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

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

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Oklahoma Farmer: “I Think We’re To The Dust Bowl, About The Same Or Worse.”

May 9, 2023 by Michael

Our food prices aren’t just going up because our leaders pumped way too much money into the system. All over the world, crops are failing, and that includes right here in the United States. Earlier this year, CNN warned that we are in the midst of “the worst food crisis in modern history”, and so we really need this to be an extremely successful year for our farmers. Unfortunately, that just isn’t happening in much of the country. In fact, one wheat farmer in Oklahoma says that his farm is experiencing “the most severe drought I’ve ever seen”…

Looks can be deceiving. Rolling wheat fields may appear green and lively to passing drivers, but the farmers who planted the fields see a different story playing out as their crops die off and blow away.

“We had less than half of a crop last year, and we’re probably going to have half of that this year. It’s terrible,” said 75-year-old Burlington farmer Keith Kisling. “We’re in the most severe drought I’ve ever seen.”

Another Oklahoma farmer, 23-year-old Jacob Webster, is actually comparing current conditions to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s…

Jacob Webster, a 23-year-old farmer near Deer Creek in Grant County, spent a recent Sunday evening surveying his wheat fields in north-central Oklahoma. His leather cowboy boots were taller than much of the wheat, some of which is yellowing. He’s never seen a worse crop, he said.

“The good thing is today, we’ve got insurance, but the insurance doesn’t pay as well as a wheat crop could make,” Webster said. “With last year not being a very good wheat crop and this year probably not going to be the best, I would expect some people will probably have to fold up. It’s going to be tough.

“I think we’re to the Dust Bowl, about the same or worse.”

We have been warned for a long time that Dust Bowl conditions would return to the center of the nation.

Now it has happened.

Of course farmers in the U.S. are not the only ones that are dealing with extreme drought.

In Spain, endless drought has severely damaged “more than 3.5 million hectares of crops”…

Southern Europe’s farmers are facing a crop crisis. Months of drought has interruped this year’s harvests and some Spanish ecologists are warning the country may soon be unable to sustain cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

“Irreversible damage has been done to more than 3.5 million hectares of crops,” the main Spanish farmers’ association COAG warns, sounding the alarm on a trend it says is being observed throughout much of the country.

Crops are failing all over the planet right now, and this comes at a time when global food supplies have just been getting tighter and tighter.

As a result, hunger is on the rise. In fact, last year the number of people facing “acute hunger” increased to more than a quarter of a billion…

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) for 2023 highlights that the number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance is on the rise. The report indicates that over a quarter of a billion people are facing acute hunger, with economic shocks and the Ukraine war contributing to the increase. In 2022, around 258 million people across 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels (IPC/CH Phase 3-5), up from 193 million people in 53 countries and territories in 2021.

If you still have plenty of food to eat, that is wonderful.

Others are not so fortunate.

As you read this article, there are 45 million precious souls around the world that meet the technical definition of being “on the brink of starvation”.

Conditions are particularly bad in Africa.

In West Africa, it is being projected that there will be 48 million people “without regular access to safe and nutritious food” this summer…

West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic rainfall. War in Ukraine has contributed to food and fertilizer shortages in one of the world’s poorest regions.

The number of people without regular access to safe and nutritious food is projected to hit 48 million during the June-August lean season, according to a regional food security analysis presented by the U.N.’s World Food Programme (WFP), humanitarian agency OCHA, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and children’s agency UNICEF.

In East Africa, the “worst drought in 40 years” is causing an unprecedented crisis across the entire region…

East Africa’s worst drought in 40 years has forced millions of Somalis to leave their homes. Five consecutive failed rainy seasons pushed the fragile nation to the brink of famine, and this year is unlikely to be much different.

Last year, when I warned that a horrific global food crisis was on the way, I was not just blowing smoke.

In the time that it took you to read this article, more people dropped dead from starvation.

And way too often it is children that are perishing.

Sadly, most Americans are not going to care about the emerging global famine until it affects them personally.

Of course it is already affecting them personally, but they just don’t realize it yet.

One of the primary reasons why you have to pay 300 dollars for a cart of food at the grocery store is because global food supplies are much tighter than they once were.

In the early stages of this crisis, there isn’t going to be starvation in the western world like we are seeing in other areas of the planet.

But eventually there will be very serious shortages of food here too.

Are you prepared for that day to arrive?

I hope so, because the clock is ticking…

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etc. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control. Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc..

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

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

Michael Shellenberger May 9, 2023

The public’s hatred of racial, sexual, and religious minorities is so out of control that it imperils our democracy. At least, that’s what influential leaders from Joe Biden and Barack Obama to former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and California Governor Gavin Newsom want us to believe.

Last week Newsom announced a state initiative for citizens to report disfavored speech (non-criminal “hate incidents”) they see online:

California’s “Civil Rights Department” (CRD) invites citizens to speculate about the motive of the “perpetrator.”

In a statement, Newsom’s office said the legislation was “in direct response to the rise in reported hate crimes in California, which in recent years, reached their highest levels since 2001 – jumping almost 33% from 2020 to 2021.”

Indeed, criminal complaints of hate crimes rose significantly, not just 33% between 2020 and 2021 but also 80% from 2012 to 2021, according to California state data.

But convictions of hate crimes have been flat. In 2012 there were 107 hate crime convictions in California. In 2021, there were 109, according to the same data.

It’s possible that hate crimes really did rise by 80%, and juries decided not to give prosecutors convictions. In San Fransicko, I assemble a large body of evidence to show California residents have become more tolerant of crime.

But it’s also possible that convictions stayed the same because there was no increase in prosecutable hate crimes. And it may be that Californian prosecutors simply labeled more crimes as “hate” crimes because they were primed to do so by the media’s 700% - 1,000% increased focus on racism between 2011 and 2020.

Whatever the case, California's total number of hate crime complaints is trivial. There were just 285 hate crime complaints in California, a state with 39 million people, in 2021. There was an order of magnitude more homicides in California, 2,361, in 2021.

Prejudice still exists in the United States. The California church shooting from May 2022 was motivated by political hatred. And the recent mall shooter in Texas may have been motivated by racist ideology.

But the ideologies don’t line up neatly politically. The California church shooter was Taiwanese and motivated by an obscure political grievance. The Texas shooter may have been racist, but he was also Latino. And the recent shooter in Nashville was trans and targeted Christians.

And in many instances, the political ideology is plainly secondary to mental illness. That was certainly the case with the psychotic and drug-addicted homeless man from Berkeley who attacked the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco last year. And it may have been the case with the shooters in Texas and Nashville.

In truth, acceptance of racial, religious, and sexual differences has never been higher in recorded human history. Never before have same-sex and mixed-race couples have been more accepted across all Western nations, which are far more tolerant than most other nations worldwide.

Trans people are celebrated, with an entire reality show dedicated to documenting in celebratory fashion the sexual reassignment surgery and hormone use of a trans girl named Jazz Jennings. And few places are more celebratory of transgenderism than California.

All of which raises a question. If there’s no evidence that “hate incidents” are rising, abundant evidence that tolerance is rising, and overwhelming evidence that the media created a moral panic about racism, why are nations and nation-sized states like California urging mass spying and creating blacklists?

https://public.substack.com/p/elites-manufacture-fake-hate-crisis

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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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ACLU.org

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Texas Committee Passes Bill to Create 100% Reserve Gold and Silver-Backed Transactional Currencies

May 3, 2023 by Michael Maharrey 0 23

On May 2, a Texas House committee passed a bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver-backed transactional currencies. Enactment of this legislation would create an option for people to conduct business in sound money, set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money, and possibly create a viable alternative to a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Rep. Mark Dorazio (R) introduced HB4903 on March 10 and it has since garnered a bipartisan coalition of 42 cosponsors. The legislation would require the state comptroller to establish and provide for the issuance of gold and silver specie and also establish digital currencies that are 100% backed by gold and silver, and 100% redeemable in cash, gold, or silver.

Specie is defined as “a precious metal stamped into coins of uniform shape, size, design, content, and purity, suitable for or customarily used as currency, as a medium of exchange, or as the medium for purchase, sale, storage, transfer, or delivery of precious metals in retail or wholesale transactions.”

In establishing gold and silver specie, the comptroller would be required to authorize the Texas Bullion Depository as issuer and ensure that the holder of the specie may use the specie as legal tender in payment of debt and readily transfer the specie to another person.

The comptroller would also be required to create a mechanism to use 100% backed gold and silver digital currencies in everyday transactions.

In establishing the digital currency under Subsection (a)(2), the comptroller shall provide a means to ensure that a person who holds the digital currency may:

1. Use the digital currency as legal tender in payment of debt; and

2. By electronic means readily transfer or assign the digital currency to another person.

Physical gold and silver backing the digital currency would be stored in a pooled account at the Texas State Bullion Depository.

“The trustee shall maintain enough gold and silver specie or bullion to provide for the redemption of all units of the digital currency issued but not redeemed.”

In practice, individuals would be able to purchase transactional currency representing the smallest fractions of physical gold or silver. The money would be used to purchase gold or silver that would be held in the already-open Texas Bullion Depository. Individuals would be able to redeem their transactional currency for dollars, gold, or silver on demand.

On May 2, the House State Affairs Committee passed HB4903 by a 7-6 vote.

In an outpouring of strong support from the grassroots in Texas, a 78-page document – representing hundreds of messages of support for the bill – was presented to the committee members during a hearing last month.

IMPACT

This is one of several bills introduced in the Texas legislature this year to promote sound money, including legislation to establish state gold and silver reserves, and a bill to make gold and silver legal tender in the Lone Star State.

The creation of state-issued gold-backed and silver-backed digital currencies would create currency competition with Federal Reserve notes and undermine the Fed’s monopoly on money. It would also provide a sound money-backed competitor if the Federal Reserve implements a central bank digital currency.

Broadly speaking, by making gold and silver conveniently available for regular, daily transactions by the general public, gold and silver-backed digital currency would create the potential for a wide-reaching effect. Professor William Greene, an expert on constitutional tender, said in a paper for the Mises Institute that when people in multiple states actually start using gold instead of Federal Reserve notes, it would effectively nullify the Federal Reserve and end the federal government’s monopoly on money.

“Over time, as residents of the state use both Federal Reserve notes and silver and gold coins, the fact that the coins hold their value more than Federal Reserve notes do will lead to a ‘reverse Gresham’s Law’ effect, where good money (gold and silver coins) will drive out bad money (Federal Reserve notes).

“As this happens, a cascade of events can begin to occur, including the flow of real wealth toward the state’s treasury, an influx of banking business from outside of the state – as people in other states carry out their desire to bank with sound money – and an eventual outcry against the use of Federal Reserve notes for any transactions.”

Gresham’s Law holds that “bad money drives out good.” For example, when the U.S. government replaced silver quarters and dimes with coins made primarily of less valuable copper, the cheap coins drove the silver out of circulation. People hoarded the more valuable silver coins and spent the less valuable copper money. So, how do you reverse Gresham?

The key is in making it easier to use gold in everyday transactions. The reason bad money drives out good is that governments put up barriers to using sound money in day-to-day life. That makes it more costly to spend gold and incentivizes hoarding. When you remove barriers, you level the playing field and allow gold and silver to compete head-to-head with Federal Reserve notes. On an even playing field, gold beats fiat money every time.

CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES (CBDC)

A gold-backed digital currency would create an alternative and allow individuals and businesses to avoid a CBDC.

Digital currencies exist as virtual banknotes or coins held in a digital wallet on your computer or smartphone. The difference between a central bank (government) digital currency and peer-to-peer electronic cash such as bitcoin is that the value of the CBDC is backed and controlled by the government, just like traditional fiat currency.

At the root of the move toward a CBDC is “the war on cash.” The elimination of cash creates the potential for the government to track and even control consumer spending.

Imagine if there was no cash. It would be impossible to hide even the smallest transaction from the government’s eyes. Something as simple as your morning trip to Starbucks wouldn’t be a secret from government officials. As Bloomberg put it in an article published when China launched a digital yuan pilot program in 2020, digital currency “offers China’s authorities a degree of control never possible with physical money.”

The government could even “turn off” an individual’s ability to make purchases. Economist Thorsten Polleit outlined the potential for Big Brother-like government control with the advent of a digital euro in an article published by the Mises Wire. As he put it, “the path to becoming a surveillance state regime will accelerate considerably” if and when a digital currency is issued.

BACKGROUND

The United States Constitution states in Article I, Section 10, “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” Currently, all debts and taxes in Kansas are either paid with Federal Reserve Notes (dollars) which were authorized as legal tender by Congress, or with coins issued by the U.S. Treasury — very few of which have gold or silver in them.

The Federal Reserve destroys this constitutional monetary system by creating a monopoly based on its fiat currency. Without the backing of gold or silver, the central bank can easily create money out of thin air. This not only devalues your purchasing power over time; it also allows the federal government to borrow and spend far beyond what would be possible in a sound money system. Without the Fed, the U.S. government wouldn’t be able to maintain all of its unconstitutional wars and programs. The Federal Reserve is the engine that drives the most powerful government in the history of the world.

Creating gold and silver-backed digital currencies would take another step in the process of abolishing the Federal Reserve system by attacking it from the bottom up – pulling the rug out from under it by working to make its functions irrelevant at the state and local levels, and setting the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve monopoly by introducing competition into the monetary system.

WHAT’S NEXT

HB4903 will now move to the Calendars Committee. This committee determines which bills move to the House floor for a vote. Supporters of the bill in Texas have created an online tool to register support for the bill moving to the House for a debate and vote. Residents of Texas can submit their comments here.

Information from the Tenth Amendment Center contributed to this report.

https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/texas-committee-passes-bill-to-create-100-reserve-gold-and-silver-backed-transactional-currencies/

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

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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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We’re Watching the Rule of Law Get Flushed Down the Toilet

Kurt Schlichter | May 05, 2023

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Joe Biden – imagine being so lucky as to have an entire regime media out there dedicated to covering up your incompetency, senility, perversion, and corruption. Apparently, this guy is out there taking bribes. Now, I know it's based on an anonymous whistleblower, but apparently, that's the best kind of evidence. That's the kind of evidence you can impeach people for. The New York Post is writing it, and you'll see some of it on Twitter, but what about The New York Times? Republicans pounce on Joe Biden's entrepreneurial activity – to the extent they even mention it. It's total crap, but what are you going to do? Well, we're going to watch the law swirl around the toilet and get flushed into the sewer. Look at the campaign to delegitimize the Supreme Court because it's conservative, the reaction to some freaky spazz who had been arrested 40 times and was out on a warrant for assaulting a 67-year-old woman getting choked out on a New York City subway by a Marine, and the bizarre bullcrap rape case against Donald Trump – have you noticed a common theme among these disparate elements? None of these are like the law. The law has to be one law for everybody, applied equally, all the time. And right now, it isn't.

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Former CIA Officer Says Decision to Drone Attack Kremlin Was Made by the United States

May 5, 2023 By Paul Joseph Watson

Former CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson says the decision to launch a drone attack on the Kremlin was made by the United States.

The Wednesday attack, which was likely to have been targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, was stopped by electronic warfare systems which disabled the drones before they could reach their target.

According to Johnson, the attack must have been spearheaded by the Biden administration and the US military-industrial complex because “decisions on such attacks are made not in Kiev, but in Washington.”

“Washington should understand clearly that we know this,” Johnson told reporters.

Although the attack, which Ukraine denied it was involved in, failed to accomplish its tactical goal, it was still highly “symbolic,” according to Johnson.

KREMLIN DRONE ATTACK

– Russia says two Ukrainian drones attacked Kremlin overnight

– Drones downed with no victims or material damage to the Kremlin

– Moscow says it was a terrorist attack and attempt on Putin's life

– Russia says it reserves right to respond when and how it… pic.twitter.com/loZA6c3Fvd

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) May 3, 2023

“[It] didn’t cause significant damage. The psychological impact, though, there are people that disagree on this, my view is that this is going to galvanize Russia, not create fear or discontent or division. There are others who believe that by doing this, it is going to portray Russia as weak and create internal problems. I simply note that the reactions of former [Russian] President [Dmitry] Medvedev, as well as members of the Duma – they are livid, they are outraged, and calling for escalatory retaliation against Ukraine. So I think in many respects this backfired,” said the former State Department official.

He also added that the attack smacked of desperation and was an attempt to provoke Russia into a major escalation “to get the United States more deeply involved in this conflict.”

“At the same time, I think, Washington correctly notes that they try to discourage this [escalation], because they recognize that it’s spun out of control. And the United States is in no position militarily to confront Russia and survive that confrontation,” Johnson said.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the attempted drone attack as a dangerous escalation.

“Imagine how we would respond if Russian-backed forces launched a drone strike on the Capitol. We must stop these deranged attempts to escalate the war,” said Kennedy.

“After successfully defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John Kennedy warned against ever again forcing Russia to choose between national humiliation and nuclear war. We should heed his advice,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ukraine continued its drone bombardment by targeting an oil refinery in Krasnodar Region in southern Russia on Friday morning.

A fire broke out, but it was quickly extinguished by authorities and no one was hurt.

https://yournews.com/2023/05/05/2566825/former-cia-officer-says-decision-to-drone-attack-kremlin-was/

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etc. We are going to see a magnetic reversal affecting the power grids. Remember the Lord talked to us about buying generators etc.

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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.

And Mike Adams of Natural News said “Central banks are buying gold at a record pace in anticipation of fiat currency collapse. Meanwhile, the commercial banking sector is imploding. Just today, three more banks were halted on the stock exchange as their stock prices collapsed.” That is truth and we are just beginning this odyssey and our video below is Mikes take on the central banks “gobbling gold” as tens of thousands of more criminal invaders push into our southern borders. Zero Hedge put it into perspective when they said that “Thus far in 2023, there have been three major bank failures. And I do mean MAJOR: all told the three banks had $532 billion in assets. That amount is actually greater in size that the combined assets of the 25 banks that failed in 2008.” They continued on with this explanation that help make better sense of what is going on; “When Treasury yields rise, bond prices FALL. And who was sitting on trillions of dollars’ worth of long-term Treasuries and loans that traded based on long-term Treasuries? You guessed it… the regional banks.

Courtesy of the Fed’s idiocy, the banks were destined to be sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of losses on these assets.

But it gets worse. Once the Fed finally decided to get off its rear and do something about inflation, it embarked on its most aggressive rate hike cycle in history, raising rates from 0.25% to 5% in the span of a single year.”

This has resulted in the first time since 1945 that money has left the banking industry on a net basis. So we have the regional banks going bust and since most local banks are in that bad of shape or worse, it means a complete banking failure is immediately ahead. Step aside 1929; the 1933 Banking Act was supposed to stop that kind of failure but what we are entering has never happened on the scale it is now. We entered into a world war to try and stop it all, but the feds policies actually made it worse. What kind of war are they planning to stop this crisis?

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

There is a plan behind it all, a well laid out plan they are following precisely.

We now get to the Health Impact News headline which states that “More U.S. Banks Collapsing as JPMorgan Chase CEO Consolidates his Power” and continued on with the real agenda we are facing when they asked “Is This the Next Phase of the Great Reset?” Further down in the article they get around to the real reasons as they said “we might now be at the start of the next phase of the “Great Reset,” and the desire of the Globalists to take digital control over the population as the U.S. economy crashes.” That is the purpose of the bank failures, and although I could do a full on column on just that, I will refrain for now because there are other reasons and expected results to be seen. As in just about everything, we need to follow the money to see who is working this out. Remembering that wealth equals power and power equals wealth, the owners of those most powerful banks (or rather, the central bankers) are not satisfied with their holdings; they want it ALL. And they will do anything to have it all. Centralized digital banking equals total control over you, nothing less. It means they will control who, what and where you exist if they even allow you to exist anymore.

So what are they doing to gain this control? How about this story for starters; “U.S. Govt. Docket No. OP–1670 Gives FED Power to Seize Control of U.S. Bank Accounts!” That is more of an advertisement for some financial services, but the headline does tell the truth. The communists want full control over everything you own with even Bernie Sanders claiming he will confiscate everything from those that have over a billion dollars, but that is an idiot commies pipe dream at best and the total annihilating of our nation at worst. He forgets that the very rich own nothing, their wealth is hidden in corporations, trusts, foundations, and all of that sort of thing and is just more malarkey for the benefit of the less intelligent to keep their lust for other peoples stuff increasing until their hatred is strong enough to push them into the kind of violence we see from communist revolutionaries all over the world and in our cities today. That is why Hunter Biden will not be forced to pay much in child support; he owns nothing and has no income according to the normal system of wealth. His kind of wealth is just as tenuous as Bernie’s is; and yes, Bernie is a wealthy man. Of course, we are also talking about evil monkeys like Billy Gates and the whole fabricated wealth confiscation scam of covid and “vaccines”, but that is a seemingly never ending rip-off and die-off of the human race.

And then there is the massive increase of bankruptcies of otherwise normal business like the recent one of Bed, Bath and Beyond, and Serta/Simmons bedding as examples with listing of just 2024 bankruptcies of major institutions found here. Big League Politics said that in only four months, there have been over seventy bankruptcies of major businesses. We are only on the beginning stages of this total financial collapse. We are only going to be left with perhaps a couple or three major banks in the US, or perhaps in the whole North American continent, and that is for the benefit of those very few that actually own them; and please remember that the de Rothschild’s are the major owners of even those when all things are considered. At the beginning of this column I mentioned another list that caught my attention, and that is where we go next.

Susan Duclos’ ANP article referred to above also had major content on food and other preparation supplies. I wholly support her analysis and recommendations in this arena. That list in my computer documents folder I noted was on the massive increases in food processing plants being destroyed the past few months and the reasons for it seem obvious; to starve the population of the mandatory nutritional requirements of our bodies to stay alive and to prosper. As I quickly realized, the list on bank failures and on food plants being destroyed have one major thing in common that I wish to explain other than the obvious ones like crashing our economy, destroying jobs and industry, negating the liberal ease of obtaining nutrition, an so forth. I hinted at that reason above when I mentioned that wealth equals power and power equals wealth and the looming digital currency market being developed. What occurred to be suddenly is that the destruction of those food plants, whether animal feed lots, egg production facilities, grain storage and processing, and so on, is that the need to better control the population and to DECREASE that population to meet the Agenda 2030 goals, is to put all of it under the control of just a very few owners.

Already the world’s food suppliers are owned by just ten major corporations that are holding companies for all of the smaller brands, and that is a major problem just as the worlds money supply is held by just a few major bankers. The cause of the smaller banks going under is to push all ownership into the few large ones to consolidate that power. The food industry already has that process well underway and the destruction of those smaller processing systems are primarily the weeding out the competition that bogs down the overseers of these world satanic tribes that own almost all of it. And that circle of power brokers is about to get much smaller; more tightly knit; more controlling.

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The Guardian had an article a couple of years ago that showed the handful of powerful companies controlled about 80% of the groceries that we can buy and that “a few powerful transnational companies dominate every link of the food supply chain: from seeds and fertilizers to slaughterhouses and supermarkets to cereals and beers.” They noted that four firms or fewer control over 40% of market share, and that “the size and influence of these mega-companies enables them to largely dictate what America’s 2 million farmers grow and how much they are paid, as well as what consumers eat and how much our groceries cost.” That is power, real power; and wealth, real wealth. We have had anti-monopoly laws on our books since almost the beginning of this nation for a very good reason, and how or why they are not being enforced is aiding the destruction of our nation as well as the world at large. It goes deeper than just groceries as “The consolidation runs deep: four firms or fewer controlled at least 50% of the market for 79% of the groceries. For almost a third of shopping items, the top firms controlled at least 75% of the market share.” Forbes said that “Soaring inflation has kept the food and beverage industry growing around the world. The top 25 companies in the sector generated $1.5 trillion in revenue in the past year, while profits for the sector increased to more than $155 billion.”

Yes sir, in the near future you will eat bugs and own nothing and you will be happy. That is an order from your masters and owners; you will be happy. They are gathering the power and wealth to dictate just that for the few of us that may survive our planned destruction. That was the stroke of insight that occurred to me at the moment mentioned at the start that this column was built upon; the consolidation of power is what we are witnessing.

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Central banks GOBBLE GOLD while UN pushes migrant REPLACEMENT of Americans and Europeans

(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.”

https://dailyhodl.com/2023/05/02/american-currency-collapse-has-already-started-as-brics-nations-prepare-

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Spain's drought has pushed olive oil prices to a 26-year high — and they're expected to stick

Published Thu, May 4 20231:27 AM EDT Lee Ying Shan

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Olive oil prices have hit record levels, thanks to a prolonged drought in top producer Spain — and the elevated prices are expected to stay for some time.

"The issues contributing to prices trending at near all-time highs are largely poor weather and a severely dry growing period for much of the Mediterranean, but most importantly in Spain, which is a major producer and exporter of olive oil," said Mintec's oilseeds and vegetable oils analyst, Kyle Holland.

Olive oil prices have hit record levels, thanks to a prolonged drought in top producer Spain — and the elevated prices are expected to stay for some time.

When renowned Spanish-American chef José Andrés tweeted that eggs should be fried in olive oil a finger deep, one user commented: "Olive oil can be expensive at a finger deep. What's an alternative for those of us on a budget?"

"Aldi olive oil spread used to 99p. It's now £1.29 Plus lots of the basic ranges have disappeared. Even Aldi is expensive now!" said another Twitter user, based in England.

According to data from the International Monetary Fund, global olive oil prices have hit $5,989.8 per metric ton, marking a 26-year high.

And the high prices could stay "for some time to come," said Mintec's oilseeds and vegetable oils analyst, Kyle Holland.

'Exceedingly poor' weather conditions

Bad weather in Spain, in particular the prolonged dry spell, is the main reason behind soaring prices.

As a result of "exceedingly poor" weather conditions, he said, the recent October to February olive harvest produced a yield 50% less than the usual output, tightening global supply and pushing prices upward.

"The exceedingly poor weather conditions meant that ... Spain produced an olive oil crop of around 630,000 metric tonnes, down from the usual 1.4 to 1.5 million metric tonnes harvest," he said.

Olive trees grow in warm and dry climates, and the optimal temperature ranges from 60 to 80 degrees F.

Spain had a bout of "very dry" weather in March, recording just 36% of the average monthly rainfall, according to the country's Ministry of Ecological Transition. The country experienced 36 straight months of below-average rainfall.

And if the weather doesn't improve, the upcoming harvest could face an even worse yield.

"There could be a similar or even lower crop than the one produced in the season prior, according to market players, who are also saying that prices could be at the current levels for some time to come," Holland said.

"It appears the ongoing drought in Europe, most importantly in the largest olive oil-producing region of Spain, has caused a global supply shortage of olive oil," David Valmorbida, president of the Australian Olive Oil Association, told CNBC.

Demand pressures

Demand pressures are putting more strain on already challenged supply chains.

The demand for olive oil has been strong in recent years — prices have been rising since 2020 because consumers were eating and cooking at home more often during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, Valmorbida said.

On top of that, the shortage of sunflower oil after Russia's invasion of Ukraine drove up prices.

"The outbreak of war in Ukraine, which created a global shortage in sunflower oil, pushed up the demand for olive oil even more," he added.

Changing consumer habits could ease some of the pressure.

"Consumers have already started to reduce consumption of olive oil substantially, firstly by being less generous in usage, but secondly by switching to vegetable or seed oils, or various oil blends," Valmorbida said.

Nevertheless, he maintained that a base demand for olive oil as a healthy and natural product will "remain at almost any price."

"So without an increase in rainfall, we could continue to see historically elevated prices at or above 5 euro per kg through into the 2023/24 harvest year."

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/olive-oil-prices-hit-record-highs-due-to-bad-weather-in-spain.html

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

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

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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]

https://strangesounds.org/2023/05/concentration-of-at-least-five-russian-warships-in-the-north-sea-3-of-them-

are-kalibr-cruise-missile-capable.html

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'Elimination' call against Ukrainian President after drone attacks on the Kremlin. Russia’s former President and Deputy Chief of Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that there is no other option left but to 'physically eliminate' Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Dmitry Medvedev also made a comparison between Ukraine and Nazi Germany. Watch this report for more.

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West cannot stay silent on Kremlin drone attack but won’t admit anything – experts

The strike breaks an unofficial deal between Moscow, Kiev and the West not to target political leaders, analysts warn

A Ukrainian drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s working residences in the Kremlin has shaken the status quo in the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, a group of experts told RT following the incident. It could also lead to a dangerous escalation possibly involving the use of nuclear weapons, they warned, adding that Russia is bound to retaliate.

Thomas Roeper, a German author and war correspondent currently residing in St. Petersburg, said he was “quite surprised” to hear of the attack, since it clearly violated “an unofficial agreement not to bomb, not to attack places where the leading politicians are.”

“There is no doubt that Russia will have to retaliate,” said Ralph Niemeyer, the head of the German Opposition Group for German Sovereignty and Constitution. “There will be further escalation, even up to the threat of the use of nuclear [weapons], which I think is still possible,” he added.

A Turkish professor of international law and an expert on terrorism, Mesut Hakki Casin, suggested that an escalation may have been the goal of the people who planned the strike. The forces behind the attack might have sought to put the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine “at the center of European warfare” and potentially even provoke Moscow into launching a tactical nuclear strike, he told RT.

“It’s a very unacceptable and a very, very dirty game,” the Turkish analyst warned. Casin also said Kiev may not have been alone in planning and organizing the strike. “This is an organized international attack,” he said.

Ukraine’s Western backers will not be able to ignore the incident in any case, Niemeyer believes. The German opposition figure still anticipates that the US and its allies will try to downplay the incident and “say it was not the Kiev regime, it was not [President Vladimir] Zelensky’s people,” as they did with the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.

According to Roeper, the attack could also affect relations between Kiev and Washington if the Ukrainians did not inform their backers about the planned attack in advance.

“Maybe Washington was not informed, and maybe it was. We will see by the reaction. If Washington was not informed, there will be some angry reaction because this is a quite big danger to attack the president of a nuclear power,” the journalist said.

Two drones targeted the Kremlin in an attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning. One exploded over the Senate Palace, which houses the Russian Presidential administration. The second fell in the grounds of the Kremlin, not far from the president’s official primary workplace, the Great Kremlin Palace. Moscow blamed the incident on Ukraine and has reserved the right to retaliate. Kiev denies any responsibility.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575718-west-kremlin-drone-attack-experts/

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

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New data just revealed that eviction cases in the U.S. have jumped by almost 80% since October 2022. Official agencies report that about 13% of the U.S. population, which represents over 40 million people, is at risk of losing their homes this year amid explosive rent prices and a worrying trend among some of the country’s biggest landlords of increasing the rate of monthly evictions to boost their cash flow growth. While companies and investors worry about their bottom lines, families are losing everything, and homelessness is growing all across the country. Housing advocates say this is the cliff we’ve been warned about and things will only go downhill from here.

Corporate landlords are removing renters from homes at rates that largely surpass the typical pre-pandemic rate, a new report from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University shows. Analyzing how eviction levels changed in 32 U.S. cities over the past six months, researchers found that landlords in these areas filed about 970,000 eviction cases every month, a whopping 79% increase compared to a year prior.

In Phoenix, for example, rent prices shoot up over 25% year over year, with a median asking rent of $2,261. In Maricopa County alone, evictions are at their highest levels since at least 2016, with more than 45,000 filings so far this year. “Lately, it just seems to be all that we’ve been doing,” said Huberman, the presiding justice of the peace for Maricopa County.

Even areas experiencing less dramatic increases in rent are witnessing a rise in evictions as Americans scramble to cope with inflation. In Minneapolis, where rent increases have trended below the national average, evictions in December were 37% above their historical averages after shooting up in June, when the state lifted its eviction moratorium.

In the last quarter, the Las Vegas Justice Court head over 45,000 eviction cases, a significant rise compared to earlier years when the average was closer to 30,000 cases. In Dallas County, home to the city of Dallas, landlords filed almost 60,000 evictions in the past four months. This is not just a problem isolated to major urban centers, but also rural and industrial communities, where housing costs have been surging at an alarming pace as well. The latest analysis of weekly U.S. Census data indicates that in the absence of robust and swift intervention, an estimated 44.5 million people in America could be at risk of eviction in the next several months. That represents about 13% of the U.S. 331 million people population.

“My biggest fear is the cliff that we’ve been all anticipating is here. From here on out, it’s going to be a very, very difficult time,” highlighted Tim Thomas, research director at the Urban Displacement Project at the University of California, Berkeley. “I don’t want to be a doom and gloom person, but we’re probably about to see the worst of what’s about to happen.”

Although inflation has finally started to ease, overall economic uncertainty is still on the rise, and rents nationwide are still $800 more expensive than in 2019. Before the pandemic, the median rent in the U.S. was at $1,062. Today, it stands at $1,937. America can’t afford to wait for another major national emergency to happen to finally start taking action. People are losing the roof above their heads, and their sense of dignity and security now, so we must act now before this crisis spirals out of control.

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

By Yaron Steinbuch May 3, 2023 8:01am Updated

The US Navy invited an active-duty drag queen to be a “Digital Ambassador” – as part of a recent drive “to attract the most talented and diverse workforce” and combat plunging recruitment.

Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, who identifies as non-binary, was appointed as the first of five Navy Digital Ambassadors in a pilot program that ran from October to March.

Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, has shared their journey on TikTok and Instagram, where they described how they began performing onboard and became an “advocate” for people who “were oppressed for years in the service.”

“From joining to 2016 and being able to share my drag experience on my off time with my fellow sailors has been a blessing,” Kelley wrote on Instagram in November when announcing their appointment as a digital ambassador to their more than 8,000 followers.

“Thank you to the Navy for giving me this opportunity! I don’t speak for the Navy but simply sharing my experience in the Navy! Hooyah, and let’s go Slay!” they added.

The “Digital Ambassador” program that Kelley took part in ran from October to March and was “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates” as the Navy battles “the most challenging recruiting environment it has faced since the start of the all-volunteer force,” a Navy spokesperson told Fox News.

The service branch is evaluating what form the program, which included five active-duty personnel, will take in the future, the rep added.

“The Navy did not compensate YN2 Kelley or any others for being Navy Digital Ambassadors,” the spokesperson also noted.

Kelley has told Carl Herzog of the USS Constitution Museum that they began dressing in drag and performing in shows long before joining the Navy.

In 2017 and 2018, they performed as Harpy in a crew morale-boosting lip sync competition while on deployment on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.

“I started performing in drag in 2013. Drag had no influence with me joining. It was the Navy I feared that would’ve influenced me to stop doing drag,” Kelley told Herzog.

“For myself, drag has been a passion, an art, and a way to express myself. … Ship life is difficult. Every day fades into one, and high stress and intensity can bring low morale and can cause suicide and bad behavior,” they said.

Kelly said that their performance on the Ronald Regan helped save someone’s life.

“This person was gay and felt lost and alone, ready to jump ship. But after getting to view my performance, they felt empowered to be themselves and see that our struggles and low morale are temporary,” the Yeoman 2nd Class said.

“They personally thanked me and said they forgot what life was like for a moment. That’s a struggle we all deal with during deployments and we all have our reasons to lose ourselves,” the sailor continued.

Asked what their plans are, both as a drag queen and in the Navy, Kelly told Herzog that their “goals as a sailor are to continue working hard, make first (class) and become the first officer in my family.”

“As for drag, I hope to continue performing, building safe spaces for queer individuals, and one day make it on RuPaul’s Drag Race as one of the first active service members,” they added.

The ambassador program was launched as the Navy is trying to boost its size to 347,000 members in 2024, up from the current 341,736 serving in fiscal year 2023, according to the Navy Times.

It committed to recruit and retain personnel through fostering an inclusive culture and ensuring they feel “included and connected to mission and leaders at all levels,” according to the latest diversity, equity and inclusion policy updates cited by the Daily Caller.

On April 19, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti told the House Armed Services Committee that the Navy is projected to fall 6,000 recruits, or 16%, short of its fiscal year 2023 goal for enlisted sailors.

“To attract the most talented and diverse workforce, the Navy continues to evaluate its compensation package and admission requirements, and how it reaches potential recruits through advertising and career events,” according to the Navy’s budget proposal for 2024, the outlet reported.

The ambassador program is one of several ways the Navy uses to reach various populations to overcome what the spokesperson called “the most challenging recruiting environment since the start of the all-volunteer force.”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/us-navy-appointed-active-duty-drag-queen-as-ambassador/

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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”.

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/01/2023 – 21:40

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For the world has become very evil and they desire the evil more than they desire those things that are righteous and they desire to walk the way of the evil. You can even see it in the elections, they are willing to accept the evil and reject that which would be good. This is a sign that you have crossed the line, that there is no turning back, that my judgment must come upon the face of the earth, etc

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Pennsylvania school district must allow After School Satan Club: judge

By Olivia Land May 2, 2023 10:03am Updated

A federal judge ruled this week that a Pennsylvania school district must allow a Satanist club to meet, citing the group’s First Amendment rights.

US District Judge John M. Gallagher wrote in a Monday filing that the Saucon Valley School District violated the After School Satan Club’s free speech privileges when it rescinded its agreement to let the group meet on school grounds, the Morning Call reported.

The club, which is sponsored by the Satanic Temple, had its official approval revoked earlier this year after its promotional flyers caused a stir in the Lehigh Valley community.

The national ACLU, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and Dechert LLP subsequently sued the district on behalf of the Satanic Temple in March, the Hill reported.

“Here, although The Satanic Temple, Inc.’s objectors may challenge the sanctity of this controversially named organization, the sanctity of the First Amendment’s protections must prevail,” Gallagher reasoned in his decision.

Gallagher, however, also acknowledged Superintendent Jaime Vlasaty’s “unenviable” position when faced with a shooting threat in response to the club in February.

While he rejected the district’s claim that the Satanic club violated official advertising policies, he did prohibit the group from distributing permission slips and flyers because the school no longer permitted the practice.

As part of the judge’s ruling, the district must allow the After School Satan Club to meet on three previously selected dates at Saucon Valley Middle School in aptly named Hellertown.

The first gathering is set for next week, WFMZ reported.

“This ruling sends a powerful message that the First Amendment protects the viewpoints and beliefs of all people and faiths,” Sara Rose, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, said in a statement to the Morning Call.

“When a school district opens up its facilities, it cannot discriminate based on religious beliefs. This ruling reinforces the principle of equal access and ensures that all views have a fair opportunity to be expressed.”

The Satanic Temple does not worship Satan as an incarnation of evil, but instead uses the controversial symbol as a representation of independent thought and free will.

The group made headlines last week as the largest-ever gathering of adherents prepared to descend on Boston for SatanCon 2023.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/penn-school-district-must-allow-satan-club-judge/

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etc. you shall see Russia go to war very soon now, you shall see Babylon destroyed in twenty four hours, you shall see the great earthquake, you shall see these things etc

etc You see the King of Jordan as he brings his restrictions, as he demands that you stay away from the temple, that you do not move Jerusalem. You hear America now saying they may change their mind, do they know not what this will bring forth, this will be the dividing of the land again. Once again I gave you that land, that land is your land and you have no right giving even a gravesite away to another country, that is my land. And when you divide that land, not only will you divide that land, but you will divide America and the great lakes will flow to New Orleans and disaster shall take place. Do you not see the volcanoes; do you not hear about the earthquakes, do you not realize that the plates underneath the ocean have shifted? Do you not see Russia on the move; does she not have her largest submarine setting off of North Carolina and South Carolina and Virginia? etc

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Swarms of Earthquakes shake California in recent days as officials warn the cost of yearly quake damage nears $10 BILLION - up 157% from six years ago

Southern California was hit with multiple earthquakes over the weekend

Quakes come as California continues to see uptick in natural occurrences

New report indicates damage nears $10B per year, up 157% from six years ago

By Hope Sloop For Dailymail.Com

Published: 17:31 EDT, 30 April 2023 | Updated: 17:36 EDT, 30 April 2023

A swarm of earthquakes hit Southern California over the weekend as the Golden State continues to see a massive uptick in the cost of quake damage.

One earthquake that shook the Salton Sea region - located south of Joshua Tree - registered as a 4.5 in magnitude on the Richter scale.

The first earthquake occurred near the U.S.- Mexico border town of Herber around 12pm Saturday and more than four dozen tremors were subsequently registered over the next 18 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The latest quakes come after a new report from USGS indicated that California is projected to lose an average of $9.6 billion a year from earthquake damage.

That number is a 157 percent jump from 2017 when it was just $3.7 billion a year.

The earthquake and tremors in Herber reached up to 3.7 in magnitude.

According to USGS, around 60 residents felt the first quake and the following tremors.

A second series of earthquakes struck near Niland, a town 40 miles north of the border. After the first, more than 25 tremors shook the area after midnight Sunday.

There, the earthquakes lasted until 5.28am and reached a magnitude of 4.5.

Those tremors were felt by roughly 30 people in the area.

Between the Herber and Niland earthquakes, a 3.2-magnitude quake hit the shore of the Salton Sea around 10.55pm.

At this time, there are no reports of damage or injuries from any of the quakes.

Seismologists say in the most recent report that California and Nevada have seen around 230 earthquakes each year between magnitudes of 3.0 to 4.0.

In the latest hazard report from the USGS, published in April, the organization outlines the potentially catastrophic damage that could come from the quakes.

'In any given year a big earthquake strikes ... you can easily anticipate a $100-billion loss,' USGS research structural engineer Kishor Jaiswal told The Los Angeles Times.

California has been hit with numerous devastating earthquakes in the past that have left areas scrambling to rebuild for years - if not decades - afterward.

According to the new USGS report, Los Angeles and Orange counties are the most costly places that can be hit by earthquakes at a projected annual loss of $3.3 billion a year.

Right behind the Southern California places is the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metro area, with a projected loss of $1.8 billion a year.

Shockingly, the report also indicates California's expected costs make up around 65 percent of the nation's total damages.

Over the next three decades, California is projected to lose $288 billion.

Five counties in Southern California - Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties - could lose nearly $150 billion.

Nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area would lose around $90 billion.

'It's a sobering reminder about why we need to prepare for those rare but large earthquakes, as just one major event can eclipse the costs of the more frequent but smaller ones,' USGS Director David Applegate said in a statement.

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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

If you want to know what’s evil and what’s good, what are the characteristics of those?

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.

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?

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

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.

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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UN Body Will Host 'Nakba' Event Mourning Creation Of Israel

One of many United Nations bodies dedicated to the Palestinians announced last weekend an upcoming U.N. commemoration of "Nakba Day," the supposed "catastrophe" that marked the birth of the State of Israel in 1948.

Palestinian and their supporters mark this annually on May 15, one day after Israel announced its independence on May 14, 1948.

The day purportedly memorializes the displacement of Palestinian Arabs. During the course of fighting beginning in November 1947, when U.N. member states voted to partition the land, and lasting until the summer of 1949, many Arabs in the area fled during hostilities or heeded instructions from Arab leaders to leave their homes as five Arab armies tried to annihilate the nascent Jewish state at birth.

Pursuant to a U.N. General Assembly resolution passed in December, the U.N. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) announced that a Nakba Day event will be held inside the halls of the United Nations for the first time.

"Commemorations ... will bring to life the Palestinian journey and will aim at creating an immersive experience of the Nakba through live music, photos, videos and personal testimonies," CEIRPP stated in a weekend release.

The resolution itself was sponsored by Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinians; it passed by a vote of 90 in favor, 30 against and 47 abstentions.

Israel, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States were among the countries that voted against.

While CEIRPP falls under the purview of the Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR) of the Secretariat, which reports to the U.N. secretary-general, the U.N. chief himself deflected this weekend's announcement.

When directly asked, the spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres responded that "this is an event decided upon by the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which is a member state body. The Secretary-General is not involved in its decision-making."

His spokesman said he is not aware of any plans for Guterres to participate in the commemoration.

When asked where Guterres stands on the appropriateness of U.N. member states mourning the U.N.-backed formation of a fellow member state, the spokesman told JNS that "the secretary-general's message on the Israel-Palestine issue has been constant and remains the same regardless of the fora."

That message, added the spokesman, is to "end the occupation and realize a two-state solution."

"What is needed is the political will and courage to make the difficult choices for peace that ends the occupation and ensures two states--Israel and an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state--living side by side within secure and recognized borders, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states," said the spokesman. "A peace in which Palestinians and Israelis alike enjoy equal measures of democracy, opportunity and dignity in their lives. A peace, in short, that is just, comprehensive and lasting."

Abbas: 'At the top of our priorities'

The United Nations established the partition plan that would have divided then-Mandatory British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states with international oversight of Jerusalem. Jewish leaders accepted the plan. Palestinian Arabs rejected it then, and have turned down repeated offers of statehood since.

While the Palestinians hold non-member observer status at the United Nations, their influence is outsized.

While Nakba Day is officially added to the U.N. calendar, Nov. 29 already exists as the U.N. Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It is the only day the United Nations sets aside in the cause of one group of people, and its related events at U.N. headquarters around the world are generally used in large part to bash Israel.

The U.N. delegates a special rapporteur to the Palestinians--one with an open-ended mandate that presupposes Israel's human-rights violations. Special rapporteurs for all other purposes have mandates of limited duration with objective fact-finding missions. The current special rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, has a history of blatant antisemitism and falsified information on her application for the position to hide her past biases against Israel.

The ongoing U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict likewise has a unique unending mandate, and is populated by multiple commission members with a history of antisemitism and extensive documented anti-Israel bias.

Besides CEIRPP, which was created in 1975, an additional U.N. special committee and an entire division of the U.N. Secretariat are devoted exclusively to the Palestinian cause. The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, created in 1968, and the DPR, in existence since 1979, cost the international body millions of dollars a year, including the creation and publication of anti-Israel materials.

No other group of people is afforded this type of status at the United Nations.

The DPR and CEIRPP organize meetings and conferences in coordination with anti-Israel non-governmental organizations, often promoting BDS and the Palestinian "right of return," which would see an end to Jewish sovereignty in Israel.

In 2004, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution creating yet another Palestinian-specific body, the U.N. Register of Damages (UNRoD). The agency was created to help Palestinians file claims against Israel for purported damages incurred during Israel's construction of the security barrier, intended to stop a wave of Palestinian suicide bombers during the Second Intifada that took place from 2000 to 2005.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has a mandate that uniquely provides refugee status to every Palestinian child--even those born in Palestinian-controlled areas and those with citizenship in other countries--in perpetuity and funds their benefits.

No detailed plans have yet been announced for the U.N. Nakba Day.

"Commemorating the nakba must be at the top of our priorities in order to preserve our narrative, which we must adhere to and convey to the whole world," the Palestinian WAFA news agency quoted Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas as saying after the CEIRPP announcement.

According to the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, Abbas--a fomenter of Holocaust denial--instructed Palestinians to commemorate Nakba Day "to confront all lies and false narratives that attempt to distort history and facts."

"What Palestinians everywhere are required to do is to commemorate this tragedy, because it is the first time that the global community does not deny the nakba," said Abbas, who rejected a peace offer from then-Israeli premier Ehud Olmert in 2008--one that was largely seen as generous by the international community.

Originally published at JNS.org - reposted with permission.

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'March of the Million' shatters claim nation opposes judicial reform

"We are told that if the reform passes there will be a dictatorship. There is no bigger lie than that," Justice Minister Yariv Levin tells the estimated 600,000 who rallied in Jerusalem in support of the legislation.

By David Isaac/JNS Published on 04-28-2023 12:49 Last modified: 04-28-2023 12:49

The "March of the Million" near the Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday evening may not have hit its target (organizers say 600,000 attended; police say 200,000), but it succeeded in putting to bed Opposition claims that Israelis are united against judicial reform. It also provided much-needed backing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's beleaguered government.

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Supporters of reform have been slow to respond to months of protests against it, which have forced the coalition back on its heels, leading Netanyahu to pause the process and enter into negotiations with the opposition under the auspices of President Isaac Herzog. Those favoring reform worry that the result will be a watered-down version of the legislation. Among the crowd's chants at the rally: "Stop being afraid" and "We don't want compromise."

Of the many politicians and right-wing figures who addressed the assembled, the biggest cheers went to the chief architects of judicial reform: Justice Minister Yariv Levin of Likud and Knesset Member Simcha Rothman of the Religious Zionism Party, who chairs the parliament's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.

"Over two million Israelis voted six months ago in the real referendum: the election. They voted in favor of legal reform," Levin declared. "We are here on this stage with 64 mandates to right an injustice. No more inequality, no one-sided judicial system, no court whose judges are above the Knesset and above the government.

"We are told that if the reform passes there will be a dictatorship. There is no bigger lie than that. Show me a single democracy in which the legal advisers decide [government policy] instead of the government," Levin said, adding to cheers, "I will do everything in my power to bring the desired change to the judicial system.

"If someone were to tell me a few years ago that in 2023 there would be such a broad consensus in Israeli society for the need for judicial reform and that the situation today isn't democratic, I would have told him he was delusional," Rothman said. "Correcting the judicial system is my life's mission and I will continue to promote it in every way."

Likud MK Avichay Boaron acted as master of ceremonies. "The purpose of the demonstration is to remind and demand from our elected officials in the government and the coalition that the people want judicial reform, that the people are behind them, that the people give them strength," he said.

Netanyahu, who didn't attend for security reasons, tweeted, "I am deeply moved by the tremendous support of the national camp that came to Jerusalem this evening en masse. All of us, 64 mandates that brought on our victory, are first-class citizens. You warmed my heart very much, and I thank each and every one of you."

Twenty-nine NGOs sponsored the protest, foremost among them Tekuma 23, an NGO founded by political activist Berale Crombie together with Boaron. Its mission is to build support for judicial reform in the wake of the protests against it.

The pro-reform rally was different in tone from its anti-reform counterparts, which are grim affairs with warnings of pending dictatorship, clashes with police, solemn torchlit marches and women dressed as Margaret Atwood-inspired handmaids with heads lowered. This rally was boisterous, resembling a giant block party. Music pumped through large speaker systems. Protesters danced and sang. Strangers backslapped one another. It was festive. The optimism was palpable.

Encountering Herzl Hajaj of Choosing Life, a forum of Israeli terror victims and bereaved families, JNS asked him to explain the difference.

"The Right is always happier," he said. "There's a lot of money driving the Left's protests. The folks who make all the noise and confusion do it for a payment. People here have left work. They came from Eilat, Metulla, Dimona because their hearts are with this government."

Another notable difference was the age of the protesters. At Thursday's rally, youth was the rule with thousands of teens in attendance. Young families with infants were not uncommon.

Israel's right argues that the Supreme Court turned activist starting in the 1990s under then-Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, who orchestrated what he termed the "Constitutional Revolution." The government says its judicial reform program seeks to fix the problem that has grown with the years and restore the balance of power between the three branches of government.

Rothman told JNS earlier in the week that for the Opposition the protests aren't really about judicial reform but a clash between two visions of what Israel should be, a secular state on the lines of Denmark, or a Jewish state deeply connected to its particular religious and cultural traditions. If such is the case, the young teens chanting "Rothman" at Thursday's rally symbolize opponents' fear that demographics are against them. They see the Supreme Court as a check on right-wing ascendance, which explains their determination to defend its power.

Reformers are just as determined to drive through changes to the court, which they say rules according to a left-wing, globalist worldview.

Hajaj said, "Bereaved families, victims of terror, are here because the Supreme Court plays a big role in undermining deterrence against terrorists. They give them rights that no other country gives them. And we paid with the blood of our children. And the citizens of Israel will continue to pay with their blood until we change this."

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JNS also met Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, director of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch, who served in senior positions in the IDF Military Advocate General's Corps.

"What brings me here is the understanding that the legal system has to change. I was part of that ecosystem for 20 years. I was an assistant district prosecutor. And I understand that the legal system as it is today has completely failed," he told JNS, highlighting the self-selection process that goes on in the judicial system and precludes a diversity of views on the bench.

"We have members of the Bar Association appointing judges, lawyers appointing their friends to be judges with the assistance of Supreme Court judges, ensuring that they only appoint lawyers who are the same as they – in their image. Nothing changes. There's only one way of thinking," Hirsch said.

Im Tirtzu, an NGO and one of the rally organizers, organized street theater highlighting the Supreme Court's power. It featured people lined up in orange prison jumpsuits, representing a nation imprisoned by the court's rulings. Each carried a sign with a different ruling: "The Supreme Court requires National Insurance payments to terrorists," "The Supreme Court rejected petitions against the building of illegal mosques on the Temple Mount," "The Supreme Court prevents the removal of illegal [aliens] even when they're violent."

One protester wearing a mask of current Supreme Court President Esther Hayut held a stick with which he pretended to threaten and beat the uniformed protesters should they get out of line.

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/04/28/march-of-the-million-shatters-claim-nation-opposes-judicial-reform/

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Palestinian teen shot dead by IDF troops during clashes in West Bank

Military says suspects hurling stones, including 16-year-old Mustafa Amer Sabah, endangered troops near Tuqu’, south of Bethlehem

By Emanuel Fabian 28 April 2023, 4:54 pmUpdated at 7:43 pm

A 16-year-old Palestinian was killed by live fire during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Tuqu’, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said Friday.

Palestinian media outlets identified the teen as Mustafa Amer Sabah.

According to media reports, Sabah was shot in the chest and taken to a hospital in Bethlehem, where he died of his wounds.

A spokesperson for the Israeli military told The Times of Israel that troops had initially opened fire into the air and used riot dispersal means against a number of Palestinians hurling stones near Tuqu’.

“After the rioters continued to approach the troops and hurl stones in a way that endangered the troops, the force responded by with live fire,” the spokesperson said, adding that some of the suspects were hit by the gunfire.

The Israel Defense Forces said it was aware of Sabah’s death, and a military source said he had been involved in previous rioting.

The IDF said it was continuing to investigate the circumstances of the incident.

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have been high for the past year, with the Israeli military conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Palestinian terror attacks.

At least 95 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, most of them while carrying out attacks or during clashes with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated.

Palestinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank have left 19 people dead since the beginning of the year and several more seriously hurt.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-teen-said-shot-dead-by-idf-troops-during-clashes-in-west-bank/

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Dr. Eric R. Mandel

Tightening the noose around Israel

As Iran and the Sunni Arab states reconcile, Israel is left out in the cold.

April 28, 2023

The main headlines

U.S. President Joe Biden talks to members of the press in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 2, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

(April 27, 2023 / JNS) Less than one year ago, Lawrence Haas, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, wrote an article for The Hill entitled “U.S. needs a strategy for a realigned Middle East.” He said, “As recent events make clear, the Middle East is increasingly becoming a bifurcated region, with Israel and its growing Sunni Arab allies on one side, and Iran and … its terror-group allies on the other. Gone are the days when the region was bifurcated in another way—between Israel and everyone else.”

Now that seems like ancient history.

Today, Iran is restoring and improving diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Jordan. Syria, the pariah of the Arab League for its genocide against Sunni Arabs, is now being welcomed back into the fold. Last week, the foreign ministers of the UAE and Iran “agreed to enhance cooperation.” Just a short time ago, the UAE was solidly in the anti-Iran regional axis.

China has gladly filled the void of the American withdrawal and signed long-term economic deals with Iran and Saudi Arabia. According to Bloomberg, Beijing is “stepping into the widening breach between Washington and Saudi Arabia. … China has put its stamp on the region in a way that could hardly have been guessed six months ago.” With the help of China, Iran’s “resistance” economy helped it sustain and support its terror proxies.

In this game of musical chairs, Israel is left standing alone. The promise of the Abraham Accords has been tarnished. If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict turns into a full-fledged intifada, Abraham Accords allies and Jordan may downgrade relations. China is so confident of its new status in the region that its Foreign Minister Qin Gang is encouraging talks between Israel and the Palestinians, once the exclusive purview of the American State Department.

The realignment’s foundation is Iran’s overwhelming influence in Lebanon, with its Hezbollah proxy dominating military control and cowing the Lebanese Armed Forces while also holding a veto on Lebanese government appointments. According to Al-Monitor, the “Israeli Defense Ministry reported Hezbollah received $700 million from Iran last year.” Iran’s sway in Syria has grown exponentially, with an expanding IRGC presence and dominance over the beleaguered Syrian military, despite continuing Israeli strikes against Iran’s transfer of precision-guided missiles into Lebanon.

The new orientation includes Iran’s growing entrenchment in Iraq. According to INSS, new Iraqi Prime Minister al-Sudani’s government “has provided incentives and financial payments to pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, with the appointment of senior members of these militias to lucrative positions in the institutions of power. … These internal developments could improve the capabilities of the pro-Iranian militias and the ability of the Iranian regime to use them on the Iraqi front for regional military operations—as well as operations targeting Israel.”

To the south, Saudi Arabia’s upgraded relations with Iran have weakened, if not dismantled, the anti-Iran Arab axis. As the dominant regional player, the Saudis have signaled to the members of the Abraham Accords that they may want to recalibrate their relationship with Israel.

To the east, Jordan, another target of Iranian desires, reported that its Foreign Ministry and Iran’s are moving closer to reestablishing relations. Jordan, a long-time American ally with a cold peace treaty with Israel, is hedging its bets as Iranian militias sit on its eastern border with Iraq. This is another consequence of the Iranian-Saudi realignment.

To the north, Syrian President Bashar Assad, despite the genocide he presided over during the Syrian civil war, is being welcomed back into the Arab League. As an Iranian client, this makes continued Israeli attacks against Iranian transport of munitions, weapons and missiles more challenging, especially with Russia firmly entrenched in Syria with its upgraded naval and air bases.

The repercussions of the new and growing Iranian-Chinese-Russian anti-American axis are causing our Middle Eastern allies to reconsider their relations, transitioning from being firmly aligned with the U.S. to a more neutral position.

The Biden administration hopes that the new Middle East realignment will create an opportunity to entice Iran to reenter a watered-down nuclear deal, allowing the White House to kick the Iranian can down the road to a future administration. If this occurs, expect intense American pressure on Israel to restrain itself against Iran, so as not to cause problems for Israel’s closest ally. Israeli restraint in response to U.S. pressure would be interpreted by Iran as a weakness to be exploited, further tightening the noose around Israel.

Just as the —nothing in foreign policy ever goes according to plan. Taking the AmericRussian invasion of Ukraine surprised the U.S. and its European allies—and today’s consensus is that the next calamity will be a Chinese invasion of Taiwan an eye off the Middle East because of the Ukrainian and Taiwanese predicaments is an invitation to America’s adversaries to take risks they would not have contemplated in the recent past.

The Middle East always seems to have the last word. A year from now, the fickle regional alignments could fall apart or even further isolate Israel. Stay tuned.

Eric R. Mandel is the director of MEPIN, the Middle East Political Information Network. He regularly briefs members of Congress and their foreign policy aides. He is the senior security editor for The Jerusalem Report. Follow him on Twitter @MepinOrg.

https://www.jns.org/opinion/tightening-the-noose-around-israel/

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Anarchy Stirs in Israel

By Hal Lindsey

The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, recently said, “Israel is in the throes of a profound crisis.” He spoke of “civil war,” and said, “The abyss is within touching distance.”

Civil war? The abyss? Is it really that bad in Israel? It all centers on judicial reform. Extreme leftists protested proposed reforms by rioting in the streets. Others on the left protested peacefully but in large numbers. Like the nation’s president, many speak of civil war and anarchy. Protests occurred in places you would never expect. Elite military officers walked off the job one Sunday in March. Many of Israel’s reservists have refused to report for duty.

Meanwhile, Israel’s enemies watch and feel emboldened. Terrorists rampaged within Israel, and a missile barrage hit from without. The result of all this has been to effectively thrust us forward on God’s end-times timeline.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government won the majority in the last election partly because they promised the very judicial reforms now being protested. Voters chose the conservative coalition, not despite such reforms, but at least partly because of them. The reforms would allow the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) to overrule Supreme Court decisions. The Knesset would also be given more of a say in who becomes a member of that court.

When Americans hear that a parliamentary body would have the ability to overrule the Supreme Court, they usually think, “That’s unconstitutional!” They forget that Israel has no constitution. And Israel’s present method for choosing members of the Supreme Court mostly leaves out any form of accountability to the people.

Even with its flaws, I prefer our system. When a Court vacancy occurs in the United States, the President nominates a replacement. The Senate can then either confirm the nominee or not. The people elect the President. The people also choose Senators. So, ultimately, members of the US Supreme Court, along with other federal judges, are chosen by elected representatives of the people.

It doesn’t work that way in Israel. There, Supreme Court judges are chosen by something called the “Judicial Selection Committee.” The majority in the Knesset only holds two of the nine positions on the committee. In other words, the people have almost no say in the matter at all.

Without a Constitution, Israel’s courts have no guardrails. They began to realize their overwhelming power during the time of a man named Aharon Barak. He became a member of Israel’s Supreme Court in 1978 and served as the Court’s president from 1995 until 2006. He changed everything. He praised what he called, “judicial legislation.” He called “judicial lawmaking… the task of a supreme court.”

In other words, forget democracy. Forget government of, by, and for the people. Instead, an unelected few “legislate” for everyone else. Barak also eliminated previous constraints on the kind of cases the Court could take up. Presently, Israel is stuck with a court chosen by elites and not the people. That court can take up any issue it wants, overriding the will of the nation’s elected leaders, while passing its own laws.

Does Israel need judicial reform? It absolutely needs it! We often call that nation the only working democracy in the Middle East. But Israel’s Supreme Court presently has the same power as Iran’s mullahs. They can undo anything Israel’s democratically chosen representatives do and replace those laws with laws of the court’s own making. In the absence of a constitution, the answer seems to be to make the judiciary more accountable to the people through their elected representatives in the Knesset.

On March 27th, Prime Minister Netanyahu temporarily withdrew his reform proposals. Maybe during this pause, they can figure out a better approach. But make no mistake. Without reform, the 15 judges of Israel’s Supreme Court hold absolute power. And that is incompatible with the basic premise of democracy.

A final word here. This is not the end of Israel. What Satan means for evil, God will use for good. And He will keep His promises.

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-4-16-2023/

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27 Apr, 2023 05:30

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Yuan overtakes dollar in China’s cross-border payments

The Chinese currency was used in 48.4% of Beijing’s international settlements, figures have shown

The yuan surpassed the US dollar to become the most-used currency in China’s cross-border transactions last month, Reuters reported on Wednesday citing official data.

Cross-border payments and receipts in yuan surged from $434.5 billion in February to a record $549.9 billion in March, according to calculations by the outlet, based on data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

The Chinese currency was used in 48.4% of all cross-border transactions, reflecting a trend of shifting away from the dollar, as well as Beijing’s efforts to promote the use of the yuan. The share of the greenback in China’s international settlements dropped from 48.6% in February to 46.7% last month.

The volume of cross-border transactions covers both current and capital accounts, the outlet said. Although the share of the yuan in global settlements is still relatively low, it has been steadily on the rise over the past several years.

READ MORE: Russia completely abandons dollar, euro in energy trade – deputy PM

China’s attempts to move away from the dollar in international trade have sped up against the backdrop of sweeping sanctions imposed by Western nations against Russia, a major global energy producer and exporter. Indian policymakers have also taken steps towards shifting away from the greenback to rubles and rupees in mutual trade with Moscow.

Russia has been boosting its use of alternative currencies in transactions since last year. President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the Chinese yuan should be used more widely, not only in trade with China, but also in Russia’s transactions with countries in Africa and Latin America. The latest data from the Bank of Russia shows that the yuan has become a major player in Russia’s foreign trade.

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Wait, WHAT? – DOJ Inspector General Reveals More than 10,000 Federal Employees Have Access to NSA Database for Surveillance Inquiries

April 28, 2023 | Sundance | 436 Comments

Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified yesterday that more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government. These search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.”

Additionally, IG Horowitz also admitted that somewhere north of 10,000 federal employees have access to conduct these searches of the NSA database; a database which contains the electronic data of every single American, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases by electronic funds, banking records and any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason.

If we were in a functioning system of government everything would be stopped right now, and no conversation would be taking place that was not about this issue. This is the total and complete surveillance state being talked about as if we were discussing what’s for dinner.

This is beyond jaw-dropping.

Context: In 2018 CTH revealed through research of their own documents that FBI and DOJ/FBI contractors had done more than 1,000 illegal searches using the NSA database, targeting Republican primary candidates from November 2015 through May 2016. These stunning admissions were from the DOJ’s own reporting to the FISA court.

Few were paying attention.

Although the number of the illegal search queries were redacted, we know the number is four digits from the size of the redacted text. More than 1,000 and less than 9,999.

FAST FORWARD TO 2023 – Yesterday, IG Horowitz outlined that more than 1.1 million illegal searches of this database were conducted in 2021 during the first year of the Joe Biden administration.

Additionally, and perhaps more consequentially, to give scope to how the process of total domestic surveillance has expanded, Horowitz now admits in 2021 the number of federal government employees with access to this total metadata collection system now exceeds 10,000 people. STOP THE PRESSES!

Yes, congress is talking about this ‘as if’ there is some level of importance. However, the basic questions are not being asked, or have perhaps just become so accepted that legislators have become oblivious to the insanity of it. Beyond the blood boiling questions about searching the NSA database, questions like:

In order for these search queries to take place, there has to be a housing facility to capture it.

Where is all of this electronic data being stored?

Why is all of this electronic data being stored?

Who is in control of this all-encompassing electronic data collection?

Forget the searches for a moment, what act of congress authorized the capture of this private data collection? Essentially electronic intercepts of communication systems that flow throughout our life.

The background context here is congress debating the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the power of the DOJ and FBI to intercept American citizen communication and electronic data via the “702” authorizations, that permit the NSA database to be searched and queried.

If the inspector general is now admitting the FISA laws have been so comprehensively corrupted such that 3.4 million searches by more than 10,000 federal employees and government contractors now have access, there is no way that any reasonably intelligent person should support such reauthorization. Even contemplating this request is absurd, beyond absurd.

The United States government is admitting to the public that a total and comprehensive surveillance state is currently in place, and 10,000 federal government agents have the authorization to monitor everything we do.

This is the admitted and current status of RIGHT NOW. Yet people are worried about possible ‘vaccination passports’ or ‘digital currencies’ or ‘social credit scores’ sometime in the future?

Have we totally lost connection to the reality of our current condition?

Can you see the insanity of it?…

… Or should we just ask, “what’s for dinner?”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/28/wait-what-doj-inspector-general-reveals-more-than-10000

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Large & Small US Banks See Deposit Outflows Continue, Small Bank Lending Growth Tumbled

Friday, April 28, 2023 17:41

It’s late on a Friday afternoon, after a total collapse in First Republic (which likely saw massive deposit outflows today as it stock collapsed to low single-digits), and we may get a hint of how bad it was heading into this chaos as The Fed’s H.8 (commercial bank deposit data) just dropped.

After yesterday’s report showed the Fed balance sheet shrinking but bank bailout facility usage higher, total US Commercial Bank deposits rose $21 billion during the week ended 4/19…

Source: Bloomberg

However, US commercial bank deposits (ex-large time deposits) continued their freefall (during the week-ending 4/19), tumbling $10.4 billion (less than last week) to the lowest since April 2021…

https://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2023/04/large-small-us-banks-see-deposit-outflows-continue-small-bank-lending

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15 Biggest Chains In America That Will Disappear In The Months Ahead

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If you have a favorite store, you should probably visit it soon since some of the biggest, most popular retail chains in the U.S. are rapidly decaying, and many locations are being shuttered in this very moment. According to UBS, over 50,000 stores are on retailers' chopping block, and that could completely change America's economic landscape. Never before in history, conditions have been so turbulent for companies, and even big names like Rite Aid, Amazon Fresh and Big Lots! are taking extreme measures to try to keep their business alive. However, retail experts seriously doubt the ability of some of this chains to survive the imminent retail collapse.

For example, Best Buy has been hanging by a thread over the past few years and quietly closing more stores each year. Since 2019, over 80 Best Buy locations have disappeared from sight. And earlier this year, the chain announced plans "to close a higher number of stores." The company did not reveal the total number of closings. Media reports suggest that at least 600 locations are in financial distress. That is over half of the retailer’s footprint in the U.S. In a BizJournals.com article, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry predicted that supply chain issues, rising labor costs, and continued economic challenges could lead to a major manufacturing slowdown that could ripple through the markets, she said. Best Buy executives said they expected business to continue to taper. Right now, they’re putting their best strategies forward in an attempt to keep the business alive, or at least, part of it.

Similarly, Dollar General is rapidly disappearing from U.S. cities. The discount retailer recently confirmed that it is closing several locations in California, Colorado, Indiana, and Ohio. And the reason may also be the catalyst that drives the entire chain into bankruptcy. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Dollar General continues to expose workers to unsafe conditions. The U.S. Department inspected a large number of locations and cataloged many serious health safety violations Dollar General has refused to correct. Since 2017, OSHA has issued more than $15 million in fines and cited Dollar General in more than 180 inspections nationwide for numerous “willful, repeat and alarming workplace safety violations related to unsafe conditions”: “Exposing employees and others to these hazards can be dangerous, especially in an emergency,” said OSHA Regional Administrator Kurt Petermeyer in Atlanta. “Dollar General is well aware of federal requirements, but they continue to ignore their legal responsibilities to protect their employees at stores throughout the nation.” The struggling company is now facing another millionaire lawsuit – one that can literally push it over the edge.

At this point, retailers must prove their worth to U.S. customers and show why they deserve a spot in this increasingly competitive industry. Only the best-positioned brands will be able to navigate through the crisis that is developing across the sector, and many will likely die out before the year ends. The stakes are incredibly high, and no one knows what may happen next in the industry, so take the opportunity to go to your favorite store before a black swan event occurs, drastically changing the scenario from bad to completely disastrous. That's why in today's video, we compiled a series of retail stores that are at risk of going dark for good in the coming weeks and months, and some that are already liquidating all of their assets and saying farewell for their customers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFHsVM6360

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All Eyes on east Asia: China-Taiwan Flare-up - Japan WARNED by China

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Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Wu Jiangao, warned Japanese leaders that their planned visit to Taiwan was equated with crossing the "red line."

"Foreign forces are conspiring with Taiwan's independence forces and carrying out constant provocations," the ambassador told reporters in Tokyo on Friday, saying their ultimate goal was "separation of Taiwan from China." He added that inciting "the split in China will bring the Japanese people into the fire".

Japanese officials have said that any contingency in Taiwan will be tantamount to an unpredictable situation in Japan.

In recent years, Beijing has pursued a policy of diplomatic isolation of Taiwan, forcing other countries to recognize it as part of a "single China" and repeatedly threatened to invade.

The day after Emmanuel Macron's visit, China began large-scale military exercises around Taiwan working out a rocket attack and the surroundings of the island. Training became answer on Taiwan's President Cai Ying Wen's 10-day diplomatic tour of Central America and a meeting with US government officials in California. In particular, she met with Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress from Republicans.

The day after China imitated "high-precision strikes" on Taiwan, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said Beijing can prepare for the invasion of the island.

Later reported, that this year's annual Taiwanese military exercises "Han Kuan" will focus on fighting the blockade of the island against the background of China's statements.

China again moved military forces near Taiwan today.

China’s largest combat drone, the TB-001 drone (an entire ship) nicknamed the “twin-tailed scorpion”, arrived late Thursday and remained on Friday around Taiwan:

Also on Friday, China flew 38 warplanes near Taiwan, and deployed another 6 navy vessels in area.

In addition, a Chinese uncrewed combat aircraft (Drone) has flown around Taiwan, the island's defense ministry said, showcasing Beijing's ability to attack its fall-back east coast bases, as a U.S. maritime patrol aircraft transited the Taiwan Strait. Here is a photo of that combat drone:

China also had words for the United States.

“We strongly urge the US side to fully recognize the high sensitivity of the Taiwan question as well as the complexity and severity of the current situation across the Taiwan Strait,” said Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, at a regular press conference.

When asked to comment on the reports that a group of US defense companies will visit Taiwan to discuss issues such as the joint production of drones and ammunition in early May, Defense Spokesperson Tan said that the Taiwan question is purely China’s internal affair and brooks no foreign interference.

“These American military-industrial complexes have always been zealous to peddle munitions, trigger conflicts and chaos, and reap staggering profits around the world,” he point out sharply, adding that the Democratic Progressive Party's act is rather contemptible, like putting the cat near the goldfish bowl, which will only bring untold disaster to the Taiwan compatriots.

Then the spokesperson reiterated that no one or any force can shake Chinese people’s staunch determination and firm will to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and urged the US side to adhere to the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiqués, prudently handle Taiwan-related issues, refrain from interfering in the Taiwan question, cease arms sales to the Taiwan region as well as its military contact with the island.

Soooooooo, what did the US Congress go ahead an do today? Well . . .

The House committee dedicated to countering China began preparing bipartisan proposals for the fiscal 2024 defense authorization bill that would accelerate U.S. munitions production and arms transfers to Taiwan.

In the meantime, here is an up-to-date graphic showi9ng the very considerable firepower which is around Taiwan as of yesterday:

It is entirely plausible that China may decide it is better to grab Taiwan NOW, before more US assets reach the region and BEFORE US arms manufacturers can fill new weapons orders. What the US is doing, and pledging, to Taiwan's "defense" may actually TRIGGER a Chinese invasion of Taiwan!

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/all-eyes-on-east-asia-china-taiwan-flare-up-japan-warned-by-china

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U.S.: Russian Subs in Atlantic ‘More Active Than We’ve Seen Them in Years’

The threat posed by Russia’s undersea forces serves as only one example of how its military retains its capabilities despite the war in Ukraine, top U.S. military officials warn.

By Paul D. Shinkman April 26, 2023, at 2:40 p.m.

Russia has increased its submarine presence in the Atlantic at a higher level than ever in recent years, the top U.S. officer overseeing operations in Europe said Wednesday, citing one of several examples contradicting conclusions that the military loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been severely degraded by his war in Ukraine.

“The Russians have been more active than we’ve seen them in years,” Army Gen. Chris Cavoli, the top commander for NATO and U.S. military operations in Europe, told Congress on Wednesday of Moscow’s undersea capabilities.

“Their patrols into the Atlantic and throughout the Atlantic are at a high level most of the time, at a higher level than we’ve seen in years,” Cavoli testified before the House Armed Services Committee. “And this, despite all the efforts they’re undertaking in Ukraine.”

Cavoli’s assessment represents a grave warning for future threats Russia may pose to the U.S. and Ukraine’s other western backers. Though analysts have expressed concerns about Russia’s submarine forces in recent weeks, they have largely centered on the recent attention the Kremlin has focused on its Pacific Fleet, which conducted massive drills last week and which Moscow analyzed and claimed last week has “high readiness.” Those maneuvers were seen in part as an acknowledgement of Moscow and Beijing’s increased partnership.

Putin previously raised concerns in the West in January when he dispatched surface warships to the Atlantic Ocean, including those the U.S. believes can fire hypersonic weapons potentially capable of defeating American missile defenses. Russia fields 11 ballistic missile submarines, which analysts previously assessed it deploys largely off its Arctic coasts.

Cavoli’s comments come at a time of growing consensus that Russia has severely harmed several key elements of its military power through President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 without provocation. A string of high-profile and embarrassing failures since then have exposed endemic issues within the Russian Ministry of Defense, particularly deeply rooted corruption among top commanders, logisticians and those overseeing stockpiles. And confusion and mismanagement on the battlefield has created a veritable meat grinder for Russian ground forces, despite Putin’s decision to continue pressing young men into service and sending them into the fight.

Russia continues to benefit from the sheer size of its forces, as seen in the persistent, grinding combat around cities such as Bakhmut in Ukraine’s east. But analysts have increasingly highlighted the core problems that plague its ground troops.

“Russian forces in Ukraine are operating in decentralized and largely degraded formations throughout the theater, and the current pattern of deployment suggests that most available units are already online and engaged in either offensive or defensive operations,” the independent Institute for the Study of War, which has fastidiously tracked Russian military movements in and around Ukraine, concluded in an analysis note on Sunday.

“It is highly likely that the majority of Russian elements throughout Ukraine are substantially below full strength due to losses taken during previous phases of the war,” the institute stated.

The grave warnings also come as a growing number of Republican lawmakers – and several leading GOP presidential candidates – question the value of U.S. support for Ukraine, saying those resources should instead focus on deterring China.

Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida, a former Green Beret commander, employed this argument on Wednesday, questioning Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander, who testified alongside Cavoli, about the need to continue dedicating resources to Ukraine when Russia’s military has been devastated.

“Its ground forces that are in Ukraine have been devastated,” Wallander pushed back. But she added that “Russia still retains strategic capabilities” – its nuclear force, the world’s largest – “an air force, cyber and underwater.”

“We should not make the mistake of underestimating Russia’s military capabilities,” Wallander warned, “because the stakes of getting it wrong are too high.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-04-26/u-s-russian-subs-in-atlantic-more-active-than

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Tense face-off: Philippines confronts China over sea claims

By JIM GOMEZ today

ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing’s aggression in the strategic waterway.

The high seas face-off Sunday between the larger Chinese ship and the Philippine coast guard’s BRP Malapascua near Second Thomas Shoal was among the tense moments it and another Philippine vessel encountered in a weeklong sovereignty patrol in one of the world’s most hotly contested waterways.

The Philippine coast guard had invited a small group of journalists, including three from The Associated Press, to join the 1,670-kilometer (1,038-mile) patrol for the first time as part of a new Philippine strategy aimed at exposing China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the South China Sea, where an estimated $5 trillion in global trade transits each year.

In scorching summer heat but relatively calm waters, the Malapascua and another Philippine coast guard vessel, the BRP Malabrigo, journeyed to the frontlines of the long-seething territorial conflicts. They cruised past a string of widely scattered Philippine-occupied and claimed islands, islets and reefs looking for signs of encroachment, illegal fishing and other threats.

In areas occupied or controlled by China, the Philippine patrol vessels received radio warnings in Chinese and halting English, ordering them to immediately leave what the Chinese coast guard and navy radio callers claimed were Beijing’s “undisputable territories” and issuing unspecified threats for defiance.

Hostilities peaked Sunday morning in the Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly archipelago, the most fiercely contested region in the busy sea channel.

As the two patrol vessels approached the shoal’s shallow turquoise waters for an underwater survey, the Chinese coast guard repeatedly warned them by radio to leave the area, which is about 194 kilometers (121 miles) west of the Philippine island province of Palawan.

After several radio exchanges, a Chinese coast guard caller, sounding agitated, warned of unspecified adversarial action.

“Since you have disregarded our warning, we will take further necessary measures on you in accordance with the laws and any consequences entailed will be borne by you,” the Chinese speaker said.

A Chinese coast guard ship rapidly approached and shadowed the smaller Malapascua and the Malabrigo. When the Malapascua maneuvered toward the mouth of the shoal, the Chinese ship suddenly shifted to block it, coming as close as 36 to 46 meters (120 to 150 feet) from its bow, said Malapascua’s skipper, Capt. Rodel Hernandez.

To avoid a collision, Hernandez abruptly reversed his vessel’s direction then shut off its engine to bring the boat to a full stop.

Filipino personnel aboard the vessels — and journalists, who captured the tense moment on camera — watched in frightened silence. But the Malapascua steered just in time to avoid a potential disaster.

Hernandez later told journalists that the “sudden and really very dangerous maneuver” by the Chinese coast guard ship had disregarded international rules on collision avoidance. He had the Philippine vessels leave the area after the encounter for the safety of the ships and personnel.

Earlier, a huge Chinese navy ship shadowed the two Philippine patrol vessels in the dark of night as they cruised near Subi, one of seven barren reefs China has transformed in the last decade into a missile-protected island base. The Chinese navy ship radioed the Philippine vessels “to immediately leave and keep out.”

The coast guard radioed back to assert Philippine sovereign rights to the area before steaming away.

China has long demanded that the Philippines withdraw its small contingent of naval forces and tow away the actively commissioned but crumbling BRP Sierra Madre. The navy ship was deliberately marooned on the shoal in 1999 and now serves as a fragile symbol of Manila’s territorial claim to the atoll.

Chinese ships often block navy vessels delivering food and other supplies to the Filipino sailors on the ship, including just a few days earlier, Hernandez said.

As hostilities between Chinese coast guard and navy ships and the Philippine patrol vessels were unfolding, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was in Manila, where he held talks with his Philippine counterpart and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday. China was willing to work with the Philippines to resolve differences and deepen ties, Qin said.

The Chinese Embassy in Manila did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment on the encounters.

In another Philippine-claimed reef called Whitsun, the Philippine patrol vessels spotted more than 100 suspected Chinese militia ships arrayed side by side in several clusters in the shallows. China says the huge trawler-like ships are fishing vessels, but Manila’s coast guard suspects they are being used for surveillance or to hold the reef for future development.

Filipino coast guard personnel aboard two motor boats approached the Chinese ships and ordered them through a loudspeaker to leave, but none did.

Philippine officials required participating journalists to not immediately release information about the trip to ensure the safety of the mission and to give the coast guard time to brief defense, justice and foreign affairs officials in charge of handling the touchy territorial conflicts.

Faced with a militarily far-superior China in the disputed waters, the Philippines launched the campaign early this year to expose the Asian superpower’s aggression, hoping public awareness and criticism will force Beijing to abide by international law.

Philippines coast guard spokesperson Commodore Jay Tarriela said the strategy was working. He noted the Chinese ambassador in Manila was prompted to hold a news conference to explain Beijing’s side amid outrage over a publicly released video that showed a Chinese coast guard ship aiming a military-grade laser in early February that temporarily blinded two crewmembers of the Malapascua off Second Thomas Shoal.

“We are David,” Tarriela said, likening the Philippines to the underdog hero of the Biblical story. “We believe that through the publication of all these aggressive actions of China, we would find friends who would criticize Goliath.”

The territorial conflicts involving China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have long been regarded as an Asian flashpoint and a delicate fault line in the rivalry between the United States and China in the region.

While the U.S. lays no claims to the South China Sea, it has deployed its warships and fighter jets for patrols and military exercises with regional allies to uphold freedom of navigation and overflight, which it says is in America’s national interest.

Beijing has criticized a recent agreement by the Philippines and the U.S. to grant American forces access to additional Filipino military camps. China fears the access will provide Washington with military staging grounds and surveillance outposts in the northern Philippines across the sea from Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory, and in provinces facing the South China Sea, which Beijing claims virtually in its entirety.

Washington has repeatedly warned that it would help defend the Philippines — its oldest treaty ally in Asia — if Philippine forces, ships or aircraft are attacked in the South China Sea.

With multiple conflicts looming in what appears to be a placid expanse of sea, where dolphins and starlit night skies send seafarers grabbing their cameras, Malabrigo’s skipper Julio Colarina III said he would always strive to stay on the right side of a geopolitical minefield.

“As much as possible we’ll avoid conflict in the area,” he said. “All these competing interests just need one spark.” ___

Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan and Aaron Favila contributed to this report.

https://apnews.com/article/philippines-dispute-south-china-sea-patrol-27ee9778f7302938c5090644e3d153c2

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Europe Reveals Map BREAKING-UP RUSSIA into 41 new countries

World Hal Turner 27 April 2023 Hits: 16083

Gunther Fehlinger, Chairman of the Austria NATO non-governmental organization (NGO), publicly revealed today, the West's "plan" for Russia: Broken-up into 41 new, autonomous countries! There wouldn't BE a "Russia" anymore. Russia's response was simple: If there isn't going to be a Russia anymore, then there isn't going to be a Europe or USA, either. World War 3 is officially on its way.

Here is Gunther Fehlinger and the West's (suicidal) map of a world without Russia:

The revelation of this map is literal PROOF that it is the actual intention of the West to do-away with Russia. By even manufacturing such a map, the West has shown its intent. Russia now faces an ACTUAL existential threat. Their very existence is at stake.

Think about the time and effort that was necessary to research the populations and ethnicities in each of these areas, where they are, and how to draw actual lines along the geography of the demographics, to create this vision of new, autonomous, countries. The research and planning alone had to take . . . YEARS.

Now that the map is actually out, and the entire world can see that the West has literally been planning for YEARS to completely do-away with Russia, we can all now see that the situation with Ukraine was intentionally manufactured BY THE WEST to provide the impetus to set in-motion, their nefarious plans.

With the release of this map, it seems to many observers that war is now a foregone conclusion.

What many people, myself included, really want to know is, Whose idea was this?

Who decided this needed to be done? Because that person, or those persons, need to be directly confronted and engaged.

This plan is suicidal. Whoever thought of it, and whoever is promoting it, is a clear and present danger to the lives of millions.

People have a right to self defense against this monstrous and deadly plan. That self-defense may have to be applied to the people who are promoting this and to the people who thought it up.

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Americans Are Living In Absolutely Bizarre 'Alternative Realities,' Proving The CIA's 'Operation Mockingbird' Is Almost Complete As Globalists Rush Towards Martial Law And Total Tyranny

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die April 26, 2023

Taking a look at the headline stories over at Steve Quayle's website over the past two days will tell anyone paying attention at all that things are getting ready to 'HTF,' while looking at the headline stories over at CNN or Drudge or any other mainstream media outlet instantly proves Americans have somehow been cast into a slew of bizarre alternative realities.

While MSN somehow stepped up, publishing stories such as this one titled "Stock Market Crash Alert: Credit Default Swaps From 2008 Are Back" as well as this one titled "Stocks fall worldwide on U.S. recession, banking and debt-ceiling risks," a look over at CNN this morning finds their lead story titled "House GOP chaos raises doubts about McCarthy's political credibility" while Drudge keeps pushing anything bad he can find to further smear Tucker Carlson.

And while kudos goes out to the Daily Mail for publishing as their lead story this one laying it all on the line titled "Trump calls the Bidens a 'crime family' that is 'Watergate times 10' in blistering Truth Social post after top Republican James Comer claimed as many as TWELVE relatives are involved in shady business deals," you won't find a hint of that story, or any of the other ones detailing the crimes of the 'biden crime family,' at any of the mainstream news outlets, helping explain why Americans' trust in the MSM is near record lows according to this October of 2022 Gallup poll story.

And with all of this helping to confirm the words of former CIA Director William J. Casey, who once said "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false," remember that during the Obama administration the U.S. govt repealed the so-called 'propaganda ban' that had long been in place, with the Obama cabal actually allowing the spread of US govt-made news to the American people, and helping to explain just why so many Americans are so dumbed-down in 2023 and why we are, where we are now as a country, heading towards tyranny.

And with Monday bringing America some shocking news with the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, which the left immediately celebrated, but led to the value of Fox tumbling as if it were the titanic sinking, as Infowars warned of that 'event,' it sure looks like Tucker is the 'canary in the coal mine' and the globalists will be 'coming after us all now,' with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently warning our very Constitutional rights are in grave danger of extinction if we stay on the path we're now on.

Because with the globalists insanely censoring Americans as we've seen unfolding now for years, with anyone speaking 'truths' that go against their endless lies and propaganda being 'shut up,' hinting we're heading towards an 'event' that will shut-up alternative news for good, we long ago warned on ANP that if we ever reach the point in time when you can no longer access websites such as SteveQuayle.com, Natural News, The Liberty Daily, Whatfinger News, ANP and many others, we'd already be long past that 'point of no return' and on our way to experiencing what the 'real purpose' of legislation like the 'restrict act' means, total tyranny.

(ANP Needs Your Help!: Due to this suffocating censorship campaign by 'big tech' on ANP articles, we have no choice but to run an emergency fundraising drive. We also want to thank everybody who has donated to ANP over the past 9+ years. With donations and minimal ad revenue all that keep ANP online, if you're able, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this fight for America at this absolutely critical time in US history. During a time of systematic, 'big tech' censorship and widespread institutional corruption, as we can all see now, truth-seeking media and alternative views are crucial, and EVERY bit helps more than you could know!)

April 26, 2023

Americans Are Living In Absolutely Bizarre 'Alternative Realities,' Proving The CIA's 'Operation Mockingbird' Is Almost Complete As Globalists Rush Towards Martial Law And Total Tyranny

By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die

In the first video at the bottom of this story Mike Adams talks with us about what we're watching unfolding right now, a desperate effort to SILENCE anyone and everyone who speaks the 'inconvenient truths' that the globalists don't want the American public to know, from 'the political left' stealing the 2020 election to the globalists releasing the 'bioweapons' upon America that allowed that 'election steal' to their long-ongoing effort to 'depopulate' the planet, all which have helped 'weave' the 'alternative reality' we're now living in.

As Natural News just reported in this story titled "Top 6 most important FALSE NARRATIVES the Biden Regime does NOT want challenged," they'll do anything and everything in their power to make sure the American people don't find out what's REALLY happening all around them, even if that means stomping all over the God-given rights of the American people that are merely protected by the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution. Hence the reason why SO MANY Americans are SO out of touch with reality. From that story.:

Top 6 biggest lies the Biden Regime uses as false narratives and that punishes anyone who challenges them.

#1. “Vaccines are safe and effective.”

#2. “War is good.”

#3. “All elections are safe and secure” (except when the Left loses).

#4. “The economy is good” – always when Democrats are in power, no matter what.

#5. “Government is honest and will work for your interests.”

#6. “Censorship is necessary” to prevent misinformation and disinformation from spreading – In effect, they need censorship to protect their false reality, their own delusions.

The overall truth is that government works in bad faith, and that is why they want the RESTRICT ACT put in place so badly.

False narratives are so brainwashing that the Biden Regime is actually telling all Americans that our current economy is good, despite mass inflation, crumbling supply chains, unfettered printing of trillions of dollars, endless draining of funds and military weapons for the insidious Ukraine War, and the destruction of the Republic as we know it. The narrative is that “War is Good” because it’s preventing communist aggression, but the communist aggression is happening right here, on our own soil, and from within our own government (CCP-led Biden Regime).

Using such tactics to convince the brainwashed masses that the vaxxes were safe, the 2020 election was totally legitimate, censorship of alternative views is 'good' and 'necessary' for America, misinformation and disinformation are only spread by Conservatives and Democrats like RFK, Jr., 'global warming' and 'climate change' are spread by cow burps and people eating meat and 'anti-vaxxers' are dangerous to the public at large, think about where America will be in the very near future if those are the only 'narratives' that are 'allowed.'

With such a dreaded scenario bringing us to the point the CIA's Casey spoke about long ago, where everything the American public believes is false and the dumbing down of the masses having been 'weaponized' to its 'end game,' as Etienne de la Boetie of the Art of Liberty Foundation reported in this Substack story we'd republished at ANP, the most powerful weapon on the planet is control of perception and it is a “binary weapon” made up of hundreds of companies, government agencies and organizations that give the population their information to create and control their “culture.”

Also reporting that Cult-ure is the dominant belief system, and the root word might as well be cult, we see in the 2nd video below exactly how such a 'weapon' is wielded against the American people, with multiple different news agencies all saying the exact same thing, proving they are all getting their 'marching orders' from the same 'conglomerate' which only gives Americans the 'illusion' of 'choice' and 'independence' amongst the mainstream news outlets, which are actually all controlled by the same sinister entities.

As Susan Duclos had reported in this ANP story back on May 19th of 2021 titled "Operation Mockingbird Still At Play - New Report Shows Spy Agencies Still Control Media Content And Allowed To Disseminate Fake News Without Verification Or Confirmation," the CIA's 'Operation Mockingbird' had been going on since at least as far back as the 1950's, controlling what the American public saw and heard with the CIA's infiltration of every major US news organization, giving them a monopoly over the 'flow of information' until the independent media came along, and showing us why they hate us so.

And helping to explain why so many Americans are still living in a bizarre alternative reality, even after all of these years, we see why the globalists are so desperate to get the 'Restrict Act' signed into law and enforced as we go forward in 2023, because far too many Americans now get their news from sources other than the mainstream media and slowly but surely, the 'brainwashing' is wearing off for those who bother to investigate what they're being told.

And as Natural News had also reported just Tuesday, with Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Tech all in league together, pushing the same endless lies as the mainstream media, USA Facts reports they were able to convince roughly 81% of the US population to get at least one 'vax,' while convincing 69% of the population to be 'fully vaxxed,' (although we highly doubt the accuracy of those numbers,) helping to explain why so many Americans are now having major health problems, or 'dying suddenly,' with the CDC and govt agencies handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to those US news organizations to push their endless lies. Note that not one MSM organization came out against the vax and still haven't to this day! And outlets such as 'Fact Check' STILL claim Americans 'dying suddenly' is a 'baseless rumor.'

So with this new story over at Breitbart reporting the EU has just announced stricter content moderation rules for twitter, youtube, facebook and other tech platforms another hint of where America is headed in the coming days, weeks, months and years, especially if the 'Restrict Act' is passed and signed into law by joe biden who surely can't wait to give the US govt such powers, if they get their way, we'll have fully arrived as a nation where the CIA has long been herding us, 'false narratives' cemented into place as the new 'reality' believed by the American CULT-ure, our 1st Amendment fully 'eliminated' and a full-scale tyrannical government controlling everything the American people see and hear, just as the Rockefellers and their allies long working to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control intended, the 'dehumanization of humanity' complete.

As John Zmirak warns in this new story over at The Stream, with history steeped in the grim lessons of mankind’s fallen history, that history full of free societies finally giving way to tyranny and civilizations such as what we're witnessing in the US now collapsing, he's gotten the feeling we're headed towards full-scale martial law in the near future, a much-needed step the globalists absolutely have to take in order to introduce their full-scale tyranny to 'a people' who once had freedom, and fully taking down the independent media is an absolutely necessary step for the globalists to accomplish that evil. So if you're in the position to help keep ANP in this fight for freedom and humanity, any and all donations are tremendously appreciated as we go forward, tyranny being something we'll never accept no matter how hard they push for it.

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Iran seizes US-bound oil tanker in international waters

By Jesse O’Neill April 27, 2023 12:28pm Updated

Iran’s navy seized an oil tanker as it traversed international waters in the Gulf of Oman, the US announced Thursday, the fifth such incident in recent years.

The US Navy’s 5th Fleet identified the captured vessel as the Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Sweet, which issued a distress call during the incident.

The Navy statement made no mention of the tanker’s destination, but data from MarineTraffic.com showed it in the Gulf of Oman just north of Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Thursday afternoon local time.

It had just come from Kuwait and its destination was listed as Houston, Texas.

“Iran’s actions are contrary to international law and disruptive to regional security and stability,” the 5th Fleet said. “The Iranian government should immediately release the oil tanker.

“Iran’s continued harassment of vessels and interference with navigational rights in regional waters are a threat to maritime security and the global economy,” the Navy statement added.

“In the past two years, Iran has unlawfully seized at least five commercial vessels sailing in the Middle East.”

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said the seizure came after an “unknown ship collided with an Iranian vessel last night in the Persian Gulf, causing several Iranian crew members to go missing and get injured.” It did not identify the other ship involved in the alleged collision.

Iran has made allegations in other seizures that later fell apart as it became clear that Tehran was trying to leverage the capture as a chip to negotiate with foreign nations.

The vessel’s manager, a Turkish firm called Advantage Tankers, issued a statement acknowledging the Advantage Sweet was “being escorted by the Iranian navy to a port on the basis of an international dispute.”

“The safety and welfare of our valued crew members is our No. 1 priority,” the firm said. “Similar experiences show that crew members of vessels taken under such circumstances are in no danger.”

The ship’s listed owner appeared to be a Chinese company.

Manifest information from data firm Refinitiv showed that Advantage Sweet carried Kuwaiti crude oil for Chevon, which did not have an immediate comment.

In addition to the ship seizures mentioned by the Navy, the US has fingered Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.

The last major seizure came when Iran took two Greek tankers in May and held them until November.

Meanwhile, talks over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal have been stalled for a year. Since the deal’s collapse, Iran runs advanced centrifuges and has a rapidly growing stockpile of enriched uranium.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has warned that Iran has enriched enough up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

That would be sufficient for Iran to make several nuclear weapons if it chooses to do so.

With Post wires

https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/iran-seizes-oil-tanker-in-international-waters/

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Earthquake shakes up Upstate New York: Did you feel it in Onondaga County?

Updated: Apr. 24, 2023, 9:56 a.m.|Published: Apr. 23, 2023, 3:14 a.m.

By Darian Stevenson | DStevenson@syracuse.com

Adams, N.Y. — An earthquake shook parts of Upstate New York and Canada Sunday afternoon, according to the geological survey.

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake occurred around 2:10 p.m. with an epicenter 1 mile northwest of Jefferson County, according to the United States Geological Survey. USGS reported the earthquake to be four miles outside of Adams, N.Y.

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake, 20 kilometers southwest of Watertown, was also reported in Canada around the same time Sunday. The earthquake struck 56 kilometers southeast of Kingston, Ontario, OTTAWA reported.

About nine days ago, a 2.6-magnitude earthquake shook the Adams Center area early morning on April 18, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a report.

The USGS stated they received 72 reports from people who felt the earthquake in 16 different ZIP codes following the rumble earlier this month. Those areas included Adams, Watertown and Sackets Harbor.

There was no damage reported.

https://www.syracuse.com/weather/2023/04/earthquake-shakes-up-upstate-new-york-did-you-feel-it-in-onondaga-county.html

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Biden's Weakening Of The U.S. Military, While Provoking A Nuclear War With China And Russia, And Thousands Of Chinese Crossing The U.S. Border, Makes America A Sitting Duck

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine April 24, 2023

No regime can be as incompetent as the Biden regime has shown itself to be, which only leaves one option, the destruction of our military, and our depleting of our weapons and munitions in our Ukraine proxy war with Russia, has been deliberate.

Lets go back to 2020 for just a moment.

We knew when Joe Biden was campaigning from his basement in 2019 that he was a few crayons short of a whole box, and his mental decline has continued to get worse, as evidenced by his own stumbling and bumbling self with each and every outing into the real world that his people allow him.

This means the actual decision-making is being done by Biden's handlers.

THE PUZZLE PIECES.....

After taking a few huge steps back, and trying to see the big picture from coinciding events, as well as separate events, almost like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, in my mind's eye, the picture when finished, is devastating beyond belief.

#1. Throughout the past years China and Russia have formed an alliance, from sharing a monetary system (BRICS), to backing each other on the world stage.

#2. February 2022, Russia/Ukraine war goes hot.

#3. Biden regime starts sending billions to Ukraine, along with weapons and munitions, undermining America's military abilities.

#4. The American military goes woke, and produces cartoon recruitment videos.

#5. U.S. Military faces severe recruitment shortages.

The US Army is now projecting that for the next two years it will massively fail to recruit as many troops as it hoped, falling short by nearly 40,000 new recruits, according to the latest estimates and testimony from the Army’s second highest leader.

“We’ve got unprecedented challenges with both a post-Covid-19 environment and labor market, but also private competition with private companies that have changed their incentives over time,” General Joseph Martin, vice chief of staff of the Army, told the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee on Tuesday.

The Army is projecting it likely will fall short of its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goal by as many as 10,000 troops and could miss the fiscal year 2023 recruiting goal by as much as 28,000 troops, according to Army estimates.

#6. The U.S. military starts lowering physical training and mental standards.

#7. The Biden regime continues to provoke Russia and China, which could lead to a nuclear war.

#7. Chinese are crossing the U.S. border in 2023 with an increase of 10 times as many as the previous year.

A growing number of Chinese nationals are illegally entering the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Protection (CBP) data shows.

The CBP recorded 4,271 Chinese nationals crossing the southern border between October and February, The Wall Street Journal reported. The number was more than 10 times greater than the same period the previous year.

Shelter staff with the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen used to see one Chinese person a month, according to Norma Pimental, who oversees the charities.

“Now, all of a sudden, we see a surge of people from China,” she said.

#9. The U.S. depletes munitions by sending them to Ukraine, and now is "under the gun" to make more ammo.

One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in this city built by coal barons, where tons of steel rods are brought in by train to be forged into the artillery shells Kyiv can’t get enough of — and that the U.S. can’t produce fast enough.

The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is at the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar Pentagon plan to modernize and accelerate its production of ammunition and equipment not only to support Ukraine, but to be ready for a potential conflict with China.

PUTTING THE PUZZLE PIECES TOGETHER.....

Russia and China for an alliance and as many describe them as "hostile" to the U.S., that is exactly what they think about the U.S., that America is hostile to them.

So Russia, knowing the Biden regime is weak, heads into Ukraine, guaranteeing others nations, namely the U.S. will send money, weapons, munitions and even tanks to Ukraine, depleting those countries' own ability to fight a direct war if necessary.

Turning the U.S. military into a "woke" military, destroying their own efforts to recruit, and lowering the standards of those they are managing to recruit, leaves the US, with a weak military.

Not only is America's military the weakest they have ever been since Biden started occupying the White House, we now have sent so much weaponry and munitions to Ukraine, that the Army is "under the gun" to make more.

Last but not least, we are seeing 10 times the amount of Chinese crossing the U.S. border.

This means while Russia has the U.S. scrambling to keep Ukraine armed, if China decides to attack America, they already have a decent sized army right here inside of the United States of America.

BOTTOM LINE

What has happened under the Biden regime cannot be explained by incompetence. We're being destroyed from within vulnerable to attack from the nations Biden's and/or his handlers are provoking into nuclear war.

We're sitting ducks.

https://allnewspipeline.com/America_Is_A_Sitting_Duck.php

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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..

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Warships JAMMING GPS over Taiwan

Hal Turner 24 April 2023

Taiwan is encountering JAMMING of GPS signals all along the northern part of the island. This coincides with the presence of China warships.

It is not known at this time WHY the jamming is being done, but it __is__ interfering with air traffic into and out of Taiwan.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/warships-jamming-gps-over-taiwan

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460,000 companies close down, 800 million people in debt, China's 2023 economic has no way out

China Finance

477 subscribers

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Are we on the brink of a global economic crisis? The tensions between China and the rest of the globe over global debt are at an all-time high. As more countries fail on their debts, China's refusal to erase its loans raises tensions with the United States and its allies. Chinese cities are failing to pay their bills because hidden debts are getting bigger and bigger. The stakes are high, and the outcome is uncertain. So, what's next? Watch out to find out.

When world leaders debated whether to write off poor countries' debts more than two decades ago, Bono was the central character.

This time, it's Beijing.

Three years of tight economic controls in China, combined with a real estate slump, have depleted local government revenues, leaving authorities across the country saddled with mounds of debt. The situation has declined to the point where some cities are unable to provide basic services, and the prospect of default is increasing.

China, Beijing, Xi Jinping, Xi,Chinese Communist Party, CCP, Communist China, China insights, China economy, China middle class, China let is rot, China real estate, China banks, China economy crisis, China bank crisis, China unfinished buildings, China rotten-tail buildings, China stop pay mortgage, China refuse to pay mortgage, China protest, new discoveries 2023, china discoveries, china recession,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfqM2VNeXE

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etc. it shall not be a good week, many things shall take place. Watch the stock market, and if you have money hoarded up in there, you are going to lose it, you are going to lose it. Listen carefully, pay attention, place your money where you know that it is safe etc.

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Stock Market Crash Alert: Credit Default Swaps From 2008 Are Back

Shrey Dua 21 hrs ago

Stock market crash fears are eating up Wall Street as credit default swaps (CDSs) rise to the highest level since 2008. Indeed, it seems that concerns over the government debt are pushing traders away from domestic debt investments.

What’s going on with credit default swaps lately?

Well, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, spreads on five-year credit default swaps are up to 51 basis points, more than double from January. Meanwhile, one-year government default swaps are trading at around 106 basis points, the most expensive since 2008, according to the Financial Times.

Credit default swaps are essentially insurance against a borrower’s debt. As such, changes in the price of government CDSs can inform the level of risk traders feel about the potential of a government default.

Currently, with the government still attempting to pass legislation raising its debt ceiling ahead of its projected August default timeline, traders are (perhaps rightfully so) pricing in a higher chance that the government fails to make a payment, thereby going into default.

At the moment, investors are willing to pay almost $10,000 to insure $1 million in U.S. Treasury debt, a notable increase from the $1,400 it cost at the start of 2023. This implies a roughly 2% chance of a U.S. default.

Stock Market Crash Fears Brew as Government Debt Hangs Over Investors

Back in January, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the government only has enough emergency funds to pay down its debt payments through early June. Goldman Sachs, on the other hand, believes the government could get through late July before declaring default, largely dependent on April tax receipts. According to BMO Capital Markets analysts:

“Whereas there was once a time when the Treasury Department was seen as having sufficient funding to reach August or even September […] The area of focus has now been pulled forward to June, or even as early as late May.”

Currently, the Treasury Department is using its “extraordinary measures” powers to pay off government bills until lawmakers can agree on a piece of legislation to raise the debt ceiling. While raising the debt ceiling isn’t exactly a rarity — it has happened 14 times from 2001 to 2016 alone — going past the debt limit is relatively uncommon. In fact, in the 21st century, the country has only gone over its debt ceiling twice before now, in 2011 and 2013.

What Would a Default Mean for Financial Markets?

By all accounts, a government default would be a worst-case scenario for the stock market and most other financial systems. In January, President Joe Biden claimed that a failure to pay its debt would mean a “calamity,” as bad as “anything that’s ever happened financially in the United States.”

In a testimony before Congress, Moody’s Chief Economist Mark Zandi expressed similar sentiments over a government default:

“A default would be a catastrophic blow to the already fragile economy. Global financial markets and the economy would be upended, and even if resolved quickly, Americans would likely pay for this default for generations, as global investors would rightly believe that the federal government’s finances have been politicized and that a time may come when they would not be paid what they are owed when owed it.”

On the date of publication, Shrey Dua did not hold (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.

With degrees in economics and journalism, Shrey Dua leverages his ample experience in media and reporting to contribute well-informed articles covering everything from financial regulation and the electric vehicle industry to the housing market and monetary policy. Shrey’s articles have featured in the likes of Morning Brew, Real Clear Markets, the Downline Podcast, and more.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/stock-market-crash-alert-credit-default-swaps-from-2008-are-back/

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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come. At times you may wonder what is taking place, and I say unto you, get into my word, look in my word, know what Jeremiah has said, know what Ezekiel has said, know what Joel told you etc

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Earthquake, Tremor

2nd major quake within 24 hours: Shallow M7.1 earthquake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra island, triggering tsunami warning

This is the second strong earthquake within a day, after a M6.8 hit near the Kermadec Islands, NZ, yesterday.

A strong undersea earthquake has sent streams of people fleeing to higher ground in western Indonesia, after a tsunami warning was briefly triggered.

Footage released by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency showed how streams of people in a village on Mentawai Island fled to the highlands by foot and motorcycles under the rain in darkness early Tuesday, while some patients at the village’s hospital were evacuated to its yard as cracks showed in the facility’s floor.

The shocks were felt in districts and cities of West Sumatra and North Sumatra provinces, and some places ordered evacuations to higher ground.

Residents in parts of West Sumatra province, including the provincial capital of Padang, felt the earthquake strongly for about 30 seconds, disaster agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said.

“Many residents in several villages on Mentawai island chose to stay … in higher ground although the tsunami alert was ended, due to fears of aftershocks,” he said, adding that authorities were still collecting information about the damage.

The magnitude 7.1 earthquake was centered 170 kilometres southeast of Teluk Dalam, a coastal town in the South Nias region of North Sumatra, at a depth of 15 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. Aftershocks measured as strong as 5.8.

After an initial tsunami alert, Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency lifted the warning just before dawn, about two hours after the quake.

Authorities said that based on sea level observations, minor tsunamis of 11 centimeters were detected in Tanah Bala coastal area of South Nias regency.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 270 million people, is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. In November, a magnitude 5.6 quake killed at least 340 people and damaged more than 62,600 homes in parts of West Java. [USGS, Guardian]

https://strangesounds.org/2023/04/2nd-major-quake-within-24-hours-shallow-m7-1-earthquake

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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc.

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3M announces mass layoffs as manufacturing slows

By David Goldman, CNN Updated 7:43 AM EDT, Tue April 25, 2023

New York CNN —

3M announced significant layoffs Tuesday as part of yet another major restructuring plan as the manufacturing sector prepares for a possible recession and slumping demand for goods.

The manufacturing behemoth behind some consumer brands, including Post-It Notes and Scotch Tape, said it would lay off 6,000 staff around the world. Those cuts are in addition to the 2,500 manufacturing roles 3M eliminated in January. 3M also announced several mass layoffs in 2019 and 2020, but total headcount has been up and down over the past several years.

The company said it anticipates it will save up to $900 million a year before taxes after the layoffs are complete. 3M argued that the cuts are “intended to make 3M stronger, leaner and more focused” by simplifying its supply chain and reducing layers of management.

“These actions are expected to meaningfully reduce costs and drive long-term improvement in margins and cash flow while enabling a more efficient and effective structure for driving long-term growth,” 3M said in a statement.

3M also announced several management changes as it reported earnings and sales that fell from the previous year. Sales slumped 9% to $8 billion, while net income attributable to the company tumbled 25% to under $1 billion in the quarter.

The company said it would prioritize products that customers are increasingly demanding, including climate tech, sustainable packaging and automated industrial products, among other emerging technologies. 3M also reaffirmed its previous outlook for 2023, anticipating sales would fall by as much as 6% this year.

3M said the supply chain problems that doomed the sector for years in the wake of the pandemic have largely eased. That means backlogged orders have been shipped, and the company (and its peers) no longer need as much staff to handle the workload.

Meanwhile, demand for manufactured goods has fallen in recent months. Consumers have been spending less on stuff and more on experiences lately, and businesses are gearing up for an anticipated recession.

3M rival Dow also announced thousands of layoffs at the beginning of the year.

Shares of 3M (MMM) rose slightly in premarket trading.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/business/3m-layoffs/index.html

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Layoffs loom in the US manufacturing sector as backlogs shrink

Bryan Mena, CNN Published 4:04 PM EDT, Mon April 24, 2023

Washington, DC CNN —

US manufacturers have now mostly worked their way through their backlogged orders — and that means job cuts could be on the horizon as soon as this year.

Those orders, which accumulated because of supply chain disruptions in the early days of the pandemic, have helped keep the manufacturing industry mostly insulated from the mass layoffs seen in other sectors, like technology and finance.

Supply chains, which clogged up during the pandemic and were choked off again after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have improved considerably in the past year, and manufacturing backlogs are dwindling fast. Meanwhile, demand for manufactured goods has fallen in recent months as consumers and businesses pulled back on purchases in favor of experiences such as travel and dining out.

An analysis by Wells Fargo economists provided to CNN shows that unfilled orders of core capital goods adjusted for inflation, or backlogs, are expected to return to pre-pandemic levels within the next five months. And surveys from the Institute for Supply Management show that the manufacturing sector has been contracting for several months, while fewer manufacturers report an increase in backlogs.

Workforce reduction

While softer demand has allowed manufacturers to reduce their backlog, once it runs out and demand remains subdued, companies will begin to consider reducing their workforce, said Shannon Seery, an economist at Wells Fargo.

“We’re only seeing a gradual pullback in hiring for manufacturing, even as new demand slows, because these backlogs are still helping sustain activity,” she said.

However, she noted: “All of last year we saw the level of outstanding backlog come down, so that and this hit to demand will make firms decide whether to pull back on their capital expenditures, which we’ve already started to see, or begin to lay off workers in an effort to protect profitability.”

Orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, a key measure of business investment, declined in four of the seven months through February, according to data from the Department of Commerce. Overall orders for durable goods, such as appliances, cars and furniture, fell in three of the past four months through February.

“New orders are starting to soften and supplier deliveries are improving slightly. This is allowing us to reduce our backlog and build a buffer in some categories,” one electrical equipment and appliances manufacturer said in the ISM’s March survey.

Data gauging the manufacturing industry’s health has been mixed. S&P Global’s preliminary manufacturing index for April showed an improvement for the first time in six months, but manufacturers still expressed “some concerns regarding a shift away from goods towards services among customers following the end of the pandemic,” according to the report released on Friday.

A survey of manufacturers in the Federal Reserve’s Chicago district showed that activity deteriorated in April from the prior month as the pace of hiring slowed. Respondents said they expect to pull back on hiring over the next 12 months.

Manufacturing saw job losses in February for the first time in 21 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were additional manufacturing job losses in the following month.

Already, 3M announced earlier this year that it is cutting 2,500 manufacturing jobs globally because of weakened consumer demand and disruptions in its operations overseas. Dow Inc. also announced thousands of layoffs at the beginning of the year.

However, while manufacturing layoffs are expected, they are likely to be limited. Companies are still struggling to hire and, due to a phenomenon known as labor hoarding, they will hesitate to shed workers because of previous difficulty in attracting and retaining talent.

“Given how difficult it has been to find labor and keep it, manufacturing companies are going to do everything they can to try to avoid layoffs,” said Joshua Shapiro, chief US economist at forecasting firm Maria Fiorini Ramirez. “But I think they can only do that for so long, so they will eventually have to bite the bullet and start laying people off.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/economy/manufacturing-layoffs-backlogs/index.html

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Putin sends his 'invisible' T-14 Armata tanks into battle in Ukraine for the first time after Britain said using 'poor condition' fleet was 'high risk' for Russia

RIA said that the tanks have been fitted with extra protection on their flanks

It said crews have done 'combat coordination' at training grounds in Ukraine

By James Callery and Reuters

Published: 01:15 EDT, 25 April 2023 | Updated: 16:41 EDT, 25 April 2023

Russia has begun using its new T-14 Armata battle tanks to fire on Ukrainian positions 'but they have not yet participated in direct assault operations,' the RIA state news agency reported on Tuesday, quoting a source close the matter.

RIA said that the tanks have been fitted with extra protection on their flanks and crews have undergone 'combat coordination' at training grounds in Ukraine.

The T-14 tank has an unmanned turret, with crew remotely controlling the armaments from 'an isolated armoured capsule located in the front of the hull'.

In 2015, the designers of the T-14 claimed it would be the world's first invisible tank.

The vehicles have a maximum speed on the highway of 80 kilometres (50 miles) per hour, RIA reported.

In January, British military intelligence reported that Russian forces in Ukraine were reluctant to accept the first tranche of the tanks due to their 'poor condition'.

It also said that any deployment of the T-14 would likely be 'a high-risk decision' for Russia, and one taken primarily for propaganda purposes.

'Production is probably only in the low tens, while commanders are unlikely to trust the vehicle in combat,' the British military said.

'Eleven years in development, the programme has been dogged with delays, reduction in planned fleet size, and reports of manufacturing problems.'

The T-14 would also pose a logistical headache for Russia as it is larger and heavier than other Russian tanks.

The Kremlin ordered production of 2,300 of the tanks - first unveiled in 2015 - by 2020, but this was later stretched to 2025, according to Russian media reports.

The Interfax news agency reported in December 2021 that the state conglomerate Rostec had started production of some 40 tanks, with an anticipated delivery after 2023.

The T-14 war machine was among the new vehicles unveiled by Putin at Russia's Victory Day parade in Moscow in 2015.

It was produced as part of Russia's £250billion military update programme.

The previous Russian tank, the T-90, was designed to have a low profile, light armour, and to be extremely manoeuvrable on the battlefield.

It weighed 20 tons less than the American Abrams tank, but that meant it was also extremely vulnerable if hit by high-explosive rounds.

By comparison, the Armata T-14 has a high ground clearance and increased armour, especially on the tank's traditionally soft underbelly in order to protect the crew from mines.

The T-14 Armata is equipped with an unmanned turret mounting a 125mm 2A82-1M smoothbore gun fed by an automatic loader.

The turret holds 45 rounds of ammunition, including ready-to-use ammunition. The main gun can also fire laser-guided missiles.

The tank's remote-controlled main turret was designed in such a way to improve the crew's chances of survival if the tank is hit.

Instead, those inside are locked inside an armoured pod, which is also separate from the tank's ammunition store.

If the outer armour of the tank is hit, it is designed to explode outwards, potentially detonating any explosive rounds fired at it, and preventing heavy shells from penetrating it and killing the crew.

In 2015, developers UralVagonZavod made claims that the T-14 is loaded with high-tech equipment that will screen it from enemy radar and infra-red heat-seeking target finders.

The manufacturer's head of special equipment Vyacheslav Khalitov boasted: 'We essentially made the invisible tank.'

Khalitov went on to claim that the T-14's special stealth technology includes radar absorbing paint and materials that make it resistant to rapid detection by radar.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12010121/Russias-new-T-14-Armata-battle-tank-debuts-Ukraine-RIA.html

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Iran Navy Forces US Submarine to Surface in Gulf

Thursday, 20 April 2023 07:25 AM EDT

Iran's navy forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it entered the Gulf, Iranian navy commander Shahram Irani told state television on Thursday, in the latest report of an apparent confrontation between Iranian and U.S. forces in the Gulf.

"The U.S. submarine was approaching while submerged, but the Iranian submarine Fateh detected it and carried out... maneuvers to force it to surface as it went through the Strait (of Hormuz). It had also entered into our territorial waters but ... it corrected its course after being warned," Irani said.

"This submarine was doing its best, using all its capacities, to pass in total silence and without being detected," Irani said. "We will certainly reflect to international bodies the fact that it had violated our border."

The U.S. Navy said earlier this month the nuclear-powered, guided-missile submarine Florida was operating in the Middle East in support of its Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military to Irani's remarks. Reuters sent a message seeking comment from the Fifth Fleet.

Iranian and U.S. forces have had a number of confrontations in the past. In early April, the Iranian navy said it identified and warned off a U.S. reconnaissance plane outside the mouth of the Gulf. In 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. drone which it said was flying over southern Iran.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/iran-navy-u-s/2023/04/20/id/1116863/

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US‘s DEBT CRISIS is IMMINENT! A net of $664.7 Billion in US Bonds has been SOLD-OFF.丨

Asian Quicktake 28.6K subscribers

34,249 views Apr 20, 2023

On April 17th, Monday, the US Treasury auctioned off $57 billion worth of three-month US bonds at a winning yield of 5.1%, the highest level seen since January 2021. This highlights the impact of the debt ceiling crisis on the bond market.

It is worth noting that the maturity date of the three-month bonds is during the period in which the market expects the US federal government to face a possible shutdown and default due to the debt ceiling. This latest auction is another sign of the market's growing concern over the debt ceiling crisis, as investors usually avoid buying US bonds that mature around the so-called "X date," which is when the Treasury is expected to exhaust its financing options.

On April 15th, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that there were legal limitations on how to handle frozen Russian assets, stating that "We have legal limitations on what we can do in terms of forfeiting Russian assets that are frozen." The US and the West have frozen more than $300 billion in foreign currency assets held by the Russian central bank due to sanctions. A significant portion of these assets were previously deposited in the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Yellen's latest remarks show that she is aware that confiscating assets of other countries is illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ZN0uH47Bk

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Panic buying causes widespread gas station closures in South Florida

By Chris Isidore, CNN Published 3:46 PM EDT, Wed April 19, 2023

New York CNN —

More than half of gas stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area were without gasoline Wednesday after flooding from last week’s massive storm caused a wave of panic buying by drivers topping off their gas tanks.

“I would estimate that 80% of [station closings] are due to panic buying,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, which tracks station closings and gas prices.

A storm dumped 20 inches of rain on Fort Lauderdale in just one day last Wednesday, causing widespread flooding and some disruptions to operations at Port Everglades in that city, where a significant portion of gasoline for the region comes through a dozen different gas terminals.

Data from GasBuddy showed that 59% of stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market were closed Wednesday, up from about 20% on Sunday. Other nearby markets are also reporting station outages, including 31% of stations in the West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce market and 4% of stations in the Fort Myers-Naples market.

But much of the shortages and closures that followed came because of a surge in demand caused by drivers rushing to stations that were still open, rather than the lack of supply.

“it’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, people see the gas lines, and they think they should fill up,” said De Haan.

This phenomenon of people rushing to buy gas and causing shortages is common after other supply disruptions, including following the ransomware attack that temporarily shut the Colonial Pipeline back in 2021.

“This is true everywhere. People lose their minds when there’s one station with a closed pump,” said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for OPIS, which tracks gas prices for AAA. “There’s panic. Nobody wants to give up their mobility.”

The good news is that things are starting to improve at Port Everglades, which reports that nine out of 12 gas terminals are reporting operations have recovered from last week’s severe flooding and are distributing gas and diesel to retailers.

Stations in South Florida are also getting supplied from gas terminals in the northern part of the state, and the Florida Highway Patrol tweeted Wednesday that it is providing escorts to some of the trucks.

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Fort Lauderdale begins long recovery as floodwaters recede

But the even better news is that with full tanks, drivers will not need to fill up in the coming days as they normally might have, and the panic buying is likely to subside.

“We just have to wait for it to happen,” said De Haan. He expected most of the closed stations to be reopened by the weekend.

Kloza agrees with that time frame.

“Stations have very shallow inventories of gasoline. Most need a delivery every two or three days,” he said. “But just as those shallow inventories can run out very quickly, they can be refilled very quickly. This too shall pass.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/business/south-florida-gas-shortages/index.html

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Not only China but Japan！60% Foreign Holders Sell U.S. Debt! Japanese Insurers Sell off U.S. Bonds!

Asian Quicktake

28.6K subscribers 17,973 views Apr 19, 2023

Monday, April 17th, the U.S. Treasury Department released the International Capital Flow report (TIC), which revealed that in February 2023, foreign investors' holdings of US Treasury bonds decreased by $58.9 billion compared to the previous month, totaling $7.3436 trillion. This decrease marks a reversal from three consecutive months of growth and a $360 billion reduction from the same period last year.

The report showed that the two largest holders of US bonds both decreased their holdings in February 2023. Japan's holdings decreased by $22.6 billion to $1.0818 trillion, while mainland China continued its trend of selling off US bonds for the seventh consecutive month, further reducing its position by $10.6 billion to $848.8 billion, marking the eleventh month below $1 trillion.

In February, US bond yields continued to rise, causing significant official buyers who are sensitive to prices to reduce their holdings to diversify risks. Historically, a situation where long-term bond yields are lower than short-term bond yields signifies an impending economic recession. Former US Treasury Secretary Summers also stated that the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes to curb inflation have not been effective and could lead to a lack of economic momentum.

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Russia is using 'ghost' spy ships disguised as fishing trawlers off UK coast to map out North Sea wind farms and communication cables for sabotage attacks in case of war with the West, probe claims

Fleet of Russian ships are sailing through North Sea to collect data for sabotage

The vessels carry underwater surveillance to map out where wind farms are

By Rachael Bunyan Published: 09:17 EDT, 19 April 2023 | Updated: 01:51 EDT, 20 April 2023

Russia is using 'ghost' spy ships that are disguised as fishing trawlers off the UK coast to map out wind farms and communication cables for sabotage attacks in case it goes to war with the West, a probe has claimed.

The fleet of Russian ships, disguised as fishing trawlers and research vessels, are sailing through the North Sea to collect data on where wind farms, gas pipelines as well as power and internet cables are located, it has been claimed.

The vessels carry underwater surveillance to map out how the infrastructure is connected with the aim to plan sabotage attacks against the West, a documentary aired by public broadcasters in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland has claimed.

Russia is aiming to plan the sabotage attacks in case it goes to war with the West, with their goal being to paralyse the power supply in Europe, intelligence sources warned.

'In the event of a conflict with the West, they are ready and know where to intervene if they want to paralyse the Danish society,' counterintelligence chief Anders Henriksen from the Danish Police Intelligence Service told Denmark's DR.

'This is a strategic capacity for Russia, which is considered very important and is controlled directly from Moscow,' Nils Andreas Stensones, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, added.

Intercepted radio communications from the Russian navy reveal Russia is using 'ghost ships' in the North Sea. These vessels have turned off their transmitters and are therefore untraceable in international waters.

The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed the media claims as a 'mistake' and 'without basis', reiterating its appeal for 'a transparent and impartial international inquiry' into the sabotage of the Baltic Sea Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson meanwhile deemed the documentary's claims 'serious'.

'This just goes to show that we have a very risky situation in our immediate vicinity,' he told reporters at a navy base in southern Sweden.

Broadcasters DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden and Yle in Finland pointed to how the Russian naval vessel Admiral Vladimirsky is being used to collect intelligence - rather than conduct oceanic research as Russia says it does.

Last November, Admiral Vladimirsky sailed around the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden without sharing its location for a month - but it still sent radio messages to a naval base in Russia regarding its position.

The vessel slowed down when it approached areas where there are wind farms and loiters in the area.

The broadcaster DR managed to intercept the radio signals and locate the vessel.

Video shows a man wearing a mask while holding a Russian military semi-automatic rifle stepping forward on the top deck as a DR journalist approached the Admiral Vladimirsky in a rubber boat. Several other men stepped forward also.

The Russian vessel had sailed around the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Kattegat for a month, with its route passing both current and future offshore wind farms.

Intelligence sources say the aim of this mission would be to prepare for sabotage attacks that would cut power and data cables across the Atlantic and to the rest of Europe.

They say the Russian vessels will have likely mapped out power cables on the sea bed which link the offshore wind farms.

'This is what the research ships do - as part of the preparation for a major war with NATO,' an intelligence source says.

'There will be clusters of cables where one bomb can knock out the entire wind farm,' said independent naval analyst HI Sutton.

'The ship has been on a mission to map what's new out there - have there been changes since they were last there - and to find out how they do it best if they have to hit the offshore wind farms,' naval captain and military analyst Jens Wenzel Kristoffersen from the University of Copenhagen said.

The same ship was reportedly sighted off the Scottish coast last year - 30 nautical miles east of Lossiemouth, home to the RAF's Maritime Patrol Aircraft fleet.

The documentary, titled 'The Shadow War', also says Norwegian police who boarded two Russian fishing trawlers discovered old Soviet-era radios, with an operator in a locked compartment.

According to DR, the Russian spy programme is known by the acronym GUGI, or the Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, a top secret branch of the Russian navy.

The organisation, which reports to Russia's defence ministry, operates out of a base about which little is known in the Barents Sea, on the Kola peninsula in the Arctic.

In Sweden, 27 suspect vessels have allegedly sailed through its waters or docked in its ports in the past five years, SVT said.

In Norway, over a period of 10 years, at least 50 Russian vessels 'had the possibility to collect information clandestinely', according to a tally based on the ships' Automatic Identification System (AIS), NRK said.

Segments of the documentary have already been released, with the full report due to be broadcast late Wednesday.

It elicited an immediate response from Moscow, which has blamed the West for the spectacular sabotage involving the explosions of Nord Stream pipelines linking Russia to Germany.

'The media in these countries have made a mistake in their investigation,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

'They prefer to once again accuse Russia without basis.'

'We would prefer that they focus more attention on the attacks against Nord Stream and on a transparent and impartial international inquiry,' he said.

In February, Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD said Russia had in recent months tried to gain intelligence to sabotage critical infrastructure in the Dutch part of the North Sea.

A Russian ship was detected at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea as it tried to map out energy infrastructure, MIVD head General Jan Swillens said at the time.

The vessel was escorted out of the North Sea by Dutch marine and coast guard ships before any sabotage effort could become successful, he added.

'We saw in recent months Russian actors tried to uncover how the energy system works in the North Sea. It is the first time we have seen this,' Swillens said.

'Russia is mapping how our wind parks in the North Sea function. They are very interested in how they could sabotage the energy infrastructure.'

Dutch intelligence agencies MIVD and AIVD, in a joint report published on Monday, said critical offshore infrastructure such as internet cables, gas pipes and windmill farms had become the target of Russian sabotage activities.

'Russia is secretly charting this infrastructure and is undertaking activities which indicate preparations for disruption and sabotage', the agencies said.

Covert threats by Russia to water and energy supplies in the Netherlands were also conceivable, they added.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11989871/Russia-using-ghost-spy-ships-UK-coast-map-North-Sea-wind-farms-sabotage-attacks.html

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China expert predicts where US will 'see the next war start'

US defense moving ‘molasses slow’ in preparation for a possible war with China, Gordon Chang says

By Kristen Altus FOX Business

China doing so many 'ominous' things: Gordon Chang

Gatestone Institute senior fellow and author Gordon Chang discusses Speaker Kevin McCarthy's meeting with the Taiwanese president, Biden's handling of China's aggression, GOP lawmakers meeting with Silicon Valley CEOs and the U.S. border

China is ready for war and America is ill-prepared for it, according to one foreign policy expert who also warned it could happen on U.S. soil.

"The one thing that we know is that China is making fast preparations for war now," Gatestone Institute senior fellow and "The Great U.S.-China Tech War" author Gordon Chang said on "Mornings with Maria" Monday.

"Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just about 24 hours ago said all of this was overheated rhetoric, the way he put it. But the point is, China is preparing to kill Americans and we've got to prepare to defend ourselves," Chang continued. "And the Defense Department is making slow, really slow, molasses-slow preparations to oppose China."

Chang’s comments were made just before an NBC News report revealed the Chinese spy balloon which traversed the continental U.S. earlier this year gathered sensitive information as it flew over American military sites, despite the White House’s efforts to block it, according to two senior officials and one former Biden administration official.

The officials further claimed China collected the information through electronic signals which were sent back to Beijing in real time, Fox News confirmed.

Noting the U.S. stands at an "inflection point" with China, Chang further argued that when a war breaks out in Asia, it may also break out within American borders.

"The real risk here is at the Darién Gap," the expert said referring to the peninsula which connects North to South America. "Michael Yon, a war correspondent, is saying that he is seeing [Chinese] males of military age who are unattached to family groups. Those, I believe, are saboteurs. And on the first day of a war in Asia, that will be fought on American soil as these saboteurs try to take down our grid, poison our water, detonate bombs in shopping centers."

"The administration should be looking at those males," Chang added, "because I think that that is where we are going to see the next war start, those guys acting on our soil."

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick expressed concerns to host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday over the surge of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border.

"These people are mostly educated, young adults that China is sending here to eventually go to our colleges, work in our business, steal secrets [and] send them back to China," Patrick said.

Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin spoke to U.S. officials Monday who reportedly pushed back against any suggestion that the intelligence the Chinese were able to gather was of significant value, standing by their original statements that any signals or electronic intelligence that the balloon gathered was of "limited intelligence value."

"It's up to the American people to put pressure on Biden so that he cannot get away with doing the minimum. This is critical right now," Chang said. "China is doing so many different things that are really ominous. And yet, people in the Pentagon, people in the Oval Office, they're just pretending not to notice."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/china-expert-predicts-where-us-see-next-war-start

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Assailant armed with knife attacks patients, staff at Jewish hospital in Berlin

Police arrived at the scene and shot the assailant twice.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Published: APRIL 21, 2023 19:52 Updated: APRIL 21, 2023 20:45

Police shot an assailant armed with a knife in a Jewish hospital in Berlin on Friday afternoon, Berlin police said.

The assailant, 45, attacked patients and staff at the scene, police said. A report by the the German tabloid newspaper B.Z. described the attacker as "mentally confused."

Hospital employees alerted police to the incident at around 2:30 p.m., where they described a man rampaging at one of the wards, according to the Berlin police report. The man was reportedly threatening doctors and patients with a knife, B.Z. reported, and cited a police spokesman saying that the assailant would not comply to demands to put the knife down.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-739919

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As you can clearly see the evil in the world is almost fifty-fifty, my word has shown you that before, so that should not be a surprise. For I have said that two shall be standing in the field and one shall go and one shall remain, that is fifty-fifty, and it has got to that place, that also means that the end is very, very near. So you will still have half of the world that desires to do evil and half of the world that desires to do good, but only about thirty percent are true Christians. etc.

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What Americans' Changing Values Mean for Christians

John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander | BreakPoint, Breakpoint | Thursday, April 20, 2023

A recent survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal and The University of Chicago found that Americans are, in huge numbers, pulling back from the values that once defined them. Over the last 25 years, the percentage of Americans who described “Patriotism” as either “important” or “very important” fell from 70% to 38%. Those who valued “Religion” fell from 62% to 39%, “Having Children” from 59% to 30%, and “Community Involvement” from 47% to 27%. Even the percentage of Americans valuing “Tolerance for Others” dropped from 80% to just 58%. Only one value out of ten listed increased: “Money,” from 31% to 43%.

Bill McInturff is an expert involved with previous iterations of this survey. He told The Wall Street Journal, “Perhaps the toll of our political division, Covid and the lowest economic confidence in decades is having a startling effect on our core values.’’ While economic affairs affect what people consider to be important, this is reversing the proverbial cart and horse. Corrupt societies can be prosperous, but only for a time. Eventually, low trust, rampant injustice, and civic division have consequences. Throughout history, economic crisis has not created a moral vacuum: It reveals it.

If there is no moral design to reality, or for humanity in particular, what people value is inconsequential. In such a world, there is nothing to be pursued outside of individual expression, which is assumed to lead to happiness and human flourishing. Who cares if people do not value communities, countries, or tolerance? It is the inherent determination of individuals, the pursuit of what they want the most, that will inevitably guide them. We can only follow our own impulses and desires.

History tells a different story, however. For example, a central genius of the American system is the built-in idea that people can and will go wrong if given the chance. Even the well-intentioned can be hypocrites, including America’s founders, who nevertheless understood the pitfalls of both concentrated power and a virtue-less mob. In the prophetic words of John Adams,

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Or, in the words often attributed to Patrick Henry, “Bad men cannot make good citizens.”

Though various forms of godless philosophy reject the idea, our most fundamental beliefs about life and the world shape our behavior. We do the things that are important to us, and we consider what is important based on what we think is true about life and the world. Put differently, our values shape our actions, and what we value is shaped by what we believe. Or, to fall back on a well-worn phrase, ideas have consequences.

America’s changing values reflect a deeper change in how we think about reality itself, especially what we believe about meaning, purpose, and identity. What is life all about? Who am I? Why am I here? America’s changing values will be reflected in how we live, both as individuals and how we order our lives together as a society.

Any solution, if it will help and not further harm, must first accurately diagnose the crisis. To diagnose a crisis of values as primarily economic is to confuse cause and effect. Conservatives who tout the free market alone without addressing the fundamental beliefs and values required to sustain life together, miss the point. A fabulously wealthy society is not, in and of itself, a better one. America needs a revival, one that will rekindle belief in what is true and good, and ultimately in that which is bigger than ourselves.

Christians, connected to the true Vine, can show the better way, loving our neighbors (even when we are hated) and loving truth. In a world starving for the right values, God gives our lives true value. The world is valuable because God created it and Christ died to save it. May God grant us the courage to live like this is true.

This Breakpoint was co-authored by Kasey Leander. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to colsoncenter.org.

https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/breakpoint/what-americans-changing-values-mean-for-christians.html

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the troubles that are going on here, the troubles that are going on there, the preparation for war, not just North Korea but Russia and other countries that hate America, they are preparing and getting ready. For the hour is much later than most people think, it is far later than those that are walking in the false and tell you etc.

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The Epoch Times: Russia figured out how to “cheaply” disable US Space defense

written by INTEL-DROP April 1, 2023

Russia could take advantage of a vulnerability in US defenses. This opinion was shared by American analyst Brandon Weichert.

The defense of the United States has a serious vulnerability that America’s main competitors, Russia and China, are aware of. According to Brandon Weichert, this is space, where the Pentagon relies on old and bulky satellites. This is reported by The Epoch Times. PolitRussia presents an exclusive retelling of the article.

“US outer space is vulnerable to attacks from Russia and China,” the author of the American publication notes.

Brandon Weichert stated that US military satellites are extremely vulnerable to potential enemy attacks, and the Pentagon will also experience problems with their maintenance. There is a shortage of spare parts caused by their high cost and complexity in production.

“And the problem is that we don’t have time. The Chinese and Russians realized that this was a serious vulnerability. They are looking to exploit these weaknesses now, not three to six years from now,” the analyst said.

The Pentagon over the past 30-40 years has been purchasing and deploying satellites, which were subsequently combined into one / two systems. If Russia or China disable even one of these spacecraft, then this could lead to the neutralization of almost the entire US space defense system. Moreover, this can be done relatively inexpensively, for this you need only one rocket or an old satellite, which will be sent to the enemy’s apparatus.

“In this way, you can knock out an entire section of American defense on the cheap,” the analyst said.

In addition, the strike can be aimed at civilian satellite systems. And then the entire American economy will come to a standstill. It will be impossible to carry out electronic transfers and financial transactions.

“These two [we are talking about Russia and China] together can challenge the United States in the struggle for dominance in space,” said Brandon Weichert.

Earlier, PolitRussia spoke about the fears of the West about the fact that Putin could soon seriously put pressure on NATO.

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/04/01/the-epoch-times-russia-figured-out-how-to-cheaply-disable-us-space-defense/

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Bush, Obama, Clinton Team Up with American Express Global Business Travel to Fly Migrants into American Communities

By John Binder20 Apr 2023

A non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and backed by a litany of multinational corporations is teaming up with American Express Global Business Travel to fly migrants into the United States.

The NGO, called Welcome. US, was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden’s administration in resettling some 85,000 Afghans across the U.S. in 2021 and 2022, as Breitbart News reported extensively at the time.

For its Afghan operation, the NGO helped fly close to 20,000 Afghans to American communities funded by millions raised from donations and supported by corporate backers like Walmart, Airbnb, the New York Times, the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Starbucks, the Washington Post, Goldman Sachs, Goodwill Industries, Microsoft, and Chobani.

The NGO also has ties to billionaire George Soros, as members of his Open Society Foundation sit on the group’s “National Welcome Council.”

Now, the NGO is teaming up with the open borders group Miles4Migrants as well as American Express Global Business Travel to fund flights to American communities for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ukraine, and Nicaragua.

“Donations are needed to fund the flights for newcomers to travel to the United States,” the initiative’s webpage states:

Those forced to flee often leave behind all but what they can carry, and the costs of international travel can be prohibitive. Welcome Connect Travel removes the cost of travel as a barrier for both sponsors in the United States and the displaced families they are supporting through humanitarian sponsorship. [Emphasis added]

With the average cost of a single flight at $1,600, public donations through our partner Miles4Migrants will help provide a lifeline to newcomers, giving them the opportunity to safely travel to their new communities. Donate below to help newcomers access safe travel. [Emphasis added]

The NGO’s flights for migrants are meant to complement a program created by President Joe Biden’s administration this year where 360,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua will be admitted to the United States annually via an expansive parole pipeline which has already helped release about a million migrants into American communities from 2021 to 2022.

During a Senate committee hearing this week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) estimated that the Biden administration has welcomed close to five million border crossers and illegal aliens to the United States since taking office in early 2021. This figure includes those released into the U.S. interior, known got-aways, and unknown got-aways.

Correction: The headline and lede of this story previously stated American Express is helping fly migrants into the U.S. It is instead American Express Global Business Travel (AmEx GBT), which is separate from American Express and is its own privately held joint venture.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/20/bush-obama-clinton-team-up-american-express-fly-migrants-into-american-communities/

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Whole World Hates America, Its Reputation is Faltering, Senior Erdogan Ally Says

Ilya Tsukanov

All materials Write to the author

Relations between Turkiye and the US faltered after Ankara accused Washington of trying to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a coup in 2016. Earlier this month, Erdogan blasted the US ambassador to Turkiye and said his office’s doors were “closed to him” after the envoy met with a senior opposition leader ahead of the May 14 election.

The world has no lost love for America, and the West’s efforts to impose its culture and values on the planet are doomed to fail because its hegemony no longer exists, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has said.

America is losing its global credibility and the "whole world hates America," Soylu said, speaking at a pre-election meeting with young people in Istanbul Tuesday.

Suggesting that Europe has turned into America’s “pawn” in Africa, Soylu said that “there is no such thing as Europe” today. “Do not overthink it. America exists. Europe is the train in the US convoy. It does not have any special features.” The official pointed to the numerous problems facing Europe, including the constant discrediting of its leaders, the aging of the population, and economic problems.

The interior minister said that he was “not afraid of terrorism” because the activities of terrorists and efforts necessary to fight them are clear. “But one of the greatest dangers in the world is cultural terrorism, and we are facing cultural terrorism. We are facing a cultural terrorism that’s aimed at destroying the family structure, morality…the civilizations of nations, their history, our religion, our values, traditions, customs, what our mothers and fathers taught us,” he said.

Emphasizing the importance of the upcoming elections, Solyu suggested they will be history in the making.

“Turkiye is changing history. This is the election that will completely change history. That is why America is pressing us, Europe is pressing us. That’s why Kandil [the hills of northern Iraq where Ankara alleges Turkish Kurdish fighters to be holed up, ed.] are in a hurry, while the PKK [a Kurdish militant group Turkiye classifies as terrorists] are pressing us. This is not the choice of Tayyip Erdogan, this is the choice of Turkiye’s future generations, the choice of Turkiye’s full independence,” Solyu said.

Министр иностранных дел Турции Мевлют Чавушоглу и министр иностранных дел РФ Сергей Лавров в президентском дворце в Анкаре - Sputnik International, 1920, 07.04.2023

World

Lavrov Attends Working Dinner With Cavusoglu in Ankara - Turkish Foreign Ministry

Turks will go to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, with Erdogan representing the People’s Alliance led by the ruling Justice and Development Party. Opposing him is Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Nation Alliance. Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu have been running neck and neck in the polls since March, with polls ranging dramatically depending on who’s conducting the polling, from a nine and a half point lead for Kilicdaroglu, to a 7.7 point lead for Erdogan. A runoff race will be held at a later date if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round.

Pro-Erdogan forces’ anti-American feelings were ramped up earlier this month after US Ambassador to Turkiye Jeff Flake privately met with Kilicdaroglu. Erdogan slammed the move, saying the ambassador “needs to know his place” as a diplomat.

Turkiye, once the bulwark of NATO along its Black Sea and Mediterranean flanks, has gradually pushed to increase its strategic autonomy from Washington under Erdogan amid Turks’ cooling attitudes toward the US and the West in general. Alleged American support for the July 2016 coup attempt, more than three decades of stalled talks on Turkiye’s possible accession to the EU, and other grievances have left many Turks cynical about the alliance with the West, and demanding a more independent foreign and domestic policy.

A Turkish flag waves in front of NATO's one - Sputnik International, 1920, 05.04.2023

World

NATO's Enlargement Targets Not Only Moscow, But Ankara as Well, Turkish Media Says

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230419/whole-world-hates-america-its-reputation-is-faltering-senior-erdogan-ally-says-1109652591.html

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Warning Russian hackers have infiltrated European air traffic computer systems

Fears are growing that Putin-backing hackers will target Europe's infrastructure over the West's stance against the invasion of Ukraine.

By Tim McNulty 22:57, Thu, Apr 20, 2023 | UPDATED: 22:57, Thu, Apr 20, 2023

Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control organisation, revealed on Thursday that pro-Russian hackers were conducting a cyber-attack on its website. Fears have developed that Moscow may intervene with crucial infrastructure in Europe as the cold conflict with the West escalates.

The hack began on April 19 but had little impact on air traffic control operations.

According to a Eurocontrol representative, the agency's operational systems were safe and secure, although communication was disrupted both internally and internationally.

The attack disrupted the website and web availability, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

However, the agency has promised to continue communicating with its roughly 2,000 staff via commercial means.

Eurocontrol manages cross-border air traffic across European national airspace and provides air traffic control for civilian and military planes in select regions.

According to a new report by the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI), Ukraine is facing an exceptional volume of cyber attacks linked to Russia.

The 40-page study, commissioned by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), praises Ukraine's ability to remain resilient in the face of Russian cyber threats, but warns that the response could create concerning precedents.

The study suggests that the threat posed by Russian-aligned cyber groups extends beyond Ukraine, with the UK and allies also targeted.

It also raises concerns about a blurring of the line between combatants and civilians, asking what will happen to members of the IT Army once the war ends and warning that it has "skirted the boundaries of several important cyber norms."

The report also suggests that it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between cyber-criminal groups and political activists, as some groups claim to pursue "hacktivism" but seem more interested in financial gain than making political statements.

Paul Chichester, director of operations at the National Cyber Security Centre, said: "We are very grateful to ECCRI for this important and valuable analysis of the cyber dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine conflict to date.

"The report offers a range of helpful insights, not least around what Ukraine has taught us about the power of resilient systems in the face of sustained cyber-attacks.

"As we look to the future during our CyberUK conference, this is a timely contribution to the debate on what we can learn from the conflict, as well as the limits to our current understanding."

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said that the Government would assess the findings from the report and "learn the lessons" it offers.

"Putin's illegal war isn't just being fought on the ground. Ukraine's protectors are also defending their country against unprecedented cyber attacks on a digital battlefield.

"This report has shone an important spotlight on a different kind of hostility which the Ukrainians have responded to with exceptional resilience and determination."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1760851/Russian-hackers-European-air-traffic-control

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The EU CANNOT Become a Puppet of China or the US - Macron's Plan Explained

The EU Made SIMPLE

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Macron is a strong believer in EU Strategic Autonomy. In his visit to China and in a speech in the Hague, the Netherlands, he laid out his 5 pillar plan for Europe to become a third power on the World Stage. This video will look at his plan, of how he wants the European Union to develop into a superpower with limited dependencies on China and the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqMVeeC5VKI

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etc.. Hear my voice and know what hour this is. It is the hour just before the first three and a half years of the seven years. Do not fear the Islamic revolution, nor the Russian warhead, for I plan to break their power, for they have blasphemed my name and made little of my son Jesus and have established their own god and deliverer. Fear not the false prophet or the anti-christ nor his army. Fear not the anarchy and the terrorism and the monetary collapse. etc..

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etc.. Watch, watch, watch as you begin to see the monetary system totally crumble and collapse, etc..

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De-Dollarization Is Happening at a ‘Stunning’ Pace, Jen Says

Story by Matthew Burgess • 13h ago

(Bloomberg) -- The dollar is losing its reserve status at a faster pace than generally accepted as many analysts have failed to account for last year’s wild exchange rate moves, according to Stephen Jen.

The greenback’s share in global reserves slid last year at 10 times the average speed of the past two decades as a number of countries looked for alternatives after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered sanctions, Jen and his Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd. colleague Joana Freire wrote in a note. Adjusting for exchange rate movements, the dollar has lost about 11% of its market share since 2016 and double that amount since 2008, they said.

“The dollar suffered a stunning collapse in 2022 in its market share as a reserve currency, presumably due to its muscular use of sanctions,” Jen and Freire wrote. “Exceptional actions taken by the US and its allies against Russia have startled large reserve-holding countries,” most of which are emerging economies from the so-called Global South, they said.

Jen is the former Morgan Stanley currency guru who coined the dollar smile theory.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/de-dollarization-is-happening-at-a-stunning-pace-jen-says/ar-AA1a0OKh?rc

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FLASH: CHINA BANS IMPORTS/EXPORTS INVOLVING RAYTHEON AND LOCKHEED - CRIPPLES U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRY!

World Hal Turner 18 April 2023 Hits

FLASH TRAFFIC: CHINA'S COMMERCE MINISTRY HAS BANNED SENIOR EXECS OF RAYTHEON MISSILES & DEFENSE, AND LOCKHEED MARTIN, FROM ENTERING, WORKING, STAYING, AND RESIDING IN CHINA.

CHINA WILL NOW ENFORCE ITS FEB 16 BAN ON CHINESE ENTERPRISES FROM CONDUCTING IMPORT & EXPORT ACTIVITIES WITH ABOVE U.S. COMPANIES.

This is said to include Microchips from "Taiwan, China."

Of course, the U.S. considers Taiwan to be "independent" but yet adopted the "one China policy."

If Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin cannot engage in Imports/Exports to or from China, and if the ban on Microchips is enforced, the two most major players in U.S. National Defense manufacturing are immediately crippled.

In addition, the U.S. weapons SALES to Taiwan, will not be able to take place because the missiles and such that Taiwan is trying to buy, cannot now be shipped to Taiwan.

Put simply, China just put a total halt to US defense sales to Taiwan, and crippled the US Defense manufacturing industry by cutting off microchips.

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin face serious risk if their rare-earth supplies are also affected by the sanctions, according to Wu Chenhui, an independent industry analyst who follows the rare-earth industry.

Wu told the Global Times that Lockheed Martin, now on the banned entity list, may have to source its rare-earth supply, especially that of heavy rare-earth elements, from elsewhere.

Given China's dominant position in global rare-earth supply, substitutes may not be found in time. This would mean production of the company's F35 jet and many other high-tech weapon systems may face a temporary slowdown or suspension.

If China decides to expand the range of its ban to components produced by other countries that contain Chinese-made rare-earth elements, the depth and scope of the new bans will be deeper and wider, Wu noted.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-china-bans-imports-exports-involving-raytheon

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Senior Hamas delegation seen in Saudi Arabia ahead of expected rapprochement talks

Leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal shown visiting Mecca wearing traditional pilgrimage garb

By ToI Staff 18 April 2023, 10:46 pm

A senior delegation representing the Palestinian terror group Hamas has been filmed in Saudi Arabia, seemingly confirming reports that the officials were in the kingdom on a mission aimed at repairing ties with Riyadh.

Video posted to social media showed Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal wearing white terrycloth garments symbolic of the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage as they circled Islam’s holiest site in Mecca. The Muslim world is currently marking the final week of the Ramadan holy month.

Earlier, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa cited the Al-Quds daily as saying the Hamas group was in Saudi Arabia, coinciding with a visit to the country by PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

The visit by senior officials from the terror group has not been confirmed by either Hamas or Riyadh.

A trip by a senior delegation representing Hamas would represent a major development as Israel’s hopes of forging official ties with Riyadh appear to dwindle further.

For many years, Saudi Arabia’s relationship with Hamas has been cold and tense, and the kingdom even arrested many people with ties to the jihadist group, which rules the Gaza Strip and openly seeks Israel’s destruction.

But following its landmark rapprochement with Iran last month, Riyadh appeared set to host a high-level delegation that will try to mend Hamas’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, which has been frosty since 2007, when the terror group overthrew the Palestinian Authority and took over Gaza in a bloody coup. Saudi leaders had blamed Hamas for the failure of attempts at reconciliation with the PA’s Fatah party.

In 2019, Saudi authorities arrested dozens of Hamas-linked operatives, saying they were threatening the kingdom’s rule.

In recent months, after Hamas leaders sent messages that they would like to mend ties with the kingdom, Saudi Arabia has released many of those detainees, including senior member Mohammad Al-Khodary, who was freed in October.

Last week, US media reported that Saudi Arabia’s interest in establishing diplomatic relations with Israel had cooled in recent months amid ongoing violence in the West Bank and clashes at the flashpoint Temple Mount site.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prioritized including the kingdom in the 2020 Abraham Accords upon his return to office in December, but Riyadh and other Muslim nations have become reluctant to openly advance a deal due to spiking Israeli-Palestinian tensions, Israeli and Gulf officials told The Wall Street Journal.

Notably, a plan brokered by Washington to schedule direct flights from Tel Aviv to Mecca, allowing Israel’s Muslim citizens to more easily take part in the sacred Hajj pilgrimage, is unlikely to be finalized, Israeli officials told the paper.

The US-brokered Abraham Accords saw the kingdom’s neighbors the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain establish full diplomatic ties with Israel.

In 2022, hopes for deepening ties with Riyadh peaked when the kingdom allowed Israeli civilian flights to pass over its airspace.

Since the establishment of Netanyahu’s hardline right-wing government, the Saudis have issued several condemnations against Israel over West Bank settlement expansion and violent confrontations between Israeli troops and Palestinians.

Shortly before being sworn in, Netanyahu said a normalization deal with the Saudis could serve as a “quantum leap” for long-moribund peace talks with the Palestinians.

The two countries were also interested in aligning against their common regional rival Iran. However, the recent rapprochement deal between Riyadh and Tehran is further complicating efforts.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-hamas-delegation-seen-in-saudi-arabia-ahead-of-expected-rapprochement-talks/

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Kevin McCarthy to be first US House Speaker to address Knesset in 25 years

Kevin McCarthy will become the second ever US House Speaker to address Knesset when he visits Israel later this month.

By HALEY COHEN Published: APRIL 18, 2023 23:58 Updated: APRIL 19, 2023 08:57

United States House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy will give a speech in front of a full session of the Israeli Knesset during his upcoming trip to Israel later this month, he announced on Tuesday.

McCarthy, a Republican from California, will be the first US House speaker to address the Knesset in 25 years. In 1998, Newt Gingrich was the first and last to do so.

McCarthy, along with a bipartisan delegation of 20 Republican and Democratic members of Congress, is slated to arrive in Israel on April 30 as part of the Jewish state's 75th Independence Day celebrations.

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-739614

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China ramps up construction on new Antarctic base as Beijing seeks dominance in the South Pole region

Beijing has sought to develop new shipping routes in Arctic and expand research

Satellite imagery shows construction resumed at station on Inexpressible Island

By Rachael Bunyan and Reuters

Published: 13:05 EDT, 18 April 2023 | Updated: 03:51 EDT, 19 April 2023

China is increasing its Antarctic footprint according to new satellite imagery collected by a Washington-based think tank that shows construction has resumed for the first time since 2018 on the country's fifth station in the southern polar region.

Beijing has sought to develop new shipping routes in the Arctic and expand its research in Antarctica in recent years.

But Western governments worry its increasing presence in the polar regions could provide the People's Liberation Army (PLA) with better surveillance capabilities.

The new station, on Inexpressible Island near the Ross Sea, is expected to include an observatory with a satellite ground station, and should help China 'fill in a major gap' in its ability to access the continent, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report.

CSIS used satellite images taken in January to identify new support facilities, temporary buildings, a helicopter pad, and foundations for a larger main building at the 5,000 square meter (53,820 square feet) station. It estimated that construction could be done by 2024.

'While the station can provide tracking and communications for China's growing array of scientific polar observation satellites, its equipment can concurrently be used for intercepting other nations' satellite communications,' CSIS said.

The station is well positioned to collect signals intelligence over Australia and New Zealand and telemetry data on rockets launched from Australia's new Arnhem Space Centre, it said. Once finished, the station is expected to include a wharf for China's Xuelong icebreaker ships.

CSIS told Reuters that while the U.S. still maintains a larger research presence in Antarctica - including the biggest facility in its McMurdo station - China's footprint is growing faster.

China's fifth station will be 200 miles (320 km) from the McMurdo station, it said.

Under the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, to which China is party, activities on the continent are restricted to 'peaceful purposes.'

Military personnel are allowed to conduct scientific research, but are banned from setting up bases, carrying out maneuvers, or testing weapons.

A 2022 Pentagon report said China's new Antarctic infrastructure was likely intended in part to strengthen its future claims to natural resources and maritime access and improve PLA capabilities.

China rejects claims that such stations would be used for espionage.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11986811/China-ramps-construction-new-Antarctic-station-report.html

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China readies its supersonic spy drones: Beijing moves high-altitude aircraft that travel at 'three times speed of sound' to east of the country - in threat to US warships around Taiwan, leaked Pentagon docs show

Leaked Pentagon documents allegedly posted online by Jack Teixeira show China positioning its supersonic spy drones

Satellite imagery dated August 9 showed two of their WZ-8 rocket-propelled reconnaissance drones at an air base in eastern China

The moving of the drones is yet another sign of China readying for a potential offensive in Taiwan, The Washington Post reported

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com

Published: 01:54 EDT, 19 April 2023 | Updated: 08:43 EDT, 19 April 2023

China has moved its cutting-edge hypersonic drones to an air base in eastern China, leaked Pentagon documents show, in what is being seen as yet another sign of Beijing's readiness to launch an attack on Taiwan.

One of the documents, analyzed by The Washington Post, included satellite photos from August 9.

The imagery showed two WZ-8 rocket-propelled reconnaissance drones at an air base in eastern China, about 350 miles inland from Shanghai.

The August maneuvers of the WZ-8 were noted in a secret document from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

They show the Chinese military making technological advances that could help it target American warships around Taiwan and military bases in the region.

They also show the sophistication of Chinese military hardware.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency report says China's military, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), had 'almost certainly' established its first unmanned aerial vehicle unit at the base.

The base falls under the Eastern Theater Command, the branch of the Chinese military responsible for enforcing Beijing's sovereignty claims over Taiwan.

The revelation comes as Congress is due to be presented with a series of scenarios about potential attacks on Taiwan.

The House China Select Committee on Wednesday will take part in a war-game scenario for a simulated Chinese invasion of Taiwan, run by the Center for A New American Security.

The session has been planned to give lawmakers a sense of how a Taiwan conflict would unfold, where U.S. military weaknesses may lie, and the consequences for international trade and American businesses, Axios reported.

The WZ-8 was officially unveiled in December 2019, at the 70th-anniversary parade marking the founding of Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China.

The drone flies at high altitude, and travels at least three times the speed of sound.

Several other documents allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira, who was arrested last week, show the existence of additional spy balloons, and an assessment that Taiwan is ill-prepared to withstand an aerial bombardment from China during an invasion.

The Department of Defense has not commented on the drone document.

The leaked files also include a deeply troubling report about China's hypersonic missile program, and the revelation that a new missile believed to be capable of evading U.S. defenses has been successfully tested.

Teixeira, 21, was arrested on Thursday at his home in Massachusetts. He is believed to have shared hundreds of classified documents with friends on a Discord chat room between fall and mid March.

Among them was a February 28 top-secret report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence directorate, The Washington Post reported.

They reported that three days previously, on February 25, China had successfully tested a new missile, named DF-27 - a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile, in the Dongfeng series. All Dongfeng-series missiles are capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

The missile 'possesses a high probability of penetrating US' ballistic missile defenses, the report said.

The February 28 memo also revealed that last year the Chinese military, the People's Liberation Army, deployed versions of the new missile that can attack land targets and ships.

The new missile has a hypersonic glide vehicle, designed to fly more than five times the speed of sound.

They can maneuver in flight, making them almost impossible to shoot down.

The DF-27 flew for 12 minutes and traveled 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles), the leaked document revealed.

Its range is significantly more than that: a 2021 Defense Department report cited by The Washington Post said the DF-27 has a range of 5,000 to 8,000 kilometers, meaning that it can strike any target in East or Southeast Asia and large parts of the Pacific, including Guam.

Alaska is around 7,200km away: mainland U.S. is under 11,000km away, according to the latest annual Pentagon analysis, 'Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China'. The report was published in November and cited by Newsweek.

'The DF-27 is designed to enhance [China's] ability to hold targets at risk beyond the Second Island Chain and possesses a high probability of penetrating U.S.' ballistic missile defense, the report stated.

The First, Second and Third Island Chains are geopolitical terms, first identified by U.S. military planners in the 1940s, for a series of concentric semicircles stretching out from China.

The Second Island Chain references the area stretching from central Japan through the Marianas and Micronesia.

The third is centered on Hawaii. The first is closer to China, and runs from the far south of Japan through the South China Sea.

China has long been known to be making rapid strides in its hypersonic missiles program.

The latest development, however, comes at a tense time, with rising fears about the safety of Taiwan.

The leaked documents also showed that China has for the first time recently used its new helicopter-carrying assault ship, Yushen LHA-31, in an extended deployment - another worrying update for Taiwan.

Last year it emerged that the Chinese military is developing a supersonic anti-ship missile that will be able to travel further and faster than any traditional torpedo.

The 16ft 5in missile will be able to go as fast as 2.5 times the speed of sound at about 32,800 feet for 124 miles before diving and skimming across the waves for up to 12.4 miles.

When it arrives within about 6.2 miles of its target, the missile will go into torpedo mode, traveling underwater at up to 100 meters per second using super-cavitation, which makes a giant air bubble around it, will significantly reduces drag.

China's expansion into hypersonic missile technology and other advanced fields has raised concerns as Beijing becomes increasingly assertive over its claims to seas and islands in the South China and East China Seas, and to large chunks of territory along its disputed high-mountain border with India.

Hypersonic missiles travel at more than five times the speed of sound in the upper atmosphere, or about 6,200 km per hour (3,850 mph).

The United States and Russia are also developing hypersonic missiles, and North Korea said in August that it had test-fired a newly-developed hypersonic missile.

In October, the US Army and Navy successfully launched a rocket while testing a new class of hypersonic weapons at a seaside NASA facility.

NASA's Wallop Flight Facility in Virginia hosted the test by Sandia National Laboratories which evaluated hypersonic weapon communications and navigation equipment as well as advanced materials that can withstand the heat in a 'realistic hypersonic environment,' according to a Navy statement.

The testing comes amid growing concerns Russia and China have had more success developing their own hypersonic weapons than the US.

The United States and its global rivals have quickened their pace to build hypersonic weapons - the next generation of arms that rob adversaries of reaction time and traditional defeat mechanisms.

The Pentagon's 2023 budget request already includes $4.7 billion (£4 billion) for research and development of hypersonic weapons.

It includes planning that would have a hypersonic missile battery fielded by next year, a sea-based missile by 2025 and an air-based cruise missile by 2027.

Russia has used hypersonic missiles 'multiple' times in Ukraine, according to the top U.S. commander in Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the country's arms manufacturers to develop even more advanced hypersonic missiles to maintain the country's edge in military technologies.

The Russian military has said that its Avangard system is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound and making sharp maneuvers on its way to a target to dodge the enemy's missile shield.

It has been fitted to the existing Soviet-built intercontinental ballistic missiles instead of older type warheads, and the first unit armed with the Avangard entered duty in December 2019.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11988843/China-positions-high-altitude-spy-drone-travels-three-times-speed-sound.html

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Leaks Spelling the End for Ukraine

Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington, writes Joe Lauria.

By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News April 17, 2023

A Washington Post headline last week was a bombshell for someone who has only been reading about the Ukraine war in The Washington Post and other Western media: “U.S. doubts Ukraine counteroffensive will yield big gains, leaked document says.”

The story admits that Western media audiences have been misled about the course of the war, that essentially what mainstream media has been reporting about Ukraine has been a pack of lies: namely that Ukraine is winning the war and is poised to launch an offensive that will lead to a final victory.

Instead, the second paragraph of the piece makes clear the leaked documents show the long-planned Ukrainian offensive will fail miserably — “a marked departure from the Biden administration’s public statements about the vitality of Ukraine’s military.”

In other words, U.S. officials have been lying about the state of the war to the public and to reporters who have faithfully reported their every word without a hint of skepticism.

The Post said, as if it’s a bad thing, that the leaks will likely “embolden critics who feel the United States and NATO should do more to push for a negotiated settlement to the conflict.”

That has begun to happen. Writing in the uber-Establishment Foreign Affairs, former State Department official Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, write that “it is difficult to feel sanguine about where the war is headed.”

In “The West Needs a New Strategy in Ukraine: A Plan for Getting From the Battlefield to the Negotiating Table,” they say:

“The best path forward is a sequenced two-pronged strategy aimed at first bolstering Ukraine’s military capability and then, when the fighting season winds down late this year, ushering Moscow and Kyiv from the battlefield to the negotiating table.”

The article does not mention the leaks, though it was published after the disclosures made clear that the Ukrainian offensive, intended to break through Russia’s land bridge to Crimea, would fail.

Filled with the usual talk about Ukraine having better “operational skill” than Russia, and that the war will end in a “stalemate,” the piece represents an emerging strategy in the West: namely that before negotiating, Ukraine needs to launch its offensive to gain back some territory, “imposing heavy losses on Russia, foreclosing Moscow’s military options, and increasing its willingness to contemplate a diplomatic settlement.”

But that is a tall order. Moscow would be unlikely to negotiate at the end of the Ukrainian offensive, particularly as the article admits the “Russian military’s numerical superiority” and that Ukraine is “facing growing constraints on both its own manpower and help from abroad.”

Moscow was ready to cut a deal with Kiev one month after Russia’s intervention but the West, with its strategy of lengthening the war to weaken Russia, quashed it. Why would Moscow accept a deal now when Ukraine is at its weakest and Russia is poised to make significant gains on the battlefield?

The Foreign Affairs piece admits, “This diplomatic gambit may well fail. Even if Russia and Ukraine continue to take significant losses, one or both of them may prefer to keep fighting.”

“Come the end of this fighting season,” the article says, “the United States and Europe will also have good reason to abandon their stated policy of supporting Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes,’ as U.S. President Joe Biden has put it.”

And what comes next? “NATO allies would start a strategic dialogue with Russia on arms control and the broader European security architecture.”

Incredibly this is what Russia was asking for before its February 2022 intervention and it was rebuffed by NATO and the U.S. Now a Foreign Affairs article is recommending it.

Is there no better sign that Ukraine has lost this war?

Going Ahead With the Offensive Anyway

The strategy of Ukraine going ahead with an offensive it knows will achieve little is Kiev’s last gasp — unless delusional neocons continue to outmaneuver the realists in Washington.

Most importantly for the West, the failure of this last-gasp attempt would serve as a way for it to escape the disaster it has created for itself: namely, the backfiring of the economic war on Russia; the failure of the information war in the non-West and ultimately defeat on the battlefield in its proxy war.

Already in February, French President Emmanuel Macron, who is also pushing this strategy, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy that the game was up. This news was brought to us by the establishment Wall Street Journal.

And then ten days later U.S. intelligence provided a story to The New York Times that a pro-Ukraine “group,” and possibly the Ukrainian government itself, was behind the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, a way of distancing the U.S. from Kiev as the exit ramp looms into sight.

Why Did the MSM Publish the Leaks?

Why did the Times, the Post and other establishment outlets publish stories about these leaks if they severely undermined their own credibility? There are three possibilities.

The first is simply competition. The Times or the Post may have gotten word that their rival had their hands on the leaks and did not want to be beat. There is almost nothing worse for an editor or reporter (in the petty world of journalism) then having to “match” a competitors’ story.

The second reason has to do with keeping up appearances. These leaks were eventually to come out somewhere and may not have been easily ignored. What would it have looked like if the big papers didn’t have it first?

More importantly, corporate journalism needs to keep up the pretense that it is actually doing journalism, i.e. that it will publish material from time to time that makes their governments look bad, and in this case, even themselves. They have to convince the public that they haven’t entirely given up on adversarial journalism if they are to survive.

It was the same when corporate outlets partnered with WikiLeaks in 2010 to publish leaks that exposed U.S. war crimes. But eventually the media turned on Assange and WikiLeaks, and fell into line with the state.

Why the Media Went After the Leaker

And that it is indeed what has happened here. After splashy stories about the leaks, the Times and the Post, teaming with Western intelligence-backed Bellingcat, turned their attention to finding the leaker, in what Elizabeth Vos in an article today on Consortium News argues makes corporate media the anti-WikiLeaks.

Rather than protecting the source of leaks, vital to the public, they hunted down the alleged leaker, 21-year old Air National Guardsman Jack Texiera, who was arrested by military-clad F.B.I. agents outside his Massachusetts home.

So what is the third reason why the major media published the leaks?

Very likely for the same reason they published the stories about Macron and Scholz telling Zelensky he’s lost the war, and that the Ukrainian government may have been responsible for the Nord Stream sabotage: to lay the ground work for the U.S. and its allies to pull the plug on their Ukrainian adventure by finally admitting Ukraine is losing.

Towards that end, there is speculation that Texiera did not act alone with the motive of impressing his teenage followers on the Discord chat forum, as the press has reported.

Former C.I.A. analyst Larry Johnson believes Texiera was set up, possibly by a senior officer. Johnson thinks this because among the documents Texiera allegedly leaked was one from the Central Intelligence Agency Operations Center, where Johnson used to work.

“CIA Operations Center produces two daily reports — one in the morning and one in the afternoon. It is not a ‘Community’ product, i.e., it is not distributed to the other intelligence agencies. It is an internal CIA document (of course, it is available to the Director of National Intelligence), ” Johnson wrote on his website Son of the New American Revolution.

Texiera was not in the C.I.A. so there is no way he’d have access to an Operations Center document, Johnson wrote. So how did he get his hands on it?

The implication is that Texiera may have been a patsy for someone within the realist wing of the U.S. military or intelligence establishment who opposes the neocons’ obsession with continuing the war at all costs.

The neocons are not going down without a fight. John Bolton, the former U.S. national security advisor and chief neocon, wrote a desperate piece in The Wall Street Journal last week, titled, “A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China.”

Bolton gets it that the world is changing, and not in America’s favor. So his response is not to reverse failed U.S. policy, for the U.S. to become part of the rest of the world rather than trying to dominate it, but to double down like a riverboat gambler. His solution: raise military spending to Reagan-era levels; resume underground nuclear bomb testing and taking “the North Atlantic Treaty Organization global, inviting Japan, Australia, Israel and others committed to NATO defense-spending targets to join.”

Bolton laughingly says the U.S. must “exclude” Moscow and Beijing from the Middle East, where both capitals are orchestrating the most dramatic diplomatic transformation in decades.

But Boltons saves his best laugh for Ukraine:

“After Ukraine wins its war with Russia, we must aim to split the Russia-China axis. Moscow’s defeat could unseat Mr. Putin’s regime. What comes next is a government of unknowable composition. New Russian leaders may or may not look to the West rather than Beijing, and might be so weak that the Russian Federation’s fragmentation, especially east of the Urals, isn’t inconceivable.”

Even if the ludicrous Bolton is dismissed, there’s still a major obstacle in the realists’ way: Biden’s re-election campaign. He says he’s going to announce soon. He’s already thrown his lot in with the neocons.

Is there any conceivable way that he could accept Ukraine losing this war, after all the blue and yellow flag-waving, without also losing the election?

The Biden team’s aim was to bleed Russia. But it is Ukraine that is hemorrhaging. Will reality at last overcome delusion in Washington?

Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and numerous other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times. He can be reached at joelauria@consortiumnews.com and followed on Twitter @unjoe

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/17/leaks-spelling-the-end-for-ukraine/

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"Russia And China Will BUY-OFF The Entire Precious Metals Next Month"- Jim Rickards

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Drama as RAF Typhoons intercept two Russian jets and spy plane over Baltic Sea

RAF Eurofighter Typhoons have been scrambled to intercept a Russian spy plane and fighter jets encroaching over the Baltic Sea, it emerged today.

By Tim McNulty 15:57, Mon, Apr 17, 2023 | UPDATED: 17:38, Mon, Apr 17, 2023

Fighter jets from the RAF and German Air Force have intercepted three Russian aircraft that were flying over the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea, it emerged today.

The RAF Eurofighter Typhoons teamed up with German colleagues to buzz the Russian craft as it neared NATO airspace on Friday.

Eurofighter Typhoons from the RAF's IX (B) Squadron and the German Air Force's 71 'Richtofen' Wing were sent to intercept the aircraft.

RAF and German Air Force pilots have been working together to protect NATO's eastern border in a joint operation as part of Operation Azotize.

During this latest incident, one of the aircraft was identified as a Russian Air Force IL-20 Coot-A intelligence aircraft, which was transiting from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad enclave, bordering Poland.

The RAF reports that the Coot-A was escorted by two Russian SU-27 Flanker-B fighter jets based in Kaliningrad.

The Russian intelligence planes are deployed to soak up enemy communications and signals for analysis by the Kremlin.

The RAF shared images on its social media accounts with the Russian jets metres away from allied planes.

In a statement on Monday, an RAF Pilot with IX (B) Squadron said: "We often see Russian military aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea and so this was a routine intercept for us.

"Nevertheless, the importance of intercepting these aircraft and our commitment to the collective defence of NATO airspace remains steadfast and resolute.

"What this intercept has proven is that together with our German allies, we are able to act with speed and decisiveness to effectively ensure the Alliance’s security.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1759240/RAF-fighter-jets-Germany-Russian-aircraft-Finland

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etc Russia, is building stronger and stronger and stronger every day, for I have a fishhook in her mouth and I am tugging on it as hard as I can and before they can go into Israel they must first destroy Babylon. They have all the military power to do that and America has nothing, absolutely nothing to stop it, wake up, wake up. You have other enemies such as China, North Korea, are you fooled by North Korea, I sure hope not, for I have spoken to you concerning that. Where are their old submarines, where are they sitting, on the bottom of the ocean ready to strike, for they were seen loading with all types of weaponry, where are they now, where, and China, how about their newest weapon? etc

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Massive Numbers of Military-Age Chinese Men Lining Up in Panama to ILLEGALLY Cross into USA

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Massive Lines Of Military Aged Men From China Are Lining Up In Panama Headed For The United States open southern border! This is an Invasion that the President is NOT Stopping! Look at the one minute video below . . .

Here is what is taking place right now in Panama, heading to the USA unabated:

Now, pretty much EVERY American knows that relations between the USA and China are not good anymore. There is very candid talk that China is going to "re-unify" with Taiwan, and that may happen by force. . . war.

The US has publicly (and foolishly) stated it will "Defend" Taiwan. Quite a goal given that Taiwan is 8000 miles from the USA but only 90 miles from mainland China.

Just how does the US think it will supply a logistics train for wartime operations which has any hope of overcoming mainland China's ability to supply Chinese troops?

Yet pledge to defend Taiwan, the US has . . .

So here we are, with talk of war and lo and behold, thousands of MILITARY-AGE CHINESE MEN are moving to cross into the USA illegally.

Is there any doubt in your mind that these men are part of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) being sent here by their Communist China bosses to attack the USA from within once hostilities break out?

One would have to be a fool to think otherwise.

If they were coming lawfully, they wouldn't be doing this in Panama. They're coming ILLEGALLY because they want no records of them being in the country! No records of who they are, where they will be staying, or for how long.

HAL TURNER ANALYSIS

Americans with guns need to start thinking to themselves "What if war breaks out and these people actually DO start attacking us from within? AM I ABLE TO SHOOT A HUMAN BEING TO DEFEND MY COUNTRY?"

Few normal people in any country, have had to contemplate shooting another human being. Even fewer have ever had to do it. It's a big deal to do that. On an emotional and intellectual level, killing another human being is a tremendously big deal. It takes a considerable amount of thinking -- in advance -- to figure out if YOU are capable of actually doing that.

If you are, in a combat/fight/life-threatening situation, fine.

If you're "not sure" then you'd better think long and hard, NOW, before any confrontation occurs. Because if you're not sure . . . and, God Forbid, war comes . . . then YOU will get killed BY THEM in the moments you hesitate to shoot them.

None of us want war. I certainly don't. Especially not here, inside my own country. But it sure looks as though that is exactly what's coming.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/massive-numbers-of-military-age-chinese-men-

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Leaked Pentagon documents reveal China successfully tested a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile in February - with a 'high probability of penetrating' US defenses

Among the classified documents leaked by Jack Teixeira was a February 28 top-secret report by the Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence directorate

The document said that on February 25, China had successfully tested a new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile called the DF-27

The DF-27 'possesses a high probability of penetrating US' missile defenses, the secret report said

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com

Published: 02:07 EDT, 14 April 2023 | Updated: 03:15 EDT, 14 April 2023

Pentagon files allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira include a deeply troubling report about China's hypersonic missile program, and the revelation that a new missile believed to be capable of evading U.S. defenses has been successfully tested.

Teixeira, 21, was arrested on Thursday at his home in Massachusetts. He is believed to have shared hundreds of classified documents with friends on a Discord chat room between the fall and mid March.