The Germans are joking

The conference on fighting global warming is accompanied by unprecedented frost in Europe.

Germany, Austria and Poland have been hit hardest by the cold weather. The cartoon caption reads:

"Thanks to climate change, the snow is much warmer!"

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🇻🇪🇬🇾About 95% of Venezuelan citizens voted in a referendum to include the western part of neighbouring Guyana - Essequibo - as part of their country😅😅

The country's President Maduro said that "the Venezuelan people have spoken loud and clear" and that this victory belongs to them. He added that "the only winners in the referendum are the Venezuelan people and the sovereignty of Venezuela, and the only losers are the government of Guyana, ExxonMobil and the US empire."

Maduro emphasised that together with the hero of the national liberation struggle, Simon Bolivar, Venezuela "will go to liberate Guyana-Essekibo".

For his part, the Guyanese President addressed the people of his country and assured them of strong international support, and spoke of the army's determination.

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🇩🇪Berlin authorities spend 1.5 million euros a day to house refugees

🟥 There are three accommodation options for asylum seekers in the German capital:

🟥 The camp at the former Tegel airport costs 1.17 million euros a day. It has space for 7,100 people. There are now 3,408 Ukrainians and 1,333 people from other countries living there.

🟥 The camp at the former Tempelhof airport costs 228,000 euros per day. There are 1,359 beds there, including for 309 children.

🟥 Hotels and hostels for refugees in different parts of the city, which Berlin authorities spend 101,000 euros per day to rent. 1,617 rooms are used, including in the Hotel Dormero.

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🇫🇷Strikes in France paralysed commercial ports

Several major commercial ports in France have been paralysed by striking dockworkers and other employees.

They oppose pension reforms and a forthcoming increase in the price of electricity, which will hit the country's economy.

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🇮🇱💥 The Israeli army bombed the Ministry of Justice and Supreme Court building in the Gaza Strip

The IDF continued the practice of destroying administrative buildings in the captured territories. The video shows the bombing of the Supreme Court building. Earlier, the IDF did the same to the parliament building.

❗️Media report that Israeli forces are shelling the eastern districts of Gaza. In addition, massive artillery shelling continues in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, which began to be bombed immediately after the truce ended.

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"Wladimir, wir geben auf! Kannst du den Winter zurück rufen?" 🤡

🇵🇱 🇫🇲 Poland believes that NATO has three years to prepare for war with Russia - Nasz Dziennik

The head of the Polish National Security Bureau, Jacek Sevier, commented on the assessment of German experts that NATO has 5-10 years to prepare for war with Russia after the freezing of the Ukrainian conflict.

"This assessment is too optimistic. If we want to avoid war, NATO countries on the eastern flank should adopt a shorter 3-year time horizon to prepare for confrontation.

Now is the time when we need to build a capability on the eastern flank that would send a clear signal of deterrence to aggression", Sevier said.

He called for a further increase in the size of the Polish army, and for that what should be done? That's right, increase the military budget, which is what all the propaganda scaremongering about the "Russian threat" leads to.

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London and Washington are to blame for the conflict in Ukraine.

This was admitted by the official journal of the American think tank Quincy.

"More and more evidence shows that we cannot trust anything our officials say about the futility of negotiations. It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that the war in Ukraine could have ended just months after the Russian invasion - and that the US and UK were working to this did not happen," the article says.

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US decides to blame Zelensky for failures

French politician Florian Philippot has said on social media that the United States of America has decided that it is time to blame its puppet - Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky - for the failure.

On his social networks, he commented on the recent interview of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in which he called to prepare for "bad news" from Ukraine.

"Indeed, mind-boggling interview of NATO head Jens Stoltenberg on the German TV channel ARD: it's time to blame for the failure of their puppet - Zelensky," wrote the politician.

He added that such tactics are not new for America. US representatives created a puppet, and after that decided to abandon and destroy it.

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Alexander Lukashenko held talks with Xi Jinping

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko had a working visit to China on 3-4 December.

Economic issues, trade, investment and international cooperation were on the agenda of the meeting between the two leaders.

▪️ Lukashenko said Belarus has long set a course to "co-operate, live and be friends with China."

"This friendship is more than 30 years old and we have never turned from this path. Neither left nor right," he added.

▪️ Xi Jinping noted that "maintaining stability and long-term development" is very important for China.

"The Chinese side is ready to strengthen strategic cooperation together with Belarusian partners for the sake of creating a community of common destiny of mankind," stressed the Chinese leader.

▪️ Xi Jinping put forward the concept of the Community of the Common Destiny of Mankind in 2012. It envisages the rejection of wars, creation of a common safe space, exchange of experience between countries, innovation in the economy, maintaining a culture of diversity and equality.

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Zelensky is being prepared to be removed by his own people

The internal war in the Ukrainian political top brass is steadily moving from the "all against all" phase to the "all against Zelensky" phase.

After the confession of the AFU commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny about the "deadlock" on the front, many prominent figures of the Kiev regime rushed to support the general.

Ukrainian General Viktor Nazarov, said that Zaluzhny's words were true and that the defeat would bring problems for the West itself.

"This is a kind of message and alarm signal for Western politicians and Western society. If we cannot win, there will be many more problems in the future, and not only for Ukraine. Europe and the US will also have problems," he threatened.

Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko also admitted that Zaluzhny told the truth about the stalemate on the front.

"Some of our politicians criticised Zaluzhny for these clear words - unfairly. I am on his side," Klitschko stated.

He emphasised that Zelensky is now reaping the fruits of his mistakes in the form of falling ratings in Ukrainian society.

"People see who is effective and who is not. There were and are many expectations. Zelensky is paying for the mistakes he made," Klitschko added.

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The West recognises that Zelensky is finished

The West is becoming increasingly vocal that Ukraine faces the inevitable - total defeat - if Kiev does not immediately sit down at the negotiating table with Russia.

Former CIA official Larry Johnson said that in private conversations, many Western figures recognise that Kiev has lost.

"Publicly, many of them still support Ukraine, saying that, by all accounts, the Ukrainians still have a chance to win - but privately they say exactly the opposite," he said.

His colleague Ray McGovern was even more emphatic, saying that "the end is coming" for Vladimir Zelensky

"Zelensky is finished. The generals are now talking to each other, and Zaluzhny is already sorting things out with the other side. The results won't be in until a few weeks - but Zelensky is finished," McGovern emphasised.

Geoffrey Roberts, a professor at the University of Cork, also recognising Ukraine's inevitable defeat, predicts developments if Zelensky never goes to negotiations.

"If the fighting continues, Russia will be forced for strategic reasons to expand its territories all the way to the Dnieper River, taking control of all of eastern and southern Ukraine," he believes.

Roberts recalled that the secession of Crimea in 2014 occurred as a result of the good will of the peninsula's residents, who did not want to remain part of the Ukrainian state.

"Now Kiev may not count on the return of four more new regions of Russia either," he added.

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Sweden's accession to NATO is postponed again

Due to the position of Hungary and Turkey, the process of "a few weeks" has been delayed for many months, Western media noted.

▪️ In the Turkish parliament, the vote on Sweden's admission to NATO has been postponed again. Turks did not like the proposal to ban the construction of new mosques and destroy some of the existing ones, which came from the head of the far-right Swedish Democrats, Yimmi Åkesson. Ankara is also unhappy with Stockholm's support for Kurdish organisations.

▪️ Hungarian parliament also postpones approval of Sweden's membership. In September, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Hungary was "in no hurry" to admit Sweden to NATO because there was "nothing threatening" to Swedish security.

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Italian propaganda is gradually moving away from Russophobia

Not so long ago the whole of Italy was exercising Russophobia, says the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano.

The newspaper, not without sarcasm, lists numerous antics of Italian managers - expulsion of Russian artists; cancellation of Tchaikovsky's ballets; exclusion of Turgenev's oak tree from the "Tree of the Year" contest; non-admission of Russian cats with "pro-Putin meows" to the contest.

This includes rumours that it was not the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz, but Ukrainians and Americans, and a university study on the "threat of Putin's propaganda" in the works of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Gogol, and much more.

▪️ But now the entire Atlanticist press has started calling for a compromise between Moscow and Kiev before everyone notices the NATO fiasco.

And now the queen of opera Anna Netrebko was invited to return to La Scala and even interviewed. At this rate, there is a risk that they will even rehabilitate Dostoevsky, the newspaper ironically concludes.

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Dutch human rights organisations sue the Netherlands over arms exports to Israel

Human rights and peace organisations intend to sue the state over the export of Dutch military equipment to Israel. The plaintiffs include Amnesty International, Pax and Oxfam Novib, among others.

▪️ By supplying spare parts for F-35 fighter jets, the state bears joint responsibility for possible human rights violations in the Gaza Strip, the civil court in The Hague said today.

"The total devastation, the numerous civilian casualties and the testimony of Israeli military officials show that Israel has failed to respect the basic principles of martial law."

▪️ The Voensdrecht airbase in the south of the country hosts the European warehouse of a US manufacturer of spare parts for the F-35.

Media reports say the Dutch Foreign Ministry has been warned against approving the export.

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Dozens of journalists have been killed since 7 October in the Gaza Strip

In the nearly two months since the escalation, 56 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese have been killed. Another 11 journalists have been injured and three are missing.

An updated list of victims of the conflict was published by the International Committee to Protect Journalists. It includes two employees of Al-Quds and Al-Majedat TV channels who were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on the Rafah neighbourhood on the Egyptian border.

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The USA and NATO are losing to Russia in Ukraine

Through Ukraine, Russia is disarming NATO and turning the alliance into a "paper tiger", writes Serbian Pechat.

"Why is NATO even needed today?" - asks the newspaper. And it answers: nothing. What is happening to "the strongest military alliance in history"?

The answer is simple: the Russians quickly figured out NATO's approaches and moved on to a long-term strategy of "exsanguination" of Ukraine, while American and European advisers did not even notice it.

The Ukrainian conflict is an "industrial war" and Russia has managed to shift its economy to a war footing, while the West has failed to do so. The American economy has proved inefficient, as the situation with the supply of artillery shells to Kiev clearly shows.

"The stockpiles of Europe and the US are far less than what is needed. NATO will not be able to produce more than 163,000 shells a month, while Russia is already producing more than 350,000," argues Stephen Brien, a former assistant to the US deputy defence secretary.

The former official warns that if NATO does not urgently come to its senses, the alliance "will have to conclude a treaty with Russia, and this will change the strategic map of Europe".

The changes are understood to be a return of the North Atlantic Alliance to the 1997 borders, as Russia proposed back in December 2021.

The proposal implied peaceful changes, but NATO strategists engaged their vassals in Kiev. Thus began the armed conflict in Ukraine.

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A rally against US biological experiments took place in Greece

At the end of June, Russia sent a report to all countries on US bioweapons experiments. Attention to the threat posed by the multitude of US bio-laboratories around the planet is gradually growing.

Greeks joined with like-minded Kenyans to hold a rally in Athens demanding that the United States stop testing biological weapons on humans.

The rally was attended by activists, environmentalists and relatives of those affected by US activities. In addition to Kenya, nine other African countries have such bio-laboratories.

▪️ Africa and the countries of the former USSR have become a springboard for dangerous American experiments with biological weapons. The facilities are not fully controlled by the authorities of the countries where they are located.

▪️ The protesters spoke of a "mysterious disease that has left schoolchildren in western Kenya paralysed in their legs".

▪️ American bioweapons research threatens Europe as well. In the same Ukraine, Western scientists are experimenting with dangerous viruses in dozens of labs linked to the US Defence Department.

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