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Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.


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Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.

Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world... was our own?

Happy Halloween!


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If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


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 Lebanon! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

This week's first 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.


Last week's discussion post.


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[-] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apparently, Shani Louk, the girl that was at the festival and in the truck video and was eventually confirmed alive and being treated in Gaza, is dead.

I've found very little reliable information on it but it seems the Israeli foreign ministry contacted her mother to tell her they found a DNA-checked "skull fragment" suggesting she was dead since October 7th.

I have literally zero proof of this but I genuinely consider it likely the IDF killed her (most likely through bombings), found her subsequently, and are now lying as usual.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Israel’s emergency medical service will receive $88 million in a gift led by Michael Bloomberg.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/world/middleeast/bloomberg-israel-donation.html?smid=url-share

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Al Jazeera said the Israeli strike in Jabaliya killed 19 family members of one of its video engineers, Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan. Al-Qumsan’s father, two sisters, brother, two sisters-in-law, uncle and 12 nieces and nephews were killed in what the media outlet condemned as “heinous and indiscriminate Israeli bombing.”

Last week, the wife, son, daughter and infant grandson of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief were slain in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where they had been sheltering.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/df6d63d1-afa3-5bc1-9851-032e8c55195d?smid=url-share

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Boeing (who makes jdams) employs 120k people, so each employee is responsible for around 0.03 dead gazan child, and round 3 yemenis (but raytheon also guilty there).

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1721220295300694036

A generic, unnamed Democrat fares 13 points better than Biden against Trump in swing states, per new NYT poll.
Kamala Harris does better than Biden too.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

It becomes increasingly frustrating to read any Western press on the topic of China. They always create imaginary internal fighting like they did with Hu Jintao and now Li Keqiang, obsess over China's economy struggling because of real estate, and hype up the number of Chinese migrants illegally crossing into the US. It's all tied up nicely with a quote from places like Freedom House.

I'm not against criticism of China. I just wish I could actually see it without obvious Western fabrications.

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Taste the fury of our men. We are out for revenge. The Youth of Revenge and Liberation are writing the most amazing epics of confrontation now in storming the camp.

glory to the martyrs as they draw the map of Palestine with their blood

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen this leaked Israeli Ministry of Intelligence document mentioned on Twitter and by MoA. The one which outlines the plan to expel the population of Gaza into the Sinai, among two others. I got curious what the others were, so I fed the document through OCR and machine translation. The other alternatives mentioned are A: "the population remaining in Israel and importing the Palestinian Authority rule." and B: "the population remaining in the village and the emergence of local Arab rule."

A group of shared objectives is listed near the top of the document for all of the plans:

  1. Basic assumptions for work in each directive.
    A. Toppling the rule of Hamas.
    B. The evacuation of the population outside the combat zone is in the interest of the citizens of the Gaza Strip.
    C is required to plan and channel international aid that will reach the region in accordance with the selected directive.
    D. In every directive, it is required to carry out a deep process of assimilating an ideological change - de-nationalization.

With regards to the Sinai plan ("Alternative C")

Alternative C - the alternative that will yield positive and long-term strategic results for Israel, and is A viable alternative. Determination of the political echelon is required in the face of binary pressure with an emphasis on harnessing. The USA and other pro-Israeli countries are joining the move.

The other plans are downplayed

Alternatives A and B suffer from significant deficiencies, especially in terms of their strategic implications and the lack of long-term feasibility. Neither will provide the necessary deterrent effect, no will allow a change of mind, and may lead within a number of Shanis to the same problems and Iomis that burdened them The State of Israel fought from 2007 until Chios.

Alternative B is the alternative with the most risks, the division in the Palestinian population in Yaish And now he is one of the central gourmis who make it difficult to establish a Palestinian state. Choosing this alternative It means an unprecedented victory for the Palestinian national movement, a victory that will come at the cost of thousands of Israeli civilians and soldiers and does not guarantee Israel's security.

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[-] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

in more serious news i can't believe the US congress is about to cancel culture george santos

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really liked this article.

archive.today • The Israel-Hamas War Has Created a Divide Among American Chefs - The New York Times

A recent petition signed by nearly 900 food professionals calling for a cease-fire raises, once again, questions of contested cuisines.

But at times it's like The Onion. The unintended punchline is perfect.

“We have this romantic idea that if we eat the same food and break the same bread somehow we can come together, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here,” said Dr. Ariel, who is currently researching the origins of falafel.

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Adult In The Room here.

UAW scores major victory against GM. 30% total wage increase (25% flat increase + cost-of-living adjustments). 3 years to top pay. This is significant!

Thank you President Biden, and Congratulations on your 2024 victory!

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trolley problem Palestine / Israel makes every single discord chat immediately interesting no matter whether they're communists, liberals, chuds, zionists or any mixture of the above.

Incredible troll power.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Kill Israel, Fuck Hezbollah, Marry Palestine

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

I want to know who the guy is that edits all those Hezbollah and Hamas videos

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 1 year ago

"Wasseem Hassen Ayash from Rafat was found after 2 days of being lost, He is special needs, the occupation army has gave him up a while ago and was delivered to Alqalilya hospital, signs of torture were found on his body"

[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 1 year ago
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[-] commiespammer@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

“Onwards, soldiers. You have nothing to fear; the Red Army is the strongest!” ----- Makoto Naegi, Doom Messiah

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

We need to get some sort of dramatic countdown to the Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah speech tomorrow. I promised myself to never get hyped for speeches again after Putin constantly trolling us, but now I have Al Mayadeen TV blasting on full volume in my living room ahead of tomorrow

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

France having a very normal one

A new bill in the French senate to outlaw anti-Zionism is absolutely unreal senat.fr/leg/ppl23-021.html

Basically the proposal is that insulting Israel in France would be punishable "by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros" and "inciting hatred or violence" against Israel would land you 5 years in prison and give rise to a fine of 100,000 euros.

Here is how the bill reads:

"Bill Proposal to Complete the Penal Framework Sanctioning Anti-Zionism

Article 25 of the law of July 29, 1881, on the freedom of the press is restated as follows: 'Art. 25. - Those who, by one of the means stated in Article 23, have denied the right of the State of Israel to exist will be punished by one year of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros.

'An insult committed against the State of Israel, by one of the means stated in the same Article 23, is punishable by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

'Those who, by the same means, have directly incited hatred or violence against the State of Israel will be punished by five years of imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 euros.'"

france-cool

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Hamas is gonna make the Rocket Launcher from Halo to get around the TROPHY system

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Al-Houthi: We say to the Saudi regime:

If you head to those areas in occupied #Palestine to fight the entity, you will not need to repeat the same thing in #Yemen, and we are ready to hand over Sana’a to you so that you can live with us. There will be no harm between us and you when the compass points in the right direction of hostility to the usurping entity.

Is this significant? I'm not that familiar with regional issues and conflicts between these two.

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[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Imagining a scenario where as a half measure Israel is forced out of the West Bank and suddenly 600,000 fanatic settlers have to move into Israel proper. They'll instantly become hostile to the Israeli state and we'll get news about the IDF doing another crazy Waco incident every 5 days until the state collapses or the settlers nuke Iran.

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Anyone post this yet? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/us/politics/us-israel-hostages.html

American boots on the ground.

Death to America.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Evil lying fuckers.

In the face of detailed and urgent warnings of catastrophic conditions for civilians in Gaza, an Israeli agency said there was “currently no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.” The statement from COGAT a part of Israel’s defense ministry, said that the agency was monitoring the supply of water, food, fuel and energy in Gaza and asserted that “the situation is far from crisis.”

The assertion stands in sharp contrast to reports from the United Nations, international aid organizations, accounts from within Gaza and photographs and video documenting dire shortages.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/d2a66ee8-35e9-549c-9645-a2cb01099f00?smid=url-share

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 1 year ago
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