Venezuela claims it foiled Trump plot to stage 'false flag' attack on US warship
Venezuela claims to have captured ‘CIA backed cell plotting false flag attack’ as tensions with US grow
Venezuela believes Trump is trying to put pressure on President Maduro in order to displace him from powerJames C. Reynolds (The Independent)
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La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Le anticipazioni della trentaduesima puntata La Notte nel Cuore accendono il prime time di domenica 9 novembre 2025 su Canale 5. In Cappadocia torna Halil, il padre naturale dei gemelli Nuh e Melek: un arrivo che riapre ferite antiche proprio mentre si tenta di sancire la pace tra famiglie. Ecco cosa vedremo negli episodi 1×81 (2ª parte), 1×82 e 1×83.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore: domenica 9 novembre 2025: arriva Halil e cambia tutto
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore trentaduesima puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Halil torna in Cappadocia, Cihan scarcerato, cena di armistizio e nuove tensioni.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
On 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland, a fifth round of negotiations towards a multilateral treaty on reducing plastic pollution collapsed. The chair announced that the committee had concluded its work — without producing a draft treaty. Governments had failed to agree on the proposed articles of the convention; no further negotiations were being suggested.This failure reveals a weakness in all environmental treaty negotiations, whether new or existing ones: a consensus-driven process waters down action to the lowest common denominator. Only symptoms get addressed, not causes.
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why.Bridgewater, Peter
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This article is more relevant in the context of the latest declarations of Antonio Guterrez:
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Global Funds Exit China Real Estate Amid Steep Losses and Distressed Sales As Oversupply Expected to Take Years to Be Absorbed
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44824942
ArchivedForeign investors who once saw China’s booming property market as a sure bet are now facing some of their biggest losses in decades. What was once a $140 billion push into Chinese real estate has turned into a wave of distressed sales and write-downs, with global players scrambling to offload assets at steep discounts.
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Their retreat is adding fresh pressure to China’s already struggling property market, a sector that plays a huge role in the country’s economy.
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Distressed sales — where owners sell under pressure from debt or defaults — hit 114 billion yuan (S$20.78billion) across 2023 and 2024, a record 22% of all transactions, Bloomberg Intelligence data shows.
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All Sectors, One Struggle
The downturn is hitting nearly every corner of the commercial property market.
In logistics, once considered a bright spot thanks to the e-commerce boom, supply has outpaced demand. Even giants like Blackstone have started to sell. Earlier this year, it sold three logistics parks in southern China to a local insurance company for about 2.7 billion yuan.
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Even distressed-debt specialists like Oaktree Capital have had difficulty turning a profit.
In 2021, Oaktree seized control of Evergrande Venice on the Sea, a sprawling resort development in Jiangsu province, after the troubled developer defaulted on a $400 million loan. The project — envisioned as a Chinese version of Venice — included canals, a grand hotel, and a conference center modeled after the U.S. Capitol.
Oaktree has since restarted construction and handed over some homes to buyers, but sales remain sluggish. Apartments that once fetched up to 10,000 yuan per square meter in 2019 are now advertised at less than half that price.
The pain may not be over. Analysts warn that it could take years for the oversupply of commercial buildings to be absorbed. Rents in China’s office market fell nearly 7% in 2024 — the sharpest drop on record — and CBRE expects no meaningful recovery in new supply until at least 2028.
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“Global institutions are increasingly taking the view that this market won’t recover soon,” said Wilson. He expects office rents to keep falling through next year, and predicts that the nominal value of buildings in 2030 will still be below 2020 levels.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful' strikes on Gaza
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful' strikes on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's military to launch "powerful" airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, imperiling the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire.Omer Bekin (NBC News)
Good thing those jeenius Americans didn't vote the alternative candidate who was SO much worse at controlling Israel, huh?
/s for those assholes with voter's remorse still looking to justify their choice with another strawman
Let’s use a school bully allegory to see how bad it is.
Big Bully has been stealing lunches and sitting on Little Billy since Big Bully moved into town. Little Billy kicks his shin and steals a nickel and hides it. Big Bully retaliates by pulling off Little Billy’s fingernail and promises to stop if he gets his nickel back. Little Billy complies; Big Bully continues pulling the next fingernail.
All of the teachers are watching horrified, but the superintended is Big Bully’s parent.
Live Updates: Hurricane Melissa, With Catastrophic Winds, Makes Landfall in Jamaica
October 28, 2025
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The Category 5 storm’s slow pace could have devastating effects. Jamaican officials said many residents had refused to evacuate, and one minister warned, “This is not the time to be brave.”
[Guide / Blog Post] Automatic backup with borg and borgmatic
I was quite busy the past couple of days, but I finally managed to finish my mail-server migration.
And since I decided to also upgrade my old backup solution from the ancient times, I also wrote a guide for my new borgmatic based solution, which I now want to share with you guys.
I hope it helps some of you with your server backups.
Let The Borgs Do It
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Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal Canadian federal budget
btrfs offsite backup
Hi selfhosting community!
At the moment I have my services set up with nix. They store their data on a btrfs subvolume which I can easily snapshot.
For backup I configured btrbk to send the snapshots to a target pc. However I feel uneasy not knowing if the backups succeeded or not. Right now I would need to check manually on the target machine every so often.
How are you guys handling this problem? Custom scripts for btrfs send/receive? Is there a function in btrbk I overlooked where I can verify the state and get notified of problems?
I was looking into ntfy-sh, which looks optimal, but how can I know if the send/receive was successful?
ok i’m not saying do this
i recently setup an API proxy, C&C server, Grafana and Prometheus, and Discord bot. now i can send pings via Grafana or with a simple request (provided it’s authed via VPN or proxy) and have my Discord bot use a local LLM on my network to deliver the alert to a Discord channel in the voice of Ultron.
Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38187649
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
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Local dns rewrite problems on android
I have some services set up which i make available with tailscale and a domain name outside my lan. Inside my home network i set up adguard dns rewrites to use the same domain for devices which are not on my tailnet. I disabled dns rebind protection in my fritzbox for these domains.
Now my problem: I don't leave my phone connected to tailscale all of the time because of high battery drain. Inside of my wifi the phone should still be able to access my services using the domain, but it is only able some of the time. My work laptop (not on my tailnet) is able to access the services.
Is the dns cached somehow in android? Is the private dns setting of android overwriting the dns i configured in my router? Where else could the problem lie?
Any hints are appreciated 😀
I kinda had a similar problem. Never found the root cause, but what did the trick for me was to put an OpenWRT Router between the default ISP router and my home network.
As I said, I never figured out, why Android did not respect the DHCP settings of the default router, but here we are. Maybe it was some DNS shenanigans by the ISP's config, maybe it was a wrong DNS/DHCP configs from my side, maybe it was IPv6 shenanigans. Those are the culprits I would investigate from your side.
Thanks!
Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.
It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
Updates: Israel PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Netanyahu’s decision to attack Gaza comes despite US-brokered ceasefire that came into effect on October 10.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
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Israeli side is still a prevalent voice in covering the conflict with no voice leveraged to the same stage from palestinians, so whatever happens the mainstream news would be in their hands. It is an unequal exchange by design. It is hard to even start a dialog about peace if one side is a state recognized by everyone and the other is not.
One way is to start to recognize Palestine internationally, the other is to undo recognition of Israel. These tho can happily coexist.
I have no firm belief about this whole situation, but at the very least I don't find any reason for israelis to scale up their territory. If they are to have their 50s borders in the end, no israeli settler or IDF fighter has any right to cross that line, that they do as we speak. These are terrorist acts, and a genocide, and if Israeli dream can't be achieved without that, it is to be dismantled.
RSF fighters film themselves massacring Sudanese fleeing el-Fasher
The moment the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced it had stormed the city of el-Fasher on Sunday morning, it was clear that 260,000 Sudanese trapped in the city were in serious and immediate danger.
Middle East Eye has reviewed dozens of video clips and images allegedly taken in el-Fasher since the RSF assault began.
Some were published by the RSF itself; others emerged on social media, particularly Sudanese Telegram groups.
RSF members filmed themselves with people they have captured fleeing. In one clip, scores of men are seen sat on the ground surrounded by fighters, who repeatedly call them “slaves”.
In another, fighters tell six detained men, who are in civilian clothes but identify themselves as soldiers, that they can flee. Once the men begin running, the gunmen open fire on them, downing at least three.
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This is one of the few reasons I wish there were gods. Humans are monsters and we need intervention. So easily and callously is human life destroyed.
How I wish the Sudanese, and so many other people in similar plights, mattered to the rest of the world.
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Gadgetbridge data dashboard
Hey all. Unemployed and looking for something fun/interesting to work on lol
I use gadgetbridge to connect to a smart ring to track some basic health data, and while having everything on the phone is OK, I much prefer doing/viewing things from my PC. I thought maybe having some kind of self hosted dashboard/site displaying data gathered by gadgetbridge could be cool, but what do you guys think? Anything more interesting that could be done with the database that it can export on a schedule? I've also considered having gadgetbridge as one of several sources, but I'm not sure how many other privacy conscious options are out there.
I'm thinking of just leaving the transferring of the database to other programs, would that be acceptable? I already have gadgetbridge export every 2hrs and use syncthing to get it onto the NAS.
Would appreciate any thoughts, or if you think it's unnecessary even.
SEIA Says Solar Still Cheapest Source Of Electricity, Australia Unveils Free Solar Plan
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is obviously concerned by the full frontal assault on renewable energy being conducted by the Moron of Mar-A-Loco and his henchmen. In a blog post this week, it argued that solar will blow away all other forms of electricity generation — if they all compete on a level playing field.
SEIA Says Solar Still Cheapest Source Of Electricity, Australia Unveils Free Solar Plan - CleanTechnica
The SEIA says solar will win out over all forms of fossil fuels in a straight fight with no subsidies going to either side.Steve Hanley (CleanTechnica)
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[Technology Connections] I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [41:26]
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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica
Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks “the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving forward with new ideas.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica
Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks “the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving forward with new ideas.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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momenti tosti con la mancanza della distruzione, quindi l’octaggio diventa strategico (sto cercando un’alternativa decente al tagliarmi)
Come avevo vagamente accennato, in questi ultimi giorni, il vuoto oscuro sta ritornando, non so perché. Questo è un problema, sì, ma il vero problema è che, di conseguenza, stanno tornando anche le urge. Le distrazioni ovviamente non funzionano granché, sia perché l’oscurità rende di suo più difficile immergermi bene in esse… ma anche perché, […]
Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain
Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain
By using federal agency websites to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, MAGA and Trump have found a new online billboard to blast their enemies.Tina Nguyen (The Verge)
Genova, i cassonetti saranno intelligenti, ma il progetto si ferma
Genova, si ferma il progetto dei 'cassonetti intelligenti': costi alti, risultati modesti
Dal 2022 Amiu ha installato solo 5.400 contenitori sui 26 mila previsti, spendendo complessivamente 30 milioni di euro
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Genova, si ferma il progetto dei 'cassonetti intelligenti': costi alti, risultati modesti
Dal 2022 Amiu ha installato solo 5.400 contenitori sui 26 mila previsti, spendendo complessivamente 30 milioni di euro tra bidoni e mezzi compatibiliRedazione (Telenord)
US Senate rejects funding package for 14th time with shutdown in 35th day
But talks between factions are under way as Democrats and Republicans try to bring standoff to a close
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Belgian airspace lockdown: Brussels, Charleroi and Liège airports temporarily closed after multiple drone sightings
Belgian authorities temporarily closed the airspace above Brussels Airport (EBBR), Charleroi Airport (EBCI) and Liège Airport (EBLG) on Tuesday evening following multiple reports of drones flying near several strategic aviation sites, including civilian airports and military bases.
Security Breach Leaks Far-right Minister Ben-Gvir's Private Notes on Major Israeli Journalists, Politicians
Ben-Gvir's Professional Diary Details His Exchanges With Haaretz Opponent Amit Segal as Well as Israeli Rapper Yoav Eliasi, Also Known as The Shadow, Who Is Known for His Far-right Political Views
Archived version: archive.is/20251104211410/haar…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Security breach leaks far-right minister Ben-Gvir's private notes on major Israeli journalists, politicians
Ben-Gvir's professional diary details his exchanges with Haaretz opponent Amit Segal as well as Israeli rapper Yoav Eliasi, also known as The Shadow, who is known for his far-right political viewsJosh Breiner (Haaretz)
Iran releases two French nationals from detention
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are thought to have been the last French people held in Iran.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/bbc.com/news…
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We’re not really close to the point where any prosthetic is an upgrade on any human limb. Prosthetics you can control with your mind do exist, but are severely limited compared to human limbs. I’ve yet to see any prosthetic that’s stronger than a human limb.
There are two big limitations to consider:
1. Even if you could attach a more powerful machine to a person, the attachment point is always going to be the weak point.
2. How do you power it? Battery technology just isn’t there yet. You’d be lucky if you got 2hrs of super arm followed by several hours of charging.
I’m no expert, but I do have an interest in prosthetics and have been following the news and have seen lots of conversations that have no solutions for those two problems.
Sheinbaum: Mexico close to reaching new flight route agreement with US
President Sheinbaum says Mexico can soon reach an accord with the U.S. regarding a dispute over the bilateral air transport agreement.
ICC launches evidence collection on alleged war crimes in Sudan’s El Fasher
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Monday that it has begun taking immediate steps to collect and preserve evidence related to reports of mass killings, rape, and other atrocities in the city of El Fasher, western Sudan.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/middleeastmo…
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Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38336335
Four different factions live together in fantasy world that is awfully similar to other today's web ...
The Inference Engine (GOFAIPunk, FirstOrderLogicPunk, OntologyPunk, SemanticWebPunk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38336277
What if in 1989, Tim Berners Lee invented the semantic web instead of the world wide web?
‘Civil war in the Democratic Party’: Andrew Cuomo votes in NYC election
‘Civil war in the Democratic Party’: Andrew Cuomo votes in NYC election
NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo said Trump would cut through rival Zohran Mamdani “like a hot knife through butter."Al Jazeera
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Ex-candidato a vice-prefeito de Niterói é preso acusado de furto milionário
cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18000443
É um esforço danado pra omitir quando é de direita.
Ex-candidato (do NOVO) a vice-prefeito (na chapa do PSL) de Niterói é preso acusado de furto milionário
Ex-candidato a vice-prefeito de Niterói é preso acusado de furto milionário
Apontado pela Polícia Civil como autor de um furto cinematográfico em Niterói, o empresário Alexandre Ceotto André, de 50 anos, foi preso na segunda-feira (3) após se entregar na Delegacia dMauro Touguinhó (atribunarj.com.br)
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in reply to Lembot_0005 • • •Venuzuelan budget: $22bn
CIA budget: $15bn
When a single intelligence agency’s budget is comparable to an entire country’s, it’s reasonable to assume that agency will be able to persevere in almost any contest.
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in reply to ohulancutash • • •One trashcan for venezuela - idk maybe 10$?
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in reply to ohulancutash • • •Yeah, but the CIA has to spread that money for operations in the whole world. Venezuelans don't play the same game.
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in reply to RandAlThor • • •I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, ...
Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.
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in reply to Xerxos • • •Don't be naive. Trump isn't running anything.
Trump struggled to name 20 animals in a row, dealer's choice. Thought the dementia test was an IQ test, bragged that going past 10 animals was hard.
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in reply to BarneyPiccolo • • •Operation Northwoods.
Americans would have died if it was greenlit as the goal was to go to war with cuba
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in reply to BarneyPiccolo • • •Interesting thing about false flag attacks is that many of them are not real false flag attacks but are attacks that have been carefully chosen to be allowed by ignoring the intel regarding them.
Israel for example had been notified by many countries of an incoming attack by Hamas with an extremely accurate description of what would happen, but decided to ignore it and not even strengthen their border defenses. It was in Israels best interest as it would give them an easy reason that would make their people allow them to ramp up the genocide.
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in reply to x00z • • •Yeah I honestly found the timing of that suspicious given Bibi's trials coming up and plummeting popularity at the time.
I could see the same with 9/11. Various people didn't need to actually be involved with terrorism so much as "let it happen" and plan on how to profit from the response
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in reply to x00z • • •Valid.
Before 9/11, the Bush administration had several clear warnings that something serious was in the works, and they totally ignored it. It was even put into his daily briefing that Al Qaeda was planning an attack that involved flying planes into buildings, but it was later speculated that bush probably never even saw it, since he often skipped reading his morning briefings.
If they had stopped to consider it, they would have realized that they had been receiving reports from flight schools of Arab students wanting to learn to steer planes in flight, but not take off or land, and one guy already in custody. Just a little bit of investigation would have exposed the whole thing.
But they wanted a Middle Eastern conflict, so all of it was ignored, with easily predictable results.
A False Flag event? Not by precise definition, but essentially the same thing.