The economist, talking about elections in ukraine and fading legitimacy of zelensky. Zaluzny is next perhaps
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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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 @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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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
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English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
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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
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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.
Danish 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
When we say Death to America...we really mean Death to The West, just can't type that many words...
May the families soon be reunited 
The West more or less is America with how willingly they let American culture take over theirs
Some of the Ukrainian woman's children has been returned already and the process for bringing back the last child is in the works. But that family is going to be traumatised forever, on top of all the war horrors. I hope they all get the support and care they need but I severely doubt they will.
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Mkb on Iran-Saudi relations viz a viz Israel and trump v2.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/west-asia-reacts-to-trumps-dalliance-with-zionism/
I think Mkb is wrong when he describes trump's cabinet as Zionists but not neocons but the overall sentiment that the diplomatic grounds of West Asia have shifted since trump v1 is correct.
could develop nukes if America cuts aid. I’d love to see them try https://ghostarchive.org/archive/HJavw
If they could find a way to refine copium into fissile material they could become a nuclear superpower overnight.
Edit: Also, just fucking sue for peace like a normal goddamn country! You aren't special!
They’re special: they have the power of God and Bandera on their side!
did they forget Russia already has nukes? And many, many more than whatever the Ukrainians can cook up in a basement?
talking about developing nukes was part of the conditions that caused the invasion. Zelensky made a statement about withdrawing from the Budapest Memorandum on like Feb 17th or 18th 2022
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As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal.
I thought this was just a bit, they really did it ahah The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with ‘very stupid’ plans for it
I hope they do like a satirical version of it. This is great. Nice to see some funny and good news for once.
And look how mad Alex Jones is! It gives me the warm and fuzzies.
They should make it as close to original info wars as possible but just replace globalists with haute bourgeoisie
Left wing Alex jones let's go
So glad they're off Gawker Media
Sometimes, good things happen.
eh. It'd be good if the onion weren't libs. They are just going to use it to make a bunch of bad conspiracy slop to make fun of chuds.
Real leftists would use it as a agitation ground. Going through all the existing articles and doing a critique that showed how it wasn't the immigrants or globalists to blame but the capitalists could possibly turn some people. Instead they are just going to get further entrenched because the "progressive" liberals made fun of their hero.
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.
With the amount of pure horror going on in Gaza I wasn't quite sure if I was still in the most absurd timeline. This is like a trans-dimensional tourist info booth with a giant map and a neon "You are here!" arrow.
The bomber, identified as Francisco Wanderley Luiz, was dressed in an outfit reminiscent of the Joker, the notorious comic book villain. His attire — a suit and trousers printed with playing card symbols on a dark green background — was completed by a white hat found next to his body. In 2020, Mr. Luiz ran unsuccessfully for city council in Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, securing only 98 votes.
Brutal couple of factoids
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