Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq
Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq
Well, Iran and their allies' response may happen sometime this week and apparently they aren't talking to the US in order to negotiate how and where they will hit Israel (and Shoigu arrived in Tehran rather auspiciously), the Bangladeshi government just fell, F16s have been given to Ukraine, there are fascist riots in the UK, and Japan just had its worst stock fall since 1987 and seems to be taking several other countries/corporations with it. I don't really know where to look right now.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
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.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
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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Hezbollah drones attack Israeli army bases, casualties confirmed
Several Hezbollah drones struck an Israeli military base and a vehicle in the city of Nahariya, north of Acre, on 6 August, just a few hours after several people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon.
The video of the silent drones flying overhead the terrified settlers while no alarms are going off is just spectacular. I love Hezbollah
Additionally: "The Israeli military has admitted that the munition that struck a highway near Nahariya in Western Galilee, critically injuring one settler, was an Iron Dome interceptor missile that malfunctioned."
"The Israeli military has admitted that the munition that struck a highway near Nahariya in Western Galilee, critically injuring one settler, was an Iron Dome interceptor missile that malfunctioned."
Critical support for the Zionist entity in the struggle against the Zionist entity.
How long until the settlers start trying to pull Ukraine-style tactics of shooting rifles randomly into the air? 😆
silent drones
Settlers will be shitting themselves over this.
Iron Dome interceptor missile that malfunctioned
This is the state of their premiere defense system?? Hope this is a sign of what's to come when they have to deal with the upcoming full response
It's extremely common for iron dome interceptors to whip a shitty and slam directly into residential areas, they're not very good weapons and they do way more damage than the sugar rockets they're usually trying to intercept
the iron dome wants to remove the settlers too!Israel hurt itself in its confusion!
to whip a shitty
Minnesotan detected lol
Even Reuters and other western outlets are reporting on that last part. The Israeli military also admitted that they were only able to intercept one of the drones. Also the alarms that did go off were false alarms in the wrong locations, which were apparently followed up by two retaliatory strikes. Though one must wonder how accurate the Israeli strikes were if the alarms don't even go off at the right locations. Looks like just bombing something so they can say that they responded. Israel appears to be panicking.
Hezbollah said it launched a swarm of attack drones at two military sites near Acre in northern Israel, and also attacked an Israeli military vehicle in another location.
The Israeli military said a number of hostile drones were identified crossing from Lebanon and one was intercepted.
Israeli medical officials said seven people were evacuated to hospital, to the south of the coastal city of Nahariya, one in critical condition.
The Israeli military said an initial investigation indicated the injuries were caused by an interceptor that "missed the target and hit the ground, injuring several civilians." It said the incident was still under review.
In a statement, the Israeli military said sirens sounded around Acre, but that turned out to be a false alarm. It said its air force struck two Hezbollah facilities in south Lebanon.
Is reuters really talking about the civilians the zionists murdered in Maifadoun???
No probably not, I was referring to Reuters reporting on the failed Iron dome interceptor injuring Israeli civilians. If even an outlet like Reuters is reporting on this, and other Israeli military failures such as failing to intercept the drones and false alarms, it means that the failures must be very evident and that Israel is panicking. Usually Reuters and other outlets just would not report on Israeli military failures, and just repeat their propaganda about intercepting everything. I think this represents a change in the media narrative, probably to do with the upcoming attacks. Admitting to having inadequate defences to try get the USA even more involved maybe?
Oh I see what you mean.
Yeah I'm not sure what's happening. I suspect you may be on to something. Possible they are priming their people for the upcoming losses they know will come from. OP True Promise 2.0
It could also be them attempt to manufacture consent for more active US involvement in the area. "Poor defenseless Israel will be slaughtered by the evil Arabs unless WE go in there to stop them."
I don't think they actually can go in there to stop them. They have some ships in the area, but those will probably be largely useless pretty quick into the regional war.
They're going to rely on bases to assist the entity by shooting down drones and missiles coming out of Iran.
I need my comfort alarm. WHERE'S MY COMFORT ALARM!?Where video?
Its in the article I linked at the top