Image is of the Cuban flag and the Pride flag on the Havana Health Ministry building.
Inspired by a highly upvoted recommendation by @[email protected]:
We need to kill the Mega Posting Wars meme. It wasn’t very funny to start with and now I get the feeling some people are taking it way too seriously. Clogging up the news thread with bullshit just to try to out post the trans mega is just dumb and annoying.
The News Megathread is now under trans martial law:
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Loving trans people on this site and elsewhere is strictly mandatory.
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Posting about the “comment wars” between the trans and news megathreads is now strongly discouraged inside the news megathread. No shame in it - I also recently made jokes about it - but though they were almost always just jokes, it was unrelated to current events and was beginning to feel more like padding the comment count instead of trying to improve the quality of the thread. If you want to boost comments and engagement here, then post articles and analysis!
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
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.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
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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Kittenposting in a new mega
Over the last 12 hours, the Democratic Kittens Republic of My House has successfully repelled invasions by a raccoon in the backyard and the neighbor’s dog
Chairman Goggles touts the efficiency of the “jet” setting on the garden hose to deter raccoon lumpenprole subversion
They are cute and already here, but please limit random non-news in the news mega
excuse me I consider this to be news
In Ireland, the Catholic Church is at it again:
CW: Mentions of CSA
Ireland to set up inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by religious orders
Inquiry to follow preliminary investigation unearthing 2,400 allegations of historic abuse
The Irish government is to set up a statutory commission of inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by Catholic religious orders after a preliminary investigation found almost 2,400 allegations of historic abuse.
The investigation, led by a leading barrister, Mary O’Toole, documented 844 alleged abusers in 308 schools run by 42 religious orders across the Republic of Ireland.
One hundred and thirty seven people who participated in her inquiry completed in-person interviews and 12 provided written submissions.
Most of those who took part were men in their 50s and 60s.
Most moral army/only democracy in the Middle East siccing dogs on hostages
https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners/2103
cw: torture, ethnosupremacy
Dick Cheney will vote for Harris
What a stunningly progressive endorsement
Really enjoying the output of this channel. High quality in-depth video essays.
Here is a recent video about how Iran’s missile program was built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfuq-HvZLaI
Hey comrades, I’ve just spent the better part of my day writing a few 100 words about pubic housing where I live. I know this isn’t the exciting indepth war analysis we get here, but I don’t really know what else to do with it. (post it on reddit? ew) It’s good practice I guess. Someone tell me if this aint the place.
PUBLIC HOUSING IN SO-CALLED AUSTRALIA
How good is renting? Does it sound familiar? It’s a one liner from what feels like another life. While many can still hear Scumo’s catchphrase echoing in the dark recesses of our minds, at this point in the show, he should have gift wrapped it and handed it to the ALP on his way out the door. How good is god? Ay, Scottie!
That’s right folks, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) have finally achieved their dream. They’ve fully embraced the neoliberal policies any Red Tory party should strive for. It’s been a long time coming, and what can we say apart from: Thatcher is dead, it will happen to you.
For the second week running, we’re inundated with reports of Liberal National Party (LNP / Blue Tories) throwing out statements that make them seem almost human. Last week they were vocally supporting a more inclusive census, leaving the ALP chasing their tail, before the gallant Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese passed the buck to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. - Was it a handball? Albo’s a man’s man, let’s do sports analogies. - The crowd awaits with baited breath to see which ALP backbencher will be sacrificed for crossing party lines this time!
Meanwhile, Jacinta Allan’s Victorian ALP, who like their federal counterparts, are staunchly committed to supporting the Israeli (sic) state’s genocidal policies in Gaza, are predictably taking a more polite approach in their own backyard. In a move that is strikingly similar to those announced by the previous New South Wales LNP’s (now revised, and Chris Minns ALP approved) “Waterloo Estate redevelopment plan”, Public Housing estates across the country will soon be demolished and sold off to profit driven developers.
The Waterloo Estate was once considered such an achievement upon completion in 1977, Queen Elizabeth II attended the opening ceremony. Similarly aged buildings in and around Sydney’s CBD - such as the famed MLC Centre, or the now luxury ex-state-owned Sirius Apartments - have mysteriously escaped demolition, instead receiving complete refurbishments amounting to hundreds of millions. Heritage Laws in place to “protect historic significance” be damned.
Now not only will these brutal “redevelopments” displace 1,000s of people from what should be rent controlled homes, they will also transfer all assets and authority over to the “malevolent” not-for-profit sector. Though be not afraid! At the National Press Club on Wednesday 3rd September, Housing Supply and Affordability Council chair, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz talked up the federal governments build-to-rent scheme. You can now not only look forward to the destruction of 1,000s of homes, you may also have your heart warmed that the ALP will be giving these building conglomerates tax breaks to take those pesky public assets out of our hands!
The same federal government who had a spare $60million to give the ADF for recruitment advertising, and who seek to destroy the key safeguard for workers safety in the building industry - the CFMEU - are also slashing the red tape, and washing their hands of the whole ordeal.
Federal LNP members have come forward to denounce the bill which “seeks to entrench tax advantage for institutional investors, in a thinly veiled attempt to corporatise the Australian housing market”. However, considering the tried and true tradition of locking Australian’s into home ownership, turning every family into “little capitalists”, in order to smash the labour movement, don’t be surprised when the LNP calls to scrap subsidised rentals all together.
hey it’s not even that long, I gave up jamming the hyperlinks back in, they’re all just msm citations anyway, who cares?
Anyone here have any familiarity with Joshua Citarella’s work? Comes off as another Robert Evans to me. He did a video with Brace Belden of TrueAnon and doesn’t really offer much insight. Watched a FWBFerst23 talk he gave called “Extremely Online Politics” that’s basically just “look at how extreme and varied online political identities are” without much insight. The general vibe of his I get is that it’s bad they’re extremist politics and also all “extremist” left-right politics are equally bad.
Read this critique of him that doesn’t say anything of value until at least half way. More so says he has a gawking attitude to internet politics and presents it as a carnival presentation (which I’d be inclined to agree with) and also that he doesn’t analyze or mention any real interplay between IRL and the internet and the politics between them. Says he deals mostly in aesthetics.
He also mentioned in that Brace video he’s ex-straight edge and I’m assuming ex-vegan (might be vegan again) which would definitely feed into that enlightened centrist SuccDem gawker Lame-O-type people like him and Robert Evans give off. They also give off the same vibe, visually.
Weird how school shooters are always on the “FBI’s radar”, but are left alone yet they always seem to catch all these lone wolf ISIS operatives planning attacks before they actually carry them out.
Also seems like convenient timing. School shooting and Israel kills an American citizen in the West Bank. What better time for the “good guys” to score a victory against ISIS.
AMLO gave his last goverment report yesterday
{Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has defended his legacy in the final state-of-the-nation address – an annual report on his government – a month before he is set to leave office and be replaced by his close ally Claudia Sheinbaum.
Speaking for two hours in Mexico City’s sprawling Zocalo Square, Lopez Obrador bade farewell to enthusiastic followers on Sunday as he seeks to advance a major overhaul of the country’s courts.
On October 1, Lopez Obrador will hand power to a fellow member of his Morena party, Sheinbaum, who was elected in June to be the country’s first woman president.
Presidents in Mexico are limited to a single six-year term, so Lopez Obrador could not seek re-election.
Sheinbaum will also inherit a package of constitutional reforms initiated under Lopez Obrador, including the judicial overhaul plan
At the core of the proposal is a plan to elect federal judges – including Supreme Court appointees – by popular vote. Lopez Obrador has said the change is needed to root out corruption.
Just came across these 3 things about the recent german regional elections.
“Most BSW voters come from former Linke voters, non-voters or CDU. Minimal weakening of the AfD”, also minimal weakening of the SPD, the question may still be open as to how the party will fare in other regional elections where Die Linke already barely exists.
According to Adam Tooze the Thuringian branch of the AfD is its most radical branch
What is the status of cloud gaming in China? I feel like putting some infrastructure next to the new mega dams they are building in Tibet and linking things to starlink style satellite networks is going to be the next that pushes videogames out of the stagnant but they have basically been in since 2016. (The Xbox one was originally supposed to be always online, Microsoft stagnated when people understandably revolted at the thought of no longer being able to by disks)
Hey comrades, is there any resource I can dig into to better understand the current situation in Cuba? To my uninformed knowledge, the situation appears to be rather bleak, with rising anti-government sentiment due to increased liberal reforms and economic struggles compounded by COVID and the trade embargo.
With the application to join BRICS, this should see increased trade, and tourism especially, which may pay off.
Are there any Cubans here that can offer better explanations for what I am hearing, or provide more accurate sources not infected by western bias? I support Cuba and the Revolution, of course, I just want to know more about the current situation.
