Month: Nov 2023

SpaceX Starship Shows US Prowess- ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’

from thefreeonline on 19th Nov 2023 by Neapolitan / Tom & Jerry

Starship UNSCHEDULED TOTAL DISASSEMBLY illustration

BREAKING: In another spectacular double failure, both the first and second stages of the world’s largest rocket ever exploded after launch some minutes apart, raining millions of pieces of toxic debris over hundreds of square miles of the Gulf of Mexico.

Luckily on this occasion the ‘Masterpiece of US Ingenuity’ was flying empty, although any brave US astronauts could have reached as far as somewhere in the Bahamas or even Puerto Rico, if they could have ejected before the whole contraption burst into smithereens of fiery exploding toxic trash.

Saturday’s demo lasted eight or so minutes, about twice as long as the first test in April, which also unfortunately ended in an explosion. The latest flight came to an end as the ship’s engines were almost done firing to put it on an around-the-world path.

At nearly 400 feet (121 meters), Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, with the goal of ferrying people to the moon and Mars.

You can watch the historic moment Starship explodes again in UNSCHEDULED TOTAL DISASSEMBLY

The latest débacle follows the explosion of the Minuteman 111 US Nuclear Missile Test (without its bombs) on Nov 1st 2023. Anti nuclear heroes celebrated that perhaps the US Nuclear Arsenal will not work, saving the planet! Alas, with THOUSANDS of thermonuclear warheads under Biden’s thumb, if just 1% actually work they would murder us all.

Dear NASA. could you point out to your technical wizards that your landing gear looks only suitable for FLAT GROUND. The moon’s surface is reportably quite bumpy, looks like your rocket might just fall over, and anti-American traitors might laugh at you..

‘SpaceX‘s main goal for Saturday’s explosive launch was to achieve separation and prove “hot staging” works’. The Starship mega-rocket achieved another major milestone in both getting ‘VERY HOT‘ and successfully ‘SEPARATING‘ into myriad ‘multiple autonomous modules‘. 18/11/23

Starship-Super Heavy just moments before very hot separation, in a screengrab from SpaceX’s livestream of the launch on X. SpaceX

Within a few seconds, the booster exploded. “That was another billion $ wrinkle SpaceX will have to iron out since it wants to land its Super Heavy boosters in one rather than a million pieces for reuse”.

The Starship module , however, kept trucking toward space — until….. something tragic happened….

that’s all folks…

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Neapolitan a day ago

BREAKING: In an unprecedented and spectacular double failure, both the first and second stages of the world’s largest rocket ever exploded after launch some minutes apart this morning, raining millions of pieces of toxic debris over hundreds of square miles of the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX launch scheduled for Saturday, expected to draw many spectators

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NeapolitanRitaEvacuee 2 days ago

Cool story, bro.

Of course, microplastics are now endemic, and are existing by the billions in every living thing on the planet, with repercussions unknown. But Ms. Thunberg’s problem with Big Oil isn’t about plastics; it’s about the four million metric tons of excess CO2 the burning of those fossil fuels injects into the atmosphere every single hour of every single day.

Four. Millions. Tons. Every Hour.

SpaceX Starship: the Ford Pinto of the New Millennium™

Al-Qassam Brigades admits dead captives were treated in Sl-Shifa hospital- says over 60 now killed by bomb blitz

Gaza: Al-Qassam Brigades adnit truth about occupation finding bodies of captives

from thefreeonline by MEMO | on November 18, 2023

Al-Qassam Brigades announced that the occupation’s claims that the bodies of Israeli captives were found in hospitals in the Gaza Strip were false and that they were undergoing treatment there.

The brigades conveyed in an official statement on its Telegram channel: “We transferred a number of prisoners to care centres to receive treatment due to the seriousness of their health condition and to preserve their lives. This happened recently with the detainee, Aryeh Zalman Zdmanovich, card number 0010185791, who received intensive care.”

Al-Qassam Brigades explained: “After he recovered, he was returned to his place of detention. He died due to panic attacks as a result of the repeated bombing around his place of detention, and we will publish material documenting this.”

The occupation forces on Thursday announced the discovery of two bodies: a female Israeli soldier, who Al-Qassam confirmed was killed as a result of the occupation bombing her detention site, in addition to another female detainee, whose body they claimed was found in a building next to Al-Shifa Hospital.

Al-Qassam Brigades stated that the occupation forces have so far caused the deaths of more than 60 of its captives in the Gaza Strip due to the continuous brutal bombing of all parts of the strip, especially Palestinian homes.

Horror: Indonesian Hospital, near Al.Shifa, is today finally completely out of service

Dozens killed as Israeli forces attack two schools in northern Gaza

Many hundreds of people are believed to have taken shelter at the two schools in northern Gaza.

Palestinians react following a strike at a UN-run school sheltering displaced people, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip November 4
Palestinians react following an attack on a UN-run school sheltering displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 4, 2023 [File Anas al-Shareef/Reuters]

Published On 18 Nov 202318 Nov 2023

Israeli air raids have killed dozens of people at the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp another a school in Tal Al-Zaatar, also in northern Gaza.

At least 50 people were killed in the bombing of al-Fakhoora School, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday. It added that the two attacks killed and injured hundreds of people.

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Reporting form Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said Israeli attacks on schools, hospitals and public facilities “seem to be a trend right now”.

He added that multiple airstrikes inflicted severe destruction on both schools.

“Almost 200 people have been killed in these attacks and the number is expected to increase as there are many under the rubble. People are using shovels and their bare hands to dig people out,” he explained.

Many hundreds of people are believed to have taken shelter at both schools, fleeing the non-stop Israeli attacks. The attack on al-Fakhoora is believed to have taken place in the early hours of the morning, while the attack on Tal Al-Zaatar took place later in the day.

“Dead bodies are everywhere and medial teams are trying to evacuate the wounded,” said Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abou Azzoum, reporting about al-Fakhoora school.

He said with the continuing fighting amid Israel’s ground offensive into northern Gaza, many Palestinians have been forced to flee to UN-run schools in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital for protection.

“People taking shelter at al-Fakhoora School in Jabalia refugee camp, many with medical issues, thought they could find shelter from the violence there. But the Israeli army seems to be sending a message: Flee to the south of the Gaza Strip,” he said.

‘Nowhere is safe in Gaza’

Qatar’s foreign ministry condemned Israel’s renewed bombardment of al-Fakhoora school, and called for “an urgent international investigation and independent investigators to probe Israel’s targeting of schools and hospitals in Gaza”.

Tamara Alrifai, a spokesperson for UNRWA, told Al Jazeera she has seen the “devastating” footage coming out of Jabalia in the aftermath of the bombing, but has not been able to directly contact her colleagues on the ground.

“I’m still waiting from reports directly from my colleagues in Gaza but what we’re seeing is another one of these horrific incidents, where civilians, people who sought shelter in a protected UN building, are paying the price,” she said.

Alrifai said more than half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million population has been forced on an “exodus” south after an Israeli order to evacuate to make room for its ground operations in the north, something that is reminiscent of previous forced displacements.

“Many people who stayed in the north stayed in the UNRWA school because they thought that they would have a bit of safety there, but nowhere is safe in Gaza, not even our schools,” she said. “Unfortunately, people flee into our buildings with the blue flag looking for protection, but 70 of our buildings have been hit, so we, ourselves, are not protected.”

Alrifai said excluding the attack on Saturday, 66 people have been confirmed killed while taking shelter in UN-run facilities.

The ‘al-Shifa of schools’

The Jabalia refugee camp has been a target of air raids for weeks, as Israel claims it houses Palestinian fighters.

The deadly bombing campaign has been continuing despite condemnations by the UN and regional governments.

The Israeli army has also repeatedly hit schools and UN-run facilities. Its war on Gaza has killed more than 12,000 Palestinians so far, many of them children.

The al-Fakhoora School had also been previously hit by the Israeli army several times before the war. The school was a target for air raids in 2009, 2014 and earlier this month.

Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara said the school is like the “al-Shifa of schools” in Gaza as it has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces like the al-Shifa Hospital, which has been a main target since the start of the war and under direct siege and raid for days.

“There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and death,” he said.

“When you attack a school with such a concentration of people taking refuge in the school, you are sending a message that is more than ‘I’m going after Hamas fighters here and there.’ What it’s saying is, ‘I want people to be driven out, I want people to pay a price, I want people to die.’”

Source: Al Jazeera

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from thefreeonline on Nov 18th. Freedom News

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from thefreeonline on 17th Nov 2023 from Open Secrets.org / Wkipedia.org By Rayna Cohen and thefreeonline

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