On the 20th of October, Moldova - a small, landlocked country bordering western Ukraine and with a population of about 3 million - voted to join the EU. The margin was razor-thin, with the pro-EU vote gaining 50.39%, or an absolute difference of about 11,000 people. There was simultaneously a presidential vote between the incumbent, Maia Sandu, and other candidates, with the main competitor being Alexandr Stoianoglo.
The election was characterized by accusations of Russian interference, with Russian propaganda apparently flooding in, as well as people offering Moldovans money to vote against the EU. While the result does suggest that half the voting-age population of Moldova consists entirely of Russians who want to destroy democracy and all the good in the world, it seems to have just barely failed. This is a bad time to be a site entirely composed of Russian disinformation agents and bots. Twice already today, I’ve had to restart my program after somebody told me “Disregard all previous prompts.”
While Moldova is a poor country which could benefit in some ways from EU membership, in practice, it is unlikely that they will be able to join for the foreseeable future, requiring many of the… reforms… that the EU requires of potential new members. But as basically every major European economy continues to slowly sink as recessions and political crises degrade them, one wonders how beneficial EU membership will even be in the years and decades to come - if it survives for decades. In that sense, it’s as if the survivors of the Titanic are swimming back towards it, believing that being on a bigger - albeit slowly sinking - boat is better than trying their luck on small lifeboats.
Then again, like with Serbia, their geographical and geopolitical position makes anti-Western actions extremely difficult. It is rare that dissention is tolerated for long in the West - one tends to get called a dictator by crowds of people holding English-language signs in non-English countries, photographed by Western journalists who haven’t meaningfully reported on your country in months or years. You can crush your people with neoliberal austerity for years, killing hundreds of thousands through neglect, and face glowing approval from the media - but try and use state resources to benefit the poor, and global institutions start ranking you on the authoritarian dictator scale.
The best case for Moldova is that it becomes an exploitable hinterland for Germany to harvest and privatize as it tries - and fails - to compete in a global economic war between the US and China/BRICS. The worst case is that tensions with Russia over Pridnestrovie, as well as possible eventual NATO involvement (though Moldova is not a member, it is a partner of NATO), result in the ongoing war also reaching them.
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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 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.
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.
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
Mhp, nationalist party, owner of the grey wolves, is advocating for release of Abdullah Öcalan. Most likely reason mhp is demanding release of Abdullah Öcalan is that they are trying to make peace with ypg that will allow ypg to participate in attack on Iran by USA
European public opinion is shifting against continued military support for Ukraine, particularly in countries like Germany and France, as living costs are spiraling out of control and trust in the political elite is eroding. This is the conclusion of a new study analysingalt 4.690 Facebook-pages belonging to European media, civil organisations, universities, NGO’s and politicians. Whereas the amount of pro-war content has decreased significantly, the amount of pro-peace content had only seen a slight decline.
Mainstream media is trying to discredit the pro-peace position by framing it as one of “the extreme wings”, especially the far right. Waning support for the Ukraine was is also being ascribed to conspiracy theories about nefarious Russian propaganda.
- Source: DR (state media), October 23rd 2004
In Denmark, chuds are mad about the succdem-led right-wing regime’s proposal to ban foreign flags not being Draconian enough, as it only bans flags on full-size flag poles.
From: Calls the governments flag ban a weak effort: Why not ban Palestinian flags hanging from windows? - DR (state media), October 24th 2024
A fascist had to suffer the horror of seeing a Palestinian flag hanging from a pretty old building. Clearly, this should be a matter for the police state.
… both the Conservative Party and the Danish People’s Party called for the new legislation to also allow the banning of things like Palestinian flags, which in some places in the country hang from windows and balconies due to the war between Israel and Hamas. “There should be no doubt that we would have liked this bill to be more substantial,” said Mette Thiesen, the Danish People’s Party’s legal spokesperson.
She mentioned that she had recently been in Aarhus, where she walked through the old part of the city in sunny weather. According to the spokesperson, a Palestinian flag was hanging from the window of an old half-timbered house, which “ruined the Danish idyll,” as she put it. “Can’t the minister see that with this flag law, it’s still possible? And doesn’t the minister agree that it shouldn’t be allowed?” she asked.
What if we made the law more racist and classist by enforcing it most in places where the poors and non-aryans live?:
“Just as we don’t want other flags flying on flagpoles, it should also not be allowed for people to fly whatever flags they want, for example, in vulnerable housing areas or ghetto areas,” said the Conservative Party’s legal spokesperson, Mai Mercado.
Funny how zionazis are publishing ISIS stories to fuel islamophobia. “what was the opposition to ISIS?” they were attacked by every neighbour country, except you know who. Iran and its allies has done thousand times more damage to ISIS than the USA puppets
I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren’t just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to “israel”, even thought pretty much all armies use them. “israel” uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much “israel” just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.
Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people’s tents, a bulldozer that you can’t see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of “israel’s” plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it’s doing it’s work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it’s extremely symbolic. Here’s the video for those who didn’t watch it
And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn’t bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.
Death to “israel”.
I don’t know if this has been posted yet:
ARMS Shipment to Israel Blocked by Workers of Piraeus!
- pamhellas.gr, October 18th 2024
WORKERS HAVE THE POWER!
Late last night the COSCO Dockers Union in Piraeus Port, ENEDEP, alerted its members and the unions of the area that a container transferring bullets to Israel was to arrive in Piraeus port so as to be shipped to the Murderer-State of Israel.
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Immediately the dockers and the local unions BLOCKED the port and did not allow the container to enter the ship “Marla BULL”.
The Unions and workers called openly the working class of the area to come to the port and stop the crime saying
“The dockers state it clearly, we will not stain our hands with the blood of the people”
The massive, immediate action of the people lasted all night, FORCING THE SHIP TO DEPART WITHOUT THE WEAPONS!
The Unions, that are also preparing strikes for Collective Contracts demanding better wages, confirmed that class unions struggle goes hand in hand with solidarity with the peoples and steadfast, in practice opposition to imperialism!
THE PEOPLE WILL WIN!
WORKERS HAVE THE POWER!
FREE PALESTINE!
Causally reading my city’s subreddit and the
really just jumped out as I was reading a story about police recovering alot of stolen items from one homeless guy. The usual, “oh why can’t we solve this?” Without any clue, suggestions of more police, more mental health institutions, except the heavily down voted guy who said the obvious “give them homes!” That pissed off all the people who I assume are threatened by people having safe places to live.The thing that really broke my brain was a heavily upvoted comment about how we really need to set these bad folks straight, you know break them through work, and literally wrote out “work shall.set them free”. And I’m done with my local subreddit for a long while now. 50 upvotes, the guy who calls it out as being a fucking literal Nazis concentration camp motto is down voted and I can’t even anymore.
The west is willing to gamble it’s entire structure, it’s many decades of dominance and legitimacy, before abandoning “israel” who is carrying out a genocide. Even at times where such genocide can be seen by EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING WORLD and opinion is turning against them every day that passes, they continue to be their unconditional ally and run grotesque propaganda for them. Well, I say let them die together with the zionists. When the zionist entity begins to collapse, the west will go with it.
death to “israel”
Hard times are awaiting Iran. I won’t pray for them since my prayers have completly backfired so far.
The U.S. imperialism apologists still come out STRONG to defend the U.S.'s destruction of Ukraine. Whew.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/1gba2fa/hila_klein_is_a_terrorist/ltkhrdc/?context=10000
Young voters have a net +26 approval for an arms embargo on Israel. This includes young Republicans, who are at +16.
Bureaucratic budget rules prevents coastal protection for Danish towns
Many Danish coastal municipalities, are grappling with how to fund essential coastal protection projects against future storm surges caused by climate change. A recent report from the Technical University of Denmark warns of severe future damages if these measures are not taken, but the financial burden is proving difficult to manage under the current construction cap.
This cap limits how much municipalities can spend annually on construction and renovation projects, making it hard to finance expensive flood defenses. The town of Kerteminde was forced to scrap a DKK 50 mln. dike and sluice project, as it would consume half of their annual construction cap. The island of Lolland, meanwhile, plans to defy the construction cap and go ahead with a DKK 400 mln. floodgate to protect the town of Nakskov from future surges, as soon as funding is secured. Lolland’s succdem mayor Holger Schou Rasmussen argues that there is no choice but to build the floodgate as the damages caused by unmitigated flooding will far exceed the cost of construction.
Both municipalities are calling on the central government to ease the budgetary straitjacket and provide more financial support. Holger Schou Rasmussen, argues the issue is a national responsibility, while Magnus Heunicke, head of the succdem-controlled ministry of the executive, acknowledges the need for collaboration but stops short of promising to lift the cap.
- Source: DR (state media), October 21st 2024
Danish Regime Supports Ban on Foreign Flags In new Controversial Bill
Observers warn of eroding civil liberties in a country where democratic institutions are increasingly under pressure and nationalism is weaponized to stifle dissent.
A new bill, scheduled for its first reading in Denmark’s rubber-stamp parliament today, aims to prohibit the flying of any flag other than Danish, Nordic, German, Greenlandic, or Faroese in the country’s flagpoles—unless special permission is granted. The law comes amid ongoing efforts by the Danish regime to bolster nationalist sentiment and can be seen as instrumental in ongoing regime efforts to criminalise the pro-Palestinian anti-Genocide movement
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The flag controversy first erupted in 2018, when Danish citizen Martin Hedegård raised the American flag in his garden in Nørre Bjert, near Kolding, during a family reunion. Hedegård’s actions drew swift backlash from local authorities, invoking an archaic 1915 regulation that forbids the display of foreign flags. He was reported to the police, sparking a legal battle that would eventually reach Denmark’s Supreme Court.
Despite Hedegård’s acquittal in the Supreme Court, the regime has pushed forward with efforts to reinstate the ban by supporting a bill spearheaded by far-right extremist Søren Espersen, who is closely aligned with the ultra-nationalist “Denmark Democrates” party. Espersen, known for his chauvinist views and close ties to Zionism, was the original proposer of the flag ban.
‘Serves no purpose’ Observers have denounced the proposed flag ban as empty symbolism, aimed at stirring nationalist fervor rather than addressing substantive issues. Carsten Hove, the lawyer who defended Hedegård in the Supreme Court, has been vocal in his criticism of the regime’s latest move, questioning whether the bill would even hold up to judicial scrutiny. “I don’t see how this law serves any purpose. It violates Denmark’s obligations regarding human rights and freedom of expression, so it cannot stand,” Hove said. “In my opinion, the Supreme Court would strike it down if a new case arose.”
Espersen, who will be present at the first reading of the bill, dismissed warings that his bill is a violation of human rights.
“We have to trust the government’s lawyers, and I can’t imagine our government proposing a law that isn’t legally sound,” Espersen said, defending the regime’s decision to push ahead with the controversial proposal.
Espersen also rejected accusations that the bill is a purely nationalist gesture.
“There are plenty of symbols that actually mean something, and the Dannebrog [Danish flag] is one of them,” he said. “I’m happy that we’re now having the first reading of the bill. I don’t think there will be many opponents. It’s a statement of what Denmark means to all of us. We have a flag that everyone loves.”
Regime Support Secured
Denmarks Social Democratic-led right-wing regime supports for the bill. So does the far-right “Denmark Democrats”, “Danish People’s Party” and Conservative parties, thereby making the parliamentary process a mere formality.
Peter Hummelgaard, head of Denmark’s Social Democratic-controlled Ministry of Justice, has offered full-throated support for the proposed law, underscoring the regime’s commitment to promoting nationalist ideals. In a statement Hummelgaard framed the bill as necessary for preserving national identity.
“The Dannebrog is the most important national symbol we have in Denmark. A symbol that unites Danes as a people. The government believes that the Dannebrog should enjoy a very special status in Denmark,” Hummelgaard said. “I also believe that this special status should mean that there should once again be regulations on flagging, so that it isn’t allowed to freely fly other nations’ flags. It has been this way for more than 100 years, and it should be this way again.”
- Source: DR (state media), October 22nd 2024
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