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Israel might be collapsing economically but weapons manufacturing is probably the one market that improves under these circumstances. It’s not because Elbit were doing badly. It’s because the massive damages being incurred outweigh the profits.
I agree. I’ve said as much about evidence, haven’t seen a single piece of footage of DPRK troops actually in combat yet.
Just a vibe. Feels wordpress blog-ish (pretty sure it is wordpress) which always makes me immediately wary. I’ve never really become acquainted with them previously. I can definitely be wrong though.
do we know the trajectory of the rocket
Up?
This is correct.
The whole thing is kinda different, it launches from a tube that stays on the ground whereas every other ICBM I’ve seen the entire thing is designed to go up. Seems like the first blast of the triple firing happens when it clears the tube?
Guesswork: Maybe they’re launching from the top of tube to avoid launch pad damage? Elevated ignition? ICBMs of this size usually launch from a silo whereas this launches from a mobile launching device that will always have ground beneath it.
Remember when the SpaceX rocket absolutely obliterated a launchpad?
Yeah fair but this isn’t unique to the young ones, in fact I would argue that the younger people often have better views on the realities of resistance than many of the older
There’s this game going on where people condemn hamas but celebrate palestinian resistance while ignoring that almost all of that is hamas. They’re separating the two in their head in order to hold both ideas simultaneously so they’re not “bad” for supporting hamas because everyone says that’s a bad thing.
This comes from a lack of people being willing to accept imperfect resistance, and also the exceptional power of the western media propaganda.
Barclays bank has divested from Elbit Systems because of Palestine Action’s targeting of them over the last year.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/10/31/barclays-divest-elbit-palestine-action/
After a year-long campaign against its premises by Palestine Action, Barclays PLC has sold all of its shareholdings in Elbit Systems Ltd (ELST). Until recently, Barclays owned over 16,000 shares in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company.
Barclays: divestment from Elbit, finally
Starting just over one year ago, Palestine Action’s campaign saw activists undertake 54 actions against Barclays premises nation-wide. Smashing branch windows, spraying them in blood-red paint, many of these actions put Barclays sites out of operation for weeks, actions which sought to raise the costs associated with dealing with Elbit:
In the latest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, Barclays owned 0 shares in Elbit Systems Ltd (ELST), down 16,345 since the previous filing, 15 May 2024, worth over $3,400,000.
Until then, recent filings had showed Barclays’ Elbit shareholdings at record high quantities, having steadily increased from zero ten years ago. The most recent SEC filings and NASDAQ data record an immediate total sale of Barclays’ ELST shares, abruptly sold just when Palestine Action’s campaign hit them hardest.
Initial research published in July 2022 by Campaign Against Arms Trade, War on Want, and Palestine Solidarity Campaign showed the bank held shareholdings worth over £1.5billion in companies complicit with Israeli apartheid. Palestine Action adopted the campaign in October 2023 due to the bank’s investments in Elbit Systems — the group’s primary target.
A sustained campaign by Palestine Action
Palestine Action’s 11-month long campaign against Barclays reached its peak on 10 June 2024, when 20 branches had their windows smashed, drenched in red paint, in a co-ordinated nationwide overnight action:
Four days after, Barclays CEO CS Venkatakrishnan penned in the Guardian that the bank is concerned about “overall suffering” in the region, and is very accepting of the type of “peaceful protest” seen in multiple years of campaigning up until this year. But, in a media campaign co-ordinated with former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Venkatakrishnan complained of Palestine Action’s disruptive actions against the bank.
Inadvertently, Barclays CEO affirmed Palestine Action’s strategy, which is to make the cost of dealing in genocide, occupation, and apartheid exceed the potential to profit from it. Throughout this year-long campaign, several activists were arrested:
During questioning, police claimed that many actions caused damage between £250k to £500k in value. Most actions forced bank branches to close for weeks at a time, contributing to the financial disruption to the bank.
There are still many complicit institutions
These actions were taken as part of Palestine Action’s four-year campaign against the premises of Elbit Systems, and against the financial and industrial partners which support them like Barclays.
Elbit Systems is a major supplier of the Israeli military, its contributions including the vast majorities of Israel’s drones, along with mortuary munition and artillery rockets currently being used in Gaza.
The campaign has seen two of Elbit’s weapons factories forced to permanently shut down in Britain, and has forced a number of partners to halt relations with Elbit. Recently, activists have struck at over a dozen premises in Britain of Allianz a major shareholder in and insurer of Elbit.
A Palestine Action spokesperson said of the Barclays decision:
Through a focused strategy, direct action has achieved multiple successes and forced the hands of many complicit institutions. We will remain committed and focused to the task at hand and target any and all institutions and businesses which enable Israel’s biggest weapons firm to maintain their genocidal operations.
That means, if Barclays does reinvest into Elbit Systems in the future, Palestine Action will come knocking again.
Before/after shots of Lebanon villages where Israel has been bombing
Looks like 80% of all buildings destroyed to me, very similar to descriptions of the US bombing operations in DPRK during the Korean War.
Nice, I wasn’t sure where the footage itself was from for sure other than the obvious fact only DPRK could have filmed it, I liberated it from shitty twitter accounts. There is another picture that has captured the osint community and made them question whether the DPRK’s missile came within meters of a satellite already in space:
They have been comparing it to these:
Found a probably untrustworthy site attempting to map the Lebanon front with Israel: https://english.iswnews.com/36624/latest-khiam-on-al-khiam-front-map/
Pretty much the only mapping I’ve ever seen of the Lebanon invasion but that could be because there’s practically nothing to map so far because of how much Hezbollah have been fucking the IOF.
The video footage above shows moments of several Israeli airstrikes on al-Khiam town.
In addition to armed confrontation, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has conducted five rocket and artillery strikes against the movements and gatherings of Israeli troopers in the southeast of al-Khiam.
The Israeli regime’s army bulldozers are also creating defensive embankments and fortifications in the eastern outskirts of al-Khiam front, similar to actions previously taken in the Netzarim Corridor, a 6km stretch of land that divides the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
This measure is aimed at providing security for infantry forces and protecting Merkava tanks from guided anti-tank missiles. It appears that the Tel Aviv regime is preparing for a heavy confrontation in al-Khiam axis.
Al-Khiam town is a significant target for the Israeli regime, and heavy preparations have been made for it.
Another here: https://english.iswnews.com/36626/israeli-occupying-forces-demolish-villages-of-umm-al-tut-marwahin-in-southern-lebanon/
Ohh I see where we’ve diverged, let me rephrase - they’re discussing it as if it IS a fully deployed satellite, an existing one that was already in space that this ICBM has come very very close to. They’re not suggesting that DPRK deployed it, they’re suggesting it’s an older US one.
So you think it might actually be another satellite then?
OSINT accounts (probably some are feds) is currently fascinated with this shot because they think it might be a satellite and not a part of the missile detaching. Chances of coming this close to a satellite seem really slim to me though.
This is the diy supplier run by one person right? Lillian? She knows what people will share and spread online I suppose.
Rumour is that it’s their first one using solid fuel rather than liquid. I don’t know enough about what a rocket exhaust usually looks like for each to say one way or another though.
DPRK published footage of the launch of a new ICBM model called the “Hwasong-19”
https://tankie.tube/w/8zrvst6VVXhwuDfQqc3f1F
Rumour doesn’t seem to be ballistic missiles from iraq, just drones. Ballistic missile movement is apparently within Iran itself, so probably transportation to launch sites.
Could be interesting if they do move some to Iraq though.
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