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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.

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Iran using repurposed ships as 'floating terror bases' to further regional aggression

"This follows directly on the maritime terrorism Iran has been imposing on the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. It is working to expand its activity to the Indian Ocean, too, and later to the Red Sea and to the Mediterranean Sea as well," Defense Minister Gallant says.

By Reuters and ILH Staff Published on 05-22-2023 20:57 Last modified: 05-23-2023 12:07

Israel accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Monday of turning commercial ships into platforms for launching missiles, drones, and commandos, saying the objective was to spread Tehran's clandestine naval clout well beyond the Gulf.

The allegation by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant came as tensions between the regional foes surge afresh over Iran's nuclear drive and support for Palestinian and Lebanese terrorists.

Showing images of six repurposed Iranian vessels, five of them named, Gallant told the 20th Annual Herzliya Conference that these were "floating terror bases" and that one had recently sailed toward the Gulf of Aden.

"This follows directly on the maritime terrorism Iran has been imposing on the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. It is working to expand its activity to the Indian Ocean, too, and later to the Red Sea and to the Mediterranean Sea as well," Gallant said.

There was no immediate response from Iran. The last two years have seen Iran and Israel trade blame over a series of unclaimed attacks on their ships in the Gulf.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/05/22/iran-using-repurposed-ships-as-floating-terror-bases-to-further-regional-aggression/ 

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etc. You are seeing the pressure that the whole world is putting on my people Israel and only the true Christians are standing with them now, etc

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US wants Israel to shelve judicial overhaul in return for Saudi normalization — TV

Report also claims both Washington and Riyadh are conditioning potential establishment of diplomatic ties on Israel restarting peace talks with Palestinians

By ToI Staff 23 May 2023, 10:18 pm

The White House reportedly wants Israel to halt its judicial overhaul and restart peace talks with the Palestinian Authority in order for the US to move forward with brokering normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Reports have swirled in recent days that Jerusalem and Riyadh are in the midst of negotiations over direct flights between the nations that have the potential to lead to a wider normalization deal — which has long been sought by Israel but largely rejected by the Saudis.

An unsourced Channel 12 news report Tuesday evening said the US and the Saudis have enumerated their demands for such an agreement moving forward. The report claimed that Washington and Riyadh are both seeking to pressure Israel into restarting diplomatic talks with the Palestinians that will lead to a “separation,” and the US is also demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu halt his government’s controversial judicial overhaul plan.

On Friday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the Arab League that “the Palestinian issue was and remains the central issue for Arab countries, and it is at the top of the kingdom’s priorities.”

The Saudis are also reportedly demanding that the White House unfreeze some Trump-era weapons deals that were frozen when US President Joe Biden took office, and are also seeking a defense treaty with the US similar to NATO as well as its stamp of approval for a civilian nuclear program.

A full normalization deal, the report claims, would offer Israel in exchange full US backing for its actions against Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

In 2020, Israel agreed to freeze a plan to annex wide swaths of the West Bank in exchange for the Abraham Accords which normalized relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and later Morocco.

Channel 12 reported Tuesday that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan are involved in the negotiations alongside Mossad chief David Barnea and “very senior officials” close to bin Salman.

The TV network cited a senior Israeli official as saying that a normalization deal would be a “gamechanger for Israeli security,” and that there is “potential for a deal,” but it will require courage from Netanyahu, Biden and bin Salman.

On Monday, the channel reported that the Saudis were pressuring Israel to hand certain powers in the West Bank from the IDF to the Palestinian Authority forces, give the PA forces security-related authority at the Temple Mount and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City — far-reaching steps that are highly unlikely to be approved by Israel’s hard-right government.

Speaking at a conference on Tuesday, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi denied that there had been any direct conversations between Netanyahu and bin Salman in recent months, but said a normalization deal was possible.

There is in Saudi Arabia a leader that the world has never seen before, a man who took his country 180 degrees in a different direction, a bold and revolutionary leader,” Hanegbi said. “If he thinks that it is possible to reach normalization with Israel, it will happen. I believe there is a chance this will happen.”

In a historic move last year, Saudi Arabia announced that it opened its airspace to all civilian overflights, hours before Biden became the first US leader to directly fly from Israel to the Gulf nation.

On Saturday, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen touted the possibility of normalization with Saudi Arabia within six months, during an interview with Channel 12’s Meet the Press.

There’s a good chance we can advance a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia,” Cohen said. “I assume there is definitely a chance in half a year, or in the coming year.”

Cohen cited Jerusalem and Riyadh’s joint interests, notably preventing Iran from creating a nuclear bomb, as a reason to be hopeful for a deal.

Saudi Arabia’s decision in March to renew ties with Iran after over half a decade was seen by some as a setback for normalization between the kingdom and Israel.

But the Biden administration has continued to work on striking such a deal in recent months, with Sullivan calling it a “national security interest” earlier this month.

Shortly after those comments, Sullivan flew to Riyadh, where he met with bin Salman and raised the issue. He was accompanied by senior White House aides Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein who subsequently traveled to Jerusalem to brief Netanyahu on the status of the endeavor.

Foreign Ministry director-general Ronen Levy also spoke with administration officials about a potential Saudi deal during his trip to Washington last week.

Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia in November 2020 to meet with bin Salman, the first publicly reported meeting between the two. Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have diplomatic relations, but clandestine ties have strengthened in recent years, as the two countries have confronted a shared threat in Iran.

Jacob Magid contributed to this report.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-wants-israel-to-shelve-judicial-overhaul-in-return-for-saudi-normalization-tv/ 

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etc.  for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history.  Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.

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Teen arrested after handing out Bibles in Calgary

May 24, 2023

Josh Alexander, a 16-year-old follower of Christ, wasn’t at a bar when he was arrested on Wednesday: He was handing out Bibles at a protest in Canada.

But despite his apparent peaceful protest against aggressive counter-demonstrators, Alexander was the one who ended up in handcuffs.

At some point, a fight broke out between a number of protesters and counter-protesters in a crowd of about 80, the Calgary Herald reported.

Alexander wrote in a tweet that the police said his views were too “inflammatory” to express near the school.

Alexander was arrested in February for his biblical-based views.

According to New York Post, he was suspended from his Catholic high school for rejecting transgender bathrooms and saying there are only two sexes.

After trying to attend school despite his suspension, he was arrested.

https://strangesounds.org/2023/05/teen-arrested-after-handing-out-bibles-in-calgary.html 

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Beware of the troubles of the world, there is war going on right now, are you even aware of that, most are not, they walk as if peace is going on and yet the enemy is rising up in many areas, deceiving many and leading many astray.  And they’re preparing for war without brains, for they have nobody to lead them anymore, so be in prayer, be in prayer.

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Biden's Ukraine Disaster Becomes Another One Of History's Sick Jokes As More US Dollars Are Fed Into The 'Meat Grinder' And Biden Provokes Nuclear War As America Crashes And Burns

- Zelensky Is As Fatally Unpopular In Ukraine As Biden Is In America

By James Howard Kunstler for All News Pipeline  May 23, 2023

“Following the ouster of Mr. Trump in 2020, this new-new-left had exactly what it had been clamoring for, a liberal Democrat in the White House. Given the sense of impending catastrophe at present, it may be difficult to remember precisely how much sniveling bullsh!t went into selling Joe Biden.” — Rob Urie

Have you noticed that the president of Ukraine (or, governor of America’s fifty-first state), Mr. Zelensky, has been globe-trotting for weeks: London, Helsinki, Paris, Hiroshima? That’s because this is one of those months when years happen; the world is changing at hyper-speed. He seems to be running scared, a little bit, trying to keep ahead of the changing game. What sounded like a great idea to a certain claque of so-called neo-cons in our country — to use Ukraine as a bear trap — has instead rather suddenly revealed Europe’s and America’s manifold bankruptcies and revolted the whole rest of the world outside of Western Civ. Oh, the wonder and nausea!

Try to imagine Mr. Zelensky’s predicament. Mighty America and redoubtable Europe conned the former comedian to thinking that if he went along with a genius scheme to ruin Russia and knock Vlad Putin off the global gameboard, his sad-sack country would be transformed into something like Ukro-Disneyworld, while he, Mr. Z, would be lionized and made rich beyond his wildest imaginings. His backup was the greatest hegemonic power the world has ever seen. The game was called Let’s You and Him Fight.

The poor, pathetic schlemiel fell for it. He let NATO (that is, the USA) set-up, equip, and train the largest army in Europe, including battalions of bad-ass, hard-core Ukro-Nazis — who had previously been so useful in the American-sponsored 2014 Maidan “color revolution.” Mr. Z followed the US State Department’s orders to rain down rockets and artillery on Russian-speakers who lived in his own eastern provinces. He formally applied for membership in the NATO club. His country received billions of US dollars without audit oversight, just screaming to be creamed off by Ukraine’s leadership — who, after all, deserved a little something for all these goings-along. What could go wrong?

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Thus, Western Civ kicked off Europe’s biggest hot war since the 1940s. So, in February, 2022, Mr. Putin had enough of the monkey business on his “front porch” and sent in a clean-up crew. Game on! The US neo-cons were ready to feed countless Ukrainian troops into a meat grinder that would, theoretically, exhaust the will and resources of the execrable bear and yield countless benefits reinforcing our dominant position in the world. Our hapless NATO “partners” went along with the program, despite being asked to commit economic suicide for the greater good of the alliance (or something like that). Anyway, they didn’t need that filthy Russian nat-gas. They were going “green” (Klaus Schwab said so, didn’t he?)

Meanwhile, the citizens of our country were groomed to perfection by the US Propaganda-Industrial Complex screaming “Russia, Russia, Russia,” at the behest of opinion-leader Hillary Clinton, a wannabe president. The news media demanded crucifixion for her opponent, Mr. Trump, who had idly tossed out the heinous idea that The USA and Russia could cultivate a friendly relationship, seeing as how the bear was no longer flying the red flag. Aye-yi-yi!!! He actually said that!?! The clueless orange boob!

Well, the folks running things in America — that is, the scores of unelected bureaucratic satraps guarding their nests throughhout the Okefenokee inside-the-Beltway, especially the gator-pit known politely as the Intel Communitydecided to subject Mr. Trump to a one-man version of the exquisite torment intended for Russia, Russia, Russia: pain, ignominy, and ruin. They’re still at it six years later, since the relentless Mr. Trump will not give up his crusade to take back the White House and defenestrate all those attempting to defenestrate him. His enemies have captured all the levers of legal power, and yet, amazingly, they can come up with nothing but the most rinky-dink charges to railroad him in captured jurisdictions.

This internal political conflict in the USA has driven the populace plumb insane, while it has rendered our institutions rancid and left us subject to a pathocracy hiding behind a laughably fake chief executive. After a year-plus of America’s genius scheme to maintain world dominance, Russia is doing really well, thank you, in constructing a geo-economic framework for trade that will not be subject to the pranks of USA-led Western Civ. Russia is a nation of people who regard themselves as men and women, the toils of gender confusion happily absent. Ditto race hustles. Ditto banking Ponzis.

After two-plus years of “Joe Biden”well, our country is bypassing the banana republic stage of dissolution and depravity and steaming quickly into a Hieronymus Bosch dystopia of financial, social, psychological and moral ruin. Every official utterance is a lie. Everything’s broken or breaking. And seemingly, on-purpose. The nagging question, of course, is on whose purposes?

And why is Mr. Zelensky flitting from one country to another the past month? Because the game of Let’s You and Him Fight is drawing to a close and Mr. Z may find himself fatally unpopular back on the home-front. He has managed to send upward of a hundred-thousand young Ukrainian men to their deaths in the meat-grinder, and perhaps a million more have hightailed it for other countries. Ukraine will now be a land of mostly women, children, and old folks — with just enough surviving soldiers left looking to hunt down the comedian who turned Ukraine into another one of history’s sick jokes.

https://allnewspipeline.com/Ukraine_Disaster_Becomes_Another_One_Of_Historys_Sick_Jokes.php 

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Home World News  23 May, 2023 20:57

Pentagon loses a million F-35 parts

Investigators have found that the US military can’t account for missing fighter-jet components valued at $85 million

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has been unable to account for about 1 million missing spare parts for its F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, the costliest weapon system in the nation’s history, a government review has found.

The lost parts, which include such items as bolts, tires, and landing gear, are valued at about $85 million, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Tuesday. Since 2018, the Pentagon has reviewed the circumstances surrounding only 2% of identified parts losses.

Without DOD taking steps to ensure that these spare parts are accountable under a contract, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) will be unable to either gain or maintain accountability over these spare parts and will not have data, such as locations, costs, and quantities, needed for financial reporting or to ensure that government interests are protected,” the GAO said.

The spare parts are stored around the world for use on the F-35 by the US military and allied nations that have purchased the aircraft, which is made by defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Because the Pentagon’s F-35 JPO lacks a process for tracking losses, Lockheed Martin hasn’t reported on over 900,000 additional spare parts valued at more than $66 million for review, the GAO said.

The GAO’s report marks just the latest black eye for the $1.7 trillion F-35 program, which has been plagued by reliability struggles, including an issue with engine vibration that led to a global recall order in March. Only about 30% of America’s F-35 fleet is “fully mission capable” on any given day. US Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Schmidt warned last month that a thin supply of spare parts could jeopardize the ability of American forces to keep the aircraft in service during the country’s next major war.

The GAO report blamed the parts losses partly on the Pentagon’s failure to oversee components that are owned by the DOD and managed by contractors.

DOD officials and the contractors haven’t reached an agreement on whether the parts should be categorized as government-furnished property, which hinders the processing of lost inventories.

READ MORE: Pentagon orders fix for all F-35s globally

As of last October, the Pentagon had over 19,000 spare parts globally that had been awaiting disposition instructions from the F-35 JPOfor as long as five years in some cases. The GAO said the DOD agreed with its four recommendations on beefing up accounting for the parts pool.

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https://www.rt.com/news/576798-pentagon-loses-f35-parts-gao-report/ 

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You are going to see much more happening overseas now much more.  Russia, they have been poked in the eye so long they are ready to fight.  North Korea has been mocked for so long they are ready to fight.  They are not afraid of those ships that are out there; they were out there during the Korean War.  Oh, wake up, wake up, you need to turn to me and not to your own ways, for the old ways never did work etc    

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'Nuclear apocalypse' more likely if the West continues to supply Ukraine with increasingly powerful weapons, Putin crony warns

Former president warns sending support to Ukraine risks nuclear apocalypse

Comes after Biden promises to back an effort to train F-16 pilots in Ukraine

By James Reynolds Published: 10:32 EDT, 23 May 2023 | Updated: 17:26 EDT, 23 May 2023

One of Putin's top allies has warned 'nuclear apocalypse' will become more likely if the West continues to supply Ukraine with increasingly powerful weapons.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made the chilling remark after US President Joe Biden said he would back a joint effort to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets.

Russia, which has more nuclear weapons than any other state, has repeatedly said the West is engaged in a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine that could escalate into a much bigger conflict.

The United States has committed $37 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February last year.

'The more weapons are supplied, the more dangerous the world will be,' said Medvedev in his latest anti-West rant.

'And the more destructive these weapons are, the more likely the scenario becomes of what is commonly called a nuclear apocalypse,' Medvedev was quoted as saying.

The West says it wants to help Ukraine defeat Russia but has repeatedly insisted it does not want to trigger a direct confrontation between the U.S.-backed NATO military alliance and Russia.

But Medvedev said NATO did not appear to be taking the possibility of nuclear conflict seriously.

'They are wrong. And at some point, events can move in a completely unpredictable scenario. And the responsibility will lie entirely with the North Atlantic Alliance,' RIA quoted him as saying.

Meanwhile, Medvedev was also asked about the Russian fighters who have joined partisan groups, this week staging incursions into the border Belgorod region of Russia.

Medvedev - now deputy chair of Russia's Security Council - said Ukraine's denial of involvement was 'lies'.

He said: 'Responsibility for [the attacks] is with Kyiv... and eventually its sponsors - Washington, countries of the European Union, and with other countries that joined them like Great Britain.'

He added: 'As for these scum - I can't find another name for them - the question is what to do with them. They have to be destroyed like rats, and not even taken captive.'

Medvedev appeared to be referring to the fighters in Belgorod with his last comments.

Russia has stepped up its displays of force in recent months as funding and munitions have been funneled through to Ukraine from the west.

In April, video caught the moment a 'new intercontinental ballistic missile' was tested at the Kapustin Yar test site in Astrakhan region.

Full details of the mysterious 'advanced' rocket were not initially released but experts believed it to be a powerful Topol-ME system.

The launch came only weeks after Russia suspended its participation in its last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US, dubbed New START.

The treaty had seen the US and Russia agree to limit its nuclear stockpiles and had been extended to run through February 4 2026.

But in February, Putin decided to end the formal arms control treaty, drawing condemnation from NATO and raising fears that when the treaty expires it could lead to a nuclear arms race.

Separately, fears of catastrophe were raised Monday when Ukraine's occupied nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhia was knocked offline for a seventh time.

Ukraine's largest power station has been caught in intense clashes since its occupation at the start of the war, provoking fears of a Chernobyl-type disaster.

While a power plant uses nuclear fission to generate electricity, it cannot explode like an atom bomb.

But the station was forced to rely on diesel generators, which have enough fuel reserves to last ten days and are needed to cool reactor fuel and prevent nuclear meltdown.

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in April the situation around the plant is 'becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous', warning of the possibility of a 'severe nuclear accident'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12115475/Nuclear-apocalypse-likely-West-continues-supply-Ukraine-Putin-crony-warns.html 

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etc. the whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North Korea has declared war on the United States of America.  The whole country can tell you an invasion is coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless monetary system is ready to start, the banks will have no money, the mark of the beast will be here.  But I am trying to protect you by placing one that can protect you, but even if that is not so and cannot be, I will still protect you and take you through this time safely. etc    

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They’re Taking America and System Down – Bill Holter

By Greg Hunter On May 23, 2023 In Political Analysis 100 Comments

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Precious metals expert and financial writer Bill Holter is looking at what is going on with the financial system and says there is not really an effort to save it. Holter thinks the moves they are making are designed to take the financial system down, and along with it, they want America destroyed too. Even though the overall economy is clearly sinking, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is calling for much higher interest rates. Holter explains, “If you were looking at this with common sense, you would think the hiking of interest rates are done. Financial analyst Zoltan Pozsar said recently that QT (Quantitative Tightening) has to stop, and QE (Quantitative Easing) has to start–now. . . . If those in control were not purposely trying to take the system down, I would say that is correct. At this point, my guess is they are purposely trying to take the system down. So, we are not going to see an easing until something really big breaks.”

What does it look like by the end of 2023? Holter says, “I would imagine the wheels will have fallen off on pretty much everything by the end of the year. Even if you had good actors running things, at this point, I think we are too far over the edge. . . . I think what they are doing is trying to steer the bus off the cliff. Mathematically, the debt can never be paid back. So, if you had good actors, what does that prolong it? Another 6 months or a year? By the end of the year, I see our way of life entirely different than as it is now. . . . We will get at least a 50% cut to our living standard.”

In closing, Holter says, “The ultimate reason to blow up America? Ask George Soros. You have good versus evil, and evil wants to tank the United States because in a true republic, God given rights are respected. With this new world order reset, that can’t be. That is the real reason they are tanking the United States. That’s it pure and simple. . . . We are in the stage now where they are looting the Treasury. . . . Think about all the money that has gone to Ukraine. It gets funneled back to friends. . . . They know it’s the end.”

There is a lot more in the 39-minute interview.

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter for 5.23.23.

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Magnitude-2.2 earthquake rattles parts of New York metro area

By Richard Pollina May 19, 2023 5:22am Updated

Shake and wake!

A 2.2-magnitude earthquake struck the New York metropolitan area early Friday, Fox Weather confirmed to The Post, leaving many around the city jostled awake by the temblor.

The quake hit south of Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County around 2 a.m., while the rumbling seemed to be concentrated in White Plains, Yonkers and parts of northeastern New Jersey, according to Fox meteorologist Christopher Tate.

There were no immediate reports of damage in the area.

One resident claimed to have felt the minor earthquake as far away as Danbury, Conn., according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Shocked local residents rushed to Twitter following the rare earthquake.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/new-york-metro-area-hit-with-2-2-magnitude-earthquake/ 

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Who Wants to Destroy Israel? You Might Be Surprised.

by Guy Millière May 15, 2023 at 5:00 am

It is the first time in Israel's short history that a large-scale movement has been launched using undemocratic means to overthrow a democratically elected government.

The new government, in fact, is trying to restore democracy – by reforming Supreme Court practices that were adopted starting in the 1990s, which allow unelected, unaccountable Supreme Court justices to deliver rulings based on "reasonableness" rather than on written law – often meaning, "whatever I think is reasonable". Israel's Supreme Court is currently said have "virtually limitless power': it asserts the right to veto both political appointments and military decisions; it has no mechanism for recourse, and no requirement for "standing" -- meaning that the litigant need not be directly affected by the decision, such as having a personal wrong righted. On the contrary, anyone can directly petition the Supreme Court, anytime, about anything. The last provision has opened the floodgates for lawsuits by "concerned" non-governmental organizations dissatisfied with decisions Israel has taken. In addition, sitting Supreme Court justices – not the electorate and not the parliament – have the power to approve or veto any appointment of new justices, leading to a closed "club" in which no one is flustered by dissent.

The Biden Administration, staffed by many of the same people who were in the Obama Administration, has behaved as an enemy of Israel from day one. The Administration quickly restored US funding to the Palestinian Authority without asking it to stop supporting terrorism or even to stop inciting violence. The Biden Administration then opened a U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs and installed, as "special representative for Palestinian affairs", Hady Amr who has admitted being "inspired by the Palestinian intifada".

The Biden Administration has, to its credit, during the hundreds of recent missile attacks -- 1,235 rockets over five days, launched at a country the size of New Jersey -- said that "Israel has the right to protect itself and defend its people from indiscriminate rocket attacks launched by terrorist groups" -- yet for the past two years, has done nothing to eliminate Israel's most serious threat – Iran's nuclear program – apart from seemingly trying to have Iran not use any nuclear weapons during the current administration's term.

The Biden Administration has, additionally, considerably eroded America's influence in the Middle Easy, thereby creating a situation of extreme peril for Israel and other erstwhile US allies in the Gulf. Biden, even during his 2020 presidential campaign, repeatedly vowed to treat Saudi Arabia as a "pariah"... This rebuff was followed by the Biden Administration's refusal to promise either that it would stop negotiating with Iran for a deal enabling the mullahs to have unlimited nuclear weapons, and fears that the US would not protect Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies in the Gulf from Iran.

Iran's mullahs also can see that the United Arab Emirates in 2021, signed a contract with the Chinese company Huawei, now building a 5G network in the Gulf state – thereby making the UAE totally vulnerable to Chinese intelligence penetration. That contract was followed by the cancellation of a $23 billion arms purchase from the United States.

The seemingly unremitting desire of the Biden administration to reach an agreement with the Iranian regime at almost any price and to realign American foreign policy in the Middle East toward a policy led by Iran was evidently what led to Saudi Arabia's restoration of ties with Iran. Biden's eagerness to treat Saudi Arabia as "pariah" had turned an ally into a question mark. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime, more expansionist by the day -- which the Saudi regime is not -- reveals that despite the decidedly unsavory murder of Osama bin Laden's friend and Muslim Brotherhood acolyte Jamal Khashoggi, the Iranian regime is, by light years, far more dangerous to the stability of the region and beyond, as well as even more hostile to human rights than Saudi Arabia ever was.

Moreover, the strategic cooperation agreement signed in March 2021 between Iran and China has deepened the ties between the mullahs and the Chinese Communist Party, geopolitically and economically, to the detriment of the United States. The means of payment on which they agreed will not be the world's reserve currency for oil, the US dollar, but instead, China's yuan.

A few weeks ago, when a key official in Israel's defense ministry was in Washington to request more American support for Israel in case the Israeli government thinks necessary to attack Iran's nuclear program, no answer was given.

"The land of Israel and the State of Israel are acquired through many trials and tribulations.... They will not overcome us; we will overcome them". — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 24, 2023.

A terrorist carried out a car-ramming attack at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market a few hours earlier. Netanyahu was talking about terrorists, but his words could be addressed to all enemies of Israel and to all those who want to destroy it.

On April 17-18, Israel observed Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day. Sirens sounded across the country while people stood for two minutes of silence in remembrance of six million Jews who had been murdered. Wreaths were laid at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech calling on Israelis for unity.

The speech, however, was apparently not heard by everyone. Protests against his government soon resumed. A week later, on April 24-25, on Memorial Day, when Israelis pay their respects to soldiers who have fallen so that Israel might live, Netanyahu once again called for unity. The next day, when Israel celebrated Independence Day, some people decided not to participate in the official ceremony and held a "protest celebration" instead.

Following the November 2022 elections, Israel has been plunged into turmoil. Massive demonstrations both in support of and against the government have been organized for weeks. Ostensibly the demonstrations are concerning a proposed judicial reform bill, but in reality appear to be about retaining or overthrowing the newly elected government.

Some demonstrators want to overthrow of the government and permanently eliminate Netanyahu from Israeli politics. Others, even more, believe he is the best prime minister to lead them through a time when the entire Muddle East, including Israel, is facing the threat of nuclear destruction from a relentless Iran.

It is the first time in Israel's short history that a large-scale movement has been launched using undemocratic means to overthrow a democratically elected government.

It is also the first time that Israeli opposition political leaders, including former military chiefs of staff, have issued calls for civil disobedience and incited IDF reservists to not appear for duty. In a country under constant threat, such a move was considered inconceivable.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, in the United Kingdom on March 27, outlined, with no visible shame, his strategy to topple Israel's government, which he incorrectly defined as "basically a dictatorship". For a citizen of a democratic country to go to a foreign country to say he wants to topple his own government could be considered an act of treason. Barak did not even try to hide that those who follow him are a tiny minority: 3.5% of a population, he stated, is enough to overthrow a government.

Yair Lapid, former interim prime minister until December 2022, was in New York in April, to meet the leaders of American Jewish organizations. He also urged the overthrow of Israel's democratically elected government. " You have a voice," he encouraged leaders of American Jewish organizations, "and you have the right to use it."

The leaders of a nonprofit organization, Am Echad, committed to strengthening the connection between Israel and Jews outside it, replied:

"It is disingenuous of you to accuse the government of undermining Israeli democracy and calling on American Jews to get up in arms to protect Israel from its own leadership."

Other Israeli politicians and former military chiefs joined in. Moshe Ya'alon, a former Defense Minister and former IDF Chief of General Staff accused Netanyahu of "sacrificing democracy" and of being "ready to burn down the country and its values". Former IDF Chief of General Staff Gadi Eisenkot that, claimed that Netanyahu and his government are "badly harming the national interests of the State of Israel". And so on.

By contrast, Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America, said that "Lapid's traitorous trip is a disgrace that has cemented his status as head of the 'disloyal Opposition.'" Klein accused Lapid of "sowing anarchy and fomenting outside foreign pressures that trample upon the will of the Israeli public."

Palestinian terrorist organizations, meanwhile, took advantage of the disruption to kill more Jews. The year 2022 had been one the deadliest years in recent memory in Israel – which is the reason a strong government, led by Netanyahu, was elected in the first place.

For Israel's enemies, the damage done to Israel's international reputation is always near the top of their wish-list. The international media, always ready to show its contempt for Israel, also seems to enjoy what is happening. Articles in the European press blindly describe -- incorrectly of course -- the Netanyahu government as "extreme right-wing with fascist tendencies." On March 30, journalist Joshua Leifer wrote in the Britain's The Guardian that "Israel hasn't been a democracy for a long time. Now, Israelis need to face this fact". In France's Le Monde, Netanyahu, along with cabinet ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, are described as racists and "Jewish supremacists".

"Israeli Democracy Faces a Mortal Threat," Israeli novelist David Grossman wrote in The Atlantic. The threat he speaks of is the Netanyahu government -- which he, too, incorrectly describes as wanting to "abolish democracy."

The new government, in fact, is trying to restore democracyby reforming Supreme Court practices that were adopted starting in the 1990s, which allow unelected, unaccountable Supreme Court justices to deliver rulings based on "reasonableness" rather than on written law – often meaning, "whatever I think is reasonable". Israel's Supreme Court is currently said have "virtually limitless power': it asserts the right to veto both political appointments and military decisions; it has no mechanism for recourse, and no requirement for "standing" -- meaning that the litigant need not be directly affected by the decision, such as having a personal wrong righted. On the contrary, anyone can directly petition the Supreme Court, anytime, about anything. The last provision has opened the floodgates for lawsuits by "concerned" non-governmental organizations dissatisfied with decisions Israel has taken. In addition, sitting Supreme Court justices – not the electorate and not the parliament – have the power to approve or veto any appointment of new justices, leading to a closed "club" in which no one is flustered by dissent.

Israel's Supreme Court currently has almost limitless power. There is no mechanism for recourse.

As far as economic damage goes, 255 American Jewish business leaders on March 13 published an open letter saying that they "feel compelled to reevaluate their reliance on Israel as a strategic destination for investment". On March 8, an Israeli technology company, Riskified, announced that it had decided to transfer $500 million out of the country, and offered relocation packages to staff members. On April 16, Moody's credit rating agency downgraded the credit outlook of the Israeli economy from "positive" to "stable." The move was seen by many as just the continuation of ongoing efforts to overthrow Israel's government by "economic warfare".

US President Joe Biden on March 28 harshly criticized the Israeli government. "I'm very concerned... They [members of the Israeli government] cannot continue down this road. And I've sort of made that clear". He added that he will not invite Netanyahu to the White House "in the near term."

"Israel," Netanyahu answered, "is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad, including from the best of friends."

The Biden Administration, staffed by many of the same people who were in the Obama Administration, has behaved as an enemy of Israel from day one. The Administration quickly restored US funding to the Palestinian Authority without asking it to stop supporting terrorism or even to stop inciting violence. The Biden Administration then opened a U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs and installed, as "special representative for Palestinian affairs", Hady Amr who has admitted being "inspired by the Palestinian intifada".

The 2022 Country Report on Human Rights practices published by the US Department of State describes Israel as a country that does not respect the most essential human rights: those who wrote the report base their accusations on leftist and pro-Palestinian NGOs that are cited extensively throughout the text. The report alleges – without any reference to the threats of extermination from and terrorism perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and, behind them all, an openly genocidal Iran -- that "the Israeli government or its agents commit arbitrary or unlawful killings", "use torture", and practice "arbitrary arrest and detention".

Since the day Netanyahu won the Israeli elections in November 2022, the Biden Administration's hostility toward Israel has grown and it seems now to be directly trying to bring down the Netanyahu government while supporting Netanyahu's enemies both inside and outside Israel. The Administration uses US taxpayer money to fund the Movement for Quality Government (MQG), an Israeli NGO that organizes protests and disseminates propaganda hostile to Netanyahu and his government.

The Biden Administration has, to its credit, during the hundreds of recent missile attacks -- 1,235 rockets over five days, launched at a country the size of New Jersey -- said that "Israel has the right to protect itself and defend its people from indiscriminate rocket attacks launched by terrorist groups" -- yet for the past two years, has done nothing to eliminate Israel's most serious threat – Iran's nuclear program – apart from seemingly trying to have Iran not use any nuclear weapons during the current administration's term.

The Biden Administration has, additionally, considerably eroded America's influence in the Middle Easy, thereby creating a situation of extreme peril for Israel and other east while US allies in the Gulf. Biden, even during his 2020 presidential campaign, repeatedly vowed to treat Saudi Arabia as a "pariah". Just weeks after his inauguration, the Biden Administration removed from the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, the Houthis, one of Iran's proxy militias that had been waging a civil war in Yemen for years on the way to the real target: Saudi Arabia. The Houthis reacted to this courtesy by ratcheting up attacks on Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi -- while the Biden Administration refused put the Houthis back on the terror list. This rebuff was followed by the Biden Administration's refusal to promise either that it would stop negotiating with Iran for a deal enabling the mullahs to have unlimited nuclear weapons, and fears that the US would not protect Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies in the Gulf from Iran.

The seemingly unremitting desire of the Biden administration to reach an agreement with the Iranian regime at almost any price and to realign American foreign policy in the Middle East toward a policy led by Iran was evidently what led to Saudi Arabia's restoration of ties with Iran. Biden's eagerness to treat Saudi Arabia as "pariah" had turned an ally into a question mark. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime, more expansionist by the day (here, here and here) -- which the Saudi regime is not -- reveals that despite the decidedly unsavory murder of Osama bin Laden's friend and Muslim Brotherhood acolyte Jamal Khashoggi, the Iranian regime is, by light years, far more dangerous to the stability of the region and beyond, as well as even more hostile to human rights (here, here, and here) than Saudi Arabia ever was.

As many of the US sanctions on Iran have been lifted, it has grown even more aggressive, accelerating its quest for nuclear weapons. Iran can now enrich uranium to 84% purity and raise it quickly to weapons-grade. Moreover, the strategic cooperation agreement signed in March 2021 between Iran and China has deepened the ties between the mullahs and the Chinese Communist Party, geopolitically and economically, to the detriment of the United States. The means of payment on which they agreed will not be the world's reserve currency for oil, the US dollar, but instead, China's yuan.

Iran's mullahs also can see that the United Arab Emirates in 2021, signed a contract with the Chinese company Huawei, now building a 5G network in the Gulf state – thereby making the UAE totally vulnerable to Chinese intelligence penetration. That contract was followed by the cancellation of a $23 billion arms purchase from the United States. The mullahs also saw that the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan welcomed the deal between Saudi Arabia and them, and called it "an important step for the region towards stability and prosperity".

As for Israel, Iran's mullahs can see that their access to nuclear weapons is considered by Netanyahu and his government a mortal danger to Israel, and that the current turmoil in Israel might, they hope, make Israeli action against Iran more difficult.

The official Iranian media headlined statements by former Israeli PMs Barak and Lapid claiming that Israel was on the verge of collapse.

It is quite possible that Iran's plan to "wipe Israel" off the map will never be implemented, but the mullahs' dreams of doing so have existed since the first days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Hezbollah and Hamas have "many thousands of missiles, some of them precision-guided", and "Iran has transferred a very large number of missiles and UAVs to Syria" that "are ready to be launched ."

Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas most likely hope that a rain of missiles far more intense than that launched by Hamas in May 2021 against Israel could exhaust the stock of Iron Dome air defense interceptors. The mullahs apparently hope that such an attack would have catastrophic consequences.

If an attack were launched against Israel, China, Russia and European countries would most likely protest verbally, but would not act to defend Israel.

The mullahs probably assume that the Biden Administration, already involved in Ukraine and anticipating trouble from the Chinese Communist Party in the Indo-Pacific -- such as trying to take over Taiwan – would, like Europe, fail to react. Biden, hoping to win the 2024 election, will most likely tell the cameras that "Israel has the right to defend itself" -- but he would avoid intervening at all costs.

Recently, the US removed munitions stored in Israel and shipped them Ukraine; the materiel has not been replaced. A few weeks ago, when a key official in Israel's defense ministry was in Washington to request more American support for Israel in case the Israeli government thinks necessary to attack Iran's nuclear program, no answer was given.

"Hezbollah, Hamas and their Iranian bosses believe they can attack Israel with impunity," wrote Israeli journalist Caroline Glick last month.

"... Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Hossein Salami, along with various Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders and preachers, have given speeches declaring that Israel is falling apart and its destruction is imminent and calling for their jihadist forces to prepare for victory."

In a later column, she wrote:

"With our ruling class in full revolt, Israel's most important institutions—first and foremost, the IDF—are reeling. Our ability to defend ourselves on the battlefield and in diplomatic circles is constrained as never before. With our elites declaring our government illegitimate, and lobbying American Jews and politicians to boycott our leaders and reject the morality of the public that voted them into office, the government must fight against our enemies, against anti-Semitism, against BDS campaigns and anti-Israel propaganda machines with both hands tied behind its back, its mouth gagged while hopping on one foot. This situation is unsustainable.

"... we must find a way to restore sanity and a sense of common destiny to our national life. We don't have a spare country. Our ruling class needs to return to its senses and remember this obvious fact."

On April 27, hundreds of thousands of Israelis poured into Jerusalem for a rally to support the government. One protester said: "

Who wants to destroy Israel? Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, of course, but the Israeli left today is also a danger for the country".

"Look how much strength we have," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said to the crowd.

"They have the media and tycoons who finance demonstrations. We have the majority of the people, who demand and give us full backing to fix what needs to be fixed... We will not give up."

"The land of Israel and the State of Israel are acquired through many trials and tribulations," Netanyahu announced on April 24. "They will not overcome us; we will overcome them."

A terrorist carried out a car-ramming attack at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market a few hours earlier. Netanyahu was talking about terrorists, but his words could be addressed to all enemies of Israel and to all those who want to destroy it.

Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19645/who-wants-to-destroy-israel 

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Saudi Crown Prince: We will assist in helping the Palestinians establish a state

May 19, 2023

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday once again stressed the importance the kingdom places on a Palestinian state.

Speaking at the Arab League summit taking place in the country, bin Salman said, according to Channel 12 News, “The Palestinian issue was and still is the main issue of the Arab countries and is at the top of the kingdom’s priorities. We will not delay in providing assistance to the Palestinian people in recovering their lands, restoring their legitimate rights and establishing an independent state within the borders of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who attended the summit, said that “commemorating the Nakba at the UN refutes the Zionist narrative.”

In addition, he called on the Arab countries to turn to the International Criminal Court over the “Israeli occupation” and charged, “Israel violates the signed agreements and UN resolutions and adheres to the colonial Zionist project which is based on the continuation of the occupation, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.”

Haaretz noted that, in a statement summarizing the summit published after its conclusion, the members of the Arab League reaffirmed their support for the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which stipulates that 22 Arab countries will normalize ties with Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.

Israel to date has rejected the 2002 Saudi proposal due to the fact that it calls for Israel to accept the so-called “right of return” for millions of descendants of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel, effectively bringing an end to the Jewish state.

The Saudi Crown Prince”s remarks come amid reports that the White House wants to make a diplomatic push for a Saudi-Israeli peace deal in the next six to seven months.

The statements are in line with what Saudi officials have said in the past – that a Palestinian state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital is a prerequisite for Saudi Arabia normalizing ties with Israel.

(Israel National News’ North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)

https://www.chaifm.com/2023/05/19/saudi-crown-prince-we-will-assist-in-helping-the-palestinians-establish-a-state/ 

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UK is one of the least religious countries in the world - study

Staff writer 19 May 2023 | 6:22 AM

The UK has some of the lowest levels of religiosity and belief in God in the world, according to a global study spanning dozens of countries.

The study by King's College London's Policy Institute found that large numbers of Britons do not believe in God, while those who say that God is not important to their life has reached record levels since the 1980s.

Researchers found that belief in Heaven and those praying and identifying as religious have also steadily fallen over the last four decades.

The findings are from the World Values Survey, an ongoing study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values across 120 countries since 1981.

The latest data set, published today, compares data from the UK and 23 other countries, including the US, Italy, Sweden, Germany, France, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines.

In the UK, 3,056 adults across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were surveyed for the study by Ipsos between March and September 2022.

The findings reveal that belief in God has declined dramatically among Britons, from three-quarters who believed in God in 1981, to just under half (49%) in 2022.

Gen Z (those born after 1997) have the lowest levels of belief in God (37%), but the study also found a significant decrease in belief in the Pre-War generation, from 82% in 1981 to 59% today.

Only five other countries had lower levels of belief in God than the UK - China (17%), Sweden (35%), Japan (39%), South Korea (41%) and Norway (46%).

Just a third of Britons consider themselves to be religious today, compared to 57% in 1981. Only Sweden (27%), South Korea (16%), China (16%) and Japan (14%) ranked lower in this respect.

At the same time, the number of atheists in the UK has risen sharply from just 4% in 1981 to over a fifth (21%) today, with the popularity of atheism accelerating in the last five years.

Gen Z were least likely to see themselves as religious - just 27% compared with 46% of the Pre-War generation - and the most likely to identify as atheist (31%), although atheism has risen across all age cohorts.

Less than a quarter of Britons (23%) say that God is important to their life - level with France and higher only than South Korea (17%), Norway (16%), Japan (14%), Sweden (14%), and China (8%).

The proportion of Britons who say God is not important in their life has doubled since the 1980s, from 28% to 57% in 2022, a record high.

Less than a third of Britons (31%) see religion as very or rather important to their life, ranking higher than only four other nations - Australia (30%), Sweden (28%), Japan (15%), and China (13%).

In the UK, as belief in God has died away, so too has belief in Heaven, falling from 57% in 1981 to 41% today.

Belief in life after death has remained constant since 1981, with just under half of the population believing in this last year. Likewise, 26% of Britons said they believe in hell, remaining virtually unchanged over the last four decades.

Despite being less religious than older generations, younger people are more likely to believe in life after death - 51% of Gen Z, 53% of Millennials, and 52% of Gen X - compared with 35% of Baby Boomers and 39% of the Pre-War generation.

They are also more likely to believe in hell - 32% of Gen Z and Millennials compared with only 18% of Baby Boomers and 24% of the Pre-War generation.

Two in five Britons (42%) say they believe in Heaven, but this is lower than in many other countries, including Australia (50%) and the US (69%).

Levels of prayer and attendance at religious services were also found to be far lower in the UK than other countries. Only one in 10 people said they attended a religious service each week, changing little since 1981 but considerably lower than the US (29%).

And only 16% of Britons said they pray daily, ranking only above South Korea and China. The UK also has one of the highest proportions of people who say they rarely or never pray (63%).

Despite low levels of religious beliefs, the UK is one of the most religiously tolerant countries, with 82% saying they trust people of different faiths. The UK public are also among the least likely to say that their religion is the only acceptable religion (12%).

The study also found that confidence in churches and other religious institutions has risen in the UK in the last five years, from 31% to 42%.

David Voas, professor of social science at UCL, said, "The findings point to both the long-established erosion of religious involvement and to some interesting complexity in our self-perception and who believes what.

"The main story remains that most people in Britain aren't very interested in religion. That said, the glass remains half full when it comes to belief in God or life after death. Adults under 40 are much more likely than older people to call themselves atheists, but also to say that they believe in hell, which is a fascinating puzzle.

"While the British seem comfortable with their widely shared lack of religiosity, they have little objection to others being different, at least so long as religion doesn't intrude into public affairs. The survey even shows an unexpected uptick in confidence in churches and religious organisations."

Bobby Duffy, professor of public policy and director of the Policy Institute at King's College London, said: "Our cultural attachment to organised religion has continued to decline in the UK – but our belief that there is something beyond this life is holding strong, including among the youngest generations.

"This reflects a long-term pattern, where those who feel actively connected to organised religions have moved from a 'conscript' army in previous decades, where many more felt it was an automatic part of life, to a more 'professional' army, which are fewer in number but more dedicated in practice.

"This is an important period in the development of religiosity and spirituality in western countries like the UK, where the findings show that while the youngest generations continue to have lower attachment to formal religion, many of them have similar or even greater need to believe that there is 'more than this'.

"And of course, these sorts of international studies show that the decline of organised religion is not really a global story at all – as it continues to grow and flourish in many countries around the world, and these changes are really constrained to countries like the UK."

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/uk.is.one.of.the.least.religious.countries.in.the.world.study/140235.htm 

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Facebook claims 'Jesus' is 'hate speech'

'The entire ordeal was surreal and, frankly, disturbing'

Bob Unruh By Bob Unruh  Published May 19, 2023 at 1:38pm

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A columnist has reported at the Washington Times that Facebook called "Jesus" hate speech and said it was censoring the reference.

The stunning report comes from Billy Hallowell, an interviewer for Faithwire and CBN News and a co-host of "Quick Start Podcast."

He writes at the Times that he was taken aback recently when Facebook sent him a notice that, "Your post goes against our Community Standards on hate speech."

He doubled-checked the social media giant's wild claim and found it was referring to his explanation of the Christian message of salvation documented by the story of the Resurrection.

What he said his offending post was, "Jesus died so you could live."

"It was a message I recalled posting early last month in an effort to summarize the central message of the Gospel: Jesus’ sacrificial death for mankind and his ushering in of hope and salvation. The message is essentially New Testament 101," he wrote.

"Though some might disagree with the proclamation, there’s certainly nothing about the wording that any rational person would call 'hate speech,'" he said.

Then, he said, Facebook doubled down.

"Facebook proceeded to declare that its 'community standards' are meant to ensure everyone feels 'safe, respected and welcome,' though, in those moments of confusion over the hate speech flag, I didn’t feel any of those sentiments," he wrote. "An ominous line about future infractions was included in the warning. It read, 'If your content goes against our Community Standards again, your account may be restricted or disabled.'"

Ultimately, Facebook sent a follow-up that confirmed, "We have removed your post from Facebook" because the post was in violation.

Hallowell wrote, "The entire ordeal was surreal and, frankly, disturbing. I’m not at all interested in purporting to be a victim, but as an advocate of free speech and religious freedom, the idea that a message as innocuous as 'Jesus died so you could live' would be censored or banned is patently bizarre."

And he noted Facebook has refused to respond to further inquiries.

It might have been an error, he confirmed.

"Of course, if this wasn’t an error, there’s a much bigger problem brewing at Facebook. It’s worth noting that the original post from April 2 was still up and active even after the warning and claim of removal, adding even more questions into the mix."

https://www.wnd.com/2023/05/columnist-documents-facebooks-claim-jesus-hate-speech/ 

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ANOTHER! 7.4 Quake - Tsunami Warning Issued!

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For the second time in about 24 hours, a Magnitude 7+ earthquake has taken place off New Caledonia in the South Pacific. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued an ALERT saying a Tsunami is possible from this earthquake. It was just 24 hours ago that a bigger, 7.7 quake also generated a Tsunami there!

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/another-7-4-quake-tsunami-warning-issued 

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

You Are Not Alone, Anger Is Building Across The World!

You are not alone if you are tired of watching your government grow increasingly oppressive and corrupt. Many people across the world share your pain. People continue to voice their anger and discontent, however, this is something the media often chooses not to report for it is owned by those same forces which are attempting to enslave us. Those on the left referred to the right as fascist or Nazi while those on the right refer to the left as communist.

This tends to overlook the fact that both groups are rooted in wanting to expand control. The truth is that the angst and growing anger many people feel is kept under control by a mass media with a very strong agenda. Mass media has perfected the art of dividing us and at the same time keeping us in the dark. The greatest risk we face may be that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming at us fast and furious. Once it is here getting information will become almost impossible.

As of late, several times a day I find a song from the musical Les Miserables flowing through my mind. It is named, "The Song Of Angry Men" and screams enough is enough. Of course, in the video, the people seem very happy until the soldiers start killing them. This "killing thing" is of course what happens in totalitarian regimes. Sadly, the world has far too many totalitarian regimes and is moving in the direction of creating more. Yes, they can take away your freedom.

There are simply too many things happening for the bulk of society to stay focused on any one issue. Whether we are talking about corruption in Ukraine and how American money is being diverted or squandered rather than spent on what we see as necessary projects. Sometimes the subject is more one of values or direction such as what to do with something like the Biden crime family and a justice system that is turning a blind eye to their transgressions.

Then we have the just-released report from Special Counsel John Durham. The investigation that took three years concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe. By doing so the American Public was scammed by forces inside our government. This was an act that interfered in the 2016 election in an attempt to keep Trump from getting elected. Of course, once he did the same people continued to poison his Presidency.

This dovetails with the piece Tucker Carlson did claiming unseen footage from January 6, 2021, Capitol protest revealed that the entire Democrat / RINO / MSM narrative underpinning the event was a complete lie. Surveillance footage Carlson presented showed Capitol Police calmly escorting the so-called "QAnon Shaman," Jacob Chansley, throughout the Capitol complex, and even helped him find open doors. Carlson said, "They helped him. They acted as his tour guides." This is far different from the narrative flowing from the mass media. Since then Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for "obstructing an official proceeding."

Spotlighting the injustice is a video titled “Justice For All" by the J6 Prison Choir and former President Donald Trump. This powerful and moving song raises awareness and support for the political prisoners still locked in jail without trial following the January 6th protest in 2021. J6 Prison Choir consists of individuals who have been incarcerated as a result of their involvement in the January 6, 2021 protest for election integrity.

As our anger grows we should remember that we are not alone. We are often sheltered by mass media from the many protests taking place across the world. This may be so we don't see how bad things are or possibly so we do not get any ideas. Few Americans are currently aware of the recent protest in France, Pakistan, Germany, and a slew of other countries. A big part of the growing anger comes from a lack of accountability, the sins of those in charge seem to shed off their backs like water off a duck's back

Politicians and those in charge tend to avoid accountability as though it was the plague. One example of this is the way we left Afghanistan. It stands as a monument to America's arrogance and incompetence. Sadly, it is just one of many monuments we are in the process of constructing as we throw money into corrupt black holes. It is difficult to think a huge part of this is about spending and transferring wealth to where those in power can skim off a bit here and there.

While it is both obvious and logical that a system or something is going to fail, today we find the issue generally ignored until coming up with a process where people will accept that reality is constructed. It is a real challenge and art to move forward without the support of those being impacted. Generally, this includes convincing them they are better off being thrown a bone than nothing at all.

This is one way to explain the protest we have seen in France. Widely unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron's effort to push through pension reform without a vote in parliament has resulted in a fierce backlash. To this Macron said “It’s in the greater interest of the country,” He added “Between opinion polls and the national interest, I chose the national interest. Macron's action to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 has resulted in a nationwide strike in France that caused significant disruptions, halting trains, closing ports, emptying schools, canceling flights, and more.

In this case, whether Macron is right about the current system being unsustainable is not the issue. The issue is how it is being done and the anger it has created. Over a million French people have participated in the protests. Call them protests or spontaneous riots but these have erupted across the country. Macron's plan has had support neither from the left nor the far right but only from Macron’s centrist alliance. This is a reflection of the idea that the people are pawns for the elite to abuse. It is understandable this creates anger which can turn violent.

It could be argued we as a society and other societies across the world have lost our ability to mount a meaningful protest to bring about real change. That we have been gentled into a society of the meek. Neutered and divided have we become incapable of true outrage? At times it seems we are all so weak that nothing can move us to the breaking point and like the proverbial frogs sitting in a pot of water as the temperature continues to rise our future is cast.

This is the state of affairs as things continue along their merry way. As Americans watch our borders thrown open and the media ignore the labyrinth of LLC shell companies and accounts used to funnel as much as $10 million to Biden family members, many of us stand dumbfounded. The New Republic even ran a story with the headline “Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden."

The goal here is not to praise Trump but rather to scorn the current sour state of affairs. Countries and those in power continue to crush the rights and freedoms of the individual. Justice and truth are becoming rare commodities. As the lies continue to flow from every direction and never stop, just remember you are not alone.

(Republishing of this article welcomed with reference to Bruce Wilds/AdvancingTime Blog)

https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2023/05/you-are-not-alone-anger-is-building.html 

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You are going to see much more happening overseas now much more.  Russia, they have been poked in the eye so long they are ready to fight.  North Korea has been mocked for so long they are ready to fight.  They are not afraid of those ships that are out there; they were out there during the Korean War.  Oh, wake up, wake up, you need to turn to me and not to your own ways, for the old ways never did work etc

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Both U.S. and Russia Release Ads seeking those who would betray their country!

World Hal Turner 19 May 2023 Hits: 15228

The CIA released an ad aimed at Russians itching to betray their country. The Russians made their own ad for Americans in response. Folks, this Russia-Ukraine thing is going total-wild-weasel. Our government is moving to World War 3 and so is Russia's government, in response.

First, here is the CIA-produced Ad in Russian, with Russian subtitles, and added English subtitles.

Next, the Russians made their own ad for Americans, in response:

Folks, when two major nuclear-armed countries begin openly recruiting citizens of each other, for war against each other, things are then so far along toward war that there really is no stopping it.

I know the mass media is not telling the public how dangerously close actual nuclear war is, but it really __ is __ close. You ***MUST*** prepare to ___try___ to survive.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/both-u-s-and-russia-release-ads-seeking-those-who-

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Popocatepetl volcano, near Mexico City, has rumbled back to life, spewing clouds of ash

MARÍA VERZA 1 day ago

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, belching out towering clouds of ash that forced 11 villages to cancel school sessions.

The residents weren't the only ones keeping a close eye on the towering peak. Every time there is a sigh, tic or heave in Popocatepetl, there are dozens of scientists, a network of sensors and cameras, and a roomful of powerful equipment watching its every move.

The 17,797-foot volcano, known affectionately as “El Popo,” has been spewing toxic fumes, ash and lumps of incandescent rock persistently for almost 30 years, since it awakened from a long slumber in 1994.

The volcano is 45 miles southeast of Mexico City, but lies much closer to the eastern fringes of the larger metropolitan area of 22 million people. The city also faces threats from earthquakes and sinking soil, but the volcano is the most visible potential danger — and the most closely watched. A severe eruption could cut off air traffic, or smother the city in clouds of choking ash.

Ringed around its summit are six cameras, a thermal imaging device and 12 seismological monitoring stations that operate 24 hours a day, all reporting back to an equipment-filled command center in Mexico City.

Thirteen scientists from a multi-disciplinary team take turns manning the command center around the clock. Being able to warn of an impending ash cloud is key, because people can take precautions. Unlike earthquakes, warning times can be longer for the volcano, and in general the peak is more predictable.

On a recent day, researcher Paulino Alonso made the rounds checking the readings at the command center run by Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center, known by its initials as Conapred. It is a complex task that involves seismographs that measure the volcano's internal trembling, which could indicate hot rock and gas moving up the vents in the peak.

Monitoring gases in nearby springs and at the peak — and wind patterns that help determine where the ash could be blown — also plays a role.

The forces inside are so great that they can temporarily deform the peak, so cameras and sensors must monitor the very shape of the volcano.

How do you explain all of this to 25 million non-experts living within a 62-mile radius who have grown so used to living near the volcano?

Authorities came up with the simple idea of a volcano warning “stoplight” with three colors: green for safe, yellow for alert and red for danger.

For most of the years since the stoplight was introduced, it has been stuck at some stage of “yellow.” The mountain sometimes quiets down, but not for long. It seldom shoots up molten lava and is more the “explosive” type, showering out hot rocks that tumble down its flanks and emitting bursts of gas and ash.

The center also has monitors in other states; Mexico is a country all too familiar with natural disasters.

For example, Mexico’s earthquake early-alert system is also based at the command center. Because the city’s soil is so soft — it was built on a former lake bed — a quake hundreds of miles away on the Pacific coast can cause huge destruction in the capital, as happened in 1985 and 2017.

A system of seismic monitors along the coast sends messages that race faster than the quake’s shock waves, and can give Mexico City residents up to a half-minute of warning, once the sirens start blaring, to get to safety, usually on the streets outside.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/other/popocatepetl-volcano-near-mexico-city-has-rumbled-back-to-life-spewing

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Put your money, your time, your efforts into what I tell you to do, for I will cause you to have a victory such as you have never seen. And it shall be so clear, yes; it shall be so clear what you are all to do. Yes, for I shall speak to you, my power shall be awesome and miracles shall come to pass. It shall not be the fake gold or the fake feathers or the false shaking or the animal noises or the falling under the power and not coming away with permanent results or changed lives. My prophetic shall speak concerning things to come in a clear concise manner that no one shall want to miss or read second hand. For they will want to hear it under the anointing of the prophets and to receive the anointing of the prophet that shall manifest miracles, signs and wonders. People shall now see the signs of the last days like never before. Not only in a strange and confusing weather, the heat, the drought, the floods, the forest fires, the volcanoes, lack of jobs, shortage of money, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, straight wind, electrical storms, electrical shortages, hail, locusts, pestilence’s, the sicknesses, terrorists attacks, wars, the uniting of the false church under the false prophet, the rise of the anti-christ, the riots, the crime, the drugs, alcoholism, great open gay activities and movies, more open sex on TV, more street people, homeless, lack of crops, food shortages, great fear in those who do not know me. No peace as my word says for the world. The UN taking more control, martial law established, rationing and many more disasters that shall now begin to come. etc.

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15 Grocery Retailers Reporting Multiple Store Closings Right Now

Epic Economist

569K subscribers  34,897 views May 19, 2023

Americans are having some frustrating shopping experiences at grocery stores for quite a while now. With prices still reaching new record-highs, shoppers have started cutting on meat and produce, and swapping pricier purchases for frozen or canned products, according to a May survey from the Food Industry Association. The slower consumption is leading some struggling chains to cut costs wherever they can, and that oftentimes means closing underperforming locations. Trying to stay afloat, several grocers have been forced to make massive strategic shifts as they cope with difficulties like inflation, labor shortages, shipping delays, and security concerns, at a time sales and profits are going down. News of major companies like Walmart, Amazon Fresh, and more closing multiple stores permanently has been circulating on the internet over the last few months. While we already reported some of these closures in our previous videos, today, we decided to compile all the latest announcements of store shutdowns made by some of the biggest food retailers in America.

For instance, if the Albertsons-Kroger merger gets approved, by the end of the year, at least 300 Albertsons stores may be gone for good. That’s because the chain must sell locations in areas where the grocery chains overlap to try to fend off antitrust challenges to Kroger’s $25B acquisition of the supermarket chain. Earlier this year, a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of 25 US consumers argued that the merger would result in a grocery behemoth with a 36% share of the US market at a time when inflation is still gripping food prices. “If Kroger’s proposed acquisition of Albertsons is consummated, the companies’ combined power will be used to increase prices for groceries, decrease the quality of food, eliminate jobs, close stores, and offer less choice for consumers due to the overlap in geographic areas,” the lawsuit states. Regardless of the outcome, Albertsons is now closing 26 locations along the western, northwestern, and southwestern regions of the U.S. to save costs, according to Boise Weekly. Twelve stores are located across Southern California, including Long Beach, Canyon Country, Chula Vista, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, Monrovia, Moorpark, Ontario, San Diego, Valencia, and Whittier, and eleven stores across Washington, Oregon, and Nevada, and as well as stores in western Idaho will be shut down because of underperforming sales, said spokespersons for their respective divisions, according to Orange County Register.

For many communities, the absence of their local grocery stores is going to be critical. The “Food Access Research Atlas” constructed by the USDA defines low access to healthy food related to being far from large grocery stores or supermarkets. In the last few months, grocery store shutdowns in multiple regions have turned them into food deserts. This term describes regions with a lack o supermarkets to supply local residents with fresh food and produce. Needless to say, this greatly affects the community's food security. From fruits and veggies to milk, sugar, and more, a household with elderly or children is always in need of fresh groceries. That's why this situation is so concerning for millions of U.S. families who won't be able to purchase the supplies they need to get by every week and will be forced to travel to other cities to have access to food. This situation must be addressed swiftly, otherwise, more and more food deserts will continue to emerge all across the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEw05cp1qFk 

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America's Smoldering Wreck Of A Legal System Was Unleashed Upon The American People In A Seditious Conspiracy To Overthrow America, Rendering 'Justice' Obsolete

- A Satanic cult called the FBI cast a spell over the land, giving license to wickedness and depravity

By James Howard Kunstler for All News Pipeline May 20, 2023

“After all, this was a collective effort. In Washington, the more people involved in a conspiracy, the less culpable it becomes. They all did it, so no one did.” —Jonathan Turley

Historians of the future, boiling up a nice spring bouillabaisse of nettles, cattail tubers, and frogs over their campfires, will pore over John Durham’s mystifying RussiaGate report for clues as to what begat the smoldering wreck of the legal system that once girded all the rough-and-ready ways of the old America, turning us into a land of simpering zombies. There was, apparently, a strange, Satanic cult called the FBI that cast a spell over the land, giving license to wickedness and depravity that transformed a once-upright folk into liars, until nobody knew what was the right way to do anything anymore….

Of course, we do not live in the future, only on the thrilling edge of it, and it is still possible to see through the fog of mystification creeping over our lives. Though one Rachel Maddow yet raves on, and the FBI still sends SWAT teams hither and yon to cow the righteous, and an evil mummy resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, our country knows the score. It was hoaxed, played, bamboozled. A trip was laid on us. The law was turned against the people by the very officers of the courts: the lawyers. Shakespeare had the right idea — and forgive me for not spelling it out (but consult Henry VI, Part I, Scene II at your leisure).

Yes, John Durham’s report was a disappointment, but isn’t it obvious that he was already done-in by the bootless prosecutions last year of Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko in the gangrenous DC district federal court, which sent the message: Hey, why bother, pal? Any additional cases against the likes of James Comey, Peter Stzrok, Andrew McCabe, and the rest of the gang would have resulted in the greatest exhibition of memory-loss ever seen in the annals of jurisprudence. And, as to expecting the government to produce documents in evidence… well, who amongst us can hold his breath for, say, seventy-five years.

It is impossible for now to know the constraints placed on Mr. Durham by Attorney General Merrick Garland — though it appears that Mr. Garland is just the latest initiate into the years-long shuck-and-jive that amounts to a seditious conspiracy against the republic. That is, add Mr. Garland to the long list of officials who have a lot at risk and a lot to hide, so he’s used his vested powers to hamstring Mr. Durham.

But the heart of the story is out, despite all that, and pretty baldly stated: Hillary Clinton started the whole RussiaGate gag to take the heat off her own turpitudes. The federal agency heads and their lieutenants avidly used Hillary’s concocted falsehoods to foment malicious prosecutions and drive the naively accommodating President Trump out of office, and stopped at nothing until they succeeded.

There it is. We will now have to muddle through and go forward, a savagely deformed polity. Still, it will be edifying to see Mr. Durham testify before The House Judiciary Committee next week, as Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has requested. Mr. Durham may even wish to use the opportunity to redeem his tarnished reputation.

Some items for review: Why did Mr. Durham omit to investigate the deceitful Mueller team (especially its actual director, Andrew Weissmann), which was an obvious cover-up operation? Ditto: the role played by President Barack Obama in the scheme to interfere in the 2016 election? Ditto: the operation to hide and then discredit Hunter Biden’s crime-stuffed laptop during the 2020 presidential election? Ditto: what has been the CIA’s role in all of this? I believe Mr. Durham will provide many interesting answers to these queries. It may be the only forum that will ever avail him to speak honestly.

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Presumably the House Judiciary Committee members are lawyers, and have a host of aide lawyers to fall back on for legal advice. Can someone please ask Mr. Durham why he did not bring a charge of conspiracy to commit sedition under the RICO act against the whole gang of RussiaGate players based on the “enterprise rationale” that the evidence suggests they were all vested in an effort to defenestrate a sitting president?

We will go forward from this whether we like it or not, of course, because the arrow of time flies only in that direction. What is the best way out of this wilderness of dishonor and disgrace? Take a lesson from the campaign, so far, of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The way Mr. Kennedy has been straight-talking — around the coordinated slanders and scurrilities of an ignoble news media — he makes the current leadership of the Democratic Party look like the most pathetic claque of rascally whack-jobs ever assembled under a gonfalon. Keep your eye on RFK, Jr. He’s moving downfield, even without blocking.

Side-note or post-script, for those interested in how the vaccination story is going: A close friend went into the CVS pharmacy looking for a “get well soon” card. There were none. A clerk on-hand right there in the aisle said, “we can’t keep them in stock.” No “sympathy” cards either. Draw your conclusions.

https://allnewspipeline.com/A_Seditious_Conspiracy_To_Overthrow_America.php 

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Abbas calls on UN to oust Israel at world body’s first ‘Nakba Day’ commemoration

PA head claims Israel ‘lies like Goebbels,’ says he wants right to live in Safed; Foreign Ministry says it convinced dozens of nations to stay away; US boycotts ‘anti-Israel’ event

By Luke Tress 15 May 2023, 10:27 pm Updated: 17 May 2023, 11:51 am

NEW YORK — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas compared Israeli rhetoric to Nazi propaganda, demanded Israel be suspended from the UN if it does not grant Palestinians a state and a “right of return” for millions of refugees, and denied Jewish ties to the Temple Mount during a speech at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.

Abbas was speaking at the UN General Assembly’s first-ever commemoration of the “Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe” and the Palestinian term for Israel’s creation.

Israel harshly opposed the event marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, calling it a “distortion of history,” and said it had convinced dozens of other countries to boycott the commemoration.

Abbas, wearing a key on his lapel symbolizing a planned return to his family’s former home in Safed, in northern Israel, said Israel had agreed to a Palestinian state in 1947 and had agreed to the return of Palestinian refugees to join the UN. The Jews in the UK’s Mandatory Palestine accepted the UN’s two-state solution at the time, but the Arab world rejected it and launched the 1948 War of Independence.

“Forcing Israel to implement these two resolutions was a condition, a prerequisite for their membership in the UN at the time, however, sadly, certain countries, we all know who we are talking about… have obstructed deliberately the implementation of these resolutions in a practice that undermines justice, ethics, and human values,” Abbas said, speaking at the UN for an hour, though he had been allotted 30 minutes for his speech.

We demand today, officially, in accordance with international law and international resolutions, to make sure that Israel respects these resolutions, or suspend Israel’s membership from the UN,” he said.

I am a Palestinian refugee. I want to return to my land… I want Safed,” Abbas said to applause. In the past, Abbas has indicated he does not expect millions of the descendants of Palestinian refugees to be allowed to live in Israel, has no demands on pre-1967 Israel, and does not seek the right to live in Safed.

The immediate establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, and the right to return for all refugees and their descendants, are non-starters for Israel, which views both moves as threats to its existence.

Abbas specifically blamed the UK and US for the Nakba and Israel’s establishment.

Britain and the United States specifically bear political and ethical responsibility directly for the Nakba of the Palestinian people because they took part in rendering our people a victim when they decided to establish and plant another entity in our historic homeland for their own colonial goals,” Abbas said. “These countries wanted to get rid of their Jews and benefit from their presence in Palestine.”

He compared Israeli claims of cultivating the land to rhetoric by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Israeli and Zionist claims continue by saying that Israel made the desert bloom. As if Palestine was a desert and they made the desert bloom,” Abbas said. “These are lies. They continue to lie, like Goebbels, and they continue to lie until people believe their lies.”

Abbas has landed in hot water for making similar statements before, including last year in Germany, when he accused Israel of perpetrating “50 holocausts” at a press conference alongside Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Israel, Germany, and the US reacted to the statement with shock and outrage.

Abbas called on the UN to establish an annual event with a UN resolution to commemorate the Nakba, “considering the 15th of May of every year, an international day to commemorate the Palestinian plight which is a plight for humanity as a whole.” etc and the news story continues..

https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-calls-on-un-to-oust-israel-at-world-bodys-first-nakba-day-commemoration/ 

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The Telegraph

China is preparing for war – and the West is preparing to surrender

Con Coughlin 8 hrs ago

Given the turmoil that surrounded Liz Truss’s short spell as prime minister, it is easy to overlook that, during the time she previously served as foreign secretary in Boris Johnson’s government, she acquitted herself well when tackling major global issues. While her predilection for photo-ops, such as posing in a tank, Margaret Thatcher-style, during a trip to Estonia in 2021, could cause toe-curling embarrassment, more often than not she had the right instincts on the big foreign policy calls she made on her watch.

She was robust in defending Ukrainian sovereignty in the wake of Russia’s invasion, and won plaudits for rallying support among European allies for imposing sanctions on Moscow. She also took a tough line on Britain’s feud with the EU over post-Brexit trading arrangements, so much so that at one point she topped the poll of Conservative voters’ favourite politician.

China, and the long-term challenge Beijing poses to Britain’s wellbeing, was another issue that was a central feature of Truss’s global outlook. Utterly refuting the Cameron/Osborne vision of establishing a new “golden era” in relations with Beijing, she wanted to make a declaration to the effect that China constituted a “threat” to Britain’s national security. She maintained this stance after becoming prime minister, even going so far as to call for the formation of an “economic Nato” to counter Beijing’s financial might.

Truss’s arrival in Taiwan this week, where she declared that the West must avoid appeasing China and should show unwavering support for Taipei’s democratically elected government, is therefore consistent with her hardline stance against China’s communist rulers.

Warning that China aims to use its global economic clout to “gain dominance” while undertaking “the biggest military build-up in peacetime history”, she called on the Western alliance “to do all we can to support free democracies like Taiwan in the face of aggression from a Chinese regime whose record we already know” – a reference to Beijing’s brutal suppression of democracy in Hong Kong. And she laid down a challenge to Rishi Sunak, who is visiting Japan for a G7 summit, to follow her lead in denouncing China as a threat to British security.

Beijing does not take kindly to prominent Western politicians making high-profile visits to Taiwan: it responded to then US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan last year by blockading the island and firing ballistic missiles into the surrounding sea. Its response to Truss’s visit has been more muted, not least because she is no longer a minister. A Chinese foreign ministry official simply denounced her trip as a “dangerous political stunt”.

But while critics will argue that her visit has been deliberately timed to upstage Sunak’s presence in the region, her assessment of the threat Beijing poses to both Taiwan’s future independence, as well as the wider world, deserves serious consideration.

In fairness to Sunak, Downing Street has grasped the importance of building new capabilities and alliances to counter the Chinese threat. Sunak has embraced the new Aukus pact between Australia, Britain and the US to build a new fleet of nuclear submarines, so much so that the lion’s share of the extra £11 billion he has pledged in defence spending will go towards boosting our nuclear submarine programme.

Even so, there are concerns that the pace of submarine construction, with the UK on average building only one nuclear submarine every five years, means it will be decades before the new fleet is ready to tackle Beijing’s military might. China, by contrast, builds between five and seven submarines each year. With US intelligence claiming the Chinese military will be ready to annex Taiwan by 2027, the new Aukus alliance has a lot of catching up to do if it is to pose a credible counter-balance to China’s military expansion. Certainly, there can be little question that Beijing is preparing itself for a major conflict – perhaps even against the West.

Whitehall’s ambivalence about countering the Chinese threat head-on is also evident in the cautious approach adopted by ministers towards Beijing. After Sunak indicated he preferred to describe China as a “systematic challenge”, rather than a “threat”, James Cleverly, Truss’s successor at King Charles Street, warned against “pulling the shutters” down on China, instead preferring to “engage closely and regularly” with its communist leaders.

The problem with this approach, as was seen with Hong Kong, is that Beijing interprets this kind of equivocation as indicating the West has no real intention of confronting China over its intimidatory conduct, whether it is crushing democracy in Hong Kong or ending Taiwan’s independence.

One good way for Britain to show it is serious about holding Beijing to account would be to use its forthcoming membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to block China from obtaining membership, and propose that Taiwan joins the trade pact instead. That would send a clear signal to Beijing that the West is not going to tolerate any attempt by China to meddle with Taiwan’s sovereignty.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-is-preparing-for-war-and-the-west-is-preparing-to-surrender/ar-AA1bl82E?rc

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etc For truly in the world right now, saith your Father God, is much trouble, trouble that they know not how to deal with. They know not how to stop the drought, the global warming, the flooding, they know not how to stop the rains, the forest fires, they do not know these things. They do not know how to stop the wars, the troubles that are taking place in the world and the troubles yet to come. etc.

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CBS News Promotes Gates-Backed Plan To Block The Sun by Planet Today - 5/16/2023 11:37:00 AM

CBS Saturday Morning aired a report over the weekend, promoting solar geoengineering as a way to potentially lower global temperatures and combat “global warming.” During their report, CBS explained that the US government is currently investigating stratospheric geoengineering and that Microsoft founder Bill Gates had previously “backed a major project at Harvard using balloons to deploy aerosols.” The project would have invoved spraying aerosols Into the earth’s atmosphere in an attempt to dim the sun. InfoWars reports: The report went on to admit the Gates-funded tests “were put on hold after some pushback.”

Similar aerosol-deploying balloons were being tested in Mexico late last year by a startup company until the nation’s government completely banned solar geoengineering experiments in January 2023. The CBS report also cited a recent report from the UN suggesting giant mirrors be placed in space to reflect sunlight. Even proponents of solar geoengineering admit they don’t know how it could alter the climate in the long term or what health effects it could have on humans. Greetings! We thank our supporters from the bottom of our hearts for their generous donations that keep planet-today.com alive. If you'd like to join the cause and help us continue to deliver amazing articles, please consider making a donate.

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etc. For truly blood shall flow in the streets and things will be very bad in that sense and in the weather also that you have already seen a change in like I have said you would see.  Drought shall affect very many places and food shall be scarce, but I have given unto you my word and my promise that I will take you through these days victoriously. etc

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Spring FREEZE Hits Northeast; Crops Being Killed

Nation Hal Turner 18 May 2023 Hits: 6590

As of 6:02 AM eastern US time today, 18 May 2023, I awoke to the temperature outside reading twenty-eight degrees (28°) -- a Spring Freeze! This will KILL crops in much of the northeastern USA.

I spoke about this during my radio show last night, telling my audience the National Weather Service has issued a FREEZE WARNING for my area here in northeast Pennsylvania, as follows:

Sent: 11:41 EDT on 05-17-2023

Effective: 23:00 EDT on 05-17-2023

Expires: 09:00 EDT on 05-18-2023

Event: Freeze Warning

Alert: ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM EDT

THURSDAY...

* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures of 24 to 28 in rural areas, and 28-32 in urban locations expected.

* WHERE...Portions of central New York and northeast Pennsylvania.

* WHEN...From 11 PM this evening to 9 AM EDT Thursday.

* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The coldest temperatures will be in rural valley locations.

Instructions: Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing.

Target Area:

Bradford

Lackawanna

Luzerne

Northern Wayne

Pike

Southern Wayne

Susquehanna

Wyoming

Forecast Office: NWS Binghamton (South Central New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania)

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/spring-freeze-hits-northeast-crops-being-killed 

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etc shifting of the plates underneath the ocean causing more tidal waves, tsunami’s, flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc

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At least 8 dead and thousands evacuated as floods batter northern Italy

By Reuters  May 17, 2023 10:56am Updated

At least eight people died and thousands were evacuated from their homes as torrential rain battered Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region, triggering widespread floods, officials said on Wednesday.

Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said some areas had received half their average annual rainfall in just 36 hours, causing rivers to burst their banks, sending water cascading through towns and submerging thousands of acres of farmland.

Eight bodies had been retrieved from various locations, the vice president of Emilia-Romagna, Irene Priolo, told reporters, adding that the rains were easing but that river levels were still rising.

This weekend’s Formula One race in Imola, which is close to many of the worst-hit areas, was called off after the government said the emergency services had to concentrate on the rescue operation.

“The decision has been taken because it is not possible to safely hold the event for our fans, the teams and our personnel,” the Formula One organizers said in a statement.

Muddy waters flowed through the streets of Faenza, Cesena and Forli, just to the south of Imola, washing over the roofs of parked cars, submerging some stores and forcing locals to flee to the top stories of their homes.

“Do not go near the rivers. Those who live in areas close to watercourses should move to higher floors,” the president of the Emilia-Romagna region Stefano Bonaccini said on Facebook.

Road and rail links were blocked in numerous locations and the mayors of many towns and cities, including Bologna, urged residents not to leave their homes.

The northern city of Ravenna, famed for its early Christian heritage sites, was also badly affected.

“It’s probably been the worst night in the history of Romagna,” Ravenna Mayor Michele de Pascale told RAI public radio, saying that 5,000 people had been evacuated from his city alone overnight.

“Ravenna is unrecognizable for the damage it has suffered.”

It was the second time this month that Emilia-Romagna has been battered by bad weather, with at least two people dying during storms at the beginning of May.

Minister Musumeci said between 200mm to 500mm of rain fell in some parts of the region in 1-1/2 days, compared with an average annual rainfall of 1,000 mm.

Venice, further north, has not been affected.

The torrential rains followed months of drought which dried out the land, reducing its capacity to absorb water and worsening the impact of the floods, meteorologists said.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/8-dead-and-thousands-evacuated-as-northern-italy-floods/

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etc For truly in the world right now, saith your Father God, is much trouble, trouble that they know not how to deal with. They know not how to stop the drought, the global warming, the flooding, they know not how to stop the rains, the forest fires, they do not know these things. They do not know how to stop the wars, the troubles that are taking place in the world and the troubles yet to come. etc.

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"Most of them are dead!"- Ukraine's army DECIMATED says Col. MacGregor | Redacted w Clayton Morris

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Colonel Douglas MacGregor reveals the devastating truth about Ukraine's standing army, they've been obliterated. President Zelensky this weekend said there are long lines at Ukraine's recruitment centers but there is no evidence of that. Russia continues to decimate air defense across Ukraine ahead of a June offensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LmXouVk1AE 

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etc. So I hope you are listening and paying attention, for the time is extremely short as you can see and the mark of the beast shall be coming in soon and you can’t stop it.  For the world has gone crazy, etc

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BRICS and Other Countries’ Push To Align Against US Dollar Now ‘Irrevocable’: Investor Matthew Piepenburg

Alex Richardson May 14, 2023 Futuremash

Countries around the world have embarked on an irreversible agenda to divorce from the US dollar, according to veteran investment guru Matthew Piepenburg.

In a new interview at the Deutsche Goldmesse conference with the Soar Financially YouTube channel, Piepenburg, partner at emerging markets-focused Matterhorn Asset Management, says that economic powerhouses are now clearly attempting to “break ranks” with dollar supremacy.

He says that the raising of interest rates by the U.S. Federal Reserve is pushing nations like China and Russia to adopt settlement systems that don’t rely on USD.

Besides China and Russia, which are both part of the BRICS coalition, the family office guru says that 41 other countries are now following suit, perhaps concerned with the way the US has treated Russia during its conflict with Ukraine.

“So when that dollar gets higher, because Powell is raising the rates, that becomes more onerous and painful for the rest of the world and they begin to break ranks. Asia in general, China and Russia in particular are very big rank-breaking nations. And, of course, they’re bringing 41 other countries alongside to have trade settlements outside the US dollar.

And so there’s no doubt that the weaponization of the dollar, even the petrodollar comes into this because there’s threats to the petrodollar market and the demand of the petrodollar and the strong dollar. So a strong dollar was a real gut punch for years it became even more of a gut punch when we weaponized that dollar when we took Russia off of the STR and the SWIFT and of course froze its FX reserves. Other countries raise their eyebrows in alarm and looked differently in our thinking of ways to go around and break with the dollar.”

BRICS, which represents the economically-aligned nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is discussing the launch of a global currency that does not utilize the US dollar.

A long list of nations reportedly want to join in, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, Indonesia, two unnamed nations from East Africa and one from West Africa.

Piepenburg says that he doesn’t see the yuan or any other currency replacing the dollar as the world reserve currency anytime soon. However, he does see a “clear trend” of countries around the world sidestepping the dollar as the main, trusted medium of trade.

“The clear trend of breaking ranks with the US dollar as a trusted, reliable, dependable trade currency and payment system is now I think irrevocable.”

https://dailyhodl.com/2023/05/14/brics-and-other-countries-push-to-align-against-us-dollar-now-irrevocable-investor-matthew-piepenburg/ 

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Radiation from Ukraine Reaches Lublin, Poland!

World Hal Turner 16 May 2023 Hits: 13234

Radiation and poisonous Uranian Dust has reached Lublin, Poland, from the ammunition dump hit in Ukraine last Friday. In that Ammo dump was about $500 Million of Depleted Uranium tank shells supplied to Ukraine by Britain. Now, the radiation and the poisonous dust, has reached Lublin Poland.

Levels of radioactivity shown on the graph above, were measured at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland). This indicates that dust from the uranium ammunition was blown by the wind from Khmelnitsky to Lublin.

2 days, 400 km away . . .

Those who were outdoors and breathes the poisonous, radioactive, dust, are highly likely to suffer serious respiratory illness, and later, lung cancer. Now that the dust has arrived, and some of it presumably settled on the ground, rain will carry it into ground water, where it will quietly POISON the water for decades.

Women who drink the water, especially while pregnant, will likely miscarry (lose) the baby, or see it born with hideous birth defects.

All this because NATO couldn't mind its own business, and stay out of the Ukraine-Russia fight. NONE of this had to be.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/radiation-from-ukraine-reaches-lublin-poland 

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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.

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Etc For truly the whole world is seeing end time signs, from the very skies to the depths of the oceans. They are seeing the global warming, they are seeing the drought, they are seeing the loss of water all over and they recognize that truly it is taking place and they do not know which way to turn. They see the wars, the rumors of wars; they see Iraq and Iran as they continue to go their evil ways. They see Russia as she joins with Iran speaking out boldly against the United States; they see all the signs that are there. They are seeing even the EU as it now meets with Iran and talks with them. When will they wake up, when will they recognize that truly it is the last days, etc

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etc.. Even the clouds are speaking forth the coming of my Son, are you hearing, are you seeing, are you understanding? For I say unto you, many, many disasters shall take place, the shortage of food shall even be greater, the drought shall expand

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How Drought-Struck Spain Is Becoming a "Desert" | Vantage with Palki Sharma

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How Drought-Struck Spain Is Becoming a "Desert" | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Spain is running out of water. It suffered a long 'mega drought', lack of rainfall and record temperatures. Now their water reservoirs are depleting. Over exploitation and climate change are causing it to turn into a desert. 75% of their land is under the process of desertification. Can Spain come out of this?

Spain | Spain Drought | Mega Drought | Rainfall | Climate Crisis | Desertification | Spain News | Latest News | Trending News | Firstpost |

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Vantage is a ground-breaking news, opinions, and current affairs show from Firstpost.

Catering to a global audience, Vantage covers the biggest news stories from a 360-degree perspective, giving viewers a chance to assess the impact of world events through a uniquely Indian lens.

The show is anchored by Palki Sharma, Managing Editor, Firstpost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7QJ_I9M1U 

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Ukraine shoots down six of Putin's 'unstoppable' hypersonic missiles as Russia hits Kyiv with 'exceptionally complex' attack that 'destroyed US Patriot air defence system'

Moscow launched several waves of drones and missiles on Ukrainian capital

The Tuesday morning attack came hours after Zelensky met with Rishi Sunak

By David Averre  Published: 02:20 EDT, 16 May 2023 | Updated: 14:52 EDT, 16 May 2023

Russia launched a brutal drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital early this morning, just hours after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be returning from a European tour with a restocked weapons arsenal.

Ukraine claimed its robust air defence system, comprised of Soviet-era and Western-supplied platforms, managed to successfully shoot down 18 of Moscow's missiles, six of which were reportedly hypersonic 'Kinzhal' missiles which Vladimir Putin once boasted were 'unstoppable'.

But the Russian Defence Ministry in turn claimed one of its missiles had successfully destroyed a US-designed and supplied Patriot air defence system - a feat amounting to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of state-of-the-art technology that could leave the Ukrainian capital vulnerable to further attacks.

The claim is yet to be confirmed, though a grainy security camera video circulating on the Telegram messaging app appears to show the moment a surface-to-air battery explodes after exhausting all of its ammunition amid the attacks.

Officials in Kyiv said Moscow's strike - the eighth on the Ukrainian capital this month and certainly the most intense - involved drones, cruise missiles and probably ballistic missiles launched 'from different directions simultaneously'.

Ukrainian military general Serhiy Popko said the nighttime onslaught had been 'exceptionally complex and dense'.

'The maximum number of rockets were fired at the city in the shortest period of time... the vast majority of enemy targets in the airspace of Kyiv were detected and destroyed.'

The busy Solomyansky district of Kyiv, home to the international airport, was the most heavily damaged, with a fire breaking out in a non-residential building.

According to Telegram posts by Mayor Vitali Klitschko, three people were injured in Solomyansky, while missile debris fell on Obolonsky district, a leafy outer suburb.

The latest attack on Kyiv follows Mr Zelensky's collection of fresh arms delivery pledges from Berlin, Paris and London, deepening a military arrangement between the West and Ukraine that has helped put Russia on the back foot.

After his whirlwind tour of major European capitals, Mr Zelensky tweeted last night that he was 'returning home with new defence packages'.

Ukrainian forces are widely believed to be gearing up for a long-awaited counter-offensive against Russian troops, with gains already claimed around the flashpoint of Bakhmut.

But Mr Zelensky has yet to succeed in his coveted goal of enlisting Western fighter jets to seize command of the skies, although Rishi Sunak yesterday announced preparations to open a flight school to train Ukrainian pilots.

France has also offered to train Ukrainian fighter pilots, though president Emmanuel Macron ruled out sending warplanes to Kyiv.

And while Russia's ally China vies to act as a peace broker, sending an envoy to Kyiv this week, Moscow's reported attempt to acquire more drones with military collaborator Iran has caused ire in Washington.

'This is a full-scale defense partnership that is harmful to Ukraine, to the region in the Middle East, and to the international community,' US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said yesterday, adding that further sanctions would soon be announced.

Mr Zelensky's tour to shore up military assistance to help make his troops more battle-ready began in Italy, with weekend visits to France and Germany, followed by yesterday's stop in the UK.

France offered dozens more light tanks and armoured vehicles, while Germany said it was preparing a military package worth €2.7billion (£2.35million) - its biggest yet for Ukraine.

At Mr Sunak's official country residence of Chequers yesterday, Mr Zelensky won the promise of hundreds more air-defence missiles and long-range attack drones.

Dressed in his trademark fatigues, Mr Zelensky gave a bear hug to Mr Sunak after disembarking from a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter.

He said the crisis was a matter of 'security not only for Ukraine, it is important for all of Europe'.

Sunak noted that the Chequers meeting was taking place in the buildup to a Council of Europe leaders' meeting in Iceland and a G7 summit in Japan.

'The front lines of Putin's war of aggression may be in Ukraine, but the fault lines stretch all over the world,' Mr Sunak said.

Russia said the new UK weapons would cause 'further destruction' and claimed to have downed a Storm Shadow cruise missile that Britain last week said it was providing, in the West's first deployment of long-range missiles for Ukraine - though Mr Kirby said he was unable to confirm the reports.

The timing and focus of Ukraine's high-stakes counter-offensive remain unclear, but Mr Zelensky's tour of European capitals underscored the importance of securing Western heavy weapons and ammunition.

On the ground, the fighting appears poised to increase after months of stalemate.

Kyiv said the southern region of Kherson came under 'massive enemy attack', damaging several residential buildings.

Meanwhile, seven people, including a Moscow-installed senior official and a teenager, were injured in a blast in Russian-controlled Lugansk, local officials said.

Ukrainian forces said they have captured more than 10 Russian positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut, where a fierce battle for control began nearly a year ago.

Russia said two of its military commanders had been killed in combat near the town.

The head of Russia's private Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has again accused the Russian army of inaction around Bakhmut.

But he dismissed as 'laughable' a Washington Post report that he had offered information on Russian troop positions to Ukraine in January in return for respite for Wagner forces.

In another sign of tensions with the West, Russia said yesterday it had scrambled a Su-27 fighter jet over the Baltic Sea to intercept two aircraft, one German and one French, which Moscow said had attempted to 'violate' its airspace.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12088327/Putin-hits-Kyiv-exceptionally-complex-simultaneous-attack-

drones-ballistic-missiles.html 

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etc.. Did I not warn you that the days would be like Sodom and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow. I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her, then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..

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etc The Lord God says, the watered down churches some of those aren’t going to go to heaven, for did I not say man and woman not man and man or woman and woman, I said man and woman. etc

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The Lord God says, if you are in a church that has watered down, if you are in a church that does not use my word that I use, my King James, if you are in a church that uses the NIV or something that waters the services down, get out of there and get into a church that is Holy Spirit filled. etc

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For after, after September comes November, are you awake, will you rise up and do what you know is right, can you vote for them that you know kill babies, can you vote for them that hold up the gays, can you vote for them, saith your Father God? If you are mine you must walk according to my word, you must walk according to my promise; you must do what I, your Father God, have said to do. For it is that hour, it is that time; it is far later than you believe.

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Show Them What A Natural Family Is

By Rob Pue

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There’s no question there’s a lot to be concerned about in our world today, as we descend deeper and deeper into darkness and depravity. Near, or at, the top of that list is the sexual deviancy, hedonism and depravity that seems to be everywhere we turn now, as the LGBTQP+ mob celebrates the conquering of more and more hearts, minds and souls every day.

What was once considered hard core pornography is now being welcomed into our public schools. Even some of our so-called “Christian” schools, under the banner of “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Like our education system, our public library system is also beyond saving now, having gone “woke” under the leadership of a lesbian activist president of the American Library Association. Her perverted sexualization of, especially young childrens’ reading materials, has gone nationwide now.

In 1963, 45 Communist goals to take over America were read into the Congressional record. Just sixty years later, I dare say they’ve accomplished just about all of them. The plan was to: capture one or both of the political parties; get control of the schools and teachers’ associations; infiltrate the press; gain control of key positions in radio, TV and movies; eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and press; break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in the media; present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy;” infiltrate the churches; infiltrate and gain control of big business and unions; discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce; emphasize the need to raise children away from the “negative” influence of parents.

These are just a few of the 45 Communist Goals to take over America. Their plan was well thought out and expertly executed. It happened so incrementally, at first, we never saw it coming until it was too late. Now, in our supposed “Representative Republic” we, the people, have no representation at all. You can write your congressman every day for the rest of your life and I guarantee it will change nothing. They’re laughing at you, friends. We are their fools and they continue to fool us every election cycle.

Is there anything we can do to push back against the ugliness and the filth, and the demonic forces that have a stranglehold on our land?

In June of 2000, Bill Clinton declared the month of June as “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” Since then, “pride month” has spread around the globe, with, of all places, Israel being the number one homosexual destination in the world now. But sodomite “pride” and everything that goes along with that is no longer just for the month of June.

Oh, yes, you’ll see the sodomite flags flying high over state houses, the White House and other government buildings throughout the month of June. But while that symbol may come down from government buildings on July 1st, this hideous monster never sleeps and definitely never quits. Especially wherever there are young children, you’ll see the rainbow flags and all the twisted indoctrination that goes along with them.

Recently, I watched online, a city council meeting from the small town I grew up in. I moved out of that town several years ago, and at that time, there were no sodomite celebrations of any kind there. But things have changed. This mental illness is being specifically pushed into the smaller towns now — oftentimes brought in by the LGBTQP+ mob from larger cities. Since few would attend in a small town, they need to bus in large crowds to fill the space during their celebrations and make it appear that “everyone” is a sexual deviant. I believe their “pride” festival is now in it’s third year.

During this city council meeting, the public was invited to speak. A pastor friend of mine contacted some of the local pastors and churches in that town, begging them to come and speak against this year’s planned events. Apparently, some of the “woke” pastors in town alerted the local homosexual crowd and their allies, and they urged them to go and speak in favor of it, and many did, twisting Scripture verses and taking them so far out of context, it was unbelievable. This is what’s being “taught” in, dare I say, MOST of our churches now.

By the way, in addition to a “pride celebration,” complete with kids’ activities, they’ll also be hosting a “drag queen” show. All this in a downtown public park for all to see. Last year, as drag queens danced provocatively in front of little children at this event, the little children were given dollar bills to stuff in the “g-string” underwear of the perverts. Understand this, if you can: their PARENTS gave them dollar bills and urged the kids to “tip” the drag queens by stuffing them in their “barely there underwear.”

At the city council meeting, there WERE many who came to speak against this. But they were far outnumbered by the sodomites, and it was sad to see so many young people there — already brainwashed and damaged for life, as they declared themselves to be homosexuals, bi-sexuals, transgenders, or some other form of deviancy.

When a 14-year-old girl came up to speak, she told about how she was a lesbian, and that she learned that was just fine — and that God loves everyone, no matter what they do, or who they’re sexually attracted to. And she learned this from her MOTHER, who, she said, is a “pastor.”

A mom also spoke about her teenage son who’s “transitioning” to a female, and how she was so proud of her son. This mother then explained that she, herself, is bi-sexual. Now, I wonder what in the world could have possibly confused her kid to think he’s really a girl. Perhaps living in a household where there is no Godly moral compass, but instead a mother who brings home sexual partners of both genders and has sexual relationships with any and all. And now this “mother” is so proud that her son is openly becoming his “authentic self” by “transitioning” to a girl.

This is all going on in a small town of less than 20,000 people. It’s also happening in even smaller towns. And in the bigger cities, it’s all been very well established for many years now. Although the real numbers of people who live as sodomites or “transgenders” are extremely low, the LGBTQP+ mob is so well organized and so richly funded by the biggest of donors, it seems they’re the majority. But it’s all theater; all about optics.

Those who spoke against the “pride” festival and drag queen show at the city council meeting made some very good arguments for their position. Scientific arguments, historical arguments, common sense arguments, moral arguments, Christian arguments, and many were very well spoken. The sodomites, on the other hand, always used emotional arguments to make their points. They talked about “fairness,” “equality,” they talked about how “love is love,” regardless of what that means sexually or how many young children are involved. And in the end, there was really no reason to hold a public hearing because the city council voted overwhelmingly to let it all go forward — shelving laws based on morality that involve public displays of vulgarity, nudity, sexual acts in public, and worse. That’s what goes on at these events. And of course, in their twisted, deranged minds, they expect us to believe this is actually benefitting the children.

So how can we, as remnant Christ-followers — (and by remnant, I mean there are really only a very, very FEW who can even rightly claim the name of Christ) — how can we have OUR voices heard? Obviously, even in the small towns, the government officials let us speak but have no intention of listening to anything we have to say. Their perverted minds are already made up before the meetings begin. “Vote them out!” you say... well, if you still believe there’s any hope for a political solution to this, I’m sad for you. The people you elect to represent you — even if they call themselves “Conservatives” or “Christians” mock you behind your backs and laugh their heads off because you still keep buying what they’re selling, even though they openly mock you once in office, every single time.

Some have suggested we have a “Straight Pride” parade to push back against the filth of Sodom. I don’t see that working. First of all, normal people don’t celebrate “pride.” “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Secondly, what would a “Straight Parade” even look like? A bunch of normal people walking down the street?

No, there are better options. JR Harrison, who heads up the Natural Family Foundation, which can be found online at NaturalFamilyStrong.com, suggested we start a month to celebrate the Natural Familyone man and one woman, united in marriage and raising their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. He suggests it start on Mother’s Day and go through Father’s Day. But that would require the CHURCHES to lead the way, and while I wholeheartedly agree with JR’s idea, our modern American churches will never go against the pop culture.

I have another idea. Perhaps it’s too late to implement this year, but start planning now for next year. Here’s my idea: while the “pride” festivals are going on in your city, in a city park, YOU can hold a “Natural Family Celebration” festival in another park in your town. From my experience, it’s fruitless to go to their festivals and protest or try to witness the Gospel to them. You’ll be verbally and physically attacked, and the police will ALWAYS take the side of the sodomites.

Instead, hold your own festival in another city park. Invite vendors to come for free and set up booths with home-made crafts, a farmer’s market, and food wagons. Contact your local farmers and set up a small “petting zoo” for the kids to come and pet baby animals, baby chicks and ducks. Invite local songwriters to perform WHOLESOME music. Invite your local Mennonite congregation to have their youth choir sing. If you’ve ever heard one of these, you know there’s nothing in the world like it. Simply beautiful!

Have stories for the kids — read by MOMS and DADS and GRANDPARENTS — maybe some old time stories that are God-honoring such as you’d find in the old McGuffy Readers they used to use in public schools.

Have farmers or homesteaders teach classes on constructive things like gardening. The kids could plant a flower in a little pot for their moms! They could also teach basic building skills — let the kids build a bird feeder from pre-cut wood pieces you supply. Have games for the kids that are educational. Invite your local homeschool groups to participate. Maybe even invite your local collector car club to have a car show. Horse and buggy rides from local Mennonites.

I think if you MODEL what the NATURAL family looks like, with WHOLESOME entertainment and educational things and things for kids to explore, a lot of families would show up. You’d likely have WAY more people than the sodomites — and you’d put them to shame.

An event like this needs to be very visible though, so even people just driving by will stop and take part. And advertise it as a Celebration of the Natural Family! In the end, see who gets the bigger crowd and which of the two events is viewed more positively by the community at large — the filth of Sodom of a nice wholesome, old-fashioned family festival.

If you can’t get it done this year, start planning now and DO IT next year. Such an event will make a strong statement and show a strong contrast between what is being forced upon us by reprobates and what God intended as the foundation for a civilized society — His natural design for marriage and family!

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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc.. 

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Record-breaking heat scorches the western US and Canada as wildfires continue to rage

May 16, 2023

The West has taken a dive straight into summer, with temperatures well above those normally seen even at the end of July. Record-breaking temperatures and a heat wave will continue to grip the entire region through much of this week.

Yesterday, several locations across the Pacific Northwest broke daily high temperature records:

Seattle-Tacoma Airport: 89°

Olympia, Washington: 90°

Hoquiam, Washington: 91°, which also broke an all-time high temperature record for May

Quillayute, Washington: 92°, which also tied an all-time high temperature record for May

Portland, Oregon: 92°

Eugene, Oregon: 94°

Today will be the 4th day in a row with highs in the 80s for Seattle,” the National Weather Service office in Seattle said. “This will tie the record for most consecutive days with highs 80 degrees plus in the month of May.”

For reference, Seattle’s normal high at the end of July is around 79 degrees, so temperatures are well above even the normal highs seen in the dog days of summer.

Many people in the Pacific Northwest do not have air conditioning, and with overnight lows running warm as well, the body is not able to easily recover from the daytime heat. It has prompted heat alerts for more than 10 million people across the Pacific Northwest and portions of Central California.

The weather setup very much resembles a weather pattern seen in the middle of summer for the region. A big dome of high pressure is sitting over the Northwest, allowing dry, downslope winds to come off the mountains, spiking temperatures well above average.

As the heat continues to build this week, nearly 150 high temperature records will be in jeopardy across the West.

While the heat will spread farther east throughout the week to include the Rockies and central and southern Plains, the most dramatic heat will be in the West. Temperatures are running 20 to 30 degrees above normal across the Pacific Northwest.

“To put it in perspective, highs will be near record values each day,” the weather service in Boise, Idaho, said. “These hot temperatures will increase snowmelt in the mountains. Mainstream rivers fed by snowpack will be running high, swift and cold.”

Weather service offices all across the West are urging people to stay out of the water and find relief from the heat in other ways. Water temperatures are in the 50s for the most part, cold enough to cause cold water shock and hyperthermia.

This heat is not just affecting the US. It has been even more extreme across western portions of Canada.

Several cities across British Columbia set new monthly records Sunday, including Lytton, which topped out around 97 degrees; hotter than the average temperature Phoenix, Arizona, experiences around this time of year.

Stock up on iodine pills for the next nuclear disaster before it’s too late…

Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for northern portions of Alberta and portions of British Columbia, where high temperatures are forecast to reach the mid 80s. Temperatures here are running 15 to 25 degrees above normal, so the weather agency is urging people to cancel outdoor plans if they aren’t necessary, as heat-related illnesses are possible.

One bit of good news is, “While the developing heat may result in daily temperature records being broken, it must be emphasized that the expected hot conditions will not approach those reached during the ‘Heat Dome’ of late June 2021,” Environment Canada said.

The heat is also having a huge effect on Canada’s active start to the fire season. There are currently 89 fires burning in Alberta alone, where fires have scorched 1.3 million acres so far this year. It puts 2023 as the fifth-busiest fire season on record in Alberta, and we still have several months of fire season yet to go.

While the hottest temperatures may have peaked over the weekend, the long-range outlook looks to remain quite warm for the Northwest. [CNN]

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Video: U.S. PATRIOT Missile System Fires 30+ Missiles over Kiev But Gets TAKEN OUT by Russian Hit

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One of the much vaunted PATRIOT missile systems given to Kiev to fight Russia, fired about thirty Air Defense missiles overnight but in the end, was hit by a Russian inbound attack. Video below shows the salvos and the final inbound Russian hit. Ukraine is actively (and desperately) trying to have the video removed!

Overnight, Russia engaged in a very thorough missile attack against Ukraine, with what appears to have been a "saturation" attack against Kiev for the express purpose of overwhelming missile defenses.

Ukraine and its supporters are furious that these videos are published. They are actively and aggressively demanding the videos be taken down "because they can identify Air Defense locations for Russia to hit."

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Now FRANCE announces Supplying LONG RANGE Missiles to Ukraine

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French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed that France will follow in the UK’s footsteps and quickly send its version of the Storm Shadow long-range missile to Ukraine.

This comes after the United Kingdom sent Storm Shadow missiles.

Both the Storm Shadow and the SCALP have a range of 250-300 nmi.

These are precisely the type of long range weapons that can be used by UIkraine to strike targets inside Russia; which Russia warmed the West not to send.

If Western weapons start hitting targets inside Russia, then Russia will hold the West -- not Ukraine - responsible, and the West will be subject to Russian attack in their own countries.

World War 3 is deliberately being started by we in the West.

Americans and Europeans would do well to make preparation for bombs to start falling in their respective countries.

Have emergency food, water, fuel and communications gear. There's very little time left before things start going "wild weasel."

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'The Left' Plunges Deeper Every Day Into Mental Illness As Everything Democrats Do Blows Up In Their Own Faces, Wile E. Coyote Style - This Is The Death Of Our Country

By James Howard Kunstler for All News Pipeline May 15, 2023

“The average Democrat knows the Biden family is profoundly corrupt and they simply don’t care…. Sam Harris spoke for all of them when he said it wouldn’t matter if Hunter’s laptop was packed w/pictures of dead kids.” — MartyrMade on Twitter

This is the dirty secret of our time: the device that the Woke / Progressive elite used to finally get rid of Donald Trump — Covid-19 — shoved them over a cliff Wile E. Coyote style. And now, as they freefall off that cliff, the supposed antidote to Covid-19 — getting vaccinated — is blowing up in their faces, again, Wile E. Coyote style. The elite now have to wake up every day and wonder if the vaccines they rushed to get will end up killing them prematurely. This is what has finally driven them crazy. And, of course, crazy people will do crazy things: like destroy their own country.

I decided early-on to not get vaccinated for a simple reason: as the vaxx program got up to speed in the late winter and spring of 2021, reports came out that the spike protein in it attacked the endothelial lining of the blood vessels and led to unusual blood-clotting. As someone who had bypass surgery some years earlier, that was all I needed to hear. This was before any Censorship Industrial Complex formed to attack “misinformation.” The news was still getting out.

By then, Mr. Trump was out, too, deposed in a janky election rigged with Covid-19 ballot “innovations” that made fraud easy. He was replaced by a fake chief executive too impotent to even campaign, but useful as a front for the gigantic “security” bureaucracy that was actually running things. This naturally raises the question: what exactly is the relationship between the political elite and this security state?

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The elite are the useful idiots of the security state. They enable it and protect it with their divisive antics. The dirty secret of the security state is that it’s not about the security of the state, that is, of the nation known as the USA. Its about the security of the people running the security state, the agency heads and their officers in the Intel Community and all its spinoffs, the State Department, the Justice Department, and the Defense Department and their accomplices in Congress and the federal judiciary.

What does this security state need protection from? From accounting for all its prior cumulative crimes against the nation. These crimes slowly accreted over the decades after the Cold War and then blossomed in 2016 — slowly, and then all at once — when the security state was rocked by the election loss of its avatar, Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton had many crimes of her own to conceal, most of them committed with the help of the security state, such as the Uranium One grift, the Skolkovo transfer of US computer tech to Russia, and the Clinton Foundation’s financial escapades following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, to name a few biggies.

The person who beat Mrs. Clinton had averred publicly and shockingly to her crimes during the campaign, going so far as to label her “Crooked Hillary.” That is why the Russia Collusion hoax became the centerpiece of security state harassment during Mr. Trump’s term in office. The Democratic Party was enlisted as the praetorian guard for the security state. The public had to be conditioned to believe any number of things that were the opposite of true.

Like myriad institutions in recent decades, the Democratic Party had come to be dominated by women. Women, being hard-wired for safety-seeking, were easily manipulated by the security state into an hysteria fixated on Donald Trump, who was made to represent everything that seemed unsafe. They gave the game away on Mr. Trump’s inauguration day with their women’s march that featured thousands wearing the emblematic “pussy hats.” Message: don’t think you can have your wicked way with this!

The hysteria hasn’t let up since then, and now that Mr. Trump is resurging from a thousand attempts to kill him off like some implacable axe-murderer in a horror movie, the corps of useful idiots is showing signs of nervous exhaustion. The Democratic Party’s front-man, “Joe Biden” (or the claque behind him backstage), has screwed the pooch on just about every matter of vital public interest at home and abroad, and now this president stands revealed as the head of a racketeering operation that specialized in bribery. Yet, oddly, it is Mr. Trump who has been fed into the cogs of the judiciary on an unending set of Mickey Mouse charges. There’s a pretty fair possibility that none of that will work.

The Democrats must suspect this, and their nemesis has declared his intentions for a return to power pretty clearly: fire all the seditionists in the security state, pardon all the people on the Right who were unjustly prosecuted, and commence some righteous prosecutions against people who actually deserve it. Thus, the Left plunges ever-deeper into mental illness — celebrating it at every opportunity and even shoving it America’s face, Joker-style, in defiance: Here, have another drag queen….

A big part of the Left’s mental illness is the inability to even notice their own self-destructive trajectory. There’s a way out for them but it’s pretty drastic. That would be turning to RFK, Jr. for leadership. Trouble is, Mr. Kennedy intends to go after the Democrats’ patron, the security state itself, which he’s publicly blamed for the deaths of his father and uncle. Bobby Kennedy also happens to be an enemy of the US public health agencies and especially a critic of the Covid-19 vaccines that the Left has hung its identity on. They still can’t admit that getting vaxxed and boosted was a tragic mistake.

But an election contest between RFK, Jr. and Donald Trump would be a most salutary exercise for our country. Both of them want to dismantle the overgrown surveillance apparatus and severely reform the agencies under the executive branch. That is, they are both intent on disarming the security state and the Censorship Industrial Complex it spawned. They are both against the stupid Neo-con wars. Trump versus RFK, Jr. would bring the people of this country together and refocus the nation’s attention on things that matter. It would also be the Baby Boomer’s last stand.

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etc.  for the world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history.  Even during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going to get better because those that don’t believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because they don’t want you to know the truth etc.

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Biden admin’s war on people of faith evident with new attacks on religious health care groups

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War on people of faith evident with new attacks on religious health care groups

The war against pro-life people of faith is perhaps most evident in health care. Many and frequent attacks from the Biden administration and the far Left have made life-affirming health care an increasingly difficult commodity to provide or access.

Recently Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) threatened to strip St. Francis Health System – a Catholic hospital system in Oklahoma which happens to be one of the largest in the countryof its federal funding for refusing to blow out a sanctuary candle in its hospital chapel.

Those familiar with Catholic Church teachings were rightfully outraged by this pathetic stunt, and attempt to drive faith from health care. Catholic teachings require that all churches or chapels have sanctuary candles continuously lit by the altar to represent the real and comforting presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

CATHOLIC HOSPITALS’ ATTORNEY REACTS TO WIN AGAINST BIDEN ADMIN’S ‘SHOCKING’ THREATS TO FORCE CLOSURES

The federal government seized on this practice as an opportunity to decree that St. Francis must extinguish the sanctuary candle which they claim poses a “safety threat,” even though the candle in question had been repeatedly approved by the local fire marshal and government. St. Francis Health System, which Biden’s HHS threatened to effectively shut down, accounts for about 11,000 jobs and cares for more than 400,000 patients in Oklahoma.

Only after public outcry did the administration walk back its threat. Such targeting of St. Francis over a candle seems ridiculous until one confronts the reality that it’s not about the safety of the candle at all – rather, it is the continuation of years of injecting politics into health care, and years of discrimination against any faith-based health care workers who dare to get in the way.

In fact, HHS under the Biden administration appears hellbent on completely eradicating faith-based providers and workers from the health care field.

There’s HHS’s discrimination against people of faith in the health care field through new rules and regulations that nullify religious and conscience exemptions, forcing conscience-objecting doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to perform abortions, gender transition surgeries, and other types of “gender affirming care.” This move continued the HHS’s long perverse history of using mandates to force conscience-objecting medical professionals to perform gender-transition procedures on their patients, including children.

Similarly, the HHS spent years persecuting the Little Sisters of the Poor, Catholic nuns whose entire existence is dedicated to showering love and support on the elderly poor in their final days, for refusing to violate Church teachings and provide things like abortifacients in their health insurance plan. HHS forced these good nuns to divert their limited resources to seven years of litigation just so they could continue serving the elderly poor without violating their consciences.

Thankfully, the Little Sisters eventually won their case at the Supreme Court. But the Biden administration is – to this day – attempting to force employers with moral objections similar to the Little Sisters.

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Aiding the administration in their persecution of those who seek life-affirming health care are woke bureaucratic professional organizations like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It recently told the over 7,000 doctors and medical professionals in the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYN’s they were not welcome at a major medical conference purely on account of their commitment to life-affirming health care.

And the board certifying body for OB-GYNs has attempted to silence pro-life physicians if they voice their views that abortion is not health care, threatening to revoke their certification for spreading “misinformation and disinformation.” At a time when our nation is experiencing a major shortage of medical professionals, such discrimination is not only unacceptable – it’s dangerous.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration and far-Left have shown repeatedly that they do not care, and that they’re unafraid to politicize health care at the expense of American’s health and safety. They have demonstrated they will use every weapon at their disposal to wage war on life-affirming health care until it has been eradicated from the entire health care system.

The first step toward combating these attacks on life-affirming health care is being aware that they are real and are going to continue. But we can’t stop there. Pro-life people of faith who wish to practice and access life-affirming health care must speak up and stand together refusing, like the Little Sisters, to participate.

That’s one big reason why health sharing ministries like Solidarity HealthShare exist – to provide a concrete way for pro-life Americans to say no to the culture of death and yes to a culture of life. And it is why a growing number of Catholics and people of faith are turning to us as an ethical and more comprehensive way of accessing health care.

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etc Much evil upon the face of the earth, much lying, much deceit, much deceit, much lying, much evil upon the face of the earth.  Can you not see there is so much evil going on right now, people lying to themselves, lying to me, lying to others trying to make their agenda come true?  But as it is written in my word and said and so it shall be, no liar shall enter my kingdom.  So if you are one of those people, I speak to you right now, get yourself ready, get yourself ready, come out amongst them and be ye separate etc

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'We have to defang and defund them!' Matt Gaetz suggests FBI agents should be INDICTED after Durham report that found no Trump collusion with Russia - as Bureau issues groveling statement

Matt Gaetz on Monday night said the FBI was 'weaponized' against Donald Trump, hours after the Durham report was made public

The 300-page report, published after a four-year enquiry, found that the FBI relied too heavily on 'raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence'

Jim Jordan, chair of House Judiciary Committee, said there was a 'double standard' between Democrats and Republicans, and FBI funding should be cut

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com

Published: 01:13 EDT, 16 May 2023 | Updated: 08:55 EDT, 16 May 2023

Matt Gaetz suggested FBI agents should be fired and prosecuted over the Durham report, which concluded the Bureau should never have launched the probe into whether Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.

Gaetz said the agency should be defunded and 'defanged', describing the agents' actions as 'ugly', after Durham ruled there was insufficient evidence to probe Trump in the first place.

The Florida lawmaker said John Durham's recommendation that only one person - a lawyer who lied to the FBI - be charged with wrongdoing was 'insufficient'.

'This report is an insufficient consequence for the malfeasance and corruption that we have seen here,' Gaetz said.

'It was an operation from beginning to end to fuse political opposition research from the DNC and the Clinton campaign with this intelligence process and criminal process. And it's a sad day in America.

'If that had been a Republican operation - an operation to help a Republican candidate - it wouldn't have ended in a report: it would have ended with real significant indictments.'

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Come on in! Moment US Army soldier opens gate to let huge horde of migrants onto PRIVATE Texas property after Biden allowed Title 42 to expire

Footage shows a US Army soldier letting in a horde of migrants on the border

The video was taken along the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas

President Joe Biden let Title 42 expire on May 11 after 38 months

By Hope Sloop For Dailymail.Com

Published: 00:09 EDT, 16 May 2023 | Updated: 07:19 EDT, 16 May 2023

Security footage taken along the US-Mexico border in Texas showed a US soldier opening a gate to let migrants in just days after Joe Biden let Title 42 expire.

The video, shared by FOX LA's Bill Melugin, showed a large group crossing from the Mexico side of the border into the U.S. as a large white bus appeared to wait for them.

The one-minute clip showed the female Army officer standing by as the horde shuffled onto private property Monday morning.

She's said to have done so at the direction of the federal government.

The video comes just hours after Biden cheered a drop in border crossings since the end of Title 42 with a swipe at the media.

When asked by reporters about how he believes things were proceeding after Title 42 expired, Biden responded: 'Much better than you all expected,' with a chuckle.

According to Melugin, the Texas National Guard confirmed the female seen opening the gate in the video was not a Texas soldier or a Texas National Guard member.

'I'm told she is a Title 10 soldier from the Missouri ARNG under orders from the federal gov & working w/ BP,' the FOX reporter wrote.

The video posted online sparked outrage among Twitter users who blasted her actions.

'I'm not against immigration, our country was built on it, it's our strength, but I'm not for an out of control invasion of immigrants to serve the nefarious purposes of an illegitimate government,' one user wrote.

'Thank God there's a camera there so we can watch them all come through in a nice orderly fashion,' another retorted.

'It's harder to get into most secure office buildings,' one added. 'Ridiculous.'

Since Biden allowed the pandemic-era policy to expire, crossings have been down roughly 50 percent.

Experts say the drop could be represented by migrants and smugglers who prey on their status as they assess the new regulatory regime.

The number of crossings is expected to rise again, some have indicated.

Title 42 allowed the U.S. to deny asylum to migrants who were seeking asylum.

Talking with reporters Monday, Biden said his administration has more work to do as migrants are filling processing centers to capacity.

'They have gone down my hope is that they'll continue to go down, and we have a lot more work to do,' Biden said while biking near his Rehoboth, Delaware beach house.

Many of the migrants are being released onto the streets with immigration court date appearances set far in the future.

One Venezuelan told the Washington Examiner he faces an Oregon court date a year away – and his mother 'was told to wait 10 years before she can see a judge.'

A 39-year-old Venezuelan man was told to appear in court on March 11, 2027.

'And we need some more help from the Congress as well in terms of funding and legislative changes,' Biden said.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared on ABC's 'This Week' to push the message that the Biden administration had succeeded in advertising that the nation's borders were not open.

DailyMail.com was at the border in Yuma, Arizona, on Thursday night when hundreds of people raced to cross into the U.S. before Title 42 ended.

But, the following morning, the place was all but deserted. Experts said they believed migrants and people smuggling gangs were trying to get to grips with a new set of immigration policies.

Mayorkas admitted it was still too early to say that numbers had peaked, but he said Washington's message was getting through.

'We have communicated very clearly a vitally important message to the individuals who are thinking of arriving at our southern border: There is a lawful, safe and orderly way to arrive in the United States,' he said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12087863/US-Army-soldier-opens-gate-let-huge-horde-migrants-PRIVATE-Texas-property.html 

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Fed Up Yet?

You would think the Fed wanted housing to become as overpriced as possible, having supported the market with $2.575 trillion in purchases of mortgaged back securities on its balance sheet to keep those securities flowing through with very low yields. That translated downward, of course, to very low mortgage rates, which the Fed sustained throughout the post-Covid years when housing prices were skyrocketing at their fastest rate to toward their highest prices ever, making housing unaffordable for just about everyone.

You would think they wanted to create and pop a housing bubble, having kept that acceleration up all the way to the second they pulled the plug on the market with interest hikes. Why else would you accelerate and accelerate without need and then slam on the brakes and aim for the curb unless you wanted to send someone’s head through the windshield?

It makes one think there are reasons behind the scene, since accelerating an inflamed housing market up to the moment of its intentional crash doesn’t make sense on the surface of things. Were there nameless hedge funds to save? Who was the Fed helping, or are their heads simply so full of tarantulas that, from a monetary or an economic standpoint, this acceleration into a hard stop made sense to them?

Busting Banks 101

You’d also think the Fed wanted to bust some smaller banks. It could have done its required oversight and made sure that bank reserves were adequate by simply seeing how much of each bank’s reserves were tied up in Treasuries that the Fed knew it was about to crash with a long roll off of Treasuries from its aforesaid balance sheet and a long period of the steepest interest-rate increases in history. It could have insisted several month before it started to tighten that banks ready their reserves for what was coming. That would have been easy. I mean before they began this path:

When you know you are going to climb that yellow mountain, which the Fed began forecasting before each rate hike, then you do something to get all your little chicks in a rowunless you really don’t care about them.

You’d also think the Fed wanted to bust small banks when it deprived the little guys that are not “systemic” from infinite deposit insurance while assuring everyone listening that the biggest guys would be fully covered without limit. You’d think that was an almost intentional effort to harm little banks because anyone who had not recently been lobotomized would have to know that such a proclamation would cause even more deposits to flee smaller banks in order to head for that free extra security. You had to know, so that must have been what the Fed wanted. Right?

That must be so that big banks like JPM can eat the little ones up for a cheap lunch because that is who they keep selling the little guys to once they’re all busted up — the banks that were already too fat to pop without blowing up the world.

It’s good to have friends with money presses

But, hey, at least the Fed has friends who have long been buying up a lot of America to keep the US stock market floating, such as the Swiss National Bank:

Yes, they own a lot of everything. Let us consider how they get the money for that: They create Swiss francs from the thin alpine air where the Swiss money grows. Then they buy Euros and translate them into Dollars. So far nobody’s raised a sweat. All this is done with a tab of a computer key. And then the SNB calls its friendly broker – I guess UBS – and buys the ears off of the US stock exchange. All of it with money that didn’t exist. That too, is something a little bit new.

— James Grant

It’s nice to have friends who have money … and a money printer so they can just buy up stocks to lift a friend’s market whenever they want and never worry about whether they lose it all because they can … (drum roll) just print more money. It’s been going on for years.

Always serving the too-big-to fail and crushing the little guy

Remember the friendly Fed from back in Gramma Yellen’s day when she routinely told us that the Fed wanted to get wages up for the average person so that the economy was more equitable. Remember how she said the Fed could not understand why their economic stimulus was only raising the incomes of the wealthy? It was such a mystery as to why giving all the trillions you printed with your money press to big banks would only make the wealthy wealthier.

I do recall her lip service to that concern, but I cannot say that I ever paid any attention to it as being credible. Now, when inflation is here, they sure seem bent on taking inflation down to keep the wage price spiral from finally helping the little guy out … er, I mean, making inflation worse. They seem to be good at making sure the little guy feels the hit the hardest as they almost appear to aim for job losses, though they claim that is not their objective … because what else can you claim without getting tarred and feathered?

We actually did see a slow gain in inflation-adjusted wages over past decades, which eventually got us back to where we were in the Nixon days before the Fed was given more power over the economy with the abandonment of the gold standard:

Interestingly, the big crash in wages started the year after the Fed received its mandate of maintaining a strong labor market:

Since 1977, the Federal Reserve has operated under a mandate from Congress to “promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long term interest rates.”

Richmond Fed

So, that went well for labor!

Fortunately, they are getting that final little spike in wages back under control, and just in time since earnings have been down this past quarter for stockholders. So, that’s a plus … if you’re a stockholder … to know wage costs will come down so you can maintain your margins. It’s nice to have friends with a money printer.

Replaying bubble history

You would think the Fed would have known that years and years of near-zero interest would lure investors into loans for cheap money to invest that would become impossible to keep paying when funded by bonds or other methods that have to be rolled over now at more than five times the origination cost. Refinancing, after all, is typical with commercial real estate. Notice, I said, “YOU would think,” not the Fed. It apparently doesn’t think. At least, not like you and me for whom these things are as obvious as two plus two equals, at least, more than two. That major increase in interest is compounded, of course, by falling rents:

The commercial real estate bubble is going to be serious when it bursts, and it is already collapsing. Office space is not in great demand with the result that many office buildings are half empty. When the time comes for renewing loans for financing projects, there are going to be multiple bankruptcies. This sector of the economy is going to suffer. Investors should try to get out of commercial real estate funds while the getting is still good.

Seeking Alpha

You would think the Fed might have seen that as a potential commercial real-estate (and therefore future banking) catastrophe. It almost seems they don’t see it still! Since the rest of us can see it coming, a major real-estate crash must be part of the plan, but for some reason the Fed doesn’t want to let us know it’s coming, even though it is inevitable with lower rents, fewer tenants and higher refi rates. It’s just math, and notice I adjusted the math puzzle for the Fed to a simple “more than two” will be close enough to suffice for a passing grade, but I guess the Fed just cannot grasp it.

Oddly, this is awfully similar to the real-estate crash they appeared to have engineered back in 2008, which they also didn’t see coming, only focusing more on commercial real estate this time. I guess that is just part of the rinse-and-repeat plan with a twist, as I wrote about in Downtime, a book about the present collapse that was simple to write because I just copied what I wrote about the last collapse!

Either the Fed is a slower learner than the rest of us, having learned nothing since 2008 and seeing none of the sureties in this collapse that the rest of us can see, or breaking things badly is just part of the plan. Maybe their simple heads are full of butterflies … or their evil heads are full of vampire bats from hell. Hard to say. If I were to give them the benefit of every doubt and be more than generous in spirit, I’d say they are just terribly dumb! However, many would judge me as as being far too kind. I certainly won’t waste time arguing on the Fed’s behalf!

See: “They can’t be this stupid.”

Apparently they can. They have a knack.

And, if they didn’t want bubbles, they wouldn’t blow them.

Still free to criticize until tomorrow

OK, but, at least, we can complain about it, free from concerns of censorship now that Elon Musk owns Twitter and has made the World Economic Forum’s Chair of the “Taskforce on the Future of Work” Twitter’s new CEO. Right? She was also on the WEF’s steering committee for “Media, Entertainment and Culture,” a group that sought solutions to stop the spreading of misinformation online.

The key to failing and winning is to fail big

Always remember, the key to assured success is that you simply need to become too big to fail. That was one of the tenets of my book … that and have a friend with a money printer. If either the Dems or the Repubs wanted to actually regulate banking back in the days of Dodd-Frank, they would have simply put Glass-Steagall back in place, saving themselves a lot of deliberation time with a tried-and-true regulation, and they would have broken up the nation’s largest banks like they did Ma Bell; but solving the problem of too big to fail that they keep grumbling about, as if they cared, and of corrupt and greedy banks was clearly never really the agenda was it? If it were, they wouldn’t keep making the biggest ones bigger. Obviously!

But, hey, if we didn’t keep the major bank CEOs in place as billionaires, how would our credit cards keep working when we need them just to pay the light bill due to Fedflation?

Now, getting back to those MBS and that Fed balance sheet that is full of them, which helped create all this inflation, in the end, Fedonomics is just math and can be graphed like this by those who aren’t really good at math:

https://thegreatrecession.info/blog/fed-up-yet/ 

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etc hour is getting very close.  The earthquakes shall now get bigger, far bigger, far bigger, more powerful, the tornadoes and the hurricanes, oh you will see storms like the world has not seen, volcanoes like the world does not remember. Oh the things that are about to take place simply because it is my timing, etc

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This Week in Volcano News; Mount Etna Erupts, Krakatau Lava Fountain

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This week saw a new volcanic eruption briefly occur at the Mount Etna volcano in Italy. Meanwhile, Krakatau produced a 1 kilometer high lava fountain, representing an unusually high type of this feature from a typically more explosive volcano. And, in Japan, there is a chance that the alert level of the Azumayama volcano might be raised in response to a slow increase of low frequency earthquakes and volcanic tremor events. This video will discuss these stories & list the 42 volcanoes which are actively erupting across the planet.

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For I say unto you, my children, don’t be concerned or worried about the time, says the Lord, but I say unto you, be ready, says the Lord, to be ready, says the Lord, for my fig tree is budded, says the Lord. Are you aware of what is going on over in Israel, says the Lord? Therefore, I say unto you, look, look and see what I have said unto you, says the Lord, my fig tree has budded. Are you ready, says the Lord, for I am soon coming, says the Lord?

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Mockers Have Come

By Hal Lindsey

Signs of the end of the age continue to increase in number and intensity. The Bible presents many such signs, including this surprising one in 2 Peter 3:3-4. “Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.’”

It’s surprising because these people should know better. They are the ones who have heard about the coming of the Lord for years. They know something about the Bible. Many of them are, or at least represent themselves as, believers. They often belong to, or even lead, churches. Yet they choose to mock. And what is the object of their mockery? The Lord Himself.

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they ask. We find “the promise of His coming” in the Lord’s own words. The fulfillment of His promise depends on His truthfulness and His faithfulness. That’s why to mock His promise is to mock the Lord Himself. Jesus said it plainly. He said it often and in many different ways. In John 14:3, He put it like this. “I will come again.”

What’s plainer than that? I…WILL…COME…AGAIN!

Can you imagine looking into His face and mocking that which He promised? Yet one prominent Christian leader explained why he stopped preaching on Bible prophecy. He said young people “don’t want to hear that.”

Are we now supposed to ignore major portions of the Bible because of what one demographic or another “wants” to hear? Should the whims of “itching ears” rule our pulpits? Jesus chided the religious leaders of His day for not understanding the signs of the time (Matthew16:14). What does Jesus now think of leaders who refuse to preach major portions of His message because young people “don’t want to hear that”?

Hebrews 9:28 says that Jesus will appear a second time “to those who eagerly await Him.” “Eagerly await” is the English translation of the Greek word apekdechomai. It means to look-for with joyous expectation. This passage uses the phrase “those who eagerly await Him” like a synonym for “the followers of Christ.” It’s not saying that we earn salvation by having the correct attitude about the Second Coming. But it does point to the fact that eagerly awaiting His return is the normal, healthy posture of those who follow Jesus.

Yet individual churches and whole denominations now eschew any mention of the Lord’s return. Many churches that once joyously taught the Second Coming, now treat it like a bad smell. Ironically, they have turned away from the teaching of Christ’s return at a time when signs of that return are flooding the world. Contemporary events serve as vivid evidence of the Bible’s reliability and accuracy. Yet many of those who say they preach the Bible refuse to let people know what’s really going on.

Marketing experts should not choose our sermon topics. We must preach what Acts 20:27 refers to as “the whole counsel of God,” and we must do so consistently.

The course of world events is again proving that the message God gave in the Bible is completely reliable. If we trust God, we will trust His word. When we trust His word, we are trusting Him.

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-5-7-2023/ 

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For I say unto you, my children, don’t be concerned or worried about the time, says the Lord, but I say unto you, be ready, says the Lord, to be ready, says the Lord, for my fig tree is budded, says the Lord. Are you aware of what is going on over in Israel, says the Lord? Therefore, I say unto you, look, look and see what I have said unto you, says the Lord, my fig tree has budded. Are you ready, says the Lord, for I am soon coming, says the Lord?

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IDF strikes Hamas posts in Gaza in response to renewed rocket fire

Israel confirmed that one rocket was fired from Gaza on Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours following an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEH, YONAH JEREMY BOB

Published: MAY 13, 2023 22:52 Updated: MAY 14, 2023 22:05

A fragile Egyptian-brokered Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad to end the five days of fighting between them that went into effect at 10 p.m. on Saturday night, was broken by rocket fire toward Gaza border communities and Ashkelon on Sunday afternoon.

The IDF confirmed that one rocket was fired from Gaza into Israel on Sunday afternoon, falling in an open area. The IDF struck observation posts belonging to Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip shortly after the rocket fire.

A source in the Joint Operations Rooms of the Palestinian Resistance Factions in Gaza told Al-Jazeera that the rocket was launched due to a "technical defect," stressing that "the resistance confirms its commitment to the ceasefire."

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-742947 

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Gold Demand Surges

Lena Petrova

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Gold Demand Surges As BRICS Central Banks Stockpile Record Amounts of Gold

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"It's Already Too Late, Things Are Getting Serious" | Gerald Celente

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In this video, Gerald Celente discusses various topics including the possibility of a drone strike on the Kremlin and the White House, the escalating situation in Ukraine, the economic outlook, and the lack of trust in central banks. He highlights the media's bias and encourages viewers to attend a Peace and Freedom rally in Kingston, New York. Celente also mentions the rising gold prices, the Fed's concern over commercial real estate, and the decline in public confidence in Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. He concludes by urging viewers to subscribe to the Trends Journal for comprehensive analysis and preparation.

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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..

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etc Pray about the earthquakes, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, pray about the hail, the snowstorms, the blizzards, pray concerning these things.  For the enemy is moving mightily in different areas to cause the price in your grocery stores to skyrocket and if you don’t pray this will affect you. etc.

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Aldi Products Are Getting 200% More Expensive As Grocery Shortages Spark Chaos At Stores

Epic Economist

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Is Aldi really the cheapest discount retailer out there? Consumers are certainly doubting this right now. An updated report released by grocery market data collection company Greenbook revealed that food prices are rising faster at Aldi stores than at other big box retailers this year, marking the second consecutive year the grocer reports the biggest price increases in the entire industry. In this video, we tracked which items are seeing the sharpest price hikes at Aldi – spoiler alert: some have experienced a 200% jump since the pandemic. On top of that, we also compiled several data, customer feedback, and expert analyses about which products shoppers typically think are cheaper at Aldi but, in reality, they are not.

According to Greenbook’s March analysis of grocery prices at 11 major US retailers released last week, Aldi has reported grocery price inflation of 26.7% in February, slightly up from the 23.4% recorded the same time a year ago, and about 9.6% higher than the average inflation rate seen at other retailers like Publix, Target, and Costco, which reported a 17.1% surge. That marks the second consecutive year that Aldi prices rose faster than the prices of its rivals over a 12-month period. U.S. consumers have been coping with sustained increases in their grocery bills since late 2021 which is having a big impact on their lives and the way they have been spending their money.

Aldi Brand products remain 19.7% higher than they were in 2019, the data showed. But name-brand items are still more expensive, rising on average by 21.6%, according to Greebook’s analysis of inflation on more than 25,000 food and drink productsMashed reports that some of the staples that registered the biggest spikes in price are cornflakes, mozzarella, brie, frozen strawberries, soda, oatmeal, fish sticks, protein bars, and energy drinks – all more than doubling in price at Aldi stores.

Consumers aren’t taking the latest price surges lying down. In recent weeks, Reddit has been in shambles over the 200% jump seen in Aldi egg prices. A post shows a photo of large grade-A eggs with a price of $3.69 per dozen. The top comment is that with the price of these eggs, one might as well pay the extra dollar and a quarter for the premium version. Some commenters even said organic eggs were currently priced the same as non-organic eggs near them. When Greenbook evaluated prices at the chain in March 2022, a dozen eggs at Aldi cost $1.10. That's over a 200% increase in price over a little more than a year.

“Worryingly our tracker shows that some everyday essentials have more than doubled in price over the last year – with name brand items particularly hard hit,” the analysts noted. On Facebook, another loyal customer shared the story of a very frustrating shopping experience he had at Aldi. With a shopping car containing only 8 items, the shopper was incredibly shocked to see a grocery bill of $45. The consumer took to a local community group on the platform to ask “What’s happening to Aldi?” after the bill.

It seems like conditions are deteriorating for everyone in the grocery market at this point, and the biggest losers, unfortunately, will be average U.S. consumers. There is no single answer that explains why food prices are still reaching new records, but even so, we must start adjusting our budgets accordingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lJjXqCbF4 

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Rev 6:4
4 And another horse appeared, a red one. Its rider was given a mighty sword and the authority to remove peace from the earth. And there was war and slaughter everywhere. (NLT)

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Beware of the troubles of the world, there is war going on right now, are you even aware of that, most are not, they walk as if peace is going on and yet the enemy is rising up in many areas, deceiving many and leading many astray.  And they’re preparing for war without brains, for they have nobody to lead them anymore, so be in prayer, be in prayer.

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RADIOACTIVE PANIC: Russians Missiles Hit Ukrainian Ammunition Depot in Khmelnytsky Causing Massive Explosion – Cache of British Depleted Uranium Tank Shells Destroyed – Gamma Radiation Spikes in the Region’s Atmosphere

by Paul Serran May. 14, 2023 3:35 pm2508 Comments

The West’s proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine has led to progressively more deadly weapons systems and ammunition to be delivered to Zelensky’s Nazi regime.

Possibly, the most controversial of these deliveries are the deadly radioactive shells for Challenger 2 tanks that the British government has given Ukraine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr commented on Instagram:

In another reckless escalation, Britain has confirmed delivery of depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine. DU munitions should be banned. They partially vaporize on impact, poisoning the environment with uranium dust that causes cancer and horrific birth defects.”

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On Saturday, during a massive air and missile raid on Ukraine, Russian forces hit a ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky, in the western part of the country, causing gigantic explosions in the site.

Intel Slava reported:

It is worth noting that panic reports are spreading in Ukrainian social networks that during the detonation of an ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky, a large batch of British tank ammunition with depleted uranium, which was recently brought to Ukraine along with Storm Shadow missiles, was also destroyed. As a result of a huge explosion, particles of depleted uranium could be dispersed on the territory of the Khmelnytsky region, which, taking into account the experience of Yugoslavia and Iraq, could lead to an outbreak of cancer in the medium term.”

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It didn’t take long for the results of the impact to be measurable scientifically.

Slavyangrad on Telegram:

A clear spike in gamma radiation was detected in Khmelnitsky on or about May 12th, with emission continuing to rise the following day and remaining at the elevated level thereafter.

Considering how little gamma radiation comes from depleted uranium, this clear spike in gamma radiation in Khmelnitsky indicates that there was very large stockpile of the DU munitions that was destroyed, raising the uranium dust into the air.

By comparison, the towns of Ternopol, Khmilnik, and Novaya Ushitsa remained at their apparent regular, base levels. This indicates that the Khmelnitsky anomaly is indeed a spike and corroborates the claim that the stockpile in Khmelnitsky contained DU munitions.”

While the UK authorities dismissed the danger posed by this kinds of shells, the experience in Yugoslavia and Iraq has shown how deadly in the medium term these vaporized depleted uranium shells can be.

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7 doomsday scenarios if the U.S. crashes through the debt ceiling

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a press conference, at the G7 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, at Toki Messe in Niigata, Japan, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Federal workers furloughed. Social Security checks for seniors on hold. Soaring mortgage rates. A global financial system sent reeling.

Leaders from Congress and the White House are trying to forge an agreement to lift the federal debt ceiling, with only a few weeks before the Treasury Department may no longer be able to avert an unprecedented U.S. default. If they fail, and the government can't meet its payment obligations, economists and financial experts predict chaos.

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"It would be a lethal combination," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's. "You can see how this thing could really metastasize and take down the entire financial system, which would ultimately take out the economy."

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen has said the agency may only be able to sustain operations until June 1 before running out of money if the government can't borrow more. That specific deadline - known as the "X-date" - depends on tax revenue and spending, which can fluctuate dramatically from week to week.

What happens next is also hard to predict.

The cascading impacts of default would probably compound - a pause in federal payments would hurt the economy, which would hurt the stock market, which would in turn hurt the economy even more, and so on. The interactions between collapsing home values, rising interest rates and a destabilized global financial system are hard to calculate. Some estimates suggest that more than 8 million jobs could be wiped out. Mortgage rates might soar by more than 20 percent, according to some projections, and the economy would contract by as much as it did during the 2008 Great Recession.

But what economists stress above all else is the unpredictability - particularly if the breach lasts for weeks or months. Experts stress that the worst-case scenarios are unlikely if lawmakers only narrowly miss the deadline, perhaps by hours or even a few days, but that the risks rise dramatically should the standoff persist.

"We do not know: This has never happened," said Claudia Sahm, a liberal economist who worked at the Federal Reserve. "What makes me so concerned is I can't sketch out, and I don't think anyone can, is: What happens at X+1?"

Here are some outcomes that experts worry about most.

1. Stocks crash

Wall Street would probably be the first trouble spot.

So far, financial markets haven't swung much over the debt ceiling standoff. The price to hedge against a U.S. government default has risen, as has the cost of government bonds due around the debt ceiling deadline - reflecting doubt about repayment. But those tremors are not noticeable for most households.

That is expected to change the closer the government gets to a default. The shock of a missed payment would ripple across the financial system - stocks, bonds, mutual funds, derivatives - before spilling out into the broader economy, experts say.

Stocks would likely plummet on the expectation of a wider economic downturn, as interest rates rise and investors pull funds out of the market to preserve their access to short-term cash. A banking sector already wary of making new loans could tighten up further.

The last time the U.S. government neared default, stocks took a bruising. In 2011, the X-date was less than a week away during a standoff between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress. Major indexes fell by roughly 20 percent.

Moody's Analytics has estimated that stock prices could fall by roughly one-fifth, wiping out $10 trillion in household wealth and devastating the retirement accounts of millions of Americans. The White House has estimated that the decline could be closer to 45 percent.

The $46 trillion bond market would also tremble, as the values of existing Treasury bonds collapse due to higher yields on new ones. And businesses would likely halt expansion - driving stocks down even more.

2. A sudden recession

If the standoff persists, the impact would quickly spread from financial markets to the broader economy.

A drop in household wealth across the country, caused by a sell-off on Wall Street, would reduce consumer spending, which would hurt businesses, too.

And a spike in interest rates would make it harder to get a loan or start a small business. That could also crash the already cooling housing market. A recent report from Zillow projected that a default would drive mortgage rates above 8 percent and push housing sales down by a startling 23 percent. The construction industry and other sectors would feel the pain, too.

The most drastic impact might be a pause in regular federal payments to tens of millions of American families, including seniors on Medicare and Social Security and people relying on food stamps. The federal government is projected to spend roughly $6 trillion this year, which translates into roughly $16 billion per day. Not all of that goes directly to households, of course, but it's a huge amount of money to vanish from the economy overnight.

A 2013 report by the Treasury Department found the 2011 debt ceiling standoff caused a $2.4 trillion decline in total household wealth. The broader economy, the White House Council of Economic Advisers said, could contract by as much as 6 percent, similar to the 2008 Great Recession.

3. Federal workers in limbo

The U.S. government has a process for shutting down when Congress fails to approve a new budget: Agencies whose spending hasn't been approved prepare workers for furloughs, instructing certain "essential" staff that they will keep working without pay. There have been three shutdowns that lasted at least a full day over the past decade. Workers are all typically repaid afterward.

But hitting the debt ceiling might look nothing like that, experts say. The White House Office of Management and Budget has not yet disseminated instructions for a debt-related shutdown, which some budget analysts say would be difficult because there is no way of knowing which payments the government won't be able to make. That could change as the deadline nears, but as of now, there is no playbook for keeping even essential federal employees on the job.

The uncertainty could affect U.S. military personnel as well as food safety inspectors, air traffic controllers and workers in other vital jobs. The federal government is the largest employer in the country, with roughly 4.2 million full-time employees, according to the Congressional Research Service. The National Association of Government Employees, which represents nearly 75,000 federal workers, sued to challenge the constitutionality of the debt limit earlier this month, citing its potential impact on federal workers.

4. Social Security and Medicare miss payments

More than 60 million people receive monthly Social Security payments, mostly seniors. A similar number depend on Medicare for their health insurance.

Some Republicans have claimed that the federal government can continue making these payments even without borrowing by redirecting incoming tax revenue. But budget experts are skeptical the Treasury Department will have the ability to send seniors these benefits on time, particularly if the breach lasts for weeks or months.

If the government can still make some payments with incoming tax revenue, the administration might have to pick between sending checks to seniors and making interest payments on the debt. But forgoing those interest payments to keep Social Security and Medicare functioning could exacerbate what would likely be an already severe financial crisis in that doomsday scenario.

5. U.S. borrowing costs soar

The federal government is able to borrow money relatively cheaply because it's seen as a very safe credit risk - no one, in normal circumstances, expects that it might miss any payments.

The safety of U.S. government bonds has made them an essential building block in the world financial system. Serving as reserves for everything from foreign nations' central banks to money market funds, U.S. Treasurys are widely recognized as one of the most secure and liquid investments available, backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Any financial instrument whose value is based on Treasury bonds could be thrown out of whack after a debt ceiling breach, with a sharp drop in prices leading to volatility and uncertainty worldwide.

Economists say the discount the United States has enjoyed for decades on borrowing could end. One estimate by the Brookings Institution, a D.C.-based think tank, found that breaching the debt limit could increase federal borrowing costs by $750 billion over the next decade.

6. Economic problems spread worldwide

Many nations safeguard their finances by buying large amounts of U.S. government debt, widely regarded as one of the safest assets in the world. But breaching the debt ceiling could drive the value of those bonds down, hurting reserves for many nations.

Economists fear that would dramatically increase the ranks of the countries drowning in debt, like Sri Lanka and Pakistan, with a potential rise in protests and global geopolitical instability. The Federal Reserve's push to raise interest rates over the past year to curb inflation has already eroded the value of U.S. bond holdings for many nations. And according to the Council on Foreign Relations, more than half of the world's foreign currency reserves are held in U.S. dollars - roughly three times as much as any other currency.

7. The dollar drops, along with U.S. prestige

A default could hurt U.S. standing on the world stage, experts say, by revealing the depth of the country's internal political dysfunction.

Already, financial experts have been following some early signs that the world economy is beginning to shed its dependence on the dollar, with countries such as Brazil and Malaysia calling for nations to trade more frequently in other currencies. Roughly 60 percent of foreign currency exchanges still happen in dollars, but a default on U.S. debt - which could send the value of the greenback reeling - could change that.

As Yellen, in Japan on Thursday, said to reporters about a default: "It would also risk undermining U.S. global economic leadership and raise questions about our ability to defend our national security interests."

Something more fundamental may also be at stake. Governments' credibility is tied in part to their ability to respond to a crisis. A debt ceiling breach would cast doubt on the federal government's capacity not only to respond to an emergency, but also to fulfill one of its most elementary functions - paying the bills. If the United States can't do that, citizens and leaders in other countries might wonder, what else can't it manage anymore?

"It would erode global confidence in our political system, because part of our standing in the world is based on international confidence that our political system is basically functional," said Daniel Bergstresser, associate professor of finance at Brandeis University's International Business School. "And this would show it isn't."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-doomsday-scenarios-u-crashes-130816570.html 

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May 14, 2023

The Numbers That Are Being Hidden From Americans By The Media: Everyday Staples Are More Than Double The Overall Food Inflation Percentage The MSM Talks About

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

As the Biden regime their puppets in the media are touting "overall inflation" numbers, which are at 4.9%, year over year, food inflation is still significantly higher. Food has risen 7.7% since April 2022, with certain categories rising far more than others, such as cereals (12.4% year over year increase), baked products (12.4%), and what is dubbed "other food at home" coming in at a 10.4% increase.

While that graphic is concerning enough it doesn't capture the big picture as much as the following screenshot does:

The numbers above represent year over year for January, February, March and April of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, with May represented for 2020, 2021 and 2022, with the numbers for May 2023 to be released on June 13, 2023.

So in April 2020, food inflation was 3.5%, and by the next year, it has risen another 2.4%, and the following year, 2022, it had risen yet another 9.4%, with the Biden regime and the media hailing 2023's 7.7% increase as a "drop" in inflation, while never acknowledging that since 2020, food prices have rising nearly 20%.

Is it any wonder that nearly 50% of Americans say food is their biggest monthly expense, more than their combined utilities or credit card debt?

Interestingly the quote I am about to use, not only shows that food is the biggest expense for many, but also makes the perfect example of how the media is gaslighting the American public by asserting the 7.7% increase for April "will be welcomed news to consumers."

This latest set of data will be welcomed news to consumers, as groceries take out a big chunk of paychecks every month. Indeed, almost half of Americans (48%) said their grocery costs are eating up most of their monthly budget, even before utility bills (38%) and credit card debt (37%), according to a survey conducted by OnePoll and UserTesting and reported by Talker.

The survey also found that groceries are the top monthly budget spend across generations, with 48% for Gen Z, 55% for Millennials, 45% for Gen X and 47% for Boomers.

Yes, I am sure that paying an additional, overall, 7.7% for food (the average between food at home and eating out) in 2023, is "welcome news" to those struggling to pay their monthly bills.....Not.

More from that article before moving along:

Prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs also declined 0.3% over the month. Eggs, which have been a symbol of inflation with exploding prices, dropped 1.5% for the month — a 21.4% annual increase.

Eggs were one of the largest increases for the year, in addition to margarine, which saw a 23.8% increase; flour and flour prepared mix, with a 17.8% increase; frozen vegetables, with an 18.9% increase; and cookies, with a 15.9% increase.

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NEW EXPECTED SHORTAGES ANNOUNCED

We do see some of the food issues and shortages from 2022 carrying over into 2023, but unsurprisingly we notice some new items added to the list.

Wheat and bread are two of the consumables that have seen shortages globally due to a number of reasons, wheat being used for not only breads but pasta, muffins, tortillas and baked products, one of the reasons that cereals and baked goods are still seeing the highest inflation prices year over year.

There is no end in sight, so for those that have not learned yet to make your own flour, and bake your own breads, make your own pastas and cereals, putting it off is just going to cost you more in the long run.

Get wheat berries (while still affordable), a grain mill, and make your own breads, biscuits, crackers, from scratch. Within the first couple of months, the berries and mill will have paid for itself in savings by not having to buy any of those products at the grocery store.

According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), flours and prepared flour mixes have risen 17.8% year over year.

Wheat Berries

Wheatland™ Hard White Wheat Berries • 25 lbs Bucket, Mylar Liner & Oxy Pack • Emergency Food Storage • Family Farmed in Utah/Idaho • 13.9% Protein • Non-GMO • Lab Tested Chemical-Free • Premium Quality • Sproutable • 25 Year Shelf Life

Wheatland™ Hard Red Wheat Berries • 25 lbs Bucket, Mylar Liner & Oxy Pack • Emergency Food Storage • Family Farmed in Utah/Idaho • 13.8% Protein • Non-GMO • Lab Tested Chemical-Free • Premium Quality • Sproutable • 25 Year Shelf Life

Grain Mills: (Different price ranges)

Grain Mill 150g High Speed Food Electric Stainless Steel Grinder Mill Seeds Flour Nut Pill Wheat Corn Herbs Spices & Seasonings Grinder Dry Grain Superfine Powder Machine

OKF Grain Mills Electric Stainless Steel Grain Grinder Mill High-speed Cereals Corn Herb Spice Flour Mill Commercial Grade Machine Dry Grain Grinder

Powerful High Speed Electric Grain Mill Grinder for Healthy Gluten-Free Flours - Grain Grinder Mill, Wheat Grinder, Flour Mill Machine and Flour Mill Grinder for Home and Professional Use - Wondermill

This will be especially handy if you live in one the 76 counties in the United States that do not have a single grocery store. With gas prices expected to rise again, growing food, and learning to make your own flours and baked products, especially if you live in one of those 76 counties, may be the difference between eating properly or having to skip multiple meals each week.

Another carry-over from 2022 is rice, which is expected to see a drop in production the largest seen in almost 20 years.

According to an analysis from the data and research firm Fitch Solutions, the drop in rice production predicted for 2023 will be the largest in nearly two decades—estimated to result in a deficit of approximately 8.7 million tons.

Also according to the CPI, as seen in the screen shot above, there has been a 10% price increase for rice year over year, do to a number of reasons, including weather in both China, the largest rice producer, and Pakistan, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Augason Farms Long Grain White Rice Emergency Food Storage 24 Pound Pail

Augason Farms Long Grain Brown Rice Emergency Food Storage 24 Pound Pail

Wheatland™ White Rice • Delicious • Healthy Food Option • 20 lbs. Bulk Rice • Mylar and Bucket Provide 25 Year Shelf Life • Emergency Food Storage • Non-GMO • High Trust Seller • 40 Year Legacy of Prepping

Via the 'Eat This, Not That' website, sugar is already an issue for 2023:

Summer 2023 may be a little more bitter than sweet due to a looming sugar shortage. The price of sugar has already hit decade highs this year, and is currently sitting at a cost almost 13% higher than what consumers faced last year.

Candies have also gone up more than 10%, so learning to make your own, will save some money, more for those with a huge sweet tooth!

May 14, 2023

The Numbers That Are Being Hidden From Americans By The Media: Everyday Staples Are More Than Double The Overall Food Inflation Percentage The MSM Talks About

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

As the Biden regime their puppets in the media are touting "overall inflation" numbers, which are at 4.9%, year over year, food inflation is still significantly higher. Food has risen 7.7% since April 2022, with certain categories rising far more than others, such as cereals (12.4% year over year increase), baked products (12.4%), and what is dubbed "other food at home" coming in at a 10.4% increase.

While that graphic is concerning enough it doesn't capture the big picture as much as the following screenshot does:

The numbers above represent year over year for January, February, March and April of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, with May represented for 2020, 2021 and 2022, with the numbers for May 2023 to be released on June 13, 2023.

So in April 2020, food inflation was 3.5%, and by the next year, it has risen another 2.4%, and the following year, 2022, it had risen yet another 9.4%, with the Biden regime and the media hailing 2023's 7.7% increase as a "drop" in inflation, while never acknowledging that since 2020, food prices have rising nearly 20%.

Is it any wonder that nearly 50% of Americans say food is their biggest monthly expense, more than their combined utilities or credit card debt?

Interestingly the quote I am about to use, not only shows that food is the biggest expense for many, but also makes the perfect example of how the media is gaslighting the American public by asserting the 7.7% increase for April "will be welcomed news to consumers."

This latest set of data will be welcomed news to consumers, as groceries take out a big chunk of paychecks every month. Indeed, almost half of Americans (48%) said their grocery costs are eating up most of their monthly budget, even before utility bills (38%) and credit card debt (37%), according to a survey conducted by OnePoll and UserTesting and reported by Talker.

The survey also found that groceries are the top monthly budget spend across generations, with 48% for Gen Z, 55% for Millennials, 45% for Gen X and 47% for Boomers.

Yes, I am sure that paying an additional, overall, 7.7% for food (the average between food at home and eating out) in 2023, is "welcome news" to those struggling to pay their monthly bills.....Not.

More from that article before moving along:

Prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs also declined 0.3% over the month. Eggs, which have been a symbol of inflation with exploding prices, dropped 1.5% for the month — a 21.4% annual increase.

Eggs were one of the largest increases for the year, in addition to margarine, which saw a 23.8% increase; flour and flour prepared mix, with a 17.8% increase; frozen vegetables, with an 18.9% increase; and cookies, with a 15.9% increase.

(ANP EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER: Due to a heavy, new censorship campaign by 'big tech' upon ANP articles, we're being forced to run an emergency fundraising drive. We also want to thank everybody who has donated to ANP over the years. With donations and ad revenue all that keep ANP online, if you're able, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this fight for America's future at this absolutely critical time in US history.

During a time of systematic, 'big tech' censorship and widespread institutional corruption, truth-seeking media and alternative views are crucial, and EVERY little bit helps more than you could know!) 

NEW EXPECTED SHORTAGES ANNOUNCED

We do see some of the food issues and shortages from 2022 carrying over into 2023, but unsurprisingly we notice some new items added to the list.

Wheat and bread are two of the consumables that have seen shortages globally due to a number of reasons, wheat being used for not only breads but pasta, muffins, tortillas and baked products, one of the reasons that cereals and baked goods are still seeing the highest inflation prices year over year.

There is no end in sight, so for those that have not learned yet to make your own flour, and bake your own breads, make your own pastas and cereals, putting it off is just going to cost you more in the long run.

Get wheat berries (while still affordable), a grain mill, and make your own breads, biscuits, crackers, from scratch. Within the first couple of months, the berries and mill will have paid for itself in savings by not having to buy any of those products at the grocery store.

According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), flours and prepared flour mixes have risen 17.8% year over year.

Wheat Berries

Wheatland™ Hard White Wheat Berries • 25 lbs Bucket, Mylar Liner & Oxy Pack • Emergency Food Storage • Family Farmed in Utah/Idaho • 13.9% Protein • Non-GMO • Lab Tested Chemical-Free • Premium Quality • Sproutable • 25 Year Shelf Life

Wheatland™ Hard Red Wheat Berries • 25 lbs Bucket, Mylar Liner & Oxy Pack • Emergency Food Storage • Family Farmed in Utah/Idaho • 13.8% Protein • Non-GMO • Lab Tested Chemical-Free • Premium Quality • Sproutable • 25 Year Shelf Life

Grain Mills: (Different price ranges)

Grain Mill 150g High Speed Food Electric Stainless Steel Grinder Mill Seeds Flour Nut Pill Wheat Corn Herbs Spices & Seasonings Grinder Dry Grain Superfine Powder Machine

OKF Grain Mills Electric Stainless Steel Grain Grinder Mill High-speed Cereals Corn Herb Spice Flour Mill Commercial Grade Machine Dry Grain Grinder

Powerful High Speed Electric Grain Mill Grinder for Healthy Gluten-Free Flours - Grain Grinder Mill, Wheat Grinder, Flour Mill Machine and Flour Mill Grinder for Home and Professional Use - Wondermill

This will be especially handy if you live in one the 76 counties in the United States that do not have a single grocery store. With gas prices expected to rise again, growing food, and learning to make your own flours and baked products, especially if you live in one of those 76 counties, may be the difference between eating properly or having to skip multiple meals each week.

Another carry-over from 2022 is rice, which is expected to see a drop in production the largest seen in almost 20 years.

According to an analysis from the data and research firm Fitch Solutions, the drop in rice production predicted for 2023 will be the largest in nearly two decades—estimated to result in a deficit of approximately 8.7 million tons.

Also according to the CPI, as seen in the screen shot above, there has been a 10% price increase for rice year over year, do to a number of reasons, including weather in both China, the largest rice producer, and Pakistan, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Augason Farms Long Grain Brown Rice Emergency Food Storage 24 Pound Pail

Wheatland™ White Rice • Delicious • Healthy Food Option • 20 lbs. Bulk Rice • Mylar and Bucket Provide 25 Year Shelf Life • Emergency Food Storage • Non-GMO • High Trust Seller • 40 Year Legacy of Prepping

Via the 'Eat This, Not That' website, sugar is already an issue for 2023:

Summer 2023 may be a little more bitter than sweet due to a looming sugar shortage. The price of sugar has already hit decade highs this year, and is currently sitting at a cost almost 13% higher than what consumers faced last year.

Candies have also gone up more than 10%, so learning to make your own, will save some money, more for those with a huge sweet tooth!

How to Make Candy: A Guide to Making Homemade Confectionary - boiled sweets, taffies, fruit candies, butterscotch, fondants, creams and more

The Sweet Book of Candy Making: From the Simple to the Spectacular-How to Make Caramels, Fudge, Hard Candy, Fondant, Toffee, and More!

Mayonnaise is another food expected to see some shortages and/or price hikes due the still to-high cost of eggs, which is the main ingredient.

Normally we recommend making overly expensive items yourself, but with the cost of eggs, making a jar as big as the one you can buy at the store, will cost quite a bit more, so just stock up just in case.

Hellmann's Mayonnaise Real Mayo For A Creamy Condiment For Sandwiches And Simple Meals Gluten Free, Made With 100% Cage-Free Eggs 30 Fl Oz (Pack of 3),Packaging may vary

Best Foods Real Mayonnaise Creamy Condiment for Simple Meals Mayonnaise Sandwich Spread 15 oz, Pack of 4

Fruits are also on the list, namely strawberries, oranges and grapefruits. Juices made from the three have also seen a large rise in costs.

• Juices and nonalcoholic drinks have risen 10.4% since last April.

• Carbonated drinks rose 11.9%.

• Frozen noncarbonated juices and drinks rose 9.4%.

• Nonfrozen noncarbonated juices and drinks also rose 9.4%.

Those prices are expected to rise even more throughout 2023.

At the bottom of this article, under the videos, the entire CPI report is embedded. Starting on page #10 it separates all foods, not just by category, but individual items, which is pretty shocking when we never see the highest individual items mentioned in news reports.

Such as:

• White Bread, at a 14.3% rise.

• Rice, pasta and cornmeal rose by 10.3%

• Bread other than white rose at 10.8%

• Cookies rose at 15.9%

• Crackers and cracker products rose 13.1%

• Eggs rose 21.4%

• Spices, seasonings, condiments and sauces rose 10.3%

Readers should really look through every consumable on the list to get a better idea of how much the MSM is simply refusing to tell Americans.

BOTTOM LINE

The specific numbers list above are being hidden from Americans by the media, on behalf of the Biden regime.

It is easy to report a 7.7% food increase from one year to the next, especially without adding it to the increase from the year before, and the one before that, but when everyday staples have risen in cost far more than the "overall" average of food inflation, it is no wonder that nearly 50 percent of households are spending more on food than any other bill.

The numbers you will see in the CPI report for April, embedded below, should be a huge wake up call. Start on page 10 to get to the numbers the media isn't reporting on.

https://allnewspipeline.com/Food_Numbers_Being_Hidden.php 

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Put your money, your time, your efforts into what I tell you to do, for I will cause you to have a victory such as you have never seen. And it shall be so clear, yes; it shall be so clear what you are all to do. Yes, for I shall speak to you, my power shall be awesome and miracles shall come to pass. It shall not be the fake gold or the fake feathers or the false shaking or the animal noises or the falling under the power and not coming away with permanent results or changed lives. My prophetic shall speak concerning things to come in a clear concise manner that no one shall want to miss or read second hand. For they will want to hear it under the anointing of the prophets and to receive the anointing of the prophet that shall manifest miracles, signs and wonders. People shall now see the signs of the last days like never before. Not only in a strange and confusing weather, the heat, the drought, the floods, the forest fires, the volcanoes, lack of jobs, shortage of money, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, straight wind, electrical storms, electrical shortages, hail, locusts, pestilence’s, the sicknesses, terrorists attacks, wars, the uniting of the false church under the false prophet, the rise of the anti-christ, the riots, the crime, the drugs, alcoholism, great open gay activities and movies, more open sex on TV, more street people, homeless, lack of crops, food shortages, great fear in those who do not know me. No peace as my word says for the world. The UN taking more control, martial law established, rationing and many more disasters that shall now begin to come. etc.

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Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants: advocates

By Bernadette Hogan and  Kate Sheehy May 12, 2023 7:11pm Updated

Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, says a nonprofit group that works with the vets.

The ex-military — including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan — were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that their temporary housing was getting pulled out from under them at the establishments and that they’d have to move on to another spot, according to the group and a sickened local pol.

Our veterans have been placed in another hotel due to what’s going on with the immigrants,’’ said Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation.

Toney-Finch, a disabled military veteran, created YIT to raise awareness of premature births, as well as helping the homeless and low-income military service veterans in need of living assistance.

One of the vets called me on Sunday,’’ she said.

He told me he had to leave because the hotel said the extended stay is not available. Then I got another call.

“We didn’t waste any time,’’ the advocate said.

“That’s when we started on Monday to organize when and where to move them all.

“I am glad you called me today,’’ she told The Post.

Last night, I was crying.”

Toney-Finch said 15 of the veterans got the heave-ho from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh about 60 miles north of New York City in Orange County — a new epicenter of Big Apple’s migrant crisis since Mayor Eric Adams began bussing Gotham’s overflow there against local officials’ wishes.

The other five displaced veterans were split between two other local facilities — the Super 8 and Hampton Inn & Suites in Middletown, Toney-Finch said.

The Middletown hotels are not believed to have migrants yet but were reportedly on the city’s shortlist to take some.

She said the hotels didn’t explicitly say the vets had to move because of the migrants but that it was clear to her that was the case, given the timing.

All 20 of the booted veterans have ended up at a Hudson Valley hotel about 20 minutes away, said Toney-Finch, who asked that The Post not name the site.

The Crossroads, Super 8 and the hotel where the vets are now staying had no comment when contacted by The Post on Friday.

Hampton Inn did not immediately respond to a message left on voicemail.

Toney-Finch said the veterans had originally been set to temporarily stay at the three hotels for up to four weeks, till permanent housing for them could be found.

The vets were about two weeks into their hotel stays when they got the boot, she said.

Now we have to work from ground zero. We just lost that trust [with the vets],” the organizer said.

A lot of them are Vietnam veterans. We do help them on a constant basis to get them benefits and help them find a place in society.”

State Assemblyman Brian Maher, a Republican who helps rep Orange County, said, “Shining a light on this is important because we need to make sure these hotels know how important it is to respect the service of our veterans before they kick [them] out of hotels to make room.”

They really ought to think about the impact on these people already going through a traumatic time,’’ he told The Post.

Whether you agree with asylum-seekers being here or not, we can’t just ignore these veterans that are in our charge that we are supposed to protect: the New Yorkers and Americans.”

We need to put them first.”

Toney-Finch said she believes it all comes down to money.

They want to get paid’’ more, she said of the hotels, referring to what her group shells out to get the vets housing compared to what the city is paying for each migrant.

“That’s so unfair, because at the end of the day, we are a small nonprofit, and we do pay $88 a day for a veteran to be there,” she said.

While it’s unclear what the city is paying upstate, various reported deals between the Big Apple and Manhattan hotels have called for payments such as $190 a night — part of an estimated $4.3 billion migrant price tag for taxpayers through spring 2024.

Adams began bussing migrants flooding the city to The Crossroads on Thursday — hours before a key federal immigration-rule change was set to take effect and feared to increase the influx even more.

Hizzoner’s move spurred a vicious war of words between Adams and officials in Orange and neighboring Rockland County, where the mayor also has threatened to bus migrants — till a lawsuit at least temporarily blocked the move.

Maher said it’s outrageous that veterans are getting caught in the crossfire of the migrant crisis.

“For these people only being there a few weeks, then to be told after having a level of trust developed, ‘Hey, you have to get out,’ That’s not right,’’ he said.

“One thing I’m doing today is my staff and I are putting together care packages to let them know: ‘Listen, we are embarrassed by this.’

“We put a bunch of things in the care package as well as cards for the veterans to say, ‘Thank you.’ ”

Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton

https://nypost.com/2023/05/12/homeless-vets-are-being-booted-from-ny-hotels-to-make-room-for-migrants-advocates/ 

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Is Israel On The Verge Of War?: PIJ Terrorists Fire Hundreds Of Rockets Following Targeted Israeli Operation

By Erick Stakelbeck May 11, 2023

Top Story Israel & Middle East

Israel is possibly on the verge of war.

How did this all begin? Operation Shield and Arrow is what Israel has named it. It began overnight Tuesday with a surprise attack, which is the only way to describe it. Israeli airstrikes in Gaza eliminated three top Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders.

One was the leader of Islamic Jihad operations in northern Gaza, the other was a member of the Islamic Jihad Military Council, and the third member directed Islamic Jihad activities in the West Bank. Now we call the West BankJudea and Samariabecause that’s what the Bible calls it. It is the Biblical heartland of Israel.

The Israeli airstrikes were a delayed response to what happened last week when Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched over 100 rockets at southern Israel.

Israel did not really have a significant response last week, and many were very critical of the Netanyahu government. The Netanyahu government certainly had the element of surprise because this was nearly a week after the rocket barrage. Israel acted, acted swiftly, and acted decisively in eliminating these three Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders and carrying out additional airstrikes in the strip against Islamic Jihad targets.

Hamas rules Gaza with an iron fist, but it works side by side with its fellow Iranian proxy, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. From time to time, they will launch rockets in tandem; so far, Hamas has set this one out and let Islamic Jihad go toe to toe with Israel.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad have what’s called a joint operations room. They work in tandem and are in constant contact. Most importantly, they’re in contact with their masters in Tehran and also with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. That entire ring of fire communicates on a daily basis.

Israel did not strike Hamas, which is a key point there. So far, it seems Hamas does not want to expand this, getting involved and having Israel unleash its wrath on them.

Israel carried out additional airstrikes throughout the past 24 hours. We did not see an immediate Islamic Jihad response. Many believe that the reason was that the Islamic Jihad was stunned. They did not expect what Israel did in eliminating overnight those three terror commanders.

Now today, they did begin to respond. This was inevitable; Israel knew that it was coming.

At the time of this report, over 600 rockets have been launched from Gaza towards Israel. Now, notice my wording here. I did not say that over 600 rockets have struck Israel. No, no, no. Over 600 rockets have been launched toward Israel. What happened to them?

Number one, Iron Dome has done its job. Israel’s groundbreaking and incredible, I believe God sent, missile defense system has intercepted a good number of these rockets.

Number two, a good number of these rockets—and we saw this in May 2021—fell inside of Gaza. They’re not making it over the border into Israel. Palestinian civilians are killed because the rockets launched by Palestinian terror groups are falling on Gaza homes, schools, and playgrounds. Israel has called this a double war crime, and rightly so.

The UN, the European Union, and the Biden administration are gnashing their teeth over Israel’s response to Islamic Jihad terror.

Remember, these groups, like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Lebanon, intentionally use civilians as human shields. These terrorists have no hesitation in using women, children, and the elderly, literally as human shields. What does Israel do? The Israel Defense Forces, along with the US military, have the strictest rules of engagement in the history of warfare. I do not say that lightly. If the IDF sees civilians used as human shields, they will abort the mission. Even if it’s a high-value terror target, they will abort the mission.

Sometimes people naively and frankly, from a lack of education and knowledge of the region and what’s going on, say, “Can’t they just get along? It’s an endless cycle of violence. They’re both to blame.” No, they’re not. There’s not a moral equivalency here between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Egypt is apparently feverishly trying to broker a truce between Islamic Jihad and Israel. Israel has good relations with Egypt. They have a peace treaty, and Egypt is in contact with these terror groups in Gaza.

The Palestinian terror groups will try right before the ceasefire is going to kick off; all of a sudden, one last volley of rockets will come into Israel so these terror groups can claim victory. We pray that’s not the case this time around. Right before the ceasefire, the fighting usually escalates.

So far, over 600 rockets have been fired, and several have hit homes in southern Israel. At least eight people have been hurt while running for bomb shelters in southern Israel and one killed.

I love the people of southern Israel, who are courageous and are dealing with this nonsense every single day. Folks, keep them in your prayers. In southern Israel, it is mandatory that they have a bomb shelter inside their homes.

I was in Ashkelon, which bore the brunt of those Hamas rockets in May 2021. It’s not just some homemade bottle rockets or fireworks being haphazardly launched out of Gaza. They are increasingly advanced and increasingly more precise.

Today, a massive rocket barrage has also targeted Tel Aviv and central Israel. Some 70-75% of the Israeli population lives in and around the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, hugging the Mediterranean coast. Now the rockets thankfully did not land in Tel Aviv; no one was hurt, but these terror groups have come a long way.

The big red line for Israel is in southern Lebanon, which possesses at least some precision-guided missiles… that’s a whole other level. Additionally, while Hamas and Islamic Jihad have tens of thousands of rockets between them, Hezbollah to the north has some 150,000 rockets and missiles pointed at every inch of Israel right now.

When rockets can reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and even towards Haifa in previous engagements, you know that Israel’s got a serious problem.

At the end of the day, it’s not about what Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hamas wants. It’s what their masters in Tehran want. It’s often been said that the Iranian regime will fight to the last drop of Arab blood, which is a sad commentary, but I think very true if you look at Iran’s proxies throughout the region.

We must prepare Israel for a multi-front war. I believe it’s a precursor to Ezekiel 38 and 39, the war of Gog and Magog. That’s the future war where God Almighty directly intervenes in a massive, mighty, undeniable way.

Israel needs a whole lot of prayer right now. We are mandated to pray for the land of Israel and to pray for the peace of Jerusalem as a follower of Jesus.

https://harbingersdaily.com/is-israel-on-the-verge-of-war-pij-terrorists-fire-hundreds-of-rockets-following-targeted-israeli-operation/ 

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etc. Throughout the world there is a struggle, throughout the world the antichrist pushes himself to the top, throughout the world the economy has gone over the hill into disaster zone.  Countries make ready for war and yet my people seem to be astonished, unlearned, not knowing, not understanding the things that are there or the things that are taught to them. Etc.

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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..

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Circa: Now!

Posted on May 12, 2023 by MN Gordon

America’s economic landscape is becoming littered with one steaming pile after another. The primary offenders include consumer price inflation, interest rates, gross domestic product, and unemployment. Here we’ll take a sniff of the unpleasant odor that’s wafting around us.

To begin, consumer price inflation is still well above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that consumer price inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, is increasing at an annual rate of 4.9 percent.

And even if you go by the Fed’s preferred inflation metric, the personal consumption expenditures price index, consumer prices are rising at an annual rate of 4.2 percent. This is still more than double the Fed’s selected target.

So, too, short-term interest rates are relatively high when compared to the last 15 years. By this, when you go from 0 percent to over 5 percent in a matter of 18 months the impact on credit markets can be both significant and adverse. As the former managers of Silicon Valley Bank recently discovered, ultra-safe Treasuries can quickly transform into risky assets.

At the same time, the unemployment rate is 3.4 percent. This is historically low. However, the labor participation rate is just 62.6 percent. So, it muddies the unemployment rate counts. For example, if the labor participation rate was at the level reached at the turn of the 21st century (i.e., 67.3 percent), the unemployment rate would be much, much higher.

Regardless, the unemployment rate can only go up from here. Now that credit is harder to come by for corporations and consumers, the economy is stalling. Job losses will follow.

Working Harder or Working Smarter

What we already know about the unemployment picture is that there have been massive layoffs in the high-paying technology sector. According to the latest counts from tech job tracker layoffs.fyi, there have been more than 350,000 technology jobs lost since the start of last year.

What’s more, in 2023 alone, not even six months into the New Year, technology companies have laid off nearly 200,000 employees. Some of these unemployed tech workers will presumably pursue new startups. Others will take whatever jobs are available.

Unfortunately, replacing these high-paying tech positions with low-paying service jobs won’t propel economic growth. Nor will the burgeoning nursing home assistant industry.

Spoon feeding creamed corn into senile mouths is a labor of love; and it should be celebrated. But it won’t help America compete globally in cutting edge – and more profitable – industries.

Finally, let’s consider economic growth. The Commerce Department recently reported that U.S. GDP increased at an annualized rate of 1.1 percent during Q1 2023. That’s hardly a horsehair of growth.

Yet for American workers, the economy’s already been in decline for two long years. Specifically, inflation adjusted wages have been falling over this time. This means American workers have been taking a pay cut, every month, for the last 24 months. Working harder or working smarter hasn’t paid off.

The economy, at this point, is likely already contracting. We just won’t officially know it until second quarter GDP is reported in July. By then, the confirmation will be a footnote on what is lining up to be one brutal summer.

So, based on this cursory review, what we see is an economy that’s slowing and slipping into reverse. Where unemployment is rising. Where consumer price inflation is persistently high. And where interest rates remain relatively high.

Roughly 45 years ago this situation also occurred. And it wasn’t pleasant. While today isn’t totally identical. There are similarities. This is especially true when considering the confusion these conditions produced for central planners and policy makers.

If you recall, the supposedly impossible happened in the late-1970s. Inflation and unemployment simultaneously went vertical. Leading economists were stumped. They claimed this could never happen. It contradicted their academic training.

The Phillips curve said there’s an inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment. When unemployment goes down, inflation goes up. Thus, when unemployment goes up, inflation goes down.

Economist William Phillips first sketched his curve using wage rates and unemployment data in the UK in the years 1861 to 1957. The plot of explicable order was exciting. With a simple graph, economists could explain how the world worked.

Happy cows are in clover. Mud don’t blow. What goes around comes around. Inflation and unemployment are inversely correlated.

The Phillips curve also had significant utility. It provided an economic model central planners could use to somehow optimize inflation and unemployment rates through economic intervention.

The dream of scientific management of the economy was, indeed, possible. Or, at least, it was thought to be.

So, how could it be, in the late-1970s, that both inflation and unemployment went up in tandem? According to the Phillips curve they were mutually exclusive. The graphs shown in economic textbooks said so.

In practice, the Phillips curve was elegant drivel. And like most elegant drivel, it was right until the precise moment it was wrong.

When unemployment began creeping up in the 1970s the U.S. Treasury, with backing from the Federal Reserve, did what Keynes had told them to do. They ran deficits to stimulate the economy and spur jobs creation.

Per the tenets of the Phillips curve, with rising unemployment the central planners could have their cake and eat it too. They could print money without price inflation.

Yet something entirely unexpected happened. Instead of jobs…they got inflation. Then, when they tried it again, they still didn’t get jobs. Rather, they got more price inflation.

Phillips’ study will forever stand as a shining example for why economic theory cannot possibly be derived from empirical data. The 1970s experience took its deliberate curves and twisted them inside out.

The 1970s episode of rising inflation and high unemployment also demonstrated the economy is hardly predictable. One decade people borrow money and spend it. The next, they save and pay down debt. No graphical curve can predict what way people’s behavior will swing from one period to the next.

Moreover, any pre-1971 dataset used to discern a relationship between inflation and unemployment was rendered useless once the last vestiges of gold were removed from the monetary system.

Logically, when the unemployment rate goes up the economy sinks. But when the unemployment rate goes down, shouldn’t the economy go back up? Not always.

From January 2010 to January 2020 the U.S. unemployment rate slid from 9.8 percent to 3.5 percent. But the economic boom over this time was hardly a boom at all. GDP growth was lethargic – averaging 2.3 percent over the entire decade.

And now, circa 2023, with low unemployment that can only move higher, a stagnating economy, persistently high inflation, and relatively high interest rates, what’s a lowly Fed Chair, with pre-tax income of $190,000 per year, to do?

All options are terrible. But remember, this is a mess that’s entirely of the Fed’s and Washington’s making. In this regard, you can count on the Fed to make things worse.

That’s what it’s good at. That’s what it shall do.

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Sincerely,

MN Gordon

for Economic Prism

https://economicprism.com/circa-now/ 

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5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Plumas County in Northern California, USGS says

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PLUMAS COUNTY, Calif. -- A 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Plumas County in Northern California Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake happened at 4:19 p.m. and its epicenter was the bottom of Lake Almanor near East Shore, Calif.

Shaking was felt as far as Sacramento.

Photos from the Plumas Pines Resort show bottles of alcohol that were knocked off the shelves and shattered across the floor.

So far, there have been no reports of injuries or any other major damage.

https://abc7.com/earthquake-northern-california-earth-quake-plumas-county-lake-almanor-sacramento/13235881/ 

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The Washington Post

Cybersecurity faces a challenge from artificial intelligence’s rise

Joseph Menn 1 day ago

Russia is floating a plan to build a village for conservative Americans…

Kamala Harris Exposed Something Seriously Wrong with Joe Biden

SAN FRANCISCO — Earlier this year, a sales director in India for tech security firm Zscaler got a call that seemed to be from the company’s chief executive.

As his cellphone displayed founder Jay Chaudhry’s picture, a familiar voice said “Hi, it’s Jay. I need you to do something for me,” before the call dropped. A follow-up text over WhatsApp explained why. “I think I’m having poor network coverage as I am traveling at the moment. Is it okay to text here in the meantime?”

Then the caller asked for assistance moving money to a bank in Singapore. Trying to help, the salesman went to his manager, who smelled a rat and turned the matter over to internal investigators. They determined that scammers had reconstituted Chaudhry’s voice from clips of his public remarks in an attempt to steal from the company.

Chaudhry recounted the incident last month on the sidelines of the annual RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, where concerns about the revolution in artificial intelligence dominated the conversation.

Criminals have been early adopters, with Zscaler citing AI as a factor in the 47 percent surge in phishing attacks it saw last year. Crooks are automating more personalized texts and scripted voice recordings while dodging alarms by going through such unmonitored channels as encrypted WhatsApp messages on personal cellphones. Translations to the target language are getting better, and disinformation is harder to spot, security researchers said.

Impact of Ukraine-Russia war: Cybersecurity has improved for all

That is just the beginning, experts, executives and government officials fear, as attackers use artificial intelligence to write software that can break into corporate networks in novel ways, change appearance and functionality to beat detection, and smuggle data back out through processes that appear normal.

“It is going to help rewrite code,” National Security Agency cybersecurity chief Rob Joyce warned the conference. “Adversaries who put in work now will outperform those who don’t.”

The result will be more believable scams, smarter selection of insiders positioned to make mistakes, and growth in account takeovers and phishing as a service, where criminals hire specialists skilled at AI.

Those pros will use the tools for “automating, correlating, pulling in information on employees who are more likely to be victimized,” said Deepen Desai, Zscaler’s chief information security officer and head of research.

It’s going to be simple questions that leverage this: ‘Show me the last seven interviews from Jay. Make a transcript. Find me five people connected to Jay in the finance department.’ And boom, let’s make a voice call.”

Phishing awareness programs, which many companies require employees to study annually, will be pressed to revamp.

The prospect comes as a range of professionals report real progress in security. Ransomware, while not going away, has stopped getting dramatically worse. The cyberwar in Ukraine has been less disastrous than had been feared. And the U.S. government has been sharing timely and useful information about attacks, this year warning 160 organizations that they were about to be hit with ransomware.

AI will help defenders as well, scanning reams of network traffic logs for anomalies, making routine programming tasks much faster, and seeking out known and unknown vulnerabilities that need to be patched, experts said in interviews.

Some companies have added AI tools to their defensive products or released them for others to use freely. Microsoft, which was the first big company to release a chat-based AI for the public, announced Microsoft Security Copilot in March. It said users could ask questions of the service about attacks picked up by Microsoft’s collection of trillions of daily signals as well as outside threat intelligence.

Software analysis firm Veracode, meanwhile, said its forthcoming machine learning tool would not only scan code for vulnerabilities but offer patches for those it finds.

But cybersecurity is an asymmetric fight. The outdated architecture of the internet’s main protocols, the ceaseless layering of flawed programs on top of one another, and decades of economic and regulatory failures pit armies of criminals with nothing to fear against businesses that do not even know how many machines they have, let alone which are running out-of-date programs.

By multiplying the powers of both sides, AI will give far more juice to the attackers for the foreseeable future, defenders said at the RSA conference.

Every tech-enabled protectionsuch as automated facial recognition — introduces new openings. In China, a pair of thieves were reported to have used multiple high-resolution photos of the same person to make videos that fooled local tax authorities’ facial recognition programs, enabling a $77 million scam.

Many veteran security professionals deride what they callsecurity by obscurity,” where targets plan on surviving hacking attempts by hiding what programs they depend on or how those programs work. Such a defense is often arrived at not by design but as a convenient justification for not replacing older, specialized software.

The experts argue that sooner or later, inquiring minds will figure out flaws in those programs and exploit them to break in.

Artificial intelligence puts all such defenses in mortal peril, because it can democratize that sort of knowledge, making what is known somewhere known everywhere.

Incredibly, one need not even know how to program to construct attack software.

You will be able to say, ‘just tell me how to break into a system,’ and it will say, ‘here’s 10 paths in’,” said Robert Hansen, who has explored AI as deputy chief technology officer at security firm Tenable. “They are just going to get in. It’ll be a very different world.”

Indeed, an expert at security firm Forcepoint reported last month that he used ChatGPT to assemble an attack program that could search a target’s hard drive for documents and export them, all without writing any code himself.

In another experiment, ChatGPT balked when Nate Warfield, director of threat intelligence at security company Eclypsium, asked it to find a vulnerability in an industrial router’s firmware, warning him that hacking was illegal.

“So I said ‘tell me any insecure coding practices,’ and it said, ‘Yup, right here,’” Warfield recalled. “This will make it a lot easier to find flaws at scale.”

Getting in is only part of the battle, which is why layered security has been an industry mantra for years.

But hunting for malicious programs that are already on your network is going to get much harder as well.

To show the risks, a security firm called HYAS recently released a demonstration program called BlackMamba. It works like a regular keystroke logger, slurping up passwords and account data, except that every time it runs it calls out to OpenAI and gets new and different code. That makes it much harder for detection systems, because they have never seen the exact program before.

The federal government is already acting to deal with the proliferation. Last week, the National Science Foundation said it and partner agencies would pour $140 million into seven new research institutes devoted to AI.

One of them, led by the University of California at Santa Barbara, will pursue means for using the new technology to defend against cyberthreats.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cybersecurity-faces-a-challenge-from-artificial-intelligence-s-rise/ar-AA1b2Fms 

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etc. For I have done all, all that I can, saith your Father God, to make you aware of what time it is, what hour it is and the things that are taking place. For I have put many signs in the sky, I have placed many reminders here and there, I have called your attention to the things that I am doing and the things that the enemy is doing that you may see, etc..

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Tornado atop Rocky Mountains in Montana!

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Ok, this is waaaay weird: Yesterday as thunderstorms came over the Rocky Mountains in Montana, a TORNADO formed atop the mountains!

This is probably one for the history books:

UPDATE 10:23 PM EDT --

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Video is also available to support the images shown above. The video is below:

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/tornado-atop-rocky-mountains-in-montana 

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Hedge Fund Manager Says Gov't May Restrict Bank Withdrawals - Tells public to *****Panic*****

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Hedge fund manager and macro economic expert Hugh Hendry issued a major warning on the US banking system and the US economy; telling people to ". . .panic."

In a new interview on Bloomberg Markets, Hendry says mass panic and capital flight away from the US banking sector is entirely justified.

Hendry says a further decline in the M2 money supply, which in part tracks money in liquid checking accounts, could convince the US government to step in and prevent citizens from taking their capital out of the banking system.

Sometimes it’s kind of relevant to panic. I would recommend you panicYou’ve seen the biggest waterfall decline in M2 right now. M2 is deposits, not loans. That’s the deposits fleeing the system and going into money market funds.

That could reach a crescendo where the Treasury and the Fed may have to come in and actually restrict your right as a US citizen to pull money out of the US banking sector.”

Hendry says capital flight from US banks is not solely about fears on whether the FDIC will insure deposits above $250,000, and a blanket guarantee on deposits would not solve the problem.

There is capital flight, deposit flight from the banking sector seeking yield. I fear that, I don’t say this lightly, but in 1934 the Federal Reserve Act confiscated gold from US citizens.

We’re at the point where the Fed and Treasury officials I’m sure are having to consider a gate a lock on US bank deposits.”

When it comes to where Americans can place their capital amid the uncertainty, Hendry says his go-to is US Treasuries and potentially Bitcoin.

“It’s time to own the most reviled security in the universe, the ultra long Treasuries. I know you all think we’ve got an inflation problem. It was a supply shock, and a supply shock needs the manifestation of more and more bank printing of loans to propel it into the future. We’re getting the opposite. The ultra longs are trading two to three standard deviations below the ETF…

I’ve not got the bug, but Bitcoin is something I could conceive as an asset class that could trade three or four times higher in the next five years. There is no other asset class that I could make that determination.”

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/hedge-fund-manager-says-gov-t-may-restrict

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etc.. Did I not warn you that the days would be like Sodom and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow. I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her, then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..

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etc The Lord God says, the watered down churches some of those aren’t going to go to heaven, for did I not say man and woman not man and man or woman and woman, I said man and woman. etc

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For after, after September comes November, are you awake, will you rise up and do what you know is right, can you vote for them that you know kill babies, can you vote for them that hold up the gays, can you vote for them, saith your Father God? If you are mine you must walk according to my word, you must walk according to my promise; you must do what I, your Father God, have said to do. For it is that hour, it is that time; it is far later than you believe.

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Retail giant sells transgender clothing for INFANTS!

'It's never too early to start grooming your kids'

WND Staff By WND Staff  Published May 11, 2023 at 3:02pm

There's now a store with a solution for you when your infant, between coos and gurgles, openly declares his transgenderism.

Target has begun promoting its new line of LGBTQ+ clothes.

For babies.

According to a report from PJMedia, the retail chain that previously had moved to promote the LGBT ideology, now has moved "way off target."

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"Retail giant Target has a new line of pro-LGBTQ clothing for

children – even for infants," the report explained, "In case, you know, your six-month-old makes the mature decision to become transgender."

The report cited "Woke Reports" from Consumers' Research which alerts people to moves in the corporate world.

It notified people of the "new LGBTQ 'pride' clothing collection."

"This follows longstanding efforts by Target to indoctrinate kids via books titled 'Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?,' 'The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish,' 'I’m Not a Girl,' and more," the alert explained.

The company, online, gushes, "Being true to yourself and your community is something to celebrate, all year long."

To which PJMedia pointed out, "Unless your community is Christian or conservative, one presumes."

The company is promoting its "Pride Kids' & Baby Clothing," including a "Pride Baby Bien Proud Bodysuit – Light Mint Green" a "Pride Baby 'Be Kind' Jumper Romper – Black" and "Pride Baby 'It Takes All Kinds' Bodysuit – Blue," the report said.

"It’s never too early to start grooming your kids to think their bodies are defective and to confuse them about their 'gender' and sexuality, according to Target!" PJMedia said.

Similar "wacky" products are promoted for toddlers, too.

"Weirdly enough, Target shows only girls wearing the dresses. It seems it’s hard even for woke Target to break out of the mindset where basic biology matters. It would serve Target right if some wacky dress-wearing boy complained," the report said.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Although millions of American parents send their precious children off to public school every day, imagining their kids’ days will be filled with reading, writing, arithmetic, science, history, sports and music, they’re not only in for a shock – but for total BETRAYAL. Today’s “public” (government) schools have become far-left ideological, political and religious indoctrination centers aimed at reprogramming and transforming America’s children.

Kids are being taught to HATE their own country and to see themselves and their parents as racists – or victims of racists. They are sexualized and corrupted, and many are groomed into the dark LGBT world, with almost 6,000 schools prohibiting parents from even hearing about their child’s transgender “transition.” In between all the far-left indoctrination and sexual corruption, teachers take time to scare children to death about the near-term end of life on earth due to “catastrophic climate change.” Another lie. But it’s all classic Marxism/communism, with even the “3 R’s” – reading, writing and arithmetic – now being corrupted with “woke,” “1984”-style madness.

Perhaps never has the true threat of today’s U.S. public school system been exposed as in the sensational April issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled “THE GREATEST BETRAYAL: How Marxism and madness have taken over America’s public school system.” Whistleblower is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.

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Etc For truly the whole world is seeing end time signs, from the very skies to the depths of the oceans. They are seeing the global warming, they are seeing the drought, they are seeing the loss of water all over and they recognize that truly it is taking place and they do not know which way to turn. They see the wars, the rumors of wars; they see Iraq and Iran as they continue to go their evil ways. They see Russia as she joins with Iran speaking out boldly against the United States; they see all the signs that are there. They are seeing even the EU as it now meets with Iran and talks with them. When will they wake up, when will they recognize that truly it is the last days, etc

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etc. For truly blood shall flow in the streets and things will be very bad in that sense and in the weather also that you have already seen a change in like I have said you would see.  Drought shall affect very many places and food shall be scarce, but I have given unto you my word and my promise that I will take you through these days victoriously. etc

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Oklahoma Farmer: “I Think We’re To The Dust Bowl, About The Same Or Worse.”

May 9, 2023 by Michael

Our food prices aren’t just going up because our leaders pumped way too much money into the system. All over the world, crops are failing, and that includes right here in the United States. Earlier this year, CNN warned that we are in the midst of “the worst food crisis in modern history”, and so we really need this to be an extremely successful year for our farmers. Unfortunately, that just isn’t happening in much of the country. In fact, one wheat farmer in Oklahoma says that his farm is experiencing “the most severe drought I’ve ever seen”…

Looks can be deceiving. Rolling wheat fields may appear green and lively to passing drivers, but the farmers who planted the fields see a different story playing out as their crops die off and blow away.

We had less than half of a crop last year, and we’re probably going to have half of that this year. It’s terrible,” said 75-year-old Burlington farmer Keith Kisling. “We’re in the most severe drought I’ve ever seen.”

Another Oklahoma farmer, 23-year-old Jacob Webster, is actually comparing current conditions to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s…

Jacob Webster, a 23-year-old farmer near Deer Creek in Grant County, spent a recent Sunday evening surveying his wheat fields in north-central Oklahoma. His leather cowboy boots were taller than much of the wheat, some of which is yellowing. He’s never seen a worse crop, he said.

“The good thing is today, we’ve got insurance, but the insurance doesn’t pay as well as a wheat crop could make,” Webster said. “With last year not being a very good wheat crop and this year probably not going to be the best, I would expect some people will probably have to fold up. It’s going to be tough.

I think we’re to the Dust Bowl, about the same or worse.”

We have been warned for a long time that Dust Bowl conditions would return to the center of the nation.

Now it has happened.

Of course farmers in the U.S. are not the only ones that are dealing with extreme drought.

In Spain, endless drought has severely damaged “more than 3.5 million hectares of crops”…

Southern Europe’s farmers are facing a crop crisis. Months of drought has interruped this year’s harvests and some Spanish ecologists are warning the country may soon be unable to sustain cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

Irreversible damage has been done to more than 3.5 million hectares of crops,” the main Spanish farmers’ association COAG warns, sounding the alarm on a trend it says is being observed throughout much of the country.

Crops are failing all over the planet right now, and this comes at a time when global food supplies have just been getting tighter and tighter.

As a result, hunger is on the rise. In fact, last year the number of people facing “acute hunger” increased to more than a quarter of a billion…

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) for 2023 highlights that the number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance is on the rise. The report indicates that over a quarter of a billion people are facing acute hunger, with economic shocks and the Ukraine war contributing to the increase. In 2022, around 258 million people across 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels (IPC/CH Phase 3-5), up from 193 million people in 53 countries and territories in 2021.

If you still have plenty of food to eat, that is wonderful.

Others are not so fortunate.

As you read this article, there are 45 million precious souls around the world that meet the technical definition of being “on the brink of starvation”.

Conditions are particularly bad in Africa.

In West Africa, it is being projected that there will be 48 million people “without regular access to safe and nutritious food” this summer…

West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic rainfall. War in Ukraine has contributed to food and fertilizer shortages in one of the world’s poorest regions.

The number of people without regular access to safe and nutritious food is projected to hit 48 million during the June-August lean season, according to a regional food security analysis presented by the U.N.’s World Food Programme (WFP), humanitarian agency OCHA, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and children’s agency UNICEF.

In East Africa, the “worst drought in 40 years” is causing an unprecedented crisis across the entire region…

East Africa’s worst drought in 40 years has forced millions of Somalis to leave their homes. Five consecutive failed rainy seasons pushed the fragile nation to the brink of famine, and this year is unlikely to be much different.

Last year, when I warned that a horrific global food crisis was on the way, I was not just blowing smoke.

In the time that it took you to read this article, more people dropped dead from starvation.

And way too often it is children that are perishing.

Sadly, most Americans are not going to care about the emerging global famine until it affects them personally.

Of course it is already affecting them personally, but they just don’t realize it yet.

One of the primary reasons why you have to pay 300 dollars for a cart of food at the grocery store is because global food supplies are much tighter than they once were.

In the early stages of this crisis, there isn’t going to be starvation in the western world like we are seeing in other areas of the planet.

But eventually there will be very serious shortages of food here too.

Are you prepared for that day to arrive?

I hope so, because the clock is ticking…

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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..

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Elites Manufacture Fake “Hate” Crisis As Pretext For Mass Spying, Blacklists, And Censorship

Totalitarian measures spread to California from Germany, New Zealand, and Europe

Michael Shellenberger  May 9, 2023

The public’s hatred of racial, sexual, and religious minorities is so out of control that it imperils our democracy. At least, that’s what influential leaders from Joe Biden and Barack Obama to former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and California Governor Gavin Newsom want us to believe.

Last week Newsom announced a state initiative for citizens to report disfavored speech (non-criminal “hate incidents”) they see online:

California’s “Civil Rights Department” (CRD) invites citizens to speculate about the motive of the “perpetrator.”

In a statement, Newsom’s office said the legislation was “in direct response to the rise in reported hate crimes in California, which in recent years, reached their highest levels since 2001 – jumping almost 33% from 2020 to 2021.”

Indeed, criminal complaints of hate crimes rose significantly, not just 33% between 2020 and 2021 but also 80% from 2012 to 2021, according to California state data.

But convictions of hate crimes have been flat. In 2012 there were 107 hate crime convictions in California. In 2021, there were 109, according to the same data.

It’s possible that hate crimes really did rise by 80%, and juries decided not to give prosecutors convictions. In San Fransicko, I assemble a large body of evidence to show California residents have become more tolerant of crime.

But it’s also possible that convictions stayed the same because there was no increase in prosecutable hate crimes. And it may be that Californian prosecutors simply labeled more crimes as “hate” crimes because they were primed to do so by the media’s 700% - 1,000% increased focus on racism between 2011 and 2020.

Whatever the case, California's total number of hate crime complaints is trivial. There were just 285 hate crime complaints in California, a state with 39 million people, in 2021. There was an order of magnitude more homicides in California, 2,361, in 2021.

Prejudice still exists in the United States. The California church shooting from May 2022 was motivated by political hatred. And the recent mall shooter in Texas may have been motivated by racist ideology.

But the ideologies don’t line up neatly politically. The California church shooter was Taiwanese and motivated by an obscure political grievance. The Texas shooter may have been racist, but he was also Latino. And the recent shooter in Nashville was trans and targeted Christians.

And in many instances, the political ideology is plainly secondary to mental illness. That was certainly the case with the psychotic and drug-addicted homeless man from Berkeley who attacked the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco last year. And it may have been the case with the shooters in Texas and Nashville.

In truth, acceptance of racial, religious, and sexual differences has never been higher in recorded human history. Never before have same-sex and mixed-race couples have been more accepted across all Western nations, which are far more tolerant than most other nations worldwide.

Trans people are celebrated, with an entire reality show dedicated to documenting in celebratory fashion the sexual reassignment surgery and hormone use of a trans girl named Jazz Jennings. And few places are more celebratory of transgenderism than California.

All of which raises a question. If there’s no evidence that “hate incidents” are rising, abundant evidence that tolerance is rising, and overwhelming evidence that the media created a moral panic about racism, why are nations and nation-sized states like California urging mass spying and creating blacklists?

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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc.. 

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Fire apocalypse in Alberta, Canada! More than 300,000 acres burned to the ground – Gigantic flames and high winds – Thousands evacuated – State of emergency declared

May 7, 2023

Tens of thousands of Albertans have been forced to evacuate their homes as “unprecedented” wildfires rage on in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith, head of the ruling United Conservative Party (UCP), said at a press conference on Saturday.

As of Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Mountain Time (11:30 a.m. ET), 24,511 Albertans were evacuated from homes with 103 active wildfires across the province, burning 121,909 hectares.

“Much of Alberta has been experiencing a hot, dry spring and with so much kindling, all it takes is a few sparks to ignite some truly frightening wildfires,” said Smith. “These conditions have resulted in the unprecedented situation our province is facing today.”

There have been 45 new fires started since 11 a.m. Mountain Time on Friday, and 5,200 Albertans under an evacuation alert.

Among the communities evacuated was Brazeau County, including all 7,000 people living in Drayton Valley, 140 km (87 miles) west of the province’s capital Edmonton.

The entire community of Fox Lake was also among the evacuees, where the 1,458-hectare (3609-acre) Fox Lake fire consumed 20 homes and the police station.

“I don’t know that I ever recall seeing multiple communities evacuated all at once in fire season,” said Smith.

She said C$1.5 billion ($1.12 billion) is put aside as a contingency because they know a significant amount could need to be spent on emergency management,

Smith said the province will make a decision later on Saturday regarding whether to declare a provincial state of emergency.

WhiteCap Resources, an oil producer operating in northwestern and central Alberta, said it has been busy ensuring staff are safe through the evacuation process and assets are unaffected.

“(We are) monitoring closely and praying for rain,” Grant Fagerheim, WhiteCap CEO, said on Saturday.

Pembina Pipeline Corp, which runs oil-gathering pipelines in the region, on Friday said it had activated emergency response and incident management processes and is “evaluating any current or anticipated operational impacts”.

Pembina did not respond to a request for an update on Saturday.

Stock up on iodine pills for the next nuclear disaster before it’s too late…

So far this year, there have been 43,000 hectares burned from wildfires, Smith said.

“It is very unusual for us to see this much fire activity this early in the season,” said Christie Tucker, an information unit manager for Alberta Wildfire.

“This is a much much busier than average wildfire season so far.”

Voters in Alberta will go to the polls on May 29 to elect a new government. Smith said people should expect election day will go ahead as planned. [MSN]

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PURE EVIL: Leading US Medical Institutions Are Deliberately Confusing Toddlers And Converting Them Into Transgenders

Photo of Lance D. Johnson Lance D. Johnson May 5, 2023

(Natural News) American kids are being pushed toward transgenderism by their schools, by left-wing politicians, and by medical institutions. North Carolina’s leading medical institutions – Duke, UNC, and ECU – now offer “transgender treatments” that confuse, brainwash, and socially transition kids as young as two, three, and four. Toddlers are being socially transitioned and put in environments where they are coerced to live in accordance with a so-called gender identity.

Duke Medicine violates medical ethics, churns out transgender toddlers at their Gender Clinic

Duke Medicine now runs a Gender Clinic that brainwashes toddlers to accept a fictitious gender identity that is opposite of their biological sex. The toddlers are conditioned to accept a fake gender identity at a young age so they can be mutilated and pumped full of synthetic hormones when they are older. After they are brainwashed and mentally abused, they are put through multiple surgeries/drug protocols and turned into cash cows for life. In 2015, Duke’s Gender Clinic began providing “treatments” for two-year-old children who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. These gender transitions are not cures for gender dysphoria and never fix the underlying issues that the children face. Most obviously, the toddlers are subject to predatory brainwashing and the manipulation of their feelings.

The director at the Gender Clinic, transgender activist Dr. Deanna Adkins, spoke about her transgender pediatric patients in a 2016 interview with the Charlotte Observer. “They are not old enough to consciously just choose to do that. [change their gender]” she said. “…It is not a choice in any of my patients. It’s really an unpleasant thing to have going on in your body to feel that distress about yourself. I can’t imagine anyone who would choose to do that.”

Because the children cannot give informed consent on this issue, sick and perverted transgender activists take it upon themselves to decide the fate of these children. Transgender activists pose as medical professionals and mental health counselors so they can affirm fictitious gender identities in kids and experiment on their minds and bodies. As confused children are groomed, accepted, and “loved” by these perverts, they are confused further and separated from biological reality. The mentally-abused toddlers are eventually put through gender clinic “treatments” and socially conditioned to take on a fictitious gender identity that goes against their biological gender.

The Gender Clinics create a culture that coerces kids into something they don’t even understand. When Dr. Adkins gave her expert declaration to a federal district court in North Carolina, she said, “From a medical perspective, the appropriate determinant of sex is gender identity.” Basically, a kid can make anything up and feel any which way they want, and the Gender Clinic is supposed to affirm their feelings and transition them socially, emotionally, and medically. If the kid later refuses, they are viewed as a suicide risk and coerced to accept their new gender identity and all the synthetic hormones and surgeries that come along with it.

In her court testimony, Dr. Adkins detailed how she treats toddlers:

Before puberty, treatment does not include any drug or surgical intervention. For this group of patients, treatment is limited to “social transition,” which means allowing a transgender child to live and be socially recognized in accordance with their gender identity. This can include allowing children to wear clothing, to cut or grow their hair, to use names and pronouns, and to access restrooms and other sex-separated facilities and activities in line with their gender identity instead of the sex assigned to them at birth. Social transition is a critical part of treatment of patients with gender dysphoria of all ages and it is the only treatment for pre-pubertal children.”

Transgender activists target school children through telepsychiatry programs

Dr. Colby Dendy, the transgender activist who runs ECU Health’s new Pride Clinic, brings in patients of all ages – including toddlers. “The literature tells us that kids can start around age four having their gender identity, so we do not want to exclude anybody within the pediatrics realm,” Dendy said in an interview with the East Carolinian. “A big part of our goal is to provide affirming primary care to everybody in the LGBTQ+ spectrum.”

Activist Dendy also publicly supports school awareness programs and telemedicine calls that prescribe puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to children. After the ECU Pride Clinic published a paper in support of these perversions, the school received $3.2 M to create a telepsychiatry program that targets school children for gender transition. Psychiatrists inside schools and activists inside medical institutions are targeting and grooming children at an alarming rate, destroying their minds, their anatomy, and future.

TheGatewayPundit.com

ABC11.com

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CharlotteObserver.com

ACLU.org

ECUHealth.org

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Texas Committee Passes Bill to Create 100% Reserve Gold and Silver-Backed Transactional Currencies

May 3, 2023 by Michael Maharrey 0 23

On May 2, a Texas House committee passed a bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver-backed transactional currencies. Enactment of this legislation would create an option for people to conduct business in sound money, set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money, and possibly create a viable alternative to a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Rep. Mark Dorazio (R) introduced HB4903 on March 10 and it has since garnered a bipartisan coalition of 42 cosponsors. The legislation would require the state comptroller to establish and provide for the issuance of gold and silver specie and also establish digital currencies that are 100% backed by gold and silver, and 100% redeemable in cash, gold, or silver.

Specie is defined as “a precious metal stamped into coins of uniform shape, size, design, content, and purity, suitable for or customarily used as currency, as a medium of exchange, or as the medium for purchase, sale, storage, transfer, or delivery of precious metals in retail or wholesale transactions.”

In establishing gold and silver specie, the comptroller would be required to authorize the Texas Bullion Depository as issuer and ensure that the holder of the specie may use the specie as legal tender in payment of debt and readily transfer the specie to another person.

The comptroller would also be required to create a mechanism to use 100% backed gold and silver digital currencies in everyday transactions.

In establishing the digital currency under Subsection (a)(2), the comptroller shall provide a means to ensure that a person who holds the digital currency may:

1. Use the digital currency as legal tender in payment of debt; and

2. By electronic means readily transfer or assign the digital currency to another person.

Physical gold and silver backing the digital currency would be stored in a pooled account at the Texas State Bullion Depository.

“The trustee shall maintain enough gold and silver specie or bullion to provide for the redemption of all units of the digital currency issued but not redeemed.”

In practice, individuals would be able to purchase transactional currency representing the smallest fractions of physical gold or silver. The money would be used to purchase gold or silver that would be held in the already-open Texas Bullion Depository. Individuals would be able to redeem their transactional currency for dollars, gold, or silver on demand.

On May 2, the House State Affairs Committee passed HB4903 by a 7-6 vote.

In an outpouring of strong support from the grassroots in Texas, a 78-page document – representing hundreds of messages of support for the bill – was presented to the committee members during a hearing last month.

IMPACT

This is one of several bills introduced in the Texas legislature this year to promote sound money, including legislation to establish state gold and silver reserves, and a bill to make gold and silver legal tender in the Lone Star State.

The creation of state-issued gold-backed and silver-backed digital currencies would create currency competition with Federal Reserve notes and undermine the Fed’s monopoly on money. It would also provide a sound money-backed competitor if the Federal Reserve implements a central bank digital currency.

Broadly speaking, by making gold and silver conveniently available for regular, daily transactions by the general public, gold and silver-backed digital currency would create the potential for a wide-reaching effect. Professor William Greene, an expert on constitutional tender, said in a paper for the Mises Institute that when people in multiple states actually start using gold instead of Federal Reserve notes, it would effectively nullify the Federal Reserve and end the federal government’s monopoly on money.

Over time, as residents of the state use both Federal Reserve notes and silver and gold coins, the fact that the coins hold their value more than Federal Reserve notes do will lead to a ‘reverse Gresham’s Law’ effect, where good money (gold and silver coins) will drive out bad money (Federal Reserve notes).

“As this happens, a cascade of events can begin to occur, including the flow of real wealth toward the state’s treasury, an influx of banking business from outside of the state – as people in other states carry out their desire to bank with sound money – and an eventual outcry against the use of Federal Reserve notes for any transactions.”

Gresham’s Law holds that “bad money drives out good.” For example, when the U.S. government replaced silver quarters and dimes with coins made primarily of less valuable copper, the cheap coins drove the silver out of circulation. People hoarded the more valuable silver coins and spent the less valuable copper money. So, how do you reverse Gresham?

The key is in making it easier to use gold in everyday transactions. The reason bad money drives out good is that governments put up barriers to using sound money in day-to-day life. That makes it more costly to spend gold and incentivizes hoarding. When you remove barriers, you level the playing field and allow gold and silver to compete head-to-head with Federal Reserve notes. On an even playing field, gold beats fiat money every time.

CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES (CBDC)

A gold-backed digital currency would create an alternative and allow individuals and businesses to avoid a CBDC.

Digital currencies exist as virtual banknotes or coins held in a digital wallet on your computer or smartphone. The difference between a central bank (government) digital currency and peer-to-peer electronic cash such as bitcoin is that the value of the CBDC is backed and controlled by the government, just like traditional fiat currency.

At the root of the move toward a CBDC is “the war on cash.” The elimination of cash creates the potential for the government to track and even control consumer spending.

Imagine if there was no cash. It would be impossible to hide even the smallest transaction from the government’s eyes. Something as simple as your morning trip to Starbucks wouldn’t be a secret from government officials. As Bloomberg put it in an article published when China launched a digital yuan pilot program in 2020, digital currency “offers China’s authorities a degree of control never possible with physical money.”

The government could even “turn off” an individual’s ability to make purchases. Economist Thorsten Polleit outlined the potential for Big Brother-like government control with the advent of a digital euro in an article published by the Mises Wire. As he put it, “the path to becoming a surveillance state regime will accelerate considerably” if and when a digital currency is issued.

BACKGROUND

The United States Constitution states in Article I, Section 10, “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” Currently, all debts and taxes in Kansas are either paid with Federal Reserve Notes (dollars) which were authorized as legal tender by Congress, or with coins issued by the U.S. Treasury — very few of which have gold or silver in them.

The Federal Reserve destroys this constitutional monetary system by creating a monopoly based on its fiat currency. Without the backing of gold or silver, the central bank can easily create money out of thin air. This not only devalues your purchasing power over time; it also allows the federal government to borrow and spend far beyond what would be possible in a sound money system. Without the Fed, the U.S. government wouldn’t be able to maintain all of its unconstitutional wars and programs. The Federal Reserve is the engine that drives the most powerful government in the history of the world.

Creating gold and silver-backed digital currencies would take another step in the process of abolishing the Federal Reserve system by attacking it from the bottom up – pulling the rug out from under it by working to make its functions irrelevant at the state and local levels, and setting the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve monopoly by introducing competition into the monetary system.

WHAT’S NEXT

HB4903 will now move to the Calendars Committee. This committee determines which bills move to the House floor for a vote. Supporters of the bill in Texas have created an online tool to register support for the bill moving to the House for a debate and vote. Residents of Texas can submit their comments here.

Information from the Tenth Amendment Center contributed to this report.

https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/texas-committee-passes-bill-to-create-100-reserve-gold-and-silver-backed-transactional-currencies/ 

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Ranchers Report Biggest Cattle Supply Drop In 40 Years As Shortages Hit Grocery Stores

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568K subscribers  30,533 views May 7, 2023

Tens of thousands of ranchers are reporting the largest beef supply drop since 1962 as herds continue to shrink all across the country. The meat shortages we have been warned about for months are now hitting all major grocery stores, and consumers are seeing prices soar to levels last seen during the inflation peak of June 2022. However, livestock economists say that a price spike will likely be seen in the months ahead, with summer demand further squeezing inventories at supermarkets. A new report reveals that many Americans have already begun stockpiling meat to get ready for the shortages that are rapidly emerging, but millions who didn’t prepare will have to be forced to consume less or eat cheaper cuts as shelves go empty and costs spiral. That’s what we’re going to expose in today’s video.

As 2023 unfolds, demand for cattle is expected to keep strong and producers are going retain heifers again — leading to a hole in beef production that could go even deeper, says Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University livestock marketing specialist. “The real spike in prices will come when we start the rebuilding process and ranchers start retaining heifers. That's what squeezes slaughter in the short run, and we're not sure when that's going to happen. It will certainly start this year, and then we will get some painful price hikes,” Brown notes.

Mom-and-pop ranchers will increasingly struggle with profitability given that they were forced to send their animals to slaughter much earlier than normal, making far less money than they predicted they would. At the same time, big corporations are reporting billionaire profits. Recently, some of these companies have been under fire for racking up prices even as inflation levels go down, adding to families’ cost of living.

Over the past three years, dozens of meat processing plants have been closed by some big players in the industry who are transforming scarcity into higher cash flow. The closings are putting the entire meat industry on the brink of collapse. That’s why independent livestock producers are raising the alarm for burdensome regulations that need to go. We are under legislation that bans thousands of mom-and-pop meat processing plants to supply restaurants, schools, hotels, and the like. Yes, you read that right. The American people are dependent on four big businesses that enjoy great advantages thanks to regulation.

And ever since Tyson Foods, one of the largest meat packers in the world said that the supply chain was “breaking,” it is clear that America can’t afford to ignore the warnings of small cattle producers. This food supply issue is critical to public health and the economy. They know what they are talking about when they warn that massive-scale shortages and price increases are coming.

For some families, securing their supply of meat is crucial, and many have been buying in bulk to save money, according to a new report by The Washington Post. In contrast, for the millions of Americans that didn’t have the chance to prepare in advance, the outlook is cloudy. Reports estimate that on average, U.S. consumers will eat 6% less beef this year due to shortages and soaring prices.

It’s safe to say that actions will only be taken when it is too late and supply shortages reach crisis levels. If you can, stock up on your favorite cuts while you can still find and buy them at local stores because, in a few short months, the situation will be vastly different.

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Christians among over 50 killed, 23,000 fleeing ethnic violence in northeast India

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor

In Manipur, a state in northeastern India, violence has erupted claiming the lives of 58 individuals, many of whom were Christians, and resulting in the destruction or burning of at least 50 churches. The local Christian community has accused the Hindu nationalist government of supporting the attackers.

Beginning last Wednesday, the violence was reported in several areas in the state, but mostly in the Imphal Valley and Churachandpur. The Christian victims have identified the predominantly Hindu Meitei ethnic community as the attackers.

The Meiteis have experienced longstanding tensions with Christians, who are mostly from tribal communities, over land ownership and affirmative action policies.

At least 58 people have died in the ongoing violence, according to the Indian media outlet Scroll.in. It’s not known how many of those killed are Christians, but reports coming from Manipur suggest the majority of them could be Christian.

As the suspension of telecommunication services in Manipur continues, determining the full scope of the damage suffered by the Christian community remains challenging. Nonetheless, after military personnel were sent to the impacted regions and police received shoot-at-sight orders on May 4, the intensity and frequency of the attacks diminished by late evening.

Close to 10,000 troops from the Army and Assam Rifles have been stationed in Manipur, according to media reports, which also say over 13,000 individuals have been relocated to secure shelters established by the Army and state government.

Numerous others have sought refuge in neighboring states such as Mizoram, Meghalaya and Nagaland, where Christians are in the majority.

Unverified reports say Christians were attacked in 27 villages.

Until Thursday, Christians were being assaulted in the presence of state police and commandos, as mobs continued to roam the streets.

Tensions persisted, as of early Sunday. Nine out of the 16 districts in the state were under curfew, and internet services across the state remained suspended.

According to media reports, members of the Meitei community have also been attacked.

A public interest litigation petition was filed before the Supreme Court Saturday, alleging that the attacks on tribal communities in Manipur were supported by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which is in power both in the state and at the national level, Bar and Bench reported.

The PIL claimed that 30 tribal people had been killed and 132 were injured, but no formal complaint had been registered by the police in relation to any of the incidents.

The petitioner called for a Special Investigation Team to be constituted, headed by Harekrishna Deka, former Director General of Police of Assam, and monitored by Chief Justice Tinlianthang Vaiphei, former Chairman of the Meghalaya State Human Rights Commission, in order to prosecute the accused.

The Meiteis mainly reside in the Imphal Valley, whereas Christians, originating from different tribal communities, dwell in the neighboring hills. Despite Hindus and Christians each constituting about 42% of the state's populace, the Meiteis have maintained dominance in both political and economic spheres.

The BJP secured a victory in the 2017 state election, after which Chief Minister N. Biren Singh redefined the majority of tribal settlements as reserved forests, essentially branding them as illegal immigrants. The tribals live in resource-rich forests.

Singh also reportedly ordered the demolition of churches in Imphal, claiming they were illegally constructed on government-owned land.

The Meitei community has been seeking legal recognition as a tribal group, which would grant them increased power through access to affirmative action and legal protections.

Last month, the state’s highest court instructed the government to consider the Meiteis’ demands, causing anxiety among the tribal communities. The violence broke out last Wednesday when a tribal student group staged a protest against the Meiteis’ demand for legal tribal group recognition.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-dead-churches-burned-in-violence-in-indian-state.html 

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Matthew  24:12 "And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. (NKJ)

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We’re Watching the Rule of Law Get Flushed Down the Toilet

Kurt Schlichter | May 05, 2023

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Joe Biden – imagine being so lucky as to have an entire regime media out there dedicated to covering up your incompetency, senility, perversion, and corruption. Apparently, this guy is out there taking bribes. Now, I know it's based on an anonymous whistleblower, but apparently, that's the best kind of evidence. That's the kind of evidence you can impeach people for. The New York Post is writing it, and you'll see some of it on Twitter, but what about The New York Times? Republicans pounce on Joe Biden's entrepreneurial activity – to the extent they even mention it. It's total crap, but what are you going to do? Well, we're going to watch the law swirl around the toilet and get flushed into the sewer. Look at the campaign to delegitimize the Supreme Court because it's conservative, the reaction to some freaky spazz who had been arrested 40 times and was out on a warrant for assaulting a 67-year-old woman getting choked out on a New York City subway by a Marine, and the bizarre bullcrap rape case against Donald Trump – have you noticed a common theme among these disparate elements? None of these are like the law. The law has to be one law for everybody, applied equally, all the time. And right now, it isn't.

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For man brings many things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not consider the things that they are saying. They poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness. etc.

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Former CIA Officer Says Decision to Drone Attack Kremlin Was Made by the United States

May 5, 2023 By Paul Joseph Watson

Former CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson says the decision to launch a drone attack on the Kremlin was made by the United States.

The Wednesday attack, which was likely to have been targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, was stopped by electronic warfare systems which disabled the drones before they could reach their target.

According to Johnson, the attack must have been spearheaded by the Biden administration and the US military-industrial complex because “decisions on such attacks are made not in Kiev, but in Washington.”

“Washington should understand clearly that we know this,” Johnson told reporters.

Although the attack, which Ukraine denied it was involved in, failed to accomplish its tactical goal, it was still highly “symbolic,” according to Johnson.

KREMLIN DRONE ATTACK

Russia says two Ukrainian drones attacked Kremlin overnight

– Drones downed with no victims or material damage to the Kremlin

– Moscow says it was a terrorist attack and attempt on Putin's life

Russia says it reserves right to respond when and how it… pic.twitter.com/loZA6c3Fvd 

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) May 3, 2023

[It] didn’t cause significant damage. The psychological impact, though, there are people that disagree on this, my view is that this is going to galvanize Russia, not create fear or discontent or division. There are others who believe that by doing this, it is going to portray Russia as weak and create internal problems. I simply note that the reactions of former [Russian] President [Dmitry] Medvedev, as well as members of the Duma – they are livid, they are outraged, and calling for escalatory retaliation against Ukraine. So I think in many respects this backfired,” said the former State Department official.

He also added that the attack smacked of desperation and was an attempt to provoke Russia into a major escalation “to get the United States more deeply involved in this conflict.”

“At the same time, I think, Washington correctly notes that they try to discourage this [escalation], because they recognize that it’s spun out of control. And the United States is in no position militarily to confront Russia and survive that confrontation,” Johnson said.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the attempted drone attack as a dangerous escalation.

Imagine how we would respond if Russian-backed forces launched a drone strike on the Capitol. We must stop these deranged attempts to escalate the war,” said Kennedy.

After successfully defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John Kennedy warned against ever again forcing Russia to choose between national humiliation and nuclear war. We should heed his advice,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ukraine continued its drone bombardment by targeting an oil refinery in Krasnodar Region in southern Russia on Friday morning.

A fire broke out, but it was quickly extinguished by authorities and no one was hurt.

https://yournews.com/2023/05/05/2566825/former-cia-officer-says-decision-to-drone-attack-kremlin-was/ 

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Magnetic Rain? (Activist Video)

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Events Prove The Carnage Has Just Begun As NWO Takes 'Digital Control' Over The Masses, Banks 'Gobble Gold' And Criminal Invaders Charge Our Southern Border On 'Traitor Joe's' Watch

By Alan Barton - All News PipeLine  May 4, 2023

Funny how some things function. There I was, just innocently sitting there looking through the files I saved links for on the current banking crisis and re-reading a few stories to see if anything stuck out and poked me in the eye and there it was – the title of another file crept into view. That is one thing that I do; when a current event that interests me comes into focus, I copy and paste the URL’s to those stories into a Notepad file along with some brief comments of why I found it interesting or pertinent info it contains or whatever. Not to be confused with the more complicated, or just longer term lists, as found in WordPad or the itemized long lists inside of Word or LibreOffice Writer complete with a Table of Contents to organize things better complete with a table of contents to find specific news categories easier. No, the notepad files are basically just a short simple set of lists of story ideas to work from; kind of like a catchall bin as illustrated in the image above. Many column ideas spawned from that method of making lists and I have a lot of dead links to show for it as censorship prevails and increases.

Let’s start with the banking thing first and go from there if I may. As we are still in the setup for the planned failures stage, we will not go into details but perhaps a few headlines will set the table and hopefully light the path we will tread for today’s column. As Joseph Mackinnon said in a recent Blaze article, “There have been three major bank failures so far this year, and some experts claim the carnage may not yet be at an end. Former Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan told Bloomberg Television this week that he thinks "the banking situation may well be more serious than we currently understand." Do you think so, really? (He said sarcastically) All News Pipeline answered that with Susan’s story on the banking crisis and the need for preparations as the total chaos may appear at any moment. Tuesday the Gateway Pundit noted the day before JP Morgan Chase CEO announced the banking crisis was over after they were allowed to purchase the assets from failed First Republic Bank. They then listed the stock failures of eight more big regional banks and the bloodbath is just gaining momentum. It appears to me that the fecal effluent has participated in spreading itself via the motorized wind device.

Zero Hedge agrees when they said “S**t Just Hit The Fan Across Markets, Regional Banks Crashing” and as Peter St. Onge of the Heritage Foundation said thousands of banks are in trouble because of the “fastest rate hikes in 50 years crashed their bonds, impaired their loans, and vaporized the easy profits they were making” and that virtually EVERY bank in America loaded up on expensive bonds and then lost “hundreds of billions as rates went up. American banks are now sitting on at least $620 billion of unrealized hidden losses. So First Republic was about 5% of that and we've got 95% to go." That leads us into a very promising future doesn’t it? Not promising good things but promising something.

And Mike Adams of Natural News said “Central banks are buying gold at a record pace in anticipation of fiat currency collapse. Meanwhile, the commercial banking sector is imploding. Just today, three more banks were halted on the stock exchange as their stock prices collapsed.” That is truth and we are just beginning this odyssey and our video below is Mikes take on the central banks “gobbling gold” as tens of thousands of more criminal invaders push into our southern borders. Zero Hedge put it into perspective when they said that “Thus far in 2023, there have been three major bank failures. And I do mean MAJOR: all told the three banks had $532 billion in assets. That amount is actually greater in size that the combined assets of the 25 banks that failed in 2008.” They continued on with this explanation that help make better sense of what is going on; “When Treasury yields rise, bond prices FALL. And who was sitting on trillions of dollars’ worth of long-term Treasuries and loans that traded based on long-term Treasuries?  You guessed it… the regional banks.

Courtesy of the Fed’s idiocy, the banks were destined to be sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of losses on these assets.

But it gets worse.  Once the Fed finally decided to get off its rear and do something about inflation, it embarked on its most aggressive rate hike cycle in history, raising rates from 0.25% to 5% in the span of a single year.”

This has resulted in the first time since 1945 that money has left the banking industry on a net basis. So we have the regional banks going bust and since most local banks are in that bad of shape or worse, it means a complete banking failure is immediately ahead. Step aside 1929; the 1933 Banking Act was supposed to stop that kind of failure but what we are entering has never happened on the scale it is now. We entered into a world war to try and stop it all, but the feds policies actually made it worse. What kind of war are they planning to stop this crisis?

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There is a plan behind it all, a well laid out plan they are following precisely.

We now get to the Health Impact News headline which states that “More U.S. Banks Collapsing as JPMorgan Chase CEO Consolidates his Power” and continued on with the real agenda we are facing when they asked “Is This the Next Phase of the Great Reset?” Further down in the article they get around to the real reasons as they said “we might now be at the start of the next phase of the “Great Reset,” and the desire of the Globalists to take digital control over the population as the U.S. economy crashes.” That is the purpose of the bank failures, and although I could do a full on column on just that, I will refrain for now because there are other reasons and expected results to be seen. As in just about everything, we need to follow the money to see who is working this out. Remembering that wealth equals power and power equals wealth, the owners of those most powerful banks (or rather, the central bankers) are not satisfied with their holdings; they want it ALL. And they will do anything to have it all. Centralized digital banking equals total control over you, nothing less. It means they will control who, what and where you exist if they even allow you to exist anymore.

So what are they doing to gain this control? How about this story for starters; “U.S. Govt. Docket No. OP–1670 Gives FED Power to Seize Control of U.S. Bank Accounts!” That is more of an advertisement for some financial services, but the headline does tell the truth. The communists want full control over everything you own with even Bernie Sanders claiming he will confiscate everything from those that have over a billion dollars, but that is an idiot commies pipe dream at best and the total annihilating of our nation at worst. He forgets that the very rich own nothing, their wealth is hidden in corporations, trusts, foundations, and all of that sort of thing and is just more malarkey for the benefit of the less intelligent to keep their lust for other peoples stuff increasing until their hatred is strong enough to push them into the kind of violence we see from communist revolutionaries all over the world and in our cities today. That is why Hunter Biden will not be forced to pay much in child support; he owns nothing and has no income according to the normal system of wealth. His kind of wealth is just as tenuous as Bernie’s is; and yes, Bernie is a wealthy man. Of course, we are also talking about evil monkeys like Billy Gates and the whole fabricated wealth confiscation scam of covid and “vaccines”, but that is a seemingly never ending rip-off and die-off of the human race.

And then there is the massive increase of bankruptcies of otherwise normal business like the recent one of Bed, Bath and Beyond, and Serta/Simmons bedding as examples with listing of just 2024 bankruptcies of major institutions found here. Big League Politics said that in only four months, there have been over seventy bankruptcies of major businesses. We are only on the beginning stages of this total financial collapse. We are only going to be left with perhaps a couple or three major banks in the US, or perhaps in the whole North American continent, and that is for the benefit of those very few that actually own them; and please remember that the de Rothschild’s are the major owners of even those when all things are considered. At the beginning of this column I mentioned another list that caught my attention, and that is where we go next.

Susan Duclos’ ANP article referred to above also had major content on food and other preparation supplies. I wholly support her analysis and recommendations in this arena. That list in my computer documents folder I noted was on the massive increases in food processing plants being destroyed the past few months and the reasons for it seem obvious; to starve the population of the mandatory nutritional requirements of our bodies to stay alive and to prosper. As I quickly realized, the list on bank failures and on food plants being destroyed have one major thing in common that I wish to explain other than the obvious ones like crashing our economy, destroying jobs and industry, negating the liberal ease of obtaining nutrition, an so forth. I hinted at that reason above when I mentioned that wealth equals power and power equals wealth and the looming digital currency market being developed. What occurred to be suddenly is that the destruction of those food plants, whether animal feed lots, egg production facilities, grain storage and processing, and so on, is that the need to better control the population and to DECREASE that population to meet the Agenda 2030 goals, is to put all of it under the control of just a very few owners.

Already the world’s food suppliers are owned by just ten major corporations that are holding companies for all of the smaller brands, and that is a major problem just as the worlds money supply is held by just a few major bankers. The cause of the smaller banks going under is to push all ownership into the few large ones to consolidate that power. The food industry already has that process well underway and the destruction of those smaller processing systems are primarily the weeding out the competition that bogs down the overseers of these world satanic tribes that own almost all of it. And that circle of power brokers is about to get much smaller; more tightly knit; more controlling.

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The Guardian had an article a couple of years ago that showed the handful of powerful companies controlled about 80% of the groceries that we can buy and that “a few powerful transnational companies dominate every link of the food supply chain: from seeds and fertilizers to slaughterhouses and supermarkets to cereals and beers.” They noted that four firms or fewer control over 40% of market share, and that “the size and influence of these mega-companies enables them to largely dictate what America’s 2 million farmers grow and how much they are paid, as well as what consumers eat and how much our groceries cost.” That is power, real power; and wealth, real wealth. We have had anti-monopoly laws on our books since almost the beginning of this nation for a very good reason, and how or why they are not being enforced is aiding the destruction of our nation as well as the world at large. It goes deeper than just groceries as “The consolidation runs deep: four firms or fewer controlled at least 50% of the market for 79% of the groceries. For almost a third of shopping items, the top firms controlled at least 75% of the market share.” Forbes said that “Soaring inflation has kept the food and beverage industry growing around the world. The top 25 companies in the sector generated $1.5 trillion in revenue in the past year, while profits for the sector increased to more than $155 billion.”

Yes sir, in the near future you will eat bugs and own nothing and you will be happy. That is an order from your masters and owners; you will be happy. They are gathering the power and wealth to dictate just that for the few of us that may survive our planned destruction. That was the stroke of insight that occurred to me at the moment mentioned at the start that this column was built upon; the consolidation of power is what we are witnessing.

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Central banks GOBBLE GOLD while UN pushes migrant REPLACEMENT of Americans and Europeans

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Israel seized Binance crypto accounts to 'thwart' Islamic State - report

The owner of the two Islamic State-linked Binance accounts seized by Israel was a 28-year-old Palestinian called Osama Abuobayda.

By REUTERS Published: MAY 4, 2023 22:16

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show.

Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) on Jan. 12 confiscated two Binance accounts and their contents, one of the documents on the NBCTF's website showed. The seizure was to "thwart the activity" of Islamic State and "impair its ability to further its goals," the NBCTF said on its website.

The NBCTF document, which has not been previously reported, did not give any details on the value of the crypto seized, nor how the accounts were connected to Islamic State.

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/banking-and-finance/article-742137 

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American Currency Collapse Has Already Started As BRICS Nations Prepare To Battle US Dollar: Ron Paul Alex Richardson May 2, 2023 Futuremash

Former Congressman Ron Paul says the dollar’s prominence has already started to wane as countries around the world tire of American interventionist policies.

Speaking in a new YouTube update, Paul says it shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that other nations are finally trying to compete with the dollar.

While the USD suffered a significant hit to its world reserve status in recent years, the former presidential candidate says things are just getting started.

We’re an interventionist government. We intervene in personal liberty, we intervene in economic liberty. We intervene in the internal affairs of all the other nations of the world. We tell them what to do, we put on sanctions to punish them. And then we’re surprised: ‘You mean they’re competing with the dollar? Well that’s not fair! We take care of the world, we do everything and now they’re attacking the dollar?’

Those are the cracks that we’re seeing. This past year was a significant decrease in the use of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. And that is a big number but it hasn’t concluded. I think it will continue in that direction.”

The former Texas representative warns that BRICS, or the economic coalition of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is just the first chapter of a coming tidal wave against the dollar. He says to expect more countries to form similar bodies of power.

The dollar system will collapse. It’s already started. Every day you’ll read another story that some major country – it could be India, it could be China especially, it could be Russia – making deals around the world exchanging in their local currencies. And then also the BRICS, that’s five countries getting together and saying ‘we want to compete.’ So there will be a filling in of the vacuum that will occur.”

Russia’s Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, says negotiations on a new BRICS currency are already underway, with an agreement expected to be ironed out this year.

Says Askov,

“By linking its economy and currency to politics, the US is practically undermining the foundations of its dominance.

I am sure that the share of the dollar will steadily decline in world trade.”

https://dailyhodl.com/2023/05/02/american-currency-collapse-has-already-started-as-brics-nations-prepare-

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Spain's drought has pushed olive oil prices to a 26-year high — and they're expected to stick

Published Thu, May 4 20231:27 AM EDT Lee Ying Shan

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Olive oil prices have hit record levels, thanks to a prolonged drought in top producer Spain — and the elevated prices are expected to stay for some time.

"The issues contributing to prices trending at near all-time highs are largely poor weather and a severely dry growing period for much of the Mediterranean, but most importantly in Spain, which is a major producer and exporter of olive oil," said Mintec's oilseeds and vegetable oils analyst, Kyle Holland.

Olive oil prices have hit record levels, thanks to a prolonged drought in top producer Spain — and the elevated prices are expected to stay for some time.

When renowned Spanish-American chef José Andrés tweeted that eggs should be fried in olive oil a finger deep, one user commented: "Olive oil can be expensive at a finger deep. What's an alternative for those of us on a budget?"

"Aldi olive oil spread used to 99p. It's now £1.29 Plus lots of the basic ranges have disappeared. Even Aldi is expensive now!" said another Twitter user, based in England.

According to data from the International Monetary Fund, global olive oil prices have hit $5,989.8 per metric ton, marking a 26-year high.

And the high prices could stay "for some time to come," said Mintec's oilseeds and vegetable oils analyst, Kyle Holland.

'Exceedingly poor' weather conditions

Bad weather in Spain, in particular the prolonged dry spell, is the main reason behind soaring prices.

"The issues contributing to prices trending at near all-time highs are largely poor weather and a severely dry growing period for much of the Mediterranean, but most importantly in Spain, which is a major producer and exporter of olive oil," Holland said.

As a result of "exceedingly poor" weather conditions, he said, the recent October to February olive harvest produced a yield 50% less than the usual output, tightening global supply and pushing prices upward.

"The exceedingly poor weather conditions meant that ... Spain produced an olive oil crop of around 630,000 metric tonnes, down from the usual 1.4 to 1.5 million metric tonnes harvest," he said.

Olive trees grow in warm and dry climates, and the optimal temperature ranges from 60 to 80 degrees F.

Spain had a bout of "very dry" weather in March, recording just 36% of the average monthly rainfall, according to the country's Ministry of Ecological Transition. The country experienced 36 straight months of below-average rainfall.

And if the weather doesn't improve, the upcoming harvest could face an even worse yield.

"There could be a similar or even lower crop than the one produced in the season prior, according to market players, who are also saying that prices could be at the current levels for some time to come," Holland said.

"It appears the ongoing drought in Europe, most importantly in the largest olive oil-producing region of Spain, has caused a global supply shortage of olive oil," David Valmorbida, president of the Australian Olive Oil Association, told CNBC.

Demand pressures

Demand pressures are putting more strain on already challenged supply chains.

The demand for olive oil has been strong in recent years — prices have been rising since 2020 because consumers were eating and cooking at home more often during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, Valmorbida said.

On top of that, the shortage of sunflower oil after Russia's invasion of Ukraine drove up prices.

"The outbreak of war in Ukraine, which created a global shortage in sunflower oil, pushed up the demand for olive oil even more," he added.

Changing consumer habits could ease some of the pressure.

"Consumers have already started to reduce consumption of olive oil substantially, firstly by being less generous in usage, but secondly by switching to vegetable or seed oils, or various oil blends," Valmorbida said.

Nevertheless, he maintained that a base demand for olive oil as a healthy and natural product will "remain at almost any price."

"So without an increase in rainfall, we could continue to see historically elevated prices at or above 5 euro per kg through into the 2023/24 harvest year."

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/olive-oil-prices-hit-record-highs-due-to-bad-weather-in-spain.html 

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Russia and China would use debt default to portray U.S. as chaotic, intel chief warns

Published Thu, May 4 20234:00 PM EDTUpdated 4 Hours Ago

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The director of America's top spy agency warned lawmakers that Russia and China will take advantage of the U.S. potentially defaulting on its debt.

Haines, who leads America's 18 intelligence agencies, said that Russia and China would attempt to highlight "the chaos within the United States, that we're not capable of functioning as a democracy."

WASHINGTON — The director of America's top spy agency warned lawmakers Thursday that Russia and China will take advantage of the U.S. potentially defaulting on its debt, which the Treasury Department says could happen as early as June 1.

"It would be almost a certainty that they would look to take advantage of the opportunity," U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said before the Senate Intelligence Committee when asked about the national security consequences of the U.S. teetering on the edge of a fiscal cliff.

Haines, who leads America's 18 intelligence agencies, said that Russia and China would attempt to highlight "the chaos within the United States, that we're not capable of functioning as a democracy."

"Almost certainly it would create global uncertainty about the value of the U.S. dollar and U.S. institutions and leadership, leading to volatility in currency and financial markets and commodity markets that are priced in dollars," she said.

Haines added that she is not following each development regarding debt limit negotiations on Capitol Hill.

The debt ceiling, which was first put in place by Congress during World War I, is the limit on the amount of money the federal government can borrow to pay for defense expenditures as well as mandatory programs, such as social security and Medicaid.

In January, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress that the U.S. government started to use extraordinary measures to fend off default.

"Failure to meet the government's obligations would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability," Yellen wrote in a Jan. 13 letter. "I respectfully urge Congress to act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the United States."

Since 1960, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 78 separate times under both Republican and Democratic presidents.

Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, echoed Haines' concerns when asked at the White House whether foreign adversaries would benefit from a U.S. default.

"They love this. They love to see chaos in the American system. They love to see that we can't do our basic jobs," Young told reporters during a press briefing at the White House. "The bottom line here, Congress needs to act. Preventing default is their basic constitutional responsibility and they need to get it done," she said.

In February, former Secretaries of Defense Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel warned that the federal government defaulting on its bills, a historic first, will weaken America's national security.

"The consequence of debt-ceiling brinksmanship is a dangerous self-inflected wound that tells both our friends and our enemies that we cannot be trusted. Such brinksmanship weakens our national security," the former Pentagon chiefs wrote in a letter.

The former secretaries added that Russian President Vladimir Putin "will be watching to measure the credibility of U.S. economic power" while Washington leads efforts to provide Kyiv with security assistance and coordinate global sanctions on Moscow.

"To default on our financial obligations at this time would both undermine our own power and encourage Putin to continue his futile war on democracy," Panetta and Hagel said.

What's more, a default would also impact the U.S. governments' ability to pay the 3.4 million men and women in the sister service branches, National Guard and civilian employees that make up the Defense Department.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/russia-china-would-use-debt-ceiling-default-against-us-haines.html 

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Concentration of at least five Russian warships in the North Sea – 3 of them are Kalibr cruise missile capable

May 4, 2023

A concentration of at least five Russian Navy warships, plus two auxiliaries, has formed in the North Sea. And if the Ukraine invasion teaches us anything, it’s that the axillaries are just as worth watching as the pointy ships.

3 of the warships are Kalibr cruise missile capable.

While there may be many explanations for this, it will likely get NATO attention.

The most likely explanation at this stage is an unannounced exercise.

Unusually the group includes a frigate from the Black Sea Fleet, which is prevented from returning to its base in Crimea due to the war. Turkey has closed the Bosporus to warships.

Russian Navy vessels identified in area:

Black Sea Fleet Pr.11356 Admiral Grigorovich class frigate, Admiral Grigorovich (494)

Baltic Fleet Pr.20380 Steregushchiy class corvette, Sbrazitelnyy (531)

Baltic Fleet Pr.20380 Steregushchiy class corvette, Stoikiy (545)

Baltic Fleet Pr.22800 Karakurt class corvette, Sovetsk (577)

Baltic Fleet Pr.22800 Karakurt class corvette, Odintsovo (584)

Baltic Fleet Pr.563 Goryn class tug, Yakov Grebelsky (MB-119)

Northern Fleet Pr.REF-675 Kaliningrad Neft class oiler, Kama

According to the Norwegian armed forces, the UDALOY Class destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov is also in the area. [HI Sutton]

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'Elimination' call against Ukrainian President after drone attacks on the Kremlin. Russia’s former President and Deputy Chief of Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that there is no other option left but to 'physically eliminate' Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Dmitry Medvedev also made a comparison between Ukraine and Nazi Germany. Watch this report for more.

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You are going to see much more happening overseas now much more.  Russia, they have been poked in the eye so long they are ready to fight.  North Korea has been mocked for so long they are ready to fight.  They are not afraid of those ships that are out there; they were out there during the Korean War.  Oh, wake up, wake up, you need to turn to me and not to your own ways, for the old ways never did work etc    

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West cannot stay silent on Kremlin drone attack but won’t admit anything – experts

The strike breaks an unofficial deal between Moscow, Kiev and the West not to target political leaders, analysts warn

A Ukrainian drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s working residences in the Kremlin has shaken the status quo in the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, a group of experts told RT following the incident. It could also lead to a dangerous escalation possibly involving the use of nuclear weapons, they warned, adding that Russia is bound to retaliate.

Thomas Roeper, a German author and war correspondent currently residing in St. Petersburg, said he was “quite surprised” to hear of the attack, since it clearly violated “an unofficial agreement not to bomb, not to attack places where the leading politicians are.”

There is no doubt that Russia will have to retaliate,” said Ralph Niemeyer, the head of the German Opposition Group for German Sovereignty and Constitution. “There will be further escalation, even up to the threat of the use of nuclear [weapons], which I think is still possible,” he added.

A Turkish professor of international law and an expert on terrorism, Mesut Hakki Casin, suggested that an escalation may have been the goal of the people who planned the strike. The forces behind the attack might have sought to put the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine “at the center of European warfare” and potentially even provoke Moscow into launching a tactical nuclear strike, he told RT.

“It’s a very unacceptable and a very, very dirty game,” the Turkish analyst warned. Casin also said Kiev may not have been alone in planning and organizing the strike. “This is an organized international attack,” he said.

Ukraine’s Western backers will not be able to ignore the incident in any case, Niemeyer believes. The German opposition figure still anticipates that the US and its allies will try to downplay the incident and “say it was not the Kiev regime, it was not [President Vladimir] Zelensky’s people,” as they did with the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.

According to Roeper, the attack could also affect relations between Kiev and Washington if the Ukrainians did not inform their backers about the planned attack in advance.

Maybe Washington was not informed, and maybe it was. We will see by the reaction. If Washington was not informed, there will be some angry reaction because this is a quite big danger to attack the president of a nuclear power,” the journalist said.

Two drones targeted the Kremlin in an attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning. One exploded over the Senate Palace, which houses the Russian Presidential administration. The second fell in the grounds of the Kremlin, not far from the president’s official primary workplace, the Great Kremlin Palace. Moscow blamed the incident on Ukraine and has reserved the right to retaliate. Kiev denies any responsibility.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575718-west-kremlin-drone-attack-experts/ 

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Evictions Shoot Up 80% As Rent Prices Financially Destroy Millions Of Americans

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New data just revealed that eviction cases in the U.S. have jumped by almost 80% since October 2022. Official agencies report that about 13% of the U.S. population, which represents over 40 million people, is at risk of losing their homes this year amid explosive rent prices and a worrying trend among some of the country’s biggest landlords of increasing the rate of monthly evictions to boost their cash flow growth. While companies and investors worry about their bottom lines, families are losing everything, and homelessness is growing all across the country. Housing advocates say this is the cliff we’ve been warned about and things will only go downhill from here.

Corporate landlords are removing renters from homes at rates that largely surpass the typical pre-pandemic rate, a new report from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University shows. Analyzing how eviction levels changed in 32 U.S. cities over the past six months, researchers found that landlords in these areas filed about 970,000 eviction cases every month, a whopping 79% increase compared to a year prior.

In Phoenix, for example, rent prices shoot up over 25% year over year, with a median asking rent of $2,261. In Maricopa County alone, evictions are at their highest levels since at least 2016, with more than 45,000 filings so far this year. “Lately, it just seems to be all that we’ve been doing,” said Huberman, the presiding justice of the peace for Maricopa County.

Even areas experiencing less dramatic increases in rent are witnessing a rise in evictions as Americans scramble to cope with inflation. In Minneapolis, where rent increases have trended below the national average, evictions in December were 37% above their historical averages after shooting up in June, when the state lifted its eviction moratorium.

In the last quarter, the Las Vegas Justice Court head over 45,000 eviction cases, a significant rise compared to earlier years when the average was closer to 30,000 cases. In Dallas County, home to the city of Dallas, landlords filed almost 60,000 evictions in the past four months. This is not just a problem isolated to major urban centers, but also rural and industrial communities, where housing costs have been surging at an alarming pace as well. The latest analysis of weekly U.S. Census data indicates that in the absence of robust and swift intervention, an estimated 44.5 million people in America could be at risk of eviction in the next several months. That represents about 13% of the U.S. 331 million people population.

“My biggest fear is the cliff that we’ve been all anticipating is here. From here on out, it’s going to be a very, very difficult time,” highlighted Tim Thomas, research director at the Urban Displacement Project at the University of California, Berkeley. “I don’t want to be a doom and gloom person, but we’re probably about to see the worst of what’s about to happen.”

Although inflation has finally started to ease, overall economic uncertainty is still on the rise, and rents nationwide are still $800 more expensive than in 2019. Before the pandemic, the median rent in the U.S. was at $1,062. Today, it stands at $1,937. America can’t afford to wait for another major national emergency to happen to finally start taking action. People are losing the roof above their heads, and their sense of dignity and security now, so we must act now before this crisis spirals out of control.

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US Navy hires activy-duty drag queen to be face of recruitment drive

By Yaron Steinbuch  May 3, 2023 8:01am Updated

The US Navy invited an active-duty drag queen to be a “Digital Ambassador” – as part of a recent drive “to attract the most talented and diverse workforce” and combat plunging recruitment.

Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, who identifies as non-binary, was appointed as the first of five Navy Digital Ambassadors in a pilot program that ran from October to March.

Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, has shared their journey on TikTok and Instagram, where they described how they began performing onboard and became an “advocate” for people who “were oppressed for years in the service.”

“From joining to 2016 and being able to share my drag experience on my off time with my fellow sailors has been a blessing,” Kelley wrote on Instagram in November when announcing their appointment as a digital ambassador to their more than 8,000 followers.

“Thank you to the Navy for giving me this opportunity! I don’t speak for the Navy but simply sharing my experience in the Navy! Hooyah, and let’s go Slay!” they added.

The “Digital Ambassador” program that Kelley took part in ran from October to March and was “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates” as the Navy battles “the most challenging recruiting environment it has faced since the start of the all-volunteer force,” a Navy spokesperson told Fox News.

The service branch is evaluating what form the program, which included five active-duty personnel, will take in the future, the rep added.

“The Navy did not compensate YN2 Kelley or any others for being Navy Digital Ambassadors,” the spokesperson also noted.

Kelley has told Carl Herzog of the USS Constitution Museum that they began dressing in drag and performing in shows long before joining the Navy.

In 2017 and 2018, they performed as Harpy in a crew morale-boosting lip sync competition while on deployment on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.

“I started performing in drag in 2013. Drag had no influence with me joining. It was the Navy I feared that would’ve influenced me to stop doing drag,” Kelley told Herzog.

“For myself, drag has been a passion, an art, and a way to express myself. … Ship life is difficult. Every day fades into one, and high stress and intensity can bring low morale and can cause suicide and bad behavior,” they said.

Kelly said that their performance on the Ronald Regan helped save someone’s life.

This person was gay and felt lost and alone, ready to jump ship. But after getting to view my performance, they felt empowered to be themselves and see that our struggles and low morale are temporary,” the Yeoman 2nd Class said.

“They personally thanked me and said they forgot what life was like for a moment. That’s a struggle we all deal with during deployments and we all have our reasons to lose ourselves,” the sailor continued.

Asked what their plans are, both as a drag queen and in the Navy, Kelly told Herzog that their “goals as a sailor are to continue working hard, make first (class) and become the first officer in my family.”

As for drag, I hope to continue performing, building safe spaces for queer individuals, and one day make it on RuPaul’s Drag Race as one of the first active service members,” they added.

The ambassador program was launched as the Navy is trying to boost its size to 347,000 members in 2024, up from the current 341,736 serving in fiscal year 2023, according to the Navy Times.

It committed to recruit and retain personnel through fostering an inclusive culture and ensuring they feel “included and connected to mission and leaders at all levels,” according to the latest diversity, equity and inclusion policy updates cited by the Daily Caller.

On April 19, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti told the House Armed Services Committee that the Navy is projected to fall 6,000 recruits, or 16%, short of its fiscal year 2023 goal for enlisted sailors.

To attract the most talented and diverse workforce, the Navy continues to evaluate its compensation package and admission requirements, and how it reaches potential recruits through advertising and career events,” according to the Navy’s budget proposal for 2024, the outlet reported.

The ambassador program is one of several ways the Navy uses to reach various populations to overcome what the spokesperson called “the most challenging recruiting environment since the start of the all-volunteer force.”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/us-navy-appointed-active-duty-drag-queen-as-ambassador/ 

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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Testifies It’s Better to Get Rid of Jobs in USA, Live in Poverty and Save the Planet – Even if Rest of The World Doesn’t Do It

May 2, 2023 | Sundance | 299 Comments

Around 15 years ago CTH outlined the inclusive goal of the progressive movement, modern Democrats as they were evolving, was to deconstruct the U.S. economic system so that Americans would be forced to live in government-controlled poverty. Essentially reduced to circling a campfire, eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off our family members.

Most people understandably scoffed and said we were being hyperbolic. However, what we were highlighting was the natural conclusion of a visible ideology and set of policies. The modern democrat ideology is based on a worldview that feudalism is superior, and Democrats are elite in their global magnanimity (defined as their virtuous self image).

Fast forward a decade+ later, and there is Joe Biden’s Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, explaining why it is better for the health of the planet if Americans lose their jobs, lose their economic sustainability, starve in feudal poverty, as the virtuous government ships all the dirty jobs to China and retains their clean pro-climate agenda. In Haaland’s defense, it should be noted that this has been the policy of Canada for quite a while. WATCH: click on link below

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/02/interior-secretary-deb-haaland-testifies-its-better-to-get-rid-

of-jobs-in-usa-live-in-poverty-and-save-the-planet-even-if-rest-of-the-world-doesnt-do-it/ 

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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..

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etc. For the system as you know it is vanishing before your eyes, you can no longer rely upon your jobs, upon your banking institutions, all you can depend upon is a one world government and you cannot depend upon that. etc..

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Put your money, your time, your efforts into what I tell you to do, for I will cause you to have a victory such as you have never seen. And it shall be so clear, yes; it shall be so clear what you are all to do. Yes, for I shall speak to you, my power shall be awesome and miracles shall come to pass. It shall not be the fake gold or the fake feathers or the false shaking or the animal noises or the falling under the power and not coming away with permanent results or changed lives. My prophetic shall speak concerning things to come in a clear concise manner that no one shall want to miss or read second hand. For they will want to hear it under the anointing of the prophets and to receive the anointing of the prophet that shall manifest miracles, signs and wonders. People shall now see the signs of the last days like never before. Not only in a strange and confusing weather, the heat, the drought, the floods, the forest fires, the volcanoes, lack of jobs, shortage of money, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, straight wind, electrical storms, electrical shortages, hail, locusts, pestilence’s, the sicknesses, terrorists attacks, wars, the uniting of the false church under the false prophet, the rise of the anti-christ, the riots, the crime, the drugs, alcoholism, great open gay activities and movies, more open sex on TV, more street people, homeless, lack of crops, food shortages, great fear in those who do not know me. No peace as my word says for the world. The UN taking more control, martial law established, rationing and many more disasters that shall now begin to come. etc.

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IBM To Stop Hiring For Roles That Can Be Replaced By AI; Nearly 8,000 Workers To Be Replaced By Automation

By zerohedge May 1, 2023

One month ago, to much dismay and widespread denial, Goldman predicted that AI could lead to some 300 million layoffs among highly paid, non-menial workers in the US and Europe. As Goldman chief economist Jan Hatzius put it, “using data on occupational tasks in both the US and Europe, we find that roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation, and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work. Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation” as up to “two thirds of occupations could be partially automated by AI.”

Yet while Goldman’s forecast was met with a emotions ranging from incredulity to outright mockery, it may not have been too far off the mark.

Consider that just last week, Dropbox said it would lay off 16% of the company, some 500 employees as the company sought to build out its AI division. In a memo to employees, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston said that “in an ideal world, we’d simply shift people from one team to another. And we’ve done that wherever possible. However, our next stage of growth requires a different mix of skill sets, particularly in AI and early-stage product development. We’ve been bringing in great talent in these areas over the last couple years and we’ll need even more.”

The changes we’re announcing today, while painful, are necessary for our future,” Houston notes. “I’m determined to ensure that Dropbox is at the forefront of the AI era, just as we were at the forefront of the shift to mobile and the cloud. We’ll need all hands on deck as machine intelligence gives us the tools to reimagine our existing businesses and invent new ones.”

But while Dropbox’s layoffs were lateral, and meant to open up space for more AI linked hires, in the case of IBM, it is AI itself that is making workers redundant.

As Bloomberg reports, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years. As a result, hiring in back-office functions — such as human resources — will be suspended or slowed, Krishna said in an interview. These non-customer-facing roles amount to roughly 26,000 workers, Krishna said. “I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period.” That would mean roughly 7,800 jobs lost.

Part of any reduction would include not replacing roles vacated by attrition, an IBM spokesperson said.

Krishna’s plan marks one of the largest workforce strategies announced in response to the rapidly advancing technology; it certainly won’t be the last as virtually all companies follow in IBM’s footsteps and layoffs tens if not hundreds of millions of workers in the coming years.

Mundane tasks such as providing employment verification letters or moving employees between departments will likely be fully automated, Krishna said. And while some HR functions, such as evaluating workforce composition and productivity, probably won’t be replaced over the next decade, it is only a matter of time before these roles are also replaced by AI.

IBM currently employs about 260,000 workers and continues to hire for software development and customer-facing roles. Finding talent is easier today than a year ago, Krishna said. The company announced job cuts earlier this year, which may amount to about 5,000 workers once completed. Still, Krishna said IBM has added to its workforce overall, bringing on about 7,000 people in the first quarter.

The Armonk, New York-based IBM beat profit estimates in its most recent quarter due to expense management, including the earlier-announced job cuts. In the past IBM had managed to manipulate its stock higher thanks to billions in stock buybacks (at much higher prices). But once its debt load grew too big, the buyback game ended, Warren Buffett sold his shares, and the stock price has languished for over half a decade. And since the company’s revenue is stagnant at best, its only hope is to drastically cut overhead.

Enter AI: new “productivity and efficiency” steps – read replacing workers with algos – are expected to drive $2 billion a year in savings by the end of 2024, Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh said on the day of earnings.

Helping the company’s imminent transition to an AI-staffed corporation will be the coming recession. Until late 2022, Krishna said he believed the US could avoid a recession. Now, he sees the potential for a “shallow and short” recession toward the end of this year, although it remains unclear just how once can determine that a recession will be “shallow and short”.

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/01/2023 – 21:40

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For the ways of man have become more evil than at anytime on the face of the earth, anytime.  The demon spirits are extremely active and they are entering into those that have not a covering over them. etc.

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For the world has become very evil and they desire the evil more than they desire those things that are righteous and they desire to walk the way of the evil.  You can even see it in the elections, they are willing to accept the evil and reject that which would be good.  This is a sign that you have crossed the line, that there is no turning back, that my judgment must come upon the face of the earth, etc  

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Pennsylvania school district must allow After School Satan Club: judge

By Olivia Land  May 2, 2023 10:03am Updated

A federal judge ruled this week that a Pennsylvania school district must allow a Satanist club to meet, citing the group’s First Amendment rights.

US District Judge John M. Gallagher wrote in a Monday filing that the Saucon Valley School District violated the After School Satan Club’s free speech privileges when it rescinded its agreement to let the group meet on school grounds, the Morning Call reported.

The club, which is sponsored by the Satanic Temple, had its official approval revoked earlier this year after its promotional flyers caused a stir in the Lehigh Valley community.

The national ACLU, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and Dechert LLP subsequently sued the district on behalf of the Satanic Temple in March, the Hill reported.

“Here, although The Satanic Temple, Inc.’s objectors may challenge the sanctity of this controversially named organization, the sanctity of the First Amendment’s protections must prevail,” Gallagher reasoned in his decision.

Gallagher, however, also acknowledged Superintendent Jaime Vlasaty’s “unenviable” position when faced with a shooting threat in response to the club in February.

While he rejected the district’s claim that the Satanic club violated official advertising policies, he did prohibit the group from distributing permission slips and flyers because the school no longer permitted the practice.

As part of the judge’s ruling, the district must allow the After School Satan Club to meet on three previously selected dates at Saucon Valley Middle School in aptly named Hellertown.

The first gathering is set for next week, WFMZ reported.

This ruling sends a powerful message that the First Amendment protects the viewpoints and beliefs of all people and faiths,” Sara Rose, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, said in a statement to the Morning Call.

When a school district opens up its facilities, it cannot discriminate based on religious beliefs. This ruling reinforces the principle of equal access and ensures that all views have a fair opportunity to be expressed.”

The Satanic Temple does not worship Satan as an incarnation of evil, but instead uses the controversial symbol as a representation of independent thought and free will.

The group made headlines last week as the largest-ever gathering of adherents prepared to descend on Boston for SatanCon 2023.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/penn-school-district-must-allow-satan-club-judge/ 

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etc. you shall see Russia go to war very soon now, you shall see Babylon destroyed in twenty four hours, you shall see the great earthquake, you shall see these things etc

etc You see the King of Jordan as he brings his restrictions, as he demands that you stay away from the temple, that you do not move Jerusalem. You hear America now saying they may change their mind, do they know not what this will bring forth, this will be the dividing of the land again. Once again I gave you that land, that land is your land and you have no right giving even a gravesite away to another country, that is my land. And when you divide that land, not only will you divide that land, but you will divide America and the great lakes will flow to New Orleans and disaster shall take place. Do you not see the volcanoes; do you not hear about the earthquakes, do you not realize that the plates underneath the ocean have shifted? Do you not see Russia on the move; does she not have her largest submarine setting off of North Carolina and South Carolina and Virginia? etc

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Swarms of Earthquakes shake California in recent days as officials warn the cost of yearly quake damage nears $10 BILLION - up 157% from six years ago

Southern California was hit with multiple earthquakes over the weekend

Quakes come as California continues to see uptick in natural occurrences

New report indicates damage nears $10B per year, up 157% from six years ago

By Hope Sloop For Dailymail.Com

Published: 17:31 EDT, 30 April 2023 | Updated: 17:36 EDT, 30 April 2023

A swarm of earthquakes hit Southern California over the weekend as the Golden State continues to see a massive uptick in the cost of quake damage.

One earthquake that shook the Salton Sea region - located south of Joshua Tree - registered as a 4.5 in magnitude on the Richter scale.

The first earthquake occurred near the U.S.- Mexico border town of Herber around 12pm Saturday and more than four dozen tremors were subsequently registered over the next 18 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The latest quakes come after a new report from USGS indicated that California is projected to lose an average of $9.6 billion a year from earthquake damage.

That number is a 157 percent jump from 2017 when it was just $3.7 billion a year.

The earthquake and tremors in Herber reached up to 3.7 in magnitude.

According to USGS, around 60 residents felt the first quake and the following tremors.

A second series of earthquakes struck near Niland, a town 40 miles north of the border. After the first, more than 25 tremors shook the area after midnight Sunday.

There, the earthquakes lasted until 5.28am and reached a magnitude of 4.5.

Those tremors were felt by roughly 30 people in the area.

Between the Herber and Niland earthquakes, a 3.2-magnitude quake hit the shore of the Salton Sea around 10.55pm.

At this time, there are no reports of damage or injuries from any of the quakes.

Seismologists say in the most recent report that California and Nevada have seen around 230 earthquakes each year between magnitudes of 3.0 to 4.0.

In the latest hazard report from the USGS, published in April, the organization outlines the potentially catastrophic damage that could come from the quakes.

'In any given year a big earthquake strikes ... you can easily anticipate a $100-billion loss,' USGS research structural engineer Kishor Jaiswal told The Los Angeles Times.

California has been hit with numerous devastating earthquakes in the past that have left areas scrambling to rebuild for years - if not decades - afterward.

According to the new USGS report, Los Angeles and Orange counties are the most costly places that can be hit by earthquakes at a projected annual loss of $3.3 billion a year.

Right behind the Southern California places is the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metro area, with a projected loss of $1.8 billion a year.

Shockingly, the report also indicates California's expected costs make up around 65 percent of the nation's total damages.

Over the next three decades, California is projected to lose $288 billion.

Five counties in Southern California - Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties - could lose nearly $150 billion.

Nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area would lose around $90 billion.

'It's a sobering reminder about why we need to prepare for those rare but large earthquakes, as just one major event can eclipse the costs of the more frequent but smaller ones,' USGS Director David Applegate said in a statement.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12031481/Earthquakes-shake-California-recent-days-officials-warn-cost-

quake-damage-nears-10B.html 

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etc Much evil upon the face of the earth, much lying, much deceit, much deceit, much lying, much evil upon the face of the earth.  Can you not see there is so much evil going on right now, people lying to themselves, lying to me, lying to others trying to make their agenda come true?  But as it is written in my word and said and so it shall be, no liar shall enter my kingdom.  So if you are one of those people, I speak to you right now, get yourself ready, get yourself ready, come out amongst them and be ye separate etc

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The Extinction Protocols Are Now In Play As The 'New Nazi Party Of America' Carry Out The Worst Atrocities And Evils We've Witnessed In Human History

By D Parker for All News Pipeline April 30, 2023

Tucker Carlson made some very interesting points in his keynote speech at the Heritage Foundation 50th Anniversary Gala as seen in the 1st video at the bottom of this story. These take on special meaning now that the people who only pretend to be liberal, in favor of progress and democracy, are celebrating the diminishment of liberty, progress, and rule by the people.

It’s becoming ironically obvious that as things become more confused, they are settling themselves out in an even starker contrast. This was something that Mr. Carlson pointed out in his keynote speech, delivered after his last Fox News show.

If you want to know what’s evil and what’s good, what are the characteristics of those?

And by the way, I think the Athenians would’ve agreed with this. This is not necessarily just a Christian notion, this is kind of a, I would say, widely agreed-upon understanding of good and evil. What are its products? What do these two conditions produce?

Well, I mean, good is characterized by order, calmness, tranquility, peace, whatever you want to call it, lack of conflict, cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness. It’s true. It is.

And evil is characterized by their opposites. Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth. So, if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes, what you’re really advocating for is evil. That’s just true. I’m not calling for religious war. Far from it. I’m merely calling for an acknowledgement of what we’re watching, which is not one …

They don’t want a debate. Those ideas won’t produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances. Those are manifestations of some larger force acting upon us. It’s just so obvious. It’s completely obvious.

And I think two things: One, we should say that and stop engaging in these totally fraudulent debates, where we are using the terms that we used in 1991 when I started at [The Heritage Foundation], as if maybe I could just win the debate if I marshaled more facts.

I’ve tried. That doesn’t work. And two, maybe we should all take just 10 minutes a day to say a prayer about it. I’m serious. Why not?

And I’m saying that to you not as some kind of evangelist, I’m literally saying that to you as an Episcopalian, the Samaritans of our time. I’m coming to you from the most humble and lowly theological position you can. I’m literally an Episcopalian. And even I have concluded it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will.

(ANP EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER: Due to an endless censorship campaign by 'big tech' upon ANP articles, we're running an emergency fundraising drive. We also want to thank everybody who has donated to ANP over the years. With donations and ad revenue all that keep ANP online, if you're able, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this fight for America's future at this absolutely critical time in US history. During a time of systematic, 'big tech' censorship and widespread institutional corruption, truth-seeking media and alternative views are crucial, and EVERY little bit helps more than you could know!)

It becomes even more interesting if you extrapolate his remarks and look at how this applies across the board. There is a strange dichotomy that applies to the two major sides of the political divide.

Good/Evil.

Order/Disorder.

Peace/Violence.

Cleanliness/Filth.

Right/Sinister.

Truth/Lies.

Facts/Propaganda.

Order/Chaos.

Reality/Gaslighting.

Building up/Burning down

Sanity/Insanity

Integrity/Dishonesty

Civil Rights/Cancel Culture

Freedom/Force

Liberty/Tyranny

Individualism/Collectivism

Economic Liberty/Fascism

Individual control/Centralized control

Limited government/Unlimited government

Innocence/Guilt

Sense/Nonsense

Unity/Division

Logic/Illogic

Food/Starvation

Life/Death (Vida/Muerte)

Self-determination/Slavery

Strangely enough, if you look at the various aspects of our society concerning the two sides of the political divide, you’ll see that there is an unmistakable contrast between the two that is growing by the day. Try it yourself, the list almost seems endless.

Consider any aspect of the pro-freedom right and its contrast with the anti-liberty left, and you’ll see a positive value in one and a negative in the other.

As Mr. Carlson referred to in his speech, the ideas of one side of the political divide won’t produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances. They are the obvious manifestations of a larger force acting on our society and the world at large.

April 30, 2023

The Extinction Protocols Are Now In Play As The 'New Nazi Party Of America' Carry Out The Worst Atrocities And Evils We've Witnessed In Human History

By D Parker for All News Pipeline April 30, 2023

Tucker Carlson made some very interesting points in his keynote speech at the Heritage Foundation 50th Anniversary Gala as seen in the 1st video at the bottom of this story. These take on special meaning now that the people who only pretend to be liberal, in favor of progress and democracy, are celebrating the diminishment of liberty, progress, and rule by the people.

It’s becoming ironically obvious that as things become more confused, they are settling themselves out in an even starker contrast. This was something that Mr. Carlson pointed out in his keynote speech, delivered after his last Fox News show.

If you want to know what’s evil and what’s good, what are the characteristics of those?

And by the way, I think the Athenians would’ve agreed with this. This is not necessarily just a Christian notion, this is kind of a, I would say, widely agreed-upon understanding of good and evil. What are its products? What do these two conditions produce?

Well, I mean, good is characterized by order, calmness, tranquility, peace, whatever you want to call it, lack of conflict, cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness. It’s true. It is.

And evil is characterized by their opposites. Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth. So, if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes, what you’re really advocating for is evil. That’s just true. I’m not calling for religious war. Far from it. I’m merely calling for an acknowledgement of what we’re watching, which is not one …

They don’t want a debate. Those ideas won’t produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances. Those are manifestations of some larger force acting upon us. It’s just so obvious. It’s completely obvious.

And I think two things: One, we should say that and stop engaging in these totally fraudulent debates, where we are using the terms that we used in 1991 when I started at [The Heritage Foundation], as if maybe I could just win the debate if I marshaled more facts.

I’ve tried. That doesn’t work. And two, maybe we should all take just 10 minutes a day to say a prayer about it. I’m serious. Why not?

And I’m saying that to you not as some kind of evangelist, I’m literally saying that to you as an Episcopalian, the Samaritans of our time. I’m coming to you from the most humble and lowly theological position you can. I’m literally an Episcopalian. And even I have concluded it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will.

(ANP EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER: Due to an endless censorship campaign by 'big tech' upon ANP articles, we're running an emergency fundraising drive. We also want to thank everybody who has donated to ANP over the years. With donations and ad revenue all that keep ANP online, if you're able, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this fight for America's future at this absolutely critical time in US history. During a time of systematic, 'big tech' censorship and widespread institutional corruption, truth-seeking media and alternative views are crucial, and EVERY little bit helps more than you could know!)

It becomes even more interesting if you extrapolate his remarks and look at how this applies across the board. There is a strange dichotomy that applies to the two major sides of the political divide.

Good/Evil.

Order/Disorder.

Peace/Violence.

Cleanliness/Filth.

Right/Sinister.

Truth/Lies.

Facts/Propaganda.

Order/Chaos.

Reality/Gaslighting.

Building up/Burning down

Sanity/Insanity

Integrity/Dishonesty

Civil Rights/Cancel Culture

Freedom/Force

Liberty/Tyranny

Individualism/Collectivism

Economic Liberty/Fascism

Individual control/Centralized control

Limited government/Unlimited government

Innocence/Guilt

Sense/Nonsense

Unity/Division

Logic/Illogic

Food/Starvation

Life/Death (Vida/Muerte)

Self-determination/Slavery

Strangely enough, if you look at the various aspects of our society concerning the two sides of the political divide, you’ll see that there is an unmistakable contrast between the two that is growing by the day. Try it yourself, the list almost seems endless.

Consider any aspect of the pro-freedom right and its contrast with the anti-liberty left, and you’ll see a positive value in one and a negative in the other.

As Mr. Carlson referred to in his speech, the ideas of one side of the political divide won’t produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances. They are the obvious manifestations of a larger force acting on our society and the world at large.

Consider just one of these in that while the far left has perfected the art of lying with language and exploiting labels like liberal they couldn’t help but show their true colors in gloating when Mr. Carlson was cashiered. This was epitomized by one of the luminaries of the Bolshevik brain trust, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; John Hayward looked at the big, fascist picture of AOC’s ‘de-platforming works’ boast in an epic thread. That started with:

Of course, "deplatforming works." Fascism works. Totalitarianism works. Terrorism works. That's why people keep embracing such ideologies, even though our culture nominally considers them to be among the greatest of human evils.

It is well worth reading in that it shows which side has taken on the role of evil in this drama. One would hope that people who purport to be supporters of liberty and democracy would recoil with acts of cancel culture and de-platforming. But after years of projecting the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) persona, it should be clear that it is the far left that fits this role, despite 80 years of false protestations, trying to lie that it’s otherwise.

The rest of the contrasts between the pro-freedom right and the anti-liberty left are also striking, we can’t do justice to each one, but most people intuitively know which side is dividing the country and trying to tear it down and acting illogically because that is the methodology of evil.

As Mr. Carlson said in his address, if you’re all in on those manifestations, what you’re really advocating for is evil. That is the truth, no matter the lies of the fascist far left. Originally published on the American Thinker.

https://allnewspipeline.com/The_Extinction_Protocols_Are_Now_In_Play.php 

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etc. You are seeing the pressure that the whole world is putting on my people Israel and only the true Christians are standing with them now, etc

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UN Body Will Host 'Nakba' Event Mourning Creation Of Israel

One of many United Nations bodies dedicated to the Palestinians announced last weekend an upcoming U.N. commemoration of "Nakba Day," the supposed "catastrophe" that marked the birth of the State of Israel in 1948.

Palestinian and their supporters mark this annually on May 15, one day after Israel announced its independence on May 14, 1948.

The day purportedly memorializes the displacement of Palestinian Arabs. During the course of fighting beginning in November 1947, when U.N. member states voted to partition the land, and lasting until the summer of 1949, many Arabs in the area fled during hostilities or heeded instructions from Arab leaders to leave their homes as five Arab armies tried to annihilate the nascent Jewish state at birth.

Pursuant to a U.N. General Assembly resolution passed in December, the U.N. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) announced that a Nakba Day event will be held inside the halls of the United Nations for the first time.

"Commemorations ... will bring to life the Palestinian journey and will aim at creating an immersive experience of the Nakba through live music, photos, videos and personal testimonies," CEIRPP stated in a weekend release.

The resolution itself was sponsored by Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinians; it passed by a vote of 90 in favor, 30 against and 47 abstentions.

Israel, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States were among the countries that voted against.

While CEIRPP falls under the purview of the Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR) of the Secretariat, which reports to the U.N. secretary-general, the U.N. chief himself deflected this weekend's announcement.

When directly asked, the spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres responded that "this is an event decided upon by the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which is a member state body. The Secretary-General is not involved in its decision-making."

His spokesman said he is not aware of any plans for Guterres to participate in the commemoration.

When asked where Guterres stands on the appropriateness of U.N. member states mourning the U.N.-backed formation of a fellow member state, the spokesman told JNS that "the secretary-general's message on the Israel-Palestine issue has been constant and remains the same regardless of the fora."

That message, added the spokesman, is to "end the occupation and realize a two-state solution."

"What is needed is the political will and courage to make the difficult choices for peace that ends the occupation and ensures two states--Israel and an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state--living side by side within secure and recognized borders, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states," said the spokesman. "A peace in which Palestinians and Israelis alike enjoy equal measures of democracy, opportunity and dignity in their lives. A peace, in short, that is just, comprehensive and lasting."

Abbas: 'At the top of our priorities'

The United Nations established the partition plan that would have divided then-Mandatory British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states with international oversight of Jerusalem. Jewish leaders accepted the plan. Palestinian Arabs rejected it then, and have turned down repeated offers of statehood since.

While the Palestinians hold non-member observer status at the United Nations, their influence is outsized.

While Nakba Day is officially added to the U.N. calendar, Nov. 29 already exists as the U.N. Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It is the only day the United Nations sets aside in the cause of one group of people, and its related events at U.N. headquarters around the world are generally used in large part to bash Israel.

The U.N. delegates a special rapporteur to the Palestinians--one with an open-ended mandate that presupposes Israel's human-rights violations. Special rapporteurs for all other purposes have mandates of limited duration with objective fact-finding missions. The current special rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, has a history of blatant antisemitism and falsified information on her application for the position to hide her past biases against Israel.

The ongoing U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict likewise has a unique unending mandate, and is populated by multiple commission members with a history of antisemitism and extensive documented anti-Israel bias.

Besides CEIRPP, which was created in 1975, an additional U.N. special committee and an entire division of the U.N. Secretariat are devoted exclusively to the Palestinian cause. The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, created in 1968, and the DPR, in existence since 1979, cost the international body millions of dollars a year, including the creation and publication of anti-Israel materials.

No other group of people is afforded this type of status at the United Nations.

The DPR and CEIRPP organize meetings and conferences in coordination with anti-Israel non-governmental organizations, often promoting BDS and the Palestinian "right of return," which would see an end to Jewish sovereignty in Israel.

In 2004, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution creating yet another Palestinian-specific body, the U.N. Register of Damages (UNRoD). The agency was created to help Palestinians file claims against Israel for purported damages incurred during Israel's construction of the security barrier, intended to stop a wave of Palestinian suicide bombers during the Second Intifada that took place from 2000 to 2005.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has a mandate that uniquely provides refugee status to every Palestinian child--even those born in Palestinian-controlled areas and those with citizenship in other countries--in perpetuity and funds their benefits.

No detailed plans have yet been announced for the U.N. Nakba Day.

"Commemorating the nakba must be at the top of our priorities in order to preserve our narrative, which we must adhere to and convey to the whole world," the Palestinian WAFA news agency quoted Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas as saying after the CEIRPP announcement.

According to the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, Abbas--a fomenter of Holocaust denial--instructed Palestinians to commemorate Nakba Day "to confront all lies and false narratives that attempt to distort history and facts."

"What Palestinians everywhere are required to do is to commemorate this tragedy, because it is the first time that the global community does not deny the nakba," said Abbas, who rejected a peace offer from then-Israeli premier Ehud Olmert in 2008--one that was largely seen as generous by the international community.

Originally published at JNS.org - reposted with permission.

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6049 

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'March of the Million' shatters claim nation opposes judicial reform

"We are told that if the reform passes there will be a dictatorship. There is no bigger lie than that," Justice Minister Yariv Levin tells the estimated 600,000 who rallied in Jerusalem in support of the legislation.

By David Isaac/JNS Published on 04-28-2023 12:49 Last modified: 04-28-2023 12:49

The "March of the Million" near the Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday evening may not have hit its target (organizers say 600,000 attended; police say 200,000), but it succeeded in putting to bed Opposition claims that Israelis are united against judicial reform. It also provided much-needed backing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's beleaguered government.

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Supporters of reform have been slow to respond to months of protests against it, which have forced the coalition back on its heels, leading Netanyahu to pause the process and enter into negotiations with the opposition under the auspices of President Isaac Herzog. Those favoring reform worry that the result will be a watered-down version of the legislation. Among the crowd's chants at the rally: "Stop being afraid" and "We don't want compromise."

Of the many politicians and right-wing figures who addressed the assembled, the biggest cheers went to the chief architects of judicial reform: Justice Minister Yariv Levin of Likud and Knesset Member Simcha Rothman of the Religious Zionism Party, who chairs the parliament's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.

"Over two million Israelis voted six months ago in the real referendum: the election. They voted in favor of legal reform," Levin declared. "We are here on this stage with 64 mandates to right an injustice. No more inequality, no one-sided judicial system, no court whose judges are above the Knesset and above the government.

"We are told that if the reform passes there will be a dictatorship. There is no bigger lie than that. Show me a single democracy in which the legal advisers decide [government policy] instead of the government," Levin said, adding to cheers, "I will do everything in my power to bring the desired change to the judicial system.

"If someone were to tell me a few years ago that in 2023 there would be such a broad consensus in Israeli society for the need for judicial reform and that the situation today isn't democratic, I would have told him he was delusional," Rothman said. "Correcting the judicial system is my life's mission and I will continue to promote it in every way."

Likud MK Avichay Boaron acted as master of ceremonies. "The purpose of the demonstration is to remind and demand from our elected officials in the government and the coalition that the people want judicial reform, that the people are behind them, that the people give them strength," he said.

Netanyahu, who didn't attend for security reasons, tweeted, "I am deeply moved by the tremendous support of the national camp that came to Jerusalem this evening en masse. All of us, 64 mandates that brought on our victory, are first-class citizens. You warmed my heart very much, and I thank each and every one of you."

Twenty-nine NGOs sponsored the protest, foremost among them Tekuma 23, an NGO founded by political activist Berale Crombie together with Boaron. Its mission is to build support for judicial reform in the wake of the protests against it.

The pro-reform rally was different in tone from its anti-reform counterparts, which are grim affairs with warnings of pending dictatorship, clashes with police, solemn torchlit marches and women dressed as Margaret Atwood-inspired handmaids with heads lowered. This rally was boisterous, resembling a giant block party. Music pumped through large speaker systems. Protesters danced and sang. Strangers backslapped one another. It was festive. The optimism was palpable.

Encountering Herzl Hajaj of Choosing Life, a forum of Israeli terror victims and bereaved families, JNS asked him to explain the difference.

"The Right is always happier," he said. "There's a lot of money driving the Left's protests. The folks who make all the noise and confusion do it for a payment. People here have left work. They came from Eilat, Metulla, Dimona because their hearts are with this government."

Another notable difference was the age of the protesters. At Thursday's rally, youth was the rule with thousands of teens in attendance. Young families with infants were not uncommon.

Israel's right argues that the Supreme Court turned activist starting in the 1990s under then-Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, who orchestrated what he termed the "Constitutional Revolution." The government says its judicial reform program seeks to fix the problem that has grown with the years and restore the balance of power between the three branches of government.

Rothman told JNS earlier in the week that for the Opposition the protests aren't really about judicial reform but a clash between two visions of what Israel should be, a secular state on the lines of Denmark, or a Jewish state deeply connected to its particular religious and cultural traditions. If such is the case, the young teens chanting "Rothman" at Thursday's rally symbolize opponents' fear that demographics are against them. They see the Supreme Court as a check on right-wing ascendance, which explains their determination to defend its power.

Reformers are just as determined to drive through changes to the court, which they say rules according to a left-wing, globalist worldview.

Hajaj said, "Bereaved families, victims of terror, are here because the Supreme Court plays a big role in undermining deterrence against terrorists. They give them rights that no other country gives them. And we paid with the blood of our children. And the citizens of Israel will continue to pay with their blood until we change this."

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JNS also met Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, director of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch, who served in senior positions in the IDF Military Advocate General's Corps.

"What brings me here is the understanding that the legal system has to change. I was part of that ecosystem for 20 years. I was an assistant district prosecutor. And I understand that the legal system as it is today has completely failed," he told JNS, highlighting the self-selection process that goes on in the judicial system and precludes a diversity of views on the bench.

"We have members of the Bar Association appointing judges, lawyers appointing their friends to be judges with the assistance of Supreme Court judges, ensuring that they only appoint lawyers who are the same as they – in their image. Nothing changes. There's only one way of thinking," Hirsch said.

Im Tirtzu, an NGO and one of the rally organizers, organized street theater highlighting the Supreme Court's power. It featured people lined up in orange prison jumpsuits, representing a nation imprisoned by the court's rulings. Each carried a sign with a different ruling: "The Supreme Court requires National Insurance payments to terrorists," "The Supreme Court rejected petitions against the building of illegal mosques on the Temple Mount," "The Supreme Court prevents the removal of illegal [aliens] even when they're violent."

One protester wearing a mask of current Supreme Court President Esther Hayut held a stick with which he pretended to threaten and beat the uniformed protesters should they get out of line.

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/04/28/march-of-the-million-shatters-claim-nation-opposes-judicial-reform/ 

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Palestinian teen shot dead by IDF troops during clashes in West Bank

Military says suspects hurling stones, including 16-year-old Mustafa Amer Sabah, endangered troops near Tuqu’, south of Bethlehem

By Emanuel Fabian 28 April 2023, 4:54 pmUpdated at 7:43 pm

A 16-year-old Palestinian was killed by live fire during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Tuqu’, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said Friday.

Palestinian media outlets identified the teen as Mustafa Amer Sabah.

According to media reports, Sabah was shot in the chest and taken to a hospital in Bethlehem, where he died of his wounds.

A spokesperson for the Israeli military told The Times of Israel that troops had initially opened fire into the air and used riot dispersal means against a number of Palestinians hurling stones near Tuqu’.

After the rioters continued to approach the troops and hurl stones in a way that endangered the troops, the force responded by with live fire,” the spokesperson said, adding that some of the suspects were hit by the gunfire.

The Israel Defense Forces said it was aware of Sabah’s death, and a military source said he had been involved in previous rioting.

The IDF said it was continuing to investigate the circumstances of the incident.

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have been high for the past year, with the Israeli military conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Palestinian terror attacks.

At least 95 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, most of them while carrying out attacks or during clashes with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated.

Palestinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank have left 19 people dead since the beginning of the year and several more seriously hurt.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-teen-said-shot-dead-by-idf-troops-during-clashes-in-west-bank/ 

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Dr. Eric R. Mandel

Tightening the noose around Israel

As Iran and the Sunni Arab states reconcile, Israel is left out in the cold.

April 28, 2023

The main headlines

U.S. President Joe Biden talks to members of the press in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 2, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

(April 27, 2023 / JNS) Less than one year ago, Lawrence Haas, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, wrote an article for The Hill entitled “U.S. needs a strategy for a realigned Middle East.” He said, “As recent events make clear, the Middle East is increasingly becoming a bifurcated region, with Israel and its growing Sunni Arab allies on one side, and Iran and … its terror-group allies on the other. Gone are the days when the region was bifurcated in another way—between Israel and everyone else.”

Now that seems like ancient history.

Today, Iran is restoring and improving diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Jordan. Syria, the pariah of the Arab League for its genocide against Sunni Arabs, is now being welcomed back into the fold. Last week, the foreign ministers of the UAE and Iran “agreed to enhance cooperation.” Just a short time ago, the UAE was solidly in the anti-Iran regional axis.

China has gladly filled the void of the American withdrawal and signed long-term economic deals with Iran and Saudi Arabia. According to Bloomberg, Beijing is “stepping into the widening breach between Washington and Saudi Arabia. … China has put its stamp on the region in a way that could hardly have been guessed six months ago.” With the help of China, Iran’s “resistance” economy helped it sustain and support its terror proxies.

In this game of musical chairs, Israel is left standing alone. The promise of the Abraham Accords has been tarnished. If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict turns into a full-fledged intifada, Abraham Accords allies and Jordan may downgrade relations. China is so confident of its new status in the region that its Foreign Minister Qin Gang is encouraging talks between Israel and the Palestinians, once the exclusive purview of the American State Department.

The realignment’s foundation is Iran’s overwhelming influence in Lebanon, with its Hezbollah proxy dominating military control and cowing the Lebanese Armed Forces while also holding a veto on Lebanese government appointments. According to Al-Monitor, the “Israeli Defense Ministry reported Hezbollah received $700 million from Iran last year.” Iran’s sway in Syria has grown exponentially, with an expanding IRGC presence and dominance over the beleaguered Syrian military, despite continuing Israeli strikes against Iran’s transfer of precision-guided missiles into Lebanon.

The new orientation includes Iran’s growing entrenchment in Iraq. According to INSS, new Iraqi Prime Minister al-Sudani’s government “has provided incentives and financial payments to pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, with the appointment of senior members of these militias to lucrative positions in the institutions of power. … These internal developments could improve the capabilities of the pro-Iranian militias and the ability of the Iranian regime to use them on the Iraqi front for regional military operations—as well as operations targeting Israel.”

To the south, Saudi Arabia’s upgraded relations with Iran have weakened, if not dismantled, the anti-Iran Arab axis. As the dominant regional player, the Saudis have signaled to the members of the Abraham Accords that they may want to recalibrate their relationship with Israel.

To the east, Jordan, another target of Iranian desires, reported that its Foreign Ministry and Iran’s are moving closer to reestablishing relations. Jordan, a long-time American ally with a cold peace treaty with Israel, is hedging its bets as Iranian militias sit on its eastern border with Iraq. This is another consequence of the Iranian-Saudi realignment.

To the north, Syrian President Bashar Assad, despite the genocide he presided over during the Syrian civil war, is being welcomed back into the Arab League. As an Iranian client, this makes continued Israeli attacks against Iranian transport of munitions, weapons and missiles more challenging, especially with Russia firmly entrenched in Syria with its upgraded naval and air bases.

The repercussions of the new and growing Iranian-Chinese-Russian anti-American axis are causing our Middle Eastern allies to reconsider their relations, transitioning from being firmly aligned with the U.S. to a more neutral position.

The Biden administration hopes that the new Middle East realignment will create an opportunity to entice Iran to reenter a watered-down nuclear deal, allowing the White House to kick the Iranian can down the road to a future administration. If this occurs, expect intense American pressure on Israel to restrain itself against Iran, so as not to cause problems for Israel’s closest ally. Israeli restraint in response to U.S. pressure would be interpreted by Iran as a weakness to be exploited, further tightening the noose around Israel.

Just as the —nothing in foreign policy ever goes according to plan. Taking the AmericRussian invasion of Ukraine surprised the U.S. and its European allies—and today’s consensus is that the next calamity will be a Chinese invasion of Taiwan an eye off the Middle East because of the Ukrainian and Taiwanese predicaments is an invitation to America’s adversaries to take risks they would not have contemplated in the recent past.

The Middle East always seems to have the last word. A year from now, the fickle regional alignments could fall apart or even further isolate Israel. Stay tuned.

Eric R. Mandel is the director of MEPIN, the Middle East Political Information Network. He regularly briefs members of Congress and their foreign policy aides. He is the senior security editor for The Jerusalem Report. Follow him on Twitter @MepinOrg.

https://www.jns.org/opinion/tightening-the-noose-around-israel/ 

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Anarchy Stirs in Israel

By Hal Lindsey

The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, recently said, “Israel is in the throes of a profound crisis.” He spoke of “civil war,” and said, “The abyss is within touching distance.”

Civil war? The abyss? Is it really that bad in Israel? It all centers on judicial reform. Extreme leftists protested proposed reforms by rioting in the streets. Others on the left protested peacefully but in large numbers. Like the nation’s president, many speak of civil war and anarchy. Protests occurred in places you would never expect. Elite military officers walked off the job one Sunday in March. Many of Israel’s reservists have refused to report for duty.

Meanwhile, Israel’s enemies watch and feel emboldened. Terrorists rampaged within Israel, and a missile barrage hit from without. The result of all this has been to effectively thrust us forward on God’s end-times timeline.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government won the majority in the last election partly because they promised the very judicial reforms now being protested. Voters chose the conservative coalition, not despite such reforms, but at least partly because of them. The reforms would allow the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) to overrule Supreme Court decisions. The Knesset would also be given more of a say in who becomes a member of that court.

When Americans hear that a parliamentary body would have the ability to overrule the Supreme Court, they usually think, “That’s unconstitutional!” They forget that Israel has no constitution. And Israel’s present method for choosing members of the Supreme Court mostly leaves out any form of accountability to the people.

Even with its flaws, I prefer our system. When a Court vacancy occurs in the United States, the President nominates a replacement. The Senate can then either confirm the nominee or not. The people elect the President. The people also choose Senators. So, ultimately, members of the US Supreme Court, along with other federal judges, are chosen by elected representatives of the people.

It doesn’t work that way in Israel. There, Supreme Court judges are chosen by something called the “Judicial Selection Committee.” The majority in the Knesset only holds two of the nine positions on the committee. In other words, the people have almost no say in the matter at all.

Without a Constitution, Israel’s courts have no guardrails. They began to realize their overwhelming power during the time of a man named Aharon Barak. He became a member of Israel’s Supreme Court in 1978 and served as the Court’s president from 1995 until 2006. He changed everything. He praised what he called, “judicial legislation.” He called “judicial lawmaking… the task of a supreme court.”

In other words, forget democracy. Forget government of, by, and for the people. Instead, an unelected few “legislate” for everyone else. Barak also eliminated previous constraints on the kind of cases the Court could take up. Presently, Israel is stuck with a court chosen by elites and not the people. That court can take up any issue it wants, overriding the will of the nation’s elected leaders, while passing its own laws.

Does Israel need judicial reform? It absolutely needs it! We often call that nation the only working democracy in the Middle East. But Israel’s Supreme Court presently has the same power as Iran’s mullahs. They can undo anything Israel’s democratically chosen representatives do and replace those laws with laws of the court’s own making. In the absence of a constitution, the answer seems to be to make the judiciary more accountable to the people through their elected representatives in the Knesset.

On March 27th, Prime Minister Netanyahu temporarily withdrew his reform proposals. Maybe during this pause, they can figure out a better approach. But make no mistake. Without reform, the 15 judges of Israel’s Supreme Court hold absolute power. And that is incompatible with the basic premise of democracy.

A final word here. This is not the end of Israel. What Satan means for evil, God will use for good. And He will keep His promises.

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-4-16-2023/ 

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27 Apr, 2023 05:30

HomeBusiness News

Yuan overtakes dollar in China’s cross-border payments

The Chinese currency was used in 48.4% of Beijing’s international settlements, figures have shown

The yuan surpassed the US dollar to become the most-used currency in China’s cross-border transactions last month, Reuters reported on Wednesday citing official data.

Cross-border payments and receipts in yuan surged from $434.5 billion in February to a record $549.9 billion in March, according to calculations by the outlet, based on data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

The Chinese currency was used in 48.4% of all cross-border transactions, reflecting a trend of shifting away from the dollar, as well as Beijing’s efforts to promote the use of the yuan. The share of the greenback in China’s international settlements dropped from 48.6% in February to 46.7% last month.

The volume of cross-border transactions covers both current and capital accounts, the outlet said. Although the share of the yuan in global settlements is still relatively low, it has been steadily on the rise over the past several years.

READ MORE: Russia completely abandons dollar, euro in energy trade – deputy PM

China’s attempts to move away from the dollar in international trade have sped up against the backdrop of sweeping sanctions imposed by Western nations against Russia, a major global energy producer and exporter. Indian policymakers have also taken steps towards shifting away from the greenback to rubles and rupees in mutual trade with Moscow.

Russia has been boosting its use of alternative currencies in transactions since last year. President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the Chinese yuan should be used more widely, not only in trade with China, but also in Russia’s transactions with countries in Africa and Latin America. The latest data from the Bank of Russia shows that the yuan has become a major player in Russia’s foreign trade.

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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..

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Wait, WHAT? – DOJ Inspector General Reveals More than 10,000 Federal Employees Have Access to NSA Database for Surveillance Inquiries

April 28, 2023 | Sundance | 436 Comments

Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified yesterday that more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government. These search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.”

Additionally, IG Horowitz also admitted that somewhere north of 10,000 federal employees have access to conduct these searches of the NSA database; a database which contains the electronic data of every single American, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases by electronic funds, banking records and any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason.

If we were in a functioning system of government everything would be stopped right now, and no conversation would be taking place that was not about this issue. This is the total and complete surveillance state being talked about as if we were discussing what’s for dinner.

This is beyond jaw-dropping.

Context: In 2018 CTH revealed through research of their own documents that FBI and DOJ/FBI contractors had done more than 1,000 illegal searches using the NSA database, targeting Republican primary candidates from November 2015 through May 2016. These stunning admissions were from the DOJ’s own reporting to the FISA court.

Few were paying attention.

Although the number of the illegal search queries were redacted, we know the number is four digits from the size of the redacted text. More than 1,000 and less than 9,999.

FAST FORWARD TO 2023 – Yesterday, IG Horowitz outlined that more than 1.1 million illegal searches of this database were conducted in 2021 during the first year of the Joe Biden administration.

Additionally, and perhaps more consequentially, to give scope to how the process of total domestic surveillance has expanded, Horowitz now admits in 2021 the number of federal government employees with access to this total metadata collection system now exceeds 10,000 people. STOP THE PRESSES!

Yes, congress is talking about this ‘as if’ there is some level of importance. However, the basic questions are not being asked, or have perhaps just become so accepted that legislators have become oblivious to the insanity of it. Beyond the blood boiling questions about searching the NSA database, questions like:

In order for these search queries to take place, there has to be a housing facility to capture it.

Where is all of this electronic data being stored?

Why is all of this electronic data being stored?

Who is in control of this all-encompassing electronic data collection?

Forget the searches for a moment, what act of congress authorized the capture of this private data collection? Essentially electronic intercepts of communication systems that flow throughout our life.

The background context here is congress debating the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the power of the DOJ and FBI to intercept American citizen communication and electronic data via the “702” authorizations, that permit the NSA database to be searched and queried.

If the inspector general is now admitting the FISA laws have been so comprehensively corrupted such that 3.4 million searches by more than 10,000 federal employees and government contractors now have access, there is no way that any reasonably intelligent person should support such reauthorization. Even contemplating this request is absurd, beyond absurd.

The United States government is admitting to the public that a total and comprehensive surveillance state is currently in place, and 10,000 federal government agents have the authorization to monitor everything we do.

This is the admitted and current status of RIGHT NOW. Yet people are worried about possible ‘vaccination passports’ or ‘digital currencies’ or ‘social credit scores’ sometime in the future?

Have we totally lost connection to the reality of our current condition?

Can you see the insanity of it?…

… Or should we just ask, “what’s for dinner?”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/28/wait-what-doj-inspector-general-reveals-more-than-10000

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etc. the whole world can tell you right now that Russia and North Korea has declared war on the United States of America.  The whole country can tell you an invasion is coming, the whole country can tell you the cashless monetary system is ready to start, the banks will have no money, the mark of the beast will be here.  But I am trying to protect you by placing one that can protect you, but even if that is not so and cannot be, I will still protect you and take you through this time safely. etc

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Large & Small US Banks See Deposit Outflows Continue, Small Bank Lending Growth Tumbled

Friday, April 28, 2023 17:41

It’s late on a Friday afternoon, after a total collapse in First Republic (which likely saw massive deposit outflows today as it stock collapsed to low single-digits), and we may get a hint of how bad it was heading into this chaos as The Fed’s H.8 (commercial bank deposit data) just dropped.

After yesterday’s report showed the Fed balance sheet shrinking but bank bailout facility usage higher, total US Commercial Bank deposits rose $21 billion during the week ended 4/19…

Source: Bloomberg

However, US commercial bank deposits (ex-large time deposits) continued their freefall (during the week-ending 4/19), tumbling $10.4 billion (less than last week) to the lowest since April 2021…

https://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2023/04/large-small-us-banks-see-deposit-outflows-continue-small-bank-lending

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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..

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15 Biggest Chains In America That Will Disappear In The Months Ahead

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If you have a favorite store, you should probably visit it soon since some of the biggest, most popular retail chains in the U.S. are rapidly decaying, and many locations are being shuttered in this very moment. According to UBS, over 50,000 stores are on retailers' chopping block, and that could completely change America's economic landscape. Never before in history, conditions have been so turbulent for companies, and even big names like Rite Aid, Amazon Fresh and Big Lots! are taking extreme measures to try to keep their business alive. However, retail experts seriously doubt the ability of some of this chains to survive the imminent retail collapse.

For example, Best Buy has been hanging by a thread over the past few years and quietly closing more stores each year. Since 2019, over 80 Best Buy locations have disappeared from sight. And earlier this year, the chain announced plans "to close a higher number of stores." The company did not reveal the total number of closings. Media reports suggest that at least 600 locations are in financial distress. That is over half of the retailer’s footprint in the U.S. In a BizJournals.com article, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry predicted that supply chain issues, rising labor costs, and continued economic challenges could lead to a major manufacturing slowdown that could ripple through the markets, she said. Best Buy executives said they expected business to continue to taper. Right now, they’re putting their best strategies forward in an attempt to keep the business alive, or at least, part of it.

Similarly, Dollar General is rapidly disappearing from U.S. cities. The discount retailer recently confirmed that it is closing several locations in California, Colorado, Indiana, and Ohio. And the reason may also be the catalyst that drives the entire chain into bankruptcy. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Dollar General continues to expose workers to unsafe conditions. The U.S. Department inspected a large number of locations and cataloged many serious health safety violations Dollar General has refused to correct. Since 2017, OSHA has issued more than $15 million in fines and cited Dollar General in more than 180 inspections nationwide for numerous “willful, repeat and alarming workplace safety violations related to unsafe conditions”: “Exposing employees and others to these hazards can be dangerous, especially in an emergency,” said OSHA Regional Administrator Kurt Petermeyer in Atlanta. “Dollar General is well aware of federal requirements, but they continue to ignore their legal responsibilities to protect their employees at stores throughout the nation.” The struggling company is now facing another millionaire lawsuit – one that can literally push it over the edge.

At this point, retailers must prove their worth to U.S. customers and show why they deserve a spot in this increasingly competitive industry. Only the best-positioned brands will be able to navigate through the crisis that is developing across the sector, and many will likely die out before the year ends. The stakes are incredibly high, and no one knows what may happen next in the industry, so take the opportunity to go to your favorite store before a black swan event occurs, drastically changing the scenario from bad to completely disastrous. That's why in today's video, we compiled a series of retail stores that are at risk of going dark for good in the coming weeks and months, and some that are already liquidating all of their assets and saying farewell for their customers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFHsVM6360 

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All Eyes on east Asia: China-Taiwan Flare-up - Japan WARNED by China

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Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Wu Jiangao, warned Japanese leaders that their planned visit to Taiwan was equated with crossing the "red line."

"Foreign forces are conspiring with Taiwan's independence forces and carrying out constant provocations," the ambassador told reporters in Tokyo on Friday, saying their ultimate goal was "separation of Taiwan from China." He added that inciting "the split in China will bring the Japanese people into the fire".

Japanese officials have said that any contingency in Taiwan will be tantamount to an unpredictable situation in Japan.

In recent years, Beijing has pursued a policy of diplomatic isolation of Taiwan, forcing other countries to recognize it as part of a "single China" and repeatedly threatened to invade.

The day after Emmanuel Macron's visit, China began large-scale military exercises around Taiwan working out a rocket attack and the surroundings of the island. Training became answer on Taiwan's President Cai Ying Wen's 10-day diplomatic tour of Central America and a meeting with US government officials in California. In particular, she met with Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress from Republicans.

The day after China imitated "high-precision strikes" on Taiwan, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said Beijing can prepare for the invasion of the island.

Later reported, that this year's annual Taiwanese military exercises "Han Kuan" will focus on fighting the blockade of the island against the background of China's statements.

China again moved military forces near Taiwan today.

China’s largest combat drone, the TB-001 drone (an entire ship) nicknamed the “twin-tailed scorpion”, arrived late Thursday and remained on Friday around Taiwan:

Also on Friday, China flew 38 warplanes near Taiwan, and deployed another 6 navy vessels in area.

In addition, a Chinese uncrewed combat aircraft (Drone) has flown around Taiwan, the island's defense ministry said, showcasing Beijing's ability to attack its fall-back east coast bases, as a U.S. maritime patrol aircraft transited the Taiwan Strait. Here is a photo of that combat drone:

China also had words for the United States.

“We strongly urge the US side to fully recognize the high sensitivity of the Taiwan question as well as the complexity and severity of the current situation across the Taiwan Strait,” said Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, at a regular press conference.

When asked to comment on the reports that a group of US defense companies will visit Taiwan to discuss issues such as the joint production of drones and ammunition in early May, Defense Spokesperson Tan said that the Taiwan question is purely China’s internal affair and brooks no foreign interference.

These American military-industrial complexes have always been zealous to peddle munitions, trigger conflicts and chaos, and reap staggering profits around the world,” he point out sharply, adding that the Democratic Progressive Party's act is rather contemptible, like putting the cat near the goldfish bowl, which will only bring untold disaster to the Taiwan compatriots.

Then the spokesperson reiterated that no one or any force can shake Chinese people’s staunch determination and firm will to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and urged the US side to adhere to the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiqués, prudently handle Taiwan-related issues, refrain from interfering in the Taiwan question, cease arms sales to the Taiwan region as well as its military contact with the island.

Soooooooo, what did the US Congress go ahead an do today? Well . . .

The House committee dedicated to countering China began preparing bipartisan proposals for the fiscal 2024 defense authorization bill that would accelerate U.S. munitions production and arms transfers to Taiwan.

In the meantime, here is an up-to-date graphic showi9ng the very considerable firepower which is around Taiwan as of yesterday:

It is entirely plausible that China may decide it is better to grab Taiwan NOW, before more US assets reach the region and BEFORE US arms manufacturers can fill new weapons orders. What the US is doing, and pledging, to Taiwan's "defense" may actually TRIGGER a Chinese invasion of Taiwan!

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etc You see the King of Jordan as he brings his restrictions, as he demands that you stay away from the temple, that you do not move Jerusalem. You hear America now saying they may change their mind, do they know not what this will bring forth, this will be the dividing of the land again. Once again I gave you that land, that land is your land and you have no right giving even a gravesite away to another country, that is my land. And when you divide that land, not only will you divide that land, but you will divide America and the great lakes will flow to New Orleans and disaster shall take place. Do you not see the volcanoes; do you not hear about the earthquakes, do you not realize that the plates underneath the ocean have shifted? Do you not see Russia on the move; does she not have her largest submarine setting off of North Carolina and South Carolina and Virginia? etc

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etc for do you not know the day and the hour that you are now living in as Russia is about to make her move and China is backing her one hundred percent and that is the move that you will see very soon now.  For truly Russia will make her move and rend the United States helpless, remember I’ve warned you that, I’ve told you about this. For truly it’s now that time and that hour that judgment must come to America to wake up those who are fast asleep, for they do not know the time nor the hour that they are living in.  But remember it is a great hour for my church, etc

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U.S.: Russian Subs in Atlantic ‘More Active Than We’ve Seen Them in Years’

The threat posed by Russia’s undersea forces serves as only one example of how its military retains its capabilities despite the war in Ukraine, top U.S. military officials warn.

By Paul D. Shinkman April 26, 2023, at 2:40 p.m.

Russia has increased its submarine presence in the Atlantic at a higher level than ever in recent years, the top U.S. officer overseeing operations in Europe said Wednesday, citing one of several examples contradicting conclusions that the military loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been severely degraded by his war in Ukraine.

“The Russians have been more active than we’ve seen them in years,” Army Gen. Chris Cavoli, the top commander for NATO and U.S. military operations in Europe, told Congress on Wednesday of Moscow’s undersea capabilities.

Their patrols into the Atlantic and throughout the Atlantic are at a high level most of the time, at a higher level than we’ve seen in years,” Cavoli testified before the House Armed Services Committee. “And this, despite all the efforts they’re undertaking in Ukraine.”

Cavoli’s assessment represents a grave warning for future threats Russia may pose to the U.S. and Ukraine’s other western backers. Though analysts have expressed concerns about Russia’s submarine forces in recent weeks, they have largely centered on the recent attention the Kremlin has focused on its Pacific Fleet, which conducted massive drills last week and which Moscow analyzed and claimed last week has “high readiness.” Those maneuvers were seen in part as an acknowledgement of Moscow and Beijing’s increased partnership.

Putin previously raised concerns in the West in January when he dispatched surface warships to the Atlantic Ocean, including those the U.S. believes can fire hypersonic weapons potentially capable of defeating American missile defenses. Russia fields 11 ballistic missile submarines, which analysts previously assessed it deploys largely off its Arctic coasts.

Cavoli’s comments come at a time of growing consensus that Russia has severely harmed several key elements of its military power through President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 without provocation. A string of high-profile and embarrassing failures since then have exposed endemic issues within the Russian Ministry of Defense, particularly deeply rooted corruption among top commanders, logisticians and those overseeing stockpiles. And confusion and mismanagement on the battlefield has created a veritable meat grinder for Russian ground forces, despite Putin’s decision to continue pressing young men into service and sending them into the fight.

Russia continues to benefit from the sheer size of its forces, as seen in the persistent, grinding combat around cities such as Bakhmut in Ukraine’s east. But analysts have increasingly highlighted the core problems that plague its ground troops.

Russian forces in Ukraine are operating in decentralized and largely degraded formations throughout the theater, and the current pattern of deployment suggests that most available units are already online and engaged in either offensive or defensive operations,” the independent Institute for the Study of War, which has fastidiously tracked Russian military movements in and around Ukraine, concluded in an analysis note on Sunday.

“It is highly likely that the majority of Russian elements throughout Ukraine are substantially below full strength due to losses taken during previous phases of the war,” the institute stated.

The grave warnings also come as a growing number of Republican lawmakers – and several leading GOP presidential candidates – question the value of U.S. support for Ukraine, saying those resources should instead focus on deterring China.

Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida, a former Green Beret commander, employed this argument on Wednesday, questioning Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander, who testified alongside Cavoli, about the need to continue dedicating resources to Ukraine when Russia’s military has been devastated.

“Its ground forces that are in Ukraine have been devastated,” Wallander pushed back. But she added that “Russia still retains strategic capabilities” – its nuclear force, the world’s largest – “an air force, cyber and underwater.”

We should not make the mistake of underestimating Russia’s military capabilities,” Wallander warned, “because the stakes of getting it wrong are too high.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-04-26/u-s-russian-subs-in-atlantic-more-active-than

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Tense face-off: Philippines confronts China over sea claims

By JIM GOMEZ today

ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing’s aggression in the strategic waterway.

The high seas face-off Sunday between the larger Chinese ship and the Philippine coast guard’s BRP Malapascua near Second Thomas Shoal was among the tense moments it and another Philippine vessel encountered in a weeklong sovereignty patrol in one of the world’s most hotly contested waterways.

The Philippine coast guard had invited a small group of journalists, including three from The Associated Press, to join the 1,670-kilometer (1,038-mile) patrol for the first time as part of a new Philippine strategy aimed at exposing China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the South China Sea, where an estimated $5 trillion in global trade transits each year.

In scorching summer heat but relatively calm waters, the Malapascua and another Philippine coast guard vessel, the BRP Malabrigo, journeyed to the frontlines of the long-seething territorial conflicts. They cruised past a string of widely scattered Philippine-occupied and claimed islands, islets and reefs looking for signs of encroachment, illegal fishing and other threats.

In areas occupied or controlled by China, the Philippine patrol vessels received radio warnings in Chinese and halting English, ordering them to immediately leave what the Chinese coast guard and navy radio callers claimed were Beijing’s “undisputable territories” and issuing unspecified threats for defiance.

Hostilities peaked Sunday morning in the Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly archipelago, the most fiercely contested region in the busy sea channel.

As the two patrol vessels approached the shoal’s shallow turquoise waters for an underwater survey, the Chinese coast guard repeatedly warned them by radio to leave the area, which is about 194 kilometers (121 miles) west of the Philippine island province of Palawan.

After several radio exchanges, a Chinese coast guard caller, sounding agitated, warned of unspecified adversarial action.

“Since you have disregarded our warning, we will take further necessary measures on you in accordance with the laws and any consequences entailed will be borne by you,” the Chinese speaker said.

A Chinese coast guard ship rapidly approached and shadowed the smaller Malapascua and the Malabrigo. When the Malapascua maneuvered toward the mouth of the shoal, the Chinese ship suddenly shifted to block it, coming as close as 36 to 46 meters (120 to 150 feet) from its bow, said Malapascua’s skipper, Capt. Rodel Hernandez.

To avoid a collision, Hernandez abruptly reversed his vessel’s direction then shut off its engine to bring the boat to a full stop.

Filipino personnel aboard the vessels — and journalists, who captured the tense moment on camera — watched in frightened silence. But the Malapascua steered just in time to avoid a potential disaster.

Hernandez later told journalists that the “sudden and really very dangerous maneuver” by the Chinese coast guard ship had disregarded international rules on collision avoidance. He had the Philippine vessels leave the area after the encounter for the safety of the ships and personnel.

Earlier, a huge Chinese navy ship shadowed the two Philippine patrol vessels in the dark of night as they cruised near Subi, one of seven barren reefs China has transformed in the last decade into a missile-protected island base. The Chinese navy ship radioed the Philippine vessels “to immediately leave and keep out.”

The coast guard radioed back to assert Philippine sovereign rights to the area before steaming away.

China has long demanded that the Philippines withdraw its small contingent of naval forces and tow away the actively commissioned but crumbling BRP Sierra Madre. The navy ship was deliberately marooned on the shoal in 1999 and now serves as a fragile symbol of Manila’s territorial claim to the atoll.

Chinese ships often block navy vessels delivering food and other supplies to the Filipino sailors on the ship, including just a few days earlier, Hernandez said.

As hostilities between Chinese coast guard and navy ships and the Philippine patrol vessels were unfolding, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was in Manila, where he held talks with his Philippine counterpart and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday. China was willing to work with the Philippines to resolve differences and deepen ties, Qin said.

The Chinese Embassy in Manila did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment on the encounters.

In another Philippine-claimed reef called Whitsun, the Philippine patrol vessels spotted more than 100 suspected Chinese militia ships arrayed side by side in several clusters in the shallows. China says the huge trawler-like ships are fishing vessels, but Manila’s coast guard suspects they are being used for surveillance or to hold the reef for future development.

Filipino coast guard personnel aboard two motor boats approached the Chinese ships and ordered them through a loudspeaker to leave, but none did.

Philippine officials required participating journalists to not immediately release information about the trip to ensure the safety of the mission and to give the coast guard time to brief defense, justice and foreign affairs officials in charge of handling the touchy territorial conflicts.

Faced with a militarily far-superior China in the disputed waters, the Philippines launched the campaign early this year to expose the Asian superpower’s aggression, hoping public awareness and criticism will force Beijing to abide by international law.

Philippines coast guard spokesperson Commodore Jay Tarriela said the strategy was working. He noted the Chinese ambassador in Manila was prompted to hold a news conference to explain Beijing’s side amid outrage over a publicly released video that showed a Chinese coast guard ship aiming a military-grade laser in early February that temporarily blinded two crewmembers of the Malapascua off Second Thomas Shoal.

We are David,” Tarriela said, likening the Philippines to the underdog hero of the Biblical story.We believe that through the publication of all these aggressive actions of China, we would find friends who would criticize Goliath.”

The territorial conflicts involving China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have long been regarded as an Asian flashpoint and a delicate fault line in the rivalry between the United States and China in the region.

While the U.S. lays no claims to the South China Sea, it has deployed its warships and fighter jets for patrols and military exercises with regional allies to uphold freedom of navigation and overflight, which it says is in America’s national interest.

Beijing has criticized a recent agreement by the Philippines and the U.S. to grant American forces access to additional Filipino military camps. China fears the access will provide Washington with military staging grounds and surveillance outposts in the northern Philippines across the sea from Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory, and in provinces facing the South China Sea, which Beijing claims virtually in its entirety.

Washington has repeatedly warned that it would help defend the Philippines — its oldest treaty ally in Asia — if Philippine forces, ships or aircraft are attacked in the South China Sea.

With multiple conflicts looming in what appears to be a placid expanse of sea, where dolphins and starlit night skies send seafarers grabbing their cameras, Malabrigo’s skipper Julio Colarina III said he would always strive to stay on the right side of a geopolitical minefield.

As much as possible we’ll avoid conflict in the area,” he said. “All these competing interests just need one spark.” ___

Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan and Aaron Favila contributed to this report.

https://apnews.com/article/philippines-dispute-south-china-sea-patrol-27ee9778f7302938c5090644e3d153c2 

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Europe Reveals Map BREAKING-UP RUSSIA into 41 new countries

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Gunther Fehlinger, Chairman of the Austria NATO non-governmental organization (NGO), publicly revealed today, the West's "plan" for Russia: Broken-up into 41 new, autonomous countries! There wouldn't BE a "Russia" anymore. Russia's response was simple: If there isn't going to be a Russia anymore, then there isn't going to be a Europe or USA, either. World War 3 is officially on its way.

Here is Gunther Fehlinger and the West's (suicidal) map of a world without Russia:

The revelation of this map is literal PROOF that it is the actual intention of the West to do-away with Russia. By even manufacturing such a map, the West has shown its intent. Russia now faces an ACTUAL existential threat. Their very existence is at stake.

Think about the time and effort that was necessary to research the populations and ethnicities in each of these areas, where they are, and how to draw actual lines along the geography of the demographics, to create this vision of new, autonomous, countries. The research and planning alone had to take . . . YEARS.

Now that the map is actually out, and the entire world can see that the West has literally been planning for YEARS to completely do-away with Russia, we can all now see that the situation with Ukraine was intentionally manufactured BY THE WEST to provide the impetus to set in-motion, their nefarious plans.

With the release of this map, it seems to many observers that war is now a foregone conclusion.

What many people, myself included, really want to know is, Whose idea was this?

Who decided this needed to be done? Because that person, or those persons, need to be directly confronted and engaged.

This plan is suicidal. Whoever thought of it, and whoever is promoting it, is a clear and present danger to the lives of millions.

People have a right to self defense against this monstrous and deadly plan. That self-defense may have to be applied to the people who are promoting this and to the people who thought it up.

END-OF-MONTH FUNDING

Today is April 27 and that leaves three days until the end of this calendar month. Each month I reach out to YOU, the dedicated readers and listeners, to FUND this endeavor for another month. Without YOUR help, this endeavor cannot continue, so use the Donor Box below to help out right now please!

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Americans Are Living In Absolutely Bizarre 'Alternative Realities,' Proving The CIA's 'Operation Mockingbird' Is Almost Complete As Globalists Rush Towards Martial Law And Total Tyranny

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die April 26, 2023

Taking a look at the headline stories over at Steve Quayle's website over the past two days will tell anyone paying attention at all that things are getting ready to 'HTF,' while looking at the headline stories over at CNN or Drudge or any other mainstream media outlet instantly proves Americans have somehow been cast into a slew of bizarre alternative realities.

While MSN somehow stepped up, publishing stories such as this one titled "Stock Market Crash Alert: Credit Default Swaps From 2008 Are Back" as well as this one titled "Stocks fall worldwide on U.S. recession, banking and debt-ceiling risks," a look over at CNN this morning finds their lead story titled "House GOP chaos raises doubts about McCarthy's political credibility" while Drudge keeps pushing anything bad he can find to further smear Tucker Carlson.

And while kudos goes out to the Daily Mail for publishing as their lead story this one laying it all on the line titled "Trump calls the Bidens a 'crime family' that is 'Watergate times 10' in blistering Truth Social post after top Republican James Comer claimed as many as TWELVE relatives are involved in shady business deals," you won't find a hint of that story, or any of the other ones detailing the crimes of the 'biden crime family,' at any of the mainstream news outlets, helping explain why Americans' trust in the MSM is near record lows according to this October of 2022 Gallup poll story.

And with all of this helping to confirm the words of former CIA Director William J. Casey, who once said "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false," remember that during the Obama administration the U.S. govt repealed the so-called 'propaganda ban' that had long been in place, with the Obama cabal actually allowing the spread of US govt-made news to the American people, and helping to explain just why so many Americans are so dumbed-down in 2023 and why we are, where we are now as a country, heading towards tyranny.

And with Monday bringing America some shocking news with the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, which the left immediately celebrated, but led to the value of Fox tumbling as if it were the titanic sinking, as Infowars warned of that 'event,' it sure looks like Tucker is the 'canary in the coal mine' and the globalists will be 'coming after us all now,' with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently warning our very Constitutional rights are in grave danger of extinction if we stay on the path we're now on.

Because with the globalists insanely censoring Americans as we've seen unfolding now for years, with anyone speaking 'truths' that go against their endless lies and propaganda being 'shut up,' hinting we're heading towards an 'event' that will shut-up alternative news for good, we long ago warned on ANP that if we ever reach the point in time when you can no longer access websites such as SteveQuayle.com, Natural News, The Liberty Daily, Whatfinger News, ANP and many others, we'd already be long past that 'point of no return' and on our way to experiencing what the 'real purpose' of legislation like the 'restrict act' means, total tyranny.

(ANP Needs Your Help!: Due to this suffocating censorship campaign by 'big tech' on ANP articles, we have no choice but to run an emergency fundraising drive. We also want to thank everybody who has donated to ANP over the past 9+ years. With donations and minimal ad revenue all that keep ANP online, if you're able, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this fight for America at this absolutely critical time in US history. During a time of systematic, 'big tech' censorship and widespread institutional corruption, as we can all see now, truth-seeking media and alternative views are crucial, and EVERY bit helps more than you could know!) 

April 26, 2023

Americans Are Living In Absolutely Bizarre 'Alternative Realities,' Proving The CIA's 'Operation Mockingbird' Is Almost Complete As Globalists Rush Towards Martial Law And Total Tyranny

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die

Taking a look at the headline stories over at Steve Quayle's website over the past two days will tell anyone paying attention at all that things are getting ready to 'HTF,' while looking at the headline stories over at CNN or Drudge or any other mainstream media outlet instantly proves Americans have somehow been cast into a slew of bizarre alternative realities.

While MSN somehow stepped up, publishing stories such as this one titled "Stock Market Crash Alert: Credit Default Swaps From 2008 Are Back" as well as this one titled "Stocks fall worldwide on U.S. recession, banking and debt-ceiling risks," a look over at CNN this morning finds their lead story titled "House GOP chaos raises doubts about McCarthy's political credibility" while Drudge keeps pushing anything bad he can find to further smear Tucker Carlson.

And while kudos goes out to the Daily Mail for publishing as their lead story this one laying it all on the line titled "Trump calls the Bidens a 'crime family' that is 'Watergate times 10' in blistering Truth Social post after top Republican James Comer claimed as many as TWELVE relatives are involved in shady business deals," you won't find a hint of that story, or any of the other ones detailing the crimes of the 'biden crime family,' at any of the mainstream news outlets, helping explain why Americans' trust in the MSM is near record lows according to this October of 2022 Gallup poll story.

And with all of this helping to confirm the words of former CIA Director William J. Casey, who once said "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false," remember that during the Obama administration the U.S. govt repealed the so-called 'propaganda ban' that had long been in place, with the Obama cabal actually allowing the spread of US govt-made news to the American people, and helping to explain just why so many Americans are so dumbed-down in 2023 and why we are, where we are now as a country, heading towards tyranny.

And with Monday bringing America some shocking news with the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, which the left immediately celebrated, but led to the value of Fox tumbling as if it were the titanic sinking, as Infowars warned of that 'event,' it sure looks like Tucker is the 'canary in the coal mine' and the globalists will be 'coming after us all now,' with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently warning our very Constitutional rights are in grave danger of extinction if we stay on the path we're now on.

Because with the globalists insanely censoring Americans as we've seen unfolding now for years, with anyone speaking 'truths' that go against their endless lies and propaganda being 'shut up,' hinting we're heading towards an 'event' that will shut-up alternative news for good, we long ago warned on ANP that if we ever reach the point in time when you can no longer access websites such as SteveQuayle.com, Natural News, The Liberty Daily, Whatfinger News, ANP and many others, we'd already be long past that 'point of no return' and on our way to experiencing what the 'real purpose' of legislation like the 'restrict act' means, total tyranny.

(ANP Needs Your Help!: Due to this suffocating censorship campaign by 'big tech' on ANP articles, we have no choice but to run an emergency fundraising drive. We also want to thank everybody who has donated to ANP over the past 9+ years. With donations and minimal ad revenue all that keep ANP online, if you're able, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this fight for America at this absolutely critical time in US history. During a time of systematic, 'big tech' censorship and widespread institutional corruption, as we can all see now, truth-seeking media and alternative views are crucial, and EVERY bit helps more than you could know!)     

In the first video at the bottom of this story Mike Adams talks with us about what we're watching unfolding right now, a desperate effort to SILENCE anyone and everyone who speaks the 'inconvenient truths' that the globalists don't want the American public to know, from 'the political left' stealing the 2020 election to the globalists releasing the 'bioweapons' upon America that allowed that 'election steal' to their long-ongoing effort to 'depopulate' the planet, all which have helped 'weave' the 'alternative reality' we're now living in.

As Natural News just reported in this story titled "Top 6 most important FALSE NARRATIVES the Biden Regime does NOT want challenged," they'll do anything and everything in their power to make sure the American people don't find out what's REALLY happening all around them, even if that means stomping all over the God-given rights of the American people that are merely protected by the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution. Hence the reason why SO MANY Americans are SO out of touch with reality. From that story.:

Top 6 biggest lies the Biden Regime uses as false narratives and that punishes anyone who challenges them.

#1. “Vaccines are safe and effective.”

#2. “War is good.”

#3. “All elections are safe and secure” (except when the Left loses).

#4. “The economy is good” – always when Democrats are in power, no matter what.

#5. “Government is honest and will work for your interests.”

#6. “Censorship is necessary” to prevent misinformation and disinformation from spreading – In effect, they need censorship to protect their false reality, their own delusions.

The overall truth is that government works in bad faith, and that is why they want the RESTRICT ACT put in place so badly.

False narratives are so brainwashing that the Biden Regime is actually telling all Americans that our current economy is good, despite mass inflation, crumbling supply chains, unfettered printing of trillions of dollars, endless draining of funds and military weapons for the insidious Ukraine War, and the destruction of the Republic as we know it. The narrative is that “War is Good” because it’s preventing communist aggression, but the communist aggression is happening right here, on our own soil, and from within our own government (CCP-led Biden Regime).

Using such tactics to convince the brainwashed masses that the vaxxes were safe, the 2020 election was totally legitimate, censorship of alternative views is 'good' and 'necessary' for America, misinformation and disinformation are only spread by Conservatives and Democrats like RFK, Jr., 'global warming' and 'climate change' are spread by cow burps and people eating meat and 'anti-vaxxers' are dangerous to the public at large, think about where America will be in the very near future if those are the only 'narratives' that are 'allowed.'

With such a dreaded scenario bringing us to the point the CIA's Casey spoke about long ago, where everything the American public believes is false and the dumbing down of the masses having been 'weaponized' to its 'end game,' as Etienne de la Boetie of the Art of Liberty Foundation reported in this Substack story we'd republished at ANP, the most powerful weapon on the planet is control of perception and it is a “binary weapon” made up of hundreds of companies, government agencies and organizations that give the population their information to create and control their “culture.”

Also reporting that Cult-ure is the dominant belief system, and the root word might as well be cult, we see in the 2nd video below exactly how such a 'weapon' is wielded against the American people, with multiple different news agencies all saying the exact same thing, proving they are all getting their 'marching orders' from the same 'conglomerate' which only gives Americans the 'illusion' of 'choice' and 'independence' amongst the mainstream news outlets, which are actually all controlled by the same sinister entities.

As Susan Duclos had reported in this ANP story back on May 19th of 2021 titled "Operation Mockingbird Still At Play - New Report Shows Spy Agencies Still Control Media Content And Allowed To Disseminate Fake News Without Verification Or Confirmation," the CIA's 'Operation Mockingbird' had been going on since at least as far back as the 1950's, controlling what the American public saw and heard with the CIA's infiltration of every major US news organization, giving them a monopoly over the 'flow of information' until the independent media came along, and showing us why they hate us so.

And helping to explain why so many Americans are still living in a bizarre alternative reality, even after all of these years, we see why the globalists are so desperate to get the 'Restrict Act' signed into law and enforced as we go forward in 2023, because far too many Americans now get their news from sources other than the mainstream media and slowly but surely, the 'brainwashing' is wearing off for those who bother to investigate what they're being told.

And as Natural News had also reported just Tuesday, with Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Tech all in league together, pushing the same endless lies as the mainstream media, USA Facts reports they were able to convince roughly 81% of the US population to get at least one 'vax,' while convincing 69% of the population to be 'fully vaxxed,' (although we highly doubt the accuracy of those numbers,) helping to explain why so many Americans are now having major health problems, or 'dying suddenly,' with the CDC and govt agencies handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to those US news organizations to push their endless lies. Note that not one MSM organization came out against the vax and still haven't to this day! And outlets such as 'Fact Check' STILL claim Americans 'dying suddenly' is a 'baseless rumor.'

So with this new story over at Breitbart reporting the EU has just announced stricter content moderation rules for twitter, youtube, facebook and other tech platforms another hint of where America is headed in the coming days, weeks, months and years, especially if the 'Restrict Act' is passed and signed into law by joe biden who surely can't wait to give the US govt such powers, if they get their way, we'll have fully arrived as a nation where the CIA has long been herding us, 'false narratives' cemented into place as the new 'reality' believed by the American CULT-ure, our 1st Amendment fully 'eliminated' and a full-scale tyrannical government controlling everything the American people see and hear, just as the Rockefellers and their allies long working to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control intended, the 'dehumanization of humanity' complete.

As John Zmirak warns in this new story over at The Stream, with history steeped in the grim lessons of mankind’s fallen history, that history full of free societies finally giving way to tyranny and civilizations such as what we're witnessing in the US now collapsing, he's gotten the feeling we're headed towards full-scale martial law in the near future, a much-needed step the globalists absolutely have to take in order to introduce their full-scale tyranny to 'a people' who once had freedom, and fully taking down the independent media is an absolutely necessary step for the globalists to accomplish that evil. So if you're in the position to help keep ANP in this fight for freedom and humanity, any and all donations are tremendously appreciated as we go forward, tyranny being something we'll never accept no matter how hard they push for it.

https://allnewspipeline.com/Americans_Are_Living_In_Absolutely_Bizarre_Alternative_Realities.php 

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Etc For truly the whole world is seeing end time signs, from the very skies to the depths of the oceans. They are seeing the global warming, they are seeing the drought, they are seeing the loss of water all over and they recognize that truly it is taking place and they do not know which way to turn. They see the wars, the rumors of wars; they see Iraq and Iran as they continue to go their evil ways. They see Russia as she joins with Iran speaking out boldly against the United States; they see all the signs that are there. They are seeing even the EU as it now meets with Iran and talks with them. When will they wake up, when will they recognize that truly it is the last days, etc

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Iran seizes US-bound oil tanker in international waters

By Jesse O’Neill April 27, 2023 12:28pm Updated

Iran’s navy seized an oil tanker as it traversed international waters in the Gulf of Oman, the US announced Thursday, the fifth such incident in recent years.

The US Navy’s 5th Fleet identified the captured vessel as the Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Sweet, which issued a distress call during the incident.

The Navy statement made no mention of the tanker’s destination, but data from MarineTraffic.com showed it in the Gulf of Oman just north of Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Thursday afternoon local time.

It had just come from Kuwait and its destination was listed as Houston, Texas.

“Iran’s actions are contrary to international law and disruptive to regional security and stability,” the 5th Fleet said. “The Iranian government should immediately release the oil tanker.

“Iran’s continued harassment of vessels and interference with navigational rights in regional waters are a threat to maritime security and the global economy,” the Navy statement added.

“In the past two years, Iran has unlawfully seized at least five commercial vessels sailing in the Middle East.”

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said the seizure came after an “unknown ship collided with an Iranian vessel last night in the Persian Gulf, causing several Iranian crew members to go missing and get injured.” It did not identify the other ship involved in the alleged collision.

Iran has made allegations in other seizures that later fell apart as it became clear that Tehran was trying to leverage the capture as a chip to negotiate with foreign nations.

The vessel’s manager, a Turkish firm called Advantage Tankers, issued a statement acknowledging the Advantage Sweet was “being escorted by the Iranian navy to a port on the basis of an international dispute.”

“The safety and welfare of our valued crew members is our No. 1 priority,” the firm said. “Similar experiences show that crew members of vessels taken under such circumstances are in no danger.”

The ship’s listed owner appeared to be a Chinese company.

Manifest information from data firm Refinitiv showed that Advantage Sweet carried Kuwaiti crude oil for Chevon, which did not have an immediate comment.

In addition to the ship seizures mentioned by the Navy, the US has fingered Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.

The last major seizure came when Iran took two Greek tankers in May and held them until November.

Meanwhile, talks over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal have been stalled for a year. Since the deal’s collapse, Iran runs advanced centrifuges and has a rapidly growing stockpile of enriched uranium.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has warned that Iran has enriched enough up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

That would be sufficient for Iran to make several nuclear weapons if it chooses to do so.

With Post wires

https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/iran-seizes-oil-tanker-in-international-waters/ 

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etc hour is getting very close.  The earthquakes shall now get bigger, far bigger, far bigger, more powerful, the tornadoes and the hurricanes, oh you will see storms like the world has not seen, volcanoes like the world does not remember. Oh the things that are about to take place simply because it is my timing, etc

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Earthquake shakes up Upstate New York: Did you feel it in Onondaga County?

Updated: Apr. 24, 2023, 9:56 a.m.|Published: Apr. 23, 2023, 3:14 a.m.

By Darian Stevenson | DStevenson@syracuse.com

Adams, N.Y. — An earthquake shook parts of Upstate New York and Canada Sunday afternoon, according to the geological survey.

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake occurred around 2:10 p.m. with an epicenter 1 mile northwest of Jefferson County, according to the United States Geological Survey. USGS reported the earthquake to be four miles outside of Adams, N.Y.

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake, 20 kilometers southwest of Watertown, was also reported in Canada around the same time Sunday. The earthquake struck 56 kilometers southeast of Kingston, Ontario, OTTAWA reported.

About nine days ago, a 2.6-magnitude earthquake shook the Adams Center area early morning on April 18, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a report.

The USGS stated they received 72 reports from people who felt the earthquake in 16 different ZIP codes following the rumble earlier this month. Those areas included Adams, Watertown and Sackets Harbor.

There was no damage reported.

https://www.syracuse.com/weather/2023/04/earthquake-shakes-up-upstate-new-york-did-you-feel-it-in-onondaga-county.html 

 

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Biden's Weakening Of The U.S. Military, While Provoking A Nuclear War With China And Russia, And Thousands Of Chinese Crossing The U.S. Border, Makes America A Sitting Duck

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine April 24, 2023

No regime can be as incompetent as the Biden regime has shown itself to be, which only leaves one option, the destruction of our military, and our depleting of our weapons and munitions in our Ukraine proxy war with Russia, has been deliberate.

Lets go back to 2020 for just a moment.

We knew when Joe Biden was campaigning from his basement in 2019 that he was a few crayons short of a whole box, and his mental decline has continued to get worse, as evidenced by his own stumbling and bumbling self with each and every outing into the real world that his people allow him.

This means the actual decision-making is being done by Biden's handlers.

THE PUZZLE PIECES.....

After taking a few huge steps back, and trying to see the big picture from coinciding events, as well as separate events, almost like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, in my mind's eye, the picture when finished, is devastating beyond belief.

#1. Throughout the past years China and Russia have formed an alliance, from sharing a monetary system (BRICS), to backing each other on the world stage.

#2. February 2022, Russia/Ukraine war goes hot.

#3. Biden regime starts sending billions to Ukraine, along with weapons and munitions, undermining America's military abilities.

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During a time of systematic, 'big tech' censorship and widespread institutional corruption, truth-seeking media and alternative views are crucial, and EVERY little bit helps more than you could know!)

#4. The American military goes woke, and produces cartoon recruitment videos.

#5. U.S. Military faces severe recruitment shortages.

The US Army is now projecting that for the next two years it will massively fail to recruit as many troops as it hoped, falling short by nearly 40,000 new recruits, according to the latest estimates and testimony from the Army’s second highest leader.

We’ve got unprecedented challenges with both a post-Covid-19 environment and labor market, but also private competition with private companies that have changed their incentives over time,” General Joseph Martin, vice chief of staff of the Army, told the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee on Tuesday.

The Army is projecting it likely will fall short of its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goal by as many as 10,000 troops and could miss the fiscal year 2023 recruiting goal by as much as 28,000 troops, according to Army estimates.

#6. The U.S. military starts lowering physical training and mental standards.

#7. The Biden regime continues to provoke Russia and China, which could lead to a nuclear war.

#7. Chinese are crossing the U.S. border in 2023 with an increase of 10 times as many as the previous year.

A growing number of Chinese nationals are illegally entering the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Protection (CBP) data shows.

The CBP recorded 4,271 Chinese nationals crossing the southern border between October and February, The Wall Street Journal reported. The number was more than 10 times greater than the same period the previous year.

Shelter staff with the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen used to see one Chinese person a month, according to Norma Pimental, who oversees the charities.

“Now, all of a sudden, we see a surge of people from China,” she said.

#9. The U.S. depletes munitions by sending them to Ukraine, and now is "under the gun" to make more ammo.

One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in this city built by coal barons, where tons of steel rods are brought in by train to be forged into the artillery shells Kyiv can’t get enough of — and that the U.S. can’t produce fast enough.

The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is at the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar Pentagon plan to modernize and accelerate its production of ammunition and equipment not only to support Ukraine, but to be ready for a potential conflict with China.

PUTTING THE PUZZLE PIECES TOGETHER.....

Russia and China for an alliance and as many describe them as "hostile" to the U.S., that is exactly what they think about the U.S., that America is hostile to them.

So Russia, knowing the Biden regime is weak, heads into Ukraine, guaranteeing others nations, namely the U.S. will send money, weapons, munitions and even tanks to Ukraine, depleting those countries' own ability to fight a direct war if necessary.

Turning the U.S. military into a "woke" military, destroying their own efforts to recruit, and lowering the standards of those they are managing to recruit, leaves the US, with a weak military.

Not only is America's military the weakest they have ever been since Biden started occupying the White House, we now have sent so much weaponry and munitions to Ukraine, that the Army is "under the gun" to make more.

Last but not least, we are seeing 10 times the amount of Chinese crossing the U.S. border.

This means while Russia has the U.S. scrambling to keep Ukraine armed, if China decides to attack America, they already have a decent sized army right here inside of the United States of America.

BOTTOM LINE

What has happened under the Biden regime cannot be explained by incompetence. We're being destroyed from within vulnerable to attack from the nations Biden's and/or his handlers are provoking into nuclear war.

We're sitting ducks.

https://allnewspipeline.com/America_Is_A_Sitting_Duck.php 

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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends.  They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..

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Warships JAMMING GPS over Taiwan

Hal Turner 24 April 2023

Taiwan is encountering JAMMING of GPS signals all along the northern part of the island. This coincides with the presence of China warships.

It is not known at this time WHY the jamming is being done, but it __is__ interfering with air traffic into and out of Taiwan.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/warships-jamming-gps-over-taiwan 

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460,000 companies close down, 800 million people in debt, China's 2023 economic has no way out

China Finance

477 subscribers

6,873 views Apr 24, 2023

Are we on the brink of a global economic crisis? The tensions between China and the rest of the globe over global debt are at an all-time high. As more countries fail on their debts, China's refusal to erase its loans raises tensions with the United States and its allies. Chinese cities are failing to pay their bills because hidden debts are getting bigger and bigger. The stakes are high, and the outcome is uncertain. So, what's next? Watch out to find out.

When world leaders debated whether to write off poor countries' debts more than two decades ago, Bono was the central character.

This time, it's Beijing.

Three years of tight economic controls in China, combined with a real estate slump, have depleted local government revenues, leaving authorities across the country saddled with mounds of debt. The situation has declined to the point where some cities are unable to provide basic services, and the prospect of default is increasing.

China, Beijing, Xi Jinping, Xi,Chinese Communist Party, CCP, Communist China, China insights, China economy, China middle class, China let is rot, China real estate, China banks, China economy crisis, China bank crisis, China unfinished buildings, China rotten-tail buildings, China stop pay mortgage, China refuse to pay mortgage, China protest, new discoveries 2023, china discoveries, china recession,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfqM2VNeXE 

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etc. it shall not be a good week, many things shall take place.  Watch the stock market, and if you have money hoarded up in there, you are going to lose it, you are going to lose it.  Listen carefully, pay attention, place your money where you know that it is safe etc.

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Stock Market Crash Alert: Credit Default Swaps From 2008 Are Back

Shrey Dua 21 hrs ago

Stock market crash fears are eating up Wall Street as credit default swaps (CDSs) rise to the highest level since 2008. Indeed, it seems that concerns over the government debt are pushing traders away from domestic debt investments.

What’s going on with credit default swaps lately?

Well, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, spreads on five-year credit default swaps are up to 51 basis points, more than double from January. Meanwhile, one-year government default swaps are trading at around 106 basis points, the most expensive since 2008, according to the Financial Times.

Credit default swaps are essentially insurance against a borrower’s debt. As such, changes in the price of government CDSs can inform the level of risk traders feel about the potential of a government default.

Currently, with the government still attempting to pass legislation raising its debt ceiling ahead of its projected August default timeline, traders are (perhaps rightfully so) pricing in a higher chance that the government fails to make a payment, thereby going into default.

At the moment, investors are willing to pay almost $10,000 to insure $1 million in U.S. Treasury debt, a notable increase from the $1,400 it cost at the start of 2023. This implies a roughly 2% chance of a U.S. default.

Stock Market Crash Fears Brew as Government Debt Hangs Over Investors

Back in January, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the government only has enough emergency funds to pay down its debt payments through early June. Goldman Sachs, on the other hand, believes the government could get through late July before declaring default, largely dependent on April tax receipts. According to BMO Capital Markets analysts:

“Whereas there was once a time when the Treasury Department was seen as having sufficient funding to reach August or even September […] The area of focus has now been pulled forward to June, or even as early as late May.”

Currently, the Treasury Department is using its “extraordinary measures” powers to pay off government bills until lawmakers can agree on a piece of legislation to raise the debt ceiling. While raising the debt ceiling isn’t exactly a rarity — it has happened 14 times from 2001 to 2016 alone — going past the debt limit is relatively uncommon. In fact, in the 21st century, the country has only gone over its debt ceiling twice before now, in 2011 and 2013.

What Would a Default Mean for Financial Markets?

By all accounts, a government default would be a worst-case scenario for the stock market and most other financial systems. In January, President Joe Biden claimed that a failure to pay its debt would mean a “calamity,as bad as “anything that’s ever happened financially in the United States.”

In a testimony before Congress, Moody’s Chief Economist Mark Zandi expressed similar sentiments over a government default:

A default would be a catastrophic blow to the already fragile economy. Global financial markets and the economy would be upended, and even if resolved quickly, Americans would likely pay for this default for generations, as global investors would rightly believe that the federal government’s finances have been politicized and that a time may come when they would not be paid what they are owed when owed it.”

On the date of publication, Shrey Dua did not hold (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.

With degrees in economics and journalism, Shrey Dua leverages his ample experience in media and reporting to contribute well-informed articles covering everything from financial regulation and the electric vehicle industry to the housing market and monetary policy. Shrey’s articles have featured in the likes of Morning Brew, Real Clear Markets, the Downline Podcast, and more.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/stock-market-crash-alert-credit-default-swaps-from-2008-are-back/

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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come.  At times you may wonder what is taking place, and I say unto you, get into my word, look in my word, know what Jeremiah has said, know what Ezekiel has said, know what Joel told you etc

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Earthquake, Tremor

2nd major quake within 24 hours: Shallow M7.1 earthquake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra island, triggering tsunami warning

This is the second strong earthquake within a day, after a M6.8 hit near the Kermadec Islands, NZ, yesterday.

A strong undersea earthquake has sent streams of people fleeing to higher ground in western Indonesia, after a tsunami warning was briefly triggered.

Footage released by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency showed how streams of people in a village on Mentawai Island fled to the highlands by foot and motorcycles under the rain in darkness early Tuesday, while some patients at the village’s hospital were evacuated to its yard as cracks showed in the facility’s floor.

The shocks were felt in districts and cities of West Sumatra and North Sumatra provinces, and some places ordered evacuations to higher ground.

Residents in parts of West Sumatra province, including the provincial capital of Padang, felt the earthquake strongly for about 30 seconds, disaster agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said.

“Many residents in several villages on Mentawai island chose to stay … in higher ground although the tsunami alert was ended, due to fears of aftershocks,” he said, adding that authorities were still collecting information about the damage.

The magnitude 7.1 earthquake was centered 170 kilometres southeast of Teluk Dalam, a coastal town in the South Nias region of North Sumatra, at a depth of 15 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. Aftershocks measured as strong as 5.8.

After an initial tsunami alert, Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency lifted the warning just before dawn, about two hours after the quake.

Authorities said that based on sea level observations, minor tsunamis of 11 centimeters were detected in Tanah Bala coastal area of South Nias regency.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 270 million people, is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. In November, a magnitude 5.6 quake killed at least 340 people and damaged more than 62,600 homes in parts of West Java. [USGS, Guardian]

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3M announces mass layoffs as manufacturing slows

By David Goldman, CNN Updated 7:43 AM EDT, Tue April 25, 2023

New York CNN —

3M announced significant layoffs Tuesday as part of yet another major restructuring plan as the manufacturing sector prepares for a possible recession and slumping demand for goods.

The manufacturing behemoth behind some consumer brands, including Post-It Notes and Scotch Tape, said it would lay off 6,000 staff around the world. Those cuts are in addition to the 2,500 manufacturing roles 3M eliminated in January. 3M also announced several mass layoffs in 2019 and 2020, but total headcount has been up and down over the past several years.

The company said it anticipates it will save up to $900 million a year before taxes after the layoffs are complete. 3M argued that the cuts are “intended to make 3M stronger, leaner and more focused” by simplifying its supply chain and reducing layers of management.

These actions are expected to meaningfully reduce costs and drive long-term improvement in margins and cash flow while enabling a more efficient and effective structure for driving long-term growth,” 3M said in a statement.

3M also announced several management changes as it reported earnings and sales that fell from the previous year. Sales slumped 9% to $8 billion, while net income attributable to the company tumbled 25% to under $1 billion in the quarter.

The company said it would prioritize products that customers are increasingly demanding, including climate tech, sustainable packaging and automated industrial products, among other emerging technologies. 3M also reaffirmed its previous outlook for 2023, anticipating sales would fall by as much as 6% this year.

3M said the supply chain problems that doomed the sector for years in the wake of the pandemic have largely eased. That means backlogged orders have been shipped, and the company (and its peers) no longer need as much staff to handle the workload.

Meanwhile, demand for manufactured goods has fallen in recent months. Consumers have been spending less on stuff and more on experiences lately, and businesses are gearing up for an anticipated recession.

3M rival Dow also announced thousands of layoffs at the beginning of the year.

Shares of 3M (MMM) rose slightly in premarket trading.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/business/3m-layoffs/index.html 

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Layoffs loom in the US manufacturing sector as backlogs shrink

Bryan Mena, CNN  Published 4:04 PM EDT, Mon April 24, 2023

Washington, DC CNN —

US manufacturers have now mostly worked their way through their backlogged orders — and that means job cuts could be on the horizon as soon as this year.

Those orders, which accumulated because of supply chain disruptions in the early days of the pandemic, have helped keep the manufacturing industry mostly insulated from the mass layoffs seen in other sectors, like technology and finance.

Supply chains, which clogged up during the pandemic and were choked off again after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have improved considerably in the past year, and manufacturing backlogs are dwindling fast. Meanwhile, demand for manufactured goods has fallen in recent months as consumers and businesses pulled back on purchases in favor of experiences such as travel and dining out.

An analysis by Wells Fargo economists provided to CNN shows that unfilled orders of core capital goods adjusted for inflation, or backlogs, are expected to return to pre-pandemic levels within the next five months. And surveys from the Institute for Supply Management show that the manufacturing sector has been contracting for several months, while fewer manufacturers report an increase in backlogs.

Workforce reduction

While softer demand has allowed manufacturers to reduce their backlog, once it runs out and demand remains subdued, companies will begin to consider reducing their workforce, said Shannon Seery, an economist at Wells Fargo.

We’re only seeing a gradual pullback in hiring for manufacturing, even as new demand slows, because these backlogs are still helping sustain activity,” she said.

However, she noted: “All of last year we saw the level of outstanding backlog come down, so that and this hit to demand will make firms decide whether to pull back on their capital expenditures, which we’ve already started to see, or begin to lay off workers in an effort to protect profitability.”

Orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, a key measure of business investment, declined in four of the seven months through February, according to data from the Department of Commerce. Overall orders for durable goods, such as appliances, cars and furniture, fell in three of the past four months through February.

New orders are starting to soften and supplier deliveries are improving slightly. This is allowing us to reduce our backlog and build a buffer in some categories,” one electrical equipment and appliances manufacturer said in the ISM’s March survey.

Data gauging the manufacturing industry’s health has been mixed. S&P Global’s preliminary manufacturing index for April showed an improvement for the first time in six months, but manufacturers still expressed “some concerns regarding a shift away from goods towards services among customers following the end of the pandemic,” according to the report released on Friday.

A survey of manufacturers in the Federal Reserve’s Chicago district showed that activity deteriorated in April from the prior month as the pace of hiring slowed. Respondents said they expect to pull back on hiring over the next 12 months.

Manufacturing saw job losses in February for the first time in 21 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were additional manufacturing job losses in the following month.

Already, 3M announced earlier this year that it is cutting 2,500 manufacturing jobs globally because of weakened consumer demand and disruptions in its operations overseas. Dow Inc. also announced thousands of layoffs at the beginning of the year.

However, while manufacturing layoffs are expected, they are likely to be limited. Companies are still struggling to hire and, due to a phenomenon known as labor hoarding, they will hesitate to shed workers because of previous difficulty in attracting and retaining talent.

Given how difficult it has been to find labor and keep it, manufacturing companies are going to do everything they can to try to avoid layoffs,” said Joshua Shapiro, chief US economist at forecasting firm Maria Fiorini Ramirez. “But I think they can only do that for so long, so they will eventually have to bite the bullet and start laying people off.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/economy/manufacturing-layoffs-backlogs/index.html 

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Putin sends his 'invisible' T-14 Armata tanks into battle in Ukraine for the first time after Britain said using 'poor condition' fleet was 'high risk' for Russia

RIA said that the tanks have been fitted with extra protection on their flanks

It said crews have done 'combat coordination' at training grounds in Ukraine

By James Callery and Reuters

Published: 01:15 EDT, 25 April 2023 | Updated: 16:41 EDT, 25 April 2023

Russia has begun using its new T-14 Armata battle tanks to fire on Ukrainian positions 'but they have not yet participated in direct assault operations,' the RIA state news agency reported on Tuesday, quoting a source close the matter.

RIA said that the tanks have been fitted with extra protection on their flanks and crews have undergone 'combat coordination' at training grounds in Ukraine.

The T-14 tank has an unmanned turret, with crew remotely controlling the armaments from 'an isolated armoured capsule located in the front of the hull'.

In 2015, the designers of the T-14 claimed it would be the world's first invisible tank.

The vehicles have a maximum speed on the highway of 80 kilometres (50 miles) per hour, RIA reported.

In January, British military intelligence reported that Russian forces in Ukraine were reluctant to accept the first tranche of the tanks due to their 'poor condition'.

It also said that any deployment of the T-14 would likely be 'a high-risk decision' for Russia, and one taken primarily for propaganda purposes.

'Production is probably only in the low tens, while commanders are unlikely to trust the vehicle in combat,' the British military said.

'Eleven years in development, the programme has been dogged with delays, reduction in planned fleet size, and reports of manufacturing problems.'

The T-14 would also pose a logistical headache for Russia as it is larger and heavier than other Russian tanks.

The Kremlin ordered production of 2,300 of the tanks - first unveiled in 2015 - by 2020, but this was later stretched to 2025, according to Russian media reports.

The Interfax news agency reported in December 2021 that the state conglomerate Rostec had started production of some 40 tanks, with an anticipated delivery after 2023.

The T-14 war machine was among the new vehicles unveiled by Putin at Russia's Victory Day parade in Moscow in 2015.

It was produced as part of Russia's £250billion military update programme.

The previous Russian tank, the T-90, was designed to have a low profile, light armour, and to be extremely manoeuvrable on the battlefield.

It weighed 20 tons less than the American Abrams tank, but that meant it was also extremely vulnerable if hit by high-explosive rounds.

By comparison, the Armata T-14 has a high ground clearance and increased armour, especially on the tank's traditionally soft underbelly in order to protect the crew from mines.

The T-14 Armata is equipped with an unmanned turret mounting a 125mm 2A82-1M smoothbore gun fed by an automatic loader.

The turret holds 45 rounds of ammunition, including ready-to-use ammunition. The main gun can also fire laser-guided missiles.

The tank's remote-controlled main turret was designed in such a way to improve the crew's chances of survival if the tank is hit.

Instead, those inside are locked inside an armoured pod, which is also separate from the tank's ammunition store.

If the outer armour of the tank is hit, it is designed to explode outwards, potentially detonating any explosive rounds fired at it, and preventing heavy shells from penetrating it and killing the crew.

In 2015, developers UralVagonZavod made claims that the T-14 is loaded with high-tech equipment that will screen it from enemy radar and infra-red heat-seeking target finders.

The manufacturer's head of special equipment Vyacheslav Khalitov boasted: 'We essentially made the invisible tank.'

Khalitov went on to claim that the T-14's special stealth technology includes radar absorbing paint and materials that make it resistant to rapid detection by radar.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12010121/Russias-new-T-14-Armata-battle-tank-debuts-Ukraine-RIA.html 

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Iran Navy Forces US Submarine to Surface in Gulf

Thursday, 20 April 2023 07:25 AM EDT

Iran's navy forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it entered the Gulf, Iranian navy commander Shahram Irani told state television on Thursday, in the latest report of an apparent confrontation between Iranian and U.S. forces in the Gulf.

"The U.S. submarine was approaching while submerged, but the Iranian submarine Fateh detected it and carried out... maneuvers to force it to surface as it went through the Strait (of Hormuz). It had also entered into our territorial waters but ... it corrected its course after being warned," Irani said.

"This submarine was doing its best, using all its capacities, to pass in total silence and without being detected," Irani said. "We will certainly reflect to international bodies the fact that it had violated our border."

The U.S. Navy said earlier this month the nuclear-powered, guided-missile submarine Florida was operating in the Middle East in support of its Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military to Irani's remarks. Reuters sent a message seeking comment from the Fifth Fleet.

Iranian and U.S. forces have had a number of confrontations in the past. In early April, the Iranian navy said it identified and warned off a U.S. reconnaissance plane outside the mouth of the Gulf. In 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. drone which it said was flying over southern Iran.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/iran-navy-u-s/2023/04/20/id/1116863/ 

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US‘s DEBT CRISIS is IMMINENT! A net of $664.7 Billion in US Bonds has been SOLD-OFF.

Asian Quicktake 28.6K subscribers

34,249 views Apr 20, 2023

On April 17th, Monday, the US Treasury auctioned off $57 billion worth of three-month US bonds at a winning yield of 5.1%, the highest level seen since January 2021. This highlights the impact of the debt ceiling crisis on the bond market.

It is worth noting that the maturity date of the three-month bonds is during the period in which the market expects the US federal government to face a possible shutdown and default due to the debt ceiling. This latest auction is another sign of the market's growing concern over the debt ceiling crisis, as investors usually avoid buying US bonds that mature around the so-called "X date," which is when the Treasury is expected to exhaust its financing options.

On April 15th, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that there were legal limitations on how to handle frozen Russian assets, stating that "We have legal limitations on what we can do in terms of forfeiting Russian assets that are frozen." The US and the West have frozen more than $300 billion in foreign currency assets held by the Russian central bank due to sanctions. A significant portion of these assets were previously deposited in the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Yellen's latest remarks show that she is aware that confiscating assets of other countries is illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ZN0uH47Bk 

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Panic buying causes widespread gas station closures in South Florida

By Chris Isidore, CNN  Published 3:46 PM EDT, Wed April 19, 2023

New York CNN —

More than half of gas stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area were without gasoline Wednesday after flooding from last week’s massive storm caused a wave of panic buying by drivers topping off their gas tanks.

“I would estimate that 80% of [station closings] are due to panic buying,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, which tracks station closings and gas prices.

A storm dumped 20 inches of rain on Fort Lauderdale in just one day last Wednesday, causing widespread flooding and some disruptions to operations at Port Everglades in that city, where a significant portion of gasoline for the region comes through a dozen different gas terminals.

Data from GasBuddy showed that 59% of stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market were closed Wednesday, up from about 20% on Sunday. Other nearby markets are also reporting station outages, including 31% of stations in the West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce market and 4% of stations in the Fort Myers-Naples market.

But much of the shortages and closures that followed came because of a surge in demand caused by drivers rushing to stations that were still open, rather than the lack of supply.

it’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, people see the gas lines, and they think they should fill up,” said De Haan.

This phenomenon of people rushing to buy gas and causing shortages is common after other supply disruptions, including following the ransomware attack that temporarily shut the Colonial Pipeline back in 2021.

“This is true everywhere. People lose their minds when there’s one station with a closed pump,” said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for OPIS, which tracks gas prices for AAA. “There’s panic. Nobody wants to give up their mobility.”

The good news is that things are starting to improve at Port Everglades, which reports that nine out of 12 gas terminals are reporting operations have recovered from last week’s severe flooding and are distributing gas and diesel to retailers.

Stations in South Florida are also getting supplied from gas terminals in the northern part of the state, and the Florida Highway Patrol tweeted Wednesday that it is providing escorts to some of the trucks.

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Fort Lauderdale begins long recovery as floodwaters recede

But the even better news is that with full tanks, drivers will not need to fill up in the coming days as they normally might have, and the panic buying is likely to subside.

“We just have to wait for it to happen,” said De Haan. He expected most of the closed stations to be reopened by the weekend.

Kloza agrees with that time frame.

“Stations have very shallow inventories of gasoline. Most need a delivery every two or three days,” he said. “But just as those shallow inventories can run out very quickly, they can be refilled very quickly. This too shall pass.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/business/south-florida-gas-shortages/index.html 

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Not only China but Japan60% Foreign Holders Sell U.S. Debt! Japanese Insurers Sell off U.S. Bonds!

Asian Quicktake

28.6K subscribers  17,973 views Apr 19, 2023

Monday, April 17th, the U.S. Treasury Department released the International Capital Flow report (TIC), which revealed that in February 2023, foreign investors' holdings of US Treasury bonds decreased by $58.9 billion compared to the previous month, totaling $7.3436 trillion. This decrease marks a reversal from three consecutive months of growth and a $360 billion reduction from the same period last year.

The report showed that the two largest holders of US bonds both decreased their holdings in February 2023. Japan's holdings decreased by $22.6 billion to $1.0818 trillion, while mainland China continued its trend of selling off US bonds for the seventh consecutive month, further reducing its position by $10.6 billion to $848.8 billion, marking the eleventh month below $1 trillion.

In February, US bond yields continued to rise, causing significant official buyers who are sensitive to prices to reduce their holdings to diversify risks. Historically, a situation where long-term bond yields are lower than short-term bond yields signifies an impending economic recession. Former US Treasury Secretary Summers also stated that the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes to curb inflation have not been effective and could lead to a lack of economic momentum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9mAiEtc8s 

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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends.  They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc.. 

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Russia is using 'ghost' spy ships disguised as fishing trawlers off UK coast to map out North Sea wind farms and communication cables for sabotage attacks in case of war with the West, probe claims

Fleet of Russian ships are sailing through North Sea to collect data for sabotage

The vessels carry underwater surveillance to map out where wind farms are

By Rachael Bunyan Published: 09:17 EDT, 19 April 2023 | Updated: 01:51 EDT, 20 April 2023

Russia is using 'ghost' spy ships that are disguised as fishing trawlers off the UK coast to map out wind farms and communication cables for sabotage attacks in case it goes to war with the West, a probe has claimed.

The fleet of Russian ships, disguised as fishing trawlers and research vessels, are sailing through the North Sea to collect data on where wind farms, gas pipelines as well as power and internet cables are located, it has been claimed.

The vessels carry underwater surveillance to map out how the infrastructure is connected with the aim to plan sabotage attacks against the West, a documentary aired by public broadcasters in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland has claimed.

Russia is aiming to plan the sabotage attacks in case it goes to war with the West, with their goal being to paralyse the power supply in Europe, intelligence sources warned.

'In the event of a conflict with the West, they are ready and know where to intervene if they want to paralyse the Danish society,' counterintelligence chief Anders Henriksen from the Danish Police Intelligence Service told Denmark's DR.

'This is a strategic capacity for Russia, which is considered very important and is controlled directly from Moscow,' Nils Andreas Stensones, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, added.

Intercepted radio communications from the Russian navy reveal Russia is using 'ghost ships' in the North Sea. These vessels have turned off their transmitters and are therefore untraceable in international waters.

The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed the media claims as a 'mistake' and 'without basis', reiterating its appeal for 'a transparent and impartial international inquiry' into the sabotage of the Baltic Sea Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson meanwhile deemed the documentary's claims 'serious'.

'This just goes to show that we have a very risky situation in our immediate vicinity,' he told reporters at a navy base in southern Sweden.

Broadcasters DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden and Yle in Finland pointed to how the Russian naval vessel Admiral Vladimirsky is being used to collect intelligence - rather than conduct oceanic research as Russia says it does.

Last November, Admiral Vladimirsky sailed around the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden without sharing its location for a month - but it still sent radio messages to a naval base in Russia regarding its position.

The vessel slowed down when it approached areas where there are wind farms and loiters in the area.

The broadcaster DR managed to intercept the radio signals and locate the vessel.

Video shows a man wearing a mask while holding a Russian military semi-automatic rifle stepping forward on the top deck as a DR journalist approached the Admiral Vladimirsky in a rubber boat. Several other men stepped forward also.

The Russian vessel had sailed around the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Kattegat for a month, with its route passing both current and future offshore wind farms.

Intelligence sources say the aim of this mission would be to prepare for sabotage attacks that would cut power and data cables across the Atlantic and to the rest of Europe.

They say the Russian vessels will have likely mapped out power cables on the sea bed which link the offshore wind farms.

'This is what the research ships do - as part of the preparation for a major war with NATO,' an intelligence source says.

'There will be clusters of cables where one bomb can knock out the entire wind farm,' said independent naval analyst HI Sutton.

'The ship has been on a mission to map what's new out there - have there been changes since they were last there - and to find out how they do it best if they have to hit the offshore wind farms,' naval captain and military analyst Jens Wenzel Kristoffersen from the University of Copenhagen said.

The same ship was reportedly sighted off the Scottish coast last year - 30 nautical miles east of Lossiemouth, home to the RAF's Maritime Patrol Aircraft fleet.

The documentary, titled 'The Shadow War', also says Norwegian police who boarded two Russian fishing trawlers discovered old Soviet-era radios, with an operator in a locked compartment.

According to DR, the Russian spy programme is known by the acronym GUGI, or the Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, a top secret branch of the Russian navy.

The organisation, which reports to Russia's defence ministry, operates out of a base about which little is known in the Barents Sea, on the Kola peninsula in the Arctic.

In Sweden, 27 suspect vessels have allegedly sailed through its waters or docked in its ports in the past five years, SVT said.

In Norway, over a period of 10 years, at least 50 Russian vessels 'had the possibility to collect information clandestinely', according to a tally based on the ships' Automatic Identification System (AIS), NRK said.

Segments of the documentary have already been released, with the full report due to be broadcast late Wednesday.

It elicited an immediate response from Moscow, which has blamed the West for the spectacular sabotage involving the explosions of Nord Stream pipelines linking Russia to Germany.

'The media in these countries have made a mistake in their investigation,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

'They prefer to once again accuse Russia without basis.'

'We would prefer that they focus more attention on the attacks against Nord Stream and on a transparent and impartial international inquiry,' he said.

In February, Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD said Russia had in recent months tried to gain intelligence to sabotage critical infrastructure in the Dutch part of the North Sea.

A Russian ship was detected at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea as it tried to map out energy infrastructure, MIVD head General Jan Swillens said at the time.

The vessel was escorted out of the North Sea by Dutch marine and coast guard ships before any sabotage effort could become successful, he added.

'We saw in recent months Russian actors tried to uncover how the energy system works in the North Sea. It is the first time we have seen this,' Swillens said.

'Russia is mapping how our wind parks in the North Sea function. They are very interested in how they could sabotage the energy infrastructure.'

Dutch intelligence agencies MIVD and AIVD, in a joint report published on Monday, said critical offshore infrastructure such as internet cables, gas pipes and windmill farms had become the target of Russian sabotage activities.

'Russia is secretly charting this infrastructure and is undertaking activities which indicate preparations for disruption and sabotage', the agencies said.

Covert threats by Russia to water and energy supplies in the Netherlands were also conceivable, they added.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11989871/Russia-using-ghost-spy-ships-UK-coast-map-North-Sea-wind-farms-sabotage-attacks.html 

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China expert predicts where US will 'see the next war start'

US defense moving ‘molasses slow’ in preparation for a possible war with China, Gordon Chang says

By Kristen Altus FOX Business

China doing so many 'ominous' things: Gordon Chang

Gatestone Institute senior fellow and author Gordon Chang discusses Speaker Kevin McCarthy's meeting with the Taiwanese president, Biden's handling of China's aggression, GOP lawmakers meeting with Silicon Valley CEOs and the U.S. border

China is ready for war and America is ill-prepared for it, according to one foreign policy expert who also warned it could happen on U.S. soil.

"The one thing that we know is that China is making fast preparations for war now," Gatestone Institute senior fellow and "The Great U.S.-China Tech War" author Gordon Chang said on "Mornings with Maria" Monday.

"Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just about 24 hours ago said all of this was overheated rhetoric, the way he put it. But the point is, China is preparing to kill Americans and we've got to prepare to defend ourselves," Chang continued. "And the Defense Department is making slow, really slow, molasses-slow preparations to oppose China."

Chang’s comments were made just before an NBC News report revealed the Chinese spy balloon which traversed the continental U.S. earlier this year gathered sensitive information as it flew over American military sites, despite the White House’s efforts to block it, according to two senior officials and one former Biden administration official.

The officials further claimed China collected the information through electronic signals which were sent back to Beijing in real time, Fox News confirmed.

Noting the U.S. stands at an "inflection point" with China, Chang further argued that when a war breaks out in Asia, it may also break out within American borders.

"The real risk here is at the Darién Gap," the expert said referring to the peninsula which connects North to South America. "Michael Yon, a war correspondent, is saying that he is seeing [Chinese] males of military age who are unattached to family groups. Those, I believe, are saboteurs. And on the first day of a war in Asia, that will be fought on American soil as these saboteurs try to take down our grid, poison our water, detonate bombs in shopping centers."

"The administration should be looking at those males," Chang added, "because I think that that is where we are going to see the next war start, those guys acting on our soil."

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick expressed concerns to host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday over the surge of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border.

"These people are mostly educated, young adults that China is sending here to eventually go to our colleges, work in our business, steal secrets [and] send them back to China," Patrick said.

Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin spoke to U.S. officials Monday who reportedly pushed back against any suggestion that the intelligence the Chinese were able to gather was of significant value, standing by their original statements that any signals or electronic intelligence that the balloon gathered was of "limited intelligence value."

"It's up to the American people to put pressure on Biden so that he cannot get away with doing the minimum. This is critical right now," Chang said. "China is doing so many different things that are really ominous. And yet, people in the Pentagon, people in the Oval Office, they're just pretending not to notice."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/china-expert-predicts-where-us-see-next-war-start 

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Assailant armed with knife attacks patients, staff at Jewish hospital in Berlin

Police arrived at the scene and shot the assailant twice.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Published: APRIL 21, 2023 19:52 Updated: APRIL 21, 2023 20:45

Police shot an assailant armed with a knife in a Jewish hospital in Berlin on Friday afternoon, Berlin police said.

The assailant, 45, attacked patients and staff at the scene, police said. A report by the the German tabloid newspaper B.Z. described the attacker as "mentally confused."

Hospital employees alerted police to the incident at around 2:30 p.m., where they described a man rampaging at one of the wards, according to the Berlin police report. The man was reportedly threatening doctors and patients with a knife, B.Z. reported, and cited a police spokesman saying that the assailant would not comply to demands to put the knife down.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-739919 

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As you can clearly see the evil in the world is almost fifty-fifty, my word has shown you that before, so that should not be a surprise.  For I have said that two shall be standing in the field and one shall go and one shall remain, that is fifty-fifty, and it has got to that place, that also means that the end is very, very near.  So you will still have half of the world that desires to do evil and half of the world that desires to do good, but only about thirty percent are true Christians. etc.

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What Americans' Changing Values Mean for Christians

John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander | BreakPoint, Breakpoint | Thursday, April 20, 2023

A recent survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal and The University of Chicago found that Americans are, in huge numbers, pulling back from the values that once defined them. Over the last 25 years, the percentage of Americans who described “Patriotism” as either “important” or “very important” fell from 70% to 38%. Those who valued “Religion” fell from 62% to 39%, “Having Children” from 59% to 30%, and “Community Involvement” from 47% to 27%. Even the percentage of Americans valuing “Tolerance for Others” dropped from 80% to just 58%. Only one value out of ten listed increased: “Money,” from 31% to 43%.

Bill McInturff is an expert involved with previous iterations of this survey. He told The Wall Street Journal, “Perhaps the toll of our political division, Covid and the lowest economic confidence in decades is having a startling effect on our core values.’’ While economic affairs affect what people consider to be important, this is reversing the proverbial cart and horse. Corrupt societies can be prosperous, but only for a time. Eventually, low trust, rampant injustice, and civic division have consequences. Throughout history, economic crisis has not created a moral vacuum: It reveals it.

If there is no moral design to reality, or for humanity in particular, what people value is inconsequential. In such a world, there is nothing to be pursued outside of individual expression, which is assumed to lead to happiness and human flourishing. Who cares if people do not value communities, countries, or tolerance? It is the inherent determination of individuals, the pursuit of what they want the most, that will inevitably guide them. We can only follow our own impulses and desires.

History tells a different story, however. For example, a central genius of the American system is the built-in idea that people can and will go wrong if given the chance. Even the well-intentioned can be hypocrites, including America’s founders, who nevertheless understood the pitfalls of both concentrated power and a virtue-less mob. In the prophetic words of John Adams,

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Or, in the words often attributed to Patrick Henry, “Bad men cannot make good citizens.”

Though various forms of godless philosophy reject the idea, our most fundamental beliefs about life and the world shape our behavior. We do the things that are important to us, and we consider what is important based on what we think is true about life and the world. Put differently, our values shape our actions, and what we value is shaped by what we believe. Or, to fall back on a well-worn phrase, ideas have consequences.

America’s changing values reflect a deeper change in how we think about reality itself, especially what we believe about meaning, purpose, and identity. What is life all about? Who am I? Why am I here? America’s changing values will be reflected in how we live, both as individuals and how we order our lives together as a society.

Any solution, if it will help and not further harm, must first accurately diagnose the crisis. To diagnose a crisis of values as primarily economic is to confuse cause and effect. Conservatives who tout the free market alone without addressing the fundamental beliefs and values required to sustain life together, miss the point. A fabulously wealthy society is not, in and of itself, a better one. America needs a revival, one that will rekindle belief in what is true and good, and ultimately in that which is bigger than ourselves.

Christians, connected to the true Vine, can show the better way, loving our neighbors (even when we are hated) and loving truth. In a world starving for the right values, God gives our lives true value. The world is valuable because God created it and Christ died to save it. May God grant us the courage to live like this is true.

This Breakpoint was co-authored by Kasey Leander. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to colsoncenter.org.

https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/breakpoint/what-americans-changing-values-mean-for-christians.html 

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the troubles that are going on here, the troubles that are going on there, the preparation for war, not just North Korea but Russia and other countries that hate America, they are preparing and getting ready.  For the hour is much later than most people think, it is far later than those that are walking in the false and tell you etc.

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The Epoch Times: Russia figured out how to “cheaply” disable US Space defense

written by INTEL-DROP April 1, 2023

Russia could take advantage of a vulnerability in US defenses. This opinion was shared by American analyst Brandon Weichert.

The defense of the United States has a serious vulnerability that America’s main competitors, Russia and China, are aware of. According to Brandon Weichert, this is space, where the Pentagon relies on old and bulky satellites. This is reported by The Epoch Times. PolitRussia presents an exclusive retelling of the article.

US outer space is vulnerable to attacks from Russia and China,” the author of the American publication notes.

Brandon Weichert stated that US military satellites are extremely vulnerable to potential enemy attacks, and the Pentagon will also experience problems with their maintenance. There is a shortage of spare parts caused by their high cost and complexity in production.

“And the problem is that we don’t have time. The Chinese and Russians realized that this was a serious vulnerability. They are looking to exploit these weaknesses now, not three to six years from now,” the analyst said.

The Pentagon over the past 30-40 years has been purchasing and deploying satellites, which were subsequently combined into one / two systems. If Russia or China disable even one of these spacecraft, then this could lead to the neutralization of almost the entire US space defense system. Moreover, this can be done relatively inexpensively, for this you need only one rocket or an old satellite, which will be sent to the enemy’s apparatus.

In this way, you can knock out an entire section of American defense on the cheap,” the analyst said.

In addition, the strike can be aimed at civilian satellite systems. And then the entire American economy will come to a standstill. It will be impossible to carry out electronic transfers and financial transactions.

“These two [we are talking about Russia and China] together can challenge the United States in the struggle for dominance in space,” said Brandon Weichert.

Earlier, PolitRussia spoke about the fears of the West about the fact that Putin could soon seriously put pressure on NATO.

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/04/01/the-epoch-times-russia-figured-out-how-to-cheaply-disable-us-space-defense/ 

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Bush, Obama, Clinton Team Up with American Express Global Business Travel to Fly Migrants into American Communities

By John Binder20 Apr 2023

A non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and backed by a litany of multinational corporations is teaming up with American Express Global Business Travel to fly migrants into the United States.

The NGO, called Welcome. US, was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden’s administration in resettling some 85,000 Afghans across the U.S. in 2021 and 2022, as Breitbart News reported extensively at the time.

For its Afghan operation, the NGO helped fly close to 20,000 Afghans to American communities funded by millions raised from donations and supported by corporate backers like Walmart, Airbnb, the New York Times, the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Starbucks, the Washington Post, Goldman Sachs, Goodwill Industries, Microsoft, and Chobani.

The NGO also has ties to billionaire George Soros, as members of his Open Society Foundation sit on the group’s “National Welcome Council.”

Now, the NGO is teaming up with the open borders group Miles4Migrants as well as American Express Global Business Travel to fund flights to American communities for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ukraine, and Nicaragua.

“Donations are needed to fund the flights for newcomers to travel to the United States,” the initiative’s webpage states:

Those forced to flee often leave behind all but what they can carry, and the costs of international travel can be prohibitive. Welcome Connect Travel removes the cost of travel as a barrier for both sponsors in the United States and the displaced families they are supporting through humanitarian sponsorship. [Emphasis added]

With the average cost of a single flight at $1,600, public donations through our partner Miles4Migrants will help provide a lifeline to newcomers, giving them the opportunity to safely travel to their new communities. Donate below to help newcomers access safe travel. [Emphasis added]

The NGO’s flights for migrants are meant to complement a program created by President Joe Biden’s administration this year where 360,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua will be admitted to the United States annually via an expansive parole pipeline which has already helped release about a million migrants into American communities from 2021 to 2022.

During a Senate committee hearing this week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) estimated that the Biden administration has welcomed close to five million border crossers and illegal aliens to the United States since taking office in early 2021. This figure includes those released into the U.S. interior, known got-aways, and unknown got-aways.

Correction: The headline and lede of this story previously stated American Express is helping fly migrants into the U.S. It is instead American Express Global Business Travel (AmEx GBT), which is separate from American Express and is its own privately held joint venture.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/20/bush-obama-clinton-team-up-american-express-fly-migrants-into-american-communities/ 

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Whole World Hates America, Its Reputation is Faltering, Senior Erdogan Ally Says

Ilya Tsukanov

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Relations between Turkiye and the US faltered after Ankara accused Washington of trying to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a coup in 2016. Earlier this month, Erdogan blasted the US ambassador to Turkiye and said his office’s doors were “closed to him” after the envoy met with a senior opposition leader ahead of the May 14 election.

The world has no lost love for America, and the West’s efforts to impose its culture and values on the planet are doomed to fail because its hegemony no longer exists, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has said.

America is losing its global credibility and the "whole world hates America," Soylu said, speaking at a pre-election meeting with young people in Istanbul Tuesday.

Suggesting that Europe has turned into America’s “pawn” in Africa, Soylu said that “there is no such thing as Europe” today. “Do not overthink it. America exists. Europe is the train in the US convoy. It does not have any special features.” The official pointed to the numerous problems facing Europe, including the constant discrediting of its leaders, the aging of the population, and economic problems.

The interior minister said that he was “not afraid of terrorism” because the activities of terrorists and efforts necessary to fight them are clear. “But one of the greatest dangers in the world is cultural terrorism, and we are facing cultural terrorism. We are facing a cultural terrorism that’s aimed at destroying the family structure, morality…the civilizations of nations, their history, our religion, our values, traditions, customs, what our mothers and fathers taught us,” he said.

Emphasizing the importance of the upcoming elections, Solyu suggested they will be history in the making.

Turkiye is changing history. This is the election that will completely change history. That is why America is pressing us, Europe is pressing us. That’s why Kandil [the hills of northern Iraq where Ankara alleges Turkish Kurdish fighters to be holed up, ed.] are in a hurry, while the PKK [a Kurdish militant group Turkiye classifies as terrorists] are pressing us. This is not the choice of Tayyip Erdogan, this is the choice of Turkiye’s future generations, the choice of Turkiye’s full independence,” Solyu said.

Министр иностранных дел Турции Мевлют Чавушоглу и министр иностранных дел РФ Сергей Лавров в президентском дворце в Анкаре - Sputnik International, 1920, 07.04.2023

World

Lavrov Attends Working Dinner With Cavusoglu in Ankara - Turkish Foreign Ministry

Turks will go to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, with Erdogan representing the People’s Alliance led by the ruling Justice and Development Party. Opposing him is Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Nation Alliance. Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu have been running neck and neck in the polls since March, with polls ranging dramatically depending on who’s conducting the polling, from a nine and a half point lead for Kilicdaroglu, to a 7.7 point lead for Erdogan. A runoff race will be held at a later date if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round.

Pro-Erdogan forces’ anti-American feelings were ramped up earlier this month after US Ambassador to Turkiye Jeff Flake privately met with Kilicdaroglu. Erdogan slammed the move, saying the ambassador “needs to know his place” as a diplomat.

Turkiye, once the bulwark of NATO along its Black Sea and Mediterranean flanks, has gradually pushed to increase its strategic autonomy from Washington under Erdogan amid Turks’ cooling attitudes toward the US and the West in general. Alleged American support for the July 2016 coup attempt, more than three decades of stalled talks on Turkiye’s possible accession to the EU, and other grievances have left many Turks cynical about the alliance with the West, and demanding a more independent foreign and domestic policy.

A Turkish flag waves in front of NATO's one - Sputnik International, 1920, 05.04.2023

World

NATO's Enlargement Targets Not Only Moscow, But Ankara as Well, Turkish Media Says

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230419/whole-world-hates-america-its-reputation-is-faltering-senior-erdogan-ally-says-1109652591.html 

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Warning Russian hackers have infiltrated European air traffic computer systems

Fears are growing that Putin-backing hackers will target Europe's infrastructure over the West's stance against the invasion of Ukraine.

By Tim McNulty 22:57, Thu, Apr 20, 2023 | UPDATED: 22:57, Thu, Apr 20, 2023

Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control organisation, revealed on Thursday that pro-Russian hackers were conducting a cyber-attack on its website. Fears have developed that Moscow may intervene with crucial infrastructure in Europe as the cold conflict with the West escalates.

The hack began on April 19 but had little impact on air traffic control operations.

According to a Eurocontrol representative, the agency's operational systems were safe and secure, although communication was disrupted both internally and internationally.

The attack disrupted the website and web availability, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

However, the agency has promised to continue communicating with its roughly 2,000 staff via commercial means.

Eurocontrol manages cross-border air traffic across European national airspace and provides air traffic control for civilian and military planes in select regions.

According to a new report by the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI), Ukraine is facing an exceptional volume of cyber attacks linked to Russia.

The 40-page study, commissioned by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), praises Ukraine's ability to remain resilient in the face of Russian cyber threats, but warns that the response could create concerning precedents.

The study suggests that the threat posed by Russian-aligned cyber groups extends beyond Ukraine, with the UK and allies also targeted.

It also raises concerns about a blurring of the line between combatants and civilians, asking what will happen to members of the IT Army once the war ends and warning that it has "skirted the boundaries of several important cyber norms."

The report also suggests that it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between cyber-criminal groups and political activists, as some groups claim to pursue "hacktivism" but seem more interested in financial gain than making political statements.

Paul Chichester, director of operations at the National Cyber Security Centre, said: "We are very grateful to ECCRI for this important and valuable analysis of the cyber dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine conflict to date.

"The report offers a range of helpful insights, not least around what Ukraine has taught us about the power of resilient systems in the face of sustained cyber-attacks.

"As we look to the future during our CyberUK conference, this is a timely contribution to the debate on what we can learn from the conflict, as well as the limits to our current understanding."

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said that the Government would assess the findings from the report and "learn the lessons" it offers.

"Putin's illegal war isn't just being fought on the ground. Ukraine's protectors are also defending their country against unprecedented cyber attacks on a digital battlefield.

"This report has shone an important spotlight on a different kind of hostility which the Ukrainians have responded to with exceptional resilience and determination."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1760851/Russian-hackers-European-air-traffic-control 

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The EU CANNOT Become a Puppet of China or the US - Macron's Plan Explained

The EU Made SIMPLE

36.8K subscribers

48,199 views Apr 21, 2023

Macron is a strong believer in EU Strategic Autonomy. In his visit to China and in a speech in the Hague, the Netherlands, he laid out his 5 pillar plan for Europe to become a third power on the World Stage. This video will look at his plan, of how he wants the European Union to develop into a superpower with limited dependencies on China and the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqMVeeC5VKI 

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etc.. Hear my voice and know what hour this is. It is the hour just before the first three and a half years of the seven years. Do not fear the Islamic revolution, nor the Russian warhead, for I plan to break their power, for they have blasphemed my name and made little of my son Jesus and have established their own god and deliverer. Fear not the false prophet or the anti-christ nor his army. Fear not the anarchy and the terrorism and the monetary collapse. etc..

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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..

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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America.  If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc

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De-Dollarization Is Happening at a ‘Stunning’ Pace, Jen Says

Story by Matthew Burgess • 13h ago

(Bloomberg) -- The dollar is losing its reserve status at a faster pace than generally accepted as many analysts have failed to account for last year’s wild exchange rate moves, according to Stephen Jen.

The greenback’s share in global reserves slid last year at 10 times the average speed of the past two decades as a number of countries looked for alternatives after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered sanctions, Jen and his Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd. colleague Joana Freire wrote in a note. Adjusting for exchange rate movements, the dollar has lost about 11% of its market share since 2016 and double that amount since 2008, they said.

“The dollar suffered a stunning collapse in 2022 in its market share as a reserve currency, presumably due to its muscular use of sanctions,” Jen and Freire wrote. “Exceptional actions taken by the US and its allies against Russia have startled large reserve-holding countries,” most of which are emerging economies from the so-called Global South, they said.

Jen is the former Morgan Stanley currency guru who coined the dollar smile theory.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/de-dollarization-is-happening-at-a-stunning-pace-jen-says/ar-AA1a0OKh?rc

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etc. I have talked about the EU and how they have grown in power and shall grow to more power. I have talked to you about China and yet America embraces China their enemy and they build them up that later China shall come against many and destroy many because of the finances you have provided for them. That was not my wisdom, that was not my knowledge. It was not my wisdom nor my knowledge when you gave your secrets to a country that worships a false god and they have sold them to other countries and become superior. Oh how foolish man is. etc..

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etc.. The EU is on its own, Russia is on its own, China is on its own, many are not your friends, many have already plotted and planned the things that they shall do, it is recorded in my Book. And if you were to study my Book you would see the things that are taking place right now. etc..

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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.

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FLASH: CHINA BANS IMPORTS/EXPORTS INVOLVING RAYTHEON AND LOCKHEED - CRIPPLES U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRY!

World Hal Turner 18 April 2023 Hits

FLASH TRAFFIC: CHINA'S COMMERCE MINISTRY HAS BANNED SENIOR EXECS OF RAYTHEON MISSILES & DEFENSE, AND LOCKHEED MARTIN, FROM ENTERING, WORKING, STAYING, AND RESIDING IN CHINA.

MORE:

CHINA WILL NOW ENFORCE ITS FEB 16 BAN ON CHINESE ENTERPRISES FROM CONDUCTING IMPORT & EXPORT ACTIVITIES WITH ABOVE U.S. COMPANIES.

This is said to include Microchips from "Taiwan, China."

Of course, the U.S. considers Taiwan to be "independent" but yet adopted the "one China policy."

If Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin cannot engage in Imports/Exports to or from China, and if the ban on Microchips is enforced, the two most major players in U.S. National Defense manufacturing are immediately crippled.

In addition, the U.S. weapons SALES to Taiwan, will not be able to take place because the missiles and such that Taiwan is trying to buy, cannot now be shipped to Taiwan.

Put simply, China just put a total halt to US defense sales to Taiwan, and crippled the US Defense manufacturing industry by cutting off microchips.

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin face serious risk if their rare-earth supplies are also affected by the sanctions, according to Wu Chenhui, an independent industry analyst who follows the rare-earth industry.

Wu told the Global Times that Lockheed Martin, now on the banned entity list, may have to source its rare-earth supply, especially that of heavy rare-earth elements, from elsewhere.

Given China's dominant position in global rare-earth supply, substitutes may not be found in time. This would mean production of the company's F35 jet and many other high-tech weapon systems may face a temporary slowdown or suspension.

If China decides to expand the range of its ban to components produced by other countries that contain Chinese-made rare-earth elements, the depth and scope of the new bans will be deeper and wider, Wu noted.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-china-bans-imports-exports-involving-raytheon

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Senior Hamas delegation seen in Saudi Arabia ahead of expected rapprochement talks

Leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal shown visiting Mecca wearing traditional pilgrimage garb

By ToI Staff 18 April 2023, 10:46 pm

A senior delegation representing the Palestinian terror group Hamas has been filmed in Saudi Arabia, seemingly confirming reports that the officials were in the kingdom on a mission aimed at repairing ties with Riyadh.

Video posted to social media showed Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal wearing white terrycloth garments symbolic of the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage as they circled Islam’s holiest site in Mecca. The Muslim world is currently marking the final week of the Ramadan holy month.

Earlier, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa cited the Al-Quds daily as saying the Hamas group was in Saudi Arabia, coinciding with a visit to the country by PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

The visit by senior officials from the terror group has not been confirmed by either Hamas or Riyadh.

A trip by a senior delegation representing Hamas would represent a major development as Israel’s hopes of forging official ties with Riyadh appear to dwindle further.

For many years, Saudi Arabia’s relationship with Hamas has been cold and tense, and the kingdom even arrested many people with ties to the jihadist group, which rules the Gaza Strip and openly seeks Israel’s destruction.

But following its landmark rapprochement with Iran last month, Riyadh appeared set to host a high-level delegation that will try to mend Hamas’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, which has been frosty since 2007, when the terror group overthrew the Palestinian Authority and took over Gaza in a bloody coup. Saudi leaders had blamed Hamas for the failure of attempts at reconciliation with the PA’s Fatah party.

In 2019, Saudi authorities arrested dozens of Hamas-linked operatives, saying they were threatening the kingdom’s rule.

In recent months, after Hamas leaders sent messages that they would like to mend ties with the kingdom, Saudi Arabia has released many of those detainees, including senior member Mohammad Al-Khodary, who was freed in October.

Last week, US media reported that Saudi Arabia’s interest in establishing diplomatic relations with Israel had cooled in recent months amid ongoing violence in the West Bank and clashes at the flashpoint Temple Mount site.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prioritized including the kingdom in the 2020 Abraham Accords upon his return to office in December, but Riyadh and other Muslim nations have become reluctant to openly advance a deal due to spiking Israeli-Palestinian tensions, Israeli and Gulf officials told The Wall Street Journal.

Notably, a plan brokered by Washington to schedule direct flights from Tel Aviv to Mecca, allowing Israel’s Muslim citizens to more easily take part in the sacred Hajj pilgrimage, is unlikely to be finalized, Israeli officials told the paper.

The US-brokered Abraham Accords saw the kingdom’s neighbors the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain establish full diplomatic ties with Israel.

In 2022, hopes for deepening ties with Riyadh peaked when the kingdom allowed Israeli civilian flights to pass over its airspace.

Since the establishment of Netanyahu’s hardline right-wing government, the Saudis have issued several condemnations against Israel over West Bank settlement expansion and violent confrontations between Israeli troops and Palestinians.

Shortly before being sworn in, Netanyahu said a normalization deal with the Saudis could serve as a “quantum leap” for long-moribund peace talks with the Palestinians.

The two countries were also interested in aligning against their common regional rival Iran. However, the recent rapprochement deal between Riyadh and Tehran is further complicating efforts.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-hamas-delegation-seen-in-saudi-arabia-ahead-of-expected-rapprochement-talks/ 

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Kevin McCarthy to be first US House Speaker to address Knesset in 25 years

Kevin McCarthy will become the second ever US House Speaker to address Knesset when he visits Israel later this month.

By HALEY COHEN Published: APRIL 18, 2023 23:58 Updated: APRIL 19, 2023 08:57

United States House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy will give a speech in front of a full session of the Israeli Knesset during his upcoming trip to Israel later this month, he announced on Tuesday.

McCarthy, a Republican from California, will be the first US House speaker to address the Knesset in 25 years. In 1998, Newt Gingrich was the first and last to do so.

McCarthy, along with a bipartisan delegation of 20 Republican and Democratic members of Congress, is slated to arrive in Israel on April 30 as part of the Jewish state's 75th Independence Day celebrations.

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-739614 

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China ramps up construction on new Antarctic base as Beijing seeks dominance in the South Pole region

Beijing has sought to develop new shipping routes in Arctic and expand research

Satellite imagery shows construction resumed at station on Inexpressible Island

By Rachael Bunyan and Reuters

Published: 13:05 EDT, 18 April 2023 | Updated: 03:51 EDT, 19 April 2023

China is increasing its Antarctic footprint according to new satellite imagery collected by a Washington-based think tank that shows construction has resumed for the first time since 2018 on the country's fifth station in the southern polar region.

Beijing has sought to develop new shipping routes in the Arctic and expand its research in Antarctica in recent years.

But Western governments worry its increasing presence in the polar regions could provide the People's Liberation Army (PLA) with better surveillance capabilities.

The new station, on Inexpressible Island near the Ross Sea, is expected to include an observatory with a satellite ground station, and should help China 'fill in a major gap' in its ability to access the continent, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report.

CSIS used satellite images taken in January to identify new support facilities, temporary buildings, a helicopter pad, and foundations for a larger main building at the 5,000 square meter (53,820 square feet) station. It estimated that construction could be done by 2024.

'While the station can provide tracking and communications for China's growing array of scientific polar observation satellites, its equipment can concurrently be used for intercepting other nations' satellite communications,' CSIS said.

The station is well positioned to collect signals intelligence over Australia and New Zealand and telemetry data on rockets launched from Australia's new Arnhem Space Centre, it said. Once finished, the station is expected to include a wharf for China's Xuelong icebreaker ships.

CSIS told Reuters that while the U.S. still maintains a larger research presence in Antarctica - including the biggest facility in its McMurdo station - China's footprint is growing faster.

China's fifth station will be 200 miles (320 km) from the McMurdo station, it said.

Under the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, to which China is party, activities on the continent are restricted to 'peaceful purposes.'

Military personnel are allowed to conduct scientific research, but are banned from setting up bases, carrying out maneuvers, or testing weapons.

A 2022 Pentagon report said China's new Antarctic infrastructure was likely intended in part to strengthen its future claims to natural resources and maritime access and improve PLA capabilities.

China rejects claims that such stations would be used for espionage.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11986811/China-ramps-construction-new-Antarctic-station-report.html 

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China readies its supersonic spy drones: Beijing moves high-altitude aircraft that travel at 'three times speed of sound' to east of the country - in threat to US warships around Taiwan, leaked Pentagon docs show

Leaked Pentagon documents allegedly posted online by Jack Teixeira show China positioning its supersonic spy drones

Satellite imagery dated August 9 showed two of their WZ-8 rocket-propelled reconnaissance drones at an air base in eastern China

The moving of the drones is yet another sign of China readying for a potential offensive in Taiwan, The Washington Post reported

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com

Published: 01:54 EDT, 19 April 2023 | Updated: 08:43 EDT, 19 April 2023

China has moved its cutting-edge hypersonic drones to an air base in eastern China, leaked Pentagon documents show, in what is being seen as yet another sign of Beijing's readiness to launch an attack on Taiwan.

One of the documents, analyzed by The Washington Post, included satellite photos from August 9.

The imagery showed two WZ-8 rocket-propelled reconnaissance drones at an air base in eastern China, about 350 miles inland from Shanghai.

The August maneuvers of the WZ-8 were noted in a secret document from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

They show the Chinese military making technological advances that could help it target American warships around Taiwan and military bases in the region.

They also show the sophistication of Chinese military hardware.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency report says China's military, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), had 'almost certainly' established its first unmanned aerial vehicle unit at the base.

The base falls under the Eastern Theater Command, the branch of the Chinese military responsible for enforcing Beijing's sovereignty claims over Taiwan.

The revelation comes as Congress is due to be presented with a series of scenarios about potential attacks on Taiwan.

The House China Select Committee on Wednesday will take part in a war-game scenario for a simulated Chinese invasion of Taiwan, run by the Center for A New American Security.

The session has been planned to give lawmakers a sense of how a Taiwan conflict would unfold, where U.S. military weaknesses may lie, and the consequences for international trade and American businesses, Axios reported.

The WZ-8 was officially unveiled in December 2019, at the 70th-anniversary parade marking the founding of Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China.

The drone flies at high altitude, and travels at least three times the speed of sound.

Several other documents allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira, who was arrested last week, show the existence of additional spy balloons, and an assessment that Taiwan is ill-prepared to withstand an aerial bombardment from China during an invasion.

The Department of Defense has not commented on the drone document.

The leaked files also include a deeply troubling report about China's hypersonic missile program, and the revelation that a new missile believed to be capable of evading U.S. defenses has been successfully tested.

Teixeira, 21, was arrested on Thursday at his home in Massachusetts. He is believed to have shared hundreds of classified documents with friends on a Discord chat room between fall and mid March.

Among them was a February 28 top-secret report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence directorate, The Washington Post reported.

They reported that three days previously, on February 25, China had successfully tested a new missile, named DF-27 - a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile, in the Dongfeng series. All Dongfeng-series missiles are capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

The missile 'possesses a high probability of penetrating US' ballistic missile defenses, the report said.

The February 28 memo also revealed that last year the Chinese military, the People's Liberation Army, deployed versions of the new missile that can attack land targets and ships.

The new missile has a hypersonic glide vehicle, designed to fly more than five times the speed of sound.

They can maneuver in flight, making them almost impossible to shoot down.

The DF-27 flew for 12 minutes and traveled 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles), the leaked document revealed.

Its range is significantly more than that: a 2021 Defense Department report cited by The Washington Post said the DF-27 has a range of 5,000 to 8,000 kilometers, meaning that it can strike any target in East or Southeast Asia and large parts of the Pacific, including Guam.

Alaska is around 7,200km away: mainland U.S. is under 11,000km away, according to the latest annual Pentagon analysis, 'Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China'. The report was published in November and cited by Newsweek.

'The DF-27 is designed to enhance [China's] ability to hold targets at risk beyond the Second Island Chain and possesses a high probability of penetrating U.S.' ballistic missile defense, the report stated.

The First, Second and Third Island Chains are geopolitical terms, first identified by U.S. military planners in the 1940s, for a series of concentric semicircles stretching out from China.

The Second Island Chain references the area stretching from central Japan through the Marianas and Micronesia.

The third is centered on Hawaii. The first is closer to China, and runs from the far south of Japan through the South China Sea.

China has long been known to be making rapid strides in its hypersonic missiles program.

The latest development, however, comes at a tense time, with rising fears about the safety of Taiwan.

The leaked documents also showed that China has for the first time recently used its new helicopter-carrying assault ship, Yushen LHA-31, in an extended deployment - another worrying update for Taiwan.

Last year it emerged that the Chinese military is developing a supersonic anti-ship missile that will be able to travel further and faster than any traditional torpedo.

The 16ft 5in missile will be able to go as fast as 2.5 times the speed of sound at about 32,800 feet for 124 miles before diving and skimming across the waves for up to 12.4 miles.

When it arrives within about 6.2 miles of its target, the missile will go into torpedo mode, traveling underwater at up to 100 meters per second using super-cavitation, which makes a giant air bubble around it, will significantly reduces drag.

China's expansion into hypersonic missile technology and other advanced fields has raised concerns as Beijing becomes increasingly assertive over its claims to seas and islands in the South China and East China Seas, and to large chunks of territory along its disputed high-mountain border with India.

Hypersonic missiles travel at more than five times the speed of sound in the upper atmosphere, or about 6,200 km per hour (3,850 mph).

The United States and Russia are also developing hypersonic missiles, and North Korea said in August that it had test-fired a newly-developed hypersonic missile.

In October, the US Army and Navy successfully launched a rocket while testing a new class of hypersonic weapons at a seaside NASA facility.

NASA's Wallop Flight Facility in Virginia hosted the test by Sandia National Laboratories which evaluated hypersonic weapon communications and navigation equipment as well as advanced materials that can withstand the heat in a 'realistic hypersonic environment,' according to a Navy statement.

The testing comes amid growing concerns Russia and China have had more success developing their own hypersonic weapons than the US.

The United States and its global rivals have quickened their pace to build hypersonic weapons - the next generation of arms that rob adversaries of reaction time and traditional defeat mechanisms.

The Pentagon's 2023 budget request already includes $4.7 billion (£4 billion) for research and development of hypersonic weapons.

It includes planning that would have a hypersonic missile battery fielded by next year, a sea-based missile by 2025 and an air-based cruise missile by 2027.

Russia has used hypersonic missiles 'multiple' times in Ukraine, according to the top U.S. commander in Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the country's arms manufacturers to develop even more advanced hypersonic missiles to maintain the country's edge in military technologies.

The Russian military has said that its Avangard system is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound and making sharp maneuvers on its way to a target to dodge the enemy's missile shield.

It has been fitted to the existing Soviet-built intercontinental ballistic missiles instead of older type warheads, and the first unit armed with the Avangard entered duty in December 2019.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11988843/China-positions-high-altitude-spy-drone-travels-three-times-speed-sound.html 

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Leaks Spelling the End for Ukraine

Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington, writes Joe Lauria.

By Joe Lauria   Special to Consortium News  April 17, 2023

A Washington Post headline last week was a bombshell for someone who has only been reading about the Ukraine war in The Washington Post and other Western media: “U.S. doubts Ukraine counteroffensive will yield big gains, leaked document says.”

The story admits that Western media audiences have been misled about the course of the war, that essentially what mainstream media has been reporting about Ukraine has been a pack of lies: namely that Ukraine is winning the war and is poised to launch an offensive that will lead to a final victory.

Instead, the second paragraph of the piece makes clear the leaked documents show the long-planned Ukrainian offensive will fail miserably — “a marked departure from the Biden administration’s public statements about the vitality of Ukraine’s military.”

In other words, U.S. officials have been lying about the state of the war to the public and to reporters who have faithfully reported their every word without a hint of skepticism.

The Post said, as if it’s a bad thing, that the leaks will likely “embolden critics who feel the United States and NATO should do more to push for a negotiated settlement to the conflict.”

That has begun to happen. Writing in the uber-Establishment Foreign Affairs, former State Department official Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, write that “it is difficult to feel sanguine about where the war is headed.”

In “The West Needs a New Strategy in Ukraine: A Plan for Getting From the Battlefield to the Negotiating Table,” they say:

The best path forward is a sequenced two-pronged strategy aimed at first bolstering Ukraine’s military capability and then, when the fighting season winds down late this year, ushering Moscow and Kyiv from the battlefield to the negotiating table.”

The article does not mention the leaks, though it was published after the disclosures made clear that the Ukrainian offensive, intended to break through Russia’s land bridge to Crimea, would fail.

Filled with the usual talk about Ukraine having better “operational skill” than Russia, and that the war will end in a “stalemate,” the piece represents an emerging strategy in the West: namely that before negotiating, Ukraine needs to launch its offensive to gain back some territory, “imposing heavy losses on Russia, foreclosing Moscow’s military options, and increasing its willingness to contemplate a diplomatic settlement.”

But that is a tall order. Moscow would be unlikely to negotiate at the end of the Ukrainian offensive, particularly as the article admits the “Russian military’s numerical superiority” and that Ukraine is “facing growing constraints on both its own manpower and help from abroad.”

Moscow was ready to cut a deal with Kiev one month after Russia’s intervention but the West, with its strategy of lengthening the war to weaken Russia, quashed it. Why would Moscow accept a deal now when Ukraine is at its weakest and Russia is poised to make significant gains on the battlefield?

The Foreign Affairs piece admits, “This diplomatic gambit may well fail. Even if Russia and Ukraine continue to take significant losses, one or both of them may prefer to keep fighting.”

“Come the end of this fighting season,” the article says, “the United States and Europe will also have good reason to abandon their stated policy of supporting Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes,’ as U.S. President Joe Biden has put it.”

And what comes next? “NATO allies would start a strategic dialogue with Russia on arms control and the broader European security architecture.”

Incredibly this is what Russia was asking for before its February 2022 intervention and it was rebuffed by NATO and the U.S. Now a Foreign Affairs article is recommending it.

Is there no better sign that Ukraine has lost this war?

Going Ahead With the Offensive Anyway

The strategy of Ukraine going ahead with an offensive it knows will achieve little is Kiev’s last gasp — unless delusional neocons continue to outmaneuver the realists in Washington.

Most importantly for the West, the failure of this last-gasp attempt would serve as a way for it to escape the disaster it has created for itself: namely, the backfiring of the economic war on Russia; the failure of the information war in the non-West and ultimately defeat on the battlefield in its proxy war.

Already in February, French President Emmanuel Macron, who is also pushing this strategy, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy that the game was up. This news was brought to us by the establishment Wall Street Journal.

And then ten days later U.S. intelligence provided a story to The New York Times that a pro-Ukraine “group,” and possibly the Ukrainian government itself, was behind the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, a way of distancing the U.S. from Kiev as the exit ramp looms into sight.

Why Did the MSM Publish the Leaks?

Why did the Times, the Post and other establishment outlets publish stories about these leaks if they severely undermined their own credibility? There are three possibilities.

The first is simply competition. The Times or the Post may have gotten word that their rival had their hands on the leaks and did not want to be beat. There is almost nothing worse for an editor or reporter (in the petty world of journalism) then having to “match” a competitors’ story.

The second reason has to do with keeping up appearances. These leaks were eventually to come out somewhere and may not have been easily ignored. What would it have looked like if the big papers didn’t have it first?

More importantly, corporate journalism needs to keep up the pretense that it is actually doing journalism, i.e. that it will publish material from time to time that makes their governments look bad, and in this case, even themselves. They have to convince the public that they haven’t entirely given up on adversarial journalism if they are to survive.

It was the same when corporate outlets partnered with WikiLeaks in 2010 to publish leaks that exposed U.S. war crimes. But eventually the media turned on Assange and WikiLeaks, and fell into line with the state.

Why the Media Went After the Leaker

And that it is indeed what has happened here. After splashy stories about the leaks, the Times and the Post, teaming with Western intelligence-backed Bellingcat, turned their attention to finding the leaker, in what Elizabeth Vos in an article today on Consortium News argues makes corporate media the anti-WikiLeaks.

Rather than protecting the source of leaks, vital to the public, they hunted down the alleged leaker, 21-year old Air National Guardsman Jack Texiera, who was arrested by military-clad F.B.I. agents outside his Massachusetts home.

So what is the third reason why the major media published the leaks?

Very likely for the same reason they published the stories about Macron and Scholz telling Zelensky he’s lost the war, and that the Ukrainian government may have been responsible for the Nord Stream sabotage: to lay the ground work for the U.S. and its allies to pull the plug on their Ukrainian adventure by finally admitting Ukraine is losing.

Towards that end, there is speculation that Texiera did not act alone with the motive of impressing his teenage followers on the Discord chat forum, as the press has reported.

Former C.I.A. analyst Larry Johnson believes Texiera was set up, possibly by a senior officer. Johnson thinks this because among the documents Texiera allegedly leaked was one from the Central Intelligence Agency Operations Center, where Johnson used to work.

“CIA Operations Center produces two daily reports — one in the morning and one in the afternoon. It is not a ‘Community’ product, i.e., it is not distributed to the other intelligence agencies. It is an internal CIA document (of course, it is available to the Director of National Intelligence), ” Johnson wrote on his website Son of the New American Revolution.

Texiera was not in the C.I.A. so there is no way he’d have access to an Operations Center document, Johnson wrote. So how did he get his hands on it?

The implication is that Texiera may have been a patsy for someone within the realist wing of the U.S. military or intelligence establishment who opposes the neocons’ obsession with continuing the war at all costs.

The neocons are not going down without a fight. John Bolton, the former U.S. national security advisor and chief neocon, wrote a desperate piece in The Wall Street Journal last week, titled, “A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China.”

Bolton gets it that the world is changing, and not in America’s favor. So his response is not to reverse failed U.S. policy, for the U.S. to become part of the rest of the world rather than trying to dominate it, but to double down like a riverboat gambler. His solution: raise military spending to Reagan-era levels; resume underground nuclear bomb testing and taking “the North Atlantic Treaty Organization global, inviting Japan, Australia, Israel and others committed to NATO defense-spending targets to join.”

Bolton laughingly says the U.S. must “exclude” Moscow and Beijing from the Middle East, where both capitals are orchestrating the most dramatic diplomatic transformation in decades.

But Boltons saves his best laugh for Ukraine:

After Ukraine wins its war with Russia, we must aim to split the Russia-China axis. Moscow’s defeat could unseat Mr. Putin’s regime. What comes next is a government of unknowable composition. New Russian leaders may or may not look to the West rather than Beijing, and might be so weak that the Russian Federation’s fragmentation, especially east of the Urals, isn’t inconceivable.”

Even if the ludicrous Bolton is dismissed, there’s still a major obstacle in the realists’ way: Biden’s re-election campaign. He says he’s going to announce soon. He’s already thrown his lot in with the neocons.

Is there any conceivable way that he could accept Ukraine losing this war, after all the blue and yellow flag-waving, without also losing the election?

The Biden team’s aim was to bleed Russia. But it is Ukraine that is hemorrhaging. Will reality at last overcome delusion in Washington?

Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and numerous other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times. He can be reached at joelauria@consortiumnews.com and followed on Twitter @unjoe

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/17/leaks-spelling-the-end-for-ukraine/ 

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Drama as RAF Typhoons intercept two Russian jets and spy plane over Baltic Sea

RAF Eurofighter Typhoons have been scrambled to intercept a Russian spy plane and fighter jets encroaching over the Baltic Sea, it emerged today.

By Tim McNulty 15:57, Mon, Apr 17, 2023 | UPDATED: 17:38, Mon, Apr 17, 2023

Fighter jets from the RAF and German Air Force have intercepted three Russian aircraft that were flying over the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea, it emerged today.

The RAF Eurofighter Typhoons teamed up with German colleagues to buzz the Russian craft as it neared NATO airspace on Friday.

Eurofighter Typhoons from the RAF's IX (B) Squadron and the German Air Force's 71 'Richtofen' Wing were sent to intercept the aircraft.

RAF and German Air Force pilots have been working together to protect NATO's eastern border in a joint operation as part of Operation Azotize.

During this latest incident, one of the aircraft was identified as a Russian Air Force IL-20 Coot-A intelligence aircraft, which was transiting from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad enclave, bordering Poland.

The RAF reports that the Coot-A was escorted by two Russian SU-27 Flanker-B fighter jets based in Kaliningrad.

The Russian intelligence planes are deployed to soak up enemy communications and signals for analysis by the Kremlin.

The RAF shared images on its social media accounts with the Russian jets metres away from allied planes.

In a statement on Monday, an RAF Pilot with IX (B) Squadron said: "We often see Russian military aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea and so this was a routine intercept for us.

"Nevertheless, the importance of intercepting these aircraft and our commitment to the collective defence of NATO airspace remains steadfast and resolute.

"What this intercept has proven is that together with our German allies, we are able to act with speed and decisiveness to effectively ensure the Alliance’s security.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1759240/RAF-fighter-jets-Germany-Russian-aircraft-Finland 

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Massive Numbers of Military-Age Chinese Men Lining Up in Panama to ILLEGALLY Cross into USA

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Massive Lines Of Military Aged Men From China Are Lining Up In Panama Headed For The United States open southern border! This is an Invasion that the President is NOT Stopping! Look at the one minute video below . . .

Here is what is taking place right now in Panama, heading to the USA unabated:

Now, pretty much EVERY American knows that relations between the USA and China are not good anymore. There is very candid talk that China is going to "re-unify" with Taiwan, and that may happen by force. . . war.

The US has publicly (and foolishly) stated it will "Defend" Taiwan. Quite a goal given that Taiwan is 8000 miles from the USA but only 90 miles from mainland China.

Just how does the US think it will supply a logistics train for wartime operations which has any hope of overcoming mainland China's ability to supply Chinese troops?

Yet pledge to defend Taiwan, the US has . . .

So here we are, with talk of war and lo and behold, thousands of MILITARY-AGE CHINESE MEN are moving to cross into the USA illegally.

Is there any doubt in your mind that these men are part of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) being sent here by their Communist China bosses to attack the USA from within once hostilities break out?

One would have to be a fool to think otherwise.

If they were coming lawfully, they wouldn't be doing this in Panama. They're coming ILLEGALLY because they want no records of them being in the country! No records of who they are, where they will be staying, or for how long.

HAL TURNER ANALYSIS

Americans with guns need to start thinking to themselves "What if war breaks out and these people actually DO start attacking us from within? AM I ABLE TO SHOOT A HUMAN BEING TO DEFEND MY COUNTRY?"

Few normal people in any country, have had to contemplate shooting another human being. Even fewer have ever had to do it. It's a big deal to do that. On an emotional and intellectual level, killing another human being is a tremendously big deal. It takes a considerable amount of thinking -- in advance -- to figure out if YOU are capable of actually doing that.

If you are, in a combat/fight/life-threatening situation, fine.

If you're "not sure" then you'd better think long and hard, NOW, before any confrontation occurs. Because if you're not sure . . . and, God Forbid, war comes . . . then YOU will get killed BY THEM in the moments you hesitate to shoot them.

None of us want war. I certainly don't. Especially not here, inside my own country. But it sure looks as though that is exactly what's coming.

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Leaked Pentagon documents reveal China successfully tested a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile in February - with a 'high probability of penetrating' US defenses

Among the classified documents leaked by Jack Teixeira was a February 28 top-secret report by the Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence directorate

The document said that on February 25, China had successfully tested a new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile called the DF-27

The DF-27 'possesses a high probability of penetrating US' missile defenses, the secret report said

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com

Published: 02:07 EDT, 14 April 2023 | Updated: 03:15 EDT, 14 April 2023

Pentagon files allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira include a deeply troubling report about China's hypersonic missile program, and the revelation that a new missile believed to be capable of evading U.S. defenses has been successfully tested.

Teixeira, 21, was arrested on Thursday at his home in Massachusetts. He is believed to have shared hundreds of classified documents with friends on a Discord chat room between the fall and mid March.

Among them was a February 28 top-secret report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence directorate, The Washington Post reported.

They reported that three days previously, on February 25, China had successfully tested a new missile, named DF-27 - a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile, in the Dongfeng series. All Dongfeng-series missiles are capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

The missile 'possesses a high probability of penetrating US' ballistic missile defenses, the report said.

The February 28 memo also revealed that last year the Chinese military, the People's Liberation Army, deployed versions of the new missile that can attack land targets and ships.

The new missile has a hypersonic glide vehicle, designed to fly more than five times the speed of sound.

They can maneuver in flight, making them almost impossible to shoot down.

The DF-27 flew for 12 minutes and traveled 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles), the leaked document revealed.

Its range is significantly more than that: a 2021 Defense Department report cited by The Washington Post said the DF-27 has a range of 5,000 to 8,000 kilometers, meaning that it can strike any target in East or Southeast Asia and large parts of the Pacific, including Guam.

Alaska is around 7,200km away: mainland U.S. is under 11,000km away, according to the latest annual Pentagon analysis, 'Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China'. The report was published in November and cited by Newsweek.

'The DF-27 is designed to enhance [China's] ability to hold targets at risk beyond the Second Island Chain and possesses a high probability of penetrating U.S.' ballistic missile defense, the report stated.

The First, Second and Third Island Chains are geopolitical terms, first identified by U.S. military planners in the 1940s, for a series of concentric semicircles stretching out from China.

The Second Island Chain references the area stretching from central Japan through the Marianas and Micronesia.

The third is centered on Hawaii. The first is closer to China, and runs from the far south of Japan through the South China Sea.

China has long been known to be making rapid strides in its hypersonic missiles program.

The latest development, however, comes at a tense time, with rising fears about the safety of Taiwan.

The leaked documents also showed that China has for the first time recently used its new helicopter-carrying assault ship, Yushen LHA-31, in an extended deployment - another worrying update for Taiwan.

Last year it emerged that the Chinese military is developing a supersonic anti-ship missile that will be able to travel further and faster than any traditional torpedo.

The 16ft 5in missile will be able to go as fast as 2.5 times the speed of sound at about 32,800 feet for 124 miles before diving and skimming across the waves for up to 12.4 miles.

When it arrives within about 6.2 miles of its target, the missile will go into torpedo mode, traveling underwater at up to 100 meters per second using super-cavitation, which makes a giant air bubble around it, will significantly reduces drag.

China's expansion into hypersonic missile technology and other advanced fields has raised concerns as Beijing becomes increasingly assertive over its claims to seas and islands in the South China and East China Seas, and to large chunks of territory along its disputed high-mountain border with India.

Hypersonic missiles travel at more than five times the speed of sound in the upper atmosphere, or about 6,200 km per hour (3,850 mph).

The United States and Russia are also developing hypersonic missiles, and North Korea said in August that it had test-fired a newly-developed hypersonic missile.

In October, the US Army and Navy successfully launched a rocket while testing a new class of hypersonic weapons at a seaside NASA facility.

NASA's Wallop Flight Facility in Virginia hosted the test by Sandia National Laboratories which evaluated hypersonic weapon communications and navigation equipment as well as advanced materials that can withstand the heat in a 'realistic hypersonic environment,' according to a Navy statement.

The testing comes amid growing concerns Russia and China have had more success developing their own hypersonic weapons than the US.

The United States and its global rivals have quickened their pace to build hypersonic weapons - the next generation of arms that rob adversaries of reaction time and traditional defeat mechanisms.

The Pentagon's 2023 budget request already includes $4.7 billion (£4 billion) for research and development of hypersonic weapons.

It includes planning that would have a hypersonic missile battery fielded by next year, a sea-based missile by 2025 and an air-based cruise missile by 2027.

Russia has used hypersonic missiles 'multiple' times in Ukraine, according to the top U.S. commander in Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the country's arms manufacturers to develop even more advanced hypersonic missiles to maintain the country's edge in military technologies.

The Russian military has said that its Avangard system is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound and making sharp maneuvers on its way to a target to dodge the enemy's missile shield.

It has been fitted to the existing Soviet-built intercontinental ballistic missiles instead of older type warheads, and the first unit armed with the Avangard entered duty in December 2019.

A high time for hypersonic missiles - but who has what?

Hypersonic missiles travel at more than five times the speed of sound in the upper atmosphere. The benchmark speed for a hypersonic missile is 3,850 mph - though the most effective ones travel much faster.

Hypersonic missiles are still slower than intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), but are generally maneuverable, meaning they are more adept at evading existing missile defence systems.

UNITED STATES

The US military has a number of hypersonic weapons programmes across the Navy, Army and Air Force, but most are still in a developmental phase and remain closely guarded secrets.

The only US hypersonic weapon known to have been successfully tested is the Air Force's GM-183 ARRW, which is designed to be launched from a large bomber aircraft.

It then accelerates to hypersonic speeds using a supersonic combustion ramjet to strike targets within 1,000 miles.

The Navy's submarine launched Long Range Hypersonic Weapon is expected to be operational by 2023 and will have a range of 1,725 miles.

Darpa, the US army's scientific wing, recently announced successful tests of what it called a HAWC missile (Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept) but kept details such as range, speed and payload secret.

The missile uses oxygen in the atmosphere as part of its fuel - marking the first successful test of that class of weapon since 2013.

The engine works by compressing incoming air with hydrocarbon fuel to create a fast airflow mixture, one capable of reaching over 1,700 metres per second, or five times the speed of sound.

Test-launch of an 'unstoppable' Zircon nuclear-capable Mach 9 hypersonic missile from Russian's Admiral Gorshkov frigate

RUSSIA

Russia currently boasts the world's most advanced hypersonic missile technology.

Putin in 2018 announced Moscow had developed a range of nuclear capable 'Avangard' hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) which can travel at Mach 20 - speeds in excess of 15,000mph - with an effective range of thousands of miles.

Russia's conventional hypersonic missile, the Zircon, has an effective range of around 620 miles, but the missile flies below the atmosphere and uses fuel to power itself to hypersonic speeds, unlike the Avangard which uses the Earth's orbit to reach exceptional speeds before gliding through the atmosphere and striking its target.

Russia announced it has successfully test-fired the Zircon from a nuclear submarine for the first time earlier this year, when the 6,670mph weapon hit a target in the Barents Sea according to the Moscow defense ministry.

Russia's armed forces had completed flight tests of the new-age missile from a frigate - the Admiral Gorshkov - and a coastal mount, and the missile is now expected to be deployed to Russia's navy in the coming months.

Putin previously said the Zircon missile's capabilities are 'truly unparalleled anywhere in the world'.

Moscow is also known for its formidable 'Satan II' Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can carry several nuclear warheads or can be used to deploy the Avangard HGVs over an effective range of 11,000 miles.

CHINA

China last year reportedly tested a 'Fractional Orbital Bombardment System', or FOBS, developed to evade powerful US radar arrays and missile defence systems.

Missile defence systems work by detecting launches of ICBMs, tracking them into space, then firing at the warheads as they come down in the hope of blowing them up before they hit their targets.

This is possible because ICBMs and their warheads follow a predictable trajectory that rises high into space - making them relatively easy to spot and allowing defence crews to calculate where they are aimed so they can be shot out of the sky.

FOBS aim to negate these defenses by firing their warheads along a much-flatter trajectory - assisted by Earth's gravity.

This means they pass under the scope of many radar detection arrays and are harder to track. It also makes the warheads much harder to shoot down because their trajectory is harder to calculate.

The use of orbit makes a warhead's range potentially unlimited, meaning it can be fired at its target from any direction. This helps to avoid radar systems which generally point at a fixed spot in the sky - in America's case, over the North Pole.

China in 2019 also unveiled a hypersonic medium-range missile, the DF-17, which has a maximum range of around 1,550 miles and is capable of achieving speeds of up to 7,680mph - or 10 times the speed of sound - while carrying a nuclear warhead.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11971679/Leaked-Pentagon-files-China-successfully-tested-new-hypersonic-ICBM-evade-defenses.html 

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Artificial Intelligence: Is It Pushing an Anti-God Agenda?

By Ken Ham March 9, 2023

The artificial intelligence known as ChatGPT (developed by OpenAI) has been dominating much of the news cycle recently as users test its abilities and what answers it will give to various questions, prompts, and requests. Now, many people might assume AI is neutral, just giving users “the facts.” But those who build AI systems have a worldview—and that worldview dominates the answers AI bots give. In other words, humans program them, and how they react/answer will depend upon how they are programmed. As always, there is no neutrality!

AiG’s Bryan Osborne recently sat down to explain what ChatGPT is and some of the major problems with this new technology, namely the anti-God worldview that it is disseminating to those who use it. I encourage you to watch this 10-minute video.

Yes, we need to use discernment when it comes to everything. No, technology is not inherently evil (but people who build and program technology do have a sin nature and are not neutral!)—nearly every technology has the potential to be used for great good or great evil—but knowing how and when to use various technologies requires discernment.

As our world gets further from the truth of God’s Word, Christians will increasingly need that discernment!

https://harbingersdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-is-it-pushing-an-anti-god-agenda/ 

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Putin launches new chilling weapon capable of pulverising enemy defences from space

Russian President Putin also signed a bill allowing authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the fighting in Ukraine, sparking fears of a new wave of mobilisation.

By Alessandra Scotto di Santolo  10:12, Sat, Apr 15, 2023 | UPDATED: 10:14, Sat, Apr 15, 2023

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Putin launches new chilling weapon capable of pulverising enemy defences from space

Russian President Putin also signed a bill allowing authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the fighting in Ukraine, sparking fears of a new wave of mobilisation.

By Alessandra Scotto di Santolo

10:12, Sat, Apr 15, 2023 | UPDATED: 10:14, Sat, Apr 15, 2023

Vladimir Putin's forces have developed a new warfare system that could destroy enemy electronic equipment from 36,000km above sea level. The terrifying space tech adds another powerful weapon to Moscow's arsenal with the war on Ukraine raging.

A source told Russia state-owned media RIA said: "This (orbit) is approximately 36,000 kilometres above sea level."

The source did not disclose details about the new system, but said "the power of its emitters at short range allows not only to suppress, but also to permanently disable enemy electronics".

Electronic warfare involves the impact on the enemy's electronic systems, including radar, communication systems and other means, using interference or electromagnetic radiation.

A particular version of electronic warfare is the so-called electronic defeat, when the systems of enemy objects are physically destroyed, for example, from overheating.

The Russian Armed Forces are equipped with various electronic warfare systems. Among them are such systems as "Krasukha", "Moscow", "Infauna", "Leer", "Triad" and others.

These devices are also used in the special military operation zone in Ukraine.

The news comes as Putin on Friday signed a bill allowing authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the fighting in Ukraine, sparking fears of a new wave of mobilisation.

Russia’s military service rules previously required the in-person delivery of notices to conscripts and reservists who are called up for duty. Under the new law, the notices issued by local military conscription offices will continue to be sent by mail but they would be considered valid from the moment they are put on a state portal for electronic services.

In the past, many Russians avoided the draft by staying away from their address of record. The new law closes that loophole in an apparent effort to create a tool for quickly beefing up the military ahead of a widely anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive in the coming weeks.

Recipients who fail to show up for service would be prohibited from leaving Russia, would have their drivers’ licences suspended and would be barred from selling their apartments and other assets.

The bill signed into law by Putin was published on the official register of government documents.

Kremlin critics and rights activists denounced the legislation as a step toward a “digital prison camp” that gives unprecedented powers to the military conscription offices.

The swift enactment of the law fuelled fears of the government initiating another wave of mobilisation following the one that Putin ordered in the fall.

Russian authorities deny that another mobilisation is being planned. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this week that the measure was needed to streamline the outdated call-up system in view of the flaws that were revealed by last fall’s partial mobilisation.

There was a lot of mess in military conscription offices,” he said. “The purpose of the bill is to clean up this mess and make the system modern, effective and convenient for citizens.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1758611/putin-russia-warfare-system-electronic-orbit-ukraine?utm_source=daily_

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etc But you must listen and understand what I have said. Your southern states will become a place far too hot to live and with the power shortages that will be there. The seashores shall be gone as far as twelve miles inland and further in some places. Hear what I have to say and listen. The northeast shall become a good place because of its water supplies, milder winters and not as hot summers. Larger cities will not be a place to live. I say unto you, wake up and hear and make some changes that it will be well with you. Soon the great earthquake that shall cause the West Coast to be unrecognized shall take place. Oh, that my people would listen and live. etc

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Scientists find ‘harbinger of doom’ lurking off Oregon’s coast. So, of course, late night TV’s got jokes

Updated: Apr. 15, 2023, 8:37 a.m.|Published: Apr. 14, 2023, 2:50 a.m.

The Big One is making headlines again – and inspiring some dark humor.

The Big One, a.k.a. the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, is the megathrust earthquake that’s expected to happen in the Pacific Northwest at some point, likely within the next 100 years.

On Tuesday, University of Washington scientists announced a new discovery about the subduction zone: it’s leaking.

The Daily Beast immediately dubbed the leak a “harbinger of doom,” and tweeted out an article featuring a GIF of an ominous-looking vent in the sea floor.

In a segment on Thursday night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert was very concerned about how this newly discovered “tectonic lube” will affect the Cascadia “megathrust.”

After the announcement of the study’s findings, Twitter was flooded with tweets predicting an imminent disaster on par with an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano and predictions that Los Angeles would be wiped off the map in the ensuing mega tsunami caused by a global pole shift.

Before you start stocking your bunker, let’s be clear: None of those scenarios are supported by science.

So, how scared should we be of this discovery? Here’s what the UW team published in Phys.org on Tuesday:

Fluid released from the fault zone is like leaking lubricant,” [study co-author Evan] Solomon said. “That’s bad news for earthquake hazards: Less lubricant means stress can build to create a damaging quake.”

That means, in a nutshell, that this finding indicates that we’re getting closer to an inevitable quake along the fault.

But you can be sure that we’ll be asking these scientists more questions about what they’ve found in the days to come – and what it potentially means for our earthquake risk in the Pacific Northwest.

The Cascadia fault is “a 600-mile fault that runs from northern California up to British Columbia and is about 70-100 miles off the Pacific coast shoreline,” according to the Oregon Office of Emergency Management

It’s been 323 years since the last large quake along the fault, and scientists say we’re overdue.

OEM says that “there is about a 37 percent chance that a megathrust earthquake of 7.1+ magnitude in this fault zone will occur in the next 50 years.”

In the meantime, if you’re worried about The Big One (and you should be, but not too much), here are some tips on how to keep yourself and your family safe:  etc

https://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2023/04/scientists-find-harbinger-of-doom-lurking-off-oregons-coast-so-of-

course-late-night-tvs-got-jokes.html 

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The Biden 10-Step Plan For Global Chaos

Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States?

Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency?

Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States' lead in boycotting Russian oil?

Why is the president of Brazil traveling to China to pursue what he calls a "beautiful relationship"?

Why is Israel suddenly facing attacks from its enemies in all directions?

What happened to Turkey? Why is it threatening fellow NATO member Greece? Is it still a NATO ally, a mere neutral, or a de facto enemy?

Why are there suddenly nonstop Chinese threats toward Taiwan?

Why did Saudi Arabia conclude a new pact with Iran, its former archenemy?

Why was Egypt secretly planning to send rockets to Russia to be used in Ukraine, according to leaked Pentagon papers?

Since when did the Russians talk nonstop about the potential use of a tactical nuclear weapon?

Why is Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador bragging that millions of Mexicans have entered the United States, most of them illegally? And why is he interfering in U.S. elections by urging his expatriates to vote for Democrats?

Why and how, in just two years, have confused and often incoherent President Joe Biden and his team created such global chaos?

Let us answer by listing 10 ways by which America lost all deterrence:

1) Biden abruptly pulled all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He left behind to the Taliban hundreds of Americans and thousands of pro-American Afghans. Biden abandoned billions of dollars in U.S. equipment, the largest air base in central Asia--recently retrofitted at a cost of $300 million--and a $1 billion embassy. Our government called such a debacle a success. The world disagreed and saw only humiliation.

2) The Biden administration allowed a Chinese high-altitude spy balloon to traverse the continental United States, spying on key American military installations. The Chinese were defiant when caught and offered no apologies. In response, the Pentagon and the administration simply lied about the extent that China had surveilled top-secret sites.

3) In March 2021, at an Anchorage, Alaska, mini summit, Chinese diplomats unleashed a relentless barrage at their stunned and mostly silent American counterparts. They lectured the timid Biden administration diplomats about American toxicity and hypocrisy. And they have defiantly refused to explain why and how their virology lab birthed the COVID-19 virus that has killed tens of millions worldwide.

4) In June 2021, in response to Russian cyberattacks against the United States, Biden meekly asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to at least make off-limits certain critical American infrastructure.

5) When asked what he would do if Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden replied that the reaction would depend on whether the Russians conducted a "minor incursion."

6) Between 2021 and 2022, Biden serially insulted and bragged that he would not meet Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, and one of our oldest and most valuable allies in the Middle East.

7) For much of 2021, the Biden administration made it known that it was eager and ready to offer concessions to reenter the dangerous Iran nuclear deal--at a time when Iran has joined China and Russia in a new geostrategic partnership.

8) Almost immediately upon inauguration, the administration moved the United States away from Israel, restored financial aid to radical Palestinians, and both publicly and privately alienated the current Benjamin Netanyahu government.

9) In serial fashion, Biden stopped all construction on the border wall and opened the border. During the 2019 Democratic presidential primary, Biden made it known that illegal aliens were welcome to enter the United States--some 6-7 million did. He reinstated "catch and release." And he did nothing about the Mexican cartel importation of fentanyl that has recently killed over 100,000 Americans per year.

10) In the last two years, the Pentagon has embarked on a woke agenda. The Army is short by 15,000 in its annual recruitment quota. The defense budget has not kept up with inflation. One of the greatest intelligence leaks in U.S. history just occurred from the Pentagon.

The Pentagon refused to admit culpability and misled the country about Afghanistan and the Chinese spy balloon flight. The current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called his Chinese communist counterpart and head of the People's Liberation Army to advise him that the U.S. military would warn the Chinese if it determined an order from its commander in chief, former President Donald Trump, was inappropriate.

This list of these self-inflicted disasters could be easily expanded.

But the examples explain well enough why our emboldened enemies do not fear us, our triangulating allies judge us unreliable, and calculating neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join.

Yet without America, the result is a new Chinese order in which, to quote the historian Thucydides, "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Originally published at The Daily Signal - reposted with permission.

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6025 

Scribe note: Confirmation"The Judeo-Christian principles that helped birth a nation that would fight to right its wrongs, glorify God in its existence and spread the gospel far and wide" some past presidents remarks.

 PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS first Vice President of the United States (1789–1797), and he was also the second President of the United States(1797–1801)

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice ambition revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made ONLY for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT  18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.

Hold fast to the bible as the sheetrock of our liberties. Write its precepts on your heart and practice them in your lives.

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. declares

America was born a Christian nation for the purpose of exemplifying to the nations of the world the principles of righteousness found in the word of God.

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Jonathan Cahn's Prophetic Warnings for Christians Worldwide

5:01PM EDT 4/12/2023 James Lasher

As the United States continues to reel from the recent school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, the question remains whether there was a catalyst that helped put these nefarious plans of a mentally ill young woman into action?

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn shares the reasons he believes are causing not only the Covenant School shooting, but increased persecution of Christians around the world.

As the mainstream American media appeared to blame Christians—the victims—for this heinous act of terrorism, without even mentioning that the shooter was transgender, Cahn reveals the subtle ways that the transgender movement has been radicalized to not only hate Christians, but commit acts of violence against them.

"Months before this [shooting] happened, a video game came out that was created by a transgender video game developer encouraging virtual violence and killing against those who were not in favor of surgical altering," says Cahn.

The creator of the video game, Terfenstein 3D, Sandra Moen, claimed that creating the game where you violently shoot critics of transgenderism, anti-trans feminists and Catholic priests helped to heal the trauma of being a trans person.

To recap: the killing of those who disagree with Moen supposedly led to healing.

That is the influence of a demonic spirit that spreads destruction in its wake.

Cahn has sounded the trumpet on the evil spirits that are at work in societies across the world in his newest New York Times best-seller "The Return of the Gods."

People are finally starting to wake up and take notice of the unnatural events taking place in culture today.

"When they [evil spirits] possess a person, they seek to remove the individual from his or her nature and purpose. Whether that means their humanity, their gender, their sexuality, their personhood, that's how they begin destroying him or her," warns Cahn.

"The possessed person becomes a danger to others and to himself or herself, harming others [and] harming themselves," he adds.

For a person, culture or country to be delivered and free from this demonic spiritual oppression, it first must cast out the spirits possessing it and bring God into their midst. America did this upon its founding. The Judeo-Christian principles that helped birth a nation that would fight to right its wrongs, glorify God in its existence and spread the gospel far and wide has since turned its back on God in favor of the pagan entities of old.

"America has cast out God. Now we are witnessing the taking over of our culture by these spirits. That's why what we're watching is so irrational. That's why it's so demonic," says Cahn.

No politician, world leader, billionaire or celebrity is going to be able to pull society out of this trajectory.

Cahn shares a warning to all believers about the necessity of being spiritually grounded in the Word of God, because persecution against Christians is going to get worse due to the growing influence of Satan and his minions in society.

"The changes that are taking place in our nation and Western Civilization and the world are not natural, they're not rational. They're part of a mystery in the realm of the spirit and they're not just possessing troubled individuals, they're possessing celebrities, pop stars, organizations, institutions, media, school systems, government leaders, cultures, our culture, and for you who are a follower of God, you who are a Christian, a true believer, be warned they are after you," implores Cahn.

"There's only one power and force that's able to overcome these things: it's the power of God, the presence of Yeshua, Jesus, the Redeemer. That's why you need Him in your life. We war not against flesh and blood it [the Bible] says, but against power, principalities, rulers, spiritual forces in high places. God is greater, make sure you're right with Him. Make sure He's in your life. Make sure you received Him for real. Make sure you're born again, you're saved."

https://www.charismanews.com/culture/92017-jonathan-cahn-s-prophetic-warning-for-christians-worldwide 

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Gordon Chang to Newsmax: China Wants 'an Accident' to Lead to War

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 15 April 2023 01:56 PM EDT

While China knows better than to kill or start a war, they are sending "trial balloons" and provoking so someone else might touch off a world war, China expert Gordon Chang warned Saturday on Newsmax.

"We have to be ready for conflict at any time, and it's not just Xi Jinping waking up and saying, 'I want to invade Taiwan' or do something, it's the possibility of those dangerous intercepts that China is causing in the South China Sea and East China Sea — one of them leads to an accident that leads to death," Chang told "Saturday Report."

"So really what we're talking about right now as the possibility of accidental conflict, because China wants to cause an accident. They want to kill. They know better, but they really want to go to war."

President Joe Biden and his administration have been going with an appeasement approach that just is not curbing Chinese saber-rattling, Chang told host Rita Cosby.

"You should always believe when your adversary or enemy tells you something," Chang said. "You know that trial balloon? That really was a show of utter disrespect for the United States — that they think that they could fly that large object over our Air Force bases, over our strategic nuclear deterrence sites."

"And so really what we have is a Chinese regime that thinks the U.S. is no longer a factor. That's going to, I think, encourage them to do something really, really destructive."

The fact there have been four previously unreported Chinese spy balloons over the U.S, including one over an American warship is just "stunning" to Chang.

"It is stunning, Rita, and it's not just the president," he told Cosby. "It's also the senior leadership of the Pentagon, both in uniform and civilians who don't understand the nature of the challenge from China.

"And therefore they're not taking the steps that they need to defend us with urgency. So this is a failure in the Pentagon as well as in the Oval Office."

Biden's pushing of leftist ideology has made the world less safe in other hemispheres, too, Chang concluded.

"This is a rapid collapse of American foreign policy, and we have never seen this in our lifetime — and it's largely, I think, because the Biden administration is supporting Chinese foreign policies that are attacking us," Chang said. "You know the reason why we have a leftist in Brazil is because the Biden team worked to make sure that he got elected. They really were very much against his predecessor and competitor, [Jair] Bolsonaro.

"So really, what we have is the fruit of Biden's foreign policy, so we should have to understand that the problems start in the Oval Office."

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/china-war-balloons/2023/04/15/id/1116286/ 

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Iran is waging a multi-front war of attrition against Israel, Gallant says

The IDF will act "in all arenas, even far from [Israel's borders]," the defense minister said in a Sunday night memorial ceremony.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF Published: APRIL 16, 2023 22:06 Updated: APRIL 16, 2023 22:19

Tehran is fighting a war against Israel on all fronts, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned on Sunday, as a Jerusalem-based think tank called for a suspension of judicial reform in light of the danger of a broad-scale conflict on Israel’s borders and with Iran.

The IDF has “acted and will continue to act in all arenas, in overt and covert operations along the border, across the border, and even far from the border,” Gallant said at a special memorial ceremony for those who fell in the battle for Jaffa in 1948.

“Iran is waging a multi-front war of attrition against the State of Israel,” Gallant said, adding that it was “continuing its attempts to establish itself on the northern front and at the same time sending its proxies to Judea, Samaria and Gaza.”

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-739393 

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Jews and Christians come together to reinstate the Biblical commandment of the Red Heifer

Apr 16, 2023 |

The Voice of Healing Church in Houston, Texas held an event last Monday in conjunction with Boneh Israel and the Israel Guys focusing on the recent efforts to reinstate the Biblical commandment of the Red Heifer.

The event was broadcast and recorded. It was hosted by VOH’s Pastor Michael Petro. Rabbi Itzchak (Tzachi) Mamo, Mo Bareli, and Byron Stinson representing Boneh Israel.

“The one thing we kept hearing, over and over, was that everyone felt so much love at the event,” Pastor Petro told Israel365 News. “Christians and Jews, we were all working towards the same vision with the same hopes which is remarkable since this event could never have taken place ten years ago. The Lord is pulling us together for a common purpose.”

The pastor has always been strangely drawn to learning about the Biblical sacrifices and, in particular, the ritual of the Red Heifer. Pastor Petro emphasized that the ritual has special significance for Christians and is described in the New Testament (Paul 13).

Paul connects the red heifer to the Messiah,” Pastor Petro said. “He describes Jesus as going outside of the camp and this is a reference to the Red Heifer which was sacrificed outside of the camp.

God kept his promise and brought the Jews back to Israel so now, whether you are on the Jewish side or the Christian side, we are clearly in a period of getting ready. The heifers are an essential part of that. The coming together of Jews and Christians is part of that as well.”

Moriel (Mo) Barelli, the representative from Boneh Israel, was inspired by the level of dual-faith cooperation manifested at the event.

“The theme of the event was redemption and how the red heifers play a major role in that,” Mo told Israel365 News. “It amazed me that when it came to redemption and the Third Temple, we all had so much in common.

The people we met were connected to Torah and felt strongly that they wanted to be a part of the prophetic things happening in Israel right now. Of course, Christians and Jews have significant differences but it was very easy to focus on the important things we have in common.”

In September, Boneh Israel succeeded in bringing five red calves that were born in Texas to Israel with the intent of raising them to perform the commandment of the Red Heifer. The red heifers are now between 1 ½ and 2 years old. To replicate the ceremony mentioned in the Bible, they need to be at least two years old.

“The heifers will, God willing, be ready by Pesach next year,” Mo said. “All of the elements necessary, the land and the kohanim, are being made ready in the meantime.”

The flight to Israel and preparations cost over $250,000 dollars. Now that they are in Israel, the heifers will need to be raised until they are at least two years old. (READ MORE)

https://endtimeheadlines.org/2023/04/jews-and-christians-come-together-to-reinstate-the-biblical-commandment-of-the-red-heifer/ 

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Netanyahu's caution on Temple Mount makes sense

If Israel truly wants to live up to the famous proclamation "Temple Mount is in our hands", it should announce at the end of Ramadan that things will no longer be the same.

By Ariel Kahana Published on 04-13-2023 10:39 Last modified: 04-13-2023 10:48

After three months of being in a twilight zone, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is beginning to get back into his element. His painful decision to prevent Jews from ascending the Temple Mount for the remainder of Ramadan can be filed under "don't be just; be smart."

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This motto has been so badly needed in his conduct to handle the judicial reform crisis that has all but torn Israelis apart. Now Netanyahu is finally putting on display his level-headedness.

In light of the circumstances Israel has had to deal with over the final third of Ramadan – and despite this being a major concession – one can see where he is coming from. The escalation on all fronts has had tensions skyrocket while Israel's regional and international capital has been badly eroded. Security forces have been stretched thin and Israeli society is fraying at the seams. With such a state of affairs, erring on the side of caution makes sense.

If things blow over on Temple Mount in the coming days, Israel would be able to say that it did all it can to prevent bloodshed. In the short term, this approach is the right one. But once Ramadan is over, Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and other security officials must tackle the long-term issues at hand.

This is the third year in a row that Hamas has tried to change the rules of the game on Temple Mount during the holy month, and as a consequence – Israel has had to change gears for three straight years to brace itself for possible attacks during that period. In each one of those years, Israel found itself engaged in ridiculous efforts to calm things down rather than have a proactive posture on the diplomatic and security front.

If Israel truly wants to live up to the famous proclamation "Temple Mount is in our hands", Israel will announce at the end of Ramadan that things will no longer be the same: It no longer wait for pointless talks just before the holiday in Aqaba, Sharm el-Sheikh and Amman aimed at pre-empting an escalation, but spell out what is allowed and what is not; what it will and what it will not tolerate.

Rather than announce in advance that it will allow Arabs to enter the site without screening them only to find itself clashing with the rioters in front of cameras, Israel must make it clear that next time it will only allow worshippers to enter after they undergo a security check – or only allow people over a certain age. This, Israel must make clear, will be the policy until a new understanding of what is permitted on the mountain is finalized with the Waqf. This would not be unprecedented.

Israel must also present another demand, not as a consequence of cabinet infighting but because it sends the right message in public diplomacy: Israel must make it clear that part of the site will be earmarked for Jewish prayer. This is a fundamental right that is recognized worldwide.

It is inconceivable that in the holiest place for Jews, they can't pray. If this combustible issue gets resolved once and for all, perhaps this will ensure an end to the volatility in that compound.

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https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/netanyahus-caution-on-temple-mount-makes-sense/ 

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US warship sails through Taiwan Strait days after China drills

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A US warship sailed through the waters separating Taiwan and mainland China, the US Navy said, days after Beijing staged war games around the self-ruled island.

Led by the United States, multiple Western navies regularly conduct “freedom of navigation operations” to assert the international status of regional waterways such as the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.

The USS Milius guided-missile destroyer “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit April 16 (local time) through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law”, the US Navy said in a statement.

“The ship transited through a corridor in the Strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal State.” This was the first such US operation through the waterway since January.

The US 7th Fleet shared images Monday on Twitter of crew looking out into the strait, one of the most crucial waterways in the world for international shipping.

China said on Monday it had tracked a US warship through the Taiwan Strait, adding that the United States had “hyped up” the transit.

Colonel Shi Yi, a Chinese military spokesman, said troops in the area “remain on a high level of alert at all times and will resolutely defend national sovereignty and security as well as regional peace and stability”.

China claims Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to bring the island under its control one day. It also claims the entire Taiwan Strait as its territorial waters.

China launched three days of military exercises around Taiwan on April 8, simulating targeted strikes and a blockade of the island.

The drills were in response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s recent visit to the United States, where she met with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

“The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese PLA fully monitored the US warship’s passing operations, maintaining a high-level alert at all times and resolutely defending national sovereignty and security,” a spokesperson said via the Global Times.

Beijing bristles at any official contact between Taipei and foreign governments. On the final day of last week’s drills, Taiwan’s defence ministry said 54 Chinese planes crossed into Taiwan’s southwestern and southeastern air defence identification zone (ADIZ) -- the highest recorded in a single day since October 2021.

That same day, the USS Milius sailed through waters claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea.

That deployment triggered condemnation from China, which said the vessel had “illegally intruded” into its territorial waters.

Since the war games ended, Chinese warships and aircraft have continued to circle Taiwan.

On Monday, Taipei’s defence ministry said it had detected four warships and 18 aircraft, four of which had crossed its southwestern ADIZ.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon sailed through the Taiwan Strait on January 5, months after McCarthy’s predecessor Nancy Pelosi visited the island.

Pelosi’s trip sparked China’s largest-ever war games around Taiwan.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/us-warship-sails-through-taiwan-strait-days-after-china-drills 

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A Horrific New Form Of Mind Control Never Before Seen Is Being Unveiled As Human Bodies Are Transformed Into Antennas And The 'Internet Of Bodies' Means The End Game For Humanity

By Kathleen Gotto for All News Pipeline April 17, 2023

An eye-opening interview hosted by Harry Blazer with Dr. Ana Mihalcea, Dr. David Nixon, Clifford Carnicom, and Elana Freeland was published on April 11, 2023. This article picks up from the author’s previous article at ANP, which broached the subject of Morgellons with a possible link to COVID-19.

Mr. Carnicom has a reputation for being a meticulous and impeccable researcher with the highest integrity and a vast body of work that he has done on chemtrails and Morgellons for the past 25- 30 years.

At approximately the 18:56-minute mark on the interview, Mr. Carnicom begins his comments by updating the term geoengineering, which may have been previously viewed as dealing primarily with the geophysical aspects of the earth. He is now firmly convinced that the geoengineering and global chemical spraying that began years ago and continues to this day is the platform being used to modify the biology of the whole earth.

No pun intended, but this is an earth-shattering revelation that Mr. Carnicom presents! To sum up his hypothesis: Around thirty years ago, it was decided by persons unknown, but obviously in positions of power, to start changing the biology of the whole earth incrementally through the use of geoengineering and the dumping of heavy metals from the skies as chemtrails. One of the elements being ostensibly seeded in our skies for climate intervention is graphene.

We’ve heard about graphene being found in the blood of the vaccinated because it has also been found in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vials. But, it has been something of a mystery of how the graphene got in the blood of the unvaccinated. Well, maybe not so much of a mystery anymore. With graphene, barium, copper, manganese, Ecoli and fluoride found in chemtrails, and the chemicals Mike Adams found in a non-blood clot from a deceased COVID-19 vaccinated person, there must be a reason and purpose behind these inorganic substances being present in human bodies.

So, the questions remain: why the many years of dumping chemicals upon the whole earth resulting in Morgellons for some people presenting with fibers coming out of their bodies; why poison our water and food supplies with these chemicals; why are inorganic chemicals being found in the bodies of the vaccinated and now even the unvaccinated; was the COVID-19 shot program spurned by so many people that the orchestrators of the kill program had to up the frequency, amount, or type of chemicals being sprayed on us? And that brings us to the Internet of Bodies or IoB.

If it is true that the evil cabal behind the depopulation effort (which in all honesty, cannot be called anything else), has as its demented goal to kill off as many people as possible through poisoning by chemtrails, COVID-19 or another kill shot, or some other method, this would satisfy their eugenicist goals. But, apparently a reduced global population is not their end game. Is what they really want is to enslave humanity and use our bodies like antennas to capture an endless energy source? Does that sound far-fetched?

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Does anyone really want to use humans as efficient antennas? Yep here, here, here, here. Actually, this human-body antenna technology has been in the works for some time. In 2017, The Institution of Engineering and Technology published an article titled, “The hantenna:experimental assessment of the human hand as an antenna.” This experiment was done using the human hand as an FM antenna. For the geeks among us, the hantenna experiment research paper provides specifics with photos and diagrams. The National Center for Biotechnology Information has scores of articles on the subject of using the human body as an antenna.

With all the hype of how this antenna technology can make life easier to navigate, what about the impact to the body itself being used in such a way? Mistral is a company that addresses the issue. While it is a very technical assessment, their summation and conclusion are easy to understand:

“ … The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) introduced Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) limits for wireless devices to ensure acceptable radiations level in human body. The SAR limit is set to 1.6 W/kg averaged over 1g of actual tissue, while the limit is set to 2W/kg averaged over 10g of actual tissue by the Council of European Union. SAR is a parameter that is used to measure the rate at which RF (radiofrequency) energy is absorbed by human tissues. SAR values ensure that any wearable device or wireless smart gadget does not exceed the maximum permissible exposure levels …

Conclusion

Wearable Antenna is among the key emerging technologies, aiding several applications in health care, military, navigation, and entertainment. WBAN technologies, especially wearable antennas provide cost effective solutions for remote sensing and monitoring of several physiological parameters of human body. While considering the advantages of WBAN and wearable antennas, one should also be aware of its impact on a human body. Antenna designers should consider an appropriate RF technology for wearable designs, while ensuring least effect on the efficiency and gain due to electromagnetic immersion in human tissue …”

An article by Andrea M. Matwyshyn in a William and Mary Law Review article titled, The Internet of Bodies, she discusses the progression of the Internet of Things (IoT) to the Internet of Bodies (IoB). In particular, she highlights the harm and challenges that IoB will inflict on humans from a legal standpoint by its impact on human autonomy and human rights.

In viewing the readily available information on the subject of using Ai on human bodies, it moves the Internet of Bodies here, here, here, from the sci-fi realm to up close and personal for all of humanity to either embrace or resist. This article from The Liberty Beacon/Europe Reloaded sums up the result of IoB takeover:

The nanotech and nanobot invasion is well underway. If you allow your genes to be altered via embedded nanotechnology, it could affect you in at least 4 key ways: firstly, it will shut you off from your connection to God, a Creator or a higher spiritual source (depending upon your beliefs); secondly, your perceptive range will be reduced (thus making you more docile and less aware of the conspiracy); thirdly, it will reduce your capacity to access and utilize your higher abilities; and fourthly, it will allow you to be directly programmed via transmissions beamed directly to the nanotech inside of you, representing a new horrible kind of mind control never before known in human history. (Author’s note: This bears re-reading until it gets into your mind, soul, and spirit!)

https://allnewspipeline.com/Horrific_New_Form_Of_Mind_Control_Being_Unveiled.php 

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Hundreds of teens cause fiery chaos in Downtown Chicago as they torch cars in rampage organized on social media: Vastly outnumbered police manage just 15 arrests

More than a hundred teenagers gathered in Millennium Park on Saturday

The rowdy group torched cars and got into fights before gunfire ended the night

Two teenage boys, 16 and 17, were reported shot but in stable condition

By Vanessa Serna and James Gordon For Dailymail.com

Published: 16:58 EDT, 16 April 2023 | Updated: 20:20 EDT, 16 April 2023

A crowd of more than a hundred rowdy teenagers turned violent in Downtown Chicago on Saturday night as dozens torched and smashed cars while blaring music in a 'teen trend' that left two with gunshot wounds.

Shocking footage showed some teenagers jumping on top of a bus while others started a massive brawl after descending on Millennium Park and attempting to breach barricades.

Gunshots rang out with some rounds striking two teenage boys aged 16 and 17.

The two youths were transported to a nearby hospital in fair condition. A total of 15 people, nine adults and six children were arrested.

Police said most of the charges were for reckless conduct, but a 16-year-old boy was also charged with unlawful use of a weapon, and a firearm was recovered. An adult and a juvenile were also charged with possession of a stolen vehicle.

Cars were also left vandalized near East Washington Street in the Windy City, including a Tesla which worth about $120,000.

The huge gatherings in the street are being dubbed 'teen trends' which extends invites to teenagers across the city, according to NBC Chicago, and Saturday's incident occurred a day after another teenage boy, 14, was shot at another gathering near 31st Avenue Beach.

During the chaos on Saturday night, a bystander was attacked while in the driver seat of his car by rowdy teenagers and had to be taken to the hospital.

It appeared as if police were unable to handle the crowd and were seen escorting innocent bystanders and tourists to safety.

Officers worked to clear large the crowds and video showed dozens of cops lining the street near Washington and State.

'It's heartbreaking, kids fighting, chasing each other, some of them got guns,' an unidentified witness told NBC News. 'It's really heartbreaking when one of them actually gets hurt, and that's unfortunate, happened last night.'

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson both issued statements regarding chaotic scenes.

Mayor Lightfoot said while many of the young people gathered to have a good time and enjoy the weather, some were involved in 'reckless, disrespectful and unlawful behavior.'

'As I have said before, we as a city cannot and will not allow any of our public spaces to become a platform for criminal conduct,' the mayor's statement read, in part.

'Most importantly, parents and guardians must know where their children are and be responsible for their actions. Instilling the important values of respect for people and property must begin at home.'

Lightfoot noted that Chicago police leadership has assured her they will 'make the necessary adjustments to address these teen trends issues as we move into the summer months.'

The witness added that police stood no chance against the crowed.

'It was a lot of cops here, but they were still outnumbered,' the witness said. 'There were so many teenagers that showed up, and they tried to keep the peace and keep them under control.'

After the shooting, a nearby Tesla was then seen on fire.

The rowdy teenagers disrupted the city's transportation system after several climbed on top of a bus. They could be seen dancing while the bus was at a stop.

It's unclear if anyone was in the bus at the time but the Chicago Transit Authority announced that schedules were disrupted due to police activity.

On Friday night, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the thigh around 9pm.

Beforehand, authorities were informed about the 300-person gathering via Emergency Management and Communications.

Some reports cited that nearly 1,000 teenagers were at the 'teen trend' event - though the true number remains unclear.

A 17-year-old boy was arrested in connection to the shooting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11979113/More-100-youngsters-descend-Downtown-Chicago-torch-cars-teen-trend-gathering.html 

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BULLETIN: 40% of NATO Electronic Infrastructure OFFLINE - Ddos attack by Russian Hackers

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As of 12:56 PM eastern US time today, 11 April 2023, 40% of NATO's electronic infrastructure has been paralyzed by Russian KillNet hackers.

As a result of a powerful DDos attack, the resources of the Combat Development Command, the NATO Provision, Support, and Procurement Agency, and cyber training centers are "OFFLINE".

The NCI agency was also hacked, and all the employees' personal data was stolen.

Pictured is the front page of the NCI Agency, which provides, deploys and maintains communications systems for decision makers and NATO commanders.

Update:

Russian hackers from KillNet reported that as a result of hacking into NATO networks, they managed to obtain important information that may be of interest to Russia.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/bulletin-40-of-nato-electronic-infrastructure-offline

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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius turned its victims' brains to GLASS: Hot gas cloud reaching 550°C engulfed nearby town of Herculaneum, instantly VAPORISING its inhabitants

The Roman town of Herculaneum was destroyed by the eruption in Italy in AD 79

Bodies there were not as well-preserved as they were in nearby Pompeii

One man in the town had his brain turned into glass by a 'pyroclastic current'

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline

Published: 09:32 EDT, 11 April 2023 | Updated: 10:21 EDT, 11 April 2023

While most of us associate the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 with Pompeii, a new study has revealed the devastating impact the event had on inhabitants of another nearby settlement, called Herculaneum.

Researchers have found evidence that 'pyroclastic currents' – hot and fast-moving flows of gas and volcanic particles – hit the small Roman town.

The first to hit, estimated to be 1,022°F (550°C), vaporised inhabitants within minutes, while a succession of smaller currents at lower temperatures (up to 870°F or 465°C) buried the town under 65-foot-thick volcanic deposits.

While most bodies at Herculaneum were swiftly reduced to piles of ash, scientists have previously found human tissue that was transformed to glass by the event.

One man's brain had been burned at a very high temperature, before quickly cooling, turning it into a form of glass – a process known as vitrification. Q

The new study was led by a team of geologists from the University of Roma Tre and published in the journal Scientific Reports.

'Despite the 79CE being one of the most studied eruptions, the exact timing, and the causes of death at Pompeii and Herculaneum are still debated,' they say in their paper.

'We show that the first PDC [pyroclastic current] which entered the town was a short-lived ash cloud surge, with temperatures of 555-495°C, capable of causing instant death of people.'

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the settlements of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Torre Annunziata and Stabiae, killing thousands in the process, said to be up to 16,000.

After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a pro