⚡️Over 140 regime soldiers killed or injured in two-day Fano counter-offensive across Ashamit, Delelo, and Qutir areas (📍West Gonder Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia).
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Over 140 regime soldiers killed or injured in two-day Fano counter-offensive across Ashamit, Delelo, and Qutir areas (📍West Gonder Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia).
🔵 Between December 5th and 6th, intense multi-front fighting erupted across Ashamit (Buanbua-Wiha), Delelo, Qutir 1, Qutir 5, and Shimelegara Kebeles, involving coordinated Fano operations under the AFNF-BC 4th Corps.
🔵 On December 6th, the decisive battles centered in Ashamit Kebele, where six Fano divisions executed a unified counter-offensive that overwhelmed entrenched regime units and forced a full retreat. Reports indicate over 140 regime personnel were killed or sustained physical injuries, with losses including the capture of four military radio communication devices—believed to have belonged to high-ranking officers present during the fighting.
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[REGNUM] The National Liberal Party of Romania (NLP), which ranks only third in the popularity rankings of political forces, is strengthening its control over the political system of the Danube-Carpathian republic.
This conclusion can be drawn from the results of the Bucharest mayoral elections held on December 7.
BATTLE OF BUCHAREST
Ciprian Ciucu, nominated by the NLP, won with 36% of the votes, as the mayoral elections are held under the relative majority electoral system.
Thus, representatives of this party today control the republic's largest administrative bodies. After all, the head of the Romanian government is the leader of the National Liberals, Ilie Bolojan.
Thus, the NLP, which is an important part of the Romanian establishment, was able to quite successfully fight off the rebellion of sovereigntists led by Calin Georgescu and the onslaught of radical Euro-optimists in the person of the current President of Romania, Nicusor Dan.
The latter, incidentally, led Bucharest before being elected to the highest government office and intended to hand over the capital to his fellow party member from the Save Romania Union (USR), Cătălin Drulă. However, he only finished fourth in the voting (13.9% of the vote).
The president tried to "ignite" his well-known capital city voters with calls to vote "for Romania in the West" and "against the real estate mafia." But it didn't work. After all, the pro-presidential USR is in the government coalition with the very same National Liberals and Social Democrats whom Dan indirectly accuses of corruption and insufficiently consistent Euro-Atlanticism.
The pro-presidential mayoral candidate also faced a relatively low voter turnout. It fell short of 33%, compared to over 39% of voters in the previous elections, which secured Dan's victory.
Young people, who firmly believe in the ideas of European integration, did not have a decisive say in the elections for the capital's mayor this time.
Few predicted that the sovereigntist Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR) would take second place. After all, Bucharest, like all major cities, is a stronghold of liberal sentiment.
Eurosceptic journalist Anca Alexandrescu secured the support of nearly 22% of voters. This result in the capital indirectly confirms opinion polls showing that AUR is the most popular party among Romanians. After all, voters in the more conservative and depressed historical regions of Wallachia and Western Moldova are far more Eurosceptic than those in the capital.
It is also significant that the Social Democrats, who governed Bucharest until 2020, took only third place in the final protocol: the PSD candidate, Daniel Baluță, received 20.5% of the votes.
THE COALITION IS DRAGGING US TO THE BOTTOM
It is the Romanian Social Democrats who stand to lose the most from being part of a pro-European coalition with the PNL and USR. Until recently, the party was associated with a pragmatic foreign policy and a desire to navigate between geopolitical centers of power, a trait for which the first and last president of socialist Romania was once renowned.
However, careful selection within the ranks of modern Romanian socialists, carried out in part by European law enforcement agencies, led to the victory of the liberal wing in the PSD.
The current leader of the PSD, Sorin Grindeanu, despite harsh criticism, continues to maintain an alliance with the liberal parties in parliament. This is largely due to mercenary considerations.
Socialist ministers occupy key positions in Bolojan's government, and Grindyan himself has been promised the post of prime minister under the coalition agreement during the rotation of the prime minister, which is scheduled for 2027.
Meanwhile, the SDP is forced to take responsibility for the current government's extremely unpopular policy of cutting public spending to please the European bureaucracy.
It would seem that Romania's political system has finally stabilized after the turbulent events of a year ago, when the results of the first round of the presidential election were sensationally annulled on December 6, 2024. The sovereigntist movement, while still popular, is divided and is not yet able to dictate its will to the political class.
However, the current ruling liberal-socialist coalition is not particularly strong. Bolojan's government is struggling to push through pension reform, which is essential for radical cuts in social spending. The EU insists on this reform as a condition for maintaining the country's funding from European funds.
Resistance to the reform is so strong that on December 4, the prime minister was forced to link its implementation to a vote of confidence in his cabinet in parliament. But a day later, he faced a counter-vote of no confidence, which had already been supported by 118 members of the lower house and senators. There are 329 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 136 in the Senate.
However, persistent rumors are circulating in Bucharest that some members of the ruling coalition are also prepared to support the no-confidence vote. The showdown will come on December 15, when the vote is expected.
WASHINGTON'S GAME
Another obstacle to the current Romanian government fulfilling its obligations to Brussels is the position of the Constitutional Court. It is inclined to consider the significant tax increase a step contrary to the Constitution. A hearing on this issue is scheduled for December 10.
Thus, the balance of power at the Romanian top can be characterized as a balance between supporters and opponents of the highly unpopular fiscal policy measures imposed by Brussels. Moreover, the number of opponents is constantly growing.
The liberal leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) will likely face considerable criticism from fellow party members for the party's disappointing results in the Bucharest elections. The Constitutional Court, which is creating problems for Bolojan's cabinet, is largely composed of nominees from this same pro-government party.
As has often happened in Romanian history, the balance can be sharply upset by external forces. Today, the Donald Trump administration could very well become such a troublemaker among the Romanian elite. People close to the American president have repeatedly openly acknowledged their sympathies for Romanian sovereigntists.
The latest version of the US National Security Strategy, signed on December 5, officially recognizes the current EU as an existential threat to European civilization. Therefore, removing Bucharest from Brussels' dominance clearly serves Washington's interests.
And the Americans have a wide range of possible actions. The recent events surrounding the destruction of a Ukrainian naval drone by the Romanian Navy near the port of Constanta can be viewed in this context.
The news of this caused genuine delight in the Romanian-speaking segment of the Internet and reasonable questions as to why similar actions had not been carried out before.
Meanwhile, the official statement from the Ministry of Defense emphasized that the destruction of the Ukrainian drone was carried out as part of a program to monitor the Black Sea coast in cooperation with other NATO countries.
That is, Ukrainian-made objects posing a danger to shipping began to be destroyed after receiving consent from the North Atlantic command.
Those behind this decision understand well that the fervent "anti-Ukrainian" enthusiasm will inevitably result in demands that political parties stop listening to the European Commission in its support of official Kyiv.
Finally, the International Monetary Fund's halt in lending to neighboring Moldova in November demonstrates that the Americans wield powerful leverage over Bucharest policymakers. The cessation of cash flows from the American-controlled IMF means a sharp increase in the cost of external borrowing for debtor countries, as well as from other international financial institutions.
For Romania, such a development would mean a real financial catastrophe, since the country's enormous public debt is financed largely through new loans.
Thus, the US government has, in Trump's words, "strong cards" in Romania. And it could very well use them in the escalating standoff with the European bureaucracy.
Scare quotes in the headline are mine. The idiocy is Ms Owen’s own, pulled out of thin air.
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[Regnum] American journalist and activist Candace Owens has alleged the possible involvement of the US military in the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. She reported this on her social media page on December 9.
"Charlie Kirk was killed in an assassination attempt, and our army was involved," the activist said.
Owens claims she received an email from someone claiming to be a US military officer, containing information that could help solve the case. She promised to release the details and contents of the email later.
A gunman shot Kirk in the neck on September 10, during a speech at the University of Utah. Coincidentally, the activist was speaking about gun violence in the United States at the time of the shooting. Kirk was hospitalized, but his life was lost. On September 16, Utah State Attorney Jeff Gray indicted Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the activist's murder. Gray stated that he would seek the death penalty, and the suspect will be held in the Utah State Prison without bail.
On September 18, Robinson voluntarily surrendered to law enforcement because he feared being shot. Robinson's preliminary hearing and formal charges were postponed until January 2026. Robinson was originally scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on October 30.
#5
I just wrote and erased something a hundred times more nutty and heretical than whats-her-name did. It wasn't therapeutic. I will quote this from "m" on the Ace Tech Thread yesterday morning, you fucking retards:
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
4h
I'm going to end up bashing my head against a wall over this and ending up like Nicolas Cage Longlegs.
Carlson/Owens etc don't care about the hypocrisy. All they care about is everyone talking about their hypocrisy. That's it,
All they care about is being the main character on this platform and others day after day, and it is a choice to continue to make them the main character on this platform day after day.
As I've said a lot of smart people I respect continue to fall for it day after day.
We're going to be stuck with her until y'all get brain upgrades (Or just basic brains and start using them) and decide to stop letting her "get in there and make it about her."
The outlandish nazis form distractions from the serious nazis. Like the guys that blew up downtown Beirut in 2020 but nobody noticed because they were chasing the next big distraction. That killed an estimated 218 people, which is 217 more than died in the Charlie Kirk shooting. But noone was hung, not even a scapegoat from Mossad, because Lebanon isn't a real country and noone really gave a shit about those deaths. So they're pretending it didn't happen. They don't even make up conspiracy theories because, as I said,
YOU DON'T DISTRACT FROM THE EVENT YOU'RE TRYING TO DISTRACT FROM BY TALKING ABOUT THE EVENT YOU'RE TRYING TO DISTRACT FROM. Even with lies. Candace talks about Erika teaming up with the local rabbi to kill her husband because she's not going to talk about Beirut blowing up, or the atomic bomb program in Iran, or the Islamic Bomb in Pakistan, or the whelp of a guard from Janowska helping the Chinese make a killer virus.
#6
Why would anyone think that the assassin was anything but a random furry? Our government would never! Has anyone seen Gen. Miley around?
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#7
She needs to get back on her meds...
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#8
To summarize Snowy Thing: Candy and Nick Fuentes will say anything for clicks, because that’s how they earn the lettuce. And they get more clicks when people rant about them saying controversial stupidities — so let’s not help.
#9
They are both a POS. I'd never even heard about Fuentes til Kanye/Ye/Who The Fuck invited him to Mar-A-Lago. I don't care about him and he's a fringe the Media try and use as a wedge. Candace is a low-intellect $ whore who will do/say anything for clicks.
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#11
Mrs. Macron is female. They offered Ms Owens the documentation, but she refused to look at it. Married before, had kids with husband #1. President Macron was a classmate of her daughter in secondary school, when their passionate affaire started. Ick.
But if she were not, I really don’t care. The French culture tolerates a more desperate s3xuality than we are accustomed to here, though they don’t seem to actually enjoy it much.
[JustTheNews] The multi-hundred-billion dollar defense bill which funds the U.S. military is now written to prod the U.S. intelligence community into sharing what it knows about COVID-19's likely emergence from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, once called a conspiracy theory by politicians and legacy media.
#1
Something else to add to the growing list of items to be released or done... that never seems to get past the initial tidal wave of deflective media hype.
[BBC] Rachael Dunfell knew two things about her husband's 21-year-old cousin: that he liked specialised racing bikes and that he was interested in the Vikings.
But those pieces of information yielded few ideas for a suitable Christmas gift. So Rachael, 33, from Manchester, turned to artificial intelligence.
She inputted his age, his hobby and his interest into Copilot, the Microsoft-owned chatbot, which led her to the website of a niche retailer that sells Viking-themed metal bike parts.
"It's just something that I really would never have known existed," she said, "but it was perfect."
AI is shifting the holiday shopping experience.
People are increasingly turning to AI tools, from Copilot to OpenAI's ChatGPT to Google's Gemini, for help with gift ideas and to compare prices, with implications for bargain hunters and retailers alike.
John Harmon, a senior technology analyst at Coresight Research in New York, called this year the first holiday season shaped by AI-powered shopping.
While there is not a great deal of data on spending directly linked to AI, Salesforce has said AI is expected to drive 21% of all holiday orders globally, for a total of $263bn (£197bn) in sales.
More than half of US consumers say they would probably or definitely use AI to help with their shopping, a Coresight survey found.
In the UK and Ireland, a survey of 2,000 consumers by technology company CI&T, released this month, found that 61% use or have used AI tools while shopping - most often to find where to buy an item or locate the best deal.
But more than two-thirds of respondents could not think of an AI-powered retail experience that impressed them.
#3
In this instance AI functioned well as a more sophisticated search engine.
Also the AI's suggested solution to the proposed problem could be easily immediately verified as acceptable.
As long as humans remain conscious of these systems' strengths and weaknesses they can provide a tremendous productivity boost.
Putting blind trust into AI is a recipe for ruin, however.
In Asimov's robot stories robopsychologists help understand humans the intelligent but alien minds of the robots. We need something similar for non-conscious AI.
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[Regnum] Twenty-nine Thai military personnel were wounded as a result of fighting on the border between Thailand and Cambodia, Thai Armed Forces spokesman Surasan Khongsiri announced on Tuesday, December 9.
"One Thai soldier was killed and 29 were injured during the clashes," he said during a briefing.
On the morning of December 8, the Cambodian army launched an attack on the Anupong military base in Thailand. In response, Thai forces scrambled F-16 fighter jets and struck Cambodian artillery in the Chong An Ma area.
The day before, Thailand announced the evacuation of civilians in four provinces bordering Cambodia. The uncertainty of the situation and the risk of escalation of armed conflict were cited as the reasons.
On July 24, Thai authorities reported that Cambodian forces had fired multiple rocket launchers at their military positions. The Thai army responded with airstrikes against Cambodian military positions, killing 15 people as the conflict escalated.
On July 26, US President Donald Trump held telephone conversations with the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia to ease the situation for both sides, noting that both countries want to end the conflict. Following this, Acting Prime Minister of Thailand, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of the Interior Phumtham Wechaichai confirmed the agreement to a ceasefire.
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