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Diplomacy not weapons: NATO member’s incoming govt on Ukraine policy
7 Nov, 2025 14:04
The incoming Czech government plans to shift from sending military aid to Ukraine to promoting a diplomatic approach, according to the politician set to become the country’s next foreign minister.
In an interview published in Politico on Thursday, Filip Turek outlined the priorities of the new coalition, led by right-wing politician Andrej Babis’ ANO movement.
It was joined by two other Euroskeptic partners, the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party and the Motorists party, which Turek heads.
Under Prime Minister Babis, the Czech Republic “will prioritize diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine and mitigate risks of conflict in Europe, shifting from military aid funded by the national budget to humanitarian support and focusing on Czech security needs,” the politician said.
Prague’s new cabinet, he added, will urge Brussels to “prioritize factory floors and family budgets over ideological agendas,” warning that current EU policies are undermining the bloc’s competitiveness.
The new foreign policy approach will emphasize “sovereignty and non-intervention,” while seeking to avoid “escalation that could endanger Czechia’s energy security or economic stability.”
The outgoing centrist government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, which formally agreed to resign on Thursday, was among the staunchest backers of Ukraine’s military effort, organizing procurement of artillery shells for Kiev and providing regular weapons transfers.
The Czech presidency, which largely holds ceremonial powers, is held by former NATO Commander Petr Pavel, who shares the pro-Kiev stance.
In another sign of coming policy change, newly elected parliamentary speaker Tomio Okamura this week ordered the removal of the Ukrainian flag from the Czech legislature, saying the gesture symbolized putting the “Czech Republic first.”
Ukraine continues to depend on foreign financial and military assistance to sustain its war effort against Russia. EU members are debating a “reparation loan” scheme using immobilized Russian assets as collateral, which presumes that Moscow would agree to pay it back.
Belgium, where most of the frozen funds are held, opposed the proposal, demanding that other states share the financial risks before moving forward with what Moscow has branded as the “theft” of its funds.
https://www.rt.com/news/627459-czech-republic-ukraine-aid/
https://www.rt.com/news/627447-ukrainian-flag-czech-parliament/
Drones hit key Russian petrochemical plant in Republic of Bashkortostan, Ukraine's HUR says
November 7, 2025 3:58 pm
Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) said on Nov. 7 that its drones struck a key petrochemical plant in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, over 1,000 kilometers away from Ukraine's border.
Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant, which supplies the Russian army and Russia's military-industrial complex, including ionol, aviation gasoline, and synthetic polymers, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, which goes by HUR.
HUR claims that the drone strike on Nov. 6 led to a fire in the workshop producing an additive known as agidol, used for aviation fuel. The Kyiv Independent was unable to independently verify the claim.
Head of the republic, Radiy Khabirov, has not commented on the claimed drone strike on the key plant. Throughout the war, neither side has rarely acknowledged the setbacks.
Outmanned and outgunned on the battlefield, Ukraine has relied on its homemade long-range strike drones to hit targets such as oil refineries and logistic facilities deep inside Russia.
Earlier on Nov. 4, Khabirov admitted that two Ukrainian drones had targeted the same plant. He claimed that both were shot down by the Russian air defense and the enterprise security service, but the debris fell in the industrial zone near the auxiliary workshop.
In August 2024, an explosion injured three people at the Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant, municipal authorities reported. Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said then that the explosion was caused by a liquified gas fire.
The plant began operating in 1963 in the Soviet Union and is owned by Russian chemical holding Ruschem, formerly called Russian Hydrogen.
In 2024, the Russian Interfax news agency reported that the Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant had finished its research and work to start producing Agidol-100, which had never been produced in Russia before.
"Domestic production of the antioxidant is expected to create new possibilities for the petrochemical industry," Interfax, backed by the Kremlin, reported in January 2024.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-update-2025-11-07/
other Ukraine
https://kyivindependent.com/drones-hit-key-russian-petrochemical-plant-in-republic-of-bashkortostan-ukraines-hur-says/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-update-2025-11-07/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/63833
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4056245-man-injured-during-russian-drone-attack-dies-in-kharkiv-region.html
https://voennoedelo.com/en/posts/id3968-ukraine-to-begin-mass-production-of-domestic-drones
https://ukranews.com/en/news/1115804-sof-show-drone-strike-on-oil-depot-hvardiyska-in-occupied-crimea
1,850-mile ‘drone wall’: NATO fortifies Europe’s border to counter Russia
Nov 07, 2025 08:53 AM EST
Poland and Romania are deploying a new artificial intelligence-driven weapons system to defend against Russian drones, after a series of recent incursions into NATO airspace exposed the alliance’s vulnerabilities and heightened tensions across Europe.
The U.S.-developed Merops system, compact enough to fit in the back of a midsize pickup truck, can detect and intercept drones using AI-guided navigation even when satellite or electronic communications are jammed, NATO military officials said.
Denmark is also set to adopt the system as part of a broader effort to strengthen defenses along NATO’s eastern flank.
“The goal is to make the border with Russia so heavily armed that Moscow would be deterred from ever crossing it, from Norway in the north to Turkey in the south,” one NATO official reportedly said.
1,850-mile ‘drone wall’
The need for advanced counter-drone defenses has become urgent. In early September, about 20 Russian drones violated Polish airspace, prompting multimillion-dollar fighter jets to intercept drones worth only tens of thousands of dollars.
Romania also reported a similar drone incursion, and several European airports, including Copenhagen, Munich, Berlin, and Brussels, temporarily shut down after drone sightings.
While not all incursions have been directly linked to Russia or the war in Ukraine, the incidents underscored a growing threat.
“What this system does is give us very accurate detection,” said Col. Mark McLellan, assistant chief of staff for operations at NATO Allied Land Command.
“It’s able to target the drones and take them down at a low cost. It’s a lot cheaper than flying an F-35 to take them down with a missile.”
The deployment of Merops coincides with a larger defense project known as the “Drone Wall,” a proposed 1,850-mile network of surveillance and counter-drone systems stretching from Norway to Poland.
The initiative aims to create a permanent early-warning barrier along NATO’s eastern frontier, a line of technological deterrence against Russian aggression and hybrid warfare.
Merops operates as “drones against drones,” McLellan said, either directly intercepting hostile targets or relaying targeting information to ground and air forces.
NATO’s new frontline against Russia
Brig. Gen. Thomas Lowin, NATO’s deputy chief of staff for operations, said the system gives commanders “time to assess the threat and decide, to shoot or not shoot.”
He added that Merops can defend both critical infrastructure, such as airports, and military units in combat zones.
The system has received private investment, including from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. However, both Schmidt and the company have chosen not to give interviews.
Defense officials from Poland and Romania also did not comment publicly due to concerns about operational security.
The drone incursions have concentrated minds in Europe, highlighting a new era of warfare that favors low-cost, expendable drones over traditional weapons.
NATO officials say Merops represents just the first phase of building a multilayered defense system, a process expected to take two to five years.
Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, stated in July that NATO aims to establish an “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line” comprising interoperable sensors and command systems designed to integrate with any available hardware.
“Russia has conscription and numbers,” Donahue said. “We have to counter that with technology.”
NATO officials said Merops’ selection was driven by its successful performance in Ukraine, where drones have transformed the battlefield into a testing ground for new military technologies.
“If it doesn’t work there, it’s probably not worth acquiring,” Lowin said. As Russia mass-produces new drones with jet engines, cameras, and anti-jamming systems, the race to adapt is accelerating.
“We see what Russia is doing in Ukraine,” said Brig. Gen. Zacarias Hernandez, NATO’s deputy chief of staff for plans. “We have to be ready for that.”
https://interestingengineering.com/military/nato-begins-deploying-drone-wall
Sudanese army intercepts RSF drones targeting two cities
07 November, 2025
The Sudanese army intercepted drones fired overnight by its rival paramilitary group on two cities in Sudan's northeast, a military official said Friday.
The army official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to freely discuss the matter, said 15 drones targeted Atbara, a city north of the capital, in River Nile province.
He confirmed that strikes caused no casualties. Local media reports said residents heard explosions.
The official added that ground defences intercepted a smaller-scale drone attack that also targeted Omdurman, the sister city of the capital Khartoum.
The RSF drone strikes come a day after the group announced that it agreed to a humanitarian truce proposed by a US-led mediator group known as the Quad.
A Sudanese military official told The Associated Press on Thursday that the army welcomes the Quad's proposal but will only agree to a truce when the RSF completely withdraws from civilian areas and gives up weapons per previous peace proposals.
The war between the RSF and the military began in 2023, when tensions erupted between the two former allies, which were meant to oversee a democratic transition following a 2019 uprising.
The fighting has killed at least 40,000 people, according to the WHO, and displaced 12 million.
However, aid groups say the true death toll could be many times higher. Over 24 million people are also facing acute food insecurity, according to the World Food Program.
The US-led plan for a truce would begin with a three-month humanitarian ceasefire, followed by a nine-month political process, according to Massad Boulos, a US adviser for African affairs, who spoke earlier this week.
Also, on Friday, the UN's top human rights body announced it will hold an emergency special session on Sudan on 14 November over recent bloodshed and other violence against civilians in and around the Darfur city of El-Fasher.
The call for the special session by the Human Rights Council in Geneva was led by Britain, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway, and has drawn support from two dozen council members in the 47-member country rights body so far.
The RSF's announcement that it agreed to the truce comes more than a week after the group seized El-Fasher city, which had been under siege for over 18 months.
It was also the last Sudanese military stronghold in Sudan's western Darfur region.
UNICEF said in a report released on Thursday that more than 81,000 people have been displaced from El-Fasher since 26 October, with rising needs for shelter, food, water, and medical care, but limited aid delivery.
The UN children's agency said it identified more than 850 children with acute malnutrition who are now receiving treatment.
It added that violence, sexual assaults and looting of health facilities remain rampant across North Darfur, with women and children being the most vulnerable.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sudanese-army-intercepts-rsf-drones-targeting-two-cities
North Korea prepared for war after South’s drone mission during Yoon’s last months: report
2:43pm, 7 Nov 2025
South Korea flew military drones over Pyongyang just weeks before then-president Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law last December, a provocation that triggered North Korea to prepare for war, according to Seoul’s defence intelligence agency.
The revelation, disclosed in a closed-door parliamentary briefing on Wednesday, adds to mounting scrutiny over Yoon’s final months in office, with opposition lawmakers accusing him of attempting to fabricate a national security crisis to justify an unconstitutional power grab.
During the session at the National Assembly, the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) confirmed that drones operated by the South’s military had breached North Korean airspace on October 3, 6 and 9 last year.
Lawmaker Park Sun-won of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, who attended the briefing, told local media that the drone flights were part of a formal reconnaissance operation overseen by senior field commanders under the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The incursions drew swift condemnation from Pyongyang. On October 11, its foreign ministry released a statement claiming that South Korea, “the most hostile, malicious and rogue state, has carried out a severe political and military provocation of infiltrating drones into Pyongyang” and “scattered anti-North Korea leaflets”, CNN reported.
A day later, Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, warned of “horrible disaster” if Seoul persisted in its military actions.
“The moment that a drone of the ROK is discovered in the sky over our capital city once again will certainly lead to a horrible disaster,” she said in a statement released through state media, using the acronym for South Korea’s official name, the Republic of Korea.
On October 13, North Korea’s defence ministry said it had ordered the military to prepare for all scenarios, including armed conflict, according to Reuters.
In light of these statements, the DIA ordered its subordinate units to collect information on public sentiment in the North.
“The assessment relayed to lawmakers was that North Korean residents showed significant agitation and the regime shifted to a war-preparation posture,” Park said, according to The Korea Herald.
At the time, South Korea’s military denied the drone operations had taken place. But in a later statement, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said it could neither “confirm nor deny the accusations”, while urging Pyongyang “not to act rashly”.
They also blamed the North for escalating tensions, referencing the trash-filled balloons it had launched across the border, CNN reported.
The DIA reported that Seoul continued reconnaissance operations, including flying Apache helicopters close to the Military Demarcation Line that separates the two Koreas, and at least five more drone sorties.
Yoon is suspected of having personally ordered the drone incursions to provoke a North Korean military response and create a pretext for declaring martial law.
In July, special prosecutors disclosed that they had obtained secret audio recordings allegedly capturing senior officers quoting Drone Operations Commander Kim Yong-dae as saying the drone missions were ordered by “V” – believed to refer to the former president.
The recordings suggested the drones had been deliberately flown to be detected by Pyongyang’s radar to “create a stir”.
One purported excerpt stated: “When the North responded with angry threats, the VIP and the minister applauded. They were so pleased, the commander ordered us to do it again.”
Those allegations have now taken on new weight as investigators revisit the chain of command behind the drone missions.
On December 2, the day before Yoon’s martial law declaration, the DIA had briefed then-defence minister Kim Yong-hyun on the operations, Park said.
Kim, a close confidant of Yoon, is among those allegedly involved in planning and overseeing the martial law scheme. He was the first official to be arrested over the scandal.
n separate testimony on Wednesday, the Defence Counterintelligence Command – a unit responsible for monitoring security threats and internal breaches within the military – acknowledged its involvement in the martial law operation.
The command reportedly mobilised troops on the night of December 3 and sought police assistance to arrest lawmakers. Soldiers were dispatched to the National Assembly and the National Election Commission headquarters, according to Park.
Its acting chief “expressed deep regret and apologised for being implicated in the martial law incident,” Park said, adding that the unit had pledged it “will not again be used as a core force in any unlawful operation.”
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3331899/north-korea-prepared-war-after-souths-drone-mission-during-yoons-last-months-report
Istanbul prosecutor issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu, others over ‘genocide’ in Gaza
November 7, 2025 8:31 pm
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issues warrants for the arrest of 37 people, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alleging genocide in connection with the war in Gaza.
According to Turkiye Today, which cites a press statement from the prosecutor’s office, others on the list include Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
The prosecutor’s office reportedly alleges systematic violence against civilians in the Strip, amid Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group following the latter’s October 7, 2023, attack.
at the IAF's command center, August 24, 2025. (Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO)
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issues warrants for the arrest of 37 people, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alleging genocide in connection with the war in Gaza.
According to Turkiye Today, which cites a press statement from the prosecutor’s office, others on the list include Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
The prosecutor’s office reportedly alleges systematic violence against civilians in the Strip, amid Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group following the latter’s October 7, 2023, attack.
It is said to cite specific incidents beginning early in the war, including the October 17, 2023, incident at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, which Israeli and US intelligence determined was the result of a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group.
Israel denies all claims that it targets civilians, and regularly points as evidence to its efforts to evacuate noncombatants ahead of strikes and to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid.
Turkey’s president is an outspoken supporter of Hamas and frequently compares Netanyahu to Hitler.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/istanbul-prosecutor-issues-arrest-warrant-for-netanyahu-others-over-genocide-in-gaza/
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-873111
other Israel
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-873105
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-collected-intel-on-idf-lawyers-warnings-about-evidence-to-support-gaza-war-crimes-charges-report/
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-idf-arrests-dozens-of-terrorists-throughout-judea-and-samaria/
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-873024
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/ground-breaking-new-zandland-documentary-itv-reveals-first-hand-accounts-israeli
https://www.jns.org/watch-idf-soldiers-thwart-terror-attack-in-nablus/
https://lapresse.us/world/2025/11/07/gaza-katz-order-to-idf-to-destroy-all-tunnels/
Drone sightings cause further disruption to air traffic
November 7, 2025
Drone sightings caused disruption to air traffic at Brussels Airport in Zaventem (Flemish Brabant) and Bierset Airport near Liège on Thursday evening. Flights at both airports have since resumed.
There are also reports of drones having been spotted above the port of Antwerp, the Royal School for Non-Commissioned Officers in Sint-Truiden and the nuclear research centre in Mol.
Thursday's incident marks the second time in a week that air traffic at Brussels Airport had to be halted due to drone activity.
As a precautionary measure, flights to and from Zaventem were suspended for half an hour from around 9:20pm on Thursday after a drone was spotted there.
The agency responsible for air traffic control in Belgium Skeyes says that the suspension of flights is standard procedure in the event of a "serious sighting".
8 depatures and 22 arrivals had been scheduled for the period during which flights were suspended on Thursday evening.
National Security Council
Meanwhile, Bierset Airport near Liège, air traffic was also suspended from shortly before 10pm until 11:30pm on Thursday due to a drone sighting. The standard procedure was implemented there too.
An emergency meeting of Belgium’s National Security Council was held on Thursday morning to discuss the threat posed by drones following recent sightings above army bases airports and other strategic infrastructure.
Prior to the meeting, Defence minister Theo Francken said that he wanted to make the country's National Airspace Security Centre operational as soon as possible and increase counter-drone capabilities.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/11/07/drone-sightings-cause-further-disruption-to-air-traffic/
https://apnews.com/article/belgium-drones-airport-closure-russia-6895b5cfb723971c2e5af7070bd4805b
https://news.az/news/liege-airport-halts-flights-after-drone-sighting-third-incident-in-a-week
Dutch military investigates drone sighting over Gilze-Rijen base
November 7, 2025
The Dutch military police are investigating a possible drone sighting over the Gilze-Rijen airbase after air traffic controllers spotted an unidentified object flying near the control tower on Wednesday, the Volkskrant reported on Friday.
The incident has renewed concern about mysterious drone activity across Europe, which several governments suspect may be linked to Russia.
Marechaussee units were sent to the Brabant airbase after the report was classified as a potential espionage attempt, but the drone had already disappeared.
“The flight safety of the base was at risk,” a spokesperson told the paper, adding that the object’s origin remains unknown.
The Dutch defence ministry said there are currently “no signals or indications of Russian activity in Dutch airspace”, but confirmed that similar reports had been investigated near Volkel airbase and the port of Vlissingen in recent months.
None led to criminal investigations.
Patrick Bolder, a defence analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, warned that identifying drones is complex and prone to false alarms.
“We must avoid hysteria,” he said, “but we also can’t dismiss the threat. Drones are hard to detect, and only a few radar systems in the Netherlands can distinguish them from aircraft or birds.”
The Netherlands has ordered new Israeli-made drone defence systems to protect military sites and naval bases but none are yet fully operational, the Volkskrant said.
The incident is the latest in a series of unexplained sightings near airports and sensitive sites in Western Europe.
Flights were briefly halted this week at Brussels Airport after a large drone approached the control tower, while similar incidents have been reported near Danish and German military bases.
Experts say even unverified sightings can serve Russia’s interests by spreading confusion and fear.
“These drones fit into a broader hybrid strategy,” said Bolder. “They send a message: don’t think you’re safe as long as you support Ukraine.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/dutch-military-investigates-drone-sighting-over-gilze-rijen-base/
PANIC IN EUROPE: Belgium CLOSES its entire AIRSPACE due to UFO sightings
Nov 6, 2025
Today on Interstellar, Jaime Maussan reports on the closure of all Belgian airspace due to the presence of objects in the sky for which he has found no explanation, despite having his equipment and personnel ready to hunt them down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2wcWDpcUoQ
https://x.com/jaimemaussan1
VP Dick Cheney Dead UFO Gatekeeper CIFA (Counterintelligence Field Activity) Goon
November 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRV_GAxrRg
https://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/1986642773471338898
http://www.allgov.com/departments/department-of-defense/counterintelligence-field-activity
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10454316 (Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?)
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/pentagon-closes-controversial-intelligence-unit-idUSN04502240/
Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?
Dec. 13, 2005, 3:39 PM PST
A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists the Lake Worth meeting as a “threat” and one of more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country over a recent 10-month period. NBC's Lisa Myers investigates.
A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn't know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military.
A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists the Lake Worth meeting as a “threat” and one of more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country over a recent 10-month period.
“This peaceful, educationally oriented group being a threat is incredible,” says Evy Grachow, a member of the Florida group called The Truth Project.
“This is incredible,” adds group member Rich Hersh. “It's an example of paranoia by our government,” he says. “We're not doing anything illegal.”
The Defense Department document is the first inside look at how the U.S. military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country since 9/11, which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups.
“I think Americans should be concerned that the military, in fact, has reached too far,” says NBC News military analyst Bill Arkin.
The Department of Defense declined repeated requests by NBC News for an interview. A spokesman said that all domestic intelligence information is “properly collected” and involves “protection of Defense Department installations, interests and personnel.”
The military has always had a legitimate “force protection” mission inside the U.S. to protect its personnel and facilities from potential violence.
But the Pentagon now collects domestic intelligence that goes beyond legitimate concerns about terrorism or protecting U.S. military installations, say critics.
Four dozen anti-war meetings
The DOD database obtained by NBC News includes nearly four dozen anti-war meetings or protests, including some that have taken place far from any military installation, post or recruitment center.
One “incident” included in the database is a large anti-war protest at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles last March that included effigies of President Bush and anti-war protest banners.
Another incident mentions a planned protest against military recruiters last December in Boston and a planned protest last April at McDonald’s National Salute to America’s Heroes — a military air and sea show in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The Fort Lauderdale protest was deemed not to be a credible threat and a column in the database concludes: “US group exercising constitutional rights.”
Two-hundred and forty-three other incidents in the database were discounted because they had no connection to the Department of Defense — yet they all remained in the database.
The DOD has strict guidelines (.PDF link), adopted in December 1982, that limit the extent to which they can collect and retain information on U.S. citizens.
Still, the DOD database includes at least 20 references to U.S. citizens or U.S. persons. Other documents obtained by NBC News show that the Defense Department is clearly increasing its domestic monitoring activities.
One DOD briefing document stamped “secret” concludes: “[W]e have noted increased communication and encouragement between protest groups using the [I]nternet,” but no “significant connection” between incidents, such as “reoccurring instigators at protests” or “vehicle descriptions.”
The increased monitoring disturbs some military observers.
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“It means that they’re actually collecting information about who’s at those protests, the descriptions of vehicles at those protests,” says Arkin.
“On the domestic level, this is unprecedented,” he says. “I think it's the beginning of enormous problems and enormous mischief for the military.”
Some former senior DOD intelligence officials share his concern. George Lotz, a 30-year career DOD official and former U.S. Air Force colonel, held the post of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight from 1998 until his retirement last May.
Lotz, who recently began a consulting business to help train and educate intelligence agencies and improve oversight of their collection process, believes some of the information the DOD has been collecting is not justified.
Make sure they are not just going crazy
“Somebody needs to be monitoring to make sure they are just not going crazy and reporting things on U.S. citizens without any kind of reasoning or rationale,” says Lotz.
“I demonstrated with Martin Luther King in 1963 in Washington,” he says, “and I certainly didn’t want anybody putting my name on any kind of list. I wasn’t any threat to the government,” he adds.
The military’s penchant for collecting domestic intelligence is disturbing — but familiar — to Christopher Pyle, a former Army intelligence officer.
“Some people never learn,” he says. During the Vietnam War, Pyle blew the whistle on the Defense Department for monitoring and infiltrating anti-war and civil rights protests when he published an article in the Washington Monthly in January 1970.
The public was outraged and a lengthy congressional investigation followed that revealed that the military had conducted investigations on at least 100,000 American citizens.
Pyle got more than 100 military agents to testify that they had been ordered to spy on U.S. citizens — many of them anti-war protestors and civil rights advocates.
In the wake of the investigations, Pyle helped Congress write a law placing new limits on military spying inside the U.S.
But Pyle, now a professor at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, says some of the information in the database suggests the military may be dangerously close to repeating its past mistakes.
“The documents tell me that military intelligence is back conducting investigations and maintaining records on civilian political activity. The military made promises that it would not do this again,” he says.
Too much data?
Some Pentagon observers worry that in the effort to thwart the next 9/11, the U.S. military is now collecting too much data, both undermining its own analysis efforts by forcing analysts to wade through a mountain of rubble in order to obtain potentially key nuggets of intelligence and entangling U.S. citizens in the U.S. military’s expanding and quiet collection of domestic threat data.
Two years ago, the Defense Department directed a little known agency, Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, to establish and “maintain a domestic law enforcement database that includes information related to potential terrorist threats directed against the Department of Defense.”
Then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz also established a new reporting mechanism known as a TALON or Threat and Local Observation Notice report.
TALONs now provide “non-validated domestic threat information” from military units throughout the United States that are collected and retained in a CIFA database.
The reports include details on potential surveillance of military bases, stolen vehicles, bomb threats and planned anti-war protests. In the program’s first year, the agency received more than 5,000 TALON reports.
The database obtained by NBC News is generated by Counterintelligence Field Activity.
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CIFA is becoming the superpower of data mining within the U.S. national security community.
Its “operational and analytical records” include “reports of investigation, collection reports, statements of individuals, affidavits, correspondence, and other documentation pertaining to investigative or analytical efforts” by the DOD and other U.S. government agencies to identify terrorist and other threats.
Since March 2004, CIFA has awarded at least $33 million in contracts to corporate giants Lockheed Martin, Unisys Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation and Northrop Grumman to develop databases that comb through classified and unclassified government data, commercial information and Internet chatter to help sniff out terrorists, saboteurs and spies.
One of the CIFA-funded database projects being developed by Northrop Grumman and dubbed “Person Search,” is designed “to provide comprehensive information about people of interest.” It will include the ability to search government as well as commercial databases.
Another project, “The Insider Threat Initiative,” intends to “develop systems able to detect, mitigate and investigate insider threats,” as well as the ability to “identify and document normal and abnormal activities and ‘behaviors,’” according to the Computer Sciences Corp. contract.
A separate CIFA contract with a small Virginia-based defense contractor seeks to develop methods“to track and monitor activities of suspect individuals.”
“The military has the right to protect its installations, and to protect its recruiting services,” says Pyle. “It does not have the right to maintain extensive files on lawful protests of their recruiting activities, or of their base activities,” he argues.
Lotz agrees.
“The harm in my view is that these people ought to be allowed to demonstrate, to hold a banner, to peacefully assemble whether they agree or disagree with the government’s policies,” the former DOD intelligence official says.
'Slippery slope'
Bert Tussing, director of Homeland Defense and Security Issues at the U.S. Army War College and a former Marine, says “there is very little that could justify the collection of domestic intelligence by the Unites States military. I
f we start going down this slippery slope it would be too easy to go back to a place we never want to see again,” he says.
Some of the targets of the U.S. military’s recent collection efforts say they have already gone too far.
“It's absolute paranoia — at the highest levels of our government,” says Hersh of The Truth Project.
“I mean, we're based here at the Quaker Meeting House,” says Truth Project member Marie Zwicker, “and several of us are Quakers.”
The Defense Department refused to comment on how it obtained information on the Lake Worth meeting or why it considers a dozen or so anti-war activists a “threat.”
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some of the old skoolers still use that term over the new one.
Area 51 Veterans w/ Dave Crete — Veterans Voices Summit
Nov 6, 2025
Dave Crete (Area 51 Veteran; Chair, The Invisible Enemy) in conversation with Natasha Zouves (Anchor & Investigative Reporter, NewsNation)
Veterans Voices, streamed November 6, 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PELfFAJL3A
https://veteransvoices-thehill.splashthat.com/
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/military/area-51-veterans-justice-cancer/
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/area-51-staff-secret-project-health-388043-20250721
https://news3lv.com/sponsored/salute-our-troops/air-force-veteran-david-crete-fights-for-other-veterans
https://theinvisibleenemy.org/about-us/
https://x.com/natashanzouves
Red Panda Koala
@RedPandaKoala
Amy Eskridge deleted tweets
saying the TTSA group stole her research into the metamaterials and Vallee was nervous on Rogan discussing these because he was parroting her work
She suspects he was given a script before, as his mo on these materials was deviant of all his pervious statements
10:13 PM · Nov 6, 2025
https://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/1986678414032707984
https://x.com/RedPandaKoala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vM4sg5B58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqKEgAVGxEU (Amy Eskridge Interview w/ Jeremy Rys edited)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0O4cEIkUZc (Amy Eskridge Interview w/ Jeremy Rys not edited)
LA Marzulli Warns of the Vatican’s End Times UFO Scheme
Nov 6, 2025
In a wide-ranging discussion with Charisma Media about the UFO phenomenon and the Vatican’s involvement, prophetic researcher and author L.A. Marzulli offered a sobering warning about what he calls the coming great deception.
“They’re just repackaging it with a new pope,” Marzulli said, referring to recent Vatican statements about extraterrestrials.
“All these people are in lockstep with one another… Pope Leo comes out, ‘Well, if there’s extraterrestrials, we’re going to baptize them.’”
Marzulli explained that the UFO phenomenon is not what most people assume. “These are interdimensional entities, which have a very nefarious agenda and are here to usher in the time of the great deception,” he said.
He emphasized that these entities are not extraterrestrials, but fallen angels creating hybrid beings as part of a spiritual and global deception. “Even the elect would be deceived if that were possible.
Men fainting from what is coming upon the earth,” he added, quoting Jesus in Matthew 24.
Highlighting historic events and timelines, Marzulli traced the emergence of UFO sightings, abduction phenomena, and other paranormal activity back to the 1940s and ’50s.
“After Israel declares statehood, what do you get? Abduction phenomena, UFOs, crop circles… everything begins to take off.”
Marzulli also critiqued modern media coverage of space objects like 3I/ATLAS, describing the hype as a form of preparatory programming.
“According to what I read in the last 48 hours, if it was going to do something… it hasn’t. The thing hasn’t changed direction, it hasn’t slowed down. So what is Avi Loeb really doing? He’s prepping everybody to what they know is coming.”
The researcher is equally skeptical about claims from the Catholic Church and Vatican astronomers. “The Church doesn’t understand what they’re looking at,” he said.
“The Pope says, ‘We’ll baptize an alien no matter how many tentacles it has.’ Really? Look, folks, this is the coming great deception.”
https://mycharisma.com/culture/la-marzulli-warns-of-the-vaticans-end-times-ufo-scheme/
https://x.com/LA_MARZULLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcicwN5K9lU
KEVIN ANNETT: What's under the White House? 9th Circle Arrests! AU
Nov 5, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO8LuUArtpA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8sQV_3Nnk (MK ULTRA TUNNELS SURVIVOR - Annalie Cummings - Podcast 751)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPT_cCpNMvT73Bf4Pku-EVK_tg2BNHk8t (Kevin Annett Playlist)
https://x.com/shaunattwood