this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
131 points (99.2% liked)

news

23411 readers
571 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Image is of China's ambassador to Afghanistan, Zhao Sheng, meeting Taliban Prime Minister Hasan Akhund in September 2023.

I know the Rambo title card is a hoax.

The COTW was chosen in the wake of the aborted sequel to the attempted assassination of Trump being performed by a guy who is VERY enthusiastic about Ukraine, to the point of trying to sneak Afghan soldiers into Ukraine by setting up a house in Pakistan to house them and then further transport them. He also apparently offered to send thousands of Afghan soldiers to Haiti to help them combat gang violence. Whomst among us doesn't have the numbers of thousands of Afghan soldiers on speed-dial. Do you reckon there's a group chat?

Anyway, while there is still no official recognition of the Taliban's government by any country, China has taken a different course than the late USSR and the US - forming economic in-roads, rather than trying their own invasion. This has been a big boon for the struggling country, with various mines and oil and agriculture deals helping keep things barely afloat. A total disintegration of the social fabric of Afghanistan is not in the interest of any of the powers that border it - China, Pakistan, and Iran, with Russia not too far away - so an interesting dynamic of helping-without-official-recognition has been established. I wonder who will be the first country to fully recognize them?


The COTW (Country of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific country every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied nations. If you've wanted to talk about the country 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 country.

The Country of the Week is Afghanistan! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

Please check out the HexAtlas!

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.


top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 8 points 22 minutes ago (2 children)

theres now a video going around of Israeli soldier throwing a Palestinan from a Rooftop in Jenin , Westbank.

doomer

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 4 points 16 minutes ago

Don’t look at any bulldozer videos

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 3 points 4 minutes ago

Every video I've seen from the Resistance is them mercing occupation soldiers.

Every video from the IOF is just them murdering unarmed civilians.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 8 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

I looked up the EU "terror list" just for fun. I knew it was a list of scary Muslims but I would have imagined that they would have put a few token white guys in there.

But no, out of 21 designated "terrorist" organisatios, 17 are from the Muslim world. All 21 are from the global south. Was it really that hard to find some small group of politically insignificant Nazis and add them to keep up appearances?

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 1 points 2 minutes ago

I'm surprised they didn't count Wagner for that exact purpose. That would make sense (to libs with 0 understanding)

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 42 points 2 hours ago (8 children)

The "Uncommitted Movement" issued a statement today that they:

  • Will not endorse Kamala Harris over not meeting any of their demands
  • Urge their supporters to vote in the Presidential election
  • Urge their supporters not to vote for Trump or any third-party/independent candidates for president.

With "friends" like these...

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 10 points 40 minutes ago

Obviously, they're saying we should write-in Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. #itsnotjoevertilitsjoever

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 14 points 53 minutes ago

Were not endorsing Kamala but you should deffinitly vote and not for anybody other than Kamala.

If the rules you follow have led you to this... lol

Really desperate to not admit tot themselves they do t actually stand for anything.

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 17 points 1 hour ago

Feels like a committee Frankenstein position

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 6 points 35 minutes ago

Sounds like an endorsement if you ask me.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 21 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Urge their supporters to vote in the Presidential election

Urge their supporters not to vote for Trump or any third-party/independent candidates for president.

Pick a lane!

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 17 points 1 hour ago

They aren't endorsing Kamala though!

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So not so different than Hassan or any left influencers

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is Hassan saying don’t vote third party?

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) (2 children)

Kind of, he said he never takes any third parties seriously he was explicitly talking about the greens (calling them grifters because they don’t do anything locally)

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 5 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

He should endorse PSL, maybe a chunk of his audience would listen.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 5 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago) (1 children)

I don’t see him platforming PSL or any PSL adjacent people, but he did an interview with Ro Khanna at the DNC.

I think his audience is taking Hassan as entertainment. Probably a way to feel better as they nose pinch themselves into voting for democrats.

Inb4 the radicalization pipeline argument, he probably plays a small role within a niche community, the majority of the population is indifferent or anti-israel already and it is a going to increase in the near future, but this is not good enough, i don’t really care about how anti colonialism is ingrained in the future generations when Israel complete their final solution. I want politicians to pass their litmus test now.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 6 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

I don’t think he is going to either, pissing off the more liberal parts of audience would cost him money. It would be nice though, even if it did nothing.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 2 points 24 minutes ago

People should really look at people on the internet as what they are: entertainers. They should be criticized constructively and not defending as parasocial mindsets kicks in.

[–] somename@hexbear.net 1 points 1 minute ago

He has said he respects PSL for doing on the ground organizing and stuff, independent of the electoral voting side which he does think is kind of pointless ultimately.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 24 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Urge their supporters not to vote for Trump ~~or any third-party/independent candidates for president.~~

They could've just said 'please don't vote Trump' and let people vote as they please for anyone else. Just 5head centrist language.

We don't endorse A, but you must vote for someone, and someone cannot be B or anyone except A.

[–] puff@hexbear.net 15 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

@Kalibrated_Maps on twitter suggests that something like 25% of the Kursk salient has been liberated by Russia. Note that other maps show a larger salient and less Russian gains (bias, fog of war, etc.)

[–] miz@hexbear.net 2 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

Morocco, a retreat for Israeli soldiers leaving Gaza: As "Israeli" war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon draw international censure, will Morocco continue offering a luxurious retreat for occupation soldiers, or will mounting public outrage and legal action force the kingdom to confront its controversial alliance with "Tel Aviv"? | The Cradle

Now, outside of Gaza, the cries of children and the echoes of shattered lives linger in "Israeli" soldier Moshe Avichzer’s mind. Blood splatters, refusing to fade, stain his occupational army uniform, and the dust of leveled neighborhoods clings to his skin.

The mission is complete: Gaza is left in ruins, its people without water, electricity, or hope. Now, the need to decompress calls for a new task.

But where does an "Israeli" soldier like Avichzer unwind after committing such atrocities? The answer is Morocco – Marrakesh, to be exact.

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 13 points 1 hour ago

where do i get the Nasrallah Speec subtiteld ?

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 23 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

RE: Federal interest rate cut.

Okay so the graph shows that a cut in interest rates precipitates a recession. While that's true, I think we're still in uncertain waters because the US economy is unlike it's ever been. The 8 years of near zero interest rates was unprecedented and shifted so much of the capital into assets rather than real production. So I don't know if the typical rules about borrowing and reinvestment will apply.

Do the high priests of the economy think a recession is coming? They're saying they don't think so, but they also could be lying. The rate hikes were intended to slow down inflation, which they largely did. But prices are still high compared to wages. What will people do with lower interest rates? Is it enough to boost general consumption? Or just enough for financial types to move money away from production and into financial instruments. I don't know.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 30 minutes ago

Waiting in anticipation for the pre-election October Suprise do-something

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 21 minutes ago

It's opposite (in theory): lower interest rates make people more likely to buy lots of machines on rolling credit to do stuff. Its very obvious in solar, where profit margin is allegedly around 5 %, you are basically fucked unless profit margins increase more than interest rates of 5.5 or interest rates drop. (More truthfully, given the choice between bonds at 6% and solar installation at 5%, only very committed person would risk it, when bonds are risk free). Also lower interest rates boost housing prices.

But lower interest rates also produce high movements of capital, because it opens up more and more speculation areas the closer they are to 0.

[–] Boredom@hexbear.net 3 points 46 minutes ago

It could also be a way to finish the kneecapping of Europe. Alot of countries dropped interest rates recently.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 40 points 2 hours ago

Israel straight up bombing Lebanon now.

https://t.me/QudsNen/123446

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

On the 22th there's going to be another regional state election in Germany, Brandenburg this time, and again the AfD is leading in the polls (25-28%) followed by the SPD(20-25%), then the CDU (15-19%), and BSW (13-27%) and the rest all below or around 5%

Since the 90s the SPD has placed first in every state election in Brandenburg and all state president's have been from the SPD

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 26 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Come on Osint twitter, stop with the bs.

Just read some account claiming Iran is going to stop Indian weapons shipments to Israel. No mention of it anywhere else.

Iran may occasionally dunk on India but that's it, they very much would prefer to have decent relations.

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 28 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Norwegian citizen linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon (Norwegian state media NRK, machine translated)

According to several media, the company is registered in Bulgaria's capital Sofia and is owned by a person with Norwegian citizenship.

The webpage of the company the Norwegian is linked to contained a presentation of various technical and advisory services as late as around 11 o'clock on Thursday. It has since been emptied of content and now only displays a message about missing content.

PST [Norwegian Police Security Service] is aware of the claims from various international media that a Norwegian-owned company is said to have been involved in the sale of pagers. PST cannot confirm this information, nor can we provide further comments on the matter, communications director Trond Hugubakken writes to NRK.

Several Norwegian media outlets have tried to get in contact with him. He's registered on an address in Oslo, and was apparently (and still is I think?) on an oversea business trip when the terror attacks in Lebanon happened. One newspaper (VG) went to his address and knocked on his door. They got no response. When they asked his neighbors, they were told that they haven't seen the man since the summer vacation in July.

It was the man's own employer (in Norway) who reported him to PST:

The man's employer informs VG that he was called by an American journalist sent on Wednesday evening and made allegations about the employee's connection to the company in Bulgaria.

"I checked some links and was able to see the same as he had put. When I receive information that apparently looks serious in such an inflamed case, it was natural for me to notify PST immediately," says the man's employer

edit: from CBS, revealing the name of both the company and the Norwegian owner (Rinson Jose):

Separate records reviewed by CBS News show that Norta Global Ltd. was registered as a company in Bulgaria in April 2022, with its sole owner listed as a Norwegian citizen named Rinson Jose. Global Norta is described on its website — which has since been taken offline — as offering a range of services "from outsourcing, consulting, tech and payment integration, analysis, promotion of techno products and services, as well as the estimation and processing of relevant commercial transactions.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 28 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

What a truly multinational effort. A Taiwanese corporation linked to one in Hungary, which is linked to one in Bulgaria, which is now linked to Norway, used by Israel. The beauty of globalisation.

All to perform a terror attack in Lebanon large enough to make ISIS blush.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 5 points 35 minutes ago

In the meantime the Taiwan company dude said that his link to the hungarian company was an austrian called Tom.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›