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Major defense technology leak? Israeli missile interceptor falls in Gaza Strip intact

Tyler Rogoway
The War Zone
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:00 UTC
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Just hours after we posted a story about a report that an Israeli Stunner surface-to-air missile used in the David's Sling medium-range air defense system fell into Syrian territory and was transferred by the Assad regime to Russia, images have appeared on social media showing what appears to be the intact fuse section of a Tamir interceptor used by the Iron Dome system. This proximity fuse system is highly advanced as it has to detect a small and fast-flying target — a rocket in most cases — and detonate the missile's warhead with perfect timing in order to destroy it. It is also highly miniaturized yet hardened enough to withstand the extreme G forces sustained by the super-maneuverable interceptor.

UPDATE: Upon further review of the photos, I actually believe the section includes the missile's active radar seeker, as well. That seems to be the component hanging out of the front of the tube. In other words, this would be the entire seeker and fuse section forward of the fins. Obviously, the loss would be even more significant if this is indeed the case.

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The timing must be perfect, considering the astounding speeds at which both the targeted projectile and the interceptor travel. So, it's no surprise that the components responsible for it, the active radar seeker and the fuse section, are highly classified (and sought-after by anyone wishing to reverse engineer the Israeli technology). Usually an interceptor that fails to hit its target self-destructs to protect its secrets.


The Tamir missile is produced by Rafael, a major Israeli state-owned defense contractor also involved in production of the longer-range David's Sling air defense system. The interceptors are estimated to cost between $40,000 and $100,000 a-piece and are usually fired from launchers carrying 20 missiles each. Two interceptors are launched against an enemy projectile deemed a threat, to ensure a kill.

The Iron Dome systems have been used extensively this week amid hostilities between Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad and Israel after the latter killed Bahaa Abu al-Atta, a senior militant commander, and reportedly tried to kill an Islamic Jijad political operative in Syria.
And back in August: Israeli drone crashes in South Beirut suburbs, another 'prematurely explodes'

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German MP joins Macron: Today's NATO is 'Shadow of Its Own Self'


Sputnik
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:49 UTC
NATO
© AP Photo / Jonathan Ernst
Jurgen Trittin has chimed in on the comment thread that followed President Macron's words about NATO's "cerebral death", calling to wake up to reality and not ignore objective truths.

For the time being, NATO is going through an existential crisis, being just a "shadow" of what it used to be, Jurgen Trittin, a Bundestag member from the Green Party and member of the German Parliament's Foreign Policy Committee, shared in a Der Spiegel op-ed.

"One can choose to sugarcoat NATO, like German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is doing or state unequivocally: the alliance is losing its integrity", the parliamentarian wrote.

President Macron's words about NATO's "brain death" are all correct, the op-ed's author says.

"What's the alliance about if its biggest economic player deems cars from Germany, the second biggest one, as a threat to its national security?" the politician queries.

According to him, the German foreign minister misses the NATO "that no longer exists".

"In the 70th year of its existence, the alliance is more like just a shadow of its own self", Trittin notes.

Comment: It's about time that some European politicians realized that NATO's objectives hurt the well-being of their countries. Just notice the huge amount of refugees that enter EU countries causing the destabilization of the continent, refugees and immigrants from countries that NATO destroyed, literally or economically.

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'Stop the massacre!' Evo Morales appeals to Bolivian military as 5 killed in crackdown by 'interim' government


RT.com
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:55 UTC
A pro-Morales demonstrator
© Reuters / Marco BelloA pro-Morales demonstrator and armed members of the security forces during clashes in La Paz, Bolivia, November 15, 2019
Bolivia's ousted leader Evo Morales pleaded with his country's military to stop firing on unarmed demonstrators protesting the coup-imposed interim leadership, after several activists were killed in clashes with security forces.

"We ask the armed forces and the Bolivian Police to stop the massacre," Morales said in a tweet late on Friday. "The uniform of the institutions of the Homeland cannot be stained with the blood of our people."

At least five protesters were killed and some 75 injured in the streets of Cochabamba on Friday during hectic skirmishes with police and military after thousands of indigenous Morales backers gathered to protest the socialist leader's ouster. Though there was no violence at the rally in the morning, clashes broke out when the military blocked the march from crossing a nearby checkpoint.

Comment: The US puppet in Bolivia recognizes the US puppet in Venezuela while killing the people who are protesting the forceful removal of the president who they repeatedly chose to represent them.

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ABC News still hasn't explained why it protected pedophile Jeffrey Epstein or why it retaliated against the alleged whistleblower

Becket Adams
Washington Examiner
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:11 UTC
Epstein and Robach
© Fox News
It has been eight days since the public first learned from a leaked video of journalist Amy Robach that ABC News executives in 2016 spiked her reporting on high-powered, globe-trotting pedophile Jeffery Epstein and his network of well-connected sexual predators.

It has been seven days since the public first learned that ABC conspired with CBS News to have an individual fired from her job with the latter because ABC suspected that she is the one who leaked the video.

It has been five days since the public first heard from the fired CBS producer, Ashley Bianco, that she was not the individual responsible for leaking ABC's archival footage of Robach.

It has been one day since the public first learned that ABC is still hunting for the real leaker, who is apparently still employed by the network, and that top executives are reportedly "freaking out" over the anonymous employee's secret identity.

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When Israel's military begins to attack, so does its army of evil online trolls

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17 UTC
Act.il app
© act-il.comA promotional photo for the Act.IL app.
Act.IL is a global pro-Israel campaign at least partially funded by the country's government. The project includes an app that enables users to earn points and prizes for promoting the state of Israel online, by attacking BDS and other pro-Palestinian movements. According to Electronic Intifada reporting from earlier this year, it's operating with a budget of a more than a million dollars.

Michael Bueckert is a PhD student in sociology and political economy at Carleton University and, since April 2018, he's maintained a Twitter account that tracks the app's "missions." Bueckert spoke to Mondoweiss' Michael Arria about the history of the project, its use during the recent attacks on Gaza, and whether or not it's actually having an impact on anyone.

Arria: So just to start, I think a lot of people on our site are probably familiar with your work. But for people who maybe are not, can you briefly describe the ACT.IL app and explain who funds it?

Bueckert: Yes. So, for a couple of years now, I've been following Israel's semiofficial propaganda app. It's called ACT.IL and was set up in a sort of partnership between the Israeli government and a number of American pro-Israel lobby groups funded by Sheldon Adelson. There is a lack of clarity perhaps about the exact nature of that relationship.

The app was funded in part by the Israeli government... I think that the government paid for the development of the website that it was hosted on and paid for a lot of advertising including sponsored content, like sponsored articles in Israeli newspapers that look like they are just regular reporting, but were paid for by the Israeli government essentially. At the time the developers of the app were talking about how they were working with the Shin Bet [Israel's internal security service] and, you know, Israeli defense officials to identify targets online and to have a sort of duty to craft responses. But they've kind of backtracked on that.
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US preparing for another color revolution: Georgia 2020

Andrew Korybko
Infobrics
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:55 UTC
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The Port Of Discord

Georgian banker Mamuka Khazaradze, the co-founder of the country's largest universal bank and the man behind the Anaklia Port project, recently had a falling out with the government after being charged with money laundering and thus decided to form his own political party called "Lelo" in an attempt to unseat his opponents during next year's parliamentary elections as revenge. This in and of itself wouldn't be an event worthy of international attention had it not been for the fact that the US Embassy in Georgia signaled its support for him after the charges were made and reiterated that it also continues to support his Anaklia Port project as well. About that investment, it's planned to be the country's largest one in history and envisages the creation of a deep-water port for facilitating Chinese-European trade. It's an interesting idea in principle that was formerly supported by the government, but the authorities balked at demands from potential international creditors that they underwrite the hundreds of millions of dollars in loans that would be required for its completion.

The Argument Against Anaklia

Comment: Below are just some of the more recent coups, 'colour revolutions' and riots occurring around the world that the US has played a part in: See also:

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Dissection of the coup: Top Bolivian coup plotters were grads from SOA, attachés in FBI police programs

Jeb Sprague
Ron Paul Institute
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Kaliman
© screenshotGeneral Williams Kaliman, head of Bolivia's military
The US played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country's elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10.

Just prior to Morales' resignation, the commander of Bolivia's armed forces Williams Kaliman "suggested" that the president step down. A day earlier, sectors of the country's police force had rebelled.

Though Kaliman appears to have feigned loyalty to Morales over the years, his true colors showed as soon as the moment of opportunity arrived. He was not only an actor in the coup, he had his own history in Washington, where he had briefly served as the military attaché of Bolivia's embassy in the US capital.

Kaliman sat at the top of a military and police command structure that has been substantially cultivated by the US through WHINSEC, the military training school in Fort Benning, Georgia known in the past as the School of the Americas. Kaliman himself attended a course called "Comando y Estado Mayor" at the SOA in 2003.

At least six of the key coup plotters were former alumni of the infamous School of the Americas, while Kaliman and another figure served in the past as Bolivia's military and police attachés in Washington.
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Impeachment inquiry: It's really about who sets US foreign policy

John Daniel Davidson
The Federalist
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Kent/Taylor
© XinhuaGeorge Kent and William Taylor swear before the US House Committee on Intelligence during impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill, November 13, 2019.
If Trump thinks it's in the national interest to root out corruption in Ukraine and get to the bottom of 2016 election meddling, that's his prerogative.

Despite the hysterical headlines in the mainstream media, there was no bombshell on the first day of public testimony in the House impeachment inquiry. It was actually very boring and tedious.

But for those who had the patience to sit through it on Wednesday, the testimony of veteran State Department officials William Taylor and George Kent did help clarify what this impeachment inquiry is all about: a disagreement between President Trump and a coterie of career State Department bureaucrats about what U.S. policy should be in Ukraine.

To put it more bluntly, the Democrats' impeachment inquiry is about whether the president or unelected officials in the State Department should be able to determine U.S. foreign policy and define U.S. national interests abroad.

What we heard Wednesday was a lot of opinions from Taylor and Kent about what U.S. policy should be in Ukraine and what serves the national interest there. But if President Trump has a different view, whose opinion should matter? Clearly, the president's opinion is the one that counts because the president, not State Department officials, sets U.S. foreign policy.

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Videos from Gaza Strip: Israeli forces claim to attack 'Islamic jihad targets'


Sputnik
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 01:56 UTC
Israeli F-15
© Ariel SchalitIsraeli Air Force F-15
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) announced new airstrikes on Gaza early Friday morning, saying they were "attacking terrorist targets" in the territory.

"We are currently striking Islamic Jihad terror targets in Gaza," the IDF tweeted. "This comes after rockets were indiscriminately fired from Gaza at Israeli civilians today." In a previous tweet two hours prior, they noted two rockets fired into southern Israel from Gaza were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.

Reports from inside the Gaza Strip said Gaza city and Hattin, west of Khan Younis, had been hit by IDF attacks. Others reported airstrikes near Rafah, in the south of the territory. Explosions and the roar of IAF jet engines, as well as the whine of drone motors, were recorded by observers in the early morning hours.

Comment: Gaza is at the mercy of Israeli politics and psychopathic leadership. Bibi is looking to shore up his political security. For Gantz, it is what he does best.

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Putin: Post-coup Bolivian anarchy 'resembles Libya', urges leaders to use 'common sense' to quell chaos


RT
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:09 UTC
Putin
© APRussian President Vladimir Putin
The power vacuum in Bolivia has brought the country to the edge of a Libya-style disaster, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned. As protests consume other Latin American countries, Putin urged leaders to use "common sense."

President Evo Morales fled Bolivia to Mexico on Tuesday, after opposition leaders declared his October re-election fraudulent and the Bolivian police and military turned on him. Since then, opposition senator Jeanine Añez has declared herself "interim president," without a vote or recognition by Morales's Movement for Socialism majority party.

Pro-Morales protesters, outraged by the blatant coup, have since faced off with riot police on the streets of La Paz. Añez' grip on power is anything but secure.

Putin told reporters on Thursday:
"There is a situation where there is no leadership in the country... Anarchy. It resembles Libya somewhat. Although there is no direct armed invasion from the outside, the country is actually on the verge of chaos."

Comment: Traps are set. Triggers are initiated. The targeted populace is unsuspecting until it is too late. The pattern is as apparent as the source. Putin's accurate assessment and warnings will have little effect on the immanent destruction of Bolivia, a coup years in the planning and execution.

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Dissection of the coup: Top Bolivian coup plotters were grads from SOA, attachés in FBI police programs

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