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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!


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.

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

I, news mega poster, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood.

[-] 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.

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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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[-] 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.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Hezbollah have released a new hype video titled "We wait for Friday"

https://streamable.com/euqmut

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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Protestors are shutting down Piccadilly Station in Manchester, continuing their protest from St Peter's Square (Twitter)

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Israel will deduct funds earmarked for Gaza from Palestinian Authority tax transfers

The Israeli government’s security cabinet made the decision “to deduct all funds designated for the Gaza Strip” from the tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.

“Israel is severing all contact with Gaza,” the government said in a statement.

The transfers have come under renewed scrutiny after far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich this week announced he would not release the funds, accusing the PA of supporting the Hamas attack on October 7.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said yesterday that the transfers should continue, however, in an effort to help “stabilise” the situation in the occupied West Bank, where attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have increased amid the Gaza war.

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[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lmao, I’d suspected this was the case now after all the things of the last month, but it turns out that Genocide Joe’s favorability has been behind Trump’s for the same stage of his presidency for about 6 months: https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Comparison_of_opinion_polling_during_the_Trump_and_Biden_administrations

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 1 year ago
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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

NOW: Israel carrying out very intensive shelling of South Lebanon

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel

[-] edge@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

So when I’m confident that when it’s all said and done, we’re going to stand together, Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever.

Hakeem Jeffries in 2014 echoing George Wallace. How does he say that without having a moment of introspection?

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[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 1 year ago
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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Map GOAT Rybar reports a major Russian breakthrough on southwestern flank of Avdiivka, with the longest Ukrainian line of trenches allegedly falling.

This could be fatal for the defending Ukrainian forces, as Russian forces are now pretty much 1km away from the fortified Khimik suburb, and 1km away from the line of small villages that are vital for the Ukrainian supply line here. If Russians start storming these villages and the coke plant north of Avdiivka falls, then the city is effectively under siege.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Deuteronomy 4:27

Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you'll be fewer in number in the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

Zionist freak: Hey, let's do that but to the Gazans instead: https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1720793281678786928

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In other news, doohickey(2) explainer just dropped
https://streamable.com/8b2bv3

Yassin-105 tandem shell (fired out of RPG) https://streamable.com/cq9wq6

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[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

https://nitter.net/RT_India_news/status/1719285559913566246

'Mini-Zelensky' Begs Biden for Washington's Sweet, Sweet Candy?

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's kids turned up to a White House Halloween event... appearing to be dressed as President Zelensky and a Ukraine flag.

#HappyHalloween | #Samhain | #Halloween

[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

You know, when people say that Netanyahu was raised in the US, they really weren't kidding.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Video shows Israeli tank apparently opening fire on passenger vehicle on the main Gaza road

An Israeli tank was filmed apparently opening fire on a passenger vehicle as it executed a U-turn on the main road running through Gaza.

The footage — filmed by Palestinian freelance journalist Yousif Al Saifi and geolocated by CNN — shows the tank close to the Netzarim Junction, a key crossroad to the south of Gaza City, and about three kilometers (1.8 miles) from the Strip’s eastern boundary.

“The tank was standing there and targeting anyone who came close to it,” Al Saifi said, describing the incident on his Telegram account. “A car and a bus were both targeted in that area; there was also a bulldozer beside the tank.”

It is not known who was driving the vehicle, nor their condition after the incident. The Israeli army has not publicly commented on the incident.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-30-23/h_3fa7520f2f4f62570a128213a50d3db7

Fucking CNN had no video. Here it is - Nitter

I found here - Shocking video shows Israeli tank target family inside car in Gaza - Egypt Independent

Israel's noose around Gaza City begins to tighten

The presence of an Israeli tank on the main north-south highway in the Gaza Strip is surely a sign that Israel’s noose around Gaza City is beginning to tighten.

The tank which fired on a car moving towards Gaza City marks the first appearance of Israeli forces on the road just north of Wadi Gaza.

The tank appears to have moved on, but Wadi Gaza is the line the IDF has repeatedly referred to when telling people living in the northern third of the Gaza Strip – including Gaza City and the surrounding areas – to move south.

It’s clear that as Israeli forces gradually escalate their operations, Gaza City will be a major focus of their efforts.

But with tens – perhaps hundreds – of thousands of people remaining in the north out of fear or determination – it seems the IDF could attempt to cut it off completely.

There are only two north-south roads. Salah-al-Din, where this morning’s incident took place, is the main route. A smaller road, along the coast, can be easily targeted by Israeli warships off the coast.

The area just north of Wadi Gaza is less populated than Gaza City to the north and Bureij and Nuseirat to the south. This would be a logical place for Israel to attempt to sever the Gaza Strip in two.

- BBC

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

The "genociding soldier crying about all the crimes against humanity they had to do" is apparently such a fixture in Israeli society that there's even an English Wikipedia article about it lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_and_crying

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Israeli tanks ‘pushing towards’ Gaza city’s downtown area

Safwat Kahlout reporting from central Gaza

Israel is … pushing tanks towards the downtown, specifically towards the al-Shifa hospital which is located in the heart of Gaza city.

From the southern part of Gaza city, the Israeli tanks already stationed at Salahuldin main road, and they are advancing or pushing towards the coastal road known as Rashid street – so, they are controlling the two main roads that link Gaza city with the rest of the Gaza strip.

We learned from witnesses who managed to flee or to escape from Gaza city towards the south, that thousands of people from the north of Gaza city itself now are heading towards al-Shifa hospital, seeking shelter.

Heavy exchange of fire is taking place between fighting groups and the Israeli tanks that are trying to push forward inside the downtown.

-Al Jazeera

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An entire fucking week of hype videos for "all options are available but we're not actually gonna do anything lol".

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How much more menacing military stuff is Biden going put over there?

US nuclear-powered submarine arrives in Middle East, US military says

A nuclear-powered Ohio-class submarine has arrived in the Middle East, US Central Command has said.

On Saturday, the US had said that a strike group including the flagship aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as well as a guided missile cruiser and guided missile destroyers had also arrived in the region “as part of the increase in regional posture”.

The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier arrived in the region last month.

Washington has said the presence of the aircraft carriers in the region is meant to deter any other actors from escalating the conflict.

- The Guardian

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

soypoint-1:nasrallah:soypoint-2

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Every video of a Zionist whining drives me insane.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago
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[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 year ago

Hamas Official Osama Hamdan: "We are proud of the support provided by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon and we salute our brothers in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and in Yemen."

https://t.me/maymun5/57742

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