I visited a massive Syrian captagon production & export... facility. It’s a short drive from Damascus, the seat of power of the Assad family which long denied any links to the billion-dollar narcotics trade. Inside: a periodic table of chemicals and thousands of pills concealed in voltage stabilizers, fruit, decorative pebbles and furniture. They were ready for export I also heard from the former owner and found signs of who may have been behind it… 🧵 READ:show more

For years, the Syrian regime denied that captagon production... happened within territories it controlled. Yet in the first three days since Assad left, we've found industrial-scale captagon trafficking and manufacturing facilities in: 1. Mazzeh Air Base (likely affiliated with the Air Force Intelligence Directorate) 2. Latakia (found at Munther al-Assad's Syria Car Trading Company) 3. Douma (found at a major production facility believed to be controlled by Maher al-Assad--equipped with all of the precursor materials you'd ever need and even pretty chandeliers!) 4. Undisclosed Location (a warehouse affilicated with Maher where captagon pills were dumped) 5. Undisclosed location (a 4th Division HQ facility where bags of captagon were found) It looks like local community members and opposition forces are incinerating pills and disassembling facilities as they identify them. We should expect much more to come. Video credit of the Douma raid from Qalaat Al Mudiqshow more

Massive drug cache burned in Syria Syrian security forces... uncovered a massive stash of drugs on a farm near Damascus, seizing approximately 100 million Captagon pills — an amphetamine stimulant that thrived under the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. During the operation, authorities also destroyed around 15 tons of hashish and a significant amount of chemical precursors used for drug production.show more

#Syria: in the wake of Assad's fall, people finally... began to speak openly. In this video, it's clearly stated that the production of Captagon was indeed linked to Assad's Regime - what was officially vehemently denied for a decade. And this admission does not come from just anyone: it comes from the brother of Assad's Deputy Minister of Tourism, who served as an official guide for YouTubers and influencers under Assad, ensuring they repeated the official narrative crafted to polish his image. From a Captagon laboratory in #Damascus countryside 👇show more

Syria is celebrating the fall of Assad’s long-standing dictatorship... A military parade marched through the streets of Damascus to mark the first anniversary of the regime’s collapse. Assad’s rule was built on repression, torture, mass arrests and an atmosphere of constant fear. The regime also earned enormous profits from the drug trade. During the tyrant’s years in power — now hiding in Moscow — hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Their anonymous mass graves were uncovered only after Assad was overthrown. Millions were displaced as refugees, and cities were reduced to ruins over the course of a brutal civil war.show more

Kurds, as the largest ethnic minority in #Syria have... long faced repression under both Bashar (and Hafez Assad)’s regimes. Denied citizenship and subjected to the suppression of their language and culture by a government that promoted Arab nationalism, Syrian Kurds were described by a human rights organization as being “buried alive in Syria.” Thousands were imprisoned for years, enduring extreme levels of oppression. Today, many Kurds are taking to the streets, destroying statues and monuments of the #Assad regime. This marks a celebration of a new era, one in which they hope for greater freedom, recognition, and an end to decades of marginalization. #Rojavashow more

#Captagon in #Syria fell with #Assad Syria car Trading... Company is owned by Hafez Munther Al-Assad. It was supposed to be for car trading, but when the revolutionaries entered, they found Captagon inside, and it has now been disposed of. There is a documentary called Captagon in Syria please watch it and now you can believe everything and Who is responsible for manufacturing.show more

A deep dive on the new paper which seeks... to "challenge" preconceived notions of Anglo-Saxon England which was apparently "diverse" because out of the hundreds of skeletons analysed from the period, two have been found with 1/4 African ancestry. I explain who these people really were and the extent to which they were significant (they weren't)show more

John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may... be loser now than once they were and that is a loss" "The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year" "That's a tax yield of £40 billion" "How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?" "With the many decisions that she took, which she ought not have taken, and would not have needed to take, had we not left the European Union" "We are told we should get over it and move on" "That is of course exactly what a burglar would say to the ransacked home owner when they finally confront one another" "That's not a view I have taken" "If you suffer a loss, you must look at a way of recovering much of the ground you have lost" "And the sooner we do that the better it will be for our economic standing and our reputation in many parts of the world"show more

Tucker Carlson defends the deposed Syrian dictator who murdered... and tortured hundreds of thousands of Syrians: “Why am I required to hate Assad? …Some ophthalmologist from London is a bloodthirsty dictator? I never I didn’t really…”show more

Despite the war and Russian terror, Ukraine continues to... be a contributor to global food security for dozens of countries, and we are increasing our capabilities. In just over a year of operation of our maritime export corridor, 70 million tons of cargo have already been transported. More than 2,500 ships have departed from Ukrainian ports. Ports in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America are receiving our Ukrainian cargo. Countries from Egypt to Indonesia, from Tunisia and Libya to India, from Algeria to China have received our Ukrainian grain. Thanks to the humanitarian initiative “Grain from Ukraine,” hundreds of thousands of families and millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, and Sudan have received essential food supplies. I thank everyone working to enhance our export potential, and I am grateful to all those around the world who are helping. This undoubtedly strengthens peace.show more

I SAID THIS YEARS AGO TODAYS RAP FANS HAVE... BEEN BRAINWASHED TO SEE RAP FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A LABEL INSTEAD OF THE PERSPECTIVE OF A RAP FAN SO THEY FOCUS ON NUMBERS AND SALES ETC OR THEY HAVE BEEN BRANDED TO SEE RAP FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOVE AND HIP HOP “WHOS DATING WHO” “WHAT KIND OF CAR YOU DRIVE” ETCshow more

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa: Ladies and gentlemen, throughout history,... Damascus has been a place from which great stories begin. Today, we stand here to begin a new story: the story of a homeland that regained its will and a people who regained their freedom. Many stories began in Damascus, and from here, today, we begin the story of the new Syria.show more

The suspension of visas for Bangladeshis in India has... led to a massive collapse in the import and export trade between the two countries. As a result, Indian sellers are suffering the most. Due to which they have now started selling goods to Bangladeshis through illegal way.show more

Officials said they have successfully conducted a controlled release... of toxic chemicals from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio — but the long-term effects of the dangerous chemicals on residents’ health and the surrounding environment may still be ahead.show more