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My chud father tired to the situation in Israel "every group has terroists...." and went on the conflate Pakistan with Palestine.

Some funny and probably positive news from Greece with the political landscape there being both the same and the opposite from other countries in Europe rn.

Its same in the sense that New Democracy (not Maoist but like 80% Macron - 20% Le Pen) governs after getting ~40% in the elections this year all while the socdem to center-left has either been eating shit and imploding (SYRIZA), being PASOK doing nothing after being Pasokified and or being Varoufakis enjoying his internationalist larp party at ~2% outside of parliament. With Syriza's implosion being the funny one since they ate shit in the elections, Tsipras resigned and then they literaly imported some better looking Pete Buttigieg - Beto O'Rourke dude from the US but with worse politics (reaganite, campaigned for Biden in 2008) and made him the leader so now they are about to be polling at signle digits. Like look at this

But there are also opposing trends compared to other countries.

The Greek Communist Party (Hardline MLs who also dont suck too much on LGBT issues anymore despite what the convo was some years ago) has more than doubled their support, consistently hitting 10%+ in recent polls and now has a real chance of actually reaching 2nd place. Looking at the state of communist parties and movements in most of the west , at eurocommunism and in general the post war trajectory of most , you dont have that kind of party that doesnt suck in 90% of issues with that kind of parliamentary numbers + organizational strength at a youth or union level almost anywhere else.

Also contrary to other countries the far right is very split and incoherent . After the collapse of Golden Dawn the overtly anti-migrant fascists, neonazis , ethnonationalists, alt-right nutjobs, religious nutjobs etc are split over 4-6 parties with basicaly no organizational strength or organic reach. They wont and cant reach any really threatening unified movement as of now and they mostly overtly clownish and lame

bolsonaro under investigation for harassing a whale

https://archive.is/3Ea6D

KKKanadian super-pigs are about to invade the U.S.

Also did you know that the USDA has drones and airplanes dedicated to hunt pigs on the border? Is there seriously not a single agency that doesn't have an armed wing?

Hordes of "super pigs" are running amok in Canada, and may soon spill across the border into the northern U.S.

These wild feral pigs, which roam Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada, are predicted to be moving southwards into Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana.

What makes these pigs such a threat is that they are a result of crossbreeding between wild Eurasian boars and domestic swine. The animals combine the boar's environmental resistance and the pig's size and fertility to create a rapidly reproducing population that is very hard to eradicate.

The U.S. has already started to be invaded by these feral pigs, with around 6 million of the swine having entered at least 35 states, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Now, however, the Canadian populations may descend from the north.

"Hybrid populations of wild pigs are not a new issue in the U.S. Generally resulting from the interbreeding of domestic swine and introduced Eurasian wild boar for hunting purposes, hybrid wild-pig populations in the States have the larger size and reproductive rates of domestic swine and the hardiness of wild boar," Elizabeth A. Bradley told Newsweek. She is a researcher at Auburn University's College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment in Alabama.

"This is part of what facilitates the negative impacts of this invasive species on natural ecosystems and agricultural production," Bradley said.

These pigs are considered an invasive species due to the level of damage they can cause: they tear up farmland, rooting for bugs and eating plants, destroying crops and disrupting local wildlife. In southern U.S. states including Texas, these wild pigs already cause billions of dollars in damage to croplands every year. They can also spread diseases to domestic pigs at farms, including African swine fever, and have even been known to attack humans, though this is infrequent.

"The impact of wildlife on our populations is a fact in general. In the last few years, the numbers of feral pigs and wild boar increase more and more," Domenico Fulgione, a professor of population ecology at University of Naples Federico II in Italy, told Newsweek.

"The United States of America has spent more than $1.5 billion every year because of the damage caused by feral hogs, the hybrid form that lives in their territories. The most-important issues are down to the depression of biodiversity; wild pigs destroy the undergrowth of many forests, alter the soils, and prey on many species of ground-nesting birds, as well as reptiles, amphibians and plants of various species, even rare ones.

"Damage is also caused to farms because of rooting. They crash into our cars, and also epidemics are a consequence of their big populations," Fulgione added.

These pig hybrids also reproduce very quickly, having up to six piglets in a litter, of which they can have two in a single year. The population of swine is so fecund that, even if 65 percent of the pigs were killed every year, the total number would still rise.

The presence of these pigs could significantly disrupt native ecosystems, and have knock-on effects all across the food chain.

"In Europe, for example, due to a considerable increase in wild boars, we have observed a significant increase of its predators, the wolves, but an increase also in some types of scavengers such as jackals. Even predators, if in large numbers, are difficult to manage and make compatible with agriculture and animal husbandry," Fulgione said.

"Furthermore, an effect on the populations of human hunters should not be overlooked, which will inevitably increase the food consumption of meat that is not always carefully and meticulously analyzed by health professionals. The transmission of diseases by parasites that also infest humans is sometimes directly proportional to the increase of these host animals and their reckless consumption," Fulgione added.

The USDA is attempting to keep the Canadian pigs out of the U.S., using aircraft and drones to patrol the border. Experts are considering ways to wipe out the pigs, as hunting is unsuccessful. It often results in no more than 2 or 3 percent of the animals being culled, and makes them more wary and nocturnal, and therefore harder to track down.

Some suggestions for controlling the population include large ground traps, net guns fired from helicopters, or even poison, but this risks harming other native wildlife.

"We can't forget that they are complex animals. Looking at their habits, we understood that they are skilled in pre-adapting to the environments they are going to invade," Fulgione said.

"Hogs must be studied before defining a common strategy that must be shared between states. Killing? Traps? It depends both on environmental and social variables. The interaction with our species is very close, and management has to deal with this element."

Raz Segal on why what's being done to Palestine is a 'textbook genocide'

not news to anyone here, but he's incredibly effective and great at making his point, in case you need something to link to

Egypt and Yemen should just Just close the strait to any ships going to Israel.

Small ray of "hope": Milei is having trouble building a cabinet, and there are already signs of internal conflicts even though he takes charge on the 10th of December. Here's the thing: Milei made an alliance with former president and insane neoliberal Mauricio Macri, the guy who pretty much runs the standard right wing anti-peronist coalition. He did that to pretty much have a clear shot at winning the election, and he did win so it worked out.., kinda. Now this shows two things: One is that Milei is a fucking amateur who puts all his eggs in a single basket and his goals are very short sighted and the other is that he sold his soul to an absolute ghoul, the demon, and now he must pay the price.

Now Macri is no employee of anybody, he likes to be the boss, now Milei must returns some favours. Macri-aligned people are slowly beginning to displace Milei's people to fill in the vacant spots in his cabinet, and might have to concede more and more. He lost the Ministry of Economy, a very strong ministry indeed, to one of Macri's employees, and that's a big hit. Former candidate for Governor of the Buenos Aires Province for the Ancaps was removed from her post as the head of Social Security, I wouldn't be surprised if she gets replaced by someone close to Macri. This is all very bad, and it can get worse considering he doesn't have majority in the Chamber of Deputies or in the Senate, he'll have to negotiate A LOT with the Juntos por el Cambio people. He's kinda fucked, at least for now.

Reality is slowly beginning to settle in for the ancaps. Their victory is indeed bad, and of course Macri gaining a lot of influence within the government is terrible news, but they're slowly realizing that their victory also comes at a high price, leading to internal strife. Their political instincts are like really bad, they could have gotten second place in the elections, lose to Massa but also claim a "moral victory", because they could have gotten a high number of votes without having to make suicidal alliances, probably selling the idea of "look how many people follow our ideals even though we lost". This could have made them build a lot of power for the future, directly challenging the standard opposition for the right wing votes and Peronism for the working class vote.

We have to see him in action as well. He's very honest about his ideals, he truly believes in what he says. But there are no economic, political or social bases for anarchocapitalism in this country, material reality always plays a huge role in the application of political and economic programs, here and everywhere. There's a chance that he'll get immediately frustrated at not being able to carry out his program, then he might lose an internal power struggle with Macri and he'll be the actual man in charge. Or perhaps Macri winning influence might provoke an institutional collapse, some people truly believe Milei is completely unfit to be president and he wont last 4 full years. But this is just my guess.

Nothing have started yet and he's failing already.

https://twitter.com/Dima_Khatib/status/1728542969911750970

https://nitter.net/Dima_Khatib/status/1728542969911750970

Families of Palestinian women/ children set to be liberated tonight, received calls from Israeli intelligence warning them against any celebration. One male member of each family in Jerusalem was asked this morning to go to the police for interrogation and is still detained there

So Israel is just going to kidnap a relative of every hostage they release?

https://nitter.cz/squatsons/status/1727000719096697131#m

Russian Tu-95 bombers are reportedly preparing to launch a cruise missile attack after a long hiatus. Considering the time of year, it's probably time for more infrastructure strikes.

Your Thursday Briefing:

Putin has said during the G20 online summit:

“The injection of trillions of dollars and euros into the economy, into the banking system, ultimately provoked a surge in global inflation, a rapid increase in food and energy prices. This is precisely what lies at the heart of the events that I mentioned [turbulence in the global economy], not our actions and our attempts to achieve justice in Ukraine, no,”

Erdogan continues to do a little trolling by not ratifying Sweden's accession to NATO in time for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers next week. Meanwhile, an intern at Baykar, producer of the eponymous and rather lackluster drones, was caught stealing four hard disks in Istanbul - possibly to sell them.

The EU is overhauling its environmental laws covering crimes, criminalizing illegal logging, the introduction of invasive species, and illegal water withdrawals. Individuals can face at least ten years in prison, while companies might get a minimum of 5% of their total reveneues fined.

The fascist PVV party in the Netherlands achieved a plurality of votes, with 37 out of 150 seats in parliament, thus needing a coalition with parties worth a further 39 seats to achieve a majority. The Labor-Green bloc won 25 seats and outgoing PM Mark Rutte's party won 24 seats. The party wants to halt all immigration and is generally anti-EU.

Finland has closed all but one of its border crossings with Russia in an attempt to stem the flow of hundreds of Middle Eastern asylum seekers sent nefariously by the scheming Kremlin to destabilise Finland. Finland will not fall for Putin's evil ruse, and will valiantly let them die in the winter cold instead of give in to terrorist regimes.

Disinformation experts in Slovakia's new government have been leaving their posts after it has been posting pro-Russian propaganda, such as that Ukrainians are fascists and that the US is to blame for the war.

The DPRK has suspended its 2018 military accord, which was signed to de-escalate tensions along the border, with its US-occupied lower half. This comes after the DPRK launched its military reconnaissance satellite. Kim Jong Un has already viewed photographs of US military facilities.

Russia and China have been angling for the best position on the Akkas gas field in Anbar province, Iraq, as the country remains very geopolitically important due to its position and resources. The gas field contains 5.6 trillion cubic feet of proven reserves.

Iran has been de-designating (that is, telling to fuck off, as is their legal right) several highly-knowledgable IAEA nuclear inspectors, with has prompted concerns by Rafael Grossi, suspecting Iran of getting up to some sussy stuff. Given the constant fearmongering over the years about how Iran is a mere 9 nanoseconds from possessing nukes, if it ever does happen it'll be a "boy who cried wolf" incident.

40% of African financial institutions want a single African currency akin to the euro, and a similar number want a more open pan-African banking system. Business leaders are generally upbeat on African economic prospects but wary of inflation and debt.

The French foreign minister has said: "Contrary to what some media outlets, and social networks in particular, are saying, France is absolutely not being driven out of Africa, and we're not in decline at all."

The UN stabilisation mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has agreed to withdraw its 15,000 peacekeepers (though without a firm timeline) after President Tshisekedi called for them to accelerate the withdrawal in September, due to a lack of real protection against rebel groups.

Conflict in Sudan continues, with refugees streaming out of the region. Chad, a country of 17 million people that was already struggling, has had to take in over one million refugees, with malnutrition affecting many. The World Food Programme is aiding all they can. Meanwhile, the Rapid Support Forces in opposition to the Sudanese government have made advances in Darfur, a region in western Sudan, with four out of Darfur's five states now in RSF hands. Former rebel groups that previously opposed the government are now stepping out of neutrality and deciding to fight alongside the government. The RSF is accused of having supply lines from Chad, Libya, and CAR, which all border Darfur.

After in an extended drought season marked by five failed rains which caused 15 million people in East Africa to descend into food insecurity, flooding in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia is happening on a wide scale, with 1.5 million hectares submerged in Somalia, or over 2% of the country. This has impacted 1.7 million in Somalia (10% of the population), and overall 3.1 million across the region. Food sources like livestock are under threat due to diseases.

Gay furry hackers have hacked the Idaho National Laboratory, with employee addresses, social security numbers, bank account information, and other data posted online. The hackers said that if the INL researched creating catgirls irl, they would take down the leak.

In the Dominican Republic, 27 people have died and over 7000 homes affected in torrential rains that broke records, with 431 millimeters in recent days.

President Lula said on Tuesday that “Brazil had to play a very strong role to not allow Africa to continue being held hostage by colonizers or by very strong interventions from China, which was seeking to buy the food they needed so much,” in a public critique of Chinese policy.

Milei's office mistakenly identified the UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, as instead James Cameron, the Chapo-endorsed film director.

lmao Democrats please pied piper RFK in attempt to take votes from Trump. The backfire would be hilarious.

Israel is not okay. Jpost is completely unhinged already, but this is a minister oped

There have been reports of Israeli attacks near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

- Al Jazeera

That's the entire thing.

It must be so easy to be an Israel apologist. They just say "Hamas uses hospitals as military strongholds," and there's no a hint of cognitive dissonance. They get right on with the rest of their day. I think on average since the war started I've used "[Redacted]" at Hexbear about once a day. And my usage keeps going up.

Your Saturday Briefing

The EU's Hydrogen Bank has begun operating, offering a total of 3 billion euros over 10 years to incentivize hydrogen producers to kickstart operations to meet a target of 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually by 2030. 3 billion euros will facilitate less than 3% of that goal. Germany has its own domestic hydrogen scheme, H2Global, which has a total of 5 billion euros assigned to it - or less than 5% of that annual 2030 goal.

Afghanistan has announced the closure of its permanent embassy in India, as India has failed to provide visa extensions for Afghanistan's diplomats due to their non-recognition of the Taliban government.

China has published a document: "Vision and Actions for High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Brighter Prospectors for the Next Decade" which outlines the direction the BRI will take over, uh, the next decade. It wants to do more cooperation in green development, digital cooperation, health cooperation, technology innovation, organic integration of trade, as well as making industrial and supply chains more resilient. Meanwhile, according to medical experts, the outbreak of disease in youth in China is unpleasant, but not especially concerning - these are all known diseases so no COVID-19 sequel, and it seems to be happening because these children didn't experience these kinds of diseases over the lockdowns, so are now catching up all at once.

In New Zealand, after over a month of negotiations in the aftermath of the October 14th elections, the conservative National Party leader, Christopher Luxon, signed a coalition deal to form a government with two fascist parties, ACT and New Zealand first, thus forming the most far-right government in decades.

The dengue fever epidemic in Burkina Faso, which has infected over 120,000 people this year, appears to be accelerating, as while 570 have died from it this year, about 360 of those have been in the last month or so. The government has launched an anti-mosquito spraying campaign in the two largest cities, Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, with over 1500 homes and 700 public spaces sprayed.

Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, has expressed its intention to become a member of BRICS within the next two years, stating their desire to be "multiple aligned" - they also want to join the G20.

The Madagascar opposition collective consisting of 11 candidates - including two former presidents - has said that it would not recognize the results of the first round of the presidential election due to irregularities. It appears that the incumbent president, Andry Rajoelina, has won a solid lead of 59%. 60% of registered voters did not vote.

South Africa, Colombia, and other countries are ramping up production of tuberculosis and HIV drugs, taking on international pharmaceutical companies like J&J to obtain patents. In September, under pressure from South Africa, J&J announced that it would drop a patent in 130 countries for bedaquiline, used for treating tuberculosis. There is some precedent here, from when Nelson Mandela successfully took on pharmaceutical companies in 2001 to produce AIDS drugs. Meanwhile, in Colombia, the government has declared that it would issue a compulsory license for HIV drug dolutegravir without permission from the patent-holder.

An article on the optimism of offshore wind power projects in the Great Lakes - an ideal place to put them - in the 2010s, which were then cut down before construction began due to a mixture of fossil fuel company opposition and public opposition.

In Honduras, the current left-wing government under Xiomara Castro is fighting a $11 billion case against Honduras Prospera, a US company started by a group of libertarians including literal vampire Peter Thiel, which sought to establish a private government and create a free market paradise on a Special Economic Zone on the island of Roatan under the previous America comprador government in 2013, but which Castro's government banned. This is but one case of the nearly 400 ongoing ISDS cases, which are frequently written into bilateral trade agreements that allow corporations to sue governments for decreasing their profits, like trying to decrease tobacco smoking.

The Amazon rainforest is facing an unprecedented drought that will likely continue into mid-2024, with the lowest river levels seen in over a hundred years, due to a combination of the eastern El Nino (warm water in the eastern equitorial Pacific); the central El Nino; and the Atlantic dipole, in which there is warmer water in tropical North Atlantic Ocean and colder water in the South Atlantic.

Russia fired a large wave of drones at Kiev last night. Ukraine, of course, shot down all of them - the hundreds of houses without power just happened to lose it because of, uh, falling drone debris. Of course.

https://en.mdn.tv/7TcJ

DPRK withdraws from Inter-Korean military agreement

Norman Finkelstein looks strikingly like Julius Caesar and seems to love engaging in the same type of public antics.

Oh so Joe BIDEN pardons two turkeys but not our boys from Jan 6th?

Dutch elections

Funny watching chuds defend the Dublin riots.

⚡️SUMMARY of Hamas military spox, Abu Obeida speech:

• Our fighters continue to confront the aggressive Zionist aggression.

• 335 Zionist military vehicles were targeted in total, since the incursion began.

• We targeted 33 Zionist vehicles in the last 72h.

• Over the past 3 days, we carried out qualitative operations against enemy forces, resulting in confirmed casualties.

• We targeted an enemy infantry group in Beit Hanoun with an anti-personnel IED.

• One of our fighters attacked 8 soldiers east of Rantisi Hospital, causing fatalities & injuries.

• Yesterday, our fighters rigged & detonated a tunnel entrance, causing a powerful explosion targeting the IOF. Following that, a soldier was sniped & killed.

• The heroics of our fighters on the battlefield are a source of pride for every free person in the world, and we face a brutal, oppressive force.

• We thwarted the enemy's plan to achieve a rapid victory in Gaza, and our fighters stand firm in their positions.

• The fearful enemy leadership decided to place its soldiers in the heart of the inferno in Gaza.

• The enemy continues to hide its military losses.

• We attacked with bombs & machine guns at point-blank range a military vehicle of the enemy that deployed a group of soldiers, resulting in 5 casualties on Tuesday.

• We consider that the enemy's human losses have not yet begun.

• Ready to continue the confrontation and counter the enemy, no matter how long the aggression lasts.

After reading "we should take the foreskins of palestinians as war trophies" im wondering if it would be absurd to suggest that before the end of this there will be a call to use palestinian blood to make matzah for the troops in the field.

Love the 20-40% of comments on MoA's latest piece on 'sub-imperial power' trying to make it about jews instead of capitalist elites.

How is this real? Hellworld is taunting us.

Commander of the Yemeni Navy to the crew of Israeli-owned cargo ship Galaxy Leader:

"We consider all of the crew as Yemeni people. Anything you want, we will bring it. You can consider Yemen as your own country."

https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1727327179028025744?t=i9jCKheKU9gCFRyDLWiCJQ&s=19

I just listened to the latest Citations Needed news brief about Palestine and now I'm trying to understand what the Israeli plan for Gaza is. It seems like it's

• 1. Order everyone to evacuate from northern Gaza to southern Gaza under the pretext that they have to fight Hamas in northern Gaza
• 2. Destroy everything in northern Gaza (we are currently here)
• 3. Order everyone to evacuate from southern Gaza to Sinai in Egypt (and perhaps other countries who will "accept refugees") under the pretext that they now have to fight Hamas in southern Gaza
• 4. Destroy everything in southern Gaza
• 5. Annex Gaza and the West Bank. The displacement of 2+ million Palestinians out of Gaza will make demographics more favorable for Israeli democracy even if they annex the West Bank and all of its population
• 6. Start the same shit in Sinai?

I don't really know much about the region beyond what I've been reading since Oct 7 so I don't know if these are Israel's geopolitical goals. I understand that Egypt is a US ally but I can't imagine that they can easily absorb possibly millions of refugees into their country, so it feels like SOMETHING will have to give at step 3 above, although I don't know what that looks like.

More settler POWs are being released right now, plus a group of Thai workers

Milei Cyrus

Fucking around: https://nitter.cz/dancohen3000/status/1727043422106870222

Finding out: TBA