Thank you to @carpoftruth@hexbear.net for covering my position as Supreme Dictator of the Goddamn News while I was moving and getting set up in my new home in a top secret Kremlin-funded bunker five hundred feet below the ground. Our regularly scheduled programming returns this week.
On October 9th, Daniel Chapo won the Mozambique general election with about 70% of the vote. Chapo is the head of FRELIMO, the Marxist-Leninist party of Mozambique’s liberation, which fought an internal anti-communist resistance called RENAMO which was backed by Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa; Frelimo won in 1975. However, as the USSR fell, Frelimo began to allow elections inside Mozambique, and has ruled the country with significant majorities in each election ever since.
The main opposition party inside Mozambique is Podemos, which is led by Venancio Mondlane, a former member of Renamo and trained inside the USA. He alleges that his polling figures predicted a majority win for him, not Frelimo, and has accused Chapo of electoral fraud. There have been the usual slogans about how they yearn for freedom. The EU, of course, “witnessed irregularities.” As @WilsonWilson@hexbear.net has pointed out, Mozambique has massive undeveloped gas fields and is outsourcing the development process to France, Norway, the UK, and the USA, while mysterious Islamist groups have popped up to cause chaos in the exact regions which have the gas, slowing the process of actually developing those gas fields. Overall, it appears to be a cookie-cutter colour revolution attempt by the imperial core designed to install a comprador for cheaper resources. Its proximity to BRICS+ member South Africa may also be significant, noting the colour revolution in Bangladesh earlier this year exerting influence near India and China.
Protestors have been battling against the police and government since late October, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries as well as massive disruption, as the government has intermittently blocked access to the internet and social media. As of today, calm appears to be returning, with border crossings beginning to reopen.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Here is the press statement from The Onion about purchasing Infowars. It says that the Onion plans to completely transition Infowars into a new website by January 2025. I think this is a screenshot of an email maybe. The twitter account Maxwell Tani is a journalist from semafor.com .
The Onion’s goal with the acquisition is to end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good. “The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion’s CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”
https://xcancel.com/maxwelltani/status/1857063171900514527
Here is a video clip of Alex Jones announcing the acquisition by The Onion.
https://xcancel.com/JordanUhl/status/1857075969544040582
Social media post by Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion. “We’re planning on making a very stupid website.”
https://xcancel.com/oneunderscore__/status/1857068633127530939
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could develop nukes if America cuts aid. I’d love to see them try https://ghostarchive.org/archive/HJavwDanish municipalities caught using Google Translate in child protection cases
In Denmark, municipalities handling child protection cases have faced criticism for using Google Translate to communicate with non-Danish-speaking families in situations as serious as child removal cases. In one instance, officials warned an Ukrainian refugee mother that her children could be taken away if she didn’t comply with an action plan by pushing a smartphone through the mail slot in her front door and letting the Google Translate app play the message machine translated to Russian. Later that night all her children were forcibly removed.
She had become unable to take care of her children after suffering a mental breakdown when learning about her husband being severely wounded in the war. For six months leading up to the removal of the children, a for-profit company hired by the municipality had sent social workers to assist her and assess her parenting skills. The social workers did not speak Russian or Ukrainian, instead they communicated with the family in English, a language the mother doesn’t speak, or through Google Translate. The mother did not understand what the purpose of the visit was or what was required of her.
According to Statistics Denmark, 44 Ukrainian children has been removed from their homes by authorites, either with or without the parents’ consent. There are no statistics on the use of Google Translate in these cases but state media DR knows of at least three instances where authorities used machine translation.
Legal experts say this practice violates Danish law, which requires that authorities communicate in an understandable and accurate way with parties in child welfare cases, typically requiring qualified interpreters. Human rights advocates warn that relying on Google Translate risks misinterpretations that could isolate vulnerable families and lead to family separations without due understanding.
Municipalities claim that machine translations are mostly used in low-stakes interactions with citizens but defend the approach, citing a shortage of interpreters, but critics argue that automated translation is insufficient for such high-stakes interactions.
- Source: DR (state media), November 14th 2024
Russian Emergency Minister Aleksandr Kurenkov arrived in Cuba to strengthen diplomatic relations and support the Caribbean island after the impact of the recent hurricanes.
The Far-Right Terrorist, member of the Liberal Party (Far-Right, Conservative, Bolsonaro’s Party), who attacked the Brazilian Supreme Court had an explosives belt around his body and was dressed as the Joker.
Unbelievable certain “left” outlets are loving the Matt Gaetz pick because he is supposedly anti-establishment. He is Tulsi Gabbard but worse.
There was a big UFO hearing in Congress today? Some wildly fun stuff came out of it like Lauren Boebert questioning witnesses on her belief in basically Atlantis and hybrid human-alien super people lmao incredible. Also fun quote from Luis Elizondo, a former intelligence officer and DoD official apparently (lol) in this NPR article on the hearing:
“Let me be clear: UAP are real,” he wrote. “Advanced technologies not made by our Government — or any other government — are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries.”
I honestly think our timeline is dumb enough not to exclude the future of the US going to war with China over accusations of it harboring extraterrestrial technology lmao the savages can’t possibly have better tech than us without help from the underwater aliens!!
Edit: Immaculate Constellation - the forbidden report itself folks, courtesy of South Carolina Rep Nancy Mace
Did the Republicans steal a third election?
It seems like inflation is pretty bad in Russia
Russia’s inflation is so bad that potatoes cost 64% more than they did at the start of the year - Business Insider, November 12th 2024
- Russia’s economy faces stress as high interest rates fail to control inflation.
- Inflation hits 9.8% in September, with prices of food staples surging this year.
- Business leaders criticize high rates, warning of potential bankruptcies and an economic slowdown.
How is the bulletin system supposed to work?
European Liberals realising that American social media is designed for political interference is so funny.
Testimony of a British surgeon who spent time in Gaza where he talks about quadcopters coming down after airstrikes and shooting civilians: https://old.reddit.com/r/Global_News_Hub/comments/1gps2bv/british_surgeon_nizam_mamode_testifies_to_the_uk/
Do we know what quadcopter this might be? I have never seen footage of a quadcopter with a gun used in combat yet the claim here is that this was happening day after day? The operational way they’re using this must either be really sneaky or so fast in and out that they’re never around long enough to be filmed.
