Russia claims a US PATRIOT missle shot down the plane carrying 65 POWs for a prisoner exchange.

I am proposing a style guide update. I am now referring to the US before Civil rights as an apartide state. It still was after but that is less fun to bother liberals with

New wunderwaffe just dropped

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Do not fool yourself, the USA is now at war with Iran. 1776 WILL commence again.

Libs explain how Zionists trying to keep the Democratic Party from counting write-in votes for "Ceasefire" on their primary ballots helps Trump. Challenge: impossible.

(nope, still impossible)

Senate Unveils $118 Billion Bill With Money for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and New Yemen War

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Sunday unveiled a massive $118 billion spending bill that includes military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as spending for President Biden’s new war with Yemen’s Houthis.

The bill is the result of months of negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans on border policies and includes $20 billion in border spending. But some Republicans are unhappy with the agreement and seek more stringent border policies.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) rejected the deal and said he would bring a stand-alone bill for Israel to the House floor for a vote this week. The House bill would provide $17.6 billion to support the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, while the Senate bill includes $14.1 billion for Israel.

The Senate bill would authorize $60 billion to spend on the proxy war in Ukraine and $4.8 billion to “support key regional partners in the Indo-Pacific,” a portion of which will go toward replenishing arms sent to Taiwan.

The US has always sold weapons to Taiwan since severing diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979 but never financed the purchases or provided the weapons free of charge through military aid until last year.

The bill also provides $2.44 billion to US Central Command and to “address combat expenditures related to the conflict in the Red Sea,” where US naval forces have been bombing Yemen and downing Houthi drones and missiles. Since January 12, the US has bombed Yemen at least 16 times, and the situation in the region continues to escalate as the Houthis are not backing down.

After the US resumes sanctions on Venezuela, Brazil makes new contacts to ease the climate between the countries

The Brazilian government has begun contacts with the US and Venezuela, with the aim of easing the situation after the return of US sanctions on Caracas.

The US decision came after the Venezuelan Supreme Court blocked the presidential candidacy of the main opposition leader to Nicolás Maduro, Maria Corina Machado.

According to diplomats and Planalto sources, talks are taking place with Washington and Caracas, but still at an "exploratory" level. "It's a negotiation process and it takes time," said one source.

The president of Colombia , Gustavo Petro, denounced this Friday the institutional rupture in that South American nation and called on his nation and the world to the maximum popular mobilization for decency

"I ask all human rights organizations, progressive parties and workers' organizations in Colombia and the world to pay attention to this denunciation:

I have heard prominent jurists talking about institutional rupture in the case of the chancellor of the republic, first in history to be suspended. I have only hoped that the international delegations coming from the United States and the United Nations Security Council will be properly attended and listen to us.

I have not heard, on the other hand, that there is a serious constitutional rupture when the prosecution investigates the president of the Republic.

Trade unions have been raided, torture has been used and pressure has been put on witnesses to accuse the president and they have not been successful; desperately drug trafficking sectors, perpetrators of crimes against humanity, corrupt politicians and corrupt sectors of the prosecution seek the removal of the president from office elected by the people.

Even facts repeated several times in campaigns of other political parties such as the one to which the Attorney General belongs, and which have been previously declared legal, in our case are criminalized with desperation.

It is not the same the contribution to political parties of a drug trafficker like alias "el ñeñe" than that of the teachers' union; the contribution of alias "el ñeñe" was qualified as legal, that of the teachers' union is qualified as illegal because we are progressive.

This institutional rupture has reached the maximum desperation, because the mafias do not want to lose control of entire sections of the prosecutor's office that I have put in danger for having presented a slate of decent women.

The desperate response will be not only to suspend the chancellor of the republic, but to criminally prosecute the president of Ecopetrol and the superintendent of public services for having been president of the Colombia Humana party. The.prosecutor's office will ask for my impeachment without hiding the fact that they have carried out an unconstitutional investigation against me seeking the triumph that the people did not grant them.

As they did physically with the UP, now they are thinking of using the institutions, to do the same to make it appear as the great farewell work of the attorney general.

They have decided the institutional rupture. As president of the republic I must warn the world of the mafia takeover of the attorney general's office and I must ask the people for the maximum popular mobilization for decency.

Here a progressive president, the first in a century, cannot be overthrown because legally a workers union contributed to a leftist party. The time has come for popular expression."

Iran is about to learn why the usa doesn't have free healthcare OOH RAH SEMPER FI MARINES

mr zaluzhny, your fired sir

US Slave Sickos Bombed Syria .. claimed.. " its just One of Many Courses"

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Especially rich the strawman critique that leftists who ever mention imperialism just have an "america bad" stance. what sort of greatly nuanced perspective do these people show for their adversary countries? "Russia bad, but it's beyond the pale to support Chechen Islamism as a counter"? Hardly, these people are way too comfortable calling Kadyrovites race traitors for fighting for the autonomous government rather than ISIS. "Russia bad, but their national weather service's climate change archives shouldn't be nuked." - a deranged take that would get you banned from SlavaNeoliberalDefence.

BreakThrough News interview with PLFP leader Haam Abdo (sp?).

THE TOWER-22 STRIKE IN JORDAN TRIGGERS US, ISRAEL INTO ALL-FRONT WAR – THE ARABS AND IRAN ARE READY, THE RUSSIANS TOO

John Helmer

28 Jan 2024

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anglo island news: Ministers plan to push cash-strapped English councils to sell assets

Councils in England are to be encouraged to sell publicly owned buildings and other assets worth up to £23bn under plans being explored by ministers to plug budget shortfalls amid the crisis in local government.

In a consultation with town hall bosses closing on Wednesday, ministers estimate that councils have “investment properties” worth £23.2bn which could be disposed of to help meet budget shortfalls with proposed changes to the rules that would allow sales without government approval.

Dozens of councils have already earmarked libraries, civic halls, swimming pools and community centres for sale to raise hundreds of millions of pounds, including in Leeds, Kent, Somerset and Woking.

However, property experts warned the moment to sell could hardly be worse amid a slump in the market driven by near-stagnant growth in the UK economy and higher borrowing costs from the Bank of England.

“If you were trying to identify the worst moment to sell, the first half of 2024 would probably be it,” said Mat Oakley, head of UK and European commercial property research at the leading estate agent Savills.

“A potential buyer will say: ‘They have to sell this, how little can I get away with paying them for it?’ I wouldn’t advise anyone to sell now just because there is that hint of blood in the water.”

However, many assets bought in recent years are likely to be worth less than councils paid for them. Figures from Capital Economics show capital values have dropped by about 20% since mid-2022, with offices recording a fall of 23%.

There are worries that much-loved community buildings will also be listed for sale. Analysis by the IPPR thinktank last year found 75,000 public assets, worth about £15bn, had been sold by English councils since 2010, in part to plug holes in their budgets.

Sounds like some grim shit is going on over there on shit island

The maps and figures in today's MoA are good for this tower 22 attack.

also, simplicius linked this video of a 60 minutes segment on the 2021 missile attack by iran on the american al-asad airbase in iraq, mentioning it because it shows the paucity of air defence to modern iranian armaments.

last but not least, I've got some invites on iptorrents, a general private torrent tracker. if any of you newsheads want an invite dm me. you need to be able to seed to stay in good standing, so if you didn't get your semen in time then no invite.

My support for JDPON grows every day

Looming disaster.

Argentina court rules Milei’s labour reform unconstitutional

Court rules that the labour reform President Javier Milei tried to implement through decree is unconstitutional.

An Argentine court ruled that the labour reform President Javier Milei tried to implement through decree is unconstitutional, the latest blow to his plans to overhaul the nation’s economy. The ruling was posted on the court’s website on Tuesday.

The court had already suspended the labour reform Milei announced on January 3, following an appeal from the powerful labour union CGT. Union leaders held a nationwide strike against Milei’s reforms last Wednesday. The government could have proposed the reform via Congress, as opposed to trying to implement it through an urgent executive order, the judges wrote in the ruling.

Milei’s only recourse now is to appeal to the supreme court or push the reform through Congress. Argentina’s lower house Chamber of Deputies will hold a session to debate Milei’s so-called omnibus bill Wednesday. Milei’s labour measures centred around simplifying employers severance pay obligations and “trial periods” before a company must hire a worker to a full-time contract, among other reforms. Argentina has higher labour costs relative to worker productivity.

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Kinda wild how he can just push an unconstitutional reform, lose and then not suffer the consequences. At minimum this should call for some sort of impeachment.

Another defeat:

Another judicial setback for Milei as Court suspends repeal of 'Ley de Tierras'

Ruling signed by judge Ernesto Kreplak, responding to a La Plata war veterans centre, preventively suspends repeal of Ley de Tierras, temporarily blocking limitless purchase of land by foreigners.

More bad news for President Javier Milei. Following on from the suspension of the labour chapter of his sweeping DNU 70/2023 emergency deregulation decree, a court has now accepted an injunction and preventively suspended the president’s proposed repeal of the “Ley de Tierras’ (“Land Law”).

Milei wants to repeal the law, which would open the door to the purchase of land by foreigners without any limit. The decision was delivered by Federal Judge Ernesto Kreplak on Monday as he accepted a lawsuit lodged against the government by the CECIM (Centro de Ex Combatientes Islas Malvinas) veterans centre in La Plata, requesting that the above article be quashed as unconstitutional for repealing Law 26,737 (“The Régime for the Protection of the National Domain”) regarding the ownership of rural property.

In their initial writ, CECIM representatives had argued that "the repeal, by liberating the land market, would clear the way for its foreign and more concentrated ownership, thus bringing into crisis the principles of territorial integrity and national sovereignty while conditioning the availability of not only Argentine soil but also fresh water."

The judge also criticised the government by claiming that the impugned DNU "had not complied with the essential and substantial procedures nor has made use of the permanent services of legal counselling."

The norm in question regulated land ownership in foreign hands. Law 26,737, sanctioned during the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Presidency in December 2011, established a ceiling of 15 percent of rural land in foreign hands at national, provincial or municipal level.

Based Cristina, as always.

To date, there has been compliance with this law at national level, with foreign ownership currently 6.09 percent or 16.2 million of the country’s total rural land surface of 266,707,361 hectares in foreign hands.

The potential repeal of the law had aroused a growing enthusiasm on the part of the representatives of foreign firms to invest in this country. Indeed, the head of the local branch of a well-known multinational with hundreds of thousands of hectares in the south told Perfil that Milei’s decision as enshrined in the DNU was "very positive."

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There has also been talk of the massive wave of privatizations that milei will carry out. Some state-owned companies, like YPF, will not be privatized as it is deemed illegal or impossible. However, state-owned companies such as Fabricaciones Militares (Arms manufacturer), Tandanor (Ship Building) and FADEA (Aircraft Manufacturer) are all up in the air and ready to be sold to foreign interests. This man is willing not only to sell argentinian land to whatever rich fuck, he's also willing to sell Argentina's entire defense industry, leaving us completely dependant on foreign military "aid". He's a threat to the very elements that make up this country.

He also continued to insist with dollarization, claiming that "we're very close to fully dollarizing" (As he claimed on a Wall Street Journal interview here). He's completely going for this goal, in the next couple of months we will see more peso devaluations to fully destroy this currency and make it completely uncompetitive with the dollar, forcing people to ditch the peso and buy dollars instead. This is the thing we must avoid at all costs, we simply cannot leave our entire monetary policies and economy up to the US and it's Federal Reserve. This is just pure insanity. If we dollarize, we're fucked. You can't really leave a dollarized economy, not now at least. Ecuador, for example, can't leave dollarization, if they go back to their old currency (or create a new one), their foreign debt skyrockets and destroys the economy, same will happen to us. On the other hand, salaries will be crushed. Yes, we will get paid in dollars but how much will be the minimum, 4USD per hour?

Still, I firmly believe this has the strong potential to be the shortest-lived Argentinian government in history. Things will get very heated after March, that's when the people as a whole will begin to feel the effects of economic slowdown, devaluation, almost 30% monthly inflation rates and so on. This government will not survive, not with this lunatic in charge.

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