasefire/index.html

The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said that the country would receive around 20,000 young Colombians who are currently studying in Argentina and would be charged at the country's universities, according to Javier Milei's new bill.

Javier Milei's Basic Principles bill, dubbed the "Bus law", will only charge tuition fees to students who are not legally resident in Argentina.

"We will receive 20,000 Colombian students who were educated for free in Argentina."

"They are literally expelled from that country, for them there was no so-called 'freedom'."

"We are going to manage so that they can continue their studies in Colombia without major obstacle and also for free." - Gustavo Petro

Praying rn for our boys in the IDF shitting out their dodo asses and combating the fungus from resident evil that turns people into plant zombies.

Not sure if this came through here last week.

Quite interested if anyone's been keeping up with Bolivia here. I know they had a party/government split not long back. This would mean the existing government (which MAS split from) are legislating to fuck MAS right? How bad is it looking?

Santa has sided with the zionists, our fight against him is righteous

Does anyone know how the Argentinian military sees our favorite ancap? Do they 100% support him, do they merely tolerate him, are they divided in support, and so on?

https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/105127

China is imposing stealth unilateral sanctions on the Zionist entity

These videos released by the diaper force are always unbelievably silly

In this 45 second video, we get to see a bunch of diaper babies shooting at distant buildings a little bit to psych themselves up, the finding of a hole (THERE IS A HOLE HERE!!!), a unit commander instructing his team of diaper babies that from there on out they need to all point their guns, and finally the brave neutralization of the hole with a single grenade

So since the COTW is Finland I thought I'd share some local fuckery with our rubber stamping local government in roughly the area I live around.

We're close enough to the coastline to get ships in, there's a railway that goes from the industrial areas further inland to the coastline. The railway has been in disrepair for like 30 years by now, they still use it to transfer tree-logs, but that's about it. They did a "poll" in which they asked if people would wish for the railway to be fixed for people transfer purposes, obviously people didnt want it because that's what the poll was supposed to say. It would cost 100 million or so to fix, because if you're going to fix it, it needs to be done to perfection with all new rails and trains and stations and Jesus himself needs to be brought back to bless it.

So what's great about all this, is the fact that the local areas are trying to bring in new industry which would benefit greatly from a functioning railway and would pay itself back in a few years even with the 100 million investment, instead they're going to have even more TRUCKS start going the road that leads to the coast. And let me tell you, if the railway has been in disrepair for 30 years, the ROAD has been in disrepair for fucking 50, it's basically gravel at places, but the fucking losers are going to start having loads and loads of HEAVY trucks starting to drive it again.

Everything in this fucking country is always stretched to it's limit and nothing is ever fixed until it breaks.

I'd say something about the vid but that would be fedposting.

Naked, handcuffed and blindfolded: Palestinian poet details time in Israeli custody - YouTube

Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha joined "CNN This Morning" to share his experience of being detained by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza as he was trying to evacuate the region with his wife and children.

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