Here's the breakdown in plain terms:


## Who's fighting whom


Yemen has been split in two since 2014:


- **The Houthis** (also called "Ansar Allah") — a Zaydi Shia rebel group from northern Yemen. They seized the capital Sanaa in 2014 and control most of the north and west. They just captured the Red Sea coastline, including the critical **Bab al-Mandeb Strait** (the chokepoint between the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, through which a huge share of global shipping passes).


- **The Yemeni Government** (the "Presidential Leadership Council" or PLC), led by **Rashad al-Alimi** — the internationally recognized government, based in the south. The "general mobilization" is *him* calling on Yemenis to join his forces to fight the Houthis. He's offering amnesty to Houthi fighters who defect.


## Who's paying and backing each side


| Side | Backed by | What they get |
|------|-----------|---------------|
| **Houthis** | **Iran** (primary), plus reported support from Russia and China | Weapons, ballistic missiles, drone technology, military training (via Hezbollah and the IRGC), **free oil shipments**, funding through exchange networks in Yemen, Turkey, and the Caribbean |
| **Yemeni Government (PLC)** | **Saudi Arabia** (primary), plus the US and UK | Military funding, air support, intelligence, political recognition at the UN |


So this is fundamentally an **Iran vs. Saudi Arabia proxy war**, with the US/UK on the Saudi side. The Houthis also attack Israeli and Western shipping, which ties them to the broader US-Iran conflict that started in February 2026.


## Where the Houthis came from


They emerged in the 1990s in Yemen's northern Saada province, from Yemen's **Zaydi Shia minority** (a different branch of Shia Islam than Iran's Twelver Shia, but Iran still backs them ideologically). They fought six wars against Yemen's government starting in 2004, then seized Sanaa in 2014 when the government was weakened by a popular uprising.


## Why @BRICSNews posted it


This is the tricky part. **BRICS** is a bloc of 11+ countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Ethiopia, etc.) that positions itself as an alternative to the Western-led order. But on Yemen, **BRICS is split down the middle**:


- **Iran, Russia, China** → support the Houthis
- **Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt** → oppose the Houthis


At the BRICS summit in New Delhi in September 2026 (held at the *exact moment* the Houthis were seizing the Red Sea coast), the final declaration **deliberately omitted any mention of Yemen, the Houthis, or the Red Sea**. The only thing they agreed on was a vague call for "maximum restraint."


So when @BRICSNews posts this, it's not a unified "BRICS position" — it's likely a member state (probably Iran or Russia) using the BRICS account to frame the story in their favour: that the Yemeni government is the aggressor and the Houthis are the legitimate defenders. It's **propaganda framing**, not a consensus statement.


## In one sentence for a Canadian


A Saudi-backed government in southern Yemen is calling up its citizens to fight an Iran-backed rebel group that just seized the country's Red Sea coast — and a media account associated with a bloc of countries that contains *both* sides of the conflict is posting it as if it's a unified position.

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Carney's latest ad campaign full of 'contradiction,' says Rod Giltaca!
'Here’s a guy who is absolutely obsessed with all things green and sustainable, and now… he would rather ship goods across 6,000 miles of ocean than drive them 15 minutes via truck across the border,' said Giltaca on yesterday's Rebel Roundtable livestream.
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Maryland police overwhelmed by volunteers to smoke weed for impairment exercise!
On October 14, the Ocean City Police Department posted an announcement that they were looking for volunteers to help their officers with an impairment training event.
All the volunteers would have to do is smoke some cannabis, so the officers could become familiar with the signs of someone who was high.
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As SailGP’s foiling catamarans skim oceans at electrifying speeds, another race unfolds far from the spotlight. It is the complex movement of boats, equipment, and infrastructure across continents, orchestrated with clockwork precision to keep the global sailing league on schedule.

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The German-based logistics provider Rhenus Group has announced a US$20 million investment to expand its operations in the Philippines, underlining the country’s growing role in Asia-Pacific supply chains.

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The newest leftwing conspiracy is that Trump is throwing migrants off planes into the ocean. For real. via @Not_the_Bee
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Well worth the read here if you want to know how screwed up the minds of greenies are:

Climate Physicist, Anastassia Makarieva, co-originator of the Biotic Pump Model: Forests, Water, and Climate: Time for Re-Conceptualization

Forests capture a certain part of solar energy at the surface in the form of what is called latent heat. This latent heat is then released during condensation higher in the troposphere from where it later goes unimpeded to space.
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Thus by transpiration forests smooth the temperature lapse rate and thus cause cooling. If we reduce transpiration, then more heat remains at the surface, the temperature lapse rate becomes steeper, and we have warming.
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Both effects (of transpiration and clouds) will be global and both effects will involve how forests handle water.

Now let me show that both effects are very real and significant.
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First, if we are looking at clouds, we have evidence that the record heat in 2023 could have been facilitated by a biospheric breakdown, because we know that in this year the Amazon suffered an unprecedented drought and there were unprecedented forest fires in Canada. In both cases, transpiration and cloud formation were drastically reduced.

We can see that cloud cover was reduced over the Amazon and the adjacent oceanic regions. There is an additional hotspot of cloud reduction over Canada.
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This is backed up by our knowledge of how efficient forests are in generating low level clouds that cool the earth. We can see that the the more productive forests are, the more efficient they are in generating clouds. While when we change them for non-forest systems the generation of cloud cover is drastically reduced.

If we saw this 2023 anomaly after a drought in the Amazon forest that was mercilessly plundered, especially during the Bolsonaro times with increasing logging and burning, then now if we have this large-scale deforestation project in Indonesia (MIFEE), we are explicitly asking for more acute global warming.
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Ironically, these terrible developments are facilitated by the carbon-focused narrative. Much of the argumentation behind this huge deforestation project in Indonesia is that they will have green fuel, like a renewable fuel, but instead this will actually destabilize our planet even further.​

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Not if, but when . . .

The US Ran A Solar Storm Emergency Drill And It Suggested The Real Thing Would Be Catastrophic

It's a matter of time before a major geomagnetic storm hits planet Earth again. And we ain't ready for it.
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The findings come from the Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) task force involving researchers from NASA, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
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The drill, performed in May 2024, set up several hypothetical scenarios to understand how the world would respond to the threat of an impending space weather event in January 2028.​

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