Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis
Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
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.
Currently the talking classes of Denmark are winding themselves up over a moral panic about Swedish criminals being hired to commit violent crime.
Naturally, the subtext is that the Swedish criminals are non-white and Peter Hummelgaard, head of the succdem-controlled minister of Justice, has made remarks about how the Swedish criminals are being controlled by criminal masterminds operating out of "safe havens" in "the Greater Middle East".
Hummelgaard as well as several other officials and members of the country's rubber-stamp parliament has been performatively shocked over messages in closed Telegram groups, allegedly offering large amounts of money for doing crime in Denmark.
In response, the regime is now talking about banning Telegram and similar groups. Hummelgaard says to regime-loyal broadcaster TV2:
We need to break with the totally misguided belief that it is every man's 'fundamental right' to use encrypted messaging services that are being used to facilitate many forms of serious crime.
In many of the alleged instances the Swedish criminals are minors. This has prompted many reactionaries to demand a reduction of the age of criminal responsibility from it's current 15 but Hummelgaard sees "no great need" to do this "at the moment". Instead he thinks the problem can be solved with tougher sentencing and greater powers to the police.
> shut down christiania
> Organized crime starts fighting over territory
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> Hit the racism button to avoid blame
bonus
Incredibly funny how one can trace most organized crime conflict in and around Copenhagen to correllate with shutdowns or increased raids on Christiania, and likewise the de-escalation can almost always be traced to having a lighter hand on Christiania, but the cops have never been able to admit this, instead always taking the honor for things stopping by way of some "action" they took. Even the biker-wars of the 90's ended with Hells' Angels getting Copenhagen and Bandidos getting everything south of it.
And now we have yet another conflict as a result of the shutdown of the market, but this time the cops can't just re-open it and now they're fucked.
I would say something should have been done about the market, but seeing how it's just getting gentrified and used as an excuse for cops to harass the homeless in the area, I don't feel like that anyway. The christianites have become the thing they originally were made to protest.