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Brazil’s reclusive Bolsonaro has a skin infection, ‘cannot wear pants’

sorry if this has been posted before but...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has barely been seen in public since failing to win re-election, is holed up in his official residence because of a skin infection on his leg, a newspaper said on Wednesday.

“It is a health issue. He has a leg injury, a skin infection,” Vice President Hamilton Mourao told O Globo on the sidelines of an event at the Planalto presidential palace.

“He cannot wear pants. You want him to come here wearing Bermuda shorts?” Mr Mourao was quoted as saying.

I stand with both Thanksgiving and Christmas

Cynical Grinch Leftist can never destroy the holiday spirit

They are both holidays about coming together

New dumbass Zionist cope just dropped

🛑 IDF Spokesman: A hostile aircraft (cruise missile), that was launched towards occupied territories, was intercepted by IOF fighter jets over the Red Sea.

cruise missiles from Yemen now

guys... i'm scared

Sudan is really screwed right now, news websites are literally calling it the "forgotten war" as people keep dying...

The latest war only started a couple of months ago

"It's not the job of politics to tell the guns to shut up", says Annalena Baerbock.

The foreign minister of Europe's largest economy doesn't seem to know how politics works.

smartest German politician

When a political opponent branded him a 'dishevelled panellist who screams on stage and sleeps with eight dogs and his sister', Milei simply replied: 'I don't have eight dogs'!

Holy shit lmao he really sleeps with his sister doesn’t he?

Someone explain to me how the prosecution of voices critical of Israel's regime is not censorship in favour of the government position? How the prosecution of people seen "protesting for Palestine" isn't a suppression of the right to peaceful protest and a clear example of government suppression?

How is this any different than China?

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:

- Our team in the Gaza Strip has just completed an updated count of the victims, including those we managed to identify among the rubble, given the lack of chances for survivors.

- The number of martyrs reached 20,031, including 8,176 children, and this number is likely to increase as more victims are recovered.

- This figure, along with the injured, represents 2.6% of the population in the Gaza Strip. It is equivalent to 11 million Arab citizens.

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where are we at in 9/11s by population?

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Milei proposes closing 12 secretaries (in red)

Closing the turism and sports when that sector brings so much money to the country is a move outside human comprehension

Hamas apparently fired off another batch of missiles towards Tel Aviv, demonstrating that they still possess the capability.

For high-speed underground rail?

Iran release video of Fattah hypersonic missile being launched and hitting target successfully

these things are nuts

This study from Tel Aviv university (PDF warning, 392KB) on the recent conflict has recently been released; I quote:

The survey was conducted in Hebrew and in Arabic by the iPanel research institute between October 23 and 28, 2023 among 609 respondents: 506 Jewish respondents and 103 Arab respondents. Calculations were adjusted so that the respondents would constitute a representative national sample of the adult population aged 18 and above. Maximum sampling error: +/- 4.2%

It is full of fascinating findings. For example:

• 57.5% of Israeli Jews think the IDF has been using "too little force" in Gaza since October 7th, and only 1.8% think it has used too much.
• Only 6.7% of Israeli Jews are "very much in favor" of a peace with Palestinians, while 57.3% of Israeli Arabs are "very much in favor" of the same.
• A single state solution ("the creation of a binational state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea with full and equal rights for Jews and Palestinians") gets 2.4% and 21.4% "very much support" from Israeli Jews / Arabs respectively. Counting also "moderate support", we get 8.5% / 46.6% respectively.
• For a two state solution ("the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel"), that goes to 6.9% / 35%. Counting also "moderate support", it's 28.6% / 71.9%.

FT: Europe’s problem? It’s too attractive

Europe’s soft power is threatening to undermine Europe’s soft power. Harvard’s Joseph Nye defines soft power as the power to attract. A recent global poll confirms once again that Europe has this in profusion. If you ask people in countries as diverse as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, South Africa and Brazil where they would like to live, if not in their own country, most of them choose the US or Europe. By contrast, far fewer want to live in China or Russia.

And right there is Europe’s problem. So attractive is Europe that millions of people would like to move here. Hundreds of thousands will actually try, risking their lives on flimsy boats across the Mediterranean. “It’s Europe or death,” said one. But the fear of uncontrolled mass migration is driving some European voters to xenophobic populist parties that not merely exploit but actively stir up civilisational panic about it.

Increasingly, 2023 is looking like a new 2015. The refugee and migrant crisis that began that year boosted the vote for the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany and the Freedom party in Austria — not to mention, for Brexit. Now the AfD is again growing in strength, even in prosperous German regions such as Bavaria and Hesse. The Freedom party tops Austria’s opinion polls. This week, Geert Wilders’ anti-Islamic populist party scored a shocking success in the Dutch elections. And we have elections to the European parliament next June.

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Europe’s soft power is not just about its prosperity, welfare systems and quality of life. It’s also about freedom, the rule of law, tolerance and respect for human rights. In that same poll, respondents in many parts of the world said that Vladimir Putin’s Russia was not part of Europe “when it comes to its current political values”. Europe is associated with a set of values. But Europe is not credible as a continent of values if it violates them itself, precisely at the points where people from the rest of the world encounter it: at its borders, above all, but also in the reception of asylum seekers and the inflammatory mischaracterisation of people of migrant backgrounds already inside those borders.

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Fail either in one direction or the other and the manner in which Europe addresses the consequences of its “power to attract” will start subverting another important aspect of its soft power — its values. Here is Europe’s soft power dilemma.

Not its values! Anything but its values!

Westerners really will bomb, sanction, and otherwise exploit the shit out of countries and then wonder why people are streaming out of them and towards slightly better places to live and go "Hm, is it our lovely and tolerant policies, or our fantastic environments, or our delicious foods?"

"If Milei wants to privatize Aerolíneas, he'll have to kill us"

The head of the Pilots' Union of Aerolíneas Argentinas, the country's airline that was privatized in 2008, strongly opposed Milei's privatization and said the phrase in a headline, but then retracted it.

🚨 Attack against ship near Yemen

🚨 According to UKMTO, another [israeli] vessel was boarded by 2 black and white helicopters carrying 8 Yemeni armed forces approaching a small craft on each quarter.

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the boys have done it again . can't wait for the next video.

at what point do we start calling it the Third Intifada

Hezbollah is escalating to keep the pressure on once the ceasefire period begins tomorrow, with 17 attacks today so far.

edit: 22 today so far.

Ever wonder if X person or brand has professed public support for Israel?

https://reversecanarymission.org/ is a search bar for just that. Bookmark it

Can't wait for China to finally use its naval presence in the Middle East to... protect Israeli cargo ships.

(There's no indication that this will happen, just doing a little dooming)

you're telling me that the extremely skilled special forces teams and various esoteric strategies were unable to rescue any hostages from the tunnels?

in my darkest dreams i see a thumbnail of alexander mercouris smiling wide, captioned with the title 'only 7 nukes launched today'

another holiday, another 8 hours listening to my dad talk about how amazing the Shah was

Earlier this morning we were contacted about the shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont. We have been in touch with the families of the students.

At this moment here is what we know:

- The students were wearing a Kuffiyeh

- The students were speaking Arabic

- The shooter screamed at the students

- Shots fired, the three students were each it

- 2 of the students are in ICU, one of them critical

- 1 of the students will be released today

What's next?

- Pray for full recovery of the victims

- Give the family privacy and room to get through this

- VT law enforcement must look into hate crimes

- Vermont has hate crimes laws

- DOJ/FBI urged to investigate as hate crime

College campuses must immediately take all measures to ensure safety of Palestinian and Arab students.

More info will be provided once available.

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The chants of America is the Great Satan are chanted loudly by Iraqis…

wow, what reason do Iraqis have to hate Americans so much??

Yemeni Ansar Allah political bureau member

With the power of God, we will make you [israelis] hate Balfour and curse the UK that brought you to our region

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Elon is going to go on a charm offensive backed up by his nutsack riders on the right to woo over the ADL then he'll burn all the good faith in a single hour replying "WOW insightful!" to KekGroyper88's post about jews putting soy in muscle milk powder to shrink white guy's dicks.

Can't stop thinking about the mad lads in Yemen and how much respect I have for them.

⭕️ بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

تصريح صحفي

استجابة لجهود الرئيس الروسي فلاديمر بوتين وتقديراً للموقف الروسي الداعم للقضية الفلسطينية أفرجت حركة المقاومة الإسلامية حماس عن أحد المحتجزين من حملة الجنسية الروسية.

As a response to the Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian position in supporting Palestine, the islamic resistance movement Hamas has let one of the prisoners that hold Russian citizenship go.

I didn't know how to process my emotions during an intense ethnic war. But then then the Assistant to the Regional Manager had coffee with me and now I'm right as rain.

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