Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North
Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North
Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.
The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.
Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.
I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.
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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.
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Huge Changes For Student Loan Repayment Begin In 5 Days For 30 Million Borrowers
But with the on-ramp ending, missed payments will now be reported to national credit agencies again. Even one missed payment can severely damage someone’s credit report and reduce their credit score dramatically. While some loan loan servicers may not report missed payments until the borrower is 90 days past due, missed or delinquent payments can technically be reported after just 30 days.
And with Fresh Start ending on September 30, as well, student loan defaults can also be reported again to national credit bureaus. Federal law generally prohibits the ongoing reporting of defaulted accounts for more than seven and a half years, so long-defaulted loans may not reappear on some borrowers’ credit reports. But more recent defaults will start to be reported again, potentially inflicting severe credit report damage from some people. This could impact their ability to rent an apartment, take out a car loan, or pass a background check for a job.
From Twitter
This is enraging y'all: Biden restarts late fees, negative credit reporting, and defaults/collections on loans
Now the feds can garnish your wages, take your social security and tax returns without even a court order
the reality in the USA is worse than the wildest dystopian chud fantasies about social credit in China
Is this the result of the court cases or is Biden just putting up his middle finger now so it's the last thing we see as he gets lowered into his grave?
It's court case related. The battle over the SAVE plan has been going on for months now with kinda no end in sight (awaiting an 8th district ruling that will be appealed up to the SCOTUS which can be partially addressed and sent back down then appealed up again etc. etc.). All SAVE plans are currently in an interest free forbearance period awaiting all of the legal challenges to resolve themselves (which will still probably be months of litigation). There has been no additional advisement from loan processors or the DoE about the state of this period.
The critique I've seen on the admin side is they used a less fool-proof vehicle to institute the plan than what they could have (same critique has been levied for the outright forgiveness plan).
I can't really assess the critique because it's really in the weeds legal battles/administrative tools between a lot of competing interests. If someone else has deeper insight I'd love to hear it.
I entered the SAVE thing and then got put in forbearance, what does this mean for my loans?
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yea i just got an email saying my loans are restarting in Feb. what the fuck dude.