Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.

Season’s greetings, fellow godless communists. I’m here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.

Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: “The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over.”

Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.

Over and out.

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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 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.

  • skeletorsass [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    82·
    11 months ago

    I have survived the earthquake. Father house required repair. I have had a very busy time. I am very tired. My father want to give me the government money from the earthquake, but I want him to have it. Stubborn old man it is hard for him to accept.

    I can answer question about the earthquake in Gansu province, China. There has been a lot of help but the weather has been very cold.

  • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    79·
    11 months ago

    I didn’t notice before, but Wikipedia in Arabic has the logo in the Palestinian colors and calls for an end to genocide on every page.

    In solidarity with the right of the Palestinian people
    No to genocide in Gaza… No to the killing of civilians
    No to targeting hospitals and schools… No to misleading and double standards
    Stop the war…and spread just and comprehensive peace

    The links in red go to (in Arabic order) the page on “Palestinian-Israeli war”, a category page on massacres during the “Palestinian-Israeli war”, a page on the Baptist Hospital massacre, and finally a link to the subheading titled “Israeli Propaganda” under the page “Operation Al Aqsa Typhoon”.

    A news article

  • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    79·
    11 months ago

    The Venezuelan who asked Argentinians to vote for Milei will not be able to continue studying medicine for free at the University of Buenos Aires due to the new policies for foreign students. This afternoon, he made a video lamenting his situation.

    lol

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    77·
    11 months ago

    I got sent this Reddit link of some guy filming an auto store in North Korea and loudly saying that everybody there were actors putting on a show while people gave him weird looks. It’s always astounding how some Qanon nutjob doing that in the US would be labelled as a far-right conspiracy theorist but do it in bad country and the liberals eat it up. Westerners are profoundly stupid to believe that shit. The funniest part was that there were other white dudes giving this guy weird looks.

    North Korea is allegedly wanting to be a tourist destination and I fear for the number of sexpats, Evangelical missionaries, and ideologues that will be coming in.

  • Al_Sham [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    68·
    11 months ago

    "The attacks by Hezbollah today on the border have been very intense and non-stop since this morning with many IOF casualties so far.

    The assassination of the Iranian general in Syria yesterday is not irrelevant to the increase of attack intensity by Hezbollah today."

    Unofficial report

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    68·
    10 months ago

    On December 30th, 1922, The USSR was established through the confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation.

    Happy USSR foundation day everyone.

  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    67·
    11 months ago

    Video on TikTok and telegrams floating around of a man who appears to have Down syndrome in combat gear at the frontlines in a trench in Ukraine. The Ukrainian cameraman is of course bullying him and fucking with him and mocking him.

    Ukraine is getting so desperate it’s mobilizing people with Down syndrome to fight in trenches…

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    67·
    11 months ago

    Gaza government media reporting Israelis performed organ harvesting

    I would be more sceptical of this kind of claim normally. However Israel has previously admitted to doing it back in 2009:

    And in 2007 to “losing” bodies from cemeteries.

    And liberal media has reported on them doing it in the 90s.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34503294

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/israeli-pathologists-harvested-organs

    Where does Israel get its “skin bank” from?

    https://www.jordannews.jo/Section-20/Middle-East/Israel-s-skin-bank-raises-ethical-concerns-on-organ-consent-32381

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    65·
    11 months ago

    Yesterday the NYT had a headline about 15 Israeli soldier deaths in 24 hours. At the same time, Al Jazeera with the real news - Israel bombed a refugee camp and killed 70. The NYT is finally covering that bombing today, with the headline “Netanyahu Visits Gaza After Attack That Palestinians Say Killed Dozens”. All the news that’s fit to print. Jesus fuck I hate the New York Times.