Update on Cuba’s Energy Crisis:

According to official information, the restoration process of electrical system has already begun in western Cuba CTE Santa Cruz has started up and work is being done to link CTE Mariel Energás is in service and a load level is being served in Havana and Mayabeque.

In the Central zone the microsystem remains stable. CTE Guiteras is in the process of starting up. CTE Nuevitas is in the process of starting up, feeding off the Camagüey microsystem. CTE Felton and CTE Renté are further behind due to problems in the 110KV busbar at Renté.

CTE de Cienfuegos is unavailable due to a breakdown. 370 MW served in the country. There are microsystems in almost the entire country, except Artemisa. Unlike other outages, explained Lazaro Guerra, there was now less availability of fuel. This situation will gradually recover.

RIP Yahya Sinwar. Palestine will be free

Cuba Intensifies Efforts to Restore the National Electric System Through the Energás Plant - Telesur English

The Harris campaign has released a 5 point agenda to “Create Opportunity for Black Men”, that, on the surface, appears to be an attempt to steady what I am sure are cratering polls, and cynically, seems to have been created so they have something to point to and blame black men for not supporting her if and when she loses. Among the highlights: legal weed and “protecting cryptocurrency” lmao

If this were a Trump platform, the liberal media would be screaming about him a racist for thinking what’s most important to black men is crypto and weed.

This is too bleak. I need to look away for a bit.

During a press conference, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O, estimated that between Monday and Tuesday, the electric system will be re-established. Over 160,000 users in Havana have access to power, according to the Minister of Energy.

Seems like most of the island power plants are online, but only the more central ones are producing energy, the eastern and western plants are only starting up. We will see, but most hospitals, hotels/resorts and goverment buildings use generators. If Joe Biden (and democrats in general) actually cared about the people in Cuba, they would have given aid to Cuba and continue the Cuban Thraw Policies that Obama started (Obama was so well received in Cuba that he literally appeared in Cuban TV and some TV Shows as a special guest).

But no, Biden will continue to pressure Cuba and Venezuela, and continue to give support to Gusanos, people that not only doesn’t vote democrat, but are openly strong supporters of Republicans. Meanwhile, they throw Haitians, Mexicans, Central Americans and South Americans in prison camps to appeal for people that will never vote for them.

Since it’s been one year on since the Gaza War started, I decided to look at some defense stocks to see how profitable the genocide machine has actually been. Overall, it seems pretty profitable for the companies with relevant weapons and supplies for the war at this stage, but if I was a vampire capitalist and just threw my money into defense as soon as I thought war demand was coming I’d be pretty disappointed at the outcome so far. One year in NVIDIA outperforms all of them by a ton, and the S&P 500 keeps pace in the middle of the pack.

• Raytheon (+70.05% 1 YR) is the best performer by far. It makes sense since the Iron Dome missiles are made by them. They are making a whole new facility in Arkansas for the purpose of making more of these things that won’t be online until 2025, apparently. Whose to say whether the entity known as Israel will even last that long but hey, that just means money in Raytheon’s pockets.

• Caterpillar (+47.03% 1 YR) a construction company that makes bulldozers for the IOF, so it’s part of the genocide machine obvs. Recently they’ve been downgraded by Morgan Stanley so we’ll see if this keeps up.

• L3Harris Technologies (+39.97% 1 YR) military helicopters and aircraft electronics. Great year for them, Oct 7 represents the bottom of a 2 year losing streak for them.

• Lockheed Martin (+38.14% 1 YR) has a sudden jolt right around the time the US authorized the production of more F-35s. It also happens to be the week where Netanyahu visited the US Congress. Below I have a photo of other companies that have a little jolt around that time as well.

• General Dynamics (+23.92% 1 YR) naval and communications. The stock seems to have been doing well before Oct 7 though so IDK.

And some losers…

• Boeing (-19.49% 1 YR) you know why. But you could have sold when the news was still breaking and done well for yourself.

• Elbit Systems (-0.56% 1 YR) they make drones and they made the Gaza wall defense towers that got owned on Oct 7. Israel doesn’t care for defending its citizens right now because genocide but they seem to be pivoting towards the genocide business judging by the swing towards profitability recently.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva falls in the bathroom of the presidential palace and is taken to the Syrian Lebanese Hospital. The President of the Republic hit his head and, on medical advice, canceled his trip to Russia for the BRICS summit.

Lula’s doctor says the president had head trauma, “but everything is fine”. In an interview with CNN, Dr. Roberto Kalil said that CT and MRI scans had been carried out, which showed a small amount of bleeding in the front of Lula’s head. He will be under observation for the next few days.

Lula was treated at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital with a cut on the back of his head; doctors recommend avoiding long trips, but he can keep to his normal schedule. Foreign Minister to lead Brazilian delegation to Russia during BRICS summit Mauro Vieira, who was already going to be part of the delegation, was appointed to head it after Lula canceled his trip to Kazan.

I have seen some people saying this was probably an excuse, so Lula wouldn’t have to meet with Putin and anger too much the US. But anyway, I am glad Lula is doing alright.

re: twitch banning israel

Twitch must have a (corporate) good reason for the ban. They almost certainly didn’t do it out of a moral responsibility. (prove me wrong twitch, i dare you)

I think it’s likely because they’ve recognized a significant algorithm abuse (bot/shill) campaign, which could constitute as fraud or laundering due to the monetized nature of the platform. Spotify has had a lot of issues over the years which you can read about. If there was a campaign and a large part of it was coming from a specific subset of IPs, it would be a crude but potentially effective strategy to just pull the plug on them.

It sounds like existing users are still allowed, though, which pretty clearly indicates that they wanted to recognize a legitimate pre-existing israeli userbase (and which will likely prevent major retention loss after a few months of protests).

If that’s the case it’s kind of funny blowback. But I worry about what it means if a bot/shill campaign reached twitch’s threshold for concern right now. Psyops tend to shortly precede physical ops, and if I’m not mistaken the whole world is waiting for Israel’s next move.

edit: some people are saying this policy has been around for several months now so take that into consideration with my last paragraph

I take it back! I take it all back.

u/sewer_rat_420 reports that the policy has been active since 10/7/23. Like many others, I saw the big reaction and believed the comments saying it was new. Because that would make sense, right? Too much sense apparently. This is a clown world after all.

I’m filing this one under “lessons learned.” Sorry for propagating misinfo.

And since I totally, definitely learned my lesson, here is a source for it being an old policy and more details about it: https://xcancel.com/TwitchSupport/status/1848191418377830708

Apparently nyc dsa are going through it again

I think this image is from the video taken by our very own @[email protected] which I uploaded to my youtube account just moments after it was taken https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_tjxR1LC58U

Lokomotiv just can’t be stopped

Lokomotiv soundly beat Kunlun Red Star 5-1, they were like a runaway freight train scoring twice in the first, twice more in the second, and a final goal in the third! Red Star managed a goal towards the end of the second but they just weren’t able to compete with the momentum Lokomotiv had!

Lokomotiv next plays Barys Astana on Saturday, October 19 at 5pm Moscow Standard Time

УРА ЛОКОМОТИВ

Israel is considering establishing a base in the unrecognized Somaliland. - Jerusalem Post

I think Israel used to support Eritrea to attack Yemen, but it seems Eritreia broke their relations with Israel recently.

Apparently the IOF cut off Sinwar’s index finger, ostensibly “to check his identity”. There’s a video, but I’m not gonna link it.

First off, isn’t that considered desecration of a corpse and therefore a war crime?

Second, isn’t that also kind of a religious hate crime? Raising the index finger has significance in Islam, no? (I am not Muslim, please fact check me)

Wes Streeting has called to force people on the dole to take Ozempic.

This is what happens I suppose when you put someone who believes the NHS is a cult in charge of healthcare.

Mr ban puberty blockers, who once compared their usage to medical experimentation, now wants to carry out unethical medical experimentation on the unemployed.