August 29th’s update is here! TLDR? Here’s the summary.
August 30th’s update is here! TLDR? Here’s the summary.
August 31st’s update is here! TLDR? Here’s the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
Alright, I guess it’s fucking “SeventyTwoTrillion gets sick all the time” season. It isn’t coronavirus again (would be super unlucky if it was, lmao) but I am getting headaches and other symptoms which are not optimal conditions for collecting articles and doing media analysis (AKA shouting at journalists).
Might be a 3-update week, we’ll see if I feel any more functional tomorrow. Apologies for people who like the updates. I’ll either be back tomorrow or on Monday.
No updates on Sundays. Updates will resume tomorrow, provided that the CIA doesn’t point their illness gun at me again.
Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it’s a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn’t really need more, but:
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.
Last week’s discussion post.
Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, US-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective. When social critic Noam Chomsky pointed out how unprecedented this was, Newsweek‘s “factchecker” (7/26/22) declared his criticism “clearly untrue”—a determination that did more to confirm the ideological strictures of US media than to debunk them.
While the BBC and Radio Free America did broadcast in Russia post-WWII and during the Cold War, their frequencies were jammed by the Soviet government for decades. Any access that the Russian public did have was gained in spite of, not thanks to, their government’s efforts.
This is such a weird argument by Newsweek. How is blocking access through the internet to RT not the same as jamming a signal?
Censorship is just the RKO radio tower beaming out blocker waves, anything else is careful social mitigation of course
“The private companies just did that on their own” - free market coincidence theorists
Latvia is essentially banning the Russian language:
🇱🇻The Latvian government will consider a law on the restriction of the Russian language.
This will be a law that means “the end of bilingualism,” the Cabinet of Ministers said at a press conference.
The Russian language will be banned from being used in public space and in the labor market. According to the head of the Ministry of Justice, Bordans, this will “revive” the use of the Latvian language in Latvia. And all possible exceptions will apply only to the use of the languages of the European Union.
The Ministry of Justice expects the adoption of the law by October 1.
- Sputnik on Telegram
37% of the inhabitants of Latvia are native Russian speakers.
fucking imagine if [bad country] did something like this. it would be called a genocide within five minutes
China is teaching the Uyghurs Chinese as a second language( while allowing them to use whatever other language they want) and libs call that genocide. While this will be touted as victory to freedom and democracy
It happened in Canada already. Residential schools. They’d beat you, abuse you, kill you for speaking your indigenous language. 60s scoop, take all the indigenous kids out of their homes and plop em with white families. They don’t need to outlaw Dene or Ojibwe, so few are left to speak it and it costs money to learn.
Crazy ass flooding in Pakistan, over 1000 dead :deeper-sadness:
An incomprehensible horror. I don’t know how to process anything on these scales.
there’s a reddit post purporting to show a literal fucking lake the size of like 10% of the country formed from all the rain
I guess the bright side is uhh pakistan probably won’t need to go to war with india over the Indus river
I mean is raw water from the indus river usable? Water’s water and both sources need treatment to be made drinkable and treating the water from these monsoons is still less expensive in terms of energy/infrastructure than desalination would be
