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Bulletins and News Discussion from October 7th to October 13th, 2024 - Happy International Paragliding Day! (hexbear.net)

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Image is here.

One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.

Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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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 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.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
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English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
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Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

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 Telegram Channels:

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.

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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

There's been a perfect example of Pre-Privatization and liberal hypocrisy in Portugal this week.

So we got a new center-right PSD government earlier this year, this week during a "Future of Media" conference the prime minister announced that RTP, the national public broadcaster, will gradually no longer have advertising on it until the total removal of ads in 2027, which would mean it would lose 6.6 million euros in revenue in the next 3 years.

Now, in theory, this could free up the channel from commercial influence and market shit, in practice all this means is that in a few years there are gonna be EVEN MORE calls to fully privatize RTP because it's not making any money.

This is functionally the same as when Orban takes over the public broadcaster or some shit, because once RTP is sold to some media conglomerate, it's obviously going to shift right, and serve its funders' interests, but of course there's not a peep from EU institutions about this.

And it's not like RTP today is some leftist or even center-leftist institution, for example in the news segments (the "telejornal") there's been plenty of "Passive Voice" shit when reporting about Palestine, and they have some pretty shitty anchors and guests too. But at the same time there's a lot of series, documentaries (both left and right) and cultural products that just would not get funded on other channels, if RTP gets privatized we'd see even less portuguese cultural production.

Funnily enough at the same conference, the PM also asked for journalists to be "more tranquil" and then complained that journalists ask him questions that they hear in their earpieces instead of asking what they want, which he's being made fun of for (not by me though, because I genuinely hate journalists)

Should mention that on the whole the RTP has like a bunch of channels and radio stations, and also turned a profit last year while the big private media channels didn't

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[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control Some disturbing information about previous use of bio weapons in Gaza.

The above is from the Avner Cohen Collection which includes some the best available information about Israels nuclear weapons program as well as chemical & biological weapons programs.

Avner Cohen also wrote two books about the history of Israel nuclear weapons development The Worst-Kept Secret and Israel and the bomb

I have not been able to find a free copy of 'The Worst-Kept Secret' but google books has an excerpt & the 'Israel and the bomb' link is an Internet Archive copy.

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[–] companero@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (7 children)

https://t.me/intelslava/68264

The Russian Federation will begin a strategic offensive along the entire front in the coming days, according to former adviser to the Ukrainian Presidential Office Alexei Arestovich.

"The Russians are building up strike groups. They will attack along the entire front, from Zaporozhye to Kupyansk. They are preparing a strategic offensive. It's a matter of days," he wrote.

It's Arestovich, so take with a big grain of salt.

Now would be a weird time to do big arrow offensives, considering the imminent muddy season. If Russia attacks, I think it will be relatively small, to shape the front line for larger offensives in 2025.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Oman, welcome to the Resistance:
https://xcancel.com/IranDefense/status/1844437366846763076

Iran & Oman held joint military drills, including ground maneuvers for the first time, under the name "Saqoor Al Jabal 1" (Mountain Falcon)

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[–] fever@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Former IRGC Gen. Mohsen Rezaee on X:

After facing a wave of assassinations, Hezbollah has revived its military organization. Now Hezbollah's war machine has started and difficult days are ahead for the Zionists.

Source

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

oooh godspeed made new album rat-salute-2 deeper-sadness

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

Nicaragua Breaks Diplomatic Relations With Israeli State - Telesur English

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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega instructed the Foreign Ministry to comply with a National Assembly’s request calling to break diplomatic relations with Israel, according to the information provided on Friday by Vice President Rosario Murillo, Coordinator of the Communication and Citizenship Council.

Murillo recalled that this morning there was an important session in the Nicaraguan parliament, of repudiation of the “fascist, genocidal government of Israel”, and explained that the break is with the Israeli people, because as peoples, as a human family “we love and respect each other in all communities of the world”.

The vice president said that “Israel which is applying extermination policies against large, brave, courageous, worthy peoples, with whom we have always been fraternal, applying war crimes” so they break relations with the government but “never with the families and people of Israel.”

In this regard, Murillo highilghted that Nicaragua “do not subordinate ourselves to the imperialists of the earth, and see impassive genocide, the intention to exterminate struggling peoples, fighters for justice, for truth, for rights.”

“Policies of extreme hatred, the cruelty in sight and impatience of the whole world, policies of genocide, of unpunished extermination, how incredible! And what are these so-called international organizations for?” questioned the vice president, Rosario Murillo.

This morning the National Assembly of Nicaragua held a special session on “Solidarity with the People of Palestine” in which the President of the National Assembly, Gustavo Porras, read out a declaration of condemnation that was approved by the plenary of the Assembly asking “Respectfully to the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity to value the rupture of diplomatic relations with the Genocidal and Zionist Government of Benjamin Netanyahu”.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact: A quasi-state organization is able to allocate a quasi-state percentage to the based department

https://streamable.com/fd902c

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Lawrence: Bob Woodward calls Trump 'worse than Nixon' in damning October surprise report

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-bob-woodward-calls-trump-worse-than-nixon-in-damning-october-surprise-report-221252677667

"October surprise" lol

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (65 children)

Another day, another one-sided beef with PSL. The us left is so cooked https://t.me/unity_of_fields/716

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

PSL has its flaws but these are bullshit statements, an org doesn't have to go through a checklist every time they make an announcement just to prove to this dude that they're revolutionary, and the assumption that the protests were half assed is a spit on the face of everyone that has participated over the last years in the huge protests in the streets and universities at the risk of being beaten, arrested, or lied about by the media.

I'm not from the US, so take everything with a grain of salt. I don't believe PSL is an exemplary vanguard party, but it is one with genuine revolutionaries within it doing real work in the outside world and it succeeds at growing and gaining momentum, that is not negligible for a country with probably the most well guarded capitalist regime.

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