Thank you to @[email protected] 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 @[email protected] 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.
Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles
Real
government hours
An actual department of accelerationists. My god.
Fundamentally, structurally unserious country.
holy shit they're actually doing it?? how will this not be a complete economic disaster?
It’s intended:
Elon Musk Sees Trump’s Economic Plans Causing ‘Temporary Hardship’
It reminds me a lot around the language of Brexit - that there would be pain, but it’s worth the price etc etc.
The bourgeois do well out of recessions/crises.
the neolibs realize that strong economic growth is now impossible while simultaneously maintaining strict class warfare and divides (replicating the growth of Golden Age America is NOT worth the massive marginal tax rates on them), so now they're trying to instead engineer recessions in order to profit from corporate collapses and strip the wiring out of the walls, and starting wars in order to burn up stockpiles of military vehicles by selling them to Eastern Europe to get turned to scrap in Ukraine as well as topple governments and install compradors
This is so stupid and exactly why I put $200 on doge last sunday.
All my "that would be so funny hahahaha" thoughts getting manifested real time sad.
fake gun violence
Twirling an empty six shooter and dry firing at the screen reading thatAhahahahaha
Pretty sure this is a ‘fuck off’ job, Trump hates both these guys and I doubt they will be given any real power. ‘Go conduct studies justifying cuts we were gonna make anyway’ type of thing. And of course if anything goes wildly wrong, these idiots will get to take the heat for it, as their reward for supporting him.
Is this the accelerationist timeline?!
is gonna pull a 
Yes
Been seeing some screeching from the Maga side about trumps picks. They're seeing it's not as anti war nor anti establishment and they deluded themselves into thinking. I wonder how big the maga fallout will get and what they'll do about it. So far I saw jackson hinkle, alex jones, and Candace owens pushing warnings about the administration, though it could also be because they weren't picked for it.
There will be no Maga fallout and in a week they'll all agree this is exactly who they wanted all along.
In like 2018 they all started calling Ted Cruz Lion Ted. A reference to the fact that Trump had spent years calling him a liar but Trump had since forgiven him so now he's great and strong and cool again.
Ted fucking Cruz
I don't think 'none' is accurate, unless we're just speaking over semantics. They did try to hange pence.
Say what you will about maga but some of them pay attention to what politicians are doing, hence the drain the swamp rhetoric became popular. I think once changes go through and material conditions do not improve, most likely worsen, they'll be looking for names and heads. I don't think all of them, the rest will cheer on whatever since they're just fanfolk, but some of their idols are turning on trump already and all he did was pick the terrible cabinet.
I'm also not in community with open maga folk but if I come across any, I'll be diligent in letting them know trump is rebuilding the swamp they originally hated.
They tried to hang pence because Trump told them to because pence stopped doing what Trump wanted.
As long as Trump approves of these people there will be no outrage from Maga because they don't actually care about any of that. The same people who were chanting drain the swamp now love Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
Really gotta not ever take any of their claims or stated motivations at face value.
Some yes, his rampant die hards yes. But I struggle thinking it's the majority. He picked up the anti establishment folks(I think after rkf jr and tulsi) and fridge people who know somethings bad, know democrats won't help, but don't know what the solution is, plus the rogan crew that previously would have gone to Bernie. When those folk see it's not good then they'll turn.
Just think back on AOCs post about why people voted for trump, it was mostly politically incoherent but not an overwhelming "trump is our savior and everything he says is good" rhetoric. Same for people who voted him in 2016, they didn't like Hilary enough and trump said things unprompted. His group of zombies isn't as strong or large as perceived.
There is not a group of well meaning but unlucky people who voted for Trump because they just wanted a change. If you are a Trump supporters you're a pos. There aren't people who watched him for 8 years and don't know who he is that just gave him a chance.
And all the organs and everybody else with an audience would never criticize Trump. Alex Jones and Rogan have both flirted with trying to differentiate themselves from Trump and had to publicly apologize within 72 hours after their audience revolted.
Trump is the republican party, adpration of trumpnis the party line. Ask Liz Cheyney what the anti Trump republican contingent looks like.
Although we all aren't the same denomination of communism or socialist or whatever, that's not a dialectical way of understanding what's happening. Comes off a bit defeatist too. I think if you voted trump you wasted you vote, same thought for Kamala. And pos too? Sure, but there are people we can pick from both groups and bring them left, definitely none of racist nor white supremacist, we can gladly leave some behind for re-education camps or the wall or whatever. But there are well meaning people that voted kamala(🤢) and well meaning that voted trump(🤢🤢) and just like we showed kamala supports the dangers of bidens era, we'll show the same to the trump supporters that'll listen
You're really talking about the mythical moderate republican?
Nobody voted for Trump with good intentions.
There's a huge difference between not voting forw ither of them and vortng for Trump and I really have a hard time coming up with any plausible reason to vote for him that isn't immediatly disqualifying.
Lmao he made up a new position (I know it's what musk has been talking about for weeks cusnle epic doge meme but this position could be anything) and put his two most annoying supporters there to just bother each other and hopefully leave him alone.
I misread that as 'restructure feudal agencies' and didn't bat an eye
E: anyway, interesting that we'll be watching america decompose in real time. Less central planning and organizing will surely help america in their economic war against entire continents and economic blocs!
Over/under on america being bought by Huawei in 10 years?
E2: this also seems like an important step towards full blown fascism. Social programs will be cut and workers rights will be slashed. This assures the military gets a bonus to expand value extraction abroad, while the cops also get more funding and assure the growth of value extraction at home.
Waves of coups and privatization in the global south are coming up, these are very dark times. Hopefully this signalizes the birth of something new, as everyone realizes we need global coordinated action to fight against the great satan.
Sometimes I have to wonder if all of what I am experiencing as mediated reliaty is actually real.
The Onion should just pack it up, we live in the most absurd of times.