I lost track. Wasn't this debunked last week?

More on the Tel Aviv rocket attack

Rocket sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and the city just south of there, Bat Yam. We’re looking at around three rockets, all three of them intercepted, but there was shrapnel that fell from those interceptions, which did result in at least two injuries.

Medical authorities are saying that a 20-year-old man is in serious condition and a 43-year-old woman is in a mild condition, both of them now being treated in the Wolfson Hospital in Tel Aviv. The shrapnel ended up hitting their car, and then medical authorities arrived at the scene.

We have been seeing near-daily rocket barrages going to places like Tel Aviv and its surrounding cities. We’re not just seeing them in the south. And now on day 39 of this war, rockets are still coming from the Gaza Strip travelling to cities far farther north than that southern [Gaza] envelope – the communities that surround the Gaza Strip.

Authorities tell people that when they hear those rocket sirens, they need to go into protected areas because while the Iron Dome missile defence system does have a high accuracy rate, it can’t guarantee where the shrapnel will fall.

Hamas did come out and claim responsibility for the rocket barrage that was fired towards Tel Aviv, saying that it was “a response to the ongoing Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip”.

yeah totally, "shrapnel" from homemade rockets is causing serious injuries. please look away, our Wunderwaffe is totally effective.

Reports that a Ukrainian Su-27 pilot defected to Russia?

Gaza's health ministry: at least 13,000 Palestinians killed and 30,000 injured

At least 13,000 Palestinians have been killed and 30,000 have been injured by Israeli strikes across Gaza since 7 October, Gaza’s health ministry announced on Sunday.

Out of the 13,000 killed by Israeli strikes, 5,500 of those are children and 3,500 are women, Reuters reports the statement adding.

- The Guardian

Belize Takes Action against Israeli Government

"We have called on Israel to implement an immediate ceasefire and allow unimpeded access of humanitarian supplies to Gaza."

The government of Belize announced on Tuesday a series of measures with immediate effect against Israel due to its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.

Belize "has repeatedly condemned the actions of the IDF in Gaza," the government stated in a press release, noting that since October 7, "Israel has systematically violated international law, international humanitarian law and the human rights of Gazans."

The government decried the continued suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, under total siege by Israeli occupation forces, with the necessities of life - water, food, electricity, medical supplies - cut off.

"More than one million Gazans are internally displaced as a direct result of the war," the statement said, while condemning the relentless bombardment by Israeli forces "which has killed more than 11,000 innocent civilians, mostly women and children."

Furthermore, it said, "We have called on Israel to implement an immediate ceasefire and allow unimpeded access of humanitarian supplies to Gaza. Despite our requests, Israel has not ended its violations of international humanitarian law or allowed humanitarian workers to alleviate the suffering of millions of Gazans."

In this regard, the government announced a number of measures, including the withdrawal of its agreement for the accreditation of H.E. Einat Kranz-Neiger, Ambassador-designate of Israel to Belize, as well as the suspension of all activities carried out by the Honorary Consulate of Israel in Belize and the appointment of the Honorary Consul.

In addition, the government of Belize suspended all activities of the Honorary Consulate of Belize in Tel Aviv, Israel, and withdrew the appointment of its Honorary Consul and its application for accreditation of Jonathan Enav as Honorary Consul of Belize.

These measures with immediate effect were taken "with the approval of the cabinet and other PUP members of the House of Representatives, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration," the government said.

I forgot the context of what "Little Eichmanns" was used for so when I heard it again I was like, wow thats pretty fucking harsh, idk if I agree with that.

But turns out I was taking the "little" part very literally in terms of age, rather than it being about like the financial arm of western imperialism.

The west's latest harebrained scheme to harass Russian oil exports: Weaponising environmental protections

Denmark could block Russian oil tankers from reaching markets (Financial Times)

Denmark will be tasked with inspecting and potentially blocking tankers of Russian oil sailing through its waters under new EU plans, as western powers scramble to enforce a price cap the Kremlin has learned to avoid.

According to three people with knowledge of talks in Brussels, Denmark would target tankers transiting the Danish straits without western insurance, under laws permitting states to check vessels they fear pose environmental threats.

Western insurance. The benighted savages of the jungle can clearly not be trusted to run an insurance company.

The proposal comes as western officials admit that “almost none” of Russian crude exports were sold below the $60 a barrel cap last month, 11 months after the G7 group of developed nations imposed the measure in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The EU is concerned that non-western insurance policies may not be effective in the event of an oil spill.

No they're not. They're grasping for straws to enforce their impotent price cap and making up bullshit excuses for breaking the rules of their own rules-based international order.

The IDF cum unit is a direct insult to volcels. You can't be a zionist AND a volcel anymore

SCMP: Number of Americans studying in mainland China falls sharply, but Chinese students still flock to US

Only 211 Americans studied in mainland China during the 2021-22 school year, according to the 2023 version of an annual US government-funded study by the Institute of International Education (IIE). In contrast, from 2018 to 2019, there were more than 11,000 American students in the mainland.

The same study showed that Chinese students continue to vastly outnumber any other foreign group in the US. During the 2022 to 2023 school year, 289,526 Chinese studied in the US, a slight decrease from the 290,086 during the previous school year.

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But while there has been some evidence that mainland Chinese, particularly those from non-elite backgrounds, are looking elsewhere for their studies, the US still hosts nearly double the number of Chinese students compared with the next largest host, Britain, according to the State Department.

Worth noting that Indian students in the US will likely exceed Chinese students in the next year or two.

People's Daily: Connecting Ethiopia and Djibouti: a railway built by the Chinese for the African people

Some Chinese communist propaganda for us to enjoy.

Located in Addis Ababa’s outskirts, the Indode cargo station is an important transportation center on the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway. The station wasn't officially opened until 2018, but in 2016, when Ethiopia was hit by a devastating drought and food shortage, it served as an important freight hub, moving a total of 888,00 tonnes of grains to help feed the starving population. There are around 200 people working at the station, only five of whom are Chinese. The majority of the top-tier positions have already been delegated to locals.

“Ethiopia is landlocked; hence its best means of import and export is through Djibouti's port. For Ethiopia's economy to grow, the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway is essential,” said Fasil. Fasil says that it took three to seven days for cargo to go between Djibouti and Ethiopia before the railway was built. Costs were high and travel was unsafe. With the railroad, the journey now takes just 20 hours, which is not only faster but also safer. "Over 80% of Ethiopians are farmers, but our country does not produce fertilisers, so we must import them from Djibouti's port. It used to take at least 70 trucks to move 2,590 tons of fertiliser from Djibouti to Ethiopia over three days; today one cargo train can make the trip in just 20 hours,” said Fasil.

So far, the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has created 55,000 jobs in Ethiopia and Djibouti and provided training opportunities for more than 3,000 professionals, laying a solid foundation for the development of the railway industry in the two countries, according to the Ethiopian government.

Finland followed through on closing the eastern border for 3 months, excluding the crossings in Lapland north of Karelia. The Estonian government is discussing taking the same steps.

The one which stays open in the south is Vainikkala, which it says beneath "only rail traffic" - afaik this is only cargo and not passengers.

mr bai den ur fired

I personally find Jacobin very...ah, hit-and-miss. But this ain't too bad: The Biden Administration Says It Can’t Do Anything to Stop the War on Gaza. That’s a Lie.

If Trailer Park Boys was in the American SouthWest:

A Texas man was acting calm and collected as a game warden searched his vehicle for drugs, all while holding a cup full of methamphetamine, officials said.

At one point, the driver retrieved a burrito and 44-ounce drink from the truck, with permission from the deputy, officials said.

The evil Palestinians watched Neflix and switched it to Arabic lol

Rybar November 16, 2023

Rybar seems to think the zionists themselves might now use the hospital as an operations centre.

From Bloomberg

Pentagon moving ahead on Israeli requests:

2,000 Hellfire missiles for Apaches

30mm chain gun ammo

57,000 155mm shells

400 120mm mortars

PVS-14 NODs

M141 shoulder-fired bunker-busters

75 JLTVs

300+ Tamir interceptors

Chuds when Xi visits San Fransisco

I think bangladeshi workers are still going strong (unless i read an old story)

Car crashes into barricade near Israel embassy in Tokyo

A car has crashed into a barricade near the Israeli embassy in Tokyo on Thursday and a man in his 50s was arrested on the spot, according to Reuters news agency.

One police officer was injured, according to the report, quoting Fuji TV.

In a separate report that aired on NHK, a black compact car with damage to its front headlights and panel, appeared to have crashed into the barrier on the side of the street near the embassy.

The Israeli embassy and the Tokyo police have yet to comment as of the time of publishing of this developing story.

A fire department spokesperson said only that they received “an emergency call (for ambulance) for 3-11 Nibancho, Chiyoda ward came at 11.57 (am)”, according to AFP news agency.

Zionist stop projecting by stating genuinely bumfuzzle statements like "Arabs are the real colonizer" .

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New China cope on the martial side but from an unexpected branch: The Navy!

The US Air Force is training to take down Chinese warships, but China's military has built a 'wicked' problem for it to overcome by Christopher Woody

The US Air Force is working on improving its ability to sink well-defended warships, a reflection of the US military's concern about the growing size and increasing capability of China's navy.

Strikes against maritime targets are nothing new for US pilots, but China's military has spent decades developing its air defenses, installing thickets of surface-to-air missiles on land and on its warships that now pose a "wicked" problem for US forces, commanders say. China has launched new, more advanced ships at steady clip in recent years, building what is now the world's largest navy. It has also sent those ships on more complex operations across a wider swath of the Pacific. That larger, more capable force was on display in August 2022 during exercises of unprecedented size around Taiwan following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island.

Were there a clash with China over Taiwan, "the first target that we're going to have to deal with is the ships, because you saw when Speaker Pelosi went to Taiwan what they did with their ships. They put them on the east side of Taiwan as a sort of blockade," Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of US Pacific Air Forces, said at an Air and Space Forces Association conference in March.

"Those ships can put up an anti-access/area-denial engagement zone, which comes from their surface-to-air missiles that they can shoot from the ships. So in order for us to get past those, we've got to sink the ships," Wilsbach said.

'Wicked dangerous'

Wilsbach's comments reflect concerns about the arsenal China has built to counter US military operations, which includes "the world's densest and most integrated air-defense system" along China's east coast, according to Brendan Mulvaney, director of the China Aerospace Studies Institute, which is part of the Department of the Air Force.

That air-defense system is part of China's "counter-intervention" strategy, which is "focused on not necessarily how to defeat the United States piecemeal but how to keep the United States and our allies and partners out of the region," Mulvaney said on a podcast in September.

China's navy plans to fight under the cover of those defenses, and its Type 052D-class destroyers and Type 055-class cruisers could extend that umbrella.

"The surface-to-air-missile systems they have on those tier-one surface-action-group assets is wicked, wicked dangerous territory — significantly more dangerous than anything that's fielded in and around Ukraine," Gen. Mark Kelly said of those warships during an Air and Space Forces Conference in September.

"If you then look at the fact that they have the same systems up and down the coast, if you look at what they can do in terms of jamming across the electromagnetic spectrum, if you look at their inventory of air-to-air missiles, and the list goes on and on," added Kelly, who leads the training and organizing of Air Force units as head of Air Combat Command.

China's military hasn't fought a war since 1979, and its new naval and air forces are untested in combat, but Chinese strategists have studied other wars and learned from other militaries — that likely includes lessons from America's use of "rings of air- and missile-defense management," ranging from combat air patrols by carrier aircraft down to each ship's close-in weapon systems, said Lyle Goldstein, director of Asia engagement at Defense Priorities, a think tank.

"I think it's fair to say that they may even be on par with us," Goldstein said in an interview in May. "China generally gets high marks in air defense, and they've come a long way, and they've gotten a lot of coaching from the Russians."

A weakness in China's naval air-defense network is the inability of its current aircraft carriers, Liaoning and Shandong, to launch airborne-early-warning-and-control aircraft like those that fly from US carriers to direct friendly forces and monitor enemy ships and aircraft.

Those carriers would likely stay near Taiwan during a conflict, protected by China's air force and the "very robust air defense and missile defense" of Type 052D- and Type 055-class ships, Goldstein said.

But China's newest carrier, Fujian, has an electromagnetic catapult that will allow it to launch the KJ-500 airborne-early-warning-and-control plane, extending China's radar coverage and providing "a major jump" in capability, Goldstein said.

Old skills, new focus

US pilots have trained to sink warships since the early 1920s, well before the Air Force's founding in 1947. That mission has remained part of the service's repertoire, even during recent ground wars.

"I can tell you from experience in 2007, although my unit was in the thick of considering waging warfare in Iraq or Afghanistan at the time, we executed a Pacific theater deployment and specifically integrated with the Navy and other partners," John Baum, a former US Air Force F-16 pilot, said in an interview in March.

"And of course, maritime strike was a training skill set that we worked on then," added Baum, now a senior resident fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.

The Air Force's attention to the maritime-strike mission has varied over time, however, and recent milestones in training and weapons development indicate a renewed focus on being able take down enemy ships.

A major exercise in November 2022, called Green Flag-West, departed from its traditional focus on air-to-ground missions with the US Army and saw Air Force pilots work with the Navy "on facilitating air operations in maritime surface warfare missions, air-to-surface," the service said.

In another exercise a few weeks later, Air Force Weapons School students worked with Navy units on the school's "largest-ever over-water joint counter maritime exercise." Col. Daniel Lehoski, the Weapons School commandant, said afterward that a war in the Pacific would be "a maritime fight" and that it was the school's responsibility "to produce graduates who have both the capability and confidence to build, teach, and lead in the joint, maritime environment."

A maritime focus was also evident this year in the major air-combat exercises known as Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Red Flag 23-1 in February expanded its training area to include airspace over the Pacific for the first time. Red Flag 23-3, held this summer, incorporated a US Navy carrier strike group as it conducted a pre-deployment exercise. It was "the largest adaptation" of Red Flag in its 50-year history, Kelly, of Air Combat Command, said on social media.

Another Air Force official said Red Flag and other drills have made "an exponential leap" toward Pacific-focused scenarios over the past decade, adopting training that includes the "unique challenges" of "flying sorties over exposed ocean."

The Air Force is also updating its arsenal for maritime operations. It has tested a modified version of its Joint Direct Attack Munition, known as "Quicksink," to meet "an urgent need to neutralize maritime threats" and studied the use of other weapons in austere environments like those in the Pacific region.

The service is also looking for new anti-ship missiles. This spring, it announced plans to buy 268 Joint Strike Missiles over the next five years, which an official said would "bridge that gap" until it acquires more of the larger Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, which the Navy and Air Force both want and Lockheed Martin is scrambling to build.

New targeting systems have only made it easier "to find, fix, track, and target a ship," Baum said. "Now we have all-weather capabilities with new sensors on airplanes and also new weapons and fusing options available, so the targeting scenario, frankly, is much easier today than it was in the past, even 15 or 20 years ago."

While there are "different considerations" for finding targets on land and at sea, "from a technology standpoint, the Air Force has been committed to be able to hold any target at risk at any time on the planet," Baum added. "I don't think that that's any different considering the [Indo-Pacific Command] area and maritime targets."

Air Force officials know China's military will try to use the Pacific's vast distances to challenge their operations and are making adaptations, including developing more dispersed air bases and investing in more efficient tanker aircraft and in drones that could fly ahead of crewed jets.

But the recent focus on integrating with naval forces is a sign the Air Force knows jets and bombs alone may not be enough to sink better-defended warships operating over greater ranges. Wilsbach said in September that training by Pacific Air Forces has emphasized "stacking effects" to bring more weapons to bear.

"The stacking of effects starts in cyber, then there's a space, then there's an air, there may be a surface, and there may be a subsurface component, with electronic combat happening — all needing to arrive on the target coincidentally," Wilsbach said.

"In a dynamic environment where aircraft and ships and perhaps ground units from the Army, with satellites traveling through space, all have to synchronize in time and space so the effects occur at the same time on the target — so you get munitions on the target to destroy and hopefully sink the ship, as an example — that we are working on constantly," Wilsbach said.

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