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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!


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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.


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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.


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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

~3m ago

They're going to bomb the hospital. It's just a matter of time.

Palestinian Red Cross Society says as heavy artillery and airstrikes hit near Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza

The Al-Quds hospital trembled following heavy “artillery and airstrikes" in the surrounding Tal Al Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, the Palestinian Red Cross Society said early Tuesday morning local time.

Those sheltering inside the hospital are “experiencing fear and panic,” the Palestinian Red Cross Society said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Some 12,000 internally displaced civilians are sheltering at the hospital, group said on Sunday.

The Israeli military did not have an immediate comment on reports of activity in the area.

The Al-Quds hospital is located north of Wadi Gaza — the line south of which Israel has urged people in Gaza to flee.

In central Gaza, journalist Hassan Eslayeh told CNN that artillery fire in the area was consistent all day and night Monday.

He witnessed the injured and dead being brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, including 31 bodies at the morgue tent that were being prepared for a morning prayer on the dead.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-30-23/h_724a9ff6db1e5659a4c80ba90e41d522

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Can't stop watching the video of the guy running up to that tank. Legit one of the most insane things I've ever seen.

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Those hostage posters are legit bait to get people to rip them down and film them doing so

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[-] newmou@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Kinda surprised I haven’t seen any crazy shit from Kanye West during all this

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[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nasrallah: we will not declare war against Israel until millionare socialist hasan piker says on stream that "Hezbollah will never attack israel again"

[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

If my boy's speech doesn't finish with 10000 rockets being launched at Haifa I don't want to hear it

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

— 🇷🇺/🇱🇧 Wall Street Journal: 'According to U.S. intelligence, the Wagner group may try to transfer advanced air defense systems to Hezbollah'

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brazil's Workers Party (Lula's Party) slams Israel for holding Brazilians in Gaza

BRASILIA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's ruling Workers Party criticized the Israeli government on Friday for not allowing 34 Brazilians to leave Gaza, saying Israel is playing favorites when deciding who should be allowed to evacuate the besieged Palestinian territory.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told his Brazilian counterpart Brazil's nationals would leave Gaza by Wednesday, a Brazilian foreign ministry spokesman said late on Friday.

In three days since the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened to allow nationals of other countries to leave Gaza, Brazilians waiting to leave were not on the list approved by Israel, despite diplomatic efforts to include them.

"For the third time, the Israeli government denied the departure of Brazilian citizens threatened by the massacre against the civilian population in the Gaza strip," Workers Party president Gleisi Hoffmann said in a social media post.

She said the Israeli government has not provided any explanation for what she said was discrimination. Brazil tried to find a negotiated solution to the conflict when it presided over the U.N. Security Council in October, Hoffmann said.

"Unfortunately, the Israeli government signals that it has established a political hierarchy for the release of civilians, favoring some countries over others," Hoffmann said.

"We cannot allow that Brazilian civilians remain threatened in a region under military massacre," she added.

Hundreds of foreign passport holders and gravely injured Palestinians have been evacuated from Gaza via the Rafah crossing to Egypt since Wednesday in a deal brokered by Qatar between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the U.S.

Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, after the militant group killed 1,400 people and took more than 240 hostages in an Oct. 7 assault in southern Israel. Gaza health officials said on Saturday that more than 9,488 Palestinians have been killed so far in the Israeli assault.

A diplomatic source briefed on Egyptian plans said some 7,500 foreign passport holders would be evacuated over two weeks.

Brazilian officials said they have no explanation for the failure to let their citizens out of Gaza. Some local media have speculated it is due to positions taken by Brazil at the United Nations and comments by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Lula has criticized the "terrorism" of Hamas that started the war, but he has also criticized Israel for its "insane" bombardment of Gaza that has killed hundreds of children.

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[-] Trustmeitsnotabailou@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Looks like Israel has realized that having blonde light skinned bimbofied idf girls be their poster child is a bad look on social media

Been seeing an up tik is more middle Eastern looking idf girls pushing propaganda the past day or two.

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 year ago

Hazbullah sends a "Burkan" (Vulcan) rocket against the IDF tower

video: https://streamable.com/ifo3ns

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Central street of Kiryat Shemona, Israeli settlement on the Lebanese border.

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[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

if you told me a few years ago that i'd be setting alarms for a hezbollah speech...

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

So is the USA doing the Toy Story "I don't want to play with you anymore" meme to Ukraine or we still in that?

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[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

British establishment strongly condemns calls for armistice on Armistice Day

[-] Yeat@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

i took trigonometry in high school but it was during covid so i didn’t learn shit but i’m taking it again in college and it’s blowing my mind how connected math is to everything, specifically music with how the graph of something like y=cos(theta) is a sine wave. and that’s something i can hear! i’ve listened to songs today with sine wave synths in them! and all that shit comes from shapes and triangles!!!!

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

My Mom told me she completely gets why Hamas did what they did, but she can't help but think the hostage taking backfired because it seems Israel is willing to kill them.

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[-] Flaps@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Professional opnionhavers have the worst fuckin opinions. Look at Friedman, the dumb fuck. I have way better opinions than the entire editorial board of the NYT and spread them for free in a bar at three in the morning to anyone who will listen

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

doing that thing I do where I drink and watch hamas videos, then when I'm pretty drunk start watching videos about how to say the shahada because hamas videos are so hype shrug-outta-hecks

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

US Secretary of State returns to Israel on Friday

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Friday, the US State Department says. He will be meeting members of the Israeli government and will also make other stops in the region. It is unclear if Blinken will meet with any Palestinian officials on the trip. This will be Blinken's second trip to the Middle East in the past three weeks.

- BBC

This shuttle diplomacy is a kind of pantomime of action. Biden's administration PR is going to amp up their messaging that they "pressing" the Israelis to protect the lives of civilians. But Israel will keep killing anyway.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US special envoy David Satterfield said on Saturday that between 800,000 and 1 million people have moved to the south of the Gaza Strip, while 350,000-400,000 remain in the north of the enclave.

- Guardian

It's amazing that some people look at the reality and they don't see it as ethnic cleansing.

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

I’ve been going on Reddit and arguing with people today … Somebody help me. Make me stop

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 year ago

https://nitter.cz/ytirawi/status/1720147647846109493

Hamas member walks slowly, places a mine on a tank, blows it up, then goes back to safety

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

https://streamable.com/o4weo5

Hamas released video of some Israeli captives with a message for Netanyahu

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

altThe DJ Khaled “ANOTHER ONE” meme edited so there’s an otter with a Hamas headband holding up an otter finger instead of DJ Khaled.

In the background there’s a couple headlines describing otter attacks, an old “MEN” magazine cover showing an illustrated otter in Chinese emperor ceremonial headdress attacking a guy in a tent, a jdpon symbol with an otter that says “OTTER JDPON” with the Shahada, and a picture of the otter that was stealing surf boats a few months ago.

The text in front says “ANOTHER ONE”.

by slammer on blueskkky bird-mad

context: ‘They wanted to kill me’: Vicious otter attack left Northern California man with 40 bite wounds

Protracted otter's war against Amerikkka SSurfers

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Turkish President Recep Erdogan on Saturday announced his refusal to further communicate with the head of the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu.

“We will no longer be able to talk with Netanyahu. We have crossed him out,” the inter-Arab TV channel al-Arabiya quotes Erdogan as saying. Turkey will no longer have any confidence in the global system unless Israel ends and is held accountable for what Erdogan called "war crimes and human rights violations," he said.

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 year ago

Google is now even more censored

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[-] gabaghoul@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I see another Zionist mention babies one more time, I might just lose my shit.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Fuck the US media.

A rando military guy was on CNN and I didn't know who he was so I scanned his Wikipedia for about 60 seconds.

Mark Kimmitt

Controversy

In the aftermath of the Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre [in 2004], Kimmitt claimed, "There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration. There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too."

However video footage obtained by the Associated Press seems to contradict this view. The video shows a series of scenes of a wedding celebration, and footage from the following day showing fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around a destroyed tent.

[...]

Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt (born 21 June 1954) is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, serving under George W. Bush from August 2008 to January 2009; he was the 16th person to hold the post. Prior to joining the State Department, he was a brigadier general in the United States Army, and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East.

Kimmitt has also served as deputy director for strategy and plans for the United States Central Command, and deputy director for operations/chief military spokesman for coalition forces in Iraq, and served at NATO's SHAPE headquarters in Belgium.

Remember message force multipliers? I don't know if he was one officially but I assume he was.

Pentagon military analyst program

The Pentagon military analyst program was a propaganda campaign of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that was launched in early 2002 by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke. The goal of the operation is "to spread the administration's talking points on Iraq by briefing retired commanders for network and cable television appearances," where they have been presented as independent analysts.

A Pentagon spokesman said the Pentagon's intent is to keep the American people informed about the so-called War on Terrorism by providing prominent military analysts with factual information and frequent, direct access to key military officials. The Times article suggests that the analysts had undisclosed financial conflicts of interest and were given special access as a reward for promoting the administration's point of view. On 28 April 2008, the Pentagon ended the operation. A DoD Inspector General investigation found no wrongdoing on the part of the DoD.

[...]

Details of the operation were first revealed in a lengthy New York Times exposé written by David Barstow and published in April 2008. Within the documents the analysts were referred to as message force multipliers (q.v. force multiplication).

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

The true president has spoken

“People who are calling for a ceasefire now do not understand Hamas. That is not possible.”

She also said Israel has a “right to defend itself” against the terrorist militant group Hamas and that they have an “obligation to limit civilian deaths and casualties of all kinds.”

hillary-contempt

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[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

The source for Blinkens story about the Israeli family who was tortured by hamas, and then the fighters sat down and ate the family meal, appears to come from Zaka. Same source as the 40 beheaded babies claim, and pretty much all other suspiciously graphic claims.

Yossi Landau, the head of Zaka, Israel's volunteer emergency response organization as the head of operations for the country's southern region, described the sadistic scene he found after entering a home at Kibbutz Be'eri.

https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-hamas-gaza-militants-ate-lunch-tortured-mutilated-young-family-2023-10

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I condem HIMARS

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

Palestine seems like such a beautiful place. Would love to visit when it is free.

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