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Image is of the breach in the tailings dam near Kitwe.


On February 18th, 50 million liters of acidic waste from a copper mine was accidentally released into the Kafue River after a tailings dam collapsed. The Kafue River stretches for a thousand miles across Zambia and a majority of the country - millions of people - rely on it, for both the economy and drinking water.

The results have already been catastrophic. The water supply for the city of Kitwe, home to 700,000 people, was completely shut off. As the wave of contamination moved downstream, a wave of death accompanied it as dead fish dotted the river surface. The government is dropping lime into the river to try and counteract the acid with an alkali and neutralize the water, but the tailings also contain toxic heavy metals that will undoubtably seep into the nearby environment and affect the area for years to come.

A considerable portion of the media attention to the accident has been devoted to the fact that the mine was Chinese-owned, as well as China's broader influence and investment in the region. Western anti-China propaganda aside, it has been clear to those in the know that these mines have been badly managed and needlessly dangerous for years now, and it is disappointing - to say the least - to see disasters of this magnitude occur from Chinese businesses. Hopefully this prompts a wave of investigations into China-owned mine managers all around the continent, who will then hopefully face real consequences for their actions.


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[–] companero@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (7 children)

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/16545

Israel has now exited the ceasefire after unilaterally changing the terms regarding hostages, and is returning to full-blown genocide in Gaza.

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Death to “israel” and death to America.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The ceasefire is officially dead. The reports coming out of Gaza are horrific, over 100 killed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis alone... And it looks as if we're heading towards a massive air campaign in Yemen...

[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Just read we're already past 200 martyrs, and I'm afraid to check in a couple of hours again. I have no words to describe how I feel. Yes, this was one of the things that we all knew was gonna happen (Israel breaking the ceasefire deal), but still, watching it unfold is a different thing.

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[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There can never be a two state solution. Zionists will never stop. This is so depressing, even though it was likely to happen eventually. Death to the zionist entity.

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wasn't exactly sure whether the whole Schumer caving to the GOP was kayfabe or just actual centrist brain, but I am pretty convinced now that it was kayfabe. The tell is the push to have AOC primary him instead of removing him as Senate minority leader. Schumer isn't even up for re-election until Trump's term is over in 2028. If the party was actually that mad, they would just remove him from his positions now.

I know some of you are going to say "duh" but I was waiting to see how things played out a bit first given how poorly the party is doing with its voters right now.

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Death to "Israel", death to the west, may they all rot in hell. The oppressed of the world will be liberated and we won't forget our martyrs.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

hell hath no fury like a lib scorned or some shit

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I didn't think this would hit me as hard as it did. I need to see Israel burn within my lifetime.

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm a Zionazi plant on the board of this media company.

This article fails to repeat Zionazi propaganda.

billionaire-tears working on it...

jesus-christ I was doing a bit and .....hitler-detector

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Varsavsky

In January 2025 Varsavsky explained in a Twitter post that he promoted, in his role as member of Axel Springer's supervisory board, Elon Musk's opinion piece for Die Welt in which he supported the far right Alternative for Germany in the upcoming German federal election.

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hmm

“In retaliation to the continued brutal American aggression against our country, on the anniversary of the great Battle of Badr, and as an extension of Islam's march against tyranny and arrogance, these operations by the Yemeni Armed Forces come as

Over the past few hours, the Yemeni Armed Forces have successfully targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the northern Red Sea with two cruise missiles and two drones, and targeted a US destroyer with a cruise missile and four drones.

The targeting of the aircraft carrier is the third in the past 48 hours. The enemy was struck by a state of confusion, which prompted many of its warships to retreat towards the northern Red Sea region, and an air attack that was being prepared against our country was thwarted.

The US aggressor bears all the consequences of militarizing the Red Sea and expanding the scope of confrontation by continuing its aggression against Yemen, which negatively impacts international shipping traffic.

The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will not cease targeting all hostile targets in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until the aggression against our country stops. They are prepared, relying on Allah, to confront any American or Israeli escalation in the coming hours and days.

The Yemeni Armed Forces salute all our beloved Yemeni people who took to the streets today in response to the call of Sayyid Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi (may Allah protect him) on Al-Furqan Day, the anniversary of the Great Battle of Badr, to affirm their faith-based, jihadist stance in support of the Palestinian people and in rejection of the American aggression against our country.

The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and affirm that they will continue to ban the passage of Israeli ships from the declared zone of ​​operations until the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted.

Sana'a: Ramadan 18, 1446 AH March 18, 2025 AD

Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

http://t.me/army21ye

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As a long time reader of these statements, successfully targeted doesn't mean a hit was achieved. The successful targeting part has to do with the ships retreating back to the north of the Red Sea and thwarting an attack, as explained later.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't it also usually a large expenditure of interceptors and other defensive arms? It makes this very expensive and difficult for the Navy to maintain.

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Interceptors they can't re-stock at sea and have to return to a navy port for

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That really depends on what is being intercepted and how it's being intercepted. AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles launched from aircraft are $400K each. As for ship launched interceptors, SM-2 missiles are over $2 million, SM6 missiles over $4 million, and SM-3 missiles over $9 million. Sidewinders and SM-2 missiles can be used to intercept drones and cruise missiles, SM-3 and SM-6 can intercept ballistic missiles on top of that. Production rates are probably the bigger issue than costs though, the Navy can absorb the cost, but ultimately if there are no interceptors in the stockpiles, that's a bigger obstacle than cost.

The US Air Force, which have been involved in protecting the Navy in the Red Sea, does have a cheaper way to intercept drones and maybe cruise missiles in APKWS, a conversion kit that turns unguided Hydra-70 rockets into laser guided missiles, at only $20K each. This can be used to take out air targets (it has been used for this purpose in Ukraine), ~~but it's unknown if it's in active use right now~~. Further research shows that it is being used right now in the Red Sea. USAF F-16s in the CENTCOM area of operations have been seen equipped with APKWS.

Article on APKWS use in the Red Sea

So drone interception, and maybe cruise missile interception, can and is being made much cheaper. But ballistic missile interception is expensive, and there's no getting around that. However, it is also expensive for Ansarallah to produce and make/acquire advanced anti ship ballistic missiles. They didn't fire any ballistic missiles tonight according to their own statement. The real massive cost offset is in drone interception, where interceptors costing millions of dollars are used to intercept drones that cost tens of thousands of dollars. But that is being made cheaper. Ballistic technology is always going to be expensive for both sides. Iran doesn't provide public figures, but solid fueled MARV equipped ballistic missiles with terminal guidance systems to target ships are very expensive technology to manufacture or acquire. Other nations, from Russia, to Iraq under Saddam Hussein, to China, spent millions of dollars per ballistic missile, for less sophisticated missiles than those currently in use by Ansarallah.

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Checked in for the first time in a while. Evil fucks in Israel need to get their heads blown off.

Are people saying now that literally everything that's happened, from October 7th to the genocide, to the "ceasefire" to every fucking conflict Pissrael's been engaging in, has been according to their master plan or something? That everything is falling perfectly into place, and now comes the part where they finally make Greater Israel a reality and destroy Iran? That they were only pretending to be frustrated, or frustrated that they weren't "winning harder"?

You know what? If Iran ends up collapsing and Israel reigns supreme, I'm going to chalk it up to this shithole world being explicitly designed to be a playground for Fascists, or some kind of sick "comedy" show geared towards Fascists. I'm sick of this shit, sick of Nazi fucks never getting any comeuppance.

EDIT: Oh yeah and where's the part where Jolani runs outside to hug an Israeli bomb being dropped directly on his head?

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Monsters. Just fucking monsters

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

scathing video message this morning from Tadhg Hickey to the BBC over manufacturing consent for genocide. think everyone here will appreciate

https://xcancel.com/TadhgHickey/status/1901969684657803771

F*** the BBC always & forever

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alhamdullilah, I missed this sound

For context, Yemen launched a missile at Israel

https://t.me/nayaforiraq/23905

https://t.me/TheSimurgh313/51147

[–] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Maersk shareholders to vote on banning Israel arms transfers over Gaza genocide | The Cradle

:::spoiler article Shareholders in Danish shipping giant Maersk are set to hold a vote on 18 March for a proposal to cease weapons shipments to Israel for as long as it is waging war on Gaza.

The vote comes as Israel has renewed its genocidal campaign against the strip, killing over 420 Palestinians since early Tuesday morning.

Weapons transfers to Israel are “in violation of international conventions, assuming that military equipment, weapons, and components were used in Israeli army operations where international conventions are breached,” shareholder Zen Donen told AFP.

Yet the shipping firm’s board does not support the proposal.

“The premise of the proposal is not correct, as the company is not transporting arms to Israel,” the company said, despite recent investigative reports in Danish media claiming otherwise. The reports show that Maersk has shipped armored combat vehicles and other military hardware to Israel.

The Eko activist group has drafted its own proposal demanding the firm’s transparency – which the Maersk board has also rejected.

Denmark has not implemented an arms embargo restricting weapons shipments to Israel, like other European nations have.

UN experts have recently called for countries to impose bans on arms exports to Israel.

“All States must ‘ensure respect’ for international humanitarian law by parties to an armed conflict, as required by 1949 Geneva Conventions and customary international law. States must accordingly refrain from transferring any weapon or ammunition – or parts for them – if it is expected, given the facts or past patterns of behavior, that they would be used to violate international law,” UN experts said in late February.

“The need for an arms embargo on Israel is heightened by the International Court of Justice’s ruling on 26 January 2024 that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza and the continuing serious harm to civilians since then,” they added.

Maersk ships transporting goods to Israeli ports were targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) last year as part of Sanaa’s pro-Palestine blockade. This caused the company to face a significant crash in profits due to expensive reroutes.

The YAF recently announced a decision to resume attacks on all Israeli ships in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab strait, and the Gulf of Aden in response to Tel Aviv’s ceasefire violations and blocking of aid to Gaza.

This has prompted violent US attacks on Yemen, which the YAF has responded to by targeting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman several times.

The Maersk shareholder vote coincides with a brutal campaign of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

According to the director of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, wounded Palestinians are dying “every minute” due to a severe lack of medical resources.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

26 arrested in massive Florida fentanyl bust, FOX 35 Orlando https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxgIFygOr1I Never seen American police balaclavaed up like this

[–] kittin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Over 300 officers died and 89 more are still in a critical condition from the proximity effects

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

modern day Waco

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate this fucking shithole irredeemable fascist world. What is worth saving? What is worth salvaging? Nowadays I actually start thinking about how nice it would be to not be alive, to not be forced to perceive any of this shit.

How am I expected to believe that the world itself isn't ideologically biased towards the fash?

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

What is worth saving?

The people and life within it.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Donald Trump has tightened border controls to stop the trafficking of fentanyl, but immigration agents have seized more eggs than drugs! Since October, there have been 3,768 seizures of poultry products against 352 of opioids. In Texas, seizures of contraband are up 54%, and in San Diego, they've doubled. In some regions, a dozen eggs can cost as much as US$10, forcing consumers to seek out the illegal market. Bodegas in NY sell single eggs in plastic bags, and restaurants have added extra fees to their dishes.

There have even been large-scale thefts, such as the theft of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania. The authorities have stepped up enforcement and now ask drivers directly if they are carrying eggs. Anyone caught can pay a fine of up to 300 dollars. The eggs are then incinerated.

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