Fellow recession watchers will have waited anxiously for the latest release of the Sahm rule recession indicator. (FED link)

This was supposed to happen on the 7th. Of course and just like in October, the indicator has NOT been updated:

Anyone know why that is? Software glitch? Shutdown? Did the Trump admin decide to just not publish these numbers anymore? No recession happening?

For the uninducted, the Sahm rule is supposedly a pretty good indicator for when a recession is just about to happen; that's when the indicator jumps above 0.5. The last time was in summer 2024; of course, Sleepy Joe somehow managed to avert the recession that - technically and strictly going by the Sahm rule - should have followed in the months after that. Now the vibes feel like we're in deep recession territory again, and the rule is just not updated any more? Huh.

Brussel, Belgium. Somebody torched 3 police cars in front of the precinct. Tensions between the police and population are rising high after multiple instances of police violence, punitive police raids in neighborhoods that harbour anarchists, targeting visible minorities on a drug dealing-related violence background.

A few days ago, a guy attempted to drive into 2 police officers. He got caught. From my point of view it was kinda fair given the police drives into people all the time. In Antwerpen they killed a 9 years old on his bike recently. They got relaxed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd4aaUkGYW4

I wrote last week about how the Senate Republicans seem to be very confident that the Dems will vote for their funding bill that reopens the government because they are starting to insert their weird priorities into the bill, like a hemp ban.

Congress just turned a shutdown bill into a hemp ban.

If passed, it would wipe out 95% of the $28B U.S. hemp industry and 300K jobs.

https://hightimes.com/news/politics/hemp-ban-hidden-inside-government-shutdown-bill/

https://xcancel.com/AgenciaVNews/status/1990068323078361588

Maduro sung a part of "Imagine" by John Lennon in response to US aggression in the region.

I am the walrus

The Hill: Hegseth announces operation ‘Southern Spear’ to quash ‘narco-terrorists’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening a new operation dubbed “Southern Spear” to quash “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere.

Hegseth said the mission is being led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) to defend the “Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.”

...

In late January, the U.S. military announced that the U.S. Navy’s 4th Fleet will start a new operation, named “Southern Spear,” that will “operationalize a heterogeneous mix of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) to support the detection and monitoring of illicit trafficking while learning lessons for other theaters.”

Strange that they announced it way in advance, right after Trump's inauguration. I guess it was vague enough to avoid raising suspicions, but why say anything at all?

Another plane filled with Palestinian refugees was trafficked into Johannesburg, with the plane not yet given clearance to disembark at the Oliver Tambo airport, still waiting out on the tarmac. This one was blocked, unlike the previous flight. Oh look, it's literally the ~~Madagascar~~ Johannesburg Plan by Adolf Eichmann from 85 years ago. ~~Around 170 people are onboard this flight that is essentially sitting in the middle of the runway of Africa's 2nd largest airport, with Johannesburg on the verge of having it's own MS St. Louis incident.~~ A few people have even been actually pleading for the refugees to be turned back with the knowledge that they will be exterminated. Bro, South Africa absolutely is long overdue for a Maoist purge

Someone on Facebook mentioned that the reason for the refusal of entry is due to the fact that the South African Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Scheiße of the Diet Apartheid (DA) party, is an avowed Zionist and an open supporter of the Final Solution.

Yet, at the same time just 20 kilometers west of the airport, the South African Communist Party has welcomed the Cuban ambassador Fakri Rodriguez, with him currently convening at the SACP's headquarters in the Cosatu House.

UPDATE: Gift of the Givers has confirmed that the stranded Palestinian refugees have now been granted entry into South Africa. The delay was due to the intentional mis-processing of passports by the Nazisraeli entity. 17:00 SAST

So far, around 350 Palestinians from Gaza have been trafficked into Johannesburg at gunpoint this week. The only lasting guarantee of safety is that they will eventually legally become South African citizens.

Source: Salaamedia and Gift of the Givers (Facebook)

Correction: Today's flight had around 170 Palestinian refugees arriving in South Africa, not 100.

 General strike set for December 11th in Portugal.

The right-wing government is taking advantage of its dominance of the country's elected institutions to pass a labour package, a set of "reforms" to "modernize" labour law and offer "security and flexibility", pretty much all of them are about taking labour rights away.

There are a few major changes, such as the right of refusal for companies to allow union representatives to set meetings in companies where there aren't registered unionized workers there, but also a lot of detail changes that just make things worse, like how previously if you got fired the employer had to wait a year before replacing you with an outsourced worker or through a temporary work service, now they'd be able to do it immediatly.

The right currently have an unprecedented majority in parliament (center-right+liberals+far-right), the government of the 2 autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira, the largest number of municipal governments AND the presidency (the current president is a center-right old guy and there are presidential elections next year but one of the front-runners is also a center-right old guy).

What's of note isn't that unions oppose the labour law, but that the regime-aligned union confederation UGT agreed to the general strike, the communist influenced CGTP would always agree to it, but it says a lot that the changes are so bad that even the UGT which is filled with workers affiliated with the centrist parties and also prides itself on it record of "negotiation" also agreed to the strike and is outright rejecting the labour reforma.

Will it work? Idk, we haven't had one of these for a while and it's unknown whether the unions can still paralyze the country.

AP | [US] Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide

https://archive.is/T2FQJ

The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.

Kinda pleasantly surprised by this. The Dobbs decision made it seem like nothing was off the table.

The Nazi Chihuahua entity of Estonia has formally opened the piSSreali embassy yesterday morning, with the foreign ministry essentially having rolled out the red carpet for the Nazi lovebirds yet again.

deeply unserious reddit-brained "country"

Visual confirmation of C-2A Greyhound aircraft from the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier landing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Carrier operations in the Carribean have started.

First photographs + Flightradar24

Detailed photos

Puerto Ricans reporting a lot of military activity not publicly viewable on flight tracking software

Two US Navy Warships (Destroyer + Cruiser), operating about 30mi/50km from Venezuela, with transponders on.

Source

Potential for another show of force/probing bomber mission off of the coast of Venezuela soon

I listened to a professional seminar about battery materials earlier. The speaker was legit but for dox reasons I won't name them. Here is a roundup of their points:

• While there are lots of battery formula and also lots of niche applications, lithium iron/manganese phosphate is the main battery technology to beat for either stationary batteries or EVs. android robots like that Unitree one will probably be higher density formula with lots of nickel.

• No one outside of China is doing commercially useful work on batteries. Companies/researchers in the west are either too silo'd and aren't integrated with the big picture, or their value proposition is predicated on LFMP batteries being more expensive than they have proven to be

• They expressed general concern about the ability of the US power grid to keep up with projections of datacenter build out, discussed renewables+batteries as the only power generation technology that could potentially meet demand. To them, nuclear is a waste of time owing to long permitting times/very high costs.

• Western EPCM firms get an 'F-' grade from him for project delivery, often having price tags 5-7x more than advertised. This applies to Western implementation of Chinese technology too, so just importing Chinese technology/talent is a fix for this issue.

• Recent total installed cost (not just cells) of a grid scale stationary storage battery by a Chinese firm operating in Saudi Arabia was ~$75/kWh. Even a year ago I saw estimates more like 2-4x that.

• There are no rare earths/critical minerals in batteries, but lithium supply can be a bottleneck and should be considered a strategic mineral. There are plenty of rare earths used in other car parts, just not the batteries.

• China EVs are great quality, with 1000+km range batteries that charge in minutes in nice cars widely available. If exposed to Chinese EVs via free trade, vehicle manufacturers in the rest of the world would be 'decimated'

Some definite malding from the crowd about China being so obviously good and ahead of the pack compared to anywhere in the West, so that was fun too.

Bloomberg;

The US State Department said Sunday it plans to designate a Venezuelan drug cartel as a foreign terrorist organization and cited the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, as its leader

"israel" is a very regular normal country with normal regular people just trying to defend themselves from terrorists.

CW: zionist sexual terrorism

spoiler

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/46116

https://pchrgaza.org/pchr-documents-testimonies-of-systematic-rape-and-sexual-torture-in-israeli-detention-against-released-palestinian-detainees/

spoiler

CFMEU Media Release - Workers down tools and walk off indefinitely at CSR factory

Statement from the Sudanese Communist Party on the massacres by Rapid Support Forces in Bara and El Fasher

Our Party stands clearly and decisively against the horri-fying massacres being com-mitted against civilians in the cities of El Fasher and Bara, as well as in other areas of Kordofan and Darfur; a stance that does not hold any ambiguity or require further justification.

The Rapid Support Forces continue to perpetrate systematic violence against unarmed civilians: field executions, arbitrary arrests, looting and destruction of property, mass displacement, and forcing residents to flee ... and more, as documented and confirmed by reports from the United Nations, human rights organisations, and the media. This hellish, systematic violence is the result of all the wars our country has endured, marked by barbarity and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice. Impunity has never been an exception; rather, it is a central reason for the recurrence of these crimes. The ongoing absence of accountability has recreated an environment that allows the return of war crimes and genocide against the populations of cities and villages as soon as the regime’s forces retreat, as seen in Bara and El Fasher.

What we witness today is an extension of a policy entrenched since the first Darfur massacres. Therefore, confronting these crimes requires immediate and firm accountability for all those responsible for issuing and exe-cuting orders. We also emphasise that the failure to secure unarmed civilians, and the withdrawal of the army from the steadfast city of El Fasher for months in the face of the Jan- jaweed militia, is an irresponsible act deserving condemnation and accountability. The primary and most important duty of the army is to protect citizens and the home- land, not to protect itself. We, in the Sudanese Com-mmunist Party, always affirm that what is happening is not merely a military struggle for power; rather, it represents a complex scene of conflict between the parasitic wings of capitalism within the country over power and resources. These forces have amassed their wealth and privileges through corruption and the exploitation of power to loot resources, using armed conflict and terrorism to reinforce their dominance.

The war is, at the same time, a regional/international/imperi-alist scheme aimed at weakening the Sudanese state and creating conditions for disintegration and division to deplete the capabili- ties of the people, the wealth of the country, and violate national sovereignty. This political and eco-nomic dimension (local, regional, and international) of the conflict places a double responsibility on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this war and these massacres. We in the Sudanese Commu-nist Party call on the peoples of the world, and their democratic organ-isations, foremost among them the communist and labor parties, as well as human rights organisations and the conscience of the entire world, for international solidarity with the Sudanese people who are suffering alone and steadfastly in the face of a brutal war entering its third year without a horizon for resolution or end.

We call for popular movements around the world in the streets, through writing in newspapers, on social media, or other means for the immediate cessation of the war in Sudan and solidarity with our people. We also call for transform -ing “soft statements” and formal appeals into practical steps to protect civilians, open humanitar-ian corridors for the population, deliver aid, and conduct neutral and independent investigations into all war crimes in our country. The criticisms and condemnations issued by international and human rights institutions must be followed by concrete actions: imposing political, economic, and diplomatic sanctions on the perpetrators of violations, banning the export of weapons and logistical support to the criminals, and referring the crimes to independent international and local judicial mechanisms.

We also demand:

1. An immediate ceasefire, the declaration of a humanitarian truce, and a complete opening of humanitarian corridors to El Fasher and other areas of Darfur, Bara, and all of North and South Kordofan, ensuring the protection of aid convoys.
2. A quick, independent, and trans-parent international investiga-tion into war crimes, and holding accountable all who committed, ordered, or contributed to these crimes.
3. Urgent action from the peoples of the world, its democratic forces, and human rights organ-isations to pressure states and international bodies to halt any support or political or military complicity with the parties responsible for the violations. At the same time, we call on the vanguard of our people, the forces of mass mobilisation, and democratic forces to unite their ranks, escalate peaceful mass struggle, and develop political initiatives aimed at stopping the war, seizing power from the de facto governments in Port Sudan and Nyala, and returning to the path of the revolution to build a civil democratic state that safe-guards human rights and achieves social justice.

• We will not allow the testimonies of the victims to be buried in statements that merely express sympathy without follow-up.

Blood cries out for justice, demanding real protection and accountability.

• Stop the killing. Open the corridors for aid. Bring the perpetrators to justice. • Justice for the victims — and freedom and peace for the people of Sudan.

Political Bureau

Sudanese Communist Party

Published in the Workers Weekly Guardian on November 10th issue #2170 (Paper of the Communist Party of Australia)

Sorry for any formatting problems or typos. I manually typed it up.

There’s a lot of talk about the US having a Suez or Vietnam moment. Will the US ever have a Gallipoli moment and which conflict would it most likely be?

Today, November 11, 2025, marks the 70th anniversary of the 1955 Brazilian coup d'état (also known as the "Preventative Coup" or "counter-coup" of November 11). General Henrique Teixeira Lott, the Minister of War, primary goal was to ensure that the democratically elected president, Juscelino Kubitschek, and vice president, João Goulart, could take office, which was being threatened by conservative forces and the then-acting president, Carlos Luz.

General Lott's forces seized control in a swift, largely bloodless operation, leading to the impeachment of Carlos Luz by the Brazilian Congress and the interim assumption of the presidency by Senate President Nereu Ramos, until Kubitschek and Goulart were inaugurated on January 31, 1956.

Carlos Lacerda was a key figure in the civilian far-right movement that was attempting to prevent the inauguration of President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (JK) and Vice-President João Goulart. Lacerda used his platform (especially his newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa) to argue against the legitimacy of the election results. He and others in the National Democratic Union (UDN) party claimed the election was fraudulent and that the elected candidates were linked to communism and Peronism, advocating for a "state of emergency" or a military coup to prevent their inauguration.

As part of Lott's military operation, troops occupied strategic locations, including the offices of the newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa and the headquarters of the "Clube da Lanterna", a group of Lacerda's political allies. With the failure of the attempt to block JK's inauguration and the success of Lott's countercoup, Lacerda decided to go into exile, choosing to live in Batista's Cuba for a period.

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Generals Mud and Frost when General Fog pulls up with a bunch of dudes on dirt bikes:

Really though, this Russian breakthrough in Zaporizhzhia has practically become an (unscheduled?) big arrow offensive. Ukraine relies overwhelmingly on FPV drones to hold back the Russians, but the low visibility cloudy/foggy/rainy weather has not been favorable for that tactic.

Hulyaipole and Orikhiv could fall within weeks, bypassing Ukraine's major defensive line in the region.

Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people signed in Victoria

In short:

Australia has seen its first ever treaty with Aboriginal people signed and formalised as law today.

It follows nearly a decade of consultation and negotiation between the Victorian government and Indigenous leaders.

The treaty has been applauded internationally by the United Nations.

Bridge at Sichuan hydroelectric plant collapses after landslide

No casualties reported, the bridge was closed yesterday when survey made clear that it was unsafe.

https://archive.ph/fja8h

Weapons makers have 'conned' US military into buying expensive equipment, Army Secretary says

Large defense companies have "conned" the U.S. military into buying expensive equipment when cheaper commercial options would have been available, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said.

The Al-Majd organization responsible for the recent human trafficking and extortion of Palestinian refugees into South Africa recently, is allegedly owned by an Estonian who moved to Shitreal.

Source: Haaretz

Paywalled of course and the paywall removal portals aren't breaking past it.

Newsheads, please give your opinions.

Are we finally reaching the point where the superprofits of imperialism are no longer going to be able to sustain collapsing western capitalism?

https://archive.ph/N3REj

Baltics' big bear hug of Israel is a strategic blunder

They're deepening European divisions and undermining the moral authority they invoke in defense of Ukraine

the "moral authority" and all the international law credibility stuff is lib shit, but at least it's a good overview of the depraved baltic chihuahuas

Market's not even open yet it's still down 4.8%

It's up i think it'll go back down doe

Now we know what Summers meant by "insider". Book

Never forget to leave some of your money in money.

I think people should be less worried about what is and isn't "news" in this thread. I think the mods mainly remove posts that were mistakenly put here instead of the general mega (which is fine), but as long as things are news-related or relevant to some of the news-heads here, I think it's OK to post them. It might be different if we were in weeks where decades happen with 2000+ comment newsmegas, but this thread will probably end at under 750 comments.

This is just my personal opinion, and I'm not complaining about the mods (who I think are doing a good job). Thank you for coming to my Hex Talk.

Yesterday, a car exploded in India's capital, New Delhi, causing dozens of casualties. There are accusations against Pakistan even before official investigations, corroborating the false flag operation theory. They say India wants revenge for the last conflict. On November 3, Pakistan's military spokesman warned that India could carry out a false flag operation and blame Pakistan to trigger a new conflict.

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