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.
Nord Stream was supposed to fill the energy gap. I know this site is nuke pilled for whatever reason...I was myself until I worked on them. There is no safe nuke imo.
Maybe on paper. Maybe in a sterile lab world. Maybe if physics, chemistry, nature or human greed, war, arrogance, or negligence wasn't a factor. I'm fine with nukes tossed into unmanned
but not where we live.
Don't think anyone anticipated Germany's allies comitting a world class sabatoge and terrorism against them, but it seems Germany just looks the other way as it's now blackmailed by it's own friends to pony up and back the fascists again or the US turns the LNG ships off.
I have a question about CANDU reactors and you might be the right person to ask. They're touted by various governmental authorities as being a safe design here in
. Is that accurate or mostly PR?
Safer as in more dirty fuel so it can't really be turned into nuke bombs.
I was trained on light water reactors so DU isn't my forte.
CANDU "Can do!" Haha funny 😄 the CAN part is all marketing. It's witty and there's pride in doing a technically advanced big boy country thing..(you all still have British royalty on your coins)
DU is the type of reactor Deturium-oxide (Heavy water i.e. extra neutron) and Uranium as in "natural" Uranium vs highly enriched Uranium.
In the end it operates similar to a traditional light water reactor. Radiation to heat up a primary to heat up a secondary to push turbines. Points of failure exist between each stage.
The DU design was to bypass the enrichment costs with the benifet A Dr. Evil isn't going to infiltrate a plant and steal the rods with a convoy of thugs to pack it into a working full scale bomb. Canada isn't one to nuclear saber rattle anyways that's what the US and UK are for. DU is a bit toxic to cells and microscopic creatures as they take in Heavy Water hydrogen with 2 neutrons and that disrupts their ability to reproduce / function, but humans can tolerate it somewhat and it is used in some medical applications. So if it evaporates it in itself isn't too much a danger. An uncovered melted down reactor.
You can still dirty bomb if you strike it or if it blows up. Same risks to meltdown and exclusion zones and become a corium mass like Fukushima.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)
It is still safer than hoping green energy takes off in time to stop climate collapse. There is no time left, the feedback loops are already in full churn.