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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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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:

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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.
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https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles

Big development. Russia previously drew a very clear red line about this.

Speaking in St Petersburg, President Putin sent a clear warning to the West: don’t allow Ukraine to use your long-range missiles to strike Russian territory.

Moscow, he said, would view that as the “direct participation” of Nato countries in the war in Ukraine.

“It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict,” the Kremlin leader continued.

“This will mean that Nato countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”

He claimed that, for missile launches into Russia, Ukraine would require data from Western satellites and that only servicemen from Nato member states would be able to “input flight missions into these missile systems”.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Starting a war with Russia on his way out out of spite makes Biden straight up worse than Trump. I'm now forced to root for the fucking Trump foreign policy team to find a way to extricate the US from war with Russia.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Trump having won the election might be the only thing that prevents this from spiraling into an open Nato-Russia conflict (which would almost guarantee a nuclear war). Depending on how blood thirsty Biden and the holden-bloodfeast around him are the next few months could be very dicey. I can only hope Putin/Russia is willing to hold out for Trump to be inaugurated but only time will tell

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago

come on putin. Houthis want to sink a carrier. your kinzhals want to taste carriers. (stop telling me to quit copium I will never do that)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

Yeah the Russian attack on Ukraine's electrical infrastructure was an escalation, the biggest aerial bombardment of the war so far, it's why I didn't believe the initial reports that they'd actually go through with it when they had 20+ strategic bombers in the air. So an escalatory response by Ukraine and it's NATO backers is expected.

Allowing the Ukrainians to use the long-range missiles, known as the Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, came in response to Russia’s surprise decision to bring North Korean troops into the fight, officials said.

I don't believe that, if it was true, the authorisation would've happened sooner.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

news heads, how bad would it be if a US missile reached moscow

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

Map of sites struck in Ukraine yesterday:

Seems like the air defenses of the AFU are almost completely non-existent at this point.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Cope cages have spread to China

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (5 children)

In retrospect calling these effective anti-drone shields "cope cages" is pretty funny after we realized they do work pretty well.

Kind of like the first warriors losing in a battle against the first people to use leather and bronze armor and calling it "cope robes" or something

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"You and your cope sticks" - Me after my army got obliterated by pike-wielding landsknechts.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

And then when you look past the internet slang meaning of "cope" to its proper meaning it makes sense again.

"To cope" is to find ways to deal with a unpleasant situation and unless otherwise stated it is assumed to be successful.

Best way to deal with (aka Cope) with drones appears to be to hide behind a chain link fence.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

Real Warriors just Tank the Wound Cope Capes are for Losers Who Can't Deal With Stabs and Gashes

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago

Wapo - https://archive.is/nI1sw

NYT - https://archive.is/rV4As

And politico - https://archive.is/lMrbi

All articles from the last day or so saying how azover it really is

Now, I'll believe a major foreign policy change from trump when I see it, but setting aside that uncertainty, it is notable that the liberal corporate media has switched gears to defeatism/realism like this. Too bad they didn't do that when the population of ukraine was 10m people higher, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It has been widely speculated whether Trump's administration will be a lunatics clown show that has no concept of foreign policy or regular bloodthirsty neocons itching to start war on every continent.

Does the sudden uptick in support for Ukraine mean that the state have no trust in Trump and are trying to wrap things up before he comes?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago (9 children)

OK so US presidents can start wars out of spite before leaving office so who do you think Trump will start a war against before he leaves?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Declaring wars has been out of style for decades. Nowadays you just start bombing and everything floats in this quasi-space where everything (and nothing) is possible and everybody writes strongly-worded letters to each other and sets up red lines that exist in quantum superpositions of existence and non-existence, broken and unbroken.

So, with that said, I reckon the US will start bombing West Africa and just not talk about it, ever, because nobody in the media will give a shit. It'll be like how the US bombed (and/or helped bomb) Yemen for a decade and it was one of those conflicts where once a year, you got a patronizing NYT article headlined like "In This Forgotten War, There is Both Hunger and Hope" (they literally do this with Sudan) and no other coverage. And so everybody was/is baffled why Yemen is so pissed off at the West not knowing that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by Western-backed forces, and so they just start doing body language analysis on Abdul-Malik al-Houthi to try and explain shit, just like Roman haruspexes.

So we'll have US forces dropping JDAMs on Nigerien government buildings and hospitals but the media will be too busy asking Karoline Leavitt about Trump's tweets

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago

Since the Amsterdam maccabi hooligan event, Israel has been trying really hard to influence the narrative put out by media and politicians. The ministry of Diaspora has put out a document detailing supposed ties between Palestinian liberation activist groups and Hamas (lol). They also claim that these liberation groups preplanned the attacks on hooligans, and their proof is literally just a call for people to come join their protest during the match.

These ‘allegations’ would be funny if we did not have a right extremist government that is receptive to them.

Here is Minister Amichai Chikli outlining these conspiracies himself: https://x.com/amichaichikli/status/1856397777548284273

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The US and their dogs allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles doesn't change anything. Russia under Putin are committed to deescalation until the Ukraine war is wrapped up, and Ukraine's biggest issues are in Ukraine itself. Hitting an oil refinery in Rostov won't stop Russian advances in Donetsk. Those strikes might affect Russian supply lines a bit, but Russia has a lot of options with different paths to take to reach the front.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Normally, I'd agree, but this is the most explicit red line that has ever been crossed. There must be some kind of response, or else Putin's words lose all meaning.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago

Putin's words lost all meaning a long time ago. It's very obvious that the only type of escalation that Russia is currently committed to is within the borders of Ukraine, so even if they escalate now it won't go further than a bridge or a dam across the Dnieper. He's not willing to do anything that jeopardises progress on the Ukrainian front. Despite all the teasing and encroachment from the West, it's still neolibs that have the final word in Russia, and those neolibs live in a world where Russia sells gas and oil to the EU a day after a peace agreement is signed in Ukraine. Ukraine invaded old Russian territory using western weapons and western tanks, still nothing happened. What options does he even have to escalate? Sell missiles to the Houthis? No because Saudi Arabia are still his besties. Give Iran more weapons? Already happening. Strike a US asset in Europe? Will literally never happen.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago

What a contrast here

A few days ago a new Chinese built port was inaugurated by xi

In an opinion article in the El Peruano state newspaper, Xi said the Chancay project would generate $4.5 billion in annual revenues, create more than 8,000 direct jobs and reduce the logistics costs of the Peru-China route by 20%.

China's main motivation for developing the megaport, according to Ocharan, was access to neighboring Brazil, where a new railway line is planned to carry Brazilian exports such as soybeans and iron ore to the port.

The rail project is estimated to cost $3.5 billion, according to Mario de las Casas, corporate affairs manager at Cosco Shipping Chancay Peru.

And then this, Blinken announcing that the US is contributing to a new rail line in lima

Which is actually caltrain selling lima some 40 year old diesel train parts for $6m

Definitely a deal worthy of rocking in the free world

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Elon Musk responds to Brazlian First Lady Rosângela da Silva, who criticized him at the social G-20. “They will lose the next election”, said Musk. Janja spoke out against the billionaire. “Fuck you, Elon Musk,” she said.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (9 children)

In the Amazon, US President Joe Biden signed the document that creates the International Day of Conservation and also stipulated the resources that will be allocated to the Amazon Fund.

“At first, I thought I was fighting to save the rubber tappers. Then I realized I was fighting to save the Atlantic Forest and the rainforest, and then I realized I was fighting for humanity. (...) Today, I'm proud to be here.” - Joe Biden

Directly from the Amazon, US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian territory. These missiles are highly destructive and are supplied by the US. Previously, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, had suggested that if this were to happen, he might use nuclear weapons in response.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Directly from the Amazon, US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian territory.

What did he gain by holding off on this decision for so long? Why is he changing his mind now? He gained nothing by waiting. What changed his mind was that they finally broke him by being incessant. He made such an effort to say no to this one thing so now when he gave in its proof that Biden was a weak willed worm who will submit if you pester him long enough.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think it's in response to last night's Russian aerial attack on Ukraine. Macron's latest statements today about wanting "to push Russia to stop fighting" and stating that "Putin doesn't want peace" due to this attack, point towards that reasoning. Rybar stated that it was one of the largest aerial assualts Russia has conducted since WW2. Hundreds of missiles and drones of all types were fired, and 20+ strategic bombers, including the Tu-95 and Tu-160, were deployed and launched cruise missiles. This is the first use of the Tu-160 in the Ukraine war. It was an escalatory strike by Russia against Ukrainian energy infrastructure in a manner that was not done before, even attacking substations and power lines connected to nuclear power plants, forcing them to reduce generation capacity to between 40-90% of maximum output. The USA/NATO will respond in turn with their own escalation, and decisions around long range weapons appear to be part of that.

It's important to note that Russia had the capability to carry out such a strike since day 1 of the war, but chose not to. The US and NATO also had the capability to use Ukraine to conduct long range strikes inside Russian territory using their weapons for quite some time, but also chose not to do so. A lot of the times in warfare, attacking is not about having the capability to perform an action, but about the potential consequences associated with that action. Russia has now decided to escalate from a position of strength with regards to how the war is going in Ukraine, with constant territorial gains. They clearly believe that they can survive the consequences of such an escalation, otherwise they wouldn't have carried out last night's attack. Russia can also escalate further in response to US/NATO escalation if Russia chooses to.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (16 children)

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3286907/8-die-knife-rampage-china-suffers-second-mass-killing-week

8 die in knife rampage as China suffers second mass killing in a week

Police say 21-year-old held after attack at college where he had studied had failed his exams and was angry about low pay as factory intern

Uh-huh, what up deng. And btw "the desire to succeed in exams" actually shows the fucked payscale in china

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

China stopped publishing the official youth unemployment rate last year when it hit the record high and then they started publishing again with a new metric that excludes college students(use your own judgement on why). It was fluctuating between 13-21% between 2022-2023 and is now back at 17.6%.

This was discussed in brief by Michael Roberts on his China's Third Plenun summary overall mostly positive data except in exactly this area, or you can read something like Sixth Tone's reporting

You can compare the World Bank data estimate here I picked some countries, also here they use other official sources.

Is it that bad? but it is about on par with the worst EU countries(Italy, Sweden, Spain), generally higher than the EU average and generally far higher than Japan and Korea.

US is listed at 10% but fuck if US data is reliable at all. For what is worth its getting worse for some countries too UK is nearing COVID high, US is highest since 2021 etc.

Obviously Chinese economic growth, poverty reduction and wage growth are all far higher so its not to say that "oh Chinese youth are afraid of living in the slums" or something, at all. But I wouldn't be surprised if the COVID era effects still being felt.

Even if the tide rises all boats there is social anxiety from being afraid of being left behind or taking the back seat. IMO understanding material conditions leads to things like crime is the most obvious thing surely, understanding why white cis male chuds do school shootings doesn't mean you approve it.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Israel Evicts Bedouin Village to Build Jewish-Only Town - Telesur English

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There has been a 400 percent increase in the issuance of demolition orders, Zionist Minister Ben Gvir confirmed. In order to avoid covering the expenses, about 300 residents of the Arab Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev desert, destroyed their own homes on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Israeli Police and the Land Authority demolished the only remaining structure, the mosque, with the aim of clearing the area to build a Jewish-only town.

“The destruction of Umm al-Hiran to make way for the settlement of Dror is part of a systematic population replacement program in the Negev, intended to uproot nearly 10,000 people in 14 villages and replace them with almost 20 new Jewish colonies, sometimes on the same land,” the Regional Council of Unrecognized Bedouin Villages (RCUV) said today following this forced evacuation.

After a legal battle lasting over 20 years, this is the fourth Bedouin village destroyed by the Israeli government in 2024, and in December, the same is expected to happen to Ras Jaraba, a community in the Negev with over 500 residents and under judicial eviction orders since July 2023.

Already in 2017, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) reported that the community replacing Al-Hiran would be open only to “Jewish Israeli citizens or permanent residents who observe the Torah and commandments according to the values of Orthodox Judaism.”

An RCUV spokesperson, Nati Yefet, indicated that around a hundred police officers, accompanied by seven bulldozers, entered the village at around 3:30 a.m. Three residents, like many today resettled in the 12th neighborhood of the nearby town of Hura, were detained for nine hours. At the same time, the mosque was demolished.

“There is justice, and there is justice! A mosque and illegal buildings constructed in the village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev, were destroyed this morning by government tractors,” celebrated National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a settler and avowed racist who oversees police forces, today on X.

“Since the beginning of the year, there has been a 400 percent increase in the issuance of demolition orders: Proud to lead a strong policy of destroying illegal houses in the Negev!” added Ben Gvir, who was convicted in 2007 for supporting a terrorist organization and incitement to racism.

Israel does not recognize, nor show on its maps, 36 semi-nomadic Bedouin villages that predate the establishment of this state in 1948. Only eleven have been recognized in the last two decades, but human rights organizations report they lack any basic infrastructure like water, electricity, or roads.

The Zionist government aims for some 350,000 Bedouins to abandon their agricultural lifestyle in the Negev and live in limited, impoverished urban areas. At least 190,000 Bedouins have already been forced to do so.

The government’s ‘Population Replacement’ program in the Negev seeks to displace around 9,000 Arab Bedouins from 14 villages and replace them with a similar number of Jewish settlements. Despite comprising nearly 40 percent of the Negev’s population, Bedouins have access to less than 10 percent of agricultural areas and less than 4 percent of the land.

“The destruction of Umm al-Hiran this morning exemplifies the face of institutionalized racism in its most extreme form. The triumphant statements by the Israel Land Authority are a punch to the gut, although, unfortunately, we expect nothing better from Ben Gvir, the Minister of National Security. It is incomprehensible that a government authority would openly boast about its discriminatory policies,” RCUV stated.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

In case anyone was wondering how terrifying it would be for a terrain following stealth subsonic cruise missile to fly directly over your head, video has been captured of such an incident in Odessa, Ukraine. Reddit link, Mirror link on Tankie Tube Here we have what is likely a Kh-101 missile, which cruises at an altitude of between 30m - 70m (100ft - 230ft) above ground level to minimise detection. The Kh-69 flies even lower, at 20m or 65ft.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

So much labor spend to kill each other better meow-tableflip

Fucking gorbachev, biggest daftie of the second half of the 20th century

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (3 children)

So what do you think Trump's policy towards Ukraine will be? Will he continue with aid, but in a limited capacity? Will he cut off all aid? Will he give much more aid than the Democrats and become a total supporter of Ukraine? While Trump, from what I remember, said he was going to push for a peace treaty, that was during the campaign. Now that he is the President things will change. I believe the MIC made a lot of money in Ukraine, and they go the chance to test some stuff against Russian stuff. I believe he will attempt to continue the war a bit longer, until he gets a peace deal where he can been seen as in a good position.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

He is going to call in the debts so his budies can get a fire sale on everything Ukraine hasn't privatized yet.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago

Zionazis bombed aid workers with drone in Khan Yunis - at least 5 dead.

NSFW/L CW dead and dying Video telegram link

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (5 children)

German leader Olaf Scholz made a phone call to Putin on Friday. He's still nowhere near to abandoning the west's delusional demands of Russian surrender but at least he's opening up to the general concept of diplomacy.

This has made Zelensky and all the NATO ghouls very mad. One of these ghouls is noted war criminal Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly the head of NATO, and before that a catastrophic Liberal Party leader of Denmark. Currently he is an asset for American imperialism, providing shady "consultancy" services to some of Washington's most distasteful puppet regimes and businesses connected to American spy agencies.

In (a statement to state media DR)[https://archive.ph/1uuZo] he says:

It is completely unacceptable if Putin should get anything at all out of his adventure. Because then Xi Jinping (China's president, red.) will conclude: "If Putin can take the Crimean peninsula then I can take Taiwan". That is why we must make sure Putin is not successful in Ukraine.

This is what passes for serious statesman-like analysis in the west. Rasmussen did not mention how the American Bush regime's illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, that Rasmussen himself was an accessory to as Danish PM, has helped create a precedence for unilateral military involvement in other countries.

Rejecting the idea of further diplomacy with Russia, Rasmussen goes on to say:

I think the most important thing we can do to m make peace in Ukraine is to deliver even more weapons to Ukraine and remove all restrictions on the weapons we give.

I am too lazy to look up whether he is in the pocket of the American military industrial complex but I would be more surprised to learn that he's not than to learn that he is. Anyways these are the kind of madmen they put in charge of western military bureaucracies.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago

It is completely unacceptable if Putin should get anything at all out of his adventure. Because then Xi Jinping (China's president, red.) will conclude: "If Putin can take the Crimean peninsula then I can take Taiwan". That is why we must make sure Putin is not successful in Ukraine.

I assume that Rasmussen has spoken at length about how Israel must be prevented from trying to annex Gaza, the West Bank, and Southern Lebanon, for the exact same reason as above?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

lathe-of-heaven Tulsi as head of DNI will finally have information that will lead to arrest of Hillary Clinton. hillary-contempt

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Update 260 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine - 17 November 2024

Although the NPPs [Nuclear Power Plants] - Khmelnytskyy, Rivne and South Ukraine – were not directly impacted and did not shut down, several electrical substations on which they depend suffered further damage during the strikes, Director General Grossi said, citing information from Ukraine’s national regulator. The main power lines from four of the substations were disconnected. At the moment, only two of the country’s nine operational reactors currently generate electricity at 100 percent capacity.

The IAEA teams based at the NPPs heard air defence activities and sought shelter during the air raid alarms. At the Khmelnytskyy NPP, the IAEA team heard a loud explosion. At the Rivne NPP, two 330 kilovolt (kV) power lines were unavailable, the team there reported.

Of the nine currently operational reactors at the three NPPs, six reduced output during the morning, ranging from just over 40 percent of maximum capacity to above 90 percent. At the moment, only two operate at 100 percent capacity, with one in shutdown for maintenance. All NPPs continued to receive off-site power.

The Russian de-electrification campaign against Ukraine has reached a new stage this morning, with strikes on substations and main power lines connected to nuclear power plants. Critically though, off site power supply was not hit, or at least not destroyed to the extent to fully interrupt it. This is important to ensure proper cooling for the NPPs.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do we have any users here in The Netherlands? I’m curious to know how this Israeli football hooligan story is playing out with more non-political folks or those who at least didn’t stake out a position on Palestine before. From what little bits and pieces I have heard, it appears that no one is buying the story that the government and the media are pushing, and quite a few “normal” people are taking notice.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

Some combat footage for today.

Russian drones continue annihilating Kiev regime military vehicles in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/11/16/856512.html

Ukrainian soldiers follow Russian robot’s instructions and surrender: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Ukies-encircled-near-Kurakhovo-are-being-urged-to-surrender!:4

Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles struck the Rovenskaya 330 electrical substation in Rovno oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/11/17/857634.html

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Anti-Empire Project Gaza / Lebanon War 406 / 60: Genocide intensifies, war escalates

This is Justin Podur's channel, and here he's discussing things with Jon Elmer. Justin and Jon are my two favorite (English-language) sources for finding out about what's happening militarily on the ground in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank. I've only just started watching but I will highly recommend this video in advance, it will be a good use of time to watch it.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Bit off topic to the general war news since its basically one of those hog tacticool hawking shops doing something really fucking cringe. But anyways

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BTW no shit some loser actually thought this was a good idea. How many days does anyone want to bet before we see some shit on Forbes about Warhammer 40k being Russian propaganda

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

https://eng.belta.by/society/view/journalists-find-out-what-music-lukashenko-listens-to-in-his-car-163138-2024/

On the sidelines of the climate summit in Baku, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told journalists whose songs he listens to in his car.

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