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Image is of China's ambassador to Afghanistan, Zhao Sheng, meeting Taliban Prime Minister Hasan Akhund in September 2023.

I know the Rambo title card is a hoax.

The COTW was chosen in the wake of the aborted sequel to the attempted assassination of Trump being performed by a guy who is VERY enthusiastic about Ukraine, to the point of trying to sneak Afghan soldiers into Ukraine by setting up a house in Pakistan to house them and then further transport them. He also apparently offered to send thousands of Afghan soldiers to Haiti to help them combat gang violence. Whomst among us doesn't have the numbers of thousands of Afghan soldiers on speed-dial. Do you reckon there's a group chat?

Anyway, while there is still no official recognition of the Taliban's government by any country, China has taken a different course than the late USSR and the US - forming economic in-roads, rather than trying their own invasion. This has been a big boon for the struggling country, with various mines and oil and agriculture deals helping keep things barely afloat. A total disintegration of the social fabric of Afghanistan is not in the interest of any of the powers that border it - China, Pakistan, and Iran, with Russia not too far away - so an interesting dynamic of helping-without-official-recognition has been established. I wonder who will be the first country to fully recognize them?


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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:

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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.
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https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

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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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[–] companero@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

You absolutely love to see it

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Come on Osint twitter, stop with the bs.

Just read some account claiming Iran is going to stop Indian weapons shipments to Israel. No mention of it anywhere else.

Iran may occasionally dunk on India but that's it, they very much would prefer to have decent relations.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 months ago (10 children)

From Pablo Escobar's telegram

THE MOSSAD-MI6 CONNECTION

This is deliciously intriguing; it comes from a very well-informed Russian intel source.

So the story goes that the head of MI6 Richard Moore ordered his spooks - in Hungary - to put explosives in the pagers in case Hezbollah got "out of control”.

But" among the English T.E. Lawrences", there were not only friends of Israel, but also enemies of Moore. They handed over the alarm code to the Mossad. So, "without hesitation, they neutralized all of Moore's agents with one blow."

This might indeed be directly linked to the Brit nest of spiders. There won’t be a smoking gun, of course. What is already happening is the whole Brit press hysterically stating this was just a tricky Mossad op - and MI6 was not involved at all.

"This is how the legend of the omnipotence of the Mossad” continues.

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just based off how things have been progressing I'm predicting another wave of explosions tomorrow and perhaps even a full-on invasion by the genocide corps.

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[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago

Nasrallah just started to give his speech about 10 minutes ago.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

75% turnout in the Sri Lankan election, god damn.

Apparently much lower than 2019, 83.7%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Anybody have a good report on the Khakhovka Dam collapse from last June? Had a discussion/disagreement with a pro-Ukraine guy irl about stuff after the golf course Trump would-be assassin turned out to be a deranged NAFO guy and the irl guy was trying to deflect about "Russian imperialism" at the same time he was claiming "Putin is doing scorched earth tactics purely out of vindictive national hatred of the Ukrainian people" and claimed Russia destroyed the dam just to flood out the region downstream of it to ruin infrastructure.

I don't know enough about it to push back on it confidently and didn't want to reveal my power level too much, but the whole thing read to me like the "Russia is gonna blow up the ZNPP as a dirty bomb" thing awhile back where I was just like "...the power plant they control? That they captured and secured? That they'd want to maintain as valuable infrastructure if they intend on conquering everything in Ukraine like you claim?" I know there's a lot of fog of war shit in reporting from an active warzone, but I'm almost certain this guy believed in the "Ghost of Kiev" and probably soyfaced over the "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" Snake Island thing, and the dam collapse thing being a vindictive Russian scorched earth thing just sounds fishy to me. Weren't there reports of it being hit with US supplied HIMARS by Ukrainian forces or am I thinking of something else?

Pushing back on this kind of shit makes me feel like pepe-silvia sometimes I stfg

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://xcancel.com/kos_data/status/1837508801601102332

🇽🇰🇺🇸 Kosovo and the USA together have the strongest army in the world.

And is it just me or does this photo look like AI art?

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago

Brazilian Supreme Court Judge, Moraes, fines Twitter/X and Starlink R$5 million (Around 1 million USD) for attempting to “bypass” blockade

The punishment will be R$5 million per day for each company and will start to apply from Thursday (19). Minister speaks of “willful, illicit and persistent recalcitrance of platform X in complying with court orders”

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered a new fine for X (formerly Twitter) and Starlink, both companies owned by billionaire Elon Musk, for allegedly trying to circumvent the blockade of the social network in Brazil imposed by the Judiciary.

The punishment will be R$5 million per day for each company and will start to apply from Thursday (19), but the Supreme Court will still define the period that the penalty will last - depending on how long X and Starlink continue to fail to comply with court decisions. Moraes' decision was published as a “subpoena notice”, since X has no legal representative on national territory. This was, in fact, the main reason that led the STF minister to order the suspension of the platform in Brazil.

In his order, the magistrate summons X “to immediately suspend the use of its new accesses through the CDN servers Cloudfare, Fastly and Edgeuno and others like them, created to circumvent the judicial decision to block the platform in national territory, under penalty of a daily fine of R$5 million”.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago (3 children)

X starts blocking accounts in Brazil that have been suspended by the Supreme Court.

The suspension of these users is one of the requirements set by Justice Alexandre de Moraes for the network to return to the air. X (formerly Twitter) has started blocking accounts that have been ordered to be suspended by the Supreme Federal Court (STF). Among the accounts being banned are those of youtuber Bruno Aiub, known as Monark, and blogger Allan dos Santos. They are being investigated for allegedly spreading disinformation and promoting attacks against Brazilian institutions.

In a dispute with the Supreme Court, Elon Musk, owner of the platform, ordered the suspension of the blocking of the accounts and published decisions issued by the Supreme Court with blocking orders. Musk's main criticism is of Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur of the investigation into fake news and the structuring of a digital militia. Billionaire Elon Musk himself is being investigated by the court.

However, on Wednesday (18), the accounts were suspended again. Moraes ordered the platform to be blocked last month, after the company withdrew all its representatives from Brazil and refused to comply with court orders, including taking down profiles that made attacks on Federal Police delegates

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

UN Committee: Denmark Fails to Protect the Rights of People with Disabilities

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, where conditions for people with disabilities are deteriorating. The increased use of coercion in psychiatric institutions, failed attempts to integrate students with special needs into mainstream classrooms, and the significantly shorter life expectancy for individuals with disabilities are just a few of the damning points raised by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Denmark has come under heavy criticism from the committee in its periodic review, highlighting the nation’s failure to fulfill its international obligations to protect and support people with disabilities. While the "Positive Aspects" section of the committee's report spans a mere three subsections, the "Areas of Concern" dominate the document with a staggering 82 subsections. This grim assessment continues the trend from the previous review in 2014, where Denmark also faced sharp rebukes.

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In general conditions for people living with disabilities are moving in the wrong direction in Denmark. From removing accessibility standards from building codes to lack of access to cultural life to placing disabled children in prison-like institutions to not providing sign language training for staff in care facilities everything is getting worse. Political leaders, bureaucrats and the general public is mostly disinterested and unaware of the rights of disabled people and ableism and negative stereotypes about people with disabilities are common.

The committee is especially critical of Denmark's failure to properly implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into national legislation and the lack of a comprehensive national action plan that addresses all areas of the convention.

The committee is concerned about the "prevalence and increasing use of coercion, forced treatment and restrictive practices [...] including physical and chemical restraints against children and adults with disabilities in social care and psychiatric institutions". The use of force in the psychiatric system has increased by 25% over the last decade with physical and chemical restraints now being used nearly 20.000 times a year.

To make matters worse, Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament have recently weakened protections against abuse, making it easier for institutions to use force against people with disabilities while relaxing the requirements for documenting these incidents.

Denmark's system of state racism is also being criticised for neglecting the needs of mentally disabled refugees as well as for for making it increasingly harder to be exempt from the stringent language and knowledge tests when applying for citizenship.

The policy of so-called "inclusion" in public schools was presented by political leaders as a progressive initiative to integrate special need students in mainstream classrooms. In practice it has been an austerity measure intended to save on costly special education rather than helping special needs students. Little to no resources were earmarked to accommodate special needs students. It has predictably been an utter failure for students, teachers and classmates. The committee is criticising this failure and nothing how it is negatively affecting the schooling of special needs students.

The healthcare system, often considered the crown jewel of the Danish welfare state, is not escaping harsh criticism either. People with disabilities frequently encounter discrimination in healthcare, leading to serious consequences, including significantly lower life expectancies for certain disabled groups compared to the general population.

Another area of concern is the vast disparity in service quality between municipalities, which effectively turns what should be guaranteed rights into a geographic lottery.

Thorkild Olesen, chairman of the Danish Handicap Organisations, is not surprised and says that "it is time for a political change of paradigm so people with disabilities are seen as an investment, not an expense".

Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, head of the nation's Social Democrat-controlled ministry of social and housing affairs, has so far refused in-depth questions from the media but has released a brief statement through Ritzau, promising to engage in dialogue with disabled people's organizations.

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