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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Community — decided 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 JPO – for 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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'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'.

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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 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.

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.)

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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'

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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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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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 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

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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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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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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Elites Manufacture Fake “Hate” Crisis As Pretext For Mass Spying, Blacklists, And Censorship

Totalitarian measures spread to California from Germany, New Zealand, and Europe

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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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.

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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.

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Ranchers Report Biggest Cattle Supply Drop In 40 Years As Shortages Hit Grocery Stores

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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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etc. Have you read my word, do you know that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine is knocking on the door, as a matter of fact, its got a battering-ram and it is knocking the door down, but you are not aware of that.  Are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, are you aware of the countries that are killing every Christian that is there?  And then you think I can delay another five years or another ten years.  Have you not read in my word where they are laying under my altar and they are crying out, how much longer, how much longer?  Oh what a sad state the world is in. etc.

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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.

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.

etc etc. the news story continues and ends with this

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

(Along program, and to save your time, the pertinent part starts at the 24 minute mark)

https://allnewspipeline.com/NWO_Takes_Digital_Control.php 

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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.”

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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."

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Russia and China would use debt default to portray U.S. as chaotic, intel chief warns

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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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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.

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Evictions Shoot Up 80% As Rent Prices Financially Destroy Millions Of Americans

Epic Economist

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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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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US Navy hires activy-duty drag queen to be face of recruitment drive

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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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

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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”.

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Pennsylvania school district must allow After School Satan Club: judge

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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