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video showing clashes of striking greek firefighters and piggies.

The French National Assembly has issued a bill aiming to combat hatred against Arabs... who are gusanos

The German greens are literal eco-fascists

Smoke plume from battery plant fire near Fredericktown forces evacuations

at this point, no other country will need to bomb us, all of our stuff will simply explode on its own given enough time.

Question, how different would the world situation be if the USSR didn't demand that the security council has to have veto powers? I feel like either they would be outvoted and invaded back then, or if they survived then the world would be very different today without so many vassalized states.

Kadyrov declares open season on the NATOids

https://southfront.press/chechen-forces-ordered-not-to-take-prisoners-after-drone-strike-in-chechnya/

Pictures of the Algerian president meeting with a few relatives of Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, Nelson Mandela, General Giap, ex-foreign minister of Sao Tome and Principe and friends of the revolution.

https://xcancel.com/AL24newschannel/status/1852485949944389947#m
https://xcancel.com/AL24newschannel/status/1852485995179995346#m

In neither here nor there news: bitcoin is close to reaching all time high again

Activists did a bunch of anti-genocide graffiti at a Danish university and every horrible person is mad about it. University management "does not agree with the criticism" calling them genocidal, the minister of education is screaming for blood and want the activists expelled, Zionists are crying their crocodile tears and a Liberal Party member with local politics aspirations photographed it all hoping to make a name for himself by being a good little snitch.

From DR (state media) (machine translation):

Vandalism at Roskilde University Honors Deceased Hamas Leader: Minister Wants the Perpetrators Expelled

Roskilde University has been struck by extensive vandalism, glorifying a Hamas leader and accusing the university administration of being genocidal.

NY Times Announces Ukraine Narrative Change | Moon of Alabama

Electoral politics meets rocket test flights!

Two years ago, NASA launched it's Lockheed-Martin built Orion spacecraft in an uncrewed test flight around the Moon and back to Earth on the mission named Artemis I launched on the first SLS rocket flight. SLS's prime contractor is Boeing. SLS was designed to re-use as much Space Shuttle technology as possible so that the defence contractors involved could pad their profit margins and not have to spend much on R&D of new technology.

The Orion heat shield uses an Apollo-era technology called AVCOAT. NASA thought it was a safe choice because it worked fine for all the Apollo missions despite a newer, better material called PICA being available. PICA has been used for almost 20 years on some of the most demanding missions with the highest re-entry speeds. Basically if you want to get back to Earth safely and you have your choice of heat shield material, you want a variant of PICA. It's as safe and proven as space technology can get.

Well, it turns out that the AVCOAT heat shield didn't burn away evenly and cleanly like on Apollo, because while the chemistry is the same, they applied it in a different way. The first test flight's capsule had great big chunks missing from the heat shield. That Orion capsule did splash down intact out of pure dumb luck, but those missing chunks sparked an independent review because they are a potential crew-killer. Missing chunks out of a heat shield killed the space shuttle Columbia's crew.

So here's where the politics comes in!

NASA has announced that they know what the problem is, but they're not going to announce what the problem is before the end of the year. And the person who made that decision is Administrator Bill Nelson, a career politician and loyal lifelong ally to Joe Biden.

Orion is an overweight pig of a ship, deliberately so. Right now the only production rocket can that lift it around the moon is Boeing's massively expensive SLS. SLS works but it's ridiculously expensive at an estimated $4 billion per flight. NASA claims less, but independent government audits put it at about $4 billion factoring in all ground support costs and averaging the R&D costs on top of direct hardware costs. There's about an 18-month production time per rocket minimum. And SLS only exists to lift Orion. Cancel one and you cancel the other. They were designed in lockstep with each other so that the US senate could spend as much as possible on local subcontractors for personal political gain.

Artemis II is to be the first crewed Artemis flight, doing orbits around the Moon and testing systems and procedures before coming back, like Apollo 8. Artemis III is to be the first crewed landing using a variant of SpaceX's Starship called HLS. Artemis III's HLS landing vehicle is to launch uncrewed, with an Orion capsule acting as the taxi to get astronauts to it and as their return vehicle to come back to Earth. Artemis II's hardware is nearly ready to fly, including that AVCOAT heat shield. But the heat shield debacle has put it all on hold.

Even though NASA knows the fix, they'll have to test that fix. Which means another test flight of SLS. Which means building another SLS rocket, and building another Orion capsule. That could put the additional test flight cost over $5 billion minimum. Plus years of delays for the first crewed mission as they need to build another rocket and capsule. So the scuttlebutt is that Bill Nelson, as a personal favour to Biden, is deliberately withholding the expensive bad news from public release until after the election.

More fun facts! The Orion program has cost, in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars, about $30 billion without a single successful test flight, let alone any crew flights. And SLS has cost about $26 billion with a single successful test flight. And this is all because the US senate, who keep an iron grip on NASA pursestrings, wanted both programs to be as expensive as possible so that they're as profitable as possible for their defence contractor friends.

Number of deaths in Spain's floods up to 158

article on the uyghur think tank-industrial complex and its relationship to zionism/lack of support for palestine

https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/why-uyghur-groups-have-contradictory-stances-on-israel-hamas-war-13813376.html

However, there is an Islamic organisation that stands in solidarity with Israel, overlooking the history of Palestinian suffering and openly supporting Israel, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), based in Germany’s Munich city. The WUC stated on October 9, 2023, condemning Operation Al-Aqsa Typhoon as a “terrorist attack”, just a couple of days after Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel. Omer Kanat, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the WUC and Executive Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), went one step ahead and publicly condemned Hamas’s actions and expressed solidarity with the victims of the attacks.

Similarly, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP), a Canada-based Uyghur rights group, issued a statement condemning “the barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists on innocent Israelis.” Additionally, the “Campaign for Uyghurs”, affiliated with the WUC, while expressing solidarity with the victims of the attacks, stated that the organisation stands with the Jewish state.

However, in response to the humanitarian disaster caused by Israel’s military operations in Gaza, no Uyghur organisation has so far condemned the actions as genocide. The fact mentioned above contradicts the widespread assertion of Chinese action against Uyghurs in Xinjiang as genocide.

Algeria cuba news: Army General Saïd Chanegriha and Cuban Vice Minister Joaquin Quintas chilling in a room and drinking water from a wine glass(?), nothing important just the usual "they agreed on coordination and appreciate the history and agreeing on Palestine and Western Sahara"

A few days ago, I commented on the fact that Daniel Chapo (Socdem, Democratic Socialist) was elected president of Mozambique. People keep going to his article on Wikipedia English and making references to Cumtown and Chapo Trap House. I think the current page still has some references to Chapo Trap House.

someone made a thread about china allegedly banning halloween
it's apparently a flg (CIA) initiative https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/1gdsmg9/psa_flg_and_us_gov_attempting_to_spread_the/

Protesters in Peru block the Panamericana Norte highway in protest of increased insecurity - Telesur English

Does anybody have any articles or other places to learn about china's aging demographics and low-birth rate/sex-imbalance stuff that isnt western stuff and doomerism "china is OWNED they're gonna COLLAPSE ANY DAY NOW" and preferably from a communist pov? Though any neutral source would be great cause so far I've only seen western stuff and I never trust those to be transparent and non-propaganda.

North Carolina crossed the 4 million vote line with early voting coming to an end this Saturday. Independent voters took the lead in the vote.

• Independents: 1,420,766 votes
• Republicans: 1,403,106 votes
• Democrats 1,351,772 votes

The west's favorite 1 party state that had to become a 2 party state since 2009 has now been forced to become a 3 party state

Supporters of Evo Morales in Bolivia have seized the military base in Villa Tunari, the town where Morales himself resides. This is in retaliation for the attempted repression of protests right now in different areas of Cochabamba.

Although the protests began in defense of Evo Morales, demonstrators are now also demanding the resignation of President Luis Arce, who has failed to resolve the foreign currency shortage crisis. Last Wednesday, Arce demanded an “immediate end to the blockades”, threatening to use “his constitutional powers” to regain control of the roads.

On the outskirts of the Parotani bridge, blocked by protesters, sentries watch the horizon to warn of the movement of the security forces. The police are trying to clear the passage to resupply Cochabamba, where the strike has raised the prices of essential products. During the vigil, pastor Nicolasa Sánchez, 59, braids new huaracas while she waits. “Our huaracas are infinite, like the stones we use,” says Juanita Ancieta, leader of the Central de Mujeres Campesinas Bartolina Sisa.

The lack of electricity for four days in some regions has made it difficult to access water, forcing protesters to use river water. “We're going to resist until the end,” promises Flores, with his huaraca in hand, echoing the spirit of resistance.

The new Tory party leader btw: