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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

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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.

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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.

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[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.

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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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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’

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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.

https://endoftheamericandream.com/there-will-be-blood-moon-purim-eclipses-for-three-years-in-a-row-in-2024-2025-and-2026/\ 

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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.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13275237/russian-warplanes-destroyed-ukraine-drone-strike.html 

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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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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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etc. Watch, do you not see the signs throughout all the world, do you not see the coming judgment that shall come, do you not see the blood that shall be flowing in the streets soon?  Do you not see all the signs, or are you so asleep, that it will take disaster to wake you up?  Where are you my church, where are you?     

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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.

https://www.skywatchtv.com/2024/04/02/powderkeg-38/ 

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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.

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/video-justin-trudeau-trembles-with-fear-as-furious-crowd-chant-fk-you-trudeau/ 

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Zelenskyy Acquires Highgrove House, Former Residence of King Charles for £20Million

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 £20 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.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/02/zelenskyy-acquires-highgrove-house-former-residence-of-king-charles-for-20million/ 

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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.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13265405/us-pentagon-tech-ai-killing-systems-battlefield.html 

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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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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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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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Intel: Significant Activity at Iran Long-Range Missile Sites; Retaliation Against Israel Coming

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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.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/component/content/article/intel-significant-activity-at-iran-long-range

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

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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.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/huge-problem-pentagons-rapid-wartime-response-cargo-ships-trapped-baltimore-after-bridge 

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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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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.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/30/white-house-doubles-down-after-declaring-easter-sunday-transgender-day-of-visibility/ 

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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.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/media/religious-themed-designs-banned-from-white-house-easter-egg-art-contest/ 

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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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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

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/trailer-hauling-bibles-intentionally-set-on-fire-on-easter-sunday-in-wilson-county 

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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 Warns Citizens Inside USA: Prepare for "Various unexpected situations"

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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?

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en-us/component/content/article/china-warns-citizens-inside-usa-prepare-

for-various-unexpected-situations?catid=17&Itemid=101 

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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. 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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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 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.”

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Jerome Powell Caught Lying: FDIC Data Reveals Mega Banks Have Large Exposure To Commercial Real Estate, Not Just Regionals

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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

AUTHOR COMMENTARY

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.

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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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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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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.

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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!

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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.

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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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For the ways of man have become more evil than at anytime on the face of the earth, anytime. etc

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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.

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