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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 3 months 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.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 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...

[–] companero@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It seems like they are trying to completely demolish all of Iran's allies (at any cost) before going after Iran itself. I feel like this is all part of an overarching plan that included the takeover of Syria, and maybe even feigned ignorance of October 7th to begin with.

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[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months 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.

[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago
[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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.

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

Yanis is throwing Die Linke in the bin.

https://xcancel.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1903411093071876601

spoilerGoodbye, LINKE!

In its quest to become a ‘normal’, ‘acceptable’ party, Die Linke has joined the warmongering radical centrists in their rearmament folly

This past week was one for the history books. The German parliament amended the constitutional debt brake so as to enable unlimited military spending, irrespectively of how deeply into the red it will push the federal government’s budget. Meanwhile, none of that fiscal generosity is to be extended to investment in hospitals, education, firefighters, kindergartens, pensions, green technologies etc. In brief, when it comes to funding life, austerity remains part of Germany’s constitutional order. Only investments in death have been released from austerity’s constitutional clutches.

The underlying reason for introducing this stunning change to Germany’s constitution is simple: German automakers are now too uncompetitive. They can’t profitably sell their cars to civilians in Germany or abroad. So, they demand that the German state buys tanks that Rheinmetall will be making on Volkswagen’s disused production lines. To get the state to pay for this, the constitutional brake of government deficits had to be bypassed. Always eager to serve their Big Business masters, parties of permanent centrist governments were deployed to usher in this cynical constitutional change, one that annuls Germany’s post-war commitment to peace and disarmament.

To change the constitution, the centrist parties needed a two-thirds majority in both houses of Germany’s federal parliament: the lower house, the Bundestag, but also the upper chamber, the Bundesrat where each state is represented by its size and via the coalition state government ruling over it. While the centrist parties secured their two-thirds majority in the outgoing Bundestag, they faced a serious problem in the Bundesrat. Die Linke, the “left Party”, whom we congratulated for their good election result recently, had the opportunity to cause the state governments in which it was party to (as part of a state-level coalition) to abstain in the Bundesrat vote. That would have blocked the constitutional amendment and would have dealt a lethal blow to military Keynesianism’s insidious return. Alas, the leadership of Die Linke chose not to use their power, their vote in the Bundesrat, to do this. They, in short, joined the warmongering radical centrists in their dangerous, extremely costly rearmament folly.

The voters of Die Linke are, rightly, enraged, with some of them even calling for breaking up the state coalitions in which the party participates and expelling the officials involved. Already Die Linke’s failure to rise up against the genocide in Palestine, and the subsequent totalitarian treatment by the German state of those protesting the genocide, has tarnished Die Linke in the eyes of progressives not just in Germany but beyond too.

Nothing obliterates the ethical standing of a political party of the left more efficiently than a leadership overly keen to be ‘accepted’ by a radicalised centre constantly moving towards the xenophobic, warmongering ultra-right. It was terrible enough that the leaders of Die Linke felt the need to turn a blind eye to Israel’ genocidal apartheid project. Now, this week, they have taken the next step to political oblivion: they have used their votes in the Bundesrat to ensconce, for the first time since 1945, military Keynesianism in the German constitution.

Good night Die Linke. And good luck.

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

modern day Waco

[–] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

he even did the stupid thing where he tells the journalists that the 1300 gram brick on the table is not really "fentanol" so they won't die from looking at it

it must suck to be arrested by someone who can't pronounce the name of the drug you're selling

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Azerbaijan seems to prepare the next attack on Armenia .The Armenia that wisely has left the Russian Orbit and Mutual Defense to trust ....? ,....? ,....?
with its defense Needs. Azerbaijans Allies are Turkey & Israel.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

doomjak

They've already completely ethnically cleansed Artsakh.

What happens when there's nowhere for the Armenians to flee? Western countries generally recognize the Armenian genocide was bad, but they're just going to let another one happen to the same people.

Armenia is an internationally recognized sovereign state unlike Artsakh. Maybe they'll care about its territorial integrity like they claim? /cope

[–] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Armenia has successfully fucked itself. It's so tragic, it hurts. Rarely do you see a country maneuvering itself into such a disastrous position. What was the elite thinking? What was Pashinyan thinking?! High on some NATO meth.

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

What is worth saving?

The people and life within it.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months 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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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Middle East Eye: UAE lobbying Trump administration to reject Arab League Gaza plan, officials say

The UAE is lobbying the Trump administration to torpedo a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip that Egypt drafted and which has been endorsed by the Arab League, US and Egyptian officials told Middle East Eye.

The split is becoming increasingly bitter, with US diplomats concerned that it is harming US interests in the region. It reflects growing Arab competition over who calls the shots in the Gaza Strip’s future governance and reconstruction, as well as different opinions over how much influence Hamas should retain there.

The Emirati pressure poses a dilemma for Cairo because both the UAE and Egypt broadly back the same Palestinian powerbroker for Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan, an exiled former Fatah official.

“The UAE could not be the lone state opposing the Arab League plan when it was agreed, but they are trashing it with the Trump administration,” the US official told MEE.

The UAE is flexing its unparalleled access to the White House to criticise the plan as unworkable and accuse Cairo of giving too much influence to Hamas.

The UAE's powerful ambassador to the US, Yousef al-Otaiba, has been lobbying US President Donald Trump’s inner circle and US lawmakers to put pressure on Egypt to accept forcibly displaced Palestinians, one US official and one Egyptian briefed on the matter told MEE.

Otaiba was previously on record saying that he did not see “an alternative” to Trump’s call earlier this year for Palestinians to be forcibly displaced outside of the Gaza Strip.

I am once again pressing the "do a missile strike on a comprador refinery" button.

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