At the same time, Israel has also been using "quite brutal methods" against Hamas, the Russian president said...

Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas have displayed "brutality" and "cruelty" against each other, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Friday. He urged both parties to prioritize thinking "about the civilian population" instead.

Speaking after a press conference concluding his two-day visit to Kyrgyzstan, Putin condemned the attack on Israel, calling out the exceptional "cruelty" exhibited by Hamas:

"Israel, of course, faced an unprecedented attack, which has never happened in history, and not only in scale, but also in the nature of its execution, in cruelty - well, what can I say? We must call things what they are. At the same time, Israel has responded to the attack on a massive scale with quite brutal methods."

Putin noted, urging both parties to "think about the civilian population" despite "all the bitterness on both sides."

The Russian president warned against imposing a total blockade on Gaza:

"This approach to the Palestinian enclave is unacceptable. More than two million people live there. Not everyone supports Hamas, by the way, not everyone, yet everyone must suffer, including women and children. Of course, hardly anyone will agree with this."

The IDF reportedly managed to recover several bodies of Israelis during a "localized" incursion...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sent tanks and foot soldiers into Gaza on Friday to conduct what it called "localized raids" ahead of a likely invasion of the Palestinian enclave, in an effort to locate some of the people taken hostage by Hamas militants.

IDF forces carried out several raids into Gaza in order to "cleanse the area of ​​terrorists and weapons" while making "an effort... to locate missing people," according to the IDF account on X (formerly Twitter).

"Infantry and armored forces searched and gathered in the area for findings that may help in the effort to locate the missing and thwarted terrorist infrastructure and terrorist cells found in the area," the Israeli military stated.

IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari also said the raids targeted "anti-tank guided missile squads that intended to infiltrate into Israeli territory."

The forward units reported "discoveries" of missing Israelis near the border, prompting a decision to send in a larger force under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Shimon Putrabani, according to the Jerusalem Post. After the brigade surrounded the location, bodies were collected from and transported to Israeli territory, the newspaper reported.

Major financial institutions seem to be accelerating a trend that many conservatives find alarming: the closure of physical bank branches.

According to a bulletin published by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday, Bank of America led the way by closing 21 branches in just the first week of October.

Wells Fargo was not far behind with 15 closures, while US Bank and Chase reported closing nine and three branches, respectively, according to the Daily Mail.

In total, some 54 locations had either closed or were scheduled to close between October 1 and October 7. Of the overall closures, three were in Louisville in Kentucky. Eight of the 21 Bank of America closures were in California.

On Friday, major US banks including Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase reported their third quarter earnings. Increased revenue thanks to higher interest rates saw both banks' revenues increase.

DARPA Neurologist and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC, Dr. James Giordano, who is also a weapons expert, started his presentation at West Point NY Military Academy by saying, "The brain is and will be the 21^st Century battlefield. End of story."

DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Pentagon thinktank.

Dr. Giordano talks about how Directed Energy can be and is being weaponized. Individuals' brains can be targeted by microwaves, the type of 5G and soon to come 6G, of which you see antennas growing like mushrooms all over the word.

They tell you, it is to make your internet, and ever more sophisticated computers and smart phones faster, with more outreach capacity - and to help advance digitization.

This may all be true to some extent, but the real reason behind these microwave towers is to target YOU, the individual.

You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors
And the land that I cultivated
And you left nothing for us
Except for these rocks...
If I become hungry
The usurper's flesh will be my food.

- Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish

It's by now confirmed that Egyptian intel warned their Israeli counterparts only 3 days before Al-Aqsa Flood that something "big" was coming from Hamas. Tel Aviv, its multi-billion dollar security apparatus and the IDF, "the strongest army in the world", chose to ignore it.

That configures two key vectors.

1) Tel Aviv get its "Pearl Harbor" pretext to implement a remixed "war on terror" plus a sort of Final Solution to the "Gaza problem" (already in effect).

2) The Hegemon abruptly changes the narrative away from the incoming, inevitable, cosmic joint humiliation of the White House and NATO in the steppes of Novorossiya - a strategic defeat that configures the previous humiliation in Afghanistan as a masked ball in Disneyland.

The total blockade of "human animals" (copyright Israeli Defense Ministry) in Gaza, in fact a civilian population of 2.3 million, has been imposed this past Monday. No food, no water, no fuel, no essential commodities.

That's a war crime and a crime against humanity, thrashing the four basic principles of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) - everything duly applauded or at best completely ignored by NATOstan and its assorted oligarch-controlled mainstream media.

Christians, Muslims, Jews and other ethnic groups lived peacefully in Palestine for centuries until the imposition of the racist Zionist Project - complete with all the Divide and Rule attributes of settler colonialism.

The Nakba is an old memory of 75 years ago. We are now way beyond apartheid - and entering total exclusion and expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.

In January 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu himself stressed, "the Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel."

Now, the IDF sent no less than an order to the UN to completely evacuate all residents of northern Gaza - 1.1 million people - to southern Gaza, close to Rafah, the only border crossing with Egypt.

This forced mass deportation of civilians would be the prelude to raze all of northern Gaza to the ground, coupled with expulsion and confiscation of ancestral Palestinian land - edging closer to a Zionist Final Solution.

Hamas-cheering protesters pose a threat to Europeans, the former US Secretary of State has suggested...

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said that nations in Europe were wrong to take in many people who are now supporting Hamas' actions against Israel. Unless the militant group is punished for its hostage-taking, Europeans risk being targeted similarly, he warned.

In an interview published on Wednesday, Mathias Dopfner, the CEO of German media group Axel Springer, asked the veteran statesman about "Arabs celebrating" in the streets of Berlin after Hamas' incursion into southern Israel last week. Kissinger, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, said he found such gestures of support for criminal acts "painful."

"It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different cultural and religious concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that," he noted.

Asked what Germany and the EU should do in the current situation, Kissinger said he expected "unconditional" political support for Israel - as well as military support if needed.

Washington is expected to prioritize aid to Israel and put conditions on continued funding to Ukraine...

Hamas is using US-supplied weapons to attack Israel even as Washington prepares to step up military aid to West Jerusalem, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson told RT on Monday.

"It's probably 100% sure that the weapons were supplied by the United States," Johnson opined, explaining that the only question was whether the Palestinian militant group's weapons had come from US supplies diverted from Ukraine, Afghanistan, or the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

Noting there were "no effective controls" on the billions of dollars in arms and military financing funneled from the US to Ukraine in the last two years, Johnson observed that even weapons supplied by Israel to Ukraine might have made it back to Hamas via the black market, suggesting the war unfolding in Gaza "will tell us how extensive some of those weapons supplies have been."

Tails are wagging the dogs in international relations, and alliance overreach is weakening traditional big players...

The international hierarchy is undergoing a fatal erosion, that's according to the authors of the annual report prepared by Russia's Valdai Club.

The established leadership will not be able to stop "the growing 'free will' of other states - be they large, medium or small - even if they choose to make determined efforts to try". The "quest for survival in an extremely diversified world" will force everyone to "build up independent capabilities."

Last weekend's frontal attack by Hamas on Israel was not expected because it was considered to be a suicidal idea - given the huge gap in resources between an isolated radical group and the militarily strongest state in the region, which is the closest ally of the global superpower. But in an "extremely diversified world", "independent capabilities" do not equal the sum of material assets.

Precise calculation, unconventional action and the calculated use of limited potential always come at a price. A crafty fighter who should be up against the ropes can find ways to puff his chest in order to distract from the real balance of power.

The Foreign Ministry in Moscow has compiled a list of briefings in which it raised the alarm about unchecked weapons deliveries to Kiev...

The unchecked delivery of Western weapons to Ukraine has resulted in a large amount of these arms ending up in the hands of organized criminal groups and extremists around the world, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has again claimed.

On Tuesday, the diplomat published a compilation of excerpts from briefings over the past 18 months in which Moscow consistently raised concerns and provided evidence testifying to the unchecked spread of weapons supplied to Kiev.

Zakharova suggested that the reason for this phenomenon was rampant corruption in Ukraine as well as corrupt ties between Washington and Kiev. Despite Moscow repeatedly calling for international media to highlight the issue, major Western news outlets have refused to conduct investigations or assess the data, the spokeswoman added.

Below is a collection of briefings conducted by the Russian Foreign Ministry since March 24, 2022, in which it warned the international community on the issue.

"To all scholars who teach jihad... to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application of theories."
— Khaled Meshaal, former Hamas leader

It's less than a week since the skies over the Negev Desert filled with something eerily like the flying monkeys of Oz upgraded to Hamas Road Warriors in motorized paragliders, kicking off that third world war we've been hearing about all our lives, and not at all the way we expected either, which was more Dr. Strangelove style, with the mushroom clouds billowing everywhere — though, who knows, it might come to that, too, before long.

This new catastrophe, quickly globalizing, makes the War in Ukraine seem as comfortable as an old sweater. For now, the question of intel failures must be put aside. There will be no official inquiries while US carrier fleets sail into position, and Hezbollah does a war dance on the northern frontier with Syria, and the Israelis struggle to strategize an extremely sticky hostage predicament, even as their air force blows up whole blocks of Gaza City.

Meanwhile, former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has called for a worldwide jihad this very day, Friday the 13th, as it happens, by which he means disruption within the entity known as Western Civ, where Jihad's most dogged enemies dwell. For years, footloose emigres have been flooding into Europe and across America's border with Mexico, mostly young men, hardly vetted, the sort of humans most likely to act-out warrior scripts in a zeitgeist gone sour, and I guess we'll find out pretty soon whether some of them were sent to be activated against us.