Analysis and images of the parades is all over the internet and in the last megathread; for the China-India stuff I recommend this article, as well as the Tricontinental in general.
Image is from @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net's comment in the last megathread.
Last week was the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, and on such an occasion, China put on quite an impressive military parade, especially in comparison to the rather drab and corporate parade that the USA recently had. In attendance were many world leaders, including Putin, Kim Jong Un, and a very happy-looking Lukashenko.
This took place shortly after the SCO summit in Tianjin, in which Modi was notably in attendance. That one of the world's most powerful fascists was in attendance in China near the anniversary of the World Antifascist War is obviously pretty ironic. Regardless, the mood was still relatively positive; for example, Xi announced the acceleration of the creation of the SCO development bank, and Indian-Chinese relations are once again in the thaw cycle of their long-term cyclical pattern, with direct flights resumed and links expanded. The fact that there is this much projected optimism from China about a Global South which is being increasingly tariffed, infiltrated, starved, looted, bombed, invaded, and massacred in the hundreds of thousands by rabid imperialist dogs is perhaps a little tone-deaf, but buoying up the SCO is better than doing nothing at all, I suppose.
Any astute Geopolitics Understander can tell you that this is certainly not India joining the side of the Global South, but instead a move somewhat forced upon them as they seek to balance both sides for their own gain. As Trump amps up pressure on India via tariffs, it is natural that India would seek leverage, and there is much that India gains: industrial development, increased intra-regional trade, and scientific knowledge from a China which has, in numerous fields, now pulled ahead of the USA. India is also facing numerous internal crises, ranging from run-of-the-mill capitalist incompetence and corruption, to worsening conditions for farmers, to the ravaging impacts of climate change, and increasing their links with China is a way to vent off a little of that pressure and protect Modi's regime.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
Yeah not having to purchase the gun and ammo before such things could be recorded would be an asset. I believe they could do some 500 IQ detective shit to figure out who the shooter was based on movement data for everyone in the area. They also have behavioural biometric analysis with facial recognition as part of the god knows what else. I'd imagine they could combine all of this data and find more clues to narrow down persons of interest. You'd have to go full uncle ted no internet access (or give them false data) for quite a while I'd imagine.
I think your imagination is running a little bit wild
Which part though? Big tech has everyone's data, the feds can ask them nicely for it at any time, there are cameras everywhere, and they really do have machine learning algorithms trained to identify people in surveillance footage based on shit like their gait and posture. It would be nice if they were incompetent enough to get away from but afaik theyre like the eye of sauron except they can see the past too.
They have access to all of that data, sure. I think you're vastly overestimating the methods that they have available to analyze that data. Unless there are a bunch of drones and satellites that are tracking our every movement even in some random Utah college town, the feds don't have the ability to track people to the extent that you're suggesting.
It's more like flag this to vendors of automated facial recognition software. Get every Walmart, every Target, tons of third party vendors to look for a face matching this one and send hits on to the FBI. The FBI then requests more footage if they fit, they then run gait recognition on the new surveillance and the footage they have. They then narrow down where the person lives and shops and focus in on it.
So it's not that they have every sidewalk and street under cameras. It's that a normal person has to go out into places with cameras eventually. Some people can avoid it more than others like those who work from home full-time, pay to have groceries home delivered, etc. But eventually they may slip up, they go to the hardware store (Lowes and HD are huge on surveillance) for a home repair or to the bank to fix an account issue or whatever. You basically have to live completely off-grid OR you have to be like Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State, constantly aware of where cameras are and avoiding them or taking measures to prevent them seeing your face like hats, not looking up, face masks, etc.
Nah fam they wouldn't have needed to track the shooters every movement on the day. They have CCTV footage of the shooter and forensic evidence left behind at the scene. We have already given an unimaginable fuckton of data over to big tech just by using the Internet, carrying our phones everywhere, using telecommunications, and interacting with any finance system connected to the internet that is able to record what we do.
Surely, given how well funded the feds are, the experience they have at hunting people down, how insanely intelligent the sort of people they have in their ranks are, how easy searching through vast amounts of data is using powerful computers, and how powerful machine learning algorithms are at finding patterns given enough data, they would be able to find the shooter using a combination of old fashioned deduction, stuff like gait analysis, expensive computing tech, and other methods that I'm not smart enough to think of, to comb through the wealth of data they have and/or use old fashioned detective work to find the sniper, given enough time.
Can't observe the shooter's movement if he didn't carry his phone
Whatabout surveillance camera footage for people and vehicles? Other than that, I'm sure one of those highly intelligent ivy league grads that tend to join three letter orgs would be able to figure out a solution by narrowing down the search range using logic and deduction, then look at everyone's data to narrow it down even further, and so on. *Or finding some other method that I'm not smart enough to think of. Point being that they have a lot of data and ways to search through it fairly quickly.
Theres also old fashioned stuff like forensic evidence analysis on top of that.
I don't. I suspect this is how they found Luigi.