Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis
Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
In a previous post I wrote about how Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime plans to save rural public transit by simply not paying bus drivers. Today they released their full plan on how to save the declining countryside.
Recognising how public transit is insufficient in the countryside they plan to allow 17 year olds to drive unsupervised unlike today when 17 year olds are allowed to drive under the supervision of an adult. The regime promises that the young drivers will not abuse this scheme to have fun as they will only be allowed on the roads from 5 AM to 8 PM, time enough for school and work but not for socialising in weekends.
The national council for traffic safety as well as several road safety experts are highly critical of the scheme, predicting that it will lead to more dead and injured in traffic accidents. The regime, however, claims that they believe in young people, saying that we have the most responsible generation ever.
Getting more cars and more unsafe drivers on the roads are not enough though, to save the countryside they also want to slash planning laws, allowing the repurposing of "unnecessary" agricultural buildings into residential or tourism-related purposes. The plan also allows for more construction of vacation homes near the coastline, something that is currently completely banned, and for the establishment of "glamping" in the open countryside. Rural areas are already full of nature so who will notice if they build a vacation park here or there? Besides, what have all those meadows and beaches and forests ever done for us? It is time they do their part as well.
The regime counts on this to bring huge private investments to declining rural areas.
In the less insane part of the proposal they plan to provide a bit of funding for municipalities that do green energy as well as for giving students in rural municipalities a tax deduction for their commute to school.