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04.04.2025 - 14:54 [ Fox News ]

Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz‘s Signal chat woes snowball

Waltz, who previously served as a Florida congressman and as a decorated combat Green Beret, has come under fire from Democrats and critics since March, when the Atlantic magazine‘s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a firsthand account of getting added to a Signal group chat with top national security leaders, including Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, while they discussed strikes against Yemen terrorists. Trump and his administration have repeatedly defended the national security leader amid criticisms over the chat leak.

Signal is an encrypted messaging app that operates similarly to texting or making phone calls, but with additional security measures that help ensure communications are kept private to those included in the correspondence.

26.03.2025 - 14:54 [ theAtlantic.com ]

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions. There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared. (…)

At 2 p.m., Waltz responded: “Typing too fast. The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

Vance responded a minute later: “Excellent.” Thirty-five minutes after that, Ratcliffe, the CIA director, wrote, “A good start,” which Waltz followed with a text containing a fist emoji, an American-flag emoji, and a fire emoji.

06.03.2025 - 05:24 [ Washington Post ]

U.S. concerned about Ukraine strikes on Russian nuclear radar stations

(May 29, 2024)

The drone that targeted the radar station near Orsk, in Russia’s Orenburg region along Kazakhstan’s northern border, traveled more than 1,100 miles, making it one of the deepest attempted strikes into Russian territory. The Ukrainian official declined to say whether the strike, on May 26, caused any damage.

06.03.2025 - 05:18 [ Tagesschau.de ]

USA kappen Geheimdienstinformationen für Ukraine

Die Informationen der US-Geheimdienste sind für die Ukraine von entscheidender Bedeutung. Die bisherige Zusammenarbeit ermöglichte es der Ukraine, russische Militärziele zu identifizieren. Ohne diese Informationen könnte die Ukraine Schwierigkeiten haben, russische Militärbewegungen effektiv zu überwachen und entsprechend darauf zu reagieren.

06.03.2025 - 05:16 [ Forbes ]

The U.S. Is Trying To Blind Ukraine—By Kicking It Out Of Orbit. It Won’t Work.

Ukraine relied heavily on America’s own large fleet of spacecraft—hundreds of satellites for communication and surveillance—plus commercial space services paid for by the U.S. or other allies.

The satellites helped Ukrainian troops, drones and munitions navigate and communicate, spotted—via radar and camera—Russian forces on the move and traced Russian command networks by detecting their radios.

26.02.2025 - 00:36 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Unser System: Das Ende der zivilen Europäischen Weltraumfahrt

(July 21, 2008)

DIE ISS: KALT SABOTIERT UND IN DER SACKGASSE

NASA-Chef Michael Griffin hat selbst die Entwicklung des „Space Shuttle“ und der Internationalen Raumstation ISS als „einen Fehler“ („a mistake“) bezeichnet. Erst nach verblüfften Protesten aus der Wissenschaft zog er halbherzig zurück. Aber mehr und mehr fragen sich die Beobachter aus Wissenschaft und Weltöffentlichkeit, ob man es mit einem neuen „Wettrennen im Weltraum“ zu tun hat, welches eher militärisch motiviert ist.

An ISS und Space Shuttle (siehe Screenshot, aus einem Bild der ESA) wird kritisiert, dass sie keinen „Gewinn“ abwerfen. Auf den ersten Blick einfach grosser Quatsch. Auf den zweiten skrupelloses Kalkül. Man will die zivilen Projekte einfach loswerden und denkt sich eine entsprechend dumme Luftblase aus, um diese dann testweise in die Öffentlichkeit zu setzen, dann entweder bei entsprechendem Geschrei zurückzuziehen und wegzuheucheln oder einfach immer weiter mit dem Abbau der zivilen Wissenschaft zu machen bis alles zerstört, runiert und endlich verloren ist.

Einfacher Hintergedanke: wenn man einen Krieg führen will, braucht man einen Feind, keinen Mitmenschen auf irgendeinem Planeten mit dem man dies und das gemeinsam hat. Das verwirrt nur die blöde Hammelherde die man an die Front quatschen will.

Die ISS, obgleich nicht mal fertiggebaut, steht ab 2010 ohne Versorgungsfähre da, weil die NASA auch die Space Shuttles einmottet und seit den 70er Jahren, unter den 8 Jahren Ronald Reagan mit seinem Vize George Bush, dessen 4 Jahren als Präsident, 8 Jahren Bill Clinton und dann noch 8 Jahre George Bush Junior oben drauf, kein Nachfolgemodell entwickelt hat.

Den für 2015 in Aussicht gestellten US-Raumgleiter „Orion“ darf man nicht als schlechten Witz bezeichnen, man muss es. Er besteht nur auf dem Papier, ebenso wie die notwendige Trägerrakete Ares.
Beide Luftnummern sollen im Rahmen dieses wohlklingenden „Project Constellation“ angeblich aus uralten Komponenten des „Apollo“-Programms, ja sogar aus der steinzeitlichen Delta-IV Rakete (ausgerechnet von Boeing) zusammen gesetzt werden.

Deshalb müssen ab 2010 nun zur Versorgung der ISS die Russen einspringen – mit den uralten Kapseln der Sojus-Kapseln. Es ist zum Verzweifeln.
Und ab 2015, so drohte NASA-Chef Griffin indirekt, ist das Projekt ISS sowieso hinfällig.

Auch nicht die ESA, die kanadische oder die japanische Raumfahrtbehörde machen z.Z. irgendwelche Anstrengungen um die Zukunft der einzigen Raumstation der Menschheit im All zu retten.
Dabei werden dann wirre Pläne über Mond- und Marsmissionen in die Welt gesetzt die völlig irreal und nicht umzusetzen sind, weil bei immensen technischen und infrastrukturellen Problemen trotzdem alle gegeneinander arbeiten und vor einander warnen, besonders vor den Chinesen welche zwar auffällig zielstrebig und fleissig ihre Raumfahrt selbstständig ausbauen, aber gerade mal ihren ersten Taikonauten ins All gebracht haben und noch mindestens 10 Jahre hinter dem Stand der Russen und Amerikaner sind.

Und die Franzosen? Sie hatten schon Mitte der 70er Jahre die Pläne für den Raumgleiter „Hermes“ in der Schublade, die natürlich konsequent nicht umgesetzt wurden.
1987 wurde dann endlich der erste Schritt getan, um das ganze Programm dann 6 Jahre später wieder einzustellen, ausgerechnet mit der Explosion der Challenger-Raumfähre als Begründung, die bereits 1986 erfolgt worden war.
Einerseits müsse man jetzt wohl doch Schleudersitze einbauen (was für ein Witz), deswegen könne man weniger Astronauten und Fracht mitnehmen, ausserdem habe man kein Geld und ausserdem brauche man eh keine Raumfähre.

Jetzt von einer Mondfahrt, oder gar einer Reise zum Mars zu erzählen, ist irrational und unwissenschaftlich. Letzteres ist mit normalen Verbrennungstechniken bzw. chemischen Triebwerken sowieso nicht zu schaffen, und der Ionenantrieb, dessen erste Entwürfe vom deutschen Hermann Oberth aus den 20er Jahren stammen, dümpelt leise vor sich hin. Funktionieren tut er nur im Vakuum, nicht in der Atmosphäre. Starten könnte man nur von einer Raumwerft, deren Anfang wäre erst einmal eine orbitale Station, die aber wird gerade versenkt, usw.

Man erzählt das Eine und macht genau das Andere.
Das ist keine Wissenschaft. Das ist Politik.

04.02.2025 - 16:08 [ Al Jazeera ]

Satellite images show Israel building military bases in Syria buffer zone

(February 3, 2025)

Israel is building military bases in the demilitarised buffer zone with Syria, according to satellite images seen by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit.

The images were taken between December 19, 2024, just 11 days after Syria’s deposed President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow, and February 1, 2025. They show six sites constructed in that time inside the buffer zone. Another is being constructed outside the buffer zone and inside Syrian territory.

04.02.2025 - 16:05 [ Washington Post ]

Israel is building outposts in Syria, raising local fears of occupation

(February 2, 2025)

As the Israeli military swept into a string of Syrian villages nearly two months ago, the soldiers assured locals that the presence would be temporary — the aim limited to seizing weapons and securing the area after the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

But the earthmoving vehicles that followed suggest a more permanent presence.

01.01.2025 - 19:01 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ]

Attacks on hospitals during the escalation of hostilities in Gaza (7 October 2023 – 30 June 2024)

INTRODUCTION

1. This report presents grave concerns regarding attacks on hospitals, as well as operations within them and in their vicinity, in Gaza covering the period 7 October 2023 to 30 June 2024. In the context of the ongoing escalation of hostilities in Gaza, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has since early October 2023 documented repeated attacks on hospitals and operations within and in the vicinity of hospitals, leading to sustained combat in and around many hospitals. This pattern has led to the destruction of most hospitals in Gaza, pushing the healthcare system to the point of almost complete collapse. Attacks on hospitals were reported in each of the areas in which the Israeli military conducted ground operations, starting in November 2023 with an attack on Al Shifa Medical Complex and other hospitals in Gaza City. At the end of June 2024, 22 out of 38 hospitals across Gaza had been rendered non-functional, according to the Ministry of Health of the State of Palestine (Palestinian MOH).

2. In gathering, assessing, and verifying the information contained in this report, and drawing conclusions based on international human rights law and international humanitarian law, OHCHR applied its standard methodology. The monitoring and verification of violations remained extremely challenging, including owing to access constraints, a high level of insecurity, and threats and direct attacks also on United Nations personnel, monitors and humanitarian actors. Nevertheless, verification work continued, and information was gathered from multiple independent sources, including victims and witnesses; military and weapons experts; open sources, including satellite imagery, videos and photos; credible organizations and individuals; official and other documentation. The analysis of the information involved legal and weapons expertise, including from independent experts. Findings are included in the report where the “reasonable grounds” standard of proof has been met, namely: based on a body of verified information, an objective and ordinarily prudent observer would have reasonable grounds to believe that the facts took place as described and, where legal conclusions are drawn, that these facts meet all the elements of a violation. On 16 December 2024, the report was shared with the Permanent Missions of Israel and the State of Palestine for factual comments. The State of Palestine and Israel responded with comments on 19 and 20 December, respectively. OHCHR welcomes receiving these comments, which can be read here.

01.01.2025 - 18:53 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

UN Human Rights Office Issues Damning Report on Israeli Attacks on Gaza hospitals

UN Human Rights Office report on Tuesday, December 31, condemned deadly Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, saying they had devastated the Palestinian occupied territory health system and raised serious concerns about Israel’s compliance with international law.

The appalling destruction wrought by the Israeli military’s attacks on the Kamal Adwan hospital last Friday – leaving the population of North Gaza with almost no access to adequate health care – reflects the pattern of attacks documented in the report. Staff and patients were forced to flee or were taken into custody, with many reports of torture and ill-treatment. The director of the hospital was taken into custody and his fate and whereabouts are unknown.

10.12.2024 - 21:38 [ theIns.ru ]

“We were screwed over”: Russian propagandists fume over downfall of Assad regime in Syria

„I would ask myself the same question: do we even have intelligence services, do they work? And if they do, who’s ‘processing’ the results of their work? If this is some ‘masterstroke,’ a planned maneuver, then what’s happening with our troops in fallen Damascus, and what about the embassy?”

29.11.2024 - 20:15 [ CNN ]

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo for first time in eight years during shock offensive

Syrian armed rebels have entered Aleppo just three days into their surprise offensive, marking the first time they have set foot in the country’s second largest city since government forces recaptured the city in 2016.

Rebel forces launched a surprise attack this week, sweeping through several villages outside the city and reigniting conflict that had been largely static for years.

23.10.2024 - 07:51 [ BBC ]

What leaked US assessment of Israeli plans to strike Iran shows

The documents also report no sign of any preparations by Israel to activate its nuclear deterrent. (…)

The US has made no secret of its opposition to the targeting of either Iran’s nuclear research facilities or its oil installations.

23.10.2024 - 07:42 [ Middle East Eye ]

US intended to inform UK about Israeli stealth drone use over Iran

However, another piece of intelligence is marked as being for the eyes of US and British intelligence only: that Israel has been using a long-range unmanned surveillance drone which is capable of flying covertly over Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.

The drone, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), is a “covert” drone named RA-01. It was not publicly known about.

21.10.2024 - 18:21 [ KBS.co.kr ]

Nordkorea schweigt zu Seouls Angaben über Truppenentsendung

Nordkorea hat sich zur Bekanntgabe der südkoreanischen Regierung über eine Entsendung nordkoreanischer Soldaten nach Russland bislang nicht geäußert.

Der südkoreanische Geheimdienst (NIS) hatte am Freitag mitgeteilt, dass 1.500 nordkoreanische Soldaten ins russische Wladiwostok verlegt worden seien.

21.10.2024 - 18:13 [ AlArabiya.net ]

What we know about North Korean troops joining Russia’s war in Ukraine

On Friday, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said the North had shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia’s Far East for training and acclimatizing at military bases there, probably to be deployed for combat in the war.

20.10.2024 - 11:01 [ CNN ]

Israeli road splitting Gaza in two has reached the Mediterranean coast, satellite imagery shows

(March 8, 2024)

“The residents of the Gaza Strip should not be allowed to return to the north at least until the demolition of all the underground infrastructure and the complete demobilization of the area,” they said in the proposal. It also included a second corridor further south that he called the Sufa Corridor. The plan has not been adopted by the IDF, but it includes elements that are coming into existence, including the Netzarim Corridor.

19.10.2024 - 23:37 [ Axios ]

Pro-Iranian account leaks alleged U.S. intel on Israel‘s attack plans

Between the lines: The report, if accurate, would suggest very close and detailed surveillance by U.S. intelligence of Israel‘s preparations for an attack on Iran, including the use of satellites to spy on operations carried out at Israeli Air Force bases.

19.10.2024 - 23:30 [ CNN ]

Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israel’s plans to attack Iran, sources say

Another US official said that “these two documents are bad, but not horrible. The concern is if there are more.”

It is not clear how the documents became public, nor whether they were hacked or deliberately leaked.

14.09.2024 - 18:20 [ Washington Post ]

U.S. concerned about Ukraine strikes on Russian nuclear radar stations

(May 29, 2024)

The drone that targeted the radar station near Orsk, in Russia’s Orenburg region along Kazakhstan’s northern border, traveled more than 1,100 miles, making it one of the deepest attempted strikes into Russian territory. The Ukrainian official declined to say whether the strike, on May 26, caused any damage.

14.09.2024 - 18:11 [ Newsweek ]

Map Shows Ukraine‘s Record-Breaking Hits on Russian Nuclear Warning Sites

(May 28, 2024)

Ukraine began its nascent campaign against Russia‘s early warning radar network in April, with successive drone strikes on the 590th separate radio engineering center of military unit 84680 in the city of Kovylkino, in the Mordovia Republic around 360 miles from the Ukrainian border.

10.09.2024 - 14:25 [ Tass.com ]

FACTBOX: Drone attack on Moscow and other Russian regions

MOSCOW, September 10. /TASS/. At least 14 drones were shot down by air defense forces during an attempt to attack Moscow and the Moscow Region. A 46-year-old woman died in Ramenskoye, while earlier information about the death of a 9-year-old child was not confirmed. Several people were injured.

The effects of the fall of UAV fragments in the area of Zhukovsky airport are being eliminated.

10.09.2024 - 14:15 [ Reuters ]

Ukraine strikes Moscow in biggest drone attack to date

Moscow and Kyiv have both sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways, and seek new ways to destroy them – from using shotguns to advanced electronic jamming systems.
Both sides have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while ramping up their own production and assembly to attack targets including tanks and energy infrastructure such as refineries and airfields.

18.01.2024 - 00:44 [ Radio Utopie ]

DER MOBILE TELEVISOR (III): “Boden durchdringender Radar” aus Luftraum und Orbit

(17. Februar 2013)

Die optische Auflösung von Bildern mobiler “Televisoren” (durch Materialien sehender visueller Erfassungsapparaturen) hängt grundsätzlich von der Wellenlänge / Frequenz ab und nimmt mit zunehmender Wellenlänge (d.h.: abnehmender Frequenz) ab.

Für potentiell flächendeckende Durchleuchtung von Metropolen mit ihren tausenden Gebäuden und Kellerräumen bietet sich – wenn auch nicht mit gleicher optischer Auflösung wie bei unmittelbarer Nähe des Zielobjekts und Verwendung von hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Strahlung – der Einsatz von etwas niedriger frequenten Millimeterwellen aus der Luft an, etwa durch Drohnen. Bereits im September 2008 hatte das U.S.-Militär, nach jahrelanger und in Zeiten des “Antiterrorismus” massiv finanziell geförderter Forschung, an die Presse dringen lassen, man setze in Kriegsgebieten Drohnen mit Überwachungstechnologien ein, die “das Verfolgen von menschlichen Zielen erlauben, selbst wenn sie in Gebäuden oder auf andere Art versteckt sind”.

31.12.2023 - 14:47 [ Reuters ]

North Korea to launch new satellites, build drones, calling war inevitable

Kim lashed out at Washington in lengthy remarks wrapping up five days of ruling party meetings that set economic, military and foreign policy goals for the coming year.

„Because of reckless moves by the enemies to invade us, it is a fait accompli that a war can break out at any time on the Korean peninsula,“ he said, according to state news agency KCNA.

24.12.2023 - 12:00 [ Washington Post ]

Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars in Gaza

The Washington Post analyzed satellite imagery, airstrike data and U.N. damage assessments, and interviewed more than 20 aid workers, health-care providers, and experts in munitions and aerial warfare. The evidence shows that Israel has carried out its war in Gaza at a pace and level of devastation that likely exceeds any recent conflict, destroying more buildings, in far less time, than were destroyed during the Syrian regime’s battle for Aleppo from 2013 to 2016 and the U.S.-led campaign to defeat the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, in 2017.

22.12.2023 - 21:19 [ New York Times ]

A Times Investigation Tracked Israel’s Use of One of Its Most Destructive Bombs in South Gaza

The Times programmed an artificial intelligence tool to scan satellite imagery of south Gaza for bomb craters. Times reporters manually reviewed the search results, looking for craters measuring roughly 40 feet across or larger. Munitions experts say typically only 2,000-pound bombs form craters of that size in Gaza’s light, sandy soil.

Ultimately, the investigation identified 208 craters in satellite imagery and drone footage.

22.12.2023 - 21:10 [ Glenn Greenwald / Twitter ]

„During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians.“ Specifically: it used 2,000-pound bombs for this, which not even the US will use in cities:

22.11.2023 - 06:25 [ Politico.com ]

US has sent Israel data on aid group locations to try to prevent strikes

The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities. But Israel has continued to hit such sites.

The information included GPS coordinates of a number of medical facilities and information on movements of aid groups in Gaza to the Israeli government for at least a month, according to three people familiar with the communications. All were granted anonymity because they feared speaking publicly would make it more difficult for aid groups to operate in Gaza.

18.11.2023 - 04:50 [ @sadgirlcassi / Twitter ]

Crowds of Palestinians trying to flee southern Gaza can be seen from space.

10.11.2023 - 10:15 [ Manager-Magazin.de ]

Siemens und der BND: Ehemalige Manager packen aus

(12.04.2008)

Siemens lieferte Abhörtechnik für Geheimdienste in aller Welt, nach Russland, Ägypten, oder Oman. Der Konzern kann sich zur Fehleranalyse in jede große Vermittlungsanlage einwählen, die das Unternehmen geliefert hat. Das legt den Verdacht nahe, der BND habe sich Zugang zu diesen Einwahlschlüsseln verschaffen wollen.

Für den Nachrichtendienst war Siemens auch deshalb interessant, weil Ingenieure des Konzerns beim Bau von Telefonanlagen Räume zu sehen bekommen, die auch einem US-Spionagesatellit verschlossen sind, …

27.10.2023 - 19:23 [ Caitlin Johnstone / Twitter ]

What kind of drooling, knuckle-dragging, tapioca-brained moron looks at these photos and believes Gaza is lying about its death toll?

27.10.2023 - 19:15 [ CNN ]

Before and after satellite images show destruction in Gaza

(25.10.2023)

New satellite images released by Maxar show significant damage to sites across Gaza.

21.10.2023 - 16:14 [ ORF.at ]

Forschung als Friedensprojekt

SESAME ist ein Zentrum der Materialforschung. Die im Elektronensynchrotron beschleunigten Teilchen erzeugen elektromagnetische Strahlung in allen Frequenzbereichen – und diese wird verwendet, um Materialien aller Art zu durchleuchten. Das können archäologische Artefakte oder Gewebsproben von Lebewesen sein .

18.10.2023 - 11:32 [ Guardian Weekly / Twitter ]

Israel-Hamas war: a visual guide in maps, video and satellite images

(16.10.2023)

18.10.2023 - 11:25 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Russia says Israel should provide evidence it didn‘t strike Gaza hospital

Russia‘s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that a strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians was a shocking crime, adding that Israel should provide satellite images to prove that it was not involved in the attack.

18.10.2023 - 11:17 [ @UnityNewsNet / Twitter ]

Just in Russian Foreign Ministry says Israel should provide satellite images to prove it’s not behind the strike on the Hospital.

17.10.2023 - 22:24 [ John Daily / Twitter ]

I completely agree satellite footage will determine the truth who hit the hospital.

07.10.2023 - 13:30 [ Marc Polymeropoulos, Retired from three letter agency. @msnbc contributor / Twitter ]

A staggering intelligence failure. Hard to comprehend how this was missed. Expect a massive military response in Gaza, including possible ground invasion, and potential for further escalation. All eyes on Iran as well. Thoughts with friends in Israel.