Houthis threaten 'swift, painful' response if US assists Saudi strikes in Yemen

Houthis threaten 'swift, painful' response if US assists Saudi strikes in Yemen

SHIR PERETS, REUTERS

The Iran-backed Houthis threatened on Monday to launch a "swift and painful response" against the US and its regional interests if Washington joined Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen, Houthi political bureau member Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told AFP. 

"If the US becomes involved in the aggression against Yemen, we will not deliberate over the decision to respond; rather, there will be a swift and painful response targeting the US and all its interests in the region," Bukhaiti said.

His warning came following US President Donald Trump’s comments weighing American involvement following the recent deadly attacks on Saudi infrastructure, including a strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday that killed 13 people and wounded hundreds more. The attack was the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade.

Trump said the airport attack was "not acceptable" and indicated that Washington was considering joining Saudi strikes against the Houthis, after reportedly rejecting earlier requests for military assistance from Riyadh.

Authorities also extended the closure of Riyadh's international airport until Saturday and suspended operations at King Khalid International Airport to "allow for the completion of procedures to ensure the safety and operational readiness of the airport's facilities," the Saudi civil aviation authority said in a statement.

Late on Monday, the Houthis said they had attacked the airport with a ballistic missile, shortly after Saudi Arabia said it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the group towards Riyadh.

The Houthis also said in a statement that they targeted an airbase in Khamis Mushait in the kingdom's southwest with a drone. There was no immediate Saudi confirmation.

A Notice to Airmen issued on Monday showed King Khalid International Airport will stay closed until October 17.

The attacks have also raised worries over civil aviation becoming a target in armed conflict.

"This level of sustained intense attack on civil aviation is unprecedented," said Mark Zee, founder of OPSGROUP, a membership-based organization that provides aviation safety advice.

"I think this requires us to rethink how we view the current risk picture, and tread very carefully," he said.

Noah’s Ark Researcher Reveals DEATH Threats, Stunning New Radar Findings

Noah’s Ark Researcher Reveals DEATH Threats, Stunning New Radar Findings

Billy Hallowell

The founder of an organization digging at a site in Turkey he believes could unveil the real-life Noah’s Ark has reportedly faced terrifying death threats and a burglary of his apartment.

Andrew Jones, founder of Noah’s Ark Scans, said it took years to get a permit from the Turkish government to be able to dig. 

“For our efforts, it’s taken years, if not decades,” he said. “When you’re trying to get a permit, you have to work under a Turkish university, and it’s not just under the Turkish university; you’re working with a Turkish professor.”

Jones continued, “So here’s someone who’s going to say, ‘OK. I’m going to put my reputation on the line looking for Noah’s Ark, and then I’m going to go ahead and get go through the obstacles, and the time,’ and anything else being thrown at him or her to get a permit done.”

In addition to finding people willing to put their reputations on the line, Jones said you also need to have funding, which can be another barrier. Jones said he and his team had to act quickly once the permit was approved.

“It was the start of this year when we got the permit,” he said. “We had one month to basically fundraise, get organized, get people involved.”

Challenges still abound. The professor involved in the Noah’s Ark Scans project is reportedly being called a “traitor” to Turkey by some, with his atheist and agnostic friends also piling on.

Jones, too, has faced some challenges. He’s unsure whether the Noah’s Ark expedition sparked problems for him, but, months ago, he started having people pound on his door in the middle of the night earlier this year while issuing threats to kill him.

While motives are difficult to know, Jones said the chaos started after his team announced they received a permit.

“We made the mistake of announcing we had a permit,” he said. “In regards to like physical threats or robbery, I’ve never had that issue until this happened.”

The people pounding on the door in the middle of the night were “making threats and cursing in English.”

“They were targeting someone who they thought spoke English,” he said. “It wasn’t Turkish they were speaking. They were saying, ‘F you, and I’m going to kill you.'”

Jones called a friend to come over and examine the situation, but they never found the culprit. Then, just days later, it happened again. The Noah’s Ark Scans founder inevitably decided to leave the apartment altogether and stay with a friend out of abundance of caution.

His mission to find the Ark hasn’t stopped, and he has no plans to halt. Watch the video for the full story on where the expedition currently stands:

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THE SILENCING OF OUR BLESSED HOPE

THE SILENCING OF OUR BLESSED HOPE

Jonathan Brentner

An expression dating back to 1512 is: “Throwing out the baby with bath water.” The idea is that if you think part of something is bad, don’t throw it all away.

Is that not what many pastors do today? Because they fear the negative results of mentioning the dreaded word “Rapture” from the pulpit, they refuse to talk about what happens when Jesus appears: our bodily transformation. The essence of our “blessed hope” goes out the window along with any mention of Jesus’ appearing. Most churches effectively silence our biblical hope in Jesus’ appearing.

I have heard several Gospel presentations where the pastor never once said the words “eternal life,” or, if he did, he quickly glossed over it as something secondary to the gospel. Citing John 3:16 in a closing prayer does little to correct this problem, as by then, most people are focused on lunch.

In the New Testament, we find a far different emphasis than what we hear in most churches today, even those that profess to be Bible-believing.

MARTHA’S BELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION

Even before any New Testament book was written, Jesus' followers believed in a future resurrection. We see this in Martha’s assertion of faith after her brother Lazarus' death. When Jesus told her that her brother would “rise again” (John 11:23), she responded: “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day” (11:24). Even in the midst of her grief, she clung to the hope of her brother’s bodily resurrection.

In the Gospel of John, the phrase “eternal life” appears seventeen times. Martha understood what Jesus’ oft-repeated promise meant for her brother. He would raise him from the dead to everlasting life with a new body.

Jesus emphasized our hope beyond the grave in John 5:24: “Truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” Is it any wonder that Paul so vigorously defends the resurrection of believers throughout 1 Corinthians 15? In the chapter's concluding verses, the apostle gives us further revelation about our future resurrection life. He will give us immortal and imperishable bodies (1 Corinthians 15:47-55). Please also note that Paul includes believers alive at the time of the Rapture.

In Philippians 3:20-21, Paul explains that our glorious transformation happens when Jesus appears, aka the Rapture. That’s the essence of Jesus’ promise: He gives eternal life to all who believe. And we will fully experience it at His return. This is the substance of our hope, the future tense of the gospel.

IMMORTAL AND INCORRUPTIBLE BODIES

Earlier in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul leaves no doubt as to the utmost importance of this promise of eternal life: “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied” (v. 19). If this is true, and it is, where’s the justification for not even mentioning eternal life when presenting the gospel? Both the Lord Jesus and the apostle Paul emphasized that our hope lies beyond this vale of tears.

Take away what happens to us when Jesus appears and “we are of all people most to be pitied.” The Greek word for “pitied” carries with it the connotation of being “miserable.” I fear that describes many Christians whose focus all their future aspirations on what lies ahead for them in this life rather than on their hope beyond it. Such an anticipation invariably leads to great disappointment.

The glorious truth for us as New Testament saints begins in the next verse with Paul’s declaration that “Christ has been raised from the dead” (v. 20). His line of reasoning in the next several verses leads directly to 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, where he sums up our forever hope with the exciting details of our bodily resurrection as New Testament saints.:

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

In language that others cannot possibly misconstrue or misunderstand to signify anything other than our future transformation or resurrection, the apostle says time is coming when Jesus will raise the dead with imperishable bodies and gloriously transform believers still alive at His appearing.

Those who say that 1 Corinthians 15:47-57 refers to what happened to us when we became believers are false teachers. And yes, besides reading this errant interpretation, I heard one pastor say these verses refer to our past, to what happens at the time of our redemption. Such teaching lies far outside the Christian faith.

Because Jesus rose from the dead, our over-the-top blissful hope is that someday we will possess a glorious body like that of our Savior. In Philippians 3:20-21, Paul writes about an “excited anticipation” of Jesus’ appearing. The word he used for “await” signifies a yearning of the soul for the time that Jesus raises the dead in Christ and wholly transforms us with immortality.

THE ESSENCE OF OUR BLESSED HOPE

Living forever in resurrected bodies like our Savior's is our blessed hope, the one Paul wrote about in Titus 2:11-14. The Rapture is a biblical doctrine. According to several New Testament texts, it's when our faith in the unseen becomes our experience.

We will spend eternity in gloriously transformed bodies that will never experience pain, sickness, aging, or death. They will be like our Savior's. The “redemption of our bodies,” which happens at the time of the Rapture, was the hope that the apostles proclaimed to the world (Romans 8:23-25). It was not an afterthought, but something fully explained along with the saving message of the cross.

The problem I have with preaching today is that it effectively silences the truths revealed in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 and Philippians 3:20-21. Of course, pastors in Bible-believing churches do not deny our “blessed hope” (Titus 2:11-14). However, they effectively silence it by changing it into a nebulous Second Coming whereby all bible prophecy awaiting fulfillment starts with Revelation 20:11,

Maranatha!

The Net Zero Illusion: Canada’s Self-Destructive Climate Policy

Canada is a carbon sink but climate change fanatics want to decarbonise Canada to make it “net zero”; how does this make any sense?

Rhoda Wilson

For those who believe in the climate change scam: Canada’s forests act as a carbon sink and absorb 2.4 more carbon than the country produces.  Canada is, therefore, in the negative as far as “net zero” accounting goes.

Despite this, Net Zero fanatics are pursuing “net zero” policies which will destroy Canada’s economy while making a few people very rich.

The Net Zero Illusion: Canada’s Self-Destructive Climate Policy

Murray Lytle

By 2050, Canada will be net zero and carbon neutral. This is very good news because, otherwise, we will all turn crispy and die. That, at least, is the argument of our political class. We must “decarbonise” our fuel sources at a cost of perhaps trillions of dollars to avoid this grisly outcome.

Our efforts, in fact, will make a negligible dent in the world’s carbon exchange, but as our standard of living continuously deteriorates, we can take solace in the fact that “we have done our bit.” Not only have our elbows come up in unison to destroy a once-profitable trade relationship with the world’s largest consumer market that sits virtually at our doorstep, but we can smugly peer out of our unlit, unheated homes and feel superior to the Americans. That is worth something.

But I have a couple of questions.

What does the term “decarbonised hydrocarbons” mean? From my research, it seems we are going to buy credits from carbon exchanges operated by companies in the corporate sector like, you know, Brookfield Asset Management or something. These credits will allow us to produce more hydrocarbons to collect more carbon dioxide and stick more of it in the ground. But who is going to produce oil and gas in Canada when we self-impose such expensive environmental overheads? It seems like there might be only one winner in this scenario. And what is going to happen to all that pressurised carbon dioxide that has been pumped into the ground? Oh, right … trust the science.

[Related: Eco-Fascist Mark Carney is Trying to Control the World Through Green Finance and Carney will impose the Globalists’ climate change scam on Canadians]

The other question is, what if it turns out that Canada’s massive forests are already sequestering the relatively puny amounts of carbon dioxide that we produce? A concept that seems to be all but forgotten in the debate is that carbon dioxide is plant food. Forests are full of trees, which are plants, and they like to eat carbon dioxide. 

Sadly, however, Natural Resources Canada tells us that forest fires, insect blights, overcutting and, of course, climate change have made Canada a net source of carbon dioxide emissions rather than a net sink of carbon absorption. This is not good. But their website is full of tentative language: would, might, will lead to and predicted. In fact, if I recall correctly, when I accessed the website in 2016, Canadian forests were considered a carbon sink. Funny how things change over time.

The news, however, is not all bad. A compelling 2023 study came to my attention through a recent Friends of Science email. It analysed carbon dioxide concentrations using data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite (OCO-2) and ground-based measurements collected at sites worldwide. By modelling natural carbon capture (forests and other biomass) and carbon dioxide emissions to calculate net carbon exchange, the study authors concluded that Canada’s forests were removing all the carbon dioxide produced in the country plus 140% more. This is good news, right? 

Canada’s forests are removing 2.4 times as much carbon dioxide as is produced within the country, which means that Canada is already net zero and then some. Although my excitement is moderated by the knowledge that this conclusion is based on a model, the study authors have accounted for the variability of their assumptions. However, isn’t the global warming argument itself based on modelling that assumes that carbon dioxide is not plant food but rather the thermometer of the Earth? And wasn’t the popular CMIP6* family of models recently determined to be too hot to match reality?

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The Globalist Worldview

Nobody Goes To War For The Rules-Based Order

J.B. Shurk

Are all cultures equally worthy of our respect?  Globalists say, “yes.”

Are all religions equally worthy of our respect?  Globalists say, “yes.”

Are all nations equally worthy of our respect?  Globalists say, “yes.”  

Globalists speak of “multiculturalism” as if it were a virtue and equate Western civilization with “white supremacy,” “patriarchy,” and “imperialism.”  They believe Christians should celebrate Islamic holidays.  They believe national borders are “racist.”  They believe that anybody who rejects globalism promotes “hate.” 

If everything is true, though, then nothing is true.  If there are no borders, then there are no nations.  If there are no nations, then national governments represent nobody.  In other words, the globalist worldview is meaningless, contradictory, self-hating, and infuriating.

Recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Bronx shot an illegal immigrant gangbanger from the Dominican Republic when the criminal tried to avoid arrest by driving his vehicle directly at officers (presumably without a valid license or proper registration).  Instead of leaping to support the cops who defend the public every day, the Islamic, communist mayor of New York City declared that he was “angry” that ICE agents had shot a “New Yorker.”  The illegal alien in question broke into the U.S. only a few years ago and has already been arrested multiple times — including for armed robbery and drug-dealing — but Mayor Mamdani somehow considers the foreign criminal more of a “New Yorker” than the arresting officers or civilian bystanders whom he endangered.  

Mamdani is originally from Uganda and became a U.S. citizen only eight years ago.  So a foreigner who now runs the financial center of the United States has more in common with a violent criminal from the Dominican Republic than with anyone born in America.  If everyone is a New Yorker, then nobody is a New Yorker.  If everyone is an American, then no-one is American.  Yet globalists demand that we treat Mamdani, the foreign gangbanger, and multi-generational American citizens as if they were all the same.

This nonsensical demand occurs all over the West.  Military-aged Muslims invade the United Kingdom each day.  Their belief system is so incompatible with that of native Brits that the U.K.’s Home Office hands out instruction manuals informing the foreign invaders that raping women and children is illegal in their new “homeland.”  Yet British politicians and BBC news pundits preposterously claim that the invaders are every bit as British as the folks whose families have resided in the British Isles for a thousand or more years.  

For over a decade, globalists in Europe and North America have insisted that we Westerners call illegal immigrants “newcomers.”  It’s a not-so-subtle form of indoctrination meant to condition the feebleminded into believing that it’s perfectly normal for our uninvited “countrymen” to defecate in the streets, molest young girls, beat up Jews, burn down Christian churches, mow down white people with their cars, eat cats and swans in public parks, and commit welfare fraud on an industrial scale.  If the cultural habits of these strange “newcomers” appear grotesque, that’s probably because you’re a “hater,” a “white supremacist,” and most likely both!

Of all the destructive philosophies that have plagued our species, globalism must surely rank among the most noxious.  It clothes itself in the camouflage of virtue-signaling, false empathy, and fake compassion.  It disguises ideological conformity as “open-mindedness.”  It preaches “coexistence” while subjugating dissenters.  It robs people of their heritage in the name of “tolerance.”  It rewrites history when convenient.  It replaces merit and equality with entitlement and privilege.  When possible, globalism recycles Western civilization into foreign worldviews, and when that’s impossible, globalism tosses everything we hold dear straight into the garbage disposal.

Whenever I listen to political pundits in Europe, they are breathless about war with Russia.  They are certain that Vladimir Putin is going to conquer the continent at any moment.  They talk about the necessity of military conscription.  They describe the looming conflict as some kind of moral defense of “democracy” against “authoritarianism.”  They invoke phrases such as “patriotic duty.”  Yet these same political pundits never address the civic breakdown in their own societies, including growing crime rates, decreasing levels of patriotism, and a metastasizing sense of hopelessness killing the youngest generations.  

The West’s talking heads genuinely seem to believe that people will go to war to save government bureaucracy, of all things!  They think that unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is somehow a symbol of “democracy.”  They think that King Charles III will inspire Christians even though Britain’s monarch no longer declares himself the “Defender of the Faith” but rather an amorphous protector of “a multi-faith nation.”  Globalists think they can rally Westerners around patriotic flags when they’ve spent the last decade arresting Westerners for being patriotic or waving their national flags.  They think that they can talk Westerners into protecting sovereign borders when globalists have kept national borders open for decades.  You simply cannot invite foreigners from all over the world to remake the West in their image and then expect Westerners to fight and die for a home that is no longer theirs.  

 Big Government is a fake religion.  Political correctness is a toxic ideology.  Moral relativism invites depravity.  Borderless nations are easily conquered.  

North Korea continues streak of weapons tests with multiple ballistic missile launches

North Korea continues streak of weapons tests with multiple ballistic missile launches

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North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea's military said, adding to a recent streak of weapons demonstrations that has heightened tensions during a prolonged freeze in diplomacy.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from an area around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, where the country has used its airport as a major launch site in recent years. The joint chiefs did not immediately specify how many missiles they detected or how far they flew. Japan's Defense Ministry said it detected at least two missiles and assessed that the weapons landed in waters outside the country's exclusive economic zone.

The launch came days after South Korea on Friday flight-tested its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon, designed to fly at least five times the speed of sound and evade missile defense systems, which President Lee Jae Myung described as an important step in strengthening the South's conventional defense capabilities.

While maintaining a hard line toward Seoul, North Korea has been ramping up weapons testing as it seeks to expand its arsenal of nuclear-capable systems, including an Oct. 3 test of what the North described as a hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to evade missile defenses in South Korea and Japan. 

North Korea has also conducted other missile tests and live-fire drills and commissioned a new warship as leader Kim Jong Un continues to flaunt his nuclear weapons program while rejecting U.S. and South Korean offers to resume long-stalled diplomacy.

Tensions were further worsened after three South Korean soldiers were injured in land mine explosions last month near the heavily armed inter-Korean border. The South's military and the U.S.-led United Nations Command concluded the blasts were caused by devices planted by North Korea, which has denied responsibility and ridiculed the South's demands for an apology. 

Kim in recent years has halted all diplomacy and cooperation with South Korea and described the neighbor as a permanent enemy during a prolonged stalemate in larger nuclear negotiations with Washington. He has so far rebuffed President Trump's calls to revive their diplomacy, which broke down in 2019, with his government demanding that Washington abandon its "hostile" policy toward Pyongyang and drop demands for North Korea's denuclearization as a precondition for talks.

The tensions have been a setback for Lee, who favors engagement with North Korea and has tempered his rhetoric toward the North even as public anger grows over the mine blasts. Lee has also called for strengthening South Korea's conventional defense capabilities while reducing its reliance on the United States. Washington unilaterally decided to scale back a major military exercise with South Korea in August, with Mr. Trump citing his "very good relationship" with Kim.

Two-state solution a 'trap we set for Israel,' Lebanon-based Fatah official brags

Two-state solution a 'trap we set for Israel,' Lebanon-based Fatah official brags

ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

“We know the trap we have set for Israel by demanding a two-state solution,” Basel Abu Shahab, secretary of the Fatah movement in the Burj al-Shemali refugee camp in Lebanon, told Palestine TV, adding that Israel “has reason to fear us.”

Abu Shahab, the son of Fatah Maj.-Gen. Jalal Abu Shehab, widely known as Abu Basel, said in the interview over the weekend that within 20 years of a Palestinian state being established, it could develop an aircraft industry and an industrial sector capable of rivaling Israel’s, giving it the “components of a state capable of confronting Israel.”

“We know the trap we have set for Israel by demanding a two-state solution. But Israel understands why it does not want to give us a state: it knows what the future could hold,” he continued.

“In my view, the establishment of a Palestinian state would mean the disappearance of the Israeli entity and the end of global Zionism.”

Throughout the interview, Abu Shahab glorified the fida’i (Palestinian fighter) and portrayed past terrorist operations in a positive light, particularly Fatah’s abduction of Israeli watchman Shmuel Rosenwasser in 1969.

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Iran's Araghchi offers to mediate Saudi-Houthi talks, calls for diplomatic end to hostilities

Iran's Araghchi offers to mediate Saudi-Houthi talks, calls for diplomatic end to hostilities

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered to help facilitate talks between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group amid ongoing hostilities, according to a statement posted on Telegram following his phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday.

Araghchi expressed concern over escalating tensions, warning that continued reliance on military action while disregarding diplomatic solutions would further complicate the situation, the statement said.

He also stressed that the region's ongoing crises could not be resolved militarily and offered Iran's assistance in initiating dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Yemen to help reach a political solution.

The phone call came amid several days of Houthi missile and drone attacks targeting Saudi airports, which have severely disrupted air travel and prompted international airlines to suspend services. Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport is expected to remain closed until October 17, while some airlines have extended flight suspensions into 2027.

Authorities have extended the closure of Riyadh's international airport until Saturday, and airlines scrapped flights after continuing attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis emptied the skies over Saudi Arabia's capital.

Riyadh airport closure extended following deadly Houthi attacks

Operations at King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia's second-busiest airport after Jeddah, were suspended to "allow for the completion of procedures to ensure the safety and operational readiness of the airport's facilities," the Saudi civil aviation authority said in a statement.

A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) issued later in the day said the airport will remain closed until 2100 GMT on October 17.

The airport has been shut since an attack on Saturday that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300, the deadliest in the kingdom in more than a decade. On Sunday, another attack killed one person and injured nearly a dozen others.

The attacks marked one of the most significant disruptions to Saudi aviation in years, adding to pressures on an industry already grappling with conflict across the Middle East and with higher jet fuel prices that are eating into profits.

They have also raised worries over civil aviation becoming a target in armed conflict.

"This level of sustained intense attack on civil aviation is unprecedented," said Mark Zee, founder of OPSGROUP, a membership-based organization that provides aviation safety advice.

"I think this requires us to rethink how we view the current risk picture, and tread very carefully," he said.

Air traffic tracker Flightradar24 showed planes avoiding the city on Monday, though jets crossed Saudi airspace and landed at the country's top hub, Jeddah, on the west coast.

Cancellations across all Saudi airports reached 46.4%, aviation analytics firm Cirium said.

Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv before sirens, gap that lands hard amid fears that Washington could cut data that warns of launches

Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv before sirens, gap that lands hard amid fears that Washington could cut data that warns of launches

byOlena Mukhina

The alert came late because Ukrainian radar detected the missiles only during the attack, with no advance data on launches, the Air Force says

Russian forces struck several districts of Kyiv late on 12 October with what the Air Force called, by preliminary data, six ballistic missiles. For once, the air-raid alert reached people only after the attack had begun, Ukraine’s Air Force reported.

Reports of Russian ballistic launches are part of the intelligence the US shares with Ukraine, and that data is what lets sirens sound before the missiles arrive, giving civilians a few minutes to hide. Those minutes save lives, which is why the warning gap landed hard amid fears that Washington could cut Ukraine off from such intelligence amid US President Donald Trump's agreement with Russia to let its diesel into the US.

The alert came late because Ukraine’s radar detected the ballistic targets only during the attack, with no advance data on launches from Russian territory, according to the Air Force.

“No information was received about launches from enemy territory. The causes are being established,” the Air Force said.

Beskrestnov says he does not want to believe the US would leave Ukraine without that data because it is a matter of civilian survival. He urged caution on the cause, saying there were nuances and that it was too early to draw conclusions.

However, Ukraine usually sees the launches first. The warning system normally flags Russian ballistic launches before the missiles reach their targets, giving people time to move, but on 12 October, that did not happen, the Air Force noted.

Beskrestnov later added a note of doubt about what flew. The suspected S-400 missiles were not being recorded by partners’ intelligence services, he wrote, stopping short of blaming the lapse on a loss of US data.

The damage in Kyiv was concrete. A missile struck a transport-infrastructure site in the Dniprovskyi district, and another hit a four-story warehouse in the Desnianskyi district, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Russia struck Kharkiv at about the same time with nine S-8000 Banderol loitering munitions, Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported. One of the last strikes hit a residential building, where people may be trapped under the rubble and a fire is burning.

US threatens to suspend intel sharing, weapons purchases if Ukraine continues Russia energy strikes, sources say

New Study Finds International Communists and Radical Leftists Are Leading French “Student” Protests

New Study Finds International Communists and Radical Leftists Are Leading French “Student” Protests – Only 1 in 3 Groups Are Students or Youth Groups

Jim Hoft

Less than one in three organizations leading the violent “student protests” in France are student groups or youth groups.

The rest of the groups are international agitators and communist groups.

They’ve launched their revolution on the West in France. How soon before these same communist, anarchist groups bring their violence to the streets of America!

Behind all of the chaos and street unrest is the American-born, Shanghai-based tech tycoon and communist Roy Singham.

Singham is accused of being behind the anti-ICE riots, the anti-Trump protests following the arrest of Maxist tyrant Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, the anti-Trump Iran protests, Cuban propaganda in the US, and the “anti-Kings” protests in the US, to name a few.

And, Roy Singham is central to all of these staged and paid for protest movements in the US today.

The fake news WILL NEVER report on this. They must agree with him.

And now, we learn that Neville Roy Singham is indirectly funding the rioting in France.

FOX News Digital also reported that less than one-in-three groups linked to the French protests are student or youth groups.

A Fox News Digital investigation has found that a transnational network of far-left communist and socialist organizations is seizing on France’s fiery student protests to advance a wider political and ideological agenda, using tactics deployed in the United States over the past decade to amplify unrest, deepen divisions and project an image of chaos.

Earlier in the week, BreakThrough News splashed another headline across the front of its website: “French students shut down schools in historic strike against austerity,” mobilizing “with support from unions and progressive forces.”

But those “progressive forces” aren’t limited to students demanding education reform as part of their “Lycéenne Mobilisation,” or high school student mobilization.

From France to the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Greece and India, adults with deep pockets are tapping France’s school protests and turning a domestic education dispute into a platform for broader political and ideological confrontation. BreakThrough News is a pro-communist propaganda outlet based in New York City, funded by an American-born, Shanghai-based communist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who has financed a network of communist and far-left groups in the U.S. that have capitalized on grievances to stoke similar street unrest for almost a decade.

A Fox News Digital investigation traces how a movement that the media is mostly framing as students protesting deteriorating school conditions is actually part of an extensive infrastructure of unions, communist activists, far-left political parties and international media organizations that are organizing demonstrations, calling strikes, mobilizing supporters and broadcasting the unrest around the world with “BREAKING” alerts.

In a digital analysis of scores of news articles, social media posts and public statements, Fox News Digital has identified 50 organizations in the French student protest movement and its wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, revealing an activist ecosystem extending far beyond the students who launched the demonstrations.

Of the network of 50 groups, 15 are student or youth groups, including several communist youth movements and a Muslim student association.

The Gateway Pundit’s Antonio Graceffo reported that Singham is the funder behind the communist part network that is fueling the anti-ICE protests across the US.

FBI Confirms Investigation Into Foreign Funding as Violence Spreads to 25+ Cities, and Cash Trail Leads Back to the Chinese Communist Party.

The anti-ICE riots engulfing Los Angeles and spreading to more than 25 American cities are not the spontaneous uprisings the mainstream media wants you to believe.

The Gates Foundation: Whistle-Blower Reveals Influence On NIH, Health Strategy

NIH has completely merged with the Gates Foundation

Rhoda Wilson

In June, a whistle-blower revealed that the US National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, has completely merged with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (renamed ‘The Gates Foundation’). 

This isn’t a recent development; it became apparent to the NIH whistle-blower more than 10 years ago.

Gates was able to take control of the NIH by funding the agency’s own non-profit, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research

By Paul Thacker,

On the eve of Gates’ private testimony with Congress scheduled for [9 June 2026], a trove of federal whistle-blower documents provided to RealClearInvestigations(“RCI”) is renewing questions about how Gates’ money has bought what critics complain is an untoward influence on government health policy. For almost a quarter of a century, his main vehicle of power, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), allowing Gates to shape the direction of the country’s health strategy in ways that have benefitted his own priorities and pet causes while polishing his image as a benevolent global do-gooder.

At a time of growing concern about the power of billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, Gates’ efforts stand out. Instead of lobbying federal agencies for specific policies, Gates leveraged his wealth to work inside the government, partnering with high-ranking NIH officials to steer taxpayer research funding and design scientific policies for several federal programmes.

The cache of several dozen emails and documents, made public for the first time by an NIH whistle-blower, reinforces previous reports detailing Gates’s extensive influence over US biomedical research. During the height of the covid pandemic, Kate Elder, a senior vaccines policy adviser for Doctors Without Borders, complained to Politico, “What makes Bill Gates qualified to be giving advice and advising the US government on where they should be putting the tremendous resources?”

Emails and internal plans, for example, show that the NIH – the world’s largest funder of biomedical research – gave the Gates Foundation first billing for the joint workshops and meetings held on federal property.

The Gates Foundation did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The NIH also declined to comment.

Like most philanthropies, the Gates Foundation tries to grow its endowment through investments. Some of these efforts, especially its stake in vaccine companies, blur the lines between profit-seeking and the foundation’s mission to develop and deliver vaccines around the world. This symbiotic relationship between capitalism and charity also benefits Gates, whose power and position hinge in large part on the size of his foundation’s assets. Before the pandemic, The Nation magazine reported that the Gates Foundation had a $40 million stake in CureVac – this was not a grant but an investment. CureVac was one of many companies the non-profit bought stock in that were working on covid vaccines and therapeutics.

Around that same period, the Gates Foundation announced that it had begun to “leverage a portion of its $2.5 billion Strategic Investment Fund” to advance the non-profit’s covid work. The Gates Foundation also turned a $55 million investment in Pfizer’s covid vaccine partner, BioNTech, into over $550 million when it sold stock a couple of years later after the vaccine hit the market.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in 2000 with an initial endowment of $20 billion and a primary focus on reducing global health disparities. Rather than working exclusively through non-governmental agencies, the Gates Foundation began contributing to the NIH through the agency’s own non-profit, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (“FNIH”). Congress created the FNIH in 1990 as a firewall between NIH officials and outside donors seeking to influence federal research.

That firewall is not ironclad. In 2018, for example, NIH officials, funded by beer and liquor companies through an FNIH grant, were in frequent contact with the alcohol industry while designing a study that seemed predetermined to find alcohol’s benefits but not potential harms, such as cancer. The NIH also declined money in 2018 from drugmakers to support a proposed $400 million research programme to discover opioid alternatives and addiction treatments. Like the alcohol funds, that drugmaker money would have also been routed through the FNIH.

In 2003, the Gates Foundation donated $200 million to the FNIH to fund NIH scientific programmes, an unprecedented sum. Rice University researchers warned in 2008 that this Gates cash was shifting the NIH’s scientific priorities, even though the money was cycled through the FNIH. While FNIH manages and administers Gates money, they said, the Gates Foundation’s scientific board ultimately “oversees and selects the projects to be funded” at the NIH.

After Gates gave an NIH lecture in 2013, NIH documents show that the agency began hosting Gates-NIH Workshops, eventually synchronising federal research programmes with Gates, to include coordinating grant funding and science policies across 10 NIH programmes.

“Bill Gates, along with the NIH, the Wellcome Trust, it was this cartel,” the whistle-blower, a former NIH official who requested anonymity, told RCI. “This is a globalist movement. And that’s something that I don’t think the public knows.”

The Gates Foundation held its second annual meeting with the NIH in July 2105, with both sides proposing new areas of teamwork, and later agreeing to cooperate on funding and research policies for global health. One area of overlap was the West African Ebola outbreaks. To align the Gates Foundation’s Ebola research with the federal agency, Gates routed money through the FNIH so that NIH employees could hire the McKinsey consulting firm.

At no point in the several dozen emails and documents provided to RCI did NIH officials appear to raise any concerns about conflicts of interest regarding their work with Gates, nor the hiring of McKinsey to shape federal research and development policies. McKinsey is a global consulting firm whose clients include dozens of foreign governments and some of the world’s largest corporations.

House Democrats released an April 2022 investigation that documented McKinsey’s conflicts of interest during the opioid epidemic that killed tens of thousands of Americans, finding that McKinsey provided consulting advice to both Purdue Pharma and the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) from 2008 to 2019. In one example, the report surfaced emails with McKinsey employees congratulating themselves for influencing a 2018 speech on opioid safety by then-FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb.

When Congress brought McKinsey managing partner Bob Sternfels before cameras during a 2022 public hearing, he alleged that his firm did not have a conflict of interest when it gave simultaneous advice to both OxyContin’s manufacturer and the government agency that regulated OxyContin. Two years later, McKinsey paid a $650 million fine to resolve a criminal and civil investigation into the firm’s consulting work with Purdue Pharma.

“The NIH and BMGF [Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation] have had a long history of interaction, particularly with respect to vaccines and drugs,” reads the NIH summary of the 2015 Gates-NIH meeting.

A longtime NIH official said that the agency’s leadership initially held Gates at arm’s length, but eventually gave in. “They were very suspicious at first,” said the official, who requested anonymity. “But they got caught up in, ‘Wow, he’s the richest man in the world!’”

The NIH official added, “What I saw, which really, I think, extends until this day, is a complete merging of NIH and Gates. And I’ve never seen that written anywhere. I don’t think people realise this incredible symbiotic relationship.”

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