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https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1447390404198948864
FACT: The dangerous and false narrative of me trying to avoid or evade a subpoena is a disgrace. I can only wonder where it came from, and what their goal was🤔Not ONE attempt was made to contact/serve me when I was at Mar a Lago for 6 days, or home in NY for 8 days thereafter!
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2021/02/18/israel-and-us-begin-arrow-4-development/
Israel and US begin Arrow-4 development
Israel and the United States have begun developing the Arrow-4 missile defense system that includes next-generation interceptors and will replace the Arrow-2 over the next decades, according to a statement from Israel’s Defense Ministry.
“The Arrow weapon system, which was one of the first in the world to intercept ballistic missiles, will be upgraded with a significant capability, produced by Israel Aerospace Industries, in the form of the Arrow-4 interceptor. The interceptor will be the most advanced of its kind in the world and will provide a new layer of defense to the State of Israel and its citizens,” said Jacob Galifat, general manager IAI’s MLM Division.
The MLM Division is the principal contractor for the Arrow weapon system and is a design, development and system engineering organization, according to IAI, which is the prime contractor for Arrow-4′s development.
Work by the Israel Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency on the Arrow-4 comes 30 years after Israel was threatened by Scud missiles fired from Iraq. The system will be designed to prepare Israel for the future battlefield and ever-evolving threats in the Middle East and around the world, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday.
The system is also expected to counter threats both inside and beyond the atmosphere, making it endoatmospheric and exoatmospheric.
“Along with the development of vital offensive capabilities, the defense establishment is constantly working to defend Israel’s skies against ballistic threats through the ongoing development of its multilayered [missile defense] array. The development of Arrow-4 together with our American partners will result in a technological and operational leap forward,” Gantz said.
He congratulated the Israel Missile Defense Organization, which is currently marking its 30th anniversary, and praised the MDA and IAI for their work. IAI’s recently appointed CEO, Boaz Levy, played a key role in developing the Arrow-2 and the Arrow-3.
Concept work for the Arrow-4 dates back to 2017 when Israel sought a future interceptor that would extend beyond the Arrow-2. American firm Boeing was a partner in developing the Arrow-3 and has played a role in the Arrow program along with Israeli company Elbit Systems.
IAI released a video to mark the Arrow-4′s development by harkening back to the Gulf War-era threats that prompted the creation of the Arrow-2 and the Israel Missile Defense Organization. It noted that the first operational Arrow battery was delivered to the Israeli Air Force in 2000 and development of Arrow-3 began in 2009. Arrow-3 was delivered in 2017, and in March of that year it was used to intercept a surface-to-air missile that was fired from Syria.
The announcement of the Arrow-4 comes a day after U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss their common adversary Iran. Israeli media interpreted the announcement as a message to Iran, days after reports indicated Iran might transfer ballistic missiles to Iraq.
“Arrow-4 is a cooperative program between the MDA and IMDO that illustrates U.S. commitment to assisting the government of Israel in upgrading its national missile defense capability to defend the State of Israel from emerging threats,” said MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill. Hill was appointed in 2019 and is the 11th director of the MDA, which is charged with developing, delivering and sustaining layered capabilities to defend deployed forces, the United States, and its allies and partners against ballistic missile attacks.
Under the terms of the current memorandum of understanding between Israel and the U.S., Israel received $500 million in annual funding for its multilayered air defense. This includes the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, the Arrow-2 and the Arrow-3.
A successful Arrow-3 test was carried out in Alaska in July 2019. Israel touted new capabilities for the Iron Dome in early February, tested the Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile with India in early January, and conducted a sophisticated drill in December 2020 in which Iron Dome and David’s Sling interceptors were fired.
“Over the last three decades, we have developed one of the most advanced missile defense arrays in the world, built of four layers with demonstrated capabilities. These capabilities are being constantly improved against emerging threats. Arrow-4 will have unprecedented flight and interception capabilities, ensuring the security of the State of Israel,” said Moshe Patel, the head of the Israel Missile Defense Organization.
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General Ray Odierno, the former top US commander in Iraq, announced Beau had posthumously been awarded the Legion of Merit
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1449428699707678725
Great story about what's really going on with QAnon. Everything I found in writing my book was that the people who found Q were extant conspiracy theory believers, and algos only pushed them further down a road they were already on.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-expert-joesph-uscinski-1242636/
It’s Not Q. It’s You
Belief in conspiracy theories is not growing, and it is not a far-right phenomenon, says expert Joseph Uscinski. People have always been this crazy
Truth be told, we are a nation of spectacular liars. We lie to ourselves about our origin, our exceptionality, that our wealth and power stems from that exceptionality rather than from economic systems of exploitation. Lies are embedded in our founding and our growth and probably our eventual doom. Spurred on by Sam Adams, a riotous mob stormed the Massachusetts governor’s mansion because they believed outlandish theories about how he was conspiring with the Brits. Spurred on by Trump, a riotous mob stormed the Capitol because they believed outlandish theories about how Nancy Pelosi was conspiring with Joe Biden. Or Mike Pence. Or Satanic deep state baby eaters. Or whatever the hell.
Not all lies are conspiracy theories, but probably most conspiracy theories are lies. And according to Joseph Uscinski, arguably the country’s foremost expert on the topic, it’s possible we’re even lying to ourselves about the nature of conspiracy theories.
As a professor of political science specializing in public opinion and mass media at the University of Miami, co-author of American Conspiracy Theories, and editor of Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, Uscinski spends a great deal of time pondering the untrue beliefs of others. With careful data, polling, and research, he has been tracking dozens of conspiracy theories — and the general mindset that drives them — for over a decade. He’s the guy every expert you talk to says you need to talk to. And when I reached out to him wanting to understand the psychological effects of a conspiracy theory like QAnon, he kindly let me know that I was probably getting it all wrong.
As Uscinski explains it, conspiracy theories don’t affect people so much as people affect them. And those people aren’t unwittingly sucked by powerful algorithms down a rabbit hole of dis- and misinformation but rather are drawn there by what they already believe — or want to believe — is true. “This discussion is often framed backwards,” Uscinski tells me. “It suggests that internet content, or the algorithms, have magical powers of persuasion. But [a QAnon adherent] wasn’t looking at recipes on YouTube then slipped on a banana peel and got inadvertently pulled down the QAnon rabbit hole. Maybe they were on YouTube looking for fringe conspiracy theories or extremist religious stuff; maybe they were already into all sorts of Bible conspiracy nonsense. The internet didn’t persuade them of some foreign idea. It gave them exactly what they already believed.”
If this is the case, then any debates about whether QAnon is waxing, waning, or evolving in a post-Trump era are sort of beside the point. As Uscinski’s research bears out, a certain percentage of people (he puts it at 5-7 percent) will be predisposed to believe a certain type of anti-establishment conspiracy theory, and when they go looking, they will find it every time, in whatever form it is currently lurking. And ultimately, that means that in our collective hysteria over the QAnon phenomenon, we’ve gotten caught up in the weirdness of the ideas while perhaps losing sight of the weirdness of the people — and the fact that this potentially explosive weirdness has been an undercurrent of American society all along.
This can be hard to believe, even for other experts in the field of conspiracy thinking. “Joe knows this stuff better than really anyone else does,” says Ethan Zuckerman, the former director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and a current professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts. “Joe has the data and Joe’s data is good. The rest of us are just dabbling. So I’m never going to contradict Joe on what conspiracy theories are and how they happen.” But Zuckerman can’t help but think that QAnon’s outsized visibility online and in the media may be casting a “penumbra” over a wider swath of the population and “influencing 15, 20, 30 percent of people.”
Francesca Tripodi, a professor of sociology and media at UNC-Chapel Hill and a senior researcher at the Center for Information Technology, believes that the insidious use of data voids (i.e. search-engine queries that return few results until discovered by internet manipulators who then populate them with disinformation) and the way those data voids have been made to link up when someone “does their own research” on QAnon may also be making people feel more invested in the theory than they otherwise would. “When people make things themselves, the perceived value in them rises,” she explains. “It’s the Ikea Effect of misinformation.”
But it’s also possible that this pushback only further proves Uscinski’s point: The mind seeks out what it wants to be true. And blaming an insane conspiracy theory or an algorithm is easier than coming to terms with the idea that a certain percentage of Americans have, and will always have, a set of dangerous views.
Recently, Rolling Stone talked with Uscinski about what makes QAnon different from other conspiracy theories, why our “moral panic” about Q is misplaced, and what keeps him up at night.
You say that only a certain type of person would be predisposed to joining the QAnon movement. What makes someone likely to seek QAnon out and believe it?
A typical conversation [I have] with a journalist would be something like: “Hey, Joe, I saw this new conspiracy theory on Twitter and I’m freaked out about it because everyone’s going to see it and everyone’s going to believe it and that’s going to be bad.” And I say, “Well, did you see it?” And they say, “Yeah.” And I say, “So you must believe it then.” And they say, “No.” And I say, “Well, what makes you so fucking special? What magic shield, what superpowers do you have that protect you?”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-property-developer-killed-in-gangland-style-shooting-1.10300491
Israeli Property Developer Killed in Gangland-style Shooting
Eldad Peri had racked up a personal debt of about 342 million shekels ($106 million), in addition to some 500 million owed by his company, TheMarker reported in June
One of Israel’s best-known property developers, Eldad Peri, was shot to death in Rehovot Friday morning as he arrived at his local synagogue.
Police believe that Peri, 44, was likely murdered over money he owed nonbank lenders, but noted that he had never complained to police about threats against him.
Peri had racked up a personal debt of about 342 million shekels ($106 million), in addition to about 500 million shekels owed by his company, TheMarker reported in June. He faced a court-ordered bankruptcy proceeding.
According to the initial investigation, Peri drove his car from his home in Rehovot to his regular synagogue, less than a mile away, arriving at 6:15 A.M. After parking he opened the trunk to retrieve items from it. Police suspect that a man on a motor scooter waited for him in the parking lot, fired a few bullets into Peri’s torso and fled the scene. Two joggers who heard the shots called the police. Peri was declared dead at the scene.
The owner of Peri Real Estate came to public attention about a decade ago as the director of purchasing groups, a popular model for buying apartments from builders. The company took off around 2015, building thousands of apartments in giant projects around the country by means of purchasing groups that he led. Associates of Peri describe a company with a flashy marketing department and an owner to match, part of the high-end image that Peri cultivated by pouring money into PR, surrounding himself with celebrities and investing heavily in Israeli sports.
The legal proceedings against him began about a year ago, when a former partner in the company, the Swiss billionaire Chaim Hemo, filed a request to initiate bankruptcy proceedings against the company. The application followed a number of complaints and payment claims submitted to the courts by buyers in Peri Real Estate projects.
The claims related to money that had disappeared, payments that went missing from trustee accounts and failure to provide collateral warranties to purchasers, among other things. Concerns were raised about the conduct of lawyers and trustees of the various purchasing groups. On many of the company’s projects, it turned out that lawyers appointed to represent purchasers also represented Peri.
Additionally, many customers claimed that the company stole hundreds of millions of shekels from them, including by collecting down payments on apartments that were already mortgaged and by depositing funds into a company account rather than the trust account, as required. Hemo’s suit disclosed the company’s enormous debt, exceeding 500 million shekels, leading the court to issue a stay of proceedings against the company.
Over the past two months Peri Real Estate collapsed and Peri went into debt after giving guarantees to companies and private individuals in exchange for loans. As part of the court-ordered bankruptcy Peri’s home was put up for a sale by a lawyer the court appointed as trustee of his personal assets.
More than 40 creditors – companies and individuals – have sued Peri for payment. His personal debt and the economic turmoil in which his company found itself apparently led him to turn to nonbank lenders as well.