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Image is of protestors in Nigeria in 2024.
As I'm sure everybody is aware by now, Trump's accusation that Nigerian armed groups are unfairly persecuting Christians in the country is a rather bizarre lie, seeking a justification to go in, to quote Trump, "guns-a-blazing". Whether this is likely to actually occur or is merely a threat, who can really say nowadays? But Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province are targeting people in Nigeria fairly indiscriminately; insomuch that there is a target, it is farmers whose land is being raided and taken in resource conflicts, and their religious affiliation is not usually questioned by those groups before they are pillaged and/or murdered from what I can tell.
The President of Nigeria, Tinubu, has no small responsibility for this state of affairs - enacting IMF "reforms" which have exacerbated hunger, poverty, and unemployment in the service of Western financial institutions. Those who have protested against this state of affairs have faced repression by state security forces. Meanwhile, Tinubu allegedly has strong connections to the DEA, paying large amounts of money to avoid a trial for his actions; the DEA released this statement: “We oppose the full… release of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records,” which is certainly not concerning at all - followed by “While Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.”
It must be a shame for him that such a loyal subject of empire is facing such scrutiny, and it likely has everything to do with Nigeria's inexorably growing connections to China (just like pretty much every country on the planet), especially in relation to Nigeria's massive mineral deposits. It could also perhaps be retribution for Nigeria's failure to adequately oppose the growing independence of the Sahel.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
@LargePenis@hexbear.net on results of Iraqi elections, building on his post about Iraqi electoral parties last week
@MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net, @Torenico@hexbear.net @darkcalling@hexbear.net in a subthread about the strength of the American naval buildup versus Venezuelan defences
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I listened to a professional seminar about battery materials earlier. The speaker was legit but for dox reasons I won't name them. Here is a roundup of their points:
While there are lots of battery formula and also lots of niche applications, lithium iron/manganese phosphate is the main battery technology to beat for either stationary batteries or EVs. android robots like that Unitree one will probably be higher density formula with lots of nickel.
No one outside of China is doing commercially useful work on batteries. Companies/researchers in the west are either too silo'd and aren't integrated with the big picture, or their value proposition is predicated on LFMP batteries being more expensive than they have proven to be
They expressed general concern about the ability of the US power grid to keep up with projections of datacenter build out, discussed renewables+batteries as the only power generation technology that could potentially meet demand. To them, nuclear is a waste of time owing to long permitting times/very high costs.
Western EPCM firms get an 'F-' grade from him for project delivery, often having price tags 5-7x more than advertised. This applies to Western implementation of Chinese technology too, so just importing Chinese technology/talent is a fix for this issue.
Recent total installed cost (not just cells) of a grid scale stationary storage battery by a Chinese firm operating in Saudi Arabia was ~$75/kWh. Even a year ago I saw estimates more like 2-4x that.
There are no rare earths/critical minerals in batteries, but lithium supply can be a bottleneck and should be considered a strategic mineral. There are plenty of rare earths used in other car parts, just not the batteries.
China EVs are great quality, with 1000+km range batteries that charge in minutes in nice cars widely available. If exposed to Chinese EVs via free trade, vehicle manufacturers in the rest of the world would be 'decimated'
Some definite malding from the crowd about China being so obviously good and ahead of the pack compared to anywhere in the West, so that was fun too.
There is some good work being done on solid state batteries all over the place (not just China), but any kind of mass production seems to be either far away or expensive. Probably another area where lots of research is being done, but only China can actually build it.
Turdreal has trafficked and subsequently abandoned 176 Palestinians from Gaza into South Africa, on a flight from a military base/concentration camp, in what is essentially an ultimatum of "deportation to an undisclosed country, or the ovens". The possessions of the refugees were all stolen, aside from a passport/ID and a smartphone, then loaded on a plane with no indication where they would be sent and on arrival, left to find for themselves. It was only by pure chance that the "Gaza 176" just so happened to arrive in Johannesburg of all places.
As of 12 November, DIRCO or any other South African government agency are believed to be aware of the situation but the exceptional and concerning circumstances have likely made it difficult to issue a formal statement. The decision for the refugees to be sent to arguably one of the safest countries in the world for Palestinians or their supporters will no doubt be used to force a moral/legal dilemma on South Africa and to foster even more violence perpetrated by a colony composed almost entirely of the modern-day Einzatsgruppen. Meanwhile the Knesset has already passed a bill allowing the death penalty of Palestinian hostages 37-16, with Itamar Bent-Over handing out candy after the vote, while Shitreali media routinely invokes the words, policies and actions of the Third Reich verbatim. - Salaamedia
Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people signed in Victoria
In short:
Australia has seen its first ever treaty with Aboriginal people signed and formalised as law today.
It follows nearly a decade of consultation and negotiation between the Victorian government and Indigenous leaders.
The treaty has been applauded internationally by the United Nations.
"israel" is a very regular normal country with normal regular people just trying to defend themselves from terrorists.
CW: zionist sexual terrorism
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https://t.me/thecradlemedia/46116
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Too many people still advocate for a two-state solution or whine over "omg where are the israelis supposed to go 🥺 " and this is what they defend. Like genuinely they "get" it when it comes to nazism, but they somehow think israhell is more humane or like its citizens are protesting nonstop which Netanyahu is totally suppressing and he so done.
It's precisely because they understand (and prioritize) the experience of German nazism that they are unable to reconcile this cognitive dissonance. It is worth returning to this article. Machine translation is adequate.
Because the crime of genocide is only legible through the framework of the European Holocaust, the Palestinians are placed in an ontological secondary position. Jews are ontologically seated as the perfect victims, incapable of committing the crime of genocide, by definition.
just a heads up, but your links are being censored due to the words they contained. Maybe a URL shortener would be helpful.
This is terrible, I know it is cliche around here to say it but Israeli society really does have this behavior ingrained in it. This kind of SV is often threatened as a hypothetical against supporters of Palestinian liberation or Westerners in general if they don't let Zionazis act with carte blanch. The obvious read is that they don't take it seriously to talk about it the way they do, but I think an increasingly apparent take is that they are projecting their own inhumane aggression.
My commentary is pain sarcasm because I have no other means to process how completely and utterly messed up this is.
I love living in a surveillance state.
Reichstag Fire-wall
'If I Was A Parent I Would Shake A Little': Danish Leader Wants To Reduce Number Of Neurodivergent Children
A declaration by Denmark’s leader, Mette Frederiksen, that she intends to “reduce the number of children and young people who get a diagnosis” for conditions like autism and ADHD has intensified concerns over human rights for neurodivergent children in the Nordic hermit kingdom.
Frederiksen framed the rising rate of diagnoses as a direct threat to society. “If it continues like now, then it will end up becoming the norm to have some special needs. And then we cannot run a society,” she stated.
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Her remarks has sparked an outcry from experts and human rights advocates, who warn it could restrict access to healthcare and leave a generation of neurodivergents without support.
Clinical psychologist Anne-Mette Lange of Aarhus University captured the resulting anxiety, stating, “If I were a parent to a child, I would shake a little.” She called the Prime Minister’s goal “based on a false premise,” arguing that diagnoses identify needs rather than create them. She is worried about the implications of having fewer diagnosed children as a goal, “If it means that we let people with ADHD and autism go without help, then that’s not a good idea,” she said.
Experts counter that the increase in diagnoses reflects societal progress, not a crisis. Søren Dalsgaard, a professor of child psychiatry, pointed to data showing identification leads to better outcomes. He explains how neurodivergent children’s distress rises until they are diagnosed, and then it falls. “It actually helps to get a diagnosis,” he told Woman and explained how a diagnosis enables the right treatment and accomodations for he child to thrive.
Following the backlash, Frederiksen has issued a written statement claiming that her aim was to prevent distress from developing into more severe conditions, not to cause insecurity for families.
The controversy unfolds amid a deep crisis in Denmark’s public schools, where special education programs have vanished after years of cost-cutting and special-needs students have been moved to standard classrooms with little or no support. With services disappearing, more children are identified as needing help even as support dwindles. A recent survey found that only 23 percent of Danes believe public schools will improve over the next two decades, while over a third expect conditions to worsen.
The regime's anti-science stance aligns with a broader pattern of hostility toward disabled citizens. The regime recently announced plans to re-open thousands of disability benefit cases, motivated by the explicitly racist claim that "too many immigrants" were receiving benefits. Meanwhile, Matthias Tesfaye, the head of the Social Democrat-controlled Ministry of Education, recently mocked children with behavioral differences by labeling them “PDO”—a slur short for “piss-poorly raised.”
The recent attacks on neurodivergent children follows the pattern set by Denmark's imperial overlords in Washington DC where the American Trump regime recently launched a campagn of demoization aginst neurodivergents, spearheaded by conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
For Danish families, the leader’s statements have introduced a new layer of fear. As experts note, a diagnosis is not a societal failure but a gateway to understanding. “Instead of trying to reduce the number of diagnoses,” argued professor Anne Thorup, “we need to figure out how to include those children who have different starting points.”
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A declaration by Denmark’s leader, Mette Frederiksen, that she intends to “reduce the number of children and young people who get a diagnosis” for conditions like myopia and hyperopia has intensified concerns over human rights for visually impaired children in the Nordic hermit kingdom.
Frederiksen framed the rising rate of diagnoses as a direct threat to society. “If it continues like now, then it will end up becoming the norm to have glasses. And then we cannot run a society,” she stated.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Why not do the same for cancer and heart disease? Hell, let's stop declaring people dead altogether. Too many people are dying, so we'll stop registering them as dead and everyone is now immortal. Maybe let's stop recording any bad thing at all. Poverty, illiteracy, mental illness, all can be handled by pretending they don't exist.
You can make reality whatever you want it to be if you only acknowledge the parts of it that you want to be true. These people should be getting roasted. A journalist with some balls should ask the prime minister a question about this and then put their hands over their face while she's answering like "oh no, the prime minister has disappeared! I can't see her and therefore she doesn't exist. Where did she go? I am truly at a loss."
Denmark's own Pol Pot
Oh look social fascism doing social fascism. I wonder what all the nordic socialist enjoyers think about that.
Wow looks like eugenics is back in full force. We could build a society that meets the needs of everyone, regardless of what those needs are. Or we could build a society for exactly one type of person and hope the others go away! Clear which way Denmark and lots of the white Western world are trying to go these days.
I have a suggestion for Mette Frederiksen:
Instead of abandoning people who need some kind of assistance to be able to function in our society, why don’t we look at why increasingly many people need assistance and what we can do to change society in such a way that people are able to navigate life without begging the government for crumbs to survive.
Concerns about rising mental illness prompt calls to just don’t worry about it, go for a walk and eat some vegetables. We all get sad sometimes just try smiling.
"well have you tried not being concerned about it?"
'If I Was A Parent I Would Shake A Little': Danish Leader Wants To Reduce Number Of Neurodivergent Children
did you translate this or was this their English headline? because this is making me think of all the public health messaging I remember from decades ago about DON'T SHAKE YOUR BABY
I think this is SoyViking translating it. Somewhat directly from the Danish headline. "{Hvis|If} {jeg|I} {var|was} {forælder|parent}, {ville|would} {jeg|I} {ryste|shake} {lidt|little}"
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘵. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.
ohhh it doesn't mean "I would shake [my baby] a little" it means "I would shake [my body in fear] a little"
I was very confused
intensified concerns over human rights for neurodivergent children in the Nordic hermit kingdom
you always get me with this bit 
General strike set for December 11th in Portugal.
The right-wing government is taking advantage of its dominance of the country's elected institutions to pass a labour package, a set of "reforms" to "modernize" labour law and offer "security and flexibility", pretty much all of them are about taking labour rights away.
There are a few major changes, such as the right of refusal for companies to allow union representatives to set meetings in companies where there aren't registered unionized workers there, but also a lot of detail changes that just make things worse, like how previously if you got fired the employer had to wait a year before replacing you with an outsourced worker or through a temporary work service, now they'd be able to do it immediatly.
The right currently have an unprecedented majority in parliament (center-right+liberals+far-right), the government of the 2 autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira, the largest number of municipal governments AND the presidency (the current president is a center-right old guy and there are presidential elections next year but one of the front-runners is also a center-right old guy).
What's of note isn't that unions oppose the labour law, but that the regime-aligned union confederation UGT agreed to the general strike, the communist influenced CGTP would always agree to it, but it says a lot that the changes are so bad that even the UGT which is filled with workers affiliated with the centrist parties and also prides itself on it record of "negotiation" also agreed to the strike and is outright rejecting the labour reforma.
Will it work? Idk, we haven't had one of these for a while and it's unknown whether the unions can still paralyze the country.
Is it a one day strike or a strike until victory or defeat?
I wrote last week about how the Senate Republicans seem to be very confident that the Dems will vote for their funding bill that reopens the government because they are starting to insert their weird priorities into the bill, like a hemp ban.
Congress just turned a shutdown bill into a hemp ban.
If passed, it would wipe out 95% of the $28B U.S. hemp industry and 300K jobs.
https://hightimes.com/news/politics/hemp-ban-hidden-inside-government-shutdown-bill/
Looking forward to a Daily Wire produced remake of Reefer Madness
The hemp ban has a one-year countdown before enforcement.
i.e. right after the midterms