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Coup attempt in Chad?

There are reports of an attempted coup d'état underway in Chad, after a group of soldiers reportedly headed towards the presidential palace in N'Djamena in an attempt to take control of it. Violent clashes are underway in the capital of Chad, N'Djamena, between the armed forces loyal to the transition president Mahamat Deby and the dissidents led by the political opponent Yaya Say it. This was reported by sources quoted by the information site "Tchad One", according to which several deaths and injuries were recorded on both sides in the fighting.

Hate to say this but Biden has likely stopped prior momentum of dedollarization in Latin America. Ideological export is the most potent weapon of American imperialism.

Spy Hunt At Danish University: Secret Police Cracks Down On Foreigners

"Avoid becoming the Russian intelligence agency's employee of the year"

• Propaganda poster put up by the secret police at Denmark's University of Aarhus.

According to reports coming out of Denmark, the regime is getting increasingly paranoid about the risk of foreign infiltration of academia. A pilot project at the University of Aarhus has screened foreign applicants for research jobs in order to single out not only those suspected of being foreign spies but also those suspected of becoming spies in the future.

The screening project was initiated at the request of PET, the regime's secret police, who has been running a propaganda campaign to make academics look for suspicious activity. The project targets applicants of Russian, Chinese and Iranian origin. Applicants are being investigated for having co-authored articles with people the regime finds suspicious, it is investigated whether they have personal circumstances making them likely of being compromised by foreign spy agencies and the dean of the institute they are applying to is asked to assess whether the applicant will work with information deemed sensible if they get the job. Sensitive information can be found in fields such as energy infrastructure or arctic policy.

Just short of 200 applicants were screened by the university last year and 10% of applicants screened were rejected for being potential spies. Unsurprisingly government media reports that students and academics at the university are in favour of the screenings but the paranoia is likely to have consequences for academic freedom and will have chilling effects for academics and complicate international academic exchange.

Oh wow first

As always, to our poster in chief 72T

'Free Palestine' Shouts US Soldier as He Immolates Himself

In December 2023, Rachel Corrie also blew herself up in protest against the genocide in Gaza.

On Sunday afternoon, an active-duty US soldier immolated himself in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest against the genocide in Palestine.

In a video posted on social media, 25-year-old soldier Aaron Bushnell is seen dousing himself with flammable liquid and setting himself on fire until engulfed in flames. While he performs this act that would lead to his death, the US soldier shouts "Free Palestine."

"I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonisers, it’s not extreme at all. Free Palestine!," he said in the video.

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now," Bushnell posted on X hours before immolating himself.

The Metropolitan Police of Washington responded immediately to the incident. The U.S. Air Force confirmed that a member of its ranks had been involved in the incident but did not provide further details.

The fire department and emergency services indicated that Bushnell was rushed to the hospital with "critical" injuries. The U.S. soldier died a few hours later.

In recent weeks, opposition to the Israeli offensive in Gaza has spread across the United States, where human rights activists demand an immediate ceasefire.

"This isn't the first incident of self immolation in the U.S. over the ongoing Gaza war. In December, a protester set herself on fire outside Atlanta’s Israeli Consulate," the Industan Times recalled, referring to Rachel Corrie, a peace activist who also chose self-sacrifice as an extreme form of protest.

"Many in the United States are angry over Biden administration's ‘insensitive stand’ with the nation vetoing a ceasefire resolution at United Nations Security Council on several occasions," it added.

Bolsonaro Fails again

A study by Torabit cited in Estado de S. Paulo shows 46.2% of all social media comments on Bolsonaro's anti-Supreme Court protest this morning were negative, 27.5% positive & 26.2% neutral. The Federal Police crippled Carlos Bolsonaro's social media "hate cabinet".

According to the conservative Estadão newspaper, Bolsonaro's anti-Supreme Court protest didn't make Brazil's top ten most popular google search queries today. The list was dominated by football teams, topped by Santos, who beat São Bernardo in the S.P. state championship

Bolsonaro shoots himself in the foot again. During his speech at the anti-Supreme Court protest in S. Paulo today, he admitted there was a written plan to coup the Lula govt, falsely claimed it was legal & demanded amnesty for jailed coup plotters - acknowledging their guilt.

180,000 is still a big crowd. How did it happen? There'll be 5568 mayoral elections on 10/06. Conservative candidates from across the S. and SE. paid for social media ads and brought thousands to SP via hundreds of charter buses.

Greater Sao Paulo packs 22 million people into an area half the size of Greater New York. Organizers clearly assumed that more locals would come out. Obviously many did, but they didn't come close to hitting he expected numbers.

3x lower than expected turnout, Bolsonaro incriminating himself by providing evidence for the Federal Police in the Jan. 8, 2023 coup attempt investigation, and underwhelming social media stats make this hard to call a success, regardless of how the inter. far right frames it.

Bolsonaro's anti-Supreme Court protest organizers said they expected a turnout of 700,00 yesterday. University of S. Paulo researchers using P2PNet methodology say the number was closer to 180,000. Conclusion: there was a failure of organic reach.

Seems like Bolsonarists are angry at the Police because the Police agrees that there only 180k people there.