Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.
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Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.
Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world... was our own?
Happy Halloween!
Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Lebanon! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
This week's first update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
Graphic footage.
https://streamable.com/bopvf7
Drone attack on invading Israelis. They get mega owned.
What Mark failed to consider is that he could have simply not been blown up by a drone had he simply not joined the IOF
they're conscripted and will get a jail sentence for not being there.
Just be like that Taylor Swift fan account lady and go to jail instead.
Then they should go to fucking jail
they should stop living in a settler colonial state, it's just crazy that they cry about living in a dangerous place when they all run to the closest airport the moment a bullet gets shot.
Exactly, it's not like the Zionists have been quiet about what they've been doing there for decades. Anyone who moves there is either perfectly aware of what's going on or willfully ignorant
once again, my speech issues make me seem like a nazi apologist, no I am not defending them and saying they have no choice, just clarifying that they're conscripts, the situation is like someone being given a gun and told to shoot a baby or be hit with a stick, and instead of walking away, being hit with the stick or shooting the guy holding the stick, they shoot the baby and cry "Oh I was forced to shoot the baby woops"
I can practically hear the drone operator screaming "left! to the left!" as it fell
Doing that bowling thing where you tilt your head the way you want it to go
too bad there wasn't a second grenade to try to pick up the spare
I suppose those three that were closest were in the 5m kill zone of a grenade and the rest were within the shrapnel casualty zone. I'm surprised there isn't a ton more of this since the IOF folks seem super susceptible to it judging from other footage (and really most groups anywhere are until everything becomes tunnel warfare).
It looked like the top one rolled away
2 of them bumped into each other lol
“It’s landed juuuust short of the green there.”
copium
Didn't we learn from the war in Ukraine? Terrorists of the Nazi terrorist organization Hamas threw a grenade using a drone (which, of course, also recorded the event), Towards a gathering point of our warriors, the warriors stayed At a point secured by earthen fences, in a cleared area from terrorists, when suddenly a drone appeared from the air, He threw a grenade, and only during the explosion did the fighters understand that something happened, events of a similar kind happened en masse In the war in Ukraine, while there was enough time Think and plan how to deal with the seeming threat Because we didn't learn from the bloody scene in Ukraine. Marin
Calling your troops "warriors" is very chud, but also translation
How the diable you know they're IOF?