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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea wrote an article published on 10th of October.

"A detestable criminal country that needs to be swept away in a day."

Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians, which began in October last year, has continued year after year, and its means and methods have reached a point beyond human imagination, drawing the ire of the international community.

According to Palestine's Wafa news agency, Israel's rogue regime, which has no regard for international law and humanitarian principles, recently shocked the world by devising a “bill” to restrict the activities of the UNRWA, with the aim of massacring innocent Palestinians once again.

It is not enough that Israel has massacred more than 42,000 Palestinians and displaced more than 1.9 million Palestinians, more than 90% of the Palestinians in Gaza, in the past year since the outbreak of the Gaza crisis, but the Israeli criminal justice system's anti-humanitarian blockade of UNRWA, which is aimed at completely exterminating an entire people, is a heinous act of human rights abuses and a despicable war crime.

The murderers, who are ruthlessly depriving people of their human rights, the most important of which is the right to survival, and plotting to cut off the last link of the refugees, and the unscrupulous human white elephants, who are toasting and laughing at the spectacle of bombing the inhabited areas of Gaza, are grossly violating humanity's right to survival and development by expanding the scope of mass destruction to neighboring countries.

The international community is outraged that Israel, a dysfunctional country that ignores even the rudimentary notion of human rights and promotes extreme hateful ideas, and a country where criminals who take pleasure in human blood should never have existed on Earth in the first place.

All justice- and peace-oriented nations and progressive movements must unite to firmly defend human justice, conscience, and world peace by decisively stopping Israel's criminal atrocities and expelling this cancerous cancer of human society from the face of the earth".

More news no one is paying attention to:

1. Mali sacked it's civilian prime minister for turning on the junta, need more info on this

2. Dead people are voting in US elections, it's just in Puerto Rico and probably for the statehood candidates so nobody cares https://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2024/11/activos-fallecidos-registro-elecciones-cee/

3. The Philippines got hit by alot of megatyphoons, someone should check on the smaller islands.

4. Dish TV and direct TV didn't merge because of a debt argument, expect hbo to spin off its cable channels which will then merge with whatever is left.

Some news and combat footage from Lebanon and occupied Palestine.

Lebanese resistance forces continue inflicting losses on Zionist invaders in southern Lebanon: https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollah-clashes-with-invading-troops-across-south-lebanon-as-massive-airstrikes-hit-beirut

A collection of recent Lebanese rocket and drone strikes on Zionist military targets: https://southfront.press/in-video-hezbollah-hit-israeli-bases-with-guided-missiles-suicide-drones/

Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, is making a state visit to Buenos Aires these days. Diplomatic custom has it that countries give each other gifts during these visits, like Xi Jinping who gave Lula a piece of the moon.

Milei was no different and showed her appreciation to Prime Minister Meloni with a gift... curious, perhaps? Meloni is now the happy owner of a doll of Javier Milei holding a chainsaw.

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Russians getting their mojo back with that missile strike. Probably feels good after west saying Russia is just a gas station and they don't have paved roads.

spd will run with scholtz literally every single party is shit, real euro vibes

#Colombia 🇨🇴: "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (#FARC) killed a "National Liberation Army" (#ELN) fighter in #Arauca.

As a result, FARC fighters captured a Galil AR assault rifle, a pistol and DJI Drones from the ELN fighter.

https://xcancel.com/war_noir/status/1860096532059726096

Pinch of salt since this could be op, untrue, or whatever. Probably of interest to those here either way though.

Trump's treasury secretary (i know its copy pasting wiki but it's good info on his background)

Bessent founded Key Square Group in 2015 with Michael Germino, who had been the global head of capital markets at SFM.[20] Key Square uses geopolitics and economics to make macro investments.[15] Key Square received a $2 billion anchor investment from George Soros.[21] At the end of 2017, Key Square's assets were $5.1 billion.[21][22] Bloomberg in May 2018 reported that Key Square had mostly outperformed rival macro managers and continued to generate significant investor interest.[21] As part of a pre-arranged deal, the firm returned the Soros capital as it took in other assets.[21] Its investors include Australia's sovereign wealth fund, Future Fund.[22]

In 2000, Bessent hosted a fundraiser for Al Gore at his East Hampton, New York, home.[23] He has also donated to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.[24] In 2016, Bessent donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2017 presidential inaugural committee.[25]

In February 2024, Bessent hosted a fundraiser in Greenville, South Carolina, that raised nearly $7 million for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.[26] In April 2024, Bessent was a host for a Palm Beach, Florida, fundraiser that raised $50 million for the Trump campaign.[27] In July 2024, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Bessent was a key economic advisor to Trump.[28] He proposed a three-point economic plan for Trump modeled on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "Three Arrows" economic policy.[29] Bessent praised Trump's proposal to implement broad tariffs.[30]

He wants a strong Dollar so he can bet against other currencies? There is really no reason for anyone in the US to be pro broad tariffs other than rhetoric or if it benefits them personally.

If you are a tiny developing country, sure. Wide tariffs and controls on trade would allow for more room for imports that promote development for everyone, but U.S. and the West are not that. Also keep in mind despite Trump's rhetoric about tariffs and controls on trade, he has always been pro-free capital flows.

Educational post: here we will debunk the myth of China’s dollar-denominated bonds in Saudi Arabia for those who are interested in learning about how the system actually works, and those who need a little help with connecting the dots.

A few months ago, some multipolar bloggers were jumping up and down about Saudi Arabia “ending its 50-year petrodollar contract” and how that is going to “end dollar hegemony” (I already wrote a whole post debunking that). Today we see the same people saying that China issuing dollar-denominated bonds in Saudi Arabia is actually genius and how that’s going to “end dollar hegemony”. So which one is it?

The answer is neither, and far simpler than you think. But to even be able to answer this question, we need to learn a bit about the fundamentals of the financial system, and especially to debunk the many misconceptions about the role of US treasury.

Don’t worry, I have deliberately stripped all technical jargons from this post, so anyone will be able to understand even if you know nothing about banking and finance. This post is meant to be educational - I firmly believe that learning about how the economy and the financial system operate can shield us from falling for right wing propaganda, and that is my goal of spending many hours writing this post here.

First, let’s lay out the main misconceptions that have been perpetuated on social media about the China’s dollar bond in Saudi Arabia, and what questions do we need to answer:

1. The misconception that the US government is financed by its treasury bonds (China is issuing dollar bonds at nearly the same rates, so investors will buy China bonds instead of US treasury bonds, so the US government can no longer finance its spending)
   • Question: What is the role of US treasuries?
2. A wild extrapolation that a $2 billion bond issuance somehow serves as a prelude to China issuing a $100 billion dollar bond which will then subvert the entire US treasury market.
   • Question: What can a $100 billion dollar bond do if China issues that?
3. The mental gymnastics involved to craft a narrative about why China issuing its bond in dollar in Saudi Arabia is actually good and that somehow is going to help the BRI countries pay back their dollar debt.
   • Questions: What is the intent behind China issuing dollar-denominated bond in Saudi Arabia? Can it really help Belt and Road countries pay back their dollar debt?

Let’s go through this point by point.

What is the role of US treasuries?

If the US gets into WW3 before Trump’s inauguration, can Biden declare himself as the war president through martial law?

US Electoral Results:

Preliminary results with 98.8% of the expected vote counted.

Donald Trump (Republican) 49.87% (76,794,031)

Kamala Harris (Democratic) 48.24% (74,279,910)

Jill Stein (Green) 0.50% (775,186)

RFK Jr. (idk) 0.49% (748,235)

Chase Oliver (Libertarian) 0.42% (639,252)

Can't wait for US Marines to get clapped by the Dutch Army as they try to invade The Hague

Any news from the Lebanon front?

After signing 37 bilateral trade deals, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave Brazil's President Lula da Silva with a gift: a piece of the Moon collected by the Chang'e-5 during China's, 2020 Lunar exploration mission.

Do we have anymore info on the Oreshnik missile? I counted about 18 distinct hits by counting the flashes on the ground which is a lot more than wikipedia mentions for MIRVs. I'm seeing a few people speculate that the missiles might have been empty and relied on the kinetic energy for damage. Out of curiosity I tried to calculate what that would be but gave up since there were too many unknowns involved. I hate to give up on a calculation once I start so for some resolution I decided to calculate how much KE if you fired elon musk into the ground at mach 20. Wikipedia says non-relativistic KE is 1/2 m x (v)^2 and I assumed musk weighs 90kg so at mach 20 (6860m/s) and 90kg I converted to lb's of TNT. Using elon musk as a hypersonic missile would be = 1102.31 lb's of TNT.

Right winger got arrested in Algeria upon arrival: (used google translate with some corrections)

Sansal, a puppet of the anti-Algerian revisionist movement [Arabic]

Algeria - The comical uproar raised by some French political and intellectual circles over the case of Boualem Sansal is further evidence of the existence of a “hateful” movement against Algeria. It is a lobby that does not miss any opportunity to question Algerian sovereignty.
The arrest of Boualem Sansal, the alleged intellectual revered by the French far right, has also awakened the professionals of indignation. The anti-Algerian and pro-Zionist names in Paris have risen up as one man: Eric Zemmour, Mohamed Sifaoui, Marine Le Pen, Xavier Driencourt, Valéry Pécras, Jack Lang, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, and of course Tahar Ben Jelloun, his Moroccan friend who is recovering from sciatica from bending over to kiss the hand of his King Mohammed VI. They have all come to the forefront to defend this professional revisionist who has fallen into the trap of his own doing.

The article is from the Algerian Press Service, which is owned by the Algerian government, no their articles aren't like this usually.

A spokesperson for the German regime said they will only definitely decide whether or not they would arrest Netanyahu or Gallant if/when they plan on coming to Germany, but he said arresting them would be "hard to imagine". ^tagesschau^

So they have definitely decided they will not arrest Netanyahu but don't want come right out and say that.

Some combat footage from Russia’s special military operation.

Yesterday’s Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile MIRV strike on the Kiev regime’s Yuzhmash military factory in Dnepropetrovsk, in response to recent US-ordered “ATACMS” and “Storm Shadow” missile strikes on Kursk and Bryansk oblasts: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Oreshnik_YT:7

The hypersonic Oreshnik flying toward its target, yesterday: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/hypersonic-Oreshnik.mp4?_=3

Russian drone strikes another US-built M1A1 “Abrams” tank in Kursk oblast: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/abrams.mp4

Russian drone destroys a Kiev regime ammunition depot in Kursk oblast: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/destroys-Ukrainian-ammunition-dump.mp4?_=4

Highlights from the list of people who have been indicted by the Supreme Court for planning various coups and the assassination of Lula and Alexandre de Moraes:

Alexandre Ramagem (federal deputy, former director-general of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin, Brazil's CIA) and Federal Police (Brazil's FBI) delegate, attempted to be Rio de Janeiro's Mayor, but lost to popular pro-Lula Liberal Eduardo Paes, who won the elections with 60% of the votes)

Carlos Cesar Moretzsohn Rocha (an engineer hired by the PL (Liberal Party, Bolsonaro's Party) to question the vulnerability of electronic ballot boxes during the 2022 elections. An engineer who claims to be the 'inventor' of the electronic voting machine.)

Filipe Garcia Martins (former advisor to the Presidency of the Republic who took part in the meeting that dealt with the coup draft, known white supremacist)

Fernando Cerimedo (Argentine businessman who made a live broadcast questioning the security of the electronic ballot boxes during the 2022 elections)

Guilherme Marques de Almeida (lieutenant colonel and former commander of the 1st Psychological Operations Battalion in Goiânia who fainted when the knocked on his door)

José Eduardo de Oliveira e Silva (priest of the Osasco diocese, Transphobic, said he “missed the days when the toilet was only for physiological needs” and suggested that the pharmaceutical industry create “a tranquilizer in the form of a suppository”. Has a huge fetish on anal stuff?!)

Paulo Renato de Oliveira Figueiredo Filho (businessman and grandson of former dictator João Figueiredo)

Tércio Arnaud Tomaz (former advisor to Bolsonaro and considered one of the pillars of the so-called “hate cabinet”, owner of the facebook page “Bolsonaro Opressor” who gained visibility. He used it to attack, through memes, the opponents of the then federal deputy, as well as praising Bolsonaro.)

Valdemar Costa Neto (president of PL (Liberal Party), the party for which Jair Bolsonaro and Braga Netto contested the 2022 elections)

The Romanian presidential election is coming up this Sunday, as far as I am aware nobody here has said a single thing about it so far and I must say it's probably better that way. While many romanians love to make fun of the US and how much of a charade its "democracy" is I genuinely believe Romania might have the most stagnant political scene and the most transparently undemocratic "democracy" in Europe. There are 14 candidates and they all either range from center-right to George "" Simion.

@[email protected] tovarăș, what are your thoughts on this upcoming election? That is if you have any, I would not blame you if you didn't, this country's internal politics are so stagnant and geopolitically irrelevant I didn't even know an election was happening until someone told me about it yesterday.