On 12/13, an open meeting of the “Self-call for the suspension of payment and investigation of the debt” was held, convened by the member organizations of the space after the assumption of Javier Milei and the deployment of an adjustment plan on the popular sectors
Given the announcements of the new government, we call for a response in the broadest unity.
Milei’s mask is falling. The mega-adjustment and devaluation that he promised to the IMF, along with the commitment to pay the debt, are the only thing that remains of the campaign rhetoric. Not to mention “caste”.
With the first announcements, it has been clearly shown that it is the government of the dominant classes and their international bosses, without mediation. With Caputo they assume those directly responsible for the debt and looting of Argentina. They come for everything.
The crumbs with which it boasts of helping the recipients of the planned misery do not even come close to compensating for the incentivized hyperinflation and the announced adjustment.
It is a brutal attack against the working people, the territories, the bodies and all of nature, in order to unload the full weight of the crisis on them: immediate devaluation of 118%;
Drastic increase in transportation, water and energy; state layoffs and maximum delay in their income; the same in retirements and social benefits; closure or degradation of organizations and public policies for the defense of our Sovereignty, Rights and Social Justice; new awards for exporters and importers including a new nationalization of their doubtful debts; deepening of the dependent, extractivist and debtor model.
The vaunted Freedom will only exist for price-forming monopolies, banks and speculators.
They tell us that “there is no money,” but they intend to continue deriving every penny produced in the country, what was obtained from the looting of our natural assets and the privatization of state companies, to “honor” said scam.
Presents to be seized and searched.. and confiscated if they contain any of 1000’s of sanctioned goods
photo … Sean Gallup
Germany may confiscate gift parcels sent from Russia ahead of this year’s festive season, the country’s Federal Customs Service announced in statement on its website this week.
According to the statement, gift parcels are regulated by the same sanctions legislation as any imports, as they may contain sanctioned goods such as paper, pulp, precious stones and metals, cigarettes, chemical and plastic products, cosmetics, etc.
“There is no exception to the prohibitions covered by an Annex XXI to the Sanctions Regulation for gift consignments sent from a private individual in Russia to another private individual in the customs territory of the European Union,” the statement read, signaling that even such innocent items such as books, toys and perfume sent from Russia will likely not make it to their German recipients.
Gifts are not the first personal items belonging to Russians that have not been allowed in Germany. Previously, the country’s customs officials warned that any personal belongings of Russians falling under sanctions could be confiscated at the border, including smartphones, laptops, suitcases, portables, clothing and even toiletries.
Cars have also been subject to the embargo: there have been several incidents this year when German customs officers seized cars bearing a Russian license plate, which travelers brought across the German border.
EU parliament is urging member states to stop seizing private Russian cars because it ‘discredits’ bloc’s sanctions
Several other EU member states have also been confiscating Russians’ personal items at border crossings. Most began doing so after the European Commission issued a sanctions clarification in September that condoned such measures.
Last month, the European Parliament urged EU nations to stop the practice and called on the executive body to “review its interpretation of sanctions leading to the seizure and confiscation of items and vehicles for personal use only.” In a joint motion, lawmakers warned that “such over compliance discredits the goal and instrument of sanctions.” However, the recommendation was not legally binding and has not yet been taken up by the European Commission.
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Moscow has repeatedly slammed the practice of taking away the belongings of ordinary Russians as illegal, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calling it outright “racist.”
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The Top 10 most weird and unusual sanctions against Russia.
Here is a spoiler — even the Russian cats are under sanctions
Also banned
BCC states that “sanctions are penalties imposed by one country on another, to stop it acting aggressively or breaking international law”. There are plenty of types of international conduct that should be punished. The US Department of Treasury is currently running 37 sets of sanctions against countries as diverse as Russia, South Sudan, Cuba, China, North Korea, and against various causes, such as cyber-crime and narcotics.
The overall number of sanctions against Russia just reached 5,532 on March 8, 2022, by now maube 10,000. But some of them are not quite conventional, and some are outright funny.
Alas all have boomeranged against the West, with Russia predicted to have 3.5% growth in 2024, and Europe down in in the doldrums.
Here is the list of most unusual sanctions imposed by the West against Russia:
On March 8 2022 the company declared that it was immediately shutting down all 850 fast-food restaurants in the Russian Federation (some are actually still open for one reason, or another). A lot of parents across the world are wondering why such a blessing was bestowed onto the undeserving Russians. And by the way, its competitor Burger King decided to stay on.
2. Black caviar
Yes, Russians eat caviar every day, 3 times a day
No more Russian black caviar in Paris? Not exactly. The European Union banned its EXPORTS of black caviar TO Russia, the world’s largest exporter of the staff. This reminds me of the infamous speech by Jen Psaki, then the State Department spokesperson in 2014 when she said that the natural gas flows from Western Europe to … Russia.
3. Aircraft
He is not allowed to fly the planes to Europe
Over 500 of the aircraft used by Russian airlines are owned by the foreign (mostly Irish) lessors who now demanded the return of their property from the Russian users. But there is a slight problem — the European airspace is closed to the Russian-operated aircraft, so the planes may not physically fly “home”.
4. Cartoons
Disney will not show its new animation movie “Turning Red” in Russia. Wow, that will definitely show Vladimir Putin and his 7-year-old supporters who is the boss here! Poor kids will have to learn about the US from the cartoon movie “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America”. He-he…
They will do Mother Russia next
5. Classical music concerts
The news article heading stated: The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra has removed Tchaikovsky from its programme of its upcoming concert ‘in light of the recent Russian invasion’ . Surely, this is because the famous Russian composer (who died in 1893) missed his chance 129 years ago to condemn Putin’s invasion in Ukraine. Should not the same logic apply to ALL Russian writers, painters and composer without exceptions?
6. Cats
The International Cat Federation banned Russian cats from participation in its competitions. I am not sure what to say here. Perhaps, there are some military feline brigades of fighting cats that represent tangible threat to the world but… if I suggest it here, I may end up in a psychiatric ward.
Oops… they exist
7. The US sparkling wine, cheap booze and… American vodka
Wow! The country, which is one of the largest consumer of the elite French champagne is definitely going to suffer from not having the American sludge. By the way, MD 20/20 is also banned.
Brings back some bad memories…
American vodka? In the world’s largest producer of the quality vodka?
8. The US chewing tobacco, snuff and tobacco refuse
Did someone at the US Department of Treasury mistook Russia for West Virginia? I am yet to find a tobacco chewing Russian…
Misfired sanctions
9. Saddles
I am not kidding! It is listed under the number 8714100010 of the US department of Commerce document 15 CFR Parts 738 and 746.
10. Grand concert pianos
I think I kinda understand this one. Every educated person in the world surely knows that those Russkies use those pianos only to play military marches. So, every Russian military unit is always accompanied by a crawler-based concert piano.
Nothing has changed in 70 years
Well, I decided to propose a few of my own sanctions in order to really weaken Vladimir Putin and his cronies:
· Let’s abolish Mendeleev’s periodic table of chemical elements. His invention must be a devious device to bring the West to its knees.
· Also the use of Pavlov’s conditional reflexes theory should no longer be used as Mr. Pavlov is not a known pacifist.
· And let’s also abandon all those 100 million AK-47s made in the last 74 years. The devilish toy of war was designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov who is so evil that even actually met Vladimir Putin once.
Well, should we then keep Maria Sharapova with her balls that don’t bounce?
Do those tennis balls bounce?
By the way, the very first attempt of economic sanctions was undertaken by the League of Nations which imposed the ban on coal and oil imports by the Mussolini regime. It was a major failure since Italy simply left the League of Nation and signed direct bilateral agreements with England and France.
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The enclave’s Health Ministry said Sunday’s strikes hit a residential block belonging to the al-Barsh and Alwan families in the town of Jabalia, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Destroyed buildings following Israeli attacks on Jabalia camp in Gaza [Abdulqader Sabbah/Anadolu Agency]
Women and children were among the dead, with dozens still missing, Wafa said in its report.
URGENTE: Un bombardeo de artillería israelí tuvo como objetivo el Hospital Infantil Mubarak en el Complejo Médico Naser en la ciudad de Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/EkNLyR1ddX
The first responders and locals were searching for the wounded and more bodies were believed to be under the rubble.
Many of those injured, including children, were taken to nearby medical centres, which are already overwhelmed with patients.
Yesterdays children
The son of Dawoud Shehab, the spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, was among the dead, an official from the group told the Reuters news agency.
“We believe the number of dead people under the rubble is huge but there is no way to remove the rubble and recover them because of the intensity of Israeli fire,” he said by phone.
Medics in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah said at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded, while in Rafah in the south, an Israeli air attack on a house left at least four people dead.
About 19,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Israel says 1,147 people were killed on its territory that day.
Meanwhile, Israel has also ramped up its artillery shelling in southern Gaza, hitting the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, where the majority of displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
The stepping up of bombardments in the south has worsened the humanitarian situation, with starving people scrambling for food and water, grabbing them from aid trucks in desperation.
Israel on Sunday said it will reopen the Karem Abu Salem Crossing in the east but it is unclear whether supplies have crossed through there yet.
The United Nations estimates that 1.9 million people – about 80 percent of Gaza’s population – have been displaced by the war.
“I would not be surprised if people start dying of hunger, or a combination of hunger, disease, weak immunity,” said Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
A new Canadian government report reveals a 300% rise in “unspecified causes” of death from 2019-2022 as unknown causes climbed to the fifth leading cause of death in Canada. Some health experts said the stark increase should trigger an investigation into whether the deaths are linked to COVID-19 vaccines.
As life expectancy plummets in Canada, a new government report claims “unspecified causes” have become the fifth leading cause of death in the country after cancer, heart disease, COVID-19 and accidents.
According to the Statistics Canada report, “unspecified causes” in 2022 passed strokes, aneurysms, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, Alzheimer’s and suicide as causes of death.
Statistics Canada, also known as StatCan, released the report on Nov. 27 in The Daily, the agency’s online news bulletin.
The report generated a slew of nearly identical headlines — provided by Canada’s national news service — in Canada’s leading newspapers along the lines of this one in the Toronto Sun: “Life expectancy for Canadians fell for third straight year in 2022, StatCan says,” followed by the subhead: “More people died of COVID-19 in 2022 than in any other year since the pandemic began, report says.”
Andre Picard, health columnist at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Canada’s newspaper of record, called the life expectancy drop — to 81.3 years in 2022 from 82.3 years in 2019 — “a big deal.”
“It’s only the second time this sharp a drop has happened in Canada in the past century,” Picard said. “In fact, life expectancy has been climbing steadily for decades: 71 in 1960, 75 in 1980, 79 in 2000 and 82.3 in 2019.”
COVID-19 deaths in Canada decreased to 14,466 in 2021 from 16,313 in 2020, the report shows. Canada is on track for about 7,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2023, Picard said.
COVID-19 deaths can’t account for Canada’s 7.3 % increase in total deaths in 2022 compared with 2021 — or for the country’s 17% increase in total deaths over the historic norm of 2019, or the historic drop in life expectancy in Canada and worldwide, Picard said.
Like many mainstream journalists and public health officials in the U.S. examining the U.S. drop in life expectancy, Picard blamed chronic diseases, drug overdoses, opioid deaths, smoking, unhealthy diets and “indifference” for the decline in Canada. “There are virtually no mitigation measures like masking any more, and vaccination rates have fallen sharply,” he wrote.
But Drs. Pierre Kory and Peter McCullough told The Defender they believe the most important and startling fact contained in the report is the 300% increase from 2019 to 2022 in “unspecified causes” of death in Canada.
McCullough, a highly published cardiologist who developed a widely used early treatment protocol for COVID-19, said the dramatic rise in deaths from “unspecified causes” in Canada represents a seismic and disturbing shift in Western medicine.
“Prior to the pandemic, death in Western countries was well understood,” McCullough said, with 40% due to known cardiovascular, 40% due to terminal neoplastic disease (cancer) and 20% due to other known causes such as homicide, suicide, drug overdoses and accidents.”
From CrimethInc. A Film Festival at the Gathering of Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Practices against Borders On January 26 and 27, during the first International Gathering of Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Practices against Borders in Tijuana, Mexico, the CrimethInc. Ex-Worker Podcast will present a curated series of anarchist films from around the world. In addition to showing…
“Los niños o niñas que no mueran solo en los bombardeos, morirán de hambre, sed o enfermedades, declararon, ya no hay lugar seguro, no hay lugar habitable en este territorio del horror”.
Actualizado el 17 de diciembre de 2023 /
“Los niños o niñas que no mueran en los bombardeos, morirán de hambre, sed o enfermedades, declararon, ya no hay lugar seguro, no hay lugar habitable en este territorio del horror”.
En las últimas semanas se ha agudizado el hambre y cada vez hay más personas que no han comido durante uno, dos o tres días. Ya casi nadie come, ni siquiera aquellas personas que tienen dinero para comprar comida. No hay comida en Gaza.
A más de dos meses de los ataques de Israel contra la Franja de Gaza y Cisjordania, las autoridades palestinas han registrado más de 18.600 personas asesinadas
El hospital de Kamal Adwan en Gaza tendrá que ser evacuado al no poder atender a heridos y enfermos tras ser tomado por las fuerzas israelíes, advirtió el Ministerio de Sanidad de la Franja palestina.
Las fuerzas de ocupación Israelíes entierran vivos a decenas de pacientes y desplazados palestinos después de arrasar sus tiendas con topadoras en el patio del Hospital Kamal Adwan. pic.twitter.com/4HInCXsq9Z
Los testigos dijeron a Al Jazeera que los civiles fueron atacados deliberadamente.
“La gente fue enterrada viva con excavadoras. ¿Quién podría hacer eso? Todos los que cometieron este crimen deben ser llevados ante la justicia y llevados ante la corte penal internacional”, afirmó un testigo.
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Varios vídeos compartidos en las redes sociales también parecen mostrar a personas aplastadas bajo los escombros frente al hospital Kamal Adwan. “Aplastó a la gente y sus tiendas”
“La topadora ha destruido gran parte de las instalaciones del hospital”, dijo el domingo por la mañana Hani Mahmoud, de Al Jazeera, informando desde Rafah, en el sur de Gaza. “Aplastó a la gente y sus tiendas de campaña en el patio y unas 20 personas quedaron aplastadas y enterradas bajo los escombros”, dijo.
En un comunicado de prensa, según la agencia de noticias palestina Wafa, el ministro de Salud, al-Kaila, instó a la comunidad internacional a investigar lo sucedido en el hospital y no ignorar los “crímenes de guerra” que tienen lugar en Gaza.
También destacó que el ejército israelí destruyó la parte sur del hospital y dijo que 12 bebés permanecen dentro de las incubadoras del hospital sin agua ni comida.
Si bien las fuerzas israelíes se han retirado del hospital, el ejército dijo que detuvo a 90 personas como rehénes y ‘encontró armas y municiones’ dentro del hospital después de esta redada.
Las fuerzas israelíes atacaron el hospital el martes después de sitiarlo y bombardearlo durante varios días.
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