Image is from Futurama.
Happy holidays, fellow godless communists. We are in year three of the Five-Year Plan to eliminate all Christmas cheer and create a world free of the joys and festivity of Christmas. Nobody should have to be reminded that in our concrete brutalist communist strongholds, NO ornaments are allowed in December. Please report any Christmas trees, snowflakes, baubles, and presents to the evil secret police, and anybody caught violating their Volcel Pledge by having a tentative kiss under a mistletoe will be shot on sight.
Developments lately have been grim. Our Supreme Communist Dictator Brandon is being removed from office by Christmas-loving patriots, and soon, Christmas will adorn the White House for another four years. This is obviously very disappointing, but while Christmas joy is strictly prohibited, good vibes are still strongly encouraged. Revolutionary optimism (a term we only bring out when things are going very badly and we need to be delusional) shall triumph over defeatist rhetoric by stooges of the Christmas regime.
We must have hope. Our foreign allies aiding us in destroying Christmas now possess hypersonic weaponry, allowing us to compete with and overcome the engine technology powering Santa's sleigh. Abroad, they have destroyed factories and hit cities with missiles travelling at unimaginable speeds into precise targets, while the Christmas regime struggles to produce their own such missiles, as they are still reliant on aircraft bombing campaigns. Precision has a quality all its own, or something along those lines. We just have to hold out another two years or so, and I swear to you: we will live in a world without this accursed holiday.
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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.
Turkish foreign minister says no room for Kurdish militants in Syria's future
The new Syrian government is either gonna allow or get assistance from Turkey to wipe out the SDF aren’t they?
HTS called for all weapons and arms within the country to come under their control, and I highly doubt SDF is gonna comply.
The Libyan scenario is beginning to play out. HTS didn't win as much as sanctions did and the hollowed out Baathist regime crumbled under its own weight. It's difficult to know how Russia will triangulate with Turkiye HTS and Iran. It seems fairly plain that HTS will target other minorities after the Kurds if they don't go into Iraq. I have to imagine that this is going to have a dialectic effect on Iran and Iraqi militias, but Iran is having to deal with internal contradictions and it's unclear if they have the material and will to get involved at least in Syria itself as it's now had its military bombed away.
Turkey is going to try to draw NATO into the middle east on the side of ISIS and get kicked out of NATO.
Video shows Zionazi automated robots placing explosive boxes at the gates of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
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IOF today don’t know how to fight, all they do is sit in air-conditioned room, use Xbox controllers, plant bombs and drop missiles, eat hot chip, and hasbara
With the escalation in Jenin, the resistance threatens suicide bombings while the PA deploys RPGs
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They got warning shots for far longer than they deserved
@Redcuban1959@hexbear.net, I didn't have a chance to respond to you before the last thread was locked. With regard to the Unification Church,
They believe that due to Japanese imperialism in Korea, all Japanese people have "negative ancestral karma."
This can only be corrected via ruinous financial donations to the unification church, which is what happened to Tetsuya Yamagami's mother.
I don't think this put them at odds with the Japanese government at all to be clear, which is why it continued for so long prior to Abe's assassination.
As far as the DPRK goes they're definitely extremely Anti-Communist, however, they are also pro-reunification of Korea. I'm not sure exactly where that lands them on any given issue, but there is a reason that they have a lot of CIA ties.
That's the Falun Gong, totally different, their main thing is hating China for kicking them out for being grifters who got their members killed by demonizing medicine. Sub things are anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-tech, homophobia and uh, anti-miscegenation.
But they're not specifically anti-Japanese as far as I'm aware.
They believe that due to Japanese imperialism in Korea, all Japanese people have"negative ancestral karma."
I didn't know about that. They seem scam mostly middle-class and working-class people, which is quite common in religious cults.
I think the CIA has deep ties and influence within the Moonies, probably using them to promote anti-communism and pro-US stuff. This would explain their ties with the Japanese and Chinese far right groups.
I didn't know about that. They seem scam mostly middle-class and working-class people, which is quite common in religious cults.
Yeah. I mean, this is speculation, but that's probably why the Shinzo Abe and his ilk didn't mind allying themselves to them. None of the people they care about would be caught dead actually joining the Moonies.
I'm not sure about more recent activities, but I think the Moonies helped with Iran-Contra back in the day.
They also have also schismed off into a little splinter cult (family drama over who gets to be the Messiah after the founder died) based in the US called Rod of Iron Ministries. This cult believes that the AR-15 rifle is holy and the membership all bring them to ceremonies. Furthermore the leader of the cult wears a literal crown of bullets during ceremonies.
If you listen to QAA they have an episode, 163, about the Rod of Iron splinter specifically.
The crocodile from the movie Crocodile Dundee has died. He was just 90 years old.
You call that a life?
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Yes, yes I do
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If anyone can come up with anything better than 'lifey wifey' their welcome to make the simpsons joke
Cubans protest against US embargo outside US embassy in Havana
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans, led by former president Raúl Castro and current president Miguel Díaz-Canel, protested this Friday (20) outside the US embassy in Havana against Washington's trade blockade, a month before Donald Trump's return to the White House.
The “March of the fighting people against the blockade and the permanence of Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism” started from the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, an iconic esplanade in front of the US embassy, located on the Cuban capital's main seafront avenue, known as the Malecón. “We are marching now to tell the US government to let the Cuban people live in peace. Down with interference!” said Díaz-Canel, addressing the crowd, who were waving Cuban flags.
Despite being 93 years old, former president Raúl Castro, who officially retired in 2021, was at the head of the march, along with the Cuban president. “Tear down the blockade” and ‘We're not terrorists, take us off the list’, chanted the participants. “We need them to open their doors to us so that we can trade with all countries,” Rogelio Savigne, 55 and head of transportation at a state-owned company, told AFP. “If there hadn't been the blockade, the difficulties we're going through wouldn't be like this,” said Faustino Miranda (85), a pensioner.
Díaz-Canel denounced that, “when they persecute and prevent financial transactions [...], they are denying the people of Cuba food, medicine, fuel, goods, supplies and essential commodities for survival.” During his first term in office (2017-2021), Trump, who takes office on January 20, interrupted the historic rapprochement that both countries had begun in 2014 under Barack Obama (2009-2017). Trump applied 243 measures that reinforced the embargo, which has been in place since 1962, including the reincorporation of the island on the US list of “countries that sponsor terrorism”, along with Iran and North Korea. Democrat Joe Biden barely eased these sanctions and kept Cuba on the list, which blocks financial and economic flows to the island.
According to the authorities, around 700,000 people attended the demonstration in Havana, a figure that AFP was unable to verify independently. Mobilizations like this were started by Fidel Castro in the 1980s and have been organized at times of strong tensions between Havana and Washington.
We joke about the war on Christmas, but it’s literally happening in Syria as Christians have reportedly been murdered and threatened with expulsion. Less damaging, but symbolic, is the arson of the Christmas tree near Hama
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