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Herzi Halevi Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (highest rank of IDF) has resigned, effective March 6th pending helping in a transition for his successor.

These trump tax proposals are ridiculous This some Liz Truss shit https://taxfoundation.org/research/federal-tax/trump-administration-tax-proposals/

We're only 20 days in but let me present to you the dumbest thing you could read all year

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/

Does Donald Trump telling Netanyahu he has to sign a ceasefire with Hamas, at least temporarily, prove that Israel doesn't have as much "blackmail" leverage over US politicians as some people think? Trump was BFF's with Epstein, they would have to have a ton of it on him. Or does it just mean that there is nothing you could release that would actually hurt Trump?

Since Columbia is probably getting 25-50% of tariffs on its Exports to the USA this is a chard with some of the stuff they sell to the US

the most important seem to be Coffee which makes up about 20% of total US imports and Flowers which i think someone here mention that Roses from Colombia are around 90% of USA imports

So is trump gonna invade panama now? lmao

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announces a 25% tax on all products imported from the United States. Petro also ordered the expansion of exports to the rest of the world, “except to the US”.

“Colombia has now stopped looking to the north, to look to the world,” says Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia. He threatens to tax the United States by 50%.

Gustavo Petro is due to call Brazilian President Lula da Silva to discuss the United States' commercial position on Latin America. One of the possibilities is to secure Colombia's entry into the BRICS.

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Today’s news from Russia’s special military operation.

Russian investigators discovered that Ukrainian Nazis and Western mercenaries massacred a group of elderly civilians (with their hands tied in the basement of a house) in the Kursk oblast settlement of Russkoye Porechnoye (18+): https://southfront.press/video-18-more-evidence-of-ukrainian-atrocities-in-russian-kursk-region-revealed/

A Kiev regime “HIMARS” rocket attack on a school in Bekhtery (in the liberated parts of Kherson oblast) killed two civilians this morning as students and teachers headed to classes: https://southfront.press/number-of-victims-of-ukrainian-terrorist-attacks-growing/

Russian forces recently captured a group of “Right Sector” Ukrainian Nazis (from the “Arey Battalion”) during the battle to liberate Plekhovo in Kursk oblast: https://southfront.press/ukrainian-nazis-who-murders-civilians-in-kursk-now-safe-and-sound-in-russian-captivity/

A Russian Lancet strike destroyed another US-built M109 self-propelled howitzer in Sumy oblast: https://www.rt.com/russia/611290-lancet-paladin-artillery-video/

In December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump stated that he plans to revert the mountain's official name back to Mount McKinley during his second term, in honor of President William McKinley. Trump's proposal was strongly opposed by U.S. Senators from Alaska Lisa Murkowski (R) and Dan Sullivan (R), along with Alaska State Senator Scott Kawasaki (D). On January 20, 2025, Trump announced that he intends to sign an executive order changing the mountain's official name back to Mount McKinley on the first day of his second term.

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bytedance is 60% foreign owned lol

china has an opportunity to really commit to the bit and force majority ownership of bytedance for that 50% tiktok jv the american state so desperately craves

how much of bytedance is tt, like 20% max? lmfao

ICE Conducts Over 460 Arrests of Undocumented Immigrants in First Hours of Trump’s Second Term - Telesur English

Japan still raising interest rates

https://archive.is/HtBbv

CW: Violence and Transphobia

This'll fix the economy

Milei government wants to remove femicide from Argentina's Penal Code

**President Javier Milei's government wants to strip femicide from Argentina's Penal Code, eliminate non-binary IDs and remove quotas for disabled and trans people. **

President Javier Milei’s government announced Friday that it will seek to eliminate the concept of “femicide” from Argentina’s Penal Code. The move is part of a wider push to eliminate all legislation that encourages what officials describe as “positive discrimination.” The government says the push is a move to ensure equality before the law.

“We are going to eliminate the figure of femicide from the Argentine Criminal Code. Because this administration defends the equality before the law enshrined in our National Constitution. No life is worth more than another,” said the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, on his account on the X network. Cúneo Libarona on Friday described the concept of femicide, which was added to the Penal Code in December 2012, as “a distortion of the concept of equality.”

Cúneo Libarona is accused of killing his wife in the 90s but nothing happened with this.

According to the code, femicide is defined as “a crime of murder perpetrated by a man against a woman in the context of gender violence" and convictions normally receive harsher sentences. On its website, Argentina’s Public Prosecutor’s Office says the crime is rooted in a “social system that ... preserves the social orders of power, control and oppression of men over women.” The concept was introduced in 2012, although not explicitly, via a law that modified Article 80 of Argentina’s Penal Code.

The news comes one day after Milei angrily attacked the “cancer” of “wokeism” – a term used by the far right to refer to progressive policies targeting social inequalities – in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “The mental virus of woke ideology,” declared Milei, is “an epidemic which is destroying the foundations of Western civilisation.”

“Feminism, equality, gender ideology, climate change, abortion and immigration are all heads of the same monster, whose aim is to justify the advance of the state,” said the La Libertad Avanza leader.

In his speech, Milei argued that the concept of femicide legalises “in fact, that the life of a woman is worth more than that of a man.”

(No it does not lmfao)

“As President Javier Milei said in Davos [this week], feminism is a distortion of the concept of equality that only seeks privileges by setting one half of the population against the other,” agreed Cúneo Libarona, who said in an interview last July had stated that tackling gender violence was an “absolute priority” for the government. In order to amend Argentina's Penal Code, the Milei administration must pass a law through Congress, where the ruling party is in a minority. Opposition lawmakers would likely rally against any such change.

“The fact of killing a woman does not take you directly into femicide … you have to have killed her because she is a woman,” said criminal lawyer Gastón Francone in comments to the AFP news agency. “This aggravating factor … is different from killing a man because he is a man,” said Francone, who pointed out that the maximum sentence for a homicide without aggravating circumstances is 25 years, while life imprisonment for a femicide can be up to 50 years. Data tracked by the government and several NGOs show that on average one woman is murdered for gender-related reasons every 30 hours.

Argentina recorded 255 femicides last year.

‘Positive discrimination’

According to reports, Milei’s government is also planning to tackle a number of other progressive pieces of legislation as it ramps up its “cultural battle” against “wokeism.” The “equality before the law” push is said to be led by Strategic Planning Secretary María Ibarzabal Murphy and a team headed by top presidential advisor Santiago Caputo. It targets all regulations that guarantee “differential treatment before the law,” said government sources.

Among other measures under consideration is the elimination of non-binary national identity cards (DNIs), which were introduced in 2021, and the so-called “trans quota,” which establishes that the state must reserve at least one percent of jobs for transgender people. The Noticias Argentinas news agency reported Friday that the Milei government would like to repeal the Gender Identity Law (Nº 26.743), the Law for the Promotion of Access to Formal Employment for Transvestites, Transsexuals and Transgender ‘Diana Sacayán - Lohana Berkins’ (Nº 27. 636), the Law on Electoral Parity in Areas of Political Representation (Nº 27.412) and some aspects of the Micaela Law (Nº 27499), amongst others.

The Milei government also discussed the repeal of a labour quota for persons with disabilities (Nº 22.431), which obliges the state to ensure that persons with disabilities have the right to work, but the idea was dropped. Back in November, Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni stated that “Argentina does not admit prerogatives of blood, birth or religion: all its inhabitants are equal before the law.”

(No they're not equal before the law lmfao)

“The National Government will provide the necessary measures to eliminate any ideological and discriminatory policy that enables the entry to public employment by criteria other than those specifically related to the suitability of individuals,” he concluded.

Davos denunciation

Milei’s appearance at Davos and remarks online may land him in hot water. At least two legal complaints have been filed against Argentina’s President, accusing him of threats, incitement to violence and abuse of authority, among other offences.

One was filed by the Federación Argentina de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Trans (FALGBT) and is before the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court 3, headed by Judge Daniel Rafecas. Milei was also denounced by the lawyer Gregorio Dalbón, along with secretary general of ATE Capital stateworkers’ union, Daniel Catalano, and former national deputy Myriam Bregman.

FALGBT said in its complaint that Milei “has initiated an escalation of violence towards various groups and social groups, under the pretext of embodying a “cultural battle.” “However, as the months have gone by, this aggressive attitude has become more and more radical until it has turned into concrete threats that would constitute actions of public intimidation, incitement to collective violence, incitement to hatred and discrimination,” argued the group.

In comments to Perfil, FALGBT president María Rachid denounced that “President Milei's entire speech is a compilation of threats, intimidation, violence and discrimination.” “To use a gay couple who committed abuse as an example to say that those of us who defend LGBT rights – which he calls ‘gender ideology’ – are paedophiles, is like saying that those who defend the rights of heterosexuals are paedophiles because of a case of sexual abuse of a heterosexual person or couple, as most cases are. Even given that fact, it would not be logical to say so,” she argued.

“Milei pointed against the ‘lefties’ who defend the ‘gender ideology’, that is, those of us who defend the rights of women and diversity, and the ‘woke ideology,’ which is nothing more than those who fight against injustice, racism, patriarchy and care for the environment,” said Rachid. During his Davos speech, Milei railed against the trans community and made reference to a case of child sexual abuse in the United States, which he then suggested was linked to the homosexual community.

Hours later, in a post on social media, he slammed “shitty lefties” and warned them he would “go after them to the farthest corners of the planet” – a clear threat.

He did this while defending after he did the nazi salute.

Dalbón made the same point in his criminal complaint against Milei, stating that “saying that he is going to look for all of us who think differently, to the last corner, is a crime.”

In comments to Noticias Argentinas, Dalbón confirmed that the complaint in Argentina, based on the publication that the President wrote yesterday on his social networks, was filed with federal judge Daniel Rafecas and that the prosecutor in the case will be Paloma Ochoa. Additionally, the complaint will be filed with the Criminal Court in The Hague and the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, said Dalbón. “I believe that the case should be investigated, to investigate the President and to ask him what he wants to do with Argentina and with this single way of thinking. Incitement to collective violence, practically saying that he is going to look for all of us who think differently from him, to the farthest corners of the world, is a crime,” he said.

Ben Gvir (Kahanist Peter Griffin) resignation effective today, reports JPost. So long, Bozo

https://archive.is/kt4Mv

Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of ~~X~~ Twitter Loans

Netanyahu announced the start of Israel's "counter-terrorism operation" in the West Bank, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

He described the goal of Operation Iron Wall as "strengthening security." During the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel has repeatedly carried out military raids into the West Bank, claiming Palestinian attacks from there.

Recall that Israel recently reached an agreement with Hamas on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an exchange of hostages. However, the Israeli far right, including members of the government, were unhappy with the deal.

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Trump reversed Biden's January 14 decision and returned Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Reuters reports. It was Trump who added Cuba to this list in 2021. The Cuban president called the US president's decision "an act of mockery and insult." Biden's decision last week came after Havana agreed to release more than 500 prisoners from its jails.

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Venezuelan prosecutors claim to have dismantled the criminal organization Aragua Train, framed by Trump as 'terrorist'. The group operates in different Latin American countries and in the United States.

Venezuela's Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, confirmed on Wednesday that the criminal Wilexis Acevedo, Venezuela's Most Wanted, accused of various crimes such as murder, robbery and extortion, was killed during a security operation. Special police forces, assisted by the Colectivos (Civil Armed Left-Wing Group), clashed with Wilexis and his gang.

"Little Marco" to SoS pick... it really is all just kayfabe.

How long until Elon Musk/Zucc bans the words Cheeto and Elmo from X/Facebook/Instagram? Maybe Elon will even ban Elmo himself from Twitter lol

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has asked Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to advise Polish consulates in the United States to be prepared for possible deportations of Poles from the United States.

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The Russian Air Force appears to be conducting preparations for another large scale air raid/long range air attack soon. Strategic bomber aircraft such as the Tu-95M (carries the Kh-101 long range cruise missile) and Tu-22M (carries the Kh-32/22 supersonic high altitude cruise missile) have been repositioned at Engels-2 airbase, and transport aircraft such as the IL-76 are making deliveries of presumably ordinance to these air bases. Russian MiG-31K aircraft (carries the Kinzhal ALBM) and the Su-57 stealth aircraft (carries the Kh-69 stealth cruise missile), along with the Black Sea Naval fleet (ships that launch Kalibr cruise missiles) are also conducting practice/training missions. Geran-2/Shahed-136 drone activity has also increased. All this activity has occurred in the last week or so. This is all indicative of a Russian strike happening soon, the only thing that's missing is a Ukrainian/USA directly assisted ATACMS attack on Russian soil.

The sources for this information, as per usual, are compiled from Ukrainian and Russian air raid channels. AMK Mapping on Twitter and telegram does of good job of compiling these sources into English language posts.

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Another thing to note is that there has been increased ballistic missile activity by Russia since the beginning of this year, with some videos of the strikes looking different to the typical Iskander-M strike. We already know that Russia has used the North Korean version of the Iskander, the Kn-23, in their strikes since January 2024. But could some of these new strikes be using other types of ballistic missiles, such as the North Korean KN-15, which was spotted in Russia last month, or even the rumoured Iranian ballistic missile deliveries of Fateh, Zoheir and Zulfiqar? That is a possibility which cannot be ruled out.

Honduran President Xiomara Castro is launching the “Brother, come home” Program to support Honduran migrants in the U.S. The Honduran government says it will coordinate with the United States to ensure a safe and orderly return that respects the dignity and human rights of migrants.

Foreign Minister of Honduras met with Dogu to coordinate efforts and cooperation for the orderly, safe and dignified return of migrants and says all Hondurans are welcome in their homeland. The Honduran right is upset that Marco Rubio won't be visiting Honduras on his Central America trip (nor Nicaragua). Foreign Minister says Marco is visiting countries which “recognize” the Venezuelan opposition: “we recognize the government of President Nicolás Maduro.”

Marco Rubio will make his first trip as secretary of state to Central America. He'll be visiting Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and Dominican Republic, all of which have been and will continue to be key allies of Washington.

It's at best suspicious that so many mainstream and alternative media commentators spun these governments as progressive, leftist, and/or moderate in recent years. It's overtly clear where Abinader, Nayib and the others stand: with Washington.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro: Irregular U.S. citizens in Colombia must report to immigration services. "There are 15,660 Americans established in Colombia in an irregular manner. They should approach our immigration service to regularize their situation. I hope that the dialogue on Darien is not frozen. If there is no regularization, illegalities will increase. We already saw it when the U.S. blocked Venezuela and caused the migratory wave to explode. The dignity of Colombia and Latin America comes first. Migrants are human beings and subjects of rights and should be treated as such."

Petro says 15,666 illegal U.S. immigrants in Colombia, under Colombian law, must regularize their stay: "U.S. citizens who wish may stay in Colombia, I believe in human freedom. But more than 15,666 are irregular and by Colombian law they must regularize their stay."

"You will never see me burning a gringo flag or making a “ratzia” to return the handcuffed illegals to the USA. Real libertarians will never assault human freedom. We are the opposite of Nazis." Mexico and Colombia deny landing authorization to planes carrying deported US citizens.

The US Embassy in Colombia has announced that it will no longer issue visas after President Gustavo Petro refused to accept flights with illegal Colombians on US soil. There are more than 10,000 US military personnel in Colombia. The US presence in the country is seen as strategic, given the tension between the USA and Venezuela.

Brazil claims that the flight that landed in Manaus was in a precarious situation, with a breakdown in the air conditioning and was not authorized to continue on to Belo Horizonte.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian government is going to ask for explanations about the use of handcuffs on the deportees' hands and feet and says that there has been a violation of the agreement between the two countries. The Brazilian government reports that its citizens were assaulted, threatened and humiliated by US Security Forces.

The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, disallowed the use of chains and handcuffs on Brazilians deported by the US - and asked for an Airforce flight to transport them from Manaus to Confins. The order came from President Lula, who says that this is a question of sovereignty and that no one in Brazil puts Brazilians in chains. The information was confirmed to the blog by sources in the Ministry of Justice.

In a press release, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security said that Ricardo Lewandowski had instructed the Federal Police to receive the Brazilians and ordered the authorities and representatives of the US government to immediately remove the handcuffs.

- President Gustavo Petro's Twitter

- Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed - France24

- Enrique Reina (Secretary of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Honduras) Twitter

Trump's office said that "the largest deportation in the history of the United States has already begun," Bild reports. According to the US President's press secretary Caroline Levitt, 538 illegal immigrants have already been detained. Recall that one of Trump's first orders was to declare a state of emergency on the Mexican border and send additional troops there. He promises to expel "millions" of illegal migrants.

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