“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
H/T WTD.
Satellite imagery shows hundreds of Russian tanks near the border with Ukraine
Satellite imagery from Google Earth taken on November shows hundreds of Russian main battle tanks at a new military base on the outskirts of the Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.
The large-scale military base only 18 kilometers away from the border with toward rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
Images show hundreds of main battle tank like as T-64 and also T-62M, while a thousand military trucks, artillery systems and tankers are located slightly higher.
Russia has been ramping up its forces near the border with Ukraine since August and now poses the greatest military threat since 2014, the year Moscow annexed Crimea, the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
Thank you Brad Johnson for taking time away from your schedule while in Georgia to discuss this situation with us.
The Epoch Times, a paper which I think is made by Falun Dafa or Falun Gong, is often some of the best reporting out there on what is actually going on. Strange times.
H/T Johnny U.
The founding director of the European Coalition for Israel in Brussels, Tomas Sandell, announced in a shocking video message on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel waged a campaign to prevent central and eastern European countries from moving their capitals to Jerusalem to preserve the Iran nuclear deal.
Sandell said a Jerusalem Post exclusive report in November that Merkel called Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis, to convince him to not relocate his country’s embassy to Jerusalem, prompted Sandell to go public.
Its been this kind of day
Something really wrong with this whole thing.
H/T MissPiggy
Ukraine says Russia has opened fire on its ships in the Black Sea and captured three vessels.
Two sailors have been wounded after two small armoured artillery boats were hit in the strikes, the Ukrainian navy said.
A statement from Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK said Russian special forces had captured three ships in an “act of aggression”.
UPDATE: Russian claim Ukraine violated its territorial waters
There are indications that the Yellow vest demonstrations in France will move to Germany.
Twitter and other social media more typically associated with phones, seem to be abuzz with instructions, locations and organizers for massive yellow vest protests to hit every city and town in Germany soon.
One wonders whether to rejoice, or feel this is a planned tactic to bring down federal governments by long gamers who must have predicted the rise of the real resistance to the communist-islamic revolution.
In any case, prepare your telescopes to look to the East of France. It could get interesting soon.
This video says December 1:
“Never interfere with an enemy when they are making a mistake”. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Here is a video on the event, the analysis within which, I do not fully agree. But the arrests are Orwellian and I mean that both literally and as a best case scenario at this point.
It should be mentioned that Katie Hopkins claims she was told, that the fire started because migrants were illegally, (in the real sense, not the modern sense) preparing Ramadan feasts over actual fires in their apartments and the government covered that up with a story about an exploding refrigerator.
This makes the arrests far more sinister. Not only must we treat the fire as a sacred thing, but any attempt to view it differently…
It is time they officially changed the name of the place to Air Strip One.
Here is the actual news story, which utterly escaped me till PC posted the video above to the Reader’s Links.
State of Palestine: Israeli missiles flatten ‘Hamas intelligence centre’ – IDF
Thanks to several readers we have information and video snippets. I will add them as they come in, or as they are examined in email.
Thank you all who have sent in these materials, as always.
Keep the salt handy for the Guardian version:
Yucki’s comment gives some of the geopolitics leading up to the moment. As is nearly always the case, these events do not happen in a vacuum, nor are they fully disconnected from what follows.
IDF soldier killed in Gaza
An IDF soldier from an elite unit was killed on Sunday night during an operation in the Gaza Strip.
Another soldier was injured and evacuated to the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. Their families have been notified.…
The incident occurred during an IDF operation three kilometers deep inside the Gaza Strip. The force entered Gaza in a civilian car, apparently in order to eliminate or kidnap Nur Barakeh, commander of the eastern battalion of Hamas’ Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades in Khan Yunis.
According to reports from Gaza, due to a complication in the operation, exchanges of fire broke out between the terrorists and the Israeli forces, during which the Israel Air Force attacked in Gaza and killed at least seven Hamas terrorists.
The special force of the IDF was able to leave Gaza and, contrary to rumors that circulated at the time, no soldier was kidnapped. Following the incident, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cut short his visit to Paris and is now making his way to Israel.
On Sunday evening, sirens were heard in the Gaza envelope. According to the IDF, at least 10 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in open areas or were intercepted by the Iron Dome system. There were no physical injuries.
Residents living in the area reported hearing loud explosions. Residents of the Eshkol Regional Council were called upon to remain close to protected areas. The Home Front Command announced that schools in the Gaza envelope will be closed on Monday due to the security situation.…
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