161
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.


holding flashlight under face

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.

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


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.


(page 11) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Al-Houthi: We say to the Saudi regime:

If you head to those areas in occupied #Palestine to fight the entity, you will not need to repeat the same thing in #Yemen, and we are ready to hand over Sana’a to you so that you can live with us. There will be no harm between us and you when the compass points in the right direction of hostility to the usurping entity.

Is this significant? I'm not that familiar with regional issues and conflicts between these two.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

🇾🇪 Member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi to RT:

::: spoiler The entire Yemeni people are engaged in the confrontation against the usurping entity, not just Ansarallah. The operations of the Yemeni armed forces against the usurping entity will continue if it persists in killing the people of Gaza and besieging them.

We are directing all our weapons to confront this arrogant aggression that believes in no one, accepts no one, and cannot give anyone anything.

Our armed forces have a complete preparation specifically for Palestine and confronting the Jews, and the weapons we use can reach the usurping enemy entity, whether they are ballistic missiles or drones.

We are in complete and ongoing coordination within the framework of the Axis of Jihad and Resistance, and there is an ongoing room for coordination and setting targets.

We call on Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and all Arab regimes to mobilize their armies as they are not less efficient or capable than us, and there is no excuse for them not to participate in the defense of the people of Palestine.

We call on Russian President Putin to play a contributing role, as the battle is one and the same, and he said that he is fighting in Ukraine against those who stand with the usurping entity in Gaza.

We cannot reveal all our cards, but all options are on the table and are subject to assessment by the operational side of the Ministry of Defense.

We have no concern about the arrival of American aircraft carriers in the Red Sea, as they are within the range of our missiles, and they do not offer more than what is already present with the countries of the aggression coalition against our country.

We salute the fighting brothers in Gaza and say to them continue, and we are with you, and the Arab peoples and everyone are with you.

America has spent its entire history, nearly 280 years, launching and waging continuous wars with the exception of 18 years. America is the one seeking to expand the war, not us, for it is the one that incites wars and continuously works on killing and exterminating peoples and uses the killing of civilians as a weapon for victory.

The Americans are the terrorists, whereas we have the right to defend our homelands, to free ourselves from the American grip, and to exercise full independence over all our territories.

We as Arabs, must constantly move as the Africans did this year, who rose up against the French and the colonizers.

Gaza has demolished what remained of American claims about preserving human rights. They cannot be guardians of international law as they are its violators.

We call on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to direct its weapons, planes, armies, and mercenaries to defend Palestine and the sons of Gaza. We say to the Saudi regime: If you head to those areas in occupied Palestine to fight the entity, you will not need to repeat the cycle in Yemen, and we are ready to hand over Sanaa to you to live with us there, as there will be no harm between us when the compass points in the right direction of enmity towards the occupying entity. Let King Salman bin Abdulaziz, his Crown Prince, and the Minister of Defense come forward to wage war in Palestine against the entity, for it would be an honor for them that removes the disgrace they incurred from their aggression against Yemen

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Israel will deduct funds earmarked for Gaza from Palestinian Authority tax transfers

The Israeli government’s security cabinet made the decision “to deduct all funds designated for the Gaza Strip” from the tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.

“Israel is severing all contact with Gaza,” the government said in a statement.

The transfers have come under renewed scrutiny after far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich this week announced he would not release the funds, accusing the PA of supporting the Hamas attack on October 7.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said yesterday that the transfers should continue, however, in an effort to help “stabilise” the situation in the occupied West Bank, where attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have increased amid the Gaza war.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In other news, doohickey(2) explainer just dropped
https://streamable.com/8b2bv3

Yassin-105 tandem shell (fired out of RPG) https://streamable.com/cq9wq6

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trolley problem Palestine / Israel makes every single discord chat immediately interesting no matter whether they're communists, liberals, chuds, zionists or any mixture of the above.

Incredible troll power.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

NOW: Israel carrying out very intensive shelling of South Lebanon

[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Map GOAT Rybar reports a major Russian breakthrough on southwestern flank of Avdiivka, with the longest Ukrainian line of trenches allegedly falling.

This could be fatal for the defending Ukrainian forces, as Russian forces are now pretty much 1km away from the fortified Khimik suburb, and 1km away from the line of small villages that are vital for the Ukrainian supply line here. If Russians start storming these villages and the coke plant north of Avdiivka falls, then the city is effectively under siege.

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 1 year ago
load more comments (7 replies)
[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 1 year ago
load more comments (3 replies)
[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Protestors are shutting down Piccadilly Station in Manchester, continuing their protest from St Peter's Square (Twitter)

[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lmao, I’d suspected this was the case now after all the things of the last month, but it turns out that Genocide Joe’s favorability has been behind Trump’s for the same stage of his presidency for about 6 months: https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Comparison_of_opinion_polling_during_the_Trump_and_Biden_administrations

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 1 year ago
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Deuteronomy 4:27

Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you'll be fewer in number in the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

Zionist freak: Hey, let's do that but to the Gazans instead: https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1720793281678786928

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
load more comments (10 replies)
[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How much more menacing military stuff is Biden going put over there?

US nuclear-powered submarine arrives in Middle East, US military says

A nuclear-powered Ohio-class submarine has arrived in the Middle East, US Central Command has said.

On Saturday, the US had said that a strike group including the flagship aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as well as a guided missile cruiser and guided missile destroyers had also arrived in the region “as part of the increase in regional posture”.

The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier arrived in the region last month.

Washington has said the presence of the aircraft carriers in the region is meant to deter any other actors from escalating the conflict.

- The Guardian

load more comments (16 replies)
[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

The "genociding soldier crying about all the crimes against humanity they had to do" is apparently such a fixture in Israeli society that there's even an English Wikipedia article about it lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_and_crying

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 year ago

A new shadowy group has apparently emerged, calling itself the "Sons of Abu Jandal".

In the statement below released an hour ago, they claim to be members of the PA security apparatus in the West Bank, and have given Mahmoud Abbas an ultimatum of 24 hours to declare an "open confrontation" with the Israeli occupation, or else they will commit mutiny.

long translastion of their statement hereBelow is an English translation of the above statement:

"In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

The Almighty declares: "Fight them; Allah will chastise them through your actions, dishonor them, support you against them, and heal the hearts of the believing people."

Statement Number 1

Dear sons of our heroic nation, dear sons of sacrifice and dedication,

In the face of the occupation's brutal acts in the Gaza Strip, we have no time for lengthy speeches. There's no room for extensive words when blood is being shed in Gaza, and no time for rhetoric when our children and women are being killed there. We can't afford to waste words as our youth are being lost in the West Bank.

We've endured the occupation's crimes for far too long. We've remained silent, coping with our limited means. We've abided by orders and directives while witnessing the heartbreaking scenes of children and women's suffering every day.

Today, we express ourselves concisely, speaking from the heart and with deep sorrow. We are the sons of this people, the sons of our security agencies, the sons of Fatah, and our loyalty and history are beyond doubt. Above all, we are the children of Palestine, a land bleeding from every vein.

Today, we declare that the Palestinian leadership holds a historical responsibility to announce a direct confrontation with the criminal occupation. If, within 24 hours, our brother Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) does not issue a clear statement, declaring an open confrontation with the occupation by any means necessary and disavowing the criminal statements made by Blinken, then no one should expect our obedience, no directives will be followed, and loyalty to any agency will cease to exist.

Starting tomorrow at this very moment, we, dozens of members of the security forces, will declare ourselves in open defiance of orders and identify ourselves by name. No one should doubt our resolve or commitment unless our brother Abu Mazen issues a clear decision.

Freedom for Palestine is within reach, and victory is but moments away.

Sons of the leader Abu Jandal, sons of Fatah, sons of the security forces. Sunday, November 5, 2023." I hope they scare Abbas into not being a coward, or he gets got if he remains one.

https://twitter.com/aldanmarki/status/1721185432312930649
https://nitter.net/aldanmarki/status/1721185432312930649

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 year ago

Hamas Official Osama Hamdan: "We are proud of the support provided by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon and we salute our brothers in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and in Yemen."

https://t.me/maymun5/57742

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Are we gonna see Patrick Lancaster in the Hamas tunnels in a week or two?

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

KJU called Joe Biden a "rabid dog" and he needs to be beaten to death with a stick. Can we include isn'treal with that beating?

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] edge@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

So when I’m confident that when it’s all said and done, we’re going to stand together, Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever.

Hakeem Jeffries in 2014 echoing George Wallace. How does he say that without having a moment of introspection?

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

New York Times: The United States is trying to convince Israel to temporarily stop the war in Gaza

Maybe. I am not entirely sure I even believe this anymore though.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An entire fucking week of hype videos for "all options are available but we're not actually gonna do anything lol".

load more comments (6 replies)
[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

soypoint-1:nasrallah:soypoint-2

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Israeli tanks ‘pushing towards’ Gaza city’s downtown area

Safwat Kahlout reporting from central Gaza

Israel is … pushing tanks towards the downtown, specifically towards the al-Shifa hospital which is located in the heart of Gaza city.

From the southern part of Gaza city, the Israeli tanks already stationed at Salahuldin main road, and they are advancing or pushing towards the coastal road known as Rashid street – so, they are controlling the two main roads that link Gaza city with the rest of the Gaza strip.

We learned from witnesses who managed to flee or to escape from Gaza city towards the south, that thousands of people from the north of Gaza city itself now are heading towards al-Shifa hospital, seeking shelter.

Heavy exchange of fire is taking place between fighting groups and the Israeli tanks that are trying to push forward inside the downtown.

-Al Jazeera

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

I didn't know France sent a first helicopter.

France to send second helicopter carrier to Gaza coastline as part of aid effort

France’s defence minister said the move comes as part of its worth with the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to find a way to provide medical assistance to the people of Gaza.

France deployed a helicopter carrier to the area last week.

Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu also told the France Info radio station that messages had been sent to Hezbollah and Israel, urging them not to do anything that would make it impossible for the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon to carry out its mandate.

-Al Jazeera

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
161 points (100.0% liked)

news

23640 readers
550 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS