Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique
Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique
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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.
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I was in the process of writing a post on it, along with the Yemeni - US Navy combat exchange, and another Iranian missile test that took place yesterday. It's pretty suspicious, especially with senior figures from Iran busy inspecting Chinese J-10 fighter jets at the air show yesterday.
According to sixth tone, it is related to a divorce settlement gone wrong.
The driver was suicidal after being dissatisfied with the settlement and decide to take it out onto other people.
I never see people clock major (talking dozens and dozens of deaths) natural disasters in peripheral countries either just Trump Trump Trump
We can and should do better. I was surprised by the lack of Cuba news during the big outage, but I miss a lot, so maybe I missed comments/posts about it.
I’m sorry to say I do appreciate the Trump posts too - or some of them anyway - I learned about most of the appointments in this news thread.
Maybe we need another mega to quarantine speculation on Trump appointees. I'm started to get sick and tired of the speculations. That's literally what they are: pointless speculation. Trump ain't president yet, Rubio isn't secretary of state until he gets sworn in as secretary of state, and so on. And little will change on the international front. They can rah rah rah about China all day, but when everything is said and done, the Trump administration is going to focus on the Zionist entity because the IOF is getting stomped by the Axis of Resistance. Them pivoting away from Ukraine is a given with how much the IOF is floundering. The US got what they want out of Ukraine ie the vassalage of Europe, but the Zionist entity is under existential threat, so the pivot away from Ukraine is inevitable whether it's in a Biden, Harris, or Trump regime. I think the IOF still haven't captured a single Lebanese village. And Yemen just recently attacked another US carrier.
Just post more. Most posts that aren't about America are just circle jerking over hezbollah Twitter videos.
They are still in the process of investigating. The only sus thing is that it happened at the same place where the air show is going on. Apparently, he didn't die from the crash but slit his throat when the police was going to arrest and is now in the hospital in a coma? At least, that's how someone who followed the news in Chinese summarized it to me. The CGTN article has the same details, but doesn't connect the dots.
It's pretty fucking crazy, 35 dead. Largest attack since the 2014 Ürümqi incident. And in the same place China is having its massive airshow that there's been posts about in this very thread (Zhuhai). Apparently it's just a guy who was really upset over his divorce though, per https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-leaders-urge-investigation-into-zhuhai-car-attack-that-killed-35-2024-11-13/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202411/1322917.shtml
Yeah GT says the same
This was immediately reported on by our state media with the angle that reports about this were supressed in social media and reporting it in the media there took until the next day.
I only saw this because I saw a comrade post about it elsewhere critizicing our state media on their angle (as filming the sites of accidents is illegal in many places in the west as well).