Day: November 14, 2026

BREAKING: GADI EISENKOT’S DEMANDS FOR THE NETANYAHU-EISENKOT MEETING:

♦️ No rotation, Eisenkot to serve as prime minister for the entire term.
♦️ A government without Itamar Ben-Gvir.
♦️ An open inquiry into October 7th events.
♦️Most importantly, a discussion on the law of universal conscription file.

NETANYAHUS DEMANDS:

♦️ Open dialogue without any preconditions.
♦️Rejection of any ban on parties within the right-wing bloc or religious parties [to allow a pathway for Itamar Ben-Gvir to enter the government].
♦️ Netanyahu’s first choice for the premiership, as he is the head of the largest party [winning the most seats in the elections]. Netanyahu will step down halfway through the term, and rotate with Eisenkot.
♦️ A red line for Likud: Refusal to rely on any of the Arab parties.

— @ShaykhSulaiman Nov 14, 2026

This historical photograph shows members of the exiled Ottoman imperial family gathered in Cairo, Egypt, during the mid-1940s following the 1924 abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate and their expulsion from Turkey….

• Standing (left to right): Princess Hanzade Sultan, followed by male and female family members and Egyptian royal relatives including Prince Abdelmoneim and Prince Muhammed Ali Ibrahim.

• Seated in front (left to right): Princess Sabiha Sultan, Princess Fevziye, Princess Neslişah Sultan, Princess Hümeyra (Okday), Prince Osman Fuad (seated on the floor), and Princess Nilüfer Hanımsultan.

• Seated in the back row: Ceyda Rateb Hanım and Princess Samire.

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, many family members relocated to Egypt due to close dynastic and cultural ties with the Muhammad Ali dynasty. Prominent figures like Neslişah Sultan married into the Egyptian royal family, becoming a central figure in Cairo high society until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 prompted another wave of displacement.

. . . .

The Ottoman dynasty ruled for more than 600 years, from around 1299 until 1922, controlling an empire that at its height stretched across parts of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

After the empire collapsed in World War I, the new Turkish Republic abolished the sultanate in 1922. The last sultan, Mehmed VI, left Istanbul aboard a British warship. In 1924, the government went further. It abolished the caliphate and expelled every member of the royal family, more than 150 people, many of them given only days to leave.

They scattered across Europe and the Middle East. Many settled in Egypt, which was still ruled by a king, and several Ottoman princesses married into the Egyptian royal family.

That refuge didn’t last. In 1952, a military coup overthrew Egypt’s King Farouk, ending the monarchy there too.

Ottoman women were allowed back into Turkey in 1952, but the men were barred until 1974.

Ertuğrul Osman, who would have been sultan if the empire had survived, spent more than 60 years living quietly in a small apartment in New York City. He didn’t return to Turkey until 1992, and when asked if he wanted the throne back, he said no.

#archaeohistories

— @histories_arch Nov 14, 2026

❗️Republican Senator Tom Cotton, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, sharply rejected Russia’s demand for NATO forces to withdraw from the borders of member states, calling it “preposterous.”

“NATO nations withdrawing from their own borders is a preposterous demand by Russia. Putin has proved once again that he’s not serious about a negotiated peace. Further talks are a farce at this point. Putin will only agree to stop the war when he knows he can’t win. We need to help Ukraine prove that point,”

— @front_ukrainian Nov 14, 2026

#CIA CIA  #FBI FBI  #Mossad Mossad

Гусь Гусинский – Бидарас:
Вот тебе в нос, и вот тебе в глаз!
Гусь Гусинский – Хуесос:
Вот тебе в глаз, и вот тебе в нос!
Тупая жидовская морда!

Гусь Гусинский – GS

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Nov 14, 2026

#Ukraine Immer mehr WarBlogger und Kriegsberichtler vermelden angebliche Überlegungen, im Kreml würde man Szenarien entwickeln, um Zelensky zu eliminieren. Auf gut Deutsch: ihn aus den Weg zu räumen. In einem Krieg wie dem in der Ukraine ist jedoch momentan alles möglich. Wer von Anfang an mit dabei ist, der weiß, dass das “Ausschalten” von Zelensky schon öfters diskutiert wurde. Sogar über seine Nachfolger wurde spekuliert. Allerdings kommt derzeit etwas völlig Neues hinzu. Die Hauptstadt Kiew steht nach schweren Luftangriffen  kurz vorm Kollaps. Die Bevölkerung ist vollkommen aufgebracht und in sich gespalten. Immer mehr wollen Klitschko als Anführer der Ukraine haben. Aktionen aus den eigenen Reihen gegen Zelensky sind viel wahrscheinlicher als ein Todeskommando aus Moskau.

— @YourmediaAgency Nov 14, 2026

#CIA CIA  #FBI FBI  #Mossad Mossad
Counterintelligence investigations often remain unresolved or officially uncertain
due to conflicting intelligence, dead suspects, or political fallout. Unlike standard criminal cases that end in a clear conviction, counterintelligence probes frequently conclude with competing theories, classified findings, or permanent doubt over whether a target was a traitor, a double agent, or entirely innocent.
Several notable historical and modern cases illustrate where counterintelligence conclusions remain disputed or uncertain:

Cold War Mole Hunts and Defectors

Yuri Nosenko (1964): This KGB officer defected to the United States and claimed he had handled Lee Harvey Oswald’s file in the Soviet Union, insisting Moscow had no role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton believed Nosenko was a “false defector” sent to deceive the U.S., leading to years of harsh interrogation, while subsequent CIA reviews eventually cleared him, leaving intelligence historians divided on his true motives.
Anatoliy Golitsyn vs. CIA Leadership (1961–1970s): Golitsyn, a KGB defector, claimed that future Soviet defectors would be plants and that a high-level mole had penetrated the CIA. His unproven allegations triggered a paralyzing decade-long mole hunt that ruined the careers of several loyal CIA officers without ever identifying a definitive culprit.
The “Fifth Man” of the Cambridge Five: While Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt were confirmed as Soviet spies in Britain, the identity of the fifth member remained uncertain for decades. Although KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky later named John Cairncross, intelligence historians still debate whether other suspects—such as Roger Hollis, the former head of MI5—were also compromised.
Vitaly Yurchenko (1985): A high-ranking KGB officer who defected to the U.S. and provided leads on CIA traitors Edward Lee Howard and Ronald Pelton, Yurchenko abruptly slipped away from his CIA handlers in Washington, D.C., and returned to the Soviet Union. Intelligence officials have never reached a consensus on whether he was a genuine defector who suffered second thoughts or a KGB plant executing a controlled deception operation.

Unresolved Espionage and Nuclear Leaks

Wen Ho Lee (1999): A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory was investigated by the FBI and Department of Energy on suspicion of passing nuclear warhead designs (the W88) to China. The government’s espionage case collapsed, resulting in a plea deal on a single minor charge of mishandling data, and experts remain divided on how China obtained the weapons information or if a leak occurred elsewhere.
The 2001 Anthrax Attacks (Amerithrax): Following the mailing of anthrax-laced letters that killed five people, the FBI spent years investigating counterintelligence and bioterrorism angles before concluding that government biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins acted alone. Because Ivins died by suicide before charges were filed, independent scientists and lawmakers have questioned the FBI’s microbial forensics, leaving lingering doubts about the investigation’s finality.
The “Farewell” Dossier Aftermath & French Intelligence: While KGB officer Vladimir Vetrov (“Farewell”) provided France and the U.S. with massive amounts of intelligence on Soviet technological espionage in the early 1980s, counterintelligence agencies in Western Europe struggled for years afterward to determine which domestic officials had been compromised, leading to numerous inconclusive internal probes.

Modern Intelligence and Political Probes

The Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (2016–2019): The FBI opened this counterintelligence probe to investigate whether individuals associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign were coordinating with Russian interference efforts. While Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report documented extensive Russian interference and numerous contacts between campaign associates and Russian-linked individuals, it did not establish a criminal conspiracy, and subsequent reviews (including the Inspector General and Durham reports) reached conflicting conclusions on whether the investigation was properly predicated.
The “Havana Syndrome” (Anomalous Health Incidents): Starting in 2016, U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers reported sudden, debilitating neurological symptoms in Cuba and around the world, sparking intensive counterintelligence investigations into potential foreign directed-energy attacks. In 2023, the U.S. Intelligence Community assessed that it was “very unlikely” a foreign adversary was responsible, though some victims, lawmakers, and independent investigators continue to dispute that conclusion.

Why Counterintelligence Remains Uncertain

Compartmentalization: Foreign intelligence services strictly limit knowledge of their operations, meaning even high-level defectors often possess only fragments of the truth.
Deception as a Core Tactic: Intelligence agencies routinely use “dangles” (fake defectors) and disinformation to confuse rival services, making it nearly impossible to distinguish genuine intelligence from an elaborate trap.
Protection of Sources and Methods: Governments frequently withhold decisive evidence from the public and courts to avoid exposing active spies or technical collection capabilities, preventing public verification of their conclusions.

Instances when the counterintelligence investigations were and remain uncertain – Google Search  google.com/search?q=Instance…

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Nov 14, 2026

#CIA CIA  #FBI FBI  #Mossad Mossad
Counterintelligence investigations often remain unresolved or officially uncertain
due to conflicting intelligence, dead suspects, or political fallout. Unlike standard criminal cases that end in a clear conviction, counterintelligence probes frequently conclude with competing theories, classified findings, or permanent doubt over whether a target was a traitor, a double agent, or entirely innocent.
Several notable historical and modern cases illustrate where counterintelligence conclusions remain disputed or uncertain:

Cold War Mole Hunts and Defectors

Yuri Nosenko (1964): This KGB officer defected to the United States and claimed he had handled Lee Harvey Oswald’s file in the Soviet Union, insisting Moscow had no role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton believed Nosenko was a “false defector” sent to deceive the U.S., leading to years of harsh interrogation, while subsequent CIA reviews eventually cleared him, leaving intelligence historians divided on his true motives.
Anatoliy Golitsyn vs. CIA Leadership (1961–1970s): Golitsyn, a KGB defector, claimed that future Soviet defectors would be plants and that a high-level mole had penetrated the CIA. His unproven allegations triggered a paralyzing decade-long mole hunt that ruined the careers of several loyal CIA officers without ever identifying a definitive culprit.
The “Fifth Man” of the Cambridge Five: While Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt were confirmed as Soviet spies in Britain, the identity of the fifth member remained uncertain for decades. Although KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky later named John Cairncross, intelligence historians still debate whether other suspects—such as Roger Hollis, the former head of MI5—were also compromised.
Vitaly Yurchenko (1985): A high-ranking KGB officer who defected to the U.S. and provided leads on CIA traitors Edward Lee Howard and Ronald Pelton, Yurchenko abruptly slipped away from his CIA handlers in Washington, D.C., and returned to the Soviet Union. Intelligence officials have never reached a consensus on whether he was a genuine defector who suffered second thoughts or a KGB plant executing a controlled deception operation.

Unresolved Espionage and Nuclear Leaks

Wen Ho Lee (1999): A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory was investigated by the FBI and Department of Energy on suspicion of passing nuclear warhead designs (the W88) to China. The government’s espionage case collapsed, resulting in a plea deal on a single minor charge of mishandling data, and experts remain divided on how China obtained the weapons information or if a leak occurred elsewhere.
The 2001 Anthrax Attacks (Amerithrax): Following the mailing of anthrax-laced letters that killed five people, the FBI spent years investigating counterintelligence and bioterrorism angles before concluding that government biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins acted alone. Because Ivins died by suicide before charges were filed, independent scientists and lawmakers have questioned the FBI’s microbial forensics, leaving lingering doubts about the investigation’s finality.
The “Farewell” Dossier Aftermath & French Intelligence: While KGB officer Vladimir Vetrov (“Farewell”) provided France and the U.S. with massive amounts of intelligence on Soviet technological espionage in the early 1980s, counterintelligence agencies in Western Europe struggled for years afterward to determine which domestic officials had been compromised, leading to numerous inconclusive internal probes.

Modern Intelligence and Political Probes

The Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (2016–2019): The FBI opened this counterintelligence probe to investigate whether individuals associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign were coordinating with Russian interference efforts. While Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report documented extensive Russian interference and numerous contacts between campaign associates and Russian-linked individuals, it did not establish a criminal conspiracy, and subsequent reviews (including the Inspector General and Durham reports) reached conflicting conclusions on whether the investigation was properly predicated.
The “Havana Syndrome” (Anomalous Health Incidents): Starting in 2016, U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers reported sudden, debilitating neurological symptoms in Cuba and around the world, sparking intensive counterintelligence investigations into potential foreign directed-energy attacks. In 2023, the U.S. Intelligence Community assessed that it was “very unlikely” a foreign adversary was responsible, though some victims, lawmakers, and independent investigators continue to dispute that conclusion.

Why Counterintelligence Remains Uncertain

Compartmentalization: Foreign intelligence services strictly limit knowledge of their operations, meaning even high-level defectors often possess only fragments of the truth.
Deception as a Core Tactic: Intelligence agencies routinely use “dangles” (fake defectors) and disinformation to confuse rival services, making it nearly impossible to distinguish genuine intelligence from an elaborate trap.
Protection of Sources and Methods: Governments frequently withhold decisive evidence from the public and courts to avoid exposing active spies or technical collection capabilities, preventing public verification of their conclusions.

Instances when the counterintelligence investigations were and remain uncertain – Google Search  google.com/search?q=Instance…

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Nov 14, 2026

Persian Gulf governments are preparing with dread for the inevitable: A damaging barrage of inquiries into alleged corruption involving President Trump, his administration and family, by Democrats who swept the midterm elections.  wapo.st/3UUetmx

— @washingtonpost Nov 14, 2026

Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003) was a German dancer, actress, and filmmaker whose pioneering cinematic techniques are permanently overshadowed by her role as a primary cinematic propagandist for Nazi Germany….

Born in Berlin, Riefenstahl trained as a dancer before a knee injury ended her stage career. She transitioned to acting in German “mountain films” (Bergfilm) such as The Holy Mountain (1926), and later directed her own critically praised feature, Das blaue Licht (The Blue Light, 1932). Adolf Hitler saw The Blue Light and was deeply impressed by her visual style. He enlisted her to direct a short film about the 1933 Nazi Party rally, Der Sieg des Glaubens (Victory of Faith), launching a fateful collaboration.

Commissioned to document the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, Riefenstahl directed Triumph of the Will. Using revolutionary tools like tracking shots, low-angle perspectives, dynamic crane movements, and coordinated editing, she transformed a mass political assembly into an epic, mythic spectacle that aestheticized totalitarian power. She directed this two-part documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. While acclaimed for inventing modern sports-filming techniques (such as underwater cameras and slow motion), the film served as a grand showcase for Nazi ideology and state backing. Private archives and later investigations revealed that Riefenstahl used forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners as extras for her later feature film Tiefland, many of whom were later sent to death camps. Evidence also placed her witnessing an early mass execution of Jews in Poland in September 1939.

. . . .

In the autumn of 1940, behind the barbed wire of the Salzburg-Maxglan detention camp in Nazi-annexed Austria, a striking thirty-eight-year-old woman in tailored riding breeches walked slowly past rows of guarded Sinti and Roma prisoners. Carrying a clipboard and squinting through a director’s viewfinder, Leni Riefenstahl was scouting faces. Already celebrated across the Third Reich as Adolf Hitler’s premier visual mythmaker, Riefenstahl needed dozens of dark-haired, “Spanish-looking” extras for her lavish mountain drama, Tiefland. Standing before her were families rounded up by the SS for racial internment. With a nod of her head, Riefenstahl handpicked scores of men, women, and children—locking in a secret that would survive four Allied denazification trials before coming back to haunt her decades later.

For more than half a century after the fall of Berlin, Riefenstahl waged a relentless campaign to rewrite her own history. Through interviews, television appearances, and a thousand-page memoir, the director of Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938) insisted she had never been a Nazi.

She portrayed herself as a naive, apolitical artist obsessed purely with beauty, light, and athleticism—a filmmaker who had accepted commissions from Joseph Goebbels’s Propaganda Ministry without ever knowing about concentration camps, racial terror, or the Holocaust. Four postwar tribunals largely accepted her defense, classifying her merely as a “fellow traveler” and allowing her to reinvent herself as an acclaimed underwater and African photographer well into her nineties.

📷 : Adolf Hitler and German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl are pictured smiling together during the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, in September 1934. Taken during the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, the image captures Hitler alongside Riefenstahl and local women dressed in traditional German folk costumes. Hitler provided Riefenstahl with extensive resources and direct access to state apparatuses to produce her films, forging a close working relationship that intertwined her artistic career with the crimes of the Third Reich.

#archaeohistories

— @archeohistories Nov 14, 2026

Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺 tiene que reconocer que la invasión de Ucrania 🇺🇦 fue un error muy grande.

—Sus mandos militares le aseguraron que capturarían Kyiv 🇺🇦 en pocos días. Nunca sucedió.

—Ha perdido a más de 1 millón de soldados entre muertos y heridos en Ucrania 🇺🇦.

—Invadió Ucrania 🇺🇦 para alejar a la OTAN de tus fronteras, y ahora tiene a Suecia 🇸🇪 y Finlandia 🇫🇮 dentro de la organización.

—Ha sido incapaz de defender a sus aliados en Siria 🇸🇾 y Venezuela 🇻🇪.

—El ejército ucraniano 🇺🇦 ha demostrado que puede atacar con cierta facilidad el corazón económico de Rusia 🇷🇺, que son las refinerías rusas 🇷🇺.

La invasión de Ucrania 🇺🇦 marcó el principio de la decadencia de Putin 🇷🇺, y la única forma de arreglar esta situación es acabar con esta guerra.

— @CasetaBosque Nov 14, 2026