China Sent Emergency Humanitarian Aid to Gaza via Egypt - Telesur English

Merry christmas to all bloomers and doomers

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the point is, of course, to change it

On todays no shit news

Support for Ukraine ‘until it wins’ falls sharply in western Europe, poll finds

https://archive.is/trbPO

Macron announces France's fourth government in a year

this fucking guy.

Both Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu and Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot kept their jobs, the presidency said.

Mr Lecornu, a 38-year-old loyalist with a keen political nose, has served in every government since Mr Macron's first election as president in 2017.

Conservative Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, who has vowed to crackdown on illegal immigration, and right-wing Culture Minister Rachida Dati, also stayed in their posts.

Mr Bayrou had hoped to bring in figures from the left, right and centre to protect his government from possible censure, but his 35-member team does not include any members of the left-wing coalition New Popular Front.

Just before the official announcement, right-wing politician Xavier Bertrand, who had been tipped for the health ministry, announced he would not be part of the government.

He alleged that it had been formed with the implicit "backing" of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who will play a key role in ensuring its survival.

Lmao chuds are furious at El*n musk. He said country needs white collar immigrants and the chuds are fuming "NOOOOO! MUH ETHNOSTATE! YOU TRAITOOOOOR!!!"

Zionist invasion of Egypt in 1... 2...

China’s EV sales set to overtake traditional cars years ahead of west

China is set to smash international forecasts and Beijing’s official targets with domestic EV sales — including pure battery and plug-in hybrids — growing about 20 per cent year on year to more than 12mn cars in 2025, according to the latest estimates supplied to the Financial Times by four investment banks and research groups. The figure would be more than double the 5.9mn sold in 2022.

“They want to electrify everything,” said Liew. “No other country comes close to China.”

As China’s EV market tracked towards year-on-year growth of near 40 per cent in 2024, the market share of foreign-branded cars fell to a record low of 37 per cent — a sharp decline from 64 per cent in 2020, according to data from Automobility, a Shanghai-based consultancy.

Vincent Sun, an equity analyst covering China’s car sector for investment research group Morningstar, noted that several multinational carmakers, including Germany’s Volkswagen, were not expecting to release major new EV models in China until late 2025 or 2026.

Ukraine is in a very serious shortage of infantrymen and can't keep up with the war and it's terrible demands. Not only they're forcing everyone they can into the frontline troops, but they're also recruiting specialists from specialized units as frontline infantry, in this case, from Anti-Aircraft units. This is more or less what happened around 1943 when the Luftwaffe started to press surplus men into the "Luftwaffen-Feld-Divisionen", that is, infantry formations made up of anti-aircraft artillerymen, mechanics, airmen and other Luftwaffe personnel, sent into battle with disastrous results. As the nazis suffered worse shortages of infantry, they started to empty the Kriegsmarine's ships from men and formed "Naval Infantry" units that were desperately thrown against the Soviet onslaught with little training, again, with disastrous results. When you have to send your specialists into combat as infantry it means you're completely fucked.

THE GUARDIAN: Ukraine faces difficult decisions over acute shortage of frontline troops

Ukraine is facing a massacre while their elites and their US "friends" are filling their pockets with easy money. Instead of looking for a diplomatic way out of this mess, they insist on sending more men towards their pointless deaths. Ukraine fought well, they accepted the Russian invitation to fight and fough well, but sometimes you gotta understand that you lost, that no matter how many people you throw into the meatgrinder it's over. The killing must end at some point, it's insane.

13th MQ-9 drone downed over Yemen

https://t.me/AnsarAllahMC/249732

In the last month of the year, the Russian government is pouring huge amounts of money into the economy. There are settlements under government contracts, advance payments for new government contracts, and much more.

The scale of spending can be imagined using 2023 as an example. Exactly one year ago, at the beginning of December, the federal treasury held 13.2 trillion rubles of government funds in bank accounts. During December, government funds decreased by 2.6 trillion. Slightly less was spent through off-budget sources. How much can be judged by the growth of the money supply.

In December 2023, the M2 aggregate grew by a record 5.83 trillion! Subtract 1.4-1.5 trillion in loans, and you get more than 4 trillion rubles. As of December 1, 2024, the Treasury holds almost 14 trillion in bank accounts. Most likely, no less than last year will go into the system, and taking into account inflation, even more. About 3-4 trillion. Plus off-budget. We will see specific figures in January.

The government fights back against the central bank’s monetary austerity. It’s better late than never. The central bank will, predictably, raises key rate early next year because “spending more money into the economy means more inflation”.

A tug of war situation where we will have to see if the government will run out of money to spend first (since they don’t control the money printer) or if the central bank’s key rate will lose its efficacy first?

This is a war of attrition between the industrial and finance capital within Russia that has been going on for more than two years.

During Carter's presidency, the U.S. continued to support Indonesia as a cold war ally, despite human rights violations in East Timor. The violations followed Indonesia's December 1975 invasion and occupation of East Timor. Under Carter's administration military assistance to Indonesia increased, peaking in 1978. This was antithetical to Carter's stated policy of "not selling weapons if it would exacerbate a potential conflict in a region of the world".

The Indonesian invasion of East Timor, known in Indonesia as Operation Lotus (Indonesian: Operasi Seroja), began on 7 December 1975 when the Indonesian military (ABRI/TNI) invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism and anti-communism to overthrow the Fretilin regime that had emerged in 1974. The overthrow of the popular and short-lived Fretilin-led government sparked a violent quarter-century occupation in which approximately 100,000–180,000 soldiers and civilians are estimated to have been killed or starved to death.

Further protests by Christians outraged at the burning of a shrine to Abu Abdullah bin Hamdan Al-Khasibi in Aleppo. At least 2 have been murdered by the militants. Turns out treading the middle ground between Al-Nusra and everybody else doesn’t “protect minorities,” it just gives official cover to vigilante sectarian violence.

https://t.me/DarEQuds/5052

Personally I’d save my anti-Christian action for after December, just to be safe, but I guess that’s why I don’t run Syria

There is a new genre of crank who thinks every medium sized explosion is caused by small tactical nukes:
https://xcancel.com/Ben68638515/status/1871046543958331531

The dude really thinks the Nordstream pipeline was sabotaged by nukes and even has an entire page on his personal site dedicated to this:
https://www.geophysical-forensics.ch/nordstream.html

Not even a month

Hundreds protest in Christian areas of Syrian capital after Christmas tree burned

Demonstrations flare after video spread on social media showing hooded fighters setting fire to tree Agence France-Presse in Damascus and Reuters Tue 24 Dec 2024 11.48 GMT

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus early on Tuesday to protest against the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria, Agence France-Presse journalists witnessed.

“We demand the rights of Christians,” protesters chanted as they marched through the Syrian capital towards the headquarters of the Orthodox patriarchate in the Bab Sharqi neighbourhood.

The protests come a little more than two weeks after an armed coalition led by Islamists toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad, who had cast himself as a protector of minorities in the Sunni-majority country.

A demonstrator who gave his name as Georges told AFP he was protesting “injustice against Christians”.

“If we’re not allowed to live our Christian faith in our country, as we used to, then we don’t belong here any more,” he said.

The protests erupted after a video spread on social media showing hooded fighters setting fire to a Christmas tree in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, near Hama.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the fighters were foreigners from the Islamist group Ansar al-Tawhid.

In another video posted to social media, a religious leader from Syria’s victorious Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) addressed local people, claiming those who torched the tree were “not Syrian” and promising they would be punished. “The tree will be restored and lit up by tomorrow morning,” he said.

The Islamist HTS movement, rooted in al-Qaida and supported by Turkey, has promised to protect minorities since its lightning offensive toppled Assad this month after years of stalemate.

Turkey’s interior minister said on Tuesday that more than 25,000 Syrians had returned home from Turkey since Assad was ousted. Turkey is home to nearly 3 million refugees who fled the civil war that broke out in 2011, and whose presence has been an issue for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government.

“The number of people returning to Syria in the last 15 days has exceeded 25,000,” Ali Yerlikaya told the official Anadolu news agency. Ankara is in close touch with Syria’s new leaders and focusing on the voluntary return of Syrian refugees, hoping the shift in power in Damascus will allow many of them to head home.

The US military said on Monday it conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed two Islamic State operatives and wounded one. The IS operatives were moving a truckload of weapons in Dayr az Zawr province, an area formerly controlled by the Syrian government and Russians, when they were targeted with the airstrike, US Central Command said in a statement on X.

Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control

The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory.

Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was a "double digit billion amount" in krone, or at least $1.5bn (£1.2bn).

He described the timing of the announcement as an "irony of fate". On Monday Trump said ownership and control of the huge island was an "absolute necessity" for the US.

I don’t know if they already planned to do this beforehand and just leaned into Trump’s remarks, but in any case Trump just gave Denmark the excuse to do more austerity by spending more money into military.

The end result is still the same though: more public assets get privatized and eventually sold to foreign capital.

Footage released by Ansar Allah-affiliated Al Masirah TV captured the moment Israeli forces targeted the control tower at Sanaa International Airport, Yemen, while the Director-General of the World Health Organization was in the VIP lounge.

Very nice update from the DPRK

North Korea has opened up a new landmark beer bar and restaurant in its capital, Pyongyang. The Hwasong Taedonggang Beer Restaurant serves Taedonggang beer, which comes in several varieties, as well as a range of international brands. The beer restaurant is in Hwasong, an eastern suburb of Pyongyang. It is among three new suburbs built in the past year in a renewed attempt to provide more housing in the capital.

https://youtu.be/RxZML_B0DlM

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-have-prostate-removed-after-diagnosis-benign-prostate-2024-12-28/

Dec 28 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will go into hospital to have his prostate removed on Sunday after he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign prostate enlargement, his office said.

PLEASE GOD SMITE THIS DEVIL DOWN ONCE AND FOR ALL 🙏🙏🙏

@Redcuban1959@hexbear.net, I didn't have a chance to respond to you before the last thread was locked. With regard to the Unification Church,

They believe that due to Japanese imperialism in Korea, all Japanese people have "negative ancestral karma."

This can only be corrected via ruinous financial donations to the unification church, which is what happened to Tetsuya Yamagami's mother.

I don't think this put them at odds with the Japanese government at all to be clear, which is why it continued for so long prior to Abe's assassination.

As far as the DPRK goes they're definitely extremely Anti-Communist, however, they are also pro-reunification of Korea. I'm not sure exactly where that lands them on any given issue, but there is a reason that they have a lot of CIA ties.

With the escalation in Jenin, the resistance threatens suicide bombings while the PA deploys RPGs

https://t.me/jeninnews1/130304

https://t.me/jeninnews1/130306

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom gave an interview to Reuters on Friday about the Israeli bombing that almost killed him during Christmas week. “I wasn't sure I would survive”

Tedros said he was frightened by a civilian structure being the target of a military attack and that “the slightest deviation” could have hit the WHO and UN staff hard. Tedros and Guterres, heads of the WHO and UN, have said that civilian structures should never be the target of military attacks.

On December 26, Yemen's international airport was hit by an Israeli bombardment. Israel, as usual, said it was attacking “military targets”. The target in question: the command tower of the (civilian) international airport in Sana.

Hot on the heels of Beijing's fancy new sixth generation fighter aircraft reveals this week China has also unveiled the world's largest amphibious assault ship. Just to underscore how impressive this is, the PLA only started designing the ship four years ago, and they've now already built the first model. The class of ship is a very clear signal to Washington that China has the means to invade and capture Taiwan if they desire.

Although the exact specifications of the fighter prototypes remain unclear and it could be years from entering service, the test flights and launch of the amphibious assault ship underscored Beijing’s rapid production of new military hardware. It also comes at a time when capacity bottlenecks have started to constrain the expansion of Washington’s military arsenal.

The People’s Liberation Army started tendering for the design and construction of the new amphibious ship, which is called Type 076, just four years ago. The PLA Navy has three amphibious assault ships, the first of which only entered service in 2021.

The new class is not only much larger than those of its Type 075 predecessor, and can carry more aircraft or amphibious landing vessels on a lower deck. It is also equipped with an electromagnetic launch system, suggesting large drones and even crewed fighter aircraft can take off from its deck. Traditional amphibious assault ships typically only carry helicopters.

Source: https://archive.is/LwcNb

China is building the world’s largest hydroelectric dam to try and save the world from climate change, but at what cost?

Link

https://xcancel.com/OllieVargas79/status/1873038022406808043

This is how Evo Morales travels now. A convoy of union members, bigger than what the US secret service gives Netanyahu at the UN.

Israel Vows to Assassinate Houthi Leaders Amid Intensifying Airstrikes in Yemen

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-vows-assassinate-houthi-leaders-yemen-airstrikes

South Korea plane with 181 onboard veers off runway and hits fence, local media report - The Guardian

Emergency services responded to calls at 9am at Muan international airport in South Korea, the Yonhap news agency reported

An aircraft carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants has veered off the runway and crashed into a fence in South Korea, the Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.

Yonhap said 23 casualties had been reported so far and that rescues were underway from Jeju Air flight 2216 from Bangkok. Large plumes of smoke could be seen rising into the sky in early unverified images emerging on social media. Emergency services received the call at Muan international airport in South Jeolla Province at around 9am.

Syria recap:

Alleged HTS commander calls for ethnic cleansing to be hidden and not filmed. Any Arabic speakers that can confirm the words? Obviously we’ve seen fake recordings in the past, so I’m being decently skeptical

https://t.me/Alomhoar/58377

In retrospect the faked calls were from Israel and I’m not sure Iran needs to make HTS look bad, so leaning towards real. Not that it’s stopping them from filming atrocities

Cw assault allegedly based on being alawite https://t.me/Alomhoar/58381

https://t.me/Alomhoar/58384

Same cw as above, but for being Shia

https://t.me/Alomhoar/58385

Former Syrian officers handed over by the Lebanese state after illegally crossing the border to escape HTS https://t.me/Alomhoar/58383

Context on the above https://t.me/alakhbar_english/12054

Israel got exactly what they wanted here

~~Reported ethnic cleansing of Christians in Maaloula by people who had previously been prevented from entering the city by Bashar~~

Apparently being exaggerated. Keeping up for posterity as there are definitely aggressions against the Christians in Maaloula https://t.me/syrianchristian/500

https://t.me/syrianchristian/502

In Ramallah, a rally organized by the DFLP to support the resistance in Jenin and calling for unity in confronting the occupation https://t.me/jeninnews1/130513

Here's my last post about the protest in Serbia since the thread got locked

@Eldungeon2@hexbear.net They were coopted in years past by the neolib opposition, but this one is the initiative of the students, so the likelihood of it happening is pretty slim (at least not by the opposition). Also, as far as I'm aware, occupy was just camping on wall street, not literally obstructing government institutions from working like it's happening here.

@starkillerfish@hexbear.net I'll probably do a write-up when I get my bearings in order. As for the universities, I don't think it makes a difference as long as there exists a mechanism by which students can legally organize and close it down in protest.

What I forgot to mention is that the protest was attended by some 100k people, one of the largest in Serbia ever. Oh, and here's eurofucks getting what they deserve

Syrian forces suffer 14 fatalities in countryside clashes

Transitional administration said 10 police members also wounded by ‘remnants’ of Assad regime in Tartous Reuters Wed 25 Dec 2024 23.35 GMT

Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an “ambush” by forces loyal to the ousted government in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday, as demonstrations and an overnight curfew elsewhere marked the most widespread unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s removal more than two weeks ago.

Syria’s new interior minister said on Telegram that 10 police members were also wounded by what he called “remnants” of the Assad government in Tartous, vowing to crack down on “anyone who dares to undermine Syria’s security or endanger the lives of its citizens”.

Earlier, Syrian police imposed an overnight curfew in the city of Homs, state media reported, after unrest there linked to demonstrations that residents said were led by members of the minority Alawite and Shi’ite Muslim religious communities.

Reuters could not immediately confirm the demands of the demonstrators nor the degree of disturbance that took place.

Some residents said the demonstrations were linked to pressure and violence in recent days aimed at members of the Alawite minority, a sect long seen as loyal to Assad, who was toppled by Sunni Islamist rebels on 8 December.

Spokespersons for Syria’s new ruling administration led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, a former al-Qaida affiliate, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the curfew.

State media said the curfew was being imposed for one night, from 6pm local time (1500 GMT) until 8am on Thursday morning.

The country’s new leaders have repeatedly vowed to protect minority religious groups, who fear the former rebels now in control could seek to impose a conservative form of Islamist government.

Small demonstrations also took place in other areas on or near Syria’s coast, where most of the country’s Alawite minority live, including in Tartous.

The demonstrations took place about the time an undated video was circulated on social networks showing a fire inside an Alawite shrine in the city of Aleppo, with armed men walking about inside and posing near human bodies.

The interior ministry said on its official Telegram account the video dated back to the rebel offensive on Aleppo in late November and the violence was carried out by unknown groups, adding whoever was circulating the video now appeared to be seeking to incite sectarian strife.

The ministry also said some members of the former regime had attacked interior ministry forces in Syria’s coastal area on Wednesday, leaving a number of dead and wounded.

Another ballistic missile, or multiple missiles, from Yemen was fired at Israel last night, with high altitude interceptions visible. Not exoatmospheric as that would produce a bluish to purple tinted explosion and not the orange explosion seen on video, but high altitude within the atmosphere. There were videos of the interception and debris falling down.

Video of interception

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Video of debris

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https://xcancel.com/nodutdol/status/1873462671909224508

This week, reports confirmed South Korea’s Intelligence Command purchased over 200 DPRK (North Korea) military uniforms back in July. Lawmakers allege Yoon's plan was to kill those dissenting from martial law and deceive people into thinking the DPRK had attacked South Korea.

Since Yoon declared martial law on Dec 3, many reports and testimonies in parliament have alleged Yoon planned to restart the Korean War. Some reports are even alleging plans to attack US soldiers and bases as part of false flag operations.

https://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0003089942 (Korean news site)

It’s always depressing whenever I’m reminded that outside of the Mayan culture, Guatemala’s only major modern contribution to the world is the invention of the Happy Meal.

Donald Trump has expressed his support for the H-1B visa program, stating, 'I’ve always liked the visas and have been in favor of them. I have many H-1B visas on my properties and have used the program many times' - New York Post

Some more self-important ravings from US-imperial chihuahua Estonia:

Politico: Estonia’s city at the ‘end of the free world’ stares across a frozen border at Russia

lol this irrelevant imperial pet would be steamrolled within hours if any world war were to actually break out

Summary of recent events in Gaza, per Al-Jazeera:

Israeli artillery has shelled the third floor of the al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza’s besieged Jabalia refugee camp, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

The Israeli army has detonated remote-controlled explosives in the barely functioning Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Beit Lahiya, injuring at least 20 patients and medical staff.

Also in Beit Lahiya, Israeli soldiers are forcing wounded and sick people to leave the Indonesian Hospital, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

At least 21 people have been killed and 51 injured across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,338 Palestinians and wounded 107,764 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.