Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis
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
The COTW (Child of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific child every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied children. If you've wanted to talk about the child or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any child.
The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net's son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.
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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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Colombia Humana Party (President Gustavo Petro's Party) To Be Chaired by Gloria Florez
‘We are going to unite the party that fights for our people’, she said. At an assembly held on Sunday, Senator Gloria Florez was appointed as the president of Colombia Humana, the party founded by President Gustavo Petro.
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“This is a living movement that expresses itself and debates. Now we are going to unite our party, the party where everyone belongs, the party that fights for our people. Colombia Humana has taken the first step towards the unity of progressivism,” said Florez, whose main task will be to work towards the unification of the left with the aim of creating a single political force for the 2026 elections.
Ferney Lozano, a legislator of the Valle del Cauca Assembly, was elected as the political vice president of Colombia Humana, and Andrea Vargas from Barranquilla was chosen as its general secretary.
Figures from the Colombian left such as Hollman Morris, the manager of RTVC, and Gustavo Bolivar, the director of Social Prosperity, praised the election of the three new members of the Colombia Humana’s board.
The text reads, “Count on me. All my love and my affection for the assembly of Colombia Humana. On this day and from a distance, what I see in you is resistance and hope. Our unity is urgent and necessary for the greatness of Colombia.”
“Their main challenges: leading the union of the Historic Pact and designing internal democracy procedures. No more candidate lists made with the pen of discord. Without serious and binding internal consultations, there is no democracy,” Bolivar stated on his X account.
Senator Florez has a long history with Petro. They met when they were both members of the Democratic Pole (PD), where she was also part of the board of directors. She has been a part of Colombia Humana since its founding, when it was established under the name Progresist Movement.
Florez served in Petro’s mayoral administration as secretary of government, and in 2018, she ran for the Senate as part of the Decency List. She entered Congress in 2022 with the Historic Pact coalition. Florez is a member of the Senate’s Second Committee, which handles issues related to international policy, public force, trade, economic integration, and migration.
Their main challenges: leading the union of the Historic Pact and designing internal democracy procedures. No more candidate lists made with the pen of discord. Without serious and binding internal consultations, there is no democracy
If they actually manage to create a strong, democratic primary system it would be huge for Colombia Humana. Most candidate lists are set from party leadership down, even in the more progressive parties, leaving room for corruption and paying political favors by putting someone on top of the list.