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MAINSTREAM MEDIA YEMEN AND THE REAL YEMEN

✍️Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

Yemen is now divided into four political units. They are the Ansar Allah government of the northwestern region, the Saudi controlled internationally recognized government of the south, the Al Qaeda controlled regions of southern Yemen not occupied by Saudi forces, and ISIS which does not actually spend its energy controlling territory but does operate an active arms smuggling operation through Yemen in Africa and elsewhere under the oversight of Mossad and the CIA. Of the four political units, only Ansar Allah and Al Qaeda appear to be working for the benefit of the people that they rule.

And, of the just mentioned governments, only Ansar Allah in the northwest has succeeded in establishing a fully functioning government that appears to be presiding over the fastest growing economy in Western Asia. Published economic data is not readily available testifying to anything anywhere in Yemen. Assertions of economic growth are thus based on a commonsense that has grown out of reading hundreds of articles originating in Yemen which don't describe economic issues directly, but do describe people's lives. Economic development, though, does tie into Ansar Allah's increasingly advanced military weapons production capability and its rapidly developing system of higher education system.

Reading government press releases can also lead to an understanding of other matters, one of which is that the recent Ansar Allah attack on Tel Aviv was carried out at least partly to put negotiating pressure on Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia had sanctioned Yemeni banks, its national airline, and its port operations, most likely under American and Israeli pressure, as well as because of historic animosity.

In the days after the strike on Tel Aviv and Israel's subsequent attack on the Yemeni port of Hodeida, the Yemeni government issued dozens of press releases threatening Saudi Arabia with the destruction of its international airports, its ports, its banking system, and its petroleum industry on account of its cooperation in enabling the air raid to take place. The threat was real. Ansar Allah had used only one of its new drones in bombing Tel Aviv. It obviously had many more held in reserve for possible use against Saudi Arabia.

Most importantly, the tactic worked. The head of the Ansar Allah national negotiating team, Muhammad Abdel Salam, was able to announce on 23 July 2024 that an agreement had been reached between Ansar Allah and Saudi Arabia to cancel recent sanctions against Yemeni banks and to cease any similar sanctions in the future. It, furthermore, confirmed the resumption of Yemenia Airlines flights between Sana'a and Jordan, increasing the number of its flights to 3 per day, and operating flights to Cairo and India on a daily basis.

More importantly, in a separate news release by the Saudi government, it was announced that Saudi Arabia did not in the past nor would it in the future cooperate with Anglo-American-Israeli bombing air raids on Ansar Allah territory. This means that, that future Israeli air raids will be strictly symbolic in nature as the logistics and the expense make them unfeasible to carry out on a regular basis.

Significantly, within two days, Israeli air raid damage was repaired, and, in succeeding days, harbor improvements were initiated. And, as of 23 July 2024, container ships were peacefully unloading goods at Hodeida harbor, a place which had been in flames only days before.

None of this means that there will not be a Yemeni response against Israel. Anger against Israel is being constantly encouraged. It simply means it will not happen when others want it to happen. It will happen when Ansar Allah wants it to happen. And, when it does, it will be with intention of creating maximum effect.

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🤔 JUST IN: Far-right Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir Backs Trump - says that if he is elected, 'Israel will receive the backing to act against Iran'

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⚡️ Rheinmetall has received an order to build an ammunition plant in Ukraine

According to the press service of the German defence concern, the implementation of the project will begin in the near future and will be completed within a few years. The ministry added that measures are being taken to prepare the necessary infrastructure.

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🇷🇺 DO YOU MIND IF I KICK YOUR ARSE? Federal Security Bureau (FSB) detains an armaments enterprise employee in Rostov-on-Don, pre-war South Russia, who shared information with Ukraine.

In April, the man provided data to Ukraine that could have led to critical Russian military infrastructure facilities being compromised.

That's not okay, dude. In any country.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reiterated his intention to be re-elected in 2025.

The current head of government has repeatedly stated his intention to retain the chancellorship.

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🇺🇦🤡 Syrsky using the same drugs as Zelensky…

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🇷🇺 "WE DO NOT INTERFERE AND HAVE NEVER INTERFERED IN U.S ELECTIONS" - Russian Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Zakharova on the Russiagate saga, which by the way, was never proven by bazillions of anti-Trump lawyers...

Blaming Russia for one’s own troubles, miscalculations, mistakes is a manifestation of the disease of American democracy - Zakharova, commenting on alleged Russian interference in the elections.


500,000 NATO troops have been on high alert on our border for a long time, and not due to any recent event. This is now part of the standard NATO doctrine - Zakharova notes.


🔫 Ummm...guys? Personal space pls?

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“No one trusts him, no one,” Zakharova commented on Zelensky’s statement about his readiness to resume dialogue with Moscow.
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🔥👍❗️⚔️🇺🇦🔥Krasny Liman (DPR occupied by the Ukrainian Nazis) - Iskander destroyed the command post of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasny Liman which had more than 300 FPV drones - Russian Ministry of Defense

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🇦🇲🇦🇿 Who is responsible for changes to the Constitution of Armenia

The authorities of Azerbaijan persistently continue an information campaign demanding changes to the Constitution of Armenia. In Baku, the same statements are made almost every day.

Thus, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev again stated that the signing of a peace treaty with Armenia is impossible without changes to the Constitution and the exclusion of hints of territorial claims from it.

A similar demand was repeated by Aliyev's foreign policy assistant Hikmet Gadjiev.

📌 The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has long been preparing society for a new Constitution. However, the local press claims that the specially created Constitutional Council does not particularly support the aspirations of the head of government due to the fact that this is a concession to the Azerbaijanis.

❗️Armenian insiders also report that Pashinyan entrusted the lawyer and deputy from the "Civil Contract" party Arusyak Julakyan to incline the members of the Council in favor of constitutional concessions.

▪️Julakyan's track record is very eloquent: until 2018, she made a name for herself working in Western NGOs, which has become a common characteristic in the vector of Armenian politics in recent years.

▪️In 2015-2018, Julakyan worked on projects of the "anti-corruption" Transparency International (recognized as an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation).

▪️In 2016, Julakyan participated in monitoring the elections in Georgia from the coalition of NGOs European Platform for Democratic Elections. Moreover, the large grant recipient "Helsinki Assembly of Vanadzor" joined the latter from Armenia.

▪️Finally, the deputy from the "Civil Contract", who came to power on the wave of the 2018 revolution, in the same year traveled to the USA under the well-known State Department program for training new leaders (International Visitors Leadership Program).

▪️All this made Julakyan one of the leading experts in the "new" Armenia on "fighting corruption", as well as a public face in the West, who Original msg
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Forwarded from InfoDefenseENGLISH
Let’s Talk OSINT

You do know what OSINT stands for, don’t you? To make sure, OSINT is neither an intelligence agency, nor an investigative think tank. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence. If you look it up on Wikipedia, you won’t find the exact definition of what OSINT entails—just like the elusive Rules-Based International Order, which in itself should sound a loud alarm. The broad general consensus is that OSINT involves the collection and analysis of publicly available information.

What does this mean in practice? Well, let’s suppose the least discerning person you know looks at a live webcam in, say, Moscow’s Red Square and notices an object that, to them, looks like a dirty toilet bowl. That person then writes a social media post saying, “I am seeing a dirty toilet bowl on Red Square. Russians take a shit in the middle of Red Square.” Is this OSINT? You bet it is! Now, a Ukrainian psycho-operative reads this post and plants his own post in an official Ukrainian media channel, “OSINT researchers confirm what we have suspected all along—Russians shit in the middle of Red Square.” Then MSNBC or some other mainstream media outlet writes a story about “barbaric Russians who relieve themselves in the open in the middle of Red Square, as confirmed by OSINT.” Sounds convincing, doesn’t it?

Believe it or not, this is how things really work when you need them to, because there is nothing to prevent the reverse engineering of this situation, where the initial OSINT is simply cooked up and planted by psyops professionals.

In fact, if you read Ukrainian media, you will notice that OSINT plays a very important role in their propaganda machinery. In most, if not all, cases when they cite OSINT, prepare to be misled or deceived.

This is not to say that there is no value in open-source information. There certainly is. But any open-source information cited by any source should be looked at with a grain of salt, especially if it is labeled with the legitimately sounding abbreviation OSINT.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 KEY RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ALMOST KILLED IN ASSASSINATION PLOT: Andrei Torgashev (pictured left), the Deputy Chief of the secret Russian Military Satellite Communications unit, suffers car assassination plot.

Torgashev has reportedly lost both legs, top right video allegedly shows him being carried out of the vehicle by neighbors. His wife alleges a different person was in the car and Torgashev is unharmed.

Developing story.

UPDATE: Torgashev confirms that's not him in the footage and he doesn't live in this area. Ukrainian PR team working overtime but underpaid?

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🇷🇺🇫🇷 RANDOM RUSSIAN IS APPARENTLY DESTABILIZING PARIS: French police arrest a Russian man suspected of "plotting acts of destabilization" during the Paris Olympics.

But he's not planning migrant rape, that's not destabilization.

The Moscow Times publication (that is based in Holland and has nothing to do with Moscow) comes out with yet another gem - the man, born in 1984 (quelle surprise! Does said man even exist?) is in custody and under judicial investigation.

The unclear crime is punishable by up to 30 years in jail.

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⚠️ Some 92% of Kamala Harris’ Staff Left During First Three Years as VP

Of the 47 staff members hired when Harris took office in 2021, only four reportedly remained in her employment as of March 2024. 

One staffer explained why: “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” a former anonymous staffer told WaPo.

“With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So, you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”

Guess they just couldn’t grasp what can be unburdened by what has been.

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🗣🇪🇺🤡🫳🏻 How do you refinance Europe after the epic failure of being American boot lickers in the proxy war against Russia?

Ursula von der Hitler’s vision is to potentially steal assets from citizens.

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🗣⚔️🗣 Donald Trump committed to debating Vice President Kamala Harris — and said he would be “willing” to face off against her more than once - POLITICO

The next debate, which is scheduled for Sept. 10, is to be hosted by ABC News. Trump in recent days has pushed for the more conservative Fox News to hold the debate, calling ABC “a joke.”

But during a conference call with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Trump said he would debate Harris, regardless of whether it was on ABC, and said he “would be willing to do more than one debate actually.”

While Trump said he was “not thrilled with ABC” — which he said he watched on Monday and had concluded was favorable to President Joe Biden and Harris — he said “debating is important for a presidential race.”

“I think if you’re the Democrat nominee or the Republican nominee, you really have an obligation to debate,” Trump said.


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