UK Cops Killed One Of The Manchester Synagogue Victims, Injured Another

One of the two victims who died in the synagogue attack in Manchester, UK was shot dead by police, with the other victim killed by suspect. In fact, the police were the only ones with guns at the incident.

Here's what happened: The suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, rammed a vehicle into a crowd of people gathered outside the synagogue, striking several individuals. He then exited the car and stabbed at least one person before attempting to enter the building. Worshippers and security staff managed to block his entry - when armed cops showed up within 7 minutes and shot al-Shamie.

Al-Shamie killed one of the victims and sent two to the hospital with injuries, while the cops accidentally killed another victim and shot a 3rd person who was also sent to the hospital.

"Overnight, we have taken advice from the Home Office pathologist ahead of full postmortem examinations scheduled for later today. The Home Office pathologist has advised that he has provisionally determined that one of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury," said Greater Manchester police chief constable, Sir Stephen Watson.

"It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm and the only shots fired were from GMP’s authorised firearms officers as they worked to prevent the offender from entering the synagogue and causing further harm to our Jewish community.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-cops-killed-one-manchester-synagogue-victims-injured-another

'Officially Terminated': FBI Severs All Ties With SPLC, Patel Slams 'Disgraceful Record'

"The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine," FBI Director Kash Patel told the Daily Signal in a Friday statement. "Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence."

The SPLC created a so-called "hate map" which put conservatives and Christians together with Ku Klux Klan chapters.

"That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership," Patel added.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/officially-terminated-fbi-severs-all-ties-splc-patel-slams-disgraceful-record

DOJ Fires ANOTHER High-Level Deep State Prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia Following Comey Indictment

Another high-ranking prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia has been fired.

Last month, President Trump fired Erik Siebert as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because he refused to bring charges against Letitia James, Comey, Schiff, and others.

Shortly after Siebert’s firing, Lindsey Halligan, the new Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, indicted former FBI Director James Comey.

However, the night before Lindsey Halligan indicted Comey, Deep State prosecutors in the EDVA, leaked a memo in an effort to defend Comey.

“Two sources familiar with the matter tell me prosecutors in the EDVA US attorney‘s office presented newly sworn US attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining why charges should not be brought against James Comey, because there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause a crime was committed, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict him,” MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/breaking-doj-fires-another-high-level-deep-state/

Trump Declares Drug Cartels Are ‘Unlawful Combatants’ and That the US Is in Armed Conflict With Them

The United States has significantly escalated the scope of the conflict against the drug cartels in Latin America and the Caribbean.

President Donald J. Trump has shifted the National Security priorities, and is now deploying assets to secure its primary sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere, notably in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In this sense, the Trump administration has reportedly declared – in an internal memo – drug cartels to be ‘unlawful combatants’, further declaring the United States to be in ‘armed conflict’ with them.

This follows a large naval siege of Venezuela, and recent U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea.

Associated Press reported:

“The memo appears to represent an extraordinary assertion of presidential war powers, with Trump effectively declaring that trafficking of drugs into the United States amounts to armed conflict requiring the use of military force — a new rationale for past and future actions.

‘The President determined that the United States is in a non-international armed conflict with these designated terrorist organizations’, the memo says. Trump directed the Pentagon to ‘conduct operations against them pursuant to the law of armed conflict’.

‘The United States has now reached a critical point where we must use force in self-defense and defense of others against the ongoing attacks by these designated terrorist organizations’, the memo says.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/kinetic-war-trump-declares-drug-cartels-are-unlawful/

Russia arrests alleged organ trafficking ring leader

The Interpol-wanted man, who had been deported from Türkiye, was detained in Moscow on suspicion of dealing in organs in Kosovo

The Russian authorities and Interpol units have detained a man wanted in several countries over an alleged organ trafficking operation in Kosovo. He was arrested at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport after being deported from Türkiye, the Russian Interior Ministry said on Friday.

According to Russian prosecutors, from 2006 to 2008 Boris Wolfman was implicated in an operation that lured Russian citizens to Kosovo for kidney removal. The group allegedly misled victims, arranged their travel and surgeries, then abandoned them with serious health damage.

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said that the man was wanted on charges of human trafficking as part of an organized crime group. The Russian Investigative Committee opened a case for intentional grievous harm and trafficking in human organs.

The case is linked to the private Medicus clinic in Pristina, where donors were reportedly promised payment for kidneys that were later sold to wealthy patients. The ministry said the suspect and his accomplices persuaded several Russian citizens to undergo kidney removal for cash, leaving them with severe injuries.

Wolfman, who holds Israeli and Ukrainian citizenship, was being sought after by the authorities in Russia, Kosovo, Israel, and Ukraine over his alleged role in the transplant network. Investigators in Russia said he and his associates from Ukraine, Israel and Türkiye promised donors €15,000 to €17,000 for each kidney but failed to pay them after the surgeries, some of which took place at Medicus.

Wolfman’s Russian lawyer told Kommersant that his client denied the accusations, saying that he only prepared insurance documents for patients of Medicus and other clinics. According to him, the kidneys were transplanted to Israeli and German citizens who paid for the operations and were later reimbursed by their insurers.

The suspect, who faces up to 15 years in a Russian prison, was named in a report by the EU Rule of Law Mission as the leader of an organ-trafficking network that operated in Kosovo and several other countries, including Costa Rica. Western media, citing intelligence sources, reported that dozens of Syrian refugees may also have been victims of the group.

https://www.rt.com/russia/625866-organ-trafficker-arrested/

Tucker Carlson: Four Bold Moves to Restore American Sanity on Israel—And Why the Establishment Is Terrified

https://twitter.com/i/status/1974162862471066043

Right-wing activists set up sukkahs on border, seek to spend festival at Gaza settlement ruins

Far-right MK backs Nachala group’s camp 1 km from Gaza border, slams ‘dangerous Trump plan’ and calls for ‘immediate Jewish settlement’ of enclave

Dozens of right-wing settler activists, supported by a far-right MK, set up an encampment overnight Thursday-Friday, less than a mile from the border with northern Gaza, demanding the government allow them to celebrate the Sukkot holiday on the ruins of the former settlement of Nisanit inside the Strip.

According to the radical settlement movement Nachala, 11 families from a cadre dubbed “Gaza Pioneers” established the encampment, together with dozens of settler youths, and erected several Sukkahs, the temporary outdoor huts used during the upcoming holiday of Sukkot.

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech and the Nachala movement, which organized the endeavor, also called on the government to “stop the dangerous Trump plan” and “immediately enable Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.”

Nachala has campaigned for the establishment of Jewish settlements inside Gaza since the early months of the war against Hamas, sparked by the Palestinian terror group’s attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023, and has come out strongly against the US-brokered plan for an end to the conflict unveiled earlier this week.

“At this very moment, when a terrible deal is on the table that misses the historic opportunity to right the wrong done in the expulsion [the 2005 Gaza Disengagement] while also ensuring the safety and security of Israeli citizens, and preserving the achievements of the soldiers, I see in the amazing families of the Gaza Pioneers cadre, led by the Nachala movement, the great story of our generation,” Son Har-Melech said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/activists-set-up-sukkahs-on-border-demand-to-spend-holiday-at-gaza-settlement-ruins/

https://www.antiwar.com/

A Republican federal judge rubber-stamps a company's shocking plan to dump RADIOACTIVE waste into New York City's biggest river — over 45,000 gallons of the toxic stuff.

And it gets so much worse…

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, has ruled that New York's "Save the Hudson" bill is unconstitutional and that the state does not have the power to block the company Holtec International from dumping discharge from a decommissioned nuclear facility into the river.

The incredibly popular and now-overturned bill was signed into law by Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul and banned the discharging of radiological substances from the Indian Point nuclear power plant. It was passed unanimously by both chambers of the state legislature.

According to Karas, that kind of life-saving regulation can only be enforced by the federal government. Given the fact that our federal government is controlled by Donald Trump, the most pro-corporate president in history, it's unlikely that the White House will step in.

Holtec may now proceed with its plan to dump 45,000 gallons of radioactive water into the Hudson River even though over 100,000 Americans get their drinking water from it. A far better option would be to store the water in sealed containers at the site of the facility, but Holtec isn't interested in that option. They'd rather dump it and let innocent American citizens bear the cost. Of course, they insist that it's perfectly safe. If you believe that, we've got a bridge to sell you.

"The Hudson is the lifeblood of our region, a source of recreation, natural beauty and economic vitality, and we cannot allow it to become a dumping ground for radioactive waste," said Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins. "Westchester residents, and all New Yorkers on both sides of the Hudson River, deserve better."

Rockland County Executive Ed Day pointed out that the "Save the Hudson Bill" has been a godsend for the local environment, and has contributed to the return of "bald eagles, sturgeon, and even dolphins."

"It's living proof of the river's remarkable recovery and ongoing health. Allowing Holtec to discharge contaminated water would undo decades of progress and be nothing short of a travesty for our environment, our communities, and future generations," he added.

It's grimly fitting that a Republican-appointed judge would deliver a ruling that endangers bald eagles. Conservatives love to drape themselves in the iconography of our country while actively working to destroy the country itself.

If America keeps electing Republicans, we can look forward to more and more of these kinds of corrupt rulings. The ultimate goal of American conservatism is to hand the country over entirely to corporations. They want to privatize profits while forcing the costs onto innocent Americans.

https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1973897274217336844

Max Blumenthal WARNS: Israels Unhealthy INFLUENCE on the U.S. Is Out of Control It Must End!

America First nationalism genuinely resonates with younger conservatives who witnessed two decades of Middle Eastern interventions producing ambiguous outcomes at extraordinary cost. When Israeli officials advocate purchasing American media companies to shape American discourse, when former British prime ministers administer Palestinian territories on behalf of tech billionaire consortiums, it triggers precisely those nationalist concerns. They perceive foreign interference in domestic sovereignty—the very dynamic their political identity opposes regardless of which nation attempts it.

https://youtu.be/Eloqw3NEe4E

Five childhood vaccines all test positive for glyphosate, a toxic chemical that has been shown to cause cancer.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1974075407277191296

Hegseth orders polygraphs and NDAs for 5,000+ Pentagon staff. Loyalty or jail.

PENTAGON TO POLYGRAPH 5,000+ EMPLOYEES IN LEAK CRACKDOWN

WarSec Hegseth plans mandatory lie detector tests and NDAs for everyone in Pentagon headquarters, from four-star generals to administrative assistants.

Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg’s draft memo requires all Office of Defense Secretary and Joint Staff personnel to sign agreements prohibiting release of ANY non-public info without approval.

Random polygraphs would become routine. Refuse to sign? Face military justice.

Former officials call it loyalty enforcement, not security:

“The real concern is not about foreign intelligence. It’s about tamping down people who they think are leaking to the press.”

Mark Zaid, national security lawyer:

“This seems far more directed at ensuring loyalty… to intimidate the workforce and ensure tighter control.”

Pentagon already requires reporters to sign similar NDAs or lose credentials.

Hegseth has held just 6 press briefings since January.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/hegseth-orders-polygraphs-and-ndas-for-5000-pentagon-staff-loyalty-or-jail/

The Prime Minister of Israel is openly meddling in American politics.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1973577145915256987

Looks like they are moving in

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Rabbi runs for Syrian parliament, ending 58-year ban on Jewish candidates

Rabbi Henry Yosef Hamra is running for parliment in a step towards reintegrating a long-marginalized religious and cultural group into Syrian public life.

Syrian American Rabbi Henry Yosef Hamra has declared his candidacy for the People’s Assembly in the Damascus district, a landmark move given that Jews have been barred from seeking political office in Syria since the 1967 war.

The move is a step towards reintegrating a long-marginalized religious and cultural group into Syrian public life.

Hamra, 48, is the son of Yosef Hamra, the chief rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in New York. His father left Damascus in 1992, after Syria lifted restrictions on Jewish travel, by which time fewer than 10 Jews remained in the capital.

Hamra portrays himself as carrying forward the heritage of a once-thriving Syrian Jewish community that has nearly disappeared from the country.

His campaign, characterized by the slogan: “Toward a Prosperous, Tolerant and Just Syria,” Is based on the three pillars of: Justice and citizenship, preserving Syrian heritage, and lifting sanctions.

Hamra’s platform rests on three main pillars. The first is justice and citizenship, emphasizing equality for all Syrians and the adoption of a modern constitution that guarantees rights while addressing the plight of victims within a framework of national reconciliation.

The second is the preservation of Syrian heritage, with a focus on safeguarding Islamic, Christian, and Jewish traditions as integral parts of the national identity and strengthening ties between Syrian Jews at home and abroad through cultural and educational programs.

The third is revitalizing the economy by working to lift the Caesar Act sanctions, promoting reconstruction through investment from Jewish business leaders worldwide, and creating funds to support small and medium-sized enterprises that would provide new opportunities for Syrian youth.

In his speech, Hamra highlighted the importance of unity in both geography and identity, declaring, “I believe in a united Syria for all Syrians, from Al-Hasakah to As-Suwayda, from Daraa to Latakia, from Damascus to Aleppo.” He also pledged to continue cooperating with the Syrian community in the United States to press for the unconditional repeal of the Caesar Act.

The nomination of a Jewish candidate for the first time in more than half a century marks a potential step toward reintegrating a long-marginalized religious tradition into public life, rekindling debate over the nature of Syrian identity and its pluralism.

Framing the lifting of sanctions as the key to economic revival, Hamra places the issue at the center of his platform, tying the prospects of reconstruction to creating a favorable investment climate and encouraging the return of segments of the Syrian diaspora — including Syrian Jews — to take part in rebuilding the economy.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-869346

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Turkey arrests suspected Mossad agent

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Turkey's intelligence service announced the arrest of an alleged Israeli spy in Istanbul during a joint operation, state media reported on Friday.

“Serkan Cicek, who was identified as working for the Israeli secret service Mossad, was detained as a result of a joint operation carried out by the MIT [Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization], the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, and the Istanbul Provincial Police Department's Counter-Terrorism Branch,” Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency reported on Friday.

Cicek, a detective, had reportedly worked with Musa Kus and lawyer Tugrulhan Dip in the past, both “arrested for spying for Israel” and accused of providing personal data from public records to detectives “in exchange for financial gain,” Anadolu added.

The report further claimed that Cicek had been in contact with a member of Israel’s Online Operations Center named Faysal Rasheed, and had admitted to allegedly conducting surveillance on a Palestinian activist.

The statement accused Cicek of being contacted on July 31 by Rasheed, who reportedly was posing as a member of a foreign law firm. Rasheed then allegedly hired Cicek to surveil a Palestinian activist in Basaksehir, paying $4,000 in cryptocurrency; an offer which Cicek accepted “despite knowing his associate Kus had been jailed for spying for Israel.”

Turkey frequently arrests individuals on charges of espionage, particularly those involving foreign intelligence agencies such as Israel’s Mossad. Authorities have detained dozens of suspects over the past year.

Relations between Turkey and Israel have soured in recent years in light of Ankara’s condemnation of Israel’s extensive military campaign in the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 incursion.

In November 2024, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan announced that Turkey has cut all ties with Israel.

Erdogan on Thursday condemned Israel’s interception of the Gaza aid flotilla in international waters, calling it “banditry”, and accusing Israel of trying to “conceal its crimes in Gaza.”

Israel's offensive in Gaza has killed over 66,000 people, most of whom are civilians, according to Gaza's health ministry. The bloodshed has drawn growing international backlash, most recently seen in a torrent of recognition of Palestinian statehood by Western countries, placing pressure on Israel and its allies to halt the conflict.

https://thenewregion.com/posts/3227

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to sexual abuse of child — will only serve 6 months in jail

The victim says she was only 12 years old when the abuse began in the '80s.

Cindy Clemishire accused the founding pastor of a popular Texas megachurch of sexually abusing her for five years beginning in 1982 when she was a 12-year-old child, and the 64-year-old former pastor pleaded guilty on Thursday.

Robert Morris previously admitted to "inappropriate sexual behavior" with a "young lady" while denying any intercourse was involved, but he has since admitted to the rape in a plea deal.

'This case is all the more despicable because the alleged perpetrator was a pastor who exploited his position. The victim in this case has waited far too many years for justice to be done.'

That deal had Morris admit to five felony counts of indecent conduct with a child but will allow him to serve only 6 months in jail of a suspended 10-year sentence.

He also has to pay restitution of $250,000 and will register as a sex offender.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/robert-morris-child-sex-abuse

97 percent of all stocks are owned by the top 10 percent. Half the market is in the hands of 1 percent. The bottom 50 percent could soon own less than 1 percent. Wealth inequality is accelerating.

The math is brutal, and yet no one is screaming it from the rooftops. Ninety-seven percent of all stocks are held by the top 10 percent of Americans. Half of all equities are concentrated in the hands of the top 1 percent. That leaves the bottom 90 percent with three percent, and if you do the projections, at this rate, the bottom 50 percent could soon own less than one percent within a decade. That is not a number to glance over. That is a number that tells you the system is closing the door on everyone who is not already wealthy. The media smiles and nods at minor rebounds in the market, but those numbers do not speak to the reality that 67 million households are watching wealth vanish into an invisible vault that they cannot touch.

The top 0.1 percent, only 135,000 households, now hold more than the bottom 50 percent combined. If trends continue, in five years the richest 0.1 percent could command wealth equivalent to two-thirds of the entire bottom half. Every Wall Street gain is a loss for the average American. Every corporate bonus, every stock buyback, every asset inflation event is a reminder that prosperity has been redesigned to exclude the majority. You work harder, but the system works smarter to ensure you cannot catch up. Your paycheck does not matter because the game has already been rigged, and the rules are changing faster than anyone can notice.

Media narratives try to calm us, framing inequality as natural or temporary, yet they obscure the full scale of the crisis. Inflation-adjusted wages have stagnated for decades. Even if unemployment remains low, the quality of jobs is collapsing. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, unable to save, unable to invest, unable to escape the slow slide into permanent economic vulnerability. In this system, your ability to participate is measured not in effort, but in already accumulated advantage, and the gap is widening faster than any headline admits.

The faint silver lining the media tries to sell is that the economy is still growing, that opportunity exists for those willing to grind harder. But those projections fall apart the moment you measure them against housing, education, and healthcare costs. Median home prices are now ten times median income in major cities, student debt has surpassed $1.8 trillion, and healthcare bills alone bankrupt tens of thousands each year. Even if someone in the bottom 50 percent manages to save five percent of their income, it barely scratches the surface of what is needed to buy a meaningful stake in the economy. You can work twice as hard, but the numbers are against you, and the trajectory shows no mercy.

Historically, extreme inequality has never ended quietly. Every concentration of wealth, every economic exclusion, has produced cycles of anger, unrest, and unexpected collapse. The lessons of 1929, of 2008, of repeated financial bailouts at the expense of the majority, are not buried in textbooks, they are etched into the lives of those who lived them. Today, the trajectory is sharper, faster, and more brutal because the mechanisms of exclusion are algorithmic, financial, and systemic, leaving almost no space for the average person to escape.

The projections are unforgiving. If the current trends persist, in ten years the bottom 90 percent will see their share of equities drop under two percent, the middle class will be all but hollowed out, and generational wealth for ordinary Americans will be a fantasy. Policymakers talk about economic recovery and opportunity, but every program has been designed in the image of the winners, not the survivors. Every official pronouncement masks the fact that the structure itself is actively working to concentrate wealth at the top while eroding the base.

So what does survival look like? It means owning real assets, hedging against inflation, building whatever stake you can. It means recognizing that the system will not repair itself. It means understanding that the alarm is personal, that if you are not part of the top fraction, you are already behind, and the gap is accelerating. Every small gain you make is temporary, because the underlying structures are extracting more than you can accumulate. The question is not if the trajectory will continue, but how long you can withstand it before the consequences are irreversible.

https://youtu.be/C-3aAeNXCG8

https://citizenwatchreport.com/97-percent-of-all-stocks-are-owned-by-the-top-10-percent-half-the-market-is-in-the-hands-of-1-percent-the-bottom-50-percent-could-soon-own-less-than-1-percent-wealth-inequality-is-accelerating/

Ted "Let's stop attacking pedophiles" Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz Applauds Brad Parscale for Taking Millions of Dollars From Israel to Push Their Agenda

Senator Ted Cruz on Friday applauded former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale for taking $6 million from Israel to operate as a foreign agent for the Jewish state.

On Monday, Responsible Statecraft reported that FARA filings revealed that Parscale had registered as a foreign agent for getting a $6 million contract from Israel "to create websites and content designed to train AI models like ChatGPT with pro-Israel messaging."

Parscale wrote:

Qatar has poured over $4.7 billion into American universities. They even admit to another $10 billion that isn't documented.

Texas A&M got $1.3 billion. Cornell nearly $2 billion.

Israel's contributions? Around $375 million over two decades.

So tell me this… who really has the bigger influence on U.S. campuses: Qatar or Israel?

In other words, Qatar gives our country billions of dollars, whereas Israel gives us nothing (even though we've given them hundreds of billions of dollars).

His post didn't go over well, to say the least.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=65049

U.S. May Have Landed Special Forces In Iran Using Air Base In Syria As Stop (Videos)

The United States military may have dropped special forces in Iran, or retrieved them from the Islamic Republic, using an air base in Syria as a stop, videos that surfaced online in recent days suggest.

One video from October 2 shows an MC-130-series special-mission aircraft of the U.S. Air Force landing in Mezzeh Air Base, located right to the southwest of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The flight was unprecedented in every way. The Americans were never before documented landing in the air base, which is controlled by the country’s Islamist-led Interim Government.

The aircraft was most likely the MC-130J Commando II version. Notably, it was equipped with its two helicopter-air refueling pods. Aircraft of this type are mainly operated by the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command.

Based on the C-130 Hercules transport, the MC-130s’ missions are the infiltration, exfiltration, and resupply of special operations forces, and the air refueling of special operations helicopter and tilt-rotor aircraft.

Activists who shared the video of the MC-130 landing in Mezzeh said that the aircraft stayed on the ground for 30 minutes or even less. They also reported seeing at least four U.S. helicopters flying over the air base as the aircraft was landing, although these were not captured in the footage.

Just a day earlier, two UH-60-series helicopters were filmed flying on an unusual path over the governorate of al-Suwayda, to the southeast of Damascus, in direction of the country’s border with Iraq.

While the activists who shared the footage of the Black Hawks identified them as Israelis, the dark green color scheme suggests that the helicopters are in fact American. It’s worth noting that the helicopters also appeared to be equipped with external fuel tanks.

The MC-130 that landed in Mezzeh was almost certainly on its way back from a special mission, involving the refueling of helicopters. It may have landed near Damascus as a result of an emergency, or simply to refuel. Refueling an aircraft of this type could take as little as ten minutes.

The U.S. military has access to air bases in Israel and Jordan. It also maintains multiple airstrips in northern and eastern Syria, in addition to several airfields in western and northern Iraq. Thus, aerial refueling is not needed for any flight between these counties.

Taking everything into account, it is highly likely that the MC-130 that landed in Mezzeh and the helicopters with it were on their way back from a special operation in Iran. Only a secret flight into the Islamic Republic would require using such special-mission aircraft for aerial refueling.

The helicopters refueled by the MC-130 may have dropped special forces somewhere deep in Iran, or retrieved them from there.

During its 12-day war with Iran last June, Israel deployed its special forces inside the Islamic Republic to target air defenses and ballistic missiles. It was reported that Israeli helicopters with the operatives made their way to Iranian territories through Syria after getting refueled by KC-130 tankers, which are also based on the C-130. Footage showing the tankers flying on a low altitude over al-Suwayda even surfaced online at the time.

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https://southfront.press/u-s-may-have-landed-special-forces-in-iran-using-air-base-in-syria-as-stop-videos/

Tony Blair is embroiled in a digital ID scandal

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is embroiled in a scandal concerning his alleged secret lobbying on behalf of Oracle, a tech giant considered a frontrunner to provide the UK’s new digital ID cards, which Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced would be required for employment.

Documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal Blair asked Business Secretary Peter Kyle to consult with the technology institute founded by Oracle chairman Larry Ellison during a private meeting last year.

Blair is accused of secretly lobbying for Oracle, a company that stands to make millions from the Labour government’s controversial national ID card scheme. The Ellison Institute of Technology, founded by Oracle’s chairman Larry Ellison, has donated or pledged £257 million to Blair’s Institute for Global Change.

The revelations have prompted sharp criticism, with opponents warning the scheme could open the door to cronyism and erode public trust, especially given Oracle’s existing major contracts worth up to £1 billion with four UK government ministries and the NHS. Several MPs have called for a parliamentary inquiry into Blair’s role and the procurement process.

Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake said on Saturday: “Despite Keir Starmer’s promises of a ‘crackdown on cronyism’, these revelations show it runs right to the very top of this rotten Labour Government.

“Tony Blair lobbying Peter Kyle to set up meetings with groups linked to Larry Ellison – now in pole position for the Government’s Digital ID contract – reeks of a blatant conflict of interest. This has all the hallmarks of yet another cosy deal between Labour insiders and powerful vested interests.”

Technology writer Andrew Orlowski said: “Tony Blair is really just a salesman for the tech companies, and flies around the world looking for naive Governments who want to believe in magical solutions.”

https://expose-news.com/2025/09/29/tony-blair-embroiled-digital-id-scandal/

17 suspected human traffickers arrested in Albania and Colombia

The criminal network is believed to have sexually exploited over 50 victims in Albania and Croatia, trafficked from South America to Europe

The actions led to:

16 house searches (7 in Albania and 9 in Colombia);

17 arrests (7 in Albania and 10 in Colombia);

54 victims originating from South America were identified (44 in Albania, 5 in Croatia and 5 in Colombia);

Seizures include evidence and equipment; further seizures are ongoing.

International cooperation exposes mobile human trafficking network

A criminal network, composed mainly of Colombian nationals, recruited and transported vulnerable women from Colombia to Europe. Once under the network’s control, the victims were subjected to sexual exploitation in several European countries, including Albania and Croatia. The suspects operated with a high level of mobility, which complicated national investigations. International cooperation between Albania, Croatia and Colombia, facilitated through Europol, was essential in linking the main organisers with local associates who acted on their behalf in transit countries and countries of exploitation. The main suspect, identified as a High-Value Target within a Europol taskforce, coordinated the group’s activities while also distancing himself from the direct exploitation.

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Ukrainian top military officials have said they are looking to hit targets in Moscow to cause energy blackouts.

Ukraine is no longer talking about defense in abstract terms, it is openly talking about striking the heart of Moscow itself. A senior general has said the goal is nothing less than cutting the lights in the Russian capital. This isn’t coded language or a vague warning, it is a plain threat aimed at the nerves of the Kremlin and every Russian who depends on power to live through the winter.

“Any enemy action aimed at harming our country will receive a symmetrical response. We will find weapons, we will conduct these operations, and they will understand that they will not gain an advantage this way.”

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/10/02/the-general-staff-of-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-boasts-that-they-will-leave-moscow-without-electricity

President Zelenskyy sharpened the point even further, saying the Kremlin should prepare for its own capital to be plunged into darkness if Kyiv is hit.

“If they threaten a blackout in the capital of Ukraine, the Kremlin should know there will be a blackout in the capital of Russia.”

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/zelenskyy-vows-moscow-will-face-blackouts-1758985042.html

These are not symbolic threats. Russia’s grid is fragile, overloaded, and vulnerable, and a single strike could set off cascading failures that last days or longer. Ukraine is telling the world that escalation will no longer stop at the border, it will cut straight into the civilian heart of Russia’s power system.

The danger is obvious. Blackouts in Moscow mean millions without heat, hospitals running on backup, and the Kremlin forced to explain why a country that claims to dominate Europe cannot keep the lights on in its own capital. Ukraine’s words are not just aimed at Moscow’s leaders, they are aimed at the Russian public, forcing them to imagine their lives suddenly frozen in silence and dark.

The war has reached a point where retaliation is no longer about front lines or trenches, it is about who can break the other’s capital first. And the side willing to say this out loud is Ukraine.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/ukrainian-top-military-officials-have-said-they-are-looking-to-hit-targets-in-moscow-to-cause-energy-blackouts/

“A threat to civilisation” says doctor against hospital’s Children and War event

Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children’s Hospital agrees

In September, Sydney psychiatrist Doron Samuell wrote to the CEO of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) advising him that a scheduled staff panel on ‘Children and War’ would risk inflicting “moral injury, vicarious trauma, and harmful workplace behaviours” on Jewish staff and patients.

Talking exclusively to the Tel Aviv-based newspaper The Jerusalem Post, Samuell said that CEO Peter Steer wrote back the next day, thanking him for expressing his concerns and announcing the cancellation of the event because “risks of distress [to Jewish staff members] …outweigh the intended value and would not reflect our values as a hospital community.”

Steer cancelled the event without discussion with his staff. In an email to staff, Steer denied “external pressure” had played a role.

‘Moral injury’ is a term that refers to psychological and social damage that results from transgression of one’s core moral or ethical beliefs and values. How either Steer or Samuell assessed the alleged moral and psychological injury that could be caused to health professionals who believe they have a duty to speak out about the impacts of war on children is unknown.

Staff, senior academics, physicians, psychiatrists and public health experts called for the event to be reinstated.

Doron Samuell

Samuell is a Sydney psychiatrist and member of the Alliance Against Antisemitism in Health Care (AAAHC). The group, which is part of the Australian Alliance of Academics Against Antisemitism (5As), has also been involved in the complaint laid against Sydney cardiologist Peter Macdonald.

Samuell, who is a long-term active member of the Liberal Party, does not hold back in attacks on fellow professionals. He claims that the RCH event was comprised of a “one-sided panel of high-profile advocates critical of Israel”, and would “inadvertently provide a platform for groups that have engaged in hateful, partisan campaigns against Israel and its supporters.”

He specifically named Médecins Sans Frontières, the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which had speakers on the panel. He accused MAPW’s Sue Wareham of referring to the Israel-Hamas War as the “genocide of the people of Gaza”.

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