Ukraine has hit a key Russian oil depot in Russia-occupied Crimea, causing massive fires. The key energy resource the largest oil storage and shipment hub on the peninsula sustained heavy damage, with multiple fires reported. pic.twitter.com/tg8EsqJnvT

— Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) October 13, 2025

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Anti-ICE leftist rioters are being taken to the GROUND and ARRESTED in Portland by federal agents who are playing zero games.

Bad move to fight with them.

KEEP ARRESTING! 🔥

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Factions busy fomenting war still

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number made available online

Authorities are investigating a website that lists the mobile numbers of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, among other well-known Australians.

The US-based website, which users can trial for free, boasts about having the mobile numbers and emails of millions of professionals.

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said the government was aware of the website and had taken steps to address the numbers being on it.

"We've notified authorities and that is being worked through, but obviously there is concern," he said.

The story was first reported by Ette Media, whose co-founder Antoinette Lattouf also had her number published on the site.

The ABC has chosen not to name the website in order to avoid further publicising the personal data of those impacted, but has confirmed at least some of the numbers are correct.

It is not clear how long the information has been available online, but Mr Albanese's team has been aware of the matter since last month.

A spokesperson for Ms Ley said they were only made aware of the website yesterday after being contacted by media.

"This is obviously concerning … we have asked the website to remove the information," the spokesperson said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns, whose number has reportedly also been published, said he only became aware of the site this morning.

He said no-one was "prank calling" him yet, but it was a concern such personal data had been made public.

"We want to make sure that we're protecting that [data], but this is … the age that we live in — technology is rapidly changing," he said.

"AI means that unscrupulous players can access information like they couldn't before.

"We're all just going to have to be on guard to protect our private information, but this is one in a long line of [such incidents]."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-14/anthony-albanese-mobile-phone-number-available-online/105889284

Cops beat the shit out of him

Inside the vile past of child rapist sports star who is trying to come to Australia to compete in the world championships

Steven Van de Velde caused controversy at Olympics

A sports star who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl is trying to get permission to enter Australia to play in the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Adelaide this month.

Steven Van de Velde was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 but served just 13 months after admitting to three counts of rape against the girl, who he met on Facebook.

He was aware of her age at the time of the offences.

But despite the judge at his trial telling him that his sporting career was a 'shattered dream' – and his own lawyer saying he had 'lost a stellar sports career' – Van de Velde was selected to compete for the Netherlands at the Paris Olympics last year.

A quick visit to the Volleyball World website shows the 31-year-old is listed as a competitor for the World Championships, which begin on November 14.

Van de Velde's inclusion in the Olympics made sports fans furious, and so has the news that he is listed to compete in Adelaide.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-15189241/Child-rapist-sports-star-Australia-world-championships-beach-volleyball-Steven-van-Velde-Dutch-Netherlands-Olympics.html

A Hint Of Opium Wars: Trump's Campaign Against The Fentanyl Epidemic

The United States is waging a desperate fight against the killer drug fentanyl. Beyond Chinese producers and Mexican drug cartels, the northern neighbor Canada has now come under the American government’s scrutiny. The U.S. finds itself caught in a vise of drug money and asymmetric warfare.

In recent weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard made headlines with two spectacular operations: On September 2, 2025, the U.S. Navy sank a suspected Venezuelan drug boat in the southern Caribbean – according to President Trump, a speedboat operation by a “narco-terrorist” group. Eleven people on board died.

The latest incident occurred on October 3, 2025: another boat was destroyed near the Venezuelan coast, four people killed, large quantities of drugs seized. Two events that highlight a topic that has nearly been drowned out by customs policy noise, the Gaza war, and government shutdowns – the fentanyl epidemic, America’s silent war on the home front.

Echoes of the Opium Wars

The fentanyl crisis in the U.S. has taken monstrous proportions in recent years – documented in countless shocking videos of literally zombified streets in the country’s drug capitals such as Los Angeles or Philadelphia.

Approximately 110,000 people die annually from drug use. Around 75,000 deaths – nearly 200 per day – are attributed to the killer drug.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, roughly 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Even tiny amounts can be lethal, making it the global fuel of a new drug epidemic – cheap to produce, easy to smuggle, deadly. Its characteristics make it an ideal instrument to undermine an external enemy from within and disrupt parts of their social fabric.

As during the Opium Wars of the 19th century – when British opium was used as a geostrategic weapon in the struggle for trade surpluses against China, and Beijing’s resistance was exploited by Western powers to escalate – today’s situation feels like a replay: instead of sailing ships, containers transport industrial precursor chemicals; instead of colonial ambitions, geopolitical interests play a decisive role.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hint-opium-wars-trumps-campaign-against-fentanyl-epidemic