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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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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.
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.
Imagine if you said American inflation was bad because the cost of cherries in march was 400% higher than it was in July.
Potatoes have around 1 year of shelf life so their value fluctuates depending on the time of year. If they have a bad season the price will rise regardless of inflation.
You're right that western mainstream media are framing the story in the worst light possible (the place I found the article claimed that the Russian economy has "collapsed") but I think there is some truth to it. I don't remember experiencing potato prices to fluctuate that much over the year and it's not just potatoes. Butter has also seen a 27 point something inflation over the last year.
The west has seen heavy inflation on food as well but Russia is also hit pretty badly.
I'm not saying inflation isn't happening but the price of potatoes is almost completely divorced from that.
In [place I shouldn't say the name of for opsec ] a couple years ago a bad season potatoes sent the price $8 for a 2.5 kg bag when the year before they were $5. The year after all the farmers overplanted and the price dropped to $4.50. Last shop we paid $8 for 4kg.
It seems that potatoes' price is significantly higher in 2024 than in 2023, so that doesn't explain things.
You have to also consider that the salaries are much lower in Russia.
Is this a result of the sanctions or something else?
Its a result of a bad harvest and cherry picking data.
Stalin paid the clouds to stop raining
Putin found Stalin's comically large spoon in a closet in the Kremlin and began eating all the potatoes in Russia.
Nah. He used the potatoes to trade for a million porn addicted DPRK troops to use in human wave attacks against ukriane.
European Liberals realising that American social media is designed for political interference is so funny.
They're realising it? What happened?
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.
There are very few videos out there, so it could be for that reason
Stuff with drones sickens me in a different way. Something about the mixture of total impunity and fine control.
Second video is interesting! It's very stable while firing, I wonder how that works? Small caliber?
First one sounds more like it dropped a small bomb.
Can't say for certain but modern weapon turrets can have very very good stabilization to keep them on target even when a vehicle is moving on uneven terrain. It's certainly within the limits of existing tech.
I’ll look for more with the guns, but I think they’re also used with bombs, see the recent double-taps
How is the bulletin system supposed to work?
72T used to write a daily/weekly/watever inteval news bullitin, and it would be posted in the comments here but also the bulletins site, and the idea is that you could connect the bulletins to your RSS feed to get the news, and also it would be better archived on the bulletins site
Some combat footage from Lebanon and occupied Palestine.
Palestinian resistance forces released more recent footage showing IED and RPG strikes on Zionist Merkava tanks and Namer armored personnel carriers near northern Gaza’s Jabaliya: https://southfront.press/israeli-army-admits-losing-five-more-soldiers-in-gaza-videos/
Lebanese resistance forces recently launching retaliatory strikes on the Zionist Tel Nof airbase: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/tel-nof.mp4
Two unrelated thoughts:
Trump's batshit crazy cabinet actually proves that voting Trump was the correct accelerationist position. If you wanted to accelerate the downfall of American hegemony and the weakening of American institutions by appointing the biggest dumbasses on the planet, then you got your wish with this 2nd Trump admin. I sympathize with Americans comrades, but chickens come home to roost like the great martyr Malcolm X said.
Russians actually entered deep into Kupiansk, I can't believe my eyes. Actually insane development, I didn't expect this at all so quickly honestly. It says a lot about the state of Ukrainian defences at this point. The story of Kupiansk is very interesting and serves as a good blueprint of the future of how Ukrainian territories will be integrated into Russia. Russia took over Kupiansk without a fight in February 2022, because the mayor was an intelligent man who spared the city from unnecessary bloodshed by calling the Russian command and telling them that they're free to enter the city without needlessly destroying infrastructure and civilian life. Civilians stayed, got their wages from Moscow, repairs were done quickly, civilians didn't leave, schools switched to Russian which the population already spoke perfectly, and that angered western media so much. When the Ukrainians took back the city in September 2022, mass arrests took place and sob stories were planted in media. The city was turned into a military hellhole by the AFU and most civilians had to flee. Russia kinda stabbed those people in the back during that disastrous period, but that's another discussion.
While appointing buffoons and neocons is compatible with saying, "look at the blatant incompetence and cruelty, this will degrade the state faster", I think there is something to be said for the accelerationism of the Biden administration's approach of career ghouls that know how to pull the levers of power and keep their constituencies docile.
While Dems and the GOP should be understood as two factions in the same team, I think the most accelerationist policies are to stay the course on neoliberalism and to foment a split between the imperialist bloc and one led by China etc. Trump offers incoherence on the former while Biden offers pure commitment to neoliberalism. Trump offers ham-fisted attempts for the latter, which strengthens any anti-US bloc and makes them more comfortable earlier while Biden seeks to implement the plans of State Department ghouls, trying to build the split along a material basis, e.g. using Ukraine to peel off Europe, hightening actual mechanisms for war and direct confrontation.
This tweet grows ever more powerful with each cabinet pick.
Better and more coherent theology than most Americans
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4989036-tulsi-gabbard-trump-intelligence/
Tulsi is head of national intelligence or some shit.
Kamala promised a rep in her cabinet, so Trump is responding with a dem in his.
I don't think you appreciate how fucking crazy this is. The Trump administration is going to be a mess. We can hope the more sane positions emerge from the chaos, but it's not like the evil that does get done is going to be focused or coherent. To the extent that left signaling is important in US politics, we should probably focus on undermining the neolib forces who will be insisting Trump is bad because he's doing imperialism wrong.
we should probably focus on undermining the neolib forces who will be insisting Trump is bad because he's doing imperialism wrong.
John Kerry has always been the enemy.
Taylor Swift Boaters for Truth
It's her reward for the incredible success of the maga communism psyop
Fucking incredible stuff.
The FBI has raided the home of Shayne Coplan, CEO of Polymarket, a politics betting platform - NY Post (archive.ph)
It’s “grand political theater at its worst,” the source told The Post. “They could have asked his lawyer for any of these things. Instead, they staged a so-called raid so they can leak it to the media and use it for obvious political reasons.” Coplan was not provided any reason for the incident, but the source said they expect it is political retribution since Polymarket accurately predicted Trump’s win – not traditional polls.
The government is likely trying to accuse Polymarket of market manipulation and rigging its polls in favor of Trump, the source said.
This "source" is an idiot lmao. I'm sure the raid has nothing to do with the fact that they flagrantly accept bets in cryptocurrency to bypass financial regulations.
President-elect Donald Trump, addressing House Republican leaders at a Washington hotel on Wednesday, quipped that he "can't get rid of" Elon Musk, perhaps his most influential advisor during the presidential campaign.
"Elon won't go home. I can't get rid of him—at least until I don't like him," Trump joked, acknowledging Musk's growing presence in his inner circle. "He's behaving as if he's a co-president and making sure everyone knows it," one of the sources told NBC News.
"Elon won't go home. I can't get rid of him—at least until I don't like him," Trump joked
lmao Elon is getting thrown under the bus so fast
It do be vizier vibes.
Real power struggle is between thiel and musk via their puppets over who did paypal
red scare is hypothetically close to levers of power, like 2 hand shakes away
Paris prosecutors ask for 5 years in prison and ineligibility for Marine Le Pen. The French far-right leader is accused of misusing European Parliament funds to pay party members when she was an MEP.
Two explosions near Brazil’s supreme court are ‘suicide attack’: authorities. Two explosions have taken place near Brazil’s Supreme Court in what authorities say is a suicide attack, CNN Brasil reports.
One person was killed in the explosions, CNN Brasil said, citing the Executive Secretary for Public Safety of Brasilia. It is unclear if the person is the alleged attacker.
Military police are now sweeping the area. Citing a Supreme Court spokesperson, CNN Brasil reports that federal security police are on the scene and the Three Powers Plaza, which is home to all three branches of Brazil’s government, has been blocked off.
CNN Brasil said the court’s justices had been evacuated following the explosions in the capital Brasilia.
Some combat footage and news from Kursk and the Donbass.
Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Ilyinka, north of Kiev-occupied Kurakhovo (18+): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Ilyinka.mp4?_=1
Russian forces also liberated the DPR settlement of Rovnopol (near the Zaporozhye border): https://sputnikglobe.com/20241113/russian-forces-secure-village-near-zaporozhye-border-strike-key-ukrainian-infrastructure-1120873429.html
A collection of recent Russian drone and artillery strikes on Kiev regime armored vehicles and positions in Kursk oblast (18+): https://lostarmour.info/media/videos/news/26217.mp4
Russian forces captured another US-built M1A1 “Abrams” tank near the DPR’s Selidovo: https://news-pravda.com/usa/2024/11/13/850052.html