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Contextually relevant here, given that Netanyahu is the current Israeli PM and that they are also trying to "expel" Palestinians from Gaza.

Wall Street encouraged nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia to borrow.  Now persistent high rates could spur a 2024 reckoning.

Turns out taking USD-denominated variable interest loans from Western lenders isn't the best idea when the Fed can unilaterally decide to raise interest rates.

Earlier this month the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence called for a new definition of what it called an “electronic communication service provider” to include “equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store” communications.

It builds on the existing law – Section 702 of Fisa – that allows the US government to compel communication service providers, such as phone and email providers, to disclose communications of individuals outside the US for foreign intelligence purposes without a warrant.

“The reform is significant as it marks the shift in US national security focus from Islamist terrorism to a new cold war focus where the primary threat comes from another major power, specifically China,” [Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman, a research fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore] said.

“Hotels, libraries, coffee shops and other businesses that provide wifi could be compelled to serve as surrogate spies, structuring their systems so that they can give the government access to entire communications streams”.

As far as I can tell they just translated a Defence Arabia article and cross-referenced it with publicly available information on US deliveries to Ukraine. In another comment, I cited the original article (in Arabic) that they appear to draw from.

Original source seems to be from Defense Arabia in Arabic: https://defensearabia.com/2023/11/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%B5%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AF%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2-%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84/

[Morocco purchased an] additional 162 M1A2 SEP v.3 Abrams tanks in 2018 for an estimated cost of $1.259 billion

Original source seems to be Arabic: https://defensearabia.com/2023/11/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%B5%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AF%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2-%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84/

Another source, which I also provided...

So... they fake-dubbed a person talking and prayed that nobody watching the news spoke Hebrew? That's some impressive stuff.

How about voting for no genocide?

153 member states voted in favour, 10 against and there were 23 abstentions.

The 10 against:

• Austria
• Czechia
• Guatemala
• Israel
• Liberia
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• United States of America

The 23 abstentions:

• Argentina
• Bulgaria
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Equatorial Guinea
• Georgia
• Germany
• Hungary
• Italy
• Lithuania
• Malawi
• Marshall Islands
• Netherlands
• Palau
• Panama
• Romania
• Slovakia
• South Sudan
• Togo
• Tonga
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• Uruguay

Notably, Canada switched from abstaining in the last UN resolution to voting in favour of this one.

Not sure tbh

Pro-China articles like:

Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow still fears Beijing's reach despite living in Canada

Ex-Xinjiang official under investigation by China's top anti-corruption watchdog

Yeah...

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I don't know what WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with glorified supersoakers and loud music.

Casualties fell as a result of friendly fire on October 7, but the IDF believes that beyond the operational investigations of the events, it would not be morally sound to investigate these incidents due to the immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities due to the challenging situations the soldiers were in at the time.

Capitalism is when your government system slides into fascism but you still need to pay your bills 🤷

Democracy is when you get to choose between voting for genocide and voting for fascism.

China (neither the PRC nor the ROC) was invited to discussions on the Treaty of San Francisco that decided Japanese war reparations following the Second World War. This is, of course, despite both the CPC (the governing party of the PRC) and the KMT (the governing party of the ROC) participating HEAVILY in the war against Japanese imperialists expansion.

Pick up a history book. There's a reason both China and Taiwan claim the same territories in the South China Sea (plus minus, well, the Gulf of Tonkin). There's a reason both parties have participated in land reclamation in the South China Sea. There's a reason that Taiwan has had an outpost on some of those islands since 1946.

The South China Sea dispute is one founded on shared Chinese historical heritage. In fact, it's one founded on the shared Chinese/Soviet heritage of a complete disregard from today's West for their contributions towards attritioning Japanese and German resources (respectively) and ending the war.

The Allied successes in the Pacific Theatre post-1941 are largely a product of the quagmire that the Japanese had put themselves in in China: by late 1941, Japan had suffered a string of failures at the hands of the NRA while the CPC's guerilla fighters caused havoc on Japanese supply lines. While Japan nominally had the resources to fight in the Pacific (particularly with their capture of the resource-rich Manchuria in 1932 and the oil-rich Dutch East Indies in 1942), their resources were sucked up by the growing complications in the Chinese Theatre and inhibited pointing their significant industrial base towards the American threat.

The short-term impacts of fugitive methane from oil and gas extraction are horrendous and can outweigh the long-term benefits compared to coal. If we can't even reach an agreement on acknowledging methane as an underreported problem that makes natural gas much worse than it's claimed to be, how can we expect to make any progress towards a resolution phasing out the use of fossil fuels?

American energy production from fossil fuels has risen 40% over the past two decades with the rise of natural gas and it's showing no signs of stopping. China, despite owning the majority of the renewables market, has only managed to build up enough renewables manufacturing capacity to outpace energy demand growth this year. India is still stuck with coal for lack of better options. The EU is literally subsidizing tens of cents per kWh to prop up their economy with coal after the loss of cheap Russian gas. The big players are asleep at the wheel.