Israeli Hermes 450 Armed Drone Spotted Over Hezbollah Stronghold In Lebanon

On June 13, an Israeli Hermes 450 was spotted while conducting what appears to be an armed patrol along the separation line with South Lebanon, the main stronghold of Hezbollah.

Ali Shoeib, a reporter of Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV and al-Noor Radio, shared a close up image of the drone that was carrying two large pods under its wing. According to Shoeib, the drone flew over the settlements of Metula and Kfar Giladi for more than three hours.

The pods appeared to be different in shape from the external fuel tanks usually installed on the Hermes 450LE [Long Endurance] variant. The pods are also larger than electronic warfare and intelligence systems which were spotted before on this type of drone.

A Hermes 450 drone was spotted with similar pods over the Gaza Strip in 2014. Back then, sources told The Aviationist blog that these were “firing pods” for a light missile, most likely the Israeli-made Mikholit.

On March 31 2018, a Hermes 450 drone carrying at least four Mikholit missiles crashed in South Lebanon. The crash confirmed that the drone has combat capabilities.

The Mikholit small diameter guided missile which was designed to be launched from drones is one of Israel’s best kept military secrets. The specifications of the missiles are unknown but most open sources suggest that it is linked to the Israeli Nimrod missile, which is guided with semi-active laser. The missile was used during the last battle in Gaza.

Israeli drones are apparently still conducting armed patrols along the separation line with South Lebanon despite recent threats by Hezbollah. Earlier this year, the Lebanese group fired a missile at an Israeli drone that crossed into Lebanon’s airspace.

https://southfront.org/israeli-hermes-450-armed-drone-spotted-over-hezbollah-stronghold-in-lebanon/

The Wizard Of Oz: The Dark Reality That The Deep State Hides From The World

The world's permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep states”) together with their perception managers in the Mainstream Media and the education system are hiding a very dark reality from everyone that's much more nefarious than what the Wizard of Oz hid from Dorothy.

The “Deep State”

Nothing is ever as it seems, especially when it comes to the modern world in which everyone lives. “There Are No Democracies Or Autocracies, Only Governments”, I wrote last week, and they're all comprised of permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies, or “deep states”, which handle matters largely considered (whether rightly or wrongly) to be beyond the responsibility of the average citizen. This power structure is allied with influential perception managers in the Mainstream Media and the education system in order to hide a very dark reality from everyone that's much more nefarious than what the Wizard of Oz hid from Dorothy. Supporters might say that “it's better this way” since “society needs to be controlled” whereas critics claim that this is highly manipulative and against people's fundamental human rights. Whichever side of the divide one falls on, there's no denying that the real world is much worse than the average person thought.

“Bread & Circuses”

All people across the world are strongly encouraged by their governments to go about their daily lives and behave as economically productive and socially responsible citizens. To this end, they're distracted with “bread and circuses” by being kept above the minimum subsistence level at the very least and pressured to focus more on their personal pursuit of happiness than everyone else's. The exception of course is those who show a sincere interest in how the world works and are considered by the so-called “powers that be” as “ideologically reliable” after years of relevant indoctrination in the higher education system. This elite category of citizens learns how the world really operates after getting to peek behind the curtain ahead of actually getting to play a direct role of some sort in managing this secret state of affairs. Sometimes average people learn about the truth on their own or through whistleblowers, but it mostly remains obscured.

Information Warfare

The system upholds itself by obsessively discrediting those intrepid enough to research its inner workings and publicly share their findings as so-called “conspiracy theorists”, “foreign agents”, or whatever else. That's not to say that there's no such thing as factually unsubstantiated speculation that can legitimately be described as a conspiracy theory or that foreign powers aren't infiltrating society through actual agents and even those of so-called “influence” (the latter of which may not even be conscious of the role that they're playing), but just to point out the techniques used to discredit those who occasionally break through the “deep state's” informational firewall in order to enlighten the masses about what's really going on. In fact, different countries' media outlets are presently waging an intense information war against one another's target audiences in order to convince them that their own “deep states” are lying to them, which adds a hybrid dimension to all of this.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wizard-oz-dark-reality-deep-state-hides-world

South Africa discards 2 MILLION doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccine because of US Baltimore plant contamination – health watchdog

South African health authorities have ditched a whopping 2 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Covid-19 vaccine, because materials for their production came from a US factory in Baltimore, hit by contamination issues.

South Africa’s health products safety watchdog (SAHPRA) has decided not to greenlight the use of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses stored at a plant in the city of Gqeberha, since the material they were produced from was “affected” by a contamination incident at the Baltimore factory, the nation’s health authorities confirmed.

The agency suspended use of the doses in question earlier in June as it awaited a safety compliance report from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

“Based on what has been announced by the FDA, we are affected in terms of those batches… at Gqeberha site and what we have there on site is 2 million,” South African Acting Health Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane told SABC news on Sunday. She added that those doses had not and would not be used to vaccinate South Africans. It was also confirmed by the SAHPRA CEO, Dr. Boitumelo Semete, who said that the jabs in question “cannot be made available to the public.”

The health watchdog meanwhile said in a statement that a new batch containing some 300,000 doses of the Janssen Covid-19 vaccine has been approved by the FDA and will be shipped to South Africa at some point. It didn't reveal exact dates for the shipments.

Semete admitted that the incident with Johnson & Johnson’s jabs has had a significant negative impact on South Africa’s vaccine “rollout strategy.” South Africa registered some 1.7 million Covid-19 cases and over 57,000 deaths to date among its population of roughly 58.5 million people, but it had administered only 183,000 vaccine doses as of June 9, according to the WHO.

The Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore was hit by a string of hygiene and contamination issues earlier this year. Back in April, the FDA expressed a series of health and safety concerns, arguing that conditions at the plant could compromise the safety of vaccines.

The reported issues included the personal hygiene of staff, inadequate training and a failure to keep surfaces clean. The probe was triggered by an earlier incident that saw 15 million Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine doses spoiled in an “ingredient mix-up accident.”

Last week, the New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources, that the FDA had ordered J&J to discard 60 million doses of the Janssen jab produced at the Baltimore site, due to their “possible contamination.” The US health watchdog, however, approved two other batches of J&J vaccine manufactured at the factory.

https://www.rt.com/news/526485-south-africa-janssen-covid-vaccine/

https://www.rt.com/news/526485-south-africa-janssen-covid-vaccine/

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we'll see

Body found in search for missing kayaker, 33, who went missing after becoming separated from friend off the Sussex coast

Shane Davies, 33, went missing on Saturday after kayaking the Sussex coast

A body was found as coastguards carried out a search on Sunday morning

Police have informed next of kin and coroner and believe the body is Mr Davies

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9681955/Body-search-missing-kayaker-33-went-missing-Sussex-coast.html

>>13898506 FBI Director Christopher Wray pressed for declassified intel on Sept. 11 attacks

>>13898522 Scavino tweet

>>13898541, >>13898591, >>13898616, >>13898655 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE 45TH PRESIDENT

>>13898671 Israeli Hermes 450 Armed Drone Spotted Over Hezbollah Stronghold In Lebanon

>>13898732 South Africa discards 2 MILLION doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccine because of US Baltimore plant contamination – health watchdog

>>13898833 @USNATO Essentially, it’s a reference to Article 5 of the Washington Treaty: an attack against one is an attack on all.

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