Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star
Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star
Image is of Iranian missiles flying over the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem.
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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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The Copenhagen Exchange building is on fire. It's iconic spire of coiled dragon tails which was part of the city's skyline for 400 years has collapsed.
Firefighters assisted by soldiers from the royal guards are scrambling to control the fire but the task is difficult as the old building has many hidden cavities and it's copper roof is trapping the heat inside. The task is further complicated by scaffolding put up as part of an ongoing restoration.
The landmark building is situated right next to the seat of parliament and was constructed in Dutch renaissance style in 1623 as a trading hall. It was Denmark's first listed building and has housed business organisations for most of it's history and has become a symbol of "respectable" capitalism. In 1918 unemployed syndicalists stormed the building, beating up the brokers with wooden clubs and hung a sign saying "The unemployed have closed the gambling den".
The building housed many historic artifacts, a large library and important works of art. First responders as well as random bystanders are working to save as much as possible from the flames but it is unlikely that everything can be saved.
Large parts of the neighbouring Christiansborg Palace that houses parliament has been evacuated because of the fire although parliament continues it's session.
It is too early to say anything about the cause of the fire. There are no reports of injuries to persons.
The fire is being compared to the Notre Dame fire in Paris and calls are being made for the mostly-destroyed building to be reconstructed. A reconstruction will be a difficult task as it requires heavily specialised niche skills that are almost extinct today and it is unclear how reconstruction of the privately owned building will be funded.
The stock exchange is burning
It's a cool old building
hard to give a shit at all about this when we've seen Gaza and all its wealth of historical architecture be bombed to dust over the past 6 months while Denmark looks the other way and withdraws funding to humanitarian programmes
To be fair, Denmark is shit on Palestine but they did not withdraw funding for UNRWA. They're a solid "mid" among the golf course countries, not as good as Ireland or Spain but also not as bad as the US and Germany.
spire of coiled dragon tails
It was made to resemble a crocodile but the architect had never seen a crocodile. Let's be honest about our history.
has become a symbol of "respectable" capitalism
Symbolic timing for it to burn?