Citizens and police jointly support earthquake relief in Xizang, China

ethel cain, a music artist out posts hexbear, calling for more ceo liquidations

pictures of story

follows her trend of tweets when biden previously send 2 million to israel

edit, i can confirm the first three pictures are legit - saw on her story

The UK’s “Chancellor of the Exchequer” Rachel Reeves is currently in China for the 11th China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue:

Chinese VP meets with UK chancellor of exchequer; China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue convenes after a six-year hiatus - Global Times
Reeves defends China visit and hails £600m boost to UK - BBC
UK seeks to to rekindle ‘pragmatic’ economic China ties - DW
How to trigger Trump: Britain’s cozy China trip risks America’s anger - Politico

On the Attempted Assassination of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of CPM Kenya:
https://xcancel.com/BookerBiro/status/1877916575568724010

This morning, at approximately 3:00 am, armed assailants equipped with night vision goggles and firearms violently stormed the residence of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole.

A fierce exchange of gunfire ensued, during which Comrade Booker and his comrades managed to neutralise one attacker, while seven others fled the scene. The police arrived an hour later, long after the attackers had escaped.

I never knew Jimmy Carter actually met with Hamas representatives back in 2008.

Former President Jimmy Carter says the militant group would not undermine talks for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, as long as the Palestinian people approve the deal by referendum. Hamas also says it will offer Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from land seized in the 1967 war.

Former President Jimmy Carter says that the Palestinian militant group Hamas is prepared to accept Israel’s right to live in peace. Carter met with Hamas leaders over the weekend, a meeting opposed by Israel and the Bush administration. They both shun Hamas and view it as a terrorist organization. A senior Hamas official praised former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday, a day after he met with the group, but said he failed to persuade the Islamic rulers of Gaza to accept international demands, including recognizing Israel.

Carter, a strong advocate of the Palestinians after his presidency, claimed that Israel’s policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa’s. Though as president Carter brokered the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, the first between Israel and an Arab country, he is perceived by many Israelis as anti-Israel, siding with the Palestinians in their conflict.

He “antagonized” many Israelis with his 2007 book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” in which he argued that Israel must choose between ceding the West Bank to the Palestinians or maintaining a system of ethnic inequality similar to that of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Most Israelis strongly reject the comparison.

I don’t quite understand the SC ruling on Tiktok ban.

The projected loss of revenues for vendors is about $1 billion, with another $300 million loss for content creators. Granted I’m not a fan of Tiktok/Douyin and never used it, but this is undeniably yet another class warfare waged by Biden and probably won’t even be the last before he leaves office.

Is Biden seriously doing this to take away Trump’s bargaining chip with China? Does he really want to stoke a war as his final act as the president?

I think Trump will still fight the court decision but the grounds for divestiture is thin.

Vatican approves guidelines allowing gay men to become priests, as long as they don’t have sex

Adjustment, considered unexpected, applies only to Italy. The new guidelines will be valid for a trial period of three years. Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic Church since 2013, has been credited with adopting a more welcoming approach towards the LGBTQIA+ community. He recently allowed priests to bless same-sex couples in specific cases.

However, the admission of gay men to the priesthood remains a taboo subject. Gay priests often express fear of discussing their sexuality. Francis also allegedly used a derogatory word to describe gay people when discussing homosexuality in seminaries during a closed-door meeting last year. The case prompted the Vatican to issue a rare apology.

The top headline on my google news tonight:

So i guess we are just gonna turn the fires into crime panic huh. Dont pay attention to the profit-seeking corporations that causes this or the lack of funding for public services that could mitigate or prevent a tragedy. Please bro just pay attention to the looters pleaseeeee

So i gave in and actually read this trash. And whats worse is they are also arresting people for “possession of burglary tools” and ofc “possession of narcotics” fuck these pigs

spoiler

18 arrests so far in Eaton, Palisades fires The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said they have made 18 arrests so far regarding criminal activity in connection with the Eaton and Palisades fires.

Charges include looting, burglary, identity theft, possession of burglary tools and possession of narcotics, Assistant Sheriff Myron Johnson said during a briefing Friday.

One suspect was on active parole and was also charged with possession of a concealed firearm, Johnson said.

A curfew enacted in the Palisades and the Eaton fire areas will remain in effect until further notice and “is being taken to enhance public safety, protect property and prevent looting in areas where residents have been evacuated,” he said.

Some news and videos from Russia’s special military operation.

A Russian drone strike recently eliminated another British mercenary (and former British soldier) in Zaporozhye oblast: https://www.rt.com/russia/610601-british-mercenary-killed-ukraine/

Russian ‘hellish backpack’ destroys Kiev regime position (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/09/965938.html

Recent Russian drone strikes in and near the partially Kiev-occupied DPR city of Dzerzhinsk, AKA “Toretsk” (videos): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Destruction-of-enemy-vehicles-by-drones-in-Toretsk!!:3

Plus, a special bonus video: Iran has released footage of its latest, impressive underground missile base: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/10/968652.html

General who led 2009 coup d’état arrested in Honduras. The former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Honduras, General Romeo Vásquez, was arrested Sunday as allegedly responsible for the murder of a protester by military officers in 2009, days after leading the coup against former President Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009).

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The deputy chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Venancio Cervantes, and the former commander of the Joint Operations Command, Carlos Puerto, both arrested along with Vásquez, will also go to prison. They will be held in the Támara National Penitentiary, 27 kilometers northwest of Tegucigalpa, until January 10, when the first trial hearing is scheduled, the authorities said.

The ex-military men were arrested by a strong police contingent on Sunday morning in Tegucigalpa and La Paz (west) and taken to a capital court, where for hours their statements were taken as defendants “for allegedly being responsible for the crimes of homicide and serious injury”. The charges stem from an armed attack on demonstrators near Toncontín airport in Tegucigalpa on July 5, 2009, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said. The demonstrators were awaiting Zelaya’s return from Nicaragua after he was taken at gunpoint from his home in Tegucigalpa in the early hours of June 28 of that year by around 200 soldiers who handcuffed him and took him to the airport, where he was put on a plane bound for Costa Rica.

“Elements of the Armed Forces” acted ‘disproportionately’ and fired at the demonstrators with M16 rifles ‘indiscriminately’, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said in its request. Obed Murillo died of a gunshot wound to the head, while Alex Zavala was seriously injured. Shortly before his arrest in the morning, Vásquez published two texts on the X network in which he denied the accusations against him and accused the government of leftist Xiomara Castro, Zelaya’s wife, of “political persecution” and “manipulation of power”. “They won’t be able to silence me! I never gave the order to attack any Honduran,” he added in his latest publication. Since he arrived heavily guarded by the Special Police Forces at the Tegucigalpa Criminal Court, supporters and detractors of the accused have begun to gather at the gates of the court.

It’s like an addiction to nonsense. After having more than 24 hours to come up with a convincing explanation for her (non-existent) “kidnapping”, Machado managed to make it even more ridiculous. Somehow, in an age where everything is livestreamed, there is no evidence, nor even a minimal description of who was involved. And also, according to Machado, she was detained by armed men who then released her in exchange for her recording a video saying she had not been detained. No further questions, your honor!

Honestly, Machado should have stayed offline for longer and then come up with a heroic escape tale, given how her supporters and the corporate press will just believe anything. But there is more nonsense. Machado said former candidate Edmundo González did not come because the government turned on air defense systems! When in the past it simply barred planes from taking off without authorization. It also would have been easier to just shut down airspace, or even arrest González once he landed

The bottom line is that the US-backed opposition once again created the illusion that it had plans and means to make something happen to stop Maduro from taking office today, when in fact (and all the evidence suggested it) they really had no cards to play

Interviews with locals in Nuuk has revealed that many of the Greenlanders who had lunch with Trump Jr. were not in fact supporters of the idea of an American annexation. Instead many of them were homeless and socially disadvantaged locals who had been bribed with the fancy dinner at the best restaurant in town, some of them without knowing exactly what the point of the event was.

Leading up to the First Son’s bizarre visit, collaborators of his had approached locals on the parking lot in front of the Brugseni supermarket where socially disadvantaged people often meet.

The Trump organisation has not replied to questions about the story but the local collaborator who organised the event has claimed that everyone at the event were there “voluntarily” and that “people from all walks off life” were present.

• Source: DR (state media), January 9th 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9ezyw0keo US announces $25m reward for arrest of Venezuela’s Maduro wait what

New lancet paper

than official number, Lancet study finds

Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65 Guardian staff and agencies Fri 10 Jan 2025 18.47 GMT

Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was about 40% higher than numbers recorded by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.

The peer-reviewed statistical analysis was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions, using a statistical method called capture-recapture analysis.

The researchers sought to assess the death toll from Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024, estimating 64,260 deaths due to traumatic injury during this period. The study said 59.1% were women, children and people over the age of 65. It did not provide an estimate of Palestinian combatants among the dead.

Up to 30 June last year, the health ministry in Gaza reported a death toll of 37,877 in the war, which began on 7 October 2023 after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 taken hostages.

According to Palestinian health officials, a total of more than 46,000 people have been killed in the Gaza war, from a prewar population of about 2.3 million.

It has not been possible for international media to independently verify the death toll in Gaza as Israel does not allow foreign journalists into the territory.

A senior Israeli official, commenting on the study published on Friday, said Israel’s armed forces went to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties. “No other army in the world has ever taken such wide-ranging measures,” the official said.

“These include providing advance warning to civilians to evacuate, safe zones and taking any and all measures to prevent harm to civilians. The figures provided in this report do not reflect the situation on the ground.”

The Lancet study said the Palestinian health ministry’s capacity for maintaining electronic death records had previously proven reliable, but deteriorated under Israel’s military campaign, which has included raids on hospitals and other healthcare facilities and disruptions to digital communications.

Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals as cover for its operations, which the militant group denies.

The study used death toll data from the health ministry, an online survey launched by the ministry for Palestinians to report relatives’ deaths, and social media obituaries to estimate that there were between 55,298 and 78,525 deaths from traumatic injuries in Gaza up to 30 June 2024.

The study’s best estimate was 64,260 dead, which would mean the health ministry had under-reported the number of deaths to that point by 41%. The estimate represented 2.9% of Gaza’s prewar population, “or approximately one in 35 inhabitants”, the study said.

The figure is only for deaths from traumatic injuries and does not include deaths from a lack of healthcare or food, or the thousands believed to be buried under rubble.

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimates that, on top of the official death toll from the health ministry, another 11,000 Palestinians are missing and presumed dead.

The researchers scoured the three lists, searching for duplicates. “We only kept in the analysis those who were confirmed dead by their relatives or confirmed dead by the morgues and the hospital,” said Zeina Jamaluddine, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the lead author of the study.

“Then we looked at the overlaps between the three lists, and based on the overlaps, you can come up with a total estimation of the population that was killed,” Jamaluddine told Agence France-Presse.

However, the researchers cautioned that the hospital lists did not always provide the cause of death, so it was possible that people with non-traumatic deaths could have been included, potentially leading to an overestimate.

Patrick Ball, a statistician at the US-based Human Rights Data Analysis Group not involved in the research, has used capture-recapture methods to estimate death tolls for conflicts in Guatemala, Kosovo, Peru and Colombia.

Ball told AFP the well-tested technique had been used for centuries and that the researchers had reached “a good estimate” for Gaza.

Kevin McConway, a professor of applied statistics at Britain’s Open University, said there was “inevitably a lot of uncertainty” when making estimates from incomplete data, but it was “admirable” that the researchers had used three other approaches to check their estimates.

Agence France-Presse and Reuters contributed to this report

Link to lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02678-3/fulltext

Am I being overly conspiratorial in wondering why Al-Sharaa’s Wikipedia is now automatically condensing any of his military history before 2017 aka when he was in Al-Qaeda? It’s not explicit censorship because the history is still there, but it seems to add one extra step to finding the truth

For context, this is how it’s typically displayed