Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.
The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.
Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.
Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it’s notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.
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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.
is it finally happening
Just want to point out that whoever the person is that killed the healthcare CEOscum absolutely knew what they were doing. Today is the tree lighting in Rockefeller Center, so there’s a fuck ton of tourists out. They knew that the best way to get around the city is on bike, which they used to flee the scene right into Central Park. You can get there way faster on bike than anything else. And they knew that in Central Park, specifically in the forested area of the Ramble, there are few cameras and many places to hide where they could change clothes and then blend back in with the massive crowds hitting the city today. Also apparently used a suppressed pistol, and knew exactly which door the CEO would be coming out of/when to be there. Impressive. I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that this assassin gets away with this. Trump assassins take notes.
Got emself a dang roll-top knapsack. 5/5 fit.
horrors approaching
Frenchies might kick out their government, wish them great success in that endeavor
The CEO killing is being called a targeted killing, but the MSM taking the opportunity to scaremonger and make this about the safety of the general public. There’s probably more people walking the streets that have been fucked over by healthcare corporations. Pretty sure they aren’t going to be the targets of a hit or premeditated murder.
Dear God I am so tired of being surrounded by zionist jews that use antisemetism or other facets of their identities such as being poc or lgbt to just be islamophobic or pro-genocide. Do they not realize even public perception of the people in the west has become more pro-palestine than pro-israel, small as it may be? When this all boils over do they not understand just how much ammo they’re giving to antisemites and neonazis? By pretending there’s no genocide, twisting facts and straight up lying do they think just whining is gonna convince people of the inevitable? I wish my biggest fucking issue in life was being upset that my tl was filled with “obvious antisemites” aka people talking about the gaza genocide. I’m just so fucking over it they’re everywhere, may God help the non-zionist jews who have to deal with these people and what the fall-out of this genocide will bring. I’m so fucking tired of anti-arab rethoric and the clear apathy towards arab lives, not even children are spared from their evil. And ofc Palestine is not enough, they had to get their hands in Lebanon and Syria but somehow “Israel” is the victims. Cause apparently colonization and genocide it’s ok if they do it. Rant over, I just ran into some victim playing zionists who are otherwise “progressive” and lost it. I’m so done, it sometimes feel like running into one of these people makes me forget that most of the world (not politicians, but people-wise, especially non-westerns) arent zionists or pro-Israel and it ruins my day, I gotta remind myself.
South Korea opposition formally present President Yoon impeachment bill to parliament - Live TV
South Korean defense minister offers resignation over martial law controversy. South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun apologized on Wednesday for causing public concern following President Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempt to impose martial law, offering his resignation.
The decision came after Yoon declared emergency martial law in an unexpected late-night statement but subsequently lifted it hours later as the opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to reject it, News.Az reports, citing Yonhap. “I have offered my will to resign to the president, taking responsibility for all the turmoil caused by the emergency martial law,” Kim said in a statement sent to reporters.
Nonce Ex-Minister Joins Board Of Ukrainian Energy Firm
Former Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod will join Ukraine’s state energy firm, NPC Ukrenergo, as a board member. The company is tasked with maintaining Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure and faces challenges due to what Kofod calls “Putin’s terror bombings”.
CW: CSA
Kofod is best known for having sex with a 15 year old girl in 2008 during a seminar in the Social Democrat youth organisation. He was 34 at the time. The 9th-grader had previously completed a one week internship at Kofod’s office in parliament. The girl and her parents were both party members and the party was successful in putting a lid on the case and sparing Kofod from consequences. Although some rumours suggest less than full consent, the relationship was technically legal and no charges were brought.
Kofod failed to gain a seat in parliament in the 2022 general election. He has since been cashing in on his time as foreign minister by running a shady consultancy firm.
Kofod replaces another Dane who resigned in protest over the sacking of the company’s CEO.
- Source: DR (state media), December 4th 2024
Buzzkill: “World’s Best Honey” Award Cancelled Over Fakes
This year’s World Beekeeping Awards in Copenhagen will not crown a “best honey” due to fears of widespread honey adulteration, which has made it nearly impossible to guarantee the authenticity of competing entries.
According to an EU study, 46% of honey imported to the bloc could be fake, often bulked up with cheap sugar syrups. A spokesperson from Denmark’s Beekeeper’s Association has stated that the fakes have become so good that it is impossible to taste the difference. While Western actors are quick to blame China and other non-EU scapegoats, they remain quiet about the role of Western importers and the potential for fraud closer to home.
The sticky situation is hardly new, back in 1269 the legal code for the city of Ribe ordered that merchants who were caught selling counterfeit honey should be decapitated and their fake goods ceremonially burned. Today medieval gore has been swapped for bureaucracy, in an attempt to cut down fraud though greater transparency the EU’s new “breakfast directive” requires honey labels to clearly indicate their origin and importers of non-EU honey to be registered.
- Source: DR (state media), December 4th 2024
Where can I get more info about the DPRK’s internal workings and why does the party general secretary appear hereditary?
A Healthcare CEO got assassinated this morning. I am surprised this doesn’t happen more frequently in America of all places with all the guns.
South Korea - Majority Wins As President’s Putsch Fails | Moon of Alabama
good summary of the six-hour attempt to seize power in occupied korea. no brainworms that I noticed
