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17 Dec 2024 06:01

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "I see an inventory for 8-10 years of war or even more.

If anyone is expecting a Russian defeat due to high equipment losses, it’s unlikely to happen in the next 8-10 years or maybe more.
(Another question are the manufacture of parts like gun barrels and others. )

After three years of war, almost 50% of the Soviet stockpiles are still available, plus what is being repaired, refurbished, and modernized in Russian plants. Additionally, around 12,000–15,000 armored units, including artillery, armored vehicles, and tanks, are deployed in Ukraine. This represents a significant amount of equipment and the capacity to sustain this conflict for several years.

Contrary to what some might think, when an army is advancing, it benefits from collecting damaged and destroyed equipment to repair. This advantage is unique to an advancing army because a retreating force cannot recover anything in territory occupied by the enemy.

In areas where the front has been almost frozen over the last year and several months this year, the Ukrainians have been able to collect and repair most of their armor. However, as I reported in my previous articles, Western logistics have been challenging, with these vehicles having to travel more than 2,500 km for repairs, taking many months. In contrast, the Russians moved their repair centers from rear areas to near the front at the end of 2022. This exemplifies how Russian planning has been a key differentiator in this war.

Another issue is the unavailability of repair parts for Western equipment. According to the Ukrainian army, 70% of the delivered equipment lacks repair parts or has only a limited supply, and part requisitions have taken up to six months in some cases.

What I want to emphasize is that it is pure fantasy to expect to win this war by destroying the Russian armor arsenal. Despite losing more than they replace, the Russians are advancing and winning all key battles from the past two years.

What can Ukraine do under these circumstances?

Unfortunately, the only option is to negotiate. However, the West has important assets to negotiate with, such as Russian reserves and sanctions, with the intention of reducing unavoidable land concessions.

But negotiation is a cursed word for some politicians, so they are working to convince Western leaders to deploy an international peace force in Ukraine.

Ukraine need to find ways to advance diplomatically and reach it’s objectives. Sometimes the power sphere isn’t the military power."

📎 Patricia Marins

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16 Dec 2024 17:52

🇬🇧 London Stock Exchange suffers biggest exodus since financial crisis

The London Stock Exchange is on course for its worst year for departures since the financial crisis, as fears mount that more FTSE 100 businesses will quit the UK in favour of New York.

A total of 88 companies have delisted or transferred their primary listing from London’s main market this year with only 18 taking their place, according to the London Stock Exchange Group.

This marks the biggest net outflow of companies from the main market since 2009, while the number of new listings is also on course to be the lowest in 15 years as initial public offerings remain scarce and bidders target London-listed groups.

The exodus has continued despite efforts by the UK government, regulators and the LSE to boost the City’s attractiveness by reforming market rules and the domestic pensions system.

Analysis by the Financial Times last year identified London as the European stock exchange most at risk of suffering departures of big companies to the US.

The analysis ranked companies based on their valuation discount compared with a group of US peers, the share of their revenues generated in the US and the proportion of North American investors on their register.

The 18 large London-listed groups identified as flight risks included Rio Tinto and British American Tobacco. The pair have been pressured by investors to move their primary listing to Australia and the US, respectively.

“More UK companies are thinking about moving their listings to the US, and the UK’s valuation gap to the US has become larger,” said Goldman Sachs in a note on Friday.

🔗 https://archive.ph/9V2Bf

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16 Dec 2024 16:44

🇹🇷🇸🇾Syria Could Become a Turkish Protectorate, Limiting Israel's Freedom of Action

With a strategic interest in turning Syria into an anti-Kurdish bulwark, Turkey is seeking to take the place of Russia and Iran – including control of Syria's airspace

The growing international support for Syria's new government may soon translate into pressure on Israel to withdraw from its newly occupied territories. Unlike Hamas, which faces broad international consensus against its role in Gaza's future governance, Syria's Ha'yat Tahrir al-Sham is increasingly viewed as a legitimate authority – despite still being listed as a terrorist organization and its leader carrying a $10 million bounty.

The Turkish-Syrian relationship's evolution could significantly impact Israel's operations in Syria. Beyond leading international efforts to remove IDF forces from the buffer zone, Turkey may determine Israel's aerial operational freedom in Syria. While Israel previously enjoyed nearly unrestricted access coordinated with Russian command at the Khmeimim air base, Russian forces have begun withdrawing. Most Russian aircraft have left Syria, and Moscow is now negotiating to maintain its naval presence at the port of Tartus.

With Syrian and Russian air forces absent, Turkey may become the de facto controller of Syrian airspace and, in partnership with the Syrian government, could end Israel's operational freedom.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/2024-12-15/ty-article/.premium/syria-could-become-a-turkish-protectorate-limiting-israels-freedom-of-action/00000193-c934-d967-a5df-fbfee53f0000

https://archive.ph/33soF

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16 Dec 2024 08:28

A great challenge for America is that it's become a twisted version of England in the early 20th century

This is best seen in land and elite social life, but is present everywhere; in all cases, we must overcome the change or we'll face the fate of our English cousins

🧵https://fxtwitter.com/Will_Tanner_1/status/1868461800468992374

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16 Dec 2024 01:31

A Chinese tourist in Australia recorded close-up footage of Australian warships, with the drone even landing on the ships.

The footage was then posted on Weibo, and police reportedly told him not to do it again when he was caught.

📎 Clash Report

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15 Dec 2024 23:50

"The entire US military, FBI, FAA, and DHS combined can’t figure out who is flying these drones?

I have no thesis on what this is.

But an official statement by the US Department of Defense that they don’t know what’s going on in their own airspace is concerning on many levels.

In part it appears they don’t know because they can’t know. There is some dumb legal interpretation that currently prevents the Department of Defense from actually defending the US from possibly hostile foreign aircraft."

📎 Balaji

https://defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4002374/joint-staff-addresses-drones-over-new-jersey-military-installations/

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15 Dec 2024 23:00

🇮🇱🤝🇸🇾 Israel did not want Assad removed from power, US officials tell Turkey

US officials informed Turkey earlier this month that Israel did not want Syrian President Bashar al-Assad removed from power, even after the rebel offensive that seized cities such as Aleppo and Hama, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan revealed in an interview on Sunday.

“Israel has never wanted Bashar to leave,” Fidan told Al Hadath TV.

“Israel was displeased with the space Bashar had granted to the Iranians. Even after the rebel operation began, the Americans conveyed to us that Israel does not want Bashar to go, even until last day.”

Fidan further disclosed that during a 2016 visit to Turkey, then-US Vice President Joe Biden had informed Ankara that Washington opposed toppling Assad.

“He told us that the US doesn’t want Bashar to go,” Fidan said. “We understood that this wasn’t truly his own stance but rather Israel’s position.”

🔗 https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-did-not-want-assad-removed-power-us-officials-tell-turkey

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15 Dec 2024 20:31

🇮🇱❌🇮🇪 Israel to close embassy in Ireland as it criticises 'anti-Israel policies'

Gideon Saar said the Republic of Ireland had crossed "every red line".

In a statement, he said Israel's ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland's "unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state".

He added that the decision followed Ireland's announcement of its support for South Africa's legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of "genocide".

Mr Saar said: "The actions and anti-Semitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the de-legitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, along with double standards.

"Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel."

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq62mge27r0o

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15 Dec 2024 17:06

🇩🇪🇷🇴🇻🇪 Why Venezuela cancelling their own presidential elections is bad and why Romania doing the same is good according to the spokesman of the German Foreign Office:

German journalist:

”In Romania, the Constitutional Court has annulled the first round of presidential elections following complaints based on intelligence regarding alleged Russian influence through TikTok videos, which have so far been almost impossible to verify. Elena Lasconi, who is considered pro-European and came 2nd, called the decision illegal. The winner of the first round, Georgescu, spoke of a coup. The information published so far does not even mention Russia as an actor. In this context, I would be interested to find out what is the political assessment of the German government regarding the cancellation of an election with reference to a TikTok campaign, given the upcoming parliamentary elections?”

“It would be difficult for me to comment from here on the constitutional order of Romania. There was a decision of the Constitutional Court, which, like all decisions of the constitutional courts, must be respected. In this respect, the Romanian judiciary came to the conclusion that there was electoral interference in the first round of voting and took the necessary decisions from its point of view”.

“Our colleagues at Deutsche Welle describe the Constitutional Court of Romania as an extension of the political establishment, while Deutschlandfunk describes it as a servant of the Social Democratic Party, and it is already clear that there have been a number of political problems and interference. I have been in BPK (German media organization) long enough to remember that you have taken a very clear stance on the power dispute between Maduro and Guaidó, including on the decisions of the Constitutional Court in Caracas. Therefore, I do not see why it should be so different now in the case of Bucharest. Will the German government have formed an opinion on this truly unique act of annulment of the elections with reference to several thousand TikTok accounts – which many call a historic act?”

“Romania is a constitutional state and a democracy. This is in contrast to the situation we are seeing in Venezuela.”

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15 Dec 2024 15:34

"Images of interracial couples evoke a neural disgust response among observers."

Anti-racist leftists conducted studies on subconscious responses to miscegenation and discovered that both Whites and Blacks find it disgusting, even if they claim to support it. Relative to Whites/Blacks, mixed-race people did not find it disgusting.

The study titled 'Yuck' also claimed that "participants were quicker to associate interracial couples with nonhuman animals and same-race couples with humans"

Sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103116300555
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550618783713

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15 Dec 2024 13:58

Matthew Yglesias on X:

"One of the big things nobody talks about is that there was a roughly five year span starting around 2013 when Facebook’s algorithm would routinely make left-wing content go viral.

It was notable in every newsroom and it shaped coverage and hiring.

At the time, most editors and managers who I’m familiar with found it pretty disquieting — stories they didn’t love were performing shockingly well, it was apparently the wave of the future.

This is basically when Zach Goldberg finds mainstream news coverage of racism skyrocketing.

I’m convinced it was the algorithms and audience on Facebook, with editors responding to incentives, rather than vice versa.

Funny because tech is so anti-woke now but they caused this!"

📎 Matthew Yglesias

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great-racial-awakening

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15 Dec 2024 10:02

AI helps Telegram remove 15 million suspect groups and channels in 2024

After announcing a crackdown in September, Telegram now says it has removed 15.4 million groups and channels related to harmful content like fraud and terrorism in 2024, noting this effort was “enhanced with cutting-edge AI moderation tools.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/ai-helps-telegram-remove-15-million-suspect-groups-and-channels-in-2024/

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14 Dec 2024 16:26

Dreams of returning home are coming true for many Syrian refugees and exiles in US after Assad's ouster and transitional government's call for refugees to come home

https://www.trtworld.com/us-and-canada/its-time-to-return-syrian-refugees-in-us-ready-to-rebuild-their-country-18243294

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14 Dec 2024 10:43

NEW: NewsNation reporter says his entire view of the New Jersey drones has changed after he witnessed 50 of them flying from the ocean.

The drones are reportedly 8-10 feet wide and can’t be detected because they don’t give off heat.

“I gotta be honest here. You know when this story first came out a few weeks ago… I didn't pay it much credence.”

“The experience I had last night, however, changed the way I feel about this story completely.”

“What I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined.”

“We've been looking for the past hour. I think we've seen about 40 or 50 of these drones.”

“One of their officers called 911 after seeing 50 of them come off the ocean.”

📎 Collin Rugg

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14 Dec 2024 09:55

More Than 155,000 Standard IDs and Driver’s Licenses Issued to Illinois Noncitizens in 5 Months Since Law Went Into Effect

More than 155,000 standardized IDs and driver’s licenses for non-U.S. citizens have been issued in the five months since an Illinois law went into effect that aims to protect noncitizens from discrimination, according to numbers from the Illinois Secretary of State’s office.

https://news.wttw.com/2024/12/11/more-155000-standard-ids-and-driver-s-licenses-issued-illinois-noncitizens-5-months-law

📝 June 2023: Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation Providing Driver's Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants

"TVDLs have become the ‘Scarlet Letter' of an individual's immigration status and sadly exposes them to discrimination or immigration enforcement," said Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. "This legislation allows immigrants to obtain standard driver licenses that will serve as authentic identification in Illinois. It will help prevent the stigma, instances of discrimination, and problems that TVDLs have been known to cause while making roads safer and enabling immigrants to use a standard license as identification for basic necessities like filling prescriptions or renting an apartment."

https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.26672.html

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16 Dec 2024 18:39

🇹🇷 The Return of the Kaiser-e-Rum

The rise of a Turkish-led order is a historic development in a region beset with perpetual chaos, and marks the end of four hundred years of European influence.

When Troy shall overturn the Grecian state, And sweet revenge her conqu’ring sons shall call, To crush the people that conspir’d her fall,” John Dryden translated a prophecy in Virgil’s Aeneid. That power (for Virgil) was Rome, founded by a legendary Trojan. When the Ottoman Sultan Fâtih Sultan Mehmed conquered Constantinople in 1453—in no small part thanks to Central European tech transfer, incompetent Eastern Europeans squabbling, and Western European buck-passing—he took the the title of Kaisar-e-Rum (Caesar of Rome) and founded what he considered a tolerant and multiethnic if not necessarily liberal empire similar to the original, a second founding of the empire by another traveler from the East.

There is nothing that America can do, nor should she try. As President Donald Trump said, “this is not our fight”: a prudent realism that more statesmen should follow. The Middle East is a region we cannot shape nor should we try; the best option is perhaps detachment, allowing a local equilibrium to form organically.

But with the collapse of Syrian secularism, the victory of Turkish-backed Azerbaijan against Armenia, the rollback of Russian power and influence in both Ukraine and Syria partly on the strength of Turkish drones, and the utter destruction of the Axis of Resistance throughout the Levant, Turkey is now the central power (so to speak) of the region.

From the neutrality that history allows us, one can claim that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has consolidated his position as one of the most powerful and far-sighted men of his generation. The man who took over Hagia Sophia and turned it back over to the word of God has his eyes firmly set on dominating the Aegean in the west and the Levant in the south.

Turkey is now at the peak of its regional influence in perhaps over a century, having defeated Russia in Armenia and Iran in Syria. The sons of Troy are eyeing glory again. With the fall of Assad and the collapse of Baathism, it is also curtains for secularism in the region, as well as the end of over 400 years of European influence, British, French or Russian.

A new and very different order is about to rise as a very old power returns to form. The region will not be the same again in our lifetime.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-return-of-the-kaiser-e-rum/

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16 Dec 2024 17:21

🇩🇪 German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has been dismissed following a no-confidence vote in the Bundestag.

Confidence: 207
No confidence: 394
Abstentions: 116

Snap elections will be organised at the earliest in February 2025.

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16 Dec 2024 09:11

🇹🇷🇵🇸 How the Gaza war is bringing Turkey and Egypt together - Deutsche Welle

Erdogan used to describe his Egyptian counterpart el-Sissi as a "murderer" — but now uses "brother" instead. The recent rapprochement is in part driven by a shared perspective on the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel's unifying role

"Egypt has become increasingly important for Turkey," Selin Nasi, a political analyst at the London School of Economics, told DW. Turkey's relations to Israel significantly deteriorated, Egypt emerged as a critical gateway for delivering aid to Gaza.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is thought to have accelerated the current rapprochement. "Both countries support the Palestinians' legitimate right to an independent state and have a shared concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza," Nasi said.

Economic win-win

"The economies of the two countries complement each other as Egypt is energy-rich and Turkey offers solid industrial infrastructure," Mithat Rende, a former Turkish ambassador to Qatar, told DW. "Turkish investors are very interested in Egypt," he added.

"This is an excellent development for everyone," Rende said, adding that "we are talking about the two strongest armies and two of the most educated societies in the Islamic world."

The two countries control an important share of global trade, the diplomat told DW.

"We are at a time when global supply chains are breaking apart, and one day, the competition between the US and China could develop into a conflict," he said.

In his view, this could further highlight the importance of Turkey and Egypt.

https://www.dw.com/en/israel-gaza-why-is-the-war-drawing-turkey-and-egypt-closer-to-one-another/a-70122505

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16 Dec 2024 02:42

🇹🇷🇱🇾 Turkey has also held talks with Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar — a long-time Egyptian ally and Ankara’s sworn enemy in the 2019-2020 war.

Signs of the Egypt-Turkey rapprochement are apparent in Libya itself. More Egyptian companies and workers are returning to Tripoli and other parts of the west typically under the control of Turkey’s local allies. Meanwhile, Turkish firms are poised to take part in reconstruction projects in the Egypt-allied east, including around the city of Derna where devastating floods killed thousands a year ago.

Across Egypt’s southern border, Sudan — where a civil war has raged for 17 months — is another area where interests may be converging. Both Cairo and Ankara have hosted Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Sudan’s military leader, on official visits since the conflict erupted. That honor hasn’t been extended to opponent Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the chief of the paramilitary force battling for control of Africa’s third-largest country.

In Somalia, both countries have expanded their military footprints. Turkey has its largest overseas base in the Horn of Africa nation, and has held talks about setting up a site to test-fire missiles and space rockets.

For Erdogan, improving ties with Egypt is part of a broader plan to repair relations with Arab powers and boost the Turkish economy through more investment and exports. Turkey has mended relations with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in the past two years.

“The Sudanese civil war, the disputes between Egypt and Ethiopia, and the increased risk of military and political conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia are structural dynamics that strategically affect Turkey-Egypt relations,” Murat Yesiltas, security policy director of the Ankara-based SETA think tank, which advises Erdogan’s government, said in an article this month.

“Cooperation between Ankara and Cairo stands out as a strategic necessity.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-15/one-time-foes-egypt-and-turkey-race-to-solve-libya-s-new-crisis

https://archive.ph/9o9p7

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16 Dec 2024 00:44

Senator Chuck Schumer on X:

"I’m pushing for answers amid these drone sightings.

I’m calling for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to deploy special drone-detection tech across NY and NJ.

And I’m working to pass a bill in the Senate to give local law enforcement more tools for drone detection."

📎 SenSchumer

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15 Dec 2024 23:03

🇹🇷🇮🇷🇷🇺🇸🇾 Turkey Says Told Russia, Iran Not To Intervene Militarily In Syria Rebel Push

Turkey said Friday it had urged Russia and Iran not to intervene militarily to support Bashar al-Assad's forces as Islamist-led rebels mounted their lightning advance on Damascus that ended with the Syrian strongman's ouster.

"The most important thing was to talk to the Russians and Iranians to ensure that they didn't enter the equation militarily. We had meetings with (them) and they understood," Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Turkey's private NTV television.

"If Assad had received support, the opposition could have achieved victory with their determination, but it would have taken a long time and could have been bloody," he said.

Turkey's aim was to "hold focused talks with the two important power players to ensure minimum loss of life," Fidan said.

They quickly realised the game was up, that Assad "was no longer someone to invest in" and "there was no point anymore", the Turkish minister added.

🔗 https://www.barrons.com/news/turkey-says-it-told-russia-iran-not-to-intervene-militarily-in-syria-rebel-push-3c3e5168

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15 Dec 2024 20:59

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 Israel plans to double population in occupied Golan due to threats from Syria

"Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the State of Israel, and it is especially important at this time. We will continue to hold onto it, cause it to blossom, and settle in it," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

In 2019 then-President Donald Trump declared U.S. support for Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, but the annexation has not been recognised by most countries. Syria demands Israel withdraw but Israel refuses, citing security concerns. Various peace efforts have failed.

"We have no interest in a conflict with Syria," Netanyahu said in a statement. Israeli actions in Syria were intended to "thwart the potential threats from Syria and to prevent the takeover of terrorist elements near our border," he said on Sunday.

Netanyahu's office said the government unanimously approved a more than 40-million-shekel ($11 million) plan to encourage demographic growth in the Golan.

It said Netanyahu submitted the plan to the government "in light of the war and the new front facing Syria, and out of a desire to double the population of the Golan".

Some 31,000 Israelis have settled there, said analyst Avraham Levine of the Alma Research and Education Center specialising in Israel's security challenges on its northern border. Many work in farming, including vineyards, and tourism. The Golan is home to 24,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam, Levine said. Most identify as Syrian.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sees-increased-threat-syria-despite-moderate-tone-rebel-leaders-2024-12-15/

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15 Dec 2024 19:11

China's share of global car production went up from 1% to 39% in the last 20 years. Europe, the US, and Japan all declined.

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15 Dec 2024 16:52

👶🏻 Global fertility is almost certainly below replacement already. Consider:

(1) In many parts of the developing world, replacement fertility is higher than 2.1 due to child mortality and sex imbalances.

(2) Official sources like the UN have been lagging badly in their figures.

📎 MoreBirths

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15 Dec 2024 15:30

One of the more interesting findings out there is that wokeness, by tribalizing people, worsened race relations.

We know ratings of RR fell from 70% among whites and Blacks to 35% and 33% - it now looks like (assuming this is real) rates of sometime inter-race dating have dropped from ~60% to almost nothing.

📎 Wilfred Reilly

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15 Dec 2024 11:40

Support for same-sex marriage has plateaued or maybe even declined for some groups.

2018 - 2021 - 2022

Evangelicals: 45% - 35% - 36%
Mainline: 75% - 68% - 67%
Black Prot: 54% - 56% - 55%
Catholic: 73% - 66% - 68%
Other Faith: 70% - 65% - 75%
No Religion: 85% - 83% - 88%

📎 Ryan Burge

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15 Dec 2024 06:50

ABC News agrees to contribute $15 million to Trump presidential foundation to settle defamation suit

ABC News agreed to contribute $15 million to President-elect Donald Trump's presidential foundation and museum to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump against the network, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court on Saturday.

Trump had accused ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos of acting "with actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth," after Stephanopoulos said that Trump had been "found liable for rape" in a March 10 interview with Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/abc-news-trump-15-million-settle-defamation-suit/

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14 Dec 2024 11:22

🇦🇹 Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria on X:

"Austria will support Syrians, who wish to return to their home country, with a return bonus of 1,000 Euro. The country now needs its citizens in order to be rebuilt. Ongoing asylum procedures for Syrian citizens in Austria will continue to be suspended."

📎 Karl Nehammer

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14 Dec 2024 10:15

CT residents charged in illegally obtaining licenses for undocumented immigrants in Mass., NY: Feds

WATERBURY — Connecticut residents from Waterbury and Danbury were charged after they helped illegally obtain 600 licenses for people ineligible to have them in Massachusetts and New York, federal officials said.

Cesar Agusto Martin Reis, 28, of Waterbury and Helbert Costa Generoso, 39, of Danbury, were charged with conspiracy to unlawfully produce and possess with intent to transfer identification documents, two counts of possession with intent to use or transfer unlawfully identification documents and one count of furnishing a false passport to another for use, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Joshua Levy said in a release.

Both Connecticut men were arrested and ordered detained pending a detention hearing Dec. 16. Three other men from Brazil and Boston were also charged, Levy said.

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/waterbury-danbury-residents-help-obtain-licenses-19974532.php

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14 Dec 2024 09:51

Michigan plan to give immigrants driver's licenses allows concealed carry permits

A package of bills that would permit people who are in the United States illegally to obtain state driver's licenses in Michigan would also allow them to get concealed pistol licenses, critics said, if they lied about their immigration status during the application process.

The Drive SAFE (Safety, Access, Freedom and the Economy) bill package, HB 4410-4412 and SB 265-267, was introduced last year in both the Democratic-controlled state House and Senate. A similar package of bills was initiated in both chambers, then controlled by Republicans, in 2021 but didn't move beyond committee hearings.

Immigration rights groups have been lobbying for the legislation, including holding a Tuesday rally at the Michigan Capitol to urge the passage of the proposals in the lame-duck session before Republicans take power next year in the House.

If passed, the measures would allow non-U.S. citizens to obtain Michigan driver's licenses regardless of their immigration status or U.S. citizenship. The bills also would prohibit the Secretary of State's office from sharing information about those applicants with federal immigration authorities.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/12/critics-michigan-plan-to-give-immigrants-drivers-licenses-allows-concealed-carry-permits/76942838007

https://archive.ph/2024.12.13-152318