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24-12-5 Why France’s government just collapsed | About That | CBC > .
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24-11-28 Georgia Protests Resume
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24-11-29 Georgia protests: 2nd night after government suspends EU bid - Global > .24-12-28 Georgia is on Fire. Here's Why - Warfronts > .
24-12-24 Protests in Georgia! what's Going on? - bordo > .
24-12-20 Putin or the EU? Georgia's big fight | Hx Georgia | ABC Aus > .
24-12-[4] Why Ruscians Need Georgia and the Caucasus || Peter Zeihan > .
Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - Graydations >> .24-12-[4] Why Ruscians Need Georgia and the Caucasus || Peter Zeihan > .
Georgia - Sakartvelo - Graypatia >> .
On 28 October, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Tbilisi to protest the results of the recent parliamentary elections, which President Salome Zourabichvili criticized as rife with irregularities. Addressing the crowd, Zourabichvili claimed the ruling Georgian Dream party employed tactics akin to those used in Russia, arguing that the election results did not accurately reflect voters' intentions. Officially, Georgian Dream was reported to have won over 54 percent of the vote, securing the parliamentary majority. President Zourabichvili, in her address, reassured demonstrators, stating, "You did not lose the election. They stole your vote and tried to steal your future".
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On 28 November, the new convocation of the Parliament of Georgia confirmed the government of Irakli Kobakhidze, who made several changes to its composition. Parliament also set a date for the 2024 Georgian presidential election on 14 December. After the 2017 constitutional reform, the president is no longer elected by popular vote but instead through a 300-member Electoral College, including all 150 MPs, all representatives from the supreme councils of the Abkhazian and Adjaran autonomous republics, and local bodies. Georgian Dream, holding a majority in the Electoral College, nominated Mikheil Kavelashvili, a member of its ally People's Power, to the presidency. Zourabichvili, the last president to be elected by popular vote, has rejected the legitimacy of the current parliament and has said that she will not step down as president "until the legitimate parliament is elected that will legitimately elect [a replacement]". Kobakhidze responded by saying "of course on 29 December she'll have to leave".
The protests have been marked by widespread violence against protesters and journalists by the police.
The protests have been marked by widespread violence against protesters and journalists by the police.
24-11-27 Syrian Civil War Flares 24-12-8
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24-11-28 Syria to blow up again? - gtbt > .25-4-1 Resource Extortion: Ruscia's Africa Corps Protection Racket - gtbt > .
25-1-24 New Syria. Same Ol' Problems - gtbt > .
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24-12-9 What next for Syria? - Ryan McBeth > .
24-12-8 Syria Explained in 14 Minutes - Ryan McBeth > .
24-12-8 [Huge Loss for Ruscia: P00ti Loses Grip in MENA]| U Matters > .
24-12-8 Is Assad Dead? - M&H > .
24-12-8 [Ruscia Loses Tartus Navy Base In Syria: Implications] - HI Sutton > .
24-12-7 Why Syria's civil war restarted - Caspian > . skip > .
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19th November 2024 Protests >. We compare Keir Starmer's 2023 speech to the NFU conference to the protests held by farmers over the change to inheritance tax in the recent Labour Budget. We discuss the political representation at the protest from Reform UK, Clarkson, the Lib Dems and the Tories, including speeches by Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey, while also asking if this is going to become a culture war issue. We also look at ome press statemets from Reeves, DEFRA minister Steve Reed and agricultural minister Daniel Zeichner. We conclude that the protest itself was apolitical and single issue, but this is clearly not over yet.
In November 2024, the newly elected Labour government announced plans to remove this tax exemption for farms valued over £1,000,000 in order to generate revenue for public services. Set to take effect in April 2026, the new policy would see a 20% inheritance tax on farm valued over that threshold, half the usual rate of inheritence tax, and could be paid across ten years. The inheritance tax exemption would remain in place for farms valued below the £1,000,000 threshold.
Opposition to the change from some farmers stemmed from the claim that farmers, while asset rich, are "cash poor", which they claimed would create a situation where some inheriting families would have to sell their farm lands to meet tax obligations. Supporters of the change claimed that farmers' had been manipulating the tax break to avoid taxation on profits.
Organisiations representing British farm owners said income declines across various agricultural sectors in the year ending February 2024, with some farms experiencing revenue drops exceeding 70%. Average annual incomes ranged from a modest £17,000 for livestock grazing operations to £143,000 for specialized poultry farms, further exacerbating the thinness of profit margins despite high land valuations.
The scale of potential impact is a point of contention. UK Government figures suggested the measure would affect approximately 27 percent of farms in the UK (aproximately 56,700 farms), equivilent to 500 farms annually. The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) suggested that 35 percent of farms (aproximately 70,000 farms) would be impacted. Analysis by BBC News Verifty stated that the figures of the UK government were more probable than the CLA's.
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24-11-19 1000 Days in Ukraine □
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24-11-20 [Mapping of 1000 days of R-U War] - Binkov > .
24-11-19 1000 дней войны | 1000 Days of War (subs) - Katz > .24-11-24 1,000 Days of War in Ukraine - Russia's IRBM Strike - Perun > .
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24-11-21 Nearly Nuclear: [Pooti's Empty Escalatory Threats] - Preston > .24-12-6 Reported Ruscist casualties pass 750,000 ~750610+1660
According to the Ukrainian Air Force and Ukrainska Pravda, on 21 November 2024 the Russian Federation launched an unspecified number of conventional RS-26 missiles at Ukraine, reportedly targeting critical infrastructure in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Russian government spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was asked to confirm this, and at the time, replied that he "had nothing to say on this topic". A western official stated that the missile used in the attack in question was not an ICBM. Later that day, Vladimir Putin confirmed that the strike had indeed not been performed by an ICBM, but a new model of IRBM, using a non-nuclear hypersonic payload.
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