🇰🇵 🤝 🇷🇺 North Korea can initially supply around 300,000 to 350,000 Grad rockets to Russia. | Patricia Marins

"According to some specialists, the North Korean regime has 5,000-5,500 MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket Systems). If we consider that 2,500 - 3,500 of them are 122mm, we can estimate a stockpile of 1.5 millon to 2.1 million rockets based on the communist rocket artillery doctrine, with an average of 15-30 salvos per unit in stockpiles, but for this analysis let will consider just 15 salvos per unit.

These rockets have a lifespan of around 10-12 years and require a more complex refurbishment process compared to conventional shells.

So I can estimate that around 300,000-350,000 Grad Rockets are being transferred to Russia, with an expiration date of -1y/+3y for an initial order without compromise the NK stockpiles.

(Recently the Pakistan delivered 200.000 Grad rockets for Ukraine.)

However, it's important to note that the deal also involves some missiles and artillery shells, not just rockets.
While the business with North Korea partially solves Russia's problems, there is still an important bottleneck in terms of gun barrels. To address this, the Russians are collaborating with central Asian countries on exchanging upgrade programs.

The current challenge for Ukraine lies in the contrast between the decreasing curve of deliveries and the increasing production and deliveries from Russia, Iran and North Korea.

Without substantial deliveries, Ukraine will face difficulties in slowing down the Russian advance.

There is no magical solution in this situation, doesn't matter how many footages are spreaded daily"

📎 Patricia Marins

🇵🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Scenes of Al-Qassam mujahideen clashing with vehicles invading the Al-Tawam and Beit Hanoun areas in the northern Gaza Strip

November 11th

🏳️‍🌈 ❌️ 🇵🇸 Israeli soldier enjoying his cucumber mask while IDF artillery pounds densely populated areas in Gaza.

📎 Clash Report

🇵🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Scenes of Al-Qassam Mujahideen targeting vehicles penetrating the Gaza City axes

Legal Cybersecurity advices (offensive/defensive)

The name of this field is extremely broad, the realm of cybersecurity is just as large as any other in tech but tends to be even more dynamic and fast paced. For those willing to study and learn cybersecurity, there are several paths you can choose from and several places to learn

Today, we're going through two of what are considered some of the biggest CyberSec platforms. Hack The Box and Try Hack Me. The reason being these two are the best entry-level to advanced platforms that provide several different modules and courses as well as virtual machines for you to practice while learning. The platforms are also very affordable compared to other options (NEITHER IS FREE, how to get discounts bellow)

Both platforms have modules covering basic to advanced techniques of both offense and defense, which you can choose freely from, some modules about specific things might not be available at a 'pro' level of knowledge but provide a reasonable understanding of most topics

Hack The Box - The platform has 3 main 'services' or sub-platforms if you will.
— Academy: which has courses that are rated by difficulty, proficiency and type. The modules are very well built with good explanations and most will not be too difficult, if they are, HTB also has a forum where users can seek help.
Students can apply for student subnoscriptions which are cheaper and will give you access to modules up to 'Tier 2' (there are 5 tiers, from 0 to 4) as well as unlimited uses of their virtual machine used for practice (called 'attack box')

— Labs: Labs is the competitive/practical side of the platform, more specifically CTFs and 'Boxes' which are virtual machines meant for you to attack and find the flags to prove your progress. Soma companies keep an eye on Labs and also create their own challenges in order to find people with the skills they seek and get them familiarized with their systems in some cases. You can form teams and create your own boxes if you have a rank that's high enough

— CTF: As the name suggests its a competition-oriented sub-platform, some of these CTFs will be restricted to college students only, others are open or private, you can form teams and do everything else as in Labs, the main difference being prizes in money for the CTFs among other perks

ATTENTION: None of these three above are free, but considering the alternatives which will sometimes charge you for 100 USD/mo, HTB is very cheap

Try Hack Me - A platform with just as much to offer but in a small package
— THM has a simpler User Interface and offers both courses and practice in the same place, just as Hack The Box, Try Hack Me has modules that approach different fields and techniques while also allowing for practical learning with their Virtual Machines

— The platform has two main learning methods, being those the modules and the practical ones which are VMs with varying difficulty that will test what you have learned in specific modules or several at once. The competitions are CTFs and King Of The Hill, the same as HTB, meaning you have to attack and defend against other people

— THM also offers student subnoscriptions which allow you to have full access to its content

Both platforms have its pros and cons, but nothing too expressive in regards to capabilities. Both platforms teach things ranging from OSINT and Social Engineering all the way to actual 'blue team' (defensive) and 'red team' (offensive) skills that can both range from specific tools all the way to techniques for specific systems or attacks

You can get student subnoscriptions in both platforms

Both platforms are also good ways to prepare for real Cybersecurity Certifications if you intend to get a job in this area since the difficulty of their VMs vary and some might be harder than the ones in certification tests
A platform worth noting is Virtual Hacking Labs, which costs 100 USD/mo as cited above, most other alternatives will not be as cheap as HTM or THM

🇨🇳 🇰🇭 🏗 Chinese Navy’s Suspected New Overseas Base In Cambodia Now Even Larger

🔶️ The base has grown considerably over the last 18 months, with a pier large enough for aircraft carriers already in place. The new dry dock is being built on reclaimed land. Chinese involvement is indisputable, but Cambodia denies that it is for the Chinese Navy (PLAN).

🔶️ There have been persistent reports of China attempting to expand the global reach of its Navy with a network of overseas bases. Ream in Cambodia has long been on that list. New evidence shows that a large dry dock is now under construction there. As the war in Ukraine shows, these facilities are strategically important.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/11/chinese-navys-suspected-new-overseas-base-cambodia-now-even-larger/

⚪️ 🇺🇸 📊 The euphemism white flight is widely used in the corporate media & is taught in US Public School Civil Rights Era curriculum.

🔶️ With this dataset, it becomes clear that this derisive term was invented to blame the victims of a campaign that would be called "pogroms" had they happened in Russia.

🔶️ Overlaying it on the frequency the term "white flight" was published in the English language tells much of the story.

📝 Kulak:
"There is not a single year after 1970 when the Black on White homicide rate is not atleast 1000 murders above the 1960 baseline

⬛️ this is what the Civil Rights Act and MLK accomplished, the murder of 10s of thousands of white Americans and the Ethnic Cleansing of American cities."

📎 Datahazard

⚪️ 🇺🇸 US Army overturns convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged in 1917 Houston riot

📝 "If you were wondering what was going on in the US Army today, they just overturned the convictions of 110 mutinous black soldiers who shot white people at random in Houston in 1917" - Mystery Grove Publishing

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/us-army-overturns-convictions-110-black-soldiers-charged-1917-houston-riot/YVERN7LQ2BGNDAEGDJR6D2X5IE/

📎 Mystery Grove Publishing

⚪️ 🇺🇸 📊 We can get some interesting historical context as we extend our timeline back before the Civil Rights Era was in full force.
Indeed, from 1964 to 1972, these numbers doubled (on both sides!)

And the 2020s have really taken us backwards...

📝 247 Drip:
"This only gets crazier when you normalize for population

Population: 12.1% black, 57.8% white

155,785/12.1% = 1,287,479

52,518/57.8% = 90,862

⬛️ So a black person is roughly 14.17 times more likely to murder a white person than a white person is to murder a black person"

📎 Datahazard