Hundreds of rounds were fired at aid workers during a March 2025 massacre at Tal as-Sultan, an independent investigation says.

Israeli soldiers fired over 900 rounds at a convoy of clearly marked emergency vehicles in Rafah in 2025, killing 15 Palestinian aid workers, some of them shot at close range, an independent investigation has found.

The attack took place on March 18, 2025 in the Tal as-Sultan area of southern Gaza, where local responders had been dispatched to collect wounded civilians. Fifteen Palestinian aid workers were killed, including medics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society and members of the Civil Defense.

The victims were traveling in five ambulances and one fire truck, all clearly marked and operating with emergency lights, when they came under sustained gunfire, according to a report released on Monday by independent research agency Forensic Architecture and audio investigation group Earshot.

• An acclaimed Caltech astrophysicist was fatally shot on his porch in Llano early Monday.
• A suspect, Freddy Snyder, 29, was arrested and charged with Carl Grillmair's slaying as well as carjacking and burglary.
• Among the scientist's accomplishments was the 'ingenious discovery' of water on a planet outside our solar system.

An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of the Antelope Valley on Monday morning. A suspect in the shooting has been charged with murder.

A major storm hit the US east coast on Monday, bringing record-breaking snow that caused disruptions for millions and thousands of flight cancellations.

Parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts have seen nearly 37in (94cm) of snowfall, with more than 19in in New York City's Central Park, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.

Weather warnings stretched from North Carolina to northern Maine, with some in place further north in parts of eastern Canada.

More than 600,000 properties on the US east coast endured power outages, while the Boston Globe - a major US newspaper - said it will not go to print for the first time in its 153-year history due to the storm.

Travel across the region has been severely limited, with some states and cities implementing travel bans during the worst period of the storm.

The partial release of the Epstein files has prompted some interesting responses. Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost posted:

From the Epstein files, you can see how he saw himself as spiritual elite, an awakened elect, above standard morality. That "elect" status gave him a moral blank check that licensed the predation. His transhumanist POV was also a part of this frame.

Comedian Duncan Trussell took this observation even further, comparing the Epstein revelations to a hypothetical disclosure of alien life in conversation with Jeremy Corbell:

With the Epstein files you get a form of catastrophic disclosure, not disclosure of UAPs or extraterrestrial life, disclosure of the fact that the super elite — they don't follow the same laws we do. They don't have the same view on ethics, morality. It's almost a different species, in fact. And watching the sort of impact that that's having on the psyche of people who probably haven't gone as far out on thin ice as you and I have is really interesting, because you're looking at people getting red-pilled in the most extreme way, where you look at these emails, it's not just emails Epstein wrote. It's emails to Epstein from people who were sucked in by that power, into that orbit. And even though Epstein wasn't like, "I'm going to puppeteer this person," just something about hanging out with that, seeing the hedonism, seeing what it's like to be in a room with all these very powerful people — it's seductive. Just standing next to it makes you want to become part of it. And that doctor, what's his name? Attia.

The Vatican flatly rejected a U.S. invitation to join the Trump-led "Board of Peace" for Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV, the U.S.-born Pontiff, has formally declined U.S. President Trump's invitation for the Vatican to join his so-called Peace Board for Gaza. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem previously described the project as "a colonialist operation focused on others deciding for the Palestinians."

According to Trump, the board — which he will head — will oversee Gaza's governance and reconstruction. Trump has said that the board may later address other global conflicts under his leadership.

But in delivering the Pope's firm "no," Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, insisted that "at the international level it should above all be the U.N. that manages these crisis situations," not a U.S.-led board.

British Intelligence is never too far from the wars and chaos in the so-called Middle East region. In Syria MI6 has taken centre stage for the last 75 years in the intelligence operations to overthrow successive Syrian governments and now the aim is the final war against Iran with Syria as the staging post.

In September 2025, the Express was issuing dire warnings that "tens of thousands of ISIS extremists could be unleashed on Britain and the West if the camps holding them in Syria are taken over by a new regime", meaning the Al Jolani/Al Qaeda regime brought to power by London, Washington, Ankara, and Tel Aviv. At the same time, CENTCOM was urging countries to repatriate their ISIS citizens to reduce the pressure on the overcrowded and sordid camps overflowing with unrepentant fighters and their families.

Fast-forward to February 2026, and that is exactly what has been allowed to happen. The 'New Syria' forces, comprising ISIS, Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood factions, some Syrian, the majority foreigners, have seized the ISIS holding camps in north-east Syria from the former caretakers — the US/Israeli-backed Kurdish Separatists.

Suddenly, Washington's support for the Kurdish autonomous region appeared to collapse in favour of an HTS/Al Qaeda centralised regime. The former promises of Kurdish independence and privilege within Syrian borders seemed to dissipate rapidly as Al Jolani's murderous militias released their own relatives and former ISIS comrades from some of the biggest prison camps in this oil-rich corner of Syrian territory.

Europe's avalanche crisis is escalating, with 86 people including at least four Brits killed this season as severe snowfall and unstable mountain conditions wreak havoc across the Alps and beyond.

France has recorded the highest toll so far with 25 deaths, followed by Italy with 21 and Austria with 14, while Switzerland has lost nine and Spain eight.

Slovakia reported four deaths and Slovenia three, with a single death in Andorra.

The vast majority of victims were caught in wind slab avalanches or collapses linked to persistent weak layers buried deep within the snow, often triggered after fresh downfalls.

Most were skiing off piste or travelling in backcountry terrain, with others killed while mountaineering, climbing or hiking.

How Brussels' Digital Services Act has been used to pressure platforms and electoral control in member states

Romania's 2024 presidential election was already one of the most controversial political episodes in the European Union in recent years. A candidate who won the first round was prevented from contesting the second. The vote was annulled. Claims of Russian interference were advanced without public evidence.

At the time, the affair raised urgent questions about democratic standards inside the EU. A congressional investigation reviewed by RT raises even more question. They indicate that the annulment of the Romanian election was accompanied by sustained efforts to pressure social media platforms into suppressing political speech - efforts coordinated through mechanisms established under the EU's Digital Services Act.

What appeared to be a national political crisis now looks increasingly like a test case for how far EU institutions are willing to go in intervening in the political processes of member states.

The Politics Of Institutionalized Predation.

"I become stronger as you become weaker, I absorb strength as yours flows into me. I become capable of this because I do not experience your pain, I don't care about your loss, and I feel no regret about using, abusing, and devouring you."

— Page 63, An Age For Lucifer

Consider the following:

"This book explores a strange new spirituality about to enter into competition with other established religions. My purpose here is to convince you that its emergence is probable, if not inevitable. I begin this exploration with an unproven assumption based on Darwinian evolutionary principles: a new predator will appear on our planet, an evolutionary prototype designed to prey on humans. Another assumption then follows: this predator will evolve gradually and incrementally from humanity, just as we apparently evolved from lower forms to prey on them. A further assumption suggests that these predators have already appeared as evolutionary prototypes, as new humans with advanced methods of survival and new forms of spiritual expression and religious organization designed to support and advance their predation."

— Robert C Tucker, An Age For Lucifer: Predatory Spirituality & The Quest for Godhood

The book in question was Robert C Tucker's An Age For Lucifer: Predatory Spirituality and the Quest For Godhood. I first wrote about it in a Bombthrower piece: "The WEF Isn't a Cabal, It's A Cult", and I can't remember how I came into possession of it in the first place. I remember owning it for years and never reading it, because frankly, it scared me.

Storms have left large parts of France underwater, with record levels of flooding after heavy rain fell on already saturated soil. In Paris, the Seine is four metres above its normal level, forcing the closure of the riverside motorway and some commuter rail stations.

Authorities are warning of a "widespread flood event" across France, according to the national flood monitoring service Vigicrues.

Soil moisture levels are at unprecedented levels, and the ground can no longer absorb additional water.

The Garonne River burst its banks in several parts of south-western France, following several extreme weather events, including the violent Storm Nils that tore through France and Spain on Thursday.

Flood levels peaked on Saturday and Sunday in the Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne departments, though Vigicrues warned that the river could continue to flood in the coming hours and could rise again this week with more bad weather.