1000s of Mongolians are holding a demonstration in #Ulaanbaatar for the 3rd day in a row over reports that 6.5 million tonnes of coal worth $1.8 billion have been stolen;
#Mongolia’s auth. ve requested China to join the investigation of the matter, as people's anger rises.
Beijing has allegedly executed Chinese officials involved in the theft of Mongolian coal, which triggered protests in the capital of #Ulaanbaatar;
China allegedly received less coal from Mongolia than the volumes that were exported from the country.
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Soviet KGB was more concerned about the psy-op warfare against the American govt through ideological subversion rather than espionage activities, which constituted only 15% of their work;
How many cycles India had gone through?😇
Fmr Soviet KGB informant Yuri Bezmenov:
4 methods to alter the mindset & behaviour of ppl in foreign countries.
Demoralisation(15-20 yrs): Exposure to true info doesn't matter anymore. Person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. Facts tell nothing to him.
Destabilisation(2-5 yrs): Altering the nation’s foreign relations, economy, and defence systems.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a package of laws banning propaganda of LGBTQ+, pedophilia and gender reassignment in advertising, media, books, movies and audiovisual services.
Russia' new package of laws applies to content in movies, books, commercials, media publications and computer games.
Fines:
- up to $12,700 for citizens and up to $159,400 for entities that may encourage paedophilia;
Ministry of Mines estimates Mali has 800 tons of gold deposits, two million tons of iron ore, five thousand tons of uranium, 20 million tons of manganese, four million tons of lithium, and ten million tons of limestone.
Congo has the world's largest cobalt reserves at 3.6 million tons. DR Congo produces 70% of the world's Cobalt which is essential for electric batteries.
Nearly all cobalt in the country is sourced from copper deposits.
Congo is the first in Africa and 3rd in the world - in terms of copper production, at 1.8 million tons/year;
Some of the highest-grade copper deposits in the world are situated there.
It has the largest deposits of diamonds, gold, and large reserves of lithium,
Did you know the Germans mounted a full-automatic 75mm Anti-Tank Gun on an airplane during WW II?
Henschel Hs 129 was a ground attack aircraft, and towards the end of the war, the B-3 variant mounted a Bordkanone 75mm anti-tank gun for use against tanks;
Rheinmetall developed PaK 40 anti-tank gun, it featured a new, hydraulic recoil-dampening system & more aerodynamic muzzle brake;
Autoloader system, with 12 rounds in a rotary magazine, was fitted in the empty space behind the cockpit, within the rear half of the wing root area;
The gun and its recoil mechanism occupied a substantial gun pod under the fuselage, and a circular port at the rear of the pod allowed rearwards ejection of spent cartridges immediately after firing;
#IRGC and Ministry of Intelligence have released a joint statement- containing explicit details of American and other foreign alleged intervention in recent riots/Protest;
#French nationals, Cecile Kohler, 37, and her husband Jacques Paris, 69 alleged #DGSE assets were arrested on the charges of instigating dissent and creating, organizing and coordinating channels to provoke unionists into violent expansion of their activities;
According to Iran, both were in the cover of French teachers' union officials; Cecile Kohler and her partner, Jacques Paris, were arrested in early May in #Tehran reportedly while on vacation;