Financial analysts said on Wednesday that Argentina ran a trade surplus for the tenth month in a row under libertarian President Javier Milei in September, bringing the South American nation close to a $16 billion surplus since he took office.
September’s surplus was about $1.28 billion, led by growth in the farming, mining, shale oil, and natural gas industries. Argentina is also starting to make money with lithium, the vital ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs).
Economist Pablo Besmedrisnik told Reuters that Argentina’s greatly increased energy production was helping to drive export growth.
“The energy sector will end 2024 with a positive result of around $4.2 to $5 billion, mainly due to higher local production of hydrocarbons and the lower level of activity that demands less energy,” he said.
Trade with Brazil was especially brisk in September, surging by 27 percent year-on-year to reach a $2.73 billion surplus. Argentina’s purchases of big-ticket consumer products from Brazil, such as passenger and commercial vehicles, also posted healthy growth as Argentinians found themselves with money to spend.
In April, Milei announced Argentina’s first budget surplus in 16 years. The surplus was $309 million, which was only about 0.2 percent of Argentina’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but Milei hailed it as a “feat of historic significance on the global scale,” given what the balance sheet looked like under his predecessors.
“Who would have thought that grotesque overregulation, bureaucracy, lack of innovation and socialist redistribution mindset will have their price.”
🇬🇧| Today, the #EU is discussing stricter #Migration policies. The outcome will likely be half-baked resolutions and further disputes with Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands. #Europe must become a fortress against illegal #Migration! https://t.co/joah6j5SZF
We have the right to have our own constitution. And it protects families, even if the European liberals don’t like it. The Hungarian constitution safeguards the family, protects children, and upholds the institution of marriage. pic.twitter.com/wFjQWLHqpM
Conservative Champion, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán stood tall against the wall of European Union Globalists during a Tuesday (8) meeting in Strasbourg, France.
He withstood harsh criticism from newly reelected EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen and several euro-hacks who accuse him of being pro-Russia, pro-China, the usual pitch they use to tarnish the patriots around the world.
Orbán was unmoved, stood his ground, and let it be known far and wide that he was elected to protect the interests of the Hungarian people – not some inexistent ‘European’.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), ostensibly the internationally “legitimate” representative of the Palestinian people, eulogized slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as a “martyr” and “great national leader.”
“The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) expresses its condolences to the Palestinian people and all national factions on the martyrdom of the great national leader Yahya Sinwar, head of the political bureau of Hamas,” the PLO said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Saturday after a Hezbollah drone targeted his private residence in Caesaria, Israel, that its “assassination attempt” was a “grave mistake.”
At least two Israeli soldiers have been wounded in an attack by gunmen who entered Israeli territory from Jordan, according to Israeli media reports. The incident on Friday took place in Neot HaKikar in the south Dead Sea area, close to the border with Jordan.
Israeli media sources said that Israeli soldiers were searching the area for another possible attacker, while the Israeli army said it had killed two of the attackers and was looking for a third who fled the scene.
“I have been commanded to wage war until all the people say there is no god but Allah & Muhammad is is prophet”– Muhammad, prophet of Islam
This is Sydney Iman Ibrahim Dadoun:
“Our Hamas brothers are fighting with their blood for ISLAM TO DOMINATE. We are in a civilisational struggle where Islam will dominate … every corner of the Earth.”
Islam wishes to do away with all states and governments which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of this ideology and programme, regardless of which nation assumes the role of standard-bearer of Islam, and regardless of the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic state. Islam requires the earth — not just a portion, but the entire planet — not because the sovereignty over the earth should be wrested from one nation or group of nations and vested in any one particular nation, but because the whole of mankind should benefit from Islam, and its ideology and welfare programme.
“Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam does not look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam does not care about the land or or who owns the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power that gets in the way of that goal, islam will fight and destroy. In order to fulfill that goal , Islam can use every power available every way it can be used to bring worldwide revolution. This is jihad.”
Following Yahya Sinwar’s assassination, senior Hamas official Khaled Mashal has taken over as de facto leader, responsible for negotiations on hostages, Lebanese network LBCI reported on Thursday.
Hamas informed Turkish, Qatari and Egyptian officials of Sinwar’s death and warned that the prisoner exchange and cease-fire talks would become more complicated.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani also discussed the killing’s impact on negotiations.
Hamas stressed that following Sinwar’s assassination, negotiations for prisoner exchanges and ending the war would become increasingly difficult and more complex.
Lebanese MP Nadim Gemayel: Hizbullah Is Reaping What It Sowed; We Will Not Solve This Crisis for Hizbullah; It Must First Surrender its Weapons – Who Forced Hizbullah to Start a War with Israel on October 8? pic.twitter.com/we0MY2RUMH
“Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and then it will be a defense for us, or Ukraine will be in NATO. NATO countries are not at war today. All people are alive in NATO countries. And that is why we choose NATO over nuclear weapons.” – President Zelensky.
“Which nuclear states suffered? None except Ukraine… Who gave up their nuclear weapons?”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, having received a lackluster response when he pitched his ‘victory plan’ to US officials in Washington last month, now says that Ukraine must either join NATO or obtain nuclear weapons.
He made the ultra provocative comments while speaking before the EU’s European Council in Brussels, where he presented the victory plan before European lawmakers. That’s when he referenced a recent private conversation with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying he told Trump that his country needs “some kind of alliance” or be “forced to pursue nuclear weapons.”
“In a conversation with Donald Trump I said – this is our situation: What way out do we have? Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, which for us will be a defense, or we’ll need to have some sort of alliance, besides NATO. But today we know of no other alliance,” Zelensky said.
BLM activist:
“If somebody decides to loot a Gucci, or a Macys or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats…that is reparations.”
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To this day, when I show people this footage, they can’t believe it’s from Ireland.
They have difficulty accepting the fact that African gangs are attacking homeowners in broad daylight, in Ireland. pic.twitter.com/6J1baZ3QMf
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) October 14, 2024
This cycle will never end until she gets her Reparations payments.
Pig Ignorant & Totally Shameless.
She demanded and even threatened Israel not to enter Rafah. Sinwar was eliminated in Rafah, only because Israel ignored Kamala.
Kamala did everything she could to prevent Israel from entering Rafah and neutralizing Hamas terrorists. Today, she’s trying to take credit for Israel’s phenomel successes.
🚨 Kamala speaks out about Sinwar.
“Know this, we will always bring you to justice”
Wait a minute… We? Sinwar was found in Rafah.
Wasn’t it Kamala who said going into Rafah would be a “huge mistake”?pic.twitter.com/quvg3jO7oR
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 17, 2024
Yahya Sinwar is dead.
He was killed in Rafah by the brave soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.
While this is not the end of the war in Gaza, it’s the beginning of the end. pic.twitter.com/C6wAaLH1YW
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 17, 2024
UK:
Starmer just said: “The UK strongly supports UNRWA in the vital work it does” After it was found that UNRWA employed the leader of Hamas in Lebanon.
This is how Yahya Sinwar, the Hamxs chief who orchestrated the October 7th attack, looked after he was ended by the IDF.
The Jews are a nation of great morals, a school of respect. Yahya Sinwar killed their children and raped their women, and on the day of his demise, they did not drag his body as some did with Gaddafi. They did not cut off his head as Hamas did with the Israelis. They did not stomp on his corpse with their feet as some Iraqis did with Saddam, nor did they spit on his body despite the utter vileness of this being. Instead, they placed the body in a black bag and transported it with full respect. This is the difference between barbarism and civilization, the difference between the children of darkness and the children of light. It is the difference between those who respect both the living and the dead, and those who respect neither. This is the distinction between the morals of the brave, victorious knight and the cowardly fugitive whose end came without a single companion, like a rotten, perished rat.
