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We managed to ambush & neutralize 4 enemy jeeps in a well-prepared ambush in Juhur al-Dik, central Gaza.

We detonated a complex field of anti-personnel and anti-armor mines, crushing the force, resulting in the death of all its members. Additionally, an IOF tank rushed to the scene, we also destroyed with a Yasin-105 rocket.

The rescue & evacuation forces in the operation area were targeted with the "Rajoom" rockets and heavy-caliber mortars.

Zionist ambulances & vehicles were observed transporting the casualties from the site.

what's the call, is the US going to veto the UNSC resolution again?

Your Tuesday Briefing

Developing countries spent $443 billion in 2022 to service their public debt, which could have otherwise been spent on social welfare, infrastructure, or climate change mitigation. This is 5% higher from a year earlier and could increase by 10% in 2023-2024. For the world's 75 poorest countries, their debt service payments are predicted to rise 40% over 2023-2024.

Germany and Norway's Equinor have signed a €50 billion deal, its biggest long-term gas contract in nearly 40 years, supplying Germany with 129 billion cubic meters of gas up to 2039, or a third of the country's industrial demand. Norway supplies half of the EU's piped gas. Meanwhile, German business sentiment continues to fall, particularly in the construction industry, which is at its lowest since September 2005.

Iraq has held its first provincial elections in a decade, with a turnout of 67%.

In Kazakhstan, the Chinese company Shipbuilding Industry Corp., is exp-- wait, what? Shipbuilding Industry Corp.? Shipbuilding Industry Corp?! Oh yeah, let me call my fucking agricultural company "Food Growing Inc." We should have named Hexbear "Online Communist Forum" instead. ...anyway, they wanna build container facilities in the port cities of Aktau and Kuryk, and other Chinese companies also want to modernize and improve railway lines and their throughput in Kazakhstan and in Kyrgyzstan. There's also increasing air connectivity to China in the region.

Sisi in Egypt has won the presidential election with 89.6% of the vote, with a turnout of 66.8%, the highest in Egyptian history.

US Steel has been sold to Japan's Nippon Steel in a $14.9 billion deal, with several US politicians vowing to block it in a very non-free market move.

Chileans have rejected the new constitution drafted by the far-right. A year ago, they also rejected a left-wing constitution. So now we're just back where we started, with the Pinochet-era constitution. What a tremendous waste of time.

Colombia's drug war is flaring up again after the FARC, the largest armed revolutionary group in the country, entered peace negotiations in 2016. With this, the drug vacuum was filled by organized crime, due to a lack of alternative ways of generating money for many Colombians. The ELN, a Marxist revolutionary group, is training to take on narcotraffickers, as it was designed by the CIA and the Pentagon.

Several global maritime agencies, as well as fossil fuel giant BP, have paused all transit through the Red Sea until further notice due to missile and drone threats. This is a capital strike against the West to force them to address Yemen by targeting Ansarallah - and they are, through "Operation Prosperity Guardian".

I am a cultural Muslim from Yemen and I am both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel.

I was born in Sana’a, Yemen, where I was taught that Israel is a demonic country that needs to be eradicated.

In 2014, I moved to Sweden.

One day in the student house I was living in, a long-haired guy moved in, who kind of looked like me.

I walked up to him and introduced myself. I asked him where he was from. He answered: “Israel” - and I internally went crazy.

I mean, all my life I learned that this guy was my enemy.

While I was in a state of shock, he was telling me that his best friends in Israel were Yemenis and that he loves and knows how to make Yemeni food. He was telling me “I’m going to make you sahawiq and jahnoun” while I was still in a state of shock.

We ended up becoming friends, and this friendship made me realize that Jews and Israelis are, just like me, human beings.

I began to realize that behind the labels “Palestine” and “Israel” are the same human beings, who eat the same food, breathe the same air, and bleed the same blood.

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

Have people discussed that apparently fucking kiev metro ~~was connected to hamas tunnels~~ became flooded?

Eurozone likely in recession, PMI surveys show

The downturn in eurozone business activity surprisingly deepened in December, according to closely watched surveys which indicated the bloc’s economy is almost certainly in recession.

It was a broad-based decline with activity deteriorating in both Germany and France and across services and manufacturing, the surveys showed.

Last quarter, the eurozone economy contracted 0.1%, official data has shown, and December’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) – seen as a good gauge of economic health – suggested activity has now declined in every month of this quarter. That would mark two consecutive quarters of economic contraction, meeting the technical definition of recession.

The European Central Bank trimmed its growth forecasts for 2023 and 2024 on Thursday (14 December).

HCOB’s preliminary Composite PMI, compiled by S&P Global, fell to 47.0 this month from November’s 47.6, confounding expectations in a Reuters poll for an uptick to 48.0 and marking its seventh month below the 50 level separating growth from contraction.

“The drop-back in the euro zone Composite PMI in December provides more evidence that the economy is in recession,” said Andrew Kenningham at Capital Economics.

In Germany the downturn worsened, pointing to a recession in Europe’s biggest economy at the end of the year. Meanwhile activity declined faster than expected in France as demand for goods and services in the euro zone’s second-biggest economy deteriorated further.

Germany’s economy is set to shrink slightly this year and barely grow next as demand from abroad is weak, government subsidies for the green transition are curbed and high interest rates dampen activity, the Bundesbank said earlier on Friday.

Companies in Britain’s huge services sector however saw another pick-up in growth this month, suggesting the economy has just enough momentum to avoid a recession for now at least.

Indicating firms in the euro zone do not see a big improvement anytime soon they reduced staffing for a second month. The composite employment index was at a three-year low of 49.6, just shy of November’s 49.7.

A PMI for the bloc’s dominant services industry fell to 48.1 from 48.7, far short of the Reuters poll prediction of a rise to 49.0.

“This confirms our expectation that the euro area economy will continue to contract in Q4, contrary to the ECB’s expectations,” said Christoph Weil at Commerzbank.

Demand for services fell again as indebted consumers feeling the pinch from record-high borrowing costs in the 20-country currency union spent less. The new business index dipped to 46.6 from 46.7.

On Thursday, the ECB left interest rates on hold and pushed back against bets on imminent cuts by reaffirming borrowing costs would remain at record highs. A recent Reuters poll showed it would wait until the second quarter before it starts cutting.

The ECB’s next move should be lowering interest rates, French central bank chief Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday but implied a rate cut was not imminent.

Factories in the currency union also had another disappointing month. The manufacturing PMI held steady at November’s 44.2 – missing the Reuters poll forecast for 44.6 and chalking up its 18th month sub-50.

An index measuring output fell to 44.1 from 44.6.

Factory managers were more optimistic, though, about the year ahead and the future output index jumped to 55.6 from 53.3, its highest since May.

Russia uses drones to deliver supplies, ammunition to frontlines

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used to deliver supplies and ammunition to the special military operation zone, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Friday.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian forces actively use drones not only to conduct reconnaissance and destroy enemy, but to deliver water, food, communication equipment and ammunition to troops on frontlines of Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The department noted that drones are used to deliver supplies only when ground transport is at serious risk or when roads are under enemy fire. A fleet of drones can perform dozens of flights a day and deliver all the necessary items to the front line.

drones really will replace everything

At the demand of their imperial overlords the Danish government has signed a so-called "defense agreement" with the Washington regime. The agreement can not be terminated for ten years although it is unlikely that the Danish elite would ever get such ideas.

The agreement lets the evil empire place troops at three airbases. Crimes committed by these foreign troops, even in their time off, will be prosecuted by American military courts, thereby denying local victims effective recourse to justice.

This is the best treatment foreign troops had had on Danish soil since the Nazi occupation during WWII. Danish troops will get no reciprocal treatment inside the evil empire proper.

The so-called "agreement" is widely backed by Danish parliament.

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Haaretz - Graphic Videos and Incitement: How the IDF Is Misleading Israelis on Telegram

The IDF unit responsible for psychological warfare operations operates a Telegram channel called '72 Virgins – Uncensored,' which targets local audiences with 'exclusive content from the Gaza Strip'

https://nitter.net/seriations/status/1734652890856517715#m

IOF psywar dept is sharing this content to desensitize Israelis to graphic imagery so they’ll be better equipped to perpetrate similar abuses themselves. This kind of conditioning was used by the US Navy in the 1970s and probably earlier

these methods develop through history. 1970s goal was training elite assassin teams recruited from submariners, murderers, and other pre-screened soldiers. The goal now is to trauma-condition the public at scale

Shout-out to me, who thought everyone just kept misspelling 's name a whole lot

Brutal video of the hostages' pleas juxtaposed with their dead bodies after getting killed by IOF bombardment: https://nitter.cz/AryJeay/status/1736040451952513364

Annual review 2023. Today: Cuba. Slight recovery from previous crises despite tightened blockade

Despite further tightened US sanctions, the country was able to recover somewhat from the consequences of the pandemic and the effects of the global crises. The gross domestic product, which after a decline of almost eleven percent in 2020, grew again by 1.3 percent in 2021 and by a further 1.8 percent in 2022, is expected to increase in the current year, according to an estimate by the London economic institute Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). of 2.5 percent and increase to around four percent annually in 2024. Gross fixed capital formation and private consumption also came out of negative territory again this year.

“The economy is still in a difficult situation,” admitted Economy Minister Alejandro Gil at a plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (PCC) in mid-December. The government and citizens are rightly dissatisfied with the development, said President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who was confirmed in office in April by the newly elected parliament the previous month, at the meeting. A year ago, economists had forecast growth of three percent for 2023 at constant prices. Gil has now confirmed that the expected values will not be achieved. Among the main factors that had a negative impact were the tightening of the blockade, the multidimensional economic crisis, the increase in international prices, the insufficient generation of foreign exchange and the macroeconomic imbalances of the Cuban economy, he said.

Proud to be in the 24% for the Korean War

Denmark's succdem-led right-wing government, that labels itself as the adults in the room reaching across the aisle to make tough choices and exclude the radical outer wings, is widely unpopular and is seeing it's worst polling yet since the 2022 election that led to it being formed.

In 2022 the succdem party, the (right) liberal party and an astroturfed centrist party created as a vehicle for foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen's continues political career, received 89 seats in total, being able to form a majority government. Today polls predict they would only get 61.

The government has made itself unpopular by abolishing a public holiday for no apparent reason other than the economy. Prominent succdems, including prime minister Mette Frederiksen, has made bizarre comments about Danes being spoilt and lazy for not wanting to work more hours. Frederiksen's attempts to scare the people into submission by harping on about how dangerous the world is today has not borne much fruit either. Lars Løkke Rasmussen's party, whose MP's are recruited among those centrists who were too weird to have a career in other parties, has had a string of scandals involving everything from pedophilia and sexual harassment to an MP lying about being a successful entrepreneur. The liberal party has spent a lot of energy on running down and replacing their incompetent and feckless leader.

Left-leaning voters are angry at the succdems for entering into a coalition with the right while right-leaning voters are angry at the two openly right-wing parties for entering into coalition with "the reds" and for breaking a campaign promise of investigating prime minister Mette Frederiksen for giving a blatantly illegal order to cull minks during COVID.

The government had hoped that recent promises of tax breaks and raises to public employees would make them more popular but it doesn't seem to have cooled the anger of voters.

The winners in the polls are Liberal Alliance, a half-frivolous libertarian party with frat boy vibes who is becoming the main right wing party by means of default as the liberals and the conservatives are too dysfunctional to appeal to people and then the Socialist People's Party, a greener and slightly less chuddy succdem party who originally split from the communist party way back in time.

Argentines to Prepare National Strike Against Milei's Abuses

“A decree was promulgated repealing many laws and appealing to a need and urgency that do not exist,” a health worker explained.

The Workers' General Central (CGT), the Central of Workers of Argentina (CTA) and other social organizations called for a march on Dec, 27 in front of the courts of Buenos Aires to demand the annulment of the urgency decree signed by the President Javier Milei.

In the next week, the workers will also define the date for carrying out a national stoppage against the economic adjustment policies applied by the far-right regime aligned with the shock technique.

More specifically, Argentines seek the repeal of over 300 legal reforms that directly impact labor legislation, deregulate broad sectors of economic activity, and also reduce the revenue-generating capacity of union organizations.

"The decree of urgent need cannot be endorsed. We will not remain in simple statements, we will go into action," said CGT Secretary Mario Manrique, who is also the deputy secretary of the Union of Automotive Transport Mechanics (SMATA).

“We demand the repeal of the decree. The environment for going on a national strike exists,” said Hector Daer, the secretary of the Federation of Health Workers Associations of Argentina (FATSA).

“We never imagined that the values innate to our history would be transgressed so easily. A decree was promulgated repealing many laws and appealing to a need and urgency that do not exist,” he explained.

Organizations linked to the Central Workers of Argentina (CTA) will meet to analyze the adoption of forceful measures against Milei's brutal decree.

Destruction of Roman archeological sites wrought by the Zionist entity: https://nitter.cz/ForensicArchi/status/1737092601621151888

Iranian media found the pilot who bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital

https://nournews.ir/En/News/159461/The-exposed-active-Israeli-pilot-deleted-his-information-from-social-media!

What's up with the idea that Israel funded Hamas? Is that true, was it hubris that Israel thought they could divide and conquer by supporting one side over the others? Did Israel think they accomplished their goal with this only to be taken off guard as the group they funded came back to bite them? I don't know a lot about it.

Extremely long Twitter thread on the history of Yemen: https://nitter.cz/Aldanmarki/status/1736550356132180228

Denmark should condemn 'Israeli' war crimes, increase Danish aid to Palestine and work towards a political resolution to the conflict

This was the text of a petition that was debated in Denmark's parliament after having been signed by more than 80.000 citizens.

To the surprise of nobody who has understood the true depravity of so-called western values, parliament rejected the petition. Only the Red-Greens (demsocs) and the Alternative (well-meaning green radlibs) voted in favour. The Socialist People's Party (succdems who occasionally smokes weed) and the Social Liberals (centrist neolibs with a human face) abstained. Everyone else voted against.

The succdems (who never smokes weed) voted against for the made-up reason that parliament couldn't determine whether war crimes had been perpetrated or not and also because the petition didn't condenm Hamas enough and didn't demand the release of zionist POW's.

The petition gained enough signatures to be sent to parliament very fast and the organisers feels politicians are out of touch with the Danish people on the Palestinian genocide. The succdems rejects this and claims that the government's position that the zionist entity "has the right to defend itself but also have to follow international rules" is a balanced view that resonates with most Danes.