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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Rybar's take on the UK "slipping into totalitarianism" regarding perceived heavy handedness of the law on the race rioters.
cw: racism, xenophobia, veiled threats
🇬🇧 Meanwhile, Great Britain is sinking deeper into totalitarian dictatorship.
As @oldGBR reports, the first guilty verdicts were recently handed down there “for posting information on the Internet related to a violation of public order.”
➖Jordan Parlour , 28, was jailed for 1 year and 7 months for a Facebook post about an attack on a hotel where refugees were staying. The court assessed his actions as " using threatening words or behaviour with the purpose of inciting racial hatred."
➖ 30-year-old Jordana Plain went to prison for 8 months for impersonating a monkey in front of black and Asian people.
➖Tyler Kay, 26, received three years and two months for a Twitter post in which he allegedly incited the burning of a hotel housing migrants.
The number of people arrested in connection with the unrest that erupted after the murder of three girls in Southport has now approached 800. a third of them have already been charged, including To a 13 year old boy .
In just one year, more than 3,300 people have been convicted due to memes and posts on social networks.
🔻Overall, the extraordinary tough measures taken by the British authorities have borne fruit. Many protest organizers and their supporters were detained in order to intimidate society as much as possible, so new demonstrations became much smaller. At the same time, the media launched a large-scale campaign to popularize counter-protests paid for by the authorities, advocating for migrants and LGBT, so that the voice of dissatisfaction would be completely drowned out by the propaganda of left-liberals.
Against this background, legislative measures are being tightened, untying the hands of the police to persecute the dissatisfied. Any "insult" or "hostility" that anyone can see towards any class of the population is now a very good reason to put a person in jail for a decent term. This attitude towards native Britons is in sharp contrast to the demonstrative loyalty of law enforcement officers to migrants who "raped because they did not know that rape was not allowed."
In such a situation, it is only a matter of time before another “Southport massacre” occurs, which will lead to a new explosion of public discontent. #Великобритания #протесты @rybar
Just LOL. Rybar will just ignore the years of propaganda that told UK citizens that there are migrants arriving on boats that bring all the crime and focus on the one week where the media had to turn it back or else they would be implicated in the proceedings. Nothing to see there I'm sure.
for their part is doing the right thing too late. Where were these arrests when Nigel Farage were making veiled threats at immigrants? The Sun has done more incitement than any FB post ever has.At the same time, the media launched a large-scale campaign to popularize counter-protests paid for by the authorities
This is absolute fucking nonsense.
advocating for migrants and LGBT
The latter has literally nothing to do with the riots, and has not been a feature of the counter protests.
so that the voice of dissatisfaction would be completely drowned out by the propaganda of left-liberals
The people at these counter protests are not liberals. Alright so I wouldn't call them hardened communists either but you couldn't find a single person among them that would say a single bad thing about socialism or Corbyn, which is not true of british liberals.
In such a situation, it is only a matter of time before another “Southport massacre” occurs, which will lead to a new explosion of public discontent.
The attack had nothing to do with migration. You could literally make something up and cause this to happen again, because that's what it was that caused this, made up bullshit online.
While Rybar can be useful, let’s not forget its creators are ex-military propagandists. Spreading misinformation about the affairs of a country that’s directly fueling my enemies is just another tactic of war, even if you actually agree with the bullshit.