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Bulletins and News Discussion from October 23rd to October 29th, 2023 - Tunnel Vision (hexbear.net)

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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 still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.

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

The weekly (biweekly?) 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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Iran to hold large scale military exercises next week, official announcement teaser video by the military relations office

https://streamable.com/o6oymo

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

So uhh has the water and electricity been switched back on yet? How is Palestine making it without either?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love how the new speaker has the most placeholder name of anyone to hold the office so far

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bibi is simply waiting for Steiner's army to get in position before commencing the ground invasion

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (15 children)

The next in line:

Czech and Austrian leaders to visit Israel Wednesday

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will visit Israel in a show of solidarity, both countries’ governments have said.

The leaders will hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, they said.

Nehammer will also meet with the family of an Austrian-Israeli national who is currently being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Austrian government said in a statement.
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

After coming in second in the elections, Javier Milei and his party are already on full damage control and boy, it is not looking good. He kinda fucked up during his campaign, he had a super hostile tone against the other neoliberal members of the opposition calling them "useless and traitors, just like the Kirchnerists". Now, less than 24 hours after his defeat and with the second round coming in shortly, he realized he is in need of votes if he wants to beat Massa (6% gap between the two). And as he explores restoring links with the neoliberals, he did what nobody expected: He extended his hand and offered an alliance to the Left.

He said earlier this morning that he is willing to offer the "Ministry of Human Capital" to the leftists because "they know a lot about this issue", claiming that "I don't care what they think of the Labor Theory of Value". He's playing the "pragmatic" and heavily "technocratic" role, utter desperation? Why would you offer a ministry to your arch nemesis lmfao. This doesn't look good, of course this will never happen as leftists, contrary to ancaps, liberals and fascists, do have basic principles. But this will resonate badly among hardcore Milei voters, this kinda looks suicidal to me. So much from the "We will never give an inch to our enemies" candidate smh my head.

So, Anarcho-Capitalist-Fascist-Trotskyist current is being born?

Other ancaps are completely losing it as well. They're already doing an internal purge and two prominent party members are being signalled and attacked for being guilty of making them lose votes. One is ancap candidate for Mayor of Buenos Aires (an extremely important position, he got third position and is out of the race), Ramiro Marra, a complete dork and worth for nothing man-child who almost cried on live TV because a children's tv show once said the Spaniards were the bad ones during the Conquista and during the May Revolution of 1810 (he holds dual citizenship) and who was seeing gifting dollar bills to people during the last day of the campaign. He works in the "financial industry" and was once (or still is?) a finance youtuber, you know, a wannabe Wall Street Bull or something. Then there's Lilia Lemoine, a flat-earth cosplayer of 42 years of age that is key to Milei as she's the literal link between incel anime avatar losers and his campaign. She was posted here some days ago in the old Mega, doing cosplay of some anime character I don't even know and people here were, rightfully so, lamenting it. She's under attack for saying stupid shit like "Men should be able to renounce paternity like women are allowed to abort" and for acting like a dumbass during the entire election cycle. It is interesting because she gets the most vicious attacks from her supporters because she's a woman, and mysoginy is inherent to all right wing movements. Unfortunately she will join her party's as a member of the lower chamber.

(All wiki links are in Spanish because none of these losers have their own english page).

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

York University student unions continuing to be cool

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A chart heavy article about the Chinese economy

https://www.ianwelsh.net/china-is-transitioning-economically-and-so-far-succesfully/

I didn't know Chinese gdp was so real estate heavy or that local governments had so much budgetary control in China

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

https://streamable.com/e21rsp

Hamas released footage of one of their vehicle kills yesterday with an atgm. Israel did not admit this loss and have kept secrecy about their losses last night.

EDIT: This footage is from the 8th, not last night. Unreleased footage from earlier apparently.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Military sources in Eritrea reveal an armed attack on #Israeli forces at the Dahlak base in Eritrea. The attack targeted the highest peak of Mount Amba Suir, from which #Israeli forces take an observation post in the Red Sea. Informed sources: A senior officer was killed in the operation amid strict #Israeli secrecy.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Israeli cops aggressively pushed people away with batons at the al-Aqsa mosque. Several of the people pushed in this way were older women.

Scuffles break out between worshippers and Israeli police outside the Al-Aqsa mosque

Scuffles broke out between Israeli police and Muslim worshippers wishing to pray at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City just after midday on Friday.

A group of heavily armed police officers sealed off an entrance to the compound near the city’s Lion’s Gate, at times aggressively pushing people away with batons.

People who were turned away told CNN they were not given any reason why they were not allowed to attend the prayer service at the mosque.

They told CNN they believed “the officers’ mood” was the decisive factor. CNN witnessed numerous incidents of officers pushing people away after they approached the entrance and asked why they were not allowed in.

Several of the people pushed in this way were older women. CNN did not see any worshippers initiating a physical altercation or trying to push their way into the compound.

Police didn’t give any specific answers to questions from CNN about why some people were not allowed to enter.

There appeared to be disagreements between different officers on who should be allowed in and who should be turned away.

After witnessing several police officers pushing an elderly woman out of the way, the CNN team was also told to leave and was also pushed away.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-27-23/h_9485776bf1ebd8f7c8d6679d9a4c931b

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Per MoA:

Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor and dimwit, had written a laudation of his own and his bosses foreign policy for the November print edition of Foreign Affairs. The piece was finalized before the war in Palestine had begun.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/system/files/pdf/2023/FA_102_6_ND2023_Sullivan_print_edition_version.pdf

this is 22 pages of drivel, truly putting the cope in cornucopia. here are some excerpts

spoiler

The Biden administration understands the new realities of power. And that is why we will leave America stronger than we found it.

The United States’ alliances and partnerships with other democracies have been its greatest international advantage. They helped create a freer and more stable world. They helped deter aggression or reverse it. And they meant that Washington never had to go it alone. But these alliances were built for a different era. In recent years, the United States was underutilizing or even undermining them. President Biden was clear from the moment he took over about the importance he attached to U.S. alliances, especially given his predecessor’s skepticism of them.

'other democracies' doing a lot of work there, winnowing down the world to the golf course countries. and of course the US is famous for never going it alone. they always find a way to cajole/coerce/threaten allies into contributing token support for idiotic projects.

For example, we have mobilized a global coalition of countries to support Ukraine as it defends itself against an unprovoked war of aggression and to impose costs on Russia. NATO has expanded to include Finland, soon to be followed by Sweden—two historically nonaligned nations. NATO has also adjusted its posture on its eastern flank, deployed a capability to respond to cyberattacks against its members, and invested in its air and missile defenses. And the United States and the EU have dramatically deepened cooperation on economics, energy, technology, and national security.

We didn't win in ukraine but hey at least finland and sweden are maybe joining NATO now. what a booby prize. and 'dramatically deepened cooperation on energy' yes indeed, ask the germans and the poles.

Roughly 20 NATO countries are on track to meet the target of spending two percent of their GDPs on defense in 2024, up from just seven countries in 2022.

and for this increase in spending we are producing even more weapons think tanks and conferences than ever before.

The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic showed that if the United States is unwilling to lead efforts to solve global problems, no one else will step into the breach. In 2020, many world leaders were barely on speaking terms. The G-7 struggled to coalesce when COVID-19 struck. Instead of coordinating closely, countries undertook disparate efforts that made the pandemic more severe than it might otherwise have been.

this is literally the stupidest thing I've ever read about the global response to COVID.

As a cornerstone of this effort, the administration is modernizing the World Bank so it can address today’s challenges with sufficient speed and scale, and we are working with partners to significantly increase the bank’s financing, including to low- and middle-income countries.

Now that we've jacked interest rates, we are taking advantage of the second volcker shock.

The Biden administration inherited a massive gap between ambition and reality when it comes to carbon mitigation. The United States is now driving the global deployment of clean energy technology at scale.

Insane head in the sand hubris, obviously the leader here is China and by miles and miles.

In addition to modernizing the World Bank, the president has also proposed giving developing countries a greater say at the International Monetary Fund. The administration will continue to try to reform the World Trade Organization so it can drive the clean energy transition, protect workers, and promote inclusive and sustainable growth while continuing to uphold competition, openness, transparency, and the rule of law.

are you still talking about keeping the US veto over world bank issues? yes? ok go fuck yourself. this is just about trying to cement developing nations to the anglosphere so they don't get drawn into China's sphere of influence.

...China’s breakneck military modernization and its growing military provocations in the East China and South China Seas and the Taiwan Strait.

damn dude why would china have military interests in the ocean immediately off its coast, damn

This transition [leaving afghanistan] was unquestionably painful—especially for the people of Afghanistan and for the U.S. troops and other personnel who served there.

do we have a saigon emoji?

Indeed, although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades.

data-laughing

His approach returns discipline to U.S. policy. It emphasizes deterring aggression, de-escalating conflicts, and integrating the region through joint infrastructure projects and new partnerships, including between Israel and its Arab neighbors. And it is bearing fruit.

Challenges remain. The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank, but in the face of serious frictions, we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence. Iran remains a threat, and its nuclear program a global challenge. We have acted militarily to protect U.S. personnel, and we have enhanced deterrence, combined with diplomacy, to discourage further aggression. We are committed to ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. And while military force must never be a tool of first resort, we stand ready and prepared to use it when necessary to protect U.S. personnel and interests in this important region.

Where did you come from where did you go, where did you come from Genocide Joe?

We sought to avert the crisis by making it clear to Russia that the United States would respond by supporting Ukraine and by displaying a willingness to engage in talks on European security, even though Russia was not serious about doing so.

Oh how did that willingness to engage go? I recall a bunch of unanswered diplomatic offers from Russia in Dec 2021.

And we imposed far-reaching sanctions on Russia to reduce its ability to wage war.

which failed spectacularly, as Russia has stepped up military production across the board

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

At least 110 people have been killed, including women and children, as a result of several Israeli air raids across the Gaza Strip late on Monday and before dawn on Tuesday, a medical source told Al Jazeera.

In the last few hours, Israeli air strikes were reported in northern Gaza’s al-Shati refugee camp and al-Balad in Jabalia as well as two areas in the south, Rafah and Khan Younis

Palestinian news agency WAFA also confirmed the news, saying that the highest number of casualties was in Rafah with more than 30 people killed.

Medical sources also told WAFA that at least 23 people were killed, including children, and more than 80 others wounded in Khan Younis. Many of the victims in Khan Younis were taken to the al-Nasser Hospital.

Dozens were also reported killed in the strike on the al-Shati refugee camp.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

US quietly expands secret base in Israel: Report

The US has been quietly moving ahead with expanding a secret base it maintains in Israel’s Negev desert, just 32km (20 miles) from Gaza, according to a report by The Intercept.

Code-named “Site 512,” the construction at the radar facility atop Mt. Har Qeren will include what US government records describe as a “life support facility”, or barracks-like structures for staff.

The Intercept said on Friday the $35.8m facility, which was not publicly announced or previously reported, was obliquely referenced in an August 2 contract announcement by the Pentagon.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

London right now

https://streamable.com/a7n6zv

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

watching Palestinians whose Twitter accounts I have followed for years - both regular citizens and journalists - go from posts of desperation about the current hell in Gaza to silence and then the announcement of their deaths is a modern horror I don't really have the words for

Nitter

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Aljazeera' s brave veteran journalist Wael Dahdouh's wife, son and daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike which targeted a shelter house they had fled to. Wael received the news while on air covering the nonstop Israeli strikes on Gaza!

Nitter

There are two raw video clips at the link.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm a little surprised that Andrew Garfield, J-Lo, and Kirsten Stewart are among the small group of A-list celebrities that are calling for a ceasefire. Seems like most others are either indifferent or rabidly pro-Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

Libya expels the ambassadors of Britain, the United States, France and Italy from the country because of their governments’ position on the situation in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The mysterious tweet of Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, one of the senior members of Yemen's Ansarullah

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (5 children)

🔴Kan Hebrew Channel:

Israel informed the mediators that it is ready to consider a large-scale prisoner deal with the Gaza Strip, leading to the release of a large number of israelis, this is what a political official familiar with the ongoing talks with Qatar, Egypt and other mediators told the channel.

According to reports in various media outlets, Hamas is demanding the transfer of fuel to Gaza, the release of Palestinian prisoners, and a ceasefire - and the political official replied: “Things are approaching the moment of maturity, and we will soon know where they are headed.”

Potential direction of current talks might be crucial.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Al-Aqsa Mosque blocked by Israeli forces during Friday prayers:

At the temple around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, there are very few people. Normally around this time, with Friday prayers about to get under way, that would be full. They just haven’t been allowed to get in.

At Lion’s Gate, the normal entry point for Al-Aqsa, we’ve seen some men being physically abused by the Israel police. One man trying to explain that he is just going in to pray was hit by a police officer.

It’s incredibly difficult for anyone to get even close to the mosque. Normally we would see thousands of people here for midday prayers. Roadblocks are set up across the occupied West Bank. People are being blocked from anywhere near the place they normally come on Friday.

Al Jazeera

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