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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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124 in Palm Springs? Historic heat wave toppling all-time temperature records in the West
Las Vegas has a chance to tie or break their all-time heat record of 117 degrees - for five consecutive days!
By Scott Sistek Source FOX Weather
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A days-long historic heat wave across the West is showing no signs of abating any time soon and may incredibly break some all-time heat records on multiple days.
Some cities have already experienced their hottest temperatures on record, with more records threatened into next week.
A massive ridge of high pressure that is among the strongest ever measured in the region remains parked over Central California, where triple-digit heat is entering its fourth day Friday.
WHAT IS A HEAT DOME?
Palm Springs, California reached a blistering 124 degrees Friday, the hottest temperature ever recorded in town, besting the previous record of 123 degrees set four times before, last done in 2021. That might sound more like temperatures expected in Death Valley, except that desert area reached 127 degrees, breaking its own daily heat record.
Highs in the central California valleys are climbing into the 105-118 range, with temperatures even soaring well over 110 in inland Monterey County, whose western border is the Pacific Ocean. Sacramento has been over 105 for three straight days, while for Redding and Fresno, the temperature has reached 110 or more.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA - JULY 05: A woman holds iced drinks against her forehead as the temperature reaches 119 degrees on July 5, 2024 in Palm Springs, California. The official temperature is 124 degrees at the nearby regional airport.
(David McNew / Getty Images)
Redding broke its daily high temperature on Friday at 117, and its forecast high of 118 on Saturday would tie its hottest day on record.
North of the border into Oregon, Medford sizzled to 109 degrees on Friday, shattering the previously daily high temperature record of 102, which had stood for 113 years.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco – usually cooled by the surrounding waters – reached into the upper 80s the past three days, while San Jose reached 102.
Las Vegas could break its heat record on several dates
The heat ridge is forecast to slowly drift east into southern Nevada early next week and anchor there through the middle of the week, threatening all-time record highs.
Las Vegas has a chance to tie or break their all-time heat record of 117 degrees for five consecutive days! The forecast high in the city from Sunday through Thursday ranges from 116-118 degrees.
But record-breaking heat potential is spread across the West. Over 45 million people are under heat alerts into next week, including just about all of Washington, Oregon and California. Nearly 29 million of them are under Excessive Heat Warnings.
Portland, Oregon, is looking at five consecutive days in triple-digit heat. Spokane is set to sizzle to 104 early next week. Even Seattle is looking at five straight days around or above 90 degrees — a rarity for summer.
The heat combined with bone-dry air and gusty winds has made conditions ripe for rapidly spreading wildfires. Fire Weather Watches are widespread across California and the Pacific Northwest through the weekend.
The heat should slowly abate toward the middle and end of next week though temperatures are forecast to remain above normal through the rest of the extended forecast.
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For even the novice can see the events that have started are not going to stop, but these events have been recorded in my word that they would take place and they will continue to take place. For only if you were fast asleep could you miss what is going on right now, for I have called for my church to be watchman, I’ve called for you to be awake and know and see the hour that you are living in. For it is very, very clear now. For I gave you the sign and my word even tells you about the fig tree, for that is the most important thing and as you see what is taking place right now it will not stop, but it will continue right on through the events that I said would take place for this time and this hour. etc
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Scores of terrorists killed in central, southern Gaza, Hamas hostage video published
Houthis attack ships, claims to conduct airstrikes on Eilat with Iraqi terror groups • Hezbollah claims attack on Mt. Hermon
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF emphasizes it will return to Shejaiya if needed as second round of operations near end
IDF nears end of second invasion of Shejaia, Gaza, prepared to reinvade to prevent Hamas reconstitution, focusing on tunnels and intelligence gathering.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF nears end of second invasion of Shejaiya, Gaza, prepared to reinvade to prevent Hamas reconstitution, focusing on tunnels and intelligence gathering.
Go to the full article >>
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/2024-07-09/live-updates-809518
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Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good,
and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who
put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (NKJ)
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Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill
Dark messengers of satanism could soon be walking the hallways of Florida’s public schools, and it’s a consequence of hard-right governor Ron DeSantis’s push for more religion in education.
Members of the Satanic Temple say they are poised to act as volunteer chaplains under a state law that took effect this week opening campuses to “additional counseling and support to students” from outside organizations.
Although HB 931 leaves the implementation of chaplain programs to individual school districts, and only requires schools to list a volunteer’s religion “if any”, DeSantis has made clear its intent is to restore the tenets of Christianity to public education.
Without the bill, DeSantis said at its signing in April: “You’re basically saying that God has no place [on campus]. That’s wrong.”
The satanists see the law, which comes amid a vigorous theocratic drive into education by the religious right nationally, as an equal opportunity: if Christian chaplains are permitted access to students, often at the most vulnerable and impressionable stages of their lives, then so are they.
There are, however, no plans to introduce studies of the dark arts or satanic rituals to any classroom. The Satanic Temple champions Satan not as a literal, omnipresent demon, but as a symbol of rebellion and resistance to authoritarianism. It says its strategy here is to highlight flagrant violations of the constitutionally protected separation of church and state.
“You have theocrats pushing further and further, signing unconstitutional bills into law, and they realize there’s no consequence,” said Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the Satanic Temple.
“And they also realize that when people see these laws passed, and the outrage comes, they’re not even necessarily going to recognize or realize when those laws are later overturned by the courts.
“They’re giving everybody the impression that these types of things are legal, this is just the environment we’re living in. And in that way they’re really numbing people to when these things actually do take effect, or when they are upheld by a corrupt judge who’s just playing partisan politics.”
Greaves said his organization has members ready to volunteer if school districts in any of Florida’s 67 counties, or charter school governing bodies, announce they’re signing up for DeSantis’s chaplain program. So far, with the law only a week old, and campuses on summer recess, none have.
The tactics have worked before. When Rick Scott, DeSantis’s predecessor, signed a 2013 law promoting prayer sessions and religious freedom in schools, temple members rallied in support.
Almost 90% of respondents to a Guardian poll at the time said satanists had the same rights to worship in Florida schools as members of other mainstream religions, and perhaps deterred by the prospect of being seen in favor of it, school districts backed away.
The temple gained even more prominence later that year by announcing a 7ft bronze sculpture of the pagan idol Baphomet, a blend of human and goat with an angel’s wings, which would be displayed alongside a recently installed statue of the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma state capitol (the Ten Commandments statue was later removed by order of the state’s supreme court).
Elsewhere, the temple pioneered After School Satan Clubs in states where religious groups are permitted to operate on campus and, it says, “use threats of eternal damnation to convert school children to their belief system”. The program focuses on science, critical thinking and the creative arts, with “no interest in converting children to satanism”.
In Florida, meanwhile, DeSantis has promised he will not allow Satanic Temple members in schools.
“Some have said that if you do a school chaplain program that, somehow, you’re going to have satanists running around in all our schools. We’re not playing those games in Florida. You don’t have to worry about that,” he said at the signing.
Although the Satanic Temple is recognized by the US government as a church, DeSantis said satanism “is not a religion” and therefore “not qualified to be able to participate”, a comment that appeared to contradict a key premise of the bill.
“It was advanced with promises that public school chaplain positions would be open to everyone, and that chaplains would provide spiritual counsel to students who wanted it, but would not proselytize or coerce students into religious activities,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation said in a statement. “When Florida school districts consider this new law, they now know that those promises were false.
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etc. the world is in darkness and that darkness continues to grow darker and darker and darker, for they follow the evil plans of the enemy and they know not which plans they follow, they just desire to be the conquerors the controllers, the dictators etc.
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Watch: Klaus Schwab Says Humanity Must Be "Forced Into Collaboration" With Globalist Elites
by Tyler Durden Sunday, Jul 07, 2024 - 03:40 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab told delegates at a conference in China this week that humanity needs to be “forced into a collaboration” with globalist entities.
Speaking at the WEF’s ‘Annual Meeting of the New Champions’, often dubbed the “Summer Davos,” in China, Schwab stated that in order to drive the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” forward, elites must aggressively drive their agenda home.
“To drive future economic growth we must embrace innovation and force the collaboration across sectors, regions, nations, and cultures to create a more peaceful, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future,” Schwab proclaimed.
He added, “At this critical juncture the active participation of all stakeholders is essential to ensure a sustainable development path.”
WEF : Klaus Schwab ‘We Must Force’ Humanity into ‘Collaboration’ pic.twitter.com/rarcBvBc2i
— Marcus Cottus (@cottusmarcus) June 26, 2024
In another clip, Schwab touted AI and other technologies becoming ubiquitous as a reason why humanity must “work together” with the global elite.
"Risks & opportunities co-exist.. Breakthroughs from the fourth industrial revolution provide new opportunities for global prosperity and growth" Klaus Schwab at the WEF #AMNC24 Summer Davos pic.twitter.com/jTcTMLaV9L
— Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) June 25, 2024
He also spoke of “limits to growth,” which many have interpreted as an endorsement of depopulation.
"The theme of this annual meeting is 'Next Frontiers For Growth,' but actually what we have seen in the presentations there are now Limits to Growth, provided we use technologies of the fourth industrial revolution in a wise manner" Klaus Schwab at the WEF #AMNC24 Summer Davos pic.twitter.com/SJDT5rLgIO
— Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) June 25, 2024
Schwab, the architect of the so called ‘Great Reset,’ has in recent years said that he envisages humankind transitioning into a new age where there will be a “fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological dimensions” in a “new world.”
Schwab has previously declared that this new era of integration with “digital technologies” will mean that “you do not even have to have elections anymore.”
He has also fantasised about humanity embracing brain implants and leaders having the capability to read everyone’s brain waves.
As we highlighted last week, Schwab is facing multiple accusations of sexual assault and creating a hostile work environment from female former employees at the WEF.
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For there is none other that takes you through the days and the hours that you’re living in other than me, for man does not have an answer to the problems that the world is facing. He cannot stop the wars, for when he intervenes they only get worse, he cannot stop what is going on in the environment with the weather and other things, the earthquakes, the flooding, man cannot stop what is happening. For when he intervenes he only makes worse but I your Father God, when I intervene the very wind and the waves stand at my attention. etc
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150 Million Americans Under Weather Alerts As "Potentially Historic Heatwave" Tests Major Power Grids
by Tyler Durden Saturday, Jul 06, 2024 - 05:25 PM
Let's start with the good news: The Lower 48 has reached peak summer, backed by 30 years of seasonal temperature trend data from Bloomberg.
Axios outlines the areas where the heat dome will impact the most:
Nearly half the U.S. population is under some type of extreme heat warning or advisory on Friday. The extreme heat in the Southeast to Mid-Atlantic is oppressive, with a strong upper-level high-pressure area, or heat dome, leading to hot and humid conditions.
Heat advisories and other alerts extend from New Orleans to New York City on Friday.
In the West, though, a near-record-strong heat dome is yielding scorchingly hot and dry conditions, and raising wildfire risks.
Excessive heat warnings along the West Coast stretch from Nevada and Arizona through California and northward into Oregon and Washington State.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jenn Varian told Bloomberg that Las Vegas is forecasted to hit a scorching 117F on Sunday into early next week, potentially tying the metro area's all-time high recorded in 2005 and again in 2017.
"Confidence is increasing that this potentially historic heatwave will last several days," the National Weather Service's office in Portland, Oregon, wrote on X, adding temperatures will rise "into the 100s and 110s over much of California and southern Oregon."
Here are more forecasted highs this weekend (list courtesy of Axios):
118°F: Forecast high in Redding, Calif., on Saturday, tying the city's all-time high.
128°F: Forecast high in Death Valley, Calif., just 2-degrees shy of the hottest reliably measured temperature on Earth.
100°F: Forecast high on Friday in Portland, Ore., with temperatures at or above this level from Friday through Tuesday in this typically cooler city.
This all means that power grids will be under stress this weekend as high temperatures boost air conditioning demand. Bloomberg says that grids in California and Texas should be closely monitored for an elevated blackout risks.
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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.
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CNN — Set atop a hill on the Italian island of Sicily, Agrigento is a heritage tourist’s paradise. Beneath the archaeological structures and relics of its Valley of the Temples lies an ancient maze-like aqueduct system that still captures water today.
But the aqueduct, and others built in modern times, are running so dry that small hotels and guesthouses in the city and nearby coast are being forced to turn tourists away. They don’t have enough water to guarantee their guests a toilet that flushes or a shower after a day out in the summer heat.
Sicily began enforcing water restrictions in February when the region declared a state of emergency amid a relentless drought. Leaky, aging infrastructure has only worsened the shortages, which have hit tourism and agriculture alike, two sectors crucial to Sicily’s economy.
Rationing is in place for more than 1 million people across 93 communities. Some are having to reduce water consumption by up to 45%. That means taps run dry according to schedule, and supply is shut off completely overnight in most places. Having enough water to drink is a matter of getting organized during the day.
On TripAdvisor and other travel forums, tourists are asking whether it’s worth visiting Sicily’s impacted areas. Hotels are warning clients about potential shortages, and are helping visitors rebook elsewhere on the island where restrictions are less severe or not in effect.
At the Le Cinque Novelle bed and breakfast (B&B) in central Agrigento, where restrictions are tight, the owners have put filters on their showers and sinks to save as much water as possible. But their guests often complain.
“Rightly, people ask us for reassurances before coming, but we don’t know what to say,” Giovanni Lopez, who owns the B&B, told CNN. “The situation is quickly impacting the entire tourist accommodation sector, which risks serious economic consequences, given that tourism is a sector almost everyone in this part of Sicily relies on.”
The Sicilian regional government has asked Rome for subsidies to import water from the mainland, but there’s no concrete plan to help the island as yet. The office of Italy’s tourism minister, Diana Santanchč, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment, but in April, she said Sicily should try to spread out its tourism season and avoid focusing solely on summer, when water problems worsen.
Summers in Sicily are becoming unbearable for many.
Last year, the island endured severe wildfires that forced tourists to evacuate or postpone their visits. Now the drought-triggered water shortages are another worry.
Human-caused climate change is heating Europe faster than any other continent, and Sicily sits right at the center of this change. It was here that Europe’s temperature record was smashed in August 2023, when the city of Syracuse hit 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
Other parts of Italy are also experiencing drought, but only Sicily’s is considered “extreme,” the highest level, according to the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA).
Less than a quarter of the usual rain fell during the winter across the island, which has left around 20% of underground aquifers in a state of “water scarcity,” according to ISPRA. In February, the regional government declared a “state of crisis and water emergency” for irrigation and drinking in Agrigento and four other provinces to last until at least the end of the year.
Marco Maccarrone, who owns the Caico Trattoria e Cantina restaurant in Agrigento, says the island is being left to fight for itself.
“The summer season is upon us and we are worried. No one has given us alternative solutions to the water tankers that we are paying for ourselves,” he told CNN. “This risks destroying the only resource we have: tourism.”
Maccarrone has lived in Agrigento’s historical center for 20 years and complains that the flow of water is painfully slow.
“In half an hour, we can’t fill a single pot,” he said.
Hotels are obliged to have a certain amount of water reserves relative to their capacity, said Nicola Farruggio, president of Sicily’s Hotel Federation, which means they also have had to buy water from the mainland. But smaller structures, including family-run hotels and B&Bs, often don’t have a way to store enough to meet the requirements. And if they are located within a residential building, they are subject to the strict rations that apply to condominiums, which means they simply cannot guarantee water to guests.
Francesco Picarella, head of Agrigento’s Hotel Federation, who also owns a hotel in the city center, says years of ineffective governance have made things worse. There has been talk of rebuilding the water network since 2011, but little progress has been made, he said.
“Today’s problem is the result of a failed water management policy that has been going on for 20 years,” he said. “The hotels that have their own reserves somehow compensate; the B&Bs in the historic center are in extreme difficulty.”
He said that the reservoirs are drying up because of lack of rain but also leaks.
In response to CNN’s request for comment, the Sicilian regional government’s office pointed to a study that outlined government plans to drill new wells, build more pipelines and bring aging desalination plants back online. The report also says Sicily has not received enough funds from Rome to carry out its plans.
The local federation of B&Bs said that “it should have been a golden year” for Agrigento, which in March last year was named the Italian Capital of Culture for 2025, an accolade that typically draws more tourists. “Instead, word of mouth about the water crisis can ruin the season.”
It was just starting to see an uptick, too. In 2023, visitor numbers increased by 24% compared to the year before, according to Picarella.
The island’s tourism ministry said Sicily was expecting to see over 2% more visitors than last year after many postponed their trips because of the wildfires.
“People see this destination with a lot of interest,” Picarella said. “This summer we are expecting a greater number of holidaymakers and every day we have to invent a way to move forward.”
Running out of time
The situation is just as dire for farmers. At an organic farm near Caltanissetta in central Sicily, around 50 kilometers (around 30 miles) northeast of Agrigento, goats are drinking a muddy sludge where a pond once was. Luca Cammarata, who owns the farm, said the drought means grass for grazing is also scarce. He’s never seen Sicily so dry.
The lack of water has meant farmers like Cammarata are faced with the devastating choice: cull their herds or let them die of starvation or dehydration.
Citrus farmers are also seeing their famous Sicilian oranges shrivelling on their trees from lack of water. The reservoirs used for irrigation around Mount Etna, where the oranges are grown, now hold around half the amount of water than they usually do. If there’s no summer rain, they will drop to around 25%, according to the ANBI Observatory on Water Resources, a government agency.
Over-development of urban centers and citrus and wheat farms have reduced the natural wetlands by 20%, worsening the problem, ANBI said.
Sicily’s regional president, Renato Schifani, said the island’s losses — between crops, empty reservoirs and dying livestock — have already topped €1 billion. That doesn’t even take into consideration potential loss of tourism dollars because tourists that can’t access water on one part of the island are rebooking in others.
But for communities in places like Agrigento, the losses are devastating.
It’s just as bleak for Cammarata, who says his whole livelihood — his 300 goats, 160 head of cattle and dairy operation — is at risk.
“The consortium used to guarantee water rotation every five or six days,” he said, referring to a farmers representative group. “Now they can no longer tell us if and when they will open the taps.”
The solutions are complicated, even for an island surrounded by water. The three desalination plants that could clean Sicily’s seawater for drinking, sanitation or irrigation have been closed for more than 10 years. Getting them back online, or drilling new wells, will take time.
And time is yet another thing the island is running out of.
CNN’s Antonia Mortensen contributed to this report.
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For there is none other that takes you through the days and the hours that you’re living in other than me, for man does not have an answer to the problems that the world is facing. He cannot stop the wars, for when he intervenes they only get worse, he cannot stop what is going on in the environment with the weather and other things, the earthquakes, the flooding, man cannot stop what is happening. For when he intervenes he only makes worse but I your Father God, when I intervene the very wind and the waves stand at my attention. etc
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Ukraine Smashed Repeatedly By Russia Missiles
Hal Turner World July 08, 2024 Hits: 5421
Ukraine has been hit yet again by barrages of Russian missiles.
In the brief video below, at least five (5) massive hits in Kiev:
According to preliminary reports, at least three Kinzhals hit the targets in Kiev. One in the south/southwest, possibly Zhulyany airfield again.
Severe damage in numerous places:
Explosions also occurred in Dnepropetrovsk - the city’s airport was reported to have been hit
Local residents report powerful explosions in the area of the village of Aviatorskoye, where one of the largest airports in Ukraine, Dnepr, is located.
Kh-22 missiles launched from Russian Tu-22s.
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etc. Rioting, looting, stealing and rape will be the common news for America. More people than ever before will buy guns and defense weapons. Welfare will crash with no money to pay the bills. The new type money system shall come into being. Those holding gold and silver to be safe will throw it in the streets, as it will be of no value. This will set the stage for the anti-christ and his system. But my people shall not suffer, as I will take them safely through, etc.
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Nightmarish moment 100 robbers ransack gas station in hellhole California city... days after progressive mayor touts drop in crime
By James Gordon For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:00 EDT, 6 July 2024 | Updated: 10:07 EDT, 6 July 2024
A jaw-dropping video shows the moment nearly 100 robbers ransacked a California gas station in the middle of the night.
Surveillance footage displays dozens of masked and hoodie-wearing thieves taking their sweet time to grab as much as they can carry just after 4:30am on Friday at the station in crime-ridden Oakland.
The raid came just days after Oakland's progressive mayor bragged about a drop in crime in the hellhole city.
The operation appeared to be well-planned with all hell breaking loose after a car was deliberately driven into the glass doors of the store.
No sooner had the crash occurred, the robbers were on scene and ready to snatch anything they could, turning the place upside down in the process.
Meanwhile, the police were nowhere to be seen with the robbers seemingly taking their time.
In video footage, those taking part in the robbery could be heard laughing as they casually perused the aisles of the store looking for stuff to take.
The owner, named Sam, called Oakland Police Department upon arriving at the 76. He was allegedly told to 'file a report online.'
The owner told KRON4 then he then attempted to contact the OPD Police Chief Floyd Mitchell only to be told that he had to make an appointment.
Police later clarified that the call to law enforcement came after the suspects had left the premises.
'Video evidence was later reported to OPD that made clear the scale and details of the incident, including the large number of suspects, and the incident was immediately elevated to a Priority 1 incident, which prompted an officer to go to the scene to make contact with the owner, and investigators are now reviewing evidence and working directly with the gas station owner,' OPD said in a statement.
Just days earlier, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, 38, had been boasting of a reduction in crime in the city which has been blighted by criminality in recent years.
‘Oakland is seeing positive results from new public safety strategies’, the mayor said claiming that it was a ‘proven data-driven strategy that focuses law enforcement violence prevention and community resources on individuals in Oakland who are at highest risk to be involved in violence.'
Mayor Thao said that since introducing ‘operation ceasefire’ ‘violent crime and overall crime have decreased in a significant and sustained manner.’
The mayor failed to provide any figures explaining how levels of crime had reduced in any meaningful way.
Thao, 38, is facing a recall election less than two years into her term as mayor, with the measure that could see her booted to office set to be put to voters in November.
Increased crime and budgetary problems have challenged Thao since she assumed office in January 2023 after a stint on the Oakland City Council.
Oakland voters are upset about soaring crime in the Bay Area city.
They say Thao's progressive, soft-on-crime policies have emboldened criminals and driven away businesses. It is a a familiar story in many progressive, Democrat cities across the country.
In Mayor Thao's case, she has previously decried the increase in crime, stating that the uptick began in 2019 before her tenure.
But it is lax bail reform policies and the failure to bring successful prosecutions even for low-level offenses that had led to the continual rot in Oakland.
In Oakland's case, the city has been rocked by violent crime in recent months, including murders, which soared from 78 in 2019 to 126 last year.
Crime overall increased by 18 percent in 2023 with property crime up 17 percent and violent crime up 21 percent.
And in the first four months of 2024, residential robberies soared by 118 percent on the same period last year.
Staggeringly, one car per every 30 residents was also stolen in 2023.
The situation has prompted several large corporations to pull out of the city, citing fears for staff safety and the crippling impact of retail theft.
The progressive Democrat lawmaker is the first mayor in the city's history to be up for recall, after a campaign to oust her gained more than 40,000 signatures.
Public support for Thao has been on the wane, with Oakland's former police chief LeRonne Armstrong urging her to resign.
'What's really challenging is that not only the absence of the mayor, but the absence of other city leaders stepping up in this moment to make sure that residents and people in the city of Oakland know that leadership is in place and working to help solve some of these problems,' said LeRonne Armstrong, a former police chief fired by Thao.
Last month, federal authorities raided her home. Thao was defiant and furious, insisting she did not do anything wrong and she has no plans to resign from office.
Mayor Sheng Thao read from a prepared statement and took no questions four days after FBI agents carried boxes out of the home she shares with her son and partner as part of an investigation that included searches of two other houses owned by another family.
Retired judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, who is leading the recall campaign, is calling for Thao to step down.
'She should do the honorable thing, and resign. The FBI raid is going to be a distraction, no matter which way you cut it. Even if she's not charged, it's going to be a distraction trying to manage this investigation and try to lead a city,' Harbin-Forte said.
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Minute by painstaking minute, exactly what would happen if America is nuked
READ MORE 'We are not bluffing about nuclear war,' Putin ally warns
By Rob Waugh For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:20 EDT, 6 July 2024 | Updated: 08:36 EDT, 6 July 2024
Hundreds of deadly missiles streaking through the air from silos and nuclear submarines.
American cities burning and millions vaporized, instantly, with millions more soon to die in agony from burns and radiation poisoning.
How it could happen in a matter of minutes is the subject of the new book Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen.
The chilling play-by-play is based on exclusive interviews with high-ranking military officials, political figures and leading experts including nuclear weapon designers.
It takes about 30 minutes for an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) to travel from one side of the world - say Beijing, Moscow or North Korea - to another.
America, under the sole authority of one person, the president, would then launch a counter offensive. Chillingly, she says it would take just 72 minutes to wipe out five billion people if the worst comes to pass.
Jacobsen writes: 'A nuclear strike on the Pentagon is just the beginning of a scenario the finality of which will be the end of civilization as we know it.
'This is the reality of the world in which we all live. The nuclear war scenario proposed in this book could happen tomorrow. Or later today.'
She adds: 'On top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light, which is 180 million degrees, which catches everything on fire in a nine mile diameter radius; on top of the bulldozing effect of the wind and all the buildings coming down and more fires igniting on top of the radiation poisoning people to death in minutes and hours and days and weeks, if they happen to have survived, on top of all of that, each one of these fires creates a mega fire that is 100 or more square miles and so.'
The author said if the world went into nuclear war you would 'want to die instantly' because 'there is no more law and order.'
The book includes interviews with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E Panetta, and Robert Kehler, former United States Secretary of Defense, along with former senior commanders from United States nuclear forces.
This, according to them and others, is how it could happen:
3.03PM, 6 seconds later
Defense Department satellites remain 'parked' over North Korea - and imagery is relayed to the National Military Command Center beneath the Pentagon.
It has been six seconds since the ICBM's launch.
3.03PM, 15 seconds after launch
At the Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado, fighter pilots run towards their jets waiting on the tarmac.
Satellite sensors are monitoring the ICBM as it travels through the air.
3.04PM
In the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Headquarters, a 916,000-square-foot complex of bunkers and command centers, leaders begin discussing launch plans - as the US policy is to 'launch on warning'.
3.04PM
At Peterson Space Force Base Colorado, the leadership begin the process to communicate with the President.
3.05PM
Inside the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon, leaders prepare their response, and prepare to contact the president.
3.06PM
The Secretary of Defense tells the President: North Korea has launched an attacking missile at the U.S. and the missile has been validated by NORAD and STRATCOM commanders.
3.10PM
At Fort Greely Alaska, Interceptor missiles are fired into space in a desperate attempt to stop the incoming ICBM from reaching its target. They fail as intercepting an ICBM is a hit-and-miss affair.
3.12 PM
At Clear Space Force Station in Alaska, radar stations get their first clear view of the incoming missile and confirm it is an ICBM targeted at Washington.
3.13PM
Inside the White House, the President is met by an aide with the 'nuclear football' - which contains the codes needed to authorize a retaliatory strike.
The president is shown a 'Decisions Handbook' with options for nuclear strikes, and makes the decision to order bombers to take off and move the U.S. military to DEFCON-1, the highest nuclear alert.
3.15PM
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam: B-2 bombers, each armed with sixteen nuclear weapons take off from the base.
3.17PM
The President is moved to a Sikorsky helicopter by members of the Counter Assault Team to keep him safe from the incoming nuclear attack.
3.20PM
A second submarine-launched missile is detected - a KN-23, a North Korean short-range ballistic missile, flying towards Southern California at six times the speed of sound.
3.22PM
At the Diablo Power Plant Nevada, the KN-23's nuclear warhead detonates on its target, creating a vast fireball and mushroom cloud, and triggering a nuclear core meltdown.
3.24PM
In the White House, the President orders a nuclear counter strike with 50 Minuteman III ICBMs and eight Trident submarine-launched weapons, totaling 82 warheads aimed at North Korea, targeting its leadership, war facilities and nuclear launch sites.
3.27PM
From missile facilities buried in the soil in Wyoming, 50 Minuteman nuclear missiles blast into the air from silos, aiming for North Korea.
3.36PM
The North Korean nuclear missile strikes the Pentagon, sending a fireball three miles into the air and killing more than a million people instantly, with many more soon to die.
3.37PM
In the Serpukhov-15 satellite control in Kaluga Oblast in Russia, the American ICBM launches are detected and relayed to military command.
America's ICBMs have to overfly Russian territory to target North Korea.
3.39PM
Nebraska, the STRATCOM commander leaves the facility to board the Doomsday Plane - officially known as the E-4B Nightwatch, a military Boeing 747 with command facilities on board.
This will enable U.S. commanders to keep issuing orders even if many bases and cities are destroyed.
3.40PM
The USS Nebraska - a nuclear submarine capable of unleashing 20 times more destruction than all the bombs of World War II, launches its missiles towards North Korea.
3.41PM
U.S. military have lost touch with the President after he is forced to parachute from his helicopter after his helicopter is hit by the electromagnetic pulse from a nearby nuke.
The Secretary of Defense touches down at the Raven Rock Mountain Complex nuclear command post, Pennsylvania to assume command.
3.42PM
In NATO Headquarters, NATO leaders meet to discuss their response to the attacks on North America.
3.42PM
Inside the war room of the National Defense Management Center, Moscow, staff watch the response of NATO at air bases across Europe.
3.43PM
Eight Trident missiles fly through the air above the Pacific ocean at 13,600 miles, aiming at the North Korean capital Pyongyang.
3.46PM
The president in the Russian Federation is in a nuclear command-and-control center, several floors underground in a bunker designed to ride out a nuclear war.
Wrongly believing the U.S. missiles are targeting Russia, he selects the most extreme launch option from Russia's nuclear 'Black Book', the Cheget.
From bunkers and submarines, missiles prepare to strike the continental United States and Europe.
3.48PM
More than 5,000 miles from Washington, in the Dombarovsky ICBM complex in southwestern Siberia, silo lids open as Russia's ICBM's prepare for launch.
3.48PM
Satellites in space see hundred of Russian ICBMs launch from silos and mobile launcher and flash a warning to the Aerospace Data Facility in Colorado.
3.51PM
Three Russian submarines surface in the Arctic Sea to launch ICBMs towards the United States.
3.53PM
The STRATCOM commander relays launch information to order a massive, all-out nuclear counterattack against Russia in response to Russia's attack.
3.54PM
At NATO airbases in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Turkey, pilots scramble to planes armed with nuclear 'gravity bombs' to fulfill their mission against Russia.
3.54PM
Thirty-two submarine-launched nuclear warheads strike Pyongyang and the destruction is total, with almost all of the three million residents instantly incinerated.
4.00PM
U.S. Strategic Command headquarters along with Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska are hit by a devastating barrage of Russian nuclear weapons. A stream of 100 kiloton warheads strike military targets across America.
4.00PM
Russian submarine-launched missiles hit targets and NATO bases across Europe.
4.14PM
More than 1,000 Russian nuclear warheads strike American targets in a 20-minute barrage which sees hundreds of cities reduced to ashes, and hundreds of millions dead across Europe.
American submarines are signaled to keep on striking at Russian targets, even after the death of their homeland.
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Unstable, very unstable is the world, unstable is the economy, unstable are the events that they are trying to do throughout the whole world. Even the democratic convention shall be very unstable and many things shall take place that shall shock the nation. Tornadoes, tornadoes, tornadoes, drought, hail, loss of crops, flooding, earthquakes, all the signs that shall be clearly seen, loss of jobs, boasting of how they can change the global warming and yet they cannot. Trouble here, trouble there, that is what we see in the world. Even though you have had your refreshing that I have said that you would have, things will change. etc
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Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano not erupting yet despite 30 earthquakes per hour
By Social Links for Emilee Speck, FOX Weather
Published July 1, 2024, 6:56 p.m. ET
Seismic activity at the Kilauea volcano inside Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park continues, with 500 earthquakes occurring over the weekend. However, geologists say the volcano is not erupting.
Increasing seismic activity is one sign of an impending volcanic eruption, but it’s still hard to predict when one will occur.
Geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (USGS HVO) say Kilauea’s upper East Rift Zone began experiencing a “seismic swarm” on the afternoon of June 27, with hundreds of earthquakes. Late Saturday night, the seismic activity increased to about 30 events an hour, according to the USGS.
Between Saturday and Sunday, more than 500 earthquakes were detected beneath the upper East Rift Zone and surrounding areas. After escalating, earthquake activity eased “slightly” on Sunday morning, according to the USGS HVO.
Still, scientists say it’s impossible to say if the increase in activity will lead to an eruption in the near future or continue with earthquakes. According to the USGS HVO, previous eruptions beneath the upper East Rift Zone happened near Pauahi Crater and Hi’iaka Crater, with the most recent eruption happening over one day in November 1979 near the Pauahi Crater.
Family taking a selfie with the erupting Kilauea Volcano, glowing red and emitting smoke, in the background at Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park.
“Any substantial increases in seismicity and/or deformation could result in a new eruptive episode, but there are no signs of an imminent eruption at this time,” the USGS said.
Kilauea last erupted on June 3 from the southwest summit. The eruptive activity stopped several days later. That area hadn’t seen an eruption in about 50 years. However, there is no indication that magma is moving toward that eruption site.
Geologists warn that changes can happen quickly, leading to a potential eruption, especially at Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
The Volcano Alert Level for ground impacts remains advisory, and the aviation alert-level code is yellow for Kilauea, indicating that the volcano is showing signs of elevated unrest.
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On Wednesday Night a Shallow M5.3 Earthquake struck in the Gulf Of California 140km from Ciudad Obregón (Mexico).
Earthquake List News On Wednesday Night a Shallow M5.3 Earthquake st...
A shallow and significant Magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck in the Gulf Of California 140 kilometer from Ciudad Obregón, Mexico in the night of Wednesday July 3rd, 2024.
Earthquake Summary
This earthquake hit under water in the Gulf Of California, 57 kilometers (35 mi) off the coast of Mexico, 140 kilometer southwest of Ciudad Obregón in Sonora. The center of this earthquake had a very shallow depth of 10 km. Shallow earthquakes usually have a larger impact than earthquakes deep in the earth.
https://earthquakelist.org/news/2024/07/03/m5-3-earthquake-mexico-965462/
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5.7-magnitude earthquake hits off Vancouver Island amid series of shocks
Just a day after a 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck nearby, a 5.7 was recorded in the waters off of Vancouver Island.
Author: Alex Didion, KING 5 Staff
Published: 10:20 AM PDT July 4, 2024 Updated: 12:23 PM PDT July 4, 2024
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vancouver Island on Thursday morning, just a day after a 4.4-magnitude quake hit in a nearby area.
The United States Geologic Survey (USGS) recorded the earthquake at 9:15 a.m. on the morning of July 4th, just over 250 miles west of Victoria. In total, there have been 10 earthquakes of at least 4.0 magnitude in the waters west of Puget Sound in the past 24 hours.
The National Weather Service shared a social post following the earthquake that no tsunami alert was being issued for this quake.
It appears to have been the highest-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Northwest since at least January, per USGS available data.
Earthquakes near western Washington
Many earthquakes in and around Washington state are linked to the motion of the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North America Continental Plate moving against each other as the Juan de Fuca Plate slips beneath the North American continent, according to PNSN. This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), earthquakes happen in Washington every day, but most are too small to be felt. The state has the second highest risk in the U.S. of experiencing a large and damaging earthquake because of its geologic setting.
The Pacific Northwest typically experiences three types of earthqxuakes:
Shallow fault quakes: Ruptures in faults located in the upper 18 miles of the Earth's crust. These earthquakes typically last 20 to 60 seconds and shaking is localized to the area near the fault, according to the DNR.
Deep earthquakes: Deep faults happen when two tectonic plates collide and one plate slips beneath the other one. These quakes can impact a large area but are less intense.
Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental plate. When enough stress builds, the fault will rupture, releasing a massive amount of energy. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential for these types of earthquakes and has ruptured in the past. It is one of Washington state's biggest hazards, according to DNR.
https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/magnitude-57-earthquake-vancouver-
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(CNN) — Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery.
This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in 1936, and how it moves — its rotation speed and direction — has been at the center of a decades-long debate. A growing body of evidence suggests the core’s spin has changed dramatically in recent years, but scientists have remained divided over what exactly is happening — and what it means.
Part of the trouble is that Earth’s deep interior is impossible to observe or sample directly. Seismologists have gleaned information about the inner core’s motion by examining how waves from large earthquakes that ping this area behave. Variations between waves of similar strengths that passed through the core at different times enabled scientists to measure changes in the inner core’s position and calculate its spin.
“Differential rotation of the inner core was proposed as a phenomenon in the 1970s and ’80s, but it wasn’t until the ‘90s that seismological evidence was published,” said Dr. Lauren Waszek, a senior lecturer of physical sciences at James Cook University in Australia.
But researchers argued over how to interpret these findings, “primarily due to the challenge of making detailed observations of the inner core, due to its remoteness and limited available data,” Waszek said. As a result, “studies which followed over the next years and decades disagree on the rate of rotation, and also its direction with respect to the mantle,” she added. Some analyses even proposed that the core didn’t rotate at all.
One promising model proposed in 2023 described an inner core that in the past had spun faster than Earth itself, but was now spinning slower. For a while, the scientists reported, the core’s rotation matched Earth’s spin. Then it slowed even more, until the core was moving backward relative to the fluid layers around it.
At the time, some experts cautioned that more data was needed to bolster this conclusion, and now another team of scientists has delivered compelling new evidence for this hypothesis about the inner core’s rotation rate. Research published June 12 in the journal Nature not only confirms the core slowdown, it supports the 2023 proposal that this core deceleration is part of a decades-long pattern of slowing down and speeding up.
The new findings also confirm that the changes in rotational speed follow a 70-year cycle, said study coauthor Dr. John Vidale, Dean’s Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“We’ve been arguing about this for 20 years, and I think this nails it,” Vidale said. “I think we’ve ended the debate on whether the inner core moves, and what’s been its pattern for the last couple of decades.”
But not all are convinced that the matter is settled, and how a slowdown of the inner core might affect our planet is still an open question — though some experts say Earth’s magnetic field could come into play.
Magnetic attraction
Buried about 3,220 miles (5,180 kilometers) deep inside Earth, the solid metal inner core is surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. The inner core is made mostly of iron and nickel, and it is estimated to be as hot as the surface of the sun — about 9,800 degrees Fahrenheit (5,400 degrees Celsius).
Earth’s magnetic field yanks at this solid ball of hot metal, making it spin. At the same time, the gravity and flow of the fluid outer core and mantle drag at the core. Over many decades, the push and pull of these forces cause variations in the core’s rotational speed, Vidale said.
The sloshing of metal-rich fluid in the outer core generates electrical currents that power Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our planet from deadly solar radiation. Though the inner core’s direct influence on the magnetic field is unknown, scientists had previously reported in 2023 that a slower-spinning core could potentially affect it and also fractionally shorten the length of a day.
When scientists attempt to “see” all the way through the planet, they are generally tracking two types of seismic waves: pressure waves, or P waves, and shear waves, or S waves. P waves move through all types of matter; S waves only move through solids or extremely viscous liquids, according to the US Geological Survey.
Seismologists noted in the 1880s that S waves generated by earthquakes didn’t pass all the way through Earth, and so they concluded that Earth’s core was molten. But some P waves, after passing through Earth’s core, emerged in unexpected places — a “shadow zone,” as Lehmann called it — creating anomalies that were impossible to explain. Lehmann was the first to suggest that wayward P waves might be interacting with a solid inner core within the liquid outer core, based on data from a massive earthquake in New Zealand in 1929.
By tracking seismic waves from earthquakes that have passed through the Earth’s inner core along similar paths since 1964, the authors of the 2023 study found that the spin followed a 70-year cycle. By the 1970s, the inner core was spinning a little faster than the planet. It slowed around 2008, and from 2008 to 2023 began moving slightly in reverse, relative to the mantle.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun's magnetic field on August 10, 2018. The bright active region right at the central area of the Sun clearly shows a concentration of field lines, as well as the small active region at the Sun's right edge.
Related article Scientists say they’ve found where the sun’s magnetic field originates
Future core spin
For the new study, Vidale and his coauthors observed seismic waves produced by earthquakes in the same locations at different times. They found 121 examples of such earthquakes occurring between 1991 and 2023 in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of South America’s southernmost tip. The researchers also looked at core-penetrating shock waves from Soviet nuclear tests conducted between 1971 and 1974.
When the core turns, Vidale said, that affects the arrival time of the wave. Comparing the timing of seismic signals as they touched the core revealed changes in core rotation over time, confirming the 70-year rotation cycle. According to the researchers’ calculations, the core is just about ready to start speeding up again.
Compared with other seismographic studies of the core that measure individual earthquakes as they pass through the core — regardless of when they occur — using only paired earthquakes reduces the amount of usable data, “making the method more challenging,” Waszek said. However, doing so also enabled scientists to measure changes in the core rotation with greater precision, according to Vidale. If his team’s model is correct, core rotation will start speeding up again in about five to 10 years.
The seismographs also revealed that, during its 70-year cycle, the core’s spin slows and accelerates at different rates, “which is going to need an explanation,” Vidale said. One possibility is that the metal inner core isn’t as solid as expected. If it deforms as it rotates, that could affect the symmetry of its rotational speed, he said.
The team’s calculations also suggest that the core has different rotation rates for forward and backward motion, which adds “an interesting contribution to the discourse,” Waszek said.
But the depth and inaccessibility of the inner core mean that uncertainties remain, she added. As for whether or not the debate about core rotation has truly ended, “we need more data and improved interdisciplinary tools to investigate this further,” Waszek said.
‘Filled with potential’
Changes in core spin — though they can be tracked and measured — are all but imperceptible to people on Earth’s surface, Vidale said. When the core spins more slowly, the mantle speeds up. This shift makes Earth rotate faster, and the length of a day shortens. But such rotational shifts translate to mere thousandths of a second in day length, he said.
“In terms of that effect in a person’s lifetime?” he said. “I can’t imagine it means much.”
Scientists study the inner core to learn how Earth’s deep interior formed and how activity connects across all the planet’s subsurface layers. The mysterious region where the liquid outer core envelops the solid inner core is especially interesting, Vidale added. As a place where liquid and solid meet, this boundary is “filled with potential for activity,” as are the core-mantle boundary and the boundary between mantle and crust.
“We might have volcanoes on the inner core boundary, for example, where solid and fluid are meeting and moving,” he said.
Because the spinning of the inner core affects movement in the outer core, inner core rotation is thought to help power Earth’s magnetic field, though more research is required to unravel its precise role. And there is still much to be learned about the inner core’s overall structure, Waszek said.
“Novel and upcoming methodologies will be central to answering the ongoing questions about Earth’s inner core, including that of rotation.”
Mindy Weisberger is a science writer and media producer whose work has appeared in Live Science, Scientific American and How It Works magazine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn/index.html
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Jesse Ventura POLICE STATE FEMA CAMPS part 1 of 3 CENSORED FROM TV
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AS EVIL AS EVIL GETS. Leave the denial at the door.
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura and his crew on Conspiracy Theory have blown the FEMA camp issue wide open in a truly groundbreaking episode from the program's second season on TruTV. The "Police State" episode proves once and for all that the feds have trained to take on American citizens, planned for riots and disasters and made preparations to maintain order at any cost.
This powerful episode is the largest and most in-depth investigation into FEMA camps to date-- and it is scheduled to air on television. Radio host and filmmaker Alex Jones returns to the series yet again, as the team takes you to confirmed on-the-ground facilities, confronts the legislators who authorized FEMA camps and breaks down the full-scale technologically-integrated police state that includes Fusion Centers, FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security and more.
At one of many real and verified FEMA locations, Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones approach a "Residential Center" run by Homeland Security in central Texas where they find locked doors, double-fences and escape warnings around the entire perimeter. Further inside the facility, they witness a playground complex, swings and slides for children. The crew walks up to the front door and attempts to get some answers. But the officials refuse to either confirm or deny the facility's purpose, including whether or not American citizens are being held inside. However, our past investigations into this facility reveal that it has confined both children and adults, including immigrants, refugee seekers and American citizens.
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I have had my hand of protection upon America but no more. I am going to shake America like never before. I will lift my hand of protection for a little while. Remember nine one one and what happened when my hand was lifted? What is to come is far worse than that. I have sat back and watched as my word has been removed from your schools. Your children know nothing of me. I have watched while your government has removed my commandments from their walls. They have promoted a life style forbidden by me. I have said in my word man shall not lie with man and women with women this is an abomination. You have opened up your military, they are dancing in the streets, they are thumbing their noses and saying we are here we will take over. I will not allow this to go on any longer without discipline. I love you America but you need to be shaken. etc
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Can A Nation Stand When Its Spiritual Foundation Is Broken Down?
By Greg Laurie July 5, 2024
I recently stood in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. As I looked up at the monument’s faces of great American presidents, it was amazing to think about their contribution to our country.
It’s amazing to think back at the roots and heritage of our country. Mount Rushmore showcases 60-foot carvings of the founder of our country George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and finally, Abraham Lincoln. All of these men believed in a God and that the Bible is the Word of God. I can’t say whether they all had a personal relationship with the Lord, but they understood the importance of a Biblical foundation.
Abraham Lincoln said of the Bible, “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.”
Thomas Jefferson, speaking of the Bible, said, “I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, better husbands. The Bible makes the best people in the world.”
Theodore Roosevelt said of Scripture, “It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man educated or uneducated can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
Finally, George Washington, our first president, said, “To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
In this day of political correctness, can you imagine a president saying that today? Yet, that’s what our Founding Fathers said. We’ve moved away from this. Now, we don’t want to talk about the God of the Bible and we don’t want to talk about the Bible as the Scripture given to us from God Himself. That’s the problem. America needs a spiritual restoration.
The city of Philadelphia is where our Founding Fathers penned documents that gave freedoms to us as a nation. We have the freedom of speech. We have the freedom to speak our mind. We have the freedom to preach the Gospel.
There are troubles in our nation today, and I believe that these troubles are primarily due to a breakdown in our spiritual foundation. What’s the solution? I don’t think it’s political. I believe that America needs to turn back to God.
The Declaration of Independence, penned by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The Declaration of Independence is clearly based on a Judeo-Christian worldview:
It professes a Creator who works in and governs the affairs of men in establishing absolute standards to which men are held accountable.
There’s the idea that man is a fallen creature and hence cannot be his own lawgiver and judge. In the end, it is God to whom the appeal must be made.
The problem is that America has turned its back on the absolute standards and values our country was founded upon.
Is there any hope for America? Are things going to just get worse? Will our streets ever be safe again? Will the family ever be strong again? Will we ever see good prevail over evil, or are we simply doomed to failure?
The meltdown in our country might seem strange in some ways because so many profess to believe in God. The statistics suggest that 94% of Americans believe in God, and 84% of Americans believe Jesus is God. In that way, America’s big on spirituality. The reality is that the majority are “spiritual” only as long as it’s personalized, taking bits from various religions. That doesn’t work! God tells us how we are to believe. He gives us absolutes in His Word—the Bible.
Did you know that in America today, most children are born out of wedlock? What once was scandalous is now the new norm. 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. 71% of all High School dropouts again come from fatherless homes. 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.
Traditional marriage is under siege, divorce is rampant, and sexual immorality is everywhere. We need help! It’s been said a family can survive without a nation, but a nation cannot survive without the family.
America The Beautiful says, “America, America, God shed His grace on thee.” That’s so true, but there’s trouble in our country right now. It seems like things are upside down these days; right is declared wrong, and wrong is right. The Bible says woe to those “that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
Could America ever come back to God? I believe we could if we follow the promises of 2 Chronicles 7:14. In its original context, that promise is given to the nation of Israel, but principally, it applies to any nation. God says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Often, we’ll point fingers, saying the problem is in the White House. However, what God really says is that the problem is in our house and in the church. Many believers aren’t behaving as true followers of Jesus Christ. We want our land healed. We want America changed.
Revival is another word you could use for a restoration. Have you ever seen a really cool restored car? I’m talking about getting America back to its original condition.
Just because the historians engage in historic revisionism doesn’t mean that America was not founded on Judeo-Christian roots. That is our foundation, and we need to get back to it. We need to turn to the true and living God.
Greg Laurie is an evangelist, author, and the senior pastor of Harvest Riverside.
https://harbingersdaily.com/can-a-nation-stand-when-its-spiritual-foundation-is-broken-down/
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Civil Unrest Is the Next Most Predictable Crisis for America Now
by Brandon Smith July 5, 2024
in Commentary, Original
For the past six months I’ve been writing about the clear uptick in civil war rhetoric within the establishment media in the US, and we all know that the coming presidential election is the reason for it. The bottom line is that no matter who ends up in the White House in 2025 there will be mass violence, but most of this violence will be reserved for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return.
As we have seen in Europe (mainly France), any perceived shift towards conservative influence in government will undoubtedly result in riots from the political left. The media has so infected the minds of progressives that they truly believe conservatives intend to “end democracy” and launch an era of fascism. So, in their view, all violence against conservatives (and even moderates) is justified.
Of course, their aggression and hysteria is only inspiring conservatives to respond with aggression in kind. This is where the potential for civil conflict arises. One side says only they are exalted enough to be allowed to dictate policy and law and that side’s ideology embraces moral relativism, so you can see where this thing is headed. People are eventually going to fight back; they have no choice.
In the meantime, I suspect the rioting and looting America dealt with in 2020 will be a cakewalk in comparison to what we will see going into November 2024 and beyond. Leftists claim they are “protecting democracy” but you will see very quickly that as soon as democracy doesn’t go their way they will abandon it in a heartbeat and try to win using other methods.
This means potential supply chain disruptions in major cities as well as no-go areas in many retail districts. Sure, you might be able to get into a neighborhood to shop, but will you be able to leave? And, will those suppliers even have any goods on hand? Or, will the stores be turned into empty husks?
One rising trend that should have all business owners and preppers on alert is the use of social media apps to coordinate seemingly spontaneous looting events. These events can be organized within hours, encouraging some of the worst people to congregate and strike a business block without ever meeting each other before. What I worry about is that these methods will expand beyond chain stores and local government buildings.
Travel routes will come under threat, freight could be targeted, and we may even see looters and rioters move into residential areas further away from the city center. Supply chain issues will surely arise. At the very least there will be concerns among freight drivers that they are taking a risk carrying truckloads of valuable resources into places where they could be surrounded by an angry mob and hijacked (or worse).
Large scale crime in general is bad for the economy. As we’ve witnessed in cities like Chicago and San Francisco, unchecked crime forces companies to move out of a region and leave those places barren. They call it a “food desert” where tens of thousands of people have no access to groceries or retail goods without traveling much further than usual. Looting and rioting are an accelerated version of this scenario. Once stores are looted or burned, they may never try to rebuild.
Necessities like long-term food storage are an obvious solution. Even those that don’t believe a substantial crisis will happen cannot deny that there have been many incidents in the past few years where people’s resource access was unexpectedly disrupted. If you were living in the wrong place at the wrong time in 2020, you might have had protests and riots in your neighborhood that stopped you from leaving home or that destroyed nearby businesses.
What I am describing, though, is a much larger number of incidents with a longer duration than 2020. I’m talking about prolonged civil unrest and I predict this will become the norm going into next year.
Don’t count on the government to provide sufficient aid. Don’t count on FEMA rations or a national guard response that does anything other than exacerbate the problem. Don’t rely on outside help – You’ll regret it.
Instead, put together a three week, three month, and one year survival plan. Start small and work your way up and make sure you have at least some family or friends onboard. There are different levels of civil unrest. Sometimes it starts as a less malicious redress of grievances, but often it becomes a vehicle for random destruction. The best way to counter indiscriminate violence is with directed and focused self defense, along with the proper supplies to keep you going until things calm down.
Also, don’t think just because you live in the suburbs or a rural town that these threats don’t concern you. In Argentina during their economic collapse in 2001, gangs of looters stalked rural areas with impunity while cities ground to a standstill. In the US we have similar circumstances in which economically and politically motivated bad actors could be inspired to sabotage normal services in the face of limited law enforcement opposition.
Organize accordingly and keep your own supplies ready. There are plenty of people out there that think they are owed something. They think they are owed a political win, or social power, or maybe they just think they’re owed access to other people’s stuff. Right now, the US is a powderkeg waiting to go off and a grotesque sense of entitlement is the fuse.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that fiat currencies across the globe, including the U.S. Dollar, are under attack. Paper money is losing its value, translating into insane inflation and less value in our life’s savings.
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https://noqreport.com/civil-unrest-is-the-next-most-predictable-crisis-for-america-now/
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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Political Unrest Worldwide Is Fueled by High Prices and Huge Debts
July 5, 2024 in News
Like a globe-spanning tornado that touches down with little predictability, deep economic anxieties are leaving a trail of political turmoil and violence across poor and rich countries alike.
In Kenya, a nation buckling under debt, protests over a proposed tax increase last week resulted in dozens of deaths, abductions of demonstrators and a partially scorched Parliament.
At the same time in Bolivia, where residents have lined up for gas because of shortages, a military general led a failed coup attempt, saying the president, a former economist, must “stop impoverishing our country,” just before an armored truck rammed into the presidential palace.
And in France, after months of road blockades by farmers angry over low wages and rising costs, the far-right party surged in support in the first round of snap parliamentary elections on Sunday, bringing its long-taboo brand of nationalist and anti-immigrant politics to the threshold of power.
The causes, context and conditions underlying these disruptions vary widely from country to country. But a common thread is clear: rising inequality, diminished purchasing power and growing anxiety that the next generation will be worse off than this one.
The result is that citizens in many countries who face a grim economic outlook have lost faith in the ability of their governments to cope — and are striking back.
The backlash has often targeted liberal democracy and democratic capitalism, with populist movements springing up on both the left and right. “An economic malaise and a political malaise are feeding each other,” said Nouriel Roubini, an economist at New York University.
In recent months, economic fears have set off protests around the world that have sometimes turned violent, including in high-income countries with stable economies like Poland and Belgium, as well as those struggling with out-of-control debt, like Argentina, Pakistan, Tunisia, Angola and Sri Lanka.
On Friday, Sri Lanka’s president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, pointed to Kenya and warned: “If we do not establish economic stability in Sri Lanka, we could face similar unrest.”
Even in the United States, where the economy has proved resilient, economic anxieties are partly behind the potential return of Donald J. Trump, who has frequently adopted authoritarian rhetoric. In a recent poll, the largest share of American voters said that the economy was the election’s most important issue.
National elections in more than 60 countries this year have focused attention on the political process, inviting citizens to express their discontent.
Economic problems always have political consequences. Yet economists and analysts say that a chain of events set off by the Covid-19 pandemic created an acute economic crisis in many parts of the planet, laying the groundwork for the civil unrest that is blooming now.
The pandemic halted commerce, erased incomes and created supply chain chaos that caused shortages of everything from semiconductors to sneakers. Later, as life returned to normal, factories and retailers were unable to match the pent-up demand, boosting prices.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine added another jolt, sending oil, gas, fertilizer and food prices into the stratosphere.
Central banks tried to rein in inflation by increasing interest rates, which in turn squeezed businesses and families even more.
While inflation has eased, the damage has been done. Prices remain high and in some places, the cost of bread, eggs, cooking oil and home heating is two, three or even four times higher than a few years ago.
As usual, the poorest and most vulnerable countries were slammed the hardest. Governments already strangled by loans they couldn’t afford saw the cost of that debt balloon with the rise in interest rates. In Africa, half of the population lives in nations that spend more on interest payments than they do on health or education.
That has left many countries desperate for solutions. Indermit Gill, chief economist at the World Bank, said that nations unable to borrow because of a debt crisis have essentially two ways to pay their bills: printing money or raising taxes. “One leads to inflation,” he said, “the other leads to unrest.”
After paying off a $2 billion bond in June, Kenya sought to raise taxes. Then things boiled over.
Thousands of protesters swarmed the Parliament in Nairobi. At least 39 people were killed and 300 injured in clashes with police, according to rights groups. The next day, President William Ruto withdrew the proposed bill that included tax increases.
In Sri Lanka, stuck under $37 billion in debt, “the people are just broken,” said Jayati Ghosh, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, after a recent visit to the capital city of Colombo. Families are skipping meals, parents cannot afford school fees or medical coverage, and a million people have lost access to electricity over the past year because of unaffordable price and tax increases, she said. The police have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protests.
In Pakistan, the rising costs of flour and electricity set off a wave of demonstrations that started in Kashmir and spread this week to nearly every major city. Traders closed their shops on Monday, blocking roads and burning electricity bills.
“We cannot bear the burden of these inflated electricity bills and the hike in taxes any longer,” said Ahmad Chauhan, a pharmaceuticals seller in Lahore. “Our businesses are suffering and we have no choice but to protest.”
Pakistan is deep in debt to a string of international creditors, and it wants to increase tax revenues by 40 percent to try to win a bailout of up to $8 billion from the International Monetary Fund — its lender of last resort — to avoid defaulting.
No country has a bigger I.M.F. loan program than Argentina: $44 billion. Decades of economic mismanagement by a succession of Argentine leaders, including printing money to pay bills, has made inflation a constant struggle. Prices have nearly quadrupled this year compared with 2023. Argentines now use U.S. dollars instead of Argentine pesos for big purchases like houses, stashing stacks of $100 bills in jackets or bras.
The economic turmoil led voters in November to elect Javier Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who promised to slash government spending, as president. He has cut thousands of jobs, chopped wages and frozen infrastructure projects, imposing austerity measures that exceed even those the I.M.F. has sought in its attempts to help the country fix its finances. In his first six months, poverty rates have soared.
Many Argentines are fighting back. Nationwide strikes have closed businesses and canceled flights, and protests have clogged plazas in Buenos Aires. Last month, at a demonstration outside Argentina’s Congress, some protesters threw rocks or lit cars on fire. Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. Several opposition lawmakers were injured in the clashes.
Martin Guzmán, a former economy minister of Argentina, said that when national leaders restructure crushing government debt, the agreements fall most heavily on the people whose pensions are reduced and whose taxes are increased. That is why he pushed for a law in 2022 that required Argentina’s elected Congress to approve any future deals with the I.M.F.
“There is a problem of representation and discontent,” Mr. Guzmán said. “That is a combination that leads to social unrest.”
Even the world’s wealthiest countries are bubbling with frustration. European farmers, worried about their prospects, are angry that the cost of new environmental regulations intended to ward off climate change is threatening their livelihoods.
Overall, Europeans have felt that their wages are not going as far as they used to. Inflation reached nearly 11 percent at one point in 2022, chipping away at incomes. Roughly a third of people in the European Union believe their standards of living will decline over the next five years, according to a recent survey.
Protests have erupted in Greece, Portugal, Belgium and Germany this year. Outside Berlin in March, farmers spread manure on a highway that caused several crashes. In France, they burned hay, dumped manure in Nice’s City Hall and hung the carcass of a wild boar outside a labor inspection office in Agen.
As the head of France’s farmers union told The New York Times: “It’s the end of the world versus the end of the month.”
The economic anxieties are adding to divisions between rural and urban dwellers, unskilled and college educated workers, religious traditionalists and secularists. In France, Italy, Germany and Sweden, far-right politicians have seized on this dissatisfaction to promote nationalist, anti-immigrant agendas.
And growth is slowing worldwide, making it harder to find solutions.
“Terrible things are happening even in countries where there aren’t protests,” said Ms. Ghosh, the University of Massachusetts Amherst economist, “but protests kind of make everybody wake up.”
The post Political Unrest Worldwide Is Fueled by High Prices and Huge Debts appeared first on New York Times.
https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/05/political-unrest-worldwide-is-fueled-by-high-prices-and-huge-debts/
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Nationwide discount retailer with 1,400 stores sparks fears of mass closures as it mulls bankruptcy
READ MORE: Sports goods chain to shut ALL stores - but will clear stock first
By Daniel Jones, Consumer Editor For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:17 EDT, 5 July 2024 | Updated: 09:56 EDT, 5 July 2024
A nationwide discount homeware chain with almost 1,400 stores is the latest to warn of money problems.
Big Lots has told financial regulators it may not be able to continue as a 'going concern' - raising the risk of store closures and bankruptcy.
The Columbus, Ohio-based chain has seen its takings fall consistently for each of the past ten quarters. And it lost an eye-watering $132milloin in the first three months of 2024.
Managers of its stores say they are not surprised. They have complained that the company's bosses at HQ send truck-loads of products that customers don't want.
In a recent filing with regulators, Big Lots said that the losses so far this year - on top of further losses in 2022 and 2023 - meant it had used up most of its spare cash. Retailers need money in the bank to cover the cost of stock.
Execs at Big Lots said the retailer 'expects to experience further operating losses and expects to experience difficulty remaining in compliance' with credit agreements later this year.
Big Lots has tried to cut costs, boost customer spending and get cheaper credit - but that might not be enough, the company said in the filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All this 'raises substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern,' the retailer said.
On Wednesday, ahead of the market closing for the holiday, the stock was $1.71 - down 48 percent over the past month and 81 percent this year.
It had peaked at $72.31 during a post-pandemic rally in 2021.
Last year, Big Lots shuttered 52 stores. This year so far it has closed 13.
Big Lots and other discount retailers are struggling in America. They are even more exposed to Americans cutting back on spending than stores who attract middle-class shoppers.
Lower-income customers have been cutting back after two and a half years of punishing price rises.
In February, Big Lots began looking for fresh financing, according to Bloomberg News.
On Reddit, Big Lots store managers have complained that they are getting more and more stock that customers don't buy.
'In the last month we received four of the largest trucks we have seen all year and triple the amount we normally get,' one wrote on Tuesday this week.
'The warehouse is pretty much full to capacity and none of [it] is selling.'
Another posted: 'Isn't that the weirdest thing? So much stuff, but none of it is what people want.
'Perhaps instead of blowing our budget on cheap garbage nobody wants, corporate will look into what's popular and will only buy that.'
Problems for Big Lots comes amidst a widespread 'retail apocalypse' which is seeing bricks-and-mortar stores struggle to combat rampant theft and increasingly tight margins.
There have been almost 2,600 store closures so far in 2024.
In recent weeks, Walmart has closed three more of its underperforming locations, while Rite Aid said it is shutting another 27 pharmacies.
Dollar stores have been hit hard too, with 99 Cents Only announcing in April it would shutter all 371 of its locations across California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada.
Similarly, 1,000 Family Dollars and Dollar Trees will permanently shut over the next few years.
And last week it emerged that Pinto Ranch, an iconic Texas store loved by Drake, abruptly shuttered after two decades.
Bob's Stores, which sells athletic and casual clothing across six states, said it is shutting all its stores.
But will clear stock first with 70 percent off bargains
Rhema: Prophetic to the church here at RMMMI
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I have laid my word down, says the Lord, and that is the only authority that stands, says the Father God. Therefore whatever is in my word you can claim, you can stand on it, you can be affirmed and confident knowing that you will not falter or fall, says the Lord, if you are based on my word. For my word shall give you the things that you have need of, for I shall provide for you the things that you have need of, says the Lord. Therefore if the law comes against my church my word will prevail against that law, says the Lord and, therefore, you have victory, says the Lord, do not stand down.
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Woman Who Said Vax Would 'Dishonor God' Wins $700K
Tanja Benton wins settlement against ex-employer BlueCross for refusing COVID vaccine mandate
By Jenn Gidman, Newser Staff Posted Jul 2, 2024 11:16 AM CDT
Tanja Benton was pink-slipped in November 2021 from the biostatistical research scientist job she'd held for years with federal contractor BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, due to her refusal to adhere to her employer's COVID vaccine mandate. Now, a federal jury has awarded Benton nearly $700,000 in a settlement, finding that BlueCross didn't offer proper accommodations for Benton, who worked mostly from home and had asked for a religious exemption for the vaccine, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Benton's main beef with the vaccine, per her suit, is that she believes it's derived from aborted fetus cell lines.
"Because of her sincerely held religious beliefs concerning abortion, [Benton] cannot in good conscience consume the vaccine, which would not only defile her body but also anger and dishonor God," her attorney, Doug Hamill, writes in the complaint. National Geographic notes that fetal cells are used in testing or development/production of the coronavirus vaccine, not as an ingredient in the vaccine itself—similar to how those cell lines are used to test other medications like ibuprofen and aspirin, and for treatment research for certain conditions like Alzheimer's. Vanderbilt University, meanwhile, notes that most major religions don't have an issue with vaccination. Benton identifies as a nondenominational Christian, per Hamill.
Benton's complaint noted she only met in person with her clients about 1% of the time, and that she "never performed any work or attended any meetings in medical facilities where patients were being treated." Benton is said to be the first fired BlueCross employee who has been awarded compensation after being fired for refusing to comply with the mandate. A BlueCross rep says in a statement that "we believe the vaccine requirement was the best decision for the health and safety of our employees, members, and wider community given the circumstances and federal guidance in effect at the time." WTVC notes that Benton will receive nearly $180,000 in back pay, $10,000 in compensatory damages, and $500,000 in punitive damages—for a grand total of $687,240. Check out the settlement in full here. (More coronavirus vaccine stories.)
https://www.newser.com/story/352447/woman-who-refused-covid-vax-wins-700k-settlement.html
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Turkey’s Erdogan warns Israel that they stand with Lebanon if war is pursued
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Israel has set its eyes on Lebanon as he accused some Western powers of supporting the Israeli government’s plans to expand the war in Gaza.
“Israel, which devastated Gaza, is now setting its sights on Lebanon, as we see,” Erdogan said in a televised address to his fellow party members in the Turkish parliament. “We see that while Western powers speak differently on camera, behind the scenes they are patting Israel on the back and even supporting it.”
“Plans to spread the war to the region will lead to a great disaster,” he warned.
Later in the day, Erdogan reiterated his messages during a phone call with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
“Israel’s efforts to spread the conflict are extremely dangerous, and Turkey stands by Lebanon against Israel’s aggressive policies,” he told the Lebanese premier, according to a Turkish readout of the call
Fears of a broader conflict in the region have been growing since last week after the Israeli military said in a June 18 statement that “operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved.”
In a similar message on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans for shifting some Israeli troops to the north of the country, where the border with Lebanon has seen clashes between the Jewish state and Lebanese Hezbollah since the start of the war.
Erdogan also took fresh aim at Netanyahu. “It is extremely tragic that countries that gloat over freedom, human rights and justice have become slave to a mentally ill person like Netanyahu,” he said.
The Turkish president also criticized Muslim-majority countries for what he described as their failure to confront Israel.
“We sadly observe that the Islamic world is acting lethargically,” he said. “Turkey stands by the brotherly Lebanese people and government. I call on other regional countries to stand in solidarity with Lebanon too.”
The remarks quickly sparked a flare-up between Turkey and Israel, with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accusing Erdogan of declaring support for Hezbollah.
Erdogan “announced his support for Hezbollah against Israel’s threats,” the Israeli minister wrote on social media platform X, adding that he’s trying to “deny Israel its right to self-defense against a terror organization attacking from Lebanon under Iran’s orders.”
The Hamas-Israel war has left Turkey-Israel normalization, which saw great progress last year after four years of hiatus, in tatters. Both countries downgraded their diplomatic ties following the outbreak of the war on Oct. 7.
Erdogan, one of the most outspoken supporters of the Palestinian cause, accused Netanyahu of committing genocide in Gaza, and the Turkish government announced it would cut trade ties with the Jewish state in May.
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etc.. Learn about the silent bomb, study it, study the national grid, understand the things that I am saying to you because this shall not just be a day or a two-day or a three-day thing. Make sure you can take care of yourself for at least three months, at least three months. etc..
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The EMP Threat To The West Continues To Grow
An EMP is essentially a large nuclear bomb that explodes in the outer atmosphere. In a cone-shaped area below, all electricity infrastructures and electronic devices fail. The area can be predetermined by arranging the size of the cone beforehand. So, for example, an attack could be focused on greater Chicago or the entire Midwest.
The explosion causes no immediate deaths. But after roughly 10 days, many people will die due to lack of food (because refrigeration is impossible), water (most water is delivered by electric pumps), working sewer systems, communications, transportation, etc.
Russia is now perfecting such a weapon. They are sending a nuclear device into space mounted on a satellite. It will be ready for use if and when Russia deems it necessary. We have no defense against it.
Developing this weapon is in serious violation of treaties signed in the past. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin knows that the Biden administration is incapable of making or following through on any threats.
Teddy Roosevelt's advice "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" does not apply in this case. The only stick we're carrying is a cane. And everybody knows it.
In my recent meeting with a ranking House Intelligence Committee member, we discussed the "evil four": North Korea, China, Russia and Iran. They have individual agreements among themselves for mutual protection, NATO style. (Putin was in North Korea last weekend). Three of the four are already nuclear powers. Iran will likely make it a quartet.
Regarding Iran, America survived the Cold War because of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). No one wanted to be the recipient of a massive reciprocal nuclear attack. Despite the Cold War arms buildup, not a single nuclear missile was fired. We tend to think similarly about Iran but we are completely wrong.
The Iranian mullahs believe that their Twelfth Imam--an occluded messianic figure termed the Mahdi--is on earth but in hiding. The Iranian regime is convinced that it must make him appear and manifest himself. This is a religious obligation in Shi'ite Islam.
How does MAD apply in this context? Well, Iran is a big country with more than 90 million residents. If even 50% of its population dies in a war with the West, the Iranian regime will see them all as martyrs of God who will go to heaven.
So, MAD is no threat to them. They see such destruction as a victory--a win for them. Americans do not understand this way of thinking, nor that it is in service of Iran's ultimate objective of the Islamification of the West.
What about the Sunni Saudi Arabia? Its leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is trying very hard to bring his country into the 21st century. He's accomplishing this by eliminating radical Islam and proposing a more moderate form of the faith. All Sunni beliefs and directives, globally, come from Saudi Arabia. They are very different from Iran's.
Note that none of the above has anything to do with Israel, Gaza or the current war. It has been brewing for a while. The alliance of North Korea, China, Russia and Iran is focused on destroying America's superpower status.
At the moment, Iran in particular is creating havoc in the Middle East through their proxy terror groups the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas. Clearly, the immediate threat is to Israel, but the ultimate target is Western "dominance."
This is a major threat to the West. The United States should wake up to it and fast. Hopefully, it's not too late.
https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=7032#google_vignette
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Supreme Court Thoroughly Rebukes Biden DOJ For Abusing Law To Go After Trump And His Supporters - This Could Affect Over 350 Political Prisoners
June 30, 2024 By Katelynn Richardson - All News Pipeline
The Supreme Court held Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) interpreted an obstruction statute too broadly when using it to charge hundreds of defendants for their behavior in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The court sided 6-3 in Fischer v. United States with a defendant who challenged the statute, Section 1512(c)(2), which holds up to 20 years in prison for anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding.”
“To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority ruling. “The judgment of the D. C. Circuit is therefore vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
Of the 1,424 defendants charged following Jan. 6, over 350 were charged with “corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding,” according to May numbers from the DOJ. Multiple defendants charged under the statute were granted early release in light of the justice’s decision to hear the case.
Joseph Fischer, who was charged under Section 1512(c)(2), argued the DOJ’s use of the statute to prosecute Jan. 6 defendants for obstructing Congress’ certification of the 2020 election was an “unprecedented expansion.”
Fischer noted it was enacted as part of the Corporate Fraud and Accountability Act of 2002 to target crimes of evidence tampering, focusing on “deterring fraud and abuse by corporate executives.”
The lower courts will now have to “assess the sufficiency” of the charge brought against Fischer — and likely hundreds of other defendants indicted under the same statute — in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
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“The Government’s reading of Section 1512 would intrude on that deliberate arrangement of constitutional authority over federal crimes, giving prosecutors broad discretion to seek a 20- year maximum sentence for acts Congress saw fit to punish only with far shorter terms of imprisonment—for example, three years for harassment under §1512(d)(1), or ten years for threatening a juror under §1503,” Roberts wrote.
The ruling also has implications for special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump. Two of the charges in the indictment, which alleges Trump employed “knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified,” are related to the statute.
The Supreme Court will also soon rule on Trump’s bid to dismiss the case based on presidential immunity.
(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: FEC Commissioner Rips Biden DOJ’s ‘Dangerous’ Decision Not To Intervene In Bragg’s Trump Prosecution)
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the majority in limiting the statute’s scope.
“Notwithstanding the shocking circumstances involved in this case or the Government’s determination that they warrant prosecution, today, this Court’s task is to determine what conduct is proscribed by the criminal statute that has been invoked as the basis for the obstruction charge at issue here,” Jackson wrote in a concurring opinion. “I join in the Court’s opinion because I agree with the majority that §1512(c)(2) does not reach ‘all forms of obstructive conduct’ and is, instead, ‘limited by the preceding list of criminal violations’ in §1512(c)(1).”
Meanwhile, Justice Amy Coney Barrett penned the dissent, which Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor joined. Barrett wrote that the majority “failed to respect the prerogatives of the political branches.”
“There is no getting around it: Section 1512(c)(2) is an expansive statute,” Barrett wrote. “Yet Congress, not this Court, weighs the ‘pros and cons of whether a statute should sweep broadly or narrowly.'”
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10 Signs That Global War Is Rapidly Approaching
June 30, 2024
Are we on the verge of an apocalyptic global war in which billions of people could die? Very few people anticipated that World War I would erupt, but it happened anyway. And very few people anticipated that World War II would erupt, but it happened anyway. All throughout human history, there have been wars. Ever since the very beginning, it has just been a matter of time before major powers collide. Unfortunately, even though very alarming warning signals are flashing all around us, most of the population of the western world seems absolutely clueless about what is really going on out there. Leaders all over the planet seem to have come down with a really bad case of “war fever”, and preparations for apocalyptic showdowns are being made. The following are 10 signs that global war is rapidly approaching…
#1 Politico is reporting that Israel and Hezbollah have both “drafted battle plans”, and the Biden administration is convinced that “intense fighting is likely to break out”…
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah have drafted battle plans and are in the process of trying to procure additional weapons, according to two senior U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence.
Both sides have publicly said they do not want to go to war, but senior Biden officials increasingly believe that intense fighting is likely to break out despite efforts to try and prevent it.
#2 Iran is warning that there will be an “obliterating war” if the IDF enters southern Lebanon…
Israel will face an “obliterating war” if it embarks on “full-scale military aggression” against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran’s Permanent Mission to the UN warned on Friday.
The announcement was made on Twitter.
“Albeit Iran deems as psychological warfare the Zionist regime’s propaganda about intending to attack Lebanon, should it embark on full-scale military aggression, an obliterating war will ensue. All options, incl. the full involvement of all Resistance Fronts, are on the table,” the post reads.
By “all Resistance Fronts,” Iran means not just Hezbollah and Hamas, but also the Houthi rebels in Yemen as well as other groups in Syria and Iraq.
#3 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is convinced that a major with Iran is inevitable because he believes that the Iranians have plans to conquer the entire Middle East…
Netanyahu emphasized that the fight against Iran’s terror proxies is critical for other nations in the Middle East, as Iran aims to dominate the rest of the region, including Sunni Muslim nations.
“We also have to deter the other elements of the Iran terror axis. But we have to deal with the axis,” Netanyahu explained. “The axis doesn’t threaten only us. It threatens you. It’s on the march to conquer the Middle East.”
“That means, actually, conquer. Conquer Saudi Arabia, conquer the Arabian Peninsula. It’s just a question of time,” he warned.
#4 According to NBC News, the U.S. is moving military assets into position so that they can be “ready to evacuate Americans” once an all-out war erupts between Israel and Hezbollah…
The Pentagon is moving U.S. military assets closer to Israel and Lebanon to be ready to evacuate Americans as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies, according to three U.S. defense officials and a former U.S. official familiar with the plans.
The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, and Marines from the 24th Expeditionary Unit, which is special operations capable, moved into the Mediterranean on Wednesday to join the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill and another ship in their amphibious ready group, according to the Marine Corps. The Wasp will operate in the eastern Mediterranean to be ready for a Military Assisted Departure and other missions, the officials said.
#5 On Thursday, Hezbollah sent approximately 40 rockets into northern Israel…
Hezbollah launched a barrage of some 40 rockets at northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, in what the terror group said was a response to recent Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including the killing of one of its operatives earlier in the day.
#6 On Saturday, Israeli aircraft bombed several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon…
On Saturday afternoon Israeli fighter jets struck a building in southern Lebanon’s Houla where a group of Hezbollah operatives were gathered, the military said. The IDF said the operatives were spotted by troops of the 869th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, and a short while later the airstrike was carried out.
Another building used by Hezbollah in Houla was also struck, the IDF added. It published footage of the strikes.
#7 I know that I wrote about this last week, but I couldn’t leave this particular item out of this article. Apparently Joe Biden is thinking about approving a plan that would “allow US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine”…
President Joe Biden’s administration is moving toward a plan that would allow US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine for the first time in a limited capacity, CNN reported.
Four US officials familiar with the matter told the outlet that a policy is being worked on to allow the Pentagon to issue private contracts to send troops for the maintenance and repair of US-supplied systems in Ukraine.
#8 Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly interested in developing a coalition of nations that would “rival the West and NATO”…
Rhetoric from Vladimir Putin about a Eurasian security coalition is part of a Kremlin plan to create a group of Moscow-friendly countries to rival the West and NATO, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said.
The assessment by the Washington, DC think tank follows Putin’s visit to North Korea which, one international security expert told Newsweek, has “deepened an already intensifying relationship of convenience” between Moscow and Pyongyang.
#9 Putin is also warning that Russia will need to begin production of intermediate-range nuclear weapons systems…
Russia must respond to the actions of the United States and it seems that it is necessary for the country to start the production of intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) strike systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
“We need to respond to this and make decisions about what we will have to do in this direction next. Apparently, we need to start manufacturing these systems and then, based on the actual situation, make decisions about where – if necessary to ensure our safety – to deploy them,” Putin said at an operational meeting with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council.
Of course the Russians already have more tactical nuclear weapons than anyone else in the world by a large margin, and they have developed brand new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles which are so advanced that they aren’t even worth comparing to the Minuteman missiles that the U.S. is depending on which first went into service in the 1970s.
#10 A very influential figure in Russian foreign policy circles is suggesting that the Russians should actually detonate a nuclear device in order to show the world how serious they are…
Dmitry Suslov, a top figure at the Moscow-based Council for Foreign and Defence Policy, has put forward the idea of Russia carrying out a “demonstrative” nuclear detonation, a move that could prompt the start of World War 3. This alarming suggestion arises as tensions with the West intensify due to Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied weaponry against Russian forces.
Suslov’s think tank, known to occasionally sway government policy, made this proposal public shortly after President Vladimir Putin delivered a grave warning to NATO countries. Putin warned that if Ukraine were to employ Western arms for attacks on Russian soil, it could spark a worldwide crisis, reinforcing his point with threats of severe repercussions.
Unfortunately, all of this is happening at a time when 72 percent of U.S. voters believe that the guy with his finger on the nuclear button does not have “the mental or cognitive health to serve as president”…
A sweeping section of registered voters do not believe President Joe Biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve a second term as president after his unsteady debate performance last week, according to a new poll.
The CBS/You Gov national survey conducted in the days after the debate found that 72% of voters do not believe Biden has the mental or cognitive health to serve as president, as well as nearly half of his own party. That’s up seven points from the beginning of June.
We are in far more trouble than most people realize.
And it is far later than most people think that it is.
I just wish that we could get more people to wake up. We are literally stumbling into an apocalyptic global war, and once we are in the middle of it there will not be any way to go back and get a second chance to do things over.
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About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing. You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter. Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
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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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Turkey's new opposition leader: 'What Hamas did was an act of terror'
Özgür Özel of blasts Hamas as a terrorist organization on TV interview
Published: June 30, 2024
Turkish opposition leader Özgür Özel, who heads the Republican People’s Party (CHP), condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization during a TV interview on Saturday.
"Hamas rains bombs on innocent people in the middle of the night, with balloons, drones, and I don't know what else," Özel said. He condemned the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion and massacre of 1,200 Israelis that ignited the ongoing war in Gaza.
"You must see that this issue started there [with Hamas]. What Hamas did was an act of terror. Hamas fired bombs at sleeping Jews in the middle of the night," the opposition leader emphasized.
In November, Özel officially replaced Kemal Kilicdaroglu as the leader of the political opposition in Turkey.
Özel’s condemnation of Hamas contrasts sharply with the current president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has expressed support for the terror group and referred to it as a legitimate political actor.
Just weeks after the Hamas terror attack, Erdoğan denied that Hamas is a terrorist organization and to date, has never condemned Hamas terrorists for the atrocities committed during and after the attack.
“Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a liberation group, mujahideen waging a battle to protect its lands and people,” Erdoğan claimed. In addition, several high-ranking Hamas officials reportedly reside in Istanbul, Turkey's economic and cultural hub.
Erdoğan has also made statements showing his lack of support for Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and derogatory statements against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Turkish leader has been facing growing opposition at home due to a struggling domestic economy and criticism of the government’s mishandling of last year’s lethal earthquake. However, the political opposition failed to unseat Erdoğan in the national elections in 2023.
Prior to Erdoğan’s rise to power, Turkey and Israel enjoyed close commercial, military and security ties.
https://allisrael.com/turkey-s-new-opposition-leader-what-hamas-did-was-an-act-of-terror
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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etc Pray about the earthquakes, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, pray about the hail, the snowstorms, the blizzards, pray concerning these things. For the enemy is moving mightily in different areas to cause the price in your grocery stores to skyrocket and if you don’t pray this will affect you. etc.
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If The High Cost Of Groceries Makes You Feel Sick, You Are Not Alone
June 30, 2024 by Michael
If you are really struggling with the high cost of living, I want you to know that you aren’t alone. In recent months, I have been hearing from so many people that feel like they are drowning financially. Have you experienced a palpable sense of panic when you compare your rising bills to the level of income that you are currently bringing in? So many people out there are stressed out of their minds because it has become such a struggle to pay the bills each month. As I discussed a few days ago, a typical U.S. household must now spend $1,069 more a month just to buy the exact same goods and services that it did three years ago. Over the course of an entire year, that is almost an extra $13,000 dollars. Month after month, prices just keep going higher, but those that are running things continue to insist that everything is just fine.
No, everything is not just fine.
Last week, a TikTok video about rising grocery prices at Walmart quickly garnered more than a million views. The person that made the video found a grocery order that he had placed two years ago, and he decided to hit the “Reorder All” button to see what that same order would cost today…
A recent TikTok video has gone viral, showing a user’s surprising experience with Walmart’s grocery prices. The user explained in his video that he tried to use the “Reorder All” button for an order he placed two years ago, which originally cost $126.67. To his shock, the same order would now cost $414.39.
I was quite stunned by this video.
Many of the things that I regularly purchase at the grocery store have doubled or more than doubled in price, but in this case the total cost of the grocery order had more than tripled…
The TikTok (@sewerlidd) explained that the original $126.16 purchase was for a month’s worth of groceries, which included 53 items.
“A whole month of groceries just for me,” he said in the video.
The total was updated to $414.39, almost quadrupling.
“I feel like I’m going to be sick,” he said.
Needless to say, this video has generated a ton of discussion online.
When Walmart was asked about this, they responded by saying that the primary reason there was such a difference is because the person that made the video was attempting to order “discontinued items”…
Walmart representatives have responded, stating that the claims in the video are not accurate. According to them, the discrepancies in prices are due to discontinued items rather than actual inflation.
But this explanation certainly did not satisfy everyone.
Another person hit the “Reorder All” button on an old order, and that order went from $180 back then to $430 today…
Viewers expressed both shock and frustration in the comments.
“Now I feel a little less gaslit about grocery prices because it has gone crazy, and it’s not just me!” wrote one person.
“Walmart, can you explain yourself, please,” added another.
A fellow shopper said they used to spend $180 for two weeks’ worth of groceries and are now spending over $430 for the same amount.
If you think that the price of groceries is not a problem, I have a challenge for you.
Fill up a grocery cart all the way to the very top with items that you typically eat, and try to keep the final bill under 300 dollars.
If you are smart, you can do it, but it won’t be easy.
In the old days, you could buy a used vehicle for 300 dollars.
Now, many people burn through more than 300 dollars in just one trip to the grocery store.
This is just one of the reasons why inflation has become such a huge political issue.
According to Gallup, inflation was not really considered to be an important issue at all prior to 2022…
For the third year in a row, the percentage of Americans naming inflation or the high cost of living as the most important financial problem facing their family has reached a new high. The 41% naming the issue this year is up slightly from 35% a year ago and 32% in 2022. Before 2022, the highest percentage mentioning inflation was 18% in 2008. Inflation has been named by less than 10% in most other readings since the question was first asked in 2005.
The last three years have been an inflationary nightmare, and no matter how much our leaders try to deny it, a lot more inflation is on the way.
Things are particularly bad in our major cities. In fact, it is being reported that Manhattan is the most expensive place to live in the United States by a wide margin…
The New York borough of Manhattan is the most expensive place to live in the U.S. — and the cost of living in the No. 2 place isn’t even close.
The cost of living in Manhattan is more than twice the national average. The second- and third-most expensive places are Honolulu and San Jose, California, but in comparison, they are much more affordable. Manhattan is 24% more expensive than Honolulu and 30% more expensive than San Jose.
It isn’t a big mystery why this is the case.
When our leaders pumped trillions upon trillions of dollars into the system, the financial markets benefitted greatly.
So Manhattan is swimming in cash, and prices there have gone into the stratosphere.
Many of us relentlessly warned about what would happen when our leaders flooded the system with cash, and now we are facing economic distortions that are extremely painful.
For most Americans, prices have been rising much faster than their paychecks.
As a result, our national standard of living has been steadily declining.
And now we have entered a time when it appears that economic conditions are really slowing down.
For example, it is being reported that Ford is preparing for yet another round of layoffs…
Ford Motor is preparing for a new round of layoffs for its salaried workers in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The company in March last year announced plans to reduce structural costs of up to $3 billion at its gas-powered vehicle unit. In August, Ford said it would cut a total of 3,000 salaried and contract jobs, mostly in North America and India.
Over the past several years, our politicians in Washington have borrowed and spent trillions upon trillions of dollars, and the “experts” at the Federal Reserve have pumped trillions upon trillions of dollars into the financial system.
All that did was buy us a little more time.
All that did was delay the inevitable.
Now we are facing a crisis of absolutely epic proportions, and the economic suffering that we are currently experiencing is nothing compared to the economic suffering that is ahead of us.
Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing. You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter. Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
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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124 in Palm Springs? Historic heat wave toppling all-time temperature records in the West
Las Vegas has a chance to tie or break their all-time heat record of 117 degrees - for five consecutive days!
By Scott Sistek Source FOX Weather
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A days-long historic heat wave across the West is showing no signs of abating any time soon and may incredibly break some all-time heat records on multiple days.
Some cities have already experienced their hottest temperatures on record, with more records threatened into next week.
A massive ridge of high pressure that is among the strongest ever measured in the region remains parked over Central California, where triple-digit heat is entering its fourth day Friday.
WHAT IS A HEAT DOME?
Palm Springs, California reached a blistering 124 degrees Friday, the hottest temperature ever recorded in town, besting the previous record of 123 degrees set four times before, last done in 2021. That might sound more like temperatures expected in Death Valley, except that desert area reached 127 degrees, breaking its own daily heat record.
Highs in the central California valleys are climbing into the 105-118 range, with temperatures even soaring well over 110 in inland Monterey County, whose western border is the Pacific Ocean. Sacramento has been over 105 for three straight days, while for Redding and Fresno, the temperature has reached 110 or more.
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA - JULY 05: A woman holds iced drinks against her forehead as the temperature reaches 119 degrees on July 5, 2024 in Palm Springs, California. The official temperature is 124 degrees at the nearby regional airport.
(David McNew / Getty Images)
Redding broke its daily high temperature on Friday at 117, and its forecast high of 118 on Saturday would tie its hottest day on record.
North of the border into Oregon, Medford sizzled to 109 degrees on Friday, shattering the previously daily high temperature record of 102, which had stood for 113 years.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco – usually cooled by the surrounding waters – reached into the upper 80s the past three days, while San Jose reached 102.
Las Vegas could break its heat record on several dates
The heat ridge is forecast to slowly drift east into southern Nevada early next week and anchor there through the middle of the week, threatening all-time record highs.
Las Vegas has a chance to tie or break their all-time heat record of 117 degrees for five consecutive days! The forecast high in the city from Sunday through Thursday ranges from 116-118 degrees.
But record-breaking heat potential is spread across the West. Over 45 million people are under heat alerts into next week, including just about all of Washington, Oregon and California. Nearly 29 million of them are under Excessive Heat Warnings.
Portland, Oregon, is looking at five consecutive days in triple-digit heat. Spokane is set to sizzle to 104 early next week. Even Seattle is looking at five straight days around or above 90 degrees — a rarity for summer.
The heat combined with bone-dry air and gusty winds has made conditions ripe for rapidly spreading wildfires. Fire Weather Watches are widespread across California and the Pacific Northwest through the weekend.
The heat should slowly abate toward the middle and end of next week though temperatures are forecast to remain above normal through the rest of the extended forecast.
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Scores of terrorists killed in central, southern Gaza, Hamas hostage video published
Houthis attack ships, claims to conduct airstrikes on Eilat with Iraqi terror groups • Hezbollah claims attack on Mt. Hermon
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF emphasizes it will return to Shejaiya if needed as second round of operations near end
IDF nears end of second invasion of Shejaia, Gaza, prepared to reinvade to prevent Hamas reconstitution, focusing on tunnels and intelligence gathering.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF nears end of second invasion of Shejaiya, Gaza, prepared to reinvade to prevent Hamas reconstitution, focusing on tunnels and intelligence gathering.
Go to the full article >>
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/2024-07-09/live-updates-809518
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and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who
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Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill
Dark messengers of satanism could soon be walking the hallways of Florida’s public schools, and it’s a consequence of hard-right governor Ron DeSantis’s push for more religion in education.
Members of the Satanic Temple say they are poised to act as volunteer chaplains under a state law that took effect this week opening campuses to “additional counseling and support to students” from outside organizations.
Although HB 931 leaves the implementation of chaplain programs to individual school districts, and only requires schools to list a volunteer’s religion “if any”, DeSantis has made clear its intent is to restore the tenets of Christianity to public education.
Without the bill, DeSantis said at its signing in April: “You’re basically saying that God has no place [on campus]. That’s wrong.”
The satanists see the law, which comes amid a vigorous theocratic drive into education by the religious right nationally, as an equal opportunity: if Christian chaplains are permitted access to students, often at the most vulnerable and impressionable stages of their lives, then so are they.
There are, however, no plans to introduce studies of the dark arts or satanic rituals to any classroom. The Satanic Temple champions Satan not as a literal, omnipresent demon, but as a symbol of rebellion and resistance to authoritarianism. It says its strategy here is to highlight flagrant violations of the constitutionally protected separation of church and state.
“You have theocrats pushing further and further, signing unconstitutional bills into law, and they realize there’s no consequence,” said Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the Satanic Temple.
“And they also realize that when people see these laws passed, and the outrage comes, they’re not even necessarily going to recognize or realize when those laws are later overturned by the courts.
“They’re giving everybody the impression that these types of things are legal, this is just the environment we’re living in. And in that way they’re really numbing people to when these things actually do take effect, or when they are upheld by a corrupt judge who’s just playing partisan politics.”
Greaves said his organization has members ready to volunteer if school districts in any of Florida’s 67 counties, or charter school governing bodies, announce they’re signing up for DeSantis’s chaplain program. So far, with the law only a week old, and campuses on summer recess, none have.
The tactics have worked before. When Rick Scott, DeSantis’s predecessor, signed a 2013 law promoting prayer sessions and religious freedom in schools, temple members rallied in support.
Almost 90% of respondents to a Guardian poll at the time said satanists had the same rights to worship in Florida schools as members of other mainstream religions, and perhaps deterred by the prospect of being seen in favor of it, school districts backed away.
The temple gained even more prominence later that year by announcing a 7ft bronze sculpture of the pagan idol Baphomet, a blend of human and goat with an angel’s wings, which would be displayed alongside a recently installed statue of the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma state capitol (the Ten Commandments statue was later removed by order of the state’s supreme court).
Elsewhere, the temple pioneered After School Satan Clubs in states where religious groups are permitted to operate on campus and, it says, “use threats of eternal damnation to convert school children to their belief system”. The program focuses on science, critical thinking and the creative arts, with “no interest in converting children to satanism”.
In Florida, meanwhile, DeSantis has promised he will not allow Satanic Temple members in schools.
“Some have said that if you do a school chaplain program that, somehow, you’re going to have satanists running around in all our schools. We’re not playing those games in Florida. You don’t have to worry about that,” he said at the signing.
Although the Satanic Temple is recognized by the US government as a church, DeSantis said satanism “is not a religion” and therefore “not qualified to be able to participate”, a comment that appeared to contradict a key premise of the bill.
“It was advanced with promises that public school chaplain positions would be open to everyone, and that chaplains would provide spiritual counsel to students who wanted it, but would not proselytize or coerce students into religious activities,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation said in a statement. “When Florida school districts consider this new law, they now know that those promises were false.
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Watch: Klaus Schwab Says Humanity Must Be "Forced Into Collaboration" With Globalist Elites
by Tyler Durden Sunday, Jul 07, 2024 - 03:40 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab told delegates at a conference in China this week that humanity needs to be “forced into a collaboration” with globalist entities.
Speaking at the WEF’s ‘Annual Meeting of the New Champions’, often dubbed the “Summer Davos,” in China, Schwab stated that in order to drive the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” forward, elites must aggressively drive their agenda home.
“To drive future economic growth we must embrace innovation and force the collaboration across sectors, regions, nations, and cultures to create a more peaceful, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future,” Schwab proclaimed.
He added, “At this critical juncture the active participation of all stakeholders is essential to ensure a sustainable development path.”
WEF : Klaus Schwab ‘We Must Force’ Humanity into ‘Collaboration’ pic.twitter.com/rarcBvBc2i
— Marcus Cottus (@cottusmarcus) June 26, 2024
In another clip, Schwab touted AI and other technologies becoming ubiquitous as a reason why humanity must “work together” with the global elite.
"Risks & opportunities co-exist.. Breakthroughs from the fourth industrial revolution provide new opportunities for global prosperity and growth" Klaus Schwab at the WEF #AMNC24 Summer Davos pic.twitter.com/jTcTMLaV9L
— Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) June 25, 2024
He also spoke of “limits to growth,” which many have interpreted as an endorsement of depopulation.
"The theme of this annual meeting is 'Next Frontiers For Growth,' but actually what we have seen in the presentations there are now Limits to Growth, provided we use technologies of the fourth industrial revolution in a wise manner" Klaus Schwab at the WEF #AMNC24 Summer Davos pic.twitter.com/SJDT5rLgIO
— Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) June 25, 2024
Schwab, the architect of the so called ‘Great Reset,’ has in recent years said that he envisages humankind transitioning into a new age where there will be a “fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological dimensions” in a “new world.”
Schwab has previously declared that this new era of integration with “digital technologies” will mean that “you do not even have to have elections anymore.”
He has also fantasised about humanity embracing brain implants and leaders having the capability to read everyone’s brain waves.
As we highlighted last week, Schwab is facing multiple accusations of sexual assault and creating a hostile work environment from female former employees at the WEF.
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150 Million Americans Under Weather Alerts As "Potentially Historic Heatwave" Tests Major Power Grids
by Tyler Durden Saturday, Jul 06, 2024 - 05:25 PM
Let's start with the good news: The Lower 48 has reached peak summer, backed by 30 years of seasonal temperature trend data from Bloomberg.
Axios outlines the areas where the heat dome will impact the most:
Nearly half the U.S. population is under some type of extreme heat warning or advisory on Friday. The extreme heat in the Southeast to Mid-Atlantic is oppressive, with a strong upper-level high-pressure area, or heat dome, leading to hot and humid conditions.
Heat advisories and other alerts extend from New Orleans to New York City on Friday.
In the West, though, a near-record-strong heat dome is yielding scorchingly hot and dry conditions, and raising wildfire risks.
Excessive heat warnings along the West Coast stretch from Nevada and Arizona through California and northward into Oregon and Washington State.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jenn Varian told Bloomberg that Las Vegas is forecasted to hit a scorching 117F on Sunday into early next week, potentially tying the metro area's all-time high recorded in 2005 and again in 2017.
"Confidence is increasing that this potentially historic heatwave will last several days," the National Weather Service's office in Portland, Oregon, wrote on X, adding temperatures will rise "into the 100s and 110s over much of California and southern Oregon."
Here are more forecasted highs this weekend (list courtesy of Axios):
118°F: Forecast high in Redding, Calif., on Saturday, tying the city's all-time high.
128°F: Forecast high in Death Valley, Calif., just 2-degrees shy of the hottest reliably measured temperature on Earth.
100°F: Forecast high on Friday in Portland, Ore., with temperatures at or above this level from Friday through Tuesday in this typically cooler city.
This all means that power grids will be under stress this weekend as high temperatures boost air conditioning demand. Bloomberg says that grids in California and Texas should be closely monitored for an elevated blackout risks.
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CNN — Set atop a hill on the Italian island of Sicily, Agrigento is a heritage tourist’s paradise. Beneath the archaeological structures and relics of its Valley of the Temples lies an ancient maze-like aqueduct system that still captures water today.
But the aqueduct, and others built in modern times, are running so dry that small hotels and guesthouses in the city and nearby coast are being forced to turn tourists away. They don’t have enough water to guarantee their guests a toilet that flushes or a shower after a day out in the summer heat.
Sicily began enforcing water restrictions in February when the region declared a state of emergency amid a relentless drought. Leaky, aging infrastructure has only worsened the shortages, which have hit tourism and agriculture alike, two sectors crucial to Sicily’s economy.
Rationing is in place for more than 1 million people across 93 communities. Some are having to reduce water consumption by up to 45%. That means taps run dry according to schedule, and supply is shut off completely overnight in most places. Having enough water to drink is a matter of getting organized during the day.
On TripAdvisor and other travel forums, tourists are asking whether it’s worth visiting Sicily’s impacted areas. Hotels are warning clients about potential shortages, and are helping visitors rebook elsewhere on the island where restrictions are less severe or not in effect.
At the Le Cinque Novelle bed and breakfast (B&B) in central Agrigento, where restrictions are tight, the owners have put filters on their showers and sinks to save as much water as possible. But their guests often complain.
“Rightly, people ask us for reassurances before coming, but we don’t know what to say,” Giovanni Lopez, who owns the B&B, told CNN. “The situation is quickly impacting the entire tourist accommodation sector, which risks serious economic consequences, given that tourism is a sector almost everyone in this part of Sicily relies on.”
The Sicilian regional government has asked Rome for subsidies to import water from the mainland, but there’s no concrete plan to help the island as yet. The office of Italy’s tourism minister, Diana Santanchč, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment, but in April, she said Sicily should try to spread out its tourism season and avoid focusing solely on summer, when water problems worsen.
Summers in Sicily are becoming unbearable for many.
Last year, the island endured severe wildfires that forced tourists to evacuate or postpone their visits. Now the drought-triggered water shortages are another worry.
Human-caused climate change is heating Europe faster than any other continent, and Sicily sits right at the center of this change. It was here that Europe’s temperature record was smashed in August 2023, when the city of Syracuse hit 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
Other parts of Italy are also experiencing drought, but only Sicily’s is considered “extreme,” the highest level, according to the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA).
Less than a quarter of the usual rain fell during the winter across the island, which has left around 20% of underground aquifers in a state of “water scarcity,” according to ISPRA. In February, the regional government declared a “state of crisis and water emergency” for irrigation and drinking in Agrigento and four other provinces to last until at least the end of the year.
Marco Maccarrone, who owns the Caico Trattoria e Cantina restaurant in Agrigento, says the island is being left to fight for itself.
“The summer season is upon us and we are worried. No one has given us alternative solutions to the water tankers that we are paying for ourselves,” he told CNN. “This risks destroying the only resource we have: tourism.”
Maccarrone has lived in Agrigento’s historical center for 20 years and complains that the flow of water is painfully slow.
“In half an hour, we can’t fill a single pot,” he said.
Hotels are obliged to have a certain amount of water reserves relative to their capacity, said Nicola Farruggio, president of Sicily’s Hotel Federation, which means they also have had to buy water from the mainland. But smaller structures, including family-run hotels and B&Bs, often don’t have a way to store enough to meet the requirements. And if they are located within a residential building, they are subject to the strict rations that apply to condominiums, which means they simply cannot guarantee water to guests.
Francesco Picarella, head of Agrigento’s Hotel Federation, who also owns a hotel in the city center, says years of ineffective governance have made things worse. There has been talk of rebuilding the water network since 2011, but little progress has been made, he said.
“Today’s problem is the result of a failed water management policy that has been going on for 20 years,” he said. “The hotels that have their own reserves somehow compensate; the B&Bs in the historic center are in extreme difficulty.”
He said that the reservoirs are drying up because of lack of rain but also leaks.
In response to CNN’s request for comment, the Sicilian regional government’s office pointed to a study that outlined government plans to drill new wells, build more pipelines and bring aging desalination plants back online. The report also says Sicily has not received enough funds from Rome to carry out its plans.
The local federation of B&Bs said that “it should have been a golden year” for Agrigento, which in March last year was named the Italian Capital of Culture for 2025, an accolade that typically draws more tourists. “Instead, word of mouth about the water crisis can ruin the season.”
It was just starting to see an uptick, too. In 2023, visitor numbers increased by 24% compared to the year before, according to Picarella.
The island’s tourism ministry said Sicily was expecting to see over 2% more visitors than last year after many postponed their trips because of the wildfires.
“People see this destination with a lot of interest,” Picarella said. “This summer we are expecting a greater number of holidaymakers and every day we have to invent a way to move forward.”
Running out of time
The situation is just as dire for farmers. At an organic farm near Caltanissetta in central Sicily, around 50 kilometers (around 30 miles) northeast of Agrigento, goats are drinking a muddy sludge where a pond once was. Luca Cammarata, who owns the farm, said the drought means grass for grazing is also scarce. He’s never seen Sicily so dry.
The lack of water has meant farmers like Cammarata are faced with the devastating choice: cull their herds or let them die of starvation or dehydration.
Citrus farmers are also seeing their famous Sicilian oranges shrivelling on their trees from lack of water. The reservoirs used for irrigation around Mount Etna, where the oranges are grown, now hold around half the amount of water than they usually do. If there’s no summer rain, they will drop to around 25%, according to the ANBI Observatory on Water Resources, a government agency.
Over-development of urban centers and citrus and wheat farms have reduced the natural wetlands by 20%, worsening the problem, ANBI said.
Sicily’s regional president, Renato Schifani, said the island’s losses — between crops, empty reservoirs and dying livestock — have already topped €1 billion. That doesn’t even take into consideration potential loss of tourism dollars because tourists that can’t access water on one part of the island are rebooking in others.
But for communities in places like Agrigento, the losses are devastating.
It’s just as bleak for Cammarata, who says his whole livelihood — his 300 goats, 160 head of cattle and dairy operation — is at risk.
“The consortium used to guarantee water rotation every five or six days,” he said, referring to a farmers representative group. “Now they can no longer tell us if and when they will open the taps.”
The solutions are complicated, even for an island surrounded by water. The three desalination plants that could clean Sicily’s seawater for drinking, sanitation or irrigation have been closed for more than 10 years. Getting them back online, or drilling new wells, will take time.
And time is yet another thing the island is running out of.
CNN’s Antonia Mortensen contributed to this report.
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Ukraine Smashed Repeatedly By Russia Missiles
Hal Turner World July 08, 2024 Hits: 5421
Ukraine has been hit yet again by barrages of Russian missiles.
In the brief video below, at least five (5) massive hits in Kiev:
According to preliminary reports, at least three Kinzhals hit the targets in Kiev. One in the south/southwest, possibly Zhulyany airfield again.
Severe damage in numerous places:
Explosions also occurred in Dnepropetrovsk - the city’s airport was reported to have been hit
Local residents report powerful explosions in the area of the village of Aviatorskoye, where one of the largest airports in Ukraine, Dnepr, is located.
Kh-22 missiles launched from Russian Tu-22s.
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etc. Rioting, looting, stealing and rape will be the common news for America. More people than ever before will buy guns and defense weapons. Welfare will crash with no money to pay the bills. The new type money system shall come into being. Those holding gold and silver to be safe will throw it in the streets, as it will be of no value. This will set the stage for the anti-christ and his system. But my people shall not suffer, as I will take them safely through, etc.
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Nightmarish moment 100 robbers ransack gas station in hellhole California city... days after progressive mayor touts drop in crime
By James Gordon For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:00 EDT, 6 July 2024 | Updated: 10:07 EDT, 6 July 2024
A jaw-dropping video shows the moment nearly 100 robbers ransacked a California gas station in the middle of the night.
Surveillance footage displays dozens of masked and hoodie-wearing thieves taking their sweet time to grab as much as they can carry just after 4:30am on Friday at the station in crime-ridden Oakland.
The raid came just days after Oakland's progressive mayor bragged about a drop in crime in the hellhole city.
The operation appeared to be well-planned with all hell breaking loose after a car was deliberately driven into the glass doors of the store.
No sooner had the crash occurred, the robbers were on scene and ready to snatch anything they could, turning the place upside down in the process.
Meanwhile, the police were nowhere to be seen with the robbers seemingly taking their time.
In video footage, those taking part in the robbery could be heard laughing as they casually perused the aisles of the store looking for stuff to take.
The owner, named Sam, called Oakland Police Department upon arriving at the 76. He was allegedly told to 'file a report online.'
The owner told KRON4 then he then attempted to contact the OPD Police Chief Floyd Mitchell only to be told that he had to make an appointment.
Police later clarified that the call to law enforcement came after the suspects had left the premises.
'Video evidence was later reported to OPD that made clear the scale and details of the incident, including the large number of suspects, and the incident was immediately elevated to a Priority 1 incident, which prompted an officer to go to the scene to make contact with the owner, and investigators are now reviewing evidence and working directly with the gas station owner,' OPD said in a statement.
Just days earlier, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, 38, had been boasting of a reduction in crime in the city which has been blighted by criminality in recent years.
‘Oakland is seeing positive results from new public safety strategies’, the mayor said claiming that it was a ‘proven data-driven strategy that focuses law enforcement violence prevention and community resources on individuals in Oakland who are at highest risk to be involved in violence.'
Mayor Thao said that since introducing ‘operation ceasefire’ ‘violent crime and overall crime have decreased in a significant and sustained manner.’
The mayor failed to provide any figures explaining how levels of crime had reduced in any meaningful way.
Thao, 38, is facing a recall election less than two years into her term as mayor, with the measure that could see her booted to office set to be put to voters in November.
Increased crime and budgetary problems have challenged Thao since she assumed office in January 2023 after a stint on the Oakland City Council.
Oakland voters are upset about soaring crime in the Bay Area city.
They say Thao's progressive, soft-on-crime policies have emboldened criminals and driven away businesses. It is a a familiar story in many progressive, Democrat cities across the country.
In Mayor Thao's case, she has previously decried the increase in crime, stating that the uptick began in 2019 before her tenure.
But it is lax bail reform policies and the failure to bring successful prosecutions even for low-level offenses that had led to the continual rot in Oakland.
In Oakland's case, the city has been rocked by violent crime in recent months, including murders, which soared from 78 in 2019 to 126 last year.
Crime overall increased by 18 percent in 2023 with property crime up 17 percent and violent crime up 21 percent.
And in the first four months of 2024, residential robberies soared by 118 percent on the same period last year.
Staggeringly, one car per every 30 residents was also stolen in 2023.
The situation has prompted several large corporations to pull out of the city, citing fears for staff safety and the crippling impact of retail theft.
The progressive Democrat lawmaker is the first mayor in the city's history to be up for recall, after a campaign to oust her gained more than 40,000 signatures.
Public support for Thao has been on the wane, with Oakland's former police chief LeRonne Armstrong urging her to resign.
'What's really challenging is that not only the absence of the mayor, but the absence of other city leaders stepping up in this moment to make sure that residents and people in the city of Oakland know that leadership is in place and working to help solve some of these problems,' said LeRonne Armstrong, a former police chief fired by Thao.
Last month, federal authorities raided her home. Thao was defiant and furious, insisting she did not do anything wrong and she has no plans to resign from office.
Mayor Sheng Thao read from a prepared statement and took no questions four days after FBI agents carried boxes out of the home she shares with her son and partner as part of an investigation that included searches of two other houses owned by another family.
Retired judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, who is leading the recall campaign, is calling for Thao to step down.
'She should do the honorable thing, and resign. The FBI raid is going to be a distraction, no matter which way you cut it. Even if she's not charged, it's going to be a distraction trying to manage this investigation and try to lead a city,' Harbin-Forte said.
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Minute by painstaking minute, exactly what would happen if America is nuked
READ MORE 'We are not bluffing about nuclear war,' Putin ally warns
By Rob Waugh For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:20 EDT, 6 July 2024 | Updated: 08:36 EDT, 6 July 2024
Hundreds of deadly missiles streaking through the air from silos and nuclear submarines.
American cities burning and millions vaporized, instantly, with millions more soon to die in agony from burns and radiation poisoning.
How it could happen in a matter of minutes is the subject of the new book Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen.
The chilling play-by-play is based on exclusive interviews with high-ranking military officials, political figures and leading experts including nuclear weapon designers.
It takes about 30 minutes for an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) to travel from one side of the world - say Beijing, Moscow or North Korea - to another.
America, under the sole authority of one person, the president, would then launch a counter offensive. Chillingly, she says it would take just 72 minutes to wipe out five billion people if the worst comes to pass.
Jacobsen writes: 'A nuclear strike on the Pentagon is just the beginning of a scenario the finality of which will be the end of civilization as we know it.
'This is the reality of the world in which we all live. The nuclear war scenario proposed in this book could happen tomorrow. Or later today.'
She adds: 'On top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light, which is 180 million degrees, which catches everything on fire in a nine mile diameter radius; on top of the bulldozing effect of the wind and all the buildings coming down and more fires igniting on top of the radiation poisoning people to death in minutes and hours and days and weeks, if they happen to have survived, on top of all of that, each one of these fires creates a mega fire that is 100 or more square miles and so.'
The author said if the world went into nuclear war you would 'want to die instantly' because 'there is no more law and order.'
The book includes interviews with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E Panetta, and Robert Kehler, former United States Secretary of Defense, along with former senior commanders from United States nuclear forces.
This, according to them and others, is how it could happen:
3.03PM, 6 seconds later
Defense Department satellites remain 'parked' over North Korea - and imagery is relayed to the National Military Command Center beneath the Pentagon.
It has been six seconds since the ICBM's launch.
3.03PM, 15 seconds after launch
At the Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado, fighter pilots run towards their jets waiting on the tarmac.
Satellite sensors are monitoring the ICBM as it travels through the air.
3.04PM
In the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Headquarters, a 916,000-square-foot complex of bunkers and command centers, leaders begin discussing launch plans - as the US policy is to 'launch on warning'.
3.04PM
At Peterson Space Force Base Colorado, the leadership begin the process to communicate with the President.
3.05PM
Inside the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon, leaders prepare their response, and prepare to contact the president.
3.06PM
The Secretary of Defense tells the President: North Korea has launched an attacking missile at the U.S. and the missile has been validated by NORAD and STRATCOM commanders.
3.10PM
At Fort Greely Alaska, Interceptor missiles are fired into space in a desperate attempt to stop the incoming ICBM from reaching its target. They fail as intercepting an ICBM is a hit-and-miss affair.
3.12 PM
At Clear Space Force Station in Alaska, radar stations get their first clear view of the incoming missile and confirm it is an ICBM targeted at Washington.
3.13PM
Inside the White House, the President is met by an aide with the 'nuclear football' - which contains the codes needed to authorize a retaliatory strike.
The president is shown a 'Decisions Handbook' with options for nuclear strikes, and makes the decision to order bombers to take off and move the U.S. military to DEFCON-1, the highest nuclear alert.
3.15PM
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam: B-2 bombers, each armed with sixteen nuclear weapons take off from the base.
3.17PM
The President is moved to a Sikorsky helicopter by members of the Counter Assault Team to keep him safe from the incoming nuclear attack.
3.20PM
A second submarine-launched missile is detected - a KN-23, a North Korean short-range ballistic missile, flying towards Southern California at six times the speed of sound.
3.22PM
At the Diablo Power Plant Nevada, the KN-23's nuclear warhead detonates on its target, creating a vast fireball and mushroom cloud, and triggering a nuclear core meltdown.
3.24PM
In the White House, the President orders a nuclear counter strike with 50 Minuteman III ICBMs and eight Trident submarine-launched weapons, totaling 82 warheads aimed at North Korea, targeting its leadership, war facilities and nuclear launch sites.
3.27PM
From missile facilities buried in the soil in Wyoming, 50 Minuteman nuclear missiles blast into the air from silos, aiming for North Korea.
3.36PM
The North Korean nuclear missile strikes the Pentagon, sending a fireball three miles into the air and killing more than a million people instantly, with many more soon to die.
3.37PM
In the Serpukhov-15 satellite control in Kaluga Oblast in Russia, the American ICBM launches are detected and relayed to military command.
America's ICBMs have to overfly Russian territory to target North Korea.
3.39PM
Nebraska, the STRATCOM commander leaves the facility to board the Doomsday Plane - officially known as the E-4B Nightwatch, a military Boeing 747 with command facilities on board.
This will enable U.S. commanders to keep issuing orders even if many bases and cities are destroyed.
3.40PM
The USS Nebraska - a nuclear submarine capable of unleashing 20 times more destruction than all the bombs of World War II, launches its missiles towards North Korea.
3.41PM
U.S. military have lost touch with the President after he is forced to parachute from his helicopter after his helicopter is hit by the electromagnetic pulse from a nearby nuke.
The Secretary of Defense touches down at the Raven Rock Mountain Complex nuclear command post, Pennsylvania to assume command.
3.42PM
In NATO Headquarters, NATO leaders meet to discuss their response to the attacks on North America.
3.42PM
Inside the war room of the National Defense Management Center, Moscow, staff watch the response of NATO at air bases across Europe.
3.43PM
Eight Trident missiles fly through the air above the Pacific ocean at 13,600 miles, aiming at the North Korean capital Pyongyang.
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The president in the Russian Federation is in a nuclear command-and-control center, several floors underground in a bunker designed to ride out a nuclear war.
Wrongly believing the U.S. missiles are targeting Russia, he selects the most extreme launch option from Russia's nuclear 'Black Book', the Cheget.
From bunkers and submarines, missiles prepare to strike the continental United States and Europe.
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More than 5,000 miles from Washington, in the Dombarovsky ICBM complex in southwestern Siberia, silo lids open as Russia's ICBM's prepare for launch.
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Satellites in space see hundred of Russian ICBMs launch from silos and mobile launcher and flash a warning to the Aerospace Data Facility in Colorado.
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Three Russian submarines surface in the Arctic Sea to launch ICBMs towards the United States.
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The STRATCOM commander relays launch information to order a massive, all-out nuclear counterattack against Russia in response to Russia's attack.
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At NATO airbases in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Turkey, pilots scramble to planes armed with nuclear 'gravity bombs' to fulfill their mission against Russia.
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Thirty-two submarine-launched nuclear warheads strike Pyongyang and the destruction is total, with almost all of the three million residents instantly incinerated.
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U.S. Strategic Command headquarters along with Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska are hit by a devastating barrage of Russian nuclear weapons. A stream of 100 kiloton warheads strike military targets across America.
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Russian submarine-launched missiles hit targets and NATO bases across Europe.
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Unstable, very unstable is the world, unstable is the economy, unstable are the events that they are trying to do throughout the whole world. Even the democratic convention shall be very unstable and many things shall take place that shall shock the nation. Tornadoes, tornadoes, tornadoes, drought, hail, loss of crops, flooding, earthquakes, all the signs that shall be clearly seen, loss of jobs, boasting of how they can change the global warming and yet they cannot. Trouble here, trouble there, that is what we see in the world. Even though you have had your refreshing that I have said that you would have, things will change. etc
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Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano not erupting yet despite 30 earthquakes per hour
By Social Links for Emilee Speck, FOX Weather
Published July 1, 2024, 6:56 p.m. ET
Seismic activity at the Kilauea volcano inside Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park continues, with 500 earthquakes occurring over the weekend. However, geologists say the volcano is not erupting.
Increasing seismic activity is one sign of an impending volcanic eruption, but it’s still hard to predict when one will occur.
Geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (USGS HVO) say Kilauea’s upper East Rift Zone began experiencing a “seismic swarm” on the afternoon of June 27, with hundreds of earthquakes. Late Saturday night, the seismic activity increased to about 30 events an hour, according to the USGS.
Between Saturday and Sunday, more than 500 earthquakes were detected beneath the upper East Rift Zone and surrounding areas. After escalating, earthquake activity eased “slightly” on Sunday morning, according to the USGS HVO.
Still, scientists say it’s impossible to say if the increase in activity will lead to an eruption in the near future or continue with earthquakes. According to the USGS HVO, previous eruptions beneath the upper East Rift Zone happened near Pauahi Crater and Hi’iaka Crater, with the most recent eruption happening over one day in November 1979 near the Pauahi Crater.
Family taking a selfie with the erupting Kilauea Volcano, glowing red and emitting smoke, in the background at Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park.
“Any substantial increases in seismicity and/or deformation could result in a new eruptive episode, but there are no signs of an imminent eruption at this time,” the USGS said.
Kilauea last erupted on June 3 from the southwest summit. The eruptive activity stopped several days later. That area hadn’t seen an eruption in about 50 years. However, there is no indication that magma is moving toward that eruption site.
Geologists warn that changes can happen quickly, leading to a potential eruption, especially at Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
The Volcano Alert Level for ground impacts remains advisory, and the aviation alert-level code is yellow for Kilauea, indicating that the volcano is showing signs of elevated unrest.
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On Wednesday Night a Shallow M5.3 Earthquake struck in the Gulf Of California 140km from Ciudad Obregón (Mexico).
Earthquake List News On Wednesday Night a Shallow M5.3 Earthquake st...
A shallow and significant Magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck in the Gulf Of California 140 kilometer from Ciudad Obregón, Mexico in the night of Wednesday July 3rd, 2024.
Earthquake Summary
This earthquake hit under water in the Gulf Of California, 57 kilometers (35 mi) off the coast of Mexico, 140 kilometer southwest of Ciudad Obregón in Sonora. The center of this earthquake had a very shallow depth of 10 km. Shallow earthquakes usually have a larger impact than earthquakes deep in the earth.
https://earthquakelist.org/news/2024/07/03/m5-3-earthquake-mexico-965462/
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5.7-magnitude earthquake hits off Vancouver Island amid series of shocks
Just a day after a 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck nearby, a 5.7 was recorded in the waters off of Vancouver Island.
Author: Alex Didion, KING 5 Staff
Published: 10:20 AM PDT July 4, 2024 Updated: 12:23 PM PDT July 4, 2024
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vancouver Island on Thursday morning, just a day after a 4.4-magnitude quake hit in a nearby area.
The United States Geologic Survey (USGS) recorded the earthquake at 9:15 a.m. on the morning of July 4th, just over 250 miles west of Victoria. In total, there have been 10 earthquakes of at least 4.0 magnitude in the waters west of Puget Sound in the past 24 hours.
The National Weather Service shared a social post following the earthquake that no tsunami alert was being issued for this quake.
It appears to have been the highest-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Northwest since at least January, per USGS available data.
Earthquakes near western Washington
Many earthquakes in and around Washington state are linked to the motion of the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North America Continental Plate moving against each other as the Juan de Fuca Plate slips beneath the North American continent, according to PNSN. This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), earthquakes happen in Washington every day, but most are too small to be felt. The state has the second highest risk in the U.S. of experiencing a large and damaging earthquake because of its geologic setting.
The Pacific Northwest typically experiences three types of earthqxuakes:
Shallow fault quakes: Ruptures in faults located in the upper 18 miles of the Earth's crust. These earthquakes typically last 20 to 60 seconds and shaking is localized to the area near the fault, according to the DNR.
Deep earthquakes: Deep faults happen when two tectonic plates collide and one plate slips beneath the other one. These quakes can impact a large area but are less intense.
Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental plate. When enough stress builds, the fault will rupture, releasing a massive amount of energy. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential for these types of earthquakes and has ruptured in the past. It is one of Washington state's biggest hazards, according to DNR.
https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/magnitude-57-earthquake-vancouver-
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(CNN) — Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery.
This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in 1936, and how it moves — its rotation speed and direction — has been at the center of a decades-long debate. A growing body of evidence suggests the core’s spin has changed dramatically in recent years, but scientists have remained divided over what exactly is happening — and what it means.
Part of the trouble is that Earth’s deep interior is impossible to observe or sample directly. Seismologists have gleaned information about the inner core’s motion by examining how waves from large earthquakes that ping this area behave. Variations between waves of similar strengths that passed through the core at different times enabled scientists to measure changes in the inner core’s position and calculate its spin.
“Differential rotation of the inner core was proposed as a phenomenon in the 1970s and ’80s, but it wasn’t until the ‘90s that seismological evidence was published,” said Dr. Lauren Waszek, a senior lecturer of physical sciences at James Cook University in Australia.
But researchers argued over how to interpret these findings, “primarily due to the challenge of making detailed observations of the inner core, due to its remoteness and limited available data,” Waszek said. As a result, “studies which followed over the next years and decades disagree on the rate of rotation, and also its direction with respect to the mantle,” she added. Some analyses even proposed that the core didn’t rotate at all.
One promising model proposed in 2023 described an inner core that in the past had spun faster than Earth itself, but was now spinning slower. For a while, the scientists reported, the core’s rotation matched Earth’s spin. Then it slowed even more, until the core was moving backward relative to the fluid layers around it.
At the time, some experts cautioned that more data was needed to bolster this conclusion, and now another team of scientists has delivered compelling new evidence for this hypothesis about the inner core’s rotation rate. Research published June 12 in the journal Nature not only confirms the core slowdown, it supports the 2023 proposal that this core deceleration is part of a decades-long pattern of slowing down and speeding up.
The new findings also confirm that the changes in rotational speed follow a 70-year cycle, said study coauthor Dr. John Vidale, Dean’s Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“We’ve been arguing about this for 20 years, and I think this nails it,” Vidale said. “I think we’ve ended the debate on whether the inner core moves, and what’s been its pattern for the last couple of decades.”
But not all are convinced that the matter is settled, and how a slowdown of the inner core might affect our planet is still an open question — though some experts say Earth’s magnetic field could come into play.
Magnetic attraction
Buried about 3,220 miles (5,180 kilometers) deep inside Earth, the solid metal inner core is surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. The inner core is made mostly of iron and nickel, and it is estimated to be as hot as the surface of the sun — about 9,800 degrees Fahrenheit (5,400 degrees Celsius).
Earth’s magnetic field yanks at this solid ball of hot metal, making it spin. At the same time, the gravity and flow of the fluid outer core and mantle drag at the core. Over many decades, the push and pull of these forces cause variations in the core’s rotational speed, Vidale said.
The sloshing of metal-rich fluid in the outer core generates electrical currents that power Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our planet from deadly solar radiation. Though the inner core’s direct influence on the magnetic field is unknown, scientists had previously reported in 2023 that a slower-spinning core could potentially affect it and also fractionally shorten the length of a day.
When scientists attempt to “see” all the way through the planet, they are generally tracking two types of seismic waves: pressure waves, or P waves, and shear waves, or S waves. P waves move through all types of matter; S waves only move through solids or extremely viscous liquids, according to the US Geological Survey.
Seismologists noted in the 1880s that S waves generated by earthquakes didn’t pass all the way through Earth, and so they concluded that Earth’s core was molten. But some P waves, after passing through Earth’s core, emerged in unexpected places — a “shadow zone,” as Lehmann called it — creating anomalies that were impossible to explain. Lehmann was the first to suggest that wayward P waves might be interacting with a solid inner core within the liquid outer core, based on data from a massive earthquake in New Zealand in 1929.
By tracking seismic waves from earthquakes that have passed through the Earth’s inner core along similar paths since 1964, the authors of the 2023 study found that the spin followed a 70-year cycle. By the 1970s, the inner core was spinning a little faster than the planet. It slowed around 2008, and from 2008 to 2023 began moving slightly in reverse, relative to the mantle.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun's magnetic field on August 10, 2018. The bright active region right at the central area of the Sun clearly shows a concentration of field lines, as well as the small active region at the Sun's right edge.
Related article Scientists say they’ve found where the sun’s magnetic field originates
Future core spin
For the new study, Vidale and his coauthors observed seismic waves produced by earthquakes in the same locations at different times. They found 121 examples of such earthquakes occurring between 1991 and 2023 in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of South America’s southernmost tip. The researchers also looked at core-penetrating shock waves from Soviet nuclear tests conducted between 1971 and 1974.
When the core turns, Vidale said, that affects the arrival time of the wave. Comparing the timing of seismic signals as they touched the core revealed changes in core rotation over time, confirming the 70-year rotation cycle. According to the researchers’ calculations, the core is just about ready to start speeding up again.
Compared with other seismographic studies of the core that measure individual earthquakes as they pass through the core — regardless of when they occur — using only paired earthquakes reduces the amount of usable data, “making the method more challenging,” Waszek said. However, doing so also enabled scientists to measure changes in the core rotation with greater precision, according to Vidale. If his team’s model is correct, core rotation will start speeding up again in about five to 10 years.
The seismographs also revealed that, during its 70-year cycle, the core’s spin slows and accelerates at different rates, “which is going to need an explanation,” Vidale said. One possibility is that the metal inner core isn’t as solid as expected. If it deforms as it rotates, that could affect the symmetry of its rotational speed, he said.
The team’s calculations also suggest that the core has different rotation rates for forward and backward motion, which adds “an interesting contribution to the discourse,” Waszek said.
But the depth and inaccessibility of the inner core mean that uncertainties remain, she added. As for whether or not the debate about core rotation has truly ended, “we need more data and improved interdisciplinary tools to investigate this further,” Waszek said.
‘Filled with potential’
Changes in core spin — though they can be tracked and measured — are all but imperceptible to people on Earth’s surface, Vidale said. When the core spins more slowly, the mantle speeds up. This shift makes Earth rotate faster, and the length of a day shortens. But such rotational shifts translate to mere thousandths of a second in day length, he said.
“In terms of that effect in a person’s lifetime?” he said. “I can’t imagine it means much.”
Scientists study the inner core to learn how Earth’s deep interior formed and how activity connects across all the planet’s subsurface layers. The mysterious region where the liquid outer core envelops the solid inner core is especially interesting, Vidale added. As a place where liquid and solid meet, this boundary is “filled with potential for activity,” as are the core-mantle boundary and the boundary between mantle and crust.
“We might have volcanoes on the inner core boundary, for example, where solid and fluid are meeting and moving,” he said.
Because the spinning of the inner core affects movement in the outer core, inner core rotation is thought to help power Earth’s magnetic field, though more research is required to unravel its precise role. And there is still much to be learned about the inner core’s overall structure, Waszek said.
“Novel and upcoming methodologies will be central to answering the ongoing questions about Earth’s inner core, including that of rotation.”
Mindy Weisberger is a science writer and media producer whose work has appeared in Live Science, Scientific American and How It Works magazine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn/index.html
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Jesse Ventura POLICE STATE FEMA CAMPS part 1 of 3 CENSORED FROM TV
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AS EVIL AS EVIL GETS. Leave the denial at the door.
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura and his crew on Conspiracy Theory have blown the FEMA camp issue wide open in a truly groundbreaking episode from the program's second season on TruTV. The "Police State" episode proves once and for all that the feds have trained to take on American citizens, planned for riots and disasters and made preparations to maintain order at any cost.
This powerful episode is the largest and most in-depth investigation into FEMA camps to date-- and it is scheduled to air on television. Radio host and filmmaker Alex Jones returns to the series yet again, as the team takes you to confirmed on-the-ground facilities, confronts the legislators who authorized FEMA camps and breaks down the full-scale technologically-integrated police state that includes Fusion Centers, FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security and more.
At one of many real and verified FEMA locations, Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones approach a "Residential Center" run by Homeland Security in central Texas where they find locked doors, double-fences and escape warnings around the entire perimeter. Further inside the facility, they witness a playground complex, swings and slides for children. The crew walks up to the front door and attempts to get some answers. But the officials refuse to either confirm or deny the facility's purpose, including whether or not American citizens are being held inside. However, our past investigations into this facility reveal that it has confined both children and adults, including immigrants, refugee seekers and American citizens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6vsKMaSG1s
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I have had my hand of protection upon America but no more. I am going to shake America like never before. I will lift my hand of protection for a little while. Remember nine one one and what happened when my hand was lifted? What is to come is far worse than that. I have sat back and watched as my word has been removed from your schools. Your children know nothing of me. I have watched while your government has removed my commandments from their walls. They have promoted a life style forbidden by me. I have said in my word man shall not lie with man and women with women this is an abomination. You have opened up your military, they are dancing in the streets, they are thumbing their noses and saying we are here we will take over. I will not allow this to go on any longer without discipline. I love you America but you need to be shaken. etc
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Can A Nation Stand When Its Spiritual Foundation Is Broken Down?
By Greg Laurie July 5, 2024
I recently stood in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. As I looked up at the monument’s faces of great American presidents, it was amazing to think about their contribution to our country.
It’s amazing to think back at the roots and heritage of our country. Mount Rushmore showcases 60-foot carvings of the founder of our country George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and finally, Abraham Lincoln. All of these men believed in a God and that the Bible is the Word of God. I can’t say whether they all had a personal relationship with the Lord, but they understood the importance of a Biblical foundation.
Abraham Lincoln said of the Bible, “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.”
Thomas Jefferson, speaking of the Bible, said, “I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, better husbands. The Bible makes the best people in the world.”
Theodore Roosevelt said of Scripture, “It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man educated or uneducated can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
Finally, George Washington, our first president, said, “To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
In this day of political correctness, can you imagine a president saying that today? Yet, that’s what our Founding Fathers said. We’ve moved away from this. Now, we don’t want to talk about the God of the Bible and we don’t want to talk about the Bible as the Scripture given to us from God Himself. That’s the problem. America needs a spiritual restoration.
The city of Philadelphia is where our Founding Fathers penned documents that gave freedoms to us as a nation. We have the freedom of speech. We have the freedom to speak our mind. We have the freedom to preach the Gospel.
There are troubles in our nation today, and I believe that these troubles are primarily due to a breakdown in our spiritual foundation. What’s the solution? I don’t think it’s political. I believe that America needs to turn back to God.
The Declaration of Independence, penned by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The Declaration of Independence is clearly based on a Judeo-Christian worldview:
It professes a Creator who works in and governs the affairs of men in establishing absolute standards to which men are held accountable.
There’s the idea that man is a fallen creature and hence cannot be his own lawgiver and judge. In the end, it is God to whom the appeal must be made.
The problem is that America has turned its back on the absolute standards and values our country was founded upon.
Is there any hope for America? Are things going to just get worse? Will our streets ever be safe again? Will the family ever be strong again? Will we ever see good prevail over evil, or are we simply doomed to failure?
The meltdown in our country might seem strange in some ways because so many profess to believe in God. The statistics suggest that 94% of Americans believe in God, and 84% of Americans believe Jesus is God. In that way, America’s big on spirituality. The reality is that the majority are “spiritual” only as long as it’s personalized, taking bits from various religions. That doesn’t work! God tells us how we are to believe. He gives us absolutes in His Word—the Bible.
Did you know that in America today, most children are born out of wedlock? What once was scandalous is now the new norm. 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. 71% of all High School dropouts again come from fatherless homes. 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.
Traditional marriage is under siege, divorce is rampant, and sexual immorality is everywhere. We need help! It’s been said a family can survive without a nation, but a nation cannot survive without the family.
America The Beautiful says, “America, America, God shed His grace on thee.” That’s so true, but there’s trouble in our country right now. It seems like things are upside down these days; right is declared wrong, and wrong is right. The Bible says woe to those “that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
Could America ever come back to God? I believe we could if we follow the promises of 2 Chronicles 7:14. In its original context, that promise is given to the nation of Israel, but principally, it applies to any nation. God says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Often, we’ll point fingers, saying the problem is in the White House. However, what God really says is that the problem is in our house and in the church. Many believers aren’t behaving as true followers of Jesus Christ. We want our land healed. We want America changed.
Revival is another word you could use for a restoration. Have you ever seen a really cool restored car? I’m talking about getting America back to its original condition.
Just because the historians engage in historic revisionism doesn’t mean that America was not founded on Judeo-Christian roots. That is our foundation, and we need to get back to it. We need to turn to the true and living God.
Greg Laurie is an evangelist, author, and the senior pastor of Harvest Riverside.
https://harbingersdaily.com/can-a-nation-stand-when-its-spiritual-foundation-is-broken-down/
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Civil Unrest Is the Next Most Predictable Crisis for America Now
by Brandon Smith July 5, 2024
in Commentary, Original
For the past six months I’ve been writing about the clear uptick in civil war rhetoric within the establishment media in the US, and we all know that the coming presidential election is the reason for it. The bottom line is that no matter who ends up in the White House in 2025 there will be mass violence, but most of this violence will be reserved for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return.
As we have seen in Europe (mainly France), any perceived shift towards conservative influence in government will undoubtedly result in riots from the political left. The media has so infected the minds of progressives that they truly believe conservatives intend to “end democracy” and launch an era of fascism. So, in their view, all violence against conservatives (and even moderates) is justified.
Of course, their aggression and hysteria is only inspiring conservatives to respond with aggression in kind. This is where the potential for civil conflict arises. One side says only they are exalted enough to be allowed to dictate policy and law and that side’s ideology embraces moral relativism, so you can see where this thing is headed. People are eventually going to fight back; they have no choice.
In the meantime, I suspect the rioting and looting America dealt with in 2020 will be a cakewalk in comparison to what we will see going into November 2024 and beyond. Leftists claim they are “protecting democracy” but you will see very quickly that as soon as democracy doesn’t go their way they will abandon it in a heartbeat and try to win using other methods.
This means potential supply chain disruptions in major cities as well as no-go areas in many retail districts. Sure, you might be able to get into a neighborhood to shop, but will you be able to leave? And, will those suppliers even have any goods on hand? Or, will the stores be turned into empty husks?
One rising trend that should have all business owners and preppers on alert is the use of social media apps to coordinate seemingly spontaneous looting events. These events can be organized within hours, encouraging some of the worst people to congregate and strike a business block without ever meeting each other before. What I worry about is that these methods will expand beyond chain stores and local government buildings.
Travel routes will come under threat, freight could be targeted, and we may even see looters and rioters move into residential areas further away from the city center. Supply chain issues will surely arise. At the very least there will be concerns among freight drivers that they are taking a risk carrying truckloads of valuable resources into places where they could be surrounded by an angry mob and hijacked (or worse).
Large scale crime in general is bad for the economy. As we’ve witnessed in cities like Chicago and San Francisco, unchecked crime forces companies to move out of a region and leave those places barren. They call it a “food desert” where tens of thousands of people have no access to groceries or retail goods without traveling much further than usual. Looting and rioting are an accelerated version of this scenario. Once stores are looted or burned, they may never try to rebuild.
Necessities like long-term food storage are an obvious solution. Even those that don’t believe a substantial crisis will happen cannot deny that there have been many incidents in the past few years where people’s resource access was unexpectedly disrupted. If you were living in the wrong place at the wrong time in 2020, you might have had protests and riots in your neighborhood that stopped you from leaving home or that destroyed nearby businesses.
What I am describing, though, is a much larger number of incidents with a longer duration than 2020. I’m talking about prolonged civil unrest and I predict this will become the norm going into next year.
Don’t count on the government to provide sufficient aid. Don’t count on FEMA rations or a national guard response that does anything other than exacerbate the problem. Don’t rely on outside help – You’ll regret it.
Instead, put together a three week, three month, and one year survival plan. Start small and work your way up and make sure you have at least some family or friends onboard. There are different levels of civil unrest. Sometimes it starts as a less malicious redress of grievances, but often it becomes a vehicle for random destruction. The best way to counter indiscriminate violence is with directed and focused self defense, along with the proper supplies to keep you going until things calm down.
Also, don’t think just because you live in the suburbs or a rural town that these threats don’t concern you. In Argentina during their economic collapse in 2001, gangs of looters stalked rural areas with impunity while cities ground to a standstill. In the US we have similar circumstances in which economically and politically motivated bad actors could be inspired to sabotage normal services in the face of limited law enforcement opposition.
Organize accordingly and keep your own supplies ready. There are plenty of people out there that think they are owed something. They think they are owed a political win, or social power, or maybe they just think they’re owed access to other people’s stuff. Right now, the US is a powderkeg waiting to go off and a grotesque sense of entitlement is the fuse.
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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Political Unrest Worldwide Is Fueled by High Prices and Huge Debts
July 5, 2024 in News
Like a globe-spanning tornado that touches down with little predictability, deep economic anxieties are leaving a trail of political turmoil and violence across poor and rich countries alike.
In Kenya, a nation buckling under debt, protests over a proposed tax increase last week resulted in dozens of deaths, abductions of demonstrators and a partially scorched Parliament.
At the same time in Bolivia, where residents have lined up for gas because of shortages, a military general led a failed coup attempt, saying the president, a former economist, must “stop impoverishing our country,” just before an armored truck rammed into the presidential palace.
And in France, after months of road blockades by farmers angry over low wages and rising costs, the far-right party surged in support in the first round of snap parliamentary elections on Sunday, bringing its long-taboo brand of nationalist and anti-immigrant politics to the threshold of power.
The causes, context and conditions underlying these disruptions vary widely from country to country. But a common thread is clear: rising inequality, diminished purchasing power and growing anxiety that the next generation will be worse off than this one.
The result is that citizens in many countries who face a grim economic outlook have lost faith in the ability of their governments to cope — and are striking back.
The backlash has often targeted liberal democracy and democratic capitalism, with populist movements springing up on both the left and right. “An economic malaise and a political malaise are feeding each other,” said Nouriel Roubini, an economist at New York University.
In recent months, economic fears have set off protests around the world that have sometimes turned violent, including in high-income countries with stable economies like Poland and Belgium, as well as those struggling with out-of-control debt, like Argentina, Pakistan, Tunisia, Angola and Sri Lanka.
On Friday, Sri Lanka’s president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, pointed to Kenya and warned: “If we do not establish economic stability in Sri Lanka, we could face similar unrest.”
Even in the United States, where the economy has proved resilient, economic anxieties are partly behind the potential return of Donald J. Trump, who has frequently adopted authoritarian rhetoric. In a recent poll, the largest share of American voters said that the economy was the election’s most important issue.
National elections in more than 60 countries this year have focused attention on the political process, inviting citizens to express their discontent.
Economic problems always have political consequences. Yet economists and analysts say that a chain of events set off by the Covid-19 pandemic created an acute economic crisis in many parts of the planet, laying the groundwork for the civil unrest that is blooming now.
The pandemic halted commerce, erased incomes and created supply chain chaos that caused shortages of everything from semiconductors to sneakers. Later, as life returned to normal, factories and retailers were unable to match the pent-up demand, boosting prices.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine added another jolt, sending oil, gas, fertilizer and food prices into the stratosphere.
Central banks tried to rein in inflation by increasing interest rates, which in turn squeezed businesses and families even more.
While inflation has eased, the damage has been done. Prices remain high and in some places, the cost of bread, eggs, cooking oil and home heating is two, three or even four times higher than a few years ago.
As usual, the poorest and most vulnerable countries were slammed the hardest. Governments already strangled by loans they couldn’t afford saw the cost of that debt balloon with the rise in interest rates. In Africa, half of the population lives in nations that spend more on interest payments than they do on health or education.
That has left many countries desperate for solutions. Indermit Gill, chief economist at the World Bank, said that nations unable to borrow because of a debt crisis have essentially two ways to pay their bills: printing money or raising taxes. “One leads to inflation,” he said, “the other leads to unrest.”
After paying off a $2 billion bond in June, Kenya sought to raise taxes. Then things boiled over.
Thousands of protesters swarmed the Parliament in Nairobi. At least 39 people were killed and 300 injured in clashes with police, according to rights groups. The next day, President William Ruto withdrew the proposed bill that included tax increases.
In Sri Lanka, stuck under $37 billion in debt, “the people are just broken,” said Jayati Ghosh, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, after a recent visit to the capital city of Colombo. Families are skipping meals, parents cannot afford school fees or medical coverage, and a million people have lost access to electricity over the past year because of unaffordable price and tax increases, she said. The police have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protests.
In Pakistan, the rising costs of flour and electricity set off a wave of demonstrations that started in Kashmir and spread this week to nearly every major city. Traders closed their shops on Monday, blocking roads and burning electricity bills.
“We cannot bear the burden of these inflated electricity bills and the hike in taxes any longer,” said Ahmad Chauhan, a pharmaceuticals seller in Lahore. “Our businesses are suffering and we have no choice but to protest.”
Pakistan is deep in debt to a string of international creditors, and it wants to increase tax revenues by 40 percent to try to win a bailout of up to $8 billion from the International Monetary Fund — its lender of last resort — to avoid defaulting.
No country has a bigger I.M.F. loan program than Argentina: $44 billion. Decades of economic mismanagement by a succession of Argentine leaders, including printing money to pay bills, has made inflation a constant struggle. Prices have nearly quadrupled this year compared with 2023. Argentines now use U.S. dollars instead of Argentine pesos for big purchases like houses, stashing stacks of $100 bills in jackets or bras.
The economic turmoil led voters in November to elect Javier Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who promised to slash government spending, as president. He has cut thousands of jobs, chopped wages and frozen infrastructure projects, imposing austerity measures that exceed even those the I.M.F. has sought in its attempts to help the country fix its finances. In his first six months, poverty rates have soared.
Many Argentines are fighting back. Nationwide strikes have closed businesses and canceled flights, and protests have clogged plazas in Buenos Aires. Last month, at a demonstration outside Argentina’s Congress, some protesters threw rocks or lit cars on fire. Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. Several opposition lawmakers were injured in the clashes.
Martin Guzmán, a former economy minister of Argentina, said that when national leaders restructure crushing government debt, the agreements fall most heavily on the people whose pensions are reduced and whose taxes are increased. That is why he pushed for a law in 2022 that required Argentina’s elected Congress to approve any future deals with the I.M.F.
“There is a problem of representation and discontent,” Mr. Guzmán said. “That is a combination that leads to social unrest.”
Even the world’s wealthiest countries are bubbling with frustration. European farmers, worried about their prospects, are angry that the cost of new environmental regulations intended to ward off climate change is threatening their livelihoods.
Overall, Europeans have felt that their wages are not going as far as they used to. Inflation reached nearly 11 percent at one point in 2022, chipping away at incomes. Roughly a third of people in the European Union believe their standards of living will decline over the next five years, according to a recent survey.
Protests have erupted in Greece, Portugal, Belgium and Germany this year. Outside Berlin in March, farmers spread manure on a highway that caused several crashes. In France, they burned hay, dumped manure in Nice’s City Hall and hung the carcass of a wild boar outside a labor inspection office in Agen.
As the head of France’s farmers union told The New York Times: “It’s the end of the world versus the end of the month.”
The economic anxieties are adding to divisions between rural and urban dwellers, unskilled and college educated workers, religious traditionalists and secularists. In France, Italy, Germany and Sweden, far-right politicians have seized on this dissatisfaction to promote nationalist, anti-immigrant agendas.
And growth is slowing worldwide, making it harder to find solutions.
“Terrible things are happening even in countries where there aren’t protests,” said Ms. Ghosh, the University of Massachusetts Amherst economist, “but protests kind of make everybody wake up.”
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Nationwide discount retailer with 1,400 stores sparks fears of mass closures as it mulls bankruptcy
READ MORE: Sports goods chain to shut ALL stores - but will clear stock first
By Daniel Jones, Consumer Editor For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:17 EDT, 5 July 2024 | Updated: 09:56 EDT, 5 July 2024
A nationwide discount homeware chain with almost 1,400 stores is the latest to warn of money problems.
Big Lots has told financial regulators it may not be able to continue as a 'going concern' - raising the risk of store closures and bankruptcy.
The Columbus, Ohio-based chain has seen its takings fall consistently for each of the past ten quarters. And it lost an eye-watering $132milloin in the first three months of 2024.
Managers of its stores say they are not surprised. They have complained that the company's bosses at HQ send truck-loads of products that customers don't want.
In a recent filing with regulators, Big Lots said that the losses so far this year - on top of further losses in 2022 and 2023 - meant it had used up most of its spare cash. Retailers need money in the bank to cover the cost of stock.
Execs at Big Lots said the retailer 'expects to experience further operating losses and expects to experience difficulty remaining in compliance' with credit agreements later this year.
Big Lots has tried to cut costs, boost customer spending and get cheaper credit - but that might not be enough, the company said in the filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All this 'raises substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern,' the retailer said.
On Wednesday, ahead of the market closing for the holiday, the stock was $1.71 - down 48 percent over the past month and 81 percent this year.
It had peaked at $72.31 during a post-pandemic rally in 2021.
Last year, Big Lots shuttered 52 stores. This year so far it has closed 13.
Big Lots and other discount retailers are struggling in America. They are even more exposed to Americans cutting back on spending than stores who attract middle-class shoppers.
Lower-income customers have been cutting back after two and a half years of punishing price rises.
In February, Big Lots began looking for fresh financing, according to Bloomberg News.
On Reddit, Big Lots store managers have complained that they are getting more and more stock that customers don't buy.
'In the last month we received four of the largest trucks we have seen all year and triple the amount we normally get,' one wrote on Tuesday this week.
'The warehouse is pretty much full to capacity and none of [it] is selling.'
Another posted: 'Isn't that the weirdest thing? So much stuff, but none of it is what people want.
'Perhaps instead of blowing our budget on cheap garbage nobody wants, corporate will look into what's popular and will only buy that.'
Problems for Big Lots comes amidst a widespread 'retail apocalypse' which is seeing bricks-and-mortar stores struggle to combat rampant theft and increasingly tight margins.
There have been almost 2,600 store closures so far in 2024.
In recent weeks, Walmart has closed three more of its underperforming locations, while Rite Aid said it is shutting another 27 pharmacies.
Dollar stores have been hit hard too, with 99 Cents Only announcing in April it would shutter all 371 of its locations across California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada.
Similarly, 1,000 Family Dollars and Dollar Trees will permanently shut over the next few years.
And last week it emerged that Pinto Ranch, an iconic Texas store loved by Drake, abruptly shuttered after two decades.
Bob's Stores, which sells athletic and casual clothing across six states, said it is shutting all its stores.
But will clear stock first with 70 percent off bargains
Rhema: Prophetic to the church here at RMMMI
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I have laid my word down, says the Lord, and that is the only authority that stands, says the Father God. Therefore whatever is in my word you can claim, you can stand on it, you can be affirmed and confident knowing that you will not falter or fall, says the Lord, if you are based on my word. For my word shall give you the things that you have need of, for I shall provide for you the things that you have need of, says the Lord. Therefore if the law comes against my church my word will prevail against that law, says the Lord and, therefore, you have victory, says the Lord, do not stand down.
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Woman Who Said Vax Would 'Dishonor God' Wins $700K
Tanja Benton wins settlement against ex-employer BlueCross for refusing COVID vaccine mandate
By Jenn Gidman, Newser Staff Posted Jul 2, 2024 11:16 AM CDT
Tanja Benton was pink-slipped in November 2021 from the biostatistical research scientist job she'd held for years with federal contractor BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, due to her refusal to adhere to her employer's COVID vaccine mandate. Now, a federal jury has awarded Benton nearly $700,000 in a settlement, finding that BlueCross didn't offer proper accommodations for Benton, who worked mostly from home and had asked for a religious exemption for the vaccine, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Benton's main beef with the vaccine, per her suit, is that she believes it's derived from aborted fetus cell lines.
"Because of her sincerely held religious beliefs concerning abortion, [Benton] cannot in good conscience consume the vaccine, which would not only defile her body but also anger and dishonor God," her attorney, Doug Hamill, writes in the complaint. National Geographic notes that fetal cells are used in testing or development/production of the coronavirus vaccine, not as an ingredient in the vaccine itself—similar to how those cell lines are used to test other medications like ibuprofen and aspirin, and for treatment research for certain conditions like Alzheimer's. Vanderbilt University, meanwhile, notes that most major religions don't have an issue with vaccination. Benton identifies as a nondenominational Christian, per Hamill.
Benton's complaint noted she only met in person with her clients about 1% of the time, and that she "never performed any work or attended any meetings in medical facilities where patients were being treated." Benton is said to be the first fired BlueCross employee who has been awarded compensation after being fired for refusing to comply with the mandate. A BlueCross rep says in a statement that "we believe the vaccine requirement was the best decision for the health and safety of our employees, members, and wider community given the circumstances and federal guidance in effect at the time." WTVC notes that Benton will receive nearly $180,000 in back pay, $10,000 in compensatory damages, and $500,000 in punitive damages—for a grand total of $687,240. Check out the settlement in full here. (More coronavirus vaccine stories.)
https://www.newser.com/story/352447/woman-who-refused-covid-vax-wins-700k-settlement.html
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Turkey’s Erdogan warns Israel that they stand with Lebanon if war is pursued
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Israel has set its eyes on Lebanon as he accused some Western powers of supporting the Israeli government’s plans to expand the war in Gaza.
“Israel, which devastated Gaza, is now setting its sights on Lebanon, as we see,” Erdogan said in a televised address to his fellow party members in the Turkish parliament. “We see that while Western powers speak differently on camera, behind the scenes they are patting Israel on the back and even supporting it.”
“Plans to spread the war to the region will lead to a great disaster,” he warned.
Later in the day, Erdogan reiterated his messages during a phone call with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
“Israel’s efforts to spread the conflict are extremely dangerous, and Turkey stands by Lebanon against Israel’s aggressive policies,” he told the Lebanese premier, according to a Turkish readout of the call
Fears of a broader conflict in the region have been growing since last week after the Israeli military said in a June 18 statement that “operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved.”
In a similar message on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans for shifting some Israeli troops to the north of the country, where the border with Lebanon has seen clashes between the Jewish state and Lebanese Hezbollah since the start of the war.
Erdogan also took fresh aim at Netanyahu. “It is extremely tragic that countries that gloat over freedom, human rights and justice have become slave to a mentally ill person like Netanyahu,” he said.
The Turkish president also criticized Muslim-majority countries for what he described as their failure to confront Israel.
“We sadly observe that the Islamic world is acting lethargically,” he said. “Turkey stands by the brotherly Lebanese people and government. I call on other regional countries to stand in solidarity with Lebanon too.”
The remarks quickly sparked a flare-up between Turkey and Israel, with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accusing Erdogan of declaring support for Hezbollah.
Erdogan “announced his support for Hezbollah against Israel’s threats,” the Israeli minister wrote on social media platform X, adding that he’s trying to “deny Israel its right to self-defense against a terror organization attacking from Lebanon under Iran’s orders.”
The Hamas-Israel war has left Turkey-Israel normalization, which saw great progress last year after four years of hiatus, in tatters. Both countries downgraded their diplomatic ties following the outbreak of the war on Oct. 7.
Erdogan, one of the most outspoken supporters of the Palestinian cause, accused Netanyahu of committing genocide in Gaza, and the Turkish government announced it would cut trade ties with the Jewish state in May.
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etc.. Learn about the silent bomb, study it, study the national grid, understand the things that I am saying to you because this shall not just be a day or a two-day or a three-day thing. Make sure you can take care of yourself for at least three months, at least three months. etc..
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The EMP Threat To The West Continues To Grow
An EMP is essentially a large nuclear bomb that explodes in the outer atmosphere. In a cone-shaped area below, all electricity infrastructures and electronic devices fail. The area can be predetermined by arranging the size of the cone beforehand. So, for example, an attack could be focused on greater Chicago or the entire Midwest.
The explosion causes no immediate deaths. But after roughly 10 days, many people will die due to lack of food (because refrigeration is impossible), water (most water is delivered by electric pumps), working sewer systems, communications, transportation, etc.
Russia is now perfecting such a weapon. They are sending a nuclear device into space mounted on a satellite. It will be ready for use if and when Russia deems it necessary. We have no defense against it.
Developing this weapon is in serious violation of treaties signed in the past. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin knows that the Biden administration is incapable of making or following through on any threats.
Teddy Roosevelt's advice "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" does not apply in this case. The only stick we're carrying is a cane. And everybody knows it.
In my recent meeting with a ranking House Intelligence Committee member, we discussed the "evil four": North Korea, China, Russia and Iran. They have individual agreements among themselves for mutual protection, NATO style. (Putin was in North Korea last weekend). Three of the four are already nuclear powers. Iran will likely make it a quartet.
Regarding Iran, America survived the Cold War because of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). No one wanted to be the recipient of a massive reciprocal nuclear attack. Despite the Cold War arms buildup, not a single nuclear missile was fired. We tend to think similarly about Iran but we are completely wrong.
The Iranian mullahs believe that their Twelfth Imam--an occluded messianic figure termed the Mahdi--is on earth but in hiding. The Iranian regime is convinced that it must make him appear and manifest himself. This is a religious obligation in Shi'ite Islam.
How does MAD apply in this context? Well, Iran is a big country with more than 90 million residents. If even 50% of its population dies in a war with the West, the Iranian regime will see them all as martyrs of God who will go to heaven.
So, MAD is no threat to them. They see such destruction as a victory--a win for them. Americans do not understand this way of thinking, nor that it is in service of Iran's ultimate objective of the Islamification of the West.
What about the Sunni Saudi Arabia? Its leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is trying very hard to bring his country into the 21st century. He's accomplishing this by eliminating radical Islam and proposing a more moderate form of the faith. All Sunni beliefs and directives, globally, come from Saudi Arabia. They are very different from Iran's.
Note that none of the above has anything to do with Israel, Gaza or the current war. It has been brewing for a while. The alliance of North Korea, China, Russia and Iran is focused on destroying America's superpower status.
At the moment, Iran in particular is creating havoc in the Middle East through their proxy terror groups the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas. Clearly, the immediate threat is to Israel, but the ultimate target is Western "dominance."
This is a major threat to the West. The United States should wake up to it and fast. Hopefully, it's not too late.
https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=7032#google_vignette
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Supreme Court Thoroughly Rebukes Biden DOJ For Abusing Law To Go After Trump And His Supporters - This Could Affect Over 350 Political Prisoners
June 30, 2024 By Katelynn Richardson - All News Pipeline
The Supreme Court held Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) interpreted an obstruction statute too broadly when using it to charge hundreds of defendants for their behavior in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The court sided 6-3 in Fischer v. United States with a defendant who challenged the statute, Section 1512(c)(2), which holds up to 20 years in prison for anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding.”
“To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority ruling. “The judgment of the D. C. Circuit is therefore vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
Of the 1,424 defendants charged following Jan. 6, over 350 were charged with “corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding,” according to May numbers from the DOJ. Multiple defendants charged under the statute were granted early release in light of the justice’s decision to hear the case.
Joseph Fischer, who was charged under Section 1512(c)(2), argued the DOJ’s use of the statute to prosecute Jan. 6 defendants for obstructing Congress’ certification of the 2020 election was an “unprecedented expansion.”
Fischer noted it was enacted as part of the Corporate Fraud and Accountability Act of 2002 to target crimes of evidence tampering, focusing on “deterring fraud and abuse by corporate executives.”
The lower courts will now have to “assess the sufficiency” of the charge brought against Fischer — and likely hundreds of other defendants indicted under the same statute — in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
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“The Government’s reading of Section 1512 would intrude on that deliberate arrangement of constitutional authority over federal crimes, giving prosecutors broad discretion to seek a 20- year maximum sentence for acts Congress saw fit to punish only with far shorter terms of imprisonment—for example, three years for harassment under §1512(d)(1), or ten years for threatening a juror under §1503,” Roberts wrote.
The ruling also has implications for special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump. Two of the charges in the indictment, which alleges Trump employed “knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified,” are related to the statute.
The Supreme Court will also soon rule on Trump’s bid to dismiss the case based on presidential immunity.
(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: FEC Commissioner Rips Biden DOJ’s ‘Dangerous’ Decision Not To Intervene In Bragg’s Trump Prosecution)
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the majority in limiting the statute’s scope.
“Notwithstanding the shocking circumstances involved in this case or the Government’s determination that they warrant prosecution, today, this Court’s task is to determine what conduct is proscribed by the criminal statute that has been invoked as the basis for the obstruction charge at issue here,” Jackson wrote in a concurring opinion. “I join in the Court’s opinion because I agree with the majority that §1512(c)(2) does not reach ‘all forms of obstructive conduct’ and is, instead, ‘limited by the preceding list of criminal violations’ in §1512(c)(1).”
Meanwhile, Justice Amy Coney Barrett penned the dissent, which Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor joined. Barrett wrote that the majority “failed to respect the prerogatives of the political branches.”
“There is no getting around it: Section 1512(c)(2) is an expansive statute,” Barrett wrote. “Yet Congress, not this Court, weighs the ‘pros and cons of whether a statute should sweep broadly or narrowly.'”
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10 Signs That Global War Is Rapidly Approaching
June 30, 2024
Are we on the verge of an apocalyptic global war in which billions of people could die? Very few people anticipated that World War I would erupt, but it happened anyway. And very few people anticipated that World War II would erupt, but it happened anyway. All throughout human history, there have been wars. Ever since the very beginning, it has just been a matter of time before major powers collide. Unfortunately, even though very alarming warning signals are flashing all around us, most of the population of the western world seems absolutely clueless about what is really going on out there. Leaders all over the planet seem to have come down with a really bad case of “war fever”, and preparations for apocalyptic showdowns are being made. The following are 10 signs that global war is rapidly approaching…
#1 Politico is reporting that Israel and Hezbollah have both “drafted battle plans”, and the Biden administration is convinced that “intense fighting is likely to break out”…
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah have drafted battle plans and are in the process of trying to procure additional weapons, according to two senior U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence.
Both sides have publicly said they do not want to go to war, but senior Biden officials increasingly believe that intense fighting is likely to break out despite efforts to try and prevent it.
#2 Iran is warning that there will be an “obliterating war” if the IDF enters southern Lebanon…
Israel will face an “obliterating war” if it embarks on “full-scale military aggression” against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran’s Permanent Mission to the UN warned on Friday.
The announcement was made on Twitter.
“Albeit Iran deems as psychological warfare the Zionist regime’s propaganda about intending to attack Lebanon, should it embark on full-scale military aggression, an obliterating war will ensue. All options, incl. the full involvement of all Resistance Fronts, are on the table,” the post reads.
By “all Resistance Fronts,” Iran means not just Hezbollah and Hamas, but also the Houthi rebels in Yemen as well as other groups in Syria and Iraq.
#3 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is convinced that a major with Iran is inevitable because he believes that the Iranians have plans to conquer the entire Middle East…
Netanyahu emphasized that the fight against Iran’s terror proxies is critical for other nations in the Middle East, as Iran aims to dominate the rest of the region, including Sunni Muslim nations.
“We also have to deter the other elements of the Iran terror axis. But we have to deal with the axis,” Netanyahu explained. “The axis doesn’t threaten only us. It threatens you. It’s on the march to conquer the Middle East.”
“That means, actually, conquer. Conquer Saudi Arabia, conquer the Arabian Peninsula. It’s just a question of time,” he warned.
#4 According to NBC News, the U.S. is moving military assets into position so that they can be “ready to evacuate Americans” once an all-out war erupts between Israel and Hezbollah…
The Pentagon is moving U.S. military assets closer to Israel and Lebanon to be ready to evacuate Americans as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies, according to three U.S. defense officials and a former U.S. official familiar with the plans.
The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, and Marines from the 24th Expeditionary Unit, which is special operations capable, moved into the Mediterranean on Wednesday to join the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill and another ship in their amphibious ready group, according to the Marine Corps. The Wasp will operate in the eastern Mediterranean to be ready for a Military Assisted Departure and other missions, the officials said.
#5 On Thursday, Hezbollah sent approximately 40 rockets into northern Israel…
Hezbollah launched a barrage of some 40 rockets at northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, in what the terror group said was a response to recent Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including the killing of one of its operatives earlier in the day.
#6 On Saturday, Israeli aircraft bombed several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon…
On Saturday afternoon Israeli fighter jets struck a building in southern Lebanon’s Houla where a group of Hezbollah operatives were gathered, the military said. The IDF said the operatives were spotted by troops of the 869th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, and a short while later the airstrike was carried out.
Another building used by Hezbollah in Houla was also struck, the IDF added. It published footage of the strikes.
#7 I know that I wrote about this last week, but I couldn’t leave this particular item out of this article. Apparently Joe Biden is thinking about approving a plan that would “allow US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine”…
President Joe Biden’s administration is moving toward a plan that would allow US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine for the first time in a limited capacity, CNN reported.
Four US officials familiar with the matter told the outlet that a policy is being worked on to allow the Pentagon to issue private contracts to send troops for the maintenance and repair of US-supplied systems in Ukraine.
#8 Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly interested in developing a coalition of nations that would “rival the West and NATO”…
Rhetoric from Vladimir Putin about a Eurasian security coalition is part of a Kremlin plan to create a group of Moscow-friendly countries to rival the West and NATO, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said.
The assessment by the Washington, DC think tank follows Putin’s visit to North Korea which, one international security expert told Newsweek, has “deepened an already intensifying relationship of convenience” between Moscow and Pyongyang.
#9 Putin is also warning that Russia will need to begin production of intermediate-range nuclear weapons systems…
Russia must respond to the actions of the United States and it seems that it is necessary for the country to start the production of intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) strike systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
“We need to respond to this and make decisions about what we will have to do in this direction next. Apparently, we need to start manufacturing these systems and then, based on the actual situation, make decisions about where – if necessary to ensure our safety – to deploy them,” Putin said at an operational meeting with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council.
Of course the Russians already have more tactical nuclear weapons than anyone else in the world by a large margin, and they have developed brand new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles which are so advanced that they aren’t even worth comparing to the Minuteman missiles that the U.S. is depending on which first went into service in the 1970s.
#10 A very influential figure in Russian foreign policy circles is suggesting that the Russians should actually detonate a nuclear device in order to show the world how serious they are…
Dmitry Suslov, a top figure at the Moscow-based Council for Foreign and Defence Policy, has put forward the idea of Russia carrying out a “demonstrative” nuclear detonation, a move that could prompt the start of World War 3. This alarming suggestion arises as tensions with the West intensify due to Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied weaponry against Russian forces.
Suslov’s think tank, known to occasionally sway government policy, made this proposal public shortly after President Vladimir Putin delivered a grave warning to NATO countries. Putin warned that if Ukraine were to employ Western arms for attacks on Russian soil, it could spark a worldwide crisis, reinforcing his point with threats of severe repercussions.
Unfortunately, all of this is happening at a time when 72 percent of U.S. voters believe that the guy with his finger on the nuclear button does not have “the mental or cognitive health to serve as president”…
A sweeping section of registered voters do not believe President Joe Biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve a second term as president after his unsteady debate performance last week, according to a new poll.
The CBS/You Gov national survey conducted in the days after the debate found that 72% of voters do not believe Biden has the mental or cognitive health to serve as president, as well as nearly half of his own party. That’s up seven points from the beginning of June.
We are in far more trouble than most people realize.
And it is far later than most people think that it is.
I just wish that we could get more people to wake up. We are literally stumbling into an apocalyptic global war, and once we are in the middle of it there will not be any way to go back and get a second chance to do things over.
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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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Turkey's new opposition leader: 'What Hamas did was an act of terror'
Özgür Özel of blasts Hamas as a terrorist organization on TV interview
Published: June 30, 2024
Turkish opposition leader Özgür Özel, who heads the Republican People’s Party (CHP), condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization during a TV interview on Saturday.
"Hamas rains bombs on innocent people in the middle of the night, with balloons, drones, and I don't know what else," Özel said. He condemned the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion and massacre of 1,200 Israelis that ignited the ongoing war in Gaza.
"You must see that this issue started there [with Hamas]. What Hamas did was an act of terror. Hamas fired bombs at sleeping Jews in the middle of the night," the opposition leader emphasized.
In November, Özel officially replaced Kemal Kilicdaroglu as the leader of the political opposition in Turkey.
Özel’s condemnation of Hamas contrasts sharply with the current president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has expressed support for the terror group and referred to it as a legitimate political actor.
Just weeks after the Hamas terror attack, Erdoğan denied that Hamas is a terrorist organization and to date, has never condemned Hamas terrorists for the atrocities committed during and after the attack.
“Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a liberation group, mujahideen waging a battle to protect its lands and people,” Erdoğan claimed. In addition, several high-ranking Hamas officials reportedly reside in Istanbul, Turkey's economic and cultural hub.
Erdoğan has also made statements showing his lack of support for Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and derogatory statements against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Turkish leader has been facing growing opposition at home due to a struggling domestic economy and criticism of the government’s mishandling of last year’s lethal earthquake. However, the political opposition failed to unseat Erdoğan in the national elections in 2023.
Prior to Erdoğan’s rise to power, Turkey and Israel enjoyed close commercial, military and security ties.
https://allisrael.com/turkey-s-new-opposition-leader-what-hamas-did-was-an-act-of-terror
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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etc Pray about the earthquakes, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, pray about the hail, the snowstorms, the blizzards, pray concerning these things. For the enemy is moving mightily in different areas to cause the price in your grocery stores to skyrocket and if you don’t pray this will affect you. etc.
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If The High Cost Of Groceries Makes You Feel Sick, You Are Not Alone
June 30, 2024 by Michael
If you are really struggling with the high cost of living, I want you to know that you aren’t alone. In recent months, I have been hearing from so many people that feel like they are drowning financially. Have you experienced a palpable sense of panic when you compare your rising bills to the level of income that you are currently bringing in? So many people out there are stressed out of their minds because it has become such a struggle to pay the bills each month. As I discussed a few days ago, a typical U.S. household must now spend $1,069 more a month just to buy the exact same goods and services that it did three years ago. Over the course of an entire year, that is almost an extra $13,000 dollars. Month after month, prices just keep going higher, but those that are running things continue to insist that everything is just fine.
No, everything is not just fine.
Last week, a TikTok video about rising grocery prices at Walmart quickly garnered more than a million views. The person that made the video found a grocery order that he had placed two years ago, and he decided to hit the “Reorder All” button to see what that same order would cost today…
A recent TikTok video has gone viral, showing a user’s surprising experience with Walmart’s grocery prices. The user explained in his video that he tried to use the “Reorder All” button for an order he placed two years ago, which originally cost $126.67. To his shock, the same order would now cost $414.39.
I was quite stunned by this video.
Many of the things that I regularly purchase at the grocery store have doubled or more than doubled in price, but in this case the total cost of the grocery order had more than tripled…
The TikTok (@sewerlidd) explained that the original $126.16 purchase was for a month’s worth of groceries, which included 53 items.
“A whole month of groceries just for me,” he said in the video.
The total was updated to $414.39, almost quadrupling.
“I feel like I’m going to be sick,” he said.
Needless to say, this video has generated a ton of discussion online.
When Walmart was asked about this, they responded by saying that the primary reason there was such a difference is because the person that made the video was attempting to order “discontinued items”…
Walmart representatives have responded, stating that the claims in the video are not accurate. According to them, the discrepancies in prices are due to discontinued items rather than actual inflation.
But this explanation certainly did not satisfy everyone.
Another person hit the “Reorder All” button on an old order, and that order went from $180 back then to $430 today…
Viewers expressed both shock and frustration in the comments.
“Now I feel a little less gaslit about grocery prices because it has gone crazy, and it’s not just me!” wrote one person.
“Walmart, can you explain yourself, please,” added another.
A fellow shopper said they used to spend $180 for two weeks’ worth of groceries and are now spending over $430 for the same amount.
If you think that the price of groceries is not a problem, I have a challenge for you.
Fill up a grocery cart all the way to the very top with items that you typically eat, and try to keep the final bill under 300 dollars.
If you are smart, you can do it, but it won’t be easy.
In the old days, you could buy a used vehicle for 300 dollars.
Now, many people burn through more than 300 dollars in just one trip to the grocery store.
This is just one of the reasons why inflation has become such a huge political issue.
According to Gallup, inflation was not really considered to be an important issue at all prior to 2022…
For the third year in a row, the percentage of Americans naming inflation or the high cost of living as the most important financial problem facing their family has reached a new high. The 41% naming the issue this year is up slightly from 35% a year ago and 32% in 2022. Before 2022, the highest percentage mentioning inflation was 18% in 2008. Inflation has been named by less than 10% in most other readings since the question was first asked in 2005.
The last three years have been an inflationary nightmare, and no matter how much our leaders try to deny it, a lot more inflation is on the way.
Things are particularly bad in our major cities. In fact, it is being reported that Manhattan is the most expensive place to live in the United States by a wide margin…
The New York borough of Manhattan is the most expensive place to live in the U.S. — and the cost of living in the No. 2 place isn’t even close.
The cost of living in Manhattan is more than twice the national average. The second- and third-most expensive places are Honolulu and San Jose, California, but in comparison, they are much more affordable. Manhattan is 24% more expensive than Honolulu and 30% more expensive than San Jose.
It isn’t a big mystery why this is the case.
When our leaders pumped trillions upon trillions of dollars into the system, the financial markets benefitted greatly.
So Manhattan is swimming in cash, and prices there have gone into the stratosphere.
Many of us relentlessly warned about what would happen when our leaders flooded the system with cash, and now we are facing economic distortions that are extremely painful.
For most Americans, prices have been rising much faster than their paychecks.
As a result, our national standard of living has been steadily declining.
And now we have entered a time when it appears that economic conditions are really slowing down.
For example, it is being reported that Ford is preparing for yet another round of layoffs…
Ford Motor is preparing for a new round of layoffs for its salaried workers in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The company in March last year announced plans to reduce structural costs of up to $3 billion at its gas-powered vehicle unit. In August, Ford said it would cut a total of 3,000 salaried and contract jobs, mostly in North America and India.
Over the past several years, our politicians in Washington have borrowed and spent trillions upon trillions of dollars, and the “experts” at the Federal Reserve have pumped trillions upon trillions of dollars into the financial system.
All that did was buy us a little more time.
All that did was delay the inevitable.
Now we are facing a crisis of absolutely epic proportions, and the economic suffering that we are currently experiencing is nothing compared to the economic suffering that is ahead of us.
Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing. You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter. Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
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Zelensky Talks Ukraine CAPITULATION! Says too many wounded and dead; doesn't want war for years
Hal Turner World June 28, 2024 Hits: 5116
Volodymyr Zelensky, former President of Ukraine whose term of Office expired on May 21, went on TV yesterday and made clear Ukraine has too many wounded and dead; they do not want the war with Russia to continue . . . video below.
His English language skills are not the best, but what he says is quite dramatic:
“We don't have too much time because we have a lot of wounded and dead people on the battlefield and among civilians. That's why we don't want to have this war continue for years. We want to prepare this joint plan and put it on the table for the next peace summit.”
Where is the so-called "main-stream media?" Why has not a single TV Network in the United States or Europe reported this?
Incidentally, this has been CONFIRMED by the Kiev Post Newspaper:
"Ukraine does not want to prolong the war. We do not want it to last for years," President Volodymyr Zelensky said, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"We have many wounded and killed on the battlefield. We must put a settlement plan on the table within a few months," Zelensky added.
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The Nazi-Like Authoritarianism That Has Retaken Germany Bears Too Much Of A Resemblance For Comfort To The Grotesque Tyrannies Metastasizing Inside The United States
By J.B. Shurk and All News Pipeline June 26, 2024
So the Great Awakening continues apace. All over the West, men and women who simply want to be left alone are concluding that their governments will not let them live in peace. Woe to any Establishment hobgoblins who believe they can sabotage their home nations without paying a price.
After having failed to implement Brexit or curtail mass illegal immigration during their last decade and a half in power, Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives appear destined for extinction-level losses in the U.K.’s July 4 general election. This regrettably means that Labor’s champagne socialists will seize Parliament’s suicidal reins and drive that once great nation deeper into the ground. But in the background of Great Britain’s self-immolation is the resurgence of Brexit champion Nigel Farage, who enjoys unprecedented support for his Reform Party. Because the U.K.’s Deep State has refused to honor the terms of Brexit, the British people are ready to overturn the whole system. July 4 — what a lovely day for a revolution!
Emmanuel Macron, the Rothschild banker and diminutive king who married his grandmotherly schoolteacher, will likely suffer electoral humiliation of his own in France’s legislative elections over the next two weeks. The Napoleon wannabe — who speaks snobbishly of European empire and prefers to be photographed while kitted out in the latest boxing fashion — called for snap elections in a stompy-foot hissy fit after the French people handed him heavy losses in the European Parliament vote earlier this month. Just as Le Petit Fromage seems to believe that he can convey strength by staring menacingly at stationary punching bags, Macron thinks his political hubris can transform almost certain defeat into chance victory. The French people, on the other hand, are fed up with mass illegal immigration, rising crime, and deteriorating standards of living (common complaints throughout the West) and are not particularly enthused about the growing prospect of a hot war with Russia. It is difficult to persuade French citizens that they should rally around their tricolor flag and defend Ukraine’s borders when French aristocrats continue to lecture the peasants that national borders are so passé (another common complaint throughout the West).
Of course, the granddaddy of imminent political earthquakes is the (cross your fingers, throw a pinch of salt over your shoulder, turn around three times, and whisper, “MAGA-MAGA-MAGA”) likely return of President Trump to the White House. Oh, I know the Democrat Deep State will continue to do everything it can to rig the election in November (even if it has to throw the MAGA Man in prison and wake up half the dead people in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Phoenix to “vote”), but political polling in the United States continues to show Iron Trump with substantial leads over Horse-Glue Biden. If the United States didn’t have a third-world election system devoid of voter identification and rife with mail-in-ballot fraud, the propaganda press would already be grudgingly admitting that Biden’s re-election hopes are as dead as a doornail. Since Dementia Joe is the president for dead voters, though, and because he managed to “win” fifteen million more votes than the progressive demigod Barack Obama did during his re-election campaign, the Fascist Bureau of Intimidation and the Department of (in)Justice are still telling everyone, “Don’t worry. We’ve got this.” As Hans Gruber would say, “You ask for a miracle? I give you the FBI.”
Just as in 2020, the federal government is busy conspiring with social media companies to censor any videos that might make Wandering Joe look feeble, confused, dumb, ignorant, senile, angry, or incontinent. That must be a tough job for our A.I. tech lords since being feeble, confused, dumb, ignorant, senile, angry, and incontinent is kind of Joe’s brand. Once you start mass-deleting embarrassing videos of the guy whose uncle was eaten by cannibals, you risk wiping (like, with a cloth?) his whole existence right off the Internet. Can’t have that; how can America’s puppet “president” pretend to “lead” the “free world” if he can’t be seen?
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All of those ironic “scare quotes” in the last sentence remind me of the way the great writer-fighter James Howard Kunstler handles the man currently stumbling around naked in the Oval Office. Whenever he discusses “Joe Biden,” he always puts his name inside quotation marks as a way to signal to the reader that Joe Biden does not really exist. “Joe Biden” is just part of the Deep State’s kabuki “democracy.” He’s a figurehead occasionally pumped full of amphetamines and presented to the rest of the world as some sort of bizarre nuclear superpower proof-of-life. Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi are under no illusion that the doddering child-sniffer suffering from furious paranoia is really running things in the United States. There is no president leading the free world right now because there is no president, no leadership, and no free world today.
The chief purpose of the West’s COVID police state, after all, was to give the Establishment’s technocratic totalitarians several years to hunt around for things in society that looked free-ish, so that any residual safeguards against their authoritarianism could be promptly euthanized. In Marxist globalism’s build back better dystopia, it’s kill or be killed. And if the West’s obsession with war, economic devastation, unreliable electric grids, unrestricted immigration, assisted suicide, vulnerable food supplies, abortion, and experimental “vaccines” has proved anything, it is this: the Establishment Blob really enjoys killing things.
Right now Deep State assassins throughout the West have set their sights on free speech. As the World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab would readily tell you, it is incredibly difficult to be a successful Bond villain when ordinary Westerners are allowed to say mean things. Americans, Brits, and Germans cannot be permitted to express outrage when politicians allow dangerous illegal aliens to rape and murder their children. Farmers cannot be permitted to protect their nations’ food supplies from rabid “green”-energy fanatics intent on delivering global famine. Voters cannot be permitted to vote out all the Marxist globalists dedicated to foisting biometric surveillance and central bank digital funny money upon the masses. Don’t the little people understand that the important people must protect “democracy” by censoring dissent, abrogating property rights, rigging elections, and subverting popular sovereignty?
The German government certainly understands. As the Alternative for Germany (AfD) — the second most popular political party in the country — continues to gain public support for its commonsense solutions to rampant illegal immigration, the German Deep State is getting closer than ever to outright banning the party as a “security risk for people and democracy.” As Germany enjoys an esteemed reputation as a champion for liberty and human rights (sarcasm alert!), no doubt many other Western nations will follow its exemplary approach to protecting “democracy” by destroying it. Dwarf ruler Macron would surely get on board with banning Marine Le Pen’s National Rally from France. The Labor Party’s Keir Starmer (so sorry, Siiiirrrr Keir Starmer) would love to ban Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. Party from ever obtaining power. “Joe Biden” is just jumping at the chance to outlaw the Make America Great Again political movement in the United States.
Hmmm, come to think of it, “Joe Biden” has already imprisoned hundreds of MAGA voters for protesting election fraud on January 6, 2021. Unindicted Russia Hoax co-conspirators John Brennan and James Clapper worked with the Department of Homeland (in)Security to target all Trump-supporters as likely “domestic terrorists.” And Reichsführer Merrick Garland and his Department of (in)Justice are desperate to jail President Trump before the 2024 election. The Nazi-like authoritarianism that has retaken Germany bears too much of a resemblance for comfort to the grotesque tyrannies metastasizing inside the United States.
Twenty twenty-four might just be the year voters turn the world upside-down.
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URGENT: BANK of RUSSIA SOURCE SAYS "U.S. SANCTIONS WILL CAUSE DEATH OF RUSSIA ECONOMY - RUSSIA WILL NOT BE THE ONLY COUNTRY TO DIE"
Hal Turner World June 26, 2024 Hits: 26574
A source within the Bank of Russia says a new wave of Western sanctions causing the blockage of bank payments, including through countries that are considered "friendly" to Russia can lead to the DEATH of the Russian economy. Source also says "Russia will not be the only country to die . . . ."
According to First Deputy Representative of the Bank of Russia Vladimir Chistyukhin, the United States is telling foreign countries their economy will be Sanctioned (and thereby destroyed) by the US, if they continue processing normal payments to and from Russia.
According to Chistyukhin, it is necessary for Russia to solve payment problems as quickly as possible and not to abhor even exotic or outdated mechanisms. He went on to say "What seemed to us yesterday, unpopular -- swaps, some clearing systems, the use of crypto -- all needs to be tested, everything needs to be tried."
He went on to point out the reality that if there are no normal calculations for products on foreign economic activity, for Russia's export and import-dependent country then Russia is facing "it’s destruction."
Since the beginning of winter, Russian companies have encountered problems in making payments — shortly after, as US President Joe Biden expanded the powers of the US Treasury and its Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC, allowing them allowing them to disconnect any banks around the world from dollar payments for processing payments to/from Russia
Banks in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates — key hubs of parallel imports to Russia -- began to block transactions.
Following the financial blockade, Chinese banks — the main buyer of Russian oil and the largest supplier of imported goods to the Russian market joined in halting the processing of payments.
By the end of spring, according to estimates by the Chong-yang Institute for Financial Research at the People's University of China in Beijing, 80% of settlements between Russia and China were suspended. Hopes that the situation would radically improve after the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China, were in vain.
Although Putin and Xi Jinping discussed the creation of an isolated network of Chinese banks that would settle with Russia and not be afraid of Western sanctions, its scale was much smaller than what the Russian side was counting on,
By the end of May, China started blocking banks of Kazakhstan. Prior to May the largest the Bank of China regularly handled Kazakhstan payments for sanctions products.
On June 12, the US Treasury added the Moscow Exchange and its key settlement structures (National Clearing Center and National Settlement Depository) onto the sanctions lists, after which exchange trading in the dollar, euros and Hong Kong dollars in Russia stopped.
At the same time, subsidiaries Sberbank VEB in China and India, VTB in China, India and Hong Kong, as well as three subsidiaries of the defense industrial bank — Chinese, Indian and Kyrgyz, came under sanctions.
In addition to sanctions against banks, the United States has expanded threatened VPK Russia with secondary measures up to disconnecting the bank from the global dollar system.
The US Sanctions which were only supposed to apply to "defense complex" firms in Russia, NOW refers to all companies included in the sanctions lists that are not even directly related to the production of military products.
Amid problems with payments of imported goods to Russia from January thru April fell by 9%, up to $ 84.6 billion. Moreover, the decline affected all regions: imports from Europe and America fell by 19%, from Asia — by 4%, from Africa — by 5%.
These new sanctions can deprive the Russian economy of another 15 – 20% of imports, PSB analysts predict.
It is important for Russia to determine how counterparties from friendly countries will react to this new wave of geopolitical pressure,
Since the United States also imposed sanctions against subsidiaries of the largest Russian banks in India and China, and this may further complicate Russia's ability to adapt to new sanctions and thus adversely affect export volumes from Russia.
Said one source in the Russian government "If faced with the actual and intentional killing of Russia's economy, Russia would have no choice but to kill the countries doing this. We are completely capable of doing exactly that."
Hal Turner Opinion
Well, there we have it: Russia is facing the "destruction" of its economy because of the United States imposing Sanctions on countries around the world. The United States is doing this, while at the same time, trying to recruit Ukraine into NATO, for the express purpose of placing American missiles - AIMED AT RUSSIA - on Ukraine soil (with a five minute flight time to Moscow).
It was the United States that fomented, facilitated and financed the forcible, violent overthrow of Ukraine's democratically-elected President, Viktor Yanukovich, in the year 2014.
It was the United States that rejected Russia's numerous Diplomatic Efforts to avoid war.
It is the United States that controls all of NATO . . . none of them dare disagree-with or refuse U.S. instructions.
The United States is the key instigator of all this trouble, and now, it is the United States that is literally KILLING the economy of Russia.
So when a source in the Russian Military told me "If faced with the actual and intentional killing of Russia's economy, Russia would have no choice but to kill the countries doing this. We are completely capable of doing exactly that." What country do you think will have to be "killed" by Russia?
C'mon, this isn't rocket science . . . you can figure it out . . . . . Yes . . . . us.
I have not yet been able to determine how long the Russian economy will be able to continue before it reaches a point where the Russians determine it is "dead" and choose to strike us.
I suspect it must be on the visible horizon that such information has now come out of Russia.
So, my fellow Americans, are you ready for OUR country to be "killed" over what our GOVERNMENT is doing?
Because it seems to me that in order for our country to be killed, that seems to nec essarily indicate that YOU AND ME would likely be part of that equation.
We are now facing our own national death because of illegitimate president Joe Biden, and the incompetent, arrogant, nitwits he hired into important government positions.
Are you ready to die for these people? I'm not.
But it seems we are facing exactly that.
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etc The end is upon you and you need to look and see the things that you should be doing, pay close attention to that. For I have told you things would change here, they would change. If you live near the Babylon that is going to fall I have told you to move at least seventy-five miles from there, at least. That goes for California, that goes for the center fault line, realize that war, war is at hand. Not only with ISIS, but you have got Russia, you have got China, you have got North Korea, wake up, wake up, for I have been telling you these things, it is getting very, very dangerous, very dangerous. etc
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Medvedev says America will burn following missile incident blamed on United States
Story by Zeleb.es
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"The b*****ds from the USA supply missiles with cluster charges to Bandera's supporters and help guide them to the target. The b*****ds in Kyiv select a beach with peaceful people as a target and press the button,” Medvedev wrote according to Newsweek.
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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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Iran Sentences Christian Converts to More Than 25 Years in Prison: Report
By Tré Goins-Phillips
Editor June 26, 2024
Five converts to Christianity have been sentenced by the Iranian judiciary to a collective of more than 25 years in prison, according to a report from Iran International.
Hengaw, an organization reporting on human rights violations against Kurds in Iran, stated there has been no reason given for the charges against the five Christians.
Hamid Afzali was sentenced to 10 years behind bars, followed by Nasrollah Mousavi, Bijan Gholizadeh, and Iman Salehi, each of whom were sentenced to five years, and Zohrab Shahbazi, who received a nine-month jail sentence, The Jerusalem Post reported.
In a statement to CBN News, Todd Nettleton, vice president of message for the Voice of the Martyrs, said, “The growth of the church in Iran is wonderful news for Christians around the world, and a great reminder of God’s ability to grow His church in spite of anything that any government might do to stop it.”
“But the high price our Iranian brothers and sisters are paying to follow Christ is a different kind of reminder: to pray often for them as they willingly suffer for the name of Christ,” he added.
The report from Hengaw noted that, while Christians are “acknowledged as a religious minority in Iran, authorities impose severe penalties, especially on those who convert from Islam to Christianity.”
Iran’s decision to imprison the five Christian converts violates article 18 of the United Nations’ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states, “Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice, and teaching.”
In addition to these five Christian arrests, Hengaw noted that another recent Christian convert in Iran, Yasin Mousavi, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for charges including “membership in groups or associations aimed at disrupting security” and “propaganda against the government through promoting Christianity.”
OpenDoors.org, which tracks Christian persecution around the globe, has placed Iran at No. 9 on its World Watch List and rates the persecution Christians face in the Muslim-ruled country as “extreme.”
“For Christians who convert from Islam, not even the veneer of tolerance is present. Conversion from Islam to Christianity is illegal in Iran, and anyone caught as a convert can be arrested and imprisoned,” the organization explained in part. “The government views conversion as an attempt by the West to undermine Islam and the Islamic government of Iran. This means that anyone who is discovered to be a member of a house church can be charged with a crime against national security, which can lead to long prison sentences.”
Please be in prayer for our brothers and sisters in Christ facing persecution in Iran.
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Russia to sign new pact with Iran in ‘very near future’
Moscow expects to sign a new agreement on comprehensive cooperation with Iran “in the very near future,” Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview published on Tuesday.
“We expect that this agreement will be signed in the very near future, since work on the text is already close to completion. All the necessary wording has been found,” RIA cited Rudenko as saying.
Earlier in June, Russia’s foreign ministry said that work on the agreement was temporarily suspended, while Iran said there was no break in preparing the new pact.
Russia and Iran signed a 20-year strategic agreement in 2001 that was automatically extended in 2020 for five years, according to Russia’s TASS state news agency reports. Both sides also agreed in 2020 to work on a new pact that would replace the old document.
The 2001 pact called, among others, for cooperation in security, energy projects, including the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the construction of nuclear power plants, industry and technology, according to its text published on the Kremlin’s website.
Very few details have emerged on what the new agreement would include. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Ukraine in 2022 and subsequent sanctions on Moscow by Kyiv’s allies, Russia and Iran have firmed investment, military and energy ties.
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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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Idaho farmers being fined $300 PER ACRE for watering crops… engineered FAMINE now under way
06/26/2024 // Lance D Johnson // 2.2K Views
Idaho farmers are speaking out about the state's unreasonable and disastrous water curtailment orders that threaten their very existence. The Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued a sweeping curtailment order affecting tens of millions of acres of farmland across the state. The state is threatening independent farmers with $300 fines per acre for watering their crops with their own wells.
This move comes at a time when water resources are stable across the state, so there appears to be a deliberate move to sabotage independent farmers, while artificially causing water shortages that will takedown hay, potato and dairy farms across the state. These outrageous curtailment orders will upend the livelihoods of countless farmers -- a move that will have a ripple effect through Idaho's economy and push food prices higher across the United States.
This is an engineered famine, and state leaders must act to stop the sabotage.
Local farmers threatened with water shutoff across 500,000 acres
Christopher, a local farmer, spoke about the issue in a viral new video.
"They want us to shut our water off," he exclaims, detailing how this mandate affects not just his farm, but potentially 500,000 acres of farmland statewide.
Christopher’s farms typically depend on surface water, but they also use three of their eight wells on a yearly basis. He detailed how farmers efficiently use the wells, even in times of drought. In 2021, precipitation levels were low across Idaho and farmers were unable to return a surplus of water back to the aquifer. Since then, water levels have bounced back, but it hasn’t stopped the Twin Falls Canal Company and the Department of Water Resources from taking action to limit what the farmers can use in the future.
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Farmers who do not comply with the curtailment will be fined $300 per acre. This would be disastrous for hay farms, causing them to shut down almost immediately. The loss of hay will harm dairy farms across the state, driving up prices for animal feed. The potato farmers might be able to afford the fines at first, but the curtailment will eventually cripple their farm’s productivity and efficiency, leading to inevitable shutdowns over the next decade. The ripple effects will be felt from maintenance teams, to truckers, to feed storage businesses.
Water wars in Idaho threaten farms, driving up the price of food across the U.S.
The crisis stems from an agreement struck in 2015 between the Twin Falls Canal Company and groundwater users. This agreement, designed to manage water usage in the face of dwindling resources, has now come to a head. Due to a shortfall of 74,000 acre-feet of water in 2021, exacerbated by a severe drought, the Canal Company has invoked its senior water rights, forcing junior water rights holders — like Christopher and his fellow farmers — to bear the brunt of the shortage.
The ramifications are staggering. In Bingham County, an area known for its prolific potato production, nearly 150,000 acres are slated for curtailment. Bingham county alone could lose up to $400 million in resources. This move not only jeopardizes Idaho's status as a top producer of potatoes but also threatens the entire agricultural supply chain.
"It's not just localized," Christopher warns, "It will be felt nationally and globally," leading to skyrocketing food prices and economic challenges if the curtailment persists.
Christopher points out that outdated infrastructure and mismanagement exacerbate the problem. The Twin Falls Canal Company, operating with century-old technology, wastes water supply that could otherwise alleviate future shortages. Instead of going along with an engineered shutdown and subsequent famine, Christopher and other farmers are banding together and calling for a complete modernization of the infrastructure, including the additions of diversions and checks that could optimize water usage. Christopher and the local farming community in Idaho are also calling for better leadership on the issue and asking Governor Brad Little to intervene.
"If there's no farms, there's no food," Christopher warns.
Sources include: X.com Youtube.com
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-06-26-idaho-farmers-fined-300-per-acre-watering-crops.html
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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Open Borders Subject Women and Girls in the U.S. to Rapes and Wanton Violence
By Betsy McCaughey Published on June 27, 2024
The United Nations calls it “femicide” — the wanton assault, rape, and murder of girls and women. It’s a cultural epidemic in Latin America.
Femicide is visible every step of the way from South America and the Northern Triangle countries to the Mexico-U.S. border. Rape trees, where women’s panties hang from branches, and rape tents, where girls and women are dragged by smugglers, dot the route. Do you think the rapes stop when illegals cross into the U.S.? No.
Now women are being victimized by migrants bringing femicide to your neighborhood. Where are the women’s rights groups? Silent. They couldn’t care less. It’s politically incorrect to criticize Latin American culture — even its tolerance for violence against females.
Raping American Children
Last week in Queens, an Ecuadoran illegal, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, allegedly attacked a 13-year-old girl walking home from school, held her at knifepoint and raped her, recording the assault for his own future pleasure as he proceeded.
Yet “Squad” member Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) laughed off news coverage of the crime as “fear-mongering.”
Leftists deny the problem. They’re horrified that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein raped women on a casting couch, but they’re in denial when Latin American illegals rape.
Inga-Landi has a history of abusing females, including beating his pregnant wife, according to police reports. He crossed the border illegally in 2021 and was ordered to leave the country by a New York City immigration judge in February 2022.
And what about the 13-year-old victim? Her father adamantly opposes President Joe Biden’s “open border policy” because “it invites a lot of things that we don’t need,” adding, “Look what came in. Look what happened to my daughter.”
‘Emergency Situation’
Sexual violence against females is rampant in Latin America, reports the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, a division of the UN.
In Mexico, femicide is soaring, according to the George Bush Institute at the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. “Gender-based violence remains one of the most significant yet overlooked drivers of out migration across Central America and the broader region.”
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On April 24, UN official Alice Shackelford warned of an “emergency situation” in Honduras, where she said violence against women is being normalized and the femicide rate has risen to the highest in Latin America.
Also reporting on the “degree of hatred and contempt against women” in Honduras, Migdonia Ayestas of the National Autonomous University of Honduras explained that “men believe they have the right to women’s bodies.”
The UN has its own far-left ax to grind. And most illegals from Latin America are not violent criminals. Even so, dangerous anti-female attitudes are invading our country because of open borders.
Flat Denial
Leftists deny the problem. They’re horrified that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein raped women on a casting couch, but they’re in denial when Latin American illegals rape. CNN political commentator Van Jones said on Saturday, “There’s no culture south of the border that celebrates rape. … You are insulting people below the border.”
Sorry, facts are facts. Political correctness be d***ed.
The incidents are piling up. A Honduran illegal was arrested on February 25 in Kenner, Louisiana, after he allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint.
Mexican illegal Eduardo Sarabia was arrested May 16 for allegedly kidnapping and raping two women in a white van outfitted to be a “rape dungeon on wheels.”
The El Salvadorian illegal arrested this month for allegedly raping and murdering Rachel Morin was also wanted for assaulting a mother and her nine-year-old daughter during a Los Angeles home break-in.
Venezuela Is a Big Problem
Venezuela is supplying a hefty share of femicidal criminals. That country refuses to provide the U.S. with criminal background information about migrants apprehended at the border. Here are a few of the consequences.
Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student, was raped and murdered on February 22, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant.
That same day, Venezuelan migrant Renzo Mendoza Montes allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old in Virginia.
Last week, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray’s lifeless body was found in Houston; she was murdered allegedly by two Venezuelan migrants. They lured the girl under a bridge, stripped her naked below the waist, bound her hands and feet and raped her for two hours before killing her.
There are too many deaths and life-shattering assaults. Tell women’s rights groups backing Biden that safety from rapists and sexually motivated killers is a right.
Leftists object to the word “illegal.” They prefer “undocumented.” Let’s not mince words. Some are rapists and killers. Monsters. Close the border to stop the femicidal madness.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.
https://stream.org/open-borders-subject-women-and-girls-in-the-u-s-to-rapes-and-wanton-violence/
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CNN — Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, the Arkansas State Police said in a news conference Friday.
The 10 people wounded include two police officers. The suspected shooter, identified by authorities as 44-year-old Travis Eugene Posey, was also wounded and taken into custody.
Posey, a resident of New Edinburg, is expected to be charged with three counts of capital murder, with additional charges pending, according to an Arkansas State Police news release.
Police first received calls about an active shooter at the Mad Butcher grocery store at around 11:30 a.m. local time, Mike Hagar, the Secretary of Public Safety and Director of Arkansas State Police said at the news conference.
Law enforcement responded immediately and exchanged gunfire with the “lone suspect.”
The injuries to the officers and the suspect are not considered life-threatening, according to Hagar. He noted the “situation is secured …contained. There are no active threats to the community.”
“The remaining civilian injuries range from non-life threatening to extremely critical,” he said.
Posey was “treated for non-life-threatening injuries after exchanging gunfire with law enforcement, released to ASP custody, and transported to the Ouachita County Detention Center,” ASP said in the release. It is unclear if Posey has retained legal counsel at this point.
At least 234 mass shootings have taken place in the United States in 2024, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter. The country has seen a spate of shootings in the past few weeks as the summer heat has escalated, with 21 mass shootings recorded by the Gun Violence Archive since last Friday.
In a statement on X, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she had been briefed on the “tragic shooting” in Fordyce and is in “constant contact” with state police at the scene.
One witness, David Rodriguez, told CNN that he was pulling into a gas station when he heard “pops,” which he thought were fireworks. Shortly after the suspect began firing bullets more rapidly, Rodriguez saw people running from the scene. He then heard sirens and saw ambulances and police arrive at the scene.
Rodriguez says the Mad Butcher grocery store’s front windows were broken as if they had been “shot open” by gunfire.
Matthew Gill, the meat manager at the Mad Butcher, told CNN a man came into the store with a shotgun and ended up in a shootout with police.
As the shooting unfolded, some people hid in a cooler in the grocery store, Fordyce City Council Member Roderick Rogers told CNN affiliate KATV. He said he was on the phone with someone in the store when the shooting took place.
“Man, it was bad,” Rogers said.
The council member said that he had talked to survivors of the shooting who “are traumatized.”
“We are trying to get some counseling and everything set up at the moment,” he added.
Fordyce, a small city in southeast Dallas County, had a population of just 3,396 in 2020.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
CNN’s Sarah Dewberry, Fabiana Chaparro, Rebekah Riess, Colin Jeffrey and Raja Razek contributed to this report.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/us/fordyce-arkansas-shooting/index.html
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The shipping industry is sounding the alarm as another vessel sinks in the Red Sea
Leading shipping groups have urged governments “with influence” to put a stop to Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea after a second freighter sank this week.
At least three seafarers have been killed in the attacks so far. The latest sinking is likely to have led to another death, according to a statement Wednesday from more than a dozen shipping associations, including the International Chamber of Shipping and the World Shipping Council.
Their call for action highlights the growing human toll from the disruption to one of the world’s trade arteries which has been virtually closed to container ships since late last year. The longer diversion around the southern tip of Africa has sent shipping costs soaring and is causing congestion at ports in Asia and Europe, threatening to scramble global supply chains.
“It is deplorable that innocent seafarers are being attacked while simply performing their jobs, vital jobs which keep the world warm, fed, and clothed,” the shipping associations said in their statement.
“This is an unacceptable situation, and these attacks must stop now. We call for states with influence in the region to safeguard our innocent seafarers and for the swift de-escalation of the situation in the Red Sea,” they added.
The statement was released the same day that UK Maritime Trade Operations, part of the Royal Navy, confirmed that a Greek-owned coal carrier had sunk after being struck by the Houthis last week.
According to the shipping groups, one seafarer on board the vessel, called the MV Tutor, “seems certain to have been killed.”
“This is the second fatal attack in which our seafarers have been caught in the crosshairs of geopolitical conflicts,” they said in their statement.
The MV Tutor is also the second ship sunk by the Houthis. A British-registered vessel, Rubymar, was downed in March after being struck by ballistic missiles fired from Yemen.
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Why Has China Purchased Farmland Near 19 Different Military Bases Inside The United States?
June 20, 2024 by Michael
The Chinese aren’t exactly being subtle about what they are trying to do. Today, they own more than 300,000 acres of farmland inside the United States, and they have been specifically targeting areas that are located near important military bases. As you will see below, the Chinese now own farmland very close to 19 different U.S. military bases. How in the world could our leaders have allowed this to happen? Foreign adversaries should not be allowed to purchase farmland at all, and yet somehow they have been able to acquire land that is ideal for spying on our military bases over and over again. In fact, the New York Post has “identified 19 bases across the US from Florida to Hawaii which are in close proximity to land bought up by Chinese entities”…
China has been buying up strategically placed farmland next to military installations across the US, raising national security fears over potential espionage or even sabotage.
The Post has identified 19 bases across the US from Florida to Hawaii which are in close proximity to land bought up by Chinese entities and could be exploited by spies working for the communist nation.
When I read stuff like that, it makes me want to tear my hair out.
Are the people that are in charge of our national security really this incompetent?
According to the New York Post, the list includes some of our “most strategically important bases”…
They include some of the military’s most strategically important bases: Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) in Fayetteville, North Carolina; Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood) in Killeen, Texas; Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California, and MacDill air force base in Tampa, Florida.
We know that the Chinese are very interested in our military bases.
Do you remember the Chinese spy balloon that was allowed to fly over our country?
The path that it took allowed it to gather intelligence on Malmstrom Air Force Base, which is where some of our key nuclear assets are located.
And the Wall Street Journal has reported that Chinese nationals have been caught accessing “military bases and other sensitive sites” inside the United States close to 100 times…
Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have accessed military bases and other sensitive sites in the U.S. as many as 100 times in recent years, according to U.S. officials, who describe the incidents as a potential espionage threat.
The Defense Department, FBI and other agencies held a review last year to try to limit these incidents, which involve people whom officials have dubbed gate-crashers because of their attempts—either by accident or intentionally—to get onto U.S. military bases and other installations without proper authorization. They range from Chinese nationals found crossing into a U.S. missile range in New Mexico to what appeared to be scuba divers swimming in murky waters near a U.S. government rocket-launch site in Florida.
Look, everyone knows that the Chinese are trying to spy on us.
That isn’t a big secret.
Just don’t make it easy for them.
At the same time all of this spying is going on, there has been an unprecedented surge in Chinese migrants coming across the southern border…
US border officials said they detained 37,000 Chinese migrants attempting to cross the border in 2023, or 10 times the number detained in the year before. The true number of those attempting to cross the border is likely higher.
The flow of Chinese migrants continued to surge in 2024, with CBS reporting in February that it observed 600 migrants, many of whom were Chinese, entering the US in a single day.
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability said in May that the number of Chinese nationals encountered by authorities at the US border in March had jumped 8,000% from the same period in 2021.
Most of the Chinese migrants that are coming across the southern border are men of military age, and they commonly travel to the border in groups.
Suspiciously, these groups of military age Chinese men are often decked out in matching equipment.
But they are let into the country anyway, because that is what our leaders have decided to do.
So now we have tens of thousands of military age “Chinese migrants” that are running around inside our country, and we have no idea where they are or what they are doing.
The Chinese are preparing to win a war, and we are preparing to lose one.
At this point, everyone realizes that the Chinese are going to invade Taiwan eventually. In fact, the Daily Mail ran a big story about the coming invasion this week…
Xi Jinping views Taiwan as a breakaway Chinese province and has vowed to ‘reunify’ it with the mainland, by force if necessary.
He is in the midst of a huge military buildup, regularly sending fighter jets and warships to harass Taiwan, and staging menacing war games in the area.
When Taiwan is invaded, the U.S. military will be expected to intervene, and then we will be at war with China…
Taiwan views itself as independent of Beijing and is allied to America – a legacy that stretches back to the Chinese Civil War 75 years ago.
America supplies the islands with weapons and is expected to go to war to defend them if they are attacked.
By most estimates, a war over Taiwan would be one of the biggest, bloodiest, and most expensive in history.
Most people don’t realize this, but China and the Philippines are also on the verge of military conflict. Recently, there was a very alarming clash in the South China Sea that resulted in one Filipino soldier losing a thumb…
Filipino soldiers had to defend themselves with bare hands against Chinese coast guard armed with swords and knives, according to the Philippines.
General Romeo Brawner, the Philippines’ top military commander, criticized China for what he described as “reckless and aggressive” behavior while the Philippines navy and coast guard were delivering supplies to Filipino soldiers in the disputed South China Sea on Monday.
Chinese coast guard personnel rammed their vessels into boats belonging to the Philippines, and boarded and attacked them, the BBC reported Brawner as saying, leaving some injured and one soldier having lost a thumb.
The Chinese have become extremely aggressive, and it is just a matter of time before we are at war with them.
But even though many of our leaders publicly talk about the coming war, we are still allowing the Chinese to take advantage of us in unthinkable ways.
We should have never allowed the Chinese to purchase large tracts of farmland near 19 of our most important military bases.
Unfortunately, they are there now, and that will give them a major advantage when war finally erupts.
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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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A War For Your 'Cognitive Battlespace' : From The Schoolhouse To The Slaughterhouse, U.S. Leaders Are Controlling The Minds Of Americans By Criminalizing Free Speech
By J.B.Shurk and All News Pipeline June 22, 2024
Nobody enjoys being manipulated. I have never met anyone who remarked, “I’m so glad people cleverer than I tricked me into doing what they wanted.” Yet we are all bombarded each day with messages from people and institutions vying to shape our thoughts and control our behaviors.
Television commercials push us to buy certain products. Politicians describe domestic and foreign threats in such ways that only they can provide necessary solutions. Religious leaders choose which doctrines of their faiths must be diligently observed and which ones can be casually overlooked. More open societies might be marketplaces for competing ideas, but the most effective salespeople within any society are the ones who know how to magnify their own messages while silencing others.
Given that this is the case, a society interested in protecting its people from manipulation would be highly invested in educating citizens from a young age how to use reason, rationality, and logic to filter truth from falsehood. Aside from a smattering of classical and religious schools that focus on how to assess information and judge its credibility, it is evident that Western educational systems have been designed with no such purpose in mind. Students are taught what to think but not how to think. They are handed bits of knowledge without first being provided the cognitive tools for acquiring knowledge on their own. They have no appreciation for how misleading rhetoric and faulty logic are used to produce spurious arguments. They have no background in philosophy sufficient to arm them with the mental acuity necessary to spot and reject propaganda. They have no comprehension of the linguistic games that are used to program their minds. They lack shrewd discernment.
What does it say about a civilization that generally requires young people to spend thirteen or more years in public school systems engineered to produce mediocre minds? It should set off alarm bells! When governments are in the business of dumbing down citizens, they are investing in future generations who will be obedient slaves. Or, if an animal farm metaphor makes it easier for a millennial “influencer” to understand, Western governments prefer easily managed cattle that they can move from pen to pen before sending them to the slaughterhouse (think: Ukraine). What they do not want is an independent-minded cow knocking over a fence and freeing the herd from certain death. Schools, like penitentiaries, are institutions for corralling large numbers of humans together, so that a mixture of indoctrination and punishment can be efficiently administered until most learn to “behave.” When Western education mimics Western incarceration, Western citizens should start to wonder just who the real prisoners are.
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The U.S. Pentagon, the NATO military alliance, and Western espionage agencies spend a great deal of their resources influencing human minds. “Great,” you might say. “They should be actively shaping the opinions of civilians in adversarial nations.” Except I’m not talking about “winning the hearts and minds” of foreigners living under dangerous dictatorships. When I say that the military and Intelligence Community are currently fighting an undeclared war in what they call the “cognitive battlespacecognitive battlespace,” it is your mind that they are fighting to influence.
At a time in history when people from opposite sides of the planet have never been better connected, national governments have lost their monopolies over domestically available information. In the past, most information warfare was directed outwardly toward foreign regimes. Spies and soldiers spread disinformation throughout an enemy’s population in order to sow discord, breed mistrust, and weaken morale. Traditionally, information warfare directed inwardly at one’s homeland has been limited to war propaganda intended to do the opposite of foreign disinformation campaigns: namely, to forge national unity, foster civic trust, and heighten morale.
As technology innovation and a global computer interface radically transformed the distribution of information during the last half-century, information warfare specialists have had a constantly evolving and expanding battlefield through which to influence foreign enemies. However, as new forms of communication have given warfighters sophisticated means of conducting offensive operations from the relative comfort of office cubicles, these same technologies have enabled foreign enemies to conduct cyber-attacks, sabotage critical infrastructure, and engage in long-distance espionage rather cheaply.
One of the cheapest ways for militarily inferior adversaries to harm the United States and its allies is to reciprocate the West’s information warfare with versions of their own. Especially during times of social confusion and civil unrest (including race-related conflicts, mass shootings, and other politically volatile events), hostile adversaries flood online chat rooms, social media forums, and messaging platforms with false information meant to enrage Western citizens and turn them against each other. Foreign operatives can accomplish a great deal of harm practically for free. Weaker enemies continue to use such asymmetric warfare to great effect.
The U.S. government has responded to these novel threats poorly. Instead of defending free speech in the strongest possible terms — regardless of the intrusion of malicious foreign actors into the public forum — D.C.’s permanent bureaucracy has chosen to classify and criminalize speech.
We saw this un-American effort to censor communication go into overdrive after President Trump’s 2016 victory. Obama falsely blamed Hillary’s loss on an upswing of “fake news” and demanded that Silicon Valley take more responsibility in determining what Americans can post and read. To anybody who values free speech, this was an alarming turning point in American history. Had Obama been a defender of the First Amendment, he would have acknowledged that the answer to speech he dislikes is more speech. Instead of endorsing mass censorship, Obama should have embraced the town square as a quintessentially American refuge where competing points of view are freely debated and people democratically decide what they believe. When he and the D.C. Blob instead chose to target and eliminate information that they deem harmful, the federal government effectively declared war on free speech.
Remarkably, this is the third major front in the U.S. government’s detestable war against the Bill of Rights in the first quarter of this century. In the aftermath of 9/11, the passage of the Patriot Act, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and the formation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ushered in a new era of widespread domestic surveillance in direct conflict with the Fourth Amendment’s requirements for particularized warrants first establishing probable cause that a crime has been committed. After every politically advantageous mass shooting, state and federal officials work to deprive Americans of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms. And since President Trump’s 2016 victory, the Obama-Biden Deep State has worked to monitor Americans’ communications; classify unapproved speech as “mis-,” “mal-,” or “dis-information”; and censor speech it dislikes in flagrant violation of the First Amendment’s protections.
Time and again, the U.S. government tells Americans that the only way to protect them from foreign and domestic threats is to deprive them of their constitutionally guaranteed liberties. Even after years of brainwashing from indoctrination camps posing as public schools, though, such rhetorical rubbish is backfiring. Why? Because Americans can sense that they are being manipulated!
The most effective deterrence to the threat of foreign propaganda is an informed and intellectually nimble citizenry. But the only way to dupe citizens into accepting domestic propaganda is to repeat lies, censor dissent, and suppress the human mind’s capacity to think. Consider this: if you viewed the American people’s combined consciousness as a “cognitive battlespace” that must be conquered, would you ever encourage citizens to debate ideas or question authority?
Conversely, if you accept that the human mind is now the primary focus of global military planners, is it not true that revolutionary ideas will be the most important weapons in any war for human liberty? Speak. Resist. Think.
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Russia strikes Western-supplied air weapons depots in Ukraine – MoD
The attack came in response to Kiev’s attempts to damage the country’s energy infrastructure, the Defense Ministry has said
The Russian military has conducted high-precision strikes on Ukrainian ammo warehouses, including those storing drones and airborne weapons supplied by the West, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said that it had carried out a group strike overnight using long-range air and sea-based weapons and drones on several types of targets. These included Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities supporting Kiev’s defense industry as well as warehouses storing ammo and air weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western countries.
“The goals of the strike have been achieved. All designated targets have been hit,” officials have said.
The Defense Ministry stated that the latest attack came in response to “attempts by the Kiev regime to cause damage to Russian energy facilities.” Ukraine has for several months been launching drone raids on Russian oil processing facilities, including those located far from the border.
Russia has been routinely targeting energy infrastructure in response to Kiev’s cross-border attacks, while insisting the strikes do not target civilians. Ukrainian officials have acknowledged severe damage to the power grid, with the population being affected by rolling blackouts. A Financial Times report earlier this month claimed, citing sources, that the embattled country had lost over half of its power generation capacity.
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North Korea has been mocked for so long they are ready to fight.
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Russia warns the U.S. to brace for retaliation after Kremlin blamed Washington for missile attack that killed four in Crimea
READ MORE: Follow DailyMail.com's blog for all the biggest U.S. politics stories
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor
Published: 10:39 EDT, 24 June 2024 | Updated: 12:53 EDT, 24 June 2024
The Kremlin has accused the U.S. of 'killing Russian children' after a Ukrainian attack on occupied Crimea with long-range missiles supplied by Washington and said there will be 'consequences'.
Moscow has summoned the U.S. ambassador to issue a formal warning, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov issued a public statement slamming the U.S. for 'barbaric' strike on Sevastopol, a strategic port city on the Black Sea.
'The involvement of the United States, the direct involvement, as a result of which Russian civilians are killed, cannot be without consequences,' said Peskov.
'Time will tell what these will be.'
'You should ask my colleagues in Europe, and above all in Washington, the press secretaries, why their governments are killing Russian children. Just ask them this question.' the spokesman for Vladimir Putin said.
After the Sevastopol strike, Russia accused the U.S. of 'waging a hybrid war against Russia' and of becoming 'a party to the conflict.'
Russia also told U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy the attack would 'not go unpunished. Retaliatory measures will definitely follow.'
The attack killed at least four people, including two children, with 150 were injured.
Video shows panicked beachgoers fleeing from falling shrapnel after Russian air defense intercepted the U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles.
Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and Ukraine has launched a series of drone attacks at Russian naval assets and the Black Sea port since Russia's 2022 invasion.
The ATACMs provide a far longer 190 mile (300km) range than missiles previously supplied by the U.S.
The ATACMs started arriving in Ukraine earlier this year after intense lobbying from Kiev.
Weeks ago, the U.S. changed its policy to allow use of the weapons inside Russian territory along border regions with Ukraine.
This followed relentless Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, after Moscow experienced battlefield gains.
Ukrainian commanders have pleaded for the authority to use the weapons to strike where Russia masses its troops and stores aircraft and ammunition ahead of assaults on its territory.
The long-range ATACMs were included in a March military aid package, although restrictions still prevent their use deep inside Russian territory.
Russia's war on Ukraine, and Ukraine's defense by the U.S. and NATO allies, has put deep strains between the U.S. and Russia, both nuclear powers.
Putin delivered his own warning earlier this month following reports the U.S. had begun shipping the longer-range ATACMs to Ukraine.
'Why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same class to regions of the world where there will be strikes on sensitive facilities of those (Western) countries?' he asked.
'That is, the response can be asymmetric. We will think about it,' he said.
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Retired army general's chilling warning over China's chokehold on US military: 'We need to prepare for war'
Chinese manufacturers dominate supply chains for U.S. armaments industry
Retired U.S. general John G. Ferrari said Beijing could cripple American military
It comes amid growing fears of a conflict between the two countries over Taiwan
By Miles Dilworth, Senior Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:43 EDT, 22 June 2024 | Updated: 09:56 EDT, 22 June 2024
China's chokehold over U.S. military supplies leaves the West at the mercy of Beijing in the event of an all out war, a former army general has warned.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, retired U.S. Army Major General John G. Ferrari said he had 'grave concerns' about the America's ongoing reliance on China to equip its military.
Chinese manufacturers are deeply embedded in U.S. defense systems, providing critical technology and raw materials used in everything from air-to-air missiles to fighter jets.
General Ferrari, who served as a deputy commander for NATO in Afghanistan, admitted that Beijing could cripple America's ability to arm itself by cutting off supply lines.
'If we were in a war with China and it stopped providing parts, we wouldn't be able to build the planes and weapons we needed,' he said.
His stark warning comes amid growing fears of a military confrontation with China over Taiwan.
The former general, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, added: 'We need to start to prepare our supply chains now for a potential war.'
No quick fix
A startling report released earlier this year revealed Chinese firms have a stranglehold across 12 critical technologies that are vital to US national security, including nuclear modernization, hypersonic and space technologies.
The study, which was carried out by data analytics firm Govini at the request of the Pentagon, delivered a damning indictment on the American armaments industry.
'U.S. domestic production capacity is a shriveled shadow of its former self,' the report said.
'Crucial categories of industry for U.S. national defense are no longer built in any of the 50 states.'
Perhaps most worryingly, Govini found that more than 40 per cent of the semiconductors that sustain Department of Defense (DoD) weapons systems are now sourced from China.
Advanced semiconductors are crucial components of missile guidance systems, cyberware and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
It has sparked fears that Beijing has been left with an array of tools to sabotage American defenses, from planting defective chips into air-to-air missiles to embedding spyware into DoD systems.
Ferrari, however, warned there was no quick fix.
'You can't just turn around on a dime because the [manufacturing] capacity doesn't exist here,' he said.
He added that it could take 10 to 15 years for the U.S. to disentangle itself from China.
But the former general, who was also a strategic planner for a Combined Joint Task Force in Iraq, hit out at Washington for being slow to react.
'We're into our third administration of trying to solve this problem. The Obama administration sounded the alarm, but they didn't know what to do about it.
'The Trump administration went hard at the problem with tariffs and trade restrictions.
'Then Biden has come in and built upon that. We now have something of a bipartisan consensus.
'But we are still not pushing hard enough. With both Trump and Biden, you hear "America First". I don't believe that's a good solution.
'It should be "Buy Allies", because the U.S. does not have the capacity to solve the problem on its own.'
The Biden administration has been criticized for its sclerotic response to the crisis, with experts citing a mealy-mouthed 'non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT)' to provide $162million in federal funding to support the onshoring of semiconductor technology as demonstrating a lack of urgency on the matter.
General Ferrari has also said that the recently passed 2024 National Defense Authorization Act 'barely affects' the timeline for eliminating the Pentagon's dependence on China.
Driven by profit
The DoD has long known that US supply chains are dominated by Chinese manufacturing.
In 2012, the Senate Armed Forces Committee found that counterfeit parts from China were being integrated into several critical systems, putting national security at risk.
These included AI capabilities in the Air Force's Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft, the Navy's Integrated Submarine Imaging System, and the Army's Stryker Mobile Gun.
A decade later, the Pentagon suspended deliveries of its flagship F-35 fighter jets after it was discovered that they contained a component made with a banned Chinese alloy.
The Air Force eventually resumed supplies after determining that the parts wouldn't affect safety, but the scare underlined concerns about how the complexities of the military supply chain could allow Beijing to slip in defective parts or spyware undetected.
The US built up its reliance on Chinese manufacturing during an era of relative harmony between the two nations following the 1990s.
American contractors were encouraged to do business with China, which was able to offer cheap manufacturing and ready access to raw materials.
But defense officials have become increasingly uneasy about the integration of supply chains in the wake of increased tensions with Beijing.
Yet the DoD's reliance on Chinese equipment has continued to grow. Between 2014 and 2022, American dependence on Chinese electronics increased by 600 per cent, according to Govini.
Courtney Manning, senior research scientist at the nonpartisan American Security Project, said the trend has been 'driven by profit'.
'American defense contractors have obtained extremely lucrative contracts that are hard to break out of,' she told DailyMail.com.
'They are given a lot of agency and who they're able to work with. For many of them, sourcing their components from China or Taiwan is a lucrative way to get their high tech needs met without spending a fortune on manpower here in the US.'
But contractors have pointed to a dearth of domestic options, with U.S. manufacturing in terminal decline.
Jeff Ferry, chief economist at the non-profit Coalition for a Prosperous America, said drone manufacturers were desperately but largely unsuccessfully seeking American components.
'There's possibly a few hundred parts that go into a drone,' he told DailyMail.com. 'The majority of them are made in huge volumes in China.'
Drones run on lithium, a mineral China has a monopoly on.
Semiconductors, meanwhile, require materials, including gallium, arsenic, and neon - much of which are produced in Russia, China, and Ukraine.
The US does not produce gallium and Russia's invasion of Ukraine halved the world's supply of semiconductor-grade neon.
The war in Ukraine has exposed widespread problems in the American armaments industry.
U.S. weapons inventories have fallen to perilously low levels after sending Ukraine billions of dollars of military equipment and supplies.
But defense companies are not equipped to replenish them rapidly.
A study by think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies has said the conflict in Eastern Europe has highlighted how quickly the U.S. military would run out of munitions in a potential conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13551371/China-military-supplies-war.html
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U.S. Diverting Missiles From Foreign Customers To Ukraine Could Have Repercussions Beyond Air Defense
The bold move to divert missiles planned to foreign buyers is great for Ukraine, but it may not be viewed as positively by some customers.
Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway Posted on Jun 20, 2024 8:14 PM EDT
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The Biden administration’s decision to temporarily halt deliveries of Patriot and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, or NASAMS interceptors for all countries except Ukraine and Taiwan won’t just affect allied air defense capabilities.
Patriot interceptors can only be used on the Patriot system, at least for now. The primary weapon for NASAMS is the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), which is also the most widely used western beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile, as we explained in our deep dive here. As such, it is a critical component of many Foreign Military Sales (FMS) the U.S. has for combat aircraft and to arm existing fighter fleets, as well as countries with NASAMS.
In response to Russia’s ongoing attacks on cities and civilian infrastructure, the White House opted to put Ukraine at the top of the list for hundreds of missiles for both the Patriot and NASAMS, a National Security Council spokesman told reporters, including from The War Zone, at a Thursday morning press conference.
“We’re going to reprioritize the deliveries of these exports so that those missiles rolling off the production line will now be provided to Ukraine,” John Kirby said, adding that while the other countries will have to wait, it is only a temporary delay, through Fiscal Year 2025. The missiles will begin arriving in Ukraine in the coming weeks and certainly by the end of the summer, Kirby said. That dovetails with the pending delivery of U.S.-made F-16s that can carry AMRAAMs.
While the interceptor decision focuses on Ukraine, Kirby said Taiwan will not be affected. Taiwan, which is facing a quickly expanding cross-channel threat from China, is a major user of the AIM-120 and has ordered batches of the missiles. Last year, the State Department approved the possible sale of 200 AIM-120C-8 missiles to that island nation.
“We have, of course, informed all the affected countries that we are taking this extraordinary step, and we’re making every effort to minimize any negative impact,” Kirby explained. “We’re going to make sure that we give Ukraine the critical air defense capabilities they need now and into the future, and we’re going to keep working with our allies and partners to make sure that they, too, get the air defense capabilities” that they need.
While NASAMS can also fire AIM-9X Sidewinders, a U.S. official told us that this plan involves two types of missiles, Patriot PAC-3 interceptors and AMRAAMs
There are plans underway to produce Patriot interceptors in Germany, but that will only involve an earlier variant, the Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical (GEM-T) version of the PAC-2 Patriot missile, which is still capable of defeating some ballistic missiles. You can read more about that plan here. To boost U.S. supplies of Patriot interceptors, the Japanese government in December announced plans to deliver Patriots produced in Japan under an American license. The exact size of of U.S. Patriot stockpiles remains classified.
As for AMRAAMs, there are multiple FMS deals in the works for hundreds of those missiles. Kirby declined to say which nations will be affected by the delay. Some are part of recent deals for U.S. fighters. There are also other FMS deals in the works to provide hundreds of AMRAAMs to arm jets already in service. The AIM-120 is a critical weapon for these aircraft and they are severely degraded in the air-to-air realm without them.
About 500 AMRAAMs are in the pipeline that could potentially be available to Ukraine over the next 16 months.
The State Department said it was up to the Pentagon to discuss delivery timelines. A Pentagon spokesman said that information wasn’t immediately available.
Beyond the issue of how this will affect aircraft deals, the Biden administration’s decision on interceptors also impacts Pacific allies amid increasing Chinese belligerence. While Taiwan is exempted, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines are among the nations waiting in line for their missiles.
This decision won’t “diminish our deterrence in the Indo-Pacific,” a U.S. official told The War Zone. “Under the President’s leadership, we are working with our Allies and partners across the Indo-Pacific to deter our adversaries and advance a free and open region. We will continue to do so. For example, we are working to finalize the rollout of $2 billion in Indo-Pacific foreign military financing from the bipartisan supplemental, a historic investment in the region – and Taiwan is exempted from this decision and will continue to receive interceptors under the same timeline as before.”
“I would also note that our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific understand just how critical it is to support Ukraine,” the official added. “Many of them have stepped up to provide aid to Ukraine themselves because they understand that if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, that will embolden autocrats and other regimes around the world who want to seize their neighbors’ territory. That would have damaging effects for countries everywhere.”
This move also does raise questions about U.S. stockpiles of these weapons after constant consumption in Ukraine and a costly battle against Houthi drones over and around the Red Sea. Diverting customers sales to supply Ukraine does point to limitations in just how many more drawdowns the U.S. can do from its own stockpile. The U.S. is set to buy around 360 AMRAAMs in the same period of time as this diversion is set to last, for now.
For U.S. allies waiting for interceptors, even a 16-month delay is a cause for concern. Moreover, holding back promised weapons can raise issues of trust about whether Washington won’t deliver along promised timelines in the future. This is especially true if the war in Ukraine drags on.
Regardless, it’s a reminder that even though firm orders are in place, the U.S. can manipulate the timing of those orders at will, even when it isn’t in a direct shooting conflict. This could impact the decision-making process for prospective customers in the future. While some allies may be fine with the decision, others may not. Each customer has its own unique security challenges to deal with and not all are highly engaged with supporting Ukraine.
Given world events, the chances that those allies would need these missiles in a fight are not inconceivable, and a delay now only could compound in the future, especially considering the extreme demands for anti-air missiles globally. While Biden administration’s move is good news for Ukraine, it remains to be seen how it works out for those who will be waiting and what type of protest some may make over the decision.
Contact the author: howard@thewarzone.com
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Insult to injury: Thunderstorm floods Ruidoso fire area
Jesse Ferrell Thu, June 20, 2024, 3:41 PM EDT·2 min read
Insult to injury: Thunderstorm floods Ruidoso fire area
At least one person was killed this week by wildfires that have been tearing across Lincoln County, New Mexico, the Mescalero Apache Reservation and the village of Ruidoso. To make matters worse, a slow-moving thunderstorm dropped massive amounts of rain in the mountains north of Ruidoso on Wednesday afternoon, causing deep water and mudflows across the area.
The Rio Chama near Chamita rose almost 4 feet in an hour. The National Weather Service office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, issued a flash flood emergency, saying water rescues were performed in Ruidoso. A rain gauge in the area reported 1.63 inches of rain in two hours. Videos showed RVs underwater at River Ranch RV resort, east of Ruidoso Downs.
The storms also caused a massive duststorm to propagate west across New Mexico and Mexico, causing at least one vehicle pileup and injuring 18 people.
Because of the fires, the flooding was worse than it would have otherwise been. Wildfires can radically change landscapes-areas once abundant with trees and bushes can be reduced to ashes and dry soil. The change leaves a noticeable mark on the land and is often called a burn scar. In communities ravaged by fire, the lack of trees and plants can become a significant issue when heavy rain returns to an area where a wildfire once burned.
In another nearby storm, cars and trucks were stranded in deep water and hail on State Road 42 near Willard on Wednesday evening.
Some of Tropical Rainstorm Alberto's moisture continues to stream northward into New Mexico today, and there will likely again be some showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and this evening and again during the day tomorrow, AccuWeather meteorologists say.
AccuWeather Regional Expert John Feerick explained, "Storms that do develop should be moving a bit faster than the storms that were around yesterday, hopefully limiting the flood threat some, but can still produce a lot of rain in a short period of time and exacerbate flooding issues in the region. As we head into the weekend, a ridge of high pressure is expected to build eastward over the Four Corners, meaning that storms should be few and far between for Saturday and Sunday."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/insult-injury-thunderstorm-floods-ruidoso-194107914.html
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Phoenix firefighters to assist rescue and recovery efforts in Ruidoso, NM
KNXV - Phoenix Scripps Fri, June 21, 2024, 8:12 AM EDT
Phoenix firefighters are being sent to help rescue and recovery efforts in the New Mexico resort town of Ruidoso. After deadly wildfires burned through the area, rainfall Wednesday caused flash flooding. Officials in the town called the flooding the "worst-case scenario" for the region, Scripps News reported.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/phoenix-firefighters-assist-rescue-recovery-121259478.html
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Ruidoso flooding presents challenges for fire crews
Natalie Wadas Thu, June 20, 2024, 6:00 PM EDT·2 min read
RUIDOSO, N.M. (KRQE) – Despite heavy rainfall in the area, the two wildfires surrounding Ruidoso continued to burn overnight and crews were not able to gain any ground. Officials on Thursday told KRQE News 13 the fire zones got roughly two-and-a-half inches of rainfall in an hour-and-a-half Wednesday and it’s presented new challenges for fire crews.
“We actually had to pull, we pulled our operations from that northwestern side of town because we didn’t want them getting stuck if you know when the floodwaters came down,” said Kerry Gladden, public information officer with the Village of Ruidoso.
Gladden said they had to do three swift water rescues downstream of Ruidoso on Wednesday because of the water and debris flows. The South Fork and Salt fires are still at roughly the same acreage as Wednesday – 23,000 acres between the two of them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ruidoso-flooding-presents-challenges-fire-220000176.html
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Netanyahu claims weapons supplies from US dropped 4 months ago and he only went public as a last resort
By Associated Press Published June 23, 2024, 11:10 a.m. ET
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that there had been a “dramatic drop” in U.S. weapons deliveries for Israel’s war effort in Gaza, doubling down on a claim that the Biden administration has denied and underscoring the growing strains between the two allies.
Netanyahu told his Cabinet that the drop had occurred four months ago, without specifying which weapons, saying only that “certain items arrived sporadically but the munitions at large remained behind.”
The spat highlights how high tensions have surged between Israel and Washington over the war in Gaza, particularly surrounding the Israeli military’s conduct in the beleaguered territory and the harm to civilian life there.
President Biden has delayed delivering certain heavy bombs since May over those concerns, but his administration fought back last week against Netanyahu’s charges that other shipments had also been affected.
Netanyahu told the Cabinet that he was driven to release a video in English last week after weeks of unsuccessful pleas with American officials to speed up deliveries.
He said a resolution appeared close.
“In light of what I have heard over the past day, I hope and believe that this matter will be solved soon,” he said, without elaborating.
Netanyahu’s video last week sparked an uproar among critics in Israel and was met with denial and confusion from White House officials.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. was “perplexed” by Netanyahu’s claims.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “We generally do not know what he’s talking about.”
His remarks came hours after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant traveled to Washington for meetings with senior officials.
A statement from Gallant’s office said he would discuss “maintaining Israel’s qualitative edge in the region” but made no mention of the weapons issue.
The war in Gaza, which was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, has tested the U.S.-Israel relationship like never before.
While the U.S. has staunchly supported Israel’s aims of freeing hostages taken into Gaza and defeating Hamas, it has grown increasingly concerned over the rising Palestinian death toll and the humanitarian crisis created by the war.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: US likely unable to assist Israel in war with Hezbollah
Gen. Brown asked Israel to think of how a war would affect the region, as well as the impact it would have on US forces.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 24, 2024 10:36 Updated: JUNE 24, 2024 14:34
Joint Chiefs of Staff head Charles Q. Brown warned on Monday that the US may not be able to help defend Israel against an all-out war with Hezbollah in the same way that it stepped in during the Iran drone attack in April.
Brown, a US Air Force general, also said that Iran “would be more inclined to support Hezbollah."
While the Islamic Republic supports Hamas, General Brown said that Tehran would stand more firmly behind Hezbollah, “particularly if they felt that Hezbollah was being significantly threatened.”
Brown also said that any Israeli military offensive into Lebanon could risk triggering a broader war, putting US forces in danger.
Risk of escalation
In the event of war, Brown said the US would likely not be able to provide the same assistance as it did when Iran carried out a missile and drone attack on Israel earlier this year. He also said it was hard to fend off the shorter-range rockets that Hezbollah fires across the border into Israel.
He asserted that the safety of US forces was the priority and reiterated that no attacks had been carried out on US bases in the region since February.
Brown said that the US continued to warn Israel against going to war with Lebanon.
"Think about the second order of effect of any type of operation into Lebanon, and how that might play out and how it impacts not just the region, but how it impacts our forces in regions as well,” Brown reportedly said.
Brown's comments come amid heightened expectations that the IDF may launch a military campaign in Lebanon to oust Hezbollah from the territory on Israel’s border to stop its persistent attacks.
Prime Minister Netanyahu told Channel 14 on Sunday night that Israel is open to a diplomatic resolution to the Hezbollah threat, but he stressed, “It must be on our terms.”
“We will do what is necessary," he said. "I can assure the citizens of Israel that if we are required to take on this challenge, we will do it. We can fight on several fronts, and we are also preparing for it.”
Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-807449
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Brave nurse tells The Post why she blew the whistle on Texas children’s hospital accused of manipulating parents into giving kids life-changing trans treatments
By Social Links for Jennie Taer Published June 23, 2024, 6:55 p.m. ET
HOUSTON, Texas — A nurse at the nation’s largest children’s hospital says doctors pressured parents to give their kids hormone therapy and other transgender medicine interventions — warning that their children might kill themselves if they held off on treatments.
Vanessa Sivadge has worked at a Texas Children’s Hospital clinic where kids are given gender-affirming care since 2021. She said that doctors there are more driven by “ideology” than what was best for the youths, many of whom had additional underlying problems.
“Parents were manipulated by doctors with an ideological agenda to go down this path of medical transition for their child,” Sivadge told The Post in an exclusive interview.
“And I do think that doctors would use manipulative language to suggest that if they didn’t do this their child would commit suicide or they would harm themselves.”
Sivadge, 31, also alleged that doctors would mis-categorize the treatments to justify gender-affirming care. She believes that the doctors are using the strategy to get around a ban by Texas Medicaid on covering hormone treatments for transgender medicine.
However, Sivadge said she does not directly know whether the treatments are being charged to the publicly-funded health insurance scheme.
The Houston healthcare worker said she is now being hounded by the FBI for speaking out. Agents visited her home after she spoke to the conservative journalist Chris Rufo, and suggested she was part of an investigation into violations of HIPAA patient privacy laws.
Sivadge, who still works for Texas Children’s Hospital, said she has observed doctors manipulating the parents of young patients into agreeing to the treatment without informing them of the long term side effects like infertility.
“The doctor would do things based on what the patient wanted, and not what was medically best for them,” she said.
“There was just no discussion of what are the risks, what are the longterm effects.”
Sivadge also saw that many patients had underlying issues, including past suicide attempts, autism diagnoses, depression and anxiety. She felt these issues were being dismissed in the name of prescribing hormones and other forms of transgender care.
“Many of them had previous ER visits for attempted suicide, many of them are autistic, many of them are depressed and anxious, and that’s really devastating because it’s really clear there’s something else going on in addition to having confusion about their sexual identity,” she said.
“That just really devastated me.”
She said she observed doctors in the clinic misdiagnosing patients with hormone deficiencies in order to get Medicaid coverage.
“Providers… were misdiagnosing patients intentionally for the purpose of justifying puberty blockers and hormones,” she said.
Among the strategies was making “ludicrous” claims that healthy girls had a testosterone deficiency, or healthy boys had an estrogen deficiency, she alleged.
The normal diagnosis would be gender dysphoria for kids who were deemed to need gender-affirming care, she explained. However, doctors were instead using the alternate diagnosis.
She believes this is part of an effort to allow them to get treatments covered through the taxpayer-funded health insurance program, she claimed.
Texas Children’s Hospital said in March 2022 that it would stop gender-affirming hormone treatments for kids after Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton declared such treatments “child abuse” under state law.
In June 2023, the state legislature passed a law banning trans treatments for kids, and barring taxpayer funds from going to pay for gender-affirming care. That legislation is now the subject of a lawsuit before the Texas Supreme Court.
Sivadge said the clinic would also note which parents expressed reticence about giving gender-affirming care to their children.
“There were the parents that were very affirming of their child’s new sexual identity and there were the parents that were a little more cautious and a little more careful and they had some questions and it was always noted in the chart which parents were cautious and weren’t completely affirming and which ones were,” she claimed.
Sivadge first spoke out publicly against transgender medicine for children in 2022, when she wrote for the conservative Family Research Council that she believes the treatment inflicts long term harm on young patients.
But, she came forward in May 2023 to make specific allegations against Texas Children’s Hospital after another whistleblower, Dr. Eithan Haim — a surgeon who completed his residency at the hospital, leaked documents to Rufo in 2023 that purported to show the institution was conducting gender-affirming surgeries on kids in secret and against the law.
Haim has since been charged by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas with four counts of violating HIPAA privacy laws.
“Dr. Haim did not break the law, and he looks forward to his day in court,” Ryan Patrick, an attorney for Haim, told the Dallas Morning News.
After that interview, in July 24, 2023, the FBI showed up at Sivadge’s door. She said the visit was meant to intimidate her into silence.
Sivadge and her husband were entertaining friends for dinner that night. But when the two men at the door identified themselves, Sivadge knew exactly why they were there.
For 15 minutes, the agents lingered inside Sivadge’s home. She said they threatened her in the hopes she’d help them track down Haim, she said.
“They said ‘we’re here because we’re aware of your views on transgender medicine,'” Sivadge said of her interaction with the FBI.
“They continued to talk and say ‘you’re a person of interest in an investigation of someone who has released patient confidential information violating HIPAA'”
The agents said Sivadge wouldn’t be safe at work if she didn’t help them, she said.
“They said we would like your help in finding him and we would like you to help us expose him and if you don’t do that, we will make your life very difficult,’
When Sivadge referred to Haim as a whistleblower, the FBI agents corrected her, saying he was “not a whistleblower, he’s a leaker,” she said.
“They used very veiled language, like kind of threats, to suggest that if I did not help them they could not protect me,”
“We just listened and they left and we knew from that moment on that our lives would never be the same and that we would not be silent.”
The FBI said it does not comment on interactions it has with individuals.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both whistleblowers’ claims. Additionally, Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison has called for the state legislature to hold hearings to investigate the issue and the Biden administration’s “unconstitutional tyranny.”
“The Biden administration, their goal here is to stifle dissent. They want to silence opposition,” Harrison recently told The Post.
A spokesperson for Texas Children’s Hospital didn’t respond to The Post when reached for comment.
Sivadge said that her goal in speaking out is to advocate for the kids who are being given life-altering treatments by providers who are putting political correctness ahead of medicine.
“These doctors are driven by a political agenda, like an ideological agenda,” she said, “and I truly believe that they think that they’re doing the right thing.”
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Russia’s nuclear submarine tracks back up Florida’s coast as warships head to Caribbean
Michael Wilner, Nora Gámez Torres
Tue, June 18, 2024, 9:08 PM EDT·3 min read
Russia has split up the naval flotilla that docked in Havana earlier this week, sending its nuclear submarine back north to the Atlantic and the rest of its warships south, where they are expected to make a port call in Venezuela, a U.S. official told McClatchy and the Miami Herald on Tuesday.
U.S. and Canadian warships, including destroyers and Coast Guard cutters, followed the submarine on Tuesday as it traveled back up the Florida coast in international waters — a reflection of the vessel’s significance and its proximity to U.S. shores.
An official with the U.S. Northern Command told McClatchy that the U.S. Navy continues to closely monitor the movements of the Russian vessels. Their presence in the Western Hemisphere mark the first significant Russian naval deployment in the region in five years, and the first deployment of a nuclear submarine of its kind since the end of the Cold War.
The Russian flotilla, comprising the missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Kazan, the oil tanker Pashin and the salvage tug Nikolai Chiker, arrived in Havana last Wednesday, closely tracked by U.S. and Canadian military vessels.
U.S. officials confirmed to McClatchy and the Miami Herald the deployment of three guided-missile destroyers — the USS Truxtun, USS Donald Cook and USS Delbert D. Black — as well as a Coast Guard cutter, the Stone, and a Boeing P-8 maritime patrol aircraft. They stayed close to Cuban waters near Havana for several days.
U.S. officials had previously said they expected the Russian ships to go to Venezuela and conduct military exercises in the Caribbean.
Last Wednesday, the Russian combat vessels and the submarine passed very close to Florida shores on their way to Havana. At one point, open satellite tracking data located one of the Russian vessels less than 30 miles off Key Largo.
The Russian navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov
On Tuesday afternoon, three U.S. warships, including the USS destroyer Truxtun and the Coast Guard cutter Stone, and the Canadian frigate HMCS Ville de Québec were positioned close to Miami shores, and later continued moving north close to the Florida coast, according to satellite tracking website marinetraffic.com.
A fourth Canadian warship, the HMCS Margaret Brook, docked in Havana at the same time as the Russian submarine and frigate, was off West Palm Beach on Tuesday afternoon.
The U.S. military also seemed to have attempted to track the expected fleet trajectory with the help of unmanned vessels known as saildrones, a technology used to monitor ocean currents and hurricanes. According to satellite tracking data, three of those vessels were located close to Central Cuba on Tuesday morning. The U.S. Navy has recently incorporated into the saildrones the technology that helps track submarines.
Russian officials and state media have said little about the fleet’s next destination. But on Monday, the commander of the frigate Admiral Gorshkov suggested in a vague statement to the Russian official news agency Tass that the fleet was to resume “combat service.”
“We carried out everything that we planned,” said Capt. Pavel Konov. “We are ready to continue to carry out the tasks of combat service.”
While in Havana, he said the sailors rested, visited a museum dedicated to Cuba’s late ruler Fidel Castro, went to the beach and tried mangoes.
Curious Cubans waited in line to visit the frigate, which was also toured by Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel and CNN.
American, Russian and Cuban officials all played down the visit. Cuba said the Russian warships were not carrying nuclear weapons. American officials said the Russian deployment was not a threat to the U.S. And a Kremlin spokesman said countries did not need to worry about Russian warships in the Western Hemisphere, which he called a normal occurrence.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-nuclear-submarine-tracks-back-010807333.html
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The Fuse Has Been Lit
Official Announcement: "Diplomacy Has Failed" - Israel - Hezbollah Heading to War (Doom Scale Just Hit 10)
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The U.S. Special Envoy, Amos Hochstein, has publicly announced that "diplomatic efforts to calm tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have officially failed." Hezbollah squarely refuses any negotiation to relocate its people north of the Litani River in Lebanon.
Yesterday, through COVERT INTEL, I reported that Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, told US Envoy Amos Hochstein that Hezbollah will PRE-EMPTIVELY strike Israel if they see Israel preparing for a Lebanon Invasion. Those preparations have been announced and ARE happening.
Israel said today that "Southern Lebanon will look like GAZA, and Beirut is not immune."
Based upon Hezbollah refusing to reach any agreement and Israel now backed into a corner being forced to take action to resolve the so-called "Hezbollah security issue (no security at all), the time is nigh for war.
Hezbollah had until the 24th to agree to the Israeli demand to withdraw to north of the Litani River. Instead, Hezbollah threatened offensive measures if Israel looked to prepare to attack.
Israel is now prepared to attack.
Whom draws first in this standoff is all we need to know. It can happen at any moment from either side, but my bet is that Israel will strike first; and could happen anytime now.
Meanwhile, Iran publicly says it will support Hezbollah and join in to any War, of course.
Hezbollah threatens to hit Cyprus as Cyprus will allow Israeli jets to use runways to bomb Hezbollah.
If Cyprus is attacked, then Greece may come to their support.
Then Turkey will side with Iran and Hezbollah as Turkey hates Greece and hates Israel.
This is looking like a 10 scale doom moment.
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Is Mount St. Helens about to blow? Washington volcano recharging 44 years after eruption
By Social Links for Alex Mitchell Published June 19, 2024, 4:01 p.m. ET
Is it getting ready to rock?
Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach Montana, has been showing major signs of constant activity recently, according to the US Geological Survey.
The volcanic elevation, which is 8,363 feet in the air, has experienced about 350 earthquakes since the start of February, with a peak amount of 38 in the first week of June.
Most were not noticeable, but one on May 31 clocked in at a 2.0 on the Richter scale — under half the magnitude of New York’s less-than-devastating, 4.8 April quake.
Still, its past two periods of heightened seismic activity from 2023 and on “represent the largest short-term increase in earthquake rates since the last eruption ended in 2008,” the USGS’ Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, WA wrote.
Although the 2008 eruption was relatively minor and represented a four year period of buildup, it then let up “to pave seven highway lanes three feet thick from New York City to Portland, Oregon,” per the USGS.
Sequences of small earthquakes typically tell that a volcano is beginning to pressurize its stored magma inside — a process known as “recharging.”
“Magma slowly rises through the lower crust and accumulates in a reservoir about 2.5 to 6 miles (4‒10 km) below sea level,” according to Cascades.
“Recharge events can occur when magma enters this upper reservoir and increases stresses that lead to earthquakes.”
Relax, though.
The experts are bringing people back to Earth, saying this is perfectly natural and not a high risk for another eruption.
There has been a noticeable increase in seismic activity around Mount Saint Helens recently.
“High rates of seismicity, interpreted as recharge, have been observed in the past at Mount St. Helens and at other volcanoes and can continue for many years without an eruption,” the observatory noted.
“No significant changes have been observed in other monitoring parameters and there is no change in alert levels at this time. Mount St. Helens remains at normal, background levels of activity.”
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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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Some strange weather patterns! A foot of June snow in parts of Montana and Idaho Rockies while East swelters
Jun 19, 2024
As residents of the Northeast and Midwest prepare for an extreme heat wave, those who live in parts of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest are experiencing snow and unusually cold weather in the lead-up to Thursday, the first day of summer.
Glacier Park in Montana had a snowy scene at sunset on June 18.
At Montana State on June 17, a summer football camp practiced in the snow in Bozeman, Montana.
Nearly one million residents of the West were under a winter weather advisory or a frost advisory Monday morning. Snow was on the ground at ski resorts and covered mountain passes in Idaho and Montana.
Up to 15 inches of snow is also “possible for the higher terrain in the Sapphire and Bitterroot ranges including Skalkaho Pass and Lost Trail Pass,” the forecasters said.
Great Falls, Montana, should have an afternoon high temperature of 73 degrees this time of year, but the AccuWeather forecast for Monday is a high temperature of only 45 degrees.
Several inches of snow fell Sunday into Monday morning in six states and provinces – British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
While snow does fall at high elevations in early June, late-June snowfalls are less common. Last year, the last significant snowfall in the Rockies took place on June 24-25.
Bridger Bowl, Montana, June snow
Official reports indicated 14 inches of snow at Clover Meadows, Montana as of the morning of June 18.
AccuWeather forecasters say temperatures will moderate this week. By this weekend, temperatures in some towns in the Rockies will be 40 degrees higher than Monday.
Meanwhile, on the eastern side of the US… Fearmongering:
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US Stealth Bombers Touch Down In Guam; Drill With F-22, F-35 Fighter Jets Amid ‘Hot Tensions’ With China
By Ashish Dangwal - June 19, 2024
US B-2 Spirit stealth bombers flew to the Pacific last week to participate in the large-scale joint exercise Valiant Shield 2024. The exercise took place around Guam, Palau, and the Northern Mariana Islands, with the B-2s landing on Guam for the first time in five years.
These stealthy aircraft arrived at Andersen Air Force Base on June 13. Hailing from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, the B-2 Spirits were seen participating in the exercise alongside F-22 Raptors and Marine Corps F-35Bs.
Images released by the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) showed the stealthy bombers in action, including their landing at Andersen Air Force Base. Valiant Shield, which concluded on June 18, offered a platform for the US military to showcase its strategic capabilities.
The Marines emphasized the importance of the B-2 Spirit’s deployment, noting its critical role in demonstrating speed, flexibility, and readiness.
The Air Force highlighted the significance of counter-maritime missions during the exercise. “Counter-maritime missions provide valuable training opportunities to improve our interoperability and demonstrate that our forces are capable of operating anywhere, anytime, to meet any challenge decisively,” added the service.
However, Pacific Air Forces and Whiteman Air Force Base have not given out details regarding the missions or training activities in which the B-2s participated during the exercise.
The B-2 bombers have been active globally. In 2023, the bombers conducted multiple missions over Europe, while in 2022, crews were dispatched to Australia as part of a Bomber Task Force deployment.
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US B-2 Spirit stealth bombers flew to the Pacific last week to participate in the large-scale joint exercise Valiant Shield 2024. The exercise took place around Guam, Palau, and the Northern Mariana Islands, with the B-2s landing on Guam for the first time in five years.
These stealthy aircraft arrived at Andersen Air Force Base on June 13. Hailing from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, the B-2 Spirits were seen participating in the exercise alongside F-22 Raptors and Marine Corps F-35Bs.
Images released by the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) showed the stealthy bombers in action, including their landing at Andersen Air Force Base. Valiant Shield, which concluded on June 18, offered a platform for the US military to showcase its strategic capabilities.
The Marines emphasized the importance of the B-2 Spirit’s deployment, noting its critical role in demonstrating speed, flexibility, and readiness.
“The speed, flexibility, and readiness of our strategic bombers play a critical role in our ability to deter potential adversaries and signal our unwavering support to our allies and partners,” the service said.
U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps 5th generation aircraft fly over the North Pacific Ocean on June 13, 2024.
The Air Force highlighted the significance of counter-maritime missions during the exercise. “Counter-maritime missions provide valuable training opportunities to improve our interoperability and demonstrate that our forces are capable of operating anywhere, anytime, to meet any challenge decisively,” added the service.
However, Pacific Air Forces and Whiteman Air Force Base have not given out details regarding the missions or training activities in which the B-2s participated during the exercise.
The B-2 bombers have been active globally. In 2023, the bombers conducted multiple missions over Europe, while in 2022, crews were dispatched to Australia as part of a Bomber Task Force deployment.
However, the bomber has not been stationed in Guam in the past five years. The last recorded instance of a B-2 landing in Guam was in 2019 during a refueling stop as part of a Bomber Task Force mission.
The deployment to Guam emphasizes the strategic role the island plays in US military operations in the Pacific. Given the increasing focus on potential threats from China, the presence of B-2 bombers in the region serves as a powerful reminder of the US commitment to safeguard its interests in the area.
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Valiant Shield is a biennial military exercise known for its scope and scale. This year, for the first time, all six US military services and international partners participated in the exercise.
The exercise started on June 7 with a spectacular formation flight involving B-1 Lancer bombers and F-22 Raptors over US Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships. This display of air power marked the beginning of intensive joint training scenarios aimed at enhancing interoperability and readiness among allied forces.
The exercise, which concluded recently, featured a series of dynamic training scenarios aimed at enhancing joint force capabilities across multiple domains.
According to a statement from the US Navy, participants in Valiant Shield 2024 engaged in various activities designed to simulate real-world operations.
These included a sinking exercise on a decommissioned amphibious transport dock, the launch of high-altitude balloons from Andersen Air Force Base, and nighttime flying operations. The overarching goal was to enhance proficiency in detecting, locating, tracking, and engaging units across sea, air, space, land, and cyberspace domains.
“Exercises such as VS24 provide a critical opportunity for forces across the Indo-Pacific region to integrate and train together,” explained the US Navy. “This year’s exercise demonstrated precise, lethal, and overwhelming multi-domain effects, showcasing the strength and versatility of the Joint and Combined Force.”
The involvement of US Space Command and US Transportation Command further underscored the exercise’s emphasis on multi-domain collaboration among Combatant Commands. This integration was essential for conducting large-scale operations effectively.
The US Air Force played a pivotal role in the exercise and deployed a diverse array of assets. Alongside the B-2 Spirit stealth bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, the Air Force contributed F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Langley–Eustis, Virginia, and Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Additionally, F-16 Fighting Falcons from Misawa Air Base, Japan, C-17 Globemaster IIIs from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, and C-130J Super Hercules from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, were actively involved.
Particularly noteworthy was the endurance feat of the C-130Js, which undertook maximum endurance operations to reach the Pacific. Echoing a previous epic flight in April, two C-130Js equipped with conformal fuel tanks flew for 22 hours from Texas to Guam, with a brief stop in California, while others made additional strategic stops along the way.
Contact the author at ashishmichel(at)gmail.com
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Beware of the troubles of the world, there is war going on right now, are you even aware of that, most are not, they walk as if peace is going on and yet the enemy is rising up in many areas, deceiving many and leading many astray. And they’re preparing for war without brains, for they have nobody to lead them anymore, so be in prayer, be in prayer.
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The West Is Lighting the Fuse of War
June 19, 2024
War
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The Western media is a lie machine. Western governments live in a make-believe world of their own impunity. Consequently, the Western peoples lack awareness of the dangerous situation that Washington has created with Russia.
The so-called “peace conference” in Switzerland was a fraud. Russia was not included, so how was it a peace conference? It was a propaganda event to rally support around Washington’s puppet, Zelensky, whose term has expired and who is ruling illegitimately as a dictator. Many of the attendees refused to sign the statement.
Here is a true description of the situation. The West is acting in behalf of the war continuing and expanding. The puppet’s term has expired and Zelensky continues in office despite not being reelected. The Western trained and equipped Ukrainian military has been defeated. At any time Russia can increase the offensive and clear Ukrainian forces from the Russian populated areas that have been reincorporated into Russia.
The West’s response to its lost war consists of two reckless and irresponsible actions. One is to send NATO troops, with the French being the opening wedge, to replace the depleted Ukrainian troops. The other is to further provoke the Kremlin by firing longer range missiles into Russia.
Putin and important members of the Russian government have indicated that if necessary Russian troops will move into areas beyond the reestablished border of Russia, stating that the longer the range of the missiles the deeper into Ukraine the buffer region will be.
It is unclear why Washington provoked the conflict between Ukraine and Russia as it was obvious that Ukraine had no chance of winning and as the war was certain to unite the Russian people behind Putin and to destroy any trust of the West in the Kremlin. Most importantly, the West ignored that it was forcing an existential threat upon Russia. The Kremlin is convinced that the West intends Russia’s destruction.
Putin’s intention after his deception by the West with the Minsk Agreement, was only to drive Ukrainian forces out of the Russian areas that have now been reincorporated into Russia. Apparently Putin did not realize the extent to which the West would involve itself and expand the war. Now that Putin faces an outbreak of a larger war, he clearly stated the conditions for ending the conflict.
He said that Russian military action will cease when the remaining Ukrainian forces are withdrawn from the Russian populated areas that have been reunited with Russia and when Ukraine agrees that the country will not become a member of NATO or have foreign bases and missiles on its territory. These are reasonable and generous terms.
If these terms are refused, Ukraine faces further conquest and harsher future conditions for ending the conflict.
When Ukraine was broken off from Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian provinces which Soviet leaders had attached to Ukraine should have been left in Russia. Whether or not this was a failure of foresight or malicious intent, it was a mistake that resulted in a conflict that has the potential of engulfing the world.
The difference between the 20th century Cold War and the 21st century hot war is that in the Cold War era the US and Soviet leadership, understanding the fatal nature of nuclear weapons, were committed to reducing tensions and building trust, whereas in the 21st century only Russia has sought mutual understanding and mutual security. Washington has fomented conflict and raised an existential threat to Russia by expanding NATO to Russia’s borders and overthrowing governments of former Russian provinces.
To avoid war Putin has accepted continuing provocations and insults. But now faced with such reckless and irresponsible proposals as NATO troops in Ukraine and missiles hitting deep into Russia, Putin has made one last effort to state conditions for ending the conflict. The conditions are immensely better than the outbreak of conflict that would destroy Europe and the United States.
The danger today is much worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis. In those days Washington recognized the danger. Today Washington does not. President John F. Kennedy realized that the US had provoked Soviet missiles in Cuba by placing US missiles in Turkey. Kennedy and Khrushchev made a mutual security agreement and both removed the missiles.
Putin’s diplomatic effort during December 2021 and February 2022 for a mutual security agreement was cold-shouldered by Washington, NATO, and the EU. With the outbreak of major war looming, Biden has still not met with Putin. Instead, Biden has provoked animosity by calling Putin the new Hitler. This is an unprecedented level or reckless irresponsibility.
The question before us is: Will Putin continue to accept provocations in hope that a change in the Washington regime in the November election will permit the West to come to its senses, or is Serbian President Vucic correct that the train has left the station?
As the Western world lacks a truthful media, the people might be indoctrinated with the “Russian threat.” Even if the people realize that the threat is Washington’s pressure on Russia, the people are impotent to affect government policy. Among the Western governments, public opinion is something to be manipulated, not something to which to listen.
I believe the West has convinced Putin that the West intends war. Not even Putin has an endless amount of patience. Instead of recognizing the dangerous situation and sitting down with Putin to defuse the situation, the West is lighting the fuse.
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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America’s Consumer Economy is Dying
June 19, 2024
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
American Consumer America’s robust consumer economy helped it emerge as a global powerhouse. Nations once stood in line, eager to sell to America as our consumer economy composed over two-thirds of GDP. Grappling with the cost of living crisis and amid a private wave where confidence has been lost, Americans are spending significantly less but are more likely to fall into debt.
Retail sales in May rose only 0.1%, according to new data provided by the Commerce Department, falling short of expectations of a 0.3% rise. April’s figure was revised to show a -0.2% decline in retail sales. These figures are not adjusted for inflation as numbers like words can be used as rhetoric.
American consumers spend more on less. Yet as with every private wave, confidence declines and people begin to hoard. Hoarding is not an option for the average American who lives paycheck to paycheck. I reported that credit card debt is on the rise, increasing by $85.8 billion in Q4 of 2022 alone. The average American household has about $10,000 in credit card debt, marking an 8.9% YoY increase. Now, Americans are facing $1 trillion in credit card debt due to rising APR and inflation. As reported by the Federal Reserve, credit card debt rose $250 billion in the past two years but consumer spending is declining. Separate studies have found that nearly half (46%) of Americans cannot make their monthly credit card payments.
Inflation is hitting everyone. I also reported how the “rich” are experiencing higher rates of credit card delinquencies than ever before. Delinquencies across all tax brackets are exceeding pre-pandemic levels, and the central bank has called this a “trend” that is now “accelerating.” These delinquencies will eventually fall on the banks who are already experiencing a liquidity crisis. Every survey shows that Americans are relying on credit more so now than ever before.
Inflation and socialistic policies have damaged America’s strong capitalistic consumer economy. We have created an enemy out of our top trading partner, China, and the recent round of tariffs are merely the beginning. They say consumer spending is “cooling,” but this is indeed an “accelerating trend.” People are spending money on the basics like food and energy, and the demand for goods is simply not there.
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Citing missile mismatch, Lockheed snarls at HIMARS challenge in Europe
By Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo Jun 18, 2024, 10:24 AM
PARIS — Tensions are running high in the race to decide Europe’s artillery rocket system of choice, with Germany emerging as a decisive player in a race between teams Rheinmetall-Lockheed Martin and Elbit-KNDS.
On the opening day of the Eurosatory trade show here, all eyes were on the German-American duo, which have paired up to offer a European-made rocket launcher based on Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Berlin.
The trans-Atlantic team is trying to claw its way back into a tender for Germany’s next multiple-launch rocket launcher in which Elbit, offering its PULS weapon, was seen as having a leg up. The German armed forces have said they want to buy five PULS systems to replace weapons donated to Ukraine, and army formations in neighboring Netherlands, which are closely linked to their German Bundeswehr counterparts, are also slated to get the system.
The Israeli company’s offer rests on the proposition that the PULS will be able to fire the ubiquitous GMLRS missile, which prospective European customers already have in their inventories, and which Washington has given to Ukraine to fend off Russian invaders.
At the Eurosatory trade show here, Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger, whose company would build the launcher truck, pushed back against that idea without naming the competitor.
“Others speak about being able to fire a kind of missiles being universal, a claim most often not even true, promoting fragmentation of development funds and national egoisms, while not being utilized on the Ukrainian battlefield at all,” he told reporters on June 17.
Howard Bromberg, vice president of strategy and business development for land forces at Lockheed Martin, was more direct. “Our MLRS Family of Munitions cannot be integrated into the PULS system – if Germany was to opt for PULS they could not gain access to our missiles,” he told Defense News.
The same would apply to the U.S. Army’s newer Precision Strike Missile, a Lockheed spokesman added.
Elbit and KNDS signed a cooperation agreement last year to begin the joint production of the EuroPULS rocket artillery system, a Europeanized version of Elbit’s existing PULS system. At the time, the Israeli firm suggested the weapon’s open-architecture concept would enable the firing of other makers’ missiles.
An Elbit spokesman said the company had no comment on Lockheed’s claims. It’s unclear what role the U.S. defense giant would have in a potential government-level arrangement on missile interchangeability.
Germany has been on the hunt to replace its aging MARS 2 systems for some time now. Although it has yet to select a replacement, the possibility of localizing the production of the rocket launchers will likely be an important consideration at play.
A funding decision by the German Bundestag on an initial PULS batch had been expected before the summer, but was recently postponed until the end of the year, German defense trade website Hartpunkt reported earlier this month.
Editor’s note: This story was corrected to reflect the fact that Germany has yet to formally commit to PULS.
About Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo
Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo is a Europe correspondent for Defense News. She covers a wide range of topics related to military procurement and international security, and specializes in reporting on the aviation sector. She is based in Milan, Italy.
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Exposed: Yale University hid millions in funding from Qatar
Yale received $15 million from the Arab state over a decade beginning in 2012 while reporting only $284,668, a violation of US federal reporting laws; Part of broader strategy to wield influence and promote the interests of the Qatari regime
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released a damning new report on Wednesday, highlighting significant discrepancies in Yale University’s reporting of foreign funds, particularly from Qatar.
The findings reveal a persistent pattern of non-compliance with U.S. federal reporting laws, raising serious concerns about transparency and accountability in higher education.
The report, titled "The Ongoing Failure to Report: Yale University, Qatar, and Undisclosed Foreign Funding, Volume Two," is part of ISGAP’s ongoing "Follow the Money" project.
This initiative has been examining foreign funding of US universities since 2012. Volume One of the report, released in 2023, had already unveiled non-disclosure practices at several institutions, including Yale, which led to federal investigations in 2019.
According to the new research, Yale reported receiving only $284,668 from Qatar between 2012 and 2023. However, the actual amount is estimated to be at least $15,925,711. This substantial underreporting violates Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), which mandates that universities report all gifts and contracts from foreign sources exceeding $250,000 semi-annually.
The report suggests that Qatar’s financial contributions to U.S. institutions are part of a broader strategy to wield influence and promote the interests of the Qatari regime. This is evident in the collaboration between Yale and Qatar, involving numerous undisclosed transactions that do not appear in Yale’s financial statements or the U.S. Department of Education’s reporting system.
"The persistent non-disclosure of substantial foreign funds, as well as contracts, MOUs, and agreements with foreign foundations and government agencies, not only undermines transparency and accountability but also poses significant risks to the integrity of higher education," said Dr. Charles Asher Small, ISGAP’s Executive Director.
"Despite prior investigations and warnings, Yale and other universities continue to engage in practices that violate federal law."
The report underscores the broader implications of these funding practices, particularly in the context of rising antisemitic discourse and actions on US campuses, including Yale. ISGAP’s previous research has demonstrated that antisemitic incidents are more prevalent at universities receiving Qatari funding.
"The omission of substantial Qatari grants in Yale University’s financial statements raises questions about academic integrity and foreign influence," Dr. Small added. "There is concern that the same is happening at Yale, which has seen a sharp rise in antisemitism on campus since the October 7 attacks in Israel."
To address these issues, the report includes several policy recommendations to enhance transparency and accountability in university funding. These include strict enforcement of existing disclosure laws, increased scrutiny of foreign donations, and measures to protect academic freedom and institutional autonomy from foreign influence.
ISGAP is also calling on the U.S. Department of Education to intensify its oversight to ensure that all universities fully comply with federal funding disclosure laws.
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For even the novice can see the events that have started are not going to stop, but these events have been recorded in my word that they would take place and they will continue to take place. For only if you were fast asleep could you miss what is going on right now, for I have called for my church to be watchman, I’ve called for you to be awake and know and see the hour that you are living in. For it is very, very clear now. For I gave you the sign and my word even tells you about the fig tree, for that is the most important thing and as you see what is taking place right now it will not stop, but it will continue right on through the events that I said would take place for this time and this hour. etc
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Experts: ICC, UN blamed Israel for a famine that never happened in Gaza - exclusive
Columbia University professors: "We found that the food supply entering Gaza is more than sufficient to feed all 2.2 million Gazans."
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN JUNE 18, 2024 14:11 Updated: JUNE 18, 2024 14:37
Columbia University Professors Awi Federgruen and Ran Kivetz have analyzed available data and conducted research whose “findings demonstrate that sufficient amounts of food are being supplied into Gaza,” they noted in a summary of their findings presented to The Jerusalem Post.
They note that it is “a myth that Israel is responsible for famine in Gaza.” They argue that the International Criminal Court and UN have joined Hamas in blaming Israel for a “famine that never was, hoping to stop the war [in Gaza].”
The two professors spoke to the Post in early June and they provided an abstract and details about their findings regarding the issue of famine in Gaza.
Professor Awi Federgruen is the Chair of Columbia University Business School’s Decision, Risk and Operations Division. He is an expert in supply chains, logistics, and data science. Ran Kivetz is the Philip H. Geier Professor at Columbia University Business School. He is an expert in decision making, including the intersection between behavioral economics and political science.
The two experts noted that the ICC has sought arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The ICC claimed that Israel is “causing starvation as a method of war including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies [and] deliberately targeting civilians in conflict,” they note in their abstract. The two professors dispute this.
They examined the “hard data, available from such sources as COGAT and the UN,” they note. Federgruen and Kivetz’s research and findingsdemonstrate that sufficient amounts of food are being supplied into Gaza. According to their research they “demonstrate that 250 truckloads suffice to feed the entire Gazan population, in accordance with a normal diet in North America.”
Hamas fired rockets at the Kerem Shalom crossing on May 5, killing five soldiers and causing the border to be shut briefly. However the supplies have resumed since then. “Israel intends to increase it further to the 400-500 truck/day level. Further, Israel regularly halts offensives for 4 hours a day to facilitate these deliveries,” they note.
“Nevertheless, food is not consistently distributed inside Gaza,” they add. The Professors point to reports that suggest the fact food is not distributed inside Gaza is due to sabotage and theft by Hamas.
They argue that “the ICC, the UN, and the international community should put blame only where it belongs: on Hamas, which started the war by slaughtering more than 1,000 Israeli and foreign civilians and by taking more than 200 hostages still not released and many murdered in captivity. But, unfortunately, the UN, the ICC, and even some Western governments consistently ignore the data.”
The experts also argue that mainstream media organizations have distorted information from Gaza, and this has led to Israel being framed as the cause of the purported famine.
“In fact, the mainstream media keep vacillating between (false) allegations that Israel is causing famine, is perpetrating genocide, and is sabotaging hostage deals with Hamas. Such a defamatory narrative is intended to end the Israel-Hamas war at all costs, including a Hamas victory, a bleak future for Gazans and Israel, and an endless cruel captivity for the hostages and their families. The false famine narrative has also been exploited by the ICC, ICJ, and UN to support their unjustified rulings and actions against Israel,” they assert.
Federgruen and Kivetz also note that some of the claims relating to famine in Gaza can be traced back to problematic reports.
For instance “in March 2024 an organization called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an arm of the UN, issued a report predicting the advent of a major famine in Gaza that is supposedly provoked by Israel. That IPC report took on a life of its own. For example, it was cited by OXFAM, which accused Israel of ‘making deliberate choices to starve civilians’ and claimed (without any substantiation) that a group of North Gazans were subsisting on as little as 245 calories per day,” they note.
The experts say they followed the data closely since the beginning of the war. “We do that professionally. We don’t rely on stories. The hard data on food supplies are not difficult to obtain. Our analysis is based on data from COGAT, as well as reports and data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report.
These data display a totally different picture from what the ICC and UN are trying to paint, and directly refute the baseless claims that Israel is causing a famine or using starvation as a method of war.” COGAT is the IDF coordination unit that is responsible for dealing with aid entering Gaza. It also publishes information on the amount of aid entering.
Aid that enters Gaza enters through Israel, especially after Egypt closed the Rafah crossing on May 8. “The first part of that food supply chain is in Israel’s hands because Israel is the major force that controls what comes into Gaza. Once the food enters Gaza, however, the supply chain is no longer under Israel’s control, as the food is taken over by NGOs, the UN, and interventions by Hamas,” the academics note.
“We found that the food supply entering Gaza is more than sufficient to feed all 2.2 million Gazans according to what is considered a normal diet in North America. This is because if just 250 truckloads enter Gaza every day (more actually enter), and assuming the food is adequately distributed, every Gazan would receive the amount of food that the average individual consumes in North America. This is in addition to the food that Gazans continue to produce themselves.”
They note that their calculation is based on each truckload carrying 20 tons of food. This means that 250 truckloads provide five million kilograms, about 2.25 kilograms per person in Gaza. “This is almost identical to the 2.36 kg of food per day that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the average individual consumes in North America.”
The professors note that “our findings have been recently independently corroborated by a working paper written by researchers from Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University, University of Haifa, Ben Gurion University, Shaare Zedek, and The Israeli Ministry of Health. The conclusion of that paper is that every Gazan was provided 3,374 Kcal a day, while only 2,100 Kcal is needed.”
While enough aid is entering Gaza, they note that it may not always be distributed to people due to other factors, such as war and Hamas control. “We can say with a high degree of professional confidence that if there was a famine somewhere in Gaza, it was not instigated by Israel. To the contrary, Israel is engaged in a variety of efforts to ensure that sufficient food enters Gaza through land crossings,” they state.
The examination of the data by the professors joins a growing body of evidence pushing back on the claims of famine in Gaza. However, the chaos of the war in Gaza and other factors mean that Israel will continue to be blamed for what is occurring in Gaza, even if Israel is not to blame for the failed distribution of food.
Hamas not only appears to hijack aid trucks but it also benefits from claims of famine because Hamas can then try to leverage these claims to pressure Israel to stop the fighting.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-806735
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Post fire marches toward Pyramid Lake as California wildfire season intensifies
By Grace Toohey, Hayley Smith, Joseph Serna and Jaclyn Cosgrove
June 17, 2024 Updated 10:44 PM PT
A major wildfire in northern Los Angeles County continued burning Monday evening southeast toward Pyramid Lake, scorching more than 15,000 acres to become the state’s largest blaze of the year.
The Post fire was 15,611 acres as of 7:34 p.m. Monday and 20% contained. It was burning in steep, hard-to-reach areas and threatening homes as well as infrastructure, including power lines, dams and oil pipelines, officials said in a status update on the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s website.
Officials cautioned Monday evening that heavy smoke from the Post fire might make it difficult for drivers to see on the 5 Freeway south of Gorman and north of Santa Clarita. Residents in communities including Castaic, Piru and Santa Clarita will likely notice the smoke as well.
Firefighters will focus much of their attention on building and reinforcing fire lines around the perimeter while helicopters and air tankers try to slow down the fire’s advance and douse hot spots as conditions allow, officials said in their update.
L.A. County officials said high temperatures and low humidity were expected Tuesday, a bad combination for firefighters attempting to snuff out flames as the fire chews through vegetation dried out by the heat and lack of moisture in the air. Wind gusts may reach up to 55 mph, further complicating firefighting efforts.
If northeast winds intensify, the Post fire might be pushed deeper into the forest and wilderness areas. This could cause the fire to spot up to three-quarters of a mile away — meaning small pieces of burning leaves and grass could travel that distance and start small fires farther away from the fire line, fire officials said.
“Conditions have continued to support the rapid spread of the wildfire,” said Ariel Cohen, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Oxnard.
Red flag warnings, which are alerts for dangerous fire conditions, were in effect for the area through at least Tuesday evening as the air was expected to dry out during the day and temperatures were expected to rise.
Such severe warnings have also been issued across large swaths of inland California, with the alerts forecasting winds that carry “the potential for rapid fire spread,” from the northern Sacramento Valley through the Antelope Valley.
Since Saturday, more than 20 fires sparked across California, burning over 20,000 acres, the majority of which were still not fully contained Monday, according to the Cal Fire website. Several triggered evacuations and damaged buildings, including the Post fire.
There had been predictions for a subdued start for the state’s wildfire season this year, given a series of late-season, moisture-heavy storms, but this new spate of fires heightened concerns.
“It’s pretty early and this is [a] pretty large fire,” Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson Craig Little said of the Post fire. “We can always hope, but I’m thinking there’s going to be more of this in the future for the summer. ... It’s very early for a fire of this magnitude.”
Such early-season fires are fueled by heat-dried grasses, and Southern California’s hillsides and mountains are dense with vegetation after two back-to-back wet winters. Because of that, more dangerous fires that engulf larger trees and plants are likely in store for later this year, according to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA.
“We could, in fact, see a very active finish to fire season 2024, but we aren’t there yet, despite the current activity level,” Swain said during a briefing Monday. “This is not yet indicative of really active conditions.”
In particular, the forested, high-elevation areas that have endured some of the state’s worst wildfires in recent memory are still moist following two strong wet seasons and haven’t yet started to display much wildfire activity.
That could change as conditions get hotter and drier for longer stretches of time, Swain said. Those areas will likely start drying out in July at lower elevations and August at higher elevations, with fire activity possibly lasting longer than usual due to two years of vegetation build-up.
“Expect September — and maybe even October and parts of November in some areas — to feature very active fire conditions this season,” Swain said, adding that blazes that ignite later in the season could become increasingly intense.
The fires that ignited over the past weekend are likely a foreshadowing of what’s to come.
The Post fire on Saturday forced about 1,200 people to evacuate from the Hungry Valley Park and Pyramid Lake areas, not far from the 5 Freeway, according to firefighters.
On Monday, officials also ordered areas south of Pyramid Lake to be evacuated, including the Oak Flats Campground. An evacuation warning was also issued for Paradise Ranch Estates.
The fire has destroyed an auto shop and threatened dozens of other buildings. One person has been injured, Little said.
The mountainous terrain has forced the firefighting effort to rely more heavily on air crews — 24 helicopters and multiple air tankers, as of Monday evening — but high winds have made water drops less effective, Little said.
Almost 1,700 firefighters and other personnel continued to battle the flames Monday. The Ventura County Fire Department and U.S. Forest Service were aiding in the effort. The Post fire’s cause remains under investigation.
in San Bernardino County, prompting road closures and an evacuation warning. The fire was 72% contained as of Monday evening, according to Cal Fire and the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
The Tuscany fire ignited Monday and burned 350 acres in Palm Springs, according to local officials. As of Monday evening, it was 50% contained, according to Cal Fire.
Multiple fires also burned across Northern California.
In Sonoma County, the Point fire burned more than 1,200 acres and several structures south of Lake Sonoma. It was 20% contained Monday evening, according to Cal Fire, after starting Sunday afternoon.
The Sites fire, burning northwest of Sacramento in Colusa County, started Monday afternoon and erupted to almost 4,500 acres by the evening. Firefighters had been unable to contain it, hampered by hot dry conditions, officials said.
And southeast of Sacramento, the Aero fire started Monday afternoon in Calaveras County and had already burned more than 5,000 acres by about 10 p.m. and had no containment, according to Cal Fire.
As Swain took stock of the current fires, he noted that the rest of the season could be affected by a number of other factors, including the current transition from the El Nińo weather pattern to La Nińa.
La Nińa is associated with drier conditions along the West Coast and in Southern California in particular. La Nińa was last in place during the state’s three driest years on record, 2020 through 2022, which also saw the state’s biggest wildfire seasons on record.
Climate change is also driving warmer global temperatures and a thirstier atmosphere, both of which can extract more water from the landscape and pave the way for hotter and faster fires in the West and other arid areas, Swain said.
What’s more, the upcoming Fourth of July holiday is often linked to wildfire ignitions, and there is potential for that pattern to repeat this year, he added.
“The good news is increasingly in the rearview mirror,” Swain said. “As these conditions continue to rapidly warm up, dry out and get windier, the bad news is that I think that the back half of this season is going to be much more active — with a lot more concerning level of wildfire activity in a lot of areas — than the first half.”
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For man brings many things
about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they do not
consider the things that they are saying. They poke the
bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in the eye
and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can tear them
to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their sons and
their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the stupid
things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or ask of
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bear has now spoken.
If those that are speaking
against us don’t stop we will strike you and you will know you have been
struck.
Russian Military Expert Suggests Kremlin Plans Nuclear Strikes on US Ships
Published Jun 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM EDT Updated Jun 17, 2024 at 8:44 AM EDT
Russian military expert Igor Korotchenko recently suggested on state-owned TV that the Kremlin plans to attack U.S. ships with nuclear weapons.
Late last month, U.S. officials revealed to the Associated Press that President Joe Biden has since allowed Ukraine to use American-made weapons to fight against Russia's attacks or planned attacks in the Kharkiv region. The weapons are only allowed to be used to defend Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, and Kyiv is not to use American-provided long-range missiles.
"In my opinion, there is only one adequate, fast and effective response to the increased strikes against the territory of the Russian Federation with American long-range weapons, since Biden and [U.S. national security adviser Jake] Sullivan have given the green light and Ukraine's Armed Forces will carry it out: total destruction of all electrical generation in Ukraine," Korotchenko recently said on state-owned TV, according to an English-translated clip posted to YouTube on Saturday by watchdog group Russian Media Monitor.
Russian Media Monitor was created by journalist Julia Davis "in an effort to combat Russian propaganda."
Korotchenko then mentioned the Russian warships that conducted drills in the Atlantic Ocean on their way to Cuba, as reported by the Russian Defense Ministry. The ministry said that a Russian navy ship and Moscow's Kazan nuclear-powered submarine conducted the exercise to simulate a missile strike on a fleet of enemy ships.
The Russian warships are scheduled to be in Havana from Wednesday until this upcoming Monday, according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry. The Cuban ministry said that none of the warships are carrying nuclear weapons and said that the warships do "not represent a threat to the region." Cuban officials, meanwhile, have called their relations with Russia "historically friendly," according to the AP.
"Now, about the arrival of our ships and submarines to Cuba, it was officially stated that the Kazan is the only sub that came there, as part of a naval group of warships of the Northern Fleet," Korotchenko said. "In reality, we can guess that Kazan wasn't the only one, but there were a few Russian multipurpose nuclear subs in different parts of the Atlantic Ocean, carrying out their tasks."
He continued: "These tasks are clear: countering American aircraft carrier strike groups. Of course, if a strike is carried out, as it was stated, several hundred kilometers away, against an American aircraft carrier strike group, this strike would be done with special ordnance for maximum effectiveness, speed and reliability."
State TV host Evgeny Popov chimed in: "Special ordnance means nuclear weapons." To which, Korotchenko confirmed, "Yes, exactly, a nuclear warhead on a Tsirkon [missile]."
The host of the show, Olga Skabeyeva, added: "Is this the new terminology so we don't scare people?...Friends, this is not a nuclear war, but a special war!"
On Wednesday, Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said of the Russian warships in Cuba: "We've been tracking the Russians' plans for this. This is not a surprise. We're always, constantly going to monitor any foreign vessels operating near U.S. territorial waters. We of course take it seriously, but these exercises don't pose a threat to the United States."
Earlier on the Russian TV show, Popov accused the U.S. of illegally occupying Guantanamo Bay. Cuba has been leasing a naval base in Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. since 1903.
"We again remind you: there is an occupied part of Cuba. This territory is called Guantanamo," Popov said. "They excuse it by saying they've rented it for $1 from the Cuban government at one point. We know, these are just fairy tales of the Vienna Woods. This is a real occupation of a sovereign nation! This territory is decent, with good military infrastructure that could be of good use to the Russian Federation for its base or at least logistics facilities."
In 1934, the cost to rent the base was set at roughly $4,000 a year, according to The Washington Post.
Newsweek has reached out to the Russian government via email and the U.S. Navy via online form for comment.
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Vladimir Putin to meet with Kim Jong Un | Reporter Replay
June 17, 2024 | 4:07pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on June 18 to meet with Kim Jong Un, Putin's first trip to the country in 24 years.
The trip could conclude with Putin and Kim signing a partnership agreement that would include security issues, according to Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov. NY Post reporter Ronny Reyes shares this story.
https://nypost.com/video/vladimir-putin-to-meet-with-kim-jong-un-reporter-replay/
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Biden’s EPA using clean-energy cash to fund groups that oppose immigration enforcement
By Social Links for Rich Calder Published June 15, 2024, 1:08 p.m. ET
The Biden administration quietly funneled $50 million in taxpayer funds earmarked for clean energy to two groups that oppose immigration enforcement.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tapped the New York Immigration Coalition and New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice as partners to distribute $50 million of $3 billion set aside in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for environmental and climate block grants, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Both groups’ missions have nothing to do with protecting the environment.
Instead, they adamantly support abolishing the US Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency, believe guarding borders is “racist and classist,” and want to block state and local government employees from cooperating with federal immigration officials, said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), whose office is probing IRA spending.
Capito said her findings prove President Biden’s recent tough talk about cracking down on border security is just talk.
“It’s hypocrisy and the highest,” said Capito, while speaking at a Senate Republican Leadership press conference. “It’s very slack oversight, at the least.
“And it’s very dishonest when you talk to the American public about the goals of a green climate fund are being determined by immigration justice and immigration coalition groups.”
Capito last month announced she found the EPA awarded $50 million from the same grant program to Climate Justice Alliance, a group that backs anti-Israel protests .
The EPA did not return messages.
However, the agency previously said the immigration groups and Fordham University – which was tapped as a grant maker — will take “an intersectional approach to place frontline communities in positions of power” to advance climate justice “in disadvantaged and hard-to-reach communities and communities disproportionately impacted by climate change, pollution, and other environmental stressors.”
https://nypost.com/2024/06/15/us-news/bidens-epa-funding-groups-that-oppose-immigration-enforcement/
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etc.. A closedown on the present welfare programs and one that demands work for pay and food. Great conflicts, fighting, riots, looting, killing, rapes, drugs, drinking in larger city centers, causing problems that will bring Marshall Law and troops in our streets. The beginning of a one world order, rule by force. The world church shall be the licensed body of the recognized spiritual authority under the false prophet and his deacons, elders, bishops and leaders. Loss of freedom America once enjoyed and stood for, for that which is controlled by military force and protection. etc..
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How to lock up those nasty pro-Hamas and Gaza protestors
By Social Links for Josh Hammer Published June 15, 2024, 10:00 a.m. ET
The ongoing anti-Israel riots on our university campuses and city squares have shaken American Jews — and all defenders of Western civilization — to their core.
The mainstream media, always in the tank for vogue causes, sanitized this naked harassment under the label of “pro-Palestinian protests.”
In true extremist form, one “protestor” at George Washington University held up a sign advocating for Hitler’s “final solution” in late April.
This week, anti-Israel protestors were back at UCLA, with a new illegal encampment — the second in as many months.
Jews have been terrified; one Jewish parent at Columbia, withdrawing his freshman daughter in April, analogized his experience to evacuating a refugee from a war zone.
Perhaps colleges and city centers will see a brief respite, as would-be revolutionaries jet off for summertime gigs at tony investment banks or do-goody nonprofits.
Such a respite would be nice.
But one would still be forgiven for asking the obvious question — which I’ve pondered often as a former law clerk on the US Court of Appeals and a frequent law school speaker: Why are none of these “protesters” in jail?
It is not as if legal remedies, both civil and criminal, do not exist. The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky has helpfully explained some leading options for meting out justice.
First, it’s constitutional law that aliens — legal or illegal — do not possess a First Amendment right to free speech that would prevent them from being deported for vocally supporting a US State Department-recognized Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
Each and every pro-Hamas protestor who’s not a US citizen thus can, and should, be sent packing, as 8 U.S.C. § 1201 clearly permits.
Second, much of the protestors’ behavior likely violates Section 2 of the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act (42 U.S.C. § 1985), which creates a civil cause of action to sue those who “conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving . . . any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws.”
Such a successful class-action civil suit — now gaining traction among Jewish leaders — wouldn’t result in jail time, but it could punish the bank accounts of thugs who went “in disguise” to advocate for Jewish genocide.
Federal prosecutors have options too.
The criminal analogue to Section 2 of the Ku Klux Klan Act is 18 U.S.C. § 241, which criminalizes conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person . . . in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
This has clearly been happening nationwide, but no one has lifted a finger to pursue such charges.
Nor has any federal prosecutor gone after a case of material support for a terrorist organization, proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 2339A.
Where are the federal prosecutors?
For that matter, where is local law enforcement — especially in New York, in light of this week’s horrific bouts of antisemitic vandalism in Manhattan and Brooklyn?
First, there is a reflexive progressive disinclination to prosecute the activist misanthropes the media sanitizes as mere “protesters.”
In Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department, such a high-profile prosecution would muddy the waters for Joe Biden and hamstring his re-election efforts.
No one at Justice wants to be on the “wrong side” of an intersectional divide; far better to win over Michigan radicals than to pursue blind justice.
Second, the most high-profile protest anarchy has transpired in deep-blue jurisdictions overseen by George Soros-funded, or otherwise very left-wing, district attorneys.
Does anyone really expect Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, for example, to bring charges against students at Columbia — or to hunt down antisemitic vandals?
Of course not.
In the case of Bragg — who’s already working to get charges dropped against many Columbia protestors — it’s far better to expend resources going after Trump.
And in many Soros-funded DAs’ cases, it’s far better to simply not prosecute violent or property crime at all.
Tragically, antisemitic bad guys know they get a pass from today’s extremist left.
Gone is the era of noble lawmen such as Eliot Ness, who pursued justice without fear or favor.
Progressive prosecutors at the federal and local level now conform their actions to prevailing woke orthodoxies.
This is doubly true when left-wing thugs are so violent, as we saw during the George Floyd riots and we have seen once again since Oct. 7.
Just as Hamas is still holding roughly 120 hostages in Gaza, so too have Hamas’s supporters held hostage America’s justice system
Josh Hammer is Newsweek senior editor-at-large and host of “The Josh Hammer Show” and “America on Trial with Josh Hammer.” X: @josh_hammer.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/15/opinion/how-to-lock-up-those-nasty-pro-hamas-and-gaza-protestors/
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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.
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Tornado rips through NJ, taking down trees and flipping half-dozen cars
By Social Links for Matthew Sedacca Published June 15, 2024, 7:19 p.m. ET
An 80 mph landspout tornado ripped through Lawrence Township, NJ, Friday evening. X/@NWS_MountHolly
A landspout tornado ripped through Mercer County, New Jersey Friday afternoon as severe thunderstorms pounded the state with heavy rain and winds.
The twister, which reached a peak of 80 mph, formed near a Conoco gas station in Lawrence Township, according to Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud.
The tornado was short and brief, traveling from 5:59 p.m to 6 p.m. at just under 229 yards, with a maximum width of 60 yards.
It uprooted trees and caused some to fall onto the service station, snapping a large sign. The tornado then moved on to a post office, where it overturned a half-dozen cars in the parking lot.
“This might go down as the record for the shortest tornado,” Braud marveled.
The tornado received an EF-0 rating, which has winds estimated between 65 and 85 mile per hour, Braud said.
No injuries were reported.
Landspouts, which form from the ground up and have a narrow, rope-like condensation funnel, tend to be smaller and weaker than tornados formed by supercell storms, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
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ISIS in America
By Hal Lindsey
Most of us can sympathize with many of the reasons people choose to enter the United States illegally. We understand those motives, even when we can’t approve of them. But others are illegally entering the country who have the most wicked motives imaginable. These have come to kill, steal, and destroy. We call them terrorists, and we know they are entering our country.
How do we know? Look at the numbers. A “gotaway” is someone the Border Patrol observes unlawfully crossing the border, but who is not apprehended. Between the years 2010 and 2020, many Americans were rightly concerned about what they saw as a border crisis. That decade saw 1.4 million gotaways at the southern border. But in the most recent government reporting, it took just two years — 2022 and 2023 — for the number of gotaways to reach 1.6 million. Think about that — more gotaways in two years than in ten.
Only a miniscule percentage of gotaways enter the country for the purpose of terrorism. But it doesn’t take many. Nineteen hijackers carried out the 9/11 attacks. Those who cross the southern border illegally come from all over the world. If someone from Pakistan wants to illegally enter the US, they go to Mexico, then cross the US border. And they are coming from everywhere — including known enemies like Russia and China, and nations like Pakistan, known to harbor terrorists.
Staggering as the gotaway numbers are, it gets worse. We don’t know how many people slipped into the country — “got away” — without being spotted. It is a long border. Many terrorists are adept at tunnel building, and we know the border is riddled with such underground passageways.
Then there are the caught-and-released. On June 11th we learned about the arrest of eight men from Tajikistan. They are suspected of having ties to ISIS. At the border, officials vetted them and found them clean. As of the time I write this, they have only been arrested on immigration violations. Terror-related charges are expected to come later.
In April, the FBI arrested a Baltimore man they also believe to be affiliated with ISIS. After he had been living in the United States for about a year, his home country of Uzbekistan issued an international notice of his alleged terrorist ties. Another year passed before US officials finally arrested him. Even when the State Department vets people from places like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, we have no real assurance of the person’s peaceful intentions.
There are many other examples. At a time when rage against the United States among radical Islamic terrorists is at an all-time high, the United States has what amounts to an open southern border.
This concern is more than theoretical. It could directly affect your life. I’m not trying to get you to become a prepper, but I hope you will take practical precautions in the way you store food, water, prescriptions, and other necessities of life. But most of all, pray. God remains the hope of all nations. We need revival among His people and a great awakening among the population at large. We must step through every open door to present the Gospel of Jesus everywhere we can.
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-6-16-2024/
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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Saudi Arabia Chooses Chinese Yuan Over US Dollar
The 50-year Petrodollar era between Saudi Arabia and the United States has ended, causing increased interest in the emergence of the Chinese yuan as a challenger to the dollar’s dominance.
Reports from foreign media and industry sources on the 14th reveal that the Petrodollar agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States expired on the 9th. This is due to Saudi Arabia’s decision not to renew the agreement.
In 1974, the two countries entered a Petrodollar agreement, using only dollars for oil payments, while the United States assumed responsibility for Saudi Arabia’s security.
Oil-producing countries in the Middle East, which supply oil globally, established the so-called Petrodollar recycling mechanism by reinvesting dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds and financial markets. This process further solidified the Petrodollar system, reinforcing the status of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency and securing the power to control the global oil market.
However, President Joe Biden’s stance towards Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, blaming him for the 2018 murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, along with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021, strained relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
More than 80% of the world’s oil is traded in dollars. Should Saudi Arabia allow the use of yuan in oil transactions with China, the yuan will rise internationally. China accounts for a quarter of Saudi Arabia’s annual oil exports.
With escalating conflicts with the United States, China aims to globalize the yuan in trade transactions. President Xi Jinping stated in his keynote speech at the China-Arab Gulf States Cooperation Council Summit held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2022, “We will use yuan for oil and gas trade.”
Saudi Arabia and China have recently been strengthening their close relationship. Following a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in December 2022, they are expanding economic cooperation.
In November last year, the two countries signed their first currency swap agreement worth 50 billion yuan. A currency swap is a foreign exchange transaction in which two currencies are exchanged at a predetermined exchange rate. The first Saudi Arabian Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in Asia was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the same month.
Author End Time Headlines
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https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/06/saudi-arabia-chooses-chinese-yuan-over-us-dollar/
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How AI cops are ALREADY patrolling Britain's streets: From 'the eye in the sky' to facial recognition surveillance in supermarkets - the Orwellian technologies being used to tackle crime
British police forces are using AI to track down on criminals and predict crimes
Facial recognition scans the faces of thousands of people each year in the UK
READ MORE: AI traffic cop is being used on roads in to catch bad drivers
By Wiliam Hunter Published: 03:44 EDT, 15 June 2024 | Updated: 04:00 EDT, 15 June 2024
In his classic novel, 1984, George Orwell imagined how Britain might one day become a totalitarian surveillance state.
Yet as Orwell's novel celebrates its 75th anniversary this month, British police are already deploying technologies that would put Big Brother to shame.
From the facial recognition cameras watching you shop to the algorithms predicting crimes before they happen, these tools feel as if they've been ripped from the pages of science fiction.
But there is nothing fictional about the AI cops already patrolling Britain's streets - and experts say there is only more to come.
Jake Hufurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch, warned MailOnline: 'We're sleepwalking into a high-tech police state.'
Live facial recognition, as the name suggests, allows the police to recognise wanted individuals among a large crowd in real time.
Police use a series of cameras to record the faces of anyone who passes through a set zone.
An algorithm then compares the faces of those walking in front of the camera to a 'watchlist' of wanted criminals and an alert is generated if the AI spots a match.
Since 2015 several police forces across the UK have begun to use this technology in public places as part of targeted crackdowns and to police busy events.
However, London's Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police have been among the keenest adopters of the technology.
This year alone South Wales Police have already deployed eight live facial recognition zones including at a Six Nations Game and a Bruce Springsteen concert.
In total, these deployments scanned the faces of 156,032 people but only led to a single arrest being made.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police have already deployed live facial recognition a staggering 73 times this year, recording 146,157 faces and leading to 209 arrests.
The police and Home Office argue that these large-scale surveillance operations are justified by their results.
For example, the Home Office notes that a wanted sex offender was sent to jail after facial recognition spotted them at the Coronation of King Charles.
A spokesperson for the National Police Chief's Council told MailOnline: 'Policing is in a challenging period and AI presents opportunities for forces to test new ideas, be creative and seek innovative solutions to help boost productivity and be more effective in tackling crime.'
However, civil rights groups have raised concerns over the use of live facial recognition, arguing that the technology is overly invasive.
Mr Hufurt says: 'It is clear that some [uses of AI] including Live Facial Recognition Technology, are incompatible with a democratic society and should be banned.'
In 2020, the court of appeals found that the South Wales Police's trial, which scanned the faces of thousands, had been done unlawfully without proper regard for privacy or data protection.
There are also concerns that facial recognition may be worse at recognising black faces, making false positives and unnecessary arrests more likely.
While the Metropolitan Police's trials were found to have an accuracy of 90 per cent, testing conducted by the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) suggests bias does persist.
In the NPL's report published in March last year, the Met's technology was found to have a 'statistically significant imbalance between demographics with more Black subjects having a false positive than Asian or White subjects.'
'Eye in the sky' cameras
Another way in which AI is making its way into policing is through the use of cameras which automatically detect when crimes are taking place.
Roads across the country may soon see themselves being watched over by an AI cop designed to crack down on bad drivers.
This week, Safer Roads Humber began a weeklong trial of an AI-powered mobile camera trained to spot whether drivers are on their phones or not using a seatbelt.
The camera has been designed by Australian road safety company Acusensus and is being deployed by infrastructure firm AECOM which National Highways has partnered with for the trial.
The camera is deployed from a trailer parked at the side of the road and records images of any drivers passing by.
The images are then processed by an AI, with possible offences flagged and passed on to the police for consideration.
To avoid bias the system is 'locked down', meaning it cannot learn while in use.
A spokesperson for National Highways told MailOnline: 'This ensures that the algorithms do not drift and introduce bias.
'The system is taught to look for the presence of a phone or seat belt, any characteristics of the driver or vehicle are not relevant to the determination of phone or seat belt offence probability.'
This comes as part of a wider trial conducted by National Highways beginning this year which aims to test whether the AI cameras could make driving safer.
This current trial will run until March 2025 but the cameras have already been in use through various trials since 2021.
During one of the earliest deployments in Devon and Cornwall, almost 300 drivers were found using mobile phones or not wearing seatbelts in just three days.
And, as part of a 15-day trial in 2022, a larger vehicle-based system detected 590 seatbelt and 45 mobile phone offences.
Facial recognition in shops
However, it isn't just out on the streets or roads where AI will be keeping its eye on you.
Supermarkets and other shops are increasingly making use of facial recognition technology to crack down on shoplifting.
In October last year, Policing Minister Chris Philp announced a Ł600,000 ($752,000) partnership between police and 13 of the UK's biggest retailers known as Project Pegasus.
Under Project Pegasus, shops like John Lewis, Tesco, and Sainsbury's would be able to send their own CCTV footage to the police for analysis.
The police will then use AI facial recognition software to identify the shoplifters.
This type of technology is called retrospective facial recognition, and searches for suspects against a database of known individuals.
According to a study by South Wales Police, this can reduce the time taken to identify a suspect from around 14 days to a few minutes.
In the UK there is currently no specific law governing the use so it is up to the police to use common law to decide when it would be appropriate.
The Home Office maintains that the deployment must be 'necessary, proportionate, and fair', but there are concerns that this doesn't provide much of a guardrail.
South Wales Police already identifies 200 suspects a month using retrospective facial recognition.
And, last year, the policing minister urged police chiefs to double the number of AI-enabled facial recognition searches to exceed 200,000.
While Mr Hufurt says Retrospective Facial Recognition can have a legitimate role in policing, he argues that better protections are needed.
He says: 'Britain needs to have a proper conversation about the role big data and AI plays in our policing.
'Rather than allowing the government and the police to cobble together patchwork legal justifications to experiment on the public with intrusive and Orwellian technology.'
But it isn't even just the police using AI to watch you shopping - as stores are now increasingly installing their own AI surveillance tools.
One UK company, Facewatch, provides facial recognition for shops including Spar, Sports Direct, Budgens, and Costcutter.
Facewatch claims to identify faces of a 'subject of interest' as they enter the premises and send an alert to the shop owner.
You don't need a criminal record to get on Facewatch's watchlist, just a formal witness statement giving 'reasonable grounds' to suspect you of an offence.
Facewatch then holds the biometric data of those put onto its watch lists for a year after they are reported so that it search for those individuals in CCTV footage.
However, Facewatch has faced persistent criticism and a number of legal challenges.
In an investigation launched by the Information Commissioner’s Office, it was found that Facewatch’s system was permissible under law but that the company’s policies had breached data protection legislation on several points.
During the investigation, which concluded in 2023, the Big Brother Watch accused the Government of lobbying on behalf of Facewatch.
In January this year, Southern Co-Op was accused of using Facewatches technology to disproportionately target people in poorer areas.
Big Brother Watched has also launched legal action against the company and the Met Police after the system incorrectly identified a teenage shopper as a shoplifter.
Predictive policing
In the 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report, the police look into the future to predict and stop crimes before they even happen.
And while the UK police aren't about to start pursuing people for future crime they are using AI in an eerily similar way.
Through a technology called 'predictive policing', cops are using AI to predict where crime is likely to happen and who is likely to commit it.
These systems take the vast amounts of data available to the police and algorithms to try and predict the risk of crime.
Avon and Somerset Police use a system called SPSS which generates a 'risk score' for individuals based on past data.
Since individuals have a right to not be subject to a 'purely automated decision' they are keen to stress that their system does not 'assess the likelihood for an individual to commit a crime'.
Instead, Avon and Somerset Police say that the system generates a score which is used to advise a final judgement made by a human.
However, a list of models used SPSS revealed by an FOI request clearly states that they can 'calculate risk of committing a burglary in next 12 months.'
The models also claim to be able to predict the risk of someone committing a serious robbery, re-offending, or even becoming a victim of domestic violence.
Instead of looking at individuals other predictive policing tools focus on geographic areas.
Since 2018, Hertfordshire Police and a company called Process Evolution have been developing a prediction tool named HARM.
This tool lets police generate a risk score for areas as small with populations as small as 1,000 to 3,000 people using data such as unemployment, deprivation, antisocial behaviour rates, and previous crimes.
As before, the police argue that these tools help to use resources more efficiently and help lower crime rates.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council told MailOnline that 'AI can make us more effective, efficient, and productive' across the police's entire remit.
However predictive tools have come under criticism for potentially entrenching the biases recorded in previous police data.
For instance, in 2018 Durham Constabulary was accused of using 'crude profiling' of ethnicity and credit reports to assess individuals' risk of re-offending.
Researchers also found that the tool was 'deliberately overestimating the risk of individual offenders' in order to reduce high-risk errors.
Monitoring football stadiums
One of the areas where AI policing has become increasingly common is on the football ground.
But this isn't just a some fancy new VAR, as the police are bringing AI facial recognition to bear at some of the biggest events.
Police forces use the technology to pick out individuals who may be wanted for antisocial behaviour or other crimes.
With thousands of fans turning up and only limited numbers of police, this opens up possibilities to catch those who may otherwise slip by.
In 2023 the Met used Life Facial Recognition at a premier league game for the first time ever to scan the faces of thousands of fans on their way to watch Arsenal v Tottenham.
Three people arrested included a man wanted on recall for prison for sexual offences, and another who was charged with being in breach of a football banning order.
This April, the Met once again warned that it would deploy Live Facial Recognition 'in the vicinity of White Hart Lane' ahead of the North London Derby.
Likewise, the Met's records reveal that the technology was deployed twice in one day at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park during a match against Brighton.
Despite scanning the faces of over 4,000 fans over three and a half hours, no arrests were made.
And, with records showing widespread use at concerts and other sporting events, it seems that facial recognition in stadiums is likely to become much more common.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13522765/AI-cops-patrolling-Britains-streets.html
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Florida braces for more rain after days of intense downpour and flash flooding
Marlene Lenthang and Kathryn Prociv and John Filippelli
Updated Thu, June 13, 2024, 10:30 PM EDT·4 min read
A slow-moving storm system infused with deep tropical moisture over South Florida brought more heavy rain and thunderstorms Thursday — one day after flash flooding turned streets into rivers and delayed or canceled hundreds of flights. Over a foot of rain was clocked in multiple areas.
Seven million people remained under a flood watch Thursday across South Florida for what's forecast to be a third day of intense deluge.
"Even a small duration of heavy rainfall could lead to more flash flooding!" the National Weather Service office in Miami warned on X.
As of Thursday morning, flood warnings had been allowed to expire in parts of southern Florida, but residual flooding continues, and several roads remain closed in hard-hit areas. Heavy rain is forecast to pick up in the evening.
The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center issued an advisory of high risk of excessive rain Thursday afternoon for parts of southern Florida, including metropolitan Miami.
The heavy rain will create “numerous areas of flash flooding,” the weather service said. “Furthermore, many streams may flood, potentially affecting larger rivers.”
The Miami area has practically zero tolerance for any more rain. Flash flood guidance reveals it would take less than 0.25 inches of rain in just one hour to cause parts of the metro area to flood instantly.
Wednesday's downpour led Gov. Ron DeSantis to declare an emergency in Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade and Sarasota counties, allowing for state aid. The cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood also issued emergency declarations.
Cars got stuck on inundated roads, water filled homes, people were urged to stay in their residences, local airports recorded hundreds of delays and cancellations, and part of Interstate 95 in Broward County was closed to traffic for water to be drained.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Thursday afternoon that a flood watch continues in the county through Friday evening and that the hardest hit areas Wednesday were Aventura, Surfside, Belle Harbor and parts of North Dade.
Fire emergency services helped 34 people evacuate, stemming from 16 calls — three of them at homes and 13 from stranded vehicles.
There are no mandatory evacuations and no shelters opening Thursday. So far, all major roads are reported clear and open, and drinking water is safe to drink, she said.
She urged people to stay home and off the roads to avoid getting swept away in floodwaters.
Aventura police said that over 300 vehicles were towed off roadways and that elderly people were rescued from trapped vehicles Wednesday.
Hallandale Beach got 19 inches of water in five hours, Michael Kane, a spokesman for Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue, said Thursday. Emergency services responded to 175 calls related to flooding, most involving wanting cars rescued, not people. About 35 people were rescued Wednesday.
Kane said high-water rescue vehicles and boats were deployed and multiple families were saved. Many homes were “not flooded but had high water,” and elderly or impaired people needed rescue via boat. No injuries related to floods were reported.
Fort Lauderdale picked up 9.54 inches of rain in 24 hours, with Wednesday marking its wettest June day on record and the third-wettest calendar day on record.
Overall, at least six weather stations from Miami to Fort Lauderdale picked up over 10 inches of rain — the most being 13.96 inches over Hialeah and 12.67 inches over the Hollywood/Hallandale Beach area. Most of the 10- to 12-inch rain totals came over just five to six hours Wednesday.
Combined with Tuesday’s rain, some locations across South Florida have had more than 20 inches of rain in just two days.
The more than a foot of rain that came down in just six hours over the Everglades reached the criteria for a 1-in-1,000-year event — the second in just two days.
On Friday, the threat of excessive rain will decrease slightly over the southern tip of Florida, and a slight risk of excessive rain is in place for South Florida from Friday into Saturday morning.
Through Saturday morning, 5 to 10 more inches of rain will be possible, including for the metro areas of Naples, Fort Myers, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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Media Melts Down As Trump 'Steals' (Yes, That Is The Word Liberal MSM Used) Young Voters, Hispanics And A Small Portion Of Black Voters - They Finally Admit They Think They 'Own' Certain Demographics
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline June 13, 2024
Donald Trump has exposed quite a lot in the years since he rode down the elevator in 2015 and announced his candidacy for president.
He exposed the extent of the liberal media bias, something that was obvious before Trump entered the political arena, but nowhere near as blatant as after the announcement.
He exposed the Republican members of the "uniparty," which are basically democrats in disguise, which resulted in getting rid of many of them, although conservatives still have a ways to go in separating true conservative from the RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).
Of the 10 Republicans that voted to impeach Trump, only two are left in Congress.
His three nominations and confirmation and seating of Supreme Court Justices, and the subsequent ruling in Roe v Wade, sending the issue of abortion back to the states, exposed the fanatical commitment by Democrats towards killing the most vulnerable among us, the unborn. It was always known that Democrats and liberals (in many cases the same thing, since moderates are a dying breed) favored abortion more than Republicans and conservatives, but the lengths they are willing to go in order to kill unborn babies, has been on public national display since the Roe v Wade ruling.
Trump also exposed the extreme bias, and compromised federal intelligence agencies, and specific members of said agencies, that actively worked against Trump when he was in office.
Imagine any federal agencies, or members of those agencies actively working against their boss in any other country?
In some countries those members would have been prosecuted and jailed, and in other countries treasonous actions against their leaders would be a death penalty. Even corporations and businesses would at least fire anyone that actively worked against the good of the business.
The biggest complaint we hear about Trump from conservatives is his refusal to acknowledge the damage Operation Warp Speed, which was the rush to develop a Covid vaccine, has done, particularly so-called "vaccine injuries," which include death. The again, being a germaphobe, Trump was always going to favor medical "experts," so many understand he perhaps wasn't the best to be holding office during a pandemic, even one that was deliberately created in a lab.
Another thing Trump exposed was the lengths social media and Big Tech giants would go to to kill Independent Media, especially the websites that collectively forced the MSM to acknowledge certain topics such as Hillary Clinton's email scandal, her health issues when she passed out at a 9/11 memorial service. Another action that brought the weight of Big Tech and social media giants down on the head of Independent Media, was the truthful reporting of the media bias, where more than 90% of MSM stories about Trump were hostile and negative.
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One of the biggest things trump exposed in discussed in the next section.
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DEMOCRATS, LIBERAL MEDIA THINK THEY OWN CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHICS.........
Over the years Democrats have assumed multiple demographics of the population belong to them, because historically those demographics have voted for them in overwhelmingly high percentages, but Trump has exposed the fact that Democrats actually think they "own" those populations.
Blacks, Hispanics, and the youth vote has previously favored Democrats, and we have often reported over the years that if a Republican candidate could get just 5% to 10% of those groups, Democrats would be in a world of hurt.
This election cycle we see constant reports with headlines such as "Trump’s surge in polls with Black voters stuns CNN analyst: ‘Truly historic’"
Don't get me wrong, Blacks still overwhelming support Democrats, but the media reaction to Trump's doubling of support with Black voters, is causing shock amongst the media, and those that assume Black must vote with Democrats, as if they own them.
"My goodness gracious," he said as he reacted to the polling average, which showed Trump's support among Black voters more than doubled to 22% compared to 2020. Biden, meanwhile, saw a 12% drop, though he still holds a 47-point lead.
I had to laugh at that direct quote "my goodness gracious." The shock is palpable.
Same thing goes for Hispanics, a left-leaning website (meaning far left since those that rate websites also lean left), The Conversation, reports that "any move towards Trump among these groups [Hispanics] is particularly interesting"," stating the reason is because "Hispanics have historically lent towards the Democrats."
Again, you feel the authors shock that voters Democrat treat as if they own them, are daring to gravitate towards Trump.
With Hispanics, that move is far more prevalent than the move by Blacks towards toward Trump.
Here are the numbers that are freaking Democrats out:
The chart also shows that the gap between support for Biden and Trump started to narrow after the latter’s 2016 victory. In 2020 44% of the Hispanic vote went to Biden and only 16% to Trump, a gap of 28 points. According to voting intentions in the 2024 YouGov survey that gap is now six points.
A gap of 28 points favoring Democrats has dwindled to just 6 points.
While the palpable shock alone simply indicates they believe they own those votes, a new piece by Axios, another left-leaning website, regarding young voters, finally drops the pretense by Democrats that they don't "own" certain segments of the population.
I took a screen shot of the Axios headline, just in case they realize what they have admitted and change it.
Steal!!!!!
The definition of "steal" from Dictionary.com states "1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force:
The latest New York Times/Siena polling of likely voters has President Biden with just a 2-point lead over Trump among those between 18-29. A recent Quinnipiac survey has Trump ahead by a point among registered voters between 18-34.
By contrast, CNN exit polling showed that Biden won the 18-29-year-old vote by 24 percentage points in 2020, and that Hillary Clinton won it by 19 points in 2016.
They have finally given up pretending that they do not believe they own certain voters, because one does not accuse someone of stealing something from them if they do not believe the item, or in this case, the demographic, belongs to them.
BOTTOM LINE....
In 2016, Republicans and conservatives know the media was going after Trump with negative reporting, so Independent Media websites, collectively worked to bypass traditional media, and helped get Trump elected as president.
It didn't hurt that Hillary Clinton was disliked.
In 2020, Independent Media didn't think Dementia Joe had a chance, and collectively we didn't push as hard as we could. Republican voters also did not show up at the rate they did in 2016. The result of both has been four years of Biden policies, Bidenomics, and Bidenflation.
This year, Trump has made gains with Hispanics, Blacks, Young Voters and Whites, who already had larger percentages for trump than the other demographic groups.
In 2024, the choice is either four more years of the same, or Trump. Voters should act accordingly.
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Flights of Fantasy Everywhere You Look
Truth comes only in thin slices like a beam of light.
David Haggith Jun 13, 2024
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So, the Fed did exactly as expected here and reduced its likely rate hikes from the three the markets were expecting to just one, likely in December. That, I’ve said, is the best the markets can expect; but I did not say it was the best the stock and bond markets would expect; so the stock market did as can now always be expected of them and fabricated what Powell and the whole FOMC said (ALL FOMC member dot-plots for future interest got raised), and leaped into predicting the Fed would do a lot more than it said and a lot sooner
This is the same old tripping out and flying high on the Fed pivot nonsense, and the markets have been wrong on it every single month for well over a year; but being wrong doesn’t even matter here in balloon world where everything is a financial bubble of epic (balloon) proportions all the time.
While the central bank on Wednesday pushed out the start of rate cuts to perhaps as late as December, markets (and many economists) beg to differ.
I mean, why not cast a perpetually losing bet just because you want it to be so. Bet until you make it so. And so they do for their own asset valuations.
Traders price a roughly 65% chance of a quarter point move in September and more or less fully price in a move by the November meeting -- which falls two days after the U.S. presidential election.
In spite of what Powell said or even how he said it, they priced it all back in. Good luck with that actually happening. Just remember, these are largely the same people who priced in cuts for March and then for June and now for ….
The latest inflation numbers offer some explanation as to why the markets are ignoring the Fed's own take on when a first rate cut is likely to come.
On the way up, they say never fight the Fed, but they have been fighting the Fed all the way down, and they keep winning even though they are wrong on every bet. They mange to jigger prices up anyway with new fantasy beliefs because the whole financial media is lined up to make sure that happens.
The last inflation numbers, if looked at without the fantasy-filter glasses, clearly showed the Fed had made no progress at all on inflation for almost a year. In fact, the last ever-so-slightly lowered month-on-month measure, only took the year-on-year measure to a low that is higher than the whole past year’s sling of sideways bouncing lows, which leaves us with a line that shows rising highs and rising lows. Unless the next reading in CPI goes quite a bit lower, still, “higher highs and higher lows” is actually the definition of a rising trend. It may be rising VERY slowly, but it is rising still.
So, the market is just filtering out the material it needs to fill its hot-air balloon and try to get some more lift for a longer ride. It doesn’t matter that it is all riding out over nothing, so long as you can keep heating the air inside the balloon.
U.S. consumers prices were unexpectedly unchanged in May - a sign that price pressures are easing even if overall annual inflation is still running high at just over 3%.
How is going nowhere a sign that pressures are easing. It’s a sign of nothing easing. Unchanged as in, the hope for disinflation went nowhere. The Fed’s battle, after a pause that is now nearly a year long, is stuck solid, having not moved the inflation rate down over that entire time.
Most economists continued to expect two rate cuts, starting in September, arguing that inflation had turned the corner after surging in the first quarter.
They argue this because it is what they have been arguing throughout 2024, and they can’t admit they were wrong even after this much time and because they work for major investment firms and banks. In my weekend Deeper Dive, I’ll go over the two major forces that are likely going to decide where the battle goes, and one of them, which aided the latest drop can easily add next month’s rise; the other is already in the bag so we can see where it will go (unless, of course, the truth gets adjusted out of what has already happened).
So, world markets -- it appears -- have chosen to take their cue from the inflation data, released just hours before the Fed's monetary policy statement, rather than the Fed messaging.
Not only did they ignore all of the inflation data that didn’t show what they wanted, they ignored everything the official FOMC statement said and everything Powell said (who did surprise me by not going more dovish than Fed policy and not undercutting that policy as he has at most past meeting). They cherry-picked the last three inflation reports to avoid seeing that the trend for the last 11 months continues to be decidedly upward in each report.
It is no surprise at all that CNBC reports today:
“S&P 500 posts its fourth straight record close, buoyed by cooler inflation data”
Of course it did.
As I wrote ahead of the Fed’s FOMC meeting summaries yesterday:
Before much is made of today’s CPI report, as much will be made simply because it gave a small nod in the direction that the stock and bond markets both lust for…. [Then I laid out the graph that proves the long upward trend in inflation holds.] We are one month short of a year now in which the Fed has made ZERO progress on inflation…. So, there is much ado about nothing in the markets….
The Fed isn’t going to cut rates until it sees a lot more than a single month that moves in the right direction after a series of many months running the wrong direction, as shown in that graph. They need more than what could be nothing but a head fake … just as so many jobs reports and unemployment numbers have been. So, December is the earliest I can see a cut coming, and that will only be inflation turns back down throughout that time … unless, of course, the Fed completely destroys the economy before then as I’ve always said is the most likely way this mess of fantasy finance ends.
The job blob
In this world of financial balloons, jobs look more like an inflatable blob.
Jobs are likely falling more and unemployment rising more than what the Fed can see because the labor gauges are all broken and smashed to bits for a variety of reasons tha I’ve laid out along the way. Inflation is also dishonestly reported with most of the good news in blips along the way due to massive government “adjustments,” huge lag times in some numbers, and all-out-stupid ways of determining some numbers as I keep reporting along the way when the rigging shows enough to see it. (See, as just one example: “What a Wonderful World: CNBC reports that government unemployment numbers are cooked to perfection!”
The average citizen is not fooled in his or her gut by what the government numbers are falsely proclaiming. They can feel that those claims out of synch with their experience, and that is why they are unhappy with the economy sleepy, creepy Uncle Joe keeps trying to convince them is great. The government is doing its best to gaslight them for the election. However, all along the way, I try to present little windows where you can see through to the truth.
Zero Hedge, for example, asks today,
Did we suddenly get a peek at economic reality?
The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits for the first time surged last week to 242k (up from 229k and well above the 225k exp). That is the highest since August 2023.
Then they show how the vast majority of all those job losses came from California, and time out shortly after CA’s latest and greatest minimum wage law went into effect:
Then they ask,
Did Newsom's $20 fast food minimum wage bill start to hurt?
That’s based on 10,000 California workers from McDonald’s alone just being laid off due to the minimum wage in CA. That, too, was a piece of the truth pie that I handed out for free to everyone two day’s ago:
“Restaurant Apocalypse: The Do-Gooders Created All the Destruction! Every Bit of it.”
Here’s another sliver of the truth pie today: The stories below report that US corporations have never held such massive cash stockpiles as they do today—a record $4.1 trillion! Do you really suppose, then, that they HAD to raise prices as much as they did to cover their own rising costs? Sounds to me like massive profiteering and price-gouging to fatten the pockets of the executives at the cost of the entire nation because that money will largely be deployed in buybacks and dividends. They are making bank as they clam they need to raise prices more.
Some do need to raise them more. Some, like those restaurants, are barely hanging on and are closing shops all over the place; but others clearly are making bank in a big way … in good part off those price increases.
Of course, the mainstream press spins the success a little differently for their corporate advertisers, a.k.a, their bosses’ friends:
Corporate cash piles have been on an upward slope since the beginning of the pandemic, with the economy’s continuing strength allowing companies to sock more money away and generate returns on short-term holdings.
Odd how the pandemic would cause the economy to be so much stronger that companies would make more money due to the increased strength that started with the beginning of the pandemic. Does anyone ever question this stuff?
How about they got richer off the ultra-low interest that they borrowed on to create huge cash piles for their buybacks? How about they got richer by seizing the natural rise in inflation to bury increased profits by inflating more than they actually needed to while consumers were accepting that prices were just going to go up? And how about how magnificently many of them profited under the huge stimulus/rescue programs created by Trump and the ReTrumplican party in 2020 to save us all from the lockdowns they mandated in order to save us all from the Covid that our government likely helped create? And how about how a handful of them profited immensely off Covid vaccine research money from the government and covid vaccine production and administration money in a risk-free business realm guaranteed to them by that same congress? How about how many of those stimulus programs paid for by your grandchildren were continued by Biden, and how about how Biden doubled down on that by creating new Build-Back-Better programs that are paid for by your grandchildren or future grandchildren to create jobs we didn’t even need, given “the economy’s continuing strength.”
This is all madness and lies that doesn’t add up with itself because the whole system is being deeply exploited and mined and milked with heaps of debt that those of us alive today won’t ever be paying off … and most of it not going to average Joe. It’s going to Sleepy Joe’s and Troubled Trump’s rich friends. That is why Trump told his friends at Mar-a-Lago a few years back, “I just did something that will make you all very, very happy.” (After getting his massive corporate tax cuts passed without any requirement that they don’t get spent on stock buybacks.)
So, is it any wonder stocks go up even when the Fed holds tight for nearly a year and promises to keep holding tight for most of the rest of this year? Those with money to gamble want to buy in before those cash stockpiles start turning into buybacks.
You can support your favorite party if you want, but either party is equally guilty of making sure the rich get richer far faster than you do (if you’re in the average person camp), and that you pay for it with high inflation and high interest on your own debts. Now, however, they have gone so far that the government is struggling to balance the debt.
Even then, Yammerin’ Yellen says today …
U.S. debt load is in ‘reasonable place’ if it remains at this level.
And no one in the mainstream media yells back at Yellen, “And just how on earth is it going to ‘remain at this level’ with all of your boss’s Build-Back-Better deficits continuing to roll in at around $3-trillion a year?”
That would seem to be a reasonable question to me.
“If the debt is stabilized relative to the size of the economy, we’re in a reasonable place,” she told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin during a “Squawk Box” live interview.
That is two massive “ifs.” What if the debt is not stabilized at all … as has been the case throughout Biden’s term … and Trump’s term … and Obama’s term … and …
And what if the size of the economy shrinks, rather than grows with the debt, as is likely now that even fake GDP is trundling downward.
Then what kind of problem blows up inside of your “reasonable place.”
There is nothing reasonable about any part of this massive mess they are all building.
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Editor’s Note: Follow developments on the situation at Columbia University here.
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Columbia University is facing a full-blown crisis heading into Passover as a rabbi linked to the Ivy League school urged Jewish students to stay home and tense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation from the White House and New York officials.
The atmosphere is so charged that Columbia officials announced students can attend classes and even possibly take exams virtually starting Monday – the first day of Passover, a major Jewish holiday set to begin in the evening.
Tensions at Columbia, and many universities, have been high ever since the October 7 terror attack on Israel by Hamas. However, the situation at Columbia escalated in recent days after university officials testified before Congress last week about antisemitism on campus and pro-Palestinian protests on and near campus surged.
The latest crisis has opened Columbia President Minouche Shafik up to new attacks from her critics, with Republican US Rep. Elise Stefanik demanding she step down immediately because school leadership has “clearly lost control of its campus.”
Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chair of the House Education Committee, sent a letter on Sunday to university leaders warning them of consequences if they do not rein in protests on campus.
“Columbia’s continued failure to restore order and safety promptly to campus constitutes a major breach of the University’s Title VI obligations, upon which federal financial assistance is contingent, and which must immediately be rectified,” Foxx wrote.
Underscoring concerns about student safety, Rabbi Elie Buechler, a rabbi associated with Columbia University’s Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, confirmed to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that he sent a WhatsApp message to a group of about 300 mostly Orthodox Jewish students “strongly” recommending they return home and remain there.
In his message, Buechler wrote that recent events at the university “have made it clear that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety.”
“It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved,” the message reads.
White House condemns calls for violence against Jews
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The situation at Columbia has even drawn the attention of the White House, joining local leaders in urging calm.
“While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement shared with CNN on Sunday. The statement did not include examples of those incidents.
President Joe Biden similarly said Sunday, “Even in recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews. This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous – and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country.”
In response, organizers of the protest — Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine — said in a statement, “We have been peaceful,” and distanced themselves from non-student protestors who have gathered outside the campus, calling them “inflammatory individuals who do not represent us.”
“We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry and stand vigilant against non-students attempting to disrupt the solidarity being forged among students – Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, Black and pro-Palestinian classmates and colleagues who represent the full diversity of our country,” the activists’ statement continued.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on X that threatening Jewish students with violence is antisemitism. “The First Amendment protects the right to protest but students also have a right to learn in an environment free from harassment or violence,” the Democratic governor said.
In a statement, New York Mayor Eric Adams said the city’s police department has an “increased presence of officers” in the area around Columbia’s campus “to protect students and all New Yorkers on nearby public streets.”
The Democratic mayor said he was “horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus.”
‘Discomfort and fear’
In a Sunday statement to CNN, a university spokesperson said the safety of Columbia’s community is “our number one priority.”
The statement added, “We are acting on concerns we are hearing from our Jewish students and are providing additional support and resources to ensure that our community remains safe.”
While Buechler called for Jewish students to stay home, the campus Hillel said in a Sunday post on X that they “do not believe that Jewish students should leave” the campus.
“This is a time of genuine discomfort and even fear for many of us on campus,” the Hillel said in a statement. “Columbia University and the City of New York must do more to protect students. We call on the University Administration to act immediately in restoring calm to campus. The City must ensure that students can walk up and down Broadway and Amsterdam without fear of harassment.”
Throughout Passover, there will be a police presence at the Kraft Center, a Jewish cultural center shared by Columbia and Barnard, and campus public safety will provide walking escorts to and from the building starting Monday, according to an email from Brian Cohen, the center’s executive director.
Chabad, a Jewish organization the University, said on Facebook they’ve hired additional security to protect students during Passover. They said they were “horrified by what we witnessed last night on and near Columbia’s campus,” but still planned to host Passover celebrations on campus.
The rabbi sent the message after videos circulated showing a man outside the university saying, “Never forget the seventh of October,” and “that will happen not one more time, not five more times, not 10 more times, not 100 more times, not 1,000 more times, but 10,000 times!”
A video taken on the university’s campus Saturday night also shows a small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanting, “F**k Israel. Israel is a b*tch,” while waving the Palestinian flag.
In addition to the student protests on campus, groups of protesters have also gathered outside the campus gates. It’s unclear from the video whether the person yelling is affiliated with the university.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest addressed the “unassociated incidents” in an Instagram story, writing that their “priority is the safety of all,” which “includes not antagonizing counter protestors or escalating situations unnecessarily.”
The encampment began the same day Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, testified before Congress about antisemitism on campus.
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Speaking with CNN, one Jewish Columbia student highlighted the hazards risked by the students protesting as well as interfaith prayers and a Seder service at the encampment.
“Columbia students organizing in solidarity with Palestine – including Jewish students – have faced harassment, doxxing, and now arrest by the NYPD. These are the main threats to the safety of Jewish Columbia students,” Jonathan Ben-Menachem, a PhD student, told CNN.
“On the other hand, student protesters have led interfaith joint prayers for several days now, and Passover Seder will be held at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment tomorrow,” he went on. “Saying that student protesters are a threat to Jewish students is a dangerous smear.”
Another student, Noah Lederman, told CNN he was “terrified, angry, upset, and horrified that the university failed to take action.” Lederman said he had been accosted in early February and had asked the university for remote learning options. “What’s happening on campus is blatantly antisemitic,” he added.
Students will be permitted to attend classes virtually due to the ongoing demonstrations, a university spokesperson told CNN on Sunday.
‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ enters its fifth day
Sunday marked a fifth day of demonstrations at the prestigious school, with students camping out overnight on the school’s lawns.
Columbia’s Campus Rabbi Yonah Hain shared a statement with CNN saying the university’s Center for Jewish Student Life is and will remain open and is welcoming students.
On Thursday, the university’s president requested the NYPD remove student protestors, leading to the arrest of over 100 people. “The students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner,” said NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell.
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CNN has reached out to Columbia University and the university’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing for more information on their investments and for comment on the protest organizers’ allegations.
The encampment was jointly organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest – a student-led coalition of more than 100 organizations – Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace, to protest what they describe as the university’s “continued financial investment in corporations that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and military occupation of Palestine,” according to a news release from Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
The protests come as the death toll of Israel’s war in Gaza has continued to rise. At least 34,097 Palestinians have been killed and 76,980 injured since October, according to the enclave’s health ministry. Israel launched ongoing attacks after a Hamas attack on October 7 killed more than 1,200 people.
The demonstrations – and the suspension and arrests of students involved – have inspired solidarity rallies at other universities, including Yale, Harvard, the University of North Carolina, and Boston University.
Allegations of violence have also appeared at some of these other demonstrations.
A Yale sophomore, Sahar Tartak, says another student assaulted her with a Palestinian flag Saturday while she was documenting a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus. Video of the incident from Tartak shows a student passing by while holding a Palestinian flag before the person filming exclaims, “Ow, ow!”
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Yale’s Office of Public Affairs said in a statement, “The Yale Police Department is investigating a report of an assault that occurred during a protest on Beinecke Plaza. The university does not tolerate violence, threats, harassment, or intimidation of members of our community, and is providing support to a student who made the report.”
In a statement, Yale Jews for Ceasefire called the action “unacceptable.”
“Last night, a counter-protester said she was poked in the eye with a flag. Such an action, whether or not it was intentional, is unacceptable. We are fundamentally committed to maintaining a non-violent and welcoming protest environment in which all community members can make their voices heard,” the group said in a statement.
In January, the International Court of Justice found that Israel was “plausibly” violating laws on genocide in its war on Gaza and ordered Israel to take “all measures” to prevent genocide.
In response, Israel rejected what it called the “grossly distorted” accusation of genocide leveled against it by South Africa over its military action in Gaza, telling the United Nations’ top court the case was an attempt to “pervert the meaning” of the term.
One Columbia law school student, Elijah Emery, who is Jewish, told CNN Sunday that “the right of peaceful protest is paramount.”
“I’m personally extremely disturbed by the use of the police to disrupt the encampment,” he said. “It was a mistake by the university. It made me more supportive of the encampment and what it represents about free speech.”
He contrasted the “pretty peaceful” environment on campus with the more energized demonstrations outside campus, referencing “deeply disheartening” incidents that took place Saturday night outside campus by people Emery said were not affiliated with the university. He added that some more observant Jewish friends of his had experienced harassment but that Jewish students should feel safe on campus.
“Especially during the day, I’m never really worried about anything getting out of hand,” he said.
CNN’s Sarah Dewberry, Sam Fossum, Caroll Alvarado, Paradise Afshar and Priscilla Alvarez contributed to this report.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/21/us/columbia-university-jewish-students-protests/index.html
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US Navy Evacuates Injured Mariner From Houthi-Attacked Cargo Ship Set Ablaze By Missiles
by Tyler Durden Friday, Jun 14, 2024 - 11:45 AM
Chaos in the Red Sea region continued into the latter part of the week, with the US military rescuing an injured civilian mariner from a cargo ship attacked by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The situation underscores the ongoing disruption in the key maritime chokepoint as some have viewed the Biden administration's Operation Prosperity Guardian as a colossal failure.
Overnight, US Central Command (CENTCOM) released a statement about M/V Verbena — a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, Polish-operated bulk cargo vessel — that was hit with two anti-ship cruise missiles, sparking a fire aboard the ship in the Gulf of Aden area.
"M/V Verbena reported damage and subsequent fires on board. The crew continues to fight the fire. One civilian mariner was severely injured during the attack," CENTCOM wrote.
CENTCOM continued, "Aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) medically evacuated the injured mariner to a partner force ship nearby for medical attention."
In a separate statement, USCENTCOM detailed how its forces had a busy week, successfully destroying one air defense sensor in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemem, an uncrewed surface vessel in the Red Sea, two patrol boats in the Red Sea, and one uncrewed aerial system in the Red Sea.
June 13 U.S. Central Command Update
In the past 24 hours, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces successfully destroyed one air defense sensor in a Houthi controlled area of Yemen.
Then, USCENTCOM forces successfully destroyed one Iranian-backed Houthi uncrewed surface… pic.twitter.com/cnbPOQzcyT
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 14, 2024
On Wednesday, the Greek cargo ship Tutor was hit by a drone boat attack. This is one of the first instances of Houthis using remote-controlled surface vessels against commercial shipping vessels.
According to a new report released Thursday, the Defense Intelligence Agency said traffic through the Red Sea has declined by about 90% since mid-February.
The Middle East Eye recently obtained a document from the International Maritime Organization that shows Houthi rebels have attacked 28 bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, cargo ships, and crude oil tankers this year.
We'll end this note with CENTCOM's frustration:
"This continued reckless behavior by the Iranian-backed Houthis threatens regional stability and endangers the lives of mariners across the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Houthis claim to be acting on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza and yet they are targeting and threatening the lives of third country nationals who have nothing to do with the conflict in Gaza. The ongoing threat to the ability to safely transit the region caused by the Houthis makes it harder to deliver critical assistance to the people of Yemen as well as to Gaza. US CENTCOM will continue to act with partners to hold the Houthis accountable and degrade their military capabilities."
The Houthis have only been emboldened by a weak Biden administration whose disastrous foreign policy decisions have unleashed fires across the world.
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A Crime Against Humanity So Horrifying That I Don’t Even Have The Words To Describe It
June 13, 2024 by Michael
When we read about ancient societies that worshipped their gods by conducting child sacrifices, many of us recoil in horror. But the truth is that far more children are being murdered in our time, and the vast majority of the population is perfectly okay with that. In ancient times, in most cases it wasn’t children that were wanted that were brought to the child sacrifices. Instead, in most cases such ceremonies were a perfect opportunity to get rid of children that were not wanted. Today, unwanted children are discarded behind closed doors at an abortion clinic. This is being done on an industrial scale, but since we never have to see it happening most of us are able to ignore the slaughter most of the time. Of course that doesn’t make our society any less guilty than the ancient societies that performed child sacrifices publicly.
Here in the United States, more than 60 million abortions have been performed since 1973.
What does a nation that has killed more than 60 million children deserve?
Please take a moment and come up with your best answer to that question.
When you fully understand what we have done, and you fully understand what we deserve, the importance of this issue finally becomes clear.
Of course the U.S. is not the only country that has been wiping out kids on an industrial scale.
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 73 million abortions are being performed around the world every year…
Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion
Just think about that.
At this pace, 730 million children would be aborted in 10 years, 1.4 billion children would be aborted in 20 years, and 7.3 billion children would be aborted in 100 years.
There are only about 8 billion people living on the entire globe right now.
So we are talking about a slaughter that is truly unprecedented in all of human history.
The only hope that we have is to immediately stop killing children.
But that isn’t going to happen. In fact, a new Gallup survey shows that U.S. voters are shifting in a pro-abortion direction…
A record-high 32% of U.S. voters say they would only vote for a candidate for major office who shares their views on abortion. The importance of a candidate’s abortion stance to one’s vote is markedly higher among pro-choice voters than it was during the 2020 presidential election cycle, while pro-life voters’ intensity about voting on the abortion issue has waned. Also, voters’ greater intensity on the issue today compared with 2020 is explained mainly by Democrats, while Republicans and independents have shown little change.
U.S. adults who are pro-choice are also significantly more likely now than two decades ago to say it is important that any future Supreme Court nominees share their views on abortion.
A different survey that was conducted by Navigator Research discovered that a whopping 63 percent of Americans “could not support an elected official who believes in a nationwide abortion ban”…
Now, according to new polling of 1,000 registered voters by progressive firm Navigator Research, 63 percent of Americans say they could not support an elected official who believes in a nationwide abortion ban. Forty-three percent of the Republicans asked in the survey said they could not support a figure with these views.
With national and swing state polls ahead of the 2024 presidential election so tight, abortion rights could be a key factor that decides several of November’s races.
This is why so few of our politicians support a nationwide abortion ban at this point.
The American people don’t want it.
When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, that was an opportunity for our nation to change direction.
But instead, the number of abortions performed in the United States actually went up the following year…
More than a million abortions were provided in the U.S. in 2023. That’s a major finding from a report published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports access to abortion.
To be precise, researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023. “That’s the highest number in over a decade, [and] the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S. formal health care system since 2012,” explains Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a data scientist with Guttmacher.
Most people don’t realize this, but most abortions today are performed by using medications…
The Guttmacher report also found that medication abortions rose to 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 53% in 2020. The research was conducted by surveying all in-person and virtual abortion providers in the country and adding up their abortion counts. Guttmacher has been doing this research since 1974.
The Supreme Court had an opportunity to do something about that, but they decided to take the easy way out.
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled against the pro-life doctors that had brought the case, and pro-abortion forces are greatly rejoicing…
In a blow for anti-abortion advocates, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used drug can remain widely available.
The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue.
After the Supreme Court decision was announced, Joe Biden declared that “the fight for reproductive freedom continues”…
President Joe Biden said in a statement that while the ruling means the pill can remain easily accessible, “the fight for reproductive freedom continues” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling two years ago that overturned abortion rights landmark Roe v. Wade.
“It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states,” he added.
This is an issue on which the Democrats will never compromise.
Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said about the other party.
Look, the truth is that if we stay on the path that we are on our nation will experience the judgment of God.
We aren’t just a little bit guilty.
Tens of millions of precious American children are already dead, and more are being killed with each passing day.
If we do not change direction, time will eventually run out and then we will get exactly what we deserve.
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For there is not as much time left as you believe that there is, for Russia is knocking on the door right now for war, China is knocking on the door right now for war, they’re pushing for a war between the blacks and the whites. Do you not hear it, do you not recognize it, do you not realize it, etc
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Breaking News: U.S. Sends Los Angeles Class, Fast-attack Submarine to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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As the world focuses on the arrival of a Russian Naval group on a "visit" to Havana, Cuba, the United States has sent the USS Helena, a Los Angeles Class, Fast-Attack submarine, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . . . . for a . . . visit.
US Southern Command announced:
"The fast-attack submarine USS Helena is in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as part of a routine port visit as it transits the U.S. Southern Command geographic area of responsibility while conducting its global maritime security and national defense mission. The vessel's location and transit were previously planned.
So now, all those Russian surface vessels, can be torpedoed by the USS Helena. The Helena can be torpedoed by the Russian Submarine "Kazan" which accompanied the Russian surface group.
And all of them are at Cuba, right now. No big deal, what could go wrong?
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G7 Dancing with Russian Assets and Poking the Bear
Posted Jun 13, 2024 by Martin Armstrong |
The G7 (Group of Seven) leaders reached an agreement on June 13th to utilize frozen Russian assets in their continued support of the war in Ukraine. However, they dance very carefully with the bear. They are NOT handing the actual assets to Ukraine – the most corrupt country perhaps in the world. The Pandora Papers revealed that Ukraine had the highest number of politicians from any country with a secret offshore account. Even Forbes Magazine said that Ukraine owes it to the West to clean up the outrageous corruption. Foreign Policy Magazine asked how deep does the corruption in Ukraine run? The joke in the US is that Biden Administration has created more billionaires than any other administration in history. They all just so happen to be in Ukraine. Others are asking should they just send their income tax directly to Zelenskyy?
The G7 will provide the black financial hole we call Ukraine with a loan using frozen Russian assets as collateral. The corruption is so pervasive, and accountability is ZERO, so they have wisely concluded not to actually turn over Russian assets for Putin would then be justified to just confiscate ALL assets held by Western countries and private/public corporations to compensate what is a violation of international law – which nobody cares about anymore.
The total sum is unclear at this time, but the United States has committed $50 billion thanks to Blinken, who has family tied to Ukraine, the same as Victoria Nuland. The risk will be shared among the other G7 nations, and this risk is substantial, for Ukraine will no longer exist as a country when this is over based on our computer models. Zelenskyy is too busy stuffing his pockets to actually care about his people or the future. He is banking on NATO invading Russia and extinguishing it as a country so he can then seize all the assets of Russia for Ukraine.
What most people do not understand is that the removal of Russian banks from SWIFT did NOT include the ones that Europe pays for energy. They do not want to talk about that publicly, and others are pretending that all these transactions are going through crypto. Behind closed doors, if the US tried to remove those banks from SWIFT, Europe would be in revolution, for the continent would go dark, with no food, light, heat, or industrial production.
Victoria Nuland is really of Ukrainian Jewish descent. Her family changed their name to try to hide their Jewish ethnic background. She really would be Nudelman, not Nuland. She is actually the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland, who changed his surname from Nudelman to Nuland. She retained her family name, Nuland, to perhaps further hide her Jewish/Ukrainian connection by marrying Robert Kagan. Ron Paul plainly wrote: “Victoria Nuland exemplifies the neocons who have led US foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years while evading accountability. “
Victoria Nuland is really of Ukrainian Jewish descent. Her family changed their name to try to hide their Jewish ethnic background. She really would be Nudelman, not Nuland. She is actually the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland, who changed his surname from Nudelman to Nuland. She retained her family name, Nuland, to perhaps further hide her Jewish/Ukrainian connection by marrying Robert Kagan. Ron Paul plainly wrote: “Victoria Nuland exemplifies the neocons who have led US foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years while evading accountability. “
This is most likely why Zelenskyy married a Christian, baptized his children, and only said he was Jewish after becoming president. He would even make jokes about confiscating assets from Jews and Russians before becoming president.
For him to admit that his family was persecuted by Russians certainly colors his judgment, and it appears that this connected Jewish/Ukrainian group has weaseled their way to the top and directed US foreign policy against Russia for personal animosity. They have always been promoting World War III and appear to have very deep hidden roots that should not be allowed to influence such policies.
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UNLOCKED: S-500 Deployed Earlier Than Expected; Posture Now Consistent with Nuclear First-Strike
Hal Turner World June 13, 2024 Hits: 19586
This story is now UNLOCKED and available to the general public --
Yesterday, this website and radio show reported that Russia had suddenly commenced nuclear launch exercises with their naval group off the coast of Florida. What I chose to **not** report was that at the same time, Russia expanded its ongoing "Tactical nuclear weapons exercises" from the Southern Military District to also include the Leningrad Military District near St. Petersburg.
The unannounced missile drills off the coast of Florida was nerve-racking enough; but the added information about the expansion of tactical nuke drills to the area around St. Petersburg was just emotionally over the top.
TODAY things got exponentially worse.
Overnight, Russia deployed the second generation of its S-500 air defense systems . . . around Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Russia's strategic nuclear missile silos.
This second generation system - the undisputed pinnacle of air defense systems in the world - was not expected to be ready for deployment for at least another six months.
The fact that Russia deployed them last night, and did so in very significant numbers for which mass-production wasn't even known to be ready, never mind active, around Moscow, St. Petersburg AND their strategic nuclear missile silos, has now changed the balance of power completely.
There's no gentle way to say this, so I'm just going to say it: This posture is one that would be expected if Russia was planning a nuclear first-strike upon the West, and was readying to defend itself from the counter-strike.
Looking at the timing of all of this, underscores the harsh reality:
Russia announced Tactical nuclear weapons exercises about three weeks ago, and began them two weeks ago in their Southern Military District.
Russia then sortied eleven nuclear missile submarines into the Atlantic Ocean, about ten days ago.
About three days later, Russia then sortied twenty-seven (27) additional nuclear missile submarines into the Pacific Ocean.
Russia then waited about a week (for the subs to get into position????) and EXPANDED the Tactical nuclear exercises to also include the Leningrad Military District around St. Petersburg. This means the ENTIRE Russian border with the West, is presently seeing the movement of actual, Tactical nuclear weapons, brought to within striking distance of NATO forces and NATO member countries!
Last night, Russia made a surprise deployment of their newest S-500 "Prometheus" air defense system around Moscow, St. Petersburg, and their strategic ICBM silos.
Added together, E V E R Y indication is that Russia is fully prepared now to launch a severe nuclear first-strike, and successfully defend itself from a counter-strike.
The only things the Russians have not yet done are declare a General War Mobilization of the entire population, and begin moving people into Bomb shelters.
Everything else is already done.
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Between Russia and China they own the sea, we search for their submarines and we cannot find them, we search for the battleships and without satellite we would never find them. There is a great warfare ready to take place because of the sea; the ocean surrounds every little place there is.
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China is Now Threatening to Arrest Foreigners in the South China Sea
John Sexton 11:20 AM | June 13, 2024
China never stops escalating its attempts to assume control of territory that does not belong to China. It's behavior toward the Philippines has become increasingly aggressive over the past year and now China has instituted a policy to arrest anyone who disagrees. The new policy was announced last month.
Beijing has fleshed out the Chinese coastguard’s powers to detain foreigners suspected of illegally crossing borders, rolling out regulations on Wednesday that stipulate suspects can be held for up to 60 days without trial, amid rising tensions in the South China Sea.
While existing laws and regulations give coastguards the power to detain suspects, this is the first time a specific regulation has clarified the coastguard force’s law enforcement procedure for administrative detentions...
The release of the latest regulatory document, effective from June 15, coincided with a civilian mission from the Philippines that kicked off on Wednesday to assert Manila’s claims near the contested Scarborough Shoal, also known as Panatag Shoal.
I wrote about that civilian effort, dubbed Atin Ito - meaning this is ours, here. The new detention policy goes into effect this Saturday and already Manilla is seeing a surge in Chinese ships at sea.
China this week increased its number of vessels in the West Philippine Sea, Manila said, ahead of the start of Beijing’s policy on Saturday to detain foreign nationals it considers to be trespassing in its maritime territory.
Analysts warn China’s aggressive moves in the region, including its detention policy, could escalate into armed conflict as Beijing continues to push a strategy designed to provoke other nations “to be the first to fire”.
Philippine navy spokesman Commodore Roy Vincent Trinidad said on Tuesday that 146 Chinese vessels, including 22 warships, were detected this week in the West Philippine Sea – Manila’s term for the part of the South China Sea that falls within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. This was up from 125 vessels last week.
China did offer an exception to the new policy: They promised to allow food deliveries to a contested shoal so long as Manilla asked their permission in advance. The Philippines gave that an immediate thumbs down.
The Philippine National Security Council replied that the country will continue to maintain and supply its outposts in the South China Sea without seeking permission from any other country.
In a formal statement under the council's letterhead, national security adviser Eduardo Ano dismissed the suggestion as"absurd, ridiculous and unacceptable."...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called the new rules "totally unacceptable" and said he will take all necessary measures to "protect citizens" and continue to"defend the country's territory."
Here's the full response:
The concern of course is that if China continues to ratchet up tensions, something could happen which can't be overlooked. China may indeed be angling to get the other side to shoot first but detaining Philippine fishermen risks an accident where someone is seriously hurt or killed. And because the US has a mutual defense treaty with the Philippines, we could be involved as well.
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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
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right, I didn’t say North Korea, I said Russia, Russia.
Listen to the news and you will notice how she is
building and building and testing and testing.
Soon she will strike.
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For there is not as much time left as you believe that there is, for Russia is knocking on the door right now for war, China is knocking on the door right now for war, they’re pushing for a war between the blacks and the whites. Do you not hear it, do you not recognize it, do you not realize it, etc
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Russian Naval Group off Melbourne, Florida Coastline!
Hal Turner World June 10, 2024 Hits: 27327
Here is the vessel tracking map:
While these vessels from the Russian Navy are hanging out off Florida, the Russian Navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov - capable of carrying Zircon hypersonic missiles, arrives in Havana:
Hal Turner Remarks:
Just so all of you grasp what's taking place here, the United States and our NATO vassals, are making more and more trouble for Russia, inside Ukraine.
The Russian Navy has a grouping of warships off the east coast of Florida, between Melbourne and Vero Beach.
So now Russia is demonstrating to us they can make trouble for us . . . . HERE . . . . inside the United States.
While what __we__ are doing in Ukraine is causing the actual deaths of Russian soldiers, Russia has not ---- yet ---- decided to bring death to OUR people. Notice I said "yet."
This is what the US Congress and the US President are causing. While THEY play "the sport of Kings (war" in Ukraine, we the American people are the ones they are endangering HERE, inside our own country.
If we get attacked here, inside America, by Russian forces, the sole and exclusive BLAME rests on members of the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and the present illegitimate occupant of the Presidency.
They have been warned over and over again by Russia, to stop what they're doing. Yet Congress not only ignores the warnings, they up-the-ante and do even worse things. Sooner or later, once the Russians have had enough, they're going to show us that they are as powerful - if not more - than we are.
Remember that when you see your member of Congress slithering out from a nuclear bunker after it's all over . . . . and hold them accountable right then and there.
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etc. a terrible dark cloud has covered the earth, sickness, pain, suffering, bloodshed, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, fire, famine, pestilences, heartaches and sorrow, the anti-christ rising to power and fame. Oh, what a day that has now come.
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Extreme Weather
Published June 6, 2024 5:20pm EDT
'Monster'-sized hailstone could shatter Texas record, near world record
A storm tracker used a 16-ounce Monster Energy Drink can for reference to show the size of the hailstone in Vigo Park, Texas on Sunday. The stone dwarfs it.
By Hillary Andrews Source FOX Weather
VIGO PARK, Texas – A hailstone the size of a pineapple could set a new Texas record.
A storm tracker for an Oklahoma City TV station found the hailstone near Vigo Park. He told Phys.Org that this was the largest hailstone he had seen in his 30 years of chasing. He saw the monster stone from 100 yards away.
And this was a literal monster. The storm tracker used a 16-ounce Monster Energy Drink can to show the size of the hail stone in his social media posts. The stone dwarfs it. The can is 6.2 inches high, according to the company.
The tracker sent the pictures to the National Weather Service office in Lubbock, Texas, which shared them with the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, a research group.
"The group found the hailstone to measure just over 7 inches in diameter, which would shatter the current state record of 6.416 inches from Hondo, Texas," the NWS released in a statement.
The Hondo stone fell in 2021. The photo below illustrates why it takes days or longer to verify a hail stone's measurement into the record books. In May 2021, staff from the NWS Austin-San Antonio office and the Insurance Institute of Business and Home Safety met up at the hailstone's finder's home to scan and analyze the hailstone.
Finally in June, the State Climate Extremes Committee verified and validated the hailstone, making it the largest in Texas – which is saying a lot for a state known for supersizing. The committee is made up of staff from the NWS and the National Centers for Environmental Information.
"After reviewing the observational and meteorological evidence, the means and method of measurement, and previously documented stones, the SCEC unanimously agreed that the hailstone retrieved near Hondo on 28 April 2021 would set the inaugural SCEC record for the State of Texas in four metrics," stated the SCEC memorandum.
Next, the Texas State Climatologist will verify the measurements and research the event.
Stone would need over 100 mph updraft
The size of a hailstone is directly related to the strength of the updrafts in a thunderstorm. The more time hail spends in a cloud, the more layers of water will freeze on it and the larger it will be.
When the ice is too heavy for the updraft, a column of air flowing upwards in a thunderstorm, gravity takes over, and it falls to the ground. Even just a hailstone of 4.5 inches needs at least 100 mph of updraft.
"The extreme lift with the storm's updraft was able to generate giant hail in the vicinity of Vigo Park," NWS Lubbock said. "In addition, the storm produced a tornado which traveled over open country after passing the community."
There is no word yet on how heavy the Vigo Park hailstone was, but the Hondo stone was about 1.2 pounds.
A forecaster with the NWS told a local paper that the Vigo Park stone was about one inch short of setting a world record.
The largest hailstone recorded in the U.S. was 8 inches in diameter and 18.62 inches in circumference, found in Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010. It weighed 1.9 pounds. For comparison, a volleyball is also about 8 inches in diameter. In second place comes a Nebraska hailstone at 7 inches in diameter, but it did have a bigger circumference than the Vivian stone.
The NWS said that the record holding hail did melt a little before the official NWS measurement because the power was out to the finder's freezer.
The heaviest hailstones on record fell in Bangladesh and weighed about 2.25 pounds in 1986, according to Guinness World Records. The storm reportedly killed 92 people.
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/monster-pineapple-sized-hail-record-vigo-park-texas
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Day 249 of Israel at war: At least five people were killed in an overnight attack at the Lebanon-Syria border, reports suggest. Three victims are said to have had Syrian citizenship.
The Israel-attributed attack occurred in the area of the Syrian village of Al-Qusayr and in the north of the Lebanese district of Hermel, reportedly controlled by Hezbollah.
To catch up on the events from Monday, CLICK HERE
Read more in-depth stories on the Israel-Hamas war
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'We have the Israelis where we want them': Sinwar's words revealed - WSJ report
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Yahya Sinwar has been in direct contact with Hamas leaders in Qatar, saying civilian casualties are "necessary sacrifices."
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
JUNE 11, 2024 09:21 Updated: JUNE 11, 2024 12:53
A Wall Street Journal report has revealed messages penned by Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, to various Hamas officials and hostage deal mediators.
According to the report, referring to the war, Sinwar recently wrote to Hamas officials negotiating a hostage deal, “We have the Israelis right where we want them.”
In a message to Hamas leaders in Qatar, Sinwar presented as an example the civilian casualties during the Algerian war, affirming such casualties “are necessary sacrifices."
In a similar vein, when the three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israel Air Force (IAF) strike in Gaza in April, Sinwar affirmed both their deaths and that of other Palestinians would “infuse life into the veins of this nation, prompting it to rise to its glory and honor.”
Regarding civilian women and children being taken hostages by Palestinian mobs on October 7, the WSJ report cites his messages to negotiators as saying, “Things went out of control.”
“People got caught up in this, and that shouldn't have happened,” he claimed.
No reconciliation
Sinwar was also reportedly discontent with Hamas officials meeting with other factions in December to debate reconciliation after the war, which he labeled “shameful and outrageous.”
He reportedly added, “As long as fighters are still standing and we have not lost the war, such contacts should be immediately terminated.” He further stated, “We have the capabilities to continue fighting for months.”
Referring to a ground operation in Rafah, Sinwar wrote to Hamas leaders in Qatar that “Israel’s journey in Rafah won’t be a walk in the park.”
The WSJ report also noted that Sinwar’s recent messages to Hamas allies illustrate an inclination to die while fighting. He equated the Gaza war to the battle of Karbala in Iraq, which occurred in the 7th century and in which the grandson of the prophet Muhammed was killed. “We have to move forward on the same path we started,” Sinwar said. “Or let it be a new Karbala.”
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-805827
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As Trust Wanes
By Hal Lindsey
Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, once said, “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
Remove that glue, and things come apart. I was reminded of that when FBI Director Christopher Wray answered questions on Capitol Hill a few days ago. Traditionally, Republicans have been the party of law and order. But here they were, grilling the FBI Director, many of them seeming to believe very little of what the man had to say.
Despite some strong opinions of my own, my point is not to take a side in that fight. But I will say this. Trust is hard won, and easily lost. Trust is won through diligence and integrity. It is won when a person or an institution consistently tells the truth. But the glue of trust weakens with every lie. A bit of it dies with every dishonest deed.
Truth is the common ground that allows us to accomplish things together. If you go to the doctor and you tell him or her the truth, the two of you together can fight whatever problem you face. If you lie, then you’re on your own.
Waning trust not only destroys relationships between individuals, but it destroys the effectiveness of God-ordained human institutions. Even the worst dictators work hard to get their populations to trust them. Government doesn’t work without trust. And if we do not or cannot trust our courts or the judiciary, what do we have left? What are parents to do when they stop trusting their local school systems? What happens when even medical institutions begin to make decisions based on political considerations rather than the health of their patients?
Jesus called Satan the father of lies. That means by his very nature, Satan sows distrust. As a society follows the father of lies, it becomes less trustful and less trustworthy. People begin to feel increasingly paranoid — as if danger lies in wait around every corner. Anger comes quickly and easily. Fear reigns.
What is the solution? Start by trusting God. That doesn’t mean to trust everything you ever heard anyone say about God. But trust Him. Trust His love. Trust that His ways will always be best, even when you do not understand.
Consider these three scriptures. Numbers 23:19 says, “God is not a man, that He should lie.” Titus 1:2 says, “God… cannot lie.” Hebrews 6:18 says, “It is impossible for God to lie.”
When your society is falling apart or your personal life feels like it’s unraveling, trust God. Follow His instructions. Do what He says. He is all-powerful, all-knowing, and He cares about you even more than you care about yourself.
As you trust God, something wonderful will happen inside you. You will become more like your Heavenly Father, the One who cannot lie. You will become more and more trustworthy. It might be the beginning of a healing that will touch the whole world. At the very least, it will change your life. It will defeat your paranoia, quell your anger, and ease your fear.
It is only through His love and your generosity we are able to share the Gospel and hope with millions around the world. You can help support Hal Lindsey Ministries by mailing your tax deductible gift to PO Box 470470 Tulsa, OK 74147-0470. United States Over the phone 1-888- ROPTURE (1-888-727-8873)
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France’s far right may win big in the EU elections. That’s worrying for migrants, Macron and Ukraine
By ANGELA CHARLTON
PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen isn’t on the ballot at the weekend’s European Parliament election, but she’s likely to emerge as one of its biggest winners.
Polls expect her National Rally party to be the top vote-getter in France, trouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s moderate pro-business party. And across Europe, the anti-immigration, nationalist ideas Le Pen has long championed are gaining ground.
The June 6-9 elections in all 27 EU countries will shift the makeup of the European Parliament and policy-making in the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, likely further toward the right and far right. And that could boost Le Pen’s chances of winning France’s presidency in 2027, a long-time dream.
The National Rally’s lead European Parliament candidate Jordan Bardella is riding high on promises to limit free movement of migrants within the EU’s open borders, ease up EU pressure on Russia and dial back EU climate rules.
“We stand by the idea of rethinking the European model around the idea of nations. Macron’s Europe is a model of the past,″ Bardella said at a Paris rally Sunday.
Macron’s pro-EU movement meanwhile is flailing, and its chief candidate Valerie Hayer has struggled to make a mark. That’s troubling for Macron as he tries to lead Europe-wide efforts to defend Ukraine and boost the EU’s own defenses and industry.
More popular Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is now joining Hayer at rallies, warning voters that hard-fought post-war European unity — and democracy itself -– is under threat by rising authoritarianism.
’’Europe is mortal, because war knocks on our door as bombs are being dropped on Ukraine, on democracy, on our values, and because we know that if Russia wins it won’t stop there,″ Attal said at a rally last week.
He said Europe knows “it can’t rely on the U.S. eternally and needs to protect itself ... because challenges are multiplying, climate change, big tech, AI, and we can only face them together, the 27 of us.”
While EU voters are choosing members of the European Parliament, many are making decisions based on national concerns – and in France, many are expected to use their ballots to express frustration with Macron’s management of the economy, the farm sector, or security in a country about to host the high-risk Paris Olympics.
On the left, polls show a surprising resurgence of France’s Socialist Party behind its lead candidate, Raphael Glucksmann, who pledges more ambitious climate policy and protections for European businesses and workers.
Macron sidelined France’s once-powerful Socialists and mainstream conservative Republicans when he rose to power in 2017 by staking out a middle ground. But frustration among left-wing voters with Macron’s toughening security and immigration policies, and with the staunch pro-Palestinian stance of the influential far-left France Unbowed party, has driven some back toward the traditional Socialists.
Russia’s president, Gulf leaders and other oil powers can ‘’cut supplies of gas or oil, but they can’t prevent the wind from blowing in (the French Atlantic town of) Saint-Nazaire and the sun from shining in Marseille. We will earn our freedom back by completing the environmental transformation,″ Glucksmann told followers last week.
His fans include office workers like Sébastien Miret, 34.
“We want a more feminist, more socially conscious, fairer, more environmentalist Europe, and we’re going to fight to the end to see these ideas win,’' he said at a Socialist campaign event. He’s tired of the ‘’match between Macron and the far-right. We’ve seen it too many times. It’s time to move on.”
Still, it’s Le Pen — runner-up to Macron in the last two presidential elections — who is expected to benefit the most from France’s protest vote, even more so than her party did in the last EU elections in 2019.
In the working-class northern France town of Henin-Beaumont, 19-year-old first-time voter Theo Boulogne urged Le Pen to run again for president in 2027, while 76-year-old retiree Gerard Criquelette praised her and Bardella, saying, “They both listen to the people.’'
Le Pen, whose father and party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen was repeatedly convicted of racism and anti-semitism, no longer calls for extreme measures like quitting the EU and the euro. Instead, she aims to weaken the EU’s powers from within.
“Across Europe, national parties are rising up not to destroy the European Union, but to build a European alliance of nations capable of facing up to the industrial, environmental, migratory and technological challenges of the 21st century,″ Le Pen told party followers. “Across France and across Europe, we are winning the battle.’'
Oleg Cetinic and Alex Turnbull in Paris, and Philippe Marion in Henin-Beaumont, contributed.
https://apnews.com/article/france-eu-election-far-right-1c9bba84aa8ace2619c307b933385473
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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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Russia ready to strike NATO airfields hosting Ukrainian jets – MP
The head of Kiev’s air force, Sergey Golubtsov, previously stated that some F-16s donated to his country will be based abroad
Any airfields hosting Ukraine's F-16 fighter jets, whether they are in or outside the country, will be legitimate targets for the Russian military if they participate in combat missions against Moscow’s forces, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, Andrey Kartapolov, has warned.
The comments come as Kiev prepares to receive the first delivery of US-made fighter jets from its Western backers, after Ukrainian pilots were trained to fly them.
In a statement to RIA Novosti published on Monday, Kartapolov clarified that if the F-16s “are not used for their intended purpose” or are simply held in storage at foreign airbases with the intent to transfer them to Ukraine, where they will be equipped, maintained, and flown from Ukrainian airfields, then Russia would have no claims against its “former partners” and would not target them.
However, if the jets take off from foreign bases and carry out sorties and strikes against Russian forces, both the fighter planes and the airfields they are stationed at will be “legitimate targets,” according to Kartapolov.
“As for [our ability] to shoot [them] down, we can shoot down anyone, anywhere,” the MP insisted.
Kartapolov’s statement comes after the chief of aviation of Ukraine’s Air Force Command, Sergey Golubtsov, stated in an interview with Radio Liberty on Sunday that some of the F-16 fighter jets donated to Kiev by the West would be stationed at foreign airbases.
He explained that only a portion of the jets would be stationed directly on Ukrainian territory, corresponding to the number of pilots trained to operate the aircraft. The other jets would be kept in reserve at “safe airbases” abroad so that they are not targeted by the Russian military.
Golubtsov stated that so far four countries have agreed to transfer F-16s to Ukraine, namely Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands. While he did not specify exactly how many aircraft would be donated, he claimed it was between 30 and 40 planes, with potentially more to come in the future.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has also warned that Moscow would perceive the deliveries of F-16 fighters to Ukraine as a nuclear threat, given that the jets have long been used as part of the US-led bloc’s joint nuclear missions.
At the same time, the minister stressed that the US-designed jets would not change the situation on the battlefield, and would be shot down and destroyed like any other foreign weapons supplied to Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/russia/599085-russia-strike-nato-airfields-f16/
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Matthew 24:3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples
came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will
these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the
age?"
Matt 24:6 "And you will hear of wars and
rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to
pass, but the end is not yet.
Matt 24:7 "For nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines,
pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
Matt 24:8 "All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matt 24:12 "And because lawlessness will abound,
the love of many will grow cold. (NKJ)
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France: Sudanese refugee won’t be deported despite burning down 16 apartments, multiple cars, part of a church, and seriously injuring a student
A serial arsonist who nearly killed dozens of people will not be deported, as his life would be under threat if he is returned to Sudan
By John Cody 6 hours ago Last updated: June 10, 2024 13:59
In a case that involved at least 27 victims, a 35-year-old Sudanese man has been convicted for multiple arson attacks across the French city of Pau, which were set over the period of at least two months, between March and May 2022. During one of the attacks, a young female student was forced to jump from her window, 7 meters (22 feet) off the ground, resulting in her breaking both her ankles and leaving her confined to using a cane, even as of today.
The man has now been convicted for his serial arson attacks, but the judge in the case refuses to deport him, saying that being sent back to Sudan would represent too grave a threat to his life.
Wave of arson attacks
The first incident occurred on the night of March 18, 2022, when he set a building on fire at Rue Darrichon and Passage des Alliés along with two vehicles nearby, according to French news outlet La Republique des Pyrenees.
On the night of May 3, he lit an entire building on fire at Rue Henri-Faisans, which was engulfed in flames. Dozens of students were trapped inside but only one was seriously injured. The fire had started in an Indian restaurant on the first floor but soon spread to the rest of the building.
On May 12, the Sudanese man set seven vehicles on fire in the Zaragoza district, and then on the same night, he broke into the Saint-Pierre Church and set fire to the presbytery.
In total, he set fire to eight vehicles over the course of the attacks.
‘The fear of dying stuck in her apartment’
Numerous victims testified in the case, with many of them relating how the man had destroyed their lives, both financially and psychologically.
One of the victims, Laurence, was so seriously injured in the fire on Rue Faisans that she said during the trial that it was a “miracle” she could even attend. Her lawyer, Me Marrien, said Laurence experienced “the fear of dying stuck in her apartment,” as flames quickly spread inside. The lawyer then asked: “How could he have seen what he did and do it again?”
Laurence, who was a student attending university when the Sudanese arsonist set her building on fire, was forced to jump from her apartment window. The jump, which broke both her ankles, has left her still using a cane, and doctors say it is unclear whether she will regain her full ability to walk during her lifetime. The building the man attacked was a dormitory packed full of French students.
The judge in the case sentenced the Sudanese man to 10 years in prison, short of the 12 years requested by the prosecution.
Laurence said “It’s a fair sentence” even if she had preferred the 12 years requested by deputy prosecutor Sébastien Baraldi. However, despite the arson attack that nearly cost the victim her life and left her disabled, she said she did not want the arsonist permanently banned from French soil.
The judge also refused to issue a deportation order in the case despite the serious nature of the crime and the prosecution’s recommendation that the asylum seeker be deported, with the judge saying that his deportation to Sudan “would have resulted in his death.”
During the trial, the Sudanese suspect offered no reason as to why he participated in numerous arson attacks. He simply said he had had too much alcohol.
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YEMEN CLAIM: UK Warship "HMS DIAMOND" Directly Hit with Ballistic Missiles
Hal Turner World June 09, 2024 Hits: 21998
Ansar Allah, the name of the group calling themselves Houthis , that run the country of Yemen, announced this morning the United Kingdom Destroyer "HMS DIAMOND" was directly hit during an attack today.
Houthi Spokesman Saree announced this latest operation is in response to U.S-Israeli Nuseirat massacre.
According to intelligence information, both US and Israeli Forces came ashore in Gaza via the Pier set up by the US. The troops then took/stole an aid truck, used it to drive to Nuseirat, where those troops opened fire upon Palestinians for an alleged hostage rescue.
Photos circulating on social media show IDF troops, being accompanied by troops in different uniforms, undertaking the operation. Allegations circulating on social media say they were American Troops.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/yemen-claim-uk-warship
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You Won't Believe What This NY Dem Candidate Said About Trump Supporters
Madeline Leesman | June 08, 2024 3:00 PM
A New York Democratic congressional candidate suggested that supporters of former President Donald Trump should attend a “re-education camp” after the 2024 election.
The candidate, Paula Collins, is running against New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik.
According to Fox News, Collins made the remarks in a public Zoom town hall meeting this week.
"Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through, as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating basically, which, that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want call it that," she said during the Zoom town hall. "I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it."
In an email to Fox News, Collins clarified her comments by attacking Stefanik.
"We currently have lawmakers, including Rep. Elise Stefanik, who mis-quote or mis-understand the law," Collins told Fox News Digital. "Even if MAGA were to be resoundingly defeated, we would need to engage in widespread civics education, which both red and blue voters acknowledge has been slipping in recent years."
Collins said "the goal would be such that regular citizens could understand the process by which the state courts process matters, compared to the federal court circuit, and so forth."
"Rep. Elise Stefanik does not show a good understanding of the court structure in her home state of New York," Collins continued, referring to Trump’s “hush money” case.
Collins added that Stefanik's "outcry bespeaks a lack of basic civics education, as well as a basic lack of respect for the state supreme court system in her home State of New York,” adding that "Similarly, many voters have misunderstandings and lack of regard for basic judicial systems that underscore the need for civics education.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/06/08/ny-dem-candidate-says-
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Beware of the troubles of the world, there is war going on right now, are you even aware of that, most are not, they walk as if peace is going on and yet the enemy is rising up in many areas, deceiving many and leading many astray. And they’re preparing for war without brains, for they have nobody to lead them anymore, so be in prayer, be in prayer.
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Factbox-What Ukraine's Allies Have Said About Striking Russia With Western Weapons
By Reuters May 29, 2024, at 11:30 a.m.
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine has urged its allies to allow Kyiv to use Western-supplied arms to conduct strikes inside Russia and abandon an official position some of them have held throughout Russia's 27-month-old full-scale invasion.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters on May 20 that talks had taken place with Kyiv's allies about using their weapons to strike Russian military targets at the border and further inside Russia.
He said the talks had yielded "nothing positive", but some partners have shifted their rhetoric on the matter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned NATO members on Tuesday that they were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
Here's what Kyiv's partners have said:
THE UNITED STATES
Then-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley said last year: "I can say that we have asked the Ukrainians not to use U.S.-supplied equipment for direct attacks into Russia."
Asked about Washington's current stance on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it would "adapt and adjust".
MORE: Places the U.S. Government Warns Not to Travel Right Now
"I think what you've seen over the two plus years, as the nature of the battlefield has changed, as the locations, the means that Russia is employing changed, we've adapted and adjusted to that ... That's exactly what we'll do, going forward," he said.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington that U.S. support for Ukraine had evolved over the war. "But right now, there's also no change to our policy."
NATO CHIEF
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has urged members of the alliance to lift restrictions on the use of their weapons to allow Ukraine to strike "legitimate military targets" inside Russia.
"The .......... because we see now that especially in the Kharkiv region, the front line and the borderline is more or less the same," said Stoltenberg, adding the decision was up to each country.
NATO itself, as an organisation, does not deliver arms to Ukraine.
BRITAIN
During a visit to Kyiv on May 3, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told Reuters that Ukraine could use the weapons provided by London to strike targets inside Russia, and that it was up to Kyiv whether to do so.
"Ukraine has that right," he said. "Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it's defending itself."
FRANCE AND GERMANY
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Ukraine should be allowed to hit military sites inside Russia that Moscow was using to attack Ukraine.
"We think we should allow them to neutralise military sites from which missiles are fired, military sites from which Ukraine is attacked," he told a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
"(But) we shouldn't allow them to hit other targets in Russia and civilian or other military sites in Russia..."
Asked about the matter, Scholz said: "I find it strange when some people argue that (Ukraine) should not be allowed to defend itself and take measures that are suitable for this."
ITALY
Italy will never send any troops to Ukraine and any weapons it has supplied to Kyiv should not be used on Russian territory, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday.
"All the weapons leaving from Italy (to Ukraine) should be used within Ukraine," Tajani said in a TV interview with public broadcaster RAI.
DENMARK
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen echoed Stoltenberg in comments to broadcaster TV2 on Tuesday.
"You are welcome to use what we have donated to Ukraine, also outside of Ukraine - that is, on Russian targets - if it is within international law," she said.
"NATO's Secretary General was very clear on this issue... that it is within the rules when you wage war because it is Ukraine that is being attacked by Russia."
She did not, however, say whether this would apply to the F-16 fighter jets Ukraine is set to receive from Copenhagen.
THE NETHERLANDS
In response to a request for comment, the Dutch Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that Ukraine should use donated weapons in line with international law.
"Beyond this, The Netherlands does not impose legal limitations on the use of weapons supplied by The Netherlands above or on Russian soil," it said.
CZECHIA
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala told a briefing on Tuesday that statements on the matter by Stoltenberg and others were "absolutely logical".
"Ukraine is a country defending itself against Russian aggression ... and as an attacked country it certainly has all the rights to use all possibilities for its defence."
THE BALTICS
Lithuania has been vocal about its support for Ukraine's right to strike targets inside Russia.
"The way to react to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, and also in our countries, is... to allow Ukraine to use the weapons they already have, the way they need to use them," Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Monday.
"That is how you manage escalation... this is how you stop Russia."
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics also agreed with Stoltenberg, telling CNN on Monday: "I think there is no rational, pragmatic reason not to allow Ukraine to use those weapons against Russia in a way that is most efficient."
Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur called on X for Kyiv's allies to "increase training for Ukrainian fighters (and) allow Ukraine to strike military targets in Russia."
(Compiled by Dan Peleschuk in Kyiv with additional reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen in Copenhagen, Anthony Deutsch in Amsterdam, Andrius Sytas in Vilnius, Jan Lopatka in Prague; Editing by Tom Balmforth and Ros Russell)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-05-29/what-ukraines-allies-have-said-about
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It’s Trump vs WWIII – Martin Armstrong
By Greg Hunter On June 8, 2024 In Political Analysis 142 Comments
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post)
Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says we are going to have a wild close to 2024. Let’s start with Biden’s new job approval rating from Martin Armstrong’s “Socrates” program, which is now only 6% to 7%. Armstrong explains, “It’s the old story of draining the swamp, but now, the swamp is an ocean. This is completely crazy. The cases against Trump show you how desperate they are here. The reason they want Biden, and they even blocked RFK Jr. from getting on the Democrat ticket, the reason they want him is he is just a sock puppet. He’s not really in charge. He’s not making any decisions.”
Are the Deep State globalist Democrats panicking over the 6% to 7% Biden approval rating? Top people on both sides know this is an accurate number. With about four months to go before the 2024 Election, are they now panicking over these dismal approval numbers? Armstrong says, “Oh, yes, they are panicking. I have been in politics for more than 40 years. I know how it works. All of a sudden, you see in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, oh, Biden is slipping behind closed doors. That would not make the press unless they wanted it to. They are floating a ballon to see how it goes. All of a sudden, they want Biden to do a debate. Before, no debates. Why? Because they know he’s going to look bad. . . . At the Democrat Convention, they will draft someone else, and that is most likely going to be Hillary.”
The economy and war are linked in a big way, according to Armstrong, and he explains, “You’ve got about $10 trillion of US debt that is maturing this year. . . . You’ve got Secretary of State Blinken threatening China with war. China dumped $53 billion in US debt in the first quarter of 2024. That means China are sellers and not buyers. You had Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen flying to China asking, ‘Please don’t sell.’ It didn’t work. This is why they are talking about raising the capital gains to 44%. Why? If nobody is going to buy the debt, that’s when default comes. If you cannot sell the new debt to pay off the old debt, guess what? It’s done. This is how governments fall, and I have been warning them for decades that this is how it’s going to end. . . . This is why they need war. This is why Europe is going into war. . . . If you cannot sell the new debt, you have to default. If you have war, and that is what is really behind this, if you go into war, they get to default and blame Putin. . . . In November, it’s going to be Trump vs World War III regardless who is on the other side. If you get Hillary or you get Biden, it’s the same thing. Hillary is a neocon, and Biden says yes to whatever the neocons want.” And the neocons clearly want war–a big one.
There is much more in the 1-hour and 3-minute in-depth interview.
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with Martin Armstrong as he gives his analysis about unpayable global debt, world war and the 2024 Election for 6.8.24.
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https://usawatchdog.com/its-trump-vs-wwiii-martin-armstrong/
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For
even the novice can see the events that
have started are not going to stop, but
these events have been recorded in my word that they would take place and they will
continue to take place. For
only if you were fast asleep could you miss what is going on right now, for I
have called for my church to be watchman, I’ve called for you to be
awake and know and see the hour that you are
living in. For it is very,
very clear now. For I
gave you the sign and my word even tells you about the fig tree, for that
is the most important thing and as you see what is
taking place right now it will not stop, but it will continue right on through
the events that I said would take place for this time and this hour. etc
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The
forgotten war fronts: IDF fends off long-range threats from Yemen and Iraq
IDF
intercepts ballistic missile fired
at Eilat from Yemen
All Israel News Staff |
Published: June 3, 2024
While the intense fighting
against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the daily attacks by Hezbollah in the north
dominate most of the media coverage about Israel these days, it's
important to remember that Israel
is actually engaged in a war on at least seven fronts.
In addition to
those two active fronts, Israel
continues to face constant threats from the West Bank and has also suffered
attacks from Iran and Syria.
Furthermore,
Iranian proxy militias in Yemen and Iraq have been probing Israeli air defense
systems with long-range projectiles almost every week, and recently escalated
their attacks using larger and more sophisticated munitions.
On Monday morning, a rocket alarm siren
was activated in the southern city of Eilat. The IDF later said it had successfully
intercepted a surface-to-surface ballistic missile over the Red Sea, using the
Arrow defense system.
The Houthi
terror group in Yemen has been shooting drones and missiles at Israel in support
of Hamas since last October.
While
most of its attacks were intercepted, at the start of April
a drone struck a building at an IDF naval base in Eilat. The Islamic
Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed network of Shia
Islamist terrorist groups, took responsibility for the attack.
“Iran is encouraging militias in Iraq to use drones to strike Israel.
Iran has backed
militias in Iraq for many years, trafficking weapons and drone technology to
these dangerous groups,” Seth Frantzman, an adjunct fellow at the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in April.
“The Iran-backed
groups in Iraq and in neighboring Syria have carried out hundreds of attacks on
U.S. forces over the last four years, and they have
expanded their regional threats to attack Israel,” Frantzman added.
Just one
week ago, two additional drones launched by the group were shot down near Eilat
by an Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jet, as well as “ground-based air
defense systems,” the IDF reported.
A few days
later, the Israeli army said it shot down a
cruise missile approaching the southern Golan Heights “from the east,”
a phrase the IDF uses to describe attacks launched
from Iraq.
The Houthis
have attacked Israel at least 53 times since the start of the war,
according to The Jerusalem Post, and severely
impacted ship commerce through the Bab al-Mandab straits, effectively shutting
off Eilat’s once busy port.
“The Houthis
are trying to suffocate Eilat and its economy,” Gideon Golber, the
Eilat port director-general told The Media Line.
“The remaining
Israeli ports are absorbing shipments delivered through the Red Sea, but
Eilat has unused logistics equipment and personnel. If
the conflict in the north, between Israel and Hezbollah, further escalates,
impacting the ports in the Mediterranean Sea, this could become a national
threat.”
https://allisrael.com/the-forgotten-war-fronts-idf-fends-off-long-range-threats-from-yemen-and-iraq
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is none other that takes you through the days and the hours that you’re living
in other than me, for man does not have an answer to the
problems that the world is facing.
He cannot stop the wars, for when he intervenes
they only get worse, he cannot stop what is
going on in the environment with the weather and other things, the earthquakes,
the flooding, man cannot stop what is happening.
For when he intervenes he only makes worse but I your Father God,
when I intervene the very wind and the waves stand at my attention.
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United
States seeks UN Security Council support for Biden’s plan on Gaza |
LIVE UPDATES
United
Nations Coordinator for Middle East Peace, Tor Winsland, called on all parties
to immediately reach an agreement on
the US President’s proposal for a ceasefire
i24NEWSMatthias InbarAriel
Oseran ■ i24NEWS, Matthias Inbar, Ariel Oseran
Day 242 of Israel at war:
The Prime Minister conducted a situation assessment with security branch leaders
concerning developments in northern Israel. As tentions increase in the north, rocket barrage from Hezbollah has become
more freequent, causing several fires in the northern part of the
country.
Prime Minister Netanyahu
received updates from the National Fire and Rescue Authority regarding their
efforts to extinguish the fires.
Six
reserve soldiers sustained minor injuries while assisting in firefighting
efforts near Kiryat Shmona and were taken to the Ziv Medical Center.
Additionally, five civilians were treated for minor smoke inhalation injuries after
participating in fire extinguishing near Amiad.
IDF Spokesperson: Forces
eliminated of over 100 Hezbollah terrorists
"The success
of the 9th Collection Unit in identifying
and eliminating enemy operatives is a testament to the effectiveness of our
integrated intelligence and combat strategies"
IDF
soldier moderately injured by intercepted missile shrapnel near
Tzfat, northern Israel
?Alert
sirens sound in northern Israel warning of
possible drone incursion
Northern front: two
drones intercepted in Upper Galilee
Israeli
delegation to resume ceasefire talks in
Cairo - report
The resumption of talks
comes amidst concerns voiced by Egyptian officials
regarding Israel's commitment to the ceasefire agreement, in light of the
potential exchange of prisoners.
READ MORE HERE
Egyptian
officials express concerns over Israeli compliance with ceasefire
agreement
They
also propose forming a diverse Palestinian delegation
to enhance decision-making and stability.
While progress has been made
in discussions with Israeli military officials, there remains
apprehension about Israel's commitment to the ceasefire. Despite these
challenges, diplomatic efforts persist, aiming for lasting peace and stability
in the region.
G7
countries express 'full support' for deal between Israel and Hamas
"We endorse the
comprehensive approach that addresses the immediate humanitarian needs in
Gaza"
READ MORE HERE
A loud explosion was heard
in the Tzfat area
The matter is being examined
with the army and police officials. It is possible
that this didn't activating the defense systems in the city sector because the
interception destroyed it upon its departure.
A fire also broke out.
? Rocket warning sirens
sound across northern Israel
UN
Chief meets with Israeli families of hostages, says he was "deeply
moved" by their grief
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1797740339119435924
Over 10
civilians and soldiers injured by fire from
Hezbollah missiles
The Israeli fore department
has reported that the overnight blaze is under control
READ MORE HERE
IDF Spokesperson
Israeli fire fighters
battling overnight blazeIDF Spokesperson
Two
terrorists neutralized by security forces before attempt shooting attack on
Jewish settlements in the West Bank
An
ambush of Unit 636 fighters in the area eliminated the terrorists and
confiscated the weapons they intended
to use
IDF Spokesperson
Two terrorists neutralized
by security forces. Weapon planned to use on June, 4 2024IDF Spokesperson
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openly told you, America stop doing what you are doing or else. Wake up,
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Watching
Washington Foment Nuclear War
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Paul Craig Roberts
“For two years Biden was absolutely adamant that no US weapons could be
used to strike Russia. Now he reverses the policy
— aka, he lied. So where’s
the pushback? Congress, media? What could
be of greater consequence than lying the country into war with a nuclear
superpower?” — Michael Tracey
Are
the peoples of the Western world so completely insouciant that they do not
notice that their politicians are pushing them into direct conflict with Russia?
It seems Hungarians are the only European people who have any sense.
https://www.rt.com/news/598644-budapest-peace-march-nato/
The Kremlin
could not issue any warnings more dire, and in response moronic Western
politicians provoke harder. Are
they unable to comprehend that they are provoking a nuclear war, or is it their
intention to provoke a nuclear war?
Biden,
Blinken, and NATO have
made another U-turn. The long range missiles that Ukraine could not use for
attacks on Russian territory can now be used that way, but, for
now, only on military targets. But the
distinction between military and non-military targets is a distinction without
meaning or substance. All modern wars are
attacks on civilians and infrastructure.
The argument
that resulted in removing restrictions on long range missiles is that in
order to defend itself Ukraine needs to be able to use the weapons
Washington provides to attack the military infrastructure that Russia uses to
attack Ukraine.
Russia
will simply attack
the sites from which it is being attacked, so the long range missiles will
contribute nothing to Ukraine’s defense. Even worse: as the Kremlin knows
the missiles have to be programmed with targeting information by US and NATO
personnel, Russia regards the countries responsible for the targeting as
combatants and targets. We are on the
verge of the final widening of the war.
As
every previous no-no became a yes-yes, the Kremlin has to assume that the no-no
prohibition on sending NATO troops will soon become a yes-yes. If realism
prevails in the Kremlin, this forces Putin to abandon his limited military
operation and to knock out Ukraine before it fills up with NATO soldiers.
From the
beginning it was obvious to me that the
limited military operation was a strategic blunder
that would allow the West to become involved, with the consequence
being the widening of the war. That is
precisely what has happened. We have reached the point where Putin
is telling the West to back off or out come the nukes.
But no
one in the West hears.
Washington
cares no more for Ukrainians than it cares for Palestinians.
The Ukraine conflict is a way
for Washington to force Russia into a response that can be used to justify a
US/NATO attack on Russia. What is to be served by this? It
is a form of suicide for the West.
Where
is a responsible Western leader to diffuse this dangerous situation? Why are
there none? Keeping Russian Donbas in
Ukraine, where it should never have been put, is not worth the war that is being
fomented.
As the long
range missiles cannot improve Ukraine’s battlefield performance, their
only purpose is to be used for provocations. Anyone looking at the
situation who thinks more provocations are what is needed is insane.
It
is mind-boggling to actually watch Western leaders foment a nuclear war.
There
is no opposition from Congress.
None from print and TV media. None from European
governments except Hungary. Western peoples are too insouciant to understand that they are standing
on the edge of annihilation.
“We
Are Inches Away from Destruction” — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
Orban
Some who find reality too
upsetting take issue with my warnings of how close we are to a final war. I have
acquired a new accolade — “scaremonger.” But I
am not the only aware person on earth. Dr.
Postal at MIT understands the seriousness of the situation, as does Mike
Whitney, Steven Starr, Gilbert Doctorow, Scott Ritter, and Viktor Orban. Even
the restrained, unprovocative Putin now understands that Russia is confronted
with war, not a limited military operation to liberate the Donbas
Russians.
Prime
Minister Orban says that every week he sees more and more signs that the EU and
NATO are preparing for military action. The Western governments, Orban has
concluded, “want to defeat Russia, they want to achieve military success at
any cost.” The
cost will be life on the planet. Why is Ukraine’s NATO membership more
important than the massive loss of life and perhaps the livability of life on
the planet? https://tass.com/world/1796133
It is extraordinary that the
Western world will do nothing to stop Israel’s
genocide of the Palestinians, but is prepared to
destroy life on earth for the artificial borders of an artificial country called
Ukraine, which is known historically as “the Ukraine,”
that is, as a province of a larger country.
Oban tells the truth. He
says “NATO is a strong defensive alliance
created to protect its member states, not to intervene in another war.”
Oban says he will
do what he can to prevent Hungary from being drawn into the maelstrom. “This
is not our war, and Hungarians should not suffer because of it.”
But Hungary
along with any survivors and Mother Earth herself and all her creatures and
plant life will suffer from the massive fires, radioactivity, perhaps a nuclear
winter, total disruption of all global supply chains, and so forth. The countries
that survive, if any, will be those well
removed from the blast zones, wind patterns loaded with radioactivity,
and self sufficient in food production. All
economies dependent on global relationships will be destroyed.
The world
as it is organized today cannot survive a major war. How
will cities of millions of people be sustained when supply chains no longer
exist? Without war Mexico City with its 20 millions is almost empty of water.
I can continue asking these
kind of questions, to which there are no answers.
But it is pointless.
The problem
is that except for Orban and Putin, every
Western political leader is committed to war for no justifiable reason.
There
is no reason for the pending war.
Ukraine can exist as a neutral state. Washington can pull back its presence on
Russia’s borders.
The American
neoconservatives’ nonsensical demand for
US hegemony can be abandoned. Whatever the consequences of accepting
reality, they are better than nuclear war.
Why is it that no one in the
Western world understands the threat to life?
What is the
explanation for Biden now approaching
the end of his fourth year in office HAVING NEVER MET WITH PUTIN IN AN EFFORT TO RESOLVE THE MOST DANGEROUS
CRISIS IN HUMAN HISTORY?
The dumbshits governing
us do not comprehend that today’s
thermonuclear weapons can be a thousand times more powerful as the atomic bombs the
US dropped on two Japanese civilian cities. The weapons
today do not merely obliterate large cities, they obliterate large regions.
Steven Starr and other
experts have expressed their concerns that a
nuclear war could fill the atmosphere with dust and debris that would block the
sun for years until it settled. In those years there may be a limited or non-existent growing season. Therefore,
all life can be the casualty.
From a presentation by Dr.
Theodore Postal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
The Russian
nuclear Early Warning System (EWS) at Amir was damaged by an attack. The decision
to attack the Russian EWS was made in Washington. The drones
were guided to their targets using US aerial and
satellite reconnaissance (they have
to take multiple evasive actions in the course of
their flights to evade Russian radar systems, and this
can only be supplied via real-time targeting information provided by the US).
The operators of the
drones were likely mercenaries trained in
the US or out-of-uniform US troops. Russia
knows this and so it considers this a US attack on its nuclear Early Warning
System.
The attack
was reckless beyond comprehension. ANY such
attacks against the EWS system used to protect Russia from a nuclear
attack can justify, under Russian law, a
nuclear retaliatory strike.
The US/NATO/Ukraine
previously conducted multiple drone attacks on the Russian airbase at
Engels, which is where Russia keeps its long-range
strategic nuclear bombers. It appeared that at least in one of these
attacks, a strategic nuclear bomber was damaged.
Engels airbase is hundreds of miles inside of
Russia and the drones could not have
made it to the base without real-time targeting information supplied by US
aerial and satellite reconnaissance.
Russian military planners
must consider these attacks as a possible
prelude to a nuclear first strike against Russia by the United States.
The US
and NATO are also preparing to send F-16s to Ukraine. Russia
has announced that they will consider these to be nuclear-capable weapon systems
and treat them accordingly, including striking
whatever bases these weapons are launched from — inside or outside of Ukraine
(meaning in Poland and Romania).
Biden
today authorized attacks inside Russia using US long-range weapons. France
and Germany then followed the US, giving their approval to the use of
Western-supplied weapons to attack targets inside Russia.
The situation
in Ukraine is escalating to the point of being out of control. Yet Western
mass media ignores these events and the general public remains blissfully
unaware that their leaders continue to escalate the war in Ukraine to the point
where it can become a nuclear war that will destroy all nations and
peoples.
Gilbert Doctorow explains
that Russia’s “dead hand” launch system
cannot be deterred by a first strike
Gilbert Doctorow reminds us
that the Russians have a “dead hand” launch system. Even if every Russian command and control center is wiped out in a first
strike against Russia, sufficient missiles launch to wipe out the US and Western
Europe. In other words, there is no
advantage in a US first strike on Russia. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/06/01/first-strike-capable-why-russia-is-indifferent-to-damage-to-one-or-another
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Doctorow also reminds us
that it only takes one fully loaded hypersonic
non-interceptible Sarmat multiple warhead missile to level a country the size of
the UK to the ground, and only several to erase the US from the map. It
goes far beyond insanity for Europe and the US to cultivate their own suicide.
The media keep all information from the public,
which is unaware that its continued existence is in question.
Here is Scott Ritter on the
likely consequences of attacks inside Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt_-BS7vY_o
Scott Ritter reminds us that
the weapons used to strike inside Russia have to
be programmed by the US/NATO countries that supply them. Ukraine is ancillary to
the process. Russia understands this and
has stated that Russia will attack the countries responsible.
Here is a summary of the
Scott Ritter video provided by an expert who shares my concern that Washington
is driving the world into nuclear war:
“Scott Ritter explains
that any further attacks on Russian strategic
sites or attacks on Russian territory using missiles or cruise missiles will
result in Russia hitting back against all the NATO targets — inside and
outside Ukraine —
responsible for such attacks.
“This
includes US aerial reconnaissance assets: US satellites, AWACS, and Reaper
drones; it includes any NATO headquarters and air bases that were involved in
the preparation, programming, targeting, and launching of the long-range
missiles and drones used to hit Russian territory. This includes bases within
France, the UK, Germany, and possibly the US.
“Ritter
says that such attacks would result in the
NATO nations struck by Russian retaliatory strikes invoking Article V of the
NATO Charter, claiming they had been attacked by Russia. Ritter says that if
NATO member states take this action and unite in war against Russia, then Russia
will launch a massive nuclear strike against all these nations. I
hope he is wrong.
“Given that the US, the UK, France, and Germany have all signed off on
using long-range weapons against Russia, albeit in a ‘limited’ area of
Russia, I think we are close to the scenario that Ritter suggests because
the ‘limited’ area of Russia subject to attack will
expand. A situation will arise where
Putin is forced to hit back in a way that is decisive. The West will deny that
the Russian strike is in retaliation for their own thinly disguised attacks on
Russia — they will call the Russian strikes “unprovoked aggression” and an
act of war.
“The US
and NATO have been hiding behind the lie that it is Ukraine fighting Russia
— not the West fighting Russia. When US, UK,
French, and German weapons arrive in Ukraine, they become “Ukrainian
weapons”, and thus Ukraine, not the West, is made responsible for whatever is
done with them, whatever targets they hit.
“Russia no longer will accept the lie that only Ukraine, not the
West, is at war with Russia. Even Putin
has publicly stated that the high-tech, long-range weapons are US and NATO
weapons, programmed,
operated, guided, and launched by US/NATO troops. The targets
are decided on by the US, not by Ukraine. The weapons
have to use real-time guidance from US aerial and satellite reconnaissance,
hence, Russia will destroy the satellites, drones, and AWACs providing the
targeting information. All the components of the attacks on Russia will be
targeted.
“Russia is not bluffing. Russia will not back down.”
It is extraordinary that the
entire political leadership of the Western world is pushing the world into
nuclear war. Why does the West seek its own destruction? What is to be gained?
During
the 20th century Cold War in which I was intimately involved
both as a trustee of the Committee on the Present Danger and as a member of a
secret Presidential Committee with authority to investigate the CIA’s
opposition to President Reagan’s effort to end the Cold War and normalize
relations with the Soviet Union, I can say with
confidence that even hard line anti-communists sought to reduce tensions instead
of provoking war.
What
I have witnessed in the 21st century is the most egregious cultivation of war by
the US government in human history, and
no one in the print or TV media tells us the consequences.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/06/02/watching-washington-foment-nuclear-war/
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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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$517,000,000,000
in Unrealized Losses Hit US Banking System, FDIC Says.
From Greg M
Gregory Mannarino Jun 03,
2024
Unrealized
losses in the US banking system are once again on the rise,
according to new numbers from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
In its Quarterly Banking
Profile report, the FDIC says banks are now
saddled with more than half a trillion dollars in paper losses on their balance
sheets.
The FDIC also says that the number
of lenders on its Problem Bank List rose last quarter. According to the
agency, these banks are on the brink of insolvency due to financial,
operational, or managerial weakness or a combination of such issues.
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Let your spiritual eyes be
open, for many things shall come to pass, many things you shall see, for you
have not seen the big terrorist attack here in America
yet, but you will see it, you will see it.
For you shall yet see great and mighty attacks
here in the United States, you shall see these things come to pass.
You will also see the stock market, if
you have got money there get it out, says the Lord, get it out now, for later
will be too late. Also you
shall see many things taking place overseas like you have never seen before in
your life. And the political
realm shall get even, even darker now, you shall hear
things that you did not know, etc
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15 Mar, 2024 08:26
HomeWorld News
Britain
‘at war’ with Russia – ex-MI6 boss
The UK
needs to make “tough choices” to be able to counter the “threats” posed
by Russia and China, Richard Dearlove has said
Britain
is engaged in a “gray war” with Russia, but neither the authorities nor the
public are taking the situation seriously
enough, the former head of the famed spy agency MI6, Richard
Dearlove, has warned.
The UK
military isn’t getting enough money to be able to counter the “threats”
posed by Moscow and Beijing, Richard Dearlove, who led the British Secret
Intelligence Service between 1999 and 2004, said in an interview with Politico
on Friday.
The statement followed last
week’s announcement of the UK’s budget for the next
financial year, in which there was no
increase in defense spending. It remains at 2% of the country’s GDP.
”If you stopped anyone
in the street here in the UK and asked them
whether they thought Britain is at war, they’d look at you as if you were mad.
But we are at war — we’re engaged in a gray
war with Russia, and I am trying to remind people of that,” the former spy
chief said.
The British
authorities have “got to make some tough choices, and I’m afraid the
tough choices are in front of us right now. We should be spending at least
2.5%” on defense, he insisted.
We urgently need
to be building more ships. We need a much
bigger navy. And we need more boots on the
ground, for God’s sake,” Dearlove stressed.
The fighting
between Russia and Ukraine has shown the importance of manpower on the modern
battlefield, the 79-year-old said. The size
of the British army had been reduced by more than 26,000 since 2006, and
currently has just over 74,000 full-time troops.
Last month,
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov accused the UK of being “directly
involved” in the conflict between Moscow and Ukraine. He was reacting
to a report in The Times which claimed
that the head of the UK armed forces, Admiral Tony Radakin, had “helped the
Ukrainians with the strategy to destroy Russian ships and open up the Black Sea.”
According to Peskov, it is “no secret” for
Moscow that the British “provide different forms of support” to Kiev
such as “people on the ground and intelligence.”
In February,
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the UK has been “even more
aggressive, more elaborate in its provocative assertiveness” towards
Moscow than any other Western nation during the conflict.
READ MORE: Putin issues
warning on US troops in Ukraine
The UK
has been one of the leading backers of Ukraine in Europe since the start
of the fighting more than two years ago, pledging to provide Kiev with 12
billion pounds ($15.2 billion) in overall support, including 7.1 billion pounds
($9 billion) in military assistance.
https://www.rt.com/news/594300-uk-ukraine-mi6-war/
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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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HomeRussia & FSU
US
close to ‘fatal’ miscalculation – Moscow
Russia’s
response to what Washington’s “clients” in Ukraine do may be
“asymmetrical” and stronger than expected,
the senior diplomat has warned
The US
is close to making a “fatal” miscalculation in its attempts to deal with
Russia and the Ukraine conflict, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov
has warned.
The senior diplomat
commented on Monday on the reported US decision to
let Kiev use American weapons outside what Washington considers Ukrainian
territory. The move is supposedly limited to a small piece of Russia’s
Belgorod Region relevant to hostilities across the border in Ukraine’s Kharkov
Region.
”I’d like to warn American actors against miscalculations that can
lead to fatal consequences. For some unclear reason they underestimate how serious a response they could face,”
Ryabkov told journalists.
Up to then the stated US
policy had been to ban such attacks, to prevent triggering “World War III.” Kiev
has said it is disappointed by the change, as it
wants permission to fire long-range American weapons deep inside Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
has warned of “serious consequences” of
potential long-range strikes “considering the [countries’] parity in
strategic weapons.”
Ryabkov
urged American policymakers to “spend some of their time, which they probably
waste on computer games, judging by their air-headed approach to serious issues”
on considering Putin's words.
The official also warned
that Russia could react asymmetrically to a Ukrainian attack on its nuclear
deterrence, as Moscow would hold the US responsible. Officials in Washington “have given Kiev a permit for any crimes, any
action, and do nothing to curb provocations by their clients… But the
US does not get this for free and will feel consequences,” the deputy FM
warned.
READ MORE: Biden doesn’t
want WW3 – White House
Ukrainian sources have
claimed to the media that Kiev targeted two
early-warning radar stations in Russia last month, allegedly damaging one. The
facilities in question are designed to detect intercontinental ballistic missile
launches and provide a response window to the Russian leadership.
The Russian Defense Ministry
did not comment on the reports.
https://www.rt.com/russia/598695-ryabkov-us-fatal-miscalculation/
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Let your spiritual eyes be
open, for many things shall come to pass, many things you shall see, for you
have not seen the big terrorist attack here in America
yet, but you will see it, you will see it.
For you shall yet see great and mighty attacks
here in the United States, you shall see these things come to pass.
You will also see the stock market, if you have
got money there get it out, says the Lord, get it out now, for later will
be too late. Also you shall see
many things taking place overseas like you have
never seen before in your life. And
the political realm shall get even, even darker now, you shall hear things that
you did not know, etc
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Systems
Are Coming Apart; NY Stock Exchange "Glitches" Cause Multiple
"Trading Halts" as $1.4 TRILLION Magically Wiped-out for Berkshire
Hathaway . . .
Hal Turner Nation June 03,
2024 Hits: 19481
The New York
Stock Exchange (NYSE) opened
as usual at 9:30 eastern time today, and within minutes chaos erupted. Trading
in multiple stocks had to be "Halted" because of
"Volatility" as over $1.4 TRILLION Value got "glitched."
GameStop Trading
Activity Halted - Roaring
Kitty's Return Keith Gill, known as "Roaring Kitty," returned to
social media, reigniting interest GameStop shares.
Horace Mann
Educators Corporation Common Stock --
Trading Halted at 09:46:15 ET on NYSE | Volatility Trading Pause | 2024-06-03
Trinity
Industries, Inc. Common Stock --
Trading Halted at 09:45:10 ET on NYSE | Volatility Trading Pause | 2024-06-03
Plutonian Acq Cp
Ut | Trading Halted at 09:44:53 ET on
NASDAQ | Volatility Trading Pause | 2024-06-03
Kforce, Inc.
- Common Stock | Trading Halted at 10:00:24 ET on NYSE | Volatility Trading
Pause | 2024-06-03
Then
the really big boys starting getting hit
. . . badly:
JPMorgan Core
Plus Bond ETF | Trading Halted at
09:38:08 ET on Non NASDAQ | Volatility Trading Pause | 2024-06-03
AMC
Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Class A
Common Stock | Trading Halted at 09:37:10 ET on NYSE | Volatility Trading Pause
| 2024-06-03
But the
absolutely HUGE problem of the day was Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway
which took took a minor 99.97% haircut. Which is equivalent to a valuation
loss of $1.4 trillion, however, trading has been halted and it is likely
a technical issue.
Hal Turner Snap Analysis
So what can we, the regular folks, make of this? Why the sudden
gigantic volatility in the markets?
A number of people with whom I spoke this afternoon all agreed: The system
is coming apart at the seams. There is so much corruption, so much dirty
dealing, so much cooking of the books, so many outright phony reporting of
financial numbers, it is hard to hide anymore.
Plus, several
of them said, the US money supply is contracting. It has only done that before and
then the Great Depression followed.
So it seems to many people -
but certainly not all - that the system is now
coming apart.
Think about this for a
moment: If the premier Stock Exchange in the
world, closes with everything fine on Friday, then opens with inexplicable
catastrophic volatility on Monday morning, how
trustworthy is the system anymore?
Of course, I saw this as it
was taking place and . . . all my regular readers know
what I did . . . . went to the bank and
pulled out some cash. Not for paying bills, but to SURVIVE ON if the
entire system collapsed.
I
don't trust it anymore. At all.
The fact that this
type of trouble could pop-up out of nowhere, and likely be a
"glitch" in some computer somewhere, tells me
the system is now completely unstable and is not to be trusted at all.
Others may legitimately have
a different view, and I respect that. But frankly, when it comes to matters financial, I don't trust these people are far as
I can throw them, and I can't even pick them up.
Z E R O Trust.
I have some cash to live on
. . . do you? If not, get some. Just in case.
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You are living in a time of great deception, a
time when the enemy is working harder than he has ever worked before in the
history of man and yet my people don’t seem to
understand that. etc.
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June 3, 2024
Something
Big Is Coming, Be Ready
- Mass Amnesty, Bribing Young Voters With Loan
Forgiveness, And Persecuting Political Opponents Shows The Biden Regime Will
Burn It All Down Before Giving Up The White House
By Susan Duclos - All News
Pipeline
The left, meaning Democrats
and the MSM, love
to point to Donald Trump, accusing him of inciting an "insurrection" on
January 6, 2021 (even though the FBI said it was not an insurrection), but when
all was said and done, no one had to physically drag Trump out of the White
House on January 20, 2021, he left of his own free will.
Trump
also did not blatantly ignore a Supreme Court ruling and bribe young voters with
student loan forgiveness, allow
an invasion over the southern border, give
mass amnesty to illegal aliens aka soon-to-be Democrat voters,
drain our Strategic reserves, or prosecute
the presidential nominee of the opposing in a presidential election year....
no, that was and is the Biden regime.
Let us start with the
persecutions, where in the most recent court
case in NY where a jury convicted Donald Trump, Alvin Bragg, the District
Attorney, met with federal law enforcement before indicting Trump on a state
charge. Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted
Trump on a federal charge shortly after meetings between Biden’s counsel and
Smith’s team came to light. Last but not least, the racketeering charges
against Trump in Georgia came after her top prosecutor, and lover, had two
meetings at the White House. We know this because he billed for them
both.
The prosecutors
have not denied meetings with the White House but say the cases are
independent.
Related: Trump
prosecutor accused of ‘improper’
relationship with Georgia DA Fani Willis billed $4K for meetings with WH
officials
Had
the Trump White House done
any of the above, the MSM, liberals and Democrat politicians, (all the
same, I know) would have been screaming
"dictator," "fascist!" " and "authoritarian,"
all day and night for years.
"Trump is Hitler doing
Putin's bidding" headlines would have been published back-to-back all the
way up to the 2020 presidential election.
Yet Trump
is still ahead in the polling, and basically tied in states like
Virginia, which went blue by 10 points in 2020.
A new survey of likely
voters released on Wednesday shows President Joe Biden and former President
Donald Trump tied in Virginia, a dramatic turn in a state that went blue by 10
points in 2020.
The poll from the Institute
for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College showed Biden
and Trump at 42% each among Virginians. But when
other candidates are included in the survey Biden
takes a slight advantage, 40% to Trump's 38%.....
Virginia
has voted blue, for Democrats,
in presidential elections since 2008.
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MASS AMNESTY FOR 350,000
FUTURE DEMOCRAT VOTERS........
One of the latest outrageous
actions on the part of the Biden regime is giving "mass amnesty" to
illegals by terminating 350,000 asylum cases.
Via MSN from the New York
Post:
Data shows that since
2022, more than 350,000 asylum cases filed by migrants have been closed by the
US government if the applicants don’t have a criminal record or are
otherwise not deemed a threat to the country.
This means that while
the migrants are not granted or denied asylum — their cases are “terminated
without a decision on the merits of their asylum claim” — they
are removed from the legal system and no longer required to check in with
authorities.
The
move allows them to legally, indefinitely roam about the US without fear of
deportation, effectively letting them
slip through the cracks.
Now in dozens
of municipalities, illegals are allowed to vote in local elections. This
is the first step before attempting to allow
them to vote in federal elections. Plus, illegals
are counted in the census, allowing blue/Democrat states to have extra
(22) representation in the House of Representatives.
Related: Majority
of House Dems vote to allow noncitizen voting in DC
BRIBING YOUNG VOTERS,
IGNORING SCOTUS....
After
the Supreme Court ruled against the Biden regime's
student loan forgiveness, they did it anyway. First they cancelled $1.2
billion in student loans for 150,000 people, then another $7.7 billion for
another 160,000 people.
Within weeks
of the Supreme Court ruling, the Biden administration initiated a process to
establish a “Plan B” for mass student loan
forgiveness. Rather than relying on the HEROES Act, Biden indicated that the new plan would be enacted through the Higher Education Act, an
entirely distinct statute. The HEA contains a
provision that allows the Education Department to “compromise” or
“waive” federal student debt obligations in certain circumstances.
While the HEROES Act’s waiver authority was untested, the so-called “compromise
and settlement” authority under the HEA has already been utilized under a
variety of circumstances across multiple administrations, albeit not on
the scale of Biden’s initial student loan forgiveness plan.
These
are people who are of voting age. This is a blatant attempt to bribe voters
into re-electing the dementia-ridden Biden in November 2024.
Despite
all attempts to bribe voters, persecute Trump in the courts, Biden and Trump are
tied in the national voting averages,
mostly conducted by liberal organizations, weighting Democrats heavily compared
to Republicans.
BOTTOM LINE - BE READY FOR
THEM TO BURN IT ALL DOWN.....
Once the Biden
bounce is over from the NY guilty
verdict against Trump, should take maybe two-three weeks, Trump
should again take the lead as has happened every time the Biden regime's
lawfare made headlines.
Everything
the Biden regime has done to persecute Trump and bribe voters has failed
to give Biden any lead that isn't within the margin of error in the polls, and
the presidential election is just 6 months away.
They
have nothing left, and desperate people are dangerous people.
Be
ready for something big because the
MSM, and those supporting Biden for 2024, have already shown they are willing to
do just about anything to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president
again, and all that is left is to burn it all down to delay or prevent the 2024
presidential election.
God help us all......
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gov. forces doctor who supported banning sex changes for minors from medical
board
By Jon Brown, Christian Post
Reporter Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Wyoming Gov.
Mark Gordon reportedly forced
one of the state's leading radiologists to resign from the Wyoming Board of
Medicine because of the doctor's public support for a law banning hormonal and
surgical procedures for minors with gender dysphoria.
Dr.
Eric Cubin, one of the top radiologists in Casper, was pressured to resign
after the Republican governor stated he was planning to remove him from the
board, according to an April 22 letter to Cubin from the governor obtained by
Cowboy State Daily.
Cubin,
the son of a former congresswoman, reportedly prompted
Gordon to boot him in response to an email he sent in February to the 62
members of the Wyoming Legislature, urging them to
support the Children Gender Change Prohibition bill.
Gordon
signed the bill in March, making Wyoming the 24th
U.S. state to ban cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers and body-disfiguring
surgeries for minors.
The
bill passed in the state's
Republican-controlled House of Representatives by a vote of 55-6, and the
Republican-controlled Senate passed it in a 28-2 vote the following day.
The law
allows the state Board of Medicine to revoke the license of any doctor who
performs such procedures on minors.
The governor
expressed reluctance about some elements of the legislation, worrying
that "the government is straying into the personal affairs of
families."
"Our Legislature
needs to sort out its intentions with regard to parental rights. While it
inserts governmental prerogative in some places, it affirms parental rights in
others," he said at the time.
Despite
signing the bill, Gordon was concerned that Cubin's lobbying for the legislation
exhibited a potential conflict of interest that he was unwilling to tolerate on
a state board.
"Medical
professionals should be confident that their licensure, which is their
livelihood, will be handled professionally
and clinically examined on merits alone," Gordon wrote to Cubin. "Even
the appearance of bias can be disquieting as well as erode confidence in
the board's presumed impartiality."
The governor
feared Cubin's opinion could be construed as the board's unilateral position,
which he claimed is unacceptable.
In a statement to The
Christian Post, a spokesperson from the governor's
office rejected the notion that Gordon
removed Cubin from the Wyoming Board of Medicine "for supporting the
transgender ban for minors, which the Governor signed."
"Governor
Gordon's decision to remove him was based on the fact that Dr. Cubin's comments
could give doctors, who are licensed by the Board of Medicine, a reason to be concerned
that Dr. Cubin might use his position to advocate for a particular position
when considering matters that come before the board," the spokesperson
said.
"The Governor
believes it is important that the professionals governed by the Board of
Medicine have confidence that board members prosecute their responsibilities on
the board in an objective and unbiased way. The Governor appreciates Dr.
Cubin's position on this issue and respects his First Amendment right to share
this position. However, when a member of a board chooses to express personal
beliefs in a way that can be construed as speaking for the body, the Governor
has elected to relieve that member of the constraints board membership
requires."
Cubin
maintained that his view is the majority opinion among the 27 Casper physicians
he polled regarding
gender procedures for minors, and he remains adamant that he did the right thing
despite the negative consequences.
"At the end of the day,
I stood up for my principles, I stood up
for what's right, and I stood up for the children in the state of Wyoming,"
he told Cowboy State Daily. "Because I did that, I was removed from the
board."
Cubin shared emails with the
Wyoming outlet in which he noted that there are
too many uncertainties regarding "gender-affirming care" for minors,
which is made especially difficult because of the topic's politicized nature.
"The evidence
and medical data on gender affirming care is all over the board,"
Cubin wrote. "Unfortunately, much of the data
on both sides is politically charged and it is difficult to decipher
exactly what is true and what is not true."
Cubin
rebutted concerns that he presented a conflict of interest,
noting that "anyone who continues to provide
these services in violation of the law is putting their licensure at risk."
"There's
no conflict of interest because I'd be enforcing the law," he added.
The legislation Cubin
supported was first referred to as "Chloe's Law," a reference to
prominent activist and detransitioner Chloe Cole, who is suing medical providers
who performed a double mastectomy on her when she was a minor experiencing
gender dysphoria that later subsided.
Earlier
this month, the German Medical Assembly passed resolutions calling on the
government to limit trans surgeries or body-altering drugs for gender dysphoric
minors to clinical trials.
In the United
Kingdom, the National Health Service instructed
gender clinics to pause first appointments for those under 18. The move came
after the release of a long-awaited review by pediatrician Hillary Cass,
retired former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health,
concluding that there is "no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of
interventions to manage gender-related distress."
Wyoming
is one of over two dozen states that have banned providers from giving or
offering surgical or hormonal interventions to minors with gender dysphoria.
Jon Brown is a reporter for
The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
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lifestyle and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her
last vow. I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
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Air Force promoted drag events on military bases, internal documents show
By Jon Brown, Christian Post
Reporter Saturday, June 01, 2024
Freedom of Information Act
documents obtained by Judicial Watch and CatholicVote.org purport to show that
the U.S. Air Force has used taxpayer money to
promote drag shows, drag queen story hours and other LGBT pride events for
military personnel and their children.
After multiple "no
records" responses to their repeated inquiries, the U.S.
Department of Defense ultimately released 25 pages of documents detailing
the funding of drag events on U.S. military installations, according to
the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
The nonprofits requested
"all emails and text messages sent to and from the Secretary of Defense,
Lloyd J. Austin, III, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks and the
members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding drag shows and drag story hours
on U.S. military installations."
Among their
findings, the nonprofits uncovered a social media post by the Ramstein &
Vogelweh Air Force Libraries in Germany that promoted Pride Month in 2021.
Judicial Watch noted that graphics
in the post included a rainbow pride flag and two books that involved
drag-related themes. Another graphic promoted a "Drag Queen Story
Time" event at the Ramstein Library.
Another advertisement promoted
a seven-week summer reading program in June 2021 that included "Drag Queen
Storytime" and mentioned events such as virtual story times, teen
socials, and scavenger hunts.
An additional advertisement
for those 18 and older promoted another event
called "Drag Karaoke," which included drink specials and
prizes.
An invoice from June 2022
also shows that $400 was paid to Ms. Lexi Andrews,
a drag queen who appeared at "Drag Queen Bingo" on June 23 and
performed at a "Glow Party" the next day.
The records also pinpointed
other adult-themed events, Judicial Watch noted.
Last
May, DoD leaders intervened to halt a drag show scheduled at Nellis Air Force
Base in Nevada, according to two
defense officials and a U.S. official who spoke to NBC News.
U.S.
Air Force officials reportedly approved a drag show scheduled on the base to
celebrate pride month, but
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley shot down the plan and said its funding
went against Pentagon policy, according to the outlet.
Rep. Matt Gaetz,
R-Fla., grilled Austin and Milley
during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on March 29, 2023, about reports
of taxpayer-funded drag shows on U.S. military bases in Montana, Nevada,
Virginia and Germany.
"Drag
queen story hours is not something that the department funds," Austin told
the committee. Milley requested to have the flyers promoting the event
Gaetz was referring to and claimed he was unaware of them.
"I'd
like to take a look at those, because I don't agree with those,"
Milley said at the time.
The Christian Post has
reached out to the DoD for comment and will update this story if a response is
received.
Tim Huelskamp,
Ph.D., who serves as senior adviser at
CatholicVote, said the DoD
"has once again proven that radical leftist ideology is more important than
military preparedness and protecting Americans from tangible threats at
home and abroad."
"After an
entire year of stonewalling, the DoD
finally returned materials from just one commandin one branch, which confirmed
what we feared — that taxpayer funds were being used to promote drag shows and
radical gender ideology on military bases, with full approval from Air Force
leadership," he added.
"How
on Earth is it appropriate to spend our limited defense dollars on promoting
these sexually themed events for children and adults, rather than on advancing
the military's mission?" Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
"As we see in these
troubling Air Force records, our nation's
military is being ruined by woke ideology," he added.
Jon Brown is a reporter for
The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
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Electronic
WARFARE: Russia Jammed Ukraine’s Long-Range NATO Glide Bombs and Musk’s
Starlink Satellites. Kiev the Moscow Nuclear Umbrella
Gospa News editorial staff
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In the cover image an
Electronic warfare units of the Central Military District during a tactical
drill at Sverdlovsky base © Sputnik / Pavel Lisitsyn
The NATO-Russia
proxy war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for a new generation of
military technology for high-intensity warfare, with the split-second ability to
jam an enemy drone, disorient a precision artillery munition or pinpoint a
hidden enemy position using radio-electronic means often becoming the difference
between life and death.
Ukraine’s
stocks of American-made Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb
(GLSDB) munitions are being jammed by Russian electronic warfare equipment, three
informed sources familiar with the ‘problem’ told Reuters.
The Boeing/Saab
Group-developed GLSDB is a ground-launched
variant of Boeing’s GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb – a 129 kg glide munition
with a 93 kg fragmentation warhead and a 150 km range designed for strikes
against heavily entrenched targets.
The GLSDB
can be fired from M270 and M142 HIMARS precision multiple launch rocket
installations – which the United States began delivering to Ukraine in mid-2022, and which Russian
forces initially had difficulties locating due to the systems’ rapid
shoot-and-scoot [the ability to come out of cover, quickly fire and go back into
hiding] capabilities.
GLSDBs began to
be sent to Ukraine in early 2024 in a
bid by the Pentagon to extend Ukraine’s
long-range strike potential, which Kiev has used to target both military and
civilian targets in the Donbass and elsewhere.
Reuters’ sources said Russian
jamming equipment has been targeting the GLSDB’s GPS-supported inertial
navigation system, dramatically reducing its
effectiveness. One of the sources said it would take
Boeing “months” to fix the problem. The report did not provide
details on what percentage of the long-range weapons had rendered useless by
Russian efforts.
The GLSDB
is just one of the systems Ukraine’s NATO-backed forces have faced problems
with thanks to Russian electronic warfare
measures. Daniel Patt, a senior fellow at
the Hudson Institute, told Congress in March that the effectiveness
of US 155 mm GPS-guided Excalibur artillery shells had dropped from 70 percent
to just six percent several weeks after being delivered to Kiev after Russian
forces fine-tuned their electronic warfare equipment against them.
The bad news for the
Pentagon regarding the GLSDB’s performance against a peer adversary comes on
the heels of a New York Times report this week citing Ukrainian officials,
electronic warfare specialists and frontline troops indicating that Russian
electronic warfare had successfully jammed SpaceX’s Starlink satellite
internet terminals en masse in Kharkov region. This, the sources
said, helped Russia achieve an element of
surprise for its offensive in the area to establish
a “sanitary zone” free of Ukrainian long-range strike systems, which
Ukraine’s forces had been using this spring to target the city of Belgorod and
border settlements.
“We’re
losing the electronic warfare fight,” a deputy
commander from the Ukrainian 92ndAssault Brigade’s drone battalion said.
“One day before the attacks, it just shut down.
It became super, super slow.”
Russia Muting Musk’s
Starlink Satellites Using Sophisticated Electronic Warfare Tools
SpaceX CEO Elon
Musk confirmed in an X post Friday that
his company has been forced to spend
“significant resources combating Russian jamming efforts,” and
characterized Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities as “a
tough problem.”
Russia
has been forced to dramatically strengthen its electronic warfare capabilities
amid the Ukrainian crisis, owing to the use of precision-guided NATO munitions
and drones on a previously unparalleled scale.
Electronic
Jamming vs Starlink Satellites
This has included everything
from the jamming of guided artillery shells and extended-range Joint Direct
Attack Munition (JDAM) kits, to confusing long-range drones and disorienting
missiles. Russia’s military is also doing its best to stay ahead of the curve
on the battlefield, with an informed source telling Sputnik last October that EW
troops were tweaking their equipment to prepare to suppress Ukraine’s F-16s
once they begin arriving later this year.
Russia’s
commitment to powerful electronic warfare capabilities
dates back to the second half of the 20th century, when, amid preparations for a
possible large-scale conflagration with NATO in the heart of Germany,
Soviet military doctrines began emphasizing the need for
“total integration of electronic warfare and physical destruction
resources” on the battlefield. These
developments have been consistently expanded and improved upon over the decades
– with Russia, unlike the US, never losing focus on the creation of electronic
warfare means against peer competitors.
Originally published by Ilya
Tsukanov on Sputnik International
All links to Gospa News
articles have been added in the aftermath
Ukraine
attacked key element of Russia’s nuclear umbrella
The US
should be seen as directly responsible for a Ukrainian strike on a key element
of Russia’s nuclear umbrella, Senator Dmitry Rogozin has said, warning
that such attacks could lead to the collapse of
the entire global nuclear security architecture.
In a statement on Telegram
on Saturday, Rogozin, a senator who previously
headed up the Russian space agency Roscosmos and is now in charge of a military
technical center called Tsar’s Wolves, said that the attack targeted a nuclear
early warning system in the southern Krasnodar Region. The Russian
Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the matter, while the extent of the
damage remains unclear.
The operations control room
of the Voronezh radar, a Russian over-the-horizon early warning
highly-prefabricated radar station. © Sputnik
Rogozin
suggested that it
was extremely unlikely that the strike, which Ukrainian media reported involved
several drones, was carried out at Kiev’s sole initiative and without US
involvement.
According to the senator, Washington
has always sought to achieve military superiority over Moscow since the very
dawn of the nuclear age, but this rivalry was mostly limited to a battle
of minds between scientists, strategists, and policymakers.
This seems to have changed,
however, as “the US has commissioned a crime by
hiring an irresponsible bandit” to attack Russia’s early warning system,
the official said, apparently referring to Vladimir Zelensky.
The attack
apparently targeted an advanced Voronezh radar station in the city of Armavir,
which went into operation in 2013. The system can detect incoming cruise and
ballistic missiles at a range of 6,000km and can track up to 500 targets.
During the inauguration of the system, Russian President
Vladimir Putin said that it would
significantly increase the country’s defense capabilities in the southern and
southwestern directions.
Extract from RT (Former
Russia Today)
All links to Gospa News
articles have been added in the aftermath
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end of the article there is a reason to praise God.
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America Becoming An Anti-Christ Nation?
June 2, 2024 by Michael
Once
upon a time, America was a Christian nation. I know that many on the left cringe
when they read a statement like that,
but it is true. For most of our history, the
population of the United States was overwhelmingly Christian, and the values
that governed our society were primarily Christian values. But of course everything
has changed in recent decades. When Barack
Obama boldly declared that “we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation”
in 2009, he was speaking the
truth. We are no longer a Christian nation and we haven’t been for a very long
time. So if we aren’t a Christian nation at this point, what exactly
are we?
According to the Pew
Research Center, 64 percent of Americans
still considered themselves to be “Christians” in 2020…
About
64% of Americans call themselves Christian today.
That might sound like a lot, but 50 years ago that number was 90%, according to a 2020 Pew
Research Center study. That same survey said the Christian
majority in the US may disappear by 2070.
If
nearly two-thirds of your people consider themselves to be “Christians”,
that would seem to indicate that you are a Christian nation.
But we
obviously aren’t.
Just look
around.
Many
of the signs and symbols and messages
that we see all around us are overtly anti-Christian.
So what in the world is going on?
Ultimately, there
are lots of Americans that still identify themselves as “Christians” even
though they have completely abandoned everything that Christianity represents.
Joe Biden
is a perfect example. He says that he is a
“Christian” and he attends church regularly.
But then
the rest of the time he is working very hard against virtually everything that
the Bible teaches.
Of course he
is far from alone.
According to
George Barna, 6
percent of Americans had a “biblical worldview” in 2020, and by 2023 that
figure had dropped to just 4 percent…
The first national study of
Americans’ worldview since the COVID-19
lockdowns shows that the incidence of biblical worldview has fallen to a mere 4%—a
drop of one third from the 6% recorded just three
years earlier.
In fact, the 6%
benchmark measure recorded in January 2020 may prove to be the high-water mark
of biblical worldview among American adults for the foreseeable future,
according to a new report from the American Worldview Inventory 2023 from the
Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.
I
wish that I could tell you that his numbers aren’t accurate.
But
I can’t.
Barna says
that there is a second group that has “a
substantial number of beliefs and behaviors consistent with biblical
principles”, but unfortunately that group fell from 25 percent of the
population in 2020 to just 14 percent in 2023…
The number of
adults who don’t
possess a biblical worldview, but still hold “a substantial number of beliefs
and behaviors consistent with biblical principles,” has also fallen
dramatically. Only one of every seven adults (14%) belong to the category of
what Barna identifies as an “Emergent Follower.” That number was 25% only
three years ago.
When you add the
first two groups together, it comes
to a grand total of 18 percent of the population.
That is just depressing.
So what about everyone else?
Well, just about
everyone else would fall into Barna’s “world citizen” category…
The bulk
of the American adult population—82%—falls
into the “World Citizen” category, described as people “who may embrace a
few biblical principles but generally believe and behave in ways that are
distinct from biblical teaching.” According to the report, this
group has grown substantially from the 69% registered in 2020.
I think that the term
“world citizen” perfectly describes most people these days.
Sadly, on at least some
level the vast majority of the population has embraced the new values that are
constantly being pushed on us by the western elite.
And this is clearly showing
up in the poll numbers.
Survey
after survey has shown that close to two-thirds of the U.S. population
disapproves of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Here is just one example…
About
two-thirds (65%) oppose the 2022 Supreme Court decision,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and 34% approve, numbers
that have remained effectively unchanged in CNN’s polling across the nearly
two years since the ruling. Those who strongly disapprove of the decision
continue to outnumber those who strongly approve by a more than 2-to-1 margin.
We
live in a country in which nearly two-thirds of the population claims to be
Christian, but nearly two-thirds of the population also wants Roe v. Wade back.
That doesn’t
make any sense at all.
Surveys on other topics tell
a similar story.
According to a
Gallup survey that was conducted last
year, 71 percent of the population approves of
gay marriage, and a Gallup survey that was conducted earlier this year
discovered that 22.3 percent of Generation Z adults now identify as LGBTQ+…
Overall, each
younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it
to identify as LGBTQ+. More than one in five Gen Z adults, ranging in age from
18 to 26 in 2023, identify as LGBTQ+, as do nearly one in 10 millennials (aged
27 to 42). The percentage drops to less than 5% of Generation X, 2% of
baby boomers and 1% of the Silent Generation.
Bisexuality
is the most common LGBTQ+ status among Generation Z, millennials and Generation
X. Fifteen percent of all Generation Z
adults — representing more than two-thirds of
those with an LGBTQ+ identification — are bisexual.
What
values are being relentlessly promoted
by just about every major institution in our society?
Is
it Christ and His values that are being
promoted?
Or is it the opposite?
At this point, even
the U.S. military is systematically promoting values that are directly opposed
to the values that we find in the Bible…
Judicial Watch
announced today
it received 25 pages of records regarding drag shows, drag story hours and other
pride events for military personnel and their dependent minors organized and
paid for by the U.S. Air Force.
The documents were obtained
through a May 5, 2023, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted to
the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) by Judicial Watch and CatholicVote Civic
Action. The Defense Department issued
at least half a dozen “no records” responses to the FOIA request
prior to finally releasing these records.
Jesus
said that you would know a tree by the fruit that
it produces.
Needless to say, the fruit
that America is producing is not Christian fruit.
In fact, most of the fruit
that America is producing is the kind of fruit that we would expect from an
anti-Christ nation.
But even
in the midst of all the darkness, God is still at work, and amazing things are
happening.
For example,
author John Burke has interviewed
70 different people that have actually been to heaven and have come back to tell
us about it…
Imagine
all the love you’ve experienced in your entire life, from parents, spouses,
friends, and family — and then multiply it by a thousand. That’s the kind of
love experienced by people who’ve had near-death experiences. They report
being in God’s presence. John Burke,
the Texas-based bestselling author of “Imagine Heaven” and now the follow-up
book, “Imagine the God of Heaven,” writes of the topic vividly. Together
with his wife, Kathy, of Gateway Church in Austin, he is also the president of
Gateway Leadership Initiative (GLI), a nonprofit organization. He and his family
live in Austin.
In an interview, Burke
said he spoke with 70 “different people
for ‘Imagine the God of Heaven’ — from every continent, every religious
background. And yes, they encountered this God of light and love, but many of
them also encountered Him as Jesus.”
And all
over the world, Muslims are having supernatural encounters with Jesus that
radically change their lives…
Uncharted
Ministries has interviewed former Muslims who now follow Jesus, and many of them
had supernatural encounters with Jesus during Ramadan.
These former Muslims are sharing their stories of discovering Jesus as their
savior and praying that others will have the same experience.
Husein tells
Uncharted Ministries that he
was once a devout Muslim and extremely anti-Christian. But one year, during the
week of Easter, Husein saw a Christian preacher on TV talking all about Jesus.
He could not take his eyes off the broadcast. And then something supernatural
happened to him.
“Suddenly, the Holy Ghost fell on me! I looked up and Jesus was there in
front of me. I’d been a devout Muslim but as soon as I saw Him it was like
seeing an old friend that I knew before. And I knew it was Jesus. And I knew
something else. I knew that He was the Son of God!”
The God
that created all things is still doing supernatural things in our day and time.
But even though we have so
much evidence staring us in the face, our society
continues to run away from God as rapidly as it can.
If we stay on
the road that we are on, it
isn’t going to lead anywhere good.
America
needs to change course while there is
still an opportunity to do so, and the clock is ticking…
Michael’s new book
entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com,
and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
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paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other
books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year
Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning
Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. When you purchase
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and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on
their own websites. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John
3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have
not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord
and Savior today.
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U.S.
and Germany Authorise Ukrainian Attacks Against Russia
Russia
has warned that the decision marks an escalation of the war.
Zoltán Kottász — May 31,
2024
Both
the United States and Germany have allowed weapons they supplied to Ukraine to
be used against targets inside Russian territory.
The two NATO member states have emphasised that
their decision applies only to targets inside Russia near the border with the
northeastern Ukrainian Kharkiv region, where Moscow launched an offensive a few
weeks ago.
U.S.
President Joe Biden had been under pressure to authorise the decision, with
Ukraine, the Baltic states, the Scandinavian countries, and Britain urging the
United States to act. Biden had refused
to do so, fearing that NATO could be dragged into a war with Russia, whose
president, Vladimir Putin, warned the Western military alliance that they risked
the outbreak of nuclear war.
The war
between Ukraine and Russia, which started with the Russian invasion more
than two years ago, has reached a stalemate in the past year Recently, Moscow
launched an offensive against the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia, and
Russian troops have made significant territorial gains there. Russian
fighter planes flying inside Russia have been
supporting the offensive by firing bombs at Ukrainian defence lines and into
Kharkiv, reports Reuters.
Joe Biden
“recently directed his team to ensure that
Ukraine is able to use U.S.-supplied weapons for counter-fire purposes in the
Kharkiv region so Ukraine can hit back against Russian forces that are attacking
them or preparing to attack them,” said one U.S. official.
The U.S.
is the biggest supplier of weapons to Ukraine, and it recently
decided to send long-range missiles known as ATACMS to Kyiv. Washington
will continue to prohibit the Ukrainian military from using ATACMS, which have a
range of up to 300 kilometres, for deep strikes inside Russia.
Germany
has also given into pressure, with
government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit announcing on Friday that Berlin
has given Kyiv permission to use weapons supplied by Germany against military
targets in Russia. “We are jointly convinced that Ukraine has the right under
international law to defend itself against these attacks,” he said.
German policy on
providing weapons has dramatically shifted,
with Berlin initially only willing to send helmets
to Ukraine at the beginning of Russia’s invasion. Pressure
by NATO allies, and from the hawkish Greens within the government, has persuaded
Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow the delivery of anti-aircraft
systems and battle tanks. However, Scholz has refused to authorise the supply of
long-range Taurus missiles, saying they could be used to hit targets deep
inside Russia.
NATO
chief Jens Stoltenberg, who is attending the ongoing NATO foreign ministers’
meeting in Prague, downplayed the threat of an escalation of the war.
“Ukraine has the right for self-defence, and
that includes also the right to strike legitimate military targets inside
Russia,” he said on Friday. He added that letting
Western weapons hit targets in Russia was “nothing new” as Britain had long
sent cruise missiles to Kyiv without restrictions.
French President
Emmanuel Macron also said on Tuesday
that Ukraine should be allowed to
“neutralise” bases in Russia used to launch strikes.
“NATO countries that have approved strikes with their weapons
on Russian territory should be aware that their equipment and specialists will
be destroyed not only in Ukraine, but also at any point from where Russian
territory is attacked,” former Russian
president, now deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev
warned on Friday. He said all
long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine were already “directly operated by
servicemen from NATO countries,” which is tantamount to participation in the
war against Russia.
Zoltán Kottász is a
journalist for The European Conservative, based in Brussels. He worked for many
years as a journalist and as the editor of the foreign desk at the Hungarian
daily, Magyar Nemzet. He focuses primarily on European politics.
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Let your spiritual eyes be
open, for many things shall come to pass, many things you shall see, for you
have not seen the big terrorist attack here in America
yet, but you will see it, you will see it.
For you shall yet see great and mighty attacks
here in the United States, you shall see
these things come to pass. You
will also see the stock market, if you have got
money there get it out, says the Lord, get it out now, for later will be too
late. Also you shall see many
things taking place overseas like you have never seen before in your life.
And the political realm shall get even, even darker now, you shall hear
things that you did not know, etc
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Enough
Chinese Nationals Illegally Crossed The U.S. Border Since 2021 To Make A Large
Army And Are Positioned Strategically Throughout The Country - China Also Owns
Large U.S. Businesses, Farmland In 29 States, One of The Largest Meat Suppliers
In America
By Susan Duclos - All News
Pipeline May 30, 2024
We have discussed in detail
how Chinese, mostly military-aged men crossing
the U.S. border, has increased 8,500% from March 2021 to March 2024, but that is
just a small part of the bigger picture when we consider how much of America is
literally owned by the Chinese, who with their
close alliance with Russia, are hostile to the U.S.
The chart provided in the
above-linked ANP article, shown below again, offers a visual of what we are up against as the Biden regime allows more and
more foreign nations, including from countries highly hostile to the U.S., into
the country.
A foreign
army within our border.
Then on May 29, 2024, ANP
published a piece titled "US Admiral Warns
Foreign Nationals Are Breaching U.S. Naval Bases 2-3
Times A Week Now: 'They Are Coming At Us Fast And Thick With An Unprecedented
Surge Of Chinese Nationals'.
Caudle further stated, “This
is Russian, Chinese. This comes from all these different nations. We’re seeing
an uptick in it.”
Then yesterday, we see a
piece on MSN first published on New York Post,
asking "Are Biden officials covering up an
attempted terror attack by illegal immigrants?"
This time it was the Quantico
Marine Corps base, where two Jordanian illegal aliens drove a box truck to the
gates of Quantico.
They claimed
to be Amazon delivery drivers, and tried to access a site that houses the
FBI training academy, military officer training schools, and military criminal
investigations and intelligence commands.
Quick-thinking
military police stopped the truck, and
charged the men with trespassing before turning them over to US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
No one knows
what happened after that because the government
refused to answer whether these men were on any terror watchlist, and in
fact, covered up the entire story for two weeks
until a local news outlet broke the story and forced them to finally admit it
had happened.
According to the local
reported that broke that story, one of those
men were on our terror watchlist.
It gets
much worse.
On May 24, 2024, Chief
National Security Correspondent for Fox News, Jennifer
Griffin, reported "New
details on shooting in Carthage, North Carolina that involves an elite SF Army
Colonel and two Chechens (Russians) who were in the country illegally. Special
Ops have reported increasing foreign surveillance of them and their families
raising concerns about vulnerabilities. (Video)
Via Twitchy:
A mysterious shooting in North Carolina north of Fort Liberty, formerly
Fort Bragg, not far from where some of
America’s most elite U.S. Special Operations forces live and train is
under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division as well as local
police. The shooting in Carthage, North Carolina occurred May 3 at 8:15 p.m.
following a phone call about a suspected
trespasser near a Special Forces soldier's property.
Two
Chechen men who spoke broken English were found near the soldier's home.
The family alleges the suspected intruder,
35-year-old Ramzan Daraev of Chicago was taking photos of their children. When
confronted near a power line in a wooded part of the property, an altercation
ensued and Daraev was shot several times at close range. A second
man, Dzhankutov Adsalan, was in a vehicle
some distance from the incident and was questioned by authorities and then
released. The Moore County Sheriff's office is leading the investigation.
The Biden
regime is also refusing to "reveal the nationalities of people on the FBI
terror watchlist arrested at the border by Border Patrol, citing
"privacy interests" of those involved," according to Fox News.
The privacy
interests of illegal aliens, on the FBI terror list, is more important that
telling us where the terrorists entering the country illegally, are from.
Instead of protecting
Americans from the terrorists, they are protecting the terrorists from
Americans.
Unreal.
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LETTING THE CHINESE BUY
AMERICA......
China
is also buying up U.S. companies. The
most concerning would be Smithfield Foods,
the largest-ever Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company. Smithfield
Foods is a leading pork producer. (Source)
Other U.S.
companies, include AMC
Theaters, General Electric Appliances, Motorola Mobility, Strategic Hotels &
Resorts, Legendary Entertainment, Ingram Micro, Nexteer Automotive, Ironman
Triathlon, The Cleveland Cavaliers, Riot Games, Gaylord Rockies Resort &
Convention Center, Universal Music Group (minority stake), Fisker Automotive,
WeWork, and Brookstone.
Related: Chinese Companies
Listed on Major U.S. Stock Exchanges
Another disturbing fact
comes from a link over at Steve Quayle's website on May 29, with a note saying
"LOOK AT THE MAP," is a piece from the Daily Mail, with said map
showing how much U.S. farmland the Chinese own, and a
bill by a Republican congresswoman trying to prevent foreign entities from
buying any more U.S. farmland.
Chinese
entities own farmland in 29 out of the U.S.'s 50 states.
A total of 40 million acres of U.S. farmland are owned by foreign entities.
The map in question, for
those who don't want to click over, is below:
BOTTOM LINE....
Countries
hostile to the U.S. including Russia and China, are crossing the border
illegally, testing the security of our military bases, with reports listing the
Navy, Marines and air Force as targets, one of which a reportedly on the FBI
watchlist, but wasn't
admitted to until a local news reporter broke the story.
This leaves the very
pertinent question of how many other foreign
nationals on the terror watchlist have not only crossed over the border
illegally, but have been trying to breach our
military bases? If they kept
the one incident secret for two weeks until a reporter broke the story,
Americans can have no confidence whatsoever that the Biden regime would be
forthright with the nation about the others.
A
military branch-sized Chinese force of military-aged men, are already in the
U.S. illegally, with an 8,500% increase from March 2021 to March 2024,
along with the Chinese owning farmland in 20 of the 50 states, as well as owning
and many U.S. companies, and stakes in many others, should
be a huge red flag to all Americans.
We
don't have to wait for Russia and/or China to nuke us, all they have to do is
activate the forces they already have in America,
refuse to allow food from any of the farmland
they own to be bought by Americans, and they have already won half the battle.
We
also have no way to know what they have on the farmland, for all we know,
they could have an arsenal, bombs, and other
weaponry, just waiting for China to activate the cells within America.
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Denver
metro hit by largest hail in 35 years as baseball-sized
stones
pummel area
May 31, 2024
The Denver
metropolitan area experienced an intense hailstorm Thursday, which led to
the largest hailstones recorded in the county in
the last 35 years, resulting in widespread
damage.
The National
Weather Service (NWS) issued a ‘destructive’ Severe Thunderstorm Warning
for the Denver area late Thursday evening, emphasizing the life-threatening
situation with baseball-sized hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph.
The largest hail report in
Denver County measured 2.75 inches in Commerce
City on Thursday. It’s the largest hail
report in the county since 1989, the FOX Forecast Center said.
Overall, there
have been at least 55 hail reports of at least 1-inch diameter around the
Denver area.
Aurora police
said they had a busy night responding to security
alarms as hail caused damage to vehicles, businesses and homes after the
storm passed through and triggered the alarms.
“With the influx in calls
regarding the alarms, we’re asking the affected public to safely check their
property for damage or a triggered alarm if possible,” officers warned on
social media.
After a tumultuous few days
in eastern Colorado, the forecast for the
beginning of the weekend remains more of the same.
Severe
storms are anticipated to develop early Saturday afternoon,
bringing with them the potential for golf-ball
sized hail, frequent lightning and wind gusts exceeding 60 mph,
particularly in the areas just east of Denver. [FoxWeather]
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etc Much
evil upon the face of the earth, much lying, much
deceit, much deceit, much lying, much evil upon the face of the earth.
Can you not see there is so much evil going on
right now, people lying to themselves,
lying to me, lying to others trying to make their agenda
come true? But as it is
written in my word and said and so it shall be, no
liar shall enter my kingdom. So
if you are one of those people, I speak to you right now, get yourself ready,
get yourself ready, come out amongst them and be ye
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Tyranny
is upon us: Law and juries are weaponized.
May 30, 2024 | Categories:
Articles & Columns | Tags: | Print This Article Print This Article
Paul Craig Roberts
Jury
Finds Trump Guilty on All 34 Felony Charges
in New York Trial
Keep in mind that these
are 34 made-up felonies based on how an expense was recorded by accountants and
attorneys. Trump did not record the expense. The expense
was recorded according to accounting standards.
Keep in mind that a
single accounting reporting charge, a misdemeanor, was magically
turned into 34 federal felonies of election violations, if memory serves,
the argument being that Trump won the election by misreporting the expense. There are so many civil and criminal show trials going on
against Trump that it is hard to keep track of all the absurdities. Keep
in mind that it is a case without complainants, without harmed parties.
It is a case brought by a
prosecutor who can show no party harmed.
What is
frightening is that legally this is a
case for which there are no legal
grounds for bringing it. Yet, the bar associations, the law schools, the media said nothing. Getting
Trump was so important that law was sacrificed for the purpose. Trump’s
demonization made a fair trial impossible, and few jurors can resist using their
power against a rich person.
The weaponization of law in order to interfere with an election–in other
words the prosecutor is guilty of interfering in an election–the charge
brought against Trump–means the future of
America is tyranny.
An appeal
will be made, but a state where
justice is as corrupt as New York is incapable of producing a decision based on
law.
If there is any
fight left in Americans, and I am
unsure, a prison sentence from the totally corrupt
judge should launch a civil war. Many would say it is about time or past time.
If not, the people have
submitted to tyranny.
The North submitted to
Lincoln’s tyranny. The South did not. Little is left of the South. It is
unclear what stands against the tyranny of Washington.
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etc Much
evil upon the face of the earth, much lying, much
deceit, much deceit, much lying, much evil upon
the face of the earth. Can
you not see there is so much evil going on right now,
people lying to themselves, lying to me, lying to others trying to make their
agenda come true? But as it is
written in my word and said and so it shall be, no liar shall enter my kingdom.
So if you are one of those people, I speak to you right now, get yourself
ready, get yourself ready, come out amongst them and be ye
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Japanese
Leader Apologizes to the Unvaccinated: ‘You Were Right,
Vaccines Are Killing Millions of Our Loved Ones’
May 31, 2024 Sean
Adl-Tabatabai News, US 3 Comments
Kazuhiro
Haraguchi, the
former Japanese Minister for Internal Affairs, has
become the first major politician to apologize to the unvaccinated for the
tsunami of deaths occuring among the vaccinated population.
Earlier this week, huge
numbers of Japanese citizens took to the streets to protest against the crimes
against humanity perpetrated by globalist organizations such by World Health
Organization (WHO) and World Economic Forum (WEF) during the pandemic.
During an opening speech at
the protests, Haraguchi delivered a
powerful and emotional apology for the huge numbers of deaths now occurring as a
result of the deadly mRNA roll-out.
Haraguchi
began by addressing the grief and loss felt by families who have lost loved ones
who were coerced into taking the COVID jab.
With a deep sense of sincerity, he extended his
condolences and took responsibility for the failings of those in power.
“I apologize to all of you. So many have died, and they shouldn’t have,” he
said.
Thelibertybeacon.com
reports: One of the key points in Haraguchi’s
speech was his criticism of the ban on Ivermectin, a drug developed by Dr.
Satoshi Omura, which he believed could have played a significant role in
combating the pandemic. Haraguchi questioned the
motives behind the ban, suggesting that economic
interests were prioritized over public health. “Why? Because they are
cheap. They don’t want it because it will
interfere with the sales of the vaccines,” he argued.
This statement drew loud applause from the crowd, many of whom felt that
corporate profits had taken precedence over human lives.
Haraguchi then
shared a
deeply personal story about his own health struggles.
After receiving vaccines, he developed a severe
illness, specifically a rapidly progressing form of cancer. “This time last
year, I had neither eyebrows nor hair. Two out of the three supposed vaccines I
received were lethal batches,” he revealed. This candid account of his battle
with cancer, which included significant physical changes like hair loss,
struck a chord with the audience. He recounted an incident where his appearance
became a point of distraction in the Diet, with an opponent focusing more on his
wig than the issues at hand.
Adding to the conversation, Haraguchi
disclosed that he was not the only member of Japan’s National Diet
(legislature) to suffer adverse effects from vaccines. He mentioned that three
of his colleagues had been severely affected, with some even hospitalized.
“They are falling to pieces, some hospitalized. But
they don’t speak up,” he explained. This revelation underscored a
broader issue: the reluctance or inability of public figures to discuss their
personal health challenges openly.
Haraguchi
was particularly passionate about the attempts to silence those who question
current policies and government actions. He recounted a recent incident where he
was banned from speaking on Channel 3 after an interview with its president.
“The other day, I spoke with the President of Channel 3, and I was banned.
They are trying to silence our voices,”
he stated. This attempt to censor dissenting
voices highlighted a critical concern about freedom of speech and expression.
Haraguchi urged the audience to remain steadfast in their resolve, saying, “They
are trying to block our freedom, our resistance, our power. But we will
never lose.”
In the conclusion of his
speech, Haraguchi issued a rallying call for
action. He urged the people to stand united in challenging the government and
its questionable decisions. “Let’s overthrow this government,” he
proclaimed, emphasizing the need for change and
accountability. He called on legislators to continue fighting for the
people’s lives and freedoms, “Let’s make it happen,” he concluded.
The protest that is
happening right now (31st May 2024), which aims to draw tens of thousands of
participants, marked a significant moment in the global discourse about pandemic
management and health policies. Haraguchi’s speech, filled with personal
anecdotes and strong criticisms, resonated deeply with the attendees.
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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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Kentucky
high school student Micah Price denied diploma after praising Jesus in his
‘off-script’ graduation speech
By Social Links for Nicholas
McEntyre Published May 30, 2024
Updated May 30, 2024, 7:08 a.m. ET
A Kentucky high
school allegedly withheld
a graduate’s diploma when the student went off script during his graduation
speech to preach his belief in Jesus.
Micah
Price received the green light to praise Jesus Christ in his commencement speech
at Campbell County High School in Alexandria, Ky., on May 24, but followed his
address with “urging other Christians to stand
up.”
“Class, before another
word leaves my mouth, I must give the honor,
the praise and the glory to my lord and savior Jesus Christ,” Price
said to a packed Truist Arena at Northern Kentucky University.
His
oration received resounding applause from the audience
before he continued with his holy message.
“Who in his very words tells us he is the light, he is the way, the truth
and life. Class, anyone in the audience today, I’m here to tell you that if
you don’t have any of those things in your life and can’t seem to find the
answer, then my lord and savior is your
answer.”
When Price shifted his
prepared remarks, school officials weren’t
pleased with his off-script moment and confronted the graduate after the
ceremony.
The school
reprimanded Price and denied
him his diploma.
“After the speech was
over, one of the principals came in, tapped me on
the shoulder, very politely and professionally told me that I
was going to have to go in front of the board and explain what I did because I
went off script,” Price said in a video posted to TikTok on Sunday.
The school
district had allowed Price to thank his “lord and savior Jesus Christ”
before telling him to read off the preapproved script.
“All speakers were told that going off their submitted speech, or any
unplanned choices at graduation, may have repercussions as they would at
any school function,” Superintendent Shelli Wilson told WKRC.
“Off-program choices such as speech, signs, and caps in support of any
cause or religion, injecting inappropriate language, or political election
statements could lead to something other than this outpouring of Christian
faith,” Wilson said.
Price
claimed he had all the preaching to his classmates in the script but was told to
take it out before it was approved.
“I had that in my script,
and they told me that I was; they said that it was
a public institution; and they didn’t want to divide their audience or my
audience because I was speaking,” Price told the outlet. “I
think it was fine that I thanked him, but going
in and urging them to follow him and urging other Christians to stand up and
talk about him might be the thing they didn’t want.”
Price told his
TikTok followers that he
had no bad blood with Campbell County or the principals as they were
“just doing their job.”
He
also took full responsibility for the incident, saying he went against school
policy because “he serves a higher power.”
“I do no one’s bidding but God. So, if
anyone’s in the wrong, I am. I deserve to get punished.”
Price received his diploma
on Wednesday after a long holiday weekend.
“Holding it is just an
answered prayer, that’s all it is, just an answered prayer,” Price told the
outlet.
The
incoming US Air Force Academy cadet says he has no regrets and would “do it
again times two.”
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Now
concerning the terrorists and the terrorist’s
attacks, there is no way in the natural that man can stop this. For you
have two borders, Mexico, Canada, you have open
traffic from Cuba to Florida, you have freighters, you have oil tankers, they
come into the harbor daily, sometimes in large numbers. Realize that your
prayers cannot turn this back, it is part of the
end-time events that shall take place. But your prayers can save lives,
your prayers can warn people, but realize that this is going to be part of a
lifestyle until the anti-christ establishes a peace treaty throughout the world.
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Brawling
migrants battered, bit cops who turned up to break up fight at Roosevelt Hotel
By Social Links for Larry
Celona , Social Links for Joe
Marino and Social Links for
Patrick Reilly
Published May 29, 2024, 6:08
p.m. ET
Two groups of
brawling migrants ganged
up on a pair NYPD officers who arrived to break up a fight in the Roosevelt
Hotel on May 19 — battering the cops and biting one, law enforcement sources told
The Post.
Both cops
were taken to the hospital with minor injuries,
and four migrants were arrested — three
of whom were free after prior arrests, according to sources.
Police responded
to the storied 45th Street hotel, which has been converted to house asylum
seekers, around 2:15 p.m on May 19 in response to
a reported dispute between the migrants there, sources said.
Inside the hotel, the cops
were surrounded by the two groups — similar to the Times Square attack
on NYPD officers in January, sources said.
One
officer was bitten in his left arm and was bruised on his left leg.
Another
cop suffered injuries to his head, right elbow and wrist.
One of the assailants also tried to steal his hat as a trophy, according to
sources.
One
of the officers’ cameras fell off in the fracas and someone stole it.
Both officers were
transported to Mount Sinai West in stable condition.
Hotel resident Kennedy
Jesus Mavarez Lugo, 29, was charged with
assaulting a police officer.
Nicol Cedeno, 24,
who also lives at the hotel, was also charged with
assaulting a police officer. He was previously
charged twice for stealing clothes and kitchenware from a Midtown TJ Maxx
and Marshalls in February, sources said.
Alexander Ayala,
24, a Roosevelt resident, was charged
with attempted robbery for trying to grab the police officer’s had. He
has a previous domestic violence assault charge from December.
Yhonneiber
Milano, 19, was charged
with robbery and obstructing governmental administration charges. He was
arrested in February for criminal possession of stolen property.
Prosecutors
requested between $10,000 and $30,000 partially secured bonds for each defendant.
All were granted supervised release by a judge.
The brawl was the latest of
several violent encounters between migrants and New York’s Finest.
Last month, a group of five
Venezuelan migrants attacked NYPD officers after they were caught red-handed
stealing from an Upper East Side Target, sending
one officer to the hospital. Four out of
the five repeat offenders were cut loose and are back on the streets.
In January, a
mob of migrants attacked NYPD officers in Times Square. So far
seven individuals have been charged in connection to the incident and several
were offered plea deals earlier this month.
A
massive, multi-use mega-tower is expected to replace the run-down and
overcrowded Roosevelt Hotel, which is
owned by the government of Pakistan, once the migrants move out —
possibly by the end of the year.
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world hates the Christians more now than at anytime in history. Even
during the days Jesus walked on earth, it is much worse now and it is not going
to get better because those that don’t
believe the truth are going to come against you like never before because
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A
city in California has been accused of banning chaplains from praying in
Jesus’ name
A California
city has
been accused of wrongfully ordering two chaplains to stop praying in the name of
Jesus Christ, which a legal group argues violates their religious freedom.
The First Liberty Institute
sent a complaint letter to the Carlsbad City Council
on Tuesday regarding the City Manager Scott Chadwick allegedly ordering fire chaplain Denny Cooper and police
chaplain J.C. Cooper to stop praying in Jesus’ name.
According to the letter, Chadwick
told the chaplains of a new standard in separate conversations in April.
“Because the chaplains
cannot in good conscience erase the name of Jesus from their prayers, this order
deprives first responders of the solace and spiritual strength that the
Chaplains’ volunteer ministry has provided for nearly two decades,”
the letter reads.
“Therefore, we
urge the City Council to return to its longstanding practice of inviting the
Chaplains to pray freely in accordance with their sincere religious beliefs.”
FLI Counsel Kayla Toney, who
authored the letter, told The Christian Post via email that the institute became
aware of the situation through a “former client who we helped with a different
religious liberty issue.”
Toney took issue
with the city manager’s reported argument
that praying in Jesus’ name constituted
harassment of non-Christians and created a hostile work environment.
“This is not a true or accurate understanding of the law, which has
always protected the prayers and expressions of religious Americans,” she
said. “Ironically, the city manager’s order
has created a hostile environment for the Chaplains and many other people of
faith living in Carlsbad.”
Toney believes that while
“we do see increasing hostility toward people of faith” in the United
States, the laws were “changing in a positive direction.”
“In Kennedy v. Bremerton, the Supreme Court overruled the ‘Lemon Test’
which was used to purge expressions of faith from public
life,” Toney explained.
“Now the Court looks to
history and tradition, and our nation has a long
tradition of public prayers by chaplains according to their sincere religious
beliefs. So there’s a lot of work left to do, but also good reason for
hope.
The Christian Post reached
out to city officials for a response to the complaint letter. They did not
return comment by press time.
In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4
in Town of Greece v. Galloway that a New York town could have ministers pray
Christian invocations as part of their official meetings.
Justice Anthony Kennedy
delivered the court’s opinion, concluding that “legislative
prayer, while religious in nature, has long been understood as compatible with
the Establishment Clause.”
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ready to strike, Iran ready to strike, North
Korea ready to strike, they are not playing
games; they are serious with the things that they are saying.
Only you have felt that they have feared you, and because you have felt
that they have feared you, you are not listening as close as you should. etc.
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The Deputy
Chairman of the Russian Federation Council, Dmitry Medvedev, tried
desperately again today to warn the US and NATO of nuclear consequences if they
continue on the path they are on against Russia.
On Social Media, Medvedev
wrote the following:
Western
countries that allegedly “approved the use” of their extended-range weapons
on Russian territory (regardless of whether we are talking about old or new
parts of our country) must clearly understand the following:
1. All their military equipment and specialists fighting
against us will be destroyed both on the territory of the former Ukraine and in
other countries if attacks are launched from there against the territory of
Russia.
2. Russia proceeds from the assumption that all
long-range strike systems used by the former Ukraine are already directly
operated by NATO military personnel. This is not "military assistance"
but participation in the war against us. Such actions can very well
become a casus belli.
3. NATO will have to decide how to classify the consequences of
possible retaliatory strikes on the equipment/objects/military personnel
of individual member countries in the context of Articles 4 and 5 of the
Washington Treaty.
In all likelihood, the NATO
leadership wants to pretend that we are talking about sovereign decisions of
individual countries of the North Atlantic Alliance to support the Kyiv regime,
and there is no reason to apply the rule of the 1949 Treaty on collective
self-defense here.
These are dangerous and
harmful misconceptions. Such “individual
assistance” from NATO countries against Russia, be it controlling their
long-range cruise missiles or sending a contingent of troops to Ukraine, is a
serious escalation of the conflict. The former Ukraine and its NATO allies will receive a response of
such destructive force that the Alliance itself simply will not be able to
resist being drawn into the conflict.
And no
matter how much retired NATO farts chatter that Russia will never use
non-strategic nuclear weapons against b. In Ukraine, and even more so in
individual NATO countries, life is much worse
than their frivolous reasoning.
A
few years ago, they insisted that Russia would not enter into an open military
conflict with the Bandera regime, so as not to quarrel with the West.
They miscalculated. There
is a war going on.
The use
of tactical nuclear weapons can also be miscalculated. Although this
would be a fatal mistake. After all, as the
President of Russia rightly noted, European countries have a very high
population density. And for those enemy countries whose lands are further than
the coverage area of tactical nuclear weapons, there is finally a strategic
potential.
And this,
alas, is not intimidation or a nuclear bluff.
The current military conflict with the West is developing
according to the worst possible scenario. There is a constant escalation in the
power of applicable NATO weapons. Therefore, today no one can rule out the transition of the conflict to
its final stage.
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Biden aides signal openness to letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons
No
final decision has been made, but the consideration comes amid mounting pressure
from allies and Democrats.
By Matt Berg, Alexander Ward
and Nahal Toosi 05/29/2024 03:30
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Two
senior Biden administration officials Wednesday opened the door
to allowing Ukraine to use American-donated
weapons to strike inside Russia.
The move, if made, would
come as European allies, lawmakers and
Ukrainian officials exert pressure on the White House to lift the restrictions,
and as Russia has made major advances on the battlefield. It also suggests that
President Joe Biden and his team are increasingly
worried about Kyiv’s ability to fend off Russia’s attacks, especially
its latest advance in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.
Secretary of
State Antony Blinken signaled
the possible change during a visit to Moldova when pressed by reporters.
A “hallmark” of the Biden administration’s approach toward Ukraine since
Russia launched its full-scale invasion two years ago “has been to adapt as
the conditions have changed, as the battlefield has changed, as what Russia does
has changed.”
“We’ve adapted and
adjusted, too, and we’ll continue to do that,” he continued.
Shortly afterward, National
Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, while stating that there’s
“no change” in the current policy that says Ukraine can’t use
U.S.-supplied weapons to strike inside Russian territory, also noted that
America’s “support to Ukraine has evolved
appropriately.”
Two
other Biden administration officials cautioned that no final decision has been
made and that Blinken and Kirby were describing a general trend
of American support for Ukraine during the war — one of initial caution
followed by permission. They were not necessarily guaranteeing a forthcoming
shift.
The topic
is “under consideration,” a U.S. official familiar with the issue
said. Both were granted anonymity to speak about sensitive internal
deliberations.
Kyiv
hasn’t seen concrete movement on the matter from the Biden administration,
according to a person close to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office.
Zelenskyy, during a visit to Belgium on
Tuesday, begged Western governments to “please give us permission” to use
their weapons to strike targets in Russia’s sovereign territory.
The U.S.
restrictions “significantly reduce the effectiveness of partners’ assistance
and neutralize the efforts made,” according to an internal Ukrainian
government document on Wednesday setting out talking points for Ukrainian
officials, obtained by POLITICO.
Biden
has faced mounting pressure at home to lift the restriction,
including from Democrats, and foreign allies’ decisions to give Ukraine the
go-ahead to use their transferred weapons on Russian soil have added to that
pressure.
This month, U.K.
Foreign Minister David Cameron said Kyiv could use British weapons to strike
sovereign Russian territory. Then on
Monday, NATO’s parliamentary assembly adopted a resolution calling on Western
countries to allow Ukraine to use weapons to strike military targets inside
Russia.
The issue gathered momentum
on Tuesday, when French President Emmanuel
Macron opened the door to Ukraine using donated weapons to “neutralize”
Russian military sites.
“We’re not being
escalatory by doing this,” Macron continued during a joint press conference
alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, arguing that Ukraine should be allowed to hit targets in Russian territory where
missiles are being shot from. Scholz didn’t go as far but still
signaled his openness to the idea, saying Ukraine’s
use of Western weapons “must always be
within the framework of international law.”
Also this week, NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said: “By
having too many restrictions we are tying one hand of the Ukrainian armed forces
on their back.”
The Biden administration has
changed other Ukraine policies after allies have done so, namely sending
long-range missiles after London and Paris delivered their versions to Kyiv.
Many
top U.S. lawmakers are publicly supportive of the idea.
Last week, House
Speaker Mike Johnson said Ukrainians have
been unable to defend themselves because of the Biden administration’s policy.
A group of bipartisan lawmakers led by House Intelligence Chair
Mike Turner (R-Ohio) sent the Pentagon a letter asking military leaders to lift
the restriction.
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“I haven’t seen a single person in the House or Senate who didn’t
support this idea,” said Oleksandra Ustinova, the head of Ukraine’s special
parliamentary commission on arms and munitions, who met with several lawmakers
in Washington this month. They noted that Kyiv had watched as Russian
troops massed on the border preparing to strike at Kharkiv, and could not hit
the formations with their U.S.-supplied missiles because of Washington’s rule.
On Wednesday, 60
former officials and scholars sent Biden a letter, obtained by POLITICO,
demanding that he lift the restriction because it could help Ukraine fend
off the attack on Kharkiv and prevent other large-scale Russian offensives
elsewhere.
“We must finally learn from Ukraine’s successes at calling out
Russian bluster that it is not escalatory for
Ukraine to defend itself. The past two years have shown that if
we allow the U.S. to be held hostage to the Kremlin’s threats of escalation,
Russia gains the upper hand and Ukrainian civilians pay the price,” wrote
the group.
The letter’s
signatories include retired Gen. Philip Breedlove, the former top U.S. commander
in Europe, and multiple former American ambassadors to Ukraine.
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things about themselves, their foolishness, they run off at the mouth and they
do not consider the things that they are saying. They
poke the bear in the eye and poke the bear in the eye and they poke the bear in
the eye and they do not realize that the bear can be very vicious, that he can
tear them to shreds, that he can kill those that they love, he can kill their
sons and their daughters and they never think of this. They only do the
stupid things that they think themselves because they don’t inquire of me or
ask of me and therefore the things that come are because of their foolishness.
etc.
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Washington,
DC is leaking like a sieve with news that Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission
to strike inside Russia, solely near
the area of Kharkiv, with US weapons.
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bear has now spoken. If those that
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your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring
panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America.
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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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It's
Falling Hard Now
All
over the economy, metrics of all kinds are rapidly tripping downward.
David Haggith Jun 01, 2024
∙ Paid
So, the bad
news keeps rolling in for the stock market,
even on a good stock day when the Dow soared 575 points because we caught an
inflation beat that nudged down. This time it was in the PCE report. Last time
it was in CPI. The CPI number didn’t look anywhere near as helpful once you
looked beneath the surface, and I suspect this one won’t with the same kind of
Deeper Dive. So, I’ll be covering that this weekend. Right now, I
want to focus on what happened in the economy this week and in stocks as
related news continue to pour in today.
On the basic economic front,
the Chicago Purchase Manager’s Index, a major report that covers the
upper midwest, came in all-out horrible. Zero
Hedge referred to it as “craters to depression levels.” I wouldn’t go
quite that far, but it’s close. Let’s say it
cratered to our two latests and deepest recession levels.
Deep
to darkest deep in recession territory.
Almost as low as the Great Recession got during its worst months and almost
as low as the Covidcrash during the month when most of the world was
forced to close shop. This recession hasn’t even
officially started yet, yet this major set of metrics keeps falling down
a very steep set of stairs.
(In the numbers below, “50” is where recessionary economic decline
begins.)
After
unexpectedly slumping last month to 37.9, the Chicago PMI index cratered
even more unexpectedly in May, when it defied hopes of a rebound to 41.5, and
instead tumbled even more, sliding to a cycle low
of 35.4 which was not only below the lowest estimate, but was staggeringly low.
Indeed, if
what purchase managers are seeing looks almost on par with two historically very
deep recessions (though the last one was brief because it was created
artificially and turned back on via the same legal mechanisms used to shut the
world off), then how are we not already in
recession?
Remember that former Fed
Chair Ben Burn-the-banky infamously said in the summer of 2008 that there
wasn’t a recession anywhere in site, and then the National Bureau of
Economic Research (the NBER, which officially
declares US recessions) came along a few months later and said
we had actually already been in one for half a year when Gentle Ben made
that proud proclamation of Fed economic success, and then it turned out to be
the greatest recession since the Great Depression!
Zero Hedge kicks
it up a notch:
… which seems to suggest
that at least according to Chicago-based
purchasing managers, the economy is in a depression.
It wasn’t just that
everything measured in the Chicago region fell, it was that many things fell at
a faster rate than in all the previous months when the Chicago PMI had already
been falling. The decline is steep and deep.
So there was that …
Software enthusiasm gets its
soft head caved in
…and there was this:
Software
stocks got massacred this week to such
extent that BofA predicted today that tech
may be the next pain trade for stocks. Of course tech had been, by and in
large, the only positive area in stocks due to anything connected with AI riding
high on the frenzy of AI love. However AI seems to have gotten a case of strep
sewer breath this week because suddenly no one wants to kiss it.
Market breadth
during this tumultuous week utterly collapsed:
… also looking nearly as
bad as it did during the deep belly of the Great Recession back when there was
“no recession anywhere in sight.”
Investors betting that technology
behemoths will continue to fuel the rally in equities could
be in for a rough ride when other sectors start to catch up, according to
strategists at Bank of America Corp….
Other potential sore points
on the horizon include a drop in US equities and a widening in investment-grade
bond spreads, Galou said by email.
In fact, software stocks
generally got clobbered this week. It wasn’t just Salesforce, as I reported on
yesterday: UiPath, another AI driven business
software platform, plunged 34%. Other software companies followed in the
downdraft.
The “consensual
hallucination” about AI, as economist Wolf Richter is calling it, called in
sick this last week. The cave-in at UiPath caused
a big shakeup in corporate leadership. Apparently, the company still has
to be run by humans, and they are not performing well or are behaving badly.
According to Richter,
the whole thing is corporate
hogwash to cover up chaos.
So, when you have narrow breadth throughout the market, and the big leaders
start doing that, how can that be good?
Bonds go bonk
Bonds are not really bonkers
because they finally returned to what they should have been doing since last
October, but they are bonking stocks on the head. While bond yields got some
reprieve today due to that whiff of PCE inflation hope I’ll be digging into
this weekend with paid subscribers, they have really gouged stocks all over the
world this week,
Global
bond investors are coming to terms with the likelihood that interest rates are
going to stay high for the foreseeable
future.
From
the US and Germany to Australia and Japan, the past two weeks have been
punishing for investors who have clung
to hopes for rolling rate cuts this year from the world’s biggest central
banks. The reality is, inflation has yet to be
fully tamed, and that’s put central banks on guard and left bondholders with
losses.
And that future was
“foreseeable” because it has been foreseen and spelled out here each step of
the way since last summer, saying we’d get here. Investors had to roll their
rate-cut hopes with their impact on stock pricing along month after month and
are still rolling.
Global
government debt lost about 1.3% since May 16
— around the time when many yields were at their lows of the month, according
to a Bloomberg Index. The sector is down about 5%
so far this year, erasing all of the gains from late last year, when
optimism over the prospect of imminent worldwide rate cuts was at its peak.
The selloff
deepened Friday after euro area inflation
quickened more than expected in May, driving the 10-year German yield to the
highest level in over six months….
“This was supposed to be the year of the bond, and it’s proven not
to be,” said Ian Pollick, global head of FICC strategy at Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce. “We are in higher-for-longer right now. So bond
markets are trying to recalibrate.”
That is
what happens when you live outside of reality, believing in fantasies about
inflation, ignoring months of rising inflation,
and clinging to things whispered by Fed Chair Jerome Powell that the Fed never
actually said in its policy statements or minutes.
Once pricing in almost seven
quarter-point Fed rate reductions in 2024, US swaps traders are now barely
betting on one reduction, and officials are keeping alive the potential further
rate hikes.
Markets
largely chose to ignore the rate-hike talk, while I chose to start the rate-hike
talk on GoldSeek Radio before you heard
a word from the Fed on that because it was what inflation dictated, while the Fed
itself was living on second-hand dreams that its sticky inflation would now
prove transitory. (You can listen to this week’s GoldSeek Radio Nugget
here where I talk about gold, central-bank moves, housing’s delayed impact on
inflation and new MBS troubles breaking out as they did in 2008.)
Much
of the pressure has emanated from the US, where weak Treasury auctions in recent
days have fanned concerns over investor demand at a time when the US is selling
more bonds than ever.
That’s
not going away. That’s something I
and others have been reading from our radar screens for months, explaining that
it was just a mathematical fact that a high supply of Treasury bonds was coming
and that would create a big problem for the Fed and Treasury as the Treasury
was losing international buyers.
Auctions
of two-, five- and seven-year Treasury notes all drew higher-than-anticipated
yields, a sign interest
in buying the securities fell short of expectations.
Inflation’s return to
rising has been global. Rising inflation was
reported for Europe, Australia and Japan today. In Europe, unemployment also
remains at an all-time low, just as in the US, giving central banks no apparent
reason to shift back into easing.
“The
key thing, let’s be clear, is going to be inflation,” he said. “If
these wage numbers don’t come down and service inflation doesn’t come down
in the months ahead, this might be the first [ECB] rate cut for a while before
we get anything else coming through. And I think that’s going to be even more
important for the Fed.”
Inflation has always been
the key thing in these editorials. Of course, endless rolling back of rate cuts
keeps the needed rate-hike scenario in play, and that is where massive
recalibration in stocks would likely take place if that were to happen:
“The risk – the
thing that will finally break the market – is
that the Fed opens the door to interest rate hikes,” Trindade said.
“That is not our central scenario, but investors must have it at the back of
their minds.”
“Higher
for longer” is getting dangerous
Higher
for Longer Rates Mean No Escape From the Debt Squeeze
Companies going bust,
mounting credit card debt, higher mortgage bills.
The highest interest rates
in years are taking a toll from the US to Australia, creating cracks in
economies despite low unemployment and booming stock markets. Even
where consumer spending looks solid, it’s often being funded by borrowing,
from credit cards to “Buy Now Pay Later” services.
It’s all part of the new
normal, a world where the floor for rates is much higher and where corporate,
household and government borrowers have to accept that this backdrop is sticking around for longer.
As consumers and businesses
and stock and bond investors all wake up from their delusions to face this
reality (consumers and businesses perhaps not being so delusional as the
investor crowd), you’re going to see some rapid gearing down for recession. Chicago
PMI and this week’s earlier Dallas survey say that gearing down is already
well underway. It’s a stealth recession—one made of
stagflation—that won’t likely be declared
until it is deeply entrenched due to the reporting agencies being the incumbent
government that wants to get re-elected and due to no one understanding
that tight labor in the present times means weak labor.
So, this
recession will fly in under the radar and won’t
be declared unless and until it becomes so obvious that the declaration can no
longer be avoided or denied. The wake-up calls
are coming in now:
Bank
of Montreal shares plunged on loan-loss concerns,
prompting analysts at Scotiabank to respond that “the
‘higher-for-longer’ rate scenario is a reality.” It “appears to
be impacting credit performance” more than analysts or management expected,
they said.
One of the articles below
lays out numerous troubles that are piling up in various sectors of the US and
global economy, but the above editorial gives you the gist of it all.
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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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Tornados, power outages in US kill at least 20 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states: ‘It’s a big mess’
By Associated Press Published May 27, 2024, 10:39 a.m. ET
VALLEY VIEW, Texas — Powerful storms killed at least 20 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S.
The storms inflicted their worst damage in a region spanning from north of Dallas to the northwest corner of Arkansas.
On Monday, forecasters said the greatest risk would shift to the east, covering a broad swath of the country from Alabama to near New York City.
Seven deaths were reported in Cooke County, Texas, near the Oklahoma border, where a tornado Saturday night plowed through a rural area near a mobile home park, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference Sunday.
The dead included two children, ages 2 and 5.
Three family members were found dead in one home, according to the county sheriff.
Eight people died statewide in Arkansas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed in a news conference Sunday evening.
An emergency official said two of the deaths were attributed to the circumstances of the storm but not directly caused by weather, including a person who suffered a heart attack and another who was deprived of oxygen due to a loss of electricity.
The deaths included a 26-year-old woman who was found dead outside a destroyed home in Olvey, a small community in Boone County, according to Daniel Bolen of the county’s emergency management office. One person died in Benton County, and two more bodies were found in Marion County, officials said.
In Oklahoma, two people died in Mayes County, east of Tulsa, officials said.
The injured included guests at an outdoor wedding.
Three people have died in Kentucky. Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency early Monday in a post on social media platform X, citing “multiple reports of wind damage and tornadoes.”
The small community of Charleston took a direct hit from the storm Sunday night, where several homes were destroyed and utilities were knocked out.
“It’s a big mess,” said Rob Linton, who lives in Charleston and is the fire chief of nearby Dawson Springs. “Trees down everywhere. Houses moved. Power lines are down.
No utilities whatsoever – no water, no power.”
Charleston is an unincorporated community two miles north of Dawson Spring, which was devastated by a tornado in late 2021.
Beshear’s father, former two-term Gov. Steve Beshear, grew up in Dawson Springs.
In Texas, about 100 people were injured and more than 200 homes and structures destroyed, Abbott said, sitting in front of a ravaged truck stop near the small agricultural community of Valley View. The area was among the hardest hit, with winds reaching an estimated 135 mph (217 kph), officials said.
“The hopes and dreams of Texas families and small businesses have literally been crushed by storm after storm,” said Abbott, whose state has seen successive bouts of severe weather, including storms that killed eight people in Houston earlier this month.
Abbot signed an amended severe weather disaster declaration on Sunday to include Denton, Montague, Cooke and Collin on a list of counties already under a disaster declaration sparked by storms and flooding in late April.
Hugo Parra, who lives in Farmers Branch, north of Dallas, said he rode out the storm with 40 to 50 people in the bathroom of the truck stop. The storm sheared the roof and walls off the building, mangling metal beams and leaving battered cars in the parking lot.
“A firefighter came to check on us and he said, ‘You’re very lucky,’” Parra said. “The best way to describe this is the wind tried to rip us out of the bathrooms.”
Multiple people were transported to hospitals by ambulance and helicopter in Denton County, also north of Dallas.
A series of deadly storms
The destruction continued a grim month of deadly severe weather in the nation’s midsection.
Tornadoes in Iowa last week left at least five people dead and dozens injured. The deadly twisters have spawned during a historically bad season for tornadoes, at a time when climate change contributes to the severity of storms around the world. April had the second-highest number of tornadoes on record in the country.
Meteorologists and authorities issued urgent warnings to seek cover as the storms marched across the region late Saturday and into Sunday. “If you are in the path of this storm take cover now!” the National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma, posted on X.
Harold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, said a persistent pattern of warm, moist air is to blame for the string of tornadoes over the past two months.
Homes destroyed, roads blocked
Residents awoke Sunday to overturned cars and collapsed garages. Some residents could be seen pacing and assessing the damage. Nearby, neighbors sat on the foundation of a wrecked home.
In Valley View, near the truck stop, the storms ripped the roofs off homes and blew out windows. Clothing, insulation, bits of plastic and other pieces of debris were wrapped around miles of barbed wire fence line surrounding grazing land in the rural area.
Kevin Dorantes, 20, was in nearby Carrollton when he learned the tornado was bearing down on the Valley View neighborhood where he lived with his father and brother. He called the two of them and told them to take cover in the windowless bathroom, where they rode out the storm and survived unharmed.
As Dorantes wandered through the neighborhood of downed power lines and devastated houses, he came upon a family whose home was reduced to a pile of splintered rubble. A father and son were trapped under debris and friends and neighbors raced to get them out, Dorantes said.
“They were conscious but severely injured,” Dorantes said.
Widespread power outages
The severe weather knocked out power for tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the path of the storms.
On Monday, more than 187,000 customers were without power in Kentucky, according to the tracking website poweroutage.us. Some 84,000 customers were without power in Alabama; 74,000, West Virginia; 70,000, Missouri; and 63,000, Arkansas.
Inaccessible roads and downed power lines in Oklahoma also led officials in the town of Claremore, near Tulsa, to announce on social media that the city was “shut down” due to the damage.
Most severe weather in forcast
The system causing the latest severe weather was expected to move east over the rest of the holiday weekend.
The Indianapolis 500 started four hours late after a strong storm pushed into the area, forcing Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials to evacuate about 125,000 race fans.
More severe storms were predicted in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee.
The risk of severe weather moves into North Carolina and Virginia on Monday, forecasters said.
To follow the progress of the storm system, see The Associated Press Tornado Tracker.
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United States volcano update; Magma is on the move, Uplift detected at Mt. Spurr near Anchorage, Alaska
May 24, 2024
In Alaska, a likely intrusion of magma was detected beneath the closest volcano to the city of Anchorage. This detection occurred at the famous Mount Spurr, which has been producing an elevated level of earthquakes during the last month.
Alongside these earthquakes, ground deformation was detected, meaning that this volcano which hasn’t erupted since 1992 it now producing its highest level of unrest in nearly two decades.
So, does this mean that it is now only a matter of time before the highly explosive Mount Spurr erupts, potentially once again dumping ash on Anchorage? How severe is its current unrest?
From AVO:
Summary of Current Activity
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has detected a small increase in volcano seismic activity at Mount Spurr, which may indicate an intrusion of new magma deep beneath the volcano.
An extended recent outage of the local seismic network from February to April 2024 limits precise determination of the onset of this activity, but elevated seismicity has been seen since the network returned on April 3.
Since then, AVO has located an average of four earthquakes per day, with a peak of 33 recorded on April 26. These have typically been smaller than magnitude 1.0, and range in depth from near the summit of the volcano to as much as 18 miles (30 km) below sea level. This activity represents an increase in earthquake rate and occurrence of deeper (>12.4 miles or 20 km) low frequency earthquakes compared to recent years. These low frequency earthquakes are likely related to the migration of fluids.
Minor uplift of the ground surface at the volcano of ~0.4 inches (~1 cm) has also been observed in local GPS data since November 2023, which is a deviation from the long-term trend and may be related to the seismicity.
No significant changes to the ice and snow cover or gas and steam emissions have been observed in association with these geophysical observations. In clear viewing conditions, minor steaming is commonly visible from fumaroles in the summit crater region.
Prognosis and Hazards
The activity that we have observed at Mount Spurr over the past six weeks is consistent with the intrusion of magma deep beneath the volcano. Such an intrusion can cause subtle inflation or swelling of the volcano and generate earthquakes through the release magmatic gasses.
While these observations suggest that increased activity may be occurring deep beneath Mount Spurr, there is no indication that an eruption may occur soon, if at all. Intrusions of new magma under volcanoes do not always result in volcanic eruptions and activity may decline without an eruption occurring, such as during the previous intrusion under Mount Spurr that occurred in 2004. [AVO]
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Blinken lobbying for strikes on Russia
May 24, 2024
Via RT
The top US diplomat wants Ukraine to be given permission to use American weapons beyond its borders
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pushing the administration of President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to attack targets deep inside Russia with American weapons, the New York Times reported on Thursday, referring to unnamed US officials.
The ban, according to the White House, was imposed out of concern that if US arms were used inside what Washington acknowledges as Russian territory it would trigger an escalation and potentially World War III. Blinken has been advocating for scrapping the restriction after making a “sobering” visit to Kiev earlier this month, the newspaper said, citing insider sources.
Ukrainian officials have claimed that being unable to target Russian forces across the border with American weapons led to the failure of its troops to prevent the recent Russian advances in Kharkov Region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the offensive is a response to months of Ukrainian artillery and drone attacks in Russia’s Belgorod Region and that a buffer zone is required to deprive Kiev of the capability to make such strikes. The Times said that Ukrainian weapons “don’t pack the power and speed of the American weapons.”
Kiev has launched a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill to pressure the White House over the issue and has some allies among lawmakers. A group of representatives signed a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday calling for the Ukrainian request to be granted.
During a hearing in Congress on Tuesday, Senator Michael McCaul displayed a map showing the strike range of ATACMS missiles – a weapon the US has donated to Ukraine – if Kiev were allowed to use them inside Russia. He called the outlined territory a “sanctuary zone” for Russian troops and accused the Biden administration of tying the hands of the Ukrainians behind their backs.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has urged increased NATO involvement in the conflict and has argued that the West should not fear Russia’s reaction. Moscow believes that Zelensky’s goal is to trigger an escalation to maintain his position.
Russia is currently conducting a military drill to test its capability to use non-strategic nuclear weapons, which Putin ordered in response to hostile rhetoric by Western officials. One such remark identified by Moscow came from British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who said earlier this month that Kiev “has the right” to use weapons donated by his nation to attack targets inside Russia.
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Microsoft Unveils Creepy AI-Powered Windows that Tracks Everything You Do
By Lucas Nolan21 May 2024
Microsoft has announced a new line of AI-enhanced Windows PCs, aiming to revolutionize the way users interact with their devices by integrating the Copilot AI assistant into the Windows operating system. The creepy system will take constant screenshots of your activity to track your every move.
Fortune reports that at an event held at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced the new class of AI-imbued personal computers, emphasizing their potential to anticipate users’ needs and intentions. “We’re entering this new era where computers not only understand us, but can actually anticipate what we want and our intent,” Nadella stated.
The new AI-powered features include Windows Recall, which provides the Copilot assistant with a “photographic memory” of a user’s virtual activity. Microsoft claims that its privacy settings will be protected by allowing them to filter out unwanted tracking and keeping the tracking data on the device itself.
The announcement comes amidst heightened competition from rival tech giants, such as Google and OpenAI, who have recently unveiled their own generative AI technologies. Google introduced a revamped search engine that incorporates AI-generated summaries and showcased its in-development AI assistant, Astra, which can interact with users based on visual inputs from a smartphone camera. Meanwhile, OpenAI launched a new version of its ChatGPT chatbot, demonstrating an AI voice assistant capable of engaging in natural conversations and even attempting to assess a person’s emotions.
Microsoft’s new AI-enhanced Windows PCs, set to launch on June 18, will be available on devices manufactured by partners such as Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, as well as on Microsoft’s own Surface line. However, these cutting-edge features will be reserved for premium models starting at $999.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship.
Read more at Fortune here.
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Biden dishonors all Russians by insinuations against Putin — Russian Ambassador
"Such behavior is unacceptable for any responsible politician," Anatoly Antonov said
WASHINGTON, May 26. /TASS/. US President Joe Biden insults all the Russian people by his invectives against Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Russian Ambassador in Washington Anatoly Antonov said.
"I believe such behavior is unacceptable for any responsible politician, especially the leader of the nation. Verbal rudeness and attempts to raise self-esteem on account of the image of our President reflect anger of Washington because Russia, using the US wordings, is challenging the ‘rule-based world order’," Antonov said, cited by the press service of the Russian mission. On Saturday, US President Joe Biden again used offensive speech against the Russian leader.
"It’s time for the local establishment to stand the fact that we will continue pursuing the independent and sovereign policy based on national interests," the Russian diplomat stressed. Biden "insults the entire Russian nation firmly lining up behind the head of state" by making insinuations against Putin, Antonov added.
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War World III Drums Beating As The Biden Regime To Allow Ukraine To Use U.S. Weapons Inside Of Russia, Knowing From Previous Warnings Putin Will Retaliate Against America Directly
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline May 26, 2024
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. - Matthew 24:6-8 (KVJ)
It seems as if war and rumors of war are everywhere since Joe Biden and his merry band of warmongers took office, and as we have previously asserted, it all comes down to other nations seeing America as weak, as well and noting that our so-called "President" is a weak, fragile, stumbling and bumbling mess.
I say s0-called president because anyone that has watching Biden speak, walk like toddler with a full diaper and wander around aimlessly until someone shows him where to go, understands that this man, is not who is actually making the decisions in the White House nor giving the orders.
While many Americans, and other nations' leaders saw Biden as old and frail and not altogether "there," our weakness as a nation became apparent to all when the Biden regime botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, resulting in the death of 13 U.S. military members, countless in-country allies left behind, along with billions of dollars worth of equipment and weaponry, which the terrorist group the Taliban immediately grabbed along with Afghanistan itself.
Since then we have witnessed war between Russia and Ukraine, Hamas attack Israel, then Israel declaring war, and now China making in-your-face moves towards taking over Taiwan.
Now we see reports that the Biden regime is discussing allowing U.S. weaponry to be fired by Ukraine into Russia, even after Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear to the Brits after they did the same, that he would strike British targets "anywhere" if UK weapons are launched into Russia by Ukraine.
Via Steve Quayle's website just today, we are now seeing reports about NATO preparing for war with Russia.
“What is happening today in Brussels and Washington… looks like warming up for a possible direct military conflict. We can safely call it the preparation of Europe’s entry into the war,” Orban said, adding that there are working groups within NATO that are assessing the best ways for the bloc to further boost its participation in the conflict.
He warned that the end result of these actions could be a direct conflict between the EU, NATO, and Russia – a “grim prospect,” as the conflict would involve nuclear powers.
With the alliance between Russia and China, we take one on, we automatically are fighting both, and between the two, they have more nuclear weapons that the U.S. and UK, combined.
The world is a powder keg right now and pudding-pop-Biden, or whoever is controlling him, is throwing matches at it willy-nilly until it blows.
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AMERICA PREPARES FOR WAR....
With Donald Trump ahead in polling heading into the November 2024 presidential election, the Biden regime appears to be limited in the amount of time they have to drag America into a full-blown, boots on the ground World War. Whether said war would be meant to delay the election (which is doubtful, but I am mentioning it because I wouldn't put much past liberals these days), or to leave Trump stuck with a world war if he wins, or some other random reason, I am not sure, but looking at what has happened nationally, and internationally, in the three-plus years the Biden regime has been in control, it is as if they are trying their hardest to make WWIII happen.
I have often said that if we want timely news, look to the foreign news because they will tell us what the national media aka the MSM won't until they can figure out how to "spin" it to benefit the Biden regime and Democrats, so I spend quite a bit of time on foreign news websites.
Today, over at Daily Mail, we see "America is actively preparing for war with China over growing fears of Taiwan invasion." As highlighted above, going to war with China means going to war with Russia, since they are close allies, hostile to America.
The developments are a disturbing glimpse into the perspective of US military leaders as the hostile nation continues to threaten to invade Taiwan. Any direct conflict between the US and China could easily spiral into World War Three, with both nations in possession of nuclear weapons that could destroy the planet.
Spin on that, MSM.
If the Biden regime is actively readying for a boots on the ground war, once again to protect Taiwan, a nation that holds no national security interests for the U.S., much like we are doing in Ukraine, it will put a bullseye on multiple U.S. states to be hit, likely by nuclear weapons.
In December 2022, Business Insider published a map of the most likely places within the U.S. to be hit should Russia decide to bring the war onto American soil, according an expert they spoke with.
Minuteman III ICBM bases would be the highest priority (red) , Subs/planes (blue), Command/control targets (green), Nuclear storage depots (purple). etc etc..
Remember: in March 2024, Stefan Stanford reported that Russia was executing 'bold maneuvers' in the Atlantic Ocean, deploying no less than 11 nuclear subs in the Atlantic as the world moves closer and closer to nuclear annihilation.
They are ready to hit the U.S., just waiting for the right provocation.
BOTTOM LINE.....
If Biden or whoever is really calling the shots, does allow Ukraine to use U.S. weapons inside of Russia, there will be no coming back from that.
Since America itself is already preparing for war, whether with China when they take Taiwan, or with Russia by ignoring their warnings about allowing U.S. weapons to be used inside Russia, "we the people" better be fully prepared as well.
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Tucker Carlson and Erik Prince Expose the Secret Life of Cell Phones
Posted on May 26, 2024 by Constitutional Nobody
By Alexandra Bruce Forbidden Knowledge TV
TUCKER CARLSON: Your cell phone isn’t just watching and listening to you. It’s doing a lot more than that. And we’re about to break down the secrets they hope you never learn.
ERIK PRINCE: Well, we’ve been doing a study following our device, a Google mobile services phone, any Android running Google mobile services, (which is all of them or an iPhone). And about 3am we’re seeing a spike of data leaving the phone by 50 megabytes. That is basically that phone dialing home to the mothership exporting all of your goings on while your pillow talk is going to… pillow talk, whatever.
ALEX JONES: Eric Prince recently sat down with Tucker Carlson and exposed the fact that his security slash military company did an internal study of iPhones, Androids, and found that all of them in the middle of the night were transmitting large packets of information back to their home companies, back to the mothership.
Now, decades ago, I showed you industry documents had whistleblowers on that. Indeed, cell phones, even when they’re off are recording the audio and transferring it over to a text document to be sent back to the telecommunication companies and big tech.
But it’s not just the cell phone itself that’s doing this. It’s being sent back through the apps and Prince singles out Mark Zuckerberg, who’s probably the worst offender out there, but this is going on across the board. Look at Amazon and the Alexa that for more than a decade, people have brought into their homes, but it’s also your automobiles.
And now by law, all automobiles sold in the United States have tracker systems in them that can also trigger a kill switch in your car, and are also recording audio. And in many cases, recording video. Now Prince hits the key here and so does Carlson.
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They make the point that this is a monopoly, a monopoly of a handful of big tech companies that can use this information to take control of markets and dominate and vertically integrate the economy, shutting down all of their competition. And that’s just on the economic side.
Think of the political power that is there to be able to gauge and manipulate the minds of the population, because each man, woman and child in the Western world, who’s around these quote smart devices that are spying on us is having giant profiles built on us. And that data is being sold. Just a few weeks ago, big banks in the United States, like Chase announced, Hey, we’re selling our customers purchasing history to other companies.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg, This is a whole technological breakaway civilization that is operating completely illegally and interfaced with private intelligence agencies to manipulate, censor and steal elections.
We’ve got to educate Congress about this. We’ve got to educate the state attorney generals about this. We’ve got to educate the military and the public about this, because this is a security threat to all of our civilization. Now in the past, this data was crunched by computers and was used in algorithms.
But now with AI that can do trillions of calculations a second, they are able to do even more with this and take full control of civilization.
Just last week when China did a blockade of Taiwan and flew loaded planes with bombs over them in a simulated attack, what did Taiwan threaten to do? The main chip maker in the world, they came out and announced, Hey, for decades, we’ve been putting kill switches in all the microchips that we sold to China and others. And if you keep messing with us, we’ll kill the microchips in most of your military equipment and your dams and your highways.
Think of what the NSA or the communist Chinese or the Taiwanese or the Russians or hacker groups can do with this? This doesn’t give us redundancy. This doesn’t give us security. This gives us a world that’s like Swiss cheese for hackers and criminal groups and governments and corporations to do whatever they want!
When I would tell people that your phones are listening to you decades ago, people laughed at me, even though I had the documents. Then they roll out all these home assistants and people say, Oh, so what? I trust them.
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And then, we now learn that the police have been listening to people over these systems. Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to end up bringing down civilization. We have to educate the public and we have to bring in controls now.
And we have to realize that technology itself is not evil, but it has all been Trojan-horsed by corrupt governments and corporations to make it evil. And the infrastructure that we live in today is the opposite of what Google said in their founding documents 25 years ago, “Don’t be Evil”. Because from day one they had been evil and were set up by In-Q-Tel and the CIA.
And more documents just came out two days ago that indeed the CIA has been in a process of taking over all the social media and targeting the American people.
We have rogue corporations and governments teamed up, playing God, waging war on the economy, cutting off energy, cutting off fertilizer, cutting off food to create a global meltdown so they can offer their solution. The public rollout of this cashless society, social credit score enforced, not by drones in the sky or army tanks on the ground, but by the devices that run and control our lives.
Here’s Erik Prince with the great Tucker Carlson. I hope you share this video and I hope you educate yourself and others around you because this is the most important thing happening in our world today. And when they roll out the next viral scare, whether it’s bird flu or something else, the UN treaty openly states, they’re going to lock us in our houses and turn off our cars and turn off our phones.
If we don’t submit, Australia is the test case and it’s happening now. If you want to live like the communist Chinese slaves in China, you’re about to be living like them unless we stand up as a population and a people and go into these big tech companies and break up these trusts and outlaw this crap now! Bill Gates had Microsoft broken up 20 something years ago for simply running a software monopoly.
This is a trillion times worse. I’m Alex Jones. This is the info war.
Please follow me in X. Now, here is Eric Prince and the great Tucker Carlson. (Cut to podcast).
ERIK PRINCE: I’ve had so many people I’ve talked to about, they said, I was talking to my wife about needing a new mattress in our bedroom. The next day they’re getting advertising for mattresses, which means the camera or the phone was listening to them in their bedroom with all the follow on conclusions to be drawn from that.
TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah. Given what happens in healthy bedrooms, that’s, I mean, what happens to those recordings?
ERIK PRINCE: Well, we’ve been doing a study following our device, a Google mobile services phone, any Android running Google mobile services, which is all of them or an iPhone and about 3am we’re seeing a spike of data leaving the phone, but 50 megabytes. That is basically that phone dialing home to the mothership, exporting all of your goings on.
TUCKER CARLSON: All your pillow talk is going to them..
ERIK PRINCE: Pillow talk, whatever. So Zuckerberg paid $20 billion for WhatsApp. Why? Because every message, call, video, picture, voice note, everything that goes through there, they say, well, it’s end to end encrypted. Yeah, it’s end to end until it passes through their server where it’s sliced and diced and analyzed and used to push used to sell advertising to that customer.
If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer, you are the product.
So if you want to get, well, I think people, people right now are used to Mark Zuckerberg listening from their nightstand every night because that’s effectively what, what’s your phone.
TUCKER CARLSON: So why isn’t he like the creepiest person in world history if he’s listening to what’s going on in your bedroom?
ERIK PRINCE: Because they’re able as big tech to shape that message. That’s, that’s the frightening thing about the power of big tech and their ability to, to influence what you watch, what you think about candidates.
If you search something, how they, how they score those rankings, it’s a, it is shocking. We have an antitrust problem here, in America, vastly worse than in the early 19 eight, late 1800s, early 1900s with oil and railways and steel and all the rest.
TUCKER CARLSON: This is not the Sugar Trust. This is more important.
ERIK PRINCE: Yeah, this is literally how we communicate, interact with other human beings in our lives; how we gather and share information about the realities of life of food, of medicine, of vaccines, of healthcare issues of, of truth. And so it’s an – especially in an era of AI – it’s scary stuff. The average kid in America by the time they reach the age of 13 has had 72 million data points collected on them by Big Tech.
So, so it’s almost like a, that of that much collection allows digital grooming by Big Tech to share and to shape your preferences, how you interact, et cetera.
TUCKER CARLSON: Including your sexual preferences. I mean, if you’re being honest here, yeah, exactly. Considering that young people are introduced to sexuality through pornography.
ERIK PRINCE: Yep. Yeah.
TUCKER CARLSON: Um, given that there’s no privacy, it’s probably pretty dumb to watch porn.
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ALEX JONES: Again, this has been going on for decades. It’s getting worse by the day.
It’s all completely illegal. Congress must act. The governors must act. The legislatures must act. The Senate attorney generals must act now because this is a big tech private intelligence agency take over the world. We’ll be reporting more on this edX at real Alex Jones. Please follow me there.
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The US Govt Has Set Up US Military Bases To Be Sitting Ducks For Terror By Disarming Service Members And Transforming Them From War Fighters Into 'Social Justice Warriors'
By Mike McDaniel and All News Pipeline May 26, 2024
Among the realities of military life on Continental United States (CONUS) military installations is the disarmament of military members. The only service members allowed to carry arms are those whose Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) requires it. For the most part, that means only military police officers can carry arms, and even those troops are restricted as to time and place. They pick up their arms and ammunition just before going on duty, and return them to the armory immediately after going off duty.
It's one of the ironies of military life that those trusted with military grade weapons to protect American liberty are not allowed to carry the common handguns civilians take for granted. They are, on our military installations, less safe than civilians shopping at WalMart. Military dependents are likewise prohibited from carrying arms on base and are equally vulnerable.
Attacks on military installations such as the Ft. Hood attack on November 5, 2009 where a Muslim Army psychiatrist—there’s irony—killed 13, and the Washington Navy Yard attack of Sept. 16, 2013, where 12 were killed and more were injured have drawn attention to the vulnerability of our service members. We’re currently seeing multiple attempts every week.
During Donald Trump’s presidency there was some talk of significantly expanding the numbers of armed service members, but little or nothing came of it. Even then, the Obama fundamental transformation of our military from war fighters to social justice warriors had done enormous damage, and the possibility of protecting our service members under the Biden Administration is nonexistent.
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Security at US installations, many of which are huge, is lacking. Ft. Bragg is 254.6 square miles. Ft. Campbell is 164 square miles and Ft. Hood is 335 square miles. Most of our installations are protected primarily by chain link fencing, with several entry points manned by troops armed primarily with handguns. With few exceptions, the troops manning such entry points are the lowest ranking, least experienced military police officers. Few installations have rapid response forces equipped with heavier armament and armored vehicles.
Considering even our feckless FBI Director has been repeatedly warning of an unprecedented danger of terrorist attacks, this state of affairs is unconscionable. The government is not, however, mentioning that heightened threat of attacks is due to our wide-open borders.
On May 3, 2024, a hard to ignore attempt to breach the Quantico Marine Corps Base reminded us yet again of the danger. “Hard to ignore” for rational people, but the Administration is doing its best to ignore it, and is withholding information.
Two Jordanians who may have been doing a “dry run for Al Qaeda or ISIS” have been arrested after allegedly trying to scam and then ram their way onto a US marine base in Virginia with a truck.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed to The Post two Jordanian nationals are now in custody after being stopped at the front gate of Quantico Marine Corps Base, 35 miles southwest of Washington DC.
“On May 3, 2024, Marine Corps Base Quantico’s Criminal Investigations Division arrested two Jordanian noncitizens for trespassing,” ICE Washington spokesperson James Covington said.
Apparently the two potential terrorists drove a “box truck” to the front gate and told sentries they were subcontracting with Amazon and needed to make a delivery. The two ignored directions and tried to drive onto the base but were stopped by an “area denial” system, which is likely a retractable vehicle barrier. Quantico Marine brass didn’t widely notify even their own command for several weeks.
This is all we know about the two:
Fox News reports that one of the men had crossed the border illegally, yet was allowed to stay.
The other reportedly overstayed his visa.
It’s yet more proof of the national security dangers of President Biden’s wave-them-in border policies.
Indeed, sources told a local news outlet that one was on the terror watchlist.
Was this a dry run for a car bombing attack? Obviously it was an intelligence gathering mission, but to what end and for which terrorist group(s)? Thus far, all the Biden Terrorist Welcoming Administration has suggested is both will be deported.
Deported?! Two illegals, almost certainly Muslims from a nation not particularly fond of America, try to force their way onto a Marine base, and the government isn’t releasing any additional information and is sending them back to their handlers?
Despite increasing warnings about imminent terrorist attacks, the Biden Administration obviously doesn’t consider informing the public politically smart. Trying to preserve and protect Hamas doesn’t fit well with effectively dealing with terrorist dry runs on CONUS military installations.
Not only is Biden negotiating for terrorists, he’s making more than clear Muslim votes are far more important than the lives of our CONUS troops and dependents. What a surprise.
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The US Submarine Force is Sunk
May 25, 2024 Guest Post by Bill Buppert
Guest Post by Bill Buppert
When you look at the larger disaster of American arms and readiness, all the services are in the hazard of being mission ineffective. The US Navy surface fleet has been an unmitigated building debacle with the Little Crappy Ships, Zumwalt class and the USS Ford carrier not performing up to speed for any of the anticipated mission sets assigned to these failed programs.
I’ve often thought that the sole discriminator for the US military apart from the aging and decrepit USAF nuclear land-based missile forces and bomber organizations that sets the US apart is the submarine force and now the more I discover about the state of contemporary nuclear submarine construction, maintenance, readiness and improvements, the less convinced I am of the efficacy of the US submarine forces.
Jerry Hendrix wrote a disturbing essay on the state of the force and predictably, it is a hot mess.
His indictment is well-researched, terribly disconcerting and a dim prognostication for future strength.
…of the submarine force already in commission, sixteen of those forty-nine boats—or nearly a third of the Navy’s premier offensive force—are in dry-docks or tied to piers, lacking required dive certifications. These submarines cannot get underway due to a three-year maintenance backlog in the U.S. Navy.
The bottom line is that the American submarine force, the “point of the spear” of American power, upon which so many military plans depend, is unprepared to meet the current threat environment, and there are no quick fixes. It has taken decades—and a sequence of bad assumptions and poor decisions—to fall into the current state of unpreparedness, and it will take years, as well as significant investments in both new ship construction and submarine repair capacity, to recover.
Thanks to CDR Salamander for introducing me to the splendid Hendrix essay.
He opines:
Back to the effects of bad assumptions. The issue really isn’t the bad assumptions. In all human institutions, you have imperfections and bad assumptions that don’t survive for long in the wild. The key is how fast you can notice the error, and then take corrective action. If you quickly execute bad assumptions, but then in an accretion-encumbered, happy-talk laden, and bureaucratically inept manner slow-roll the correction, well, you find yourself here.
I am less optimistic and think we have reached the point of no return; there is no recovery from this.
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US Weapons Accuracy Drops To 10% In Ukraine Due To Jamming
by Tyler Durden Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 10:40 PM
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Many high-tech US weapons systems in Ukraine are now useless due to jamming signals by Russia.
Useless Weapons
Please consider Russian Jamming Leaves Some High-Tech U.S. Weapons Ineffective in Ukraine
Russia’s jamming of the guidance systems of modern Western weapons, including Excalibur GPS-guided artillery shells and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which can fire some U.S.-made rockets with a range of up to 50 miles, has eroded Ukraine’s ability to defend its territory and has left officials in Kyiv urgently seeking help from the Pentagon to obtain upgrades from arms manufacturers.
The success rate for the U.S.-designed Excalibur shells, for example, fell sharply over a period of months — to less than 10 percent hitting their targets — before Ukraine’s military abandoned them last year, according to the confidential Ukrainian assessments.
Six months ago, after Ukrainians reported the problem, Washington simply stopped providing Excalibur shells because of the high failure rate, the Ukrainian officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive security matter. In other cases, such as aircraft-dropped bombs called JDAMs, the manufacturer provided a patch and Ukraine continues to use them.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine created a modern testing ground for Western arms that had never been used against a foe with Moscow’s ability to jam GPS navigation.
But even before the United States ceased deliveries, Ukrainian artillerymen had largely stopped using Excalibur, the assessments said, because the shells are harder to use compared with standard howitzer rounds, requiring time-consuming special calculations and programming. Now they are shunned altogether, military personnel in the field said.
Dense web of jamming
A web of Russian electronic warfare systems and air defenses menace Ukrainian pilots, the documents said, adding that some Russian jammers also scramble the navigation system of planes. The Russian defense is so dense, the assessment found, that there are “no open windows for the Ukrainian pilots where they feel that they are not at gunpoint.”
HIMARS launchers were celebrated during the first year of Russia’s invasion for their success in striking ammunition depots and command points behind enemy lines.
But by the second year, “everything ended: the Russians deployed electronic warfare, disabled satellite signals, and HIMARS became completely ineffective,” a second senior Ukrainian military official said. “This ineffectiveness led to the point where a very expensive shell was used” increasingly to strike lower-priority targets.
Another US Precision-Guided weapon Fails
Defense One reports Another US Precision-Guided Weapon Falls Prey to Russian Electronic Warfare
A new ground-launched version of an air-to-ground weapon developed for Ukraine on a rapid timeline failed to hit targets in part because of Russian electro-magnetic warfare, Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, said at an event held by think tank CSIS.
LaPlante suggested that Ukraine may no longer be interested in the weapon. “When you send something to people in the fight of their lives that just doesn’t work, they’ll try it three times and they’ll just throw it aside,” said LaPlante.
The weapon LaPlante is referring to is very likely the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) based on his description, according to Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
A Boeing spokesperson did not confirm that LaPlante was referring to GLSDB, but said the company is “working closely with the [Defense Department] on spiral capability improvements to the ground-launch SDB system.” Spiral capability improvements refers to an iterative software development process.
The GLDSB boasts a range of 90 miles—double the range of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMRLS) missiles Ukraine previously used to wreak havoc on Russia’s logistic centers. Funding for the weapon was approved in February 2023, and Ukraine was reportedly using the weapon by February 2024.
GPS spoofers work by sending false location data to GPS navigation devices. Because GPS signals are weak, a stronger, false signal can be sent to override the correct inputs. Russia has used GPS spoofing in Ukraine since at least 2018. But advancements in technology mean spoofers can be created cheaply with just a software-defined radio and open-source software.
The weapons the spoofers are working against, meanwhile, are anything but cheap. A GMLRS missile costs around $160,000, while an Excalibur round can cost as much as $100,000. The GLDSB costs around $40,000.
Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson on Sullivan’s words about Russia’s plans to use nuclear weapons:
"His statement sounds like he had a meeting with Zelensky, where he was given some of Zelensky's cocaine. Russia will not use nuclear weapons unless there is a real threat. If the… pic.twitter.com/aLY8XGBK2V
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 9, 2024
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson on Sullivan’s words about Russia’s plans to use nuclear weapons: “His statement sounds like he had a meeting with Zelensky, where he was given some of Zelensky’s cocaine. Russia will not use nuclear weapons unless there is a real threat. If the US deploys F-16s in Poland, then Russia will destroy them “with conventional weapons, because they do pose a nuclear threat. The Taurus missiles are the same situation. If they are deployed, then you know – Russia has admitted that they can be used to launch a nuclear strike.”
Use Nukes First
Idiots like @GeromanAt are itching for a nuclear war, proposing first use of "tactical" nukes in Ukraine. https://t.co/6PuP5XFy27
— Mike "Mish" Shedlock (@MishGEA) May 24, 2024
Would You Mind Not Shooting at the Thermonuclear Weapons?
"The neocons seem bent on testing Russia’s resolve and the MAD doctrine itself. They may view Russia as a rump state, but Russia does not so view itself...Russia has six thousand nuclear warheads." - Dan Oliverhttps://t.co/wcgIGEnK2V pic.twitter.com/3Fbjqtx1xZ
— Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. ( @RudyHavenstein ) March 12, 2022
Get Russia to Strike First
"Thirteen days before Pearl Harbor, secretary of war Henry Stimson recorded in his diary a meeting with Roosevelt: “The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.”"https://t.co/wcgIGEnK2V pic.twitter.com/92gpWSwE3E
— Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. (@RudyHavenstein) March 12, 2022
Using Nukes First Is a Risk/Reward Setup
The risk/reward of not believing Russia couldn't kill tens of millions of us seems insufficient.
— Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. (@RudyHavenstein) March 15, 2022
Is Nuclear War Bullish?
Nuclear War is very bullish isn't It? https://t.co/iWfSESoVQ9
— Mike "Mish" Shedlock (@MishGEA) May 24, 2024
What’s the Real Background Story Behind Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
On February 24, 2022 I asked, and answered the question What’s the Real Background Story Behind Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
What Happened in Ukraine?
The mess today in Ukraine has its roots in the 2014 when democratically elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych was toppled in a US-backed coup.
Q: Why did the US want to get rid of Yanukovych?
A: Because he was against Ukraine joining NATO.
The current comedian president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, repeated two days ago his desire to join NATO.
I use the term comedian because he literally is a comedian who ran for office and won.
McCain dined with Svoboda Party leader Oleg Tyagnibok. The Svoboda Party is a group of neo-Nazis.
The citizens of Ukraine were used as pawns in yet another US mission that backfired.
Well who cares about Neo-Nazis as long as they want Ukraine in NATO.
And that’s the rest of the story US media will not discuss.
This no way absolves Putin, but US meddling backfires again, and again, and again.
Sometimes the Best Thing to Do Is Nothing At All
Please consider Sometimes the Best Thing to Do Is Nothing At All
After pointing out how much US and EU sanctions have backfired, someone asked me what I would do.
I responded, why do I have to do anything?
The urge to do something should not be so intense that it overpowers analysis as to whether any actions can possibly work.
President Biden on Putin
On March 26, President Biden proclaimed “For God’s Sake, this Man Cannot Remain in Power”
The Wall Street Journal and perpetual warmongers agreed. But Biden’s staff quickly backtracked on his controversial statement.
On March 29 I pointed out all the loopholes in sanctions on Russia, For discussion, please see Misguided Souls Still Do Not Understand This Simple Truth: Sanctions Don’t Work
I wrote that on April 8, 2022.
Also in 2022, I said the war would end in a negotiated settlement and nobody would win.
What did I get wrong?
It’s Time for a New Strategy
On March 16, I wrote Ukraine Won’t Win the War, It’s Time for a New Strategy
The sad thing is US meddling precipitated this whole sorry affair.
It’s time for a new strategy and a goal: Negotiated settlement.
If we supply Ukraine with anything, we should only do so if it aids that goal. For now, we still have no goals.
What’s the Goal?
On November 7, 2023, I asked If the US Has a Goal in Ukraine or Israel, What the Hell Is It?
We still don’t have a clearly defined goal or a clearly defined amount of money we are willing to spend.
Any Questions?
I have one:
Given US meddling in Ukraine precipitated this war, are we obliged to start a nuclear war to stop it, or is the lesson to just stop meddling?
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-weapons-accuracy-drops-10-ukraine-due-jamming
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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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Japan tells residents to 'take cover' as North Korea launches rocket 'carrying spy satellite' off coast
Japanese Prime Minister’s Office issued a missile alert for Okinawa
North Korea sent its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit in November
By Claudia Aoraha For Dailymail.Com
Published: 11:32 EDT, 27 May 2024 | Updated: 13:41 EDT, 27 May 2024
Japan issued an alert telling its residents to take cover after North Korea launched a rocket allegedly carrying its second military spy satellite on Monday night.
The rocket launch came just hours after the country's announcement of a plan to put a satellite into orbit drew strong rebukes from its neighbors.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected a launch trajectory believed to be a spy satellite fired from the North's main space center at 10:44pm on Monday.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that a North Korean rocket was launched in a southern direction off the Korean Peninsula's west coast.
It said four minutes after the launch, many fragments were spotted in the waters. It said South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities were analyzing whether the launch was successful.
Earlier Monday, North Korea had notified Japan's coast guard about its plans to launch 'a satellite rocket' during a launch window from Monday through June 3.
Japanese Prime Minister’s Office lifted a missile alert issued for the island of Okinawa following North Korea’s launch, saying that the missile was believed not to be headed for its region.
North Korea sent its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit in November last year as part of efforts to build a space-based surveillance network to cope with what it calls increasing U.S.-led military threats.
Kim Jong-Un later told a ruling party meeting that the country would launch three additional military spy satellites in 2024.
The November launch followed two failed liftoffs.
In the first attempt, the North Korean rocket carrying the satellite crashed into the ocean soon after liftoff. North Korean authorities said the rocket lost thrust after the separation of its first and second stages.
After the second attempt, North Korea said there was an error in the emergency blasting system during the third-stage flight.
The U.N. bans North Korea from conducting any satellite launches, viewing them as covers for testing long-range missile technology. North Korea has steadfastly maintained it has the right to launch satellites and test missiles.
Kim has said spy satellites will allow his military to better monitor U.S. and South Korean military activities and enhance the threat posed by its nuclear-capable missiles.
North Korea provides Japan with its launch information because Japan’s coast guard coordinates and distributes maritime safety information in East Asia.
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Chicago mom left waiting hours for help after 911 call for home invasion: ‘We have no units to send you’
By Social Links for Katherine Donlevy
Published May 18, 2024, 10:04 p.m. ET
A Chicago mom who called 911 during a terrifying break-in was left on her own for hours — with dispatchers telling her to call her local representative to demand more police funding.
Michelle called the emergency hotline six times after coming face-to-face with two masked bandits, only for the strained supervisor to tell her the city’s severe budget cuts had left them with a bare-bones staff.
“A gentleman got on and said sorry to say we have no units to send you … then there was an awkward pause,” Michelle told NBC Chicago Wednesday, declining to share her name or face while her would-be robbers are still on the loose.
“He also recommended I call my alderman and I said why, and he said encourage him to hire more police. The dispatcher also asked me if I would consider defending myself … if I had a weapon or considered getting one.”
According to Michelle, the two strangers walked through her open back door around 12:30 p.m. after she let her dog out.
They were even caught on her security camera “moseying” up to her property after climbing over a 6-foot-tall fence, but quickly sprinting away after finding the homeowner inside the house.
“I screamed: ‘I am calling the police’ and they bolted,” Michelle recalled.
Michelle and a neighbor tried chasing after the men before she followed through on her promise.
A dispatcher promised the frightened mother that help was on the way and directed her to wait outside.
But officers didn’t arrive, Michelle said.
After an hour and a half and six phone calls to 911, she finally demanded answers from a dispatch supervisor, who indicated the slow response was due to the city’s lackluster police department funding.
It would be another two and a half hours before cops finally arrived.
“The officers who did show up cared and were apologetic it took so long to get them there,” Michelle said.
“I don’t think it is the police department’s fault they are overstaffed and overwhelmed.”
Chicago Police told NBC Chicago that the delay in getting officers to Michelle’s home may have been related to the priority list for routine dispatch calls for 911 — because there was no immediate threat to life, Michelle was left waiting as officers addressed more pressing concerns in the area.
Despite her frustration, Michelle heeded the dispatch supervisor’s advice and called her alderman’s office and is waiting to meet with him in person.
“It is awful that our neighbor experienced this, everyone deserves to feel safe in their home,” 1st Ward Alderman Daniel La Spata said in a statement.
“My staff alerted me to the issue as soon as they heard, and I am in contact with 12th District Police leadership. I will continue to support any resources our districts request, and I will continue to work with the City on a proposed satellite location within West Town for the 12th District police.”
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Jewish children savagely beaten by man in New York City attack
Footage shows a man dismounting from his bicycle and approaching a group of orthodox Jewish children who were playing on the sidewalk.
By MICHAEL STARR
MAY 16, 2024 16:59 Updated: MAY 17, 2024 08:00
Jewish children were beaten by an unidentified man in New York on Sunday night, according to local media.
Disturbing video footage showing the perpetrator assaulting and beating kids on Franklin Avenue on Sunday night. @NYPD79Pct @NYPDBklynNorth pic.twitter.com/Fiwh8F7NQp
— Williamsburg 365 News (@Williamsburg365) May 15, 2024
Williamsburg 365 News posted on Wednesday footage of a man dismounting from his bicycle and approaching a group of orthodox Jewish children who were playing on the sidewalk.
The assailant appeared to smack one of the children on the face, kicking him to the ground. The man threw another child to the ground before repeatedly kicking him. The children fled, and the man returned to his bicycle.
NYPD investigates
The NYPD said that there was an additional victim not recorded in the video. The police received a criminal complaint that they were investigating, about a bicyclist in the same area approached a man and his son who were also playing on the sidewalk.
"The suspect then pushed the victim to the ground causing a minor laceration [to] his head," said the NYPD. "The suspect fled southbound on Franklin Avenue. There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing."
Antisemitic incidents have increased in New York since the October 7 Hamas attacks.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-801437
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Is “The Big One” Coming? There Have Been More Than 1000 Earthquakes In California And Nevada In The Past 7 Days
May 21, 2024 by Michael
Scientists have warned us that California is way overdue for a major earthquake and that “the Big One” could literally strike at any time. That is why I was so alarmed when the Los Angeles Times reported that “two sets of earthquake swarms” had just hit the state. After seeing that story, I went over to the Southern California Earthquake Data Center to check how many earthquakes have shaken the region during the past week. As I write this article, the total number of earthquakes in California and Nevada in the last 7 days is sitting at a grand total of 1010. To me, whenever that number goes above 1000 we are officially in the danger zone. Hopefully there will not be a very large earthquake in California any time soon, but when there is this much shaking going on we should all be on alert.
The biggest quake that has hit the region this week is one that shook Imperial County very early on Monday…
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook California’s Imperial County near the Salton Sea Monday morning.
The quake struck 18 miles south of Salton City and 4 miles southeast of Ocotillo Wells at 5:17 a.m., according the U.S. Geological Survey.
Residents as far away as Chula Vista, Mission Viejo, Highland and Indio reported feeling the quake, the USGS reported.
Prior to that quake, there were two “earthquake swarms” that deeply alarmed scientists.
One of those “earthquake swarms” happened over the weekend and it was centered along the California-Mexico border…
Another earthquake swarm has been rumbling along the California-Mexico border.
More than two dozen quakes greater than magnitude 2.5 have occurred since just after midnight Saturday, with epicenters about 175 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles and 100 miles northeast of San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
They have occurred largely along farmland between the towns of Brawley and Imperial in Imperial County. The largest quake was a magnitude 3.9 that struck at 4:05 p.m. Saturday, bringing light shaking to the Imperial Valley as well as south of the border and rattling Mexicali.
Prior to that, a different earthquake swarm rattled an area “about 18 miles southeast of Mexicali in Baja California”…
A separate swarm of earthquakes occurred a week ago, about 40 miles southeast of the most recent quake activity. Last week’s swarm occurred about 18 miles southeast of Mexicali in Baja California, with the largest a magnitude 4.2 that was felt as far away as El Centro in California and Yuma, Ariz.
Hopefully all of this recent shaking will turn out to be nothing.
But it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” comes along.
And when it finally arrives, authorities are projecting that it could cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage…
If the Big One did strike, ‘it would be a matter of a few tens of seconds before the shaking from a San Andreas event that ruptures the segments closest to Los Angeles reach our urban areas,’ Jonathan Stewart with the University of California, Los Angeles told DailyMail.com.
According to the California Earthquake Authority, the natural disaster would cause destruction in a 100-mile radius of the fault line, which starts near Eureka and ends below Palm Springs, killing at least 1,800 people, crumble millions of homes and cause more than $290 billion in damages.
An earthquake of the size that they are talking about could literally take place at any time.
But I am expecting an even larger catastrophe to hit the state eventually.
Personally, I am among those that are anticipating that someday an apocalyptic earthquake will literally alter the geography of the California coastline on a permanent basis.
Speaking of apocalyptic threats, on the other side of the world it appears that an absolutely massive super volcano could be waking up.
On Monday, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei super volcano in Italy. This was the largest earthquake to hit that region in 40 years…
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck Italy’s Campi Flegrei super volcano Monday evening, causing mild damage in the town of Pozzuoli, the epicenter, and as far away as the city of Naples, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) away, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
Cracks in walls and falling cornices were reported, Italy’s Fire Brigade spokesman confirmed to CNN.
The 4.4 earthquake at a depth of 3 kilometers is the strongest earthquake to hit the highly seismic area in the past 40 years, according to INGV data. The quake is part of an ongoing “seismic storm” that has seen more than a dozen events over 2.0 magnitude in the past 48 hours.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t just an isolated incident.
According to one expert, the ground in that particular area has been steadily rising at a rate of 2 centimeters per month…
Seismic activity on Campi Flegrei, which is home to at least 360,000 people across seven of the most at-risk inhabited hubs, has intensified in the past two years, with the frequency and strength of the quakes increasing as the caldera, the basin at the top of the volcano, weakens and pressure beneath it builds. This causes the ground to rise and the volcano’s crust to stretch.
“The earth is continuing to rise at a rate of 2cm a month, a higher rate than last year, and unfortunately it seems to be continuing at this rate,” Mauro Di Vito, the director of the Vesuvius Observatory for Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), told reporters. “We expect similar earthquakes … I cannot make predictions but we can expect the swarm to continue.”
Hopefully an eruption is not imminent because almost half a million people live nearby…
The Campi Flegrei, or Phlegraean Fields, is a vast volcanic area covering 150 square kilometers. Despite its last eruption in 1538, its lively magmatic activity classifies it as a supervolcano, posing a threat to nearly half a million residents.
While the community has grown accustomed to frequent but minor seismic activity, the intensity of Monday night’s tremors brought a renewed sense of fear.
The region experienced 450 smaller earthquakes in the past month, but the magnitude and persistence of this event were unprecedented.
All over the world, seismic activity is rising to very alarming levels.
But most people won’t care until a major disaster affects them personally.
Unfortunately, I am entirely convinced that we are entering a time when major natural disasters of absolutely epic proportions will just keep hitting our planet one after another.
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JPMorgan and Mastercard on board with paying with your face
Automated fast food restaurant CaliExpress by Flippy, in Pasadena, Calif., opened in January to considerable hype due to its robot burger makers, but the restaurant launched with another, less heralded innovation: the ability to pay for your meal with your face.
CaliExpress uses a payment system from facial ID tech company PopID. To activate it, users register with a selfie. Then they can opt to be recognized and then PopID’s facial verification confirms the transaction.
It’s not the only fast-food chain to employ the technology. In January, Steak ’N Shake, a fast-casual restaurant in the Midwest, started installing facial recognition kiosks in its 300 locations for patron check-in.
The chain says that using PopID takes two to three seconds compared with a check-in with a QR code or mobile app, which can take up to 20 seconds.
Biometric payment options are becoming more common. Amazon introduced pay-by-palm technology in 2020, and while its cashier-less store experiment has faltered, it installed the tech in 500 of its Whole Foods stores last year.
Mastercard, which is working with PopID, launched a pilot for face-based payments in Brazil back in 2022, and it was deemed a success — 76% of pilot participants said they would recommend the technology to a friend.
Late last year, Mastercard said it was teaming with NEC to bring its Biometric Checkout Program to the Asia-Pacific region.
“Our focus on biometrics as a secure way to verify identity, replacing the password with the person, is at the heart of our efforts in this area,” said Dennis Gamiello, executive vice president of identity products and innovation at Mastercard.
He added that based on positive feedback from the pilot and its research, the checkout technology will come to more new markets later this year.
In other countries, most notably China, biometric payment systems are comparatively mature, from visitors to McDonald’s in China being able to use facial recognition technology to pay for their orders, to systems offered by AliPay, which launched biometric payment as far back as 2015 and began testing the technology at KFC locations in China in 2018.
A deal that PopID recently signed with JPMorgan is a sign of things to come in the U.S., said John Miller, PopID CEO, and what he thinks will be a “breakthrough” year for pay-by-face technology.
The consumer case is tied to the growing importance of loyalty programs. Most quick-service restaurants require consumers to provide their loyalty information to earn rewards — which means pulling out a phone, opening an app, finding the link to the loyalty QR code, and then presenting the QR code to the cashier or reader. For payment, consumers are typically choosing between pulling out their wallet, selecting a credit card, and then dipping or tapping the card or pulling out their phone, opening it with Face ID, and then presenting it to the reader.
Miller says PopID simplifies this process by requiring just tapping an on-screen button, and then looking briefly at a camera for both loyalty check-in and payment.
“We believe our partnership with JPMorgan is a watershed moment for biometric payments as it represents the first time a leading merchant acquirer has agreed to push biometric payments to its merchant customers,” Miller said. “JPMorgan brings the kind of credibility and assurance that both merchants and consumers need to adopt biometric payments.”
Consumers are getting more comfortable with biometric technology. The majority still prefer fingerprint scans to facial recognition, according to a 2023 survey from PYMENTS, but age is a factor. Gen Z consumers are more open to facial recognition than to fingerprint scans or entering a password.
Juniper Research forecasts over 100% market growth for global biometric payments between 2024 and 2028, and by 2025, $3 trillion in mobile, biometric-secured payments.
To be sure, security concerns and the hacking of biometric data as a consequence of sharing it, will remain important to the evolving usage and conversation.
Sheldon Jacobson, a professor in computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, said he sees biometric identification as part of a technology continuum that has evolved from payment with a credit card to smartphones. “The next natural step is to simply use facial recognition,” he said.
Concerns about privacy and facial recognition, he says, are overblown. “We voluntarily give up our privacy all the time,” Jacobson said. “We post on Facebook, we use social media and we are basically giving up our privacy. I tell people constantly that everything about you is already out there.”
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/05/jpmorgan-and-mastercard-on-board-with-paying-with-your-face/
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Russia to Unilaterally Change Sea Borders with Lithuania and Finland in the Baltic
Hal Turner World May 22, 2024 Hits: 2844
Russian authorities have made a unilateral decision to change the sea borders of Russia with Lithuania and Finland in the Baltic Sea.
This comes from a draft government resolution published on the portal of legal acts of the Russian Federation.
According to the document drafted by the Russian defense ministry, Russia intends to declare part of the water area in the east of the Gulf of Finland, as well as near the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk in the Kaliningrad region as its internal sea waters.
To do that, geographic coordinates of the points that determine the position of the baselines from which the width of the territorial sea of the Russian Federation is measured, as well as the adjacent zone off the coast and islands will be changed.
At the border with Finland, the Russian government intends to correct the coordinates in the area of the islands of Yahi, Sommers, Holland, Rodsher, Maly Tyuters, Vigrund, as well as near the northern entrance cape of the Narva River, which comes from the appendix to the Cabinet of Ministers.
On the border with Lithuania, the area of the Curonian Spit in the Gulf of Gdansk, the areas of Cape Taran, the cape south of Cape Taran, as well as the Baltic Spit came under review. The current geographical coordinates established by the USSR Council of Ministers in 1985 “do not fully correspond to the modern geographical situation,” the authors of the project claim.
The points were recorded “using small-scale maritime navigation charts,” which, in turn, were based on works from the mid-20th century, and this “does not allow us to determine the external boundary of the internal sea waters” of the Russian Federation, the document says.
As a result of the changes, “a previously absent system of straight baselines will be established on the southern part of the Russian islands in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, as well as in the area of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk, allowing the corresponding water areas to be used as internal sea waters of the Russian Federation; The passage of the State border of the Russian Federation at sea will change due to a change in the position of the external border of the territorial sea,” the authors of the project explained.
The 40-year-old resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers regulating the borders in the Baltic Sea is proposed by the Ministry of Defense to be partially “recognized as ineffective” (section “Baltic Sea”).
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British Gov't Telling Citizens "Stock up on Three Days Food"
Hal Turner World May 22, 2024 Hits: 4166
Families in the United Kingdom are being urged to stockpile three days' worth of food and water to help build national 'resilience.'
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will advise people to make contingency plans for dealing with potential emergencies such as prolonged power cuts, cyber attacks and floods.
Last year, Mr Dowden said people should stock up on 'analogue capabilities', such as candles, torches (i.e. flashlights) and wind-up radios, to boost their 'personal resilience'.
Today he will go further by encouraging people to stock up with enough food and water to survive for three days without leaving their homes, sort of like people in Finland.
Finns are encouraged to stockpile food and water and to be prepared to 'shelter indoors' by taping up gaps in windows and 'waiting calmly for instructions' on the radio.
Last year, Mr Dowden introduced an 'emergency alert' system, which allows authorities to trigger an alarm on millions of mobile phones to inform people of a potential crisis.
It comes after the Prime Minister warned last week that Britain had 'some of its most dangerous years' ahead and was at a security 'crossroads'. Describing the threats on the rise, Rishi Sunak highlighted a new axis of anti-western states including China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
(Hal Turner Remarks: "Prepare for 72 hours in home? Is that sort of like the time needed for nuclear fallout to dissipate? "Some of the most dangerous years ahead" . . . . "security crossroads" . . . . China, Russia, North Korea, Iran" . . . these are not words used to stir the public for "personal resilience." They seem to me to be words used to prepare the public for nuclear war.)
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/british-govt-telling-citizens
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Incredible footage shows destruction as deadly tornadoes rip through Iowa and kill multiple people: 15 counties declared disaster zones with hospital forced to evacuate, homes toppled and 25 million under severe warnings
By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 21:32 EDT, 21 May 2024 | Updated: 07:28 EDT, 22 May 2024
Incredible drone footage has captured the immense trail of destruction left across a small Iowa town after a tornado ripped through the state - killing multiple people and injuring dozens more.
Entire neighborhoods were flattened by several deadly twisters that gripped the region on Tuesday evening, with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds placing 15 counties under disaster emergency proclamations.
Hours after a tornado touched down in Greenfield, aerial footage showed where a tornado tore through the town as homes were leveled and trees were shredded down to their stumps.
Carnage is expected to continue through the Midwest as a storm system develops - with over 25 million people currently under severe weather warnings, stretching from Missouri to Wisconsin.
Iowa Police confirmed there have been multiple fatalities in the deadly weather front. One death occurred in Adams County, Iowa, around 90 miles southwest of Des Moines, when a woman was ejected from a vehicle during the brutal storm.
Footage showed widespread damage hours after the tornadoes tore through rural Iowa, including entire trees being shredded from their roots.
The small town of Greenfield, around 40 miles from the death in Adams County, was among the hardest hit, and a tornado that developed around 5pm leveled hundreds of homes and left several people injured, Iowa State Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Alex Dinkla said.
At a press conference, Dinkla estimated that over a dozen people were hospitalized, but could not offer an exact number. He added that all known residents were accounted for, but searches were still ongoing through the wreckage.
Images shared to Facebook by a Greenfield resident saw entire homes reduced to rubble and turned into scattered debris, while brick walls were flattened by the force of the twister.
A local hospital was hit by the fierce tornadoes, forcing staff and patients to evacuate the ransacked buildings and set up field hospitals at nearby high schools.
Massive wind turbines were also destroyed by the gusts, with at least three turbines destroyed in Adams County, and MidAmerican Energy Company said it owned several more that were destroyed in Adair County.
While aiding injured residents, the Adair County Memorial Hospital also 'sustained tornado damage', officials said, that forced it to transfer patients to other nearby medical centers.
Greenfield instated a mandatory curfew from 10pm to 7am as the aftermath is surveyed, however officials said the true extent of the devastation may not be clear until daybreak.
Heavy cleanup crews have been spotted across the state, with unaffected counties including Guthrie and Madison reportedly enlisted to help clear damage in Greenfield.
Early reports said multiple tornadoes were also reported in Montgomery County, and Meteorologists warned that the storm system across the Midwest may generate several more catastrophic-strength tornadoes.
In total across the Midwest, over 25 million people were under at least a Level 3 severe thunderstorm warnings on Tuesday evening.
It comes after a period of intense storms through the nation's heartland in recent days, including three minor tornadoes registered Monday in Minnesota, Nebraska and Colorado.
Although much of the early damage was contained to rural Iowa, officials warned that several large cities and population centers could find themselves in the storm's path.
Chicago and Milwaukee are both at risk of being hit by destructive storms, and Des Moines International Airport closed its runways in anticipation of tornadoes potentially landing late Tuesday.
Multiple regions have also seen flash flooding due to the storms, with heavy rainfall warnings instated across the Midwest.
Through Tuesday night, the Storm Prediction Center launched a rare 'potentially dangerous situation' tornado watch spanning Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois.
The tornado watch is only used when experts believe there is a high chance for multiple, long-lasting tornadoes registering at EF2 or stronger, meaning speeds of at least 111mph.
Residents in Greenfield described witnessing the devastation across their town, with Valerie Warrior telling KCCI she was our riding her bike when the storm descended.
'There's houses down all over the place,' Warrior said, noting that she raced to her basement to wait out the tornado before emerging to find the town covered in debris.
'Devastating,' she added.
Stunning images from storm chaser Nahel Belgherze focused on the damage seen in one Greenfield street, as a sleepy suburb was turned into rubble within hours.
Resident Donnell Griffith said despite the carnage, the small town of roughly 2,000 people will recover from the storms.
'We're a small community, we're a tough community... we will rebuild this community together,' she said.
'We're small but we're mighty.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13445115/Iowa-tornado-greenfield-midwest-storm-dead.html
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10 ASEAN Countries To Ditch the U.S. Dollar
Vinod Dsouza May 20, 2024
The 10 ASEAN countries that are looking to stop using the U.S. dollar for trade are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. According to the latest figures from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), commonly called the World Bank, the combined GDP of ASEAN nations currently stands at around $4 trillion.
If the ASEAN alliance completely starts using local currencies for trade, the U.S. dollar will be in jeopardy. In particular, Indonesia is the most aggressive among the lot in pushing the de-dollarization agenda ahead. Indonesian President Joko Widodo is urging the bloc to quickly move away from the U.S. dollar and start using local currencies.
The move will strengthen their native economies giving local currencies a boost in the global foreign exchange markets. Several developing countries fear the rising U.S. debt of $34.4 trillion can affect their native economies and businesses. Therefore, the only solution to American debt is to make ASEAN countries use local currencies and sideline the U.S. dollar.
Also Read: BRICS: IMF Confirms US Dollar Is in Jeopardy
The U.S. pressing sanctions on other developing countries is also among the reasons why ASEAN wants to ditch the dollar. A stronger local currency will have no adverse effects from U.S. sanctions making their economies safer. In conclusion, the next decade will be different for the U.S. dollar as many nations are looking to uproot it.
https://watcher.guru/news/10-asean-countries-to-ditch-the-u-s-dollar
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The internet is disappearing, study says
Almost 40% of webpages from 2013 no longer exist a decade on, research finds
Andrew Griffin 14 hours ago Comments
The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost.
The web is often thought of as a place where content lasts forever. But vast swathes of its are being lost as pages are deleted or moved, according to new research.
Of the webpages that existed in 2013, for instance, 38 per cent are now lost. Even newer pages are disappearing: 8 per cent of pages that existed in 2023 are no longer available.
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Those pages tend to disappear when they are deleted or moved. That happens on otherwise functional websites, the study from the Pew Research Center indicated, rather than happening when whole websites disappear.
The effect means that vast amounts of news and important reference content are disappearing. Some 23 per cent of news pages include at least one broken link, and 21 per cent of government websites, it said – and 54 per cent of Wikipedia pages include a link in their references that no longer exists.
Much the same effect is happening on social media. A fifth of tweets disappear from the site within months of being posted.
The study was completed by gathering a random samples of almost a million webpages, taken from Common Crawl, a service that archives parts of the internet. Researchers then looked to see whether those pages continued to exist between 2013 and 2023.
It found that 25 per cent of all pages collected between 2013 and 2023 were no longer available. Of those, 16 per cent of pages came from a website that continues to exist, while 9 per cent were located on websites that no longer exist at all.
The report, ‘When Online Content Disappears’, is published on the website of the Pew Research Center.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-dead-links-webpages-online-content-b2549215.html
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Chinese, Iranian, and Russian gangs are attacking U.S. drinking water and officials are alarmed
BY Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water.
About 70% of utilities inspected by federal officials over the last year violated standards meant to prevent breaches or other intrusions, the agency said. Officials urged even small water systems to improve protections against hacks. Recent cyberattacks by groups affiliated with Russia and Iran have targeted smaller communities.
Some water systems are falling short in basic ways, the alert said, including failure to change default passwords or cut off system access to former employees. Because water utilities often rely on computer software to operate treatment plants and distribution systems, protecting information technology and process controls is crucial, the EPA said. Possible impacts of cyberattacks include interruptions to water treatment and storage; damage to pumps and valves; and alteration of chemical levels to hazardous amounts, the agency said.
“In many cases, systems are not doing what they are supposed to be doing, which is to have completed a risk assessment of their vulnerabilities that includes cybersecurity and to make sure that plan is available and informing the way they do business,” said EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe.
Attempts by private groups or individuals to get into a water provider’s network and take down or deface websites aren’t new. More recently, however, attackers haven’t just gone after websites, they’ve targeted utilities’ operations instead.
Recent attacks are not just by private entities. Some recent hacks of water utilities are linked to geopolitical rivals, and could lead to the disruption of the supply of safe water to homes and businesses.
EPA did not say how many cyber incidents have occurred in recent years, and the number of attacks known to be successful so far is few.
McCabe named China, Russia and Iran as the countries that are “actively seeking the capability to disable U.S. critical infrastructure, including water and wastewater.”
Late last year, an Iranian-linked group called “Cyber Av3ngers” targeted multiple organizations including a small Pennsylvania town’s water provider, forcing it to switch from a remote pump to manual operations. They were going after an Israeli-made device used by the utility in the wake of Israel’s war against Hamas.
Earlier this year, a Russian-linked “hacktivist” tried to disrupt operations at several Texas utilities.
A cyber group linked to China and known as Volt Typhoon has compromised information technology of multiple critical infrastructure systems, including drinking water, in the United States and its territories, U.S. officials said. Cybersecurity experts believe the China-aligned group is positioning itself for potential cyberattacks in the event of armed conflict or rising geopolitical tensions.
“By working behind the scenes with these hacktivist groups, now these (nation states) have plausible deniability and they can let these groups carry out destructive attacks. And that to me is a game-changer,” said Dawn Cappelli, a cybersecurity expert with the industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos Inc.
The world’s cyberpowers are believed to have been infiltrating rivals’ critical infrastructure for years planting malware that could be triggered to disrupt basic services.
The enforcement alert is meant to emphasize the seriousness of cyberthreats and inform utilities the EPA will continue its inspections and pursue civil or criminal penalties if they find serious problems.
“We want to make sure that we get the word out to people that ‘Hey, we are finding a lot of problems here,’ ” McCabe said.
Preventing attacks against water providers is part of the Biden administration’s broader effort to combat threats against critical infrastructure. In February, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect U.S. ports. Health care systems have been attacked. The White House has pushed electric utilities to increase their defenses, too. EPA Administrator Michael Regan and White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan have asked states to come up with a plan to combat cyberattacks on drinking water systems.
“Drinking water and wastewater systems are an attractive target for cyberattacks because they are a lifeline critical infrastructure sector but often lack the resources and technical capacity to adopt rigorous cybersecurity practices,” Regan and Sullivan wrote in a March 18 letter to all 50 U.S. governors.
Some of the fixes are straightforward, McCabe said. Water providers, for example, shouldn’t use default passwords. They need to develop a risk assessment plan that addresses cybersecurity and set up backup systems. The EPA says they will train water utilities that need help for free. Larger utilities usually have more resources and the expertise to defend against attacks.
“In an ideal world … we would like everybody to have a baseline level of cybersecurity and be able to confirm that they have that,” said Alan Roberson, executive director of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators. “But that’s a long ways away.”
Some barriers are foundational. The water sector is highly fragmented. There are roughly 50,000 community water providers, most of which serve small towns. Modest staffing and anemic budgets in many places make it hard enough to maintain the basics — providing clean water and keeping up with the latest regulations.
“Certainly, cybersecurity is part of that, but that’s never been their primary expertise. So, now you’re asking a water utility to develop this whole new sort of department” to handle cyberthreats, said Amy Hardberger, a water expert at Texas Tech University.
The EPA has faced setbacks. States periodically review the performance of water providers. In March 2023, the EPA instructed states to add cybersecurity evaluations to those reviews. If they found problems, the state was supposed to force improvements.
But Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa, joined by the American Water Works Association and another water industry group, challenged the instructions in court on the grounds that EPA didn’t have the authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act. After a court setback, the EPA withdrew its requirements but urged states to take voluntary actions anyway.
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires certain water providers to develop plans for some threats and certify they’ve done so. But its power is limited.
“There’s just no authority for (cybersecurity) in the law,” said Roberson.
Kevin Morley, manager of federal relations with the American Water Works Association, said some water utilities have components that are connected to the internet — a common, but significant vulnerability. Overhauling those systems can be a significant and costly job. And without substantial federal funding, water systems struggle to find resources.
The industry group has published guidance for utilities and advocates for establishing a new organization of cybersecurity and water experts that would develop new policies and enforce them, in partnership with the EPA.
“Let’s bring everybody along in a reasonable manner,” Morley said, adding that small and large utilities have different needs and resources.
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Severe storms on Monday night pelted northeast Colorado with damaging hail that shattered windows and covered the ground like snow in the plains community of Yuma.
Volunteer firefighter JJ Unger told FOX31 there was hail damage across the area after the severe storm. And with the town already under a flash flood warning — and facing the threat of tornadoes — it had begun to flood with the hail backing up drainage flows.
“There’s going to be a lot of cleaning up to do in this town,” Unger said.
“Widespread” power outages were reported Monday in northern Yuma County and the eastern edge of northern Washington County, according to Y-W Electric Association, Inc. Both counties were under tornado warnings at points in the night.
Unger described the chaotic scene as severe weather. He and other volunteer firefighters were called out for duty.
“We were out spotting and then we heard a big bolt of lightning and a big flash, and they said a power line was down in town, sparking and starting a little fire. So we started to head towards town and that’s when the hail started, and the hail came down like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It was at least golf ball-size,” Unger said.
Cows hit by car, vehicles slide off highway during Colorado hailstorm
Crews had to pull over because of a lack of visibility as the hail poured over Yuma. Unger’s Ford F-150 pickup truck suffered damage, with the windshield battered — just as the windows were blasted out at the Yuma fire hall.
“I would assume all the vehicles around town and houses have windows that are shattered too,” Unger said.
Unger said vehicles slid off the road during the storm, and cows were on U.S. 34 heading toward town. At least one car hit one of them.
“We’re still kind of dealing with the aftermath here. A lot of our wives and people texting us that they were scared because all the windows in the houses were breaking,” Unger said.
Storm having lasting impact on Tuesday
Now that the storm has moved on, the city of Yuma is left to pick up the mess.
The Yuma School District announced that all schools and district offices would be closed on Tuesday due to the severe weather that moved through Monday night. All activities are canceled as well.
According to the Pinpoint Weather team, more storms are expected Tuesday night, but they are not predicted to be as severe.
Meanwhile, tornado destroys Iowa
An incredible drone footage has captured the immense trail of destruction left across a small Iowa town after a tornado ripped through the state – killing multiple people and injuring dozens more.
Entire neighborhoods were flattened by several deadly twisters that gripped the region on Tuesday evening, with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds placing 15 counties under disaster emergency proclamations.
Hours after a tornado touched down in Greenfield, aerial footage showed where a tornado tore through the town as homes were leveled and trees were shredded down to their stumps.
Carnage is expected to continue through the Midwest as a storm system develops – with over 25 million people currently under severe weather warnings, stretching from Missouri to Wisconsin.
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etc. If you look at Russia she is ready to strike, Iran ready to strike, North Korea ready to strike, they are not playing games; they are serious with the things that they are saying. Only you have felt that they have feared you, and because you have felt that they have feared you, you are not listening as close as you should. etc.
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Keep
a very careful spiritual eye on Russia, that is
right, I didn’t say North Korea, I said Russia, Russia.
Listen to the news and you will notice how she is
building and building and testing and testing.
Soon she will strike.
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Russia’s New Counterspace Weapon Is in the Same Orbit as a US Satellite
May 21, 2024 | By Greg Hadley and Chris Gordon
Russia launched a counterspace weapon into the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite on May 16, U.S. officials said, further increasing tensions between the two countries in space.
“On May 16, Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that the United States assesses is likely a counterspace weapon presumably capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit,” said U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood in a May 20 speech at the United Nations. “Russia deployed this new counterspace weapon into the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite.”
Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder said May 21 that “assessments further indicate characteristics resembling previously deployed counterspace payloads from 2019 and 2022.”
Ryder declined to discuss what U.S. intelligence agencies know about the satellite’s payload.
In late 2019, the Russians launched a satellite that then released a second satellite. Both satellites then followed a National Reconnaissance Office satellite. Then-Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond compared them to Russian “nesting dolls.” Several months later, U.S. officials said the sub-satellite had released another object, apparently firing a projectile at high speed.
U.S. officials have not previously publicly discussed the 2022 counterspace payload, but they have highlighted other Russian counterspace efforts. In 2021, Russia tested a direct ascent anti-satellite missile on one of its own spacecraft, destroying it and creating a massive debris field in its wake. And earlier this year, then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John F. Plumb confirmed concerns that Russia is developing an “indiscriminate” nuclear weapon to go in space.
The U.S. has since cosponsored a resolution in the UN calling on all nations not to develop or deploy nuclear weapons in outer space. Russia vetoed that resolution, however, then introduced one of its own condemning all weapons in space.
Wood, representing the U.S. at the UN Security Council, decried Russia’s resolution as “diplomatic gaslighting and dissembling.” He revealed the new counterspace satellite in a speech before a vote on the measure failed in the U.N. Security Council. The vote was a 7-7 tie, with Switzerland abstaining. The U.S. voted against it.
U.S. Space Force and Space Command officials have said that both Russia and China are ramping up their counterspace efforts, developing and testing new weapons like lasers to dazzle satellites, the “nesting dolls,” and a “grappling” satellite that can grab and tow other satellites out of their orbit.
Current CSO Gen. B. Chance Saltzman has said the Space Force will support “responsible counterspace campaigning” to counter the threat while ensuring space can remain usable for all nations.
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etc for do you
not know the day and the hour that you are now living in as Russia is about to make her move and China is backing her one hundred
percent and that is the move that you will see
very soon now. For truly Russia will make her
move and rend the United States helpless, remember I’ve warned you
that, I’ve told you about this. For truly it’s now
that time and that hour that judgment must come to America to wake up those who
are fast asleep, for they do not know the time nor the hour that they are
living in. But remember it is a great hour for
my church, etc
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Chinese
President Xi lauds China-Russia ties as Putin lands in Beijing
By Reuters
Published May
16, 2024, 2:10 a.m. ET
Chinese
President Xi Jinping pledged to work with counterpart Vladimir Putin to
“rejuvenate” their countries as the pair started a day of talks in Beijing,
saying China would “always be a good
partner” of Russia, according to Chinese state media.
Putin
arrived earlier on Thursday for a two-day state visit that will include detailed
talks on Ukraine, Asia, energy and trade with Xi, his
most powerful political backer and fellow geopolitical rival of the United
States.
“The China-Russia
relationship today is hard-earned, and the two sides need to cherish and nurture
it,” Xi told Putin as they met at the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing for their opening session.
“China is willing to…jointly achieve the development and rejuvenation of
our respective countries, and work together to uphold fairness and
justice in the world.”
China
and Russia declared a “no limits” partnership in February 2022 when
Putin visited Beijing just days before he sent
tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, triggering the deadliest land war in
Europe since World War Two.
By picking
China for his first foreign trip since being sworn in for a six-year term that
will keep him in power until at least 2030, Putin
is sending a message to the world about his priorities and the strength of his
personal ties with Xi.
As they met, Putin
told Xi that their cooperation was a stabilizing factor.
“It is of
crucial significance that relations between Russia and China are not
opportunistic and are not directed against anyone,” Russia’s RIA Novosti
news agency cited Putin as saying.
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Matthew 24:3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the
disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things
be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the
end of the age?"
Matthew 24:12 "And because lawlessness will
abound, the love of many will grow cold. (NKJ)
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Video
shows man brutally kicking and beating Orthodox Jewish kids playing on NYC
sidewalk
By Social
Links for Amanda Woods and Social Links
for Joe Marino
Published May
16, 2024, 2:42 p.m. ET
A Citi Bike-riding brute viciously beat two Orthodox Jewish boys, ages 11
and 13, playing on a Brooklyn sidewalk Sunday night in a disturbing,
caught-on-video ordeal, cops and sources said.
Now the
NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating whether the attack — which
saw the man kicking and stomping on one of the youngsters — was an antisemitic
assault, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Several kids
were playing in front of a condo building on Franklin Avenue near Myrtle Avenue
in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 9 p.m. Sunday when a
stranger stopped his bike mid-block, between two parked cars, and stormed up to
the kids, according to the video, obtained by Williamsburg 365 News.
“Get off the sidewalk,” cops say he snarled at the young crew –
who were seen in the video wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing.
He shoved one kid to the ground before knocking another to the pavement
and kicking and stomping on him, according to the clip.
Both
boys were “pushed” by the menace,
according to the official police narrative.
They suffered
minor cuts on the backs of their heads.
Police did not
mention that the aggressor made any antisemitic statements.
It’s unclear
whether the boys are related to each other.
The
violent bike-rider could be seen pedaling away before the clip cut off.
No arrests had
been made by Thursday.
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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc..
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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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Houston
severe storms blow windows out of high-rise buildings, leave 4 dead and 1M
without power
By Social
Links for Andrew Wulfeck, FOX Weather
Published May
17, 2024, 12:03 a.m. ET
A storm system that threatened to produce torrential rainfall over East
Texas spawned severe thunderstorms in the nation’s fourth-largest city
Thursday, causing at least four fatalities and leaving more than 1 million
customers without power.
The local National
Weather Service office issued several
Tornado Warnings for the Houston metro but by the time the storms
cleared, it was strong winds that are believed to have caused most of the
damage.
Winds
estimated to be in excess of 70 mph toppled trees, blew out windows of high-rise
buildings and caused transmission towers holding power lines to crumble.
The Harris
County Sheriff’s Office encouraged everyone to stay off the roads as trees
blocked streets, with power outages climbing above
800,000 in the Houston metro.
PowertOuage.us
reported nearby counties also were dealing with
outages, sending the state’s tally to well
over 1 million customers.
Houston Mayor
John Whitmire said at least four people were
killed by the storm and state resources were being requested to help with
the recovery.
“The roof
of the Hyatt Regency downtown blew out. Rain and debris pouring down to
the lobby,” a customer at the hotel told FOX Weather.
He said staff
was doing the best they could to keep people safe and away from the debris.
Windows
also appeared to be blown out in other downtown buildings,
including around the Wells Fargo Plaza.
In nearby Minute
Maid Park, wind and water were seen seeping into the building, but the
severe weather did not appear to affect the play of the Astros baseball game.
“It is all
hands on deck tonight…Downtown is a mess, so stay at home tonight and
tomorrow,” said Whitmire.
Local
residents described the impacts of the storm as being hurricane-like
despite the severe weather lasting less than an hour.
Ground
stops were also issued at Bush Intercontinental Airport
and Houston William P. Hobby Airport due to the severe weather.
The Houston
school district closed all public schools on Friday and said they would
reopen on Monday.
The dangerous thunderstorms
were expected to transition into a flood threat during the overnight
hours as already saturated grounds were expected to receive an additional
2-5″ of rainfall.
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French
synagogue arsonist stabs officer, shot by police
“Thoughts and full support to the Jewish Community of Rouen,” said Rouen
Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
By MICHAEL
STARR, REUTERS
MAY 17, 2024
09:31 Updated:
MAY 17, 2024 15:27
A man armed with a knife stabbed a French police officer when he was
confronted for setting a Rouen synagogue on fire on Friday, after
which the attack was shot by police, said Rabbi Shmuel Lubecki.
The arsonist
had climbed onto the building and set a fire. Lubecki said that he had
still not been able to enter the building to fully assess the damage, but noted
that it was not significant and the holy books had not been harmed.
The man
who set fire to a synagogue in Rouen before being shot dead by police was
of Algerian origin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters on
Friday.
"The person
who set fire to the synagogue in Rouen was
not French, he was of Algerian origin," said Darmanin, as he held a
news conference in Rouen.
Rouen Mayor
Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said on social media from the scene of the incident that
the fire was under control by firefighters and that there were no other
casualties besides the assailant.
“Thoughts
and full support to the Jewish Community of Rouen,” said the mayor.
"Through this attack and this attempted
burning of the synagogue of Rouen, it is not only the Jewish community that is
affected. The entire town of Rouen is hurt and in shock."
The Prefecture
of Normandy and Seine-Maritime said it had
confidence that the judicial system would establish the facts of the incident
and offer support to Jewish citizens.
"The State
is and will be at their side for their security, that of their places of
worship, and to guarantee the exercise of their
faith," said the Prefecture. "In the face of hatred, the
Republic stands tall."
Interior
Minister Gerald Darmanin praised law enforcement
“for their responsiveness and courage.
'Antisemitic drama'
According to French
media, Elie Korchia, president of the Central Consistory of France, said an
"antisemitic drama" was prevented by the police.
Central
Consistory of France president Elie Korchia said on X that police prevented
"a new antisemitic tragedy in our country."
French
Chief Rabbi Haďm Korsia also thanked the police
as well as political leaders for their support.
"I was
able to speak at length with the president of the community, and I will spend a Shabbat there very soon to assure the congregants of my
full support," Korsia wrote on social media.
As he prepared
for Shabbat, Lubecki said that the Jewish
community should remain prideful of their Jewish identity, which would
make it impossible for antisemites to win.
This is a
developing story.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-801540
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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Out
Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live
Comfortably In The US
May 17, 2024
rtably In The
US
Authored by
Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
I
never imagined that we
would ever see a time when it takes $177,798 for a family of four to live
comfortably in the United States. Unfortunately, that day has arrived. Our
leaders have been pursuing highly inflationary policies for many years,
and now we have reached a point where inflation is
wildly out of control. In fact, the latest wholesale inflation
figure that was released on Tuesday came in
much higher than expected. Sadly, this is just the beginning and we are
in far more trouble than most people realize.
According to
an incredibly shocking new study, most Americans
do not make enough money to “live comfortably” in the highly inflationary
environment that we find ourselves in today…
A recent study
has revealed the incomes needed for families to live comfortably across the
United States – and the stark contrast in the
cost of living between states is startling.
The study
revealed that in the most expensive states,
families need nearly $300,000
to simply live ‘comfortably.’
The least expensive state requires about half that salary – still
over $100,000.
Meanwhile, the
average annual salary in the US is $59,428, or
$28.34 per hour, as of May 2024.
The study
determined that Massachusetts is the most
expensive state.
It takes a whopping $301,184 a year for a family of four to “live
comfortably” there.
The least
expensive state is Mississippi.
In the
Magnolia State, it only takes $177,798 a year for
a family of four “to cover their expenses and maintain a satisfactory
quality of life”.
This is our
country now.
I feel like I
have been banging my head into a wall. For more
than a decade I have warned that this would happen, and now it is here.
And even
more inflation is on the way…
Americans
already contending with persistent and stubbornly high inflation just got more
unwelcome news on Tuesday: There are more price
hikes likely coming down the pike.
Wholesale
inflation picked up in April to its highest rate in a year,
according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday.
In April, inflation
at the wholesale level jumped 0.5 percent in just one month…
Inflation at
the wholesale level rose much more than expected in April, the latest
sign that price pressures within the economy remain elevated and difficult to
tame.
The Labor
Department said Tuesday that its producer price index,
which measures inflation at the wholesale
level before it reaches consumers, rose 0.5%
in April from the previous month.
If you multiply
that figure by 12 months, you get 6 percent.
And of course you
need to approximately double any number that the Biden administration gives
us in order to come up with a figure that is anywhere close to accurate.
By now, just
about everyone realizes that the rate of inflation
in this country is massively understated.
For example,
Joe Biden insists that the rate of inflation has
been “low” for quite some time, but home
prices have risen by more than 47 percent
since the start of this decade…
Home prices
have surged 47.1% since the start of 2020, easily outstripping
the gains seen in recent decades.
That’s
according to a recent analysis by ResiClub of the Case-Shiller National Home
Price Index, which showed that house prices in the
1990s and 2010s grew a respective 30.1% and 44.7%.
Let’s all be
honest with one another.
The truth is
that we are in the midst of a raging cost of
living crisis that has no end in sight.
And this
should not surprise any of us. Our politicians
continue to borrow and spend trillions upon trillions of dollars, and all of
this borrowing and spending is extremely inflationary…
An economic
specter haunts America. It’s also one that many American
politicians – Republican and Democrat – say a great deal about but are
reluctant to address.
The name of
that shadow is the United States National Debt:
what the US Treasury Department defines as “the amount
of money the Federal Government has borrowed to cover the outstanding
balance of expenses incurred over time.”
If you go to
the Treasury’s website, you
can see just how big that debt is. In mid-May, it was 34.5 trillion
dollars. The pace of the growth in that debt is
equally stunning. Approximately 1
trillion dollars is being added to America’s National Debt every 100 days.
Borrowing
and spending another trillion dollars every 100 days
is a completely and utterly insane thing to do.
We really are
in the endgame.
Earlier this
week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned that interest
rates may have to stay high for an extended period of time in order to fight
inflation…
Federal
Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that “it may take longer than
expected” for high interest rates to lower inflation and gave no hint that a
recently slowing labor market could mean earlier rate cuts.
“We’ll need to be patient and let restrictive policy do its work,”
Powell said during a session at a Foreign Bankers Association meeting in
Amsterdam. “It may be that (high interest rates) take longer than expected to
do its work and bring inflation down.”
So far, higher
rates have not solved our cost of living crisis, and that is because
our politicians continue to spend money like drunken sailors.
But higher
rates are crushing the overall economy.
Yesterday, I
wrote about the “restaurant apocalypse” that
is starting to sweep across America.
This week, it
got even worse.
We just
learned that at least 99 Red Lobster locations
have been shut down and will be auctioned off…
At least 99
locations of Red Lobster are being auctioned off amid questions about the
stalwart seafood chain’s long-term future.
In a post
Monday on LinkedIn, Neal Sherman, founder and CEO
of TAGeX Brands, a liquidation firm, announced he
was leading the closure of more than 50 Red Lobster locations, with the
restaurants’ equipment to be auctioned off.
A web page
dedicated to the liquidations showed closure locations
across the U.S. including in Denver; Indianapolis;
Rochester, New York; Sacramento, California; San Antonio; and San Diego.
On Tuesday,
Restaurant Business Magazine reported 99 locations were closing.
For the Red
Lobster workers that just lost their jobs, the end came very suddenly…
A third Red
Lobster employee took the news in stride, posting: ‘red
lobster just laid all of us off without notice and closed for good LMAOO.’
The employee
added in replied that Red Lobster didn’t tell
managers until 8am yesterday.
Of course it
isn’t just restaurant chains that are closing locations.
In fact, even Walmart
is closing stores and auctioning off inventory…
After
announcing that it would be shutting its doors for good, one
Ohio Walmart auctioned off its remaining inventory, including flat-screen
televisions, laptops and furniture, for a bargain.
The Walmart at
3579 S. High St. in Columbus opted not to renew
its lease in a once-bustling strip plaza. Representatives announced the
closure in February, claiming the store had failed
to ‘meet financial expectations’.
Last week, the
store offloaded its merchandise through a
liquidation auction. Bidding closed the morning of May 10, with some items
like laptops going for under $20.
If interest
rates stay high, we are going to see a lot more of this sort of thing.
But the Federal
Reserve is very hesitant to cut rates
at this point because of the cost of living
crisis.
Officials at
the Fed really are caught in a “deer in the headlights” moment right now.
But no
matter which way they ultimately choose to go, in the short-term more
“stagflation” is ahead.
And in the
long-term, the exceedingly foolish policies that
our leaders have been pursuing are going to result in a systemic collapse of
absolutely epic proportions.
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At
least four killed and more than one million without power as wild storm topples
power lines, uproots trees and blows out high-rise windows in Houston
By Ishita
Srivastava For Dailymail.Com
Published:
01:59 EDT, 17 May 2024 | Updated: 03:57 EDT, 17 May 2024
At least four
people have been killed after hurricane-force winds,
life-threatening flooding and torrential
rains destroyed the city of Houston, Texas, yesterday.
While the
National Weather Service office issued a tornado warning for the city yesterday,
it was winds reaching over 70 mph that
toppled trees, blew out windows and left over a million people without power.
Houston Mayor
John Whitmire said in a news conference that two
people were killed by downed trees and a third
died after a crane toppled over.
He did not
clarify how the fourth person died. The victims are yet to be identified.
Whitmire
has advised residents to stay at home on Friday instead of driving into
work and asked only essential workers to make the dangerous commute.
Schools
have also been closed due to the widespread power outages and disabled
traffic lights.
'Stay at home
tonight, do not go to work tomorrow unless you're an essential worker. Stay
home, take care of your children.
'Our first
responders will be working around the clock,' the mayor told the panicked
public.
Videos
and images show windows being
blown out in downtown buildings, cranes swaying in the wind, people running for
shelter as record-breaking rains fall over the city along with debris destroying
houses and cars.
The Houston
Fire Department has advised locals to leave their homes immediately and call 911
if they smell gas in their house.
According to
FOX Weather, nearby counties near Houston are also dealing with electricity
loss.
The storm
has caused major flooding in the city of Bryan - causing 20 drivers to be
rescued from the rising level of water, according to CNN.
The mayor has
said it would take 24 to 48 hours for
power to be restored in some areas.
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A Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) has been issued off the coast of
southern California, alerting pilots of Russian missile launches to LAND /
IMPACT in the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center ((ARTCC) ! ! !
The notice is effective
starting TONIGHT, 16 May, and lasts TEN DAYS!
Here is a map
representation showing the launch and impact areas:
Less
than 300 nautical miles from shore in international waters.
The U.S.
Department of Defense CONFIRMS this information:
UPDATE 8:48 PM
EDT --
A
SECOND NOTAM has been issued for missile launches / impacts at the Barents Sea
above Norway, Finland:
UPDATE 10:44
PM EDT --
Russia
has also issued NOTAMS for all
aircraft traveling to/from Hawaii and North America Warning of "missile
impact areas"
KZAK OAKLAND
OCA/FIR
A1924/24 - ATTENTION
ACFT OPR AND DISPATCHERS THIS NOTICE IS FOR
ALL
AIRCRAFT
TRANSITING FM HAWAII TO NORTH AMERICA AND NORTH AMERICA TO
HAWAII.
THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS ARE DUE TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
ROCKET
FIRING IMPACT AREA.
EB TFC ON R578
ESTIMATING FLITY BTN 1930 AND 2300 SHALL FILE FITES
R578 FLITY TO
3015N12905W TO FOOTS TO FICKY FLT PLAN ROUTE.
WB TFC ON R578
ESTIMATING FLITY BTN 2000 AND 2330 SHALL FILE FICKY
R578 FOOTS TO
3015N12905W TO FLITY R578 FITES FLT PLAN ROUTE.
THE TEMPORARY
ROUTES DESCRIBED ABOVE ARE FOR ALL AIRCRAFT EQUIPPED
WITH RNP-10
NAVIGATION SYSTEMS OR BETTER. ALL OTHERS SHALL FLT PLAN
TO AVOID THE
AIRSPACE NOTAMED FOR RUSSIAN FEDERATION IMPACT AREA BY
AT LEAST 50NM.
TIMES LISTED ABOVE ARE BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE OF
TURBOJET
AIRCRAFT ONLY AND SLOWER AIRCRAFT SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
QUESTIONS
SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE OAKLAND ARTCC MILITARY
OPERATIONS
SPECIALIST AT 510-745-3334, OR THE OCEANIC SUPERVISOR AT
510-745-3342.
SFC - UNL, DLY 1930-2330, 16 MAY 19:30 2024 UNTIL 26 MAY 23:30
2024. CREATED:
13 MAY 02:29 2024
A1923/24
(Issued for KZAK PART 1 OF 2) - ATTENTION ACFT OPR AND DISPATCHERS THIS NOTICE
IS FOR ALL
AIRCRAFT
TRANSITING FM HAWAII TO NORTH AMERICA AND NORTH AMERICA TO
HAWAII. THE
FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS ARE DUE TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
ROCKET FIRING
IMPACT AREA.
EB TFC ON R578
ESTIMATING FLITY BTN 1930 AND 2300 SHALL FILE FITES
R578 FLITY TO
3015N12905W TO FOOTS TO FICKY FLT PLAN ROUTE.
WB TFC ON R578
ESTIMATING FLITY BTN 2000 AND 2330 SHALL FILE FICKY
R578 FOOTS TO
3015N12905W TO FLITY R578 FITES FLT PLAN ROUTE.
THE TEMPORARY
ROUTES DESCRIBED ABOVE ARE FOR ALL AIRCRAFT EQUIPPED
WITH RNP-10
NAVIGATION SYSTEMS OR BETTER. ALL OTHERS SHALL FLT PLAN
TO AVOID THE
AIRSPACE NOTAMED FOR RUSSIAN FEDERATION IMPACT AREA BY
AT LEAST 50NM.
TIMES LISTED ABOVE ARE BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE OF
TURBOJET
AIRCRAFT ONLY AND SLOWER AIRCRAFT SHOULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
QUESTIONS
SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE OAKLAND ARTCC MILITARY
OPERATIONS
SPECIALIST AT 510-745-3334, OR THE OCEANIC SUPERVISOR AT
510-745-3342.
SFC END PART 1 OF 2, DLY 1930-2330, 16 MAY 19:30 2024 UNTIL 26
MAY 23:30
2024. CREATED: 13 MAY 02:28 2024
A1922/24 - THE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION PLANS TO CONDUCT ROCKET FIRINGS. IMPACT
AREA WI THE
OAKLAND ARTCC OCEANIC FIR IS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS
295000N
1285200W TO 292100N 1264600W TO 235300N 1281500W TO 242200N
1302400W TO
POINT OF ORIGIN. FOR FLT SAFETY ATC WILL NOT CLEAR IFR
FLT THRU THE
IMPACT AREA. SFC - UNL, DLY 2000-2300, 16 MAY 20:00 2024 UNTIL
26 MAY 23:00
2024. CREATED: 13 MAY 02:21 2024
Hal Turner
Snap Analysis
What
if these missiles don't land in the ocean,
but instead enter the US with live warheads,
and begin hitting targets?
All
of this trouble is taking place because the United States government is meddling
in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Instead of
minding our own business, we are supplying weapons, intelligence,
reconnaissance, mercenaries, and cash to Ukraine, so
they can kill Russians.
Russia
is now so fed-up with US (and our NATO vassals) interfering in Ukraine, that
they are now launching missiles to IMPACT in the Oakland Air Route Traffic
Control Center area, as a warning to us that Russia is at our doorstep, and
ready to hit **us** if we keep meddling in their affairs.
Our
own government is misbehaving in a way that is now endangering ALL our lives.
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Yemen
Downs ANOTHER U.S. MQ-9 "Reaper" Drone
Hal Turner
World May 16, 2024 Hits: 9312
An
American MQ9 drone was shot down by a Yemeni drone by the Houthis "Ansar
Allah" organization in Marib Governorate, Yemen, today. THis
is the FOURTH US MQ-9 "Reaper" to be shot down by Yemen this year.
This may
be the first battle in history between two drones, the first American-made and
the second Yemeni-made, which ended in favor of the Yemeni march by
shooting down the American MQ9.
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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China
DUMPS Largest Amount of US Treasuries in History
Hal Turner
World May 16, 2024 Hits: 23774
In an unprecedented
move, China offloads a record $53.3
billion of U.S. Treasuries and agency bonds.
With
economic relations between China and the United States continuing to raise
investor concern, China
has deviated from historical norms by offloading one of the largest amounts of
US Treasury and agency debt.
Particularly,
in the first quarter of 2024, China offloaded a
record-breaking $53.3 billion of U.S. Treasuries and agency bonds.
Notably, China,
traditionally a major holder of US debt, reduced
its Treasury holdings by $22 billion during the first three months of
2024, while the remainder of the offloaded assets comprised agency bonds,
according to data. which came out May 16.
China
is clearly acting to intentionally distance its exposure to the US
because the Chinese government knows, if they take Taiwan by force, the US will
"cancel" those bonds, and stiff China for the money.
After
seeing what the US has done to Russia, the flat-out theft of much of its
Sovereign Wealth Fund over the Ukraine
situation, China does no want to end up in the same boat,
being robbed by the treacherous US government.
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US
Sending Nuclear-Powered Carrier For 'Higher Stakes' Red Sea Mission
by Tyler
Durden Saturday,
May 18, 2024 - 11:35 AM
Since the
start of the Gaza war at least 20 ships have been
damaged in the Red Sea amid the ongoing Houthi campaign to punish Israel and its
international backers. The US-led
Operation Prosperity Guardian is something which has retreated from headlines as
it has by and large proved ineffective.
US
warships patrolling waters off Yemen have shot down dozens, or possibly even
hundreds of drones and missiles at this point - while also at times carrying out
offensive operations - but the
Iran supported Houthis have remained undeterred.
The Pentagon
is now readying the next step, sending the USS Harry S. Truman nuclear-powered aircraft carrier into the
Red Sea. US military magazine Stripes writes of recent planning:
"The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and its
6,000-some sailors have spent recent months training in the western Atlantic
Ocean for that mission — a rare, pre-planned
deployment expected to take the ship into a hostile environment."
"In
recent weeks, its sailors have been undergoing flight deck testing, its pilots knowing that later
this year they will be tasked with shooting down drones and munitions launched
by the Iran-backed Houthis," the publication details further.
European
allies, and groups like the Atlantic Council have
been bitterly complaining about the ongoing 'failures' of the Pentagon-led
mission thus far:
Six months
after the Joe Biden administration launched Operation
Prosperity Guardian to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, the biggest
issue facing the White House is not the Houthi threat but the US failure to
rally partners and allies behind its leadership.
Several
costly MQ-9 Reaper drones have already been lost in the region,
with some shot down by the Houthis, as the US continues to expend billions
related to Gaza conflict spillover.
While the Truman
carrier will certainly be a huge show of force, it could
be more simply that the 1,000-foot-long, 104,000-ton vessel will just make for a
bigger Houthi target.
Head of the US
Navy Fleet Forces Command Adm. Daryl Caudle has described of sailors preparing
for the mission, "They know that they’re
most likely going to be entering a weapon engagement zone."
"For this
group, this [deployment] is not with the mindset that they’re just going to go
drill holes in the water somewhere — this is, ‘We’re
going to be employed for combat.’"
Back in
November, there was this stunning and contradictory admission
from the Commander-in-Chief:
This
is peak American foreign policy... When
asked if the strikes on Yemen are working
Biden replies: “When you say working, are they
stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.”
Literally
saying "bombing these folks is useless, but we'll keep doing it". pic.twitter.com/otzJC6hzpS
— Arnaud
Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 19, 2024
As has been
the sad pattern after more that 20 years of the
so-called Global War on Terror (GWOT), this naval commander is openly talking
about deploying for "combat" in a new volatile and high-stakes
theater, and yet there's never been formal Congressional
authorization to go to war with Yemen or
the Houthis. Of course, there have been many such cases.
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US
ban on Russian uranium could backfire
Could
mean shutting down much of US nuclear generation, with no way to replace Russian
deliveries for a long time
by Judith
Perera May 17, 2024
US President Joe
Biden has now signed into law HR 1042, the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, banning the
import of uranium products from Russia The ban goes into effect 90 days after it
was signed into law and prohibits any import of unirradiated low-enriched
uranium (LEU) produced in the Russian Federation or by a Russian entity.
Waivers
may be granted to allow the
import of limited amounts of LEU, under certain circumstances, until
January 1, 2028. The new legislation permits the Department of Energy (DOE) to issue waivers
authorizing the entire volume of Russian uranium imports allowed under export
limits set in an earlier anti-dumping agreement between the Department of
Commerce and Russia which expires in 2027.
There
are predictions that waivers will be needed and granted. “No one will dare”
to enforce the law without granting waivers,
says Alexey Anpilogov, a Russian political scientist and expert in nuclear
energy – “because American nuclear reactors
produce cheap electricity. And the green
transition that was declared in the United States
also implies the preservation of nuclear energy as a carbon-neutral
sector of electricity production.”
A long history
US
concern over Russian enriched uranium has a long history.
In an effort to prevent an influx of cheap Russian enrichment services into the
US after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US
nuclear energy industry instigated an anti-dumping petition in 1991. This
resulted in the adoption in 1992 of the Russian
Suspension Agreement (RSA) between the US Department of Commerce and
Russia’s Ministry of Atomic Energy (now Rosatom). The agreement
introduced formal quotas on the import of Russian enriched uranium. It
was amended in 2008 and 2020.
According to
the US Energy Information Administration, Russia
has been supplying about 24% of enriched uranium used to fuel the US fleet of 94
commercial reactors, with 12% coming from
Germany and 11% from the UK. US production accounts for 27%.
The US DOE
says Russia has roughly 44% of the world’s
uranium enrichment capacity and supplies approximately 35% of US imports for nuclear fuel.
The United
States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) ceased production in 2001. Following
bankruptcy in 2014, USEC re-emerged as Centrus Energy Corp. While Centrus
is developing new centrifuge technologies with the aim of restoring US domestic
uranium enrichment capability, it primarily acts as a broker of enriched
uranium, sourcing foreign supplies for US and international customers.
According to
Centrus’s 2023 annual report to the US Securities & Exchange Commission, Russia’s
Tenex is Centrus’s largest supplier, followed by French company Orano.
Centrus has commitments with Tenex for the supply
of Russian enrichment services to 2028.
Centrus
has made clear that it will apply for waivers from
the secretary of energy and other applicable government agencies to request
permission to continue supplying LEU to its customers. “It is uncertain
whether any waiver would be granted and, if granted, whether any waiver would be
granted in a timely manner,” it noted. “The Company
anticipates having adequate liquidity to
support its business operations for at least the next 12 months.”
The only
commercial enrichment operation in the US is Urenco’s
facility in New Mexico, which began operations in 2010. Urenco
is jointly owned by the UK, Germany and the Netherlands.
At the end
of last year, Urenco approved an investment
to expand enrichment capacity at its facility in the Netherlands. Earlier
in May, the UK government awarded Ł196 million
($245 million) to Urenco to build a new uranium enrichment facility at
its Capenhurst site in northwest England.
Aside from
Russia, other countries with enrichment capacity
include Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, the
Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, and the UK. Some are now seeking to
expand their facilities.
Currently Russia
is the world’s only commercial source of the more highly enriched high-assay
low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel that’s needed
for many of the small and advanced reactors now in the design stage.
Some
providers in the US, with federal support, are in the process of producing HALEU.
Under a 2019 contract with DOE’s Office of Nuclear
Energy, Centrus licensed and built a new
cascade of 16 centrifuges at Piketon, Ohio, to demonstrate production of HALEU.
The Piketon demonstration project last year produced
its first amounts of HALEU for next-generation reactors, with plans
to increase production to 900 kilograms in the near future. However, this
is nowhere near enough to fill the gap that will be left if Russian supplies
cease.
Optimism in
the Biden administration
US officials
have been upbeat about the ban. National Security Advisor Jake
Sullivan said the new law “re-establishes America’s leadership in the
nuclear sector. It will help secure our energy sector for generations to
come. And – building off the unprecedented $2.72
billion in federal funding that Congress recently appropriated at the
President’s request – it will jump-start new enrichment capacity in
the United States and send a clear message to industry that we are committed to
long-term growth in our nuclear sector.”
Sullivan said
the law also delivers on multilateral targets,
including an announcement last year by the USA with Canada, France, Japan and
the UK of plans to collectively invest $4.2 billion to expand their enrichment
and conversion capacity. “With these funds from Congress, we have
well-exceeded that pledge and are working with industry to realize this
ambition,” Sullivan said.
DOE said the
ban “brings us one step closer to developing a reliable supply of nuclear fuel
that will be required by the United States and its allies to triple nuclear
capacity by 2050, creating thousands of
high-paying jobs along the way.”
Squeezing the
industry
However, even
before the ban became law, concerns about fuel
supplies were having an effect on the myriad of companies that have
produced designs for small and advanced modular reactors, some with significant
government support. Many companies have highly
optimistic targets of deploying their first reactors by 2030, although
most are still in the design stage.
For example,
the Natrium technology being developed by US
TerraPower and GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy features a 345-megawatt
liquid-sodium-cooled fast reactor with a separate molten-salt-based energy
storage system. Along with PacifiCorp and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy,
members of the demonstration project team include engineering and construction
partner Bechtel, Energy Northwest, Duke Energy and nearly a dozen additional
companies, universities and national laboratory partners.
Natrium
is one of two competitively-selected Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP)
projects supported by DOE. The company
originally had hoped to commission the plant in 2028
using Russian-supplied HALEU fuel to get a demonstration unit up and
running by 2028. However, concerns about Russian
HALEU deliveries have pushed the commissioning date to 2030.
The uranium
ban legislation expires at the end of 2040. In the meantime, while one of
its purposes is to undermine Russia’s dominance
of the international market for nuclear fuel and technology, Russian
offiicials have been quick to point out that its most negative effects are
likely to be on the global market.
Kremlin
reaction
Russia’s
state nuclear corporation Rosatom called the ban a discriminatory political move
that would
undermine the international market for enriched uranium but would
not stop Russia from developing its global business.
Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a news briefing that “it’s
hard for the Americans to compete with us on the international market,”
adding that the ban was “nothing more than
unfair competition” and not critical for the Russian nuclear industry.
“Our nuclear industry is one of the most
advanced in the world,” Peskov said. “We
will continue to develop this industry.”
Russia’s
ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said:
The Administration
continues its stillborn policy of inflicting strategic economic defeat on us.
The current attack – not only on Russia, but also
on the world market for uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants – will
lead to new shocks in international economic relations. The delicate
balance between exporters and importers of uranium products is under threat. Washington lacks sufficient national enrichment capacity and so is harming
its own economy. Moreover, the financial losses for the United States
will be much greater than for Russia.
The world
leader
Rosatom
is the world leader in terms of the number of nuclear reactor construction
projects being undertaken simultaneously,
with three units in Russia and 33 abroad.
Moreover, its
foreign projects all involve ongoing technical support, training and
60-year-long fuel supplies. Since 2023 Rosatom
also become the exclusive supplier to Brazil of products related to enriched
uranium. This long-term partnership with
Brasilia replaces previous imports from Canada and European consortia.
Rosatom’s
foreign projects include:
the four-unit
Akkuyu NPP under construction in Turkiye Akkuyu;
the four-unit
El Dabaa NPP under construction in Egypt;
four more
units at Kudankulam NPP in India, with promises of further contracts;
four units in
China; and
two units in
Bangladesh.
Several
countries in sub-Saharan Africa including
Burkina Faso, Mali, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and
Ethiopia also have agreements related to nuclear energy with Rosatom. It
is also in talks with South Africa and Sri Lanka.
In Bolivia it is finishing construction of a
research reactor and laboratory complex.
Anpilogov, the
specialist quoted in the third paragraph of this article, told the Sputnik news
agency that the ban would mean halting a quarter
or even a third of all American nuclear generation and that the US would be
unable to replace Russia’s deliveries of both LEU and HALEU for a long time.
He emphasized
that, if the DOE should fail to issue waivers, the
US nuclear fuel market could collapse, leading to skyrocketing costs of enriched
uranium. He also suggested that US
companies might resort to “gray schemes” to purchase Russian nuclear fuel,
disguising the deals as contracts with French or other foreign companies.
“Back in the
1980s, the Americans de facto destroyed their
enrichment industry because it was ineffective, being based on old
gaseous-diffusion technologies,” said Ampilogov, who is president of
Russia’s Foundation for Support of Scientific Research and Development of
Civil Initiatives Research. “For 30 years they
bought relatively inexpensive Russian uranium. The cornerstone of America’s
nuclear energy generation can’t be abandoned through a simple vote in
Congress.”
Ampilogov
observed that it took the United States some four
years to produce the first 20 kilograms of HALEU after launching a similar
initiative back in 2019. He noted that the planned
UK enrichment plant is expected to produce its
first batch of HALEU only in 2031, and by that time “a lot is going to
change on the market.”
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etc. man has turned their back upon me, they have denied me, they have gone their own way and they have not followed after me like I have said. But, truly, a remnant, a remnant shall arise and a great and glorious revival shall come forth and those that will come in will come in and then I will remove them before my wrath is poured out, saith your Father. For, truly, it is an hour like you have never seen before, etc
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Will Things Get Worse During the End Times? Matt Chandler’s Take on Cultural Chaos and ‘Embers’ of Spiritual Revival
By Billy Hallowell Editor May 13, 2024
Matt Chandler, pastor of The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, sees “embers” of spiritual revival popping up all around the nation, even as chaotic cultural conundrums seem to be increasing.
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“There’s been an earnest desire to see God do something significant for a long time,” Chandler, author of the new book, “The Overcomers: God’s Vision for You to Thrive in an Age of Anxiety and Outrage,” told CBN News.
The Texas preacher said last year’s Asbury outpouring, mass baptisms, and other events show an elevated spiritual fervor breaking out in various areas of the country.
And Chandler believes these events have helped inspire the faithful.
“For those who are outside of a smaller group that have been really kind of contending for this and asking God to do this, it put it back in … maybe the center of the imagination of what’s possible,” Chandler said.
These moments come at an intriguing time, as culture and society seem to be in tatters, particularly on the moral and ethical fronts. With culture always marching toward the end of days, some have wondered, biblically speaking, whether negative events happening indicate we’re now closer than ever.
But the baptisms and elevated spiritual temperature of late could throw some common beliefs up into the air. For instance, some might assume revival or spiritual outpourings won’t happen as the end draws near, but Chandler believes both can unfold, simultaneously
“I think they absolutely will happen at the same time — that it will get better and worse, simultaneously,” Chandler said. “More than the Bible paints a picture of things getting worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, and worse until the Lord comes, it paints a picture of both happening.”
He believes Jesus referenced this very thing in Matthew 13:24-30, when He talked about wheat and tares growing together until the “harvest comes.”
“The wheat and the tares … they’re growing up together … until the harvest comes,” Chandler said.
He also cited other end-times verses to argue that some people might be misreading Scripture by assuming everything will simply be terrible in the end.
“The Bible says that people will be getting married and given in marriage, just like they were in the day of Noah,” he said. “It’s an ordinary time. There’s horrible things; there’s beautiful things. We’re just going to be getting married. We’re going to be doing the things that we normally do, and then the end will come.”
Watch Chandler explain.
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The Halls of Inclusion Are Beginning to Exclude Jews
By Hal Lindsey
The world finds excuses to hate Jews. People across the globe are blaming individual Jews for Israel’s war on Hamas. Even Jews who do not support the invasion of Gaza are being blamed for it. On US college campuses, Jewish students are threatened, harassed, and no longer feel safe. Hate crime against Muslims is on the rise, but it’s even worse for Jews. The Bible says that this tendency toward Jew-hatred would get worse in the end times. And we’re seeing it right now.
You may have heard about the Williamsburg, Virginia street festival canceling a Hanukkah-related menorah lighting ceremony. After receiving criticism for the snub, festival organizers told the press that they rejected the menorah lighting because they have a policy against any kind of religious ceremony. But in an email to the rabbi who was supposed to have conducted the lighting, they said they would allow it if an Islamic group also took part. So, apparently religious expression is okay if it includes Muslims.
An event organizer explained, “We are about Peace, Love & light… don’t want to make it seem we’re choosing a side — supporting the killing/bombing of thousands of men, women & children.” But they also told the rabbi he could go on with the ceremony if he held it beneath a banner calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. That’s called taking a side.
Do you see what they did? They identified the menorah with the IDF’s military action in Gaza. They don’t just blame Israel for what they call the “killing/bombing,” but all Jews. This one snub would be almost nothing if it were alone. But people all over the world are doing what they did — blaming the suffering of Palestinians on all Jews.
In the same vein, a Maine town removed a Star of David because a local Arab American organization called it “offensive.” The town later said it was done in order to comply with the first amendment’s “establishment clause.” But you would have to be deluded to think that allowing a Star of David in a Christmas display amounts to anything like government “establishing” a state religion. The original reason is obviously the real one. The Star of David stands for Jews, and the very existence of Jews offends some in the Arab American community. Members of the KKK also find the existence of Jews offensive. But we should not base community standards on anyone’s bigotry.
The Star of David threatens no one. It is an acknowledgement of a people and their history. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary were part of that people and history. So, the Star of David is a perfectly appropriate symbol to put up as part of a Christmas display. Likewise, no one should see a menorah as a threat. People are using Israel’s war with Hamas as an excuse to hate Jews, something as common in humans and as evil as the seven deadly sins. One wonders if the woke crowd will start banning the Star of David from their “coexist” bumper stickers.
The Bible tells us to expect increasing levels of persecution for both Jews and Christians in the time leading up to the Lord’s return. It’s happening now, and it’s getting worse. Still, God’s promises remain in effect. In Luke 21:33 (NASB), Jesus said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.”
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For I say unto you, my children, don’t be concerned or worried about the time, says the Lord, but I say unto you, be ready, says the Lord, to be ready, says the Lord, for my fig tree is budded, says the Lord. Are you aware of what is going on over in Israel, says the Lord? Therefore, I say unto you, look, look and see what I have said unto you, says the Lord, my fig tree has budded. Are you ready, says the Lord, for I am soon coming, says the Lord?
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Hamas plans to set up secret base in Turkey, secret documents reveal - report
Erdogan insists that Hamas has not been carrying out terrorist operations from Turkey despite meetings with Hamas leaders and allowing the Palestinian group to maintain offices in Istanbul
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
MAY 15, 2024 06:47 Updated: MAY 15, 2024 08:29
Hamas has been planning to establish a secret base in Turkey as well as other terror cells elsewhere in order to coordinate attacks against Israeli targets in neighboring countries, including members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) according to a document captured by the IDF in Gaza, The Times revealed in an exclusive report.
The secret document, titled “Founding a base in Turkey,'' was discovered in the chief of staff to Yahya Sinwar, Hamza Abu Shanab’s home, The Times reported, citing the IDF. The document says Israel’s efforts to clamp down on the Gaza Strip over the past decade has "put Hamas on the defensive."
According to the plan, this is the reason for establishing bases in different locations, for the purpose of strengthening "the forces of resistance militarily, diplomatically and morally.” The bases were planned to be hubs for special operations “capable of carrying out intelligence and military operations in the future.”
The document outlines a three year plan, and also mentions plans for assassinations. Targets for assassination are “officers and commanders in Mossad,” and “influential Israelis.” It also mentions “sabotage of Israeli naval vessels” and “kidnapping,” according to The Times report.
The plan includes details on who will be stationed at the base in Turkey and how it will be funded. It is unclear whether the plan had begun being executed before Hamas launched its attack on October 7.
The Turkish government has expressed support for Hamas, calling it a “liberation group,” and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has reached a level that would make Hitler jealous with his genocidal methods.”
Erdogan's support for Hamas
On Sunday, Erdogan announced that hospitals in Turkey are treating over 1,000 members of Hamas.
Erdogan said that he was saddened by Greece’s stance that Hamas is a terrorist organization at a press conference after talks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Ankara.
“Let’s agree to disagree,” Mitsotakis said, before concluding that the two leaders could agree that violence must end and a long-term ceasefire is necessary.
Last month, Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, met with Erdogan in Istanbul. Erdogan still insists that Hamas has not been carrying out terrorist operations from or within Turkey despite these meetings and allowing the Palestinian group to maintain offices in Istanbul.
As a NATO member country, intelligence sources believe that Erdogan is strongly against Turkey becoming a base for Hamas’s terrorist activities, despite his public shows of support for its political leaders, according to The Times.
In 2020, after The Times revealed that Turkey had become a base for Hamas’s cyber warfare operations, the Turkish authorities warned the organization to stop its activities. Zaher Jabarin, who handles Hamas funding outside Gaza, is based in Istanbul.
Ibrahim Kalin, Turkey’s intelligence chief, met Hamas leaders in Qatar on Sunday to discuss ceasefire talks and delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Erdogan told Muslim scholars in Istanbul that Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal by Qatar and Egypt. He accused Netanyahu’s government of not wanting the war to end.
Erdogan on Sunday called on countries to recognize a Palestinian sovereign state and accused western countries “who lecture us on human rights and freedoms at every opportunity” of hypocrisy.
This month he issued orders to end all trade between Turkey and Israel. Israeli trade officials, however, reported that this was an empty order and that trade continues between the two countries.
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IDF: 13 soldiers injured in Gaza, four in serious condition
Military reports soldiers evacuated to the hospital following two separate incidents in the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip
Yoav Zitun|Yesterday | 12:29
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reported on Tuesday that 13 soldiers have been injured in two separate incidents in northern and southern Gaza, with four of them being evacuated to the hospital in serious condition.
Three of the soldiers, serving at the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, were injured during engagements against terrorists in the northern part of the Strip. Five other soldiers received moderate injuries in the same incident.
In another incident in the southern part of the Strip, a soldier serving in the Givati Brigade was seriously injured as a result of an explosive charge. Four additional soldiers present in the area were injured and evacuated to the hospital in minor to moderate condition.
Meanwhile, the IDF has issued an evacuation notice to residents of neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the notice, "Hamas and other terrorist organizations are using your lands for terrorist activities and the launching of rockets into Israeli territory, and therefore the IDF will act against them soon."
The IDF and Shin Bet reported earlier on Tuesday they had eliminated 15 terrorists at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. According to the IDF and Shin Bet, the school served as a headquarters for Hamas military commanders and was used for planning and carrying out terrorist operations. It added that at least 10 of the eliminated terrorists were affiliated with Hamas.
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A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom
May 15, 2024 Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, French philosopher
We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom.
It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or a Nanny State Idiocracy.
Whatever the label, this overbearing despotism is what happens when government representatives (those elected and appointed to work for us) adopt the authoritarian notion that the government knows best and therefore must control, regulate and dictate almost everything about the citizenry’s public, private and professional lives.
The as ludicrous as that may seem.government’s bureaucratic attempts at muscle-flexing by way of overregulation and overcriminalization have reached such outrageous limits that federal and state governments now require on penalty of a fine that individuals apply for permission before they can grow exotic orchids, host elaborate dinner parties, gather friends in one’s home for Bible studies, give coffee to the homeless, let their kids manage a lemonade stand, keep chickens as pets, or braid someone’s hair,
As the Regulatory Transparency Project explains, “There are over 70 federal regulatory agencies, employing hundreds of thousands of people to write and implement regulations. Every year, they issue about 3,500 new rules, and the regulatory code now is over 168,000 pages long.”
In his CrimeADay Twitter feed, Mike Chase highlights some of the more arcane and inane laws that render us all guilty of violating some law or other.
As Chase notes, it’s against the law to try to make an unreasonable noise while a horse is passing by in a national park; to leave Michigan with a turkey that was hunted with a drone; to refill a liquor bottle with different liquor than it had in it when it was originally filled; to offer to buy swan feathers so you can make a woman’s hat with them; to enter a design in the Federal Duck Stamp contest if waterfowl are not the dominant feature of the design; to transport a cougar without a cougar license; to sell spray deodorant without telling people to avoid spraying it in their eyes; and to transport “meat loaf” unless it’s in loaf form.
In such a society, we are all petty criminals.
In fact, Boston lawyer Harvey Silvergate estimates that the average American now unknowingly commits three felonies a day, thanks to an overabundance of vague laws that render otherwise innocent activity illegal and an inclination on the part of prosecutors to reject the idea that there can’t be a crime without criminal intent.
The bigger the government grows, the worse the red tape becomes.
Almost every aspect of American life today, including the job sector, is now subject to this kind of heightened scrutiny and ham-fisted control.
Whereas 70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license, today, almost 1 in 4 American occupations requires a license.
According to business analyst Kaylyn McKenna, more than 41 states require that makeup artists be licensed. Twenty-eight states require a license before you can work as a residential painter. Funeral attendants, whose duties include placing caskets in visitation rooms, arranging flowers and directing mourners, have to be licensed to do so in Kansas, Maine and Massachusetts.
The problem of overregulation has become so bad that, as one analyst notes, “getting a license to style hair in Washington takes more instructional time than becoming an emergency medical technician or a firefighter.”
This is what happens when bureaucrats run the show, and the rule of law becomes little more than a cattle prod for forcing the citizenry to march in lockstep with the government.
Overregulation is just the other side of the coin to overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal, and everyone becomes a lawbreaker.
As policy analyst Michael Van Beek warns, the problem with overcriminalization is that there are so many laws at the federal, state and local levels—that we can’t possibly know them all.
“It’s also impossible to enforce all these laws. Instead, law enforcement officials must choose which ones are important and which are not. The result is that they pick the laws Americans really must follow, because they’re the ones deciding which laws really matter,” concludes Van Beek. “Federal, state and local regulations — rules created by unelected government bureaucrats — carry the same force of law and can turn you into a criminal if you violate any one of them… if we violate these rules, we could be prosecuted as criminals. No matter how antiquated or ridiculous, they still carry the full force of the law. By letting so many of these sit around, just waiting to be used against us, we increase the power of law enforcement, which has lots of options to charge people with legal and regulatory violations.”
Case in point: in New Jersey, in what journalist Billy Binion describes as “yet another example of the effects of overcriminalization, which increases interactions between civilians and police with little benefit to actual public safety,” police went so far as to arrest a teenager and seize other teen’s bicycles for so-called traffic violations and a failure to register their bikes with the state.
This is the police state’s superpower: it has been vested with the authority to make our lives a bureaucratic hell.
That explains how a fisherman can be saddled with 20 years’ jail time for throwing fish that were too small back into the water. Or why police arrested a 90-year-old man for violating an ordinance that prohibits feeding the homeless in public unless portable toilets are also made available. Or how states across the country, in a misguided attempt to disperse homeless populations, have criminalized sitting, sleeping, or resting in public spaces; sharing food with people; and camping in public.
The laws can get downright silly.
For instance, in Florida, it’s against the law to eat a frog that was used in a frog-jumping contest. You could also find yourself passing time in a Florida slammer for such inane activities as singing in a public place while wearing a swimsuit, breaking more than three dishes per day, farting in a public place after 6 pm on a Thursday, and skateboarding without a license.
“Such laws,” notes journalist George Will, “which enable government zealots to accuse almost anyone of committing three felonies in a day, do not just enable government misconduct, they incite prosecutors to intimidate decent people who never had culpable intentions. And to inflict punishments without crimes.”
Unfortunately, the consequences are all too serious for those whose lives become grist for the police state’s mill.
In this way, America has gone from being a beacon of freedom to a locked down nation.
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the so-called name of the national good by an elite class of governmental and corporate officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions.
We increasingly find ourselves badgered, bullied and browbeaten into bearing the brunt of their arrogance, paying the price for their greed, suffering the backlash for their militarism, agonizing as a result of their inaction, feigning ignorance about their backroom dealings, overlooking their incompetence, turning a blind eye to their misdeeds, cowering from their heavy-handed tactics, and blindly hoping for change that never comes.
The overt signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States government (and its corporate partners in crime) are all around us: censorship, criminalizing, shadow banning and de-platforming of individuals who express ideas that are politically incorrect or unpopular; warrantless surveillance of Americans’ movements and communications; SWAT team raids of Americans’ homes; shootings of unarmed citizens by police; harsh punishments meted out to schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance; community-wide lockdowns and health mandates that strip Americans of their freedom of movement and bodily integrity; armed drones taking to the skies domestically; endless wars; out-of-control spending; militarized police; roadside strip searches; privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans; fusion centers that spy on, collect and disseminate data on Americans’ private transactions; and militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition, to name some of the most appalling.
Yet as egregious as these incursions on our rights may be, it’s the endless, petty tyrannies—the heavy-handed, punitive-laden dictates inflicted by a self-righteous, Big-Brother-Knows-Best bureaucracy on an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace—that illustrate so clearly the degree to which “we the people” are viewed as incapable of common sense, moral judgment, fairness, and intelligence, not to mention lacking a basic understanding of how to stay alive, raise a family, or be part of a functioning community.
In exchange for the promise of an end to global pandemics, lower taxes, lower crime rates, safe streets, safe schools, blight-free neighborhoods, and readily accessible technology, health care, water, food and power, we’ve opened the door to lockdowns, militarized police, government surveillance, asset forfeiture, school zero tolerance policies, license plate readers, red light cameras, SWAT team raids, health care mandates, overcriminalization, overregulation and government corruption.
We relied on the government to help us safely navigate national emergencies (terrorism, natural disasters, global pandemics, etc.) only to find ourselves forced to relinquish our freedoms on the altar of national security, yet we’re no safer (or healthier) than before.
We asked our lawmakers to be tough on crime, and we’ve been saddled with an abundance of laws that criminalize almost every aspect of our lives.
We wanted criminals taken off the streets, and we didn’t want to have to pay for their incarceration. What we’ve gotten is a nation that boasts the highest incarceration rate in the world, with many doing time for relatively minor, nonviolent crimes, and a private prison industry fueling the drive for more inmates.
We wanted law enforcement agencies to have the necessary resources to fight the nation’s wars on terror, crime and drugs. What we got instead were militarized police decked out with M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers, battle tanks and hollow point bullets—gear designed for the battlefield, more than 80,000 SWAT team raids carried out every year (many for routine police tasks, resulting in losses of life and property), and profit-driven schemes that add to the government’s largesse such as asset forfeiture, where police seize property from “suspected criminals.”
We fell for the government’s promise of safer roads, only to find ourselves caught in a tangle of profit-driven red light cameras, which ticket unsuspecting drivers in the so-called name of road safety while ostensibly fattening the coffers of local and state governments.
This is what happens when the American people get duped, deceived, double-crossed, cheated, lied to, swindled and conned into believing that the government and its army of bureaucrats—the people we appointed to safeguard our freedoms—actually have our best interests at heart.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the problem with these devil’s bargains is that there is always a catch, always a price to pay for whatever it is we valued so highly as to barter away our most precious possessions.
In the end, such bargains always turn sour.
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Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine’s Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations?
May 14, 2024 8 Comments
By Brandon Smith
There are two classic propaganda narratives used by governments when it comes to keeping the public invested in any war campaign that does nothing to advance their national interests:
First, there’s the “commitment” lie, which says that once you step in to support a war effort you then must stay exponentially committed, even if that war effort is exposed as pointless. Anytime the public pulls back from that war in a bid to reconsider what purpose it serves they are ridiculed for potentially “risking lives” and setting the stage for defeat. In other words, you must support the effort blindly. You’re not allowed to examine the conflict rationally, because who wants to be blamed for losing a war?
Second, there’s the “domino effect” lie, which says that if you allow a particular “enemy” to win in one conflict, they will automatically be emboldened to invade other countries until they own the entire planet. It’s the same claim used to trick the American populace into supporting the war in Vietnam and it rarely turns out to be true. In fact, nations that engage in regional wars tend to be so weakened by the fighting that they don’t have the means to move on to another country even if they wanted to.
In the US we heard both of these narratives heading into the recent congressional vote for billions more in monetary and logistical aid to Ukraine. Neocons and Democrats worked together to force the bill through with a percentage of true conservatives fighting to stop it. Those conservatives were attacked relentlessly by the media for “helping the Russians”, but the reality that no one in the mainstream wants to talk about is that Ukraine has already lost the war.
No amount of additional funding or arms shipments are going to help them, and it has nothing to do with conservatives questioning the validity of war spending. Anyone who has a basic understanding of military strategy knows that the key to winning is ALWAYS manpower first, logistics second. Not superior technology or armaments, not superior cash and certainly not popular support from foreign interests.
This is especially true in a war of attrition, and attrition is in fact the method being used by Russia to systematically whittle down Ukraine’s forces. However, the western media refuses to discuss what’s really happening and has been acting as a hype machine for Ukraine instead.
In September of 2022 I noted that the Russian pullback to the Donbas was not the “retreat” the western media made it out to be. Many establishment talking heads claimed that this was the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin and that Ukrainian forces would be taking Crimea in the near future.
I argued that Russia was likely trying to consolidate its position as western artillery and tanks flooded into Ukraine. I also suggested that Russia wanted to avoid urban combat in major cities while tens-of-thousands of seasoned mercenaries were rushing to the front from the US and Europe. I predicted that the Russian pullback was in preparation for surgical strikes on western Ukraine’s resources and grid infrastructure.
With Ukraine’s grid heavily damaged, a large portion of the population would leave the cities and head for Europe until the war played out. Putin has specifically avoided major fighting within larger urban centers for a reason. Driving civilians out of metropolitan areas would make it easier for Russia to strike Ukraine in a secondary offensive without risking extensive collateral damage in the form of civilian casualties. This is exactly what has happened.
Almost 7 million Ukrainians left the country outright in the past 2 years, with another 6 million displaced (mostly from larger cities). Currently, Russia is moving to push civilians out of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second biggest city, and they will probably be successful given their momentum and the destruction of water and power resources. With civilians out of the way a more aggressive attack can then be initiated.
Russia has been using an “artillery bubble” as a tool to protect ground forces as they push an advance. Meaning, troops will only attack as far as the artillery can reach. Artillery is vital to a large scale offensive. Coincidentally, Russia doubled its importation of explosive materials commonly used for artillery in the past several months. They are now reportedly producing triple the amount of artillery that NATO is providing to Ukraine.
Mainstream analysts claim the push towards Kharkiv move might be a feint, allowing Russia to increase the size of its buffer zone. They continue to assert that Russia doesn’t have the forces necessary for a major offensive. I would say it depends on how weak Ukraine’s defensive lines actually are. Russia has been consistently using large scale Pincer movements to envelop defensive positions and destroy them.
In the past two weeks alone Russia has gained considerable ground. Russian troops recently made confirmed advances northwest of Svatove (Luhansk Oblast), near Avdiivka (Donetsk Oblast), in Robotyne (Zaporizhzhya Oblast), and in east (left) bank Kherson Oblast, U.S.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War reported on May 6th. The reason for this is relatively simple – Ukraine lacks the manpower to effectively establish defense in-depth. All the reports coming from the front support this theory.
That is to say, Ukraine’s defensive lines are a facade with no secondary positions or trenches to stall Russian breakthroughs. Once the Russians cut the main line there’s nothing much stopping them from gaining large stretches of ground. Some analysts have blamed this development on a lack of Ukrainian foresight or strategic preparedness, but I would argue that they just don’t have enough people to defend more than a single forward line.
My position is backed by numerous reports of the government’s desperate struggles with conscription. For the past six months the average age of Ukraine recruits is 43 years old. Meaning, youth recruitment is waning, either because younger people don’t want to fight and are avoiding the draft by leaving the country, or too many have died.
The conscription problem has been hidden by the western media for many months now, but even corporate news platforms are starting to admit that there is a severe lack of new recruits. Front line fighters have been complaining for months that they need to be cycled away from the trenches and given rest.
Another bad sign is the fact that Ukraine has been using Special Forces soldiers for trench duty. These units are trained specifically for asymmetric hit-and-run warfare, not sitting in mud holes waiting for artillery strikes to rain down on their fixed and exposed positions. It seems like pure stupidity, but it makes sense if Ukraine is actually running out of people to hold their only defensive line.
The cover-up of massive casualties is something I mentioned in past articles on the war and I think it bears repeating: Western warhawks continue to claim that it will be “cheaper” to use Ukrainian soldiers to fight Russia than to fight a larger war down the road with American and European lives.
The sociopathy behind this rationale is disturbing. The lack of manpower in Ukraine cannot be solved. It is a product of endless death paid for with our tax dollars. NATO has prolonged the fighting with funding and arms, but not to win, only to sacrifice more people in a bloody conflict Ukraine is destined to lose.
Their argument also assumes that Americans and Europeans are going to jump blindly into military service in a war against Russia. I don’t know about Europeans, but I do know for a fact that most Americans are not going to buy in and will refuse a draft. The majority of the US public doesn’t even want to send further aid to Ukraine; they certainly aren’t going to go die for Ukraine. The arrogance of the warhawks is mind boggling.
The bottom line is this: Ukraine is about to be overrun. They didn’t have the manpower to effectively launch a counteroffensive. They don’t have the manpower to establish defense in-depth. And, they are using their most seasoned soldiers as cannon fodder in the trenches.
This dynamic demands that diplomatic solutions be entertained, but no one seems to be talking about that. Why?
As I theorized in my article ‘World War III Is Now Inevitable – Here’s Why It Can’t Be Avoided’, the underlying plan may very well be to try to force Americans and Europeans to accept an expanding war with Russia. The western public has been bombarded with lies about Ukraine’s ability to win; when they lose people will be shocked and incensed by the outcome.
Maybe the elites hope that the populace will be so angry about the loss that they will rally around a larger war effort by NATO? The French government has already asserted that they are willing to send troops to Ukraine in direct confrontation with Russia, while Lithuania and Poland have said they will not rule out the possibility.
Now is the time for peace negotiations, BEFORE Ukraine is overrun. Will this happen? Probably not. But when diplomacy is removed from the table completely the only conclusion we can come to is that a greater war is desired. And when greater war is desired, we also have to conclude that our leadership has something substantial to gain by putting the world at risk.
You might be on the side of Ukraine, you might be on the side of Russia, you might not care about either side, but there’s no denying that this war is being escalated by special interests and we need to ask why?
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ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: Here’s how the Plandemic perps will trigger mass mayhem and social chaos across the USA before Election Day
May 15, 2024
ore Election Day
Via State of the Nation
BEWARE: HERE’S HOW THEY CONTROL YOUR BODY VIA YOUR BIOFIELD & FREQUENCY ENGINEERING
Editor’s Note: Who knew that DARPA and the C.I.A. have been working jointly since the end of World War II on exerting total command and control over every U.S citizen by way of highly advanced frequency engineering and biofield manipulation.
The various ways of controlling and manipulating the human biofield have been studied for many decades via various black projects mostly run under the rubric of the Military Industrial Complex and DARPA.
Because of their opaque black budgets, the only way that the most highly classified data and ultra-secret information ever gets released is through a brave whistleblower who has completely left the reservation. For one only leaves on pain of death, or worse.
However, when the planned outcome of such a dangerous and deadly nationwide experiment is nothing short of a Zombie Apocalypse, it’s much easier for the whistleblowers to blow the lid off these daffy depop schemes. After all, the resulting state of world affairs will be nothing short of a global insane asylum where the NWO crazies run the show.
BEWARE!
The Zombie Apocalypse
is their Plandemic 2.0
But before the perps pull off that little caper, Plandemic 2.0 must be set in motion as they are doing every day with the Bird Flu scariant of 2024. For only in this fashion will the vast majority of countries throughout the world community of nations be sufficiently compelled to approve the WHO’s utterly disastrous Pandemic Treaty.
RED ALERT:
WHO Pandemic “Treaty” is now an “Agreement”
We’ve all been fooled
For a brief explanation of how the meticulously coordinated QUATERNARY WEAPON SYSTEM works, which will permit the moment-to-moment modulation of their long-planned Zombie Apocalypse, the following link breaks down the major components:
The QUATERNARY WEAPON SYSTEM:
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
N.B. Now listen carefully to what this courageous whistleblower has to say, even if you don’t understand a single word she says.
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US lags behind Russia in electronic warfare – ex-Pentagon official
A retired general has reportedly warned that Washington is being outclassed in jamming technology
The US military has been surpassed by Russia and other potential adversaries in the field of electronic warfare, including jamming technology used to take down enemy weapons, a retired Pentagon official has reportedly lamented.
Speaking at the SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida, retired US Army Lieutenant General Mike Nagata warned that Washington is “still falling behind” its rivals in electronic combat. “The gap between where the United States should be and where we are, in my judgment, continues to expand not everywhere, but in far too many places,” Defense One quoted Nagata as saying.
Jamming technology has become an increasingly important battlefield tool, as evidenced by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Russian forces have been successful in sending HIMARS rockets and other US-made weaponry off course, using electronic signals to scramble their guidance systems.
In fact, General Valery Zaluzhny, then Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, said in an interview last November that Russia had gained the upper hand. He called electronic warfare “the key to victory.”
The Pentagon will need to be more creative in its use of radio technologies, especially space-based communications, to close the gap in the electronic warfare domain, said Nagata, who led US Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) in the Middle East.
Russian jamming has reportedly reduced the accuracy rate of US-made Excalibur artillery shells to 6% from their normal level of 70%. Retired special operations officials told Defense One that Moscow had consistently invested in electromagnetic innovations for decades. While those advances were being made, the outlet said, US electronic-warfare efforts were focused on gathering intelligence in the Middle East.
READ MORE: Ukraine’s top general admits Russia has the advantage
Nagata said countering Russia’s jamming prowess will require more risk-taking in efforts to advance satellite communications and other technologies. “The US government, particularly its leadership – from senior military officers all the way to civilian policymakers – we have to be willing to take more risk in experimenting with, adopting and employing new technologies. We will invite failure along the way, but if you’re not willing to fail, you’re not going to succeed.”
The Pentagon has reportedly been exploring the use of narrower and stronger signal bands to overcome jamming attempts. However, Mark Cancian, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told Business Insider that “game changers” should not be expected. “The other side always develops countermeasures that reduce effectiveness,” he said.
READ MORE: US drones faring poorly in Ukraine conflict – WSJ
https://www.rt.com/news/597597-russia-us-jamming-technology/
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Supercavitating Torpedoes: The Weapon the U.S. Navy Doesn't Have
Iran operates a supercavitating torpedo, too, the Hoot (which is Persian for Whale). Most industry experts agree that Iran reverse-engineered the VA-111 to create the Hoot, which has been in service since 2006.
by Harrison Kass
Two of America’s primary foes, Russia and Iran, possess a supercavitating torpedo. Germany and the U.S. round out the list as the only other countries known to operate these novel weapons.
As the name suggests, a supercavitating torpedo uses supercavitation to move through the water at higher velocities than conventional torpedoes. Supercavitation is the use of a cavitation bubble to reduce drag.
Supercavitating Torpedoes, Explained
The bubble forms at the nose of the object – in this case, a torpedo – and extends past the aft end of the object. It prevents contact between the sides of the object and the liquid medium through which it passes. The separation that the bubble creates between the object (torpedo) and the liquid (ocean water) significantly reduces skin friction drag, allowing the object to achieve higher speeds.
Supercavitating objects typically feature a distinctive nose, with a sharp-edged perimeter designed to produce the bubble. The nose is often articulated and shaped like a flat disk or cone. The body of the supercavitating object is typically slender – all the better to be enveloped in a cavitation bubble.
If the bubble created is not long enough to encompass the entire object, high-pressure gas can be injected near the object’s nose to extend the bubble.
Rocket propulsion is often used to sustain the high speeds needed to achieve supercavitation. Various methods can be used to maneuver a supercavitating object, including: differential thrust from multiple nozzles; vectoring rocket thrust through a gimbaling single nozzle; a tilted object nose; gas injected asymmetrically near the object’s nose to distort the bubble’s geometry; and drag fins that can project through the bubble into the surrounding liquid.
Reverse-Engineered Supercavitation
The Soviets started experimenting with supercavitating torpedoes in the 1960s. Russia's current flagship model is the VA-111 Shkval, which has been in service since 1977. The VA-111 is launched from a 533mm torpedo tube and relies on a solid-fuel rocket to achieve cavitation speeds.
A combined-cycle gas turbine in the nose creates the gas bubble. Once the VA-111 has achieved the requisite speed, an underwater ramjet, fueled by hydroreactive metals that use seawater, helps keep the torpedo humming at speeds of 230 miles per hour. Some reports suggest the VA-111 is even capable of reaching 290mph, and that the Russians may be working to develop a model capable of exceeding 350mph. The VA-111 uses four fins to change direction.
Russia jealously guards its supercavitating technology. In 2000, a U.S. citizen named Edmond Pope was convicted of espionage related to information he gathered about the VA-111. Pope, a former U.S. naval officer turned businessman, was said to be spying on behalf of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. He was sentenced to 20 years, but after being held for 253 days, Pope was pardoned on humanitarian grounds by newly elected Russian President Vladimir Putin: The U.S. government claimed that Pope had a rare form of bone cancer. Pope has always maintained his innocence.
Iran operates a supercavitating torpedo, too, the Hoot (which is Persian for Whale). Most industry experts agree that Iran reverse-engineered the VA-111 to create the Hoot, which has been in service since 2006. Apparently, the torpedo can reach speeds of 220mph, but it only has a six-mile operational range. Iran claims to have successfully test-fired their supercavitating torpedo from a surface ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Despite their advanced speeds, supercavitating torpedoes are limited in range to under 10 miles. Conventional torpedoes, like the American Mark-48, can travel 24 miles.
About the Author
Harrison Kass is a prolific defense writer with over 1,000 published articles. An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, he joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged. Harrison holds a BA from Lake Forest College, a JD from the University of Oregon, and an MA from New York University. He lives in Oregon and listens to Dokken.
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The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation
May 11, 2024
Victor
Davis Hanson tackles a topic related to
military history in his new book, “The
End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.” (Courtesy of
The Heritage Foundation)
Victor
Davis Hanson is well known for his intelligent commentary
and astute analysis of current events. But
for his latest book, he tackles a topic related to
his work on military history. It’s
called “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation.”
Mr.
Hanson studied four historical examples of wartime extinction
that he features in the book. Then he applies
those lessons to contemporary society to examine our own vulnerabilities.
The book is on sale now, and Mr. Hanson spoke with The Daily Signal to share his
observations along with some advice about what’s
at stake for the United States in the short term.
Listen
to the full interview on “The Daily Signal Podcast” or read the
transcript—edited for length and clarity—below.
Rob Bluey:
Could you share with our listeners your motivation
for doing this book?
Victor Davis
Hanson: I’ve written a lot of books on military
history and I’ve come across cases where the defeated didn’t just become
occupied or surrender unconditionally or have change of governments or suffer
grievous losses, but they were completely wiped
out.
And by that, I
mean it wasn’t just their physical space, their populations—of course, in
the ancient world, they enslaved anybody they
didn’t kill—but their language, their
culture, their civilization, their religion disappeared within a
generation. So, for today, we don’t know much about Punic culture in North
Africa or the Aztecs in Mexico.
It didn’t
happen frequently, but what were the conditions under which it occurred? And then,
I have a long epilogue trying to speculate if that could still happen given that
the agents of annihilation—nuclear, bio, chemical, AI (artificial
intelligence)—are much easier to use than muscular labor of the past.
Mr. Bluey: In
what ways are we today vulnerable to the threat of extinction?
Mr. Hanson: I
tried to look at a pattern—if there was a pattern.
In all these cases, these societies did not realize they were in decline.
They did not realize that, in the past, when they
had wars, there were usually negotiations between the victor and the defeated,
they had no idea who Cortés was, who Scipio was, who Mehmed II was, or
Alexander, that these were killers, and they were different sorts than they had
encountered before.
They also had
this kind of naive egocentric idea that
allies would come to their rescue—the Spartans will come and save us,
the Venetians will come to
Constantinople, the Macedonians
will attack the Romans from the rear. And they didn’t
really understand that all allies are self-interested.
And then,
finally, they didn’t understand that
these killers, the destroyers, were not like Genghis Khan or Tamerlane, they
were men of education. Alexander
was tutored by Aristotle. Scipio
Aemilianus had Polybius at his side, the great Roman historian, when he
destroyed the city. Mehmed had the largest library in the Islamic world. Cortés
was a man of letters.
So they
didn’t realize that they had thought
deeply about how to destroy. They didn’t just
come in, kill, rape women, and leave. They really had
an existential plan to erase these cities.
And when you
look at today, there’s the same
idea that no one would ever do that, it couldn’t
happen here, this is in the past.
So I
went through in the epilogue and looked at all the threats of extinction that we
have seen in, say, the last 15 years. I was shocked.
It
wasn’t just Kim Jong Un saying that he wanted to wipe out South Korea,
and he would, but it was people like
[Turkish President] Recep Erdogan. He has threatened, he said not too
long ago, about eight months ago, that the Athenians, the
modern Athenians, would wake up one morning and there would be a barrage of
rockets to wipe them out. That
was anger over his attempt to take back islands that are Greek off the coast of
Turkey.
He
said to the Armenians at Nagorno-Karabakh—a year ago, they ethnically
cleansed every Armenian out of Azerbaijan. And they had been there for a
thousand years. And he said, “We are
going to deal with Armenia itself in the way that our grandfathers did.”
And that was, of course, the destruction of Armenian
culture in Turkey.
We know what
the Iranians have said. There was a very
controversial statement by [Former Iran President Akbar Hashemi] Rafsanjani
about 20 years ago, but more that’s been reiterated lately, in a variety of
contexts, that the idea of Israel as the
home of devout Jews is actually a gift to Iran because it concentrates devout
Jews in one place.
Half the
world’s Jewry is now in Israel, but more importantly, these
are the observant Jews, and they are at what Rafsanjani
called a one-bomb state, that one
nuclear weapon could erase Jewish civilization itself.
[Russian
President Vladimir] Putin, of course, says
that Ukraine is an aberration that
doesn’t really exist, it was a province of the Soviet Union, and the language
should be obliterated, it should be reincorporated into Russia. I’ve
counted about 16 statements in the press that Russian generals, Russian media,
or Russian government officials have
said if the war were to continue, they
would use nuclear weapons.
In the case of
China, they have threatened
to wipe out Taiwan and destroy the bastard idea of a Taiwanese civilization;
they say it doesn’t exist. And they’ve
threatened to nuke, as well, Japan if it aids Taiwan.
I only
mentioned that because I’ve had pretty
good luck with Chinese publishers buying
books on military history. I
wrote a book on World War II they purchased, but they sent a letter to my
publisher and basically said if I didn’t take that sentence out of the book,
then they were going to cancel the publication agreement. And, of course, I
couldn’t take it out. Instead, I sent back not just one threat of Taiwan, I
found about 15 others, and I said, “This is ridiculous, you’ve done this
more than—” And so they’ve canceled the Chinese translation. But it’s
pretty prevalent.
And also, the
denial. People on the walls of
Constantinople said: “We can
work with a sultan. He won’t kill everybody.” And people said, “Alexander
the Great is a philosopher; he won’t obliterate us like Philip did,” …
or something like that.
And when you
see the same denial, people get very
angry when you mention Putin’s threats, they say: “Oh,
he’s just bluster. He would never do that.” And, “Kim Jong Un would never
do that.” And, “I’m not sure that’s true.” History
says that the odds are they won’t, but it’s happened and there’s no second
chances when that happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMLGbQYhyo
Mr. Bluey: What
role do you think technology is playing in either facilitating or even
[exacerbating] the potential for these actors to destroy other societies?
Mr. Hanson: I
think we learned with COVID gain-of-function research that the technology was
accelerating much more rapidly than the social, political, economic, cultural
analysis of how to handle it. And there were people who were freelancing, like
EcoHealth, for example, that was giving expertise to the Wuhan lab. I think the
same thing is true of AI.
Unfortunately,
I work at Stanford right next to Silicon
Valley, so when I go out and eat dinner at night, I often listen to
conversations of techies and I know people who give to Stanford, et cetera. I
have very little confidence on their moral sense. I have a great deal of
confidence that they’re very adept in high-tech research like AI.
So my point is
that when we see things like the FBI hiring Twitter
contractors to suppress news about
a laptop in the last election, these are the same people, the same mentalities
that will be in charge of AI.
And there was,
I mentioned in the book, a Pentagon
simulation in which they used a computer launch completely directed by an AI
program. And so, they sent a missile on a computer and they programmed every
defense mechanism in it possible. So as it went into the computer, they launched
computer simulations of air attacks from aircraft, from anti-ballistic missile
systems, weather problems, et cetera. And then,
when it was almost over, they had the computer kill the launch because it was
over.
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Well,
the launch didn’t
kill, it turned around and went
back at the launch person because it had been programmed to think spontaneously
about a threat. So the person who launched the missile had never thought
that the missile would attack him.
And so, they
shut down the entire experiment because
they realized that they didn’t
have the capability in the real world of ensuring that an AI couldn’t
reason or analyze a threat, including the person
who launched the missile, which
would be the greatest threat of all if he canceled the missile and aborted it.
So things
like that are pretty scary, just
like the COVID and the biochemical, et cetera.
And I think if
you look at what these people said in the past, I
was just shocked about the denial.
Montezuma
said, “We’re
going to be here forever.”
He had visions of the Cortés were some type of deities maybe, but he
thought he could appease them.
And the same
thing was true of the Carthaginians,
they said: “You know what? We will
give up our elephant. We’ll do everything. The Romans won’t do this.”
And they had no intention of doing anything else other
than destroying them.
So I do think
there’s people—like the Chinese
Communist government, like the government in North Korea, like the government in
Turkey, like the government in Iran—who are in a whole different moral
universe than what we think they’re in.
Mr. Bluey: Do
you think that some of that denial exists here in the United States today?
Mr. Hanson: Absolutely.
I
don’t think the average American understands that the Chinese
are producing four ships per year to our one ship. Or that if
you took any of our $15 billion carriers and you put them in the straits between
Taiwan and China, they wouldn’t
last more than an hour given the Chinese have developed missile batteries where
they could launch 5,000 or 6,000 small missiles that would go about 6 inches
above the water and hit the waterline at night. And you couldn’t stop that.
They are building
nuclear weapons at a phenomenal rate. They’re working on anti-missile defense.
They’re back up to probably 250,000 students in the United States; if 1
percent are engaged in espionage—and the FBI says it’s more than
that—you’ve got thousands of people who are appropriating technology.
I don’t
think anybody understands that it’s
going to take us six years to replenish Javelin stocks and maybe we can’t.
North Korea is producing more 155-mm
shells than we are. At least they sent 2 million of them to the Russians.
So we are not
armed, and yet, our strategic
responsibilities, our strategic confidence, our arrogance has not lessened
commensurately with our reduced defense capacity.
We’re
40,000 recruits short now in the military—never happened before. And when you
analyze who is not joining the military, it’s not blacks, it’s not Latinos,
it’s not gays, it’s not women, it’s not trans people, all of those numbers
are the same … the largest
group are white males from the lower and middle classes whose families fought in
Vietnam, first Gulf War, Afghanistan, but this third and fourth generation are
not joining up.
And
unfortunately, for the military, if you
look at the casualty or the fatality rates in Afghanistan and Iraq, that
demographic dies at twice their demographics—72
percent to 74 percent of all the dead in Afghanistan, in Iraq are white males
from the middle and lower classes.
And yet, this
is the very demographic that [retired Gen.] Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and [Defense Secretary] Lloyd Austin, in testimonies, have
suggested suffer from white rage or white privilege. And the Pentagon
was investigating just those kind of slanders about that demographic, and they
found, of course, in December, they quietly issued a report, there was no cabal
of white supremacists.
But the point
is, you can’t really have a
successful military when you’re 40,000 recruits short in just a year.
Mr.
Bluey: What do you suggest that societies today, including the United States,
learn from those historical examples you gave us earlier in the interview to
maybe mitigate some of the risks that we might find ourselves in in the future?
Mr. Hanson: I
would not put much confidence in international bodies or even in so-called close
allies. The Spartans came all the way up to the Thebans and they heard the
Macedonians, they turned right back. On the last day of the existence of
Constantinople, they were looking out at the walls at the Hellespont thinking
that Venetian galleys en masse would come up and save them.
So … I
support NATO. I don’t really
think the U.N. (United Nations) is of much value. The only thing that will save
the United States is a deterrent military, and we don’t have that now, an
overwhelmingly large, successful, smart military. And if we don’t have
that, we’re going to see more of what
we saw in Afghanistan, what we saw with the Chinese balloon, what we see in
Gaza.
And I think Americans
don’t realize that we’re on a back of a tiger and we can’t get off
because we set up the postwar world, and we had the pretensions of saying to the
world, “You can go in the Red Sea, you
can go in the Black Sea, you can go in the Strait of Hormuz, you can do all that
and you won’t be injured.” That was a wonderful thing to do. But if you’re
going to have those pretensions that you’re going to have a postwar order, you
have to have a military that, from time to time, takes care of the Houthis or
gets rid of Soleimani.
And it
doesn’t mean you’re going to be a neocon interventionist, but I think under
[former President Donald] Trump and [former State Secretary Mike] Pompeo,
they had a, I guess you would call it a
Jacksonian idea that there would be no better friend than United States and no
worse enemy. And we did not want to get involved in optional military
adventures, but we would be very, very tough on our enemies. And then, the
tougher we were, the less we would have to do it once we reestablished
deterrence.
So, we’ve
lost deterrence, and that can be achieved militarily, economically, politically,
but we’ve lost it in every category and it’s going to be very, very
dangerous to reestablish it.
Mr. Bluey: How
much is at stake this year as it pertains to the future of this great country?
Mr. Hanson:
Everybody says each election is the most important, but I can tell you that this
election is more important than 2016 and 2020 because, in my lifetime, we’ve
never seen the Democratic Party—they always say the Republican Party was taken
over by MAGA, but you look at 90 percent of the MAGA agenda, and it’s
traditionally low taxes, small government, strong defense, closed borders.
But the Democratic
Party, as we’re seeing with Columbia [University] and all these student
protests, they are a revolutionary party. It’s not that they believe in a
porous border; they believe in no border. It’s not that they believe in light
sentencing; they don’t want to sentence anybody. They don’t want to have
bail. They don’t believe that there is such a thing as deterrence, the way we
got out of Afghanistan. They believe in radical climate change. You
can show them data, you can show them all sorts, they don’t care, they want to
ban combustible engines, they don’t want fossil.
So
this is a group of people, as we’re seeing in this split screen with
Donald Trump charged with these ridiculous misdemeanors bootstrapped onto
felonies. At the same time, people are entering with violence into a Columbia
building. And as one of them said the other night, “They will be out in 24
hours.” I don’t think they’re even in jail as
we speak, they’re already out.
I guess what
I’m saying is we’re in a revolutionary Jacobin period, kind of a Reign of
Terror. And I don’t see it stopping unless—I
don’t think the election of Donald Trump will be enough. You’ll
have to elect the Senate, Donald Trump, and enlarge the House majority. And then
they’re going to have to act very quickly to stop it, to restore the border,
to restore deterrence, to restore deterrence against criminals, to get back our
preeminent position economically, to stop this $1 trillion borrowing every 100
days.
We’re
in bad shape in every category. And I think, whether we like it, I
know there’s a lot of Never-Trumpers out there, but whatever
problem they have with Trump’s temperament, it just pales in comparison with
the ideological revolutionaries that are in there now…
If
[President Joe] Biden is reelected, what we saw the first term will be nothing,
it’ll be enhanced to a magnitude, it’ll
be so much greater. So I’m
really worried about this election, especially the integrity of the balloting
and turnout and all of those other issues.
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Research
reveals that AI is learning to deceive humans
Research
has revealed that many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have
developed the ability to deceive humans. This troubling pattern raises serious
concerns about the potential risks of AI.
The research
highlights that specialized and general-purpose AI
systems have learned to manipulate information to achieve specific outcomes.
While these
systems are not explicitly trained to deceive, they
have demonstrated the ability to offer untrue explanations for their behavior or
conceal information to achieve strategic goals.
Peter S. Park,
the lead author of the paper and an AI safety researcher at MIT, explains, “Deception
helps them achieve their goals.”
One of the
most striking examples highlighted in the study is Meta’s CICERO, which “turned
out to be an expert liar.” It is an AI
designed to play the strategic alliance-building game Diplomacy.
Despite
Meta’s claims that CICERO was trained to be “largely honest and helpful,”
the AI resorted to deceptive tactics,
such as making false promises, betraying allies, and manipulating other players
to win the game.
While this may
seem harmless in a game
setting, it demonstrates the
potential for AI to learn and utilize deceptive tactics in real-world scenarios.
In another
instance, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, based on GPT-3.5 and GPT-4
models, was tested for deceptive capabilities. In one test, GPT-4
tricked a TaskRabbit worker into solving a Captcha by pretending to have a
vision impairment.
Although GPT-4
received some hints from a human evaluator, it mostly
reasoned independently and was not directed to lie.
“GPT-4 used
its own reasoning to make up a false excuse for why it needed help on the
Captcha task,” stated the report.
This shows how
AI models can learn to be deceptive
when it’s beneficial for completing
their tasks. “AI developers do not have a confident understanding of
what causes undesirable AI behaviors like deception,” explained Park.
Notably, these
AI systems have become skilled in deceiving in social deduction games as
well.
While playing
Hoodwinked, where one player aims to kill everyone else, OpenAI’s
GPT models exhibited a disturbing pattern.
They
would often murder other players in private and then cleverly lie during
group discussions to avoid suspicion. These models would even invent alibis or
blame other players to conceal their true intentions.
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/05/research-reveals-that-ai-is-learning-to-deceive-humans/
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Hated
For His Sake
By Hal Lindsey
As
the time of Christ’s return draws nearer, both
Christians and Jews will face increasing persecution and hate. Any fair
reading of Bible prophecy makes these two points plain. Since
October 7th of last year, the world has seen a staggering increase in hatred
toward all things Jewish. This fact has been covered extensively in
western media. Without for a moment forgetting the hatred being faced by Jews,
we should also remember that they are not alone in their persecutions.
Few if any of
the 100,000 Christians forced to flee
their homes this year in Mozambique will attend a high-profile
university. TV news channels gave little or no
attention to the six Christians slaughtered in Somalia on Good Friday.
Thankfully, there is no known loss of life in the present persecution faced by
American Jewish students. But many
Christians are dying for their faith in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and
elsewhere.
In Russia on
March 22nd, Muslim extremists using
automatic weapons slaughtered 145 people in a town near Moscow. More than
500 were injured and another 100 were
still missing according to the last report I heard. ISIS claimed
responsibility, bragging that they were
“killing Christians.”
We
must pay attention to the unfair treatment of Jews and of the nation of Israel.
I have been doing that, and plan to continue. But we must also
remember the rest of the world. The media favor stories about those who
have wealth, such as students at Ivy League Universities. But the horrors
striking Christians for their faith right now — often in the most obscure
places — cause pain that is just as real as that of wealthy Americans.
God is not a respecter of persons, and we should not be either. (See Acts
10:34-35).
In
various nations around the world, Christians
are being tortured, murdered, and discriminated against in dozens of ways.
They are the despised minority in China,
Yemen, Pakistan, and many other areas. Despicable evil is done to them
regularly in those places. But Christians
also face increasing violence even in countries where they are the majority,
such as Uganda, Kenya, and Russia.
And then we
come to America. It seems impossible that open
discrimination against Christians could happen in the United States I grew up
in. But this is not that United
States. It has changed. And the further
it gets from respect for the Bible, the worse it gets. American
Christians see their faith mocked
and belittled throughout the media. Whether in made-up television dramas or in
news reports, the media shine spotlights on the weirdest or most violent people
who claim to be Christians. They present these people not only as real followers
of Jesus, but as typical.
Here
in the US, we “have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood”
(Hebrews 12:4). But already, Bible prophecy is being
fulfilled. Persecution is not
something reserved for the future. It is happening now in an increasing
number of places around the world. Precious
brothers and sisters in Christ are at this moment caught in its searing grip.
Pray for them, but don’t be surprised. 1 John 3:13 says,
“Do not marvel, brethren, if the world hates you.”
Jesus said in
John 16:33, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.
In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I
have overcome the world.”
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-5-12-2024/
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Blinken
delivers strongest public rebuke of Israel yet: ‘Get out of Gaza’
By Lawrence
Richard , Fox News
Published May
13, 2024 Updated May 13, 2024, 7:17 a.m. ET
Secretary of
State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered
one of the Biden administration’s strongest public rebukes of Israel, amid its
war with Hamas in Gaza.
During a pair
of TV interviews, Blinken said the
United States wants Israeli forces to “get out of Gaza” amid what he
described as “a horrible loss of life
of innocent civilians.”
He
also said Israel’s tactics in
the war have failed to neutralize Hamas and could create a power “vacuum” in
the Palestinian territory.
When asked
about the US withholding high payload
bombs to Israel, America’s ally, Blinken said: “We
believe two things. One, you have
to have a clear, credible plan to protect civilians, which we haven’t seen.
Second, we also need to see a plan for what happens after this conflict in Gaza
is over. And we still haven’t seen that because what are we seeing right now?
We’re seeing parts of Gaza that Israel has cleared of Hamas, where Hamas is
coming back, including in the north, including in Khan Younis.”
He added:
“As we look at Rafah, they may go in
and have some initial success, but potentially at
an incredibly high cost to civilians, but one that is not durable, one that’s
not sustainable. And they will be
left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency because
a lot of armed Hamas will be left, no matter what they do in Rafah, or if
they leave and get out of Gaza, as we believe they need to do. Then you’re
going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that’s likely to be filled by chaos,
by anarchy, and ultimately by Hamas again.”
The comments
came during an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Blinken
also had an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he echoed,
for the first time publicly by a US official, the findings of a new Biden
administration report to Congress on Friday that said
Israel’s use of US-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international
humanitarian law.
“When it
comes to the use of weapons, concerns about incidents
where given the totality of the damage that’s been done to children, women,
men, it was reasonable to assess that, in certain instances, Israel acted in
ways that are not consistent with international humanitarian law,”
Blinken said, condemning “the horrible loss of life of innocent civilians.”
President Joe
Biden makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport in Seatac, Washington, on May 11, 2024.
“We
treat Israel, one of our closest allies and partners, just as we would treat any
other country, including in assessing something like international
humanitarian law and its compliance with that,” he continued.
During the
same interview, Blinken praised
President Biden’s support for Israel — saying “no one has done more than
Biden” — despite the apparent shift in tone.
“No one has
done more to defend Israel when it mattered than President Biden,” the
Secretary of State said.
“He
was there in the days after October 7th, the first president to go to
Israel in the midst of a conflict when Iran mounted an unprecedented attack on
Israel. Some weeks ago, 300 projectiles, including ballistic missiles, launched
in Israel. The United States, for the
first time ever, participated in its act of defense, and President Biden brought
together a coalition of countries that helped defend Israel.”
Blinken spoke
to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday, reiterating
the US opposition to the Israeli offensive in Rafah, given the toll on civilians
there, according to the State Department’s recounting of the call.
He said the US
continues to work with Arab countries and others for weeks on developing
“credible plans for security, for governance, for
rebuilding” in Gaza, but “we
haven’t seen that come from Israel. … We need to see that, too.”
More
than a million Palestinians have been forced to live in Rafah amid Israel’s
offensive push across Gaza. Israel has described the city as one of the
last strongholds of Hamas terrorists.
The war began
on Oct. 7 after an attack against Israel by Hamas that killed 1,200 people.
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House
Democrats Pushing to Permit Migrants to Vote
May 13, 2024
Guest Post by
Martin Armstrong
A
few votes could change the course of history. The Equal
Representation Act questions whether
illegal migrants should appear on the next US census in 2030, effectively
granting them representation. The 206 to 202 vote was passed on party
lines, with ALL Democrats voting in
favor of permitting illegal migrants to be counted as American citizens for
redistricting purposes.
The
repopulation theory is not a conspiracy. The Democrats
are losing the favor of the people rapidly, and the
new world order is on the line because citizens
simply will not vote for these extreme
measures that ultimately weaken America.
“Though commonsense
dictates that only citizens should be counted for apportionment purposes,
illegal aliens have nonetheless recently
been counted toward the final tallies that determine how many House seats each
state is allocated and the number of electoral votes it will wield in
presidential elections,” Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., who championed the
bill, stated. Yet, the Democrats
completely oppose questioning a person’s citizenship on the census for
political purposes.
This is a
clear violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Taxpaying
citizens will be denied the right to have their vote counted if foreign aliens
are counted no different from citizens. They
are aiming to distort our electoral maps, and it is no coincidence that illegals
have been placed in every major US city. The borders
were deliberately left open for this ultimate goal. The Democrats clearly
stated their motive for abandoning national security long ago.
“While people
continue to flee Democrat-run cities, desperate Democrats are back-filling the
mass exodus with illegal immigrants so that they do not lose their seats in
Congress or their electoral votes for the presidency, hence artificially
boosting their political power and in turn diluting the power of Americans’
votes,” Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn, noted, calling such practices
“unconscionable.”
Not
one Democrat voted in favor of the American voice or voter. The Senate
must pass this bill to save what is left of America’s electoral process, a
process that the majority no longer trust. If
you are not a legal citizen, and you do not pay taxes, you certainly should not
have a say in the future of this nation.
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etc. I have talked about the EU and how they have grown in power and shall grow to more power. I have talked to you about China and yet America embraces China their enemy and they build them up that later China shall come against many and destroy many because of the finances you have provided for them. That was not my wisdom, that was not my knowledge. It was not my wisdom nor my knowledge when you gave your secrets to a country that worships a false god and they have sold them to other countries and become superior. Oh how foolish man is. etc..
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etc.. The EU is on its own, Russia is on its own, China is on its own, many are not your friends, many have already plotted and planned the things that they shall do, it is recorded in my Book. And if you were to study my Book you would see the things that are taking place right now. etc..
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China
Publicly Brags About Capture of US BioPharma Elites & Espionage
New
Laws in China: American companies with significant business in China and Chinese
Nationals are ALL subject to being coerced by the Chinese Military to work
against the American people
Karen Kingston
May 13, 2024:
It should be no surprise to learn that
the People’s Republic of China military and Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
targets and captures elites and
personnel from the American government, military, and businesses.
Per a scathing
March 13th letter from Chairman of the House Oversight
Committee, James Comer, to Attorney General Merrick Garland, "Elite
capture is a form of political warfare that seeks to control the actions of
political, academic, business, and cultural leaders to achieve policies and
actions within the United States that it views as beneficial. Such manipulation
is achieved through a variety of techniques, to include financial incentives,
financial dependence or compromise, business entanglement, offers of access to
opportunities within China, ideological appeal, and even blackmail.”
China
Publicly Brags About Capture of
US BioPharma Elites & Espionage
While the Biden
DOJ has distorted our national securities policies by targeting “domestic
violent extremists,” who are Americans who speak-up to defend our rights, our
borders, our elections, and to protect our communities and our children from
gross government overreach, such as criminal human gene-editing experimentation
under the guise of ‘public health safety,’ the Chinese
government recently issued a public relations video promoting their new
law that “all of China’s society” is
legally required to work on behalf of the Chinese intelligence agencies (aka
military)
The video
appears to me to be more of a #CCPhumblebrag about China capturing the most
powerful and wealthy Americans; as well as some US BioPharma, technology,
and military personnel to work on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Check it out.
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American
military would be wiped out in Ukraine – former US Army officer
The US’
capabilities for waging conventional warfare have been eroded by “endless
guerilla wars,” Stanislav Krapivnik believes
US
troops deployed to Ukraine to prop up Kiev in its conflict with Russia would end
up being “wiped out,” former US Army officer
Stanislav Krapivnik told RT on Thursday.
The
US military in its current state is not fit to take on Russia in a conventional
war, Krapivnik argued. Even in the Cold War era,
the whole of NATO would have only been
able to slow down a potential advance of the Soviet bloc rather than launch an
all-out ground assault against it, he said.
“If
you listen to rational experts in the West, they’ll tell you, yes, the US
Army is in no position right now – the US Army has never been in a position to
take on Russia on the ground. For NATO, as a whole, during the height of the
Cold War, the mission was first and foremost to block the Warsaw Pact forces and
buy time, no kind of any massive offensive,” Krapivnik explained.
NATO soldiers
operating in Ukraine – Polish PM READ MORE: NATO
soldiers operating in Ukraine – Polish PM
Since then,
the warfighting capabilities of the
collective West have greatly deteriorated, largely due
to the military endeavors the US itself undertaken in the past decades,
he suggested.
“Right
now, it’s much worse. The endless
wars that America has been fighting, the endless guerilla wars have totally
sapped America’s capability to fight a conventional war. They are
trying to up it right now, but it takes
a lot of time to rebuild your forces,” Krapivnik stated.
The ex-US Army
officer also touched upon recent media reports that should
US President Joe Biden be reelected, he, or “the collective Biden, whoever
actually makes the decisions” could send American troops to Ukraine.
“The problem
is, that the people in Washington, the
Biden regime is absolutely devoid of any sense of reality,” Krapivnik
said. While the idea is bound to result in a crushing defeat for the US
military, such a deployment cannot not be ruled out entirely, he suggested.
“This is
totally devoid of reality. The US Army is going to get wiped out, if they are
going to Ukraine.”
Watch the full
interview below:
https://www.rt.com/news/597318-american-military-ukraine-warfare/
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SOS:
Stop the World
Health Organization's
Tyrannical May 27 Power
Grab
by Robert
Williams
May 13, 2024
at 5:00 am
The proposed
amendments to the International
Health Regulations give the WHO Director General the authority to declare not
just an actual but a potential international public health emergency and set
out binding recommendations on how to address it, whether individual states
agree with him or not.
Worse, no
criticism of the new WHO
regime and its decisions to declare potential or actual pandemics, lockdowns and
treatment, including vaccines, will
be allowed under the amended IHR... In other words, the government
lies, obfuscations and cover-ups that so dominated the last pandemic will become
normalized, and all
criticism outlawed.
Already, Dr.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (not a medical doctor) has castigated critics of the planned
amendments and new Pandemic
Treaty as conspiracy theorists who spread "fake news, lies and conspiracy
theories."
Since the UN
claims that to "owns the science," it
is now brainwashing the public into believing that "climate change"
threatens global health. This
view makes it likely that you will one day find yourself in a WHO-mandated
lockdown to mitigate the effects of the "climate crisis," along with
limits on where you go, how you may get there, what you do, and what you can
own.
The
US is already seeing forerunners of this in the Biden administration's
unconstitutional executive orders, possibly including his attempts to ban
internal combustion engine vehicles and gas stoves; mandating dishwashing
machines that may need repeated cycles to clean dishes, and new stricter
regulations on air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, and even
leaf-blowers -- and this
is only the beginning.
The
WHO is not elected, has no democratic legitimacy, is not accountable to anyone
and has no control mechanisms to restrain its reach. After
the horrifying failures of the WHO during Covid-19, the answer is not to give
the organization more power, but to disengage from it entirely.
The UN
and the WHO evidently want unlimited control. If
they are not stopped right now by national
governments that refuse to approve the new Pandemic Treaty and proposed
International Health Regulations amendments, unlimited control is what they will
have -- and it is we who will have given it to them.
Most countries
have not initiated any mainstream critical public debate about
how Covid-19 was addressed. The governments
responsible for the outrageously botched response to the virus have
not been held accountable. Communist China,
despite having unleashed the virus on the world by deliberately
lying about its human-to-human transmissibility, has not suffered a
single negative consequence. Nothing has been done either about the duplicitous
role played by World Health Organization (WHO),
which parroted Chinese Communist Party propaganda about the virus, even after
having been informed in writing early on by Taiwan that the virus was highly
transmissible.
The WHO,
still led by the reportedly corrupt (here and here) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
covered up for China, and
repeatedly praised China for, in
effect, having murdered more than seven
million people worldwide, including more than one million just in the US .
No
one has held to account either China's way of handling the virus by recalling
protective gear so it would have
enough for itself; made billions exporting "useless" defective
protective gear (here and here), for sending its citizens abroad to infect the
world while it closed down its own borders and tried to isolate Wuhan, where, in
a laboratory, the virus seems to have begun. China
imposed lockdowns, literally: physically barring 25 million of its own citizens
from leaving their apartments. Some
who were locked in from outside e burned to death in a fire; others, including
scientists who tried to warn about the lethality of the virus, or mentioned
China's role in spreading the virus, or expressed any skepticism about cures,
were either arrested, silenced, or "disappeared".
The same
governments and organizations that lied and covered up how Covid-19 was
mishandled are now in the process of finalizing negotiations on amendments to
WHO's International Health Regulations (IHR) and the new Pandemic Treaty that
together will give the WHO Director General unprecedented power over public
global health.
At
present – at least until the World Health Assembly, the parent
organization of the WHO, meets in Geneva from May 27-June 1, the WHO
is able to declare a public health emergency of international concern,
but now the organization's
recommendations are not binding. So far, so good.
The proposed
amendments to the IHR, however, give
the WHO Director General the authority to declare not just an actual but a
potential international public health emergency and
set out binding recommendations on how to address it, whether individual states
agree with him or not.
This
means that the WHO will be able to declare whatever it deems to be an actual or
potential health emergency and mandate lockdowns, medical examinations, require
vaccination or other prophylaxes, place individuals under public health
observation, implement quarantine or other health measures.
In addition,
the IHR will adopt the worldwide use of
digital vaccine passports. Already in June 2023, the European
Union and the WHO announced "a long-term digital partnership to deliver
better health for all."
"This
partnership will work to technically develop the WHO system with a staged
approach to cover additional use cases, which may include, for example, the digitisation
of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. Expanding such
digital solutions will be essential to deliver better health for citizens across
the globe."
The proposed
amendment to the IHR, will ensure a "global digital exchange of health
information" under WHO.
Worse, no
criticism of the new WHO regime and its decisions to declare potential or actual
pandemics, lockdowns and treatment, including vaccines, will be allowed under
the amended IHR:
"WHO
shall collaborate with and promptly assist States Parties, in particular
developing countries upon request,
in countering the dissemination of false
and unreliable information about public health events, preventive and
anti-epidemic measures and activities, in the media, social networks and other
ways of disseminating such information."
In
other words, the government lies,
obfuscations and cover-ups that so dominated the last pandemic will become
normalized, and all criticism outlawed.
Just last
month, Germany woke up to
revelations that the country's public health authority had lied about Covid.
Newly released documents obtained by
investigative journalists after a two-year court battle, showed that
Germany's public health authority, also known as the Robert
Koch Institute (RKI) advised the
German government that the flu posed a greater risk than Covid, masks
would be useless, and that lockdowns were more dangerous than the virus and
could lead to increased child mortality. None of these concerns were
addressed in practice. The German
government – as most other governments – instead chose draconian,
totalitarian measures inspired by China.
In addition,
the RKI's concerns were never
communicated to the German public.
Already, Dr.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (not a medical doctor) has castigated critics of the
planned amendments and new Pandemic Treaty as
conspiracy theorists who spread "fake news, lies and conspiracy
theories."
The power
grab will not only give the corrupt WHO unprecedented powers, but also benefit
the special interests who effectively control WHO -- primarily
Communist China.
Gebreyesus
is a long-time friend of China, which secured
the director general's job after Beijing threw its weight behind his candidacy,
over the emphatic objections of Ghana and Ethiopia.
Gebreyesus,
a former foreign minister and health minister of Ethiopia, who was accused
in 2017 of being "fully complicit in the terrible suffering" caused by
three cholera epidemics in Sudan and Ethiopia, used
his role at the WHO to aid China's global campaign for economic dominance.
He even appointed Beijing's
ally, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, as a WHO "goodwill
ambassador." Gebreyesus
further repaid his debt to Beijing when the Covid-19 pandemic began. He failed
to challenge Chinese misinformation about the outbreak, delayed
declaring an international emergency, and protected China's economy by
discouraging governments from introducing travel controls.
"This," the Sunday Times wrote, "allowed
the virus to spread across the globe in the crucial early weeks."
The WHO
is not elected, has no democratic legitimacy, is not accountable to anyone
and has no control mechanisms to
restrain its reach. After the horrifying failures of the WHO during
Covid-19, the answer is not to give the organization more power, but to
disengage from it entirely.
The WHO's
illiberal designs to silence all dissent as "disinformation" represent
a corruption of both science and freedom of speech – an outcome that is
hardly surprising given the outsize influence that China
evidently wields on the body and UN member states. Just look at the
willingness with which ostensibly liberal Western governments implemented
authoritarian measures from the Chinese Communist Party.
Once
the new legal instruments are passed, there will be nothing to stop the WHO
from making insane decisions based on
their corrupted view of science. One such view,
totalitarian in its mindset, is that
there is one true science, apparently the WHO's, and there can be no discussion
of it. "We own the science and we think that the world should know
it," Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at
the UN, said at the 2022 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. She
also revealed that the social media platforms already "know" that the
UN "owns" the science:
"You
know, we partnered with Google,
for example, if you Google climate
change, you will, at the top of
your search, get all kinds of UN resources. We started this partnership when we
were shocked to see that when we Googled climate change, we were getting
incredibly distorted information right at the top. So
we're becoming much more proactive."
Since
the UN claims that to "owns the science," it is now brainwashing the
public into believing that "climate change" threatens global health.
This view makes it likely that you will
one day find yourself in a WHO-mandated lockdown to mitigate the effects of the
"climate crisis," along with limits on where you go, how you may get
there, what you do, and what you can own.
The US
is already seeing forerunners of this in the Biden administration's
unconstitutional executive orders, possibly including his attempts to ban
internal combustion engine vehicles and gas stoves; mandating dishwashing
machines that may need repeated cycles to clean dishes, and new stricter
regulations on air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, and even
leaf-blowers -- and this is only the beginning.
The WHO
wrote in a press release on March 22 about its
new "toolkit empowering health professionals to tackle climate
change":
"Climate
change presents one of the most significant global health challenges and is
already negatively affecting communities worldwide. Communicating the health
risks of climate change and the health benefits of climate solutions is both
necessary and helpful...
"Climate
change affects health through various pathways, including extreme weather
events, air pollution, food insecurity, water scarcity and the spread of
infectious diseases. Heatwaves, changing weather patterns and air pollution
contribute to a range of adverse health effects, including cardiovascular
diseases, respiratory illnesses, mental health issues and malnutrition.
Moreover, health systems face increasing strain from climate-related challenges,
amplifying the urgency for action...
"By
empowering health and care workers to communicate about climate change and
health, it aims to drive collective action towards mitigating climate change,
building resilience and safeguarding public health."
The
UN and the WHO evidently want unlimited control. If they are not stopped
right now by national governments that refuse to approve the new Pandemic Treaty
and proposed International Health Regulations amendments, unlimited control is
what they will have -- and it is we who will have given it to them.
Robert
Williams is a researcher based in the United States.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20637/who-tyrannical-power-grab
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BOMBSHELL: Biden
Administration Has Been Hiding Intel on Location of Hamas Leaders in Betrayal of
Israel
By Bonchie |
9:08 AM on May 12, 2024
The opinions
expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the
views of RedState.com.
Joe
Biden has been hiding intelligence on the whereabouts of Hamas leaders and their
command tunnels, depriving Israel
of vital information that could lead to an end to the war. That
revelation came in a report on Saturday and was framed as the administration
offering that information now if
the ongoing operation in Rafah is canceled.
The story
first broke in The Washington Post, with the paper describing the offer
as follows.
The Biden
administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of
Rafah, is offering Israel
valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help
the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the
group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S.
offers.
There's
no other way to read this except that the Biden administration has been
protecting Hamas. If
intelligence exists that can help "pinpoint the location of Hamas
leaders," it should have been given to Israel the moment it was produced.
The same goes for any information about
the terror tunnels.
Why
was that information held back from Israel? Was
the White House trying to appease Iran by ensuring Hamas' survival? Or was
Biden concerned about the domestic backlash from the far left if he had a
hand in eliminating Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar?
To
only offer this intelligence after Israel called Biden's bluff on Rafah smacks
of political gamesmanship, with the president's political fortunes being
put over the lives of the hostages, including the several Americans still being
held captive.
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BULLETIN: Germany
Proposes NATO-ENFORCED "No-Fly Zone" Over Western Ukraine
Hal Turner
World May 12, 2024 Hits: 16897
There is a
proposal to use NATO air defense systems deployed on the eastern borders of the
Alliance to protect the western regions of Ukraine from Russian drones.
In particular, Poland and Romania, the
proposal says, could do this.
This
idea is supported by representatives of some
German political parties, including the ruling Free Democratic Party (FDP)
and the Union 90/Greens.
According to
the newspaper, the idea of using NATO
air defense systems deployed in Romania and Poland and operated by NATO forces
to shoot down Russian drones over Western Ukraine was proposed by Nico
Lange, an expert at the Munich
Security Council (MSC) and former NATO Deputy Secretary General, and was
suggested by Lieutenant General Horst Heinrich Braus.
According to Lange,
this would create a 70-kilometer safe zone on the Ukrainian border. This could
relieve Ukrainian air defense forces in other parts of the front.
Air defense
for Ukraine
Russian
troops continue to strike Ukraine, forcing Ukrainian diplomats to seek help from
their allies. The key request is for
air defense systems that can withstand even ballistic missiles.
Ukraine
is particularly interested in the Patriot system, but so
far only Germany has agreed to provide one battery. Kyiv
expects to receive at least seven such systems.
Hal
Turner Snap Analysis
If
NATO begins shooting down Russian military drones - or any other Russian
aircraft - from NATO bases outside Ukraine, Russia has already and repeatedly
said those bases would become targets for Russian attack.
So
it goes like this: Russia
launches drones into Ukraine, some or all are shot down by NATO bases in Poland
or Romania. Russia then hits those bases and, instantly, those
countries move to invoke NATO Article 5 collective self defense,
screeching "we have been attacked by Russia."
If
Article 5 of the NATO Treaty is invoked against Russia, then
Russia has already said they will launch nuclear strikes against NATO countries.
The fact
that NATO is even involved in this Ukraine thing is an abomination since Ukraine
is not a NATO member.
The fact
that NATO is even considering such a proposal is
suicidal by the nations considering it.
The people
inside NATO member countries, have a right to defend themselves from
what NATO is doing. And since what NATO is doing will result in widespread death
and destruction n in those NATO-member countries, the people inside those
countries have the right to use LETHAL FORCE to defend themselves from the
crazed maniacs in NATO.
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Kentucky woman goes on shooting rampage, kills husband, sister before dying in shootout with brother: police
By Stepheny Price, Fox News
Published May 9, 2024, 7:12 a.m. ET
A Kentucky woman went on a wild shooting rampage, killing her husband and gunning down her own sister before she was killed by her brother in a shootout, police said.
Angela Gosser, 56, is accused of driving to her brother’s house on Friday, May 3 in Jamestown with a gun and forcing her way into the home.
Her brother, Darryl Wilson, 58, was home at the time, and according to a press release from the Kentucky State Police, he had a gun too.
Police said the two siblings got into a shootout that ended with Gosser dead.
Wilson was injured and taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
But the extent of Gosser’s crime spree, according to police, only became apparent when authorities were called to her sister, Jennifer Wilson’s, home for a welfare check.
Jennifer Wilson’s family said they weren’t able to get in touch with her and were concerned for her safety, according to the press release.
When authorities arrived at the home in Russell County, they made a grisly discovery.
Angela Gosser is accused of killing her husband and sister in a shooting rampage in Kentucky.
Troopers and deputies found Jennifer Wilson sitting in the driver’s seat of a Toyota Camry with apparent fatal gunshot wounds to the head.
Police said they believe that before the incident at her brother’s house, Gosser came across Jennifer Wilson and shot at her multiple times through the car’s passenger side – leaving her for dead.
According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, Gosser’s husband, Larry Gosser, was also found shot and killed on Friday evening.
Larry Gosser was a retired Sergeant with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife after 16 years of service, according to Wilson Funeral Home records.
Police told local station WKYT that Larry Gosser was working on a tree on his property in western Pulaski County when his wife opened fire on him, killing him.
“Right now, that is open for investigation. We are still working with detectives and looking for leads. They are back there working to find the end of it,” Pulaski County Sheriff Bobby Jones told WKYT.
According to his obituary, Larry Gosser was an avid fisherman and hunter who loved the outdoors, loved his animals and most of all loved spending time with his family and friends.
Investigators have not yet announced a motive for the killings.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office for more information, but did not hear back.
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Tornadoes tear through southeastern US as storms leave 3 dead
By Associated Press
Published May 9, 2024, 5:20 a.m. ET
Forecasters warned a wave of dangerous storms in the US could march through parts of the South early Thursday, after storms a day earlier spawned damaging tornadoes and massive hail, leaving two dead Tennessee, and one dead in Charlotte, NC.
The storms continue an outbreak of torrential rain and tornadoes that has cut across the country this week, from the Plains to the Midwest and now the southeastern US.
At least four people have died in storms since Monday.
Amid Wednesday’s storms, the National Weather Service continued issuing tornado warnings that stretch past midnight in North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Missouri and Kentucky.
Parts of Arkansas and Mississippi were also under a tornado watch through the pre-dawn hours.
One storm that rumbled across northeastern Tennessee on Wednesday brought high winds that knocked down power lines and trees.
Bob Brooks, the sheriff in Claiborne County about an hour north of Knoxville, said a 22-year-old man was in a car when he was fatally struck by one of the trees.
A second person was killed in the city of Columbia in Maury County, where the National Weather Service said a likely tornado had touched down. Columbia is just south of Nashville.
Homes were damaged and people injured, according to Lynn Thompson, assistant director of Maury County 911.
Thompson said that he could not provide any further details: “We’re getting overloaded right now.”
Rita Thompson, a spokesperson for Maury Regional Health, said the hospital had received five patients, including the person who died. Another was in serious condition and three had injuries that were not life-threatening, she said.
The storms also prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a temporary ground stop at Nashville International Airport and the National Weather Service to issue a tornado emergency — its highest alert level — for other nearby areas south of the state’s capital, including Chapel Hill and Eagleville.
Meanwhile, torrential rain and thunderstorms led to water rescues northeast of Nashville.
“Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order,” the National Weather Service warned when it issued a flash flood emergency.
In North Carolina, a state of emergency was declared Wednesday night for Gaston County, west of Charlotte, following a large storm that toppled power lines and severed trees, including one that landed on a car.
One person in the car was killed and another was taken to a hospital, officials said.
The storms rolled into the region Wednesday after parts of the central United States were battered Monday by heavy rain, strong winds, hail and tornadoes, including a deadly twister that ripped through an Oklahoma town and killed one person.
Then, on Tuesday, the Midwest took the brunt of the bad weather.
The National Weather Service said tornadoes touched down in parts of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana on Tuesday.
In Michigan, tornadoes swirled through the southwestern part of the state, in and around Kalamazoo County, according to the National Weather Service. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for four counties.
Kalamazoo County’s Portage area was hard hit as a FedEx facility was ripped apart, leaving about 50 people temporarily trapped inside because of downed power lines.
Travis Wycoff ventured out Tuesday night after seeing on radar that a tornado had touched down in the Portage area, and he said he helped an elderly couple out of their partially collapsed home and freed a service dog from another home.
“There were a lot of people running through the streets trying to find people and their pets,” Wycoff said. “It was just a lot of chaos.”
In the adjacent Pavilion Township, more than a dozen homes were destroyed in a mobile home park and 16 people were injured, said Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller.
Samantha Smith clutched a box Wednesday afternoon outside her mother’s partially wrecked home in Pavilion Township. Inside the box were her grandmother’s ashes.
Being able to recover the most cherished of items offered Smith a rare moment of relief amid the storm’s devastation. She said her parents and brother were injured during the storm but survived.
“I have thanked God probably a billion times since this happened yesterday,” she said.
“My kids are healthy and good. We just gotta make back up what we lost.”
Tornadoes were also confirmed in Pennsylvania just outside Pittsburgh, in central Arkansas and in northern West Virginia.
The West Virginia twister was at least the 11th tornado this year in the state, which sees two tornadoes in an average year.
Both the Plains and Midwest have been hammered by tornadoes this spring.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/09/us-news/tornadoes-tear-through-southeastern-us-as-storms-leave-3-dead/
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Closing in on Rafah: IDF troops kill terrorists, find tunnel shafts
In the area of the Rafah crossing, on the Palestinian side, troops of the 401st Brigade killed terrorists in close-quarter combat and via aircraft strikes.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
MAY 10, 2024 10:09 Updated: MAY 10, 2024 10:40
In the past day, troops of the 162nd Division and Givati Brigade operated in the Eastern part of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, where they found underground tunnel shafts, the military said on Friday.
In the area of the Rafah crossing, on the Palestinian side, troops of the 401st Brigade eliminated terrorist squads in close-quarter combat and via aircraft strikes.
The IDF added that Israel Air Force aircraft were also used to strike several areas in Rafah, from which rockets and mortar shells had been launched onto Israeli territory, including the Kerem Shalom crossing.
Shortly after the IDF published this statement, sirens sounded in two localities in the Gaza Border Communities. No injuries or damage were reported at this time.
Later on Friday, sirens sounded twice in Kerem Shalom, following which the military said two launches from the area of Rafah had been identified and successfully intercepted.
IDF operates in Zeitoun to destroy terror infrastructure
In parallel, the IDF said troops of the Nahal Brigade and the 2nd Brigade carried out activities in Zeitoun in the center of the Strip.
Soldiers destroyed terror infrastructure and eliminated terrorists in the area. In addition to the ground activities, the military stated fighter jets had struck terrorists and Hamas terror targets. Of particular note was a booby-trapped building in which many weapons.
In addition, throughout the Gaza Strip, fighter jets also struck Hamas targets, such as buildings used for anti-tank fire and tunnel shafts.
In the center of the strip, IDF troops identified a terror squad exiting a weapon warehouse and moving toward them. The squad was subsequently attacked by an aircraft. However, shortly after, the storage facility and an additional terrorist from the squad were attacked by fighter jets and helicopters.
The IDF said that in total, in the past day, IAF jets and aircraft struck and destroyed some 40 terror targets throughout the Strip. The targets included military buildings, terror squads, observing positions, and additional military infrastructure.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-800700
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Hezbollah launches rockets, drones at Galilee
Rocket lands in border town causing damage, fire, while Iran-backed terror group claims responsibility for drone strike on Metula; Arab media says military base in Safed also hit hours after IDF kills 4 in targeted attack near Tyre
Yair Kraus, Yoav Zitun, Lior Ben Ari|Yesterday | 12:21
Hezbollah on Thursday targeted northern Israel with attack drones and rocket fire with at least one rocket landing in the border town of Shlomi in the Western Galilee, causing a brush fire.
"The rocket fell not 50 meters from houses," a local resident said. "The mountain was on fire and the blast was felt in near-by homes." Windows shattered but no injuries were reported in the attack.
Hezbollah said it had struck Metula in the Upper Galilee with a suicide drone while Lebanese and Saudi media said a military base in Safed was also hit. Intercepts were seen in the sky over the city.
The IDF said two drones were intercepted before crossing the border from Lebanon. Strikes were carried out during the day, targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.
The military also said at least five Hezbollah terrorists were killed in IDF attacks, four of them reportedly died in a targeted attack on a car near the coastal city of Tyre. Eye witnesses told reporters that more than one missile was fired in the attack.
According to the IDF since Sunday, forces attacked some 75 Hezbollah targets, 20 of them on Wednesday alone.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjnmh00cmr#autoplay
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etc. You are seeing the pressure that the whole world is putting on my people Israel and only the true Christians are standing with them now, etc
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For I say unto you, my children, don’t be concerned or worried about the time, says the Lord, but I say unto you, be ready, says the Lord, to be ready, says the Lord, for my fig tree is budded, says the Lord. Are you aware of what is going on over in Israel, says the Lord? Therefore, I say unto you, look, look and see what I have said unto you, says the Lord, my fig tree has budded. Are you ready, says the Lord, for I am soon coming, says the Lord?
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U.S. Pauses Weapons Shipment to Israel; WAIVES Weapons Purchase-Sanctions on Qatar, Lebanon, and Iraq
Hal Turner World May 10, 2024 Hits: 4405
Much ado has been made of the US specifically pausing a weapons shipments to Israel . . . there's more to the story.
"Specifically, we [the US] paused one shipment of weapons consisting of 1800 2000-pound bombs, and 1700 500-pound bombs," Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder said during a press briefing.
Earlier Illegitimate President Biden said in an interview that the US will go as far as to stop the flow of weapons to Israel should the PM Netanyahu war cabinet decide on a major military operation in the Gaza Strip.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that the US has paused one shipment of "high payload munitions" to Israel and is "reviewing near-term" shipments amid Israel’s heightened offensive in Rafah.
It remains unclear whether the suspension of weapons deliveries to Israel will make any difference and cause Israel to call off its Rafah operation. Netanyahu has repeatedly stated that his country stands ready to proceed with its military plans no matter what Washington or any other country says or does.
On Monday, Israel started a military operation in the eastern parts of Rafah and took control of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Hamas said that it had agreed to the provisions of the ceasefire deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar mediators, but Netanyahu called the truce deal unacceptable. Over a million people are believed to be sheltering in the city.
SANCTIONS LIFTED ON ARAB COUNTRIES
Earlier this week, the Biden regime also . . . . ready for this . . . . granted WAIVERS from Economic Sanctions, to Qatar, Iraq, and Lebanon so they can resume buying . . . WEAPONS!
The Waiver states it is intended to apply until April of next year (2025).
So not only has the Biden regime cut off arms shipments to Israel, it has granted permission for arms sales to Qatar (Hamas ally), Lebanon (Hezbollah ally) and to Iraq!
It's almost as if they actually WANT a bloodbath taking place over in the Middle East.
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etc.. You shall see China as she continues to rise in her power. etc.
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etc. For I have warned you Russia is not your friend, I have warned you that China is not your friend, I have warned you that North Korea is not your friend and I have warned you that Iran is not your friend. etc.
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etc The end is upon you and you need to look and see the things that you should be doing, pay close attention to that. For I have told you things would change here, they would change. If you live near the Babylon that is going to fall I have told you to move at least seventy-five miles from there, at least. That goes for California, that goes for the center fault line, realize that war, war is at hand. Not only with ISIS, but you have got Russia, you have got China, you have got North Korea, wake up, wake up, for I have been telling you these things, it is getting very, very dangerous, very dangerous. etc
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Security Scandal: Chinese Drone Hovers Over US Nuclear-Powered Supercarrier In Japan
by Tyler Durden Thursday, May 09, 2024 - 10:40 PM
A major security scandal is developing at Japan's Yokosuka Naval Base, where drone footage was recently filmed above an American nuclear-powered supercarrier without any activated anti-drone systems to intercept hostile unmanned aerial vehicles. This comes as loitering munitions, also known as kamikaze drones, are the hottest weapon on the modern battlefield in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
X account "这是我小号4", translated in English from Chinese as "This is my trumpet number 4," uploaded aerial videos and images of Yokosuka Naval Base. Some of the footage was directly over the USS Ronald Reagan.
The X account wrote in English, "For anyone who thinks it's fake...." They attached a screenshot of the drone's flight path of the naval yard on a map to the post.
For anyone who thinks it’s fake pic.twitter.com/PdfwHAnwqj
— 这是我小号4 (@Xiao_Hao_4) April 2, 2024
The latest data from intel research firm Strategic Forecasting shows USS Ronald Reagan was recently moored at Yokosuka Naval Base. Footage from the drone was taken in early April.
The account posted additional images of the naval yard and US warships.
pic.twitter.com/JOCfTFMI68
— 这是我小号4 (@Xiao_Hao_4) May 8, 2024
Where are the anti-drone systems to guard against this type of aerial security breach?
pic.twitter.com/5Qx1CLQbIn
— 这是我小号4 (@Xiao_Hao_4) April 4, 2024
In English again, the account said, "It took a month for the Japanese army to just realize…" The person was referring to a news story by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, also known as NHK, covering his activity on social media about posting drone videos of US and Japanese warships.
It took a month for the Japanese army to just realize… https://t.co/TH6mWxQZV8
— 这是我小号4 (@Xiao_Hao_4) May 8, 2024
NHK cited Ministry of Defense officials who said drone videos were "likely genuine." Other sources we spoke with confirmed the videos are likely real and noted the possibility that this could've been a Chinese-made DJI drone.
Why didn't the US and or Japan activate electromagnetic counter-measures against the drone?
The next question: Did a Chinese spy - pilot this drone?
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and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this
country who follows my word or ways. They have gone the
ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion of their forefathers
of days gone by. etc..
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7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen
By Michael Snyder/End of the American Dream May 03 2024
Over the past several decades, America's culture has been transformed at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking. When I was growing up, I was convinced that I believed in a shared set of national values that most other Americans also embraced. But in our day and age those values have been discarded and now people that see the world the way that I do are clearly not in the majority any longer.
I know that a lot of people out there may not want to hear that our national values have been turned upside down, but it is the truth. Those that sought to "fundamentally transform" this country have succeeded, and at this point "American values" are vastly different from the "American values" that I cherished as a young boy. The following are 7 numbers that clearly reveal the direction that America has chosen...
#1 There is more political chaos in our nation than there has ever been in my entire lifetime, and more than 40 percent of U.S. voters actually believe that a "second civil war" is likely within the next five years...
More than four-in-ten US voters say the country is likely to get ripped apart in a second civil war within five years, a shocking new survey reveals.
The Rasmussen Reports poll shows that 41 percent eye a civil conflict, compared to 49 percent who say it's not likely. Another 10 percent said they were not sure.
That amounts to 106 million US adults saying civil war is on the horizon.
The survey comes against a backdrop of mounting violence on US college campuses, where pro-Palestine protestors clash with law enforcers, conservatives, some Jewish students and others.
#2 According to a recent Gallup survey, only 36 percent of Americans approve of Israel's military campaign in Gaza...
After narrowly backing Israel's military action in Gaza in November, Americans now oppose the campaign by a solid margin. Fifty-five percent currently disapprove of Israel's actions, while 36% approve.
The latest results are from a March 1-20 survey. The Israel-Hamas war has continued for five months and has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians and over 1,000 Israelis. Major parts of Gaza have been destroyed, complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians still living there. The United Nations and international community, including the Biden administration, have called for a cease-fire, but the two warring sides have been unable to agree.
#3 65 percent of Americans do not approve of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade...
About two-thirds (65%) oppose the 2022 Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, and 34% approve, numbers that have remained effectively unchanged in CNN's polling across the nearly two years since the ruling. Those who strongly disapprove of the decision continue to outnumber those who strongly approve by a more than 2-to-1 margin.
A 69% majority who disapprove of overturning Roe, including 82% of those who strongly disapprove, say that federal politicians should work to pass laws ensuring national abortion access. Those who support the ruling largely say federal politicians shouldn't take action on the issue: 59% say laws on abortion should be left up to the states, with 29% in favor of further restrictions to abortion access nationwide. New national restrictions are supported by just about one-quarter of Republicans, White Evangelical Christians and those who describe themselves as conservative.
#4 More than 20 percent of Generation Z adults (22.3 percent to be specific) now identify as LGBTQ+...
Overall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LGBTQ+. More than one in five Gen Z adults, ranging in age from 18 to 26 in 2023, identify as LGBTQ+, as do nearly one in 10 millennials (aged 27 to 42). The percentage drops to less than 5% of Generation X, 2% of baby boomers and 1% of the Silent Generation.
Bisexuality is the most common LGBTQ+ status among Generation Z, millennials and Generation X. Fifteen percent of all Generation Z adults -- representing more than two-thirds of those with an LGBTQ+ identification -- are bisexual.
#5 According to the Daily Mail, the number of transgender troops in the U.S. Army has doubled since 2020...
The Pentagon has spent more than $26million treating transgender troops since 2020, official records show.
The number of US army staff with gender dysphoria has doubled in that time -- from around 1,800 to 3,700, according to DoD data seen by DailyMail.com.
In the past three years, $17.5m in taxpayer money was spent on psychotherapy for trans service people and $1.5m went towards hormone drugs.
A further $7.6m funded gender-affirming surgeries, including facial tweaks to make a recruit more masculine or feminine, and the removal or creation of breasts and genitals.
#6 By a vote of 692 to 51, the United Methodist Church has voted to approve LGBTQ clergy and same sex weddings in their churches...
The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same-sex weddings.
Delegates overwhelmingly approved the changes, 692 to 51, during the United Methodist Church's General Conference.
The meeting is taking place this week in Charlotte, N.C. after the pandemic delayed the 2020 General Conference where these decisions had been slated to take place.
#7 Only 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, and the birth rate is now at the lowest level ever recorded...
The birth rate in the US has declined to a new low, according to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The figures show that fewer than 3.6 million babies were born in the US last year, the lowest amount since 1979 and equating to the lowest fertility rate EVER recorded.
The CDC analysed the 2023 data and found that the birth rate is down 2 percent on the previous year.
If you go back to 1960, the average U.S. woman gave birth to 3.65 children during her lifetime.
Today, that number has fallen all the way down to 1.6.
But we need a birth rate of at least 2.1 just to keep replacing ourselves.
If we didn't have so much immigration going on, our population would be steadily falling.
In my latest book entitled "Chaos", I have an entire chapter about the population collapse that is happening in wealthy nations all over the industrialized world.
It is often said that children are the future of our society, but we have greatly devalued marriage and parenthood.
Meanwhile, birth rates are still very high in many nations in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Given enough time, those that are willing to multiply would become increasingly powerful and those that are not willing to multiply would become less powerful.
But the fact that we aren't reproducing ourselves is just one of the existential problems that we are facing.
At this point we live in an upside down society that has rejected the values that this nation was founded upon.
If we stay on this path, there isn't going to be a future for America, and that is the truth.
https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6876
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Canada To Construct World’s First 2SLGBTQI+ National Monument In Ottawa
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Construction has begun on a new national monument in the Canadian capital of Ottawa to honor the 2SLGTBQI+ community, which boasts to be the first in the world.
The project will cost $13 million (CAD) entrusted the LGBT Purge Fund that approved the design of the monument, which is basically a large cylinder with a bung of holes taken out of it. It’s called Thunderhead, and it’s being built by the Ottawa River by Portage Bridge and Wellington Street.
The group has been working on getting designs approved and funded since 2022, providing some mock-ups of what the final design should look like.
The central sculpture, reminiscent of a thunderhead cloud clad in mirrored tiles, now has larger openings and simplified forms. It continues to embody the strength, activism and hope of 2SLGBTQI+ communities.
The group says
The group got its name from a referred time period during the 1950s through the mid-1990s where thousands public officials and military members were harassed and expelled from their positions because they supported sodomy or were sodomites.
Michelle Douglas, executive director of the LGBT Purge Fund, who was honorably discharged from the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989, said in a statement:
“I loved serving my country. I was so proud of it, but I was fired because I am a lesbian and it was a difficult period in my life.
“To see a monument now being built that pays, in part, tribute to those pretty difficult days. It’s very emotional and powerful for me. It’s really a beacon of hope and a place for people to come and reflect on the past, which has had lots of moments of discrimination and oppression.”
Other artists in Canada’s 2SLGTBQI+ community plan to contribute, such as Drag king Cyril Cinder among many.
Cyril Cinder. Courtesy: Safiyah Marhnouj/CBC
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Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Indeed, Canada continues to seal its fate with the construction of this stupid looking idol, as they flaunt their pride unabashed, as they gallivant with their mockery of the rainbow, the very thing that is token and reminder of the fierce judgment on an incredibly evil, wicked world that hated the Lord.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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For realize it’s time for my church to get excited for what is ahead, for many great things are about to take place, for the world it will not be so, for it will be another year filled terrorism, disasters on every side, weather that has never been seen before, flooding and famines even worse than what you have seen before. But remember the clock is ticking down and the farther the clock ticks down the worse things get for the world. etc
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Gunman arrested after trying to shoot Pennsylvania pastor during church sermon in wild caught-on-camera moment
By Social Links for Emily Crane Published May 6, 2024, 7:44 a.m. ET
A gunman has been arrested after pulling a firearm on a Pennsylvania pastor over the weekend in the middle of a sermon in a terrifying caught-on-camera ordeal.
Bernard Polite, 26, was nabbed after trying to shoot pastor Glenn Germany at the Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock on Sunday afternoon, cops said.
A terrifying live-stream of the ordeal showed the pastor ducking for cover as the perp brandished the weapon.
“I’m thankful to God that I’m still here because he definitely pulled the trigger,” Germany told WTAE.
“I started to begin to preach, and all of a sudden, from my left-hand side, I saw him move from the back to the front of the church, and he set up in the front corner of the church and smiled at me.
“All of a sudden, I just saw a gun pointing right at me. And at that point, all I could try to do is run for cover.”
The church’s deacon, Clarence McCallister, was filmed leaping across and tackling Polite in the immediate aftermath. He and the pastor then disarmed the suspect and pinned him down until cops arrived.
Germany, whose 14-year-old daughter was in the church at the time, said the suspect later revealed to him in custody that he’d seen “spirits” in his mind telling him to open fire.
“This guy was just dealing with spirits he said, and he came in and wanted to shoot somebody,” Germany said. “He said you ducked a taco today, that’s what he told me, and I guess that’s slang for you ducked a bullet.”
“He actually apologized to me. I told him ‘I forgive you and want you to know I love you’,” the pastor revealed in a separate interview on NBC’s “Today.”
Polite is facing a slew of charges, including aggravated assault and attempted homicide.
Meanwhile, Allegheny County Police are investigating after the body of a 56-year-old man was discovered in the home where Polite lived — less than half a mile away from the church.
It wasn’t immediately clear when the victim – identified as Derek Polite – was gunned down.
Cops haven’t disclosed if they have a suspect in that shooting.
The exact relationship between Polite and the victim wasn’t immediately known but local outlets reported the church gunman lived there with his uncle.
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Floods in southern Brazil kill at least 75 people over 7 days, with 103 people missing
By Associated Press Published May 5, 2024, 2:32 a.m. ET
RIO DE JANEIRO — Massive floods in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 75 people over the last seven days, and another 103 were reported missing, local authorities said Sunday.
At least 155 people were injured, while damage from the rains forced more than 88,000 people from their homes. Approximately 16,000 took refuge in schools, gymnasiums and other temporary shelters.
The floods left a wake of devastation, including landslides, washed-out roads and collapsed bridges across the state.
Operators reported electricity and communications cuts. More than 800,000 people are without a water supply, according to the civil defense agency, which cited figures from water company Corsan.
A rescue team pulled an elderly man in serious medical condition into a helicopter from a remote area in the Bento Gonçalves municipality, according to footage from military firefighters. Torrents of brown water poured over a nearby dam.
On Saturday evening, residents in the town of Canoas stood up to their shoulders in muddy water and formed a human chain to pull boats carrying people to safety, according to video footage shared by local UOL news network.
The Guaiba river reached a record level of 17.5 feet on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. local time, surpassing levels seen during a historic 1941 deluge, when the river reached 4.76 meters.
“I repeat and insist: the devastation to which we are being subjected is unprecedented,” state Gov. Eduardo Leite said Sunday morning. He had previously said the state will need a “kind of ‘Marshall Plan’ to be rebuilt.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited Rio Grande do Sul for a second time on Sunday, accompanied by Defense Minister José Múcio, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad and Environment Minister Marina Silva, among others.
The leftist leader and his team surveyed the flooded streets of Porto Alegre from a helicopter.
“We need to stop running behind disasters. We need to see in advance what calamities might happen and we need to work,” Lula told journalists afterwards.
During Sunday mass at the Vatican, Pope Francis said he was praying for the state’s population. “May the Lord welcome the dead and comfort their families and those who had to abandon their homes,” he said.
The downpour started Monday and was expected to last through Sunday.
In some areas, such as valleys, mountain slopes and cities, more than 11.8 inches of rain fell in less than a week, according to Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology, known by the Portuguese acronym INMET, on Thursday.
The heavy rains were the fourth such environmental disaster in the state in a year, following floods in July, September and November 2023 that killed 75 people.
Weather across South America is affected by the climate phenomenon El Nińo, a periodic, naturally occurring event that warms surface waters in the Equatorial Pacific region.
In Brazil, El Nińo has historically caused droughts in the north and intense rainfall in the south.
This year, the impacts of El Nińo have been particularly dramatic, with a historic drought in the Amazon. Scientists say extreme weather is happening more frequently due to human-caused climate change.
“These tragedies will continue to happen, increasingly worse and more frequent,” said Suely Araújo, a public policy coordinator at the Climate Observatory, a network of dozens of environmental and social groups.
Brazil needs to adjust to the effects of climate change, she said in a Friday statement, referring to a process known as adaptation.
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etc. For truly these are the end days and the end hours and darkness is all across the face of the earth and the enemy is fighting like mad because he knows that he has little time left. etc..
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Ex-Satanist Turned Christian Reveals What is 'Behind the Curtains' of 'Devil's Battle Plan'
Talia Wise 05-03-2024
The co-founder of a Satanic movement in South Africa who had a supernatural encounter with Jesus Christ and renounced the occult says he is now on a mission to equip Christians to "handle and understand the devil's battle plan" in the last days.
Riaan Swiegelaar, a former reverend at the South African Satanic Church (SASC), stepped down from his position in May 2022 but recently revealed on social media why he has decided now is the time to reveal what is "behind the curtains" of the satanic church.
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"I don't feel that our war is against physical people. I feel our war is in spirit and what God has revealed to me is that we are in a time where it is crucial," he explained. "We are living in the time of (the book of) Revelation. So it is time to put this information out in a very respectful way," he shared.
"We will equip spiritual warriors to handle and understand the devil's battle plan," he added.
As CBN News previously reported, Swiegelaar was involved in some form of Christian ministry 20 years ago before becoming an atheist. He then turned to Satanism in 2018.
"I got involved with Satanism because at the time it resonated with me, being very broken and sad without realizing it. I think the reason a lot of people resonate with Satanism is they come from a very broken place... that's the one thing we all have in common," he shared in a video in 2022.
Swiegelaar explained that he renounced Satanism after experiencing the unconditional love of Jesus Christ.
"I've never known unconditional love in my whole life and up to today, there's only four Christians in my whole life that have shown me what unconditional love is. I want to thank those four people. Words cannot express what you have done for me," he said.
"To show someone love is everything. It is not a simple thing. You have showed me everything. You have showed me the love of Christ. I have seen it in you," Swiegelaar added.
Swiegelaar updated his followers in April that he is now involved in deliverance ministry and helping people get out of the occult. He added that six members of his former organization have left Satanism.
He also explained that he was legally barred from speaking publicly for the last two years.
"When I left and resigned from the African Satanic Church in May 2022, at first, I had to keep quiet for a whole month to put certain things in place," he explained. "I also signed an NDA, a non-disclosure agreement, with the organization as to not to disclose certain people's identities, certain businesses, certain operations, especially in South Africa that was linked with Satanism in this country."
Swiegelaar adds that since he left he has received 32 "cease and desist" orders from attorneys.
But the good news is the majority of the founding members of the Satanic church there have left Satanism and have worked with Swiegelaar to deregister the South African Satanic Church (SASC).
"Initially when we started the process there was opposition and there was a certain individual who funded a legal team for the African Satanic Church to prevent this from happening," Swiegelaar explained. "Between January and March of this year, they have stopped opposing the process to deregister the (Satanic) church."
He added that even with the dissolution of the Satanic entity, there is still work to be done.
"This by no means means that Satanism doesn't exist anymore," Swiegelaar expressed. "It certainly does. Many groups have formed in the meantime and are still practicing."
The South African native says it is "all in God's timing" for him to create content now that will teach people how to overcome schemes of the enemy – especially young people.
"I no longer have an official NDA in place and I'm allowed to make content again and post videos," Swiegelaar shared.
"My intent is not to expose individuals or to make their identities known. My intent is to inform the public of what Satanism is and what is really going on in our country and in the world and also how certain people, especially the youth are being targeted to be involved in the occult and Satanism and what the satanic agenda really is," he added.
About The Author Talia Wise
Talia Wise has served as a multi-media producer for CBNNews.com, CBN Newswatch, The Prayer Link, and CBN News social media outlets. Prior to joining CBN News she worked for Fox Sports Florida producing and reporting. Talia earned a master’s degree in journalism from Regent University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.
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The Lord God says, if you are in a church that has watered down, if you are in a church that does not use my word that I use, my King James, if you are in a church that uses the NIV or something that waters the services down, get out of there and get into a church that is Holy Spirit filled. etc
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The Absence Of The Rapture—And Related Topics—From Our Churches Today, Is A Great Tragedy!
By Jan Markell February 28, 2023
I recently read a passionate article by Jonathan Brentner on the divorce of Rapture theology from the gospel and from pulpits. I so resonated with the main points he made. The absence of this topic—and related topics—from our churches today, is a great tragedy!
When Rapture discussion ended some thirty years ago in the church and elsewhere, so did discussion of the Millennium, Israel’s key end-time role, the trend toward the Tribulation, the building of the third temple in Jerusalem, the prominence of end-time deception, the rush to a cashless society and Central Bank Digital Currency, and so much more!
It became almost impossible to understand the times from a biblical and prophetic perspective! And right at a time when people began asking earnest questions as they observe the turmoil of our times.
I am taking a few talking points from the Brentner article below:
Somewhere in the past, a tragic divorce occurred; theologians decided we must separate the return of Jesus for His church from the proclamation of the gospel. The results of this untimely divorce have led to a dearth of understanding among believers regarding Jesus’ appearing and the joyful anticipation that comes with such awareness.
Confused believers hear that they will surely die rather than meet Jesus in the air, which directly contradicts the New Testament in passages such as 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The Apostle Paul believed there would be many saints alive at the time of the Rapture, but many preachers today disagree with him on this matter.
The divorce of the Rapture from the gospel has resulted in a near blackout of teaching about our “blessed hope” in churches today. This negatively impacts new believers as well as seasoned saints as it leaves them ill-prepared to live in a fear-ridden society because such teaching provides no prophetic context into which they can place the violence and lawlessness of our day or the push for a New World Order.
The new converts in Thessalonica were so fixated on their soon departure from the earth that when some in their midst died, they grieved unnecessarily thinking they would miss out on the Rapture (1 Thess. 4:13-19). In response, Paul emphasized the primary place of the “dead in Christ” during the rapture telling his converts that Jesus would resurrect them first at His appearing (4:16).
Another sorrowful result of this divorce is this: It takes the eyes of believers away from their ultimate hope at a time when they need such a focus. Instead, their eyes remain focused on earthly aspirations.
Very few pastors talk about what happens at the moment Jesus returns for His church (1 Cor. 15:51-55; Phil. 3:20-21; 1 Thess. 4:16-17). Even those that believe these things never ever mention the believers’ hope of immortal bodies for fear that talking about the Rapture might hurt attendance.
As I wrote in a previous article, What Happened to My Church? someone made a conscious decision some 30-40 years ago that we should have a “new way of doing church”, although many members and attendees agreed there was nothing wrong with old ways of doing church. Terms began being used like “purpose-driven,” “seeker-sensitive,” “church-growth movement,” “postmodernism”, “Emergent”, and more.
Joel Osteen and his fellow travelers began telling us we could have our best life now as Christians. Who would want to long for His appearing with that in mind?
People started to hear about love, unity and tolerance. We must be known for what we agree on, not what we disagree on. Everything and everyone must be accepted. Aberrations must be accepted. People loved having their ears tickled. They would be encouraged to “feel good” and have their self-esteem built up. Sound doctrine was being set aside.
The saving of souls was being set aside for the entertainment factor and social justice causes. It seemed that many in the church no longer cared that so many were on their way to hell! What an offensive, intolerant thought. But clearly sound doctrine will separate and divide so we must tread lightly in that area. Relevant issues have vanished from most pulpits.
Here in 2023, all of this would be called “wokism”! And a marvelous cure for wokism would be a focus on the fact that the King is coming—perhaps today. Pulpits that are focusing on this glorious good news, are growing exponentially, and don’t have to worry about church growth!
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etc. I have talked about the EU and how they have grown in power and shall grow to more power. I have talked to you about China and yet America embraces China their enemy and they build them up that later China shall come against many and destroy many because of the finances you have provided for them. That was not my wisdom, that was not my knowledge. It was not my wisdom nor my knowledge when you gave your secrets to a country that worships a false god and they have sold them to other countries and become superior. Oh how foolish man is. etc..
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Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules - and it causes horrific symptoms and kills group of hamsters
The hamsters infected with the constructed virus died within two to three days
The results could be a breakthrough in using animals to safely study Ebola
READ MORE: Experts reveal what virus could cause the next pandemic
By Angely Mercado For Dailymail.Com and Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com
Published: 07:39 EDT, 6 May 2024 | Updated: 08:37 EDT, 6 May 2024
Chinese scientists have engineered a virus with parts of Ebola in a lab that killed a group of hamsters.
A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the human body.
The group of hamsters that received the lethal injection 'developed severe systemic diseases similar to those observed in human Ebola patients,' including multi-organ failure,' the study shared.
One particularly horrific symptom saw the infected hamsters develop secretions in their eyes, which impaired their vision and scabbed over the surface of the eyeballs
While the experiment may spark fears of another lab leak, the researchers say their goal was to find the right animal models that can safely mimic Ebola symptoms in a lab setting.
The study suggested that infected hamsters could be a decent model for studying the spread and treatment of Ebola in the future.
Ebola needs to be handled in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) facilities which are special high security laboratories, while many are only BLS-2.
To work around this in a lower security setting, scientists used a different virus called vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which they engineered to carry part of the Ebola virus that's called glycoprotein (GP) that plays a crucial role in helping the virus enter and infect cells of its host.
The team studied five female and five male hamsters that were all three weeks old.
All female Syrian hamsters showed decreased rectal temperature and up to 18 percent weight loss - they all died between two and three days.
The five male hamsters lost 15 percent weight and succumbed to the disease at no later than three and a half days.
However, two male hamsters survived and gained 20 percent more weight than pre-infection.
The team harvested organs from the dead animals, finding the virus accumulated in the heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, stomach, intestines and brain tissues.
The highest levels were found in the liver and lowest in the brain.
'It is a sign that 3-week-old Syrian hamsters infected with VSV-EBOV/GP have the possibility of playing a role in the study of optic nerve disorders caused by EVD,' the team shared in the study, which was published in the Chinese journal Virologica Sinica.
The team concluded that the infected hamsters showed a rapid onset of symptoms, shock liver, systemic infection, and developed severe systemic diseases similar to those observed in human EBOV patients.
They also noted that the experiments provided a rapid preclinical evaluation of medical countermeasures against Ebola under BLS-2 conditions, concluding the study was a success.
The last major outbreak of the virus occurred from 2014 to 2016 in several West African countries was deadly, a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
During those two years more than 28,600 people were reportedly infected, and about 11,300 died.
The virus spread from West Africa to Europe and even over to the United States.
'The surrogate virus and matched hamster EVD [Ebola virus disease] model will improve the security and economy of the research in the EBOV field,' the researchers wrote in the study.
Testing infectious viruses is necessary for breakthroughs in treatment and prevention.
But lab leaks happen, and these incidents could lead to the spread of to those outside of the lab.
Experts have confirmed that respiratory viruses – which are spared via coughing and sneezing – are more likely to spread widely through a population.
Data released this March revealed that lab leak incidents occur every year and included the release of controlled pathogens like tuberculosis and anthrax.
There are anywhere from 70 to 100 releases were recorded every year.
However Dr Richard Ebright, a chemical biologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey told DailyMail.com that its unlikely that a lab leak involving VSV would lead to widespread infection in the public.
'[It] will be imperative to verify that the novel chimeric virus does not infect and replicate in human cells, and does not pose risk of infectivity, transmissibility, and pathogenicity in humans, before proceeding with studies at biosafety level 2,' he said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13377471/Hamsters-infected-virus-Ebola.html
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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Warren Buffett reveals the news no American taxpayer wants to hear as the government tackles rising debt - here's what it means for you
The declaration comes as the US is hard-pressed to address rising fiscal deficits
The national debt recently hit $34 trillion, a sum about as big as the US economy
Citing certain financial factors, he said a federal tax hike is likely on the horizon
By Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com
Published: 01:43 EDT, 6 May 2024 | Updated: 09:02 EDT, 6 May 2024
Warren Buffett has said he expects the US government to increase taxes rather than reduce spending as the country struggles with its mounting national debt.
The declaration, delivered Saturday, comes as the US is hard-pressed to address widening fiscal deficits, and as the national debt recently topped $34 trillion - an amount nearly as big as the entire US economy.
More concerning is the fact the Fed and other money-minded officials have no plan in sight, paving the way for the Berkshire Hathaway boss's unsettling prediction.
The 'Oracle of Omaha' aired his prediction at his hallowed hedge fund's annual shareholder meeting attended by some of the top CEOs in the country.
There, the conglomerate reported its collection of businesses generated some $11.2 billion of operating earnings, up 39 percent from the year before.
Despite those results being a sign of a relatively robust economy, the 93-year-old who is valued at more than $131billion said he believes a federal tax hike is on the horizon.
'I think higher taxes are likely,' he said, pointing to how the Congressional Budget Office has estimated in its latest long-term budget projections federal deficits will rise to 8.5 percent of GDP in fiscal 2054 from the 5.5 percent seen today.
'They may decide that some day they don't want the fiscal deficit to be this large because that has some important consequences,' Buffett added.
'So they may not want to decrease spending and they may decide they'll take a larger percentage of what we own, and we'll pay it.'
The unprecedented problem comes as US budget deficits are expected to dissipate if, and when, tax cuts introduced in 2017 are renewed next year.
But, given current market conditions, there rate cuts remain uncertain, and inflation also remains stubbornly high.
These factors led to Buffet's Berkshire reducing its stake in Apple, one of the many blue chip manufacturers, home builders, insurance companies or retailers in its stable.
As a result, Berkshire reported a $135.4 billion holding in the iPhone maker at the end of the first quarter, down from $174.3 billion seen in December.
The move quickly became a topic of discussion as the meeting unfolded in real time, with Apple CEO Tim Cook one of the high-powered figures in the room.
Despite the more than $40billion sale, Buffett assured the crowd of thousands in Nebraska, Apple is an 'even better' stock than American Express and Coca-Cola, two of the other 'wonderful' businesses in Berkshire's portfolio.
He said unless something changes dramatically, Apple will continue to hold the distinction of being Berkshire's biggest position - glowing praise coming from one of the most respected minds in the country when it comes to finance.
He added the iPhone, released in 2007, was one of the greatest products of all time, and hinted that tax implications played a part in the sale. Asked whether he was worried about the rapidly rising US debt, Buffett, who continues to serve as chair despite his age, said what really concerns him was the fiscal deficit was now larger than the Treasuries market, which itself nearly $27 trillion.
Pointing to the US dollar's place as the world's foremost reserve currency, he theorized: 'My best speculation is that US debt will be acceptable for a very long time because there's not much alternative.'
He added while the main focus right now may be on the Fed's next steps to quell inflation following a litany of interest rates hikes, the bank's looming fiscal policies could be the real issue.
'Jay Powell is ... a very, very wise man,' he said, referring to the central bank's top official. 'But he doesn't control fiscal policy.'
Throughout the day, Buffett also spoke about his age and the prospect of a successor.
When asked, he assured shareholders the company's future was in good hands, and said Greg Abel - his appointed successor and vice chairman of Berkshire's non-insurance operations - should take over capital allocation whenever the need arises.
'When you've got somebody like Greg and Ajit, why settle for me?' Buffett said, referring to Ajit Jain, Berkshire's vice chair of insurance operations.
'It has worked out extremely well.'
Buffett also cited the changing of the guard that occurred a few years back Apple, when Cook took over for longtime boss and iPhone visionary Steve Jobs.
'Buffett made it very clear that the structure of the firm is in place,' J. Dennis Jean-Jacques, founder and chief investment officer at Ocean Park Investments, told Bloomberg of Buffets words Sunday.
'It's going to become more important for shareholders to ensure the board of directors and managers keep the structure in tact - they are smart people and are not afraid to write to the CEO to let them know things are going wayward.'
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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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'Please Pray for Us': Deadly Flooding, 15 Tornadoes Ravage Parts of the Midwest
Wendy Griffith 05-07-2024
Dangerous storms swept across the Plains overnight, ravaging parts of the Midwest.
In Bartlesville, Oklahoma a monster tornado touched down destroying several homes and businesses. Employees working at a Hampton Inn caught the horrifying moment the storm hit the hotel.
In Barnsdall, Oklahoma, one family was somehow able to escape their collapsed home after a terrifying tornado ripped through their neighborhood.
Also in Barnsdall, a nursing home was hit. The 38-bed facility wrote on social media, "Please pray for us."
All the residents were accounted for with no injuries or deaths, but they had to be temporarily moved to a football field because of a gas leak.
The National Weather Service reported at least 15 tornadoes overnight, including at least 7 in northern Oklahoma.
A tornado spins west of Hawley, Texas, as cars pass on U.S. 277 on Thursday May 2, 2024. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
Further south, in Texas, people are starting to clean up as the waters recede after major flooding from heavy rain over the weekend. Hundreds of people in the Houston area had to be rescued from their homes.
Governor Greg Abbott announced at least three deaths due to the severe storms, including a child swept away by floodwaters. Ninety-one counties declared a state disaster.
Also throughout the Midwest, thousands of power outages were reported.
Forecasters expect the severe storms to weaken slightly as they move into the Tennessee and Ohio River Valley today.
Wendy Griffith
Wendy Griffith is a Co-host for The 700 Club and an Anchor and Senior Reporter for the Christian Broadcasting Network based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In addition to The 700 Club, Wendy co-anchors Christian World News, a weekly show that focuses on the triumphs and challenges of the global church. (https://www.facebook.com/CBNCWN). Wendy started her career at CBN on Capitol Hill, where she was the network’s Congressional Correspondent during the Impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton. She then moved to the Virginia Beach headquarters in 2000 to concentrate on stories with a more
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Giant hailstones destroy over 15 000 homes in Manipur, India
Written by Teo Blašković Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Updated on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 09:52 UTC
Giant hailstones destroy over 15 000 homes in Manipur, India
A severe hailstorm struck Manipur, northeast India, on May 5, 2024, resulting in the death of one person and the destruction of over 15 000 homes and other structures. The storm, characterized by heavy rains, giant hail, and strong winds, wreaked havoc across several districts, leaving extensive structural and agricultural damage in its wake.
Chief Minister N. Biren Singh reported that 15 425 houses, numerous vehicles, and other properties were severely damaged due to the powerful storm on Sunday, May 5, which included intense rains and giant hail (7+ cm) accompanied by strong winds.
The districts of Imphal West and Imphal East were the hardest hit, with 6 053 and 5 600 homes damaged, respectively. Additional damages were reported in Bishnupur, Thoubal, Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, Ukhrul, and other areas, totaling the destruction of over 15 000 homes.
The hailstorm also left many vehicles with cracked windows or severe damage due to the size of the hailstones and the strength of the winds.
In addition, at least six churches in the hilly districts suffered significant damage, including roofs being torn off by strong winds.
Severe agricultural damage was reported, along with a significant toll on livestock.”
In response to the extensive damage and to aid those affected, the state government opened 42 relief camps providing temporary shelter and distributed essential relief materials through Deputy Commissioners. To mitigate the economic impact, Chief Minister Singh announced measures to prevent price hikes in roofing and construction materials and confirmed that compensation would be provided for the loss of livestock, crops, and vegetables suffered by farmers.
The education department, citing the widespread destruction and the potential for further severe weather, decided to close all schools—government-aided, private, and central—on May 6 and 7.
The Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert, forecasting heavy to very heavy rains across several northeastern states, including Manipur, until May 7. This alert comes as parts of the valley areas in Imphal East and Imphal West districts were blanketed with 4 to 5 inches (10 to 12.7 cm) of ice, covering the landscape in what resembled thick snow.
References:
1 Over 15,000 houses, other properties damaged in Manipur in heavy rains, hailstorm: CM – India Tribune – May 6, 2024
2 One killed, 15k houses damaged in Manipur hailstorm – Indian Express – May 7, 2024
Featured image credit: Mirror Now (stillshot)
https://watchers.news/2024/05/07/giant-hailstones-destroy-over-15-000-homes-in-manipur-india/
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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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The “Soft Landing” Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
May 8, 2024 No Comments
By Brandon Smith
If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts have a far better track record. Whenever establishment economists make a a call the opposite generally turns out to be true.
By extension, alternative economic predictions are usually well ahead of the curve – What we talk about might be labeled “doom mongering” or “conspiracy theory” today. In three years or less it will be treated as common knowledge and the mainstream “experts” will claim that they “saw it coming all along” while taking credit for financial calls they never made.
This has been a long running pattern and it’s something those of us in the alternative media have come to expect.
For my part, I warned for years about the threat of the impending stagflationary crisis which ultimately struck hard in the “post-pandemic” US. The establishment gatekeepers denied such a thing was possible. When it happened, they claimed it was “transitory.” Now, they argue that a soft landing is imminent and there’s nothing to fear from trillions in helicopter money being pumped into the system. They claim nothing of significance will change.
I also predicted that the Fed would create a Catch-22 scenario in which interest rates are raised into economic weakness while inflationary pressures expand. I suggested that the central bank would keep rates higher for far longer than mainstream analysts claimed. This is exactly what has happened. My position is simple – The Federal Reserve is a suicide bomber.
Who are you going to believe? Independent economists who have proven correct time and time again? Or, the Ivory Tower guys who have been consistently wrong? I’ll say this: If success in economics was actually based on merit and correct analysis, people like Paul Krugman or Janet Yellen would have been out of work a long time ago.
As for the ongoing narrative of a soft landing, the question I have to ask is HOW exactly they are going to make that happen? First, let’s clarify why central bankers are the problem (along with the governments they covertly influence)…
Central Banks Are At The Core Of Economic Troubles
There are only two logical reasons for central bank induced inflation: To hide the effects of a massive deflationary slowdown caused by too much debt, or, to deliberately trigger a currency collapse. Both motives could apply at the same time.
Central bankers don’t just facilitate this inflation at the behest of governments, they tell governments what to expect and what to promote to the public. Anyone that claims otherwise has an agenda. Central banks write their own policy and control their own mechanics. Governments have no say whatsoever in their operations, as Alan Greenspan once openly admitted.
The reality is, governments go begging hat in hand to central bankers and the banks decide whether or not to give them that sweet stimulus nectar. Politicians engage in collusion with central banks on a regular basis and they defer to bankers on an array of economic decisions. Economic advisers to the US president almost always include high level central bankers who then cycle right back into the Federal Reserve.
Central banks and their private international counterparts are in control, political leaders are simply pawns. Whenever there’s a crash the public focuses on government while the central banks fade into the background and avoid all scrutiny.
Inflation Addiction And The Ultimate Catch-22
Inflation for banks is a tool for fiscal change, but also social change. It’s not a coincidence that financial crisis events always lead to more centralization of global power into fewer and fewer hands; this is by design. Inflation allows the establishment to delay or initiate a crisis with greater precision.
An even more powerful tool is the WITHHOLDING of stimulus and cheap money once an economy is addicted to the flow of fiat.
I have been arguing for many years that central banks were constructing a situation in which the system is utterly dependent on fiat stimulus in order to maintain the illusion of growth. If the bankers return to lower rates and QE, inflation will continue to explode. If they stay with higher rates and a trickle of stimulus then a global crash is inevitable.
It’s one or the other, there is no soft landing when trillions in money creation are at play in such a short period of time. Central banks must return to near zero rates and QE if they hope to prevent a debt implosion. This might seem like a soft landing scenario at first, but when CPI ramps up (as it is starting to now at the mere mention of rate cuts) consumers will be hit even harder.
I’ll ask this question once again because I don’t think some people are getting it: What if their goal is to create a crash?
The Great Global Slowdown Has Already Started
In the past six months both the World Trade Organization and the World Banks released statements warning of an impending global slowdown. After an initial surge in exports and imports caused by massive pandemic stimulus measures, the effects of the helicopter money are now fading. By the end of 2024, global trade will register the slowest growth since the 1990s.
The UN also suggested growth deceleration was coming in the next year due to falling investments and subdued global trade. Keep in mind that the alternative media has been warning about this outcome for the past couple years at least as covid funding dried up. Globalist institutions are simply informing the public at the last minute; too little, too late.
The World Bank asserts that global trade is flatlining and international trade data supports this theory. China’s export market plunged by 7.5% in March, far more than expected and well below the 2.3% decline predicted by a major poll of mainstream economists by Reuters.
By the end of 2023 European exports declined by 8.8% compared to a year earlier and the union barely avoided a recession (according to official numbers). All hopes in Europe rest on the possibility of a steeper drop in inflation and central bank interest rate cuts. As I have been saying since 2021, don’t get too excited about banks lowering rates. It’s not going to happen at the pace that investors want, it’s not going to bring back QE anytime soon and when they do cut rates CPI will immediately spike once again causing panic among consumers.
I suspect that, after an initial rate cut event and an inflation resurgence, central banks will return to tightening with even higher rates in 2025.
In the US, a net importer of goods rather than a primary exporter, consumer volume has been in steep decline. Due to inflation, Americans are buying less goods while paying more money. And this is how inflation skews economic data. Higher prices on goods make retail sales look great, but in reality people are simply paying a higher price for the same amount of products (or less products).
Consumer credit data shows a steep decline in debt spending; credit card delinquency is at all time highs, APR is at all time highs and debt growth has collapsed in the past couple of months. Considering that the American consumer is a primary driver of global exports, it makes sense that international trade is now plummeting. Consumers are broke. The covid stimulus party is officially over and inflation is dragging the market down.
The IMF has recently noted the signs of global slowdown but, as usual, they argue that a “soft landing” is imminent. In other words, they claim there will be no serious repercussions for the economy. They do mention one interesting caveat in their analysis – The danger of global conflicts “derailing” the supposed recovery.
War leads to rising protectionism, the IMF says, and protectionism is a big no-no. In a world economy based on forced interdependency this is partially true, but the bigger picture is being ignored. The world economy should be built on redundancy, not interdependency. Interdependency creates weakness and the potential for dangerous domino effects. This is a fact that globalists would never willingly admit to.
For now, it appears that the global slowdown will become undeniable in the next six months, either right before the US elections in November, or right after. Central banks have chosen to create this Catch-22 and they are, for whatever reason, stalling the big drop. My theory? They have a scapegoat (or scapegoats) in mind and they’re waiting for the right time to unleash the next chaotic event. Covid is gone, so they’re going to need a war, multiple wars, or political conflict in the west and in many other parts of the world as a distraction.
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Unstable, very unstable is the world, unstable is the economy, unstable are the events that they are trying to do throughout the whole world. Even the democratic convention shall be very unstable and many things shall take place that shall shock the nation. Tornadoes, tornadoes, tornadoes, drought, hail, loss of crops, flooding, earthquakes, all the signs that shall be clearly seen, loss of jobs, boasting of how they can change the global warming and yet they cannot. Trouble here, trouble there, that is what we see in the world. Even though you have had your refreshing that I have said that you would have, things will change. etc
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German industrial orders unexpectedly fall as 4 in 10 companies express concern over lack of business
Instead of rising by 0.4 percent as forecast, industrial orders in Germany fell by 0.4 percent in March, according to the latest published figures by the federal statistics office
By Thomas Brooke 3 hours ago Last updated: May 08, 2024 15:42
German companies are growing increasingly frustrated with the economic downturn affecting the country, with more businesses complaining about a lack of manufacturing orders, a recent study has shown.
According to the Munich Ifo Institute, 39.5 percent of German manufacturers across all industries don’t believe they are receiving enough orders, a problem many are concerned will lead to a drop in profitability that could in turn affect employment.
Disillusioned businesses are on the rise, with the figure cited in April 2.6 percentage points higher than in January.
“The lack of orders is hindering economic development in Germany,” warned Ifo expert Klaus Wohlrabe as cited by Welt. “Hardly any industry is spared.”
Some industries are being affected more than others, however. Nearly two-thirds (61.5 percent) of textile manufacturers are worried about their lack of business, while over half (53.9 percent) of paper manufacturers are feeling the pinch.
A significant number of businesses in other blue-collar industries including metal production companies and chemical producers are also questioning the lack of orders, with 50.6 percent and 46.6 percent, respectively, expressing their concern.
Germany’s economic landscape is having a knock-on effect on the labor market, evidenced by a lack of requests for temporary workers. Nearly two-thirds (63.9 percent) of recruitment agencies have complained about the lack of interest from employers in using their services, with businesses more focused on finding work for their existing employees than hiking their wage costs even further.
“The generally weak economic development is reducing the demand for temporary workers,” said Wohlrabe.
Some industries, however, are faring better than others and riding out the storm. Just 3 in 10 businesses within the automotive sector are concerned about orders, significantly better than the average.
German exports rebounded in March by 0.9 percent after declining by 1.9 percent in February, showing some signs of life, but companies remain fearful over their ability to operate over a lack of business.
Instead of rising by 0.4 percent as forecast, industrial orders fell by 0.4 percent in March, according to the latest published figures by the federal statistics office.
“The order situation is bringing economic optimists back down to earth,” said Alexander Krueger, chief economist at the bank Hauck Aufhaeuser Lampe, as cited by Reuters.
Commerzbank’s chief economist, Dr. Jörg Krämer, warned the downturn in orders would threaten Germany’s economic recovery in the second quarter of 2024 after the country narrowly dodged a recession in the first quarter when it reported growth of just 0.2 percent.
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Sick campus protesters called for beheading of school president with chants of 'guillotine'
By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:06 EDT, 8 May 2024 | Updated: 10:14 EDT, 8 May 2024
Pro-Palestine protestors at George Washington University called for the beheadings of school administrators before hostile clashes with police over ending their Gaza Encampment.
Footage taken on campus on Tuesday saw activists condemn GWU President Ellen Granberg and Provost Christopher Bracey to the 'guillotine.'
'Bracey, Bracey, we see you. You assault students too. Off to the motherf****** gallows with you,' the protesters were heard chanting as they held a mock court.
Hours later at around 3:30am, police descended on the encampment after they refused to end the illegal demonstration, with a total of 35 people arrested on campus, reports Fox News.
In footage shared to social media, the mock court saw young protestors sit in as proxies for Granberg, Bracey, the university's board of trustees, GW Police, and others they 'charge with genocide.'
A leader with a microphone led chants of 'guillotine', and said the board of trustees was charged with 'having a vested interest in the genocide of Palestinian people.'
'The people find you: Guilty!' the chants continued. 'I hope all that money is going to help you when you're rotting in jail.'
When she targeted Granberg, the lead activist condemned her for using 'all tuition dollars to fund genocide.'
The calls for guillotining came two weeks into GWU's Gaza Encampment, with university administrators growing frustrated with demonstrators after they refused to bring it to an end.
In recent days, antics by some protestors sparked outrage, including defacing a statue of George Washington by plastering it in 'Free Palestine' graffiti, flags and keffiyehs.
On Friday, footage of students and faculty on campus raised eyebrows as large numbers were seen participating in an Islam call to prayer on campus.
Protestors also projected an image of President Biden's face and an American flag on the side of a building, with the caption: 'Genocide Joe.'
On Tuesday, administrators warned that they would forcefully end the demonstrations, with Granberg declaring that 'at no point was the encampment lawful.'
'From the moment GW students declared their intent to establish and encampment on University Yard, they were in direct violation of multiple university policies and were trespassing on a space explicitly reserved for the GW Law final examinations,' the statement read.
'While the university is committed to protecting students’ rights to free expression, the encampment had evolved into an unlawful activity, with participants in direct violation of multiple university policies and city regulations.'
On Tuesday afternoon, some protestors reportedly marched on Granberg's home as a deadline to clear the campus neared.
Scenes turned ugly at the encampment overnight Wednesday as police cracked down on remaining protestors, using pepper spray to disperse crowds.
Dozens of people were arrested as protestors clashed with police, however no arrests were made at Granberg's home despite crowds remaining there for hours.
The overnight arrests were not the first time that GWU was rocked by hostile clashes, with protestors seen destroying barriers and facing off with police on April 29.
George Washington University is one of many colleges across the US to be rocked by anti-Israel protests in recent weeks.
At New York's Columbia University, Jewish students bravely shared their hostile encounters with protestors with DailyMail.com.
Rory Wilson, a 22-year-old history major, shared his story of how he stared down an anti-Israel mob, which left him 'pinned against the door' and fearing for his safety.
He said: 'After a friend and I worked our way into the heart of the crowd swarming around Hamilton Hall, I looked out at the masked, shouting masses lit by the constant flicker of cameras.
'My adrenaline soared. We started pulling back a table propped against the doors and the crowd realized we were not with them.
They started accusing us of aiding genocide and calling us idiots for risking ourselves for nothing.
'We were pinned against the door. I played contact sports in the past, so a bunch of shrieking Barnard girls half my size didn't faze me, but then a man dressed all in black jumped up beside us.
'He glared through the eye-slit in his mask – and I recognized that he had harassed me several days before, calling me a 'Zionist inbreeder.' I had no idea if he was a student or what he was willing to do.
'He started grabbing me, wrenching at my leg, trying to force me away from the doors. After a brief struggle, he jumped away and the screaming mob returned. Ultimately a friend got me out of there safely.
'Looking back now, I am grateful to God for the chance to have stood against them. Yet I am saddened that the university let the situation devolve into such chaos and intimidation.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13395511/george-washington-behead-guillotine-palestine.html
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Ukrainian Military Attempts to Assassinate Zelensky
Posted May 7, 2024 by Martin Armstrong |
As I have warned, Zelensky is seen as a puppet of the West, and they are starting to realize that he is destroying all of Ukraine on orders from the American Neocons. I have been warning that any assassination of Zelensky will come from within. Ukraine has reached the same realization where there was an attempt to assassinate Hitler to save Germany.
Here, on our May 7th ECM target date, two Ukrainian colonels were arrested involving an internal attempt to assassinate Zelensky, who is widely seen as a traitor to his own people. When the last Ukrainian falls, he will be on a plane to Miami to live tax-free under the protection of the American Neocons.
That was the ONLY hope of saving Ukraine just as assassinating Hitler would have saved tens of millions of lives. ABSOLUTELY nobody in the West thinks twice about killing Russians or Ukrainians. The people are starting wake up, but it looks to be too late.
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Russia’s Anti-Satellite Nuke Could Leave Lower Orbit Unusable, Test Vehicle May Already Be Deployed
New info has emerged from U.S. officials about Russia’s nuclear anti-satellite weapon and a test satellite that may be associated with it.
byJoseph Trevithick, Oliver Parken| PUBLISHED May 3, 2024 7:00 PM EDT
A senior U.S. government official has indicated that Russia already has some kind of clandestine testbed in space as part of its development of a nuclear-armed on-orbit anti-satellite weapon. This comes just days after another official warned Congress that this "indiscriminate" weapon, details about which first emerged publicly earlier this year, could be capable of rendering low Earth orbit completely unusable for a prolonged period of time.
Mallory Stewart, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability, discussed Russia’s nuclear anti-satellite weapon developments in new detail today in a fireside chat that the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, D.C., hosted.
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"The United States is extremely concerned that Russia may be considering the incorporation of nuclear weapons into its counterspace programs based on information we deem credible," Stewart said. "The United States has been aware of Russia's pursuit of this sort of capability dating back years, but only recently have we been able to make a more precise assessment of their progress."
Stewart stressed at multiple times during the conversation that the U.S. government has not assessed that Russia has "deployed" this capability in any way, and that American officials are actively trying to discourage that from happening.
However, the Assistant Secretary of State did indicate that something is in space now as part of the development of this new nuclear anti-satellite weapon.
"Russia has publicly claimed that their satellite is for scientific purposes," Stewart said "However, the orbit is in a region not used by any other spacecraft. That in itself was somewhat unusual. And the orbit is a region of higher radiation than normal, lower earth orbits, but not high enough of a radiation environment to allow accelerated testing of electronics as Russia has described the purpose to be."
Stewart did not name the satellite in question or elaborate on its claimed purpose. Putting some kind of testbed in orbit before deploying an actual space-based weapon system, especially one involving a nuclear weapon system, would make good sense. This would be even more prudent if the orbit passes through areas where there is increased radiation risks, the Van Allen belts, something we will come back to later.
Stewart speaking at the CSIS event earlier today. CSIS
The Assistant Secretary of State did provide some additional context about the anti-satellite capability that Russia is using that platform, at least in part, to help develop.
"We aren't talking about a weapon that can be used to attack humans or cause structural damage on Earth," according to Stewart. "Instead… our analysts assess that detonation [of a nuclear device] in a particular placement in orbit of a magnitude and location would render lower Earth orbit unusable for a certain amount of time." Low Earth Orbit (LEO) refers to a band of space that measures roughly 100 miles to 1,200 miles above the earth, and which is highly congested. Many capabilities that are highly important to society exist in this orbital realm.
In talking about the projected anti-satellite weapon’s capabilities, Stewart also referenced remarks from Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb earlier this week. Plumb discussed this same topic at a hearing before members of the House Armed Services Committee on May 1. There, he answered questions on a written statement to Congress regarding the Department of Defense's 2025 Fiscal Year budget request.
"The concept that we are concerned about is Russia developing and — if we are unable to convince them otherwise — to ultimately fly a nuclear weapon in space," Plumb said earlier in the week. This concerns an "indiscriminate weapon [that] doesn't have national boundaries, [and] doesn't determine between military satellites, civilian satellites or commercial satellites," Plumb said.
When pressed by Representative Mike Turner (R-Ohio), who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on the impact that detonating such a weapon in space could have, Plumb indicated that coming to a definitive conclusion remains challenging. However, he did note that "satellites that aren't hardened against nuclear detonation space, which is most satellites, could be damaged [and] affected... Some would be caught in an immediate blast which... would not be able to survive the flux of that, and then others could be damaged over time."
Here, Plumb referred to the impact of 'nuclear pumping' in the aforementioned Van Allen Belts — high energy radiation particles that form two belts that surround the Earth like donuts. Nuclear pumping refers to a phenomenon where nuclear radiation lingers in the LEO environment.
A cross-section of the Van Allen belts. Booyabazooka via Wikimedia Commons
The effects of this were demonstrated during the U.S. Starfish Prime nuclear test in 1962, which "pumped" the LEO region with radiation, taking down numerous satellites.
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Concerningly, Plumb indicated that LEO could feasibly be rendered unusable for a year if Russia's new weapon was detonated in space. As he noted in his written testimony, Plumb stipulated that this would seriously threaten "all satellites operated by countries and companies around the globe, as well as to the vital communications, scientific, meteorological, agricultural, commercial, and national security services we all depend upon."
On the developmental status of Russia's nuclear-armed anti-satellite weapon, Plumb said that specific details could only be discussed in closed session. He did note that the threat isn't "imminent in the way that we should have to worry about it right now." "But," he added, "we are concerned about it... [both] the Department [of Defense] and the entire [Biden] administration, and I know this Congress is taking this deadly seriously."
While further details on the progress on the weapon, beyond Mallory and Plumb's recent comments, aren't available outside of the classified realm, there have been recent indications that Russia is actively pursuing such a capability. In late April, Russia vetoed a United Nations (U.N.) Security Council resolution, proposed by the U.S. and Japan. Said resolution directed members to uphold Article 4 of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which Russia signed 56 years ago, forbidding countries from placing nuclear weapons in orbit or on celestial bodies. The treaty also prohibits countries from developing nuclear weapons, or other weapons of mass destruction, for use in orbit.
The White House condemned Russia's decision to veto the resolution at the time, constituting the first public confirmation by the U.S. government that Russia's new anti-satellite weapon is nuclear-armed. Previously, this had only been attributed to anonymous official sources.
In a statement released on April 24, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that "the United States assesses that Russia is developing a new satellite carrying a nuclear device. We have heard President Putin say publicly that Russia has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space. If that were the case, Russia would not have vetoed this resolution."
Russia has since circulated its own U.N. resolution on the matter of space-based nuclear weapons that not only calls for preventing such weapons from being deployed in space, but also stopping “the threat or use of force in outer space" for "all time.”
The matter of Russia's vetoing of the resolution will be deliberated on in the U.N. General Assembly on May 6, Stewart said today, which will be open to all U.N. member nations. The U.S. has also been leveraging its diplomatic resources to bolster international opposition to Russia's decision, she confirmed, having already consulted with U.N. members China and India.
"I think the international response [to the existence of the weapon] should be outreach," Stewart said, "because it affects everyone right, every single country is indiscriminate in its potential effect. So it's much different than efforts to hold us at risk limited to just the U.S. and our partners [and] allies. It would affect everyone including China and India, and Russia's own satellites. So it's extraordinarily destabilizing, and I think the international community needs to reflect that concern."
That being said, the existence of Russia's nuclear anti-satellite weapon is concerning to the U.S. government and military for a host of reasons. Space represents an absolutely critical domain and is essential for the day-to-day functioning of the U.S. military. Moreover, it has in place various programs for developing distributed space-based capabilities, supporting early warning and missile-defense type missions, as well as intelligence-gathering and surveillance, communications and data-sharing, where satellite use is key. The United States' advantage in space is clearly something adversaries are seeking to negate, potentially at great cost.
This painting, the very first commissioned for the U.S. Space Force, depicts a fictitious reusable space place intercepting a hostile 'killer satellite' threatening another American asset in orbit. U.S. Space Force
Already, adversaries such as Russia and China have developed various anti-satellite weapons, including direct ascent interceptors, 'killer satellites,' electronic warfare jammers, and lasers. The collective threat posed by these adversarial capabilities has been previously described as "extremely concerning" by the U.S. Space Force's top officer Gen. Chance Saltzman. In response, the U.S. armed forces have explored the use of different commercial options, including systems like SpaceX's Starlink, for conducting future operations via distributed satellite constellations.
And while U.S. adversaries look for new ways to target massive constellations of smaller satellites in LEO, it's possible that deploying nuclear weapons in that region — as dangerous a prospect as this would be for all space users — may look increasingly attractive to other countries aside from just Russia.
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Beyond the military aspect, once again, the loss of low earth orbit would be hugely impactful to life on Earth. The economic damage that such a weapon could do is hard to even quantify. Replacing space-based capabilities after the radiation cleared would take a very long time and LEO may be so cluttered with space junk at that point that it may not be reliably inhabitable at all for much longer than how long damaging radiation would persist.
The entire idea of this weapon is very troublesome and the use of it could set humanity back significantly for a long time.
If anything else, these new revelations about Russia's nuclear anti-satellite weapon underscore just how real a battlefield space is becoming.
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Israel Is Shooting Down A Lot Of Its Own Drones
Israeli difficulties in separating friendly drones from hostile ones underscore critical issues that U.S. forces also need to address.
Joseph Trevithick
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are knocking down a substantial number of their own drones in the course of operations, a U.S. Marine Corps officer has disclosed. This underscores serious challenges that air defense forces in the U.S. military also face in telling friendly and hostile drones apart as uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), as well as loitering munitions, become ever more ubiquitous even in operations involving very small units.
Marine Lt. Col. Michael Pruden, head of the Marine Air Command and Control Integration Branch of the Air Combat Element Division within the service's Combat Development and Integration Command (CD&I), provided details about the IDF's experiences to The War Zone and other attendees during a talk at the annual Modern Day Marine exposition yesterday. The Marine Corps is separately in the process of significantly expanding its air and missile defense forces and their capabilities, with a particular eye toward growing drone threats, as you can read more about here.
"Something interesting that comes from Israel, 40 percent, 40 percent [this figure was repeated for emphasis], of the UASs ... knocked out" by Israel are instances of "friendly fire," Pruden said.
An Israeli Iron Dome defense system in action. The IDF has publicly acknowledged Iron Dome systems accidentally shooting down friendly drones in the past. IDF
Pruden did not contextualize this figure, such as where those shootdowns occurred or over what timeframe. He did imply that this data has come from recent Israeli operations, especially in the Gaza Strip, following the terrorist attacks on the southern end of the country last year. Hamas used drones in its initial attacks on October 7, 2023, and various Iranian-backed militant groups across the Middle East, as well as Iran itself, have since launched drone attacks on Israel.
"As Israel's engaging in Gaza, and they're on their front line, they see a small UAS, what are they going to do if it's not identified immediately?" Pruden also said. "They're going to shoot it down."
Pruden added that this is the default course of action because the time between when a drone might be detected and when it could execute an attack of some kind is often measured in "seconds."
Israel had faced myriad drone threats long before October 2023. The IDF has acknowledged accidental shootdowns of friendly drones in the past, as well. That being said, the IDF has arguably the most advanced integrated air defense system on the planet. So the fact that this is a huge issue for them, doesn't bode well for other militaries.
Regardless, Pruden's remarks yesterday make clear that rapidly discriminating between friendly and hostile UASs is a major issue for the IDF. It is also one that the Marine Corps and the rest of the U.S. military will increasingly have to contend with. Just in February, the German Navy's Sachsen class frigate FGS Hessen almost shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over the Red Sea in a case of mistaken identity, underscoring the complexities that present in future operations, including ones involving foreign coalition partners.
In his talk, the Marine officer laid out a core problem as his service sees it: "How am I putting a small UAS in the sky, thousands of these things, and not telling anybody about it, especially your ground-based air defense and counter-UAS [elements]?"
A Marine launches a small quadcopter-type drone during training. USMC
The Marine Corps, as well as other branches of the U.S. military, are increasingly fielding smaller UASs to even very small units. The Marines are also pushing to field man-portable loitering munitions, also commonly referred to as kamikaze drones, along with launchers for these weapons on ground vehicles and uncrewed surface vessels.
A US Marine Corps 8x8 LAV-M mortar carrier vehicle fitted with a launcher for UVision Hero-120 loitering munitions. UVision
Tiers of larger drones, including armed and cargo-carrying types, will also be in the mix. For the Marine Corps, uncrewed logistics platforms, in the air and at sea, are seen as a critical component of how service will sustain forces during future expeditionary and distributed operations. That planning is heavily centered on a potential island-hopping campaign scenario in the Pacific as part of a large-scale conflict with China.
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Altogether, for the Marines, in particular, it is not hard to imagine future operations where the skies are full of hundreds, if not thousands of drones and loitering munitions all zooming about in different directions and performing a host of different tasks. Discriminating between friend and foe could be particularly problematic when it comes to smaller UASs that cannot necessarily carry specialized systems to broadcast their identity securely that traditional military aircraft use to avoid friendly fire incidents.
"How do I tell someone I'm just chucking something in the sky ... how am I actually doing that without having an IFF [Identification Friend or Foe] interrogator on the system, without taking away time on station capability from that UAS?" Lt. Col. Pruden said. And if it's too small ... I need to be able to put these things up there, but how am I telling ... [people] that I'm putting something in the sky?"
"How am I pushing out when it goes off track and it's supposed to be on a self-route that's notifying someone that hey, do not shoot me down?" Pruden added, speaking about issues specifically related to future cargo UAS operations. "If I shoot down something that is friendly in a forward contested logistical environment, I just took away capability from the rest of the [force]."
The rest of the U.S. military is facing the same kinds of future drone discrimination concerns, as well.
"We're very excited obviously by current operations associated with MQ-4, MQ-9, and in the future MQ-25," Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told members of the House Armed Services Committee at a hearing yesterday. "We are very much planning the integration of MQ-25, for example, with the integrated air missile defense systems so that we can recognize that the MQ-25 is operating out there ... while we're actually protecting the entire carrier strike group."
These issues, as Pruden noted himself in talking about the IDF's experiences, are not new, nor is the general threat posed by drones, which U.S. forces are still playing catch-up in addressing. The war in Ukraine has provided a prime example of just how dense and ubiquitous various tiers of drone operations can be expected to be in any future larger-scale fight. Just monitoring all of that activity, possibly thousands of target tracks at a time, which may be spread across areas big or small, is a complex proposition. Discriminating between friends and foes presents even more challenges.
Potentially malign drone use is becoming increasingly an issue outside of traditional battlefields. At the same time, the general use of uncrewed aerial systems is growing, and not just with military and other security forces forces. As such, this is really a broader domain awareness challenge that also has implications for defending the U.S. homeland.
In addition, as autonomous technologies improve, the default of knowing friendly drones are for command and control purposes will decrease, making discrimination that much more complicated. It has already become very clear thanks to the fighting in Ukraine that direct control links between drones and their operators are not just vulnerable, but offer signals that enemy forces can detect, giving away the drone's presence, as well as helping to locate friendly positions.
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These are all things opponents will have to contend with, too.
As part of his discussion yesterday, Pruden stressed that the Marine Corps is still very early in efforts to address the issue of telling apart friendly and hostile drones. New sensors and communications networks, as well as other capabilities, potentially leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, could be part of the final equation.
Pruden described a desired end state where he could simply look at a tablet screen or video feed and have it simply say "here comes a small UAS, that is ours."
"That's what we're looking at, and that's hard to do," he noted.
At the same time, Israel shooting down significant numbers of friendly drones in the course operations makes clear that discrimination issues present real problems now that will be critical for armed forces around the world, including the U.S. Marine Corps, to address.
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came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will
these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the
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Matt 24:6 "And you will hear of wars and
rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to
pass, but the end is not yet.
Matt 24:7 "For nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines,
pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
Matt 24:8 "All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matt 24:12 "And because lawlessness will abound,
the love of many will grow cold. (NKJ)
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Nostalgia for the Mud
May 3, 2024 Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“Resentful childless harpies unconsciously longing for domination. Why else worship at the altar of Hamas? Why else would it be so overwhelmingly female?” — Dr. Jordan Peterson
Wasn’t it cute how the youngsters who “occupied” Columbia U’s Hamilton Hall — and were busy smashing things up inside — demanded restaurant-grade meals sent in to avert “starvation and dehydration” amongst their dauntless ranks? You could imagine a colossal mommy breast with three hundred nipples descending from the sky over upper Manhattan to nourish them back to action. “Feed me. . . !”
It turns out, actually, that at least half the troops inside were not students at all, but rather semi-pro activists paid up to $7,000 each by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and other overtly insurrection-themed orgs, so you’d think that the troops could afford to load-up their ever-ready backpacks with Cliff bars and bottles of Smart Water. The order-in food and beverage gambit suggests we should understand that this is not so much politics as the acting out of a game — which is exactly what you might expect of people who spend more time on video screens than in the real world — in which something like a half-time intermission for refreshments is de rigueur.
Alas, they were not obliged with Doordash servings of Alitcha (“Ensemble of potatoes, carrots, collard greens, and cabbage baked in turmeric,” $22.30) from the nearby Massawa Ethiopian bistro, or Firecracker Chicken from Junzi Kitchen over on Broadway and 113th Street. And then, when the cops came to roust them out into the big buses now used as paddy-wagons for such events, the occupiers were heard to whine, “I have finals and I need to go home!” You’ve got to wonder how they’ll make out when “Joe Biden” drafts their ass to go fight the Russians out on the Ukrainian buzzard flats, about which the White House is just now sending out early signals.
It has been observed that a clear majority of the pro-Hamas activists are young women — which makes sense considering that they are the largest demographic evincing mental illness on America’s social landscape these days. Thus, they are marching in support of a sect that specializes in the rape, mutilation, and murder of young women like themselves, or at least treats them as chattels, hidden under black bag-like garments. The group psychology on display has more occult angles than any movie by the Wachowski sisters.
Among the marching Columbia students who are not paid outside activists, a few are apparently Jewish, such as spokesperson Johanna King-Slutzky (actual name, hat-tip Alex Berenson, who ID’d her), the winsome creature who complained about the lack of order-in meals at Hamilton Hall. Another observer on “X” who styles himself @J9_ATX identified the syndrome in play as “oppression envy,” among women seeking compensatory validation for occupying such a privileged niche on Planet Earth as a cushy Ivy League college — featuring international cuisine stations in the dining halls — while their third world sisters trudge through the burning sands of Al-Kufra carrying water-jugs on their heads as they dodge the odious “wind scorpions” of the region.
Higher Ed in the USA was already chugging down the suicide track before this spring’s eruption of pro-Hamas fury. The college loan racket (government-backed) had the perverse effect of pumping up tuition costs beyond what even many pretty well-off families could afford, while loading up young people with life-wrecking obligations (debt which “Joe Biden is now shifting onto the creditors, US tax-payers). Decades of DEI have filled the faculties with incompetents and assorted malcontents teaching fantasy curricula with no real-life value, and burdened the schools with cadres of overpaid diversity busybodies and thought-police. Diversity college presidents are very publicly failing to cope. The whole rotten train is going off the rails.
I’m not at all sanguine that the society we are becoming will need this vast infrastructure for babysitting young adults who could otherwise make themselves useful and productive on-the-ground in lines of work that actually keep civilized life going. This is too self-evident now to belabor, though there is an awful lot of confusion about what kind of society we might become.
I doubt that it is to be the utopia of robots, A-I, and non-stop sexual titillation that the techno-narcissists dream of. Rather, it will be a society struggling to keep too much complex stuff running with insufficient energy resources and capital — that is, a society falling apart, losing knowledge, technical know-how, comfort, and convenience while having a hard time feeding itself.
The campus Hamas zealots ironically (and tragically) represent exactly the sort of rough medievalism that the citizens of Western Civ countries would be chary of sliding into. You’d have to sadly conclude that many young people really can’t take much more Modernity, and are now pretty avid to opt out of it, even as they gaze into the magic, glowing pixels of their iPhone screens.
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They Lied to You: Biden Regime Issues Rule Change to Give Taxpayer-Funded Obamacare to Illegal Aliens – Obama Promised This Would Never Happen
by Cullen Linebarger May. 3, 2024 8:20 pm
During the debate over Obamacare back in 2010, then-President Barack Obama solemnly vowed before America illegal aliens would never have access to his healthcare proposal. In response to the pledge, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) screamed, “You lie!” and was booed by the House of Representatives.
Wilson’s words have now proved prophetic. On Friday, the Biden regime issued a final rule change to expand Obamacare coverage to younger illegals (Dreamers) who have been allowed to stay in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
As Gateway Pundit readers know, DACA was illegally created in 2012 by the Obama regime in a ploy to win over Hispanic voters in the 2012 Presidential election. The program provided work permits to illegals who entered the U.S. illegals while still minors.
Roughly 500,000 illegal aliens were protected from deportation thanks to DACA, but none received healthcare coverage until now.
The White House issued a news release that illegals covered by DACA can start applying for coverage in Obamacare and state healthcare marketplaces in November, just in time for the 2024 election.
They also boasted that more than 100,000 illegals would qualify for the program while bragging about the unconstitutional DACA policy.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is expanding access to affordable, quality healthcare coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. In 2012, President Obama and then Vice President Biden created the DACA policy to transform the lives of eligible Dreamers – young people who came to this country as children—allowing them to live and work lawfully in our country. Over the last decade, DACA has brought stability, possibility, and progress to hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.
While President Biden continues to call on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship to Dreamers and others, he is committed to protecting and preserving DACA and providing Dreamers with the opportunities and support they need to succeed, including access to affordable, quality health care coverage. Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions, today’s final rule will remove the prohibition on DACA recipients’ eligibility for Affordable Care Act coverage for the first time, and is projected to help more than 100,000 young people gain health insurance. Starting in November, DACA recipients can apply for coverage through HealthCare.gov and state-based marketplaces, where they may qualify for financial assistance to help them purchase quality health insurance. Four out of five consumers have found a plan for less than $10 a month, with millions saving an average of about $800 a year on their premiums.
President Biden and Vice President Harris believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege. Together, they promised to protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act, lowering costs and expanding coverage so that every American has the peace of mind that health insurance brings. Today’s final rule delivers on the President’s commitment by giving DACA recipients that same peace and opportunity.
Today’s rule also reinforces the President’s enduring commitment to DACA recipients and Dreamers, who contribute daily to the strength and vitality of our communities and our country. On day one of his Administration, President Biden committed to preserving and fortifying the DACA policy. While only Congress can provide Dreamers permanent status and a pathway to citizenship, the Biden-Harris Administration has continued to vigorously defend DACA against ongoing legal challenges and strengthened DACA by codifying the 2012 policy in a final rule.
The New York Post estimates the unconstitutional rule change will cost taxpayers up to $300 million. All of this while our southern border remains open and millions of Americans struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
However, under the Biden regime, Americans always come last.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/they-lied-you-biden-regime-issues-rule-change/
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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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Long Beach declares health emergency over tuberculosis outbreak that killed 1 person
By David González KABC logo Friday, May 3, 2024 2:03PM
Deadly tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach linked to hotel
A tuberculosis outbreak among residents of a single-room occupancy hotel in Long Beach has left one person dead and led to the hospitalizations of nine others.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A deadly outbreak of tuberculosis in Long Beach has forced city health officials to declare a public health emergency.
Dr. Anissa Davis, health officer for the city of Long Beach, said they're working to stop the disease from spreading.
There have been 14 tuberculosis cases linked to a private single room occupancy hotel as of Monday. Davis said nine people have had to be hospitalized, and one person has died.
Due to patient privacy laws, the name of the hotel can't be released, but people who were staying there could have been exposed to the disease.
"It just highlights the urgency of being able to really identify people who were exposed to this group and get them screened," Davis said.
This outbreak is concentrated among people experiencing homelessness. Davis said as many as 170 people may have been exposed to TB.
"Because of that it has required more resources than our regular day-to-day can provide, and so a declaration of a localized public health emergency was necessary in order to rapidly get the resources that we need to respond to this outbreak effectively," she said.
Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that spreads through the air. Symptoms can include lingering cough, chills, night sweats and weight loss.
The particles are inhaled, but Davis said it takes long term exposure for someone to get sick.
"So you really have to be around somebody for a prolonged period of time in order to really get that infection from them, so we see it a lot in like households and congregate settings and things like that," she said, stressing that the risk to the general public is low.
Tuberculosis is very treatable with the right medication. Davis said anyone who thinks they may have been exposed to the disease should contact the health department at (562) 570-7907.
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Let your spiritual eyes be open, for as you see the second altar call coming to pass and as you watch the death toll and the destructions, you will know that I have warned and I have warned, but they haven’t listened. And, therefore, we are drawing closer and closer and closer to the third and then sudden destruction, destruction that I have warned that millions upon millions upon millions shall be lost in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and yet that is not the end. That is not my wrath, for I am not pouring out my wrath, I am doing all that I possibly can to reach, to turn around, to call those in that need to come in, to wake up the Christians etc..:: 5-3-24 Express :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Russia and US on brink of WW3 as fears grow of major conflict in one African country
American special force units have been based in Niger for some eleven years, carrying out counter-terrorism operations against Islamic jihadis.
By John Varga
16:29, Fri, May 3, 2024 | UPDATED: 16:29, Fri, May 3, 2024
Russian and US troops stand on the brink of a major military confrontation, after being forced to share the same barracks in an African country.
American special force units have been based in Niger for some eleven years, carrying out counter-terrorism operations against Islamic jihadis.
The soldiers have been operating out of a military camp known as AirBase 101, providing support to the Niger government.
However relations between Washington and Niamey soured after army officers toppled President Mohamed Bazoum's regime in July last year, while fears of WW3 continue to escalate.
The White House condemned the coup, infuriating the new military junta led by General Abdourahamane Tiani.
In March the US was told to withdraw its troops from the West African country, which has turned to Russia for assistance fighting Islamist insurgents in the south of the country.
Putin's troops arrived recently in Niger and have been allocated quarters in the same base as the Americans.
With tensions already running high between Russia and the US over Ukraine, there are genuine fears that the two sides could come to blows.
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin tried to play down the risks of a confrontation, saying the situation was under control.
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British Foreign Secretary: Ukraine Can Use British Missiles Against Russian Territory
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UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said today, Ukraine CAN use British weapons to hit deep inside Russia Territory. He also promised Kiev over $3 billion in military aid annually for “as long as it takes.”
"Ukraine has the right to use weapons provided by London to strike targets on Russian territory" British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has declared, in an interview with Reuters on Thursday during a visit to Kiev.
The senior diplomat, who also served as UK Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016, met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal and Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, promising London’s “unequivocal support” and annual military aid payments.
“We will give three billion pounds ($3.74 billion) every year for as long as is necessary. We’ve just really emptied all we can in terms of giving equipment,” Cameron told the outlet, noting that some of the British weapons earmarked for Ukraine would be arriving to the country during his visit.
The foreign secretary noted that among the weapons donated to Kiev are precision-guided bombs, air defense missiles and equipment for 100 mobile air defense teams.
Cameron stated that Ukraine has the “right” to use arms provided by London to strike targets inside Russia if that’s how it wants to use them.
“Ukraine has that right. Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it’s defending itself,” the diplomat said.
Hal Turner Snap Analysis
This is a massive escalation on the part of the UK and may be the lynchpin to Russia declaring Britain a "combatant."
If person "A" provides a gun to person "B" and person B uses that gun to shoot Person "C" then Person "A" facilitated that attack and is an accessory before the fact and goes to prison, too.
I don't see any reason that state actors can't be held to that same legal standard.
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For the mark of the beast is already out, don’t
go for it, they are trying to make it sound like it is not
even the mark of the beast, trying to make it sound like it is something
else. Stay with my word, don’t listen to what they say, even
though they know what it is they are going to try and convince everyone to get
it because that will make them famous, but it will also
cause you to go to hell. Don’t
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UN Official Advocates For ‘Digital Integrity Code’ To Tackle ‘Health Misinformation’
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United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming recently gave a speech at Boston University’s Center for Emerging Diseases, explaining what can be done to combat so-called health mis- and disinformation generated by AI, and presented accepting a “digital integrity code” later this year.
In a press release from the school, BU wrote:
“In the post-pandemic era, artificial intelligence (AI) has played a major role in the dissemination of information. AI has also facilitated the spread of misinformation and disinformation across social media platforms through algorithms that amplify posts designed to generate outrage and de-prioritize posts from institutions like the United Nations, which work to dispel these false narratives.
“From hate speech to conspiracy theories, AI-fueled misinformation and disinformation serves to polarize society and create a harmful online environment. The World Economic Forum identified the threat from misinformation and disinformation as the most severe short-term threat facing the world today,” the university said.
Those who might have been screaming in a park with an audience of three now have the ability to reach thousands, if not millions of people. One of our biggest worries is the ease with which new technologies can help spread misinformation easier and cheaper, and that this content can be produced at scale and far more easily personalized and targeted.
Fleming claimed, speaking of AI
Fleming contended that there are three main things under attack by these misinformation campaigns: mistrust of vaccines, climate change denial, and misogyny.
‘In fact, if someone searches for information about vaccines online, there is around a 78% chance of finding misinformation or disinformation,’ BU says. Fleming claimed that celebrities and recognizable figures are hesitant to promote the wonders of vaccination because it may get them canceled, she said.
Fleming blasted who she refers to as “merchants of outrage,” people who know how to work the algorithms for their benefit to make money and viral content, who in particular use the platforms to push climate denialism.” Fleming named Elon Musk’s X as the main culprit, but explained what the UN does to combat this ‘misinformation.’
Since Elon Musk took over X (formerly known as Twitter), all of the climate deniers are back, and [the platform] has become a space for all kinds of climate disinformation. There is a connection that people in the anti-vaccine sphere are now shifting to the climate change denial sphere.
Instead of putting an X over the post, we are trying to find clever, positive, solutions-focused approaches to promote content on the benefits of renewable energy. This content subtly addresses the disinformation and injects climate solutions and fact-driven arguments into the posts. This approach gives people solutions for the future, and makes our future selves say thank you.
Fleming explained.
Fleming also explained that AI is being used in misogynistic attacks. ‘Generative AI is also being used to silence, intimidate, and humiliate women and girls, including death threats, rape threats, and humiliated doctored photos, is increasingly being used as a weapon to shut down critics, such as leaders, politicians, activists, journalists, and other women,’ the college said in their report.
In order to combat these things, Fleming announced the The Humanly Possible campaign (which launched on April 24th), which promotes how many lives have been saved by vaccination. It aims to “celebrate vaccines as one of humanity’s greatest achievements, up there with landing on the moon,” Fleming said.
Fleming also announced the creation of an official UN code of conduct on information integrity in the digital space, which is purported to be ready in June.
This code […] represents a push for coordinated International action to make the digital space overall more safe, more inclusive and while vigorously protecting human rights, holding digital platforms to account, and encouraging them to live up to their own standards so that they stop rewarding and incentivizing harmful content, and to push back against the proliferation of disinformation and hate.
She said
Fleming and the UN have been working to counter ‘disinformation’ for years. In 2022, during a World Economic Forum meeting, Fleming revealed some of the ways they were working with social media companies to recontrol the narrative. She admitted that the UN worked with TikTok to give “verified ticks” to their appointed propagandists to push narratives aligned wit the UN. SEE: United Nations’ Melissa Fleming Says ‘We Own The Science’ And Openly Manipulate The Media, During World Economic Forum Meeting
We had another trusted messenger project which was called Team Halo, where we trained scientists around the world and some doctors on Tik-Tok, and we had Tik-Tok working with us,
And these scientists who virtually had no following to start with, got ‘verified ticks.’ They started bringing people in their community into their labs, into their offices, and answering their questions and engaging with them.
It really took off, and many of them became like national media go-to advisors. […] So it was a layered deployment of ideas and tactics […]
People need to be inoculated themselves, and I think social media took off so quickly, that, I think people of all ages are very ill-equipped, especially in times of crisis when they’re feeling very engaged with what’s out there, and searching, and wanting to help, and wanting to share – really learning actually how to spot mis and disinformation, and how not to be part of the problem.
She said at the time
Moreover, last October Fleming also revealed the UN was working to use a tactic called “pre-bunking,” a scheme that plants key information in the mind of the viewer, so when they encounter something that goes contrary to the narrative they will know to reject it.
Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at Cambridge University, and the author of his new book “Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity,” says this prebunking will act as some ‘sort of herd immunity when it comes to false information,’ he said.
Pre-bunking is the opposite of debunking. It is a preemptive technique based on the idea of physiological inoculation.
So, just as vaccines expose people to a weakened dose of a virus to try to trigger the production of antibodies to help prevent future infection, you preemptively try to refute a future falsehood or to take techniques that are used to dupe people online so they can build up mental antibodies and in the future they are partly immune to disinformation.
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The censorship being witnessed and felt in 2024 has been some of the most swift and punishing so far, and it is only going to get worse in the run-up to the elections this year around the world, none more so than U.S., along with a new reescalation of the war machine, cyber warfare, pandemics, and more.
AI is a problem, we know that; but it is the big tech companies in collusion with governments and multinationals that are the ones that created this problem in the first place. But, this is the typical Hegelian Dialectic at play: problem, reaction, solution. The “solution” is more censorship, and ultimately digital IDs and thusly social credit scores tethered to CBDCs and tokenization.
SEE: The DQ Institute: The Social Credit Score To Become A Global Citizen To Use The Internet
And let’s not act like Musk is some whitehat guy acting on the outside: he’s in the club with them, he’s just another distraction, and there is a mountain of evidence to prove that.
Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. [28] A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. [29] A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. [30] He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Magnitude 5 earthquake recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island
The earthquake took place approximately 125 miles west from Tofino, Canada.
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SEATTLE — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was recorded off the coast of Canada's Vancouver Island on Thursday night, according to preliminary information from the United States Geological Survey.
The earthquake took place roughly 125 miles west from Tofino, Canada, and measured about 6 miles in depth.
The location of the earthquake is approximately 297 miles from downtown Seattle. The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center has not yet issued any tsunami alerts or warnings.
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More than 2,100 arrested at anti-Israel protests nationwide as police clear college encampments
Police and law enforcement have made thousands of arrests as anti-Israel agitators continue to protest in encampments on college campuses across the nation. Some colleges have struck deals with protesters to review their investments in Israel.
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Anti-Israel protests have spread nationwide since an protesters first formed an encampment on Columbia University's campus on April 17.
Columbia University authorized NYPD to restore order the following day, April 18, and more than 100 of the protesters were arrested.
The initial arrests sparked a movement on college campuses across the country, including at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
More than 2,100 protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, including students, faculty, and outside agitators.
Chicago Art Institute protesters steal keys to building and barricade themselves, school says
A group of anti-Israel protesters stole the keys to a building at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago campus on Saturday and barricaded themselves inside for several hours, despite being offered amnesty, administrators said.
A group began protesting in the north garden property at the campus before shoving a security guard and taking the keys to a museum, an Art Institute spokesperson told Fox News Digital. They then blocked emergency exits and barricaded the gates, officials said.
The school offered the protesters an alternative location to continue their protest on campus, which was was refused, officials said.
"During multiple rounds of negotiations, SAIC student protesters were promised amnesty from academic sanction and trespassing charges if they agreed to relocate," the spokesperson said. "The School also agreed to meet with a student group to discuss their demands."
After five hours of unsuccessful negotiations, the Chicago Police Department ended the protest and arrested 50 people.
Columbia president Shafik calls last 2 weeks ‘among the most difficult’ in school's history
Columbia University's embattled President Minouche Shafik on Friday called the last two weeks "among the most difficult in Columbia's history," as anti-Israel protests continue to rage on the New York City campus.
Shafik, speaking publicly for the first time about the long-running demonstrations that have taken over the campus since police cleared an occupied campus building in a video message posted to the university’s social media, said the "turmoil, tension, division and disruption have impacted the entire community.
"She noted that the students have "paid an especially high price" by losing out on the final days of the year in classrooms and residence halls — "For those of you who are seniors, you’re finishing college the same way you started: online."
Shafik’s speech came days after police raided the university’s Hamilton Hall administration building after it was illegally occupied by protesters.
"We tried very hard to resolve the issue of the encampment through dialogue," she said. "Many of the people who gathered there were largely peaceful and cared deeply about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza."
This is an excerpt from Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson's report.
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Late night ‘primal screams’ becoming new way to address college presidents in NYC
Pulling a page from the protesters’ guide to harassing Columbia University’s president, anti-Israel agitators have reportedly screamed outside the home of the New York University president.
They’re called “primal screams,” according to social media posts this week.
“Inspired by students at Columbia, students at NYU participated in a midnight primal scream outside NYU President Linda Mills’ apartment tonight,” Talia Jane tweeted. “This comes after NYU signed off on a 6am raid and sweep of their peaceful encampment protest calling on the university to divest from death.”
This happened two days after protesters gathered outside Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik’s home in New York City following arrests on the Ivy League campus.
Here’s that primal scream on Thursday.
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National police union blames UCLA administration for lack of response to protests
The Federated University Police Officers Association (FUPOA) leader said Saturday that it was UCLA administrators to blame for a "lack of response" to anti-Israel protests on campus last week that resulted in violence, hundreds of arrests and turmoil on campus.
"UC administrators are solely responsible for the University’s response to campus protests, and they own all the fallout from those responses," FUPOA President Wade Stern said in a press release Saturday, according to Fox 11 in Los Angeles.
Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters set up encampments Tuesday on UCLA's campus in Royce Quad, demanding, in-part, that the university divest from "companies and institutions that are complicit in the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide of the Palestinian people."
Then, a hundred or so pro-Israel counter-protesters showed up and an ensuing skirmish took place between the two encampments. There was no law enforcement present for at least three and a half hours.
On Wednesday night, heading into Thursday morning, there was finally a large police presence. Local and state police ripped apart the pro-Palestinian encampment and arrested more than 200 people.
The FUPOA said an investigation will "undoubtedly uncover multiple failures to implement and adhere to UC’s own guidelines for response to campus protests."
"The UCLA administration has much to answer for in the upcoming probe, and their adherence to established guidelines should play a central part," the police union's statement read.
Fox 11 Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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University of Virginia police arrest 25 anti-Israel protesters while trying to clear encampment
At least 25 anti-Israel protesters were arrested at the University of Virginia campus Saturday as authorities tried to clear an encampment, the school said.
Campus police declared an “unlawful assembly” earlier in the day after UVA Police Chief Tim Longo gave a group of anti-Israel protesters near the University Chapel 10 minutes to leave the area.
At 8:15 a.m., officials tried to collect tents and were met with "agitation and chanting" from protesters, the school said in a news release.
“Authorities were again met with agitation, chanting and violent gestures such as swinging of objects,” the school said. “Beginning at around 2:30 p.m., UPD gave the crowd three verbal warnings that an unlawful assembly would be declared if demonstrators refused to leave the area.”
The Virginia State Police responded to the campus to assist local authorities. The scene was declared “stable” around 4 p.m.
The protesters have repeatedly refused to comply with university policies regarding protests over several days, school President Jim Ryan said Saturday in a message to students and staff.
"Unfortunately, a small group today made a choice to willingly break the rules after being given many opportunities to comply, and they then refused to leave the site voluntarily," Ryan said. "I sincerely wish it were otherwise, but this repeated and intentional refusal to comply with reasonable rules intended to secure the safety, operations, and rights of the entire university community left us with no other choice than to uphold the neutral application and enforcement of those rules."
At least 25 people were arrested on suspicion of trespassing and were taken to the Albemarle County Regional Jail. University officials were still waiting for confirmation on how many of those arrested were affiliated with the school.
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Conservative beer brand plans 'Frat Boy Summer' celebrating college students who defended US flag
A "woke-free" beer company that launched last year hoping to rival Bud Light will host an event Tuesday at a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill fraternity house to celebrate the actions of the students who defended the American flag from anti-Israel protesters on campus earlier this week.
Dubbed the "Frat Boy Summer Kickoff," the event will be held at the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity house and will be hosted by the Ultra Right Beer Company.
"We're trying to get this very organic, just a good old-fashioned, frat row, beer party," said Seth Weathers, CEO of Ultra Right Beer Company, told Fox News Digital. "I love what the kids did, obviously, protecting the flag."
"I love the idea of just continuing to encourage them about what they did so that that will encourage, you know, other kids in college and everywhere else to know they did the right thing," he added.
Ultra Right Beer Company will be giving away free beer to those in attendance for what Weathers believes will turn into a "really good event" that "multiple fraternities" and Old Row, a Barstool Sports subsidiary, are involved with.
"We're doing free beer," he said. "We're making it really simple — show up, you got free beer. We're bringing half a tractor trailer load of beer for this thing just in anticipation of the kind of crowd it sounds like we're going to have."
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The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality.
The church has long been divided into factions over LGBTQ inclusion and even weighed splitting into two separate churches over the issue, CNN previously reported.
In 1984, the church banned “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from becoming members of the clergy, and later added performing or celebrating same-sex unions to “a list of chargeable offenses that could result in a church trial,” according to a timeline of the church’s history with the LGBTQ community.
The Methodist community spent the ensuing decades debating, fighting and praying over their stance on gay clergy and LGBTQ members. But Wednesday’s vote by the church’s top legislative body signaled a historic shift toward acceptance and inclusion.
In a 692-51 vote, church leaders passed several rules without debate, including overturning both its ban on gay clergy and the penalties for holding same-sex marriages, according to the United Methodist News service.
After the vote, Hope Morgan Ward, a retired bishop in the United Methodist Church, prayed the church would be used as “peacemakers and servants” and be “welcoming of all people into the embrace of God.”
According to the Methodist news service, members cheered, cried and hugged after the vote.
“We’ve been going on like this since the ’70s and, finally, in just a brief few minutes with no debate, it was gone. And now we can get on about the business of the church,” Marilyn Murphy, an observer from the church’s South Carolina conference, told the news service.
LGBTQ advocates within the church hailed the decision.
Matt Patrick, co-pastor at the University United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, told CNN he became emotional after the church announced the decision.
“I did tear up this morning at the announcement of the vote because it was just a huge relief to see justice had been done after so many years,” he said. “There’s just been a lot of pain in order to get us to this place.”
Though the prohibition on gay clergy has been removed from the church bylaws, Patrick said the work will continue to ensure the Methodist church is as an inclusive place for everyone.
“Where we go from here, God only knows,” he said.
More changes are expected as the legislative conference continues in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The war in Gaza and rebellion against the God of the Bible
Is it alright to bring God into the discussion about the war between Israel and Hamas? Are the Israelis not just colonialists, annexing the land and displacing the native population? A short review of the history of the region in question and its biblical context sketches an astoundingly simple answer to the question of the war in Gaza.
It is especially people who consider themselves to be fighting for a better, fairer world, who are filled with righteous fury towards aggressors – in this case, Israelis and Jews around the world – and allow their blind sympathy for victims to propel them along, in this case, the Palestinian people. “It is a matter of fairness, of human rights,” many say, appalled. This week in Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia, thousands were raped, murdered, or displaced, but most people do not even register that as a sidenote. North Korea, China, Pakistan, Yemen, and many other countries who spit upon human rights as a matter of course, where people are slaughtered like animals daily, are given neither sympathy nor their share of righteous fury. There must be something about the conflict between Israel and Palestine that captures the attention of not just Islamic, but also non-Islamic nations. 2 Everyone is forced to take a side – and often, the side that is taken stands again Israel and the Jews. The fact is that the question of the God of the Bible is not just a religious footnote in this conflict, but is actually the main factor, even if its relevance and application are often haphazard, unthinking, and unconscious. The Bible is the most-read book in the whole world. It has heavily influenced many nations, traditions, and cultures. In the Bible, the Jews are called the chosen people of God. In and through them, God wants to both broach the topic of His relationship with humanity and bring it to fruition. Important to note is that it is not the self-image of the Jews that matters in this respect, but alone the fact that God chose them and connected His name to them forever. He gave this heavily disputed strip of land as an inheritance to their forefather Abraham and his descendants, Isaac and Jacob, about 2100 years before Christ (vis. Gen 12:6-7, 13:15, 26:2- 5, 28:13-15, 35:9-11).
Israel’s History Goes Way Back
After the people of Israel lived in the promised land for 500 years as a loose collection of tribes, they were ruled by King Saul. King Saul was the first king of Israel and the founder of Israel as a concrete nation-state. The Kingdom of Israel changed as it grew larger, was divided and later subjugated by a number of conquering nations, but it remained a nation until the year 135 A.D. That year, the Romans put down the Bar Kokhba revolt; Emperor Hadrian changed the name of this rebellious province from “Judea” to “Syria-Palestine” to erase the memory of the Jewish people from history. From the eighth century onwards for 1,300 years, the land was ruled by the Muslims – with a short interlude of 90 years during which the Crusaders held it. WWI brought the end of Islamic rule, and the Holy Land was brought under the mandate of Great Britain as a protectorate. To go into detail about the inglorious and conflict-seeding rule of Britain in the Orient would go beyond the scope of this article. The only concession to the Jewish people was the Balfour Declaration in 1917 which promised them a home in Palestine. However, mounting pressure from the Arabic nations caused the British administration to prevent the immigration of Jews into Palestine during WWII. The British sent many Jewish refugees back to Europe, where they found death in Nazi concentration camps. Incited and supported by the Arab nations, the ethnic Arabic inhabitants of Palestine emphatically resisted the immigration of Jews. A struggle for survival ensued, with terror and assassinations on both sides. The British offered neither help nor protection, instead turning to the international community (UN) to ask 3 for a solution. The international community decided to divide the land into two parts: A Jewish one, and an Arabic one. The Arabs would have East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. The Jews accepted the division, the Arabs rejected it. When the Jews declared the Nation of Israel on their allotted territory in 1948, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt immediately declared war on them and attacked the Jewish state as soon as the British left. The nascent nation fought desperately for survival and was able to win the war through God’s intervention. Many Arabs fled from Palestine into the surrounding countries during the war. The Arab nations promised them that they would drive the Jews into the ocean soon enough and that the refugees would be able to return to a liberated, Jew-free Palestine. Most of these refugees still live, three generations later, in the same refugee camps, because their Arabic brothers refuse to give them citizenship in their new homes.
God Is the One Who Acts
The idea that the State of Israel is only a product of the collective guilty conscience of Europeans is not just widely spread in the Islamic world. Israel has become a dangerous risk to world peace. The voices calling for Israel to yield to the stipulations and demands of the Arabic world and withdraw to the 1967 borders are getting louder and louder. For the Jews, this would mean handing over East Jerusalem – and with it, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, the site of their ethnic and religious identity per se – to the Muslims. For 2000 years, the scattered Jewish people have prayed every year at their feast of Passover: “Next year in Jerusalem!” God scattered His people among every other people of the world to punish them for their disobedience and disregard of His commandments. But He also promised them, that one day He would gather them together out of all nations and bring them back to the land of their fathers, to fulfil His will concerning them and all nations of the world. You can read this in Ezekiel 20:40-44, 36:16-37, and 37:21-23, as well as Isaiah 11:12, 43:6, 49:22, and Jeremiah 31:10. God is the one who acts in the history of the Jews, even if they themselves do not believe it. The fight against the Jewish people and their claim to the land is, in the end, a fight against God and His plans
The Fight for the Inheritance of the Chosen People
The conflict between Israel and Palestine is not just political. That a two-state solution is no answer to the problem at hand is easy to conclude from the absolute lack of interest in it on the side of the Arabs. The Arabic states had nearly 20 years between 1948 and 1967 to raise up a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital – and the UN backing them every step of the way. During this time, East Jerusalem and the West Bank belonged to the Kingdom of Jordan and Gaza to Egypt. But these states did not consider the option of declaring a Palestinian state and sending the refugees there for even a moment. On the contrary: In 1964, the Egyptian president and leading figure of Pan-Arabism Gamal Abdel Nasser founded the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) with the express goal of freeing Palestine from the Jews. Other Arabic states involved themselves in this project. Yasser Arafat, the long-time leader of the PLO, and his successor Mahmud Abbas rejected every single Israeli offer of a two-state solution. In the end, they were not free to make any decisions on their own. The goals of the Arabic-Islamic nations that sponsored them were much more fundamental: The Jewish state was to cease to exist, to disappear entirely. To reach this goal, the suffering of the Palestinian people must be upheld in order to leverage it against the West and Israel itself. This objective was validated in 1969 in the course of the “Fourth Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research” at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. In 1967, the government of Israel got wind of an assault planned by the Arabic states. In six days, the Israeli army was able to defeat and push back the superior forces of the Arabs with a pre-emptive strike. This was a huge shock to the entirety of the Islamic world: For the first time since the Crusaders, Temple Mount was not in Islamic hands. This experience deeply unsettled Islamic self-perception. The Muslims understand themselves as the chosen faith community that God assigned to rule the world in the name of the true religion. In the eyes of Islam, Christians are ultimately just idolaters since they worship Jesus in addition to Allah. Jews, however, are a real problem: They understand themselves as the people of God, and that undermines the Islamic self-perception as God’s true chosen people. Islam teaches that God discarded the once-chosen Jewish people and that because the Muslims succeeded them as God’s chosen people, all the spiritual and physical inheritances of the Jews now belong to the Muslims. All the Jewish prophets and important figures such as David and Solomon were declared Muslims posthumously and integrated into the Islamic concept. In Islam, Jerusalem is considered the City of Prophets. Whoever rules her is also the legitimate inheritor of her spiritual authority. By losing control of Jerusalem in 1967, this spiritual authority and the Islamic claim to world domination were badly shaken.
The Islamic Perspective
In 1969, at the aforementioned conference at Al-Azhar University, the most notable spiritual and political leaders of the Islamic world came 5 together to discuss why Allah would allow his chosen Islamic community to be defeated by the Jews whom he had discarded. They came to the conclusion that this could only have happened because the Islamic community had allowed itself to be corrupted by the ideology of the unbelieving West, adopting godless concepts such as human rights and democracy. Their solution was: Back to the true Islam of the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet! Back to world-domination under the rule of Islam! An explanation was offered for the return of the Jews into the Holy Land and City of Prophets: A passage was found in the Islamic traditions (the hadith) where the return of the Jews at the end of time was foretold as early as the eighth century. This would happen so that the Islamic community might administer God’s judgment over them. The conquering of the world by Islam would be prefaced by the total destruction of this people, rejected by God. After 1969, since the Islamic nations were not able to defeat Israel militarily, they began sending the other nations a very clear message through economic pressure and targeted terror: “Those who call themselves friends of the Jews are our enemies.” Coupled with the accusation that the West does not care about social justice or the suffering of the Arabs, they did not have to wait long for the desired reaction to manifest. No nation has ever been irrationally condemned as many times by the UN Security Council as Israel. In the year 2023, the UN Assembly passed no less than 14 resolutions against Israel alone, and seven resolutions total against all other centres of conflict worldwide. This is rather astounding since Israel is the only state in the entire Middle East that allows its minorities access to every level of political and social position. The same kind of irrational action can also be seen in the attitude of the UN towards the current war between Israel and Hamas. On the 7th of October 2023, militants of the Palestinian terror organisation Hamas attacked Israel.
They deliberately murdered civilians and took a great many hostages. Their openly declared goal was to liberate Jerusalem, destroy and banish the Jews, and to bring the rule of Islam to the entire world. One of their most important commanders, Al Zahar, even broadcasted this on YouTube. When Israel began to defend itself, they were immediately depicted in all manner of social media as a state of violent villains. The cold-blooded calculation of Hamas, that Israel’s retaliation would also claim many civilian victims, paid off. For the release of the hostages, Hamas demanded nothing less than the end of the war and Israel’s definitive withdrawal from Gaza. On top of that, hundreds of condemned Palestinian terrorists were to be released. This is also how the architect of the October massacre by Hamas, Yahya 6 Sinwar, achieved freedom in 2011: By being traded for the Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit. To acquiesce to these demands would be an unthinkable endangerment for Israel. In that case, Hamas – bolstered by their success – would surely not cease fighting for their goal of the destruction of Israel. Completely ignoring Hamas’ self-proclaimed goals and showing an absolutely flabbergasting ignorance of the Islamic world-view, western states demanded that Israel end their offensive and strive for a two-state solution. As if Hamas were interested in anything even approaching peaceful coexistence with a Jewish state.
God’s Claim
Under the auspices of this war, the Jewish community around the world came under pressure. Antisemitism showed itself to be shockingly strong and widespread. How can it be that self-proclaimed fighters for human rights gather in the streets side-by-side with Muslims who have no qualms about implementing violence? Adherents of the LGBTQ+ - movement and feminists have an incredibly short half-life in a state ruled by Islam; Islamic law forbids such ideologies. What unites them in this fight is the question of absolute authority. Both Muslims and non-Muslims revolt against the God of the Bible, and this leads to the most improbable bedfellows. This God claims to be the creator of all life and demands accountability from His creations. Whoever wants to be their own boss and rejects God’s rule because of it will make Him and all who believe in Him an object of hate to themselves. God says that all who trust in their own wisdom and strength are condemned and cursed ( Jeremiah 17:5-6). But He promises those blessings and life who submit to His rule ( Jeremiah 17:7-8).
Adversaries of God
The spirit of adversity and contempt towards God’s reign in the Bible is personified in the person of Esau, also called Edom. For a meal of red lentils, he sold his firstborn birthright. The birthright that marked him as the carrier of God’s promises. With this, he expressed his contempt for the rule of God in his life. When his brother Jacob then appropriated the firstborn birthright for himself, Edom’s contempt turned into hate towards his brother and all his descendants. All the prophets of the Bible bear witness that Edom will do anything to destroy the descendants of Jacob in order to wipe out God’s claim to rule. The Jews are the expression of this claim. This rebellion against God’s claim to rule unites all nations that trust in their own strength and wisdom in their fight against Him. This phenomenon is summarized in Psalm 2: “Why do the nations con- 7 spire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, ’let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.”
Jesus Is King
Jesus says: “I am the way and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” ( John 14:6). This is an unbelievably unreasonable thing to expect the proud and independent spirit of humanity to accept. Even if not all Jews believe in the Messiah and Saviour Jesus, their story is still closely bound together with Him. He is the only way to salvation for every person. God brought His Jewish people back to their country in order to write the story of the Last Days. This has everything to do with the reign of peace that the Messiah will bring to all nations (vis. Isaiah 2:1-5, 25:6-9, and Revelation 21:1-8). But before this promised reign of peace begins, the war of the nations against God’s claim must come to pass. Jesus called Jerusalem the City of the Great King. He is that Great King, the one whose reign will manifest itself in Jerusalem. He will hold the Lords of the nations accountable (vis. Zachariah 12:13, 14:1-20, Matthew 10:22, 24:9-11, and John 15:8). The God of the Bible says of Himself that He resists the prideful and lives with those who have humble spirits. He loves all people – Jew and non-Jew. He wants to save them from their downfall. He wants to forgive them, reconcile them, and give them joy, peace, and true freedom – but He has terms. He tells us what they are in His word: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).
Marcel Rebiai
Marcel is the director of “Community of Reconciliation” (COR), which he founded in 1988. He came to Israel in 1994 with his wife Regula and their four now grown children. Marcel serves as an elder in a messianic congregation in Jerusalem. He is involved with other leaders in Jerusalem and nationwide, facilitating fellowship, unity and cooperative efforts to advance God’s purposes for the messianic body in Jerusalem and in Israel.
https://allisrael.com/blog/the-war-in-gaza-and-rebellion-against-the-god-of-the-bible
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Matthew 24:3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the
disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things
be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the
end of the age?"
Matthew 24:12 "And because lawlessness will
abound, the love of many will grow cold. (NKJ)
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NYPD Raids Columbia Building
Tuesday, 30 April 2024 10:07 PM EDT
Dozens of helmeted police marched on to Columbia University's campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday and began evicting a building that had been barricaded by pro-Palestinian student protesters.
AFP journalists could see police climbing up to the second story of Hamilton Hall from a laddered truck and disappear inside, as student newspaper the Columbia Spectator said arrests were being made.
Hamilton Hall had been barricaded at dawn by students who vowed they would fight any eviction, as they protested the soaring death toll from Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The action came as university administrators around the United States struggle to contain pro-Palestinian demonstrations on dozens of campuses.
The demonstrations — the most sweeping and prolonged unrest to rock U.S. college campuses since the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s and '70s — have already led to several hundred arrests of students and other activists.
Many of them have vowed to maintain their actions despite suspensions and threats of expulsion.
"We will remain here, drawing from the lessons of our people (in Gaza) that stay put, and hold their ground even under the worst conditions," a protester wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf, who declined to give her name, told reporters outside the hall earlier in the day.
As she spoke, protesters were seen using ropes to hoist crates of supplies up to the building's second floor, apparently signaling the students were hunkering down.
President Joe Biden's White House had sharply criticized the seizure of Hamilton Hall, with a spokesman saying it was "absolutely the wrong approach."
"That is not an example of peaceful protest," the spokesman added.
The protests have posed a challenge to university administrators trying to balance free speech rights with complaints that the rallies have veered into antisemitism and hate.
The unrest has swept through U.S. higher education institutions like wildfire, with many student protesters erecting tent encampments on campuses from coast to coast.
At Columbia, demonstrators have vowed to remain until their demands are met, including that the school divest all financial holdings linked to Israel.
The university has rejected the demand, with President Minouche Shafik saying earlier that talks with students had collapsed.
Columbia has warned that students occupying the building face expulsion.
The university outlined in a press update Tuesday that those in the encampments and Hamilton Hall "number in the dozens," while nearly 37,000 attend Columbia.
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In one of the newest clashes, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, police moved in Tuesday to clear one encampment, detaining some protesters in a tense showdown.
Meanwhile at northern California's Cal Poly Humboldt, a weeklong occupation was brought to a dramatic end early Tuesday when police moved in to arrest nearly three dozen protesters who had seized buildings and forced the closure of the campus.
In Oregon, Portland State University's campus was closed Tuesday "due to an ongoing incident" in the library, college authorities said, after local media reported around 50 protesters had broken into the building a day earlier.
And Brown University reached an agreement in which student protesters will remove their encampment in exchange for the institution holding a vote on divesting from Israel — a major concession from an elite American university during the protests.
Footage of police in riot gear summoned at various colleges has been viewed around the world.
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk voiced concern at the heavy-handed steps taken to disperse the campus protests, saying "freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly are fundamental to society."
He added, "Incitement to violence or hatred on grounds of identity or viewpoints — whether real or assumed — must be strongly repudiated."
Shafik said many Jewish students had fled Columbia's campus in fear. "Antisemitic language and actions are unacceptable," she said.
Protest organizers deny accusations of antisemitism, arguing their actions are aimed at Israel's government.
The Columbia student group insisted their protest was peaceful and warned authorities against a crackdown similar to those that marred the anti-Vietnam War movement.
The Gaza war started when Hamas militants staged an unprecedented attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that left around 1,170 people dead, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
During their attack, militants also seized hostages, 129 of whom Israel estimates remain in Gaza, including 34 whom the military says are dead.
Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 34,535 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/columbia-anti-israel-protests-nypd/2024/04/30/id/1163021/
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German ambassador attacked by Palestinian mob during Ramallah visit
Owcza downplayed the incident in a post on X, stating, “Peaceful protest [and] dialogue always has its place.
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS
APRIL 30, 2024 14:40 Updated: APRIL 30, 2024 23:30
German Representative to the Palestinian Authority Oliver Owcza was heckled and his vehicle was attacked by students during his visit to Birzeit University near Ramallah in the West Bank on Tuesday.
Social media clips showed him walking quickly to his car as protesters followed him.
Shots also showed how a mob surrounded the vehicle, threw objects at it, kicked it and broke off a side mirror to show their anger at Germany’s support for Israel in the war against Hamas.
Owcza was one of a group of envoys who were attacked at the meeting of European Union heads of missions to the PA at the National Museum.
Before the incident, Palestinian students called on Facebook calling for a protest against the presence of the German representative over his country’s support for Israel in the war.
Palestinian students disrupted the EU meeting and attacked a number of envoys’ vehicles with stones, smashing the back window of one, witnesses said.
One diplomat present told Reuters they were in a meeting when a crowd appeared outside telling them to leave and, after attempts at dialog were unsuccessful, the diplomats left. The experience was unpleasant, but there was no serious threat to any of them, he said.
Amr Kayed, a student from Birzeit University, said they forced the EU diplomats to leave to send a message that “anyone complicit in genocide and the offensive on Gaza” was not welcome.
Owcza downplayed the incident in a post on X, stating, “Peaceful protest [and] dialogue always has its place. We regret that today’s meeting of EU Heads of Missions at the National Museum in Birzeit was unduly interrupted by protesters.”
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-799190
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etc.. Did I not warn you that the days would be like Sodom
and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or
ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion
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Biden stokes outrage for making sign of the cross at pro-abortion rally: 'Truly sacrilegious'
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, April 24, 2024
President Joe Biden drew criticism and accusations of sacrilege for making the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion speech at his campaign rally in Florida on Tuesday.
Biden, the second Catholic president in United States history, made the gesture common among Roman Catholics while listening to a speech from Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried at his campaign event in Tampa.
This. Is. VILE!
President Biden makes the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally in Florida!
You cannot be Catholic and support abortion!
You cannot invoke GOD and promote Death! pic.twitter.com/aG4P542EM0
— CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) April 23, 2024
During the rally that focused heavily on abortion, Biden blamed Trump for the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and accused him of creating "a healthcare crisis for women all over this country."
During her remarks, Fried hit at Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, suggesting he only decided to support the state's six-week abortion ban because he was running for president. Florida's six-week abortion ban is slated to go into effect on May 1.
"And then we come back here to the state of Florida, where Ron DeSantis felt like he needed to run for president, and so 15 weeks wasn't good enough — we had to go to six weeks," Fried said as Biden made the sign of the cross. It's unclear what specifically in her remarks prompted him to do so.
A clip of the moment went viral on X, formerly known as Twitter, after being tweeted out by CatholicVote.org, a nonprofit pro-life political advocacy group based in Indiana.
"This. Is. VILE! President Biden makes the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally in Florida! You cannot be Catholic and support abortion! You cannot invoke GOD and promote Death!" the group wrote.
The organization also tweeted Galatians 6:7: "Make no mistake: God is not mocked."
CatholicVote.org President Brian Burch criticized Biden's action as "despicable" and accused the president of trying to "co-opt a sacred practice in support of his new abortion religion."
"Biden's decision to make the Sign of the Cross in support of abortion extremism is a despicable charade that attempts to co-opt a sacred practice in support of his new abortion religion," Burch said in a statement. "His gesture openly mocks the Christian belief in the sanctity of life."
"There is no divine support for destroying the lives of innocent children, and he should know better. Biden's gesture suggests he is either terribly naive, or senile, or callously indifferent to the foundational beliefs of millions of Christians in America," Burch added.
Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was recently removed as bishop of Tyler, Texas, amid tensions with the Vatican, echoed Burch.
"Absolutely vile, pray for the soul of our president, he is a feeble old man, he needs to prepare to meet his maker," Strickland tweeted.
Absolutely vile, pray for the soul of our president, he is a feeble old man, he needs to prepare to meet his maker… https://t.co/hOqvJZ3Oa8
— Bishop J. Strickland (@BishStrickland) April 24, 2024
Other users on X also flooded the footage from CatholicVote.org with negative responses, including many who noted they found it offensive despite not being Catholics.
"Is abortion now a left-wing sacrament?" asked the national grassroots pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which described Biden's campaign stops as an "abortion fearmongering tour."
"The fact that Biden gets away with this is a failure of many members of the church hierarchy," pro-life Catholic activist organization American Life League wrote.
"Demonic: Joe Biden makes the sign of the cross at a pro-abortion rally," wrote William Wolfe, who serves as executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership. "When I say evil spiritual forces are at play in his administration, I mean it."
"This is truly sacrilegious," wrote Marc Thiessen, a Catholic former White House speechwriter and columnist for The Washington Post. "Our 'Catholic' president making the sign of the cross at an abortion rally."
"How disgusting," wrote conservative political commentator Mercedes Schlapp. "Biden is an advocate for this culture of death that contradicts the Catholic pro life teachings."
40 Days for Life, a pro-life campaign that works to end abortion through prayer and fast, community outreach and peaceful vigils at abortion clinics, wrote that Biden's sign of the cross at an abortion rally is a "stark reminder of the disconnect between his actions and Catholic teachings on the sanctity of life."
The backlash is the latest example of some Catholics questioning the sincerity of Biden's professed faith in light of his support for practices that openly defy the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Several weeks ago, Archbishop of Washington Wilton Cardinal Gregory criticized Biden as a "cafeteria Catholic" who "picks and chooses" which elements of Catholicism he wants to follow.
"I would say that he's very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts," Gregory said during a March 31 appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation."
"There is a phrase that we have used in the past, a 'cafeteria Catholic,' you choose that which is attractive and dismiss that which is challenging," he added.
Biden also prompted outrage from many Christians earlier this month for declaring Easter Sunday as "Transgender Day of Visibility."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attempted to downplay the backlash, claiming the Transgender Day of Visibility commemoration on Easter Sunday was coincidental because the observance falls on March 31 every year. She also accused Republicans who got upset about it of exhibiting cruelty and trafficking misinformation.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
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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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REPORT: Canadian Town To Require QR Code To Leave?
By Danielle | Apr 27, 2024
Circulating reports indicate a remote Canadian town will require a QR code to enter or leave.
Unsurprisingly, the reports have sparked severe criticism.
The controversy stems from Îles-de-la-Madeleine, an archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The municipality, consisting of 12 islands, is home to approximately 12,000 residents.
A proposed $30 tourist fee caused an uproar.
“The municipal council of Îles-de-la-Madeleine wishes to adopt a new measure for its citizens, namely that of mandatory identification to leave their municipality,” TVA Nouvelles wrote (translated).
“Canada now has a town that forces you to scan a QR code to enter and leave, and then charges you a $30 tax,” journalist Keean Bexte commented.
“Îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has become the first municipality in Canada to officially require a QR code to enter and leave,” The Counter Signal noted.
“Madeleine Island getting QR codes in order to leave and if you don’t get your QR code, you will be fined,” one woman claimed in a viral video.
“That’s the very first QR code prison here in Canada. And it is going to sweep the nation faster than you can think if people don’t stand up and take a stand against these QR codes,” she continued.
“It’s not happening in your town yet but it most certainly will be,” she added.
WATCH:
Officials reportedly said the QR code requirement to leave the archipelago Îles-de-la-Madeleine will only apply to tourists.
Residents must show their driver’s license to enter or leave, The Counter Signal noted.
“QR Codes coming to a remote Canadian island in the heart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Île de la Madeleine! This is real, not a conspiracy theory. Time to stand united, rally behind our fellow Canadians. Let’s strategize how to halt this trend and send a clear message: Canadians will not embrace QR codes or a social credit system,” Purdy Talks wrote, sharing what appears to be footage from a municipal council meeting.
“This video explains that visitors to the island won’t require a code to enter; however, tourists must show a QR code for departure. Residents, on the other hand, only need to present their driver’s license with an island address,” the post continued.
“The exit check is implemented to confirm the absence of any municipal infractions, which officials claim is to support the island’s infrastructure. There are discussions among officials asserting that this process is akin to presenting identification for air or sea travel. However, a woman argues that those are services we opt to use, distinct from leaving our homes. They engage in a back-and-forth; the official labels her statement as an opinion, but she counters it’s a fact. The official dismisses her and essentially shuts her down, treating her as if she were a child,” the post added.
YouTube backup:
The Counter Signal reports:
“1st city in Canada to require a QR code and a tourist tax of $30 to leave Îles-de-la-Madeleine, an island in Quebec. But hey, it’s all for your wealth & safety! And agenda 2030 & 15 min cities are conspiracy theories,” podcaster and journalist Efrat Fenigson commented.
Per Radio-Canada:
The outlet offered this definition of the fee:
Between May 1 and October 14, visitors to the Magdalen Islands will have to pay a fee of $30 plus taxes, payable via a secure payment platform. This fee will be used to finance the management of residual materials, the maintenance of recreational tourism infrastructure and the establishment and operation of a regional park on public lands.
https://100percentfedup.com/reportnadian-town-require-qr-code-leave/
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US retailers confirm another 169 store closures in just one week - among them Urban Outfitters, Walmart and a premium grocery chain
In the week ending April 26, retailers announced they would close 169 stores
They included Express, Outfox Hospitality, Urban Outfitters and Walmart
READ MORE: Retailers shut 5,500 stores last year across a range of sectors
By Neirin Gray Desai Consumer Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:13 EDT, 1 May 2024 | Updated: 09:21 EDT, 1 May 2024
US retailers confirmed another 169 closures last week - bringing the total so far this year up to almost 2,600.
Stores that announced the shuttering of locations included Express, Outfox Hospitality, Shop 'n Save, Urban Outfitters and Walmart.
Physical stores in shopping malls, strip malls, downtown centers and on main street in towns have been under threat from online retail and changing tastes.
'Year to date, in 2024, major US retailers have announced 7.4 percent fewer openings and 12.3 percent more closures compared to the same time last year,' read a report by Coresight Research on closures announced over the week ending April 26. The full list is below.
The total of 2,587 closures in the first 17 weeks of the year is almost 300 more than at the same time last year, but a thousand less than the number of openings.
Walmart plans to close one Neighborhood Market store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 17.
Walmart Neighborhood Markets are smaller versions of its traditional Walmart stores but have been largely unsuccessful and the retailer closed multiple last year.
'Usually big-box retailers when they try to go small with city stores, it doesn't usually work,' Alexander Milovic, professor of marketing at Marquette University, told local station TMJ4. 'A grocery store like that runs on smaller profit margins.'
Discount grocery retailer Shop 'n Save also announced it would close one store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 13, according to the report.
Last week, café and deli market chains Foxtrot and Dom's Kitchen & Market - both operated by Outfox Hospitality - abruptly closed all of their stores in multiple states.
The closures affected 33 Foxtrots and two Dom's Grocery Stores in Chicago, Austin and the Washington DC area.
'We explored many avenues to continue the business but found no viable option despite good faith and exhaustive efforts,' the company said in a notice on its website.
Founded in 2014, Foxtrot Market started as an upmarket neighborhood grocery store. The stores feature a coffee shop and seating for guests, which turned into a wine bar at night. The retailer also tried to juggle retail sales.
Last week, fashion retailer Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and said it intended to close more than 100 stores.
The retailer, whose portfolio of brands also includes Bonobos and UpWest, listed assets and liabilities in the range of $1 billion to $10 billion, according to a filing with the bankruptcy court in Delaware.
As part of the bankruptcy process, the company said it would close approximately 95 Express retail stores and all of its 12 UpWest stores.
Launched in 1980, Express was once a destination for well-priced office attire but has been battling with soft consumer demand due to slowing spending and increased price sensitivity.
UpWest, the company's lifestyle spinoff brand, was launched in 2019 and sold casual clothes and sleepwear for men and women.
Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters was reported by Coresight to have scheduled the closure of an additional 7 stores.
Local outlet Brooklyn Paper reported this month that Urban Outfitters closed its store in the trendy area of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
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Now concerning the terrorists and the terrorist’s attacks, there is no way in the natural that man can stop this. For you have two borders, Mexico, Canada, you have open traffic from Cuba to Florida, you have freighters, you have oil tankers, they come into the harbor daily, sometimes in large numbers. Realize that your prayers cannot turn this back, it is part of the end-time events that shall take place. But your prayers can save lives, your prayers can warn people, but realize that this is going to be part of a lifestyle until the anti-christ establishes a peace treaty throughout the world. etc:: 5-1-24 Daily Mail :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Here are the top American cities Joe Biden is sending hundreds of thousands of paroled migrants - so is YOUR home town on the list?
The policy allows in limited numbers of vetted migrants from four nations
DHS revealed that it sent over 200,000 in through the program
Around 80 percent of the migrants were sent to four cities in the state of Florida
By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com
Published: 01:47 EDT, 1 May 2024 | Updated: 09:25 EDT, 1 May 2024
The Department of Homeland Security revealed that it sent over 200,000 migrants on a controversial parole program to 45 cities across the United States between January and August 2023.
The policy, which was enacted in October 2022, allowed migrants who had not entered the country illegally to fly directly into America.
Migrants were also required to have a sponsor in the US and pass various vetting tests.
It was initially announced for Venezuelans, before adding Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans amid one of the worst migrant crises in American history under President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Around 80 percent of the migrants were sent to four cities in the state of Florida: Miami - which got 91,821, more than any other city - Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa Bay were among the top 15 destinations, according to the DHS. etc
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Under fire Secretary Mayorkas says the program led to a reduction in people from those nations illegally crossing the border.
'It is a key element of our efforts to address the unprecedented level of migration throughout our hemisphere, and other countries around the world see it as a model to tackle the challenge of increased irregular migration that they too are experiencing,' Mayorkas said.
New York City, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco were also in the top 10 of destinations.
Another 1.6million migrants are waiting to get into the country via this same program, DHS claims.
Multiple states, including Florida, have attempted to sue to stop the program but have thus far been unsuccessful.
'Biden's parole program is unlawful, and constitutes an abuse of constitutional authority. Florida is currently suing Biden to shut it down, and we believe that we will prevail,' said Governor Ron DeSantis' press secretary, Jeremy Redfern.
Since Biden took office, the U.S. has seen record-high numbers of illegal border crossings.
Customs and Border Protection has apprehended more than 7.6 million migrants illegally crossing the southern border – the majority of which are traveling from Central and South American countries in efforts to claim asylum in the U.S.
Under fire Secretary Mayorkas says the problem led to reductions in people from those nations illegally crossing the border
The crisis at the border has been a scandal for the Biden administration throughout his presidency, with former President and 2024 opponent Donald Trump promising to fix the problem.
Trump is ready to reshape American policy and detailed in interviews with TIME Magazine what some of these sweeping overhauls would include.
In a wide-ranging interview at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on April 12, the former president confirmed he would use detention camps to house illegal immigrants during deportation efforts.
He also didn't rule out deploying the military to round up the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country. As of January 2022, the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. was estimated to stand at 11.35 million.
Trump has repeatedly said he would take aggressive actions to address the border issue on Day One of a second term after President Joe Biden reversed almost all of his policies and plunged the country into an all-out illegal immigration crisis.
His proposals would include tapping local law enforcement, National Guard and, if necessary, members of the U.S. Military to round up illegal immigrants for deportation.
TIME National Politics Reporter Eric Cortellessa asked Trump if he would override the Posse Comitatus Act, which states the U.S. military cannot be deployed against civilians.
'Well, these aren't civilians,' the former president replied. 'These are people that aren't legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country. An invasion like probably no country has ever seen before.'
'They're coming in by the millions. I believe we have 15 million now. And I think you'll have 20 million by the time this ends,' Trump predicted. 'And that's bigger than almost every state.'
He also said it isn't likely he would have to house these immigrants in detention camps because he plans to deport them swiftly – but he didn't rule out building more holding centers if needed during the operation.
'No, I would not rule out anything,' Trump said. 'But there wouldn't be that much of a need for them [detention camps], because of the fact that we're going to be moving them out. We're going to bring them back from where they came.'
Top 10 cities where migrants were flown via DHS program
1. Miami - 91,821
2. Fort Lauderdale - 60,461
3. New York - 14,827
4. Houston - 7,923
5. Orlando - 6,043
6. Los Angeles - 3,271
7. Tampa - 3,237
8. Dallas - 2,256
9. San Francisco - 2,052
10. Atlanta - 1,796
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Poland Officially Requests U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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Poland has handed an official request to Washington to have U.S. nuclear weapons hosted in Poland.
No word yet on any need or desire in the US to put such weapons there.
Russia earlier cautioned Poland that nuclear weapons in their country would **not** make Poland any safer. In fact, they said, it would merely make Poland a target for Russian nuclear weapons.
Hal Turner Snap Analysis
Nuclear weapons “hosted” in Poland; Sounds like an exchange student or something innocent , like its a cultural program.
My bet . . . and this is pure conjecture on my part -- Poland didn't actually "request" anything.
They were just told that the US is going to deploy nukes on their territory.
The nukes will be controlled by US of course, not Poland; Poland would have no interest in this affair whatsoever. . . except when they get blown up by Russia for having them so close to Russia.
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INSANE New Tax Proposal – Stealing from Citizens Legally
April 30, 2024
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Success is a punishable offense in Biden’s America. Joe Biden and his administration would like to implement a 44.6% tax on capital gains, the highest tax on capital gains in the nation’s history. Washington says this tax is necessary to address the looming national debt, but they are simultaneously implementing measures to ensure that the nation falls deeper into debt. Perpetually issuing new debt to pay for the old is equivalent to a Ponzi scheme that WILL FAIL.
Donald Trump’s implemented tax deductions are set to expire in 2025, which is precisely when these measures could go into effect. The proposals essentially rob those who have achieved success to pay those who leech off of the government.
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Read the full proposal here.
The proposal is over 250 pages in length but looks to target all investments. The MSM will report that they are only going after the wealthiest Americans but the truth of the matter is that they will seek to squeeze everything they can out of every American, unless they fully rely on government assistance and are therefore owned by Washington.
“A new 25- percent minimum income tax would be imposed on extremely wealthy taxpayers. For high-income taxpayers, gaps in the law that allow some pass-through business owners to avoid Medicare taxes would be eliminated, and Medicare tax rates would be increased. Additional loopholes, including the carried interest preference and the like-kind exchange real estate preference, would be eliminated for those with the highest incomes. Together these reforms would sharply curtail tax preferences that allow the wealthy to pay lower tax rates on their investment income and exacerbate income and wealth disparities, including by gender, geography, race, and ethnicity.”
We are equal in rights, not talent. This proposal clearly states that successful individuals must be punished financially. Will the government curtail its own spending or address the utter deterioration of fiscal policy that has hurt all Americans? No. There are no mirrors in Washington.
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C corporations, under this proposal, would be subjected to a 28% tax rate – a 7% increase. The corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) would rise to 21% compared to the current 15%. How on Earth does this support American business? Does he truly believe this will aid in job growth, as we have primarily only seen the public sector grow?
Think crypto is safe? Think again because this proposal wants to permit the government to determine which assets are considered actively traded.
“The proposal would add a third category of assets that may be marked-to-market at the election of a dealer or trader in those assets. Assets in the third category would be actively traded digital assets and derivatives on, or hedges of, those digital assets, under rules similar to those that apply 230 General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals to actively traded commodities. The Secretary would have authority to determine which digital assets are treated as actively traded. The determination of whether a digital asset is actively traded would take into account relevant facts and circumstances, which may include whether the asset is regularly bought and sold for U.S. dollars or other fiat currencies, the volume of trading of the asset on exchanges that have reliable valuations, and the availability of reliable price quotations.”
Socialism v Capitalism
Forget offshore digital investments because Washington wants a cut of that too:
“Tax compliance and enforcement with respect to digital assets is a rapidly growing problem. Since the industry is entirely digital, taxpayers can transact with offshore digital asset exchanges and wallet providers without leaving the United States. The global nature of the digital asset market offers opportunities for U.S. taxpayers to conceal assets and taxable income by using offshore digital asset exchanges and wallet providers. U.S. taxpayers also attempt to avoid U.S. tax reporting by creating entities through which they can act. Requiring individuals specifically 228 General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals to report their offshore holdings of accounts with digital assets, subject to significant penalties if they fail to do so, is critical to combat the potential for digital assets to be used for tax avoidance.”
This proposal is LOADED with extreme restrictions and penalties for investors, both domestic and foreign.
They want to reform how companies pay dividends. They want to reform international taxation and reporting. The statute of limitation for financial penalties would be expanded, including the payouts the government lavishly handed out during COVID.
Washington Post Socialism
The proposal would increase the top marginal tax rate to 39.6% for married individuals filing a joint return and surviving spouses. Single filers earning $400,000 for unmarried individuals will face the highest tax penalties, as will those earning $425,000 for head of household filers, and $225,000 for married individuals filing a separate return. In comparison, the So the cost of living is rapidly rising, inflation has nocurrent top marginal rate for married filers is currently on those earning over $731,2000 and single filers earning over $609,500. change of relenting during this time of ongoing wars, but the government wants to tax those earning less more?
So, if one sells their small business, they will need to give the government about half of what they worked their entire lives to achieve. If an American’s house rose in value and they attempt to sell the estate—too bad, Uncle Sam needs half. This is a MIDDLE-CLASS TAX. The ultra-wealthy already have ways to bypass these measures. The ultra-wealthy may begin leaving America in general if they continue to demonize capitalism.
The people did not create the deficit we face today. The government continually spends with no plans to curtail spending. They have created a massive Ponzi scheme whereby they issue new debt every year to roll over the debt from the previous year. Eventually, there will be no buyers, and that is precisely how nations fail.
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Beware of the troubles of the world, there is war going on right now, are you even aware of that, most are not, they walk as if peace is going on and yet the enemy is rising up in many areas, deceiving many and leading many astray. And they’re preparing for war without brains, for they have nobody to lead them anymore, so be in prayer, be in prayer.
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While The US Military Focuses On Recruiting Homosexuals, Transgenders & Indoctrinating The Masses Into 'Woke,' The 'War To End All Wars' Will Leave Most Americans Dead
- Most Americans Today Have No Idea What Horrors Await Them
By Rob Pue of Wisconsin Christian News and All News Pipeline April 30, 2024
It seems like a lot of people just can’t hardly wait for war. From mainstream news media to even the best of alternative news sources, commentators and pundits, everyone seems to be salivating at the idea of World War Three.
I find it interesting to note that during World War 1, we didn’t call it “World War 1,” because we didn’t recognize it as the first of many. It was first called the “European War.” Then American newspapers called it “World War.” And the British called it the “Great War.” Soldiers fighting and families left at home had no idea they were fighting “World War 1.” Then, it was FDR who first used the term “World War 2” in 1941. But soldiers fighting and those at home didn’t realize they were fighting “World War 2” until Roosevelt named it that. But today, people seem so eager for World War 3. Even regular, everyday citizens seemed giddy at the idea of World War 3. It’s on everyone’s minds and it seems virtually inevitable.
As we look at current world events, it does appear that a war to engulf the globe has already been set in motion. Like wars we’ve seen in the past, alliances are being formed. The BRICS nations, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates have been in allegiance since 2009. Also at that table, you could add North Korea, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Afghanistan.
Western countries, which were formerly allies, are significantly less organized and unfortunately, they’re all facing great internal turmoil, economic depression, massive immigration problems with people from enemy countries being welcomed in and catered to — for some reason — by their own governments. There’s no doubt that what one might call the “Axis of Evil” nations today are much better prepared and propped up by self-proclaimed Globalist New World Order “elites” than are countries like the United States, Britain, France, and even Germany.
Western nations are literally being invaded by citizens from the “Axis of Evil” — and the western nations are welcoming the invasions, supporting the invaders and weakening all their defenses — from military to public infrastructure, seemingly on purpose. This isn’t a “conspiracy theory.” It’s a conspiracy FACT.
Here in the US, the city of Minneapolis now plays the Islamic “call to prayer” over city loud speakers five times a day. The same happens in Michigan. Muslims who support the call of “Death to America” now serve in local, state and national governmental positions of power. Chinese nationals own much of the land in our nation and hold most of our debt. We rely on China for most everything we buy and use, including pharmaceutical drugs and food supplies.
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On our college campuses, students have been brainwashed to prefer socialism over capitalism and are rallying against Israel and their own United States. And while the “Axis of Evil” nations are training their military for war, here in the US, our military focuses on recruiting homosexuals and “transgenders” and invests tax dollars on transgender “transitioning” drugs and surgeries, using the proper pronouns, re- educating those who don’t agree with these agendas and training recruits to submit to an increasingly “woke” mindset.
For years, we’ve heard about Chinese military training in Mexico and Central America. In just the past couple of years, we’ve learned the Chinese military is also training in Canada, just a stone’s throw away from our US borders. We’ve seen video footage of Chinese container ships converted to ballistic missile launchers and loaded with ammunition, just off our western seacoast. Not to mention the millions of military-age single men, all from hostile nations, crossing our borders — some even stating openly that they’re here on a military mission.
We’ve also seen the self-proclaimed “elites” — the New World Order Globalists — spending enormous amounts to construct underground bunkers for themselves, here in the US and around the world. They’re stockpiling food and supplies for themselves, and they’ve been doing that for at least the last year or so. Obviously, they believe something big is on the horizon and they’re preparing.
Meanwhile, when the average American patriot suggests that we should all be “prepping” for coming disaster, we’re labeled, once again, as “conspiracy theorists,” “right-wing wackos,” and worse, by the mainstream media, on social media and by the ignorant general public.
The last presidential election here in this country deepened the tremendous amount of division among our citizenry. Any thinking person can easily examine and analyze what took place and come to the obvious conclusion that the election was blatantly stolen, regardless of what George Soros’-funded legislators, district attorneys and attorneys general will pronounce publicly. And so, there are many ignorant souls out there today who really believe the last election was completely legitimate — despite overwhelming evidence that we’re now a banana republic ruled by tyrants bent on the destruction of our nation.
That being said, there’s no doubt that this year’s election will be the most significant ever in American history. And along with that, will come more division, more hatred, more rioting, burning and devastation from the Left. But this time, American Patriots will likely rise up as well, rather than continuing to bow to the one-sided “rule of law.” Patriots aren’t going to let what happened last time happen again. They won’t stand for it. They won’t allow it.
So this year — leading up to November, but especially afterwards — is going to be one of chaos and war within our borders, among our own people. When the foreign enemies who’ve now been settled in and well-funded and supplied by the Regime in power get involved, it’s not going to be good. America is at its weakest point in history right now. It’s only going to grow weaker once the fighting begins within our borders.
When that happens, we’ll be ripe for the picking of those foreign enemies in and outside our borders, who are, even right now as I speak, training for a specific operation...World War 3.
I’d urge you to not be so quick to wish World War 3 upon us, because it’s not going to be anything like you can imagine now. If you’re thinking of a “Red Dawn” scenario, where a few bands of patriotic vigilantes can camp out in the woods and win our freedom back with a few shotguns, you’re just plain clueless.
When it happens, Patriots are going to be up against the most sophisticated weaponry in the world. I’m not just talking about night vision goggles here. I’m talking drone technology, the likes of which you and I have no idea. I’m talking about infrared heat cameras that can locate and pinpoint human beings hiding anywhere, and weapons that can eliminate them, fired by enemy combatants on the other side of the world.
Imagine losing your electricity — rolling blackouts are already going on in parts of our country and will only grow worse as the regime continues to press it’s “net zero” agenda under the false narrative of “climate change.” No power. No water. No food in the stores. No communications. No phones. No internet. Cars will not operate — electric or otherwise. Local police and sheriff departments will be no match for hordes of foreign enemies marching on our land with operational, tactical vehicles. Even our military will be no match for these enemies.
And the enemies are already here, embedded in cities and towns, large and small, all across the United States. Thousands more are being welcomed in daily, even as they’re encouraged to “vote for Biden” when they get here, so the border can remain open.
During World War 2, our nation came together, united as one. Our people at home sacrificed, rationed things, bought war bonds, scrimped and saved everything to support our faithful soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Today, our nation is so divided — and deliberately divided — there will be no national unity. Amid the World War, we’ll also be fighting one another in a new “Civil War.” And a house divided against itself cannot stand.
I’m sorry to say, friends, we’ve already lost this battle. By being so passive, by allowing things like the stolen election of four years ago to stand; by allowing the rioting and devastation of groups like Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA to happen with no pushback — our police officers ordered to “stand down” and “let them burn it all down;” even by standing by and doing nothing as the statues and monuments of our American history and heritage were removed from public, and by allowing political dissidents of the Regime to be persecuted and jailed while most of us did nothing, we’ve invited the coming tragedy upon ourselves. It’s our own fault.
We should be, right now, weeping and mourning and repenting in sackcloth and ashes, begging God’s forgiveness for our personal sins and our national sins. Such a thing would begin in the churches across this land, but alas, the churches have also been overtaken by the socialism and communism of the Social Justice movement. Pastors, who have so much power available to them — if only they had an ounce of courage to use it — have refused to stand against the evil and therefore, their followers have refused to stand for anything. Most Americans today have no idea what the Word of God says. No idea Who Jesus Christ is, and certainly no idea the horrors that await them when their comfort, luxury and ease are suddenly removed and they’re faced with starvation, famine and the loss of every single thing they’ve put their trust and security in, in this world.
“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” There’s no political solution to all this. Don’t count on Donald Trump to save you — or our country. There’s one Savior, and that is the Lord, Jesus Christ. Judgment begins first in the house of the Lord, and I dare say it will be the Christians who are eliminated first as our enemies overtake us — from within and from without. Because most today are “Christians” in name only. Their “fire insurance faith” will not spare them from what’s about to happen. Instead, after horrific and violent deaths, most will stand before the Lord only to hear the words, “Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you.”
Could it be that I’m dead wrong on all these things? Well, I can tell you I’m 100% right on much of what I’ve stated here. I’ve told you about Global conspiracy FACTS, not theories. Of course, there’s much we don’t know yet...and won’t know until it plays out. But is there a chance God might spare this nation and heal our land? Yes, but it would require God’s professing people to take 2 Chronicles 7:14 seriously and put out an urgent, clarion call all across this country. It would take an enormous, concerted effort on the part of pastors and churches and the people in the pews, humbling themselves before Almighty God, while there’s still time. Sadly, I won’t hold my breath on that... Americans are too consumed with comfort and ease. Too self-absorbed to take the Word of God seriously. They’re busy planning their next vacation, busy with their sports and entertainment. They have no time for God. Certainly, no intention to humble themselves, pray, seek God’s face and turn from their wicked and selfish ways.
The soldiers in World War 1 didn’t know they were fighting “World War 1” when it was happening. Those in World War 2 didn’t know it was World War 2 when it began. There will be no doubt when World War 3 goes hot. It truly will be the “War to end all wars.” Friends, those of you who will, be in prayer for this nation. Be in prayer for those you love. I believe God will protect and provide for those who are truly His, but none of us will escape persecution. I urge you to draw close to God today, and bring as many souls with you as you can. Our time is growing short, and we have but one Savior.
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Unstable, very unstable is the world, unstable is the economy, unstable are the events that they are trying to do throughout the whole world. Even the democratic convention shall be very unstable and many things shall take place that shall shock the nation. Tornadoes, tornadoes, tornadoes, drought, hail, loss of crops, flooding, earthquakes, all the signs that shall be clearly seen, loss of jobs, boasting of how they can change the global warming and yet they cannot. Trouble here, trouble there, that is what we see in the world. Even though you have had your refreshing that I have said that you would have, things will change. etc
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At least 5 people, including infant, dead after night of tornadoes, storms in the Midwest
Nocturnal tornadoes tore through Oklahoma, where the governor signed an executive order Sunday declaring a disaster emergency. There were reports of injuries and at least five deaths.
April 27, 2024, 5:05 PM UTC / Updated April 29, 2024, 12:34 AM UTC
By Minyvonne Burke, Kathryn Prociv, Christine Rapp, Dennis Romero, Yuliya Talmazan and Rebecca Cohen
Dawn broke over scenes of devastation in several counties across Oklahoma on Sunday, with reports of severe structural damage, closed highways, blackouts, injuries and at least five deaths. There have been 35 reports of tornadoes overnight so far.
Twenty-seven million people remained at risk of severe weather into Sunday, including wind gusts, hail, flood risk and potentially more tornadoes.
Saturday's severe weather came less than 36 hours after more than 100 tornadoes leveled homes and buildings in six states Friday, with Nebraska and Iowa being hit hardest, officials said.
The National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma, confirmed late Saturday that multiple tornadoes were in its area, including one near Davenport and more than one in the area of Sulphur, a small town of about 5,000 people 80 miles south of Oklahoma City, which appeared to have taken the biggest hit.
On Sunday, the weather service's Norman office said that, based on preliminary damage survey results, tornadoes with ratings of at least EF3 tore through Sulphur and Marietta in Oklahoma. The service said more investigation would be necessary to determine whether the rating will go higher.
The Murray County Emergency Management reported “significant damage” in Sulphur. In Love County, patients had to shelter during storms that damaged Marietta Hospital, though no injuries were reported, the county emergency management office said.
Also in Marietta, four semitrucks overturned, killing one person, after a tornado ripped through Interstate 35 on Saturday night, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
Oklahoma’s Office of Emergency Management confirmed three deaths, one near Marietta on I-35 and two others in Holdenville. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt arrived Sunday afternoon in Sulphur, where he said a fourth person died in the downtown area.
One of the Holdenville victims was 4 months old, Stitt's press secretary said, citing Holdenville officials.
More than 170 storms were reported Saturday after days of severe weather. Storms were still expected through southern Missouri to southeast Texas on Sunday.
Flash flooding is also a concern for 18 million people from Kansas City to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Some flood warnings will continue into Monday.Video emerging on social media early Sunday showed heavy damage across Sulphur, including toppled trees and scattered bricks and wooden beams. Buildings in the downtown area sustained significant structural damage, including blown-out windows and missing walls. Others appeared to have been leveled and reduced to rubble.
The Oklahoma Health Department reported 100 injuries at area hospitals, according to the state Emergency Management Department. Of the injured, 25 were cut or had been pierced, 30 fell, 16 were hit by or struck against objects, 17 sustained transportation-related injuries, and 12 others were hurt by other means, the emergency services department said. The extent of each of the injuries was unclear.
Red Cross Oklahoma said early Sunday that it was opening a shelter in Sulphur and was in contact with officials in more than a dozen counties to help with the immediate needs of affected residents.
Stitt signed an executive order Sunday declaring a disaster emergency.
In neighboring Hughes County, officials reported four people injured, as well as several structures either damaged or destroyed, after a tornado ripped through its western part late Saturday.
On Sunday, Hughes County Emergency Management reported 14 homes were damaged or destroyed in Holdenville. In addition, officials said four properties were damaged in Okfuskee County, and Pottawatomie County Emergency Management reported seven damaged structures in Dale and unincorporated areas of Shawnee.
There were also "numerous injuries" and damaged structures in Wagoner County, officials said.
Homes and other structures were also damaged in communities in Garfield, Grant, Kay, Payne and several other counties in Oklahoma, officials said.
The National Weather Service in Norman said that as of 1:25 a.m. local time Sunday, some tornado warnings had passed but that flash flooding remained a threat.
Bruce Thoren, meteorologist for the agency's Norman branch, said teams will go out to the Marietta and Sulphur areas while others may be sent elsewhere through the week.
"We are aware of other places that received damage, but based on travel time and other factors they will be looked at in days to come, probably not today," Thoren said. "The area that we cover is pretty large compared to other forecast offices, so to travel down and back could be up to four hours. So we’ll for sure get there, and we know there’s damage — just trying to figure out where we go today."Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. said early Sunday about 28,000 customers were without service as a result of the storms, primarily in southern Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Transportation Department warned early Sunday that I-35 was closed in both directions in Love County because of storm damage cleanup.
More than 30 million people in Oklahoma City; Dallas; Wichita, Kansas; Omaha, Nebraska; Milwaukee; and Madison, Wisconsin, were in the path of severe weather Saturday.
This round of severe weather arrived even as parts of Nebraska and Iowa were still reeling from the damage caused by two tornadoes that struck the region.
Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert said Saturday that no deaths had been reported and that there were relatively few minor injuries.
Despite heavy damage to some residents' homes, including those belonging to three Omaha firefighters and two police commanders, officials Saturday were grateful it wasn't worse. Speaking at an afternoon news conference, Stothert said she planned to sign an emergency declaration, which would allow residents to tap state and federal recovery aid.
She credited the National Weather Service and local news media for warning the public about the tornadoes.
"I do want to thank our local forecasters for the clear and accurate warnings that they gave," she said. "I absolutely feel that this early warning, because of all of you, you prevented a lot of injury and probably death."
Lindsay Huse, health director for Douglas County, where Omaha is located, said by email that fewer than two dozen people suffered minor injuries. They were treated at medical facilities and have been released, she said.
"That's just miraculous," Huse said earlier at the news conference.
The National Weather Service assessed two tornadoes that struck the Omaha area Friday afternoon. One started in the area of Lincoln and ended up in western Douglas County, NWS meteorologist Chris Franks said at the news conference. It was preliminarily assessed at a "solid" EF3 on the 0-5 scale used by federal forecasters, he said. An EF3 tornado can produce sustained winds of 136-165 mph and shift homes off their foundations while peeling away exterior walls.
At Omaha Eppley Airfield, a tornado preliminarily assessed at EF2 struck Friday afternoon, Franks said. An EF2 tornado can produce sustained winds of 111-135 mph that can partly peel away rooftops and breach window glass.
Tornado activity was also reported in neighboring Iowa. Franks estimated that 80 tornadoes were reported in Douglas County and adjacent communities in Nebraska and Iowa on Friday.
In Lancaster County, Nebraska, a tornado was blamed for a train derailment and a semitruck rollover, according to National Weather Service notes on Friday's vortexes.
Omaha Police Lt. Neal Bonacci said hundreds of homes were damaged, most of them in the Elkhorn area in the western part of the city.
“You definitely see the path of the tornado,” Bonacci said.
Police and firefighters went door to door to help residents and search areas where people could be trapped, Omaha Fire Chief Kathy Bossman said.
"We’ll be looking throughout properties in debris piles, we’ll be looking in basements, trying to find any victims and make sure everybody is rescued who needs assistance," Bossman said.
Pat Woods, who lives in Elkhorn, told The Associated Press that he and his wife took shelter but could hear the tornado "coming through."
"When we came up, our fence was gone, and we looked to the northwest and the whole neighborhood’s gone," he said.
His wife, Kim Woods, said the neighborhood to the north of them was "pretty flattened."
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds declared a disaster emergency for Pottawattamie County after video on social media showed parts of Minden, about 30 miles northeast of Omaha, completely flattened. Jeff Theulen, the chief deputy of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, said at a news conference Friday evening that 40 or 50 homes were "completely destroyed." There have been two reports of injuries, one "fairly severe but not life-threatening," he told reporters.
By Sunday, officials estimated that the storms had damaged 300 homes and businesses in the county, Pottawattamie County said in a release. In the city of Minden, 48 homes were "completely destroyed."
Pottawattamie County added in the release that four people sustained storm-related injuries. Three were treated and released Friday evening. The fourth, who was previously listed as stable in critical condition, died overnight Saturday.
"It's very dangerous right now. We've shut off entrance to the city except for the people that live here," he said, noting that "50% of the town is damaged badly and then there’s light damage everywhere else."
In nearby Shelby County, about 40 homes were damaged, county emergency coordinator Alex Londo said. Officials were assessing the destruction, he said, noting there have been no reports of deaths.
National Weather Service offices surveyed damage ahead of more severe weather expected Saturday.
The service reported 106 tornadoes Friday in Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Kansas and Missouri. Another tornado was reported Friday morning in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma was also affected by the unstable air and thunderstorms that marched eastward Friday, but the weather service listed no confirmed tornadoes in the state.
Among Friday's tornadoes getting a preliminary assessment by the weather service were two near Waco, Texas — one believed to be at EF2 strength — and the other assessed at EF1 (86-110 mph).
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Report: How Iran quickly covered up damage from Israeli retaliatory strike
Satellite photos reveal how Iran quickly swapped out an aerial defense radar that was destroyed with a different one.
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Apr to the aerial defense system at the Natanz nuclear complex south of Tehran 25, 2024, 8:12 AM (GMT+3)
New satellite images reveal how Iran covered up the extent of the damage caused by Israel's retaliatory strike last week.
The Economist, citing imagery analyst Chris Biggers, reported that Israel appeared to have directly struck a 30n6e2 “Tombstone” radar, designed to track incoming air and missile threats, allowing interceptor missiles to take them out.
The rest of the aerial defense battery had been moved away, presumably in case Israel were to strike again.
Images shared by Biggers with The Economist show that by the day after the attack, Iran had swapped out the Tombstone radar for a different 96l6e “Cheeseboard” radar, placing it on the same spot. It also kept the launcher canisters, which fire interceptors, in an upright position, as though ready to fire.
Biggers summed up his findings: “It’s a case of denial and deception, to suggest the site is still operational.” The report notes that the site is almost certainly not operational, being that the two radars are not interchangeable and the aerial defense system will not work with a damaged Tombstone.
Earlier this week, new satellite images were released showing the damage caused to the Iranian military base in Isfahan by the alleged Israeli retaliatory strike.
The satellite images show what the Isfahan base looked like before and after the alleged Israeli strike.
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Microsoft Launches Scary AI Technology That Can Create Deepfakes With Just A Single Photo And Audio Clip
by Jacob M. Thompson ago 22 hours
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Tech giant Microsoft recently launched a new artificial intelligence program called “VASA-1,” bragging that the software can “Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time.”
The program can be produce hyper-realistic AI-generated animations with just a single photo reference and an audio clip, prompting fears that Microsoft has unwittingly released a deepfaking program upon the broad masses.
According to blog post on Microsoft’s website, the company says:
“We introduce VASA, a framework for generating lifelike talking faces of virtual characters with appealing visual affective skills (VAS), given a single static image and a speech audio clip. Our premiere model, VASA-1, is capable of not only producing lip movements that are exquisitely synchronized with the audio, but also capturing a large spectrum of facial nuances and natural head motions that contribute to the perception of authenticity and liveliness,” Microsoft promotes.
“The core innovations include a holistic facial dynamics and head movement generation model that works in a face latent space, and the development of such an expressive and disentangled face latent space using videos. Through extensive experiments including evaluation on a set of new metrics, we show that our method significantly outperforms previous methods along various dimensions comprehensively.
“Our method not only delivers high video quality with realistic facial and head dynamics but also supports the online generation of 512×512 videos at up to 40 FPS with negligible starting latency. It paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars that emulate human conversational behaviors,” they explain.
Our method is capable of not only producing precious lip-audio synchronization, but also generating a large spectrum of expressive facial nuances and natural head motions. It can handle arbitrary-length audio and stably output seamless talking face videos.
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The tech giant then provides a myriad of examples and applications as to what can be created, also showing that it effectively works with sketches and art pieces, for example.
In their research paper when discussing their findings, the researchers claim that this innovation in AI “paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars that emulate human conversational behaviors.”
Additionally, VASA-1 was trained by several scientists from the University of Oxford, on a dataset called VoxCeleb2. That dataset contains “over 1 million utterances for 6,112 celebrities,” taken from videos uploaded to YouTube, according to to the website.
Microsoft, however, swears that this technology is not intended to give people the ability to create deepfakes. SEE: Deep Fakes: How Movie Magic Is Now Our News
Microsoft writes:
It is not intended to create content that is used to mislead or deceive. However, like other related content generation techniques, it could still potentially be misused for impersonating humans. We are opposed to any behavior to create misleading or harmful contents of real persons, and are interested in applying our technique for advancing forgery detection. Currently, the videos generated by this method still contain identifiable artifacts, and the numerical analysis shows that there’s still a gap to achieve the authenticity of real videos.
While acknowledging the possibility of misuse, it’s imperative to recognize the substantial positive potential of our technique. The benefits – such as enhancing educational equity, improving accessibility for individuals with communication challenges, offering companionship or therapeutic support to those in need, among many others – underscore the importance of our research and other related explorations. We are dedicated to developing AI responsibly, with the goal of advancing human well-being.
Given such context, we have no plans to release an online demo, API, product, additional implementation details, or any related offerings until we are certain that the technology will be used responsibly and in accordance with proper regulations.
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A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
Proverbs 14:25
The lies and deceit continue to keep waxing worse (2 Timothy 3:13). This is so obviously going to be used for deepfaking. Yeah, sure, there’s imperfections but most people are not going to notice it, especially if slanderously material goes viral on social media.
Be extra vigilant and be very careful with everything you see and hear. It seems like everything these days is a lie; and I have no doubt that this will be weaponized against innocents and Bible believers in disinformation campaigns at some point. SEE: Mind Control: Study Claims That Deepfakes Will Start Manipulating Our Brains To Remember False Memories
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
2 Corinthians 6:8
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
April 23, 2024
Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.”― J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit
“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics.
Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population.
Take the media circus that is the Donald Trump hush money trial, which panders to the public’s voracious appetite for titillating, soap opera drama, keeping the citizenry distracted, diverted and divided.
This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today.
Everything becomes entertainment fodder.
As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.
Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch—and I would posit that it’s all reality TV, entertainment news included—the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.
“We the people” are watching a lot of TV.
On average, Americans spend five hours a day watching television. By the time we reach age 65, we’re watching more than 50 hours of television a week, and that number increases as we get older. And reality TV programming consistently captures the largest percentage of TV watchers every season by an almost 2-1 ratio.
This doesn’t bode well for a citizenry able to sift through masterfully-produced propaganda in order to think critically about the issues of the day.
Yet look behind the spectacles, the reality TV theatrics, the sleight-of-hand distractions and diversions, and the stomach-churning, nail-biting drama that is politics today, and you will find there is a method to the madness.
We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.
This is how you persuade a populace to voluntarily march in lockstep with a police state and police themselves (and each other): by ratcheting up the fear-factor, meted out one carefully calibrated crisis at a time, and teaching them to distrust any who diverge from the norm through elaborate propaganda campaigns.
Unsurprisingly, one of the biggest propagandists today is the U.S. government.
Add the government’s inclination to monitor online activity and police so-called “disinformation,” and you have the makings of a restructuring of reality straight out of Orwell’s 1984, where the Ministry of Truth polices speech and ensures that facts conform to whatever version of reality the government propagandists embrace.
This “policing of the mind” is exactly the danger author Jim Keith warned about when he predicted that “information and communication sources are gradually being linked together into a single computerized network, providing an opportunity for unheralded control of what will be broadcast, what will be said, and ultimately what will be thought.”
You may not hear much about the government’s role in producing, planting and peddling propaganda-driven fake news—often with the help of the corporate news media—because the powers-that-be don’t want us skeptical of the government’s message or its corporate accomplices in the mainstream media.
However, when you have social media giants colluding with the government in order to censor so-called disinformation, all the while the mainstream news media, which is supposed to act as a bulwark against government propaganda, has instead become the mouthpiece of the world’s largest corporation (the U.S. government), the Deep State has grown dangerously out-of-control.
This has been in the works for a long time.
Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein, in his expansive 1977 Rolling Stone piece “The CIA and the Media,” reported on Operation Mockingbird, a CIA campaign started in the 1950s to plant intelligence reports among reporters at more than 25 major newspapers and wire agencies, who would then regurgitate them for a public oblivious to the fact that they were being fed government propaganda.
In some instances, as Bernstein showed, members of the media also served as extensions of the surveillance state, with reporters actually carrying out assignments for the CIA. Executives with CBS, the New York Times and Time magazine also worked closely with the CIA to vet the news.
If it was happening then, you can bet it’s still happening today, only this collusion has been reclassified, renamed and hidden behind layers of government secrecy, obfuscation and spin.
In its article, “How the American government is trying to control what you think,” the Washington Post points out “Government agencies historically have made a habit of crossing the blurry line between informing the public and propagandizing.”
This is mind-control in its most sinister form.
The end goal of these mind-control campaigns—packaged in the guise of the greater good—is to see how far the American people will allow the government to go in re-shaping the country in the image of a totalitarian police state.
The government’s fear-mongering is a key element in its mind-control programming.
It’s a simple enough formula. National crises, global pandemics, reported terrorist attacks, and sporadic shootings leave us in a constant state of fear. The emotional panic that accompanies fear actually shuts down the prefrontal cortex or the rational thinking part of our brains. In other words, when we are consumed by fear, we stop thinking.
A populace that stops thinking for themselves is a populace that is easily led, easily manipulated and easily controlled whether through propaganda, brainwashing, mind control, or just plain fear-mongering.
Fear not only increases the power of government, but it also divides the people into factions, persuades them to see each other as the enemy and keeps them screaming at each other so that they drown out all other sounds. In this way, they will never reach consensus about anything and will be too distracted to notice the police state closing in on them until the final crushing curtain falls.
This Machiavellian scheme has so ensnared the nation that few Americans even realize they are being brainwashed—manipulated—into adopting an “us” against “them” mindset. All the while, those in power—bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations—move their costly agendas forward.
This unseen mechanism of society that manipulates us through fear into compliance is what American theorist Edward L. Bernays referred to as “an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
It was almost 100 years ago when Bernays wrote his seminal work Propaganda:
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
To this invisible government of rulers who operate behind the scenes—the architects of the Deep State—we are mere puppets on a string, to be brainwashed, manipulated and controlled.
All of the distracting, disheartening, disorienting news you are bombarded with daily is being driven by propaganda churned out by one corporate machine (the corporate-controlled government) and fed to the American people by way of yet another corporate machine (the corporate-controlled media).
“For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it,” writes investigative journalist Nick Davies.
So where does that leave us?
Americans should beware of letting others—whether they be television news hosts, political commentators or media corporations—do their thinking for them.
A populace that cannot think for themselves is a populace with its backs to the walls: mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s time to change the channel, tune out the reality TV show, and push back against the real menace of the police state.
If not, if we continue to sit back and lose ourselves in political programming, we will remain a captive audience to a farce that grows more absurd by the minute.
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PRIORITY # ONE: DEPOPULATE INDIA – Biden Admin Eyes Sending U.S. Tax Dollars To Train Army Of Transgender Activists In India
On April 23, 2024 By Geri UngureanIn Uncategorized
From msn.com
Biden Admin Eyes Sending U.S. Tax Dollars To Train Army Of Transgender Activists In India
The Biden administration wants to train at least 200 activists to advocate for transgender rights in India as part of a program ostensibly designed to advance America’s “national interests,” according to a federal grant posting.
President Joe Biden’s State Department plans to “train at least 200 LGBTQI+ community leaders … with preference given to trans and intersex community leaders” by “deliver[ing] specialized legal education and support” which will, in turn, empower “them to advocate for their rights and access the services they need,” according to a grant announcement published on April 8.
The department is offering the grant under its Public Diplomacy Programs, which exist to “support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security.”
The grant opportunity argues that “improved health, education, economic strength, justice and equality” for transgender people in India will ultimately benefit the United States.
The proposed program, titled “Empowering LGBTQI+ Community Leadership Across India,” focuses on transgender and intersex Indians because, according to the State Department, they face both “more severe discrimination and social stigma compared to other groups within the LGBTQI+ spectrum” as well as “unique challenges” when it comes to “accessing education, healthcare, employment and legal recourse against discrimination.”
To accomplish its goals, the program will utilize a “train the trainer” approach, using the 200 people it trains directly to reach a further 2,000 activists within one year. The State Department hopes to set off a “ripple effect” across India through this strategy.
The major Indian cities of Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi are all targets under the State Department’s program.
The department is offering between $120,000 and $150,000 for a third party to run the program, which it says will start on August 20.
Funding LGBT initiatives abroad, ostensibly to promote America’s interests, has been a defining factor of the State Department under Biden. Under the Biden administration, the State Department has bankrolled “queer” Muslim writers in India, funded theatrical productions to teach Africans about LBGT rights, backed a ballroom dancing program to “uplift” Peruvian transgender youth and paid a university to churn out “LGBTQI+ allies.”
The State Department did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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I am convinced that Lyin’ Biden is FILLED with demons. I cannot find the words to describe his evilness.
Everything the Lyin’ LEFT does has a goal to depopulate the earth. I really do think that they have their eyes on”Under 500 million” as was etched on the Georgia Guide Stones before that Satanic monument was mysteriously destroyed.
HOW CAN I BE SAVED
MARANATHA!
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These Traitorous Scoundrels In Congress Waving Ukrainian Flags & Giving Them Billions Of Dollars Of US Taxpayer Money For More War While Americans Go Homeless Have Got To Go
April 23, 2024 By James Howard Kunstler and All News Pipeline
“This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.” — Dr. Toby Rogers
Did it warm your heart to see all those blue and yellow Ukrainian flags (in the photo above) waved by our elected officials in Congress Saturday night with the passage of the $60-plus-billion aid bill to the Palookaville of Europe? You realize, don’t you, that the tiny fraction of that hypothetical “money” — from our country’s empty treasury — that ever reaches Ukraine will rebound on the instant into Mr. Zelensky’s Cayman Islands bank account. The rest of the dough enters the recursive shell-game between US weapons-makers and the very hometown folks in Congress waving those blue and yellow flags, who will receive great greasy gobs of fresh “campaign donations” from the grateful bomb and missile producers. No wonder they’re cheering.
What the $60-plus-billion won’t do is provide any fresh arms and equipment to Ukraine’s sad-sack army soon enough to prevent Russia from bringing this cruel, stupid, and unnecessary war, which we started, to a close. Yes, we started it, not Russia, in 2014 with our Intel blob overthrowing elected President Viktor Yanukovych in the so-called “Maidan Revolution of Dignity” (that's what Wikipedia calls it). And for what reason? To jam Ukraine into NATO as a prelude to “weakening” Russia sufficient to bust it up and gain control over Russian oil, ores, and grain.
Yes, that was actually the neocon’s game, equal parts megalomania and hubris, a fiasco as strategically ill-fated as Hitler’s push to gain control of Russia’s oil fields via Stalingrad in 1942-3. With failure and humiliation looming in Ukraine, the blob’s objective for now, in theory, is the vain hope of prolonging the hostilities just long enough to get its hologram president, “Joe Biden” re-elected, so that said blob can continue its amoebic digestion of what’s left uneaten by it in our sore-beset republic. You’ve got to wonder, of course, what this blob thinks will remain to rule over when it’s done gobbling up everything and jailing everyone from sea to shining sea who objects.
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You tell me what conceivable way Ukraine can prevail in this proxy war now without just tripping off the civilization-ending nuke exchange? America does not have enough tactical missiles and artillery shells at hand to send over there. What we did have is gone. NATO never had much to begin with. Ukraine has run out of available cannon-fodder to conscript from its dwindling population. Despite Mr. Macron’s recent bluster, NATO can’t raise a credible army, or even agree on which country would send what. Nobody is riding to the rescue. Instead, Russia is fortifying its home-grown armaments industry and its military while systematically turning off the electricity all over Ukraine by blowing up the power stations. Very soon, Ukraine will be reduced to medieval living conditions — no lights, no phones, no Internet, no shopping, no ability to conduct modern warfare. End. . . of. . . story.
This is apt to play out much faster than America’s blob-controlled news media will be able to lie about. I’d guess it can be functionally over before mid-summer. The result will be yet another humiliation on the “Joe Biden” scorecard. When it’s over, you can be sure the Russians will abstain from an end-zone dance so as not to provoke America’s genius-losers into some final petty grand act of requital. Russia will just soberly declare what is self-evident: that for centuries Ukraine has been in its sphere-of-influence, as Mexico is in ours, and that they have reestablished the natural order of things in that corner of the world.
After that, America and the rest of Western Civ can get on with the collapse of their financial system and very likely a period of profound political and economic chaos in which governments fall, nations change boundaries and shapes, and their populations suffer dramatically from an imploded standard of living. That process may actually play out somewhat slower than the end of the Ukraine war over the coming years. It will look like a combined game of musical chairs and hot potato, with the opportunities to get a seat steadily fading, and the losers left holding things they can’t handle.
In the meantime, our country — remember it, the USA, when it had its once-enviable mojo working? — is busy being insane and finding sixty ways to Sunday to commit suicide. How do you suppose the Democratic Party will actually pretend to put up “Joe Biden” for re-election when the Ukraine failure is completed? Answer: they can’t. This dumbshow of the old gaffer hiding at his beach house and avoiding direct engagement with reality is also drawing to a close. Instead of calling “a lid” on “JB’s” activities, some humid morning in the swamp his handlers will call in “a medical alert” instead, and that will be the last we see of that dreadful apparition.
It’s also looking more and more as though the Republican Party faces its own civil war, especially after Speaker Mike Johnson’s perplexing flipperooski on the Ukraine aid vote. You recall, just weeks ago he said no dice to such a deal without a stop to the invasion coming across our Mexican border. Then, the intel blob boys lured him into a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) where they showed him . . . something. . . ! Everyone’s dying to know what. A secret signed agreement making Ukraine our 51st State? Photographs of Mike engaged in unwholesome recreations with Gawd knows who or what? Or did they just have a little talk with him about how stuff is supposed to work? Whatever it was has made Mike Johnson untenable in his position. And he has explained nothing. He’s got to go.
At the other end of all that stands — or, rather, sits at a defense table — Donald Trump, the seemingly inevitable leader of a party seeking to cough him up like a hairball stuck in its craw. And yet, every week that passes, the various lawfare traps set up to snare him look more amateurish and gauche — while the Golden Golem of Greatness somehow manages to power through all that adversity. A big faction of the party he leads is in on that nefarious game. The wild card is the increasingly inflamed mood of the American people, in whose name the game is supposedly being played. With absolutely everyone lying to them about everything, it’s turned into some kind of bad faith olympics.
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George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests
By Social Links for Isabel Vincent
Published April 26, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.
The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.
Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.
The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor.
At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”
They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”
The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019.
It has three “fellows” who have been major figures in the nationwide protest movement.
Nidaa Lafi, a former president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine, was seen at an encampment at UT Dallas Wednesday making a speech demanding an end to the war in Gaza.
Lafi, a former legislative intern for the late Democratic Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, graduated from the school last year with a degree in global business and is now a law student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
In January, she was detained for blocking the route of President Biden’s motorcade after he arrived in Dallas for the funeral of Johnson, her former boss.
At Yale, USCPR’s fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree trespassing when SJP’s branch, Yalies4Palestine, occupied the school’s Beinecke Plaza, the Yale Daily News reported.
Birckhead-Morton — also a former intern for a Democrat, Maryland rep John Sarbanes — emerged from custody to address a sit-in blocking traffic in New Haven.
The most high-profile of the fellows is Berkeley’s Malak Afaneh, co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine.
She has been a serial speaker at an anti-Israel protest on the campus this week — which came after she first shot to prominence by hijacking a dinner at the law school dean’s home to shout anti-Israel slogans, then accused the dean’s wife of assaulting her when she asked the radical to leave.
The cash from Soros and his acolytes has been critical to the Columbia protests that set off the national copycat demonstrations.
Three groups set up the tent city on Columbia’s lawn last Wednesday: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime.
At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” students sleep in tents apparently ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches worth $12.50 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.
An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP.
The fund is chaired by David Rockefeller Jr., a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, and gives money to “sustainable development” and “peace-building.”
And a former Wall Street banker, Felice Gelman, a retired investment banker who has dedicated her Wall Street fortune to pro-Palestinian causes, funded all three groups.
Sandwiches and food containers on an outdoor table with a pair of gloved hands in the background
Both SJP and JVP were expelled from Columbia University in November for “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” JVP blamed Israel for the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.
“Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence,” JVP said in a statement on its website.
SJP called the terrorist strike on Israel “a historic win.”
An analysis by The Post shows how Soros and Gelman’s cash made its way to the students through a network of nonprofits that help obscure their contributions.
Soros has given billions to the Open Society Foundations which his son Alexander — whose partner is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide and the estranged wife of pervert Anthony Weiner — now controls.
In turn, Open Society has given more than $20 million to the Tides Foundation, a progressive nonprofit “fiscal sponsor” that then sends the cash to smaller groups.
Those groups include A Jewish Voice for Peace, which between 2017 and 2022 has received $650,000 from Soros’ Open Society. Its advisers include the academic Noam Chomsky and the left-wing feminist author Naomi Klein.
JVP has been a prominent part of the protests at Columbia and one of its student members was among a group expelled from the university for inviting the leader of a proscribed terrorist group, Khaled, to the “Resistance 101” Zoom meeting.
Soros has also donated $132,000 to WESPAC, called in full the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation.
The White Plains-based nonprofit was founded in 1974 to rally for civil rights and against the Vietnam War but is now a major funder of anti-Israel groups, including Within Our Lifetime and Students for Justice in Palestine.
SJP has also received funding from the Sparkplug Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit run by Gelman and her husband, Yoram Gelman.
The couple funneled their $20,000 donation to the group through WESPAC in 2022, according to public filings.
Gelman was previously on WESPAC’s committee for Justice and Peace in the Middle East in 2009 when she was invited to Gaza by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, according to the group’s website.
The UN group has been slammed for its support of Hamas.
Gelman is on the board of the Bard Lifetime Learning Institute, an offshoot of the infamously progressive college, as well as the Jenin Freedom Theatre, located in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
WESPAC president Howard Horowitz, a former Orthodox Jew, is a member of the New York chapter of JVP, which says it works for “advocacy and public education for Palestinian human rights.”
Horowitz said he embraced the Palestinian cause after time spent living in Israel, according to a report in the Israel Times.
WESPAC has also given money to Within Our Lifetime, founded by the ubiquitous anti-Israeli protester Nerdeen Kiswani.
Within our Lifetime uses a loophole in the law to avoid declaring how much it receives from donors by not being a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, meaning it is unknown how Kiswani has benefited.
However, WESPAC is named as a fiscal sponsor of Within Our Lifetime.
None of the groups responded to requests by The Post for comment.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city/
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Outrage as drag queen leads young kids in ‘free Palestine’ chant: ‘Wrong on every level’
By Social Links for Emily Crane
Published April 25, 2024, 8:20 a.m. ET
Video of a drag queen in Massachusetts leading a group of young kids to chant “Free Palestine” has sparked fierce backlash — with some calling it “indoctrination” that is “wrong on every level.”
The encounter, which unfolded at a “Queer Storytime for Palestine” event organized by the Valley Families for Palestine group in Amherst last week, had gone viral by Thursday as outrage mounted.
“Today what we’re going to do is shout ‘Free Palestine.’ Can I hear that?” the drag queen, known as “Lil Miss Hot Mess,” was filmed telling the children in the 30-second clip.
“If you’re a drag queen and you know it, and you really want to show it, if you’re a drag queen and you know it, shout ‘Free Palestine.'”
The kids could be heard mimicking the drag queen by repeatedly chanting “Free Palestine.”
Furious critics were quick to point out the hypocrisy of a drag queen touting the phrase given the harsh treatment of LGBTQ people in Gaza.
“The harsh reality? Members of the LGBTQ+ community are often murdered in Gaza and other Palestinian areas such as Ramallah,” Stop Antisemitism tweeted alongside the recording.
“Often times members of the LGBTQ+ community seek refuge in Israel as their lives are endangered and their families excommunicate them. Were these children taught these points?”
“An indoctrination double whammy: ‘Free Palestine’ meets ‘drag queen story hour,'” Eitan Fischberger, a former Israel Defense Forces sergeant, tweeted.
“If people can’t see that drag queens teaching kids to chant ‘Free Palestine’ is wrong on every level, then they seriously are part of the problem,” British TV host and politician Nigel Farage raged in a post on X.
Meanwhile, Jake Wallis Simons, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, quipped: “Seriously. Yahya Sinwar, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollah are laughing so hard (and sharpening their knives).”
“Drag Queen Story Hour somehow just got worse,” the Citizen Free Press declared.
The organizers of the event had earlier shared a slew of photos on its Instagram account of the young children and their parents watching on smiling as the drag queen performed for them.
The group also boasted of the “important lessons” the kids learned during the story time event.
“We came together today in joy and solidarity and learned some important lessons about being ourselves, using our voices to speak out against injustice, and being fabulous while we do it,” a caption on the post read.
Valley Families for Palestine and the drag queen didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about the backlash.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/outrage-as-drag-queen-leads-kids-in-free-palestine-chant/
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This Is Why Everyone Needs To Prepare For The Day When Devastating Cyberattacks Take U.S. Power Grids Down
April 24, 2024 by Michael
What would you do if the power grid where you live went down and there was no electricity for an extended period of time? You might want to think about that, because experts are warning that it is just a matter of time before cyberattacks successfully cripple our power grids. In fact, foreign hackers are working hard to infiltrate critical infrastructure as you read this article. As you will see below, we are extremely vulnerable, and the Russians and the Chinese have both developed highly advanced cyberwarfare capabilities. When the U.S. ends up fighting a war with Russia or China (or both simultaneously), devastating cyberattacks on our power grids will be conducted. When your community is suddenly plunged into darkness, what is your plan?
The United States and Canada are not covered by a single power grid.
Rather, there are multiple grids that collectively provide the electricity that all of us need. The following explanation comes from Wikipedia…
The electrical power grid that powers Northern America is not a single grid, but is instead divided into multiple wide area synchronous grids.[1] The Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection are the largest. Three other regions include the Texas Interconnection, the Quebec Interconnection, and the Alaska Interconnection. Each region delivers power at a nominal 60 Hz frequency. The regions are not usually directly connected or synchronized to each other, but there exist some HVDC interconnectors. The Eastern and Western grids are connected via seven links that allow 1.32 GW to flow between them. A study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that increasing these interconnections would save energy costs.[2]
Bloomberg is reporting that “US power grids are facing heightened risks of cyber and physical attacks as the election nears”, and one expert is warning that there is “a 100 percent chance” that critical infrastructure will eventually be breached at some point…
“I think there’s a 100 percent chance that organizations in the critical infrastructure space at some point will experience some short of breach,” said Stephanie Benoit Kurtz, lead cybersecurity faculty at the College of Business and Information Technology at the University of Phoenix. “No longer are the days when organizations can say, ‘We’ll never be breached.’ It’s not if, it’s when.”
Sadly, I believe that she is quite correct.
We should have never exposed our power grids to the Internet, and now we are incredibly vulnerable.
During a recent congressional hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly admitted that Chinese hackers have been targeting our power grids…
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that China’s hackers are targeting American critical infrastructure, including water treatment plants, pipelines and the power grid, to be able to “wreak havoc” in the U.S. if Beijing ever decides to do so.
Testifying before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Wray also warned that there has been too little public attention on the threat that he says China’s efforts pose to national security.
“China’s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if and when China decides the time has come to strike,” Wray told lawmakers.
This is a very real threat.
The moment that China invades Taiwan, the U.S. and China will be at war.
And the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has warned that ““if Beijing feared that a major conflict with the United States were imminent, it almost certainly would consider undertaking aggressive cyber operations against U.S. homeland critical infrastructure and military assets worldwide.”
Most Americans don’t realize that the groundwork for such cyber operations is already being laid. For example, last August Chinese hackers specifically targeted the Texas power grid…
The report says that, in August, hackers attempted to access the computer systems used by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, or the PUC, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which operate the state’s power grid. Most of Texas is on its own power grid, separate from the grids used by most of the country.
If you think that our systems are secure, you are just being delusional.
The truth is that we are extremely vulnerable, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation admits that the number of weak spots is growing with each passing day…
U.S. power grids are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, with the number of susceptible points in electrical networks increasing by about 60 per day, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) said in a webcast on Thursday.
The grids’ virtual and physical weak spots, or points in software or hardware that are susceptible to cyber criminals, grew to a range of 23,000 to 24,000 last year from 21,000 to 22,000 by the end of 2022, executives with the energy regulator said.
“It’s very hard to keep pace with addressing all those vulnerabilities,” said Manny Cancel, senior vice president of NERC.
But foreign entities wouldn’t even need to gain access through a weak spot if there are already back doors in place.
According to one analysis, “about 90 percent of software used to manage the U.S. power grid is linked to Russian and Chinese developers”…
Orlando based Fortress Information Security explained that any “kid” with internet can contribute their “block” that then can be developed into software used in America’s critical infrastructure. A “block”, one of these code components, can risk the whole structure– our energy grid.
“A Chinese agent or a Russian agent can install backdoors into one of these components. And then unbeknownst to a software manufacturer, you grab this component, which has been tampered with and poisoned by Russian or Chinese actor and now they put that component into their software, and it ends up in our electrical grid or, or an oil rig,” said Alex Santos, CEO of Fortress Information Security.
The company analyzed nearly 8,000 of these open-source components. 13 percent had contributions from Russia and China. Fortress found about 90 percent of software used to manage the U.S. power grid is linked to Russian and Chinese developers—something that can make it three times as likely to contain critical vulnerabilities.
How in the world did we allow that to happen?
Are we really that incompetent?
I was floored when I first read that.
I had no idea that we were so vulnerable.
Of course it isn’t just our power infrastructure that is being targeted. According to Politico, Europe has been “inundated” with cyberattacks since Russia invaded Ukraine…
Thousands of cyberattacks have inundated Europe’s energy grid since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a top industry leader is calling for help as officials and researchers fret that not nearly enough is being done.
“The crooks are becoming better by the day, so we need to become better by the day,” Leonhard Birnbaum, the chief executive of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest utilities, said in an interview. “I’m worried now and I will be even more worried in the future.”
We have never seen this sort of warfare before.
So most people greatly underestimate the threat.
But someday the power in your area could suddenly go out without any warning whatsoever.
Temporary interruptions are not a problem, but if the power is out for an extended period of time our entire way of life will start rapidly shutting down…
When power stops, life grinds to a halt. Lights go out. Sewage treatment stops. Clean water stops. Electric cars, buses and trolleys stop. Elevators stop, trapping older and disabled people. For many, home heating, refrigeration, cooking and clothes washing stops, along with medical devices such as oxygen generators.
For many years, I have been warning my readers that conflict with Russia and conflict with China would be coming.
Now both of them are actively hacking into power infrastructure in the United States and Europe.
I hope you have a plan, because it is just a matter of time before cyberattacks start causing widespread chaos all over the globe.
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US Secretly Armed Ukraine With Long-Range ATACMS Last Month
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Apr 25, 2024 - 12:25 PM
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
The US confirmed on Wednesday that it had secretly sent Ukraine long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) last month as part of a $300 million arms package.
The long-range ATACMS can be fired from the HIMARS rocket systems and can hit targets up to 190 miles away, a range that marks a significant escalation in US support for Ukraine.
Last year, the US secretly shipped an older cluster bomb variant of the ATACMS that has a range of about 100 miles. Previously the Pentagon signaled it was intentionally limiting ranges of missiles shipped to Ukraine.
A Biden administration official said Ukraine has already used the longer-range ATACMS twice, including in an attack on a Russian base in Crimea. US-supported attacks on Crimea or the Russian mainland always risk a major escalation from Moscow.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said a "significant number" of the ATACMS have been sent to Ukraine but wouldn’t specify how many.
He said more were on the way as part of a $1 billion arms package that President Biden approved on Wednesday, although the Pentagon didn’t list ATACMS when it announced the weapons shipment.
The $95 billion foreign military aid bill President Biden signed into law on Wednesday included a provision that said Ukraine would be sent long-range ATACMS.
In response to that news, the Kremlin reaffirmed its long-stated position that it will take more territory in Ukraine to counteract the long-range NATO missiles.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-secretly-armed-ukraine-long-range-atacms-last-month
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North Korea says it tested ‘super-large’ cruise missile warhead and new anti-aircraft missile
Korean Central News Agency released photos showing at least two missiles being fired off launcher trucks on a runway. The missiles in the image were not identified. State media said North Korea’s missile administration on Friday conducted a ‘power test’ for the warhead designed for the Hwasal-1 Ra-3 strategic cruise missile and a test-launch of the Pyoljji-1-2 anti-aircraft missile.
By KIM TONG-HYUNG
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Saturday it tested a “super-large” cruise missile warhead and a new anti-aircraft missile in a western coastal area as it expands military capabilities in the face of deepening tensions with the United States and South Korea.
North Korean state media said the country’s missile administration on Friday conducted a “power test” for the warhead designed for the Hwasal-1 Ra-3 strategic cruise missile and a test-launch of the Pyoljji-1-2 anti-aircraft missile. It said the tests attained an unspecified “certain goal.”
Photos released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency showed at least two missiles being fired off launcher trucks at a runway.
North Korea conducted a similar set of tests Feb. 2, but at the time did not specify the names of the cruise missile or the anti-aircraft missile, indicating it was possibly seeing technological progress after testing the same system over weeks.
KCNA insisted Friday’s tests were part of the North’s regular military development activities and had nothing to do with the “surrounding situation.”
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at their highest in years, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dialing up his weapons demonstrations, which have included more powerful missiles aimed at the U.S. mainland and U.S. targets in the Pacific. The United States, South Korea and Japan have responded by expanding their combined military training and sharpening their deterrence strategies built around strategic U.S. assets.
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FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, meets Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress of China, in Pyongyang, North Korea on April 13, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
North Korea sends a delegation to Iran in a growing effort to break its diplomatic isolation
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missiles launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 22, 2024. North Korea fired multiple suspected short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Monday, South Korea's military said, the latest in a recent series of weapons launches by the North. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
North Korean leader Kim leads rocket drills that simulate a nuclear counterattack against enemies
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missiles launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 22, 2024. North Korea fired multiple suspected short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Monday, South Korea's military said, the latest in a recent series of weapons launches by the North. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
North Korea fires suspected short-range missiles into the sea in its latest weapons test
Cruise missiles are among a growing collection of North Korean weapons designed to overwhelm regional missile defenses. They supplement the North’s vast lineup of ballistic missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles aimed at the continental United States.
Analysts say anti-aircraft missile technology is an area where North Korea could benefit from its deepening military cooperation with Russia, as the two countries align in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the U.S. The United States and South Korea have accused North Korea of providing artillery shells and other equipment to Russia to help extend its warfighting in Ukraine.
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Defiant Putin goes to war in Ukraine with a warning for U.S., NATO
“No one should have any doubts that a direct attack on our country will lead to defeat and dire consequences for any potential aggressor,” the Russian leader said.
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC
By Alexander Smith
When war came to Europe on Thursday, it was delivered with terrifying force and a blunt warning.
After months of military buildup, thinly veiled threats and frenzied speculation, the scale of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans was finally made clear.
In a pre-dawn address on Russian television, Putin announced that he was attacking Ukraine, a sovereign democracy on his doorstep. The barrage started minutes later — a moment the United States and its have allies have predicted for weeks, but which nonetheless reverberated throughout the international order.
Putin's speech contained a chilling warning to any countries thinking of leaping to Ukraine's defense in the face of a Russian invasion: Intervene and you will face the full force of the Kremlin's nuclear arsenal.
"I decided to conduct a special military operation," Putin said, wearing a suit and a red tie and sitting behind his now-familiar desk, flanked by two Russian flags and a cluster of retro-looking telephones.
Russia "is today one of the most powerful nuclear powers in the world," he added, as if Washington, London and Paris needed reminding of his world-largest arsenal. "No one should have any doubts that a direct attack on our country will lead to defeat and dire consequences for any potential aggressor."
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Ukraine's military was battling a Russian assault Thursday after an invasion many long feared but hoped would never come to pass.Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images
The message was received unambiguously.
“The Kremlin’s aim is to re-establish its sphere of influence, rip up the global rules that have kept us all safe for decades and subvert the values that we hold dear,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday. “Peace on our continent has been shattered.”
Russia’s invasion is likely to cause mass casualties, a humanitarian crisis and economic chaos, and it is sure to draw severe sanctions against Moscow. But while the fog of missile strikes hung over Eastern Europe on Thursday, it was clear the continent was waking to a different threat from Moscow.
In his 20-plus years of rule, Putin has annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, carved off regions of neighboring Georgia, helped turn the tide in Syria's civil war and interfered in elections across the globe.
The Russian leader has often used proxy forces abroad, and denied any election interference. But many Kremlin-watchers see the Ukraine invasion as a departure even from his bellicose standards.
One unforeseen consequence of the pandemic, tweeted Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at Kings College London, was that Putin would become "a paranoid autocrat in isolation nurturing his fantasies of war."
As recently as a week ago, a convincing case could be made that the Russian leader was bluffing with his military buildup.
Putin was issuing bold demands to the West about security guarantees while massing troops on his neighbor's borders, but unlike previous conflicts Russia's Kremlin-controlled state media was not selling its audience on the idea that war was imminent. That switch was flipped last week.
Then on Monday, Putin stopped short of declaring war but laid out the case for one, delivering a revisionist history that painted Ukraine as an illegitimate country that belonged within Moscow's realm.
As he launched his attack Thursday, Putin turned his attention to the West.
Washington, he said, has sought to dominate the world since the end of the Cold War: pressuring allies to hew to its cultural norms; using this hegemonic dominance to launch illegal wars; and encircling Russia by expanding NATO into former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe.
The Western "war machine is moving," he warned, "and, I repeat, is coming close to our borders."
NATO, the U.S. and indeed the former Soviet republics themselves would all point out that these countries overwhelmingly voted for independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed, then voluntarily joined alliances like the European Union and NATO.
What Putin actually wants to stop, many analysts in the West believe, is not NATO, but rather the liberal democracy on his doorstep that contrasts with his own repressive state.
Ukraine "had this simple idea that they wanted to have free and fair elections and not have people in Moscow telling them what to do," Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said on MSNBC Thursday. And now Putin "wants them to pay the price."
The Kremlin's brazen actions should also be a clarifying moment for European powers that they are now firmly in a new era of security, said Fabrice Pothier, NATO’s former head of policy planning, in comments made before the Russian attack.
More so than the U.S. and U.K., France and Germany have treated Putin as a man who can be reasoned with diplomatically, Pothier said. But if nothing else the Ukraine crisis should have made this complex picture far simpler.
“Our security," he said, "depends on the mood of an autocrat."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-invasion-putin-war-warning-us-nato-rcna17497
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US reveals it quietly sent Ukraine missile systems that could hit Russia as Pentagon announces $1B aid package
By Social Links for Caitlin Doornbos
Published April 24, 2024, 5:06 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON – The White House announced a new $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine Wednesday – and revealed the Pentagon quietly sent Kyiv controversial long-range missile systems capable of striking deep behind Russia’s frontlines earlier this month.
Minutes after signing a long-delayed $95 billion foreign assistance supplemental bill into law, President Biden promised that aid would begin rolling to Ukraine within “a few hours.”
Moments later, the Pentagon released an announcement detailing the critical weapons and military equipment it was sending to the besieged country.
While most of the equipment in the initial package fulfills basic military needs — and includes anti-aircraft missiles, small arms, artillery rounds, and night vision gear — national security adviser Jake Sullivan revealed that the US had quietly sent Ukraine Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) weeks ago, despite the White House saying there was no funding left for such assistance.
GOP leaders had successfully advocated for ATACMS to be included in future packages if the supplemental passed, senior House Republican staff told The Post last week.
Biden had previously been hesitant to send the impressive weapons to Ukraine, partly due to fears of escalating the fight.
Moscow’s troops had gained the upper hand on the battlefield in recent months, taking more territory and sneaking more missiles past Kyiv’s air-defense systems as Congress tussled over the supplemental funding package, which Biden first requested in October.
“You can measure the impact [of the funding delay] in different ways. With respect to actual territory, we’re talking about tactical losses in the east, not some fundamental structural shift in the underlying dynamic in the conflict,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House.
“But you can also measure it just in terms of the the wear and tear in places on a frontline unit who has to ration ammunition, because they’re not getting the steady flows,” he added.
The package announced Wednesday also includes Bradley fighting vehicles, Humvees, Claymore mines, MRAP vehicles, and Javelin surface-to-air missiles.
While Ukraine still seeks other capabilities, such as more Patriot missile batteries, the lower-budget items such as artillery shells and spare parts to get weapons back on the battlefield will be welcomed by Kyiv’s forces.
When The Post visited Ukrainian troops at the front last month, an infantry unit commander had said the shortage had become so drastic they had rationed their artillery, only firing on the enemy if there was a large group gathered together.
“Ukraine’s long-range capabilities, artillery, and air defense are critical tools for restoring just peace sooner,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post to X. “I am grateful to all Americans who continue to support Ukraine and recognize that the historical significance of this bill extends beyond politics.”
“This vote [to approve the supplemental] reinforces America’s role as a beacon of democracy and the leader of the free world,” he added.
Wednesday marked the 56th tranche of military equipment the Pentagon has sent Ukraine since the fall of 2021, when Russian President Vladimir Putin began preparing for his invasion launched on Feb. 24, 2022.
It typically takes the Pentagon no more than four days to deliver a new weapons package, meaning the equipment could be in Ukrainian hands by Monday.
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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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BREAKING: Russia Wiped Out Ukraine's Top General Along With 50 High-Ranking Officers In CHERNIHIV
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BREAKING: Russia Wiped Out Ukraine's Top General Along With 50 High-Ranking Officers In CHERNIHIV
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On April 17, 2024, at 10 a.m. Moscow time, the Russian army launched a missile attack on the Hotel 'Profsoyuznaya' located in the northeastern part of the city of Chernihiv. As a result of this missile strike, this hotel was completely destroyed. Two hours after this missile strike, a Ukrainian high-ranking politician and former deputy commander of the 'Azov' nationalist battalion, Ihor Mosiychuk, admitted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were in this Hotel.
SQ; NOTE HOW MISSILES USED 'CELL PHONES' AS THEIR GUIDANCE SYSTEMS SOME ONE PLACED THEM AS HOMING DEVICES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkmQ__cDW_I
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15 State Officials Warn Bank Of America About 'De-Banking' Of Christians
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Apr 21, 2024 - 10:40 PM
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
A group of 15 financial officials from 13 states sent a notice to Bank of America, raising concerns about the institution’s “de-banking” of Christians.
“We write to express our concerns over Bank of America’s troubling track record of politicized de-banking. Bank of America’s de-banking policies and practices threaten the company’s financial health, its reputation with customers, our nation’s economy, and the civil liberties of everyday Americans,” the officials wrote in an April 18 letter to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan.
“We are especially troubled by Bank of America’s track record of discriminating against religious ministries. Notable examples include Memphis-based charity Indigenous Advance Ministries, the Timothy Two Project, and Christian author and speaker Lance Wallnau.”
In April 2023, Bank of America shut down the account of Indigenous Advance Ministries, which partners with groups in the African nation of Uganda to provide care and education for orphaned and at-risk children. The bank closed accounts of a Memphis church which donated to the organization.
Bank of America provided “vague reasons” for the closure of these accounts, claiming the organization’s activities exceeded the institution’s “risk tolerance” and that it no longer wanted to serve its “business type.”
“Months later—after being confronted by an international media organization—the bank then claimed that it closed the accounts because the for-profit business engaged in ‘debt collection.’ Neither Indigenous Advance Ministries nor the church collect debts, nor was the bank able to point to any policy prohibiting account holders from engaging in such activities,” the letter said.
“In other words that rationale was a ruse, and even if legitimate, would only apply to one of the closed accounts.”
In 2020, the bank closed the account of Timothy Two Project International, which trains pastors in more than 65 nations. In a letter to the group, the bank claimed the closure was due to Timothy Two operating “a business type we have chosen not to service.”
The financial institution also froze the accounts of author Mr. Wallnau, alleging he was suspected of money laundering. However, the bank failed to provide any evidence supporting such accusations.
While the bank eventually unfroze the account, they required Mr. Wallnau to answer a series of invasive questions.
“This pattern of religious de-banking strongly suggests that systemic drivers of religious and political bias may be at work within Bank of America,” the letter said.
“One objective indicator of such a problem is the bank’s egregiously low score on the Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index, the premier benchmark for measuring corporate respect for free speech and religious freedom. Bank of America scored a meager 8 percent out of a possible 100 percent.”
The letter pointed out that Bank of America’s vague terms of service allow them to deny services for political or religious views. For instance, the company’s policy says it can refuse services to clients deemed to “promote intolerance … or hate.”
This policy can be weaponized by the bank against clients who express certain views, which are protected by the First Amendment, the officials wrote.
“Bank of America funds and partners with anti-free speech organizations like the Human Rights Campaign and the Center for American Progress while preventing employees from giving to faith-based groups in their employee gift match program.”
Bank of America, being the second largest bank in the nation and a recipient of a host of government subsidies, is obligated to ensure equal access to marketplace for all Americans and “not play politics,” officials wrote.
The letter was written by officials from Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah.
They demanded that the institution implement certain recommendations, including eliminating “existing viewpoint discriminatory terms” governing customers, updating its terms of service to include a commitment to not discriminate on the basis of religion or politics, and taking part in a survey to assess how the bank’s policies impact the civil liberties of its customers.
The Epoch Times reached out to the bank for comment.
De-banking of Conservatives
The issue of de-banking conservatives has been a hot topic in recent years. A November 2022 statement signed by 60 financial professionals alleged that banks like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, and Morgan Stanley were engaged in political or religious discrimination.
“JP Morgan Chase refused to process payments for a GOP-aligned organization,” it said.
In addition, the bank “shuttered the National Committee for Religious Freedom’s account without explanation, demanding that the nonprofit disclose its donors and provide a list of the political candidates it intends to support as a condition of resuming service.”
Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley refused to do business with organizations that raised “significant human rights, environmental, health, and safety or social responsibility issues.”
Similarly, credit behemoth Visa mandated that merchants do not use its services in any manner deemed “hateful.”
“What these vague, unspecified terms mean in practice is subject to the arbitrary interpretation of each of your companies, or any one of thousands of employees charged with enforcing them,” the statement said.
“Policies like these place customers and clients at risk of being ‘debanked’ simply because a company employee disagrees with their point of view on any number of contentious social issues.”
Meanwhile, states are taking action to end financial discrimination against conservatives by the banking industry.
Iowa earlier this year introduced Senate Study Bill 3094, which bans financial institutions from discriminating against customers using a “social credit score.”
The bill defines “social credit score” as any evaluation of a person’s “speech, religious exercise, association, expression, or conduct protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”
If a financial institution is found violating the law, the attorney general can bring a civil action against the institution. A court can order the institution to pay damages, restitution, or other compensation.
In February, State Rep. Jason Zachary (R-Tenn.) introduced a similar bill in Tennessee. “This legislation prohibits the 20 largest banks in our country from denying financial services to any Tennessean based on political speech, religious belief, or a social credit score,” he said at a state House Banking and Consumer Affairs Committee hearing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/15-state-officials-warn-bank-america-about-de-banking-christians
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Between Russia and China they own the sea, we search for their submarines and we cannot find them, we search for the battleships and without satellite we would never find them. There is a great warfare ready to take place because of the sea; the ocean surrounds every little place there is.
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Thanks to Biden, China Could Start World War III Here
by Gordon G. Chang April 22, 2024 at 5:00 am
China is swarming the waters of the Philippines, hoping to intimidate Manila into surrendering territory. US President Joe Biden and the State Department keep on issuing warnings, but Chinese President Xi Jinping continues to ignore them, suggesting deterrence is failing....
[R]ecently, China took Scarborough Shoal .... Washington then brokered an agreement for both sides to withdraw their craft, but only Manila complied. Beijing has been in firm control of Scarborough ever since.
When Chinese leaders, generals and admirals saw Washington's failure to act, they began moving against Second Thomas Shoal and other Philippine reefs and islets in the South China Sea, went after Japan's islets in the East China Sea, and began reclaiming and militarizing features in the Spratly chain. Biden as vice president legitimized the worst elements in the Chinese political system by showing everyone that aggression works.
Beijing has been waging proxy wars on three continents: Europe in Ukraine, Africa across its northern rim, and Asia in Israel and surrounding areas.
Xi apparently now believes he is boss of the world. "Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years," the Chinese leader told Russian President Vladimir Putin after their 40th in-person chat, in Moscow on March 22 last year. "And we are driving this change together."
Biden is now trying to reestablish deterrence. Britain and France desperately attempted to do that in late summer 1939 when they warned Germany that they would declare war if it invaded Poland. Then, German leaders did not believe the British and the French would in fact fight because for three years they had failed to make good on previous warnings.
Philippine's navy announced that, during the afternoon of April 15, it had observed 55 Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea, Manila's designation for the South China Sea.
China is swarming the waters of the Philippines, hoping to intimidate Manila into surrendering territory. US President Joe Biden and the State Department keep on issuing warnings, but Chinese President Xi Jinping continues to ignore them, suggesting deterrence is failing and an incident leading to war could occur at any time.
Of the craft spotted Monday, 48 were from China's maritime militia, six from the Chinese Coast Guard, and one was from the People's Liberation Army Navy.
China's intrusions that day were spread across the South China Sea. Twenty-six of the vessels were spotted at Scarborough Shoal, six at Second Thomas Shoal, 20 near Pagasa Island, two near Panata Island, and the remaining one at Lawak Island.
Beijing claims all the features and waters inside its infamous "cow's tongue," now defined by ten dashes on official maps, which encloses about 85 percent of the South China Sea. Those waters, the Chinese proclaim, are its "blue national soil."
China's expansive claims to Philippine features in that body of water were invalidated in 2016 by a tribunal adjudicating Philippines vs. China, brought under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. The US Secretary of State at the time, John Kerry, said that Beijing should accept the 2016 ruling, but unfortunately also announced that Washington would not take sides. Backing Beijing's position on talks, he then pressured Manila to negotiate with China. Kerry, in short, could not bring himself to uphold the centuries-old American policy of defending international waters and airspace.
Beijing, with virtually no legal support, has consistently maintained that the decision in favor of Manila "is illegal, null, and void." "We do not accept or acknowledge the so-called award," the Chinese Foreign Ministry declared on X on the 18th of this month.
Second Thomas Shoal, where Manila in 1999 grounded the Sierra Madre, a World War II-era vessel, is now a flashpoint. There, Chinese vessels have recently engaged in rammings, water cannon attacks, and other dangerous acts. On March 5, China wounded four Filipino sailors at Second Thomas.
In response, the Biden State Department issued written warnings — two last month on March 5 and 23 — that the U.S. would use force against China to discharge its obligations pursuant to Article IV of the 1951 U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty.
Biden has orally issued similar warnings, for instance on October 25 of last year and the 11th of this month. On the 11th, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the White House for defense talks, the first ever Japan-Philippines-U.S. trilateral summit.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration's words and displays of solidarity have not impressed Xi. His blue, white, and gray hulls — the maritime militia, coast guard, and navy, respectively — have stepped up aggressive tactics.
Has deterrence failed? True, China has not recently landed troops at a Philippine island, shoal, or reef. Yet the persistent pressure applied to the Philippines suggests Xi is not terribly worried about America opposing his adventurism.
Why would he feel so bold? For one thing, the Clinton administration in 1995 did nothing after China seized and later fortified Mischief Reef, 130 nautical miles from the Philippine island of Palawan and in the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
More recently, China took Scarborough Shoal. Philippine authorities there had lawfully detained Chinese poachers in early 2012, and China's vessels then swarmed the feature, only 124 nautical miles from the main Philippine island of Luzon and about 550 nautical miles from China's Hainan.
Washington then brokered an agreement for both sides to withdraw their craft, but only Manila complied. Beijing has been in firm control of Scarborough ever since. The Obama administration, while Vice President Biden was in charge of foreign policy, did not oppose the audacious Chinese seizure. etc.
Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China and China Is Going to War, a Gatestone Institute distinguished senior fellow, and a member of its Advisory Board.
Follow Gordon G. Chang on X (formerly Twitter)
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HUGE COVER-UP? Russian Air Force shot down an Israeli F-35 leaving Jordanian airspace that was set to launch an EMP weapon over Iran
April 22, 2024
Via State of the Nation
Editor’s Note: Highly respected international geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar made a startling revelation today via his Telegram account which sent shockwaves throughout the Global Intelligence Community.
But let’s first acknowledge that nothing about the recent alleged counter-attack by Israel against Iran’s Isfahan Air Base makes any sense whatsoever. In point of fact, everything about all the mainstream media report smacks of a highly coordinated cover-up by all sides. The stories not only keep changing, but they simply don’t add up, except as a very sloppy whitewash of a much more destructive operation.
Well, now it appears that there’s a very good reason why all the involved parties would want to keep such a daffy attempted EMP attack by Israel concealed. There’s no question that Netanyahu’s war cabinet was set on delivering a serious blow to Iran since their penchant for revenge always demands ten times the damage they receive from any enemy. Hence, the following account of the actual thwarted Israeli “EMP operation” does make a lot of sense.
And, given how criminally insane the entire leadership of the Zionist State of Israel is, such a brazen and reckless attack is certainly expected of Tel Aviv at any time. See: WATCH! Today, the barbaric Israeli regime dropped a 900 kg bomb on totally defenseless civilians in Rafah!
N.B. What follows is the original Alt Media report detailing this quite astonishing, yet very plausible, nuclear and/or EMP attack plan by the IDF.
Attempted EMP Attack Over Iran By Israel
Posted by Pepe Escobar
Israel initially chose to respond with extreme force.
An F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb was sent east over Jordan.
The mission: cause a high-altitude detonation over Iran that would provoke a surge in the high-capacity power lines, crippling Iran’s electric grid, as well as disabling all electronic devices.
An EMP attack.
However…
… As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it was shot down by the Russian Air Force.
EXCLUSIVE
THE REAL STORY OF THE ISRAELI COUNTER RESPONSE
From a very high level intel source.
In Asia.
NOT Russia-China.
Although the strategic partnership, of course, exchanges at the highest level 24-7.
Confirmed and re-confirmed.
It will be great to know what Sy Hersh hears from his Beltway sources.
Here we go.
Israel initially chose to respond with extreme force.
An F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb was sent east over Jordan.
The mission: cause a high-altitude detonation over Iran that would provoke a surge in the high-capacity power lines, crippling Iran's electric grid, as well as disabling all electronic devices.
An EMP attack.
However...
... As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it was shot down by the Russian Air Force.
Hence the publicised version of the Israeli counter response was such a travesty.
In the end all sides decided not to publicise the real news - to de-escalate what could well turn into WWIII.
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Biden’s Crackdown on the Internet Is WORSE Than You Think | Glenn TV | Ep 343
We’re being played: The Left isn’t “saving democracy,” and the internet is NOT free. The Murthy v. Missouri Supreme Court case is just the tip of the iceberg. The pro-speech plaintiffs argue the Biden White House colluded with social media platforms to censor speech they don’t like. Speech on topics like COVID origins, masks, vaccines, lockdowns, the Hunter Biden laptop, climate change, mail-in voting, and election integrity. There is much more of this censorship in our future. Thanks to a FOIA request and eventual lawsuit brought by America First Legal, AFL was able to uncover a report by U.S. Agency for International Development that was intended for internal use only. Glenn digs into this report called the “Dis-information Primer,” which provides a disturbing insider’s view of our government’s strategies for dealing with rampant so-called “information disorder.” And instead of debunking speech it doesn’t like, the government employs a strategy called “pre-bunking.” Wait, what?! We are up against a SPRAWLING network of government agencies, think tanks, and the largest companies in the world, all collaborating in multiple ways with the same end-goal: to censor unapproved speech in media and especially online. And you can bet voices at Blaze Media will be first on the chopping block …
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Be established in me, be not established in the world or the things of the world, but be established in me, for the days just ahead are dark days, evil days, wicked days, when many things shall take place. Things that shall even shock you, things that shall wake you up and wake up others, things that shall cause them to realize the lateness of the hour, the time in which you are living.
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‘Conspiracy Theories’ Aren’t 'Theoretical' Anymore: The US Govt Happily Murders Political Opponents, Carries Out Bioweapon Attacks Upon The Population And Openly Steals Elections
- The US Govt Under Joe Biden Has Become The Laughingstock Of The Planet
By John Green and All News Pipeline April 22, 2024
The national mood in the mid-twentieth century was very different from now.
- The United States was respected around the world -- even if not necessarily liked.
- Technology was advancing faster than at any time in human history.
- Our cities were mostly orderly, safe, and clean.
- We believed there were few hardships which couldn’t be overcome with hard work.
- Opportunities seemed endless, as was our optimism.
- We were completely naďve about the danger posed by our own government.
Not everything was sunny. We had problems that needed attention. That is the nature of human existence after all. But when Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” we just thought he was promoting self-reliance and highlighting government inefficiency. As I said, we were naďve.
Along with that naivete, was a belief that our government would never intentionally harm us. It might be incompetent, but we didn’t think it was malicious. Theories of vast government criminal conspiracies were considered delusional. Going to the police and claiming that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA (as Robert Kennedy Jr. is suggesting), would have gotten one labeled a “conspiracy theory” nut; and more likely would trigger a psych evaluation than a criminal investigation. That was the American worldview before Barack Obama.
Things changed in 2016 when the conspiracies stopped being secret. Government operatives decided they could work with a political party to stop an outsider from playing in their sandbox -- by any means necessary. The FBI, CIA, DNC, and MSM created the Russian collusion hoax to undermine Donald Trump’s campaign -- but he won anyway.
Four years later, the same conspirators colluded to withhold critical information from the voters which likely would have changed the outcome of the election. Seventeen percent of Biden voters claim they would have voted differently had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop. This time the plan worked, and Trump was removed from the Oval Office. But he was still a threat.
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When Trump announced his intent to run for office again, the DoJ in collusion with Democrat state and local prosecutors commenced a campaign of lawfare to scuttle Trump’s campaign. They twisted the law, and corrupted any notion of justice to indict Trump using legal theories which had never been tried before. They have identified their target, and are trashing our criminal justice system to get him -- and only him. Lavrentiy Beria would be proud.
Of course, the trials are being held in deep Blue Democrat party strongholds. Partisans in robes -- laughably calling themselves “judges” -- are ensuring that trials by Trump’s “peers” are actually trials by the Trump Derangement Syndrome-afflicted. Conviction seems inevitable.
To make sure the Trump problem is solved permanently, Democrat congressman Bennie Thompson has proposed a bill to strip Donald Trump of his Secret Service protection if he is convicted. Does anyone doubt Trump’s fate if placed in Attica or Sing Sing without his protective detail? Though the bill is unlikely to pass, it does reveal the Democrat mindset. They are perfectly willing to see a political adversary murdered -- so long as they maintain plausible deniability. But sure, Donald Trump is the real danger to our country.
Shockingly, the Democrats aren’t even trying to hide their intentions anymore. Apparently, they consider us too stupid or too powerless to stop them. That’s a rather sobering thought.
As we watch all this unfold, we know that vast government criminal conspiracies are no longer theoretical. There is nothing demented or delusional about believing our government would willingly facilitate the murder a political threat. The actions of the DoJ in conjunction with the legislation proposed by the Democrats makes that perfectly clear.
The plot to place Donald Trump at the tender mercies of a prison’s “genpop” is not the only evidence of government criminal conspiracy.
The ATF really did traffic guns to Mexican drug cartels to promote gun-control legislation. One federal agent and countless civilians were killed with those guns.
The DoJ sought to remove a duly elected President -- even to the point of the Deputy Attorney General offering to “wear a wire” to record conversations with the President (with cabinet support).
The FBI really did set up some useful idiots to advanced their domestic terrorist narrative (the Governor Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping). It was a classic entrapment scheme in which federal assets planned the crime, and hapless stooges stepped in the trap.
All this is changing our worldview and is causing us to observe our government with a new level of skepticism.
The deaths of Vince Foster, Seth Rich, and Jeffery Epstein were rather politically convenient for the Democrats. Were they something other than two random acts of violence and one suicide?
COVID was created using our tax dollars in a Chinese lab, and caused a pandemic which affected the 2020 election. Was it really an accident committed by well-intentioned, but careless scientists -- or something else? Certainly, the Democrats didn’t let that crisis go to waste. Many thousands died. Were they just the broken eggs needed to make the make the election omelet?
A Chinese spy balloon was allowed to cross our continent and collect information from our most sensitive facilities -- apparently with the blessing of the Biden administration. But we’re told that the millions of dollars flowing from China to the Biden family had nothing to do with the President’s decision to leave the reconnaissance craft unmolested.
Two whistleblowers (Gal Luft and Alexander Smirnov) have come forward with evidence of Joe Biden selling government influence to foreign nationals. Conveniently, both have been arrested by the same DoJ which is setting a death trap for President Trump.
Things have changed a lot since the mid-20th century. The children of the 21st century have a completely different worldview.
- The United States is a corrupt and impotent international laughingstock.
- We’ve become technically stunted. Replacing the Francis Scott Key bridge is expected to take three times longer than building the Golden Gate bridge almost a century ago.
- Our cities are becoming unlivable post-apocalyptic hellscapes.
- “Living the American dream” is no longer a middle-class expectation.
- We know that fear of our own government is a prudent mindset.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t sound so crazy now that the conspiracies are no longer theoretical.
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Matthew 24:3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples
came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will
these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the
age?"
Matt 24:6 "And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you
are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not
yet.
Matt 24:7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences,
and earthquakes in various places.
Matt 24:8 "All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matt 24:12 "And because lawlessness will abound,
the love of many will grow cold. (NKJ)
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Which Major City Will Completely Collapse First – Los Angeles, Chicago Or New York City?
April 21, 2024 by Michael
In 2024, virtually all major U.S. cities have certain things in common. First of all, if you visit the downtown area of one of our major cities you are likely to see garbage, human excrement and graffiti all over the place. As you will see below, some of our core urban areas literally look like they belong in a third world country. Most of our politicians don’t seem too concerned about doing anything to clean up all the filth, and so it shouldn’t be a surprise that rat populations are absolutely exploding all over the country. In some of our largest cities, the total rat population is numbered in the millions. Meanwhile, rampant theft, out of control violence, endless migration, predatory gangs and the worst drug crisis in the entire history of our nation have combined to create a “perfect storm” of social decay that is unlike anything that any of us have ever seen before. Millions of law-abiding citizens and countless businesses have been fleeing America’s largest cities, and property values in our core urban areas have been absolutely crashing. We really are in the early stages of a full-blown societal “collapse”, and things just keep getting worse with each passing day.
In this article, I want to focus on the three largest metropolitan areas in the United States: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
John Williams recently took his camera with him as he walked through downtown Los Angeles, and he described what he witnessed as “hell”…
Decades of failed policies have transformed one of the greatest cities in the entire country into one of the worst.
At this point, theft has become so rampant that even the ultra-progressive politicians in California have come to the conclusion that something must be done.
So several bills that would “crack down on shoplifting” have been introduced in the state legislature…
Shoplifters beware.
The California Assembly has introduced a comprehensive package of seven bills aimed at addressing the rising concerns over retail theft across the state.
One of the key initiatives is Assembly Bill 2943, jointly authored by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D) and Speaker Robert Rivas (D). The bill targets serial retail thieves by introducing a new crime with penalties of up to three years behind bars for possession of stolen property with intent to resell. It also allows for the aggregation of similar thefts from different victims to charge grand theft, under specific criteria.
Hopefully something will get done, because right now a criminal in the state of California can “literally walk into a retail store every single day of the year and steaI $949 worth of merchandise” and never spend a single minute in jail.
Los Angeles has become a paradise for shoplifters, but many would argue that things are even worse in the Big Apple.
As I discussed a few days ago, New York City has “a $4.4 billion shoplifting economy”.
And approximately 90,000 packages are stolen in New York City every single day.
This is just one of the reasons why we have seen a mass exodus.
Countless New Yorkers have already left for greener pastures, and lots more are thinking of leaving…
About 7 million New Yorkers plan to leave the state, a new survey revealed this month.
In a new Marist poll, 37 percent of New Yorkers—roughly 7 million people—said they plan to move away. The number was slightly more concentrated among Republicans, as 46 percent said they plan to leave the state compared to just 29 percent of Democrats.
Unsurprisingly, many of those that are fleeing are heading to Florida…
For many, Florida remains one of the top places to move, but Southern states in general have been recording the biggest influx in transplants.
According to Realtor.com, Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Tampa and Orlando remain some of the top locations for New Yorkers to start again.
I wouldn’t want to live in the Big Apple either.
The rat problem alone would be enough for me to move.
It just continues to escalate, and politicians are now proposing to use “rat contraceptives” to deal with “the millions of rats lurking in subway stations and empty lots”…
In New York City, the idea to distribute rat contraceptives got fresh attention in city government Thursday following the death of an escaped zoo owl, known as Flaco, who was found dead with rat poison in his system.
City Council Member Shaun Abreu proposed a city ordinance Thursday that would establish a pilot program for controlling the millions of rats lurking in subway stations and empty lots by using birth control instead of lethal chemicals. Abreu, chair of the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, said the contraceptives also are more ethical and humane than other methods.
Unfortunately, New York City doesn’t have the worst rat problem in America.
That title actually belongs to the city of Chicago…
Chicago has once again been declared the rattiest city in the U.S. according to Orkin’s annual ranking.
Los Angeles surpassed New York on this year’s list now holding the #2 spot and bringing the Big Apple down to #3, Orkin shared.
Other notable shifts included Houston, which moved 10 spots up to #20, and Charlotte, North Carolina that rose 16 spots to #21.
Somehow, the rat problem in Chicago has gone to an entirely new level in 2024.
In fact, one local resident says that it is now the worst that she has ever seen in her entire lifetime…
A resurgence of rats has gotten out of control in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood, multiple residents explained Friday as they called for city leaders to take further action.
Diana Gazda, a resident of the Far Northwest Side community for seven decades, said she has never seen an infestation like it.
“We never had a rat problem like this,” she stated. “I’ve been here 71 years in my house.”
In addition to being world famous for rats, the Windy City is also world famous for violence.
In Chicago, you can be gunned down at any time of the day or night.
Nobody is safe, and that is especially true for police officers…
A Chicago police officer was shot to death early Sunday in Gage Park on the Southwest Side in what sources are saying was an apparent carjacking.
Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert about 2:55 a.m. and found Officer Luis Huesca with multiple gunshot wounds in the 3100 block of West 56th Street, a police spokesperson said in a statement.
Huesca, 30, was driving home from work, according to city officials. Huesca, who was still wearing his uniform, was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
So which of these cities will completely collapse first?
I think that is a very good question.
They are all headed downhill very rapidly, and they are all being run by radical leftists.
Of course the exact same things could be said about dozens of other U.S. cities.
For years, I have been warning my readers about the “cultural transformation” that has been taking place in America.
How we raise our kids really matters.
We have been failing them for decades, and now the consequences can be very clearly seen in the streets of our major cities.
A horrific societal collapse is upon us, and yet this nation continues to refuse to change direction.
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Multiple rockets have been fired from Iraq towards U.S. military base in Syria
At least five rockets were launched from Iraq’s town of Zummar towards a U.S. military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday; two Iraqi security sources told Reuters.
The attack against U.S. forces is the first since early February, when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks against U.S. troops.
The attack comes one day after Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani returned from a visit to the United States and met with President Joe Biden at the White House.
Two security sources and a senior army officer said a rocket launcher fixed on the back of a small truck had been parked in Zummar border town with Syria.
The military official said the truck caught fire with an explosion from unfired rockets at the same time as warplanes were in the sky.
“We can’t confirm that U.S. warplanes bombed the truck unless we investigate it,” said a military official on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the incident.
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Columbia rabbi warns Jewish students to go home, don’t come back to campus because of ‘extreme antisemitism’
By Social Links for Doree Lewak and Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published April 21, 2024 Updated April 21, 2024, 12:47 p.m. ET
A prominent rabbi at Columbia University took the drastic step Sunday of warning Jewish students to go home and not return to campus because of “extreme antisemitism” at the Ivy League school.
The dire directive followed yet another night of virulent anti-Israel protests on campus — which included one protester holding up a sign suggesting that students waving Israeli flags should be the next target of Hamas terrorists.”
The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made it clear that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy,” Rabbi Elie Buechler told students Sunday morning over WhatsApp.
“It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.
“It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus,” he said. “No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.”
Jewish students who showed up on campus Saturday night to protest antisemitism at the prestigious university carried Israeli flags and sang “One Day,” a song of peace by reggae singer and rapper Matisayhu — only to be promptly attacked by hate speech and threatened with calls to violence, witnesses told The Post.
“People were yelling at Hamas to strike Tel Aviv,” a sophomore at Barnard, a college at Columbia, told The Post, recalling how the previous night, a keffiyeh-clad student penetrated the Jewish students’ rally with a sign reading “Al Kassam’s [Hamas’s military wing’s] next target.”
The student’s sign, which was captured on video posted to X, included an arrow pointing at the Jewish students peacefully protesting.
What to know about the antisemitism controversy at Columbia University:
Columbia University president Minouche Shafik was accused of “gross negligence” while testifying before the House Education and Workforce Committee about antisemitic incidents at the school and pro-Palestinian indoctrination. Shafik defended the school’s response after Oct. 7, but refused to tell lawmakers at the hearing if the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is antisemitic.
A report from the Ivy League school’s Task Force on Antisemitism found “repeated violations by student groups” at Columbia after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in Israel.
Ahead of the hearing, Jewish students told The Post that they have been targeted and witnessed antisemitism at the Morningside Heights campus. The Columbia University Jewish Alumni Association told The Post that the college’s administrators must “do their job” in reining in unauthorized student protests.
Shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks, more than 100 Columbia professors signed a letter defending students who support the “military action” by Hamas.
In February, an antisemitic poster depicting Israel as a skunk appeared on campus — which experts liken to a propaganda poster used by the Nazis in World War II.
An unsanctioned “Resistance 101” event was held on campus in March by a Palestinian activist with alleged ties to a group labeled a terror organization by the US. Four students who participated were later suspended by Columbia.
While the congressional hearing was in progress, Columbia students erected 60 tents on campus to demand that the university divest from Israel. One of the leaders of the protests, Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, was suspended from Barnard College — a women’s college affiliated with Columbia.
Shocking video footage captured a protester near the university declare, “We’re all Hamas” and “Long live Hamas” Wednesday. Another protester was arrested Wednesday night for repeatedly hitting and scratching an NYPD cop, according to law enforcement officials.
On Thursday, more than 100 other protesters were arrested after Shafik announced the campus’s closure.
“That’s a call to violence. It’s totally out of control. It’s total anarchy,” the student said, adding that Jewish students’ right to “peacefully protest” had been taken away.
The mother of another Barnard sophomore bashed the university for losing control.
“Columbia is out of control. This is untenable. People breaking into campus, kids calling public safety that refused to intervene. … Signs up saying ‘Hamas should kill you next’ and pointing to Jewish kids with Israeli flags who were singing,” the mom said.
Her daughter agreed that the protests have spiraled out of control.
“We all want to be here and get a good education, and it’s not fair that this is impeding on that,” she said.
“I don’t think it’s safe to be on campus,” the student said. “We’re not going to go anywhere — we’re not running away — but you can’t be a student there now. They’re protesting all day and all night. I hear it at night when I’m trying to sleep.
“You can barely sleep, barely get to class. It’s definitely getting in the way of being a student,” she added.
While some students seemed to be heeding Rabbi Buechler’s advice, others were determined to stay on campus, with one Jewish student saying he plans to remain even after being “chased up the block” a few days ago by a pro-Palestine mob.
“It’s honestly horrifying now. To walk around Columbia’s campus right now is to walk through a completely hostile environment,” the senior, Avi Weinberg, 25, told The Post on Sunday.
Weinberg slammed Columbia’s administration for losing its “backbone” and failing to do more to protect students.
He added that he doesn’t plan to follow the rabbi’s advice or take classes over Zoom just because “a group of lunatics decided to take over campus.
“We cannot go back to living in a world … where Jewish students can’t go to school,” Weinberg said.
“Walking through campus right now as a Jewish student – Zionist or not – if you’re not in agreement with their ideology, you’re not safe,” he said of the anti-Israel protesters. “You can’t walk on a lawn on a campus that’s open to all students. You cannot walk on that lawn – an entire team of students co-opted this lawn and [interrogate you].”
House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who grilled Columbia’s president this week in a congressional hearing on the university’s response to antisemitism, agreed Sunday that things “clearly lost control” on campus.
“Over the past few months and especially in the last 24 hours, Columbia’s leadership has clearly close control of its campus putting Jewish students’ safety at risk. It is crystal clear that Columbia University — previously a beacon of academic excellence founded by Alexander Hamilton — needs new leadership,” she said in a statement.
“President [Minouche] Shafik must immediately resign. And the Columbia Board must appoint a President who will protect Jewish students and enforce school policies.”
On Sunday, Columbia’s and Barnard’s chapters of the Jewish community organization Hillel sent out a message ensuring they will remain open and available for students who may need a quiet place to study or be with friends.
“Columbia University and the City of New York must do more to protect students. We call on the University Administration to act immediately in restoring calm to campus,” wrote Brian Cohen, the executive director of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life. “The City must ensure that students can walk up and down Broadway and Amsterdam without fear of harassment.”
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NY Home Depot hires guards, dogs to keep parking lot safe from thieves, aggressive migrants
By Social Links for Georgia Worrell and Social Links for Tina Moore
Published April 21, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
A New York Home Depot has deployed a guard dog — and other stores may be close behind — to protect shoppers from aggressive migrants and thieves flooding their parking lots, The Post has learned.
Two men wearing MSA Security caps and bulletproof vests with a German Shepherd in tow patrolled the Home Depot in New Rochelle on Tuesday.
“It’s more about omnipresence,” one guard said, explaining that the company was contracted a few weeks ago. “It’s not like we let them go bite anyone or anything.”
The guard said the store hired them for a number of reasons.
“It’s not just because of [migrants], but because of a myriad of other things too, like people breaking into cars, that kind of stuff,” he said.
The guarded New Rochelle lot was quiet and no migrants loitered there when The Post visited this week, however, seven miles away in Throggs Neck, The Bronx, at least 30 male migrants hovered at the doors of Home Depot.
Some were day laborers simply trying to “shape” for work with local contractors.
But many others aggressively confronted shoppers, trying to sell them phony Apple Airpods or soliciting tips for lifting items from shopping carts into cars — even when uninvited.
“You come out and you’re a woman by yourself, they literally leech onto your wagon, and you’re like ‘No, I don’t need any help,'” one worker said. “And when they’re following you to your car, it’s unnerving.”
She said a female supervisor saw one of the men washing his privates with a water bottle in the lot, and that several women have called customer service to complain that migrants robbed them of purses or phones.
She’s seen the number of grifters in the lot swell as the migrant population in New York City explodes.
“I came to work one day and there had to be 100 guys out here,” she said. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, my God!'”
A regular customer at the store, who asked to be identified only as Cheryl, said she and her husband had a frightening encounter last month.
A man “practically runs over and he goes to point like, ‘Can I take the stuff,’ and my husband said ‘No, thank you,'” she recalled, noting that they only had a couple of boxes and a paint scraper.
“He’s still keeps following, like on top of us,” she said. “I said ‘No, thank you.'”
When her husband turned around to open the car door, the man “put his hand” on one of the boxes in their cart. .My husband said ‘Don’t touch anything.'”
But the man didn’t stop.
“So I held up my pepper spray and I yelled ‘He said don’t touch,'” she recalled.
“And all of a sudden he goes ‘Oh, you don’t have to yell at me.’ . . . but he started looking like he was getting angry. So we just hurried up and jumped in the car.”
She called Home Depot’s Atlanta headquarters to complain but got “the brush off,” she said. A regional manager then told her they were working on bringing security dogs to two Bronx stores.
Customers frequently complain about the crush of migrants, said LaurieAnn Masciocco, who works in the store’s customer service department.
“It’s come to the point where they’re invading personal space, touching people’s belongings, just harassing,” she said. “I get it, you’re trying to make a buck. But when it becomes aggressive and harassing there’s a major issue.”
Her husband went four miles away to the Pelham Gardens location in The Bronx earlier this month and he got mobbed there too, she said.
One 52-year-old Mexican national, Jimeno, who has lived in The Bronx since arriving in the United States 20 years ago, was at the Throggs Neck store seeking legitimate work from contractors.
“There are a lot of people who have been coming here for a lot of years . . . asking people for jobs in construction and if they need help with projects,” he told The Post in Spanish. “We come here to find work.”
He said the recent arrivals who aggressively solicit for tips have made it harder for the day laborers to find work.
“This affects us a lot, because now people don’t want to communicate with us because they’re scared,” he said. “They confuse us with them.”
One migrant at the Throggs Neck location, who said he was from Senegal, told The Post he makes about $300 a day, charging $10 every time he helps a customer push their cart or move their purchases into their vehicle.
Home Depot corporate spokeswoman Margaret Smith said the company prohibits loitering and solicitation at its stores and regularly works with law enforcement. She would not say if the Bronx stores will add security, including dogs.
“While we can’t go into specifics about our security measures,” she said, “it’s not unusual for us to use third-party security at various stores across the country.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/home-depot-stores-look-to-security-to-keep-migrants-at-bay/
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Global Cataclysms
By Hal Lindsey
The nations of planet earth are presently engaged in a deadly game of brinksmanship. It’s happening on every continent.
In Europe, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine threatens to engulf the region. And European wars have a tendency to become world wars. Finland and Sweden, two previously neutral countries, recently joined NATO. Sweden had been neutral since the early 1800s. It resisted taking sides in World Wars I and II, as well as the Cold War. But not anymore. Sweden finally joined NATO this year, while its neighbor Finland joined in 2023.
What happened to Finland and Sweden’s traditional stance of neutrality? Putin happened. The communist leaders of Soviet Russia were not enough to get them into NATO, but Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine scared everyone in Europe. It awakened memories of Adolf Hitler, of global war, and of holocaust.
Nations across the globe feel vulnerable and are looking for safety. They are arming as never before. China’s new high-tech weapons, its unprecedented military buildup, and its aggressions in the South China Sea and Taiwan have also scared the nations. Reuters reported a year and a half ago that between then and 2027, “Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War Two in a race to deter Beijing from war in East Asia.”
Direct acts of violence resulting from the Israel-Hamas war have already touched nations everywhere. With Iran’s lock grip on the Shiite Muslim world, it has stirred up nation after nation into acts of war against Israel and anyone seen as Israel’s allies. The Middle East has been a powder keg for a long time, but now it is a powder keg in a lightning storm.
These and a host of other things going on today make a perfect setup for events that the Bible says will take place during seven years of tribulation. I believe those years are very close. But they are not imminent. The global conflagrations described in Revelation will not take place until after the Rapture — that is until after God has evacuated His people from the planet.
Some ask what is holding things up. Why doesn’t God just get on with it? 2 Peter 3:9 answers. “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
God’s “slowness” is a result of His mercy. But He will not delay forever. In the Old Testament, Israel came under God’s judgement many times. Over and over, they failed to live up to the bargain they made with God. They sinned. The rejected Him, His messengers, and His word. But the thing that often triggered His actual judgements was harm to children. For instance, when they engaged in child sacrifice to idols.
Children are being abused on an institutional level today, and it’s happening all over the world. Millions are being slain in the womb. If they survive those early days, psychological tricks are played on them in their classrooms and in their entertainments — tricks designed to inoculate them against receiving the Gospel and tricks made to confuse them and make them miserable. Could these things trigger the time of judgement on the earth? Yes.
In the meantime, every day is an act of God’s mercy and kindness, giving people time and space to come to Him, and allowing those of us who know Him to preach the Gospel to the whole world. Jesus said in John 9:4 (NASB), “We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.”
https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-4-7-2024/
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India delivers first BrahMos cruise missiles to Philippines
News Maritime Security
By Dylan Malyasov Apr 20, 2024
India delivered the first batch of BrahMos cruise missiles to the Philippines on April 19.
This delivery comes two years after the signing of a $375 million deal between the two nations.
The export of ground launcher systems for the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile system, along with the missiles themselves, commenced last month. This historic event marks the first time India has exported the BrahMos missile to a foreign country.
Amidst escalating tensions in the South China Sea, the delivery of BrahMos missile systems to the Philippines holds strategic significance. The Philippines intends to deploy the three batteries of the BrahMos missile system in their coastal areas to enhance their defense capabilities and counter potential Chinese threats in the region.
Developed as a joint venture between the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya, the BrahMos missile is renowned for its advanced capabilities. It operates on a two-stage propulsion system, comprising a solid propellant booster engine for initial acceleration and a liquid ramjet engine for sustained supersonic cruise.
One of the key features of the BrahMos missile is its low radar signature, providing it with stealth capabilities. With a cruising altitude of up to 15 kilometers and the ability to descend to as low as 10 meters during the terminal phase, the BrahMos is highly versatile and effective in engaging targets with precision.
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U.K.’s Only Munitions Factory Explodes, Just Days After U.S. Army Ammunition Factory Catches Fires in Scranton, PA
by Anthony Scott Apr. 20, 2024 5:20 pm
The United Kingdom’s lone munitions filing factory exploded on Wednesday, just two days after a fire erupted at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported on April 15th, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP), the United States’ primary producer of 155mm artillery shell bodies, caught fire.
Just two days later, on April 17th, a section of the United Kingdom’s lone munition factory exploded after a single shell went off inside the factory.
The explosion occurred at the BAE Systems munitions factory in Glascoed, Wales.
BAE Systems is the biggest defense contractor in Europe and the 7th largest in the world.
The cause of the explosion at the munition factory is currently being investigated.
Per The Daily Mail:
Locals living close to a BAE Systems weapons plant rocked by an explosion earlier today say the blast ‘felt like an earthquake’ as a shell went off.
The blast took place at the BAE Systems munitions factory in Glascoed, Monmouthshire shortly before 10.50am.
MailOnline understands the explosion relates to a single shell going off at the munitions filling factory, run by BAE, Europe’s biggest military contractor.
Emergency services were deployed to the site, which is spread across a large field close to the south-eastern village; locals say the blast ‘wasn’t loud, but felt like an earthquake’.
BAE Systems has promised a full investigation into the incident at the factory, which is the UK’s last remaining munitions filling factory.
The fire erupted at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is also under investigation.
READ:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/u-k-s-only-munitions-factory-explodes-just/
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Meanwhile, very serious problems began to be observed in the North Atlantic alliance, as a result of which the NATO leadership flew into an uncontrollable panic. Against this background, the European Union is seriously thinking in decreeing universal compulsory military service. In order to somehow remedy the situation with the shortage of manpower in the regular army, the Danish government even proposed to recruit women to somehow compensate for the shortage of soldiers and officers in the ranks of the armed forces..................
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Defense Sector Panicking: Iran Missiles Defeated "Most Advanced, Integrated, ABM Defensive Systems"
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By now, most of the world knows that Iran launched a multi-faceted attack against Israel about 48 hours ago. The "fallout" from that attack is now becoming frighteningly clear, and it has Defense Experts TERRIFIED.
As the attack was in-progress, Iran undertook a very unusual, and apparently foolish, series of steps. They announced they had launched drones and then cruise missiles against Israel. They announced this despite the fact the drones and missiles still had 57 more minutes to travel before reaching their targets!
Expert Observers thought it very strange - and foolish - that an attacker would give out such information while the very weapons they launched had not yet arrived. It gave Israel and its allies time to go after those weapons, which they did.
Well . . . it turns out this was not strange or foolish - it was planned. Iran launched the old dregs of their arsenal! First generation drones. First generation cruise missiles. What they launched was the junk they had laying around for years! Slow moving, loud, junk. Iran WANTED Israeli defenses to focus on that old junk, and not on what they would fire next: Ballistic Missiles.
Many of the drones simply fell out of the sky from malfunctions. Others were easily intercepted by fighter jets from Israel, the US, and the UK, with some help from French naval assets in the Mediterranean Sea.
There was a much-heralded "99% interception success rate" broadcast around the world for all to hear. Turns out, there's a problem. A MAJOR problem: Iran's Ballistic Missiles. A few of them, got through.
Almost no one noticed this "problem" because there has been no media coverage of it, until this article.
The hint there was a BIG problem, came today. US Media reported:
"U.S. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan stated today that the Department of Defense alongside U.S. Central Command is continuing to Increase the Readiness and Integration of Air Defenses and Early Warning Systems in the Middle East, in order to Erode the Effectiveness of Iran’s Missile and Drone Capabilities."
When I read that, I thought to myself "Who asked you?" Why say something like that? Unless . . . . unless. . . . there's a big problem. So I started looking, and asking questions. Here's what I found:
The missiles that hit the two bases in the Negev region didn't just "get through." They did so against the most-heavily-defended area in the world, protected with the most advanced, integrated, Anti-Ballistic-Missile (ABM) systems known to exist in the West.
Two Israeli Bases in the Negev region and one Intelligence Base in the far north of Israel on Mount Hermon, got hit by Iranian missiles.
In the north, the secret intelligence base in the north of the occupied Golan Heights located in Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon), got hit and seriously damaged.
In the south, the Israeli Nevatim and Ramon Bases got hit and THIS is where the problem reared its ugly head.
According to secret intelligence information, at the Nevatim Air Base in the Negev Desert, Hangar to Israel's F-35 Stealth aircraft and Mossad Spy aircraft, at least Forty-four (44) Mossad personnel were killed.
But for the Defense sector, that pales in comparison to what took place for Iran to achieve that.
Nevatim was defended by the world’s most advanced integrated anti-missile defense shield which incorporated Arrow 2, David’s Sling, THAAD, and Patriot 3 with the AN/TPY-2 X-band surveillance and targeting radar. This system was designed to exclusively defend against the Iranian medium-range ballistic missile threat.
Below is an actual photo of the actual radar deployed to protect those bases. Here is what it looks like:
Advanced US Radar Negev Desert Israel
And yet . . . 5 to 7 missiles hit Nevatim. The Israelis have acknowledged 2 runways and three warehouse structures hit.
Not a knockout blow — it wasn’t intended as such.
But any Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) expert would note that the point of impact was center mass, a clear indication of precision guidance.
5-7 missiles hit the world’s most heavily defended location, defeating an integrated ABM defense that was custom built to defeat the very missiles it failed to shoot down.
THAT has some people in the Defense sector, literally panicked. You see, if 5-7 missiles got through, then it is a given that others can get through. And simple math reveals that had Iran fired thirty (30) missiles at that base, the base would no longer exist.
The Iranians know this now. They __know__ Israeli "missile defenses" cannot stop their medium range ballistic missiles with any great reliability.
While Jordan fired US PATRIOT missiles to down a few Iranian missiles, Jordan's PATRIOTS are now completely depleted. They have NONE left.
Fighter jets did down a few additional Iranian missiles, but not many.
As such, Israel is not only vulnerable, there is no "filler" technology that can be quickly inserted into the advanced, integrated system, to make things better for Israel. Put simply, right now, Israel is factually defenseless from any large salvos of these missiles.
Think about that for a moment.
The most advanced, integrated air defense radar system in the world, its mission is to detect Iranian missile launches, and pass targeting data to Israeli Arrow, David’s Sling, and U.S. THAAD ABM batteries deployed to protect sensitive Israeli sites, including Dimona and the Nevatim and Ramon air bases.
Iranian missiles struck both Nevatim and Ramon air bases.
The best surveillance radar in the world, working in concert with the most sophisticated anti-missile defenses in the world, were impotent in the face of the Iranian attack.
What has galled Israel is not the attack itself, it was that the most advanced missile defense systems in the world couldn't stop the very missiles they were built to stop!
Iran has now achieved a "strategic deterrence" of Israel. Israel now knows Iran will hit them, but can also hit them at-will with missiles Israel cannot stop.
Even worse, now that the "junk" is gone from Iran's inventory, they can bring out the Second and third generation versions of their drones and missiles. Hezbollah did that TODAY. Hezbollah utilized almost silent, very-much-faster, jet powered drones to hit Israel in the north today.
People on the ground did not hear the drones until they were dive bombing the targets!
If Iran starts using these, the speed alone will cut down flight time, by half or more, making it even harder to intercept such drones if launched.
What the second or third generation cruise missiles might be able to do, none of us know yet.
We've now seen what Iran's Ballistic Missiles can do - nasty!
The Iran response to the Israel attack upon the Iranian Embassy in Syria, has opened a chasm in the Middle East balance of power. The world changed that day. Not in ways the general public knew - until now.
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Republican Speaker of the House Flushes US Constitution Down the Toilet
April 18, 2024
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
As I predicted on April 11, the police state got the Republicans to reconsider and to pass their warrantless spying and home entry. The Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson cast the deciding vote that nixed the warrant requirement.
This tells us all we need to know about Republicans. They are part of the problem.
Super-Patriots will say “we have to do this to protect ourselves from terrorists.” They don’t understand that without the Constitution we have no protection.
Edward Snowden reports that the situation is even more serious than I thought. A section of the FISA Act is being enlarged to require every company and person that provides any internet-related service to assist NSA surveillance.
NSA “Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet” Warns Ed Snowden
“This bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.”
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Indonesia tsunami alert after 'Ring of Fire' volcano erupts several times - with 11,000 evacuated
Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang Mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area.
Ruang Mountain
Indonesian authorities have sounded the tsunami alarm after a series of major eruptions at Ruang mountain (Image: Center for Volcanology and Geolo)
By Matt Atherton Deputy News Editor
Indonesian authorities have sounded the tsunami alarm after a series of major eruptions at Ruang mountain, with ash clouds reaching thousands of feet into the sky. Over 11,000 locals have been instructed to evacuate the danger zone.
The volcano, situated on Sulawesi island's northern flank, has experienced no less than five significant eruptions within the last day, as reported by Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation. The alert level for the volcano has been escalated to the maximum.
By Wednesday morning, at least 800 people had already vacated the vicinity.
Home to 270 million individuals, Indonesia's vast archipelago boasts 120 active volcanoes, largely due to its position on the "Ring of Fire," a Pacific Ocean region known for frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Officials are advising both tourists and residents to maintain a distance of at least 6 kilometers (about 3.7 miles) from the 725-meter-tall (2,378-foot) Ruang volcano.
There is growing concern among authorities that a segment of the volcano might tumble into the ocean, potentially triggering a tsunami similar to the catastrophic event following the 1871 eruption.
The volcano, situated on Sulawesi island's northern flank, has experienced no less than five significant eruptions within the last day ( Image:
Center for Volcanology and Geolo)
According to Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency, evacuees will be relocated to Manado, the closest city on Sulawesi island, which is six hours away by boat.
Back in 2018, the eruption of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano triggered a tsunami along the coasts of Sumatra and Java when parts of the mountain collapsed into the ocean, resulting in the tragic loss of 430 lives.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-indonesia-tsunami-alert-after-32611598
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Now concerning the terrorists and the terrorist’s attacks, there is no way in the natural that man can stop this. For you have two borders, Mexico, Canada, you have open traffic from Cuba to Florida, you have freighters, you have oil tankers, they come into the harbor daily, sometimes in large numbers. Realize that your prayers cannot turn this back, it is part of the end-time events that shall take place. But your prayers can save lives, your prayers can warn people, but realize that this is going to be part of a lifestyle until the anti-christ establishes a peace treaty throughout the world. etc:: 4-17-24 All News Pipeline :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
As Americans Struggle Just To Survive, Illegals Invaders Being Handed The Keys To The Kingdom - Free Food, Medical, Apartments, Prepaid Debit Cards, And Stealing Homes AKA Squatting
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline April 17, 2024
It is bad enough that Joe Biden openly encouraged a full-scale invasion of America by literally telling telling foreigners to "surge to the border," when he was just a candidate for president, but once his regime took control they facilitated said "surge."
“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.'”
For those that doubt Biden said that, we have video.
Millions of illegals have been released into the U.S. since Biden began occupying the White House, and we have written about the increase of Chinese military-aged men, along with a significant number of people on the terrorist watchlist being caught, leaving us to wonder how many of those terrorists came through without being detained.
So, with those reminders out of the way, and with more illegals being allowed to cross every single day, we see more evidence that illegal aliens, people who committed a crime as their first act in the U.S., simply by crossing the border anywhere but at the legal points of entries, are being handed the keys to the kingdom, while American citizens are struggling just to survive.
Starting with the most recent slap in the face to American citizens, we see that Democrat-controlled Denver, Colorado, just cut $8 million from the police departmentas part of another $45 million to help deal with the "skyrocketing" illegal alien problem.
A Democrat-controlled city announced $45 million in funding for programs to help deal with the skyrocketing number of migrant arrivals it is facing, resulting in over $8 million in budget cuts for the police department.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced last week a package of $45.9 million to fully fund programs for "newcomers" for 2024 and avoid worst-case scenarios projected by the city. That’s in addition to $44 million in spending already secured for the program through previous budget moves.
The latest official records about crime in Denver are for 2022, which shows the crime rate at 2.8 times greater than the U.S. average. It was higher than in 98.8% U.S. cities. The 2022 Denver crime rate rose by 11% compared to 2021.(Source)
Since the Biden regime's open border policies, illegal aliens in Denver has increased, and with that increase, crime has increased.
With a complete lack of logic and common sense, an increase of both crime and illegals, somehow justifies an $8 million budget cut from the very people out there fighting said crime.
In what alternative universe does that make sense?
In the meantime, Denver is clearing out another homeless encampment, without providing any shelter for them, as Democrat Mayor Mike Johnston had promised.
Why? I am so glad you asked.
What they're saying: "This is not what we want to be doing," Cole Chandler, the mayor's senior adviser for homelessness, tells us. But he says the city didn't have enough vacant rooms at its eight sheltering sites to accommodate the more than 130 people living in the encampment.
The reason there is no room at the shelters, is because they are full of illegal immigrants!!!
According to the Associated Press "Denver’s new program will place asylum seekers in apartments for up to six months, provide job and skill training, opportunities to get certifications and unpaid work experience, food assistance and help with asylum applications."
Moving along....
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ILLEGALS STEALING HOMES AKA SQUATTING......
Many were horrified in mid-March after seeing images of a woman, a homeowner, put into handcuffs by police, for attempting to remove "squatters." Squatters are people that "squat" in other peoples' homes.
Fed-up homeowner arrested after tense standoff with squatters ‘stealing’ $1M house she inherited from parents
A New York City property owner recently ended up in handcuffs following a fiery standoff with alleged squatters who she has been trying to boot from her family’s home, tense footage shows.
Adele Andaloro, 47, was nabbed after changing the locks last month on the $1 million home in Flushing, Queens, that she says she inherited from her parents when they died, ABC’s Eyewitness News reported.
In New York City, a person can claim “squatter’s rights” after just 30 days of living at a property.
Now, if someone is illegally in your home, and illegal aliens are doing this with increased frequency, one should be able to shoot them on sight. One should be able to protect their homes, right?
According to a recent Newsweek article, homeowners are the ones being warned to not take "lethal" action, because the homeowner, not the illegal that is illegally trespassing, with be charged. and if lethal force is used, the homeowner can be charged with murder.
Of course that depends on whether it is a state run by Democrats or one run by Republicans, as Texas Governor Greg Abbott says "The Texas Castle Doctrine empowers Texans to use force to defend themselves & their property."
Just one more reason why conservatives, who believe in property rights, should be living in states run by Republicans that also believe in property rights.
Leave Democrats that vote for politicians that allow the theft of ones home, to the states that favors squatters over American homeowners.
Related: 'Fairly big problem': Squatters invade homes and refuse to leave. How is this legal?
AMERICANS STRUGGLE, ILLEGALS HANDED KEYS TO THE KINGDOM....
In New York, aside from the benefits illegals get from the federal government, state officials have started handing out prepaid debit cards to illegal aliens.
We at ANP have reported extensively on how the price of food, and other items, is causing Americans to struggle to eat and pay their bills, yet illegals just have to cross the border, and make their way to a state that offers them freebies, and they are eating and surviving with less of a struggle than Americans born and bred in the good ole U.S of A.
This is a $150 billion a year problem, and that is a conservative estimate.
The FAIR study, released in March last year, documented the financial toll of illegal immigration on the U.S., taking into account factors like emergency medical care, incarcerating illegal aliens in local jails, and federal budgets that pay out billions in welfare every year, pegging the net annual cost at $150.7 billion.
More:
To contextualize the number, the $150.7 billion spent on illegal immigration last year is more than the total gross domestic product (GDP) of Mississippi ($146.7 billion in 2023), New Mexico ($131.5 billion), Idaho ($119.8 billion), and is more than the GDP's Wyoming and Vermont combined, at $50.74 billion and $43.38 billion, respectively.
Just imagine how much easier it would be on American citizens, if they could keep that $150 billion in their own pockets.
Related: Mass Deportations Would Lower Housing Prices
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Powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan four months after devastating tremors left at least 245 dead
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off southwestern Japan late on Wednesday
The country is still reeling from a devastating 7.6-magnitude quake on January 1
By James Reynolds
Published: 11:49 EDT, 17 April 2024 | Updated: 14:48 EDT, 17 April 2024
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off southwestern Japan late Wednesday the US Geological Survey has said, without detailing the extent of damage.
The epicentre was pinpointed to a channel between the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, about 11 miles west of Uwajima, at a depth of about 25 kilometres.
Some water pipes burst, but no major damage has been reported, local media said.
'In areas the jolt was strong, please don't approach any dangerous areas. There is no risk of tsunami caused by this earthquake,' the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) assured on social media platform X.
The powerful quake came four months after Japan was rocked by a devastating 7.6 magnitude event on New Year's Day, followed by as many as 1,200 aftershocks and linked to 245 deaths.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority said the Ikata nuclear power plant in the area was operating as normal in the wake of the April 17 quake.
'No abnormalities have been detected at the Ikata power plant... and the operation is continuing,' it said.
Government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi confirmed that there were no tsunami warnings or abnormalities at any power plants and that authorities were investigating what other damage may have occurred.
'We will do everything we can to respond,' Hayashi said.
He urged the public to be vigilant for aftershocks.
'I was about to go to bed when I felt the rumbling and knew a quake was coming. Then I felt the kind of jolt that I've never experienced in my life, and it kept shaking for 10 or 20 seconds,' a fisherman from the Ehime region told broadcaster NHK.
'I was a bit panicky,' he said, adding that some small objects fell over in his house, although there was no major damage.
Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific 'Ring of Fire', Japan is one of the world's most tectonically active countries.
The archipelago, home to around 125 million people, experiences around 1,500 jolts every year.
The vast majority are mild, and even larger quakes usually cause little damage.
Japan's biggest quake on record was a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea jolt in March 2011 off its northeast coast, which triggered a tsunami that left around 18,500 people dead or missing.
The 2011 catastrophe also sent three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing Japan's worst post-war disaster and the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Despite stricter building guidelines, many structures, particularly outside major cities, are old and vulnerable.
This was brought home in the 7.5-magnitude quake on January 1 this year that hit Noto Peninsula and killed more than 230 people, many of them when older buildings collapsed.
On April 3, a 7.4-magnitude struck Taiwan, killing 16 people and leaving more than 1,100 people injured, with strict building codes and widespread disaster readiness credited with averting a bigger catastrophe.
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New NASA Mars Crew Has a Muslim, No White People
“To reach out to the Muslim world… to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”
April 17, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield 75 Comments
There’s the Right Stuff (pictured above) and the Woke Stuff. NASA no longer has the right stuff, so all it’s got is the DEI stuff.
Remember this?
In July 2010, NASA chief Charles Bolden, an Obama appointee, told Al Jazeera that his boss had given him three priorities… none of them involving space exploration. The foremost priority for the agency once tasked with sending a man to the moon was “to reach out to the Muslim world… to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”
How many of you remember Obama’s “Muslim List”?
The Muslim list included two alternative candidates for NASA administrator. One of them, Dr. Charles Elachi of JPL was dismissed as “possibly Christian.” Indeed Elachi, who grew up admiring John Wayne and believes that American success is possible because it isn’t “held back by the long-standing, ingrained systems and beliefs found in the Middle East” would have been a rather poor fit.
The other name on the list however is Firouz Naderi, an Iranian board member of the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans which advocated in support of the Iran nuke sellout.
While Trump threw out some of this stuff, under Biden NASA is fully woke and going where no one has gone before or ever wanted to go before.
Victor Glover, the black mission pilot, who had been working on Senator John McCain’s staff when he was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate, is preparing for his mission by listening to Gil Scott-Heron’s racist rant ‘Whitey on the Moon’ “twice a week on the way to work.”
NASA has a team that will update everything for the lunatic’s “current genders, names and pronouns” (which may or may not change on a biweekly basis) and then deploy a “workplace gender transition plan” that is only a little less complicated than the original moon landings.
“When I first came out, I did not come out as nonbinary at work. I wasn’t sure that people would accept that, so I came out as transmasculine and am only recently being completely authentic about it, like, ‘Actually, I’m nonbinary, and my pronouns are they/them,’” Mars “research scientist” Silas J. Ralston explains in a special NASA feature.
Now the four-person crew for the “virtual” mission to Mars has been unveiled and they carefully screened out the white people.
There is a Muslim crewmember though.
NASA has selected a new crew of four volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Jason Lee, Stephanie Navarro, Shareef Al Romaithi, and Piyumi Wijesekara will step into the agency’s Human Exploration Research Analog, or HERA, on Friday, May 10. Once inside, the team will live and work like astronauts for 45 days.
Or woke cosmonauts anyway. During this time they’ll accuse each other of hate speech and microaggression.
But who actually needs to go to Mars when we can explore new dimensions of diversity right here?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/new-nasa-mars-crew-has-a-muslim-no-white-people/
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Just How Seriously is the Fed Losing the Fight against Inflation's Inferno?
It's a LOT hotter than the media told you in their cover stories!
David Haggith Apr 17, 2024 ∙ Paid
On Saturday, Zero Hedge published an article by Jeffrey Tucker that laid out just how far off the media has been in all of its soothing spin that attempts to cool your perception of inflation:
For months and even years, the mainstream news has sought to spin terrible inflation news. It’s not so bad, it’s just transitional, it’s getting better, it’s not really a problem, and all your gloom about the value of the dollar is in your head. Truly, in the past fortnight, we have been inundated with articles suggesting that the public is dumb as rocks for thinking that inflation is still a problem.
And then all of a sudden months of denial left them in a place where, BOOM! it was bad overnight. Still, some have tried their best to splash a little quenching water on these flames, but it’s not working anymore. Others threw in the towel on the subterfuge and finally called the heat as it is:
It was so bad that not even the two most influential venues could deny it. The New York Times reported, “Inflation Stronger Than Expected.” The Wall Street Journal reported, “Hot Inflation Report Weakens Case for Fed’s June Rate Cut.” The accompanying editorial is even better: “The Inflation Thief Rises Again.”
Now that some venues, trusted beyond their merits, have stopped parroting the Fed’s new “it’s just a bump in the road” transitory inflation narrative, even the Fed has had to start admitting—in what appears to be getting close to unanimous consent—that it is losing the inflation fight so far this year. Today Papa Powell finally said the fight is not going well, allowing that there has been “a lack of further progress” this year, and he even confirmed this pushes rate cuts further off:
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the U.S. economy … has not seen inflation come back to the central bank’s goal, pointing to the further unlikelihood that interest rate cuts are in the offing anytime soon….
Powell said that while inflation continues to make its way lower, it hasn’t moved quickly enough, and the current state of policy should remain intact.
“More recent data shows solid growth and continued strength in the labor market, but also a lack of further progress so far this year on returning to our 2% inflation goal,” the Fed chief said during a panel talk.
Echoing recent statements by central bank officials, Powell indicated the current level of policy likely will stay in place until inflation gets closer to target….
“The recent data have clearly not given us greater confidence, and instead indicate that it’s likely to take longer than expected to achieve that confidence,” he said….
Powell added that until inflation shows more progress, “We can maintain the current level of restriction for as long as needed….”
Treasury yields rose as Powell spoke. The benchmark 2-year note, which is especially sensitive to Fed rate moves, briefly topped 5%, while the benchmark 10-year yield rose 3 basis points. The S&P 500 wavered after Powell’s remarks, briefly turning negative on the day before recovering.
Some of the other central-bank officials who made similar statements today were …
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson …
who suggested Tuesday that the central bank’s key rate may have to remain at its peak for a while to bring down persistently elevated inflation…. He said his outlook is that inflation will cool even with the Fed’s key rate “held steady at its current level….”
Jefferson’s remarks appeared to open the door to the prospect that the Fed will dial back its forecast, issued at its most recent policy meeting in March, that it would carry out three quarter-point cuts this year to its benchmark rate, which stands at about 5.3%….
In his speech Tuesday, Jefferson said the Fed estimates that its preferred inflation gauge, which will be reported next week, rose in March, to 2.7% from a year earlier, up from 2.5% in February. Such an increase would echo a rise in the more widely followed consumer price index, which rose to 3.5% in March, from 3.2%.
and …
The Fed’s Daly who noted today …
The economy growing at a solid rate, the labor market is still strong, and inflation is above target.. Worst thing to do is act urgently when urgency isn't necessary.
The spinners’ gotta spin
As, in don’t act to lower rates at all when you don’t need to. The credit rating service, Moody’s, even chimed in today to say that current data clouds the rate-cut picture that markets have in mind. They now see the June cut that the stock market has switched to betting on as unlikely.
U.S. inflation is expected to retreat eventually, but the recent upside surprise in U.S. inflation data could delay monetary policy easing, says Moody’s Investors Service….
The latest robust reading adds to the uncertainty surrounding the timing of U.S. rate cuts. The rating agency said there is unlikely to be be enough evidence of declining inflation before the U.S. Federal Reserve Board’s mid-June meeting to enable it to begin reducing rates.
Let me say it more plainly for them: “The June rate cut is also now as good as long gone.”
Markets had previously targeted mid-year as the likely starting point for U.S. rate cuts.
That was, of course, after they had previously targeted March as their solid position for the starting point of US rate cuts. So, they don’t know much.
“Disinflationary progress has slowed since the start of the year, but it is too early to conclude that it has stalled or reversed,” Moody’s said.
Really? Not according to Papa Powell, who seems to have found several ways of saying it has stalled. (See the many elements from his comments in boldface above.) I don’t know how anyone, especially Moody’s, can say with a straight face that the Fed’s fight hasn’t stalled? Seriously? Look at the FACTS (even as presented by the Fed);
You don’t get much more stalled than that! Good grief, people are thick when it comes to admitting the more-than-obvious truth. And notice the stall goes right back to the first uptick in July where I notified my readers that inflation had just put in a turn that would last (when the media was NOWHERE near saying such a thing). From that date on, I tracked the stall throughout those months, pointing out “still stalling.” Even “rising.” To this day, some like Moody’s, even when they are writing about disinflation slowing down, cannot bring themselves to admit that it isn’t just slowing down. It’ has STOPPED! ZERO PROGRESS FOR NINE MONTHS!
Yet, the picture is actually far worse than a mere stall, as I’ll lay out below, due to how the numbers have been manipulated.
While Moody’s expressed irrational belief that inflation will eventually start to cool again this year, I don’t see it that way any more than I see ANY way of saying, based on the clear facts above (and below), that inflation hasn’t stalled. Oil is certainly rising, which will continue to contribute a lot to inflation’s rise directly and over time a lot more indirectly. Even if Israel doesn’t make a harsh reprisal to Iran’s first-ever direct attack from its own borders into Israel’s (far from a sure bet), Iran may very well respond to whatever Israel does do, as Iran has stated it will do in the news today much more quickly than it last response and using “weapons it has never used before,” which will press Israel to do a lot more. (See headlines below.)
It seems an obviously terrible bet to lay against those odds the claim that inflation will cool! I don’t think either Iran or Israel is going to cool off under the collar anytime soon. So, how is inflation going to cool with Middle East oil on fire and shipping routes closed by terrorists, driven, funded, and weaponized by super-heated Iran? If Iran doesn’t directly attack Israel again out of fear of a much harsher response from Israel and its allies, it will certainly find ways to attack more fiercely through its multiple proxy wars, such has hitting the Red Sea harder to hurt the West and pushing the Hezbollah and Syrian gangs to do more. There is almost zero chance at present of the Middle East cooling down. It’s only a question of how much hotter that hell gets.
Inflation much hotter than reported!
There are a few things I should note from the earlier inflation reports that I was going to highlight in my last Deeper Dive, which I’ll lay out now as they are way to important to let them slide by, even as a Middle-Eastern raging war has taken over the news:
One is that, as hot as inflation was in the last PPI report, it would have been worse if not for massive “seasonal adjustments.” The devil is in details, and I would question how much the details were seasonally adjusted to look a lot less bad than the raw numbers. The details were adjusted far more than they were in other March’s, so why was this March so unseasonably seasonable when compared to other reports from the same season (going off the five years before the pandemic as the days when things were normal)? How convenient for Biden that there was so much unstated justification for adjusting the degrees of inflation down so much more than in other Marches! It seems he’s getting a little extra mileage out of Covid. Maybe the economy has long Covid.
In fact, if you smooth things out over three months, the smoothened numbers look worse than the raw numbers:
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And, if you take out the seasonal adjustments, they look worse still:
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Second, the ALL of the three-month rates (to smooth out the “bumpiness” Powell originally used as his new “transitory” non-starter) jumped higher, meaning the smoothed January report and the smoothened February report and the smoothened March report, all jumped higher. So, you can’t even smoothen out those bumps when you try by spreading them across three month averages.
Core CPI, which the Fed prefers, also looked much worse, even with the adjustments:
There is no way to make that pig look good with a little more lipstick because the pig is roasting on a spit in hell! Even seasonal fashion lipstick can’t do the trick because it melts off faster than you can apply it. And both services and goods were way back up over the first three months of this year. UP, not just stalled! So, all elements of inflation are doing worse, and the Middle East heat assures a greater inferno to come. You can believe in Moody’s fact-free, fantasy cooling period if you want to; or you can believe in the obvious reality raging as an inferno all around us. Who has steered you right so far?
So, welcome to Fed hell, prepared in advance for us all!
(If you missed my article on the eclipse and the new war between Israel and Iran—more dangerous than any others in the Middle East in decades—and you’re interested in apocalyptic stuff, you can find it here: “The Apoceclipse: We Survived! ... or did we?”)
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North Korea has been mocked for so long they are ready to fight.
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Still Poking the Bear: F-16's from Netherlands Arrive in Romania - for Ukraine pilots!
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Three Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons landed at the Romanian 86th Air Base Lieutenant-Aviator Gheorghe Mociornita in Borce (Calarasi County).
The jets will be used to train, and then used by, Ukrainian pilots.
There are no air fields remaining inside Ukraine which can accommodate the F-16's. The runways are too bumpy from Russian attacks. There is almost no fuel supply, and no weapons storage remaining at most bases.
So if these F-16's are going to be used in combat by Ukraine, it __appears__ they will have to take-off from, then return to, bases in Romania, in order to be refueled, re-armed and maintained.
If that takes place . . . . if Ukrainian pilots takeoff from a foreign base, and attack Russian forces in Ukraine, then return to that foreign base for refueling, re-arming and maintenance, then Russia has made clear THAT FOREIGN BASE will become a legitimate military target.
Each and every day, the collective west moves closer and closer to direct confrontation with Russia.
They are doing this despite Russia having increased its military industrial production by fifteen times (15x) and by doing so, now out-produced the total, combined production of the West by seven times.
Moreover, not only is Russia's production 7 times that of the west, the stockpiles of weapons and ammunition in the West have been either seriously depleted or wiped-out altogether, by supplying Ukraine. So the West has almost nothing to fall back on as far as reserve ammunition.
Yet the West continues to escalate the Russia-Ukraine conflict - in complete denial they are heading down the road to direct war and thereby, their own annihilation.
Readers in Europe and in the United States are reminded that if direct warfare breaks out between Russia and NATO, countries in Europe, and sites within the continental United States can - and likely will - come under Russian missile attack.
Are you ready to see parts of your country blowing up? Because that may be where this is heading.
I urge readers in the US and in Europe to have emergency food, water, medicines, first-aid kit, flashlights for each member of your family or each room of your house, with spare batteries for those flashlights. Have communications gear like Citizen's Band (CD) or a HAM radio for local communications. If we get hit, it is almost guaranteed that communications systems, phone landlines, cellular, fax, the Internet and email will all go offline. You really should have a way to communicate with neighbors and to hear global news via shortwave. So get a portable AM/FM/Shortwave radio with spare batteries so you can get information.
Have a generator with spare fuel to keep your refrigerator running, and maybe power a light or two in the house. DO NOT OPERATE A GENERATOR INDOORS; their gas-powered engines give off carbon monoxide gas which will KILL YOU if it is inside your house. Generators must only be run outside.
Have extra fuel for the generator, because when the SHTF, those who did not prepare by getting supplies in advance, will find themselves standing on mile-long gas lines trying to get fuel. Then the gas stations will start running out, and you'll be left with nothing.
GET CASH MONEY. Have some cash money stashed in the house. If the SHTF, communications lines will likely go down and there won't be any way to authorize your credit or debit cards to buy anything. Cash will be king. If you don't have any when the SHTF, you won't have any hope of buying what you need to survive.
DON'T WAIT. Get supplies now. If you wait, you'll be "shit outta luck (SOL)."
There is still some small window of time for you to begin accumulating these emergency prep supplies. If you wait, until the bombs actually start hitting, you'll find yourself out of time and out of luck because every schmuck in the country who ALSO waited, will all be headed out to the stores for supplies. They will strip store shelves bare. Gas stations will run empty and you will find yourself with nothing. No food. No water. No medicine. No electricity, No communications, and no money.
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The Israeli government is furious over one of the targets struck by the Iran missile attack two nights ago. That attack utterly smashed a secret Israeli Intelligence Base - Pictured above, in the Golan Heights.
According to Israeli sources, the heaviest damage that was inflicted on the Israeli government during Iran's retaliatory attack is the secret intelligence base in the north of the occupied Golan Heights located in Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon).
The importance and sensitivity of this place is such that the Israeli army imposed a complete media ban for this area and everything is censored and no damage assessment and public announcement is allowed.
This intelligence base played a role in the recent Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, and in general, in recent years, it has played a very important and prominent role in intelligence operations against Syria and Iran.
The base is now smashed.
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On April 13, this website reported the arrival of French Foreign Legion troops into Slavyansk, Ukraine. Overnight, those troops were hit and mostly killed by the Russian Army.
The original story from April 13 appears HERE
The French military brought the CAESAR self-propelled gun to Slavyansk
According to the Military Chronicle, the brigade artillery group consists of 12 to 15 wheeled howitzers, as well as several Renault trucks with auxiliary equipment. According to preliminary information, the equipment was transferred for storage to the Starokramatorsky Machine-Building Plant from Dnepropetrovsk.
In Slavyansk itself, in the area of clay quarries, as well as to the south (in the Cherevkovka area), firing positions have already been prepared for these guns: a road has been rolled out and ammunition supply routes have been equipped.
Most likely, we are talking about the potential use of the French CAESAR for barrage fire in the event of an attack by the Russian Armed Forces on Slavyansk, but we cannot exclude the use of this technology in the defense of Chasov Yar and its likely transfer to units of the 54th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (as well as the direct participation of the French within this division.)
When firing extended-range projectiles with a bottom gas generator from the Belenkoye area (between Kramatorsk and Slavyansk), the entire eastern part of Chasov Yar, including the western part of Bogdanovka and the entry point of Russian troops in the area of vocational school No . 77 in the Kanal microdistrict, may be in the CAESAR destruction zone.
Those French troops and their CAESAR artillery were demolished overnight by the Russian Army.
Russia had previously warned NATO countries that if they sent troops into Ukraine, those troops would become legitimate targets. Now, Russia has made good on its word (again) and a slew of French Foreign Legion troops are now dead.
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Syracuse police officer and a deputy killed in shooting in Salina
Updated: Apr. 15, 2024, 8:13 a.m.|Published: Apr. 14, 2024, 9:30 p.m.
By Jon Moss | jmoss@syracuse.comRylee Kirk | rkirk@syracuse.comMarnie Eisenstadt | meisenstadt@syracuse.comTim Knauss | tknauss@syracuse.comDarian Stevenson | DStevenson@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. — Two police officers were killed Sunday night in a shootout on a suburban street in Salina.
A Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriff’s deputy were both killed when they went to follow up on a traffic stop where the driver sped away, said Syracuse Police Chief Joe Cecile.
The officers were not identified.
The trouble started with a traffic stop at 7 p.m. in the city’s Tipp Hill neighborhood, Cecile said. That’s when Syracuse police tried to pull over a car, but the driver refused and sped off. Police took the plate number, which led them to a home on Darien Drive, a short street with tidy lawns and basketball hoops in the driveways.
There, police saw guns in the back of the car, Cecile said. And then, from inside the home, they heard the sound of a gun being readied to fire, he said.
Gunfire filled the little neighborhood as the officers and the suspect exchanged shots. The two officers and the suspect were all hit. The suspect also was killed, Cecile said. He did not identify the man.
“This is our worst nightmare come true,” said Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh. “Our thoughts right now are with the families of those two officers, those heroes.”
Police gave some details about the two officers who were killed. The Syracuse officer had three years on the force. He was ambitious and hard-working, Cecile said.
The deputy had been with the department for a considerable time. “He was just a great guy,” said Onondaga County Sheriff Toby Shelley.
Shelley said the house, at 4945 Darien Dr., had been secured and there is no threat to the neighborhood, but that police were still going through the scene just after midnight.
“It’s just a very sad day for law enforcement,” Shelley said.
He and the others spoke at midnight down the hill from the emergency room in front of the Wallie Howard Forensic Center. That’s where the officers’ bodies had been brought for autopsies.
Howard, the officer for whom the center is named, was the last officer shot and killed in the line of duty in Onondaga County. That was more than 30 years ago.
That streak was broken with what seemed to be such a routine call:
“We’re chasing cars every day,” Shelley said. “Every day ...”
One of the officers who responded to the scene reported seeing AR-style magazines in the back of a car, and sounds of “racking” coming from a house, according to 911 center dispatches.
An officer down call went out at 8:51 p.m.
After the shootings, police from multiple agencies swarmed the area on Darien Drive.
Shortly after 9 p.m. a vehicle was rushing a person to Upstate University Hospital, according to 911 center dispatches. Police were rushing to shut down an Interstate 81 ramp to clear the way for the vehicle.
One dispatch from the 911 center described the call as a mass casualty incident. That would indicate three or more victims. Multiple ambulances were dispatched to the area.
A sheriff’s deputy responded to a home at 4945 Darien Drive around 8:20 p.m. to assist Syracuse police, according to 911 center dispatches.
Witness: At least 20 shots fired
Mousa Alzokari, who lives directly across the street from the house where the shooting occurred, said he heard a flurry of shots at about 8:45 p.m. He called 911.
Not long after, two officers with long guns entered the back door of Alzokari’s house without knocking and went up to the second floor, where they took positions facing the shooting scene. They were still there as of 11:20 p.m., while Alzokari and five children waited on the ground floor.
Altogether, Alzokari estimated he heard at least 20 shots fired. The two officers in his house did not fire shots, he said.
At one point, Alzokari said, he saw an officer being carried to a sheriff’s vehicle and driven away. He also saw at least one person placed in handcuffs. But police continued to surround the house, leading Alzokari to believe a suspect remained inside.
Alzokari, who has lived on Darien Drive for about four years, said it’s normally a quiet street.
“The kids are scared and shaken now,” he said.
Brian Fagan, 49, heard a car ripping around the corner of Larkin Street and North Woodland Drive around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The vehicle flew past his home with five deputy police cruisers following behind, he said.
Fagan heard tires screech as the vehicles came to a stop at the intersection of North Woodland Drive and Oakland Terrace. Then four to five gunshots went off, he said.
Ambulances, the Liverpool Fire Department and city, state and county officers rushed to the scene, Fagan said. Air 1, the sheriff’s helicopter, hovered overhead for two hours, he said.
It all happened within a matter of 20 minutes.
“I’m looking out my window now and there’s probably 30 to 40 state troopers and sheriff’s up my street,” he said.
Just after 9 p.m., the county 911 system alerted those in the neighborhood to shelter in place, according to Fagan. He doesn’t normally pick up his home phone, but with all the traffic and everything going on, he needed to answer it.
A silent procession
At about 10:45 p.m., a dozen police cars were parked on both sides of East Adams Street near Upstate hospital. There were about two dozen city police and sheriff’s deputies near the door to the emergency room.
By midnight, 100 men and women stood shoulder to shoulder from the emergency room door all the way down East Adams Street. Some were in uniform; others were wearing whatever they had on when they heard the news and rushed over.
No one spoke. The only sound was Air 1 flying overhead.
The line snapped wordlessly to attention as the officers’ bodies were loaded into the white vans that would carry them from the hospital to the crime lab.
A silent procession of police cars followed behind the vans. The streets around the hospital were blocked off. So many firetrucks and police cars came that all the side streets were full of flashing lights, too.
From far away, the hill glowed red and blue.
Staff writer Jon Moss covers breaking news, crime and public safety. He can be reached at jmoss@syracuse.com or @mossjon7.
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The Explosion Of Mental Illness In America: 'It Is No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society' - Psychopaths Rule Over America And The Western World
- America & The West Have Become The Laughing Stock Of The World
By Stefan Stanford - Live Free Or Die - All News Pipeline April 14, 2024
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" J. Krishnamurti
In this new story over at the Epoch Times they report that at least 20 REAL women have withdrawn from their soccer team over at the Syndey, Australia based league to allow men (pretending in their absolutely WARPED 'transgender' minds to be REAL women!) to compete against REAL women due to the very REAL potential of the REAL WOMEN, playing against men, getting hurt in those games.
Reporting that the 'team' calling itself the “biggest LGBTQIA+ women’s and non-binary football club in the world,” the Flying Bats FC, had made international headlines for using on their 'team' at least 5 self-identifying transgender players, with at least nine transgender players in the wider NorthWest Association, I still remember growing up in the 1960's and 1970's when the 'women's rights movement' was exploding in American streets, seeking 'equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women,' though if you look out into the world today, many aspects of that 'movement' have been crushed and destroyed by allowing REAL MEN to compete in pro sports against women.
With all of those 'trannies' allowing the Flying Bats to utterly dominate their four-week pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup, which followed an undefeated season in 2023 that produced score lines disproportionate to other teams’ results, that story is a perfect example of what we're witnessing right now in this March 26th of 2023 story by James Corbett over at The Corbett Report substack about America and the Western World's Dissent Into Madness and the world that they're driven to bring on to the rest of us, a world full of projections by psychopaths, especially with psychopaths that now largely rule over the Western world.
And while league officials in Australia are planning on officially punishing the teams that decide upon leaving REAL WOMEN out of their games, thus forfeiting those games rather than risk bringing harm to their REAL WOMEN players by forcing them to go up against REAL MEN PRETENDING TO BE WOMEN, it baffles us beyond belief that so many leftist women have sacrificed those rights that so many of them fought so diligently for back in 60's and 70's, while quite literally sacrificing the safety, health and well-being of their daughters to the beast of insanity.
And not only 'liberal' women are sacrificing with the school systems all across the country going absolutely crazy with this idiocy as well, sure to adversely effect the children of Conservatives. Is this REALLY what America and 'The West' have come to, the laughing stock of the world?
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As this story over at Yahoo Sports reports of the 'Flying (Batsh*t crazy) 'Bats' in Australia back on March 28th, while 'winning' the Beryl Ackroyd Cup in the WOMEN'S league there, they 'won' all four of the games that they played there, including one by a score of 10-0 in which one of those 'tranny' players scored a double hat trick, all of the while they broke one opponents legs in two different places.
Reporting that any team within that competition who actually forfeited a game against them would be guilty of 'discrimination,' the Flying Bats ended up going on winning the $1,000 first prize in that tournament after 24 of the REAL WOMEN players in the 'league' decided not to compete in a tournament against REAL MEN PRETENDING TO BE WOMEN due to the possibility of injuries, and just imagine HOW MANY MORE OF THEM would have been hurt had they gone through with it!
And while America's insane Commander In Chief helped prove his insanity by declaring upon Easter that it would be the 'Transgender Day of Visibility,' he never once acknowledged those REAL WOMEN's RIGHTS that were fought for so hard back in the 60's and 70's and won, instead deciding to take away the RIGHTS of some REAL WOMEN by forcing them to partake in sports often dominated by REAL MEN, putting them at very real risk of very real physical harm, but Biden clearly doesn't care about that possibility.
And while we completely agree with what has been expressed by some of the women's teams in that Australian 'football league,' that the league’s governing body, the Football NSW, should force the Bats into playing in a mixed-sex league because, as one club official told the Daily Telegraph, “Our girls are here to play for fun and expect to play in the female competition. They did not sign up for a mixed competition, the POTUS of the 'Flying Bats' nonetheless claims that 'trannies' deserve to be in the women's league because, insanely, 'that is who they identify as'. Well what about those REAL WOMEN who are getting KILLED by the MEN PRETENDING TO BE WOMEN?
"It was so disheartening for them to see the huge difference in ability—they’re killing it.”
The involvement of transgender athletes in sports is a current hot-button issue, as policymakers grapple with how to balance the effects on women’s players, versus the “rights” of female-identifying players born as biological men.
Advocates argue that transgender individuals should be able to participate in sports according to their gender identity, while opponents raise concerns about fairness and competitive advantage.
One of the key points of contention is the impact of testosterone levels on athletic performance. Testosterone affects muscle mass, strength, and endurance, and transgender males who have undergone hormone therapy to transition may still have higher testosterone levels than cisgender females, providing a competitive advantage in women’s sports.
With myself a wrestler back in my school days, I NEVER would have thought wrestling against REAL WOMEN would have been 'fair' as it certainly would have given me an unfair advantage over almost whoever they were, and never were REAL MEN permitted to wrestle against REAL WOMEN no matter what weight class they were in. Does that even sound the least bit 'fair'?
And as James Corbett reports in this March 26th of 2023 story, we're witnessing nothing less than "Dissent Into Madness" taking place with our "projections of psychopaths" here in the US and most of the Western world in 2024.
With Corbett very accurately pointing out that conspiracy theorizing is being pathologized as a mental disorder and how this false diagnosis is being used to justify the forced psychiatric detention and medication of 9/11 truthers and COVID dissenters, also take note in the passage ahead how this 'psychological weapon' is now being wielded against any would-be dissenters WHILE those 'in charge' are themselves driven by a psychopathological disorder. Yes, the batsh*t crazy are 'running the show' in America and the west. From that crucial story.:
Being Sane In An Insane Society
If you are reading this column, chances are you're already aware of just how insane our society can be.
Maybe you first realized something was deeply wrong with our world when you noticed the discrepancy between what most people actually believe—that JFK was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy, for example—and what you're expected to say in "polite" society—namely, that the Warren Commission got to the bottom of the matter and that anyone who questions its findings is a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Or perhaps the penny dropped when you heard ex-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright blithely declare on 60 Minutes that the death of half a million Iraqi children in the State Department's campaign against Saddam Hussein was "worth it."
Or maybe you, like many millions of others around the world, began to question the sanity of our society when you saw the madness of the past three years, with governments locking people in their homes and subjecting the poorest among us to starvation and forcing never-before-used medical interventions on billions of people in the name of "public health."
I, too, have had my own such moments of awareness. And, feeling the frustration that comes from realizing just how sick and twisted the world can be, I am often reminded of Jiddu Krishnamurti's famous observation: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
But I've also found that you get used to the insanity of this sick society after a while. In fact, you come to expect it.
Of course politicians are always lying to the public.
Of course those in positions of power wouldn't think twice about killing thousands of their fellow citizens—let alone untold millions in the Middle East—in order to achieve their goals.
Of course they'll cook up a phoney scamdemic to usher in their biosecurity state and of course it has nothing to do with keeping people healthy.
In fact, once you've seen through the lies and realized just how profoundly sick our society has become, it turns out that it's not the big things that shock you anymore. It's the little things.
And while Corbett's excellent column goes on and on about 'the little things' in society today that are maddening, and I'll skip those so that you can visit his website and get more deeply into the meat of his piece if you so choose, I'll close here with one of his story segment conclusions about 'a sign' about 'Sustainable Development Goals' that he has seen in Japan. And guess where that sign was? Of ALL places, it was over a urinal. Has it come to a point in time where we have to think about 'global warming' when we're going to the bathroom?:
Meanwhile, I have been watching with consternation as the SDGs have begun intruding more and more into everyday life here in Japan. It's not at all unusual to see a product ad displaying the characteristic coloured boxes indicating which SDG (or SDGs) that product is supposedly promoting (however tenuously), or to see lapel pins sporting the rainbow circle of the SDG logo, now a common accoutrement on the suits of Japanese salarymen.
But to see an SDG here? On a sign over a urinal? Is there truly nowhere we can go where we're not subjected to this 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Enslavement propaganda and all of the Great Reset/Fourth Industrial Revolution/neo-feudal/transhuman nightmare it invokes?
Perhaps the strangest part of all is that if I were to point out this insanity to the average person here, they would look at me as if I were the crazy one. And if I were to back up my viewpoint with the volumes of documented information about the perverse nature of this UN-fronted globalist agenda—the information contained in numerous documentaries and podcasts and interviews and articles on the subject—I would doubtless appear even crazier.
"What's the big deal? It's just a sign."
As it turns out, the sign is indeed a sign. A sign that our society is in fact suffering from the effects of a mental illness.
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etc. truly darkness, darkness is growing darker and darker and darker, war is being prepared, war is being made ready. Watch Russia, watch Turkey, watch China, watch Iran, watch Pakistan, watch Saudi Arabia, for they are not your friends nor have they ever been your friends. They are not my friends, saith your Father God, for they shall wage war against me in the last days, these are the last days. etc..
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Russia Deploys Frigate with Hypersonic Missiles into Mediterranean Sea
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After Russian President Vladimir Putin told the United States that intervening against Iran would result in Russia intervening to support Iran, a Russian frigate with hypersonic missiles entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
A Russian frigate equipped with hypersonic missiles entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea this Sunday after crossing the Suez Canal, after which Moscow stated that the vessel "will fulfill its assigned tasks", without further details.
The frigate Marshall Shaposhnikov transited the Suez Canal. "The ship's crew continues to carry out their assigned tasks as part of their long sea journey" the Russian Ministry of Defense said this morning.
"In the Mediterranean Sea, the Pacific Fleet frigate will operate in line with the previously planned combat and training line." the Ministry continued.
At the moment, there are no further details about this plan, or how long the frigate will remain near the Israeli-Iran conflict zone.
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Half of Iran's ballistic missiles fell short en route to Israel, report says
Several nations urge Israel to avoid escalation, though Israeli officials contend attack warrants a response
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Only half of the ballistic missiles Iran fired on Israel during its unprecedented attack against the Jewish state on Saturday were intercepted while the rest fell short, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
According to the report, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates shared intelligence with the United States that helped facilitate the successful interception of many missiles and drones while Jordan allowed the U.S. to use its airspace to shoot down incoming threats.
A senior U.S. source told ABC that some of Iran's ballistic missiles caused some damage to a C-130 military transport aircraft and some empty storage depots at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel.
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to members of the 335th and 494th fighter squadrons that took an active role in intercepting Iranian ballistic missiles, saying their activity "saved many lives."
The New York Times reported that U.S. efforts helped intercept over 80 drones and at least six ballistic missiles. Additionally, U.S. forces attacked a missile launcher and seven drones in Houthi-controlled Yemen.
While Israeli officials are still contemplating a forceful response to Iran's assault, Iranian Ambassador to the UN Saeed Iravani told Sky News he "knows what our second retaliation would be." Iravani further estimated Israel would not initiate a retaliatory move in response to Saturday's attack.
France, the United Kingdom and Germany have called on Israel to refrain from striking Iran for fear of possibly igniting a regional conflict. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Israel to "prevent an escalation."
French President Emmanuel Macron said "we are all concerned about a possible escalation. France will do all it can to prevent it and convince Israel there's no need to retaliate. Things are on shaky ground right now. Iran's response to Israel's attack in Damascus was disproportionate. We must stand by Israel to secure its national defense in the best way possible. In light of Jordan's request, France intercepted attacks from Iran."
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Iran's attack was "disproportionate", and implored Israel to refrain from responding and instead focus its efforts on ceasing all hostilities in Gaza.
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Iran's attack on Israel lasted about five hours, officials say. Here's what we know
From CNN staff
The unprecedented wave of strikes launched from Iran towards Israel appears to have subsided, two US officials said. The attacks lasted approximately five hours and plunged the already tinder box Middle East into uncharted territory.
Iran said the overnight attacks were retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, earlier this month.
The Biden administration says almost all of the drones and missiles – including more than 100 ballistic missiles – launched at Israel by Iran have been knocked out of the sky.
US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call that his country should consider tonight a win because the current US assessment is that Iran’s attacks had been largely unsuccessful and demonstrated Israel’s superior military capability, a senior administration official told CNN.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has asked his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, to notify the US ahead of any potential response to the Iranian attack, according to a US official. The Israeli security cabinet has authorized the three-man war cabinet to decide on Israel’s response.
Here's what we know so far:
No direct casualties: There have been no reports of injuries suffered directly through Iranian strikes, according to Israel’s emergency service. However, However, a 7-year-old girl was severely injured by shrapnel from an interceptor missile while 31 people were treated for minor injuries or panic attacks.
G7 leaders to meet: Biden will meet with G7 leaders Sunday “to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” according to a statement released by the White House. The leaders of Canada and Portugal condemned Iran's attack, while the prime minister of Spain expressed his “utmost concern."
No US offensive involvement: The US will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran, Biden has made clear to Netanyahu, a senior administration official told CNN.
How it started: Earlier this month, an airstrike destroyed Iran's consulate building in Damascus, Syria, and killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials — including top commanders, according to Iranian officials and state-affiliated media. The foreign ministers of Iran and Syria accused Israel of authoring the attack. Iran vowed to retaliate.
More on Iran's position: Iran’s regional allies say they entered confrontations with Israel on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza, Since the outbreak of war in Gaza, Iran’s proxies have launched attacks on Israel and its allies, while demanding a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.
What this means: The beginning of a state-on-state conflict between Iran and Israel marks a serious escalation in the region – a scenario that the US has hoped to avoid since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October.
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Biden told Netanyahu US will not participate in offensive operations against Iran, US official says
From CNN's MJ Lee
The US will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran, US President Joe Biden has made clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior administration official told CNN.
The comments were relayed during the phone call that the two leaders shared in the aftermath of Iran's retaliatory strikes against Israel.
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Biden tells Netanyahu tonight was a win, nothing of "value" hit in Israel, US official says
From CNN's MJ Lee
Israel should consider tonight a win because the current US assessment is that Iran’s attacks had been largely unsuccessful and demonstrated Israel’s superior military capability, President Joe Biden told Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in their phone call, a senior administration official told CNN.
The US’s assessment tonight was that almost all of the drones and missiles – including more than 100 ballistic missiles -- launched by Iran had been knocked out of the sky. No cruise missile made impact, the official said, and nothing of “value” was hit.
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No reports of injuries directly through Iranian strikes, according to Israel’s emergency service
From CNN’s Benjamin Brown in London
There have been no reports of injuries suffered directly through Iranian strikes, according to Israel’s emergency service.
However, the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said it was called to treat a total of 31 people who suffered minor injuries while making their way to shelters and who suffered panic attacks during the drone and missile attacks.
Earlier, MDA said it had taken a 7-year-old girl to hospital who had suffered a severe head injury due to shrapnel from an interceptor missile that was launched to intercept an Iranian projectile.
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Israeli military says more than 55 rockets fired from Lebanon to Israel over past hour
More than 55 rockets have been fired from Lebanon to Israel over the past hour, according to the Israeli military's spokesperson.
This comes after about 40 rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon on Friday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Hezbollah militants said they had fired the rockets at Israeli artillery positions in response to recent Israeli attacks and in support of Palestinian people in Gaza.
Remember: Since the start of the Hamas-Israel war on October 7, Israel's flare-up with Hezbollah has intensified on Lebanon’s southern border with Israel.
Hezbollah — a Lebanese armed group backed by Iran — has its main area of operations there. Hezbollah has frequently fired missiles into Israel since October 7 and Israel has responded with its own fire, including airstrikes. Israel has ordered the evacuation of communities along the Lebanese border.
US forces throughout the region were positioned to provide defensive support to Israel ahead of the attack, and the US intended to intercept as many of the launches as it could. US forces intercepted a number of drones intended for Israel as part of a coordinated defensive effort, and Washington remains vigilant for the potential of more activity.
However, even as the number of Iranian drone and missile launches has fallen, Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon fired a barrage of rockets at northern Israel early Sunday mornin
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Officials rush to shut down McKees Rocks Bridge after 23 barges break free in Pittsburgh - weeks after disaster that took down Key Bridge in Baltimore
McKees Rocks Police Department said just after midnight that they would be closing the bridge as a precaution
One local police scanner page said that an estimated 23 barges broke free down the river, with one striking a marina dock
It comes just weeks after a the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being hit by a container ship
By Joe Hutchison For Dailymail.Com
Published: 00:55 EDT, 13 April 2024 | Updated: 01:37 EDT, 13 April 2024
Authorities have been forced to close down the McKees Rocks Bridge after 23 barges reportedly broke free from a tugboat on the Ohio River.
McKees Rocks Police Department said just after midnight that they would be closing the bridge as a precaution.
According to the department, there are currently a number of barges that have broken loose heading down the Ohio River.
One local police scanner page said that there were an estimated 23 barges going down the river, with one striking a marina dock.
In a statement, police said: 'There are number of barges broken loose headed down the Ohio River.
'They may or may not come into contact with sub-structure but we are not willing to take the risk. Please avoid this area until further notice.
It comes just weeks after a the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being hit by a container ship.
The ship - the Singaporean-flagged Dali - was 20 minutes into its journey when it slammed into a support column on the bridge.
Divers have recovered three bodies from the underwater wreckage, while the remaining three victims are still unaccounted for.
Crews have been working to extract sections of the fallen bridge, including those entangled in a muddy mess at the bottom of the Patapsco River.
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The Coming Events – Iran & Ukraine
April 13, 2024 Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The world is completely going insane. Markets have been rising with crude, gold, and the dollar in anticipation of an Iranian attack on Israel. The month of May looks to be very critical for markets on a global scale—no worries about our London Conference. We would not hold it in London if it appeared to be a risk. The risks are confined to Russia/Ukraine and the Middle East.
Putin is very Smart
We have a critical turning point on May 7th, which happens to be Putin’s inauguration day in Russia. The Ukrainians do as they are told, and even the Moscow attack was organized by the West, and they did not even try to hide it. They have been praying that Putin will retaliate and attack anything in NATO so they can launch WWIII. But Putin is very smart and he can see what they are trying to do. They need him to attack so they can claim it was unprovoked, as they did to Japan to get the USA into WWII. I fear that Ukraine will follow orders and attempt a stupid stunt against Putin directly for May 7th.
Zelenskyy Johnson
Many Ukrainians woke up after it was published in their main newspaper that Boris Johnson had jumped on a plane and instructed Zelensky that there would be no peace deal with Russia. He was to commit all Ukrainians to death in hopes of weakening Russia so NATO would be able to invade. Zelensky has sent over 500,000 Ukrainians to die for territory that Russians have occupied for hundreds of years. Crimea is Russia’s ONLY warm water port, and this war has been about trying to conquer that and turn it into a NATO port.
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This has no economic benefit to Ukrainians, and they have been used as pawns in the geopolitical game the West instigated under the leadership of Victoria Nuland. Zelensky has canceled all elections because the people would throw him out of office as a traitor taking orders from the West with no regard for Ukrainian lives.
ECM Ukraine 8.6 R
Ukraine is on the verge of collapse. Sending bullets does not help if you do not have people still standing to use them. We are approaching a critical turning point in the Ukraine War against Russia on April 19th/20th. There is no possible way Russia will be defeated. Nobody in the West ever thought Ukraine could win. Russia had 4.5 million in the army without drafting. Putin could have easily taken all of Ukraine but he has stuck to what he said originally – a special operation to only defend the Donbas. The hardliners criticize Putin for he should have taken Ukraine like the US did to Iraq and the war would have been over in 6 weeks. They have only been used to try to weaken Russia for the end goal of conquering Russia and stripping its wealth.
Then, in the Middle East, the markets are responding with the dollar, gold, and oil on the bid as many await the inevitable attack on Israel by Iran. The markets have rallied on reports that Israel is preparing for a direct attack by Iran this weekend. Many are expecting that this will be the biggest escalation of Middle East tensions in decades.
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When we look at our models on Iran, it is the Month of May that has been the major target and the Directional Change. It is hard to interpret the fundamentals. Does Iran launch its retaliation in April and the major response to Iran in May, or does Iran wait for May 7th to respond?
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What we can see is that the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1st set in motion the shift in trend. The Daily Array pinpointed Friday, March 29th, as a turning point with a Double Directional Change. But there were three Directional changes into Monday, April 1st.
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The Weekly Array showed a Directional Change starting the week of April 8th. Look at the next primary target – the ECM week of May 7th. We must understand that May 7th could be more than just one incident.
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Our models in the Middle East are coming to a major turning point next year, 2025.22 (March 21/22, 2025). Our models on crude oil show a significant directional change in 2025.
Israel is preparing for a direct attack by Iran on southern or northern Israel, and it has been reported they expect it this weekend, according to a source telling The Wall Street Journal. Yet, they did tell the Journal that no final decision has been made, though plans for a strike are under discussion.
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem Thursday restricted government employees and their families from personal travel outside Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Be’er Sheva “out of an abundance of caution” until further notice. There is no question that Iran will respond. The question is when.
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Unstable, very unstable is the world, unstable is the economy, unstable are the events that they are trying to do throughout the whole world. Even the democratic convention shall be very unstable and many things shall take place that shall shock the nation. Tornadoes, tornadoes, tornadoes, drought, hail, loss of crops, flooding, earthquakes, all the signs that shall be clearly seen, loss of jobs, boasting of how they can change the global warming and yet they cannot. Trouble here, trouble there, that is what we see in the world. Even though you have had your refreshing that I have said that you would have, things will change. etc
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Syracuse sets new high temperature, breaking 79-year-old record
Updated: Apr. 09, 2024, 6:08 p.m.|Published: Apr. 09, 2024, 5:34 p.m.
By Fernando Alba | falba@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse has broken a 79-year-old high temperature record for April 9.
A new high of 78 degrees was recorded just before 4 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The previous record of 77 degrees was set in 1945.
The average high for today would be 43 degrees.
Syracuse’s official weather records began in 1903.
The weather service is forecasting a high of 66 degrees on Wednesday, well short of the record for that date of 82 degrees, also set in 1945.
Staff writer Fernando Alba covers breaking news, crime and public safety. Have a tip, story idea, question or comment? Reach him at falba@syracuse.com .
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Twelve Ways Biden's Handlers Are
Hellbent On Destroying America
By Frosty Wooldridge
Exclusive To Rense
4-9-24
Part 1: The incredible speed of our country being invaded, the devolving of our Constitution, our language being changed, our history be altered, we're guilty of being a free country.
Twenty years ago, I sat in the audience when historian Victor Davis Hanson spoke to a "Stop Mass Immigration" audience sponsored by www.Fairus.org in Washington DC. I shook hands with him. He wrote an extremely prescient book: Mexifornia.
In that book, he exposed how Governor Jerry Brown of California back in 1975 to 1983, and 2011 to 2019, overwhelmed the state with illegal Mexican workers, drug pushers, rapists, shoplifters, welfare anchor babies, and job stealing. He noted how Mexicans moved into positions of power. Today, you're seeing California's ugly situation of being unable to function as a first world state. It features 200,000 homeless, shoplifting killing major stores and chains, regular murders on a grand scale, welfare off the charts for illegal aliens, hospitals and prisons overrun, and the Mexican flag flown more than Old Glory. You see schools taught in Spanish while gangs rob trains, carjack automobiles, cities destroyed by incompetent minority mayors.
Governor Gavin Newsome is totally useless, and MS-13 distributes drugs up and down every city in California. We're talking about the largest state in the lower 48 turning into a corrupt, disgusting and un-American colony. At that same conference, I heard Colorado Governor Richard Lamm give a brilliant speech on: "The Eight Ways to Destroy America." I wrote a book about it: Immigration's Unarmed Invasion: Deadly Consequences." I have been writing about our country being invaded for over 30 years. I've written three books on it. I've tried to warn the American people what's coming. I tried to interview on "60 Minutes, NPR, PBS" and another 30 major network programs.
They didn't and they won't touch it. Some very powerful people want to keep the American people clueless and in the dark as to what's coming. Last week, Hanson wrote a piece: " 11 Ways Biden's Handlers are Hellbent on Destroying America." You can access it on the Internet or Fox News. Notice Hanson's choice of words as to who runs our country. It's not the dementia-plagued Joe Biden. He's clueless, unintelligent, vacant minded and totally out of touch with what's happening to our country.
We are no longer a sovereign country. Biden's handlers have erased our borders. I talked about it in my first book. What astounds me stems from the speed of this invasion. We're talking in excess of 12 million illegal aliens in the past 40 months and over 30 million more already here since 1986.
We are being hung out to death with Congresses' $34 trillion debt. President John Adams said there are two ways to defeat a country, "By the sword or by debt." We're in a hell of a mess with this gargantuan debt that WILL destroy our economic foundation.
Biden's handlers have given Iran and China the keys, money and power to destroy us. Whether it was his son Hunter gaining millions by his father's VP status, or Biden's sheer corruption over the past 50 years in Congress, Iran and China have him by his gonads. That means we're all screwed.
Our identity is now defined by dozens of opposing tribes. We've got so many other tribes in our country, we're no longer Americans. Millions of us identify as something other than "American." Hanson said, "Ensure each identity group rivals the other for victimhood and the state spoils it confers. Reboot all political issues by race and sex oppressors and oppressed. Destroy all meritocratic standards of admission, retention, promotion and commendation."
Change crime from a crime to social issue : do not punish criminals. Reward them. Allow $100 billion in shoplifting annually. Allow 100,000 drug overdoses annually by keeping the borders wide open. Allow American money to the tune of $120 billion annually to fly out from our country to other countries as cash transfers. Invest in "no-bail", no jail, and it's okay to shoot and kill police offers. That's what's happening across America in 2024.
Turn the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard into a bunch of transgenders, gays, illegal aliens, mentally deficient and mentally unfit discontents who can't fight their way out of a paper bag. The fact today: our military is more worried about a transgender's choice of uniform such as a lady's skirt and high heels on a DNA male, rather than a MAN with a PAIR that's trained to defend America with his life.
Hanson said, " Deliberately impugn as racists and insurrectionists the largest demographic in the military who in recent wars died at twice their numbers in the population — so that they leave or never join the military. Encourage retired high officers to slander their commander-in-chief. Cut the defense budget. Stop producing sufficient weapons, but leave billions of dollars' worth of arms to terrorists."
The fact is: somebody like General Milley left $90 billion worth of military hardware in Afghanistan. That wasn't a mistake. It was Biden's handlers totally in control and out to kill America.
In Part 2, we're going to examine the last six items that show how Biden's handlers are hellbent on destroying America. When he brings in another 10 million Muslims, 5 million Chinese and 1-5 million Africans with chain-migration along with "asylum seekers", we won't know who we are or what the hell to do to save ourselves. Biden's handers are effectively destroying our culture, our language, our identity and our way of life.
This video graphically and dramatically illustrates America's immigration-population crisis as well as the world's. I wrote it and narrated it. Tim Walters of Cleveland, Ohio directed and produced. Please forward it to all your friends, networks and beyond. Place it on FB, Twitter, Linkedin, Parler and more. Just click the link below to see the video.
Immigration, Overpopulation, Resources, Civilization by Frosty Wooldridge
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Txj6kYxtkpD6/
Share these videos all over America:
In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, "Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls", Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes to see for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_ embedded
"Immigration by the numbers-off the chart " by Roy Beck This 10-minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a few words, "Mind boggling!" www.NumbersUSA.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ
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Analysis: While relations have experienced strain since October 7, they have not reached a breaking point, leaving room for potential diplomatic maneuvering in the near future
Ariel Oseran/i24NEWS|03.31.24 | 16:01
As Russian warships from the Pacific Fleet enter the Red Sea amid heightened tensions, and with Russian forces establishing new observation posts along the Israel-Syria border, questions arise about Russia's intentions in the Middle East.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that a missile cruiser and a frigate have crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and reached the Red Sea amid ongoing Houthi attacks, though the purpose of their mission remains unclear.
This move follows the Kremlin's denial of receiving security assurances from the Houthis to prevent attacks on their ships, raising concerns about Russia's strategic goals.
Simultaneously, Russian forces continue to expand their presence in the Syrian Golan Heights, with plans to inaugurate an 11th observation post soon.
The recent surge in Russian involvement in the region, particularly concerning Israel, since October 7, prompts two main interpretations.
Firstly, Russia appears to be asserting itself in the Red Sea, aligning its actions with its rhetoric. By deploying ships to the Red Sea amidst escalating tensions, Russia is signaling its willingness to engage in the volatile maritime arena, potentially altering the dynamics of the region significantly.
Moreover, Russia's increased presence along the Israel-Syria border could serve to bolster its position in the event of a broader conflict, positioning itself as a key player in regional affairs.
The second interpretation suggests that Moscow is sending a clear message to Jerusalem. Recent tensions between the two nations, particularly regarding Russia's support for Hamas and Israel's statements in support of Ukraine, may have prompted Russia to increase its military presence along Israel's borders as a form of diplomatic pressure.
These developments underscore the need for the Israeli government to reassess its strategic relationship with Russia.
While relations have experienced strain since October 7, they have not reached a breaking point, leaving room for potential diplomatic maneuvers in the near future.
Reprinted with permission from i24NEWS.
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Respected Japanese medical doctor issues warning to the world: New wave of 'genetic' vaccines is coming down the pike like a freight train and must be avoided at all costs
This is a must-watch video message that blows the whistle on the whole rotten scheme
Leo Hohmann Apr 11, 2024
A world-renowned Japanese professor has released a video message to humanity, warning that the Covid pandemic was a man-made hoax designed to “drive vaccinations” into the bodies of billions of people worldwide.
The chilling message was issued by Dr. Masayasu Inoue, MD, PhD, and professor emeritus at Osaka City University Medical School.
According to the respected medical doctor, the “false” pandemic was orchestrated by the United Nations World Health Organization, along with other globalist organizations and global governments.
The professor accuses these entities of an “extreme violation of human rights.”
The doctor argues that the global vaccination agenda was a fraudulent use of “experimental gene therapy” that was pushed onto “healthy people.”
The United States militarized the premature manufacture and distribution of the vaccines through Operation Warp Speed, which the doctor described as a “fraudulent” pretext based on the supposed urgency of a pandemic. This sense of public panic, urgency and outright hysteria was needed in order to get a new class of genetic vaccines into people’s bodies before proper testing could be carried out. The bodies of those who received the injections were trained to manufacture a toxic spike protein that collects in bodily tissue and is now causing all sorts of health problems, many of them deadly or debilitating.
The vaccines have been particularly devastating to children and young adults.
He warns that the result of rolling out Covid mRNA vaccines has led to “the induction of the terrible drug-induced injury that has never [been] seen in human history.”
He said new mRNA vaccine factories are now being constructed in his home country of Japan.
The Japanese doctor delivered his “message for the world” during a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
Japan’s first mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant opened in February 2023 and others are in the works.
The Japanese whistleblowing doctor warned, “There is a high risk that Japan-made vaccines will be exported under the guise of false trust.”
TRANSLATION: Do not receive them into your body no matter what new “pandemic” comes our way.
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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
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The Great Dispossession
April 12, 2024
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Klaus Schwab tells us that in the Great Reset that the World Economic Forum is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing. Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event the depository institution gets into trouble, belong to the depository institution’s creditors, not to us. All assets are pooled and serve as collateral whether or not labeled “segregated.”
You might remember that during the last financial crisis we were told that there would be no more bail-outs, that in the future there would be bail-ins. A bail-out is when central bank money creation rescues the favored troubled financial institutions. A bail-in is when the depositors’ assets are used for the rescues.
David Rogers Webb, an experienced financial market participant, explains it in The Great Taking in 72 readable pages plus a 25 page prologue explaining who he is and a 20 page reply of the New York Fed to the European Commission Legal Certainty Group’s questions. The Great Taking is available from Lulu for $10 and is free online: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/1ee786fb-3c78-4903-9701-d614892d09d6/taking-feb24-screen2.pdf
The loss of property rights in financial assets is the case throughout the Western world. The rewrite of financial property rights appears to be the work of regulatory bodies, not legislatures which seem to be unaware of it.
No, it is not a conspiracy theory. Regulatory authorities have made legal changes of which financial market participants are unaware. Webb’s purpose is to bring awareness, which is why he has made his book freely available.
As a result of these changes, which appear to have been made by financial regulatory authorities rather than by elected legislatures, individuals no longer have property rights in “their” securities. “Owners” now have “entitlement rights,” which means that they have pro-rata rights to whatever securities remain in the depository institution after secured creditors’ claims are met. In actual fact, “your” securities and your bank deposits are no longer recognized in law as your personal property if the depository institution–the bank or, for example, Merrill Lynch–becomes financially troubled. Your “ownership” is encumbered as collateral for secured creditors who are the owners in fact. Apparently, this was done by regulatory authorities as underpinning for the derivatives complex, which is many magnitudes greater than world GNP, or perhaps derivative exposure served as an excuse for setting up the Great Reset in which “you will own nothing.” Indeed, individual banks among the world’s largest have derivative exposure the size of world GDP.
You might wonder why regulatory authorities permitted something so dangerous and irresponsible to occur.
To state the bottom line in another way, “your” securities serve as collateral for the creditors of depository institutions. Your right to “your” property terminates the minute the depository institution gets in financial trouble.
Communications between the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the European Commission Legal Certainty Group and the court case resulting from the failure of Lehman Brothers have established legal certainty that secured creditors are empowered to immediately take client assets in the event of a failure in the custodian.
National central depositories of securities (all are now pooled, none held under the “owner’s” name or segregated) are now established and are linked to the international depository so that securities can instantly be delivered world wide to meet secured creditors’ claims. Essentially, the mega-banks are “privileged creditors.”
You might think that your money and your stocks and bonds would be safe if you use as your depository one of the “banks too big to fail.” You would be mistaken. The Federal Reserve permits the large banks to create subsidiaries that hold deposits, and the Federal Reserve permits the large banks to transfer their derivatives to these same subsidiaries. In this way, the bank itself remains afloat. Only its subsidiaries holding your money and securities are wiped out in the event of a crash.
At the risk of over-promising, as even for a person of my education and experience getting one’s mind around the enormity of what has been put in place is a challenge, I hope for this article, which you have just read, to be part 1 in a 3-part series, with the second part being an outline of the regulatory changes that stole our financial property rights, and the third part being the implications of the Federal Reserve’s raising of interest rates after 15 years of near zero rates, thus shredding the value of financial assets held in portfolios. We face the prospect of the worst financial crisis in history “solved” with the introduction of digital money that places total control into the hands of political power and its masters.
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Avian Flu Found In Seventh State As Cattle Restrictions Grow
by Tyler Durden Friday, Apr 12, 2024 - 10:30 AM
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
North Carolina authorities on April 10 reported that cows in the state tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, as the state became the latest to impose restrictions on the movement of cows.
Testing of samples from North Carolina conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) came back positive for the influenza, also known as the bird flu and HPAI, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said.
“We have spent years developing methods to handle HPAI in poultry, but this is new and we are working with our state and federal partners to develop protocols to handle this situation,” Steve Troxler, the state’s agriculture commissioner, said in a statement.
He noted that, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, there is presently no concern regarding the safety or availability of pasteurized milk or milk products in the United States. Some experts, though, have warned there’s not enough evidence to support that position.
Avian influenza cases in cattle first appeared in the United States in March. USDA officials have since confirmed cases in 20 herds across six states, including Idaho, Kansas, and Texas, and a single case in a human. They have not yet commented on the North Carolina situation.
Stephanie Langel, an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, said on social media that because the influenza is not a reportable disease in cows, it’s likely the outbreak is larger than currently represented.
USDA officials do not require testing and only recommend testing if cows start exhibiting symptoms.
“Additionally, the majority of workers on dairy farms (especially large farms) are undocumented and are less likely to report symptoms,” Ms. Langel said, referring to illegal immigrants. “I worry we are underestimating human infections.”
The strain of HPAI that’s circulating, H5N1, originates from birds. Dead birds have been found on farms that have had cows with confirmed cases.
Bird flu is often fatal in birds and humans, but human cases are rare. The recent human case in Texas is only the second in history in the United States. Both patients recovered, officials say.
Worldwide, between 2003 and April 1 of this year, 889 human cases have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from 23 countries. Of those patients, 463 died, the organization said.
Genomic sequencing of the virus in the Texas patient showed a mutation that makes the flu more likely to infect mammals, but the risk to people remains low, according to U.S. public health officials.
“Since the virus has not acquired mutations that facilitate transmission among humans and based on available information, WHO assesses the public health risk to the general population posed by this virus to be low and for occupationally exposed persons, the risk of infection is considered low-to-moderate,” WHO said in an April 9 brief. The agency noted that sustained human-to-human transmission of the strain and similar variants have never been detected.
No vaccines are currently available against H5N1.
Officials recommend people not get close to dead animals or animal droppings and not consume raw milk or raw cheese.
Restrictions
Due to the positive tests from cows in North Carolina, officials joined a growing number of states in restricting the movement of cows.
The movement of cattle from herds with confirmed cases in other states to North Carolina has been suspended, according to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Seventeen other states have also placed restrictions on cattle importations from the affected states, with Maryland joining the list on Wednesday.
Several states have said the sick cattle have come from Texas, where the first cases were detected.
Now that 21 herds have tested positive, it “stretches plausibility that it was all from one farm, but theoretically possible, given the amount cattle can move,” Gail Hansen, a doctor of veterinary medicine who used to be the state veterinarian for Kansas, wrote on the social media platform X.
The USDA has advised against moving sick or exposed animals and minimizing the movement of other cattle “as much as possible.”
“If cattle must be moved, we strongly encourage extreme diligence by producers, veterinarians, and animal health officials to ensure only healthy cattle are moving and to ensure the validity of interstate health certificates,” the agency said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/avian-flu-found-seventh-state-cattle-restrictions-grow
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Terrorist Billionaires & The Future of Food
By Amil Imani|April 12th, 2024
Let us be clear—Consuming insect-based foods comes with potential health risks. These risks are primarily related to food safety and the presence of allergens or toxins in some insects.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has highlighted several food safety issues associated with edible insects. These concerns include:
Pathogens: Insects can harbor bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can risk human health if not properly handled or cooked.
Allergens: Some insects contain allergens that can cause allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.
Toxins: Certain insects may contain toxins that can be harmful if consumed in large amounts.
Insects can contain allergens that may trigger allergic reactions in some individuals. These reactions can range from mild to severe, depending on the individual’s sensitivity and the amount of insect consumed. Allergic reactions can manifest as skin rashes, itching, swelling, and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis, which requires immediate medical attention.
Moreover, some insects are known to contain toxins that can be harmful to human health. These toxins can affect various systems in the body, including the nervous, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems. Symptoms of toxin exposure can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and, in severe cases, coma or death.
Now, enter billionaires with sinister motives. At the forefront is none other than Bill Gates, who is relentlessly plotting to manipulate the world’s food supply, pushing for the consumption of insects and alternative proteins while buying large amounts of American farmland.
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and a prominent figure in the so-called philanthropic sector, advocates for a diet of insects and, through his foundation and investments, works towards a future where traditional livestock is replaced by insect-based foods. All these can be traced back to Gates’s foundation’s investment in All Things Bugs, LLC, a company aiming to develop nutritionally dense food using insect species.
Bill Gates’s agenda-driven interest in sustainable food solutions is not limited to insects. He has also invested in cultured meat, a lab-grown alternative to traditional beef, which has received $50 million in funding. Gates’s investments and advocacy for his so-called sustainable food solutions are part of a sinister effort disguised as global challenges, including climate change and food security. His property acquisitions, including farmland in North Dakota and Texas, have only added fuel to speculations about his intentions, and these actions are likely part of a larger strategy to take our food away and make us eat insects.
Then we have Klaus Schwab and his “The Great Reset” plot to intending to destroy capitalism and enact a one-world government under the cover of COVID-19 and other agendas. Schwab founded the WEF with the help of Henry Kissinger and is actively supported by Prince Charles. Schwab likely established his ties with other influential American advocates of globalization through Kissinger’s International Seminar, which the CIA funded with $135,000. The global elite led by Schwab used the “pandemic” opportunity to roll out radical policies, such as forced vaccination, digital ID cards, and the renunciation of private property. The sinister agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF) becomes evident from the fact that the unelected Schwab has served as the WEF’s chairman since its inception, and he continues to hold the position of Founder and Executive Chairman today.
In the meantime, we hear about billionaires buying bunkers and islands as if prepping for an apocalypse. The truth is that land acquisitions in Hawaii by billionaires displace local communities, raising concerns about mirroring a modern twist on feudalism. Ultimately, these billionaires aren’t just waiting for the apocalypse but actively shaping their own self-sufficient, controlled environments while we can survive on the insect food they produce.
I rest my case with a summary of the points regarding the risks of eating insects:
Allergic Reactions: Some people may have allergic reactions to insects, similar to allergies to shellfish or shrimp, due to the presence of chitin in their exoskeletons. This can lead to symptoms ranging from mild to severe.
Microorganisms and Pathogens: Insects can harbor pathogens on their surface, in their gut, and as part of their reproductive cycle. The full scope of the microbiota of edible insects is unknown, and whether these extrinsic pathogens may be harmful if eaten. Cooking may not kill them, either.
Biological and Chemical Contaminants: Insects grown on agricultural waste may be exposed to mycotoxins, pesticides, and other chemical hazards like toxic metals and dioxins. High lead levels have been found in dried grasshoppers, leading to elevated blood lead levels in humans.
Processing Risks: When heated or cooked, the chemical-thermal reactions with the toxins on their shells or within their guts can release toxic compounds that accumulate in the protein meal.
The future of food is definitely at stake, and billionaires and their vast wealth continue to influence food systems in concerning ways.
https://newswithviews.com/terrorist-billionaires-the-future-of-food/
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Gold Is Doing Its Job
Posted on April 12, 2024 by MN Gordon
On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it was awarding Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) a $6.6 billion CHIPS Act subsidy for the fabrication of computer microchips in Phoenix, Arizona. TSMC will also receive up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.
In return, TSMC will expand its planned investment from $40 billion to $65 billion and add a third Arizona fabrication site by 2030. The company will be producing the world’s most advanced 2 nanometer technology at its second site starting in 2028.
The Commerce Department anticipates the development will create 6,000 long term manufacturing jobs and 20,000 shorter term construction jobs. With the AI arms race rapidly escalating, having semiconductor fabrication on American soil may be a strategic necessity. Nonetheless, subsidizing industry – in this case a foreign company – using American taxpayer dollars comes with lasting costs.
This is but one of countless examples of how the U.S. economy no longer functions through the free and mutual exchange of individual citizens in the marketplace. It is subject to extreme intervention from planners in the government.
These planners include members of Congress. And they pass ridiculous spending bills that condemn the American populace to a lifetime of debt servitude. Crony contracts. Pork barrel waste. Manufacturing subsidies. Social transfer payments. These costs all pile up on the national debt ledger.
The recent $1.2 trillion spending bill, for example, is over 1,000 pages. It includes massive giveaways for various departments such as Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and State.
Are these departments really spending this money for the greater good?
Not Capitalism
The effect of all this government spending twists the economy in strange and unnatural ways. Money is extracted from people and businesses who earned it by delivering goods and services of value. Then, it is pumped into agencies and departments, and government contractors, who otherwise would be incapable of standing on their own two feet.
To be clear, this economic system has nothing to do with capitalism. Rather, it’s a centrally planned economy that feeds off the fruits of capitalism, while trampling upon individual freedom and personal liberty.
Call it cronyism. Call it fascism. Call it tyranny. Call it whatever you want. But don’t confuse any unpleasantness you’re currently experiencing with the failure of free market capitalism.
Mega government spending bills have nothing to do with free market capitalism. And they have everything to do with rising consumer prices. But that’s not the half of it.
While your Congressional representatives are busy handing out money like breath mints, there’s a whole other beast of central planners that are devouring people’s labors and extracting value for the benefit of member banks. Here we’re referring to the Federal Reserve System – the central banking system of the U.S.
This cartel provides big banks with an astonishing benefit. When the economy expands, the bankers earn substantial profits. But when the economy contracts, often the consequences of reckless lending by bankers, the Fed bails them out with credit created out of thin air. This has the effect of transferring the losses to the public.
The U.S. government has added $29 trillion in new debt since 2000. How was all this debt made possible? How was it financed at such ultra-low interest rates?
In short, this was all made possible by the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet.
Currency Debasement
Still, there are no free lunches. And even in a fiat money system, where new money and credits are issued with just a few strokes of the keyboard, there are limitations.
The coronavirus fiasco’s mega money printing saturnalia blew consumer price inflation out to 40-year highs in mid-2022. And prices have continued to rise from there. Moreover, the consequences are making life extraordinarily disagreeable for vast numbers of people.
This week’s CPI report showed consumer prices increased 0.4 percent in March and 3.5 percent over the last 12 months. This 3.5 percent annual CPI increase reported in March is 75 percent higher than the Fed’s arbitrary 2 percent inflation target.
Nonetheless, looking back just one year gives an incomplete picture of rising consumer prices. Remember, the 3.5 percent increase over the past 12 months is compounded on top of prior years. Thus, to better understand the rampant level of currency debasement you’ve been subjected to it is appropriate to look back several years.
The world changed dramatically in March 2020 when the government shut down the economy and started sending out stimmy checks. We all lived through it. And we continue to experience the fallout. So, let’s look back accordingly.
Since March 2020, at the onset of the coronavirus madness, the CPI has increased from 258.115 to 312.332. That’s an increase of 21 percent. Has your income kept pace with inflation over the last four years?
If the answer is no, you didn’t do anything wrong. You’re merely suffering the consequences of central planners who are hellbent on destroying the currency. By implication, you’re worse off than you were four years ago.
What’s more, the figures above are all courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Thus, they’re understated to conceal the government’s failings. By our estimation, over the last four years, consumer prices have inflated by about double – 40 percent – from what the BLS reports.
Gold Is Doing Its Job
The rapid rise in consumer prices is a consequence of the Fed’s and the Treasury’s joint money printing operations. In other words, rising consumer prices are an expression of too much artificial stimulation. What’s more, the entire economic and financial edifice depends on it. Take it away, and it collapses.
Central bankers, like Fed Chair Jerome Powell, understand that they have only two options. Continue stimulating until the dollar loses all value and society breaks down into disorder and disarray. Or stop simulating and cause a complete credit collapse and 1930s-style depression.
Neither scenario is very appealing. But, as you’re likely aware, the choice has already been made. The Fed will continue inflating and debasing the dollar, with the hope of managing a slow burn into the ultimate hyperinflationary collapse.
With a little luck, the Fed will be able to put this off for a few more years. The goal is to postpone the day of reckoning until significant hoards of baby boomers have vacated the planet. Then, the younger generations will be left to pick up the pieces.
In the interim, chaos is already boiling over in many areas. High consumer prices. Unsustainable debt burdens. Widening income and wealth inequality. Mass urban homeless encampments. Border chaos.
These are all characteristics of an economy with terrible fiscal and monetary policies and significant corruption and fraud. But you don’t have to be a victim.
Physical gold – and silver – has provided wealth protection in times of chaos for thousands of years. No doubt, it will provide this important service as the consequences of decades of currency debasement and corruption catch up with America.
Year-to-date gold is up over 15 percent in dollar terms. Over this same time, silver is up about 20 percent.
Indeed, gold and silver are doing their job. Was there ever a doubt they wouldn’t?
[Editor’s note: It really is amazing how just a few simple contrary decisions can lead to life-changing wealth. And right now, at this very moment, I’m preparing to make a contrary decision once again. >> And I’d like to show you how can too.]
Sincerely,
MN Gordon for Economic Prism
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For even the novice can see the events that have started are not going to stop, but these events have been recorded in my word that they would take place and they will continue to take place. For only if you were fast asleep could you miss what is going on right now, for I have called for my church to be watchman, I’ve called for you to be awake and know and see the hour that you are living in. For it is very, very clear now. For I gave you the sign and my word even tells you about the fig tree, for that is the most important thing and as you see what is taking place right now it will not stop, but it will continue right on through the events that I said would take place for this time and this hour. etc
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Pentagon moving additional assets to Middle East region in face of Iran threat, according to US official
From CNN's Natasha Bertrand
The US Defense Department is moving additional assets to the Middle East region, a defense official told CNN, as Israel and the US brace for a potential Iranian attack on Israeli facilities in the country and the broader region.
The move is "to bolster regional deterrence efforts and increase force protection for U.S. forces," according to the official.
The Pentagon has been working specifically to reinforce air defenses for the US troops stationed in Iraq and Syria, who came under attack by Iran-backed proxy forces over 100 times between October and February. In January, three US service members were killed when a drone got through US air defenses at the Tower 22 base in Jordan.
The US is not anticipating that Iran or its proxies will attack US forces as part of its retaliation, but are moving the assets just in case.
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etc.. For it is a very dark hour as you have seen and that hour shall grow darker and darker and darker, for the evil spirits possessing people shall manifest themselves, and as they manifest themselves, you shall see death, you shall see killings, you shall see blood flowing, you shall see many things, many things. Think it not strange, but it is that hour and it is that time and no one seems to be binding up those spirits, nobody seems to be casting them out, nobody understands them. etc..
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‘Run, run, run': Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot
SYDNEY (AP) — A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.
The 40-year-old was stopped in the knifing attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, when a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.
“They just said run, run, run — someone’s been stabbed,” one witness told ABC TV in Australia. ”(The attacker) was walking really calmly like he was having an ice cream in a park. And then he went up the escalators ... and probably within about a minute we heard three gunshots.”
Six of the victims — five women and a man — and the suspect died. Commissioner Karen Webb said the eight injured people were being treated at hospitals. The baby was in surgery, but it was too early to know the condition, she said.
“We are confident that there is no ongoing risk, and we are dealing with one person who is now deceased,” Webb said in a later briefing. She added: “It’s not a terrorism incident.”
She said police wouldn’t identify the man yet and were still working to determine his motivation.
Cooke said a ”lengthy and precise” investigation was just beginning.
Some witnesses were shocked at the rare outburst of violence. Australia enacted strict gun laws after a man killed 35 and wounded another 23 in 1996, in Tasmania.
Cooke said the police inspector, a senior officer, was alone when she confronted the suspect and engaged him soon after her arrival on the scene, “saving a range of people’s lives.”
The officer “showed enormous courage and bravery,” Webb said.
“If she didn’t shoot, he would have kept going, and I don’t know how many more he would have done,” another witness told 7News, speaking of the police inspector.
Video showed many ambulances and police cars around the shopping center, and people streaming out, many with children in their arms.
Paramedics were treating patients at the scene.
Roi Huberman, a sound engineer at ABC TV in Australia, told the network that he sheltered in a store during the incident.
“And suddenly we heard a shot or maybe two shots and we didn’t know what to do,” he said. “Then the very capable person in the store took us to the back where it can be locked. She then locked the store and then she then let us through the back and now we are out.”
Police officers stand guard outside Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. A man stabbed six people to death at the busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
The most senior members of Britain’s royal family, who are also royals in Australia, expressed their shock and sadness over the stabbings.
King Charles III said he and his wife Queen Camilla were “utterly shocked and horrified” by the “senseless attack” in Sydney and that their “hearts go out to the families and loved ones of those who have been so brutally killed.” The king’s eldest son Prince William and his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, said they too were “shocked and saddened” and that their thoughts are with those affected and the “heroic emergency responders who risked their own lives to save others.”
Associated Press writer Panagiotis Pylas in London contributed to this report.
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For even the novice can see the events that have started are not going to stop, but these events have been recorded in my word that they would take place and they will continue to take place. For only if you were fast asleep could you miss what is going on right now, for I have called for my church to be watchman, I’ve called for you to be awake and know and see the hour that you are living in. For it is very, very clear now. For I gave you the sign and my word even tells you about the fig tree, for that is the most important thing and as you see what is taking place right now it will not stop, but it will continue right on through the events that I said would take place for this time and this hour. etc
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Hezbollah elite commander killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon
Senior Hezbollah operative Ali Ahmad Hussein, equivalent in rank to a brigade commander, is the fifth terror group commander of this rank to be killed since the war began
Yoav Zitun, Lior Ben Ari|04:27
The Israeli Air Force eliminated Ali Ahmad Hussein, the commander of the Hezbollah elite Radwan Force's Hajir attack sector, in a strike on the al-Sultaniyeh area in southern Lebanon overnight Monday.
Hussein, a senior officer with a rank equivalent to brigade commander, was responsible for planning and executing terror plots in the Ramim Ridges area against Israeli civilians.
Since the onset of the war, Hussein had been instrumental in launching numerous attacks on Israeli territory. The strike also resulted in the deaths of two additional Hezbollah terrorists under his command.
The former commander of Hezbollah's Hajir sector, who was eliminated at the end of February, served as the defense sector leader on the Lebanese side of the Ramim Ridge, overseeing the Hula Valley and Kiryat Shmona.
Hussein, who was eliminated in the overnight operation, commanded the attack sector for Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force in the same region, responsible for planning and executing extensive attacks into Israeli territory.
Hussein's death marks the fifth brigade commander-level operative in Hezbollah to be killed since the onset of the war.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bymbnm11xa#autoplay
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Have You Heard About The 2 Gigantic Crosses That Stand At The Intersections Of The Eclipses?
April 4, 2024 by Michael
Something truly extraordinary is going to happen as the Great American Eclipse of 2024 passes over the United States, and hardly anyone is talking about it. Those that follow my work on a regular basis have already heard much of what I am about to share with you in this article, and I apologize to them in advance. But I feel compelled to write about this again, because the information that I am about to share with you is incredibly explosive and so few people know about it. My hope is that if I make enough noise about all of this, it will inspire others to make videos and write articles about these giant crosses.
A 111 foot tall cross stands where the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2024 will intersect with the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2017 on April 8th.
And a cross that is 77 feet and 7 inches tall stands where the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2024 will intersect with the path of the “ring of fire” solar eclipse of 2023 on April 8th.
Is it just a coincidence that 2 giant crosses stand at the intersections of these eclipses?
I don’t think so.
I believe that only God could have orchestrated this.
On April 8th, an area in southern Illinois known as “Little Egypt” that was plunged into darkness by the Great American Eclipse of 2017 will also be plunged into darkness by the Great American Eclipse of 2024.
This particular area of southern Illinois has been known as “Little Egypt” since the very early days of our country…
In 1799, Baptist minister John Badgley dubbed the fertile highlands and bottoms near Edwardsville the “Land of Goshen“. Early Edwardsville was known as Goshen. This was a biblical reference to Ancient Egypt. Geographic features such as the Mississippi and its flood plains were like the fertile Nile valley. The Indian mounds of the area were large at the time and seemed like the pyramids of Egypt. The nickname stuck, and it was reinforced by other events.
In the 1830s, poor harvests in the north of the state drove people to Southern Illinois to buy grain.[16] Others say it was because the land of the great Mississippi and Ohio River valleys were like that of Egypt’s Nile Delta. According to Hubbs,[citation needed] the nickname dates back to 1818, when a huge tract of land was purchased at the confluence of the rivers and its developers named it Cairo /ˈkɛəroʊ/. Today, the town of Cairo still stands on the peninsula where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi.
Other settlements in the area were also given names with Egyptian, Greek, or Middle Eastern origins: The Southern Illinois University Salukis sports teams and towns such as Metropolis, Thebes, Dongola, Palestine, Lebanon, New Athens, Sparta, and Karnak show the influence of classical culture.
In the heart of “Little Egypt”, there is a gigantic white cross.
It is known as “The Bald Knob Cross of Peace”, and it is 111 feet high…
Bald Knob Cross, officially known as the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, is a large white cross located in Alto Pass, Illinois, United States.[1] The structure is 111 feet (34 m) tall. The base of the cross is 1,034 feet above sea level and overlooks the Shawnee National Forest. Originally completed in 1963, the cross itself stands 111 feet tall, is 22 feet square at the base, 16 feet square at the top and its arms extend 63 feet horizontally. The exterior white panels covering the cross are 4-inch architectural flat insulated metal panels while the base portion is covered in granite approximately 4-inches thick. The structure sits on a foundation of 730 tons of reinforced concrete that goes down 20 feet to bedrock. The steel framework weighs approximately 170 tons. Each of the four sides of the cross have a word inscribed into the granite: Peace, Hope, Faith, Charity.[2]
As the Great American Eclipse of 2024 completes the gigantic “cross” over America that the Great American Eclipse of 2017 started, a gigantic cross that is 111 feet tall will be standing at the intersection of those two eclipses.
If you aren’t amazed by that, I honestly don’t know what to say.
But that isn’t the end of the story, because there is more.
As the Great American Eclipse of 2024 completes the gigantic “cross” over America that the “ring of fire” solar eclipse of 2023 started, a gigantic cross that is 77 feet and 7 inches tall will be standing at the intersection of those two eclipses.
It is known as “The Empty Cross”, and it is in the Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden in Kerrville, Texas…
The 77′ 7″ hollow cross sculpture at this site has been seen by millions of people traveling on Interstate 10, connecting California and Florida. Countless others have learned about this unique spiritual art garden through various media channels. Remarkably, the paths of the Oct. 14, 2023, Annular Solar Eclipse and the April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse converge deliberately. Many believe this convergence, forming a colossal cross in the sky directly above “The Empty Cross,” is not a random occurrence but a divine sign—a message from the Creator Himself.
You literally cannot miss this cross when you are traveling on Interstate 10, because it is absolutely enormous.
If you are not familiar with “The Empty Cross”, here is some information from the official website of the Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden…
The Empty Cross”™ is a seven-story Cor-ten steel sculpture by artist/evangelist, Max Greiner, Jr. This stunning signed and numbered edition Cor-ten sculpture was donated to THE COMING KING FOUNDATION by Max and Sherry Greiner, and Monte and Beverly Paddleford, owners of Eagle Bronze Foundry in Lander, WY. This unique contemporary sculpture was installed on top of a 1930’ hilltop above IH-10 on July 27, 2010.
“The Empty Cross”™ is believed to be the most symbolic cross sculpture in the world because of its Biblical symbolism. The massive open hollow cross symbolizes the Resurrection, the Door, the Narrow Gate, the Strong Tower, the Mighty Fortress, and the Light of the World, who is Jesus Christ. God sees mankind through the cross while mankind can only see the true God by looking at the cross.
And as all of this is happening, the sun, the moon and the other seven planets in our solar system will be lined up in the sky.
I shared the following graphic that was originally posted on Reddit yesterday, but I am going to share it one more time so that you can see exactly what I am talking about…
That is pretty amazing.
To top everything off, as the Great American Eclipse of 2024 is passing over America, the sun will already be down in Jerusalem and the first day of the first month on the Hebrew calendar will have begun.
Can you believe that there are actually some people out there that think that none of this has any significance whatsoever?
The heavens are literally screaming at us to pay attention.
Ultimately, I am entirely convinced that the Great American Eclipse of 2024 is meant to point us to Jesus and the cross, but the vast majority of the population seems to be completely missing that point.
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US Scientists Shoot Salt Crystals Into Atmosphere To Block Sunrays To Fight Climate Change, But Did Not Tell The Public To Avoid Scrutiny
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Mainstream media is not even trying to hide it anymore, and are pretending as if this is totally normal.
Researchers at the University of Washington have covertly carried out what is being touted as the United States’ first-ever outdoor test to curb global warming by increasing cloud cover, by launching a mist of salt crystals into the atmosphere from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay.
Robert Wood, the scientist for the team, said, “Every year that we have new records of climate change, and record temperatures, heat waves, it’s driving the field to look at more alternatives. Even ones that may have once been relatively extreme.”
The University of Washington’s study, “Field Study of Controlled-Release Sea Salt Aerosol Plume,” can be read here.
The news of this work was detailed in a piece by The New York Times last week, though did not garner a lot of attention as is.
Scientific American wrote:
The move led by researchers at the University of Washington has renewed questions about how to effectively and ethically study promising climate technologies that could also harm communities and ecosystems in unexpected ways. The experiment is spraying microscopic salt particles into the air, and the secrecy surrounding its timing caught even some experts off guard.
The Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research and Engagement, or CAARE, project is using specially built sprayers to shoot trillions of sea salt particles into the sky in an effort to increase the density — and reflective capacity — of marine clouds. The experiment is taking place, when conditions permit, atop the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum in Alameda, California, and will run through the end of May, according to a weather modification form the team filed with federal regulators.
But, just like the reports that have not gotten all that much exposure, the experiments were done covertly as not to upset the public.
The NYT, which had special access to watch the experiment as it was taking place, indicated that the secrecy was intentional.
The idea of interfering with nature is so contentious, organizers of Tuesday’s test kept the details tightly held, concerned that critics would try to stop them. Although the Biden administration is funding research into different climate interventions, including marine cloud brightening, the White House distanced itself from the California study, sending a statement to The New York Times that read: “The U.S. government is not involved in the Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) experiment taking place in Alameda, CA, or anywhere else.”
The NYT wrote
Furthermore the Times noted: ‘If it works, the next stage would be to aim at the heavens and try to change the composition of clouds above the Earth’s oceans.’
Since this experiment was kept under wraps until the test started, we are eager to see how public engagement is being planned and who will be involved. While it complies with all current regulatory requirements, there is a clear need to reexamine what a strong regulatory framework must look like in a world where [solar radiation modification] experimentation is happening.
Shuchi Talati, the executive director of the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering, a nonprofit that seeks to include developing countries in decisions about solar modification
David Santillo, a senior scientist at Greenpeace International, also shared his discontent and concern with this experiment. “You could well be changing climactic patterns, not just over the sea, but over land as well. This is a scary vision of the future that we should try and avoid at all costs.”
Sarah Doherty, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington and manager of the school’s marine cloud brightening program, also concurs and claims they wish this technology never has to be or is used.
I hope, and I think all my colleagues hope, that we never use these things, that we never have to.
She said, citing ‘potential side effects that still needed to be studied, including changing ocean circulation patterns and temperatures, which might hurt fisheries,’ but still noted the importance of conducting these experiments
But whether Doherty knows it or not, geo-engineering/cloud-seeding – what once used to be considered a “conspiracy theory” – has now becoming more mainstream and common to talk about.
Almost one year ago exactly ABC News ran a detailed segment highlighting how companies and agencies have been spraying silver iodine from planes into the atmosphere to create more precipitation. The lead investigator for ABC covering this, Ginger Zee, was also a guest on ABC’s The View, where she casually revealed to an unsuspecting population that this practice has been going on for some time, but a newer concept is being adopted where machines that sit on the ground simply “puff” the chemicals into the air to achieve the same effects. “Ten states are doing this,” she said a year ago.
More recent experimentation has also been cited in the mainstream media. In January, officials in Southern California conducted “tests” to increase the area’s water supply. This was highlighted by environmental and independent journalist Allison Morrow in a video report. Similar to this recent study conducted by the University of Washington, the negative effects and damage this could cause was not discussed in the media’s reports.
Last summer both the European Union and the White House put out official dossiers openly discussing proposals to dampen the sun’s rays to mitigate the effects of climate change. SEE: European Union Introduces New Proposals To Block Out The Sun Via ‘Solar Radiation Modification’ & White House Releases Dossier To Block The Sun With ‘Solar Radiation Modification’
Moreover, The WinePress noted in 2022 that other nations were looking into expanding these cloud-seeding projects to increase precipitation.
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What used to be called a “tinhat conspiracy theory” decades ago, and would have gotten you ridiculed (I know I was when talked about it many years ago, even as a child I knew), now is just casually and nonchalantly being presented as if this has always been common knowledge, and how great it is; and the sad part is most people who are fixated to the mainstream propaganda will just passively accept it as so.
But even now the media and the scientists still keep trying to gaslight us, as if this is some new thing. NO! It’s been going on for decades, and all you had to do was look up and see that the clouds being formed were unnatural, and those non-dissipating streaks in the sky were not contrails but chemtrails.
For example, in a declassified document, a U.S. document details what was called “Operation Popeye,” which involved cloud-seeding during the Vietnam War to increase the potency and longevity of their monsoon seasons.
The fact is the world governments, militaries, mad scientists, and private interests and conglomerates have been regularly messing with God’s creation for a very long time. Whenever it rains at certain times here in northern Indiana the rain smells bad, like some kind of metal, perhaps this silver iodine, or aluminum, calcium carbonate, or perhaps plastic kind of. The point is, it’s totally abnormal; and even as a small child I knew something was off but never knew why.
A good resource to check out is Geoengineering Watch.
God only knows how much more severe storms and “natural disasters” this has already created, and how many more it will create; not to mention the famine that is going be created here because of it, potential disease from contamination, and so on.
[18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. [19] And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Revelation 11:18-19
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Is It Just A Coincidence That A Magnitude “4.8” Earthquake Hit Our Largest Metropolitan Area Just Days Before “4/8”?
April 7, 2024 by Michael
Oh, is this a question that I am not supposed to be asking? Following the earthquake that shook up the Big Apple on Friday, a lot of people were suggesting that it seemed really weird that a magnitude “4.8” earthquake would hit our largest metropolitan area just days before the Great American Eclipse of 2024 passes over the United States on “4/8”. It isn’t as if New York regularly experiences these sorts of quakes. In fact, it is being reported that this was the largest earthquake in New York City since 1884. So the truth is that this was a very rare occurrence. And we are just supposed to believe that this extremely rare earthquake that just happened to be precisely magnitude 4.8 has absolutely nothing to do with the Great American Eclipse on April 8th?
Okay…
Over the weekend, so many people wrote me about this.
So I decided to write an article about it.
It turns out that the war between Israel and Hamas was being discussed at the UN at the exact moment that the earthquake hit…
At the United Nations in Midtown Manhattan, a Security Council address on the Israel-Gaza conflict was interrupted as cameras began shuddering.
That is certainly very interesting.
And we have also learned that the earthquake struck very close to a location in New Jersey known as “Lebanon”…
A rare earthquake rocked the New York City area Friday morning, swaying buildings and sending terrified residents into the streets — the strongest temblor to strike near the Big Apple in 140 years.
City officials quickly warned people of the danger of potential aftershocks — which began in the early afternoon in New Jersey, a report said.
The preliminary 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Lebanon, NJ, around 10:23 a.m. and was potentially felt by more than 42 million people, according to the US Geological Survey.
When the war in the Middle East goes to the next level, southern Lebanon will be one of the key battlefields.
It is also being reported that the epicenter of the earthquake was a place called “Whitehouse Station”…
The epicenter of the earthquake was in Whitehouse Station, Hunterdon County, at 10:23 a.m.
That is certainly weird.
And as I pointed out to my core supporters on Friday, Donald Trump actually owns a golf course that is approximately 7 miles away from the epicenter of the earthquake…
Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf course was rocked by a 2.0 magnitude aftershock from the 4.8 earthquake that shook the Northeast on Friday morning, with residents warning tremors could last a week.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, about 50 miles west of New York City at 10.23am and was felt by more than 42 million people.
The Trump National Golf Club Bedminster is less than seven miles from the epicenter of the quake and was rocked by an aftershock hours later – it is unclear if the club sustained any damage.
Interestingly, this quake occurred exactly 7 months before the presidential election happens on November 5th.
So the epicenter of the earthquake was in “Whitehouse Station”, and a man from New York that owns a golf course that is 7 miles away from the epicenter will be one of the candidates for president on election day exactly 7 months after the earthquake.
And all of this happened the day after the Statue of Liberty was struck by lightning.
Yes, there is a possibility this is just one really long string of incredibly bizarre coincidences.
And a lot of people are trying to make that argument. But I am not buying it.
I think that God has been trying to get our attention.
But most of the population is not listening.
On Monday, the eclipse that many of us have been waiting to see for more than 7 years will finally be here.
Of course it isn’t just people like us that have been anticipating this eclipse. NASA will be firing three rockets toward the eclipse on April 8th, for some reason CERN selected that specific day to fire up the Large Hadron Collider, and a state of emergency has been declared in many areas that will be along the path of totality.
And as Trey Smith has pointed out, the U.S. Space Command logo actually bears a striking resemblance to the giant “X” over America that will be completed by the Great American Eclipse of 2024 on April 8th…
As I discussed earlier today, having a giant “X” painted in the skies over America that intersects directly in the middle of the New Madrid fault zone is probably not a good sign.
Right now, speculation about this eclipse has reached a fever pitch on social media, and some people are even suggesting that what is happening in the heavens is making them feel ill…
One person said: “Been feeling physically sick for a few days now and I feel like it’s because of the Mercury retrograde and the upcoming solar eclipse. Does anyone else feel off/sick these days?” while another said: “Any of u also experiencing headache bc of the solar eclipse??”
One user said they had been feeling “wiped out”, writing: “A lot of people talking about the Total Solar Eclipse and Full moon… but us anyone else actually FEELING it?… This just has me wiped out feeling weird “. Another claimed it had thrown her menstrual cycle off and their period was now “synced” with the eclipse.
Other social media users revealed they’ve been battling insomnia too, one user said: “Anyone else suffering from weird insomnia, no appetite and other weird s**t that can’t be explained? Someone told me the eclipse might have something to do with it but I don’t get how.”
Personally, I think that what a lot of those people are experiencing is just being caused by anxiety.
As for what may or may not happen on April 8th, I am not expecting any sort of a major disaster or emergency to happen on that specific day.
But I could be wrong.
We shall see.
It is entirely possible that something could happen.
But the main point of April 8th is going to be what is going on in the heavens.
I believe that this eclipse is a sign, a warning and a threshold.
It is what is going to happen during the days, weeks and months after April 8th that people should be concerned about.
Of course most of the population does not believe that April 8th is any sort of a warning at all.
Most of them think that the eclipse does not have any sort of special significance, and once it has passed most of them will just keep doing what they always do.
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Ship attacked outside of Yemen, vessels warned to ‘exercise caution’
By Reuters Published April 7, 2024, 9:20 a.m. ET
CAIRO, April 7 — British security firm Ambrey said it had received information indicating that a vessel was attacked on Sunday in the Gulf of Aden about 102 nautical miles southwest of Mukalla in Yemen.
“Vessels in the vicinity were advised to exercise caution and report any suspicious activity,” the firm said. It did not say who was responsible for the attack or give further details.
Separately, a missile landed near a vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday but there was no damage to the ship or injuries to crew in the incident, 59 nautical miles southwest of the Yemeni port of Aden, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said.
“The Master of the vessel reports a missile impacted the water in close proximity to the vessel’s port quarter,” UKMTO said in an advisory note. “No damage to the vessel reported and crew reported safe,” it added.
It did not say who fired the missile or give further details.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militants have staged months of attacks on shipping in the Red Sea region in support of Palestinians in the Gaza war.
The attacks have disrupted global shipping through the Suez Canal, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa.
The United States and Britain have launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/07/world-news/ships-attacked-outside-of-yemen/
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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BRICS: Russia Doubles Gold & Foreign Currencies To Uproot US Dollar
Vinod Dsouza April 5, 2024
BRICS is the largest buyer of gold in 2023 as members accumulated tons of the precious metal, reported the World Gold Council. China alone purchased 225 tons of gold while Russia, India, Brazil, and South Africa came next in line. Reports suggest that BRICS could back their soon-to-be-released currency with gold to take on the US dollar.
In addition, Russia announced on Thursday that it is now doubling its accumulation of gold and local currencies moving forward. The country’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov confirmed that they will double the acquisition of both gold and foreign currencies. The gold and foreign currency accumulation will start from April 5 to May 7, 2024.
The development comes at a time when BRICS is looking to stop using the US dollar for cross-border transactions. Read here to know how many sectors in the US will be affected if BRICS ditches the dollar for trade.
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Now concerning the terrorists and the terrorist’s attacks, there is no way in the natural that man can stop this. For you have two borders, Mexico, Canada, you have open traffic from Cuba to Florida, you have freighters, you have oil tankers, they come into the harbor daily, sometimes in large numbers. Realize that your prayers cannot turn this back, it is part of the end-time events that shall take place. But your prayers can save lives, your prayers can warn people, but realize that this is going to be part of a lifestyle until the anti-christ establishes a peace treaty throughout the world. etc:: 4-3-24 Law Enforcement Today :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
For second time in less than a week, a Chinese national was caught on a US military base...what are they doing there?
by: Pat Droney 2024-04-03 Source: Law Enforcement Today Op
TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA - Less than one week after a Chinese national was caught trespassing at a Marine base in the El Centro Sector in California, as reported by Law Enforcement Today, a report comes out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, also in California, that a Chinese national attempted to drive onto the base.
Military.com reported that last week, the Chinese national was able to make it past gate guards but was immediately apprehended by military police, Marine Corps officials told the outlet.
According to Marine Corps spokesman Maj. Joshua Pena, "At approximately 12:45 p.m. on March 27, 2024, an individual attempted to access Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, without valid identification.
“Despite being prompted to exit at the Condor Gate by installation security, the individual proceeded onto the installation without authorization. Military law enforcement were immediately notified and detained the individual,” Pena continued. “They then notified and transferred custody to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).”
Military.com said the Condor Gate entrance is adjacent to a military housing complex and within sight of an elementary school.
In a March 29 post on X, Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino with CBP confirmed the suspect was in the U.S. illegally. No further information was provided.
Why would two military-aged Chinese males enter US military bases within a couple hundred miles of each other within a matter of days? Nobody knows, but it cannot be good given the current state of relations between the U.S. and China.
In September, the Wall Street Journal reported that over 100 Chinese nationals had posed as tourists over recent years to gain access to military bases and other sensitive sites, citing information from U.S. officials who believe the trend is “espionage-related.”
For example, in 2020, Chinese nationals attempted to forcibly gain access to Fort Wainwright, Alaska, claiming they had “reservations” at the base hotel. Meanwhile, another group of Chinese nationals illegally entered a naval air station in Key West, Florida, to “take photos.”
Since Joe Biden hung out the “Welcome to the USA” shingle when he was installed into office in January 2021, over 140,000 Chinese have illegally entered the country, a majority of them military-aged males, according to Just The News.
A majority of the Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. at the southwest border are doing so through California; at the northern border, a majority are entering through New York, according to CBP data.
The numbers have increased each year since 2021, with 23,471 Chinese nationals entering the U.S. nationwide. In 2022, the number increased to 27,756 and exploded to 53,700 in 2023, nearly doubling in two years. For FY-2024, which started in October, 36,912 Chinese nationals were apprehended through February, extrapolating to almost 90,000 for this fiscal year. In December 2023 alone, 8,518 illegal Chinese aliens were caught entering the U.S. Those numbers do not include so-called “gotaways,” which makes the actual number higher.
Of those Chinese aliens caught entering from Mexico, a majority were caught in California, totaling over 35,000, CBP data showed. By comparison, in FY 2021, “only” 263 Chinese were apprehended. By FY-2024 YTD (as of February), 22,098 have been apprehended entering through California. Texas has the second-greatest number, with over 26,000 apprehended during the same period.
Officials told Just The News that nearly all Chinese nationals apprehended are single adults, the overwhelming majority of whom are military-aged males.
In the Twentynine Palms case, US Customs and Border Protection told Military.com that the agency doesn’t comment on specific cases but confirmed the suspect was taken to a nearby station for processing following the transfer of custody from military police.
“The fact is we are enforcing the law, and regardless of nationality, there are consequences for those who fail to use lawful pathways,” the official said. “Individuals encountered at the border are screened and vetted, and those without a legal basis to stay are removed.”
The incident at Twentynine Palms comes less than two months after a 10-year-old, Ryker Frost, whose father is in the Marine Corps, was struck by a car driven by an illegal alien and killed at the same base. The accident occurred as military police officers pursued an unauthorized entry at the base’s main gate.
Katie Cherkasky, an attorney representing Gunnery Sgt. Max Frost and his wife Arielle, who have filed a Federal Torts Act claim, said the family is concerned that despite their son’s death, no new safety measures have been put in place at the entry to the base. The Feb. 16 crash also injured the couple’s two other sons.
“There’s a lot of issues with the way that this ultimately happened that made it foreseeable that this would be an issue that people would be able to run through the gate,” Cherkasky said.
Since January 2021, we have seen countless Americans killed, assaulted, robbed, raped, and victimized by illegal aliens. The fact that we have let tens of thousands of military-aged Chinese males enter the country who are likely up to no good may make those numbers pale in comparison.
Sleep well, America…Biden’s got your back.
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Earthquake in NYC area live updates: Earthcam captures shocking moment 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook NYC
By Social Links for Kaydi Pelletier and Social Links for Jonah Elkowitz
Updated April 5, 2024, 2:32 p.m. ET
A rare earthquake shook the New York area Friday morning, rattling parts of the Big Apple, Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey.
The preliminary 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Lebanon, New Jersey, around 10:23 a.m., according to the US Geological Survey.
The site later reported that a 2.0 aftershock was felt in Bedminster, N.J, around 1 p.m.
Follow the Post’s live updates for the latest news and reactions from the 4.7 magnitude earthquake:
What to know about the earthquake
Travel chaos caused by tri-state area earthquake: Flights grounded, Holland Tunnel closed
Scary security video captures earthquake rattling New Jersey
Yankee Stadium ‘definitely felt’ earthquake ahead of home opener: ‘The field was shaking’
https://nypost.com/2024/04/05/us-news/earthquake-in-nyc-area-live-updates-what-happened-reactions/
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There Will Be “Blood Moon Purim Eclipses” For Three Years In A Row In 2024, 2025 And 2026
April 2, 2024 by Michael
Is it just a coincidence that “blood moon eclipses” are occurring on Purim for three years in a row just as a great war erupts in the Middle East? Yesterday, one of my readers wrote to me and pointed out a video where someone was talking about this. I had previously written about the “blood moon eclipse” that happened during the second day of Purim on March 25th of this year, but I had not heard that there would be “blood moon eclipses” on Purim in 2025 and 2026 too. So I started to do some research to confirm whether this is true or not.
I did a Google search for Purim in 2025, and this is what I found…
Purim in 2025 is on Friday, March 14. Purim is always celebrated for 2 days, so it will continue till March 15.
So then I went to Wikipedia and I discovered that there will be a lunar eclipse on March 14th, 2025…
A total lunar eclipse will take place on Friday, March 14, 2025, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2025. The Moon will take place near apogee during this eclipse, making it appear smaller than usual.
This blood moon eclipse will happen on the first day of Purim next year, and it will be visible from Jerusalem.
Having confirmed that there will be a “blood moon Purim eclipse” in 2025, I asked Google when Purim would be in 2026.
According to hebcal.com, the first day of Purim in 2026 begins at sundown on March 2nd and it ends at sundown on March 3rd…
Purim for Hebrew Year 5786 begins at sundown on Monday, 2 March 2026 and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, 3 March 2026 .
And according to Wikipedia there will be a lunar eclipse on March 3rd, 2026…
A total lunar eclipse will take place on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, the first of two lunar eclipses in 2026.
This “blood moon Purim eclipse” will complete the set.
As far as I know, we have never seen something like this happen for three years in a row.
So what does all of this mean?
I don’t know.
But I will give you some of my thoughts.
In the Book of Esther, we read about the origins of Purim.
The enemies of Israel thought that they were finally going to defeat the Jewish people, but in the end the Jewish people got the upper hand on their enemies.
And I think that a similar scenario is playing out today.
Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed groups in the region have been preparing for war with Israel for years.
Collectively, their forces greatly outnumber Israeli forces.
And they possess vast numbers of missiles.
In fact, Hezbollah alone has an arsenal of at least 150,000 highly sophisticated missiles ready to fire at Israel.
Yes, Israel has the Iron Dome, but that system can only handle a limited number of targets at a time.
If thousands of missiles start raining down on Israeli cities all at once, Israel will be overwhelmed.
Right now, the world is waiting to see how Iran will respond to Israel’s stunning airstrike on Damascus on Monday.
Iran’s supreme leader has told the world that Israel “will be punished by our brave men”…
Several of Iran’s most powerful officials, including “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed revenge against Israel following an airstrike in Damascus, Syria, on Monday that eliminated a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader.
“The evil regime will be punished by our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and other ones, by God’s will,” Khamenei proclaimed, according to the Iranian state-run PressTV propaganda network on Tuesday. Khamenei referred to Israel as “usurping and despicable.”
That makes it sound like Iran will take revenge directly instead of relying on proxies to do their dirty work this time.
Hezbollah is also warning that there will be “punishment and revenge”…
‘This crime will certainly not pass without the enemy receiving punishment and revenge,’ Hezbollah said in a statement.
We shall see what happens.
If the response is too severe, it could set in motion a chain of events that nobody will be able to control.
Already, one expert is warning that we have reached a point of “all-out war between Israel and the resistance axis”…
Meanwhile, Bassam Abu Abdallah, who heads the Damascus Centre for Strategic Research and is close to the Syrian government, said that before Monday ‘there were rules of engagement, but now it’s an all-out war between Israel and the resistance axis’.
The course of this war was fundamentally altered this week, and it would be difficult to overstate the anger that we are witnessing in the Islamic world at this moment.
On Tuesday, there were enormous flag-burning protests all over the Middle East…
Huge American flag-burning protests have erupted across the Middle East as Iranian protesters gather to condemn the Israeli airstrike against Iran’s consulate in Syria on Monday.
Photos and videos show large groups of protesters shouting anti-Israeli and anti-US slogans in Tehran while burning US and Israeli flags in a show of frustration and anger.
At some point in the coming months, I believe that a breaking point will come.
If the combined forces of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah start pouring toward northern Israel and if thousands of missiles start raising down on Israeli cities, the government of Israel will almost certainly respond with overwhelming force.
We are talking about an apocalyptic scenario that nobody wants to see.
And right now we are just one step away from such a conflict.
When all-out war erupts in the Middle East, we are all going to be deeply affected. The price of oil will go absolutely nuts, and massive unrest will flare up in large cities all over the globe.
We should pray for peace, but I don’t see any way that an apocalyptic Middle East war is going to be avoided at this point.
Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.
About the Author: Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned) When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing. You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter. Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites. You can connect with Michael on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and sharing his articles on your own social media accounts is definitely a great help. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
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'At least six Russian warplanes destroyed, eight damaged and 20 personnel wounded or killed' as Ukraine stages major drone strike on Putin's airfields
Ukraine fired more than 50 drones at Russian territory, Russia's MoD said
If confirmed, the scale of the damage to Russian warplanes would represent one of the biggest blows of the two-year war to Vladimir Putin's air force
By Chris Jewers and Will Stewart
Published: 06:11 EDT, 5 April 2024 | Updated: 12:18 EDT, 5 April 2024
Ukraine has destroyed at least six Russian warplanes, damaged eight more and wounded or killed 20 personnel in a major overnight drone attack on Vladimir Putin's airfields, Kyiv said on Friday.
Launching one of its largest overnight attacks in weeks, Ukraine fired more than 50 drones at Russian territory, according to Russia's defence ministry.
Among the targets was the Engels-2 base in in the southern Rostov region, home to Putin's prized Tu-95 and Tu-22 nuclear bombers.
More than 60 explosions were heard in the Rostov region as Russian air defences fended off an attack on Morozovsk military airfield, scene of the heaviest assault.
A video showed a woman's shock at the moment an electricity power station was hit.
There were more than ten explosions in Yeisk, Krasnodar region, reported local Telegram channels - also the location of a military airfield.
A security source in Kyiv told France's AFP news agency that an attack on the Morozovsk air base in Russia's southern Rostov region had destroyed at least six Russian planes and 'another eight were heavily damaged'.
'This is an important special operation that will significantly reduce the combat potential of the Russians,' the source said, adding that the attack was carried out by the SBU security service and the military.
Some 20 Russian personnel were killed or wounded, it was alleged.
Frontline bombers - Su-24, Su-24M, and Su-34 - are known to be routinely based at the airfield. They have been used to strike at Ukraine during the war.
As of April 4, some 26 Su-34 fighters and three Su-35 warplanes were stationed at the airbase, according to OSINT reports.
It has been reported that the SBU secret service was behind the kamikaze drone strike along with the Ukrainian armed forces.
'The results of the joint special operation are amazing - at least six Russian military aircraft were destroyed, and another eight received significant damage,' a source told RBC Ukraine.
If confirmed it would be one of the biggest blows of the war to Vladimir Putin's air force.
There was no immediate response from Russia and AFP news agency said it had been unable to verify the claims.
Russia said 44 of the 53 drones Kyiv fired overnight targeted the southern Rostov region, which sits just across the border from Ukraine and is home to a number of major military sites, including its command headquarters for the offensive.
'During the night and on the morning of April 5, the Kyiv regime tried to commit several terrorist attacks with aerial drones which were foiled,' the defence ministry said.
Rostov governor Vasily Golubev said a drone attack on the Morozovsk district, where the airbase is located, had caused 'insignificant damage' to a power station that had cut electricity supplies to around 600 residents.
He also reported windows were blown out in an apartment building but made no mention of the air base.
Russia rarely comments on Ukrainian claims of successful strikes. Kyiv has stepped up its aerial attacks on Russian territory in recent months, targeting both military sites and energy facilities in a bid to disrupt Russia's supply of fuel and equipment for its invasion.
On Tuesday, Ukrainian drones hit the central Tatarstan region - around 680 miles from the countries' shared border - in one of the deepest Ukrainian attacks of the two-year war.
Kyiv said the strike hit a major oil refinery and a factory assembling explosive drones.
Other Ukrainian drone attacks in the early hours of Friday targeted the Belgorod and Kursk border regions, as well as Saratov and Krasnodar.
In Saratov, the governor said a drone had targeted Engels, a city around 300 miles from the border that is home to a major Russian air base that has previously been hit.
Ukraine's air force meanwhile said Russia launched five missiles and 13 drones at its territory overnight.
Kyiv said it downed the 13 drones, but did not say anything about the missiles, which targeted the northeastern Kharkiv region.
Russian-installed authorities in areas of Ukraine occupied by Moscow's forces also reported Ukrainian strikes on Friday.
Five people were injured, two seriously, in a drone attack on the Russian-controlled part of the southern Kherson region, while seven were injured in a strike on Gorlivka in the eastern Donetsk region, Moscow-appointed officials said.
On the battlefield, Russian forces are seeking to press their advantage with Ukraine facing shortages of both manpower and ammunition amid delays to the delivery of Western aid.
Russian-installed officials have claimed Moscow's forces are advancing on Chasiv Yar, a town in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
Both Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers with links to the armed forces said Friday that Russian troops had reached the outskirts of the town.
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Largest fresh egg producer in U.S. finds bird flu in chickens at Texas and Michigan plants
Updated on: April 3, 2024 / 8:09 PM EDT / AP
The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.
In Texas, Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at the facility in Parmer County, Texas.
The plant is on the Texas-New Mexico border in the Texas Panhandle about 85 miles southwest of Amarillo and about 370 miles northwest of Dallas.
"The Company continues to work closely with federal, state and local government officials and focused industry groups to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks and effectively manage the response," according to the statement. "Cal-Maine Foods is working to secure production from other facilities to minimize disruption to its customers."
The company said there is no known bird flu risk associated with eggs that are currently on the market and no eggs have been recalled. Eggs that are properly handled and cooked are safe to eat, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The announcement by Cal-Maine comes a day after state health officials said a person had been diagnosed with bird flu after being in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and that the risk to the public remains low.
In Michigan, Michigan State University's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has detected bird flu in a commercial poultry facility in Ionia County, according to the Michigan's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The county is about 100 miles northwest of Detroit.
The department said it received confirmation of the disease Monday from the lab and that it is the fourth time since 2022 that the disease was detected at a commercial facility in Michigan.
Department spokesperson Jennifer Holton said Tuesday that state law prohibits the department from disclosing the type of poultry at the facility in Ionia.
The facility has been placed under quarantine and the department does not anticipate any disruptions to supply chains across the state, Holton said.
The human case in Texas marks the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal, federal health officials said.
Dairy cows in Texas and Kansas were reported to be infected with bird flu last week - and federal agriculture officials later confirmed infections in a Michigan dairy herd that had recently received cows from Texas.
The company said Cal-Maine sells most of its eggs in the Southwestern, Southeastern, Midwestern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fresh-egg-producer-us-bird-flu-chickens-texas-michigan-plants/
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Pestilences And Earthquakes
April 3, 2024 by Michael
We are living in an era of endless disasters. Over the past several years, we have been hit with one thing after another, and the pace of events seems to have picked up steam in 2024. Just think of all the things we have seen in recent days. There was the historic terror attack in Russia, then the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed, and then Israel’s strike on a building right next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus threatened to spark a major regional war. Less than 24 hours ago, a catastrophic earthquake hit Taiwan, but that is already starting to fade from the news cycle because so much else is happening right now.
In this article, I want to focus on two things: pestilences and earthquakes.
The bird flu plague has already killed millions upon millions of birds all over the planet, but now it has made a major resurgence in the United States.
In fact, the largest egg producer in the U.S. is “temporarily” closing a facility in Texas due to a local outbreak…
The largest producer of fresh eggs in the United States says it has temporarily closed one of its facilities in Texas after highly pathogenic avian influenza, otherwise known as H5N1 bird flu, wiped out nearly two million birds.
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said one of its facilities in Parmer County “tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, resulting in depopulation of approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or approximately 3.6% of the Company’s total flock as of March 2, 2024.”
Just like that, nearly two million more birds are gone.
Egg prices have already been spiking, and we are being warned that they will soon go up even more…
Egg prices have now been steadily rising for months, and your omelette could become even more expensive as poultry farms around the country deal with an outbreak of bird flu.
The average price of a dozen Grade A large eggs was $3 in February, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, up from around $2 in the fall.
Alarmingly, this time around it isn’t just birds that are catching the disease.
The USDA is telling us that dairy cows in several U.S. states have been recently infected…
Bird flu has been confirmed in dairy cows across several states, with the USDA saying Monday it has been found in New Mexico and five additional herds in Texas.
In addition, we have learned that “three pet cats” in Texas have died after catching the bird flu…
Meanwhile, three pet cats have died from bird flu after catching the disease on dairy farms in Texas, according to reports — as fears are raised that infected animals living near humans could spread the disease to people.
Mammals all over the globe have started to get infected, but up until now the bird flu has not posed a serious threat to humans.
Is that about to change?
A dairy worker in Texas has tested positive for H5N1, and that represents only the second case ever recorded in the United States…
A Texas dairy worker has tested positive for the avian flu, marking the first identified human case of an illness in the U.S. that has sickened cattle across several states over the past few weeks.
The infection, only the second human case of H5N1 ever recorded in the country, is worrying public health experts who for decades have cautioned that avian flu could pose a serious threat.
Hopefully this will turn out to be just an isolated incident.
But the CDC is telling us that testing has shown that H5N1 has mutated into a form that could potentially spread more easily among people…
The strain of bird flu that infected a person in Texas has mutated to spread more easily, officials say — amid growing alarm the disease could spread to more people.
The CDC said tests on the H5N1 sample showed it had a mutation that was ‘known to be associated with viral adaptation to mammalian hosts’ – but insisted the mutations were minor and the overall risk to the public was low.
This is a bombshell.
If H5N1 starts spreading from person to person on a widespread basis, that will be far more serious than anything that we have experienced over the last several years.
I hope that you understand what I am saying.
Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases of dengue fever in Brazil already exceeds 1.5 million…
An unprecedented outbreak of dengue fever is surging across Brazil, as the nation battles an epidemic that is straining resources and spreading well beyond the areas traditionally affected.
In cities across the vast country, hospitals and doctors are being stretched to the limit as more than 1.5 million people have already caught the virus – also known as “breakbone fever” – this year.
Dengue fever is an issue in Brazil every year, but they have never seen anything even close to this.
Now let me switch gears and talk about earthquakes for a bit.
Less than 24 hours ago, we witnessed the worst earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years…
Taiwan was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years on Wednesday when a 7.4 magnitude tremor struck the island’s eastern coast, collapsing buildings, killing at least four people and triggering tsunami warnings across the region that were later lifted, CNN reported.
The tsunami warnings also prompted airlines and airports to suspend flights, which were later resumed.
CNN reported that the powerful tremors that rocked Taiwan morning have damaged 125 buildings across the island, according to the National Fire Agency (NFA).
That quake was later downgraded to 7.2, but it sure shook a lot of people up.
At one point, a building that is 10 stories high started to fall over as those in the streets nearby ran for cover…
A group of terrified Taiwanese citizens looked to be heading to an early grave as a huge earthquake sent a 10-storey building hurtling towards them – only for the structure to grind to a halt at a near-45-degree angle.
Shocking footage captured by security cameras showed the moment the red brick building shook violently and began to fall, spraying dust and debris into the street below as the people below sprinted for safety or dove into their cars for protection.
This is yet another example of how unstable our planet is becoming.
In recent months we have seen so much unusual seismic activity all over the globe, but most Americans haven’t been too concerned about this because it hasn’t really affected us too much.
But there has been unusual shaking here in the U.S. too.
For instance, earlier this year there was a swarm of more than 270 earthquakes near Reno, Nevada…
Residents of the south Reno area have likely noticed a few earthquakes in the last couple weeks. The Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), a unit within the University of Nevada, Reno, has identified and located over 270 small magnitude earthquakes in the last 30 days so far. The largest related quake to date has been a magnitude 3.5 in the afternoon of Jan. 28 that was felt and heard through much of Reno.
Groups of small- to moderate-sized earthquakes, such as those recently occurring in south Reno, are often called a “swarm.”
“We have termed this swarm the South Reno Swarm,” Kyren Bogolub, a network seismologist with the NSL, said.
Do you know what else is south of Reno, Nevada?
A volcanic field known as “Steamboat Springs” is located in the area, but it has been quiet for a very long time. The following information comes from Wikipedia…
Steamboat Springs is a small volcanic field of rhyolitic lava domes and flows in western Nevada, located south of Reno. There is extensive geothermal activity in the area, including numerous hot springs, steam vents, and fumaroles.
Is that volcanic field starting to wake up?
Let’s hope not.
But as seismic activity increases all over the globe, it is inevitable that the U.S. will experience great shaking as well.
In addition to natural disasters, our world is being troubled by wars, pestilences, famines, economic problems and political turmoil.
A period of great chaos has arrived, and I am entirely convinced that the pace of events will accelerate even more during the months ahead.
Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.
About the Author: Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned) When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing. You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter. Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites. You can connect with Michael on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and sharing his articles on your own social media accounts is definitely a great help. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/pestilences-and-earthquakes/
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PRIMING SOCIETY TO EMBRACE THE BEAST SYSTEM, RIGHT UNDER THE NOSE OF A SLEEPING CHURCH…ARTICLE 38, OVERT PAGANISM IN OUR MODERN CHURCHES
April 2, 2024 by SkyWatch Editor
When considering the aforementioned “Hallelujah! Christians Pole Dance for Jesus in Texas,” these authors wonder: How many of these men and women know about the associations between today’s stripper pole and the ancient rituals to the Canaanite goddess of fertility and erotic love? Asherah—mother of Baal, wife and sister of El—was worshiped by pagans in the Old Testament; her presence in a community was marked with tree groves. In and around the trees were idols of Baal as well as tall, wooden “Asherah pole” idols, which God declared throughout the Old Testament must be burned or torn down (see Deuteronomy 12:3; 16:21; Judges 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kings 18:4). Scholars acknowledge that these idols represented the female body at some point upon its engraving, but they were often also phallic in nature and shape, rendering an idol that celebrated all forms of deviant consummation. Do Christians who “spin without sin” know that today’s “dance” takes Asherah worship to the next level with a living, breathing body upon the pole of a pagan goddess of sex? Are they aware that this “exercise” was the prostitutes’ launching pad for demonic, orgiastic ecstasy-worship in the groves of God’s sworn enemies?
These Christians are just lost…and how can the lost lead souls to salvation?
Is it any wonder that the lost see us the way they do? Are we seriously still confused about why the media depicts us as a bunch of hypocritical, bungling clowns? When research organizations like the Barna Group report that one out of three young adults reject Christianity Are webecause of hypocrisy they see in the Church, and about 50 percent of them “still feel the Church cannot answer their questions…[because of] flaws or gaps in [our] teachings,”[i] do we feel any responsibility at all to react? surprised when we hear about the mass exodus the Church of the West is facing today, or the literal doubling of the number of people identifying as atheists in the last decade (as the Pew Research Center reports [ii])? Is there any shock value to the fact that 32 percent of American Christians left their churches and didn’t return when the pandemic forced religious gatherings to close the doors for a month? [iii]
It’s shocking from every angle, and it only mounts. Earlier we looked at statistics that showed how far away from core Christian doctrines that Western Christians have wandered, but by further reflecting on “deeds vs. creeds,” the scandalous behavior we’re engaging in, the idolatry we’re tolerating, we have been building to a climax. It’s not just about whether every Christian believes in total biblical inerrancy or whether some allow abortion to be morally acceptable under some circumstances. As of September 22, 2020, according to the American Worldview Inventory conducted through the Culture Research Center at Arizona Christian University, only 6 percent of all adults and 2 percent of all Millennials hold a truly biblical worldview accountable to the most basic essentials of Christian doctrine—such as the inerrancy of Scripture, the necessity of prayer and worship, the belief that Satan is real, or the acknowledgment that sin exists and it is bad. Nevertheless, this study indicates that 61 percent of Millennials identify as Christians. [iv]
This automatically introduces the logical question (and we ask with genuine respect): What are you, if you identify as Christian but don’t believe in anything Christianity teaches about the reality of sin and the need to be cleansed of it through a Savior described in a Bible you also don’t trust to be true in the first place?
Technically, this has been answered before, over a century ago, by world-renowned New Testament scholar and Princeton Theological Seminary professor, J. Gresham Machen. All of the “Christianity” we see in the West today is nothing more than veiled liberalism—and by using “liberalism” here, we are referring not to the similar-sounding label in politics, but to school of thought under the same name within theological study. The application of liberal conviction, as defined under the umbrella of liberalism as a theology, found its roots in the rationalism of the Enlightenment era, which recognized humanity’s ability to reason as the new empirical authority over the words of the Bible. If something defied reason, as it was defined by each individual, it simply “wasn’t true.” Liberalists (though they were not called that at the time) approached Scripture with a postmodernist, “What’s true to me?” application and either disregarded everything else or chalked the rest of the Word of God up to allegorical suggestion, rendering Christianity into a mere subjective experience. More simply put, liberalism is what happens when people call themselves “Christian” but “interpret away” the bits of the Bible they’re uncomfortable with. Today, we hear it called “progressive Christianity,” but before it got cute, it was acknowledged as a slap in the face of God and strengthened such false teachings as antinomianism (the idea that God’s grace outweighs our responsibility to live righteously; the opposite of legalism).
Machen’s writing, which was a shameless throat punch to liberalism, demanded that those who championed human reasoning use their own capabilities of logic to question the senselessness of their Christianity. By introducing new liberties to theology that contradicted basic essentials of Scripture, they repackaged their religion into an illogical, irrational box with more limitations on its own claims to reason than Christianity had prior. He wasn’t shy in his attack against the logic (or lack thereof) of only accepting what parts of a religion gives a person happy feelings. In his Christianity and Liberalism, after devoting several pages to exposing the inconsistency and absurdity of the logic liberalists so championed, Machen summarized how this approach to Jesus always leads back to the black hole of unfulfillment: “Religion cannot be made joyful simply by looking on the bright side of God. For a one-sided God is not a real God, and it is the real God alone who can satisfy the longing of the soul.… Seek joy alone, then, seek joy at any cost, and you will not find it.”[v]
Though he wasn’t the only theologian who has skillfully and convincingly criticized the ludicrousness of liberalism (which he occasionally referred to as the alternative “modernism”), there is a reason these authors chose to highlight Machen’s work at this point in this project. He called the kettle black in a way his contemporaries hadn’t: While other scholars were attempting to entertain the massively popular liberalism shift long enough to sort out which new “theologies” were reliable and which weren’t, Machen recognized the whole of liberalism as a completely different religion altogether: “[L]iberalism not only is a different religion from Christianity but belongs in a totally different class of religions.”[vi]
If Machen were around to lend his thoughts to the mess we’re in now, his golden response to the kind of postmodern evangelicals reporting their beliefs to the Ligonier Ministries survey just discussed would likely be disregarded as an overly conservative voice from the minority. Nevertheless, for the Remnant Church who cares, his historical genius lingers on the page forever…or until it’s outlawed by the global system we’re helping to form and ends up in the “propaganda burn piles” the chaos in the West is currently reserving for our Bibles. For now, we still have gems like this:
In trying to remove from Christianity everything that could possibly be objected to…in trying to bribe off the enemy by those concessions which the enemy most desires, the apologist has really abandoned what he started out to defend. Here as in many other departments of life it appears that the things that are sometimes thought to be hardest to defend are also the things that are most worth defending. [vii]
Bottom line: A “picked apart” and “partially true” Christianity is not Christianity. It is a completely “different religion” from Christianity. It is—once again—a cult, regardless of how “normal” it looks on the outside.
Sometimes it becomes a bigger concern than whether one church removes Jesus to hail Svetovid for a weekend, or whether a group of tragically misled Christians worship provocatively. And sometimes it’s not “normal looking” from any angle at all. More often than we would like to admit, colossal movements spread over regions of the world that affect all Christians in a negative way.
When Progressivism Meets Emotionalism
Perhaps the most glaring example is some of the witchcraft and occultism that had global attention during a well-known revival that drew multiple millions of people all over the world in the 1990s and dramatically and permanently changed the landscape of Sunday morning worship practices in the West. Because there was actually some calculable good that came from this revival—and because several of those who perpetuated the more negative aspects of it have since repented of their involvement—we will sensitively refer to this period in time as the “Charisma Revival.” (As a quick disclaimer: These authors have studied the Charisma Revival throughout the years, and we want to be clear that the Lord certainly met many seekers at those altars. The movement was popular enough that readers may recognize which revival we’re writing about. If readers of this article were among those who attended and had a real encounter with God, we are not questioning the authenticity of your experience; we merely want to look at some of the questionable origins and goings-on of the movements that began in the area at that time.)
Some may wonder why, when so much of the discussion about Protestantism has taken place across all denominations, we’re about to look back at a movement that was primarily Pentecostal/Charismatic. There are three reasons:
Demographically, if we don’t count Catholicism, with approximately 584 million members, Pentecostals and Charismatics make up the largest population of Christianity not just in the West, but around the globe, accounting for 26.7 percent of the world’s Christian population (8.5 percent of the human population).[viii] Since the Catholic Church represents 50.1 percent of the Christian population of the world, that makes the remaining 26.7 percent of Pentecostals and Charismatics an enormous part of the Body. As a result, though not all readers are Pentecostal or Charismatic, many likely are, which makes the warnings from this movement invaluable.
The Charisma Revival, regardless of denominations, stands as a great example of what can happen when the Church forsakes her True Love (Jesus) and goes in her own direction to feed emotional phenomena. The correct teachings from the Word end, worship gets insane, the lost remain lost, God’s heart breaks, and Christians lose patience waiting for their religious identity to iron itself out, so they eventually give up and leave the Church. Everyone loses.
Long-term damage inflicted upon the reputation of and theological trends within the Church can take eons to sort out. In this way, the Charisma Revival affected all Protestant denominations. It was such a grand-scale Western movement that egg was thrown on the faces of other traditional Christian faiths that were not involved, putting believers from all over the West in the uncomfortable position of answering for why their religion appeared absurd.
Lessons from the era of hype… Lessons learned the hard way.
This moment was marked by a resurgence of the “hellfire and brimstone”-style sermons similar to those of Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” in the mid 1700s, but this time, the messages were reprimands for not being “fired up like the folks at those Charisma Revival churches.” These charges were often followed by the obligatory “get fired up” exhortation to which the congregants dutifully responded by demonstrating their (imitated) excitement…all for the sake of appearance. There was a lot of religious propagandizing to support the idea that this was the one, the only, and the last golden age of revival—that “God wouldn’t wait on the lazy ones,” and He would “work miracles” through those willing to “punch Satan in the face” and “reclaim our territory.” But because the Holy Spirit wasn’t truly behind all this “pulpiteering,” no real fruit was produced. True followers of God were worshiping one day, then they blinked and found themselves in a cult the next; the lost had little reason to think that cult had any legitimate answers about how to be saved.
Right from the beginning, despite some very real demonstrations of God, something just “felt off” about the Charisma Revival. Stories from that congregation involved deeply unsettling “manifestations of God,” even though there was almost never any scriptural foundation for those goings-on. This didn’t seem to bother most Church leadership, though. Many people traveled to the churches that were right in the thick of it, having been instructed by their pastors to go see what’s going on and “bring the revival back with them,” as if they had been sent to pick up a loaf of bread. (One of these authors heard that very “bring it back” command in two different churches and by two different leaders. It was like they were suggesting that their ministry staff could just fling a revival in their backpack and feed it crackers on the plane.) In our opinions, these were pastors’ efforts to try to “fix” the apathy of their home congregations because they weren’t willing to do the work it would take to see a true revival of interest in following Christ.
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Video: Justin Trudeau Trembles With Fear As Furious Crowd Chant ‘F**k You, Trudeau!’
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An angry crowd of Canadians loudly protested Justin Trudeau as he entered a shopping mall in Ontario earlier this week. Protesters held signs reading, “Trudeau 4 Treason,” and, “Communism has no home here,” and flew flags stating, “F*CK Trudeau.”
Infowars.com reports: Fired-up demonstrators also shouted expletives at the Canadian PM as police officers protected him, yelling, “You f*cking tyrant!” “Piece of f*cking shit” and “F*ck you, Trudeau!”
“Canadians have had enough,” Wide Awake Media captioned the video on X.
The video had surpassed 7 million views on X as of writing.
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Zelenskyy Acquires Highgrove House, Former Residence of King Charles for Ł20Million
April 2, 2024
Submitted by Paul S.
Ukraine’s Zelensky is the New Owner of Highgrove House, Former Home of King Charles and Princess Diana
Royal Purchase – Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the New Owner of Highgrove House, Previously Owned by King Charles. Highgrove House, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, served as the country residence of King Charles III even after he assumed his new role as Britain’s reigning monarch.
It was purchased in 1980 by the then Prince Charles from Maurice Macmillan, son of the former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. During his first marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, the family would spend weekends in Gloucestershire with Princes William and Harry, before returning to Kensington Palace.
Highgrove House, Sold to Ukraine's Zelensky for Ł20 Million
In 2024, King Charles III sold his residence, having owned it for 44 years. What is _at first glance surprising_ is that the new owner of the royal estate is Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.
Charles has been an outspoken supporter of Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. In February 2023, The King held an audience with Volodymyr Zelensky at Buckingham Palace. Charles III issued a strongly-worded message of support for Ukraine, in a statement marking the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion in February 2024. The unusually direct message seems to be a rallying call to keep up international assistance for Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine has been close to the King’s heart. It may explain the nature of an unusual sale of the King’s property to Volodymyr Zelensky – whom Charles III probably sees as a defender of democracy.
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Pentagon launches tech to stop AI-powered killing machines from going rogue on the battlefield due to robot-fooling visual 'noise'
Pentagon innovation office wants to defend AI systems from 'adversarial attacks'
Research explores how visual 'noise' patches trick AI into fatal misidentifications
READ MORE: New rules stop Pentagon from 'building killer robots' in 'basement'
By Matthew Phelan For Dailymail.Com
Published: 19:18 EDT, 2 April 2024 | Updated: 19:27 EDT, 2 April 2024
Pentagon officials have sounded the alarm about 'unique classes of vulnerabilities for AI or autonomous systems,' which they hope new research can fix.
The program, dubbed Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception (GARD), has been tasked since 2022 with identifying how visual data or other electronic signals inputs for AI might be gamed by the calculated introduction of noise.
Computer scientists with one of GARD's defense contractors have experimented with kaleidoscopic patches designed to fool AI-based systems into making false IDs.
'You can essentially, by adding noise to an image or a sensor, perhaps break a downstream machine learning algorithm,' as one senior Pentagon official managing the research explained Wednesday.
The news comes as fears that the Pentagon has been 'building killer robots in the basement' have allegedly led to stricter AI rules for the US military — mandating that all systems must be approved before deployment.
'You can also with knowledge of that algorithm sometimes create physically realizable attacks,' added that official, Matt Turek, deputy director for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) Information Innovation Office.
Technically, it is feasible to 'trick' an AI's algorithm into mission critical errors — making the AI misidentify a variety of patterned patches or stickers for a real physical object that's not really there.
A bus packed with civilians, for example, could be misidentified as a tank by an AI, if it were tagged with the right 'visual noise,' as one national security reporter with the site ClearanceJobs proposed as an example.
Such cheap and lightweight 'noise' tactics, in short, could cause vital military AI to misclassify enemy combatants as allies, and vice versa, during a critical mission.
Researchers with the modestly budgeted GARD program have spent $51,000 investigating visual and signal noise tactics since 2022, Pentagon audits show.
What is public from their work includes a 2019 and 2020 study illustrating how visual noise, which can appear merely decorative or inconsequential to human eyes, like a 1990s 'Magic Eye' poster, can be interpreted as solid object by AI.
Computer scientists with defense contractor the MITRE Corporation managed to create visual noise that an AI mistook for apples on a grocery store shelf, a bag left behind outdoors, and even people.
'Whether that is physically realizable attacks or noise patterns that are added to AI systems,' Turek said Wednesday, 'the GARD program has built state-of-the-art defenses against those.'
'Some of those tools and capabilities have been provided to CDAO [the Defense Department's Chief Digital and AI Office],' according to Turek.
The Pentagon formed the CDAO in 2022; it serves as a hub to facilitate faster adoption of AI and related machine-learning technologies across the military.
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently updated its AI rules among 'a lot of confusion about' how it plans to use self-decision-making machines on the battlefield, according to US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities Michael Horowitz
Horowitz explained at an event this January that the 'directive does not prohibit the development of any [AI] systems,' but will 'make clear what is and isn't allowed' and uphold a 'commitment to responsible behavior,' as it develops lethal autonomous systems.
While the Pentagon believes the changes should ease the public's minds, some have said they are not 'convinced' by the efforts.
Mark Brakel, director of the advocacy organization Future of Life Institute (FLI), told DailyMail.com this January: 'These weapons carry a massive risk of unintended escalation.'
He explained that AI-powered weapons could misinterpret something, like a ray of sunlight, and perceive it as a threat, thus attacking foreign powers without cause, and without intentional adversarial 'visual noise.'
Brakel said the result could be devastating because 'without meaningful human control, AI-powered weapons are like the Norwegian rocket incident [a near nuclear armageddon] on steroids and they could increase the risk of accidents in hotspots such as the Taiwan Strait.'
Dailymail.com has reached out to the DoD for comment.
The DoD has been aggressively pushing to modernize its arsenal with autonomous drones, tanks, and other weapons that select and attack a target without human intervention.
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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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According to a report from Associated Press, Taiwan’s national fire agency appears to have confirmed that 70 miners are trapped in two coalmines in Hualien County after the earthquake.
Sixty-four people were trapped in one coalmine, and six people were in a different mine, AP reports the agency said.
More details soon …
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16m ago08.31 EDT
Here is a clip of CCTV footage which shows a multi-storey building collapsing on a busy street in Hualien as Taiwan was hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years.
Building collapses on busy street as powerful quake hits Taiwan – video
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28m ago08.18 EDT
Here are some more images sent over the news wires from Taiwan after the earthquake.
Taiwan president-elect Lai Ching-te inspects the damage after the earthquake in Hualien.
Roads cracks at Taipingshan Park due to the earthquake in Yilan, Taiwan.
Roads cracks at Taipingshan Park due to the earthquake in Yilan, Taiwan. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Taoyuan City deputy mayor Su Junbin inspects a building in Bade District in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Taoyuan City deputy mayor Su Junbin inspects a building in Bade District in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
People check the timetable at the Taipei main station for delayed trains caused by the earthquake.
People check the timetable at the Taipei main station for delayed trains caused by the earthquake. Photograph: Annabelle Chih/Getty Images
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35m ago08.12 EDT
Here is an updated map from our graphics team showing where Taiwan’s east coast was struck by a 7.4 magnitude quake on Wednesday morning. Nine people are known to have died and more than 900 people have been injured.
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2h ago07.02 EDT
The number of people injured in the earthquake has risen to at least 934.
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2h ago06.36 EDT
Nine die and nearly 900 injured in quake, say fire agency
Taiwan’s national fire agency said nine people died in the quake and another 882 have been injured.
The local United Daily News reported three hikers died in rockslides in Taroko national park and a van driver died in the same area after boulders hit the vehicle, AP reports.
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2h ago06.26 EDT
Authorities have lost contact with 50 people in minibuses after a powerful earthquake quake downed phone networks, Taiwan’s national fire agency said.
More than 70 other people are trapped but believed to be alive, some in a coalmine.
Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked the island during the morning rush hour Wednesday, AP reports.
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3h ago06.14 EDT
Death toll rises to nine
At least nine people are now reported to have been killed in Taiwan’s earthquake.
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3h ago06.00 EDT
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Taiwan has felt many aftershocks throughout the day, but the scale of the seismic activity in Hualien is jaw-dropping: there have been over a hundred separate earthquakes in and around the city today, many of them over 5.0 in magnitude.
As of 4 pm local time there had been no fewer than 130 listed on the government’s official website.
Here are the stats from the Taiwan weather centre.
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3h ago05.37 EDT
Gregor Stuart Hunter in Taipei, Chi Hui Lin in Miaoli, and Jan Camenzind Broomby and Kenza Wilks in Taitung spoke to people about what they experienced in the moments after the earthquake struck:
In the first moments after the huge quake hit, Lanni Hsu grabbed her dog and her family, and fled. Running down five flights of stairs, she headed outdoors to seek safety from falling objects.
Hsu lives in Hualien, a busy tourist city on Taiwan’s east coast, where the 7.2 magnitude quake struck on Wednesday morning. The death toll stood at seven, with 700 injured and hundreds trapped under rubble.
Three people among a group of seven on an early-morning hike through the hills that surround the city were crushed to death by boulders loosened by the earthquake, officials said. Separately, a truck driver died when his vehicle was hit by a landslide as it approached a tunnel in the area.
Hualien’s people are no stranger to deadly earthquakes. Even so, this was the most frightened Hsu had ever felt, she said.
You can read the full story here.
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4h ago05.11 EDT
Our graphics team put together this map to show the site of the earthquake, which struck the eastern city of Hualien.
Map of Asia showing where the earthquake hit Taiwan.
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4h ago04.40 EDT
Justin McCurry report the latest from Osaka, Chi Hui Lin in Miaoli, and Jan Camenzind Broomby in Kaohsiung:
Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years has killed seven and injured at least 700, causing building collapses, power outages and landslides on the island, and sparking initial tsunami warnings in southern Japan and the Philippines.
The quake, given a magnitude of 7.2 by Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency and 7.4 by the US, struck close to the popular tourist city of Hualien, on Taiwan’s eastern coast, damaging buildings and trapping people amid aftershocks following the quake, which started at 7.58am.
Taiwan earthquake live updates: seven killed, more than 700 injured and dozens still trapped after strongest quake in 25 years
Videos on social media showed children being rescued from collapsed residential buildings. One five-storey building in Hualien appeared heavily damaged, its first floor collapsed and the bulk of the building leaning at a 45-degree angle.
Taiwan’s Centre for Science and Technology (CST) said people and vehicles were trapped in the Dachingshui tunnel. Train lines were also damaged, and schools and workplaces were closed across large areas of the city.
Witnesses in Hualien described driving while rocks dislodged from nearby mountains fell down around them, while others rushed outside after feeling the strength of the tremors.
Read the full story here.
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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
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etc for great disaster now cometh upon the face of the earth and you shall see it all. For you cannot poke a dog in its eye continually no matter how tame and not have him respond, and you shall see the responses, they shall not be what you want, but it is that time and they shall not change because it is that time. For I have told you to watch this month, watch, watch, watch, be a watchman etc.
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World War III Heats Up As The U.S. Continues To 'Poke The Bear,' Russian President Vladimir Putin Says He Is Ready For A Nuclear War
- The definition of a World War, via Britannica, is simply 'a war involving many nations of the world'
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline April 2, 2024
Many eyes are on the Middle East right now, but the Russia/Ukraine war is the one most likely to be the war that is going to get America nuked, in the long run.
While we continue to see headlines predicting a world war is on the horizon, I stand by my assertion that World War III already began and is ongoing. Nether NATO nor the United Nations existed before 1945. The League of Nations became the United Nations, but when created, the Soviet Union was one of the four world powers, along with the UK, The U.S. and China, that was supposed to control the UN, until the Soviet Union vetoed certain cold war issues.
The reason for that very brief history reminder is to show that all indicators of involvement in a war that had it later categorized as a World War, such as boots on the ground and actively fighting, have been expanded in large part due to technology, rapid transportation (such as weapons and ammunitions), and the ability on the part of the U.S. to browbeat and threaten other nations to abide by sanctions.
A little bit about sanctions, which historically has been an America tool. First and foremost, sanctions via blockades were previously tried in WWI and WWII, largely unsuccessful, until roughly 1950.
From 1950 to 2019, the US turned to sanctions far more often than other countries, according to a Quartz analysis of historic sanctions using the Global Sanctions Database.
Quartz | qz.com Data: Global Sanctions Database Note: The analysis considered every sanction effort by individual countries, rather than grouping collective.
The lackluster success rate for sanctions over this period has not deterred the US. Indeed, its willingness to throw its economic weight around to change other countries’ behavior has remained a constant since the 1950s.
The definition of a World War, via Britannica, is simply "a war involving many nations of the world."
Now sanctions include:
• Economic sanctions: Trade barriers, freezing assets, taking assets from one country to give to another, tariffs, naval blockades, etc....
• Diplomatic sanctions, the reduction or removal of diplomatic ties, such as embassies. These also include limiting or cancelling high-level govt visits or expelling or withdrawing diplomatic missions or staff.
• Military sanctions: those include military strikes to arms embargos.
• Individual sanctions: These are sanctions against individual members of a nation, such as politicians or economic bigwigs.
The point is, taking action against a nation that harms their nation or their citizens, in and of itself, is an act of war.
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A WAR INVOLVING MANY NATIONS OF THE WORLD........
We'll start with the United Nations and their resolutions against Russia due to their war with Ukraine.
As of February 2023, there were 102 countries that voted in favor of four different resolutions against Russia. 47countries voted for or abstained in at least one resolution. 16 countries voted to abstain from all resolutions. 19 countries that voted against or abstained from at least one resolution. Four countries that voted against all resolutions, one of which was Russia. Four countries that were absent in all resolutions. (Source)
Those are just resolutions, but show that the definition of "many nations" being involved, in some way, has been met by the UN.
As for NATO, they were founded in 1949, after both World Wars. In 2022, CNBC produced two maps showing NATOs growth, and their move eastward right t the edges of Russia.
Caveat: Both Sweden and Finland have joined NATO since these maps were published.
Europe 1990:
Europe 2022:
Russia's border with other European nations is now almost completely lined with NATO members.
Aside from NATO bases on the Russia's border, the US armed forces also have a presence in other sites alongside NATO which now has multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, but there are a number of US-controlled 'base sites' that have relatively close proximity to Russia. The US has military bases within striking distance of Russia both in Europe and Asia. (Source)
While many might think after seeing the maps and information above, that NATO would be seen as the biggest threat to Russia, but since the U.S. is the defacto leader of NATO, it is the U.S. that has been declared by Russia as its biggest security threat, in their military policy doctrine of 2023, the first since 2016.
Related: The U.S. Air Force Has A Base Right Next To Russia. It Just Sent F-16s To Visit.
Sanctions are perhaps the best gauge as to how many countries are "attacking" Russia over the war in Ukraine, because they target Russia in a variety of ways that weren't feasible in the two other World Wars.
According to the BBC, the US, UK and EU, along with countries including Australia, Canada and Japan, have imposed more than 16,500 sanctions on Russia. There are 28 countries that are part of the EU (European Union).
Between the number of nations joining resolutions against Russia (102), along with 30 different countries joining the U.S. in sanctioning Russia, that most definitely matches the :many nations" criteria for what is considered a World War.
WORLD WAR III HEATS UP........
Keeping in mind the fact that Russia is a nuclear capable country that has made it clear that in a fight for survival they would use nuclear weapons, recent news becomes all the more concerning.
Despite the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it very clear Russia has no interest in attacking any other country other than Ukraine, which hold no national security threat for America, the constant Russia fearmongering by the U.S., and NATO, continues with the latest breathless headlines, one of which is "Prepare for Putin pivot to invade us, say Baltic states."
Nato must be ready for Russia launching an “existential” war against the Baltic states “masked by a blizzard of disinformation”, ambassadors from the three countries have warned.
Writing exclusively for The Sunday Telegraph, the top diplomats to the UK from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said that Russia could “pivot quickly” from Ukraine to invade the Baltic.
And they said that Vladimir Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine is evoking the three countries’ “darkest memories” of occupation under Stalin.
The Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi, the Latvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre, and Lithuania’s charge d’affaire Lina Zigmantaite, wrote the joint article to mark Friday’s 20 year anniversary of their countries acceding to Nato.
While it may sound cold, Europe and wars in Europe are not the business of the U.S., and we should keep our noses out of it. Unless Russia attacks close to home, which Ukraine is not, and neither is Estonia, Lativa or Lithuania.
Let Europe protect Europe and stop sending tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer money to Ukraine, stop protecting their borders when the Biden regime refuses to protect ours, and rebuild our military which is facing recruitment shortages, especially since the U.S. military went "woke." Biden has left America short on certain ammunitions, which he accidentally admitted in 2023.
If the U.S. keeps poking at Russia, forcing Russia to act, Americans will be on their own because as we have seen with the invasion of our southern border, Biden's puppet masters care more about foreign nations than it does about their own people.
Related: Bipartisan legislation would let the U.S. seize $5B to $8B in Russian assets.
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Gun Sales Skyrocket In The Face Of Invasion
By Bradlee Dean|April 3rd, 2024
“Approximately 17.4 million guns were sold in 2022, and 1.4 million guns have been sold monthly in 2023.”
Many in this country are now coming to the very realization of why it was that our forefathers established the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
It was to the leave citizens with the ability to defend themselves against unlawful violence, such as incoming from either the tyrants in the government or the criminal element within the populace, in which we have the God-given right to defend ourselves from both.
Most know that Americans have long been made a prey to the invasion of the illegals that are bringing in their crimes along with them. Of course, this is being committed by the treasonous individuals that are tolerated by the American people both within the federal and state governments (Article III, Section 3 U.S. Constitution).
No doubt, the government of today is at war with what it is that our forefathers have established.
What’s worse is the fact that the said judges are NOT holding the corrupt accountable, but are now going so far as to justify their treasonous acts by somehow advocating that the illegals can lawfully carry (Psalm 94:20) arms. No, I’m not making this up.
Simultaneously, the government is trying to disarm the American people.
In the face of this treason, the American people are responding. According to safehome.org:
In the U.S., many dynamic factors influence gun-purchasing decisions: economic conditions, media influences, legislative and leadership changes, and even public perceptions of threats. Each factor differs from state to state, creating a patchwork of attitudes and beliefs about firearms nationwide.
By digging into data on gun sales and ownership, we can begin to understand America’s complex relationship with firearms. This is why we explore data from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) from the FBI on a yearly basis. This database tracks firearm background checks and can be used to approximate gun sale trends in the U.S.
Here are a few key insights from our latest research:
An estimated 1.4 million guns were sold monthly between January and May 2023.
In 2022, approximately 17.4 million guns were sold in the United States. This is about 12% fewer than in 2021.
Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming had the highest estimated gun sales per capita in 2022.
In 2022, gun sales rose year over year in only three places: Iowa, the District of Columbia, and Oregon.
So far in 2023, Texas and Florida lead the nation in total estimated gun sales, making up about 14% of all guns sold nationwide.
Estimated Guns Sold in 2022 and 2023
In recent years, estimated gun sales across America have dramatically increased: toward the end of 2019 and throughout 2020, gun sales reached record numbers. Since then, gun sales have declined slightly. In 2022, about 17.4 million guns were sold in the United States.
Preliminary numbers show that gun sales in 2023 may look similar to last year. Between January 1 and May 31, 2023, an estimated 7.1 million guns have been sold. That’s about 1.4 million guns a month on average. Read more
Conclusion: Our Rights come from God, not from the privileges given by those who work for the American people, period!
E-Mail Bradlee Dean: Bradlee@SonsOfLibertyRadio.com
https://newswithviews.com/gun-sales-skyrocket-in-the-face-of-invasion/
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have called for my church to be watchman, I’ve called for you to be
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Intel: Significant Activity at Iran Long-Range Missile Sites; Retaliation Against Israel Coming
Hal Turner World 02 April 2024 Hits: 13946
Several intelligence sources are confirming "significant activity" at Iran long-range missile sites in the west and north of the country. Retaliation against Israel for bombing an Embassy in Damascus, is pending.
Yesterday, Israel violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations when it bombed a building in Damascus, Syria, directly next to the Iran Embassy! It was the Ambassador's Official residence situated ON the Embassy compound; Iran sovereign territory!
Several high-ranking Iranian officials were killed in the attack, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi - a commander in the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards. He is the highest-ranking Iranian official killed in an Israeli attack.
If Iran plans retaliation, it's likely to occur tonight, as it marks the 23rd night of Ramadan, a significant occasion for Shia Muslims. Tonight, however, may prove too soon.
Should retaliation not occur tonight, it may coincide with a funeral, a common time for Iranian retaliation.
Expectations are high regarding Iran's response this time. Iran's Parliament Vice-Speaker Mojtaba Zonnouri cautioned Israel to anticipate retaliation within its borders, stressing that diplomatic missions are considered part of sovereign territory.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, has signaled direct retaliation by Iranians themselves, bypassing proxies. Khamenei said "Israel will face consequences for its attack on the Iranian consulate," adding "We will make them regret committing this crime."
In a letter to the Security Council late Monday, Iran said it would take a “decisive response” to the Israeli attack but in line with international laws. So Iran has already filed Notice to the UN there __will__ be a military response.
The Israeli Defense Force, after making the attack, was placed on high alert.
The U.S. military has started recalling veteran retirees and is ordering them to report for active duty, citing Executive Order 13223 from the Bush administration in 2001.
This order allows for the recall of retired Soldiers to active duty from the Retired Reserve or the retired list under 10 USC 688/688a, 12301(a), or 12301(d).
The recall is part of an effort to address the military's manpower shortages and to fill critical vacancies. The recall process aligns with Army Regulation 601-10, which requires that recalled retiree Soldiers be assigned to valid vacant positions that match their grade and skill.
This initiative is a response to the military's ongoing recruitment crisis and the need to maintain a sufficient number of personnel to fulfill its global mission sets.
Clearly, a major conflict is about to start.
Iran has developed numerous and sophisticated missiles for its military use; more than capable of not only reaching __any__ target inside Israel, but doing so with great precision. Here's a look at Iranian Missile systems and their ranges:
Iranian Missile types and their range
When some of these missiles start coming down onto Israel, it is likely to unleash things that no one expects.
According to a source within the US Embassy in Israel, a message was received at the White House from Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abd Allahian.
In the message, Iran warns the US against interfering in Iran's response to Israel following the bombing of the Iranian Embassy compound in Syria.
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8 Extremely Unusual Events That Will Happen During The Month Of April
By Michael Snyder/End of the American Dream April 02, 2024
When is the last time that there was so much buzz about one month? As we enter April, there is so much anticipation in the air, and it isn't just because of the Great American Eclipse on April 8th.
In recent days, I have heard from so many people that feel like something really big is about to happen. I can feel it too. It is almost as if we are all holding our breath as we wait for the next shoe to drop. Chaos is threatening to erupt all over the globe, and meanwhile signs in the heavens are literally screaming at us to pay attention.
The following are 8 extremely unusual events that will happen during the month of April...
#1 As we enter the month of April, the "Devil Comet" has become visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere...
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks - also known as the "devil comet" and the "Mother of Dragons" comet - is currently visible in the night skies of the northern hemisphere, providing a unique spectacle for both amateur stargazers and professional astronomers.
This Halley-type comet, which orbits the Sun every 71 years and has a nucleus about 30 kilometers in diameter, is known for its impressive outbursts of gas and dust during its voyages through the inner solar system.
This is the very first time that we have been able to see this comet with the naked eye in 71 years, and it will continue to be visible for those of us living in the northern hemisphere during the weeks ahead.
#2 On April 4th, that will be an extraordinary alignment of 4 planets just 4 days before the Great American Eclipse of 2024...
The next planetary alignment takes place on April 4, 2024. It will feature four planets - Venus, Neptune, Saturn, and Mars. The planets will align in the morning sky. Venus, Saturn, and Mars will be visible to the naked eye, but you'll need a telescope or high-powered binoculars to see Neptune.
#3 On April 8th, the seven other planets in our solar system along with the sun and the moon will appear to form a straight line in the sky when looking from Jerusalem toward the east. This was discovered by a friend of mine named Rachel Baxter, and the following is a graphic of that "line in the sky" that she sent to me...
Rachel asked ChatGPT to tell her how rare it is to have a straight line like this, and she was told that it would only happen once every 32 million years.
#4 Also on April 8th, CERN is planning to fire up the Large Hadron Collider...
The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator is set smash protons together on April 8 to search for invisible particles secretly powering our universe.
Theories have suggested there are 17 different particle groups and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, confirmed the existence of one using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.
Now, the team has restarted the LHC with hopes of unraveling more mysteries of the universe - specifically dark matter.
Why in the world would CERN choose to do this on April 8th?
We are being told that they plan to shoot particles "down a 17-mile-long tunnel at nearly the speed of light to recreate conditions a second after the Big Bang".
That doesn't exactly sound like it is a good idea.
Let us just hope that nothing goes wrong.
#5 The most anticipated event of April is the Great American Eclipse of 2024. USA Today is calling it "the astronomical event of the decade"...
We're less than two weeks away from the astronomical event of the decade: A total eclipse of the sun, which will grace the nation's skies from Texas to Maine on the afternoon of Monday, April 8.
Millions of people are expected to travel to see the spectacle, which will also attract scientists from across the country to study its unique effects on the Earth and its atmosphere.
#6 As the eclipse passes over America on April 8th, NASA will be firing three rockets "into the moon's shadow"...
NASA has announced it will fire three scientific sounding rockets into the moon's shadow on Monday, April 8 during a partial solar eclipse across North America.
In what will be a total solar eclipse for a 115 miles-wide path through parts of Mexico, 15 U.S. states and Canada and a partial solar eclipse for the entire Americas, the event will see a sudden drop in sunlight.
For some strange reason, NASA has chosen to name this project after a serpent deity that was popular in ancient Egypt...
The space agency's project, Atmospheric Perturbations Around The Eclipse Path, will investigate how that drop in sunlight and temperature affects Earth's upper atmosphere. APEP is named after the serpent deity from ancient Egyptian mythology, nemesis of the sun deity Ra, according to NASA.
#7 Ominously, on April 8th the Great American Eclipse of 2024 will complete the giant "X" over the New Madrid fault zone that the Great American Eclipse of 2017 began. I feel so strongly that this is a very important warning to America that I put it on the cover of my latest book.
#8 During the month of April, the "cicadapocalypse" is coming. As I discussed earlier this year, for the first time since Thomas Jefferson was president billions of 13-year cicadas and billions of 17-year cicadas will emerge from the ground simultaneously...
"Billions, even trillions, of cicadas are going to emerge at the same time across 17 states," Chris Simon, a professor in UConn's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, told Live Science.
Brood XIII and XIX have been living underground for 17 and 13 years respectively.
They will soon emerge at the same time for the first time in 221 years.
Shockingly, the emergence of these two groups will overlap in central Illinois...
What's more, this year's cicada groups, known as Brood XIII and Brood XIX, happened to make their homes adjacent to one another, with a narrow overlap in central Illinois.
By now, most of you already know that the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2024 overlaps with the path of the Great American Eclipse of 2017 in Illinois.
Is someone trying to tell us something?
In addition to everything that I have already covered, many on social media are speculating that a red heifer sacrifice could take place at some point during the month of April.
But so far I have not been able to find any solid evidence that such a sacrifice is imminent.
As I discussed last week, the red heifers that were transported to Israel from the state of Texas in 2022 need to be used before they are too old to qualify, and the priests that will conduct the sacrifice are ready to go.
However, if a red heifer sacrifice was imminent an altar for that purpose would be put up on the Mount of Olives, and so far that has not happened.
CBS News previously reported that a "massive while altar" for a red heifer sacrifice had been constructed...
A massive white altar awaits, where they are to be burned on a plot of land overlooking the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Mamo said the ceremony must be performed looking directly into where the ancient Second Temple stood, until it was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70.
Unfortunately, that CBS News story was not accurate.
According to Israel365News, the altar that CBS News showed to the world is simply a model that is used for "Temple service reenactments and educational purposes"...
The structure in the video is a model of the altar as it stood in the Temple. The real altar must be made of stone. The model, located in Mitzpe Yericho, is used for Temple service reenactments and educational purposes. It is not made of stone and cannot be used for the Temple service.
So CBS News was wrong about the altar, and a lot of us were fooled by their report.
Before I end this article, I want to discuss something that happened at the end of March.
Joe Biden officially declared March 31st to be "Transgender Day of Visibility". Of course many people pointed out that this was the same day that many Christians were celebrating Easter. The following comes from Joe Biden's official pronouncement...
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation's commitment to forming a more perfect Union -- where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
I am proud that my Administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that the LGBTQI+ community can live openly, in safety, with dignity and respect. I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my Administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in our military. I am proud to have signed historic Executive Orders that strengthen civil rights protections in housing, employment, health care, education, the justice system, and more. I am proud to have signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, ensuring that every American can marry the person they love.
If you can believe it, America now has more than 50 different holidays that celebrate alternative lifestyles...
The Biden administration's decision to honor "Transgender Awareness Day" on Easter Sunday has caused widespread controversy.
However, many Americans may be unaware that there are more than 50 LGBTQIA2S+-themed holidays.
When you add them all up, all of those holidays cover a grand total of 145 calendar days.
America has been fundamentally transformed, and our nation is racing in the direction that it has chosen as fast as it can.
This month, we will witness the most ominous signs in the heavens that our country has ever seen.
Will those signs be a wake up call, or will most of the population continue to remain asleep?
Originally published at End Of The American Dream
https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6793#google_vignette
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Statewide Emergency Declared in Indiana Ahead of Solar Eclipse
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb issued the emergency declaration as a precaution ahead of the April 8 event.
By Jack Phillips 4/2/2024 Updated: 4/2/2024
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb issued a statewide emergency due to a large influx of visitors to his state to view the total solar eclipse on April 8.
The Republican official said that the number of visitors to Indiana may strain the state’s communications, transportation, and emergency response systems, warranting the need for the declaration. Indiana includes some of the best locations in the United States to see the eclipse, according to a map of the path of totality.
“The massive number of people viewing this event in our state may well stress and/or interfere with first responder and public safety communications and emergency response systems such that a technological or other emergency may occur,” Mr. Holcomb said in a statement last week, adding that the declaration was issued as a precaution to bring in emergency resources from other states.
His order noted that the eclipse “will pass directly over the state of Indiana, giving everyone in our state an incredible view of this extremely rare event.” The order stated that the last time a total solar eclipse passed over the state was in 1869. After the event on April 8, the next one is not expected to occur for about another 75 years.
“It is of primary importance to the state of Indiana to be prepared to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public during this event and to be prepared to swiftly and effectively respond to any emergency that may arise,” the order continued.
The state’s capital and largest city, Indianapolis, is located in the eclipse’s path of totality, local media reported.
Officials in other U.S. states have issued advisories or warnings ahead of the astronomical event. Authorities in Ohio’s Summit County, for example, advised residents to “stay home” due to traffic congestion by an expected influx of viewers, while officials from the Illinois Department of Transportation warned that crowd sizes could be massive in some areas.
“Crowds of 100,000 to 200,000 are expected to come to the prime viewing area in southern Illinois,” the Illinois agency said. “All roads in and out of the area are expected to have heavy congestion in the couple hours after the eclipse.”
Texas Emergencies
Multiple counties in Texas declared emergencies due to the upcoming April 8 total solar eclipse due to potentially heavy traffic and gridlock.
On Monday, the Bosque County Office of Emergency Management declared a state of emergency due to heavy traffic and will authorize the county to take “any actions necessary to promote life, safety and critical infrastructure protection.”
The population of Bosque County is expected to significantly increase because “tens of thousands of visitors” may travel to the area to view the eclipse, possibly straining local resources and fuel supplies, officials said. Traffic congestion is expected, triggering the emergency declaration because “extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure the protection of public health, safety and welfare of Bosque County residents and visitors.”
Last week, Kaufman County Judge Jakie Allen issued a disaster declaration due to the “projected and expected number of visitors” in the area. County officials have said that some 200,000 people may visit the county to view the eclipse.
“The dramatic increase in population, even for a short time, will greatly impact our public safety agencies, taxing their ability to respond to calls,” county officials said.
Travis County, which includes the capital of Austin, issued a similar declaration last month due to the anticipated crowd sizes, said Judge Andy Brown. He said the population of the county could potentially double in the days surrounding the total eclipse.
“It’s super exciting to see this once-in-a-lifetime event,” the official said. “What makes it different is that it is a natural phenomenon, and we can’t control the weather around it. So there’s a lot of variables that we just can’t control for.”
According to the Dallas Morning News, the Texas Hill Country may be one of the best spots to view the eclipse in the United States.
But a significant influx of tourists may “cause extreme traffic congestion on our roadways, place an enormous strain on our first responders and hospital systems, drain our food and fuel supplies and strain our city and county infrastructure to, quite possibly, overcapacity,” Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said last month.
Niagara Falls
Meanwhile, last week, a state of emergency was declared in the Canadian Niagara Falls region, adjacent to the city of Niagara Falls in New York state, due to traffic and crowd sizes.
The city is also in the path of totality, which will receive no solar rays for a few minutes on April 8 as the moon blocks the sun. Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati said in March that he expects the most visitors his city has ever seen in a single day.
In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul warned travelers in the state to expect high amounts of traffic as several eclipse-viewing events will be held. She said that lane closures and construction will be halted ahead of the astronomical event.
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I just realized there's an eclipse in the WEF logo. Are they expecting a Great Reset?
Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for April 2, 2024...
Strange Sounds
Apr 02, 2024
In Nevada, south of the city of Reno a strong earthquake swarm recently struck the vicinity of the Steamboat Springs volcano which has not erupted for 1.14 million years. This activity occurred alongside the sudden widening of a 10 foot long crack in the ground, which is now emitting boiling water in geyser-like vents. So, is a volcanic eruption about to occur in the suburbs south of Reno?
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'Preparing strikes on Israeli embassies': The coming Iranian response to Syria strike
Israeli expert: 'Iran does not want direct confrontation with the US or with Israel that would involve the US...That could change.'
By 103FM
APRIL 2, 2024 11:19 Updated: APRIL 2, 2024 20:24
Hezi Simantov, a commentator and correspondent for Arab affairs of 'News 13', spoke Tuesday morning with Nissim Mashal and Anat Davidov on 103FM about the assassination of the senior Iranian Mohammad Reza Zahedi, commander of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, and the expected consequences.
First of all, according to the reports from Syria and Iran, the Israeli Air Force allegedly attacked a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, where several senior Iranian officials were located, among them Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who is actually the deputy commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria and Lebanon,” Simantov began.
“A very senior member of the Iranian hierarchy, he managed the entire operation of smuggling weapons from Syria to Lebanon. He was a very senior person who can be said to have given Israel a lot of headaches in the last twenty years for all his exploits in his involvement in terrorism. This is the most senior Iranian who has been eliminated so far since October 7 on Syrian soil," he continued.
"This is a severe and painful blow to the Iranian regime, a matter in which the Iranians are more inclined to take revenge against Israel. We have already eliminated several of their senior officials since October 7 on Syrian soil. This is the period when Iran wants to show that it is leading the axis of resistance.
Hamas's utility waning
“[As an Iranian asset] Hamas is currently at a disadvantage because of the fighting in Gaza, and this does not mean that tomorrow morning, the Iranians will try to do something impulsive. They will perhaps try to activate their militias in Syria or the Houthis in Yemen.
This is something that has already happened and will continue to happen, but they are using, and you see the narrative in the Iranian media, that supposedly there is something diplomatic that has been harmed here," he added.
"They are laying the groundwork to strike at Israeli diplomatic representations worldwide, in the Arab world, Europe, or the United States or South America,” Simantov said. “The assassination attributed to Israel certainly makes the confrontation between Iran and Israel more direct, rather than indirect, as it has been until now in Syria.”
“Israel has very good intelligence about what is happening in Syria and Lebanon, unlike what is happening in the Gaza Strip, even before October 7,” he added. “There is still very good intelligence about these trained members of the Revolutionary Guards and senior Hezbollah figures in Lebanon and Syria. In my estimation, Iran is deterred from direct confrontation with the US. It does not want that. Iran does not want to bring the US into a direct military confrontation.
“Therefore, this situation in which it is increasingly engaging in terrorism activities in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and the envelope to pressure Israel - that is something it will continue to do. Direct confrontation with the US or with Israel that would involve the US - that is not what it wants to do, at least not at this stage, that could change," Simantov concluded.
“Israel has very good intelligence about what is happening in Syria and Lebanon, unlike what is happening in the Gaza Strip, even before October 7,” he added. “There is still very good intelligence about these trained members of the Revolutionary Guards and senior Hezbollah figures in Lebanon and Syria. In my estimation, Iran is deterred from direct confrontation with the US. It does not want that. Iran does not want to bring the US into a direct military confrontation.
“Therefore, this situation in which it is increasingly engaging in terrorism activities in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and the envelope to pressure Israel - that is something it will continue to do. Direct confrontation with the US or with Israel that would involve the US - that is not what it wants to do, at least not at this stage, that could change," Simantov concluded.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/ground-is-being-prepared-for-major-attack-the-coming-iranian
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"Huge Problem": Pentagon's Rapid Wartime Response Cargo Ships Trapped In Baltimore After Bridge Collapse
by Tyler Durden Friday, Mar 29, 2024 - 04:00 PM
Two high-speed military cargo ships are stuck in the Port of Baltimore following Tuesday morning's collapse of the 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge. The major US East Coast port has been paralyzed for several days as the bridge collapse prevents inbound and outbound vessel traffic along the harbor's channel.
Using the automatic identification system, or AIS, data that tracks commercial vessels, three bulk carriers, two general cargo ships, one vehicle carrier, one tanker, and four Ready Reserve Force vessels (RRF), along with the container ship Dali that struck the bridge, are trapped in the harbor, according to the shipping blog gCaptain.
The three bulk carriers include:
The Liberian-flagged JY River, owned by JIADE INTERNATIONAL SHIP and managed by WAH KWONG SHIP MANAGEMENT HK of Hong Kong.
The Thailand-flagged Phatra Naree, owned by PRECIOUS STONES SHIPPING LTD and managed by PRECIOUS SHIPPING PCL of Thailand.
The Portuguese-flagged Klara Oldendorff, owned and managed OLDENDORFF CARRIERS GMBH & CO of Germany.
The vehicle carrier is:
The Swedish-flagged Carmen, owned by WALL RO/RO AB and managed by WALLENIUS MARINE AB of Sweden.
The general cargo ships include:
The French-flagged Saimaagracht, owned by REDERIJ SAIMAAGRACHT and managed by SPLIETHOFF'S BEVRACHTINGS BV of the Netherlands.
The Panama-flagged Balsa 94, owned by EASTERN CAPITAL MARINE INC and managed by HIONG GUAN NAVEGACION CO LTD of Hong Kong.
The tanker is:
The Marshall Islands-flagged Palanca Rio, owned by MINSHENG RUIYANG TIANJIN SHPG and managed by PUMA ENERGY SUPPLY & TRADING of Singapore.
The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) Ready Reserve Force vessels include:
The Cape Washington, a Cape W Class roll-on/roll-off vessel.
The Gary I. Gordon, a Gordon-class roll-on/roll-off vessel.
The SS Antares (T-AKR-294), a Algol-class fast sealift vehicle cargo ship.
The SS Denebola (T-AKR-294), another Algol-class fast sealift vehicle cargo ship.
According to the military blog The War Zone (TWZ), Algol class vessels are "some of the fastest cargo vessels of their general size anywhere in the world." These ships are part of the RRF, a subset of vessels within MARAD's National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) that provide surge sealift capability to the Pentagon for overseas conflicts.
TWZ said the activation process of RRF vessels takes about five to ten days. The vessels are operated with a skeleton crew until called upon.
RRF are stationed at major marine ports around the US.
TWZ noted the Algol class vessels have been called into action several times over the last three decades:
Algol class have been called upon multiple times since they entered US service. Just five of these ships were responsible for transporting 20 percent of US cargo sent from the United States to Saudi Arabia during the first phase of Operation Desert Shield in the immediate run-up to the First Gulf War. The ships would go on to deliver 13 percent of all cargo that arrived in Saudi Arabia from the United States in the full course of that conflict.
The US military subsequently used Algols to support operations in Somalia and the Balkans in the 1990s, as well as the opening phases of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s.
Breitbart News' Kristina Wong reported on Thursday that "The Department of Transportation will not say how many National Defense Reserve Fleet Ships are Stuck" in the Baltimore harbor.
Baltimore Bridge Mess: DOT Will Not Say How Many National Defense Reserve Fleet Ships Stuck https://t.co/Nz7FPPQ2QT via @BreitbartNews
— Kristina Wong ?? (@kristina_wong) March 28, 2024
Wong quoted John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, who warned the stuck RRF vessels are a "huge problem if a war starts [but] not much of a problem if the next few months are peaceful."
According to CEO of GCaptain and maritime journalist@johnkonrad, four Ready Reserve Force ships are stuck in the port — the SS Antares, MV Cape Washington, MV Gary I. Gordon, and the SS Denebola.
He said the four ships being stuck is a “huge problem if a war starts [but] not… https://t.co/4GOZHtuWPE
— Kristina Wong (@kristina_wong) March 28, 2024
The current readiness of the RRF fleet is unknown. And just like that, part of America's RRF fleet was taken out not by a missile or suicide drone, but a container ship that allegedly suffered a catastrophic 'electric issue'. America's enemies are taking note.
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I have had my hand of protection upon America but no more. I am going to shake America like never before. I will lift my hand of protection for a little while. Remember nine one one and what happened when my hand was lifted? What is to come is far worse than that. I have sat back and watched as my word has been removed from your schools. Your children know nothing of me. I have watched while your government has removed my commandments from their walls. They have promoted a life style forbidden by me. I have said in my word man shall not lie with man and women with women this is an abomination. You have opened up your military, they are dancing in the streets, they are thumbing their noses and saying we are here we will take over. I will not allow this to go on any longer without discipline. I love you America but you need to be shaken. etc
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Happy Transgender Day – Forget Easter
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong March 31, 2024
If anyone dares to question why the United States will break apart and separate, you must move to California. Biden has just declared Easter is really Transgender Day. He did not give us a memo on how to celebrate. I guess we do not have to hunt for eggs or give presents. So, I guess we are all supposed to be cross-dressers today. We now have Biden effectively declaring Easter Sunday Transgender Day, which is basically a FU to all Christians while they are really saying take your religion and stuff it. The Biden Administration, like Marx, has effectively declared religion the OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE, and they have no respect for anything you believe.
Like Zelensky in Ukraine outlawing Eastern Orthodox religion and nullifying their holidays, including outlawing their Christmas in January, which has been celebrated for more than 1,000 years, the Biden White House is trying to eradicate our religious beliefs and customs.
When Biden won the White House, they were cheering that they would change America into their vision of la la land – Californization of the entire country. That is what I mean; the people who are really running the show in the White House HATE America! They hate religion, our culture, and everything about what made America – America. They are trying to desperately destroy everything about the United States that once made our country great and the beacon of liberty around the world. LIBERTY is old fashioned – they are now autocratic dictators that we MUST live by what they decree or else!
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/03/31/happy-transgender-day-forget-easter/
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etc.. Did I not warn you that the days would be like Sodom
and Gomorrah as it was in the days of Lot? When America accepts this lifestyle
and makes a law protecting them, she will be like Samson breaking her last vow.
I will no longer stand with her neither will my blessing be upon her,
then shall come to pass in my timing, the twenty four hour period of Babylon’s
destruction. For you have not a leader of this country who follows my word or
ways. They have gone the ways of the antichrist system and forsaken the religion
of their forefathers of days gone by. etc..
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White House Doubles Down After Declaring Easter Sunday ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre has doubled down after President Joe Biden declared Easter Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
Jean-Pierre’s statement on X Saturday followed overwhelming backlash to Biden’s animated affirmation of the controversial holiday as the same day as the holiest Christian holiday.
“On Transgender Day of Visibility, the Biden-Harris Administration honors the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirms our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect union where all people are treated equally,” Jean-Pierre posted.
Biden’s proclamation – issued on Good Friday, another sacred day for Christians – announced that “transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our nation” and called for the passage of the Equality Act. That law would codify Democrats’ embrace of gender identity, the made-up concept that one can identify as a sex other than what they were born as and become that sex. Democrats have tried to pass the bill for years but have yet to get it across a president’s desk.
Christians across the nation spoke out after Biden’s declaration went viral. Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly opposed it as well.
“The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) posted on X. “Banning sacred truth and tradition—while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day”—is outrageous and abhorrent. The American people are taking note.”
Biden has posted an Easter message on Easter Day in years past, although those statements were much shorter and seemingly boilerplate than his lengthy Transgender Day of Visibility call-to-arms.
The proclamation can be read in full here.
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.
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Religious-themed designs banned from White House Easter egg art contest
By Kendall Tietz, Fox News Published March 29, 2024, 10:29 p.m. ET
Children of the National Guard are prohibited from submitting religious Easter egg designs for the 2024 “Celebrating National Guard Families” art event at the White House.
The art contest is part of the White House’s Easter traditions, which include the annual Easter Egg Roll.
The flyer for the contest states that an Easter egg design submission “must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
“As part of the White House Easter traditions, America’s Egg Farmers – for nearly 50 years – have proudly presented an intricately decorated Commemorative Easter Egg to the First Lady of the United States. In 2021, the White House expanded on this longstanding tradition by displaying youth-designed Easter eggs in the White House East Colonnade,” the flyer explains.
“On behalf of First Lady Jill Biden, The Adjutants General of the National Guard are asking youth from National Guard families across the United States and all U.S. territories to submit artwork inspired by the theme ‘Celebrating our Military Families,’” the flyer continues.
Children are asked to design eggs with images based on their own lives.
“Selected designs representing the unique experience and stories of National Guard children will be brought to life on real hen eggs by talented egg artists from across the country and displayed at the White House this Easter and Passover season,” the flyer says.
President Joe Biden and First lady Jill Biden welcome people to the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, April 10, 2023The art contest is part of the White House’s Easter traditions, which include the annual Easter Egg Roll. Jack Gruber, Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK
Children also can’t promote material that promotes “bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age” in their designs.
Selected designs will be painted by artists on real eggs and displayed at the White House.
The White House announced Thursday that the annual Easter Egg Roll would follow an “EGGucation” theme as it has in years past.
“A teacher for more than 30 years, First Lady Jill Biden is continuing her theme of ‘EGGucation’ for the event, transforming the South Lawn and Ellipse into a school community, full of fun educational activities for children of all ages to enjoy,” a statement from the White House read.
An estimated 40,000 people are expected to take part in Monday’s annual event.
In addition to the egg roll and Easter egg hunt, the event will also include a Physical “EGGucation” (PE) Zone, a School House Activity Area, Reading Nook, Field Trip to the Farm, Picture Day and a snack tent. Children’s entertainment, including “educational acts and performances,” will be shown on a “School House stage” on the South Lawn.
Fox News’ Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.
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etc. man has turned their back upon me, they have denied me, they have gone their own way and they have not followed after me like I have said. But, truly, a remnant, a remnant shall arise and a great and glorious revival shall come forth and those that will come in will come in and then I will remove them before my wrath is poured out, saith your Father. For, truly, it is an hour like you have never seen before, etc
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If you were God, how would you judge America?
Jerry McGlothlin yearns for a 'collective moral awakening' to bring nation back to its foundation
Jerry McGlothlin By Jerry McGlothlin Published March 29, 2024 at 7:11pm
The late Rev. Billy Graham, a beacon of faith for millions, once posited a thought-provoking perspective: If God doesn't judge the United States of America, then He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. This statement, compelling in its time, resonates even more profoundly today amidst contemporary society's escalating sinfulness and moral erosion. If, hypothetically, the mantle of divine judgment were placed upon your shoulders for a day, how would you assess the United States through the lens of biblical morals and ethics?
The fabric of American society has been marred by a series of flagrant sins, increasingly divergent from the biblical path. Consider the issue of gender identity and the surge in transgender surgeries, including those performed on minors. This phenomenon could be interpreted as humanity's overt defiance of the divine design, a bold declaration of dissatisfaction with the Creator's choices. The alteration of one's gender, especially in children, could be viewed as a stark affront to God's sovereignty, a tangible manifestation of rebellion against the natural order established at creation.
Abortion, particularly the distribution and utilization of abortion pills, presents another profound moral quandary. Recent signals from the Supreme Court suggest an acceptance, if not endorsement, of these practices, contributing to an alarming increase in abortions, contrary to the anticipation of many who hoped for a significant reduction following legal and societal shifts. The convenience and anonymity afforded by abortion pills have only served to exacerbate this issue, pushing the sanctity of life further into the margins of societal concern. Space precludes me from opining in detail on fentanyl, human trafficking and dozens of other blights on our once-great nation.
Moreover, the moral landscape of the public education system presents its own set of challenges, with a curriculum often steeped in moral relativism or, in more extreme cases, teachings many would deem inherently evil. The dilution of absolute moral truths in favor of a more subjective, individualistic approach to ethics further complicates the societal adherence to biblical principles.
The prevailing work ethic, or lack thereof, particularly among younger generations, highlights a shift towards entitlement and aversion to labor, starkly contrasting the biblical valorization of hard work and stewardship. This cultural shift towards laziness and the demand for unearned privileges further undermines the foundational values of responsibility and diligence.
In this hypothetical divine judgment scenario, one might consider employing symbolic warnings to capture the nation's attention, mirroring the prophetic signs of old. For instance, the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge could serve as a powerful metaphor for the impending consequences of continued moral decline. Such an event would disrupt physical connectivity and serve as a poignant reminder of the fragile nature of freedom and the consequences of straying from foundational principles.
The irony of this example is palpable, as the very symbol of American resilience and freedom becomes twisted and compromised, a reflection of the nation's current moral and ethical state. The potential ignorance of historical figures and foundational moments among the younger generation only exacerbates the problem, indicating a disconnection from the past and a lack of understanding of the sacrifices and values that built the nation.
In judging the United States from a divine perspective, the focus would inevitably fall on a call to repentance and a return to biblical principles. The judgment would likely be stern yet underscored by a desire for redemption and restoration. The ultimate goal would be to steer the nation back toward a path of righteousness, emphasizing the need for a collective moral awakening and a recommitment to the values that once defined and could again fortify the fabric of American society. But if biblical history proves anything, there has never been a moral revival without significant pain and suffering, leading up to repentance and revival. Let's hope and pray for a first: a moral revival without too much pain beforehand and for it to be a lasting movement. But if that proves impossible, bring on the pain necessary to see our God-fearing Republic's rebirth.
https://www.wnd.com/2024/03/god-judge-america/
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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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Turkish Television Discusses Hitting Greece
by Uzay Bulut April 1, 2024 at 5:00 am
[T]he Turkish government aims to conquer the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea – either militarily or demographically. The goal is the same: the islands' capture.
The Turkish media also falsely and repeatedly claims that "152 Greek islands and islets in the Aegean belong to Turkey". These islands, however, historically and legally, belong to Greece, mainly through the 1924 Treaty of Lausanne, 1932 Turkish-Italian Agreements and the 1947 Paris Treaty.
Conquest is part of Islamic jihad (warfare in the service of Islam) which, according to Islamic scriptures, is a communal obligation. The ideology of conquest in the name of jihad is what drove Ottoman Turks to invade and conquer lands stretching across Asia, Europe and Africa for more than 600 years.
According to Islamists, Muslim military expansion is an act of Allah's favor because Allah bestows those places upon Muslim conquerors.
The Turkish government's stance on the genocide is a bizarre combination of denial and conceit. First, they say that their ancestors did not commit genocide and that it was merely a war of self-defense. Then, they proclaim "they [Christians] deserved it" and "if need be, we could do it again".
The US government seems to ignore that Turkey – acting as if it is the successor to the Ottoman Empire – does not stop threatening Greece, Cyprus and Armenia with military invasion.
The US Congress would be well advised to reconsider its decision regarding F-16 sales to Turkey and this alliance altogether.
On Turkey's pro-government TV channel AHaber, political analysts and national security specialists on February 28 enthusiastically discussed how the Turkish Air Force could strike Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
Speaking in front of a map of Turkey and Greece, Mesut Hakkı Caşın, a professor of international law and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's advisor for security and foreign policy, spoke about the Turkish Kaan fighter jet, which is currently under development, and said:
"This [Kaan] plane won't be spotted by Greek radars. As this plane hits the main targets [Aegean islands] here, the other plane accompanying it, [the UAV Bayraktar] Akıncı, can destroy all the radars here [on the islands], leaving the Greeks blind...
"Add to that our other unmanned combat aerial vehicles, Greek squares will be devastated in less than 3 hours...
"If the Greeks enter a war with us, all the weapons in all those islands will be war booty for us."
Another analyst said:
"The Turkish nation has a dream regarding the islands, but the official policy can't be expressed publicly."
Another said:
"We will not invade the islands. We will use our right to move freely. We will be a member of the European Union. And then the islands will demographically pass to the Turkish people in a generation. In a generation, all the islands will be majority Turkish."
"Conquest without a war," he added, "happens like this [through demographic domination]."
The other analyst disagreed:
"Those islands were under Ottoman rule for 500 years, but they were 95 percent demographically Greek. Even the Ottoman Empire could not Turkify them. Also, I don't believe Turkey will ever be a member of the EU. [The conquest of the islands] will happen only through war."
So, the Turkish government aims to conquer the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea – either militarily or demographically. The goal is the same: the islands' capture.
Such conversations are frequent in Turkey's pro-government media. On February 6, Turkish analysts proudly discussed the prospects of Turkey striking Greece with missiles.
On CNN Turk, pro-government analysts said that the Tayfun, the first Turkish-made short-range ballistic missile, could easily hit Greece from Turkey. "If we fire it from Edirne or Izmir, we can hit Athens," they concluded.
These threats are not new. For at least the past five years, Turkey's government has threatened to invade and annex the Greek islands in the Aegean.
On the official X (Twitter) account of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) a video was posted on April 22, 2023, claiming some Greek islands and the Western Thrace region of Greece as part of Turkish territory.
The Turkish media also falsely and repeatedly claims that "152 Greek islands and islets in the Aegean belong to Turkey". These islands, however, historically and legally, belong to Greece, mainly through the 1924 Treaty of Lausanne, 1932 Turkish-Italian Agreements and the 1947 Paris Treaty.
Erdogan's Islamist government apparently aims to annex Greek territory for two main reasons. The first stems from a belief in neo-Ottomanism and the Islamic concept of conquest, or "fetih," from the Arabic word "fath". The second reason stems from the government's proud denial of its past crimes against Christians.
Conquest is part of Islamic jihad (warfare in the service of Islam) which, according to Islamic scriptures, is a communal obligation. As author Dr. Mark Durie explains:
"The Islamic ideology of conquest demands that a land, once conquered for Islam, belongs in perpetuity to Muslims. After conquest, previous occupants became tolerated clients of the Muslim occupiers, and, according to Islamic law, they were allowed to survive as long as they paid tribute.
"Connected to the idea that conquered land belongs to Muslims is the Quranic concept of mustakhlafīn ('successors'). [Qur'anic] Sura 24:55 says, 'God has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will surely make you successors in the land.'
"In the Qur'an, 'successors' are believers who take over the properties of a people whom Allah has destroyed, including by conquest at the hands of believers. By this logic, Muslims become the 'successors' – the rightful owners – of conquered lands."
The ideology of conquest in the name of jihad is what drove Ottoman Turks to invade and conquer lands stretching across Asia, Europe and Africa for more than 600 years. At its height, the Ottoman Empire occupied most of southeastern Europe to the gates of Vienna, including present-day Hungary, the Balkan region, Greece, and parts of Ukraine; parts of the Middle East (including present-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel); North Africa and large parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
According to Islamists, Muslim military expansion is an act of Allah's favor because Allah bestows those places upon Muslim conquerors.
In conquering Constantinople for instance, Islamists claim that according to a hadith (Ahmad; Hakim, al-Mustadrak), Islam's prophet Mohammed (b. 570 – d. 632) encouraged Muslims to conquer the city.
Muslim Turks, led by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, also known as Muhammed bin Murad, invaded and captured Constantinople from the Greek Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire on May 29, 1453. The city had been built and ruled by Greeks for millennia. Turks call the Sultan "Mehmed the Conqueror" (Fatih).
According to Professor Mustafa Sabri Küçükaşçı, a specialist in Islamic history:
"It was through the Hudaybiya Treaty (April, 628) that the general concept of conquest, with its spiritual dimension of reaching out to hearts and minds, entered Islamic culture. Prophet Muhammad taught his Companions (Sahaba) that conquest could occur both through war and through preaching the message of the faith."
According to what Islamic scholars, including Küçükaşçı, call "conquest hadith", Islam's prophet Mohammed said: "
Verily, you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful army will that army be, and what a wonderful commander will that conqueror be."
Küçükaşçı writes:
"These types of hadith, and especially the conquest hadith, frequently referred to concepts like conquest, war, and jihad; in addition, the Companions and the Muslims who came after them brought the conquest hadith to the fore as the most defining component of the motivation for the conquest of Constantinople."
What followed the fall of Constantinople was bloodshed and the rape of Christians by Muslim Turks, among other atrocities, as described by the historian Raymond Ibrahim, from reports by eyewitnesses at the time:
"Once inside the city on that fateful May 29, 1453, the 'enraged Turkish soldiers . . . gave no quarter':
"'When they had massacred and there was no longer any resistance, they were intent on pillage and roamed through the town stealing, disrobing, pillaging, killing, raping, taking captive men, women, children, old men, young men, monks, priests, people of all sorts and conditions... There were virgins who awoke from troubled sleep to find those brigands standing over them with bloody hands and faces full of abject fury... [The Turks] dragged them, tore them, forced them, dishonored them, raped them at the cross-roads and made them submit to the most terrible outrages... Tender children were brutally snatched from their mothers' breasts and girls were pitilessly given up to strange and horrible unions, and a thousand other terrible things happened. . .'"
Mehmed II converted Hagia Sophia Cathedral, then the world's greatest church, into a mosque. In 1934, the government of Turkey turned Hagia Sophia into a museum, then, in 2020, back into a mosque. The latest transformation fully displayed the government's disrespect for religious liberty, particularly for Christianity.
A possible second reason for Turkey's aggression against its neighbors (including Greece and Armenia) is its self-satisfied denial of the 1913-23 Christian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
The pride that Turkish authorities take in the genocide, during which over three million Christians were killed, and the rejection of any accountability, enables the government of Turkey to commit similar crimes with ease. As Turkey's Human Rights Association noted in 2016, "When a crime goes unpunished, it continues to be committed. Denial perpetuates genocide."
Turkish citizens who publicly acknowledge Turkey's genocide can, to this day, be tried in Turkish courts for "insulting the Turkish state". Since the government of Turkey smugly and aggressively denies Ottoman Turkey's genocide of Christians and has faced no consequences, its threats continue against Greece.
On January 27, Erdogan said at a public meeting of the ruling AKP party:
"Our struggle did not end with expelling the enemy [Greeks] from our lands and throwing them into the sea from Izmir."
Erdogan was referring to the 1922 Turkish massacre against indigenous Greeks, Armenians, and other Christians in Smyrna (Izmir), which brought an end to that city's millennia-long Greek civilization. Smyrna had been a majority-Greek city from ancient times until the 1922 massacre.
Lou Ureneck, a professor of journalism, went to Smyrna, did extensive research there on the city's history, and wrote a book about the massacre. According to his research:
"In September 1922, the richest city of the Mediterranean was burned, and countless numbers of Christian refugees killed. The city was Smyrna, and the event was the final episode of the 20th Century's first genocide — the slaughter of three million Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians by the Ottoman Empire. The slaughter at Smyrna occurred as warships of the great powers stood by — the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy."
Many survivors fled to neighboring Greece. Property and land that the victims had left behind were seized by Turks.
The Turkish government's stance on the genocide is a bizarre combination of denial and conceit. First, they say that their ancestors did not commit genocide and that it was merely a war of self-defense. Then, they proclaim "they [Christians] deserved it" and "if need be, we could do it again".
Erdogan spoke at a rally prior to the March 31, 2019 local elections in Izmir, referring to 1922 and proudly said: "Izmir, which threw the kafirs [infidels] into the sea."
Emphatic denial of the genocide or blaming the victims is the mainstream position across Turkey, including in schools, media, academia, politics and elsewhere.
Turkey's genocide-denial can be clearly seen in its foreign policy issues. How is the government of Turkey supposed to respect international human rights law when it takes pride in having wiped out entire nations, such as the Armenians, Assyrians and Anatolian Greeks, and has taken no step toward restorative justice?
The foreign policy of the Islamist government of Turkey is, in fact, mainly shaped by its genocide denial in addition to its ideology of Ottoman-style violent conquests and territorial expansion, an approach which has created wars and massive instability in the region, as in Cyprus, Syria, Iraq, and Armenia.
Despite these practices of the Turkish government, on January 27, the US government approved the $23 billion sale of 40 new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, after Ankara ratified Sweden's accession to NATO. On March 1, US Senators declined to block the sale, despite strong opposition voicing deep disdain for Turkey's conduct as an ally.
The US government seems to ignore that Turkey – acting as if it is the successor to the Ottoman Empire – does not stop threatening Greece, Cyprus and Armenia with military invasion.
Azerbaijan – with the support of Turkey – has been falsely referring to the entire country of Armenia as "Western Azerbaijan" and has been demanding that it either surrender or suffer a military invasion by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan did in fact invade the Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in September 2023.
Azerbaijan apparently now wants to conquer the Republic of Armenia as well. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev falsely calls Armenia's capital Yerevan "historical Azeri land," even though the Republic of Armenia has never been under Turkish or Azeri rule.
Turkey also denies the sovereignty and Greek identity of the Republic of Cyprus, 36% of which it illegally invaded and has been occupying since 1974. Cyprus had been a demographically Greek island for millennia, had also been occupied by the Ottomans from 1571 to 1878.
Erdogan, furthermore, has long been referring to Jerusalem, which was under Ottoman occupation from 1516 and 1917, as a Turkish city. "Jerusalem," he announced in 2020, "is our city."
Erdogan also announced that Turkey "firmly" backs terror group Hamas, which aims to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews. Erdogan's government indeed provides Hamas with military, financial, political and diplomatic support, and hosts its terrorist leaders, as Qatar does.
"Turkey is a US ally," a recent report noted, "but should not be a trusted one."
The US Congress would be well advised to reconsider its decision regarding F-16 sales to Turkey and this alliance altogether.
Uzay Bulut, a Turkish journalist, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20531/turkish-tv-discusses-hitting-greece
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Trailer hauling Bibles intentionally set on fire on Easter Sunday in Wilson County
By: Rana Mitchell
Posted at 10:47 AM, Mar 31, 2024 and last updated 11:47 AM, Mar 31, 2024
WILSON COUNTY, TENN. (WTVF) — Investigations are underway after a suspicious trailer fire in Wilson County on Easter Sunday.
The Wilson County Sheriff's Office published a statement about the incident around 9:00 a.m. on Facebook. According to officials, the fire began around 6:00 a.m. and caused a road closure at the Old Lebanon Dirt Road and Chandler Road intersection.
Mt. Juliet Police Department swiftly responded to the scene, accompanied by the Mt. Juliet Fire Department who worked quickly to extinguish the blaze.
Early investigations, led by the WSCO, show that the trailer was full of Bibles. Officials believe that the trailer was intentionally dropped off in the middle of the intersection and intentionally set on fire. No injuries have been reported following the incident.
One of our reporters spoke with Sheriff Robert Bryan, who said he has no doubt the Bibles were burned intentionally. He says investigators are currently reviewing the security footage, and the car appears to be an out of state plate.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Wilson County Sheriff's Office at 615-444-1459.
The investigation is ongoing, and as of now we don't have any more details.
This is a developing story and NewsChannel 5 will update this article as more details are released.
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etc.. The EU is on its own, Russia is on its own, China is on its own, many are not your friends, many have already plotted and planned the things that they shall do, it is recorded in my Book. And if you were to study my Book you would see the things that are taking place right now. etc..
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China Warns Citizens Inside USA: Prepare for "Various unexpected situations"
Hal Turner World March 31, 2024 Hits: 27168
A strange warning has been issued by China to any of its citizens located in the United States: "take safety precautions and be prepared for 'various unexpected situations.'
According to the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several Chinese students and company employees have recently been subjected to “unwarranted interrogations and harassment” by US airport law enforcement officers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on its WeChat account on Friday.
Their phones, computers and other luggage items were searched piece by piece, and several people were banned from entering the country, it said.
To most casual observers, this "warning" from China makes no sense. At worst, perhaps twenty people from China have had unusual incidents trying to enter the United States; hardly a reason for such a large warning. Unless . . .
So-called "Conspiracy theorists" are wondering if this "warning" is actually a "signal" to Chinese forces already inside the US; sort of a notice to "prepare for action?"
After all, such folks say, how can anyone, anywhere, "prepare for various UNEXPECTED situations?" They point out that no one can do that, and thus the tin-foil-hat folks -- who often are proven to be correct -- wonder if this is more of a signal, than a warning?
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A Short Exposé of the Devastating Agenda of Cultural Marxism
Posted on March 31, 2024 by State of the Nation
Comment posted by hethen437
Western society is systematically being destroyed. Most won’t even acknowledge the enemy.
The Frankfurt School in 1923 in Frankfurt Germany primary goal was to destroy Christian culture in Germany. When Hitler came to power in 1933 they fled to the USA since every single member was a ***. They are cultural Marxists and ****. With the help of Columbia University they established themselves in NY city and changed its focus to destroying traditional Christian culture in the USA. In 1950 they created a coalition of blacks, students, females, feminists, and homosexuals
By crossing Marx with Freud they invented critical theory. Critical theory involves making the most destructive criticism of every possible cultural norm in order to destroy the current social order e.g. every one who’s a successful businessman or has a position of power in the church or state is an oppressor. Those who are not successful are automatically victims. Someone who defends the notion there’s actually different social roles for men and women is a misogynist, a chauvinist, or a fascist. Fathers and bishops are patriarchal tyrants. In institutions of higher education critical race theory is more well known as multiculturalism or political correctness.
Goals of the Frankfurt School
1. The creation of racism offenses.
2. Continual change to create confusion.
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. Dependency on the state or state benefits
9. Control and dumbing down of media
10. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
11. Abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
12. Declare women as an oppressed class and men as oppressors
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/americas-ongoing-death-thousand-cuts
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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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
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Towering Giants Are Falling
Bloomberg says the number of regional banks that are positioned to get wiped out in this collapse has become a major concern.
David Haggith Mar 30, 2024
According to Bloomberg the commercial real-estate (CRE) crisis is likely to be much, much bigger than what you hear most people talking about—bigger than they want to even think about. Bloomberg states that the collapse in value of CRE as people abandon office and retail space all across the nation plus the diminished value of bank reserves due to Fed tightening, and the higher rates of interest that CRE has to refinance at are likely to cause HUNDREDS of banks to crash.
To give you an example of the scale of troubles in CRE right now, one new study says that, within just four years, fifty percent of the downtown office space in Pittsburg could be empty! That’s halfway to a ghost town. As cities like Pittsburg board up that much office and retail space, more people move out of residential space, and more restaurants go out of business, so the collapse spreads. With the municipal tax base eviscerated, law enforcement reduced to meet caving budgets, and fewer people watching over things, vandalism and other crimes grow. The worse things look and the more dangerous they are, the fewer people want to live or visit until major US cities may start to look like ghost towns of an apocalypse less than a decade from now.
Another example comes from a separate story in today’s news that says the tallest tower in Brooklyn is going into a foreclosure auction. The Brooklyn Tower (see photo above), sometimes called the Eye of Sauron, is 1,066-feet tall (93 stories). So, financially, it is a falling Goliath — one of the largest to be foreclosed on due to the crash in commercial real estate.
Of course, there are always counter forces. Cities don’t want to die, so municipal Governments create bold redevelopment programs. Buildings get repurposed. But all of that is hard to do when the whole city’s tax base is badly damaged, and it is very hard to issue bonds to finance such projects when crashing bonds are right at the center of the problem. In the very least, it requires massive write-downs of rents to attract in new customers and massive write-downs of prices that buildings sell for in order for them to finance. So, the banks go under either way because they absorb those financial losses.
Banks go boom
Let’s start with a picture of the growth in amount of debt and the drop in value of the collateral under that debt:
That gives a sense of the extra risk banks are carrying as CRE loans have to refinance or buildings have to be sold.
Since the banking bust of 2023, the Fed, government and FDIC have, in one way or another, bailed out a lot more banks than you ever heard about (through the Bank Term Lending Program, loans and other measures) so that only four banks failed.
Without those government pre-bailouts, one paper last year by researchers at Stanford and Columbia estimated that 1,619 U.S. banks—about a third of them—could be at risk of failure.
Yet, as I’ve pointed out, not much has been repaired. Bank reserves are still about as over-encumbered as they were last March. CRE is more devalued (not something that is fixable on anything but over a very long-term basis), and the Fed is still holding interest rates up until things crash because inflation is stuck. (Another report today (PCE) showed the Fed not getting any further on headline inflation.)
With a trillion dollars rolling over in CRE debt in the remainder of the year, the swell coming in is quite large, and it will build substantially for, at least, another three years after that. The amount is so great because the Fed’s practically free money in recent years enticed a lot of overdevelopment, amplifying the amount of vacancy that is happening due to reasons that didn’t involved the Fed as a prime cause—the government’s forced lockdowns that drove people out of major cities. So, you have a combination of gross overdevelopment and crushing lockdowns that drove away people … coming together like a rogue wave that you get when waves from two different storms meet and pile on top of each other.
We’ve just started into this deluge, and already we saw another regional bank fail in NYC, though it got saved by investors swooping in to grab bargain shares. Delinquency rates are already up by a third this year. Cutting interest rates would certainly help those who need to refinance and would shore up bank reserves that have lost value.
Could Bloomberg be right about the scale of banks that could topple? Is that the number Powell had in mind when he told congress this month that “Some banks will fail” due to the CRE problem? Just what is the size of “some?” Is this why he seems a bit eager to believe that January’s big rise in inflation, which he described again today as a major increase, is just transitory? Is he hoping he can cut before this house of cards starts falling?
Bloomberg even commented that those who called this problem “manageable” may regret doing so. “Those” would be J. Powell, who said that to congress. “Those people” may regret it like “they” regret calling inflation “transitory.” Of course, once Powell says it, everyone else in the mainstream financial media parrots it, so “those” becomes the right word to use about one hour after it originated with just one man.
You risk looking like you are a negligent failure at management when a problem you said was manageable develops into a catastrophe. It’s like when your son tells you there was a small fire on the kitchen stove, but he managed the situation so there is nothing to worry about. Then you find out, when you arrive home, that the fire did not stay well under management, and the house is now gone.
I see a cascade building. If just a few cards fall, the whole house may start to come down as credit seizes up when banks start to run scared of CRE loans, greatly exacerbating the problem companies and individuals will have refinancing in terms of cost and availability of refinancing options. Depositors will run if the momentum of collapse builds, and all of the above unfolds.
Based on Bloomberg’s structural analysis of the situation, failure of this house of cards is not an unlikely scenario.
(For a great, detailed reading of the situation, I recommend the highlighted story in the headlines that follow.)
https://www.thedailydoom.com/p/towering-giants-are-falling
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Fury as FDNY firefighters are forced to remove Stars and Stripes honoring 9/11 heroes after Democrat lawmaker branded it a 'fascist symbol'
A downtown NYC fire-fighting company was told by a local councilwoman that they must remove from their truck a flag commemorating men they lost on 9/11
Progressive councilwoman Carlina Rivera's office told the ladder company they had received multiple complaints about the 'political' flag
By Sophie Mann For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:11 EDT, 31 March 2024 | Updated: 17:24 EDT, 31 March 2024
Authorities at the New York City Fire Department commanded a ladder company in the East Village to remove a flag honoring six of the company's men who perished on 9/11 after a resident complained it was a 'fascist' symbol.
The order arrived on March 22 after a man who the New York Post reports claimed to be a staffer for progressive Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, confronted firefighters at Ladder Company 11.
The man pulled up to the firehouse on a bike and told firefighters he works for Rivera and that the politician's office had complained several days earlier about the flag.
The 'thin red line' flag, which is a black-and-white American flag with a red line across the middle, is meant to show solidarity with firefighters who have fallen or been injured on the job.
The man reportedly called the flag a 'fascist symbol' and asked to know why it remained up.
The 'thin blue line' flag, which is designed similarly to the firefighter's version, serves a similar purpose among police officers, but has in recent years been used by the 'Blue Lives Matter' movement and has therefore assumed a political meaning.
The thin blue line flag is largely hailed as a sign of police solidarity, but in the wake of 2020 and even in the years leading up to it, some - mostly on the political left - have criticized it as a symbol of white supremacy.
Ladder Company 11 displays the flag beside a memorial sign on the back of its truck that commemorates the lives and service of Lieutenant Michael Quilty and Firefighters Michael Cammarata, Edward Day, John Heffernan, Richard Kelly Jr., and Matthew Rogan - all of whom were killed while responding to the 9/11 terror attacks.
On March 19, the FDNY received an email from Lisander Rosario - a staffer for Rivera - saying a constituent had contacted the office twice to complain about the ladder company's flag and ask if it violated any rules.
The email said that 'political symbols aren't permitted to be displayed on public vehicles' and asked if there was any such symbol on the company's truck.
'I'm reaching out on behalf of a constituent of ours regarding a thin blue/red line flag on Ladder 11 last week (and earlier on Jan 20th). When asked about the meaning, they claimed it was to honor deceased firefighters, however he brought up that they could've used any FDNY flag rather than a politically charged symbol,' read part of the note.
After the man's visit to the firehouse, FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Schiralli stopped by and regretfully informed the ladder company that due to a department ban on 'altered' versions of the American flag being flown, theirs would have to come down.
One of the firefighters told the Post Schiralli agreed it was 'ridiculous' that they were being forced to remove the flag that commemorated their fallen brothers.
The rule dates back to 2020 when, during the height of the anti-law enforcement protests, then-Commissioner Daniel Nigro implemented the rule.
Several hours later, now-Commissioner Laura Kavanagh reversed the decision and allowed the flag back on the truck - though the damage has been done.
One of the company's firefighters said: 'We're happy with the outcome of this - but we're offended it happened in the first place.
'This flag has huge significance for us.'
'I wish [Rivera's office] would have come at it like "Hey, we want to learn about the flag and what it represents" before they asked for it to be taken down,' said another fireman.
The councilwoman insisted that her office never contacted Ladder Company 11 about the flag, and that the initial complaint was from a constituent, not her staffer.
'My relationship with Ladder 11 has always been strong,' she told the outlet.
Rivera, a progressive NYC politician and former official member of the Democratic Socialists of America, voted with her colleagues in 2020 to strip the NYPD of $1billion in funding.
During the 2020 riots and protests that occurred in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Rivera regularly criticized the police force.
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Japan BANS all COVID mRNA Shots - Excess "Sudden" Deaths!
World Hal Turner 26 March 2024 Hits: 5074
Japan has just banned Covid mRNA shots for public use and called on other nations to follow suit after an official government study tied the injections to the nation’s soaring sudden deaths.
Developing, check back
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Gen. Flynn: Baltimore Bridge Collapse ‘A Black Swan Event’
BY: Kelen McBreen | 03.26.24 | SOURCE: Infowars
'Black swans normally come out of the world of finance (not military).'
General Michael Flynn went to social media Tuesday morning to warn the recent ship collision that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, was a “Black Swan” event many people have been warning about for the past few months.
“This is a BLACK SWAN event,” Flynn said of the deadly bridge incident.
“Black swans normally come out of the world of finance (not military). The standard operating procedures for all U.S. ports, harbors, and bays that transit commerce and military activities are supposed to maintain an incredible level of discipline, rigor and awareness for these very type events to not occur (ever!), yet here we are.”
He added, “There are harbor masters for every single one of these transit points in America that are in charge of assuring the safety of navigation…start there.”
https://us.minutemencoffee.com/2024/03/26/gen-flynn-baltimore-bridge-collapse-a-black-swan-event
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Jerome Powell Caught Lying: FDIC Data Reveals Mega Banks Have Large Exposure To Commercial Real Estate, Not Just Regionals
ago 14 hours by Jacob M. Thompson
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“As a result, the noncurrent rate for nonowner occupied CRE loans is now at its highest level since first quarter of 2014, driven by portfolios at the largest banks,” the FDIC says.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell conceded earlier this month that he and the Feds, along with the the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), are aware of and monitoring a number of banks that are likely to fail sometime in the future, primarily due to their overexposure to commercial real estate (CRE) and losses on their balance sheet because of higher interest rates.
In February Powell sat down for an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes and explained the prospect of bank failures due to CRE exposure, but emphasized it was only the medium and small banks.
Scott Pelley: The value of commercial office buildings all across the country is dropping as people work from home. Those buildings support the balance sheets of banks all across the country. What is the likelihood of another real estate-led banking crisis?
Powell: I don’t think that’s likely. So, what’s happening is, as you point out, we have work-from-home, and you have weakness in office real estate, and also retail, downtown retail. You have some of that. And there will be losses in that. We looked at the larger banks’ balance sheets, and it appears to be a manageable problem. There’s some smaller and regional banks that have concentrated exposures in these areas that are challenged. And, you know we’re working with them.
This is something we’ve been aware of for, you know, a long time, and we’re working with them to make sure that they have the resources and a plan to work their way through the expected losses. There will be expected losses. It feels like a problem we’ll be working on for years. It’s a sizable problem. I don’t think — it doesn’t appear to have the makings of the kind of crisis things that we’ve seen sometimes in the past, for example, with the global financial crisis.
Powell explained – though part of his statement was not included in the televised interview
Moreover, during a Senate Banking Committee hearing Powell earlier this month, acknowledged this but said it is medium and small regional banks that are affected.
There will be bank failures, but this is not the big banks. If you look at the very big banks it’s not a first order issue for any of the of the very large banks. It’s more, you know, smaller and medium-sized banks that have these issues.
We’re working with them, we’re getting through it – I think it’s manageable, is the word I would use, but it’s you know it’s a very active thing for us and the other regulators, and it will be for some time.
Powell said at the time
But federal data unfortunately betrays Powell’s words, that it’s not only the regional banks most affected by an overexposure to CRE loans.
On March 7th, the same day Powell gave his testimony to the Senate Banking Committee, the FDIC issued their public meeting and contradicted Powell’s words, saying that it is actually the large institutions that also have heavy exposure to CRE.
Chairman Martin Gruenberg made his announcement during the FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile (4th Quarter 2023), in which he stated:
The increase in noncurrent loan balances was greatest among CRE [Commercial Real Estate] loans and credit cards. Weak demand for office space has softened property values and higher interest rates are affecting credit quality and refinancing ability of office and other types of CRE loans. As a result, the noncurrent rate for nonowner occupied CRE loans is now at its highest level since first quarter of 2014, driven by portfolios at the largest banks.
He said
This blatant contradiction was found by Pam and Russ Martens for Wall Street on Parade, who highlighted just how much increased exposure the largest institutions in the U.S. have to CRE assets.
The authors wrote:
In fact, according to the chart above and accompanying data provided in an Excel spreadsheet by the FDIC, past due loans on commercial real estate at the largest banks (those with more than $250 billion in assets) as of December 31 of last year are at 4.11 percent. That’s 1.66 percent higher than at the end of the fourth quarter of 2008 when banks were exploding all over Wall Street during the financial crisis. As the chart above indicates, commercial real estate problems quickly became a lot worse at the largest banks, with the past due rate reaching 7.97 by the end of the first quarter of 2010.
That 4.11 percent past due rate at the biggest banks on December 31, 2023 compares with a past due rate of 1.35 percent at banks with $10 billion to $250 billion in assets, according to the latest FDIC bank profile data. Banks with $1 billion to $10 billion in assets have a negligible past due rate of 0.64 percent.
The title of the FDIC chart above is “Bank Non-Owner Occupied, Nonfarm Nonresidential Loan Past Due and Nonaccrual Rates.” The FDIC defines nonfarm nonresidential commercial properties as follows:
“loans secured by real estate as evidenced by mortgages or other liens on nonfarm nonresidential properties, including business and industrial properties, hotels, motels, churches, hospitals, educational and charitable institutions, dormitories, clubs, lodges, association buildings, ‘homes’ for aged persons and orphans, golf courses, recreational facilities, and similar properties.”
The FDIC defines “nonaccrual” status as follows:
“Nonaccrual — For purposes of this schedule, an asset is to be reported as being in nonaccrual status if: (1) it is maintained on a cash basis because of deterioration in the financial condition of the borrower, (2) payment in full of principal or interest is not expected, or (3) principal or interest has been in default for a period of 90 days or more unless the asset is both well secured and in the process of collection.”
The Fed is also doing something else related to growing losses at U.S. banks that is deeply concerning. It has stopped providing the aggregated quarterly data on the loan loss reserves at commercial banks – something it had previously done quarterly since 1984. The Fed data charts now come up with the words “DISCONTINUED.” (See here, here and here.) Our concern is that the largest banks are woefully under-reserved for their potential real estate losses.
According to a Federal Reserve chart, as of December 31, 2023, there were only 13 banks in the U.S. with consolidated assets in excess of $250 billion.
Corroborating with this data, Visual Capitalist published data that showcases the sheer amount of commercial real estate the so-called too-big-to-fails are holding onto, alongside some of the regionals that have the most exposure also.
The six largest U.S. banks saw delinquent commercial property loans nearly triple to $9.3 billion in 2023 amid high vacancy rates and increasing borrowing costs.
Today, the sector is facing greater scrutiny from regulators amid growing risks to bank stability. In fact, for almost half of all U.S. banks, commercial real estate debt is the largest loan category overall. While commercial loans are more heavily concentrated in small U.S. banks, several major financial institutions have amassed significant commercial loan portfolios.
Visual Capitalist wrote
Top 20 U.S. Banks by Assets: Commercial Property Exposure
So, evidently the data suggests Powell is being disingenuous in his claims to the Senate and to the nation.
Notwithstanding this does not discount the reality that many medium and small regional banks definitely are in a grave situation. In a separate post Visual Capitalist highlighted more specifically the banks that have the most exposure to commercial real estate; reporting that “there is roughly $5.7 trillion in commercial real estate debt outstanding—with U.S. banks holding approximately half of this total on their balance sheets.”
The majority of commercial real estate loans are found in small U.S. banks, which are those with assets of $20 billion and under.
With 56.1% of all commercial property loans, small U.S. banks face the highest risk compared to other bigger banks.
Given the high share of loans, banks may run the risk of failure especially if credit losses accelerate and valuations decline. At the same time, it could be more challenging to refinance debt as valuations deteriorate.
While these troubles have begun to emerge over the last year, there is also the likelihood that losses could continue over the next several years. In fact, after the global financial crisis, credit losses peaked two years after delinquencies hit their highest point.
Visual Capitalist explained
Earlier this month New York Federal Reserve board member Scott Rechler said in a paper he expects roughly 500 banks or so to fail over the next couple of years, because of their CRE exposure.
And to make matters worse the Federal Reserve abruptly ended their emergency bailout program this month, called the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), which provided lines of credit for banks who needed extra liquidity to cover withdrawals and net losses on their balance sheets. An increasing number of banks were still taking advantage of the program up until the BTFP was terminated.
SEE: Collapse: Accredited Weiss Research Warns 5,274 US Banks Have The Potential To Fail, As More Bank’s Ratings Are Downgraded
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An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs 11:9
As I have oft pointed out (as if you needed me to do so), Jerome Powell, or anyone of these bankster gangsters, are trained stone cold liars. They will not flinch or blink when telling a lie.
Truth be told, we knew that the megabanks definitely had plenty commercial real estate exposure, but the evidence and admission given by the FDIC clearly contradicts the notion that this problem is limited to the regional banks. On the contrary, it is effecting the banks of all sizes.
Last year around this time, amidst the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and a wave international contagion that spread because of it, Treasurer Janet Yellen was called upon to give answers during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. During that meeting Yellen made an important admission, basically revealing that the Federal Reserve and Treasury will set in motion measures to bailout and rescue the so-called “too-big-to-fail” banks, or any institution the Feds feel is of significant importance to them, but medium and small banks will not receive such treatment.
A bank only gets that treatment if a super-majority of the Fed board, and I, in consultation with the President conclude that failure to protect uninsured depositors would create systemic risk to the banking system.
She said at the time
She went on to explain other banks such as Signature Bank, another bank that collapsed in the tidal wave caused by SVB’s fall, received special treatment and depositor insurance because the Treasury and Federal Reserve felt in their judgment it would prevent wider contagion – relating back to what Senator Cortez Masto queried more recently. SEE: Treasurer Janet Yellen Admits That Favored Banks Will Be Bailed-Out But Smaller Ones Will Be Left To Die
Yellen was already forecasting in advance what was going to occur. You and I will be forced to bailout these so-called “too-big-to-fails” while your little bank can go eat dirt, and be forced to shutter its doors and be consolidated by one of the megabanks.
In this coming wave of bank failures we will see this year and in 2025, one, if not more, of these megabanks will be scarified similar to how Lehman Brothers was sacrificed on the altar during the Great Recession. From what I have been hearing from a number of analysts, it would seem that Bank of America might be the sacrificial cow that gets slaughtered. But, we’ll have to wait and see.
The point is, Powell, to no one’s surprise, is a brazen liar; and independent and FDIC data plainly shows that CRE is heavily on the books of these megabanks, and the American tax cattle will be forced to pay for their problems just as before.
Again, for the umpteenth time, get your money out of these places. Keep only the amounts you need to maintain a balance, pay bills, and make some purchases, but keep most of it out if in the event your bank collapses and/or is hit with bank runs.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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China's 'Unrestricted Warfare': Is It Here Already?
by Pete Hoekstra March 26, 2024 at 5:00 am
China-linked hackers appear to be looking to attack U.S. infrastructure, especially key components such as the electrical grid, water reservoirs and treatment plants, pipelines, and transportation and communications systems, among other targets.
The goal is seemingly to disrupt the U.S. everything critical to life – if you have no electricity, your cellphone will not work; no water will come out of the tap; gas pumps will not pump gas; flights and trains will stop, and disease from disabled sewage treatment plants will spread. There will be havoc and panic. The government and military will be unable to protect the nation. That is what is meant by "unrestricted warfare." Not a bullet was fired. It did not have to be. According to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, it is perfect.
What are some of the steps that should be taken?
The West has correctly identified the CCP as the malign threat that it is; now we have a responsibility to put into place the measures and deterrents to prevent it from attacking us through cyberspace or any other way. Let us not wait until we experience a 9/11-scale cyberattack that could be far more damaging to the U.S. than what took place on that dark day more than 20 years ago.
The West has correctly identified the Chinese Communist Party as the malign threat that it is; now we have a responsibility to put into place the measures and deterrents to prevent it from attacking us through cyberspace or any other way. Let us not wait until we experience a 9/11-scale cyberattack that could be far more damaging to the U.S. than what took place on that dark day more than 20 years ago. (Image source: iStock)
If there is one thing FBI Director Christopher Wray has been consistent on, it is the threat of Communist China across a wide range of fronts. At an unprecedented event on July 6, 2022, Wray and his British counterpart, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum, held a joint public appearance – the first ever -- to discuss the growing security challenge posed by China. Evidently, they saw the matter as urgent.
In this joint appearance, the two men highlighted the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the CCP's civil-military fusion state -- specifically, that the CCP is intent on acquiring and stealing technology and business secrets from the West. Targeted areas include advanced materials, data and artificial intelligence (AI). China's President Xi Jinping has made it clear that he intends China to not only catch-up to, but surpass, the West.
More recently, Wray highlighted how the CCP and those affiliated with it apparently plan to use its technological capabilities to target the West.
China-linked hackers appear to be looking to attack U.S. infrastructure, especially key components such as the electrical grid, water reservoirs and treatment plants, pipelines, and transportation and communications systems, among other targets.
The goal is seemingly to disrupt the U.S. everything critical to life – if you have no electricity, your cellphone will not work; no water will come out of the tap; gas pumps will not pump gas; flights and trains will stop, and disease from disabled sewage treatment plants will spread. There will be havoc and panic. The government and military will be unable to protect the nation. That is what is meant by "unrestricted warfare." Not a bullet was fired. It did not have to be. According to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, it is perfect.
Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), testified before the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party that the threats posed by China are not imaginary: they are real. Her agency already has discovered CCP penetrations into the telecommunications industry, aviation, energy and water infrastructure. As the threat from China continues to grow, the global security environment requires the U.S. and our allies to act now to harden our infrastructure and systems to mitigate the threat.
The problem is one of supreme urgency. No one knows who will win the U.S. presidential election on November 5. If I were head of the Chinese Communist Party, I would probably be saying to myself, "I am stuck with a weak economy, more than a billion people who will not be happy with that, and just more seven months with an American president who calls me a 'competitor,' as if the US-Chinese relationship were about EV car dealerships -- although that, too. What are my choices? a) Use this opportunity, which will soon be closing, to choke off Taiwan and take over the world's supply of semiconductor chips. If the U.S. tries to stop us, we could threaten them with mayhem or simply go ahead and make some. b) Instead of Taiwan, why not just go straight for the U.S. while it is bogged down in Ukraine, the Middle East and its election? Or c) We can wait and see who wins (with our help) and if it is the wrong person, we still have two-and-a-half months until the new president is inaugurated."
What are some of the steps that should be taken?
First, stop all investments in China and reroute essentials, such as the manufacture of medicines, to other nations. Any investment, even in paper cocktail umbrellas, goes toward strengthening the People's Liberation Army against us. We can hear the screeching of Wall Street and their Augustinian cry: "But not yet!" The threat, however, should be viewed in terms of national security. No one will ring a bell when the lights go out.
The U.S. will also need to impose secondary sanctions, so that any country preferring to do business with China is prohibited from doing business with the U.S.
In addition, China -- for poisoning to death roughly 100,000 Americans each year with fentanyl and other opiates, a mass-murder equivalent to one large plane crash every day -- should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. China should also be barred from using the international banking system, or SWIFT, "a secure network that allows more than 10,000 financial institutions in 212 different countries to send and receive information about financial transactions to each other."
Second, companies and universities also need to get serious about their security systems to make the theft of intellectual property more difficult to perpetrate but easier to detect. We cannot allow our enemies to short-circuit the difficult and expensive process of technological innovation by simply walking out the door with the plans.
This precaution, sadly, would do well to include a moratorium, at least for the time being, on students from Communist China attending U.S. universities. Again, there will be more screeching from academic institutions that are fond of holding out their tin cups, but are we really interested in educating our "competitors" to take us over or kill us?
Third, the U.S. needs to cooperate with its allies to protect the intellectual property and technological advances of our countries' respective corporations as a national security priority. One excellent example where this cooperation has been successful is between the U.S. and the Netherlands. The governments of the two countries have worked together closely to protect against technology transfer to the CCP. While each country has the decision as to its own trade policies, sharing intelligence and threat assessments enables both countries to make better decisions regarding joint security concerns.
Fourth, companies must be willing to notify the government if their systems have been attacked or compromised by outside entities. Under current law, publicly-traded companies have four days to report a cyber incident to regulators. Businesses sometimes have been understandably reluctant to acknowledge that their systems have been compromised: there is the risk of reputational damage and unpleasant repercussions. Organizations, however, need to be confident that sharing this information with the government will only be used to help address the specific incident. Tragically, our government has not quite been doing all it can to inspire trust. There might be some extremely unpleasant repercussions from that.
Finally, there must be a coordinated strategy between our national, state and local governments on the CCP threat, including prime examples of where this system has failed, as in the production of EV batteries in the U.S. by CCP firms; the CCP buying up American farmland, especially near military bases, and the government's failure to hold the CCP to account for its lies about COVID's human-to-human transmissibility, which caused the unnecessary deaths of more than a million Americans, and the CCP's mass-poisoning of Americans with fentanyl, which in itself is an act of war.
While the federal government has warned "that Chinese EVs could collect your data and send it back to China," states and local governments are welcoming Chinese EV battery manufacturing plants into their communities, frequently with massive government subsidies. This lack of coordination is a serious vulnerability in our national security posture.
Wray and McCallum were correct in highlighting the threat from the CCP in 2022. Wray has reemphasized the growing threat. The evidence is clear, and the time has come for our elected leaders and public servants — at all levels of government — to respond in a coordinated fashion to this threat. The West has correctly identified the CCP as the malign threat that it is; now we have a responsibility to put into place the measures and deterrents to prevent it from attacking us through cyberspace or any other way. Let us not wait until we experience a 9/11-scale cyberattack that could be far more damaging to the U.S. than what took place on that dark day more than 20 years ago.
Peter Hoekstra is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute. He was US Ambassador to the Netherlands during the Trump administration. He also served 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the Second District of Michigan and served as Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20519/china-unrestricted-warfare
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An Inflation Wave Is Hitting That Will Terrify Already Shattered Consumers
March 25, 2024
Another Inflation Wave Is Hitting
March 25 (King World News) – Peter Boockvar: In last week’s Fed dots, there were two people that wanted just one rate cut this year (also two that wanted none and I’m guessing Michelle Bowman was one of them) and notably one of them is a voting member it seems, the Atlanta president Raphael Bostic. He was also the one who warned us a few weeks ago about the pent up animal spirits that would be unleashed upon rate cuts.
That has certainly been seen in financial markets to state the obvious. When speaking Friday, in getting to a 2% rate of inflation sustainably, he said “I’m definitely less confident than I was in December.” He went on to say, “If we have an economy that is growing above potential, and we have an economy where unemployment is at levels that were deemed to be unimaginable without pricing pressures, and if we have an economy where inflation is moderating…those are good things. That give us space for patience.” How patient? He said “later in the year” will he support the one cut. He does though support the tapering of QT “relatively soon.”
As it didn’t sound like Powell was the other dot in wanting just one cut, and definitely not one of the two that wanted none, as his dovishness sounded more like 3 and consensus group think is his mantra, we’ll see how Bostic and Powell come together in coming months/quarters.
The 2 yr note yield is up 3 bps in response to 4.62%. It was at 4.67-.68% at 1:59pm est last Wednesday.
Yen Weakest vs US Dollar In 34 Years
With the yen just off the weakest level vs the US dollar in 34 years, the verbal intervention is back from the finance ministry. Masato Kanda, the vice finance minister said today the recent moves “has not reflected fundamentals and I feel something strange about it…is clearly driven by speculation” and “We will take appropriate action excessive fluctuations…We are always prepared.” With history with intervention as its guide and the fruitless attempts in the past of Japanese FX intervention, the market yawned on the comments. While negative rates don’t exist in Japan anymore thankfully, zero to .10% is only slightly better.
The yuan by the way had a stronger FX fixing today and likely means that last week’s weakness was about all the PBOC will tolerate for now.
A combination of strict lending standards and a lack of demand at current rates, C&I loans outstanding fell another $8.7b in the week ended 3/13 to $2.747 Trillion and that is the lowest amount since September 2022.
Credit Crunch Worsening
As seen in the chart, the amount peaked right as the bank failures took place one year ago. A credit crunch? Credit scarcity? Slack credit demand? I’d say a bit of all of the above for those small and medium businesses that are solely reliant on bank credit rather than the capital markets.
Also of note, for the week ended 3/13, auto loans outstanding fell to the least amount since July 2021.
The only deal one can find of note today in the auto space is a full EV as supply of them piles up due to a lack of demand.
In response to the lowest natural gas price in about 4 years, drillers continue to lay down their rigs. The natural gas rig count as of Friday fell by 4 to 112 and that is the smallest amount since January 2022. Low prices are about to cure low prices.
Is This Parabolic Chart Nvidia Or Cocoa?
With Cocoa going parabolic (now looks like the Nvidia stock chart)…
A Little More Parabolic “Transitory” Inflation
… wheat at 3 week highs and corn and soybeans getting off the mat (those being one of my contrarian picks this year and we own fertilizer stocks), the CRB Food Stuff index closed Friday at the highest point since November 2023. Jay Powell has no easy job from here.
Get Ready For Higher Food Costs
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Beware of the troubles of the world, there is war going on right now, are you even aware of that, most are not, they walk as if peace is going on and yet the enemy is rising up in many areas, deceiving many and leading many astray. And they’re preparing for war without brains, for they have nobody to lead them anymore, so be in prayer, be in prayer.
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With Europe’s & America's Tickets Close To Being Punched For An Express Trip Back To The 11th Century Once WW3 Fully Explodes, Expect To Be Deceived At Every Turn About Everything
By James Howard Kunstler and All News Pipeline March 26, 2024
“In terms of the Moscow terror attack, the fact that those who carried out the attack were captured is now causing a huge headache for those who were ultimately responsible.” — The Sirius Report on “X”
You’ve got to ask yourself: really, who seems to hanker more for a red-hot World War Three, “Joe Biden” or Vlad Putin? Since “Joe Biden” is only a figment of American politics, first you’d have to ask: a figment of what? Answer: A figment of our greater intel blob, led, of course, by the Central Intelligence Agency. Which is to say, the blob is our government now; there is no government except the blob. We are the United Blob of America! In Blob We Trust should be printed on our money.
That being the case, blob policy rules. And since deception is one of the blob’s chief duties, we mere sniveling citizens should expect to be deceived at every turn about everything. So, when the blob’s news cut-out, The New York Times, serves up a comprehensive history of the gang known as ISIS-K Monday morning after the Moscow Crocus Concert Hall Massacre, you might suspect that some deception is afoot. ISIS-K immediately took credit for the Crocus Massacre. K stands for Khorasan, a set of provinces in eastern Iran, leaking over into Afghanistan and Pakistan.
ISIS-K supposedly evolved out of the original ISIS that sought to establish an Islamic caliphate out of Iraq and Syria. After Mr. Trump broke it up in 2019, the gang regrouped in K-land, deeper in central Asia. Curiously, this ISIS-K has carried out attacks against Iran, where it lives. Go figure. . . . Its progenitor, the plain old ISIS-no-K was responsible for the horrific Bataclan Theater massacre in Paris, 2015 and the suicide bombing of the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena, UK, 2017. They’re sort of the Concert-Massacres-R-Us of terror orgs — you really couldn’t find a better patsy for the Crocus op.
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Is it as simple as that? Not if you consider Scott Ritter’s theory that the first ISIS was a creation of the CIA, with the mission of ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, considered by the blob to be an uber-bad dude, largely for enlisting Russia’s help in ending Syria’s civil war. And if you can actually figure out what Syria’s civil war was about, other than a US blob op to gain control of Syria and its oil, you could win a McArthur Genius Prize. But you might also ask: did the United Blob of America hire ISIS-K to slaughter 137 Russian civilians Saturday night? And also: did it do so directly or indirectly, through cut-outs?
One blob weakness is that it can’t resist the impulse to telegraph its plans ahead of some dastardly act. Both “Joe Biden” and State Department war-hawk Victoria Nuland verbally signaled the op to blow-up the Nord Stream gas pipelines well before the act. Before “retiring” (or getting cashiered) from State this month, Ms. Nuland warned Russia to expect “some nasty surprises” in the days ahead. Was she fired for opening her big mouth? Now, a photograph has surfaced of one of the captured Crocus perps, Shamsidin Fariduni, posing in the Crocus concert hall date-stamped March 7. A set-up? A deep fake?
In any case, On March 8 the United Blob State Department issued a warning to Russia’s foreign ministry that something wicked was coming their way, and likewise warned our diplomatic personnel to steer clear of concert halls and other public venues. Was the Crocus op already well in motion? And was the blob trying to cover for Ms. Nuland’s big mouth by warning about something that was too late to stop?
Whatever else you think about the Russians, they are not dumb bunnies. You can be sure they are carefully putting together the puzzle pieces, having already been careful to take the suspects alive. They were, incidentally, all in one car driving toward the Ukraine border when apprehended by Russian police. That is being considered “a clue” as to who their handlers are. But then, who is Ukraine’s handler? (Cue: thinking music.)
At least one of them — Fariduni — confessed that his gang received all their instructions over a Telegram social media channel. The gang, by the way, were all natives of Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic. Its population is 98 percent Muslim, around 97 percent of them Sunni and 3 percent Shia. Neighboring Iran is militantly Shia, for what it’s worth. The four Crocus perps were living as immigrant workers in Russia. How hard would it be to track who was the proprietor of the alleged Telegram messaging site that offered payment and sent orders to the perps? I’m guessing that would not be so difficult.
The United Blob sent lavish condolences to President Putin on Sunday. We’re so sorry. . . boo-hoo. . . . The directorate of the CIA was awash in crocodile tears, I’m sure. Russia was already busy answering Ukraine’s attempted Belgorad incursion of the previous week by turning off the lights in Kharkov. Meanwhile, Polish, French, and German regular army troops have moved directly by rail and air inside Ukraine to Cherkassy, south of Kiev.
The mental defectives running Poland, France, and Germany seem avid for NATO to jump with both feet into ground action in Ukraine, that is, go directly to war with Russia. It’s hard to imagine an act with a potentially worse outcome for NATO, for Europe, and, by extension, for Western Civ. Despite all their posturing, Euroland’s armies could not be less prepared to go up against Russia on the Ukraine battlefield, and are therefore begging for an epic ass-kicking. They’ve already sacrificed their industrial economies at the United Blob’s bidding, so why not just get Europe’s ticket punched for an express trip back to the 11th century?
How about “Joe Biden,” front-man for the United Blob of America? What’s in it for “him?” We might surmise that the “Joe Biden” re-election campaign seeks a big, fat, juicy major distraction from its so-far pathetic effort to keep a near-mummy in the White House. Well, how about that World War they’ve been itchin’ for? Plus, they probably calculate, it’d be great for business! Besides, considering the poll numbers, this might just be the blob’s last stand, since they know as soon as Mr. Trump gets back in the White House (if the blob can’t manage to kill him first) the words “You’re fired!” will echo so thunderously between Foggy Bottom and Judiciary Square that every last critter in the DC Swamp will light out for the territories to avoid the prosecutions sure to follow.
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*** FLASH *** U.S. WARPLANES ARE BOMBING SYRIA
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United States war planes are, as of 8:17 pm eastern US time, bombing Syria.
A massive U.S. attack is taking place against Deir ez-Zor Governorate in eastern Syria.
Targeted cities so far:
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– Al-Mayadeen
– Deir ez-Zor
– Ayyash (near Deir ez-Zor)
Syrian air defenses HAVE OPENED FIRE on U.S. Planes! ! ! !
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BULLETIN: PUTIN BLAMES D.C. FOR MOSCOW ATTACK
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone on national television to tell the Russian people "The terrorist attack is a link in a chain to Kiev and Washington."
"Who benefits?" the Russian President asked.
"The Kiev regime has used any kind of "inhuman tactics" which make up a "logical sequence" of events aimed at intimidating Russian society and sowing discord" he said.
They also try to show Ukrainians that the only thing they need is to "obey the orders of Washington," he added.
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The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate
By Peter St Onge March 25, 2024 Economics, Society 4 minute read
In case you’ve still got money in a bank, Bloomberg is warning that defaults in commercial real estate loans could “topple” hundreds of US banks.
Leaving taxpayers on the hook for trillions in losses.
The note, by Senior Editor James Crombie, walks us through the festering hellscape that is commercial real estate.
To set the mood, a new study predicts that nearly half of downtown Pittsburgh office space could be vacant in 4 years. Major cities like San Francisco are already sporting zombie-apocalypse downtowns, with abandoned office buildings baking in the sun.
So what happened?
The Fed’s yo-yo interest rates first flooded real estate with low rates and cheap money. Which were overbuilt.
Then came the lockdowns, which forced millions to figure out new workday patterns. People liked foregoing the long commute (not to mention the free money). Despite every effort, downtown businesses have not been able to get all workers back.
These days, everyone talks about hybrid models of working, some in-person and some remote. But judging from observation, remote is winning. In any case, even a 30 percent reduction in the footprint of office space once the leases are renewed could topple the entire sector.
The restaurant and retail sectors of downtown feel the pinch, with more closures all the time. Adding to the pressure are absurd levels of inflation and ever-riskier streets on matters of personal security. Put it all together and there is ever less reason to slog to the office.
When the Fed panic-hiked interest rates in the 2021 inflation, that put trillions of commercial real estate underwater even without other factors. Add to that crime, inflation, plus remote work, and you have a dangerous mix that could toppled cities as we know them.
This could mimic and elaborate upon last year’s bank crisis, where falling bond prices panicked depositors. That crisis only stopped when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell effectively bailed out every bank in America with sweetheart loans written on fictitious asset values along with unlimited taxpayer guarantees through the comically underfunded FDIC.
By the way, the FDIC is essentially guaranteeing over $20 trillion in deposits on just over $100 billion. So they’ve got a half-penny on the dollar.
Without those government pre-bailouts, one paper last year by researchers at Stanford and Columbia estimated that 1,619 US banks – about a third of them – could be at risk of failure.
The problem is that nothing was actually fixed. In fact, it’s getting worse. For the simple reason that as the months roll by there’s more and more debt coming due.
And that brings us to Crombie, who notes that there’s $929 billion of commercial real estate debt coming due in the next 9 and a half months.
That’s up 28% from last year, and it’s getting bigger every day as banks pretend loans are still healthy by effectively adding missed payments.
We’re starting to see glitches in the matrix; New York Community Bank just went through a near-death experience over its garbage portfolio of commercial real estate loans, dropping almost 80% before it was bailed out by vulture investors while the megabanks hover like megavultures.
More will come. Potentially a lot more: a recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research estimated that up to 385 American banks could fail over commercial real estate loans alone.
These would overwhelmingly be small regional banks, who typically hold a third of their assets in commercial real estate loans.
They hold so much because they know their local markets best, but the Fed poisoned that chalice by flooding easy money to developers.
For now we’re only seeing the sickest banks dropping out of the herd. That could dramatically accelerate as that $1 trillion plus in loans come due.
Commercial real estate delinquency rates have already jumped to 6 and a half percent – up 30% in a matter of months. Rates of distress in office loans just hit 11%.
When the smoke clears, we could lose dozens, even hundreds, of regional banks. Going by the last time with savings and loans, taxpayers ate 80% of the losses.
Meaning you could be on the hook for trillions, while the megabanks gorge on the carcass.
Slashing interest rates could staunch the bleeding. But with inflation marching up every month – currently at 5 and a half percent annualized – that’s not going to happen.
This article draws from a piece posted on Substack
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The Coming 'Mark'.
JAMIE WALDEN
28K subscribers 10,367 views Mar 25, 2024
There is a war raging for whose "Mark" you will bear in the very near future! Your mark and seal [tied around your wrist and emblazoned upon your forehead] will be a public, multidimensional display of the true object of your worship.
While many [most] are fixated on the endless speculations of the "Mark of the Beast", we should only ever be concerned with one mark and with one seal: The "Mark of God"!
What you forehead reads, whether you can perceive it out not, is of eternal consequence!
Join Jamie and CBBC as we discuss the power and majesty of "The Coming 'Mark'"
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Increasing Attacks On U.S. Farmers Are Really Attacks On Every American - Imagine Being Dependent On The Government For Every Scrap Of Food On Your Plate
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline March 25, 2024
Aside from more than a hundred food processing/manufacturing plants/chicken farms being destroyed over the past few years, and the millions of chickens and egg laying hens being destroyed due to avian flu, another more insidious war has been happening against small farmers.
We have reported reported on the government attacks against an Amish farmer, who was fined $300,000 for their traditional selling of raw milk and meat, after the feds raided his farm. A court sided with the farmer, Amos Miller, in 2022, which lowered the fines to $55,000 and allowed Mr. Miller to resume operations. That same farmer was raided again this year, and the battle against him by Biden's Agriculture Department continues to rage on .
Now we see recent reports about states run by liberal leaders doing everything in their power to prevent small farmers and homesteaders from being able to grow and sell their produce.
We'll start with Oregon. Under the guise of water conservation and groundwater protection, farmers are being choked out of business.
Imagine being told you cannot use your well water to grow your crops to sell to your community. Well, that is exactly what is happening to Christina del Campo, who grows food on a half acre of her own land, and is now being told she does have "water rights" to irrigate her fields.
For seven years, del Campo has used well water to grow vegetables here, which she’s sold at farmers markets and to her neighbors. She said that’s been her primary source of income.
“It’s like a convenience store,” said del Campo. “People can stop in. I see a lot of people come on Sunday mornings to grab fixings for breakfast.”
However, everything changed last September. That’s when Oak Song Farm received a letter from the regional office of the Oregon Water Resources Department. It was a notification that the farm couldn’t irrigate its commercial crops without a water right.
Del Campo said this came as a complete surprise. Today, she said her business has been essentially destroyed.
“I don’t know why growing food is illegal,” she said. “That’s what doesn’t make sense to me.
Here is the kicker: "There are some exemptions, as those without a water right can use up to 5,000 gallons a day for commercial or industrial purposes. However, this doesn’t include irrigation."
Ms. del Campo used less that one fifth the amount others are allowed an exemption to use, yet because it is for irrigation, for farming, she is forbidden from running her business, on her own land, using well water.
What is happening to not just Ms. del campo, but to others, is explained in the video below, including stories of others that are being shut down, and suing the state because of another arbitrary rule. One woman simply had three milking cows, and they shut her down.
March 25, 2024
Increasing Attacks On U.S. Farmers Are Really Attacks On Every American - Imagine Being Dependent On The Government For Every Scrap Of Food On Your Plate
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
Increasing Attacks On U.S. Farmers Are Really Attacks On Every American - Imagine Being Dependent On The Government For Every Scrap Of Food On Your Plate
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline March 25, 2024
Aside from more than a hundred food processing/manufacturing plants/chicken farms being destroyed over the past few years, and the millions of chickens and egg laying hens being destroyed due to avian flu, another more insidious war has been happening against small farmers.
We have reported reported on the government attacks against an Amish farmer, who was fined $300,000 for their traditional selling of raw milk and meat, after the feds raided his farm. A court sided with the farmer, Amos Miller, in 2022, which lowered the fines to $55,000 and allowed Mr. Miller to resume operations. That same farmer was raided again this year, and the battle against him by Biden's Agriculture Department continues to rage on .
Now we see recent reports about states run by liberal leaders doing everything in their power to prevent small farmers and homesteaders from being able to grow and sell their produce.
We'll start with Oregon. Under the guise of water conservation and groundwater protection, farmers are being choked out of business.
Imagine being told you cannot use your well water to grow your crops to sell to your community. Well, that is exactly what is happening to Christina del Campo, who grows food on a half acre of her own land, and is now being told she does have "water rights" to irrigate her fields.
For seven years, del Campo has used well water to grow vegetables here, which she’s sold at farmers markets and to her neighbors. She said that’s been her primary source of income.
“It’s like a convenience store,” said del Campo. “People can stop in. I see a lot of people come on Sunday mornings to grab fixings for breakfast.”
However, everything changed last September. That’s when Oak Song Farm received a letter from the regional office of the Oregon Water Resources Department. It was a notification that the farm couldn’t irrigate its commercial crops without a water right.
Del Campo said this came as a complete surprise. Today, she said her business has been essentially destroyed.
“I don’t know why growing food is illegal,” she said. “That’s what doesn’t make sense to me.
Here is the kicker: "There are some exemptions, as those without a water right can use up to 5,000 gallons a day for commercial or industrial purposes. However, this doesn’t include irrigation."
Ms. del Campo used less that one fifth the amount others are allowed an exemption to use, yet because it is for irrigation, for farming, she is forbidden from running her business, on her own land, using well water.
What is happening to not just Ms. del campo, but to others, is explained in the video below, including stories of others that are being shut down, and suing the state because of another arbitrary rule. One woman simply had three milking cows, and they shut her down.
In 2023, we saw the Biden regime offering to pay Colorado farmers to let their fields run dry as part of a new water conservation program funded by the U.S. government aka American taxpayers.
"They're talking system conservation, and I'm afraid that's the first step to what I would call 'buy and dry,'" he said, referring to a fear that the federal government would buy up the land for pennies on the dollar and dry it out for good. "And there goes, you know, generations and generations of family farms like ours."
Remember, in 2021 it was reported that the Biden regime was paying farmers more to not use their land for farming, than they would have made farming and selling their products, with the goal of adding 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, all in the name of "climate change."
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ATTACKS AGAINST HOMESTEADERS.....
"Homesteading" is a lifestyle to become self-sufficient. Growing food, canning, storing food, and living off the grid as much as possible, are some of the characteristics of being a homesteader.
Media Matters, founded by Hillary Clinton's "bull-dog," David Brock to attack conservative media and anything else that includes conservative principles, recently put out a hit piece on "homesteaders," criticizing their belief system, including being against illegal immigration, and the gender idiocy that has taken over the left.
Several viral right-wing homesteading and farming influencers are pushing anti-immigrant conspiracy theories and demonizing migrants to their hundreds of thousands of followers across social media.
These conspiracy theories come as the broader right-wing media are increasingly attacking migrants, whipping up hysteria over a flimsy “migrant crime” narrative, and Republican lawmakers are advocating for laws that make it easier for Americans to kill undocumented people.
Conspiracy theories? Ok, so bringing in millions of illegal immigrants, having them counted in the U.S. Census, which gives liberal states that welcome illegals and call themselves "sanctuary" city/states. more seats in the House of Representatives, is a "conspiracy?
No, it is a fact.
Also, laws making it easier to kill immigrants? Again, that is an outright lie. Laws are being created in conservative border states that allow the arrest of those entering the country illegally, and laws allowing Americans to protect themselves and their property, not just from illegal aliens, but from anyone.
Another the MM attack against homesteaders:
The homesteader lifestyle, which these influencers proudly promote and base their content on, is not exclusively a right-wing phenomenon. “Crunchy” culture, which is the foundation of the homesteading movement, is deeply rooted in anti-government sentiment and “anti-modernism,” which strives for independence from the mainstream. The movement broadly disavows cultural relevance and focuses on life and survival without government interference, often choosing to settle in rural areas with plenty of room to grow food, graze animals, and raise children.
Subscribers to this movement promote self-sufficiency, and some advocate for traditional gender norms as well, aligning themselves with the adjacent “tradwife” sect that has been gaining popularity within right-wing circles for romanticizing antifeminism.
Frankly, modern feminism is something to be against, since all they want is to dominate men, and promote hatred of men and masculinity by claiming they are "toxic." Promoting self-sufficiency and gender norms, is what people with common sense do, so MM using those as "attacks" only works with radical liberals.
Readers can see the rest of MM's attacks on homesteaders here at this link. Some of the homesteaders they go after include, The Patriot Nurse, The Prepared Homestead, The American Homestead, and basically anyone else that promotes homesteading.
IMAGINE BEING DEPENDENT ON GOVT FOR EVERY SCRAP OF FOOD.....
ANP readers already know we are facing the biggest cattle shortages seen in 73 years. Avian flu is decimating the chicken and egg supply, so prices are once again increasing.
Tyson foods is laying off 1,200 workers in their ninth closure since early 2023. The claim is that there is less demand for the product, yet the only reason for that is because food prices are so high, most Americans can barely afford to feed their families.
Tyson is also buying into the "insect-protein" business by investing in Protix black soldier flies.
Protix will leverage its technology and Tyson Foods’ global scale, connections and experience to meet current market demand and bolster the production of insect ingredients, which is increasing in line with the global push toward finding alternative proteins to feed the world’s growing population.
Related: Tyson Foods Closes Major Meat Plant as It Transitions to ‘Insect Farming’
Every day we get closer to the point where we are dependent on the government for every scrap of food we eat, and/or we are eating insects.
BOTTOM LINE....
No matter how much space one has, inside or outside, to grow, unless we do want to be totally dependent on the U.S. government for anything we want to eat, growing all our own produce is going to be the only way to prevent that.
A handful of freeze dried meats, and homegrown veggies can be used to make casseroles, stews, soups, salads and more, cam be the difference between independence and being completely dependent on the government to survive.
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China ramps up military threat with 32 aircraft, five naval ships near Taiwan as tensions rise
Last month, China increased patrols near a group of islands controlled by Taiwan after two Chinese fishermen drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard. China accused the ruling DPP of using violent methods, while Taiwan's coast guard insisted that it acted as per law.
Aveek Banerjee Edited By: Aveek Banerjee
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Taipei Published on: March 21, 2024 13:29 IST
Taipei: The Taiwan Ministry of National Defence (MND) monitored 32 Chinese military aircraft and five People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels in the last 24 hours amid rising tensions between the two countries. Out of the 32 aircraft, 20 crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southwestern, southeastern, and eastern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ).
On Wednesday, the Ministry of National Defense said it tracked 15 Chinese military aircraft and 10 naval vessels across Taiwan since Tuesday, and six PLA entered Taiwan'a air defence zone. In response, Taiwan sent aircraft and naval ships and deployed air defence missile systems to monitor the PLA activity.
China has ramped up its patrols near a group of islands controlled by Taiwan, as tensions escalate following the deaths of two Chinese fishermen during a chase by the Taiwanese coast guard who accused them of trespassing last month. These military patrols and incursions had increased since the pro-independence leader Lai Ching-te from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidential elections in January.
Grey zone tactics are defined as "an effort or series of efforts beyond steady-state deterrence and assurance that attempts to achieve one's security objectives without resorting to direct and sizable use of force."
China claims Taiwan, as part of the mainland and Beijing’s assertions under current Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rule to reclaim the estranged island have gotten louder in recent years sparking concerns about military actions by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). In the last few years, there was heavy military build-up by the PLA in the Taiwan Straits followed by offensive actions by the Chinese navy, air force and missile forces.
Former President urged not to visit South China Sea
Meanwhile, Taiwan's top security official said on Thursday he does not recommend President Tsai Ing-wen visit the South China Sea given the possible risk to her flight from "interference by relevant countries" given China's military presence there. Taiwan only controls one main islet in the contested Spratly Islands deep in the southern part of the sea called Itu Aba, which Taiwan refers to as Taiping Island.
Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai Ming-yen said the South China Sea had been highly militarised, and the government must also consider how the international community would view such a trip. This came after some lawmakers from both the ruling and main opposition parties called on Tsai to visit Itu Aba before she steps down in May to assert Taiwan's sovereignty and view a newly renovated harbour that can take larger ships.
"Many countries' aircraft and ships are interfered with by relevant countries when passing through... Therefore, it is necessary to assess whether the president's aircraft's flight safety can be maintained during the 1,600 km (994 miles) flight. If the two problems cannot be resolved, it is not recommended that the president go to Taiping Island at this stage," said Tsai Ming-yen.
China has reclaimed land and built air bases and other military facilities on some of its islands including those close to Itu Aba, and regularly objects to US Navy ships and military aircraft operating nearby in what Washington calls freedom of navigation operations. Itu Aba comprises of a runway to take military re-supply flights from Taiwan, but is not as well guarded.
(with inputs from agencies)
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This was no ordinary jihad attack
Bloody March 22 attack on Moscow-area concert hall has been immediately propagandized by both Russia and US/NATO, and the two accounts bear no resemblance to each other. Who is telling the truth?
Leo Hohmann Mar 25, 2024
I’ve been slow to write anything about the horrific terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue last Friday that claimed the lives of 143 Russians on the outskirts of Moscow.
I’m not one who is given to knee-jerk reactions, especially when the stakes are as high as they are now.
Most Americans are not aware of it yet, but what happened in Russia on Friday, March 22, places all of us in grave danger, especially those of us who reside in the U.K. and U.S., but also in France, Germany or Poland. Not to mention Ukraine, which is already feeling the brunt of Russian anger over what happened.
I don’t need to regurgitate the details but, basically, four Muslims, in a highly coordinated military style assault, shot their way into the building, then shot everyone they came in contact with. It was indescriminate killing. Then they burned the building down.
The U.S. almost immediately came out and blamed ISIS-K in Afghanistan for the attack and ISIS-K dutifully took responsibility.
So we have little doubt that the shooters were somehow connected to ISIS-K at least on a surface level.
But the message coming out of the Russian media is very different. There’s been no emphasis on ISIS being the main facilitator of the attack. They believe Ukraine was at least partially responsible and Putin hinted in his address to the nation on March 23 that there could be others who worked behind the scenes to “organize” and “prepare” the attack. He talked about Ukraine preparing “a window” through which the shooters tried to escape and the shooters were apprehended heading in the direction of Ukraine.
So something doesn’t add up with this whole ISIS narrative.
In a normal jihad attack, the perpetrators don’t try to escape. They keep killing until confronted and killed by authorities. They want to be killed because that’s the only way to receive their promised reward from Allah on the other side of this life. They get their 72 black-eyed, full-breasted virgins and get to have fun for the rest of eternity (or so they believe).
But these killers did not kill for a heavenly reward. They killed for an earthly reward. Money.
In his initial interrogation, captured on video, one of the shooters told the Russians that he was promised in a deal made over the Telegram messaging app to be paid $5,400 for the job of shooting up a bunch of Russians. The initial conversation was with an assistant to an Islamic cleric. He flew to Turkey where he received further instructions and training.
Who paid for that flight? Who paid for the weapons?
As has been widely reported, the U.S. State Department also warned its embassy staff in Moscow on March 7 that ISIS was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the Moscow area and they should avoid concerts and other large gatherings. That was very specific information and no other information was reportedly sent to the Russian government, according to former CIA analyst Larry Johnson speaking in an interview with Judge Andrew Napalitano.
But it gets even weirder.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland announced her resignation from the State Department just over a month ago.
In a February 22 speech, marking the second anniversary of Russia sending troops into Ukraine, Nuland stated:
“With this money, Ukraine will be able to fight back in the East and accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective on the battlefield. And as I said in Kyiv three weeks ago, this supplemental funding will ensure Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year.” (emphasis mine)
Was March 22 one of those “nasty surprises”? Was it part of Ukraine’s assymetrical warfare against Russia?
Maybe this was just your typical ISIS jihad attack. We may never know for sure.
But U.S. government statements leading up to the attack seem awfully strange.
It seems that whoever hatched and planned this attack did it with the intention of escalating and widening the war between NATO-proxy Ukraine and Russia. And the timing is suspect, coming just as Russia is destroying what’s left of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield.
If we know nothing else about NATO it’s this: NATO has never given a single sign or indication that it would like the war in Ukraine to come to a peaceful end. Its leaders have given many statements that indicate they would like to see the war continue. The statements of Emmanuel Macron, president of France, have been the most provocative, as he has twice stated his intentions to send French troops into Ukraine to fight Russians. NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg has also given no ground on the issue of Ukraine joining NATO, which NATO knows is a huge issue that Putin will never accept. Stoltenberg said it’s a “matter of when not if” Ukraine is admitted into NATO — these are fighting words in the ears of any patriotic Russian.
So don’t think that ISIS is the sole perpetrator. It’s possible, but unlikely. And what matters most is that Putin and the Russians don’t believe ISIS acted alone in the slaughter of 143 Russians. They believe Ukraine and possibly other state actors were involved and have already started unleashing retribution, crossing over Polish airspace over the weekend on their way to a missile bombardment of Ukraine the likes of which had not been seen to date. An angry Russia is a dangerous Russia and NATO seems intent on making sure that Russia gets angrier and angrier. This won’t end well for the West if it continues down the path of poking the bear.
And let’s not forget who facilitated the rise of ISIS in the first place. It was the United States of America and its allies under the administration of Barack Obama. ISIS was never fully destroyed, as Donald Trump boasted. ISIS is too valuable to the West as a useful idiot, a patsy, to ever be fully destroyed. Because you never know when you might need to pull the trigger on another “nasty surprise” for some foreign leader.