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Not nearly long enough, but it's beautiful to see another one of these dipshits find out.

That's not why I posted this here, though:

The government will also probe the possibility of outlawing the political use of certain symbols, including the swastika as used by Nazi Germany as well as the hammer and sickle that appeared on the former Soviet Union flag.

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https://twitter.com/AmaliaMbt/status/1696739732489654387

looking tentatively like another Ibrahim Traore type situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36vYRkVYeVw&t=3m24s

3:24 of video explains the historical Gabon situation as a French colony, and the legacy of the Bongo family

Encourage your crabs to do some light stretching because I have a feeling they will be dancing soon

The Korea Military Academy said the move comes as part of its endeavor to “convey the value and significance of protecting liberal democracy and the South Korea-US alliance”

:rok-cool:

I know that these people are ontologically evil but a 9-0 vote is still a little mind-boggling.

Is this worse than Obama pretending to drink Flint's water?

Another African coup.

Appearing on television channel Gabon 24, the officers said they represented all security and defence forces in the Central African nation. They said the election results were cancelled, all borders closed until further notice and state institutions dissolved.

Tensions were running high amid fears of unrest after Saturday's presidential, parliamentary, and legislative vote, which saw Bongo seeking to extend his family's 56-year grip on power while the opposition pushed for change in the oil and cocoa-rich but poverty-stricken nation.

A lack of international observers, the suspension of some foreign broadcasts, and the authorities' decision to cut internet service and impose a night-time curfew nationwide after the poll had raised concerns about the transparency of the electoral process.

A group of senior military officers has gone on national television in Gabon saying they have seized power because elections held over the weekend were not credible.

The officers, appearing on Gabon 24 in the early hours of Wednesday morning, said they had cancelled the elections, dissolved all state institutions and closed the country’s borders.

They said they represented all security and defence forces of Gabon.

The announcement came shortly after the state election body said President Ali Bongo Ondimba had won a third term in office in Saturday’s disputed elections.

“In the name of the Gabonese people … we have decided to defend the peace by putting an end to the current regime,” the officers said.

The Gabonese Election Centre said Bongo had secured 64.27 percent of the vote compared with 30.77 percent for his main challenger Albert Ondo Ossa, after a process beset by delays.

Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi, reporting from Kenya, said that “there are lots of uncertainties” surrounding the military action.

“There is a lot of tension as well. They [military leaders] are claiming that the government has not been respecting the will of the Gabonese people for so many years and they say that has to change,” said Soi.

On Saturday, the opposition camp said the election was a “fraud orchestrated by Ali Bongo and his supporters” after the internet was cut and a curfew imposed. French media outlets France 24, RFI and TV5 Monde were also banned, accused of “a lack of objectivity and balance … in connection with the current general elections”, the government said.

“We also know that the internet is still shut down. It was shut down over the weekend and curfew was imposed,” Soi said. “So, people are very afraid.”

“It is very hard for people in Gabon to access the information that they need to know what is happening,” she added.

Bongo was the candidate for the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), the party founded by his father, Omar Bongo, who led Gabon from 1967 to 2009. After his death, his son, then the defence minister, took his place as president and has been in power ever since.

“We have no idea where President Bongo is. The military did not say where the president is. Things are moving very fast,” reported Soi.

Tensions had been running high amid Saturday’s vote with the opposition pushing for change and an end to the Bongo family’s dominance of Gabon.

on Thursday, Ukrainian forces "liberated" Robotyne, a village that had a population <500. according to Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, it took 10 brigades to take this village. thats anywhere from 20,000 to 35,000 soldiers needed to advance a small area of the front half a kilometer. to make matters worse for Ukraine, b points out that the positions taken by Ukrainian soldiers in Robotyne are troublesome. Ukrainian forces are about 300 feet lower than Russian forces. a considerable high ground makes Russian artillery more effective than Ukrainian artillery. it also makes any attempt by Ukraine to charge the line considerably more dangerous.

previously, b estimated that, due to the artillery superiority of Russia, Ukrainian casualties outweigh that of Russia by 10:1. this is made even worse by the substandard military medicine practiced by the Ukrainian forces. sometimes it takes 10 hours to transport Ukrainian soldiers from the front to a hospital. thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who were wounded are dying due to incompetence. their supplies are also of poor quality bc of corruption-- Volodymyr Prudnikov, the head of Ukraine’s Medical Forces Command’s procurement department payed his daughter-in-law's company 1.5 million british pounds for tactical medical kits; these kits, however, were much cheaper than promised and tourniquets from these kits have failed to hold pressure and have resulted in deaths.

while it takes several hours for Ukrainian medical evacuation, it takes Russian forces 10 minutes to apply first aid, and only an hour to reach field medical units.

this is truly a tragic conflict. it seems that the demons who rule NATO will prolong this war. on the bright side, NATO weapon stockpiles are being depleted and western manufacturing cant even begin to keep up with Russian manufacturing. Russia manufactures 2.5 million artillery shells a year, while the US produces 93,000. if the Pentagon meets its goal, the US will still only be producing 1 million shells per year by 2025

If I had a dollar for every "once in a lifetime" weather event that keeps happening in my lifetime I'd have enough money to build a guillotine and redact the very obvious capitalists that have ruined this earth.

After a lengthy legal battle at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Teamsters are celebrating a landmark victory with its decision in the case of Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC (28-CA-230115). The labor board ordered Cemex to bargain with the Teamsters in a precedent-setting move, thereby ruling that all employers will now be required to bargain with a union if, during an election for representation, the employer commits labor law violations egregious enough to compromise the legitimacy of the results.

“This landmark decision by the NLRB will be a catalyst for workers who are standing up and demanding their worth – not just at Cemex, but at every other employer in the country,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien.

“The way Cemex conducted itself when its workers sought to organize five years ago was on par with the way elections are undertaken in a tin-pot dictatorship,” said Chris Griswold, Teamsters International Vice President At-Large and President of Teamsters Joint Council 42. “This company fired union supporters, intimidated them, harassed them, and broke nearly every other rule under the sun. If any good came out of this company’s scorched-earth thuggery, it’s that now employers will think twice before they break the law to break the union.”

The decision, which also allows the NLRB to implement bargaining orders in other situations where the employer’s actions impede the ability to hold a fair election, means that the board will now issue bargaining orders in lieu of re-running elections as a remedy for unlawful union-busting when the union already established majority support. It comes only a day after the NLRB announced a pro-labor regulation, one that ended frivolous procedural hurdles that lead to delay in holding union elections.