Bulletins and News Discussion from October 23rd to October 29th, 2023 - Tunnel Vision
Bulletins and News Discussion from October 23rd to October 29th, 2023 - Tunnel Vision
Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
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.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
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.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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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Palestinian sources are saying Hamas have pushed up so far that they're engaging forces outside the strip.
Western sources are saying that thousands of Israeli soldiers are inside Gaza.
Complete fog of war has descended. I have basically no idea what is happening now. I'm more inclined to trust Palestinian sources but take it as you will.
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Yeah not sure I'd trust that Hamas would be pushing out. They have done well hunkering down. Going out on an offense would leave them too exposed IMO.
If their tunnels were clever enough and they could feed some squads behind the Israeli breachheads... I remember that picture posted earlier of some Hamas or other fighters dressed to look very much like the IDF, there is the potential for some real shenanigans, tactically.
this reminds me of that one coach in the early NFL that like 80% of rules were written to address. Would do trick tactics like bring on extra footballs or football-like objects (shoes, parts of uniforms) to confuse where the ball was. Would throw something other than the football and then make a surprise running play.
I thought the NFL had succeeding in squashing all fun and creativity in American football until the superbowl where someone leaped and did a high jump over people into the end zone (fun hating refs wouldn't allow it to stand)
we should have one version of the sport that is the standard boring but fairer one, and then a version of the sport where almost anything goes.
I wanna see NFL players doing trench warfare and setting up non-lethal mines (if that's possible) in a football game. holographic technology and shit. complete arms race where everything just gets more bonkers every year
The all drug Olympics
I really wish the ioc would just drop the bullshit and announce the transhuman olympics. I wanna see how much cocaine you can shove in to a 17 year old before their sketchy cybernetic legs explode. Just admit that it's ruthless blood-sport waged on the corpses of the disspossessed and lean in to the horror.
Bring back McMahon's XFL but this time with Airsoft simulation
Various strains of Australian rugby.
was that the one with Johnny Longthighs? hope he's doing well
EDIT: found it
It wouldn't surprise me if there are areas where Israel has pushed in and occupied and areas outside the strip that Hamas are fighting in. Both of these things can be true. The key is which one of these things can be sustained.
There were complaints of this kind of thing in Ukraine. A fluid front. Here one day, there the next, as each side would pull back a little and move it's forces elsewhere. Russia seems to have got the upper hand with it most of the time. I'm not exactly qualified to say but my impression is this was because Ukraine was following NATO advice. If that's the case, it'll be interesting (maybe not quite the word for this kind of destruction) to see whether Israel follows NATO tactics and whether this gives Hamas an advantage.
so until dawn we wait