Bulletins and News Discussion from May 20th to May 26th, 2024 - Never Break TrueAnon's Rules For Life - COTW: Azerbaijan
Image is of Azerbaijan's President, Aliyev (left) and Armenia's President, Pashinyan (right) in a meeting a month or two after Azerbaijan took Nagorno-Karabakh.
Never go to a second location.
Always get the interior ministry post.
Never get in a helicopter or any small aircraft.
If someone with a gun enters your car, they’re gonna kill you.
If someone tells you they’re not going to kill you, they’re calming you down to kill you later.
Never give up your nukes.
Never release the opposition's political prisoners.
Never let the opposition delay elections.
If someone starts to get into German runes, drop them.
Never trust a South American with a German name.
Never move anywhere for a religion.
Never go into the sewers unless you’re a sewer guy.
If someone’s trying to get you to commit a crime, they're FBI (sometimes CIA or military intelligence).
Never become an FBI informant.
If you do become an FBI informant, record everything.
Never relinquish your arms.
Always get it in writing.
If you keep gambling, you’ll eventually win.
Never talk to cops without a lawyer.
Always pay your mercenaries.
Don’t let anyone take your passport.
To add an addendum to rule 3, never put your President and Foreign Minister in the same helicopter or small aircraft. Especially if doing so in bad weather conditions. Especially if you're already under threat from a hostile nuclear power in the region with a proclivity for terrorism (though this probably isn't Israel's doing, in this particular case).
Anyway, Azerbaijan. Not a great country, I think. Did some genocides. They're a petrostate that is hosting Cop29, which I suppose is a way for the bourgeoisie to implicitly convey their contempt for the green movement. They got weapons from Israel, too.
Just for the record, there's an Iranian province called East Azerbaijan, which is not the same as Azerbaijan.
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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.
The ICC seeks for criminal punishment of perpetrators of certain crimes. It’s a criminal lawsuit and requires high burden of proof ( beyond reasonable doubt).
The ICJ on the other hand is like a civil court. Anyone who think they’ve been damaged or want the damage to stop can sue like South Africa did. It’s has a low burden of proof. No person will be jailed because of it. Though the ICJ can refer things to ICC prosecutors.
The system is set up to mirror justice systems in liberal capitalist states, We shouldn’t expect any thing to come out of it. Just as we won’t expect anything good from corrupt justice systems elsewhere .
The system is set up to mirror justice systems in liberal capitalist states, We shouldn’t expect any thing to come out of it. Just as we won’t expect anything good from corrupt justice systems elsewhere .
Yes, it's extremely important to reiterate this. The majority of the Israeli media apparatus and many liberal western outlets have shifted to blaming Benjamin because they want to oust him and rethink their stupid strategy, and the phony court will abet that aim. In a just world the entire government would be hanged.
thats only the ICC i think ..the pro western court .? . the ICJ is propably following suit .. now
Genocide is the "State Crime" of Israel therefore its ICJ or something , i dont understand it to well .. I dont care .. all the Zionist will not understand it well either ..
they just gonna hear "ARREST WARRENT _ NETHANYU" - and will understand .. oh fuck .. oh fuck .. lets get some distance .. lets get some distance .. my Lawyer advises me to create some "refrence points"
The ICJ prosecutes nations, whereas the ICC prosecutes individuals. I'm pretty sure they can both charge the crime of genocide. If Netanyahu is going to be tried for genocide, it has to be at the ICC.
International Criminal Court (ICC), permanent judicial body established by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998) to investigate, prosecute, and try individuals accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and to impose prison sentences upon individuals who are found guilty of such crimes.
It could be, of course, that the ICC is waiting to see how things turn out at the ICJ before going after individuals if the state is convicted. I say that's cowardice, and a dumbass liberal excuse. But whatever.