España ha extendido el despliegue de su sistema de defensa aérea Patriot como parte de una misión de la OTAN en Türkiye hasta junio de 2023, anunció el Ministerio de Defensa turco en una declaración escrita el 13 de noviembre.
Según el comunicado, la decisión de la prórroga del despliegue Patriot y la permanencia del contingente militar español fue tomada por España. También informó que el ministro de Defensa, Hulusi Akar, llamó a su homóloga española, Margarita Robles, y le agradeció la extensión del despliegue Patriot. Akar también aplaudió a España por actuar en consonancia con el espíritu aliado.
Moscow insists a reported explosion near the Ukrainian border is not related to its military operation.
Ukraine Weapons Tracker @UAWeapons So what crashed in the village of Przewodów, Poland? With the cooperation of @blueboy1969 we analyzed the available photos of fragments and came to a clear conclusion that they belong to the 48D6 motor of the 5V55-series missile of the S-300 AD system- a Ukrainian one.
Russia’s Mash Telegram channel has published a photo of what it said is a fragment from an S-300 defence system missile. This Soviet-era equipment is used by Ukraine.
Russia has not carried out any strikes against targets near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the defense ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday, following reports of a missile striking the village of Przewodow and killing two civilians.
Some Western media outlets and politicians have claimed that Russia is responsible for the incident. However, no evidence has been provided to support such assertions.
Missile fragments, photos of which were published by Polish media outlets on the scene, “have nothing to do with Russian weapons,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Statements by the Polish media and officials about the alleged ‘Russian’ missiles falling in the area of the village of Przewodow are “a deliberate provocation in order to escalate the situation,” the Russian military added.
Poland convened an emergency meeting of its national security council on Tuesday evening, after reports that at least two civilians were killed when one or more missiles struck the village in the Lublin region, just across the border with Ukraine.
While the AP reported that Russian missiles had crossed into Poland, citing an unnamed “senior US intelligence official,” the Pentagon declined to corroborate the claim.
“I can tell you that we don’t have any information at this time to corroborate those reports and are looking into this further,” Air Force Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters, when asked about the Przewodow incident.
Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller called on the media and the public “not to publish unconfirmed information.”
Officials from the Baltic states blamed Russia and claimed that Poland should invoke NATO’s Article 5 in retaliation. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of “terrorism” and said NATO needed to “act” against this “attack on collective security.”
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Turkish authorities have released images of a woman, arrested for allegedly planting a bomb that killed six people and injured 81 in Istanbul on Sunday. Ankara has accused the “PKK” Kurdish Defense militias in Syria of masterminding the plot.
The accused woman’s photos were all over Turkish media.
“I don’t trust the Turkish government. Period. They are still NATO members. They invaded northern Syria and Iraq and support rebels in Syria. They assassinated a Russian diplomat and tried to blame an obscure dissident group. They shot down a Russian aircraft in pursuit of “ISIS” terrorists. The last couple of major bombings in Turkey were done by “ISIS” and they just conveniently happened to target Kurds and leftists, two enemies of the Turkish state”... from Comments on South Front
At least 47 people were arrested and interrogated. Any…
Tons of impersonators posed as prominent public figures. We saw the fake accounts of George W. Bush and Tony Blair lament that they miss killing Iraqis; meanwhile, someone pretending to be OJ Simpson admitted to murder
Elon Musk’s takeover has been a hilarious disaster
If you’re anything like me then you hate billionaires. In fact, more than that, you also really, really hate the corporations that dominate our day-to-day life.
The ongoing controversy surrounding social media platform Twitter, particularly its now-defunct ‘Blue’ paid verification scheme, is embarrassing the world’s richest man and causing large multinationals to lose tens of billions in market capitalization.
At the end of October, billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk completed a $44-million deal to take over Twitter. He immediately cut thousands of jobs, including many in the communications department and from high-ranking positions in charge of trust and safety.
Then Twitter Blue, a service that provides official verification for an $8-per-month fee, was rolled out. Chaos ensued after that and the service was suspended.
We saw the fake accounts of George W. Bush and Tony Blair lament that they miss killing Iraqis; meanwhile, someone pretending to be OJ Simpson admitted to murder.
But what was more consequential was the fact that large brands were impersonated.
For instance, an account claiming to be pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co said the company was giving away free insulin and immediately plunged its stocks. An account supposedly representing Lockheed Martin also said it was halting weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US pending human-rights investigations. The weapons contractor also saw its stocks crater in response to these tweets.
The list goes on. Companies like Chiquita, American Girl, Roblox, BP and Tesla, as well as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) were impersonated by Twitter users and made controversial statements.
These ranged from praising apartheid in Israel to saying that a fruit company had overthrown Brazil’s government.
For its part, Twitter is in hot water over this situation. That’s obviously why it suspended its verification system, and, at the same time, Elon Musk has said the company could face bankruptcy in the near future.
There’s no doubt that the social media platform has lost significant value since the Tesla CEO’s takeover, probably to the tune of several billion. The roll-out of Twitter Blue was a predictable disaster that posed serious challenges to advertisers, clearly, which is why they’ve bounced from the social media platform.
But even though it’s true that this was a very ill-advised decision on Musk’s part, he inadvertently created the most formidable anti-capitalist weapon in modern history all at the cost of $8.
Anyone with a few bucks in their pocket could, until just days ago, shave off billions in value from an evil company that is destroying the planet, threatening global security or engaged in war crimes. That’s a remarkable thing.
Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?
At least it would have been remarkable if it would have been left alone and not shut down.
Still, there were enough accounts that got through – with, at the same time, a skimped-down trust and safety network – that means impersonators are still common and misinformation is everywhere.
If you load your timeline, you’re sure to see countless examples of fake news from verified accounts that you would otherwise be inclined to trust at first glance prior to Twitter Blue’s roll-out.
You could also just use a messaging platform like WhatsApp or Telegram to message people, in case that’s what you use the bird for. Or you could just take your connections to the real world and ditch social media altogether.
At any rate, the social media platform’s meteoric rise and immediate tanking when Elon Musk took power are hilarious.
The richest man in the world has been left with egg on his face after going forward with buying Twitter, which is something no one seriously thought he wanted to do in the first place.
But now he’s stuck with a broken application and accumulating debt to the point that, as stated before, the company could just flat-out go bankrupt.
And the only casualties in this entire scandal besides Musk’s reputation have been the stock valuation of some dastardly companies that are, frankly, evil.
Again, if you’re anything like me then word of Twitter’s implosion is good news to you.
That’s probably because you recognize how unforgivably unequal our society is and believe in some form of poetic justice for the people and entities perpetuating the system.
Turkish authorities have released images of a woman, arrested for allegedly planting a bomb that killed six people and injured 81 in Istanbul on Sunday. Ankara has accused the “PKK” Kurdish Defense militias in Syria of masterminding the plot.
The accused woman’s photos were all over Turkish media.
“I don’t trust the Turkish government. Period. They are still NATO members. They invaded northern Syria and Iraq and support rebels in Syria. They assassinated a Russian diplomat and tried to blame an obscure dissident group. They shot down a Russian aircraft in pursuit of “ISIS” terrorists. The last couple of major bombings in Turkey were done by “ISIS” and they just conveniently happened to target Kurds and leftists, two enemies of the Turkish state”... from Comments on South Front
At least 47 people were arrested and interrogated. Any one of which might confess under duress. Officials banned news channels and social networking services from sharing any images of the deadly explosion, while claiming the young woman had ‘dropped a backback’, and publishing her photos in which she appears tortured or drugged, in a ‘trial and sentence by Media’.
Suspicion is rife in Kurdish circles. Turkey has seen a whole series of black propaganda and false flag attacks over the years, sometimes stemming from the huge security apparatus and ultra nationalist Grey Wolves.
One of the worst was the 2015 Suruc bombing of Kurdish volunteers taking toys to child victims of ISIS, which led to a shady revenge attack, that sparked the military crackdown and carpet bombing of entire Kurdish cities inside Turkey.(Suruç Bombing Victims Were Bringing Books And Toys To Kobanê)
The ‘elected dictator’ Erdogan is suspected by some of repeating that evil strategy, desperate to attack Kurdish Syria yet again and thus gain far right support in upcoming elections, and deflect attention from inflation running at over 80%.
Accused bomber said to be from Afrin
The accused woman is said by State controlled media to have come from Afrin, yet the border with Turkey is sealed with a huge wall, and the province is occupied and tightly controlled by the Turkish army and a range of their extremist Islamic mercenaries.
December 2, 2019, for example, eight Kurdish children died in an intentional attack by Turkish mercenaries against Tell Rifaat, in the north west of Syria. All of them were under fifteen years old. Tell Rifaat is home to many of the Kurdish refugees from the Efrîn (Afrin) canton, currently occupied by Syrian, Turkish and Mercenary Troops. Three adult civilians also died in the attack.
In Aug 2022 Erdogan announced that his next illegal invasion will begin precisely in the town of Tell Rifaat!
Afrin was invaded, massacred, subdued and occupied by Turkey on a totally false pretext and 80% of the surviving mainly Kurdish population was expelled to refugee camps, mostly in a small enclave which is still regularily shelled and drone attacked by Turkey. A crime objectively much worse than Russia’s in Ukraine, but shamefully with zero world interest.
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