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These are the Walmart stores closing in the U.S. in December 2024

After a round of closures earlier in the year, more Walmart stores are closing this month

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

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

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etc. If you look at Russia she is ready to strike, Iran ready to strike, North Korea ready to strike, they are not playing games; they are serious with the things that they are saying. Only you have felt that they have feared you, and because you have felt that they have feared you, you are not listening as close as you should. etc.

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Iran’s new massive drone ship left home port last month – and went weeks without being spotted

A newly minted and massive Iranian drone carrier was captured in new satellite images sailing in the Persian Gulf this week — the ship’s first reported sighting since leaving its home port for the first time in mid-November.

The satellite images taken Thursday by commercial operator Maxar Technologies shows three Iranian drone ships in the waters off the country’s coast as theories have swirled in the US that Iran could be behind the mysterious drone sightings across the tri-state area, according to Business Insider.

Iran’s new carrier — the Shahid Bagheri — is a converted shipping container that was outfitted to support drone operations and was last seen on Nov. 12, when it was captured by satellite imagery sitting in Bandar Abbas, the report said.

The Shahid Bagheri left its home Iranian home port sometime between Nov. 12 and Nov. 28, revealed by satellite imagery that shows an empty dock where the ship once sat, according to another Business Insider report.

The new carrier was believed to have headed straight to the Persian Gulf to partake in naval exercises, the report said.

The new images from this week show the overhauled ship was pictured with two other Iranian drone vessels — Shahid Roudaki and Shahid Mahdavi — off the Bandar Abbas port in the Persian Gulf, according to NDTV.

News of the Shahid Bagheri’s whereabouts came days after speculation that an Iranian drone “mothership” was parked out in the Atlantic and was carrying out clandestine drone operations in the airspace of New Jersey and Staten Island.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) claimed to Fox News on Wednesday morning that the drones were possibly being launched by Iran, citing confidential sources.

“I’m gong to tell you the real dal. Iran launched a mothership that contains these drones,” Van Drew said. “It’s off the East Coast of the United States of America. They’ve launched drones.”

The Pentagon quickly poured cold water on those claims — saying there was “no evidence” that the country was responsible for the mysterious drones that have reportedly been seen across the state of New Jersey since Nov. 18.

However, no explanation has been provided to state and local officials who have been receiving thousands of reports from concerned New Jerseyans.

On Thursday, White House national security council spokesperson John Kirby said no federal agency has been able to corroborate any of the reports made of drone activity — saying all crafts reviewed by feds have been flying in accordance with the law.

Kirby backtracked on those comments in an interview on Fox’s “The Story” on Friday.

“I said many of the corroborated sightings have turned out to be piloted aircraft, I didn’t say all of them. I said those were the ones we were able to corroborate,” Kirby said.

“There’s certainly the ones that we have not been able to [corroborate] and don’t know the answers to it,” he added.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/world-news/irans-new-massive-drone-ship-left-home-port-last-

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Trump: Govt Must Come Clean on Drones or Shoot Them Down

By Michael Katz | Friday, 13 December 2024 09:29 PM EST

President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. government must know more about the mysterious drone sightings along the East Coast this week, and if not, the drones should be shot down.

"Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge. I don't think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!! DJT"

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Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN's "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" on Friday that Americans should not be concerned.

"Let me calm those nerves," Mayorkas said. "We have not seen anything unusual. We have not seen any unusual activity. We know of no threat. We know of no nefarious activity.

"I want to repeat that: We have not seen anything unusual; we know of no threat and of any nefarious activity."

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Mayorkas' comments come amid multiple reports of sightings in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania of flying objects. U.S. military officials have also confirmed reports of drones being spotted near and above bases in the United Kingdom and Germany.

"Let me explain," Mayorkas said. "People are reporting sightings of drones. It is very common for individuals who think they see drones to actually see small aircraft, and we have a case of mistaken identity. Also, we have six different people reporting what they think is a drone, and all of a sudden we have reports of six drone sightings. So, there's some duplication."

When asked about Trump's Truth Social post, Mayorkas said: "The statements I have made already are the principal message I want to communicate to the American public.

"We haven't seen anything unusual. We know of no known threat. Secondly, we have gone to Congress repeatedly asking for more authority to counter drone activity. And we have also asked for more authority to give to the state and local officials under our supervision because … those authorities need to be expanded."

Mayorkas said he has spoken daily with Democrat New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and that DHS has been in daily contact with New Jersey state police. He said state-of-the-art technology that DHS has deployed "has not confirmed any drone sightings" but it has confirmed "that some reported drone sightings are in fact small aircraft."

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"That's not to say there aren't drones flying in the air, but we have no concern at this point with respect to a threat or any nefarious activity," Mayorkas said. "The reality is, you can have a 15-year-old kid who buys a drone off the shelf and puts it up in the sky.

"We have not seen drones turn their lights off in the dark. We have not seen drones penetrate restricted airspace. Those are two indicia that would give us a cause for concern."

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/doanld-trump-alejandro-mayorkas-cnn/2024/12/13/id/1191627/ 

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Iranians outraged over catastrophic and costly failure in Syria policy, report says

Unprecedented and outspoken criticism across television studios, press outlets and social media unsettles leaders, who fear resurgence of protests; one commentator asserts wave of public anger cannot be silenced

ynet|04:29

Iranians including members of the cleric, former officials and even some at the Iranian Revolutionary Gard Corps (IRGC) have been expressing their anger at the nearly 30 billion dollars spent and now lost in Syria, according to a report in the New York Times.

The anger now directed at the Ayatollah regime has been expressed openly in television studios, newspapers and public events, even by conservatives who have been supporters of the government in Tehran.

The regime has responded forcefully and has gone after some of its critics but that has not stopped the discussion over the extraordinary failure of the Iranian strategy.

Iran had backed Syria for the past four decades and has used it as a base for the spread of its Islamic revolution in the Middle East and as a main component of the "axis of resistance."

"Iran controlled military bases, missile factories, tunnels and warehouses that served the supply chain for its network of militants. From Syria, Iran funneled weapons, cash and logistical support to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Iraq," the report reads.

During the Syrian civil war, Iranian troops fought to protect the regime of Bashar Assad and had paid in Iranian blood. With the fall of the Assad regime, the pro-Iranian militias and the Iranian forces were made to withdraw.

"In 11 days, we've lost everything we've fought for, in the past 13 years," a member of the IRGC said.

One former Iranian lawmaker said in a social media post that Assad's fall can be viewed as a positive thing because Iran would no longer waste money to prop up, this "spider's web," alluding to the analogy once used by another Iranian ally who has been removed from the scene, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah who used the term when describing Israeli society and perceived strength.

Opponents of the regime in Tehran have long criticized the vast investments of funds in Syria and in the region but they have been ignored. Now the anger is being shared by families of Iranians who have died in Syria's war who ask if their loved ones had fallen in vain.

Alireza Mokarami who runs a news site and had served in Syria in the past, referred to what he called the "catastrophic failure" of Iran in Syria. “Why were you spending billions of dollars of oil revenues that belong to the Iranian people on Assad until the very end if he wasn’t even listening to you?” he asked in a post. “At least on the topic of Syria, stop lying and be honest with the people.”

Hassan Shemshadi, a prominent Iranian commentator and a supporter of the regime told the Times that the public debate is being held in all levels of society, not only in media outlets. “People are asking: Why did we spend so much money there? What did we achieve? What is our justification now that it’s all gone?”

Ebrahim Motaghi, a professor of international relations at Tehran University said in a television broadcast that Iran had lost its position as a regional power and was now no different than any ordinary country.

A similar opinion was published on the front page of the Ham Mihan newspaper, affiliated with the reform movement in Iran, in an article by cleric Mohammad Shariati Dehghan who said the fall of Assad exposed Iranian’s strategy as misguided and “built on weak foundations,” and demanded a new approach that would favor alliances with countries over arming and financing militant groups, so that Iranian money and resources could be spent on the needs of Iranians.

The New York Times noted that the debate in Iran was unusual and bold in light of the widespread oppression by the regime that now fears a reemergence of the protest movement. Supreme leader Ali Khamenei said the criticism was a crime that only spreads fear.

The regime announced investigations of prominent officials but one commentator told the Times that the public outrage would not be stopped and that there was no way to diminish the blow that Iran had sustained.

In official statements, the Iranian government has said it respects the rights of Syrians to determine their future and that a dialogue with the rebels has already begun.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi even claimed that the rebels have agreed to Iran's request to protect sacred Shiite sites in Syria and Iranian diplomatic missions after the Iranian embassy in Damascus was trashed when the rebels entered the city.

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But Khamenei called the rebels "aggressors" in his speech on Wednesday and accused Israel and the U.S. of being behind their assault. He also alluded to the Turkish involvement in the fall of Assad and claimed that the "resistance" would only strengthen and spread.

Rebels trash Iran's embassy in Damascus

According to some officials in Tehran, including from the IRGC, the Iranian regime would now agree to any form of diplomatic presence in Syria, no matter how small. Two officials said Iran hoped to avoid the embarrassment of being ousted completely by the new Syrian leadership.

“Iran wants to move toward a direction that would eventually normalize its relations with Syria, but it’s going to be very difficult,” Rahman Ghahremanpour, a political analyst based in Tehran, said in a telephone interview. “The first priority right now is to make sure Syria does not turn into a base against Iran and a launchpad to attack its interests in Iraq or Lebanon.”

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Authorities Scrambling as Residents Report Drone Crash in New Jersey

Reece Walker December 13, 2024

Residents in New Jersey are reporting that a large drone has crashed as authorities rush to the scene to investigate.

Authorities converged on Hillsborough, New Jersey in an incident that could be related to a drone.

Several locals said they witnessed a drone crash in the area.

It comes as officials on Staten Island held a press conference, calling for the NYPD to investigate drone sightings over the NYC area.

“You know, there was a saying that we had after 9/11, ‘if you see something say something,’” said Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella.

“I think that’s become, ‘if you see something, don’t worry about it.’

“Because we saw it too and the people of Staten Island deserve answers, the people of this city and state and region deserve answers, of what the heck is going on.’”

By Reece Walker

Reece Walker covers news and politics with a focus on exposing public and private policies proposed by governments, unelected globalists, bureaucrats, Big Tech companies, defense departments, and intelligence agencies.

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Rocket fuel eating away at US, China nuclear weapons

Fast-aging fuel has likely rendered many US and Chinese ICBMs unusable, raising urgent questions about their nuclear arsenals

by Gabriel Honrada December 10, 2024

Aging rocket fuel may be quietly crippling the world’s nuclear arsenals, according to a new report exposing the ticking time bomb inside both US and Chinese missiles.

This month, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Chinese rocket scientists have discovered that the solid fuel used in intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) ages much faster than previously known, potentially rendering hundreds of missiles unusable.

Research conducted at China’s National Key Laboratory of Solid Rocket Propulsion in Xian revealed that significant changes in the fuel columns can occur within 30 years, making them unable to withstand the loads during flight. This finding could explain the frequent launch failures experienced by some nuclear powers in recent years.

The study, led by senior engineer Qin Pengju, found that while the aged propellant appeared stable during routine storage, it became significantly more brittle under high pressure. It mentions that the research focused on the solid fuel commonly used in ICBMs: ammonium perchlorate, aluminum powder and hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) binder.

SCMP says the study’s findings suggest that the fuel’s ductility under pressure can be compromised after just 27 years, leading to possible rapid fractures during launch. It notes that the issue has raised concerns about the US’s declining nuclear deterrent capability, which relies on Minuteman III missiles manufactured in the 1970s and Trident II missiles that have been operational for nearly three decades.

Perhaps illustrating the unreliability of aging ICBMs, a failed Minuteman III ICBM test in November 2023 has heightened concerns about the US’s aging land-based nuclear arsenal. The unarmed missile was terminated during a launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base due to an anomaly.

While the Minuteman III as a whole is still considered a reliable weapons system, its subcomponents, such as the silo, electronics and warhead, are old and may have been neglected.

Asia Times has previously reported that the US faces mounting pressure to replace its aging Minuteman III ICBMs as delays and cost overruns plague its next-generation LGM-35A Sentinel program.

Budgeted initially at US$95.8 billion, the Sentinel’s cost has surged to an estimated $160 billion, forcing the Pentagon to justify the increase under the Nunn-McCurdy Amendment. Due to Covid-19 disruptions and inflation, production delays have postponed its deployment until 2029. As a result, the US Air Force must extend Minuteman III’s lifespan.

Aside from old delivery systems, Asia Times reported in January 2024 that the aging of plutonium pits in US nuclear weapons poses a significant challenge to the country’s strategic deterrent. Despite plutonium’s 24,000-year half-life, microscopic changes over time can affect the storage safety and explosive yield of nuclear weapons.

The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has struggled to produce new plutonium pits, with current production capacity unlikely to meet the goal of 80 pits annually until 2030 or later. This shortfall is attributed to a post-Cold War culture of complacency, a lack of skilled workers and restrictive environmental regulations.

Existing pits, designed for older weapons, may not perform as required in newer systems, raising concerns about the reliability of the US nuclear arsenal.

Keeping the 1970s-era Minuteman III poses significant challenges. In a February 2014 RAND report, Lauren Caston and other writers mention that central to keeping the aging Minuteman III in service is the aging infrastructure and components that require continuous modernization to maintain operability.

Caston and others mention that while the Minuteman III Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) aims to incrementally modernize the system by replacing critical subsystems like guidance and propulsion, the incremental modernization approach is hampered by the obsolescence of original manufacturing processes and materials, forcing reliance on more expensive, modern substitutes.

Another significant operational constraint is the depletion of missile inventory due to annual test firings, which accelerated after 2017 when the rate increased from three to four tests annually. They say America’s missile stockpile could dip below required operational levels by 2030 without ramping up new production.

As the US struggles to keep the Minuteman III in service while justifying the Sentinel’s ballooning costs, Parth Satam mentions in a July 2024 article for The Aviationist that extending the Minuteman III’s life until 2050 is significantly cheaper, with past refurbishments costing only $7 billion for 450 missiles.

However, Satam points out that maintaining these vintage systems is technically challenging due to outdated documentation and a lack of knowledgeable technicians. He contrasts that to the Sentinel program, despite its $140 billion price tag and cost overruns, promising a modern, cyber-defendable command and control system.

Satam says the US Department of Defense’s (DOD) projected lifetime for the Sentinel, set up to 2075, is arbitrary and inflates costs. He says a more flexible timeline could make the Minuteman III extension more viable. However, he cautions about the risks of not modernizing, citing the need to address emerging threats from nuclear-armed competitors like China and Russia.

However, he notes the Sentinel’s development could also strain budgets, potentially impacting other key defense programs such as the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter and B-21 Raider stealth bomber.

This situation raises concerns about reliability and deterrence amid growing threats from nuclear rivals. Unlike the US, China and Russia have aggressively modernized their nuclear arsenals, further exacerbating the US’s strategic dilemma as China is ramping up fissile material production and Russia showcasing nuclear brinkmanship in the Ukraine war.

While liquid-fuel systems may avoid problems associated with solid fuel, they bring challenges such as difficult-to-store propellants, design complexity, which opens up more points of possible failure, and the need to be fueled before launch, unlike solid-fuel missiles.

To illustrate these problems, Sidharth Kaushal mentions in an October 2024 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) article that Russia’s efforts to replace the aging liquid-fuel R-36 Satan ICBM with the RS-28 Sarmat have faced significant challenges, highlighting issues within its missile production sector.

Kaushal says that the recent catastrophic failure of the Sarmat test in September 2024 underscores these difficulties. He notes that the failure, likely due to propulsion issues, caused extensive damage to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

He notes that the Sarmat, intended to replace the Soviet-era R-36, has experienced repeated delays and technical problems since its development began in 2013. The complexity of the new system’s propulsion and lighter structure have contributed to these setbacks.

Additionally, he mentions that the collapse of Russia’s cooperation with Ukrainian contractors, who previously maintained the R-36, has exacerbated the situation. He says Russia’s reliance on its Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau for the Sarmat’s development has not fully mitigated these issues.

Kaushal points out that the RS-28’s troubled history, including multiple failed tests and delays, raises concerns about the reliability of Russia’s silo-based ICBMs, which are crucial for its strategic deterrence. However, he says that despite these challenges, the Sarmat has been accepted into service, reflecting the urgency of replacing the R-36.

https://asiatimes.com/2024/12/rocket-fuel-eating-away-at-us-china-nuclear-weapons/ 

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Flurry of earthquakes hit two states as scientists fear a 'Big One' is coming

READ MORE: America's strongest earthquakes in history as 7.0 rocks CA

By ELLYN LAPOINTE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 13:43 EST, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 14:26 EST, 12 December 2024

A swarm of earthquakes hit a massive 150-foot-long fault line in the Midwest that scientists fear is overdue for a mega-quake.

This little-known New Madrid sits in America's Heartland, passing through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois.

The US Geological Survey detected eight quakes from December 6 to 11.

Missouri experienced seven that hit Howardville, Matthews, Martson Hayward and Cooter, and Ridgely, Tennessee experienced one.

The largest quakes were a magnitude 3.0 and 2.6 that struck near Howardville, and the rest measured roughly magnitude 2.

Any earthquake less than magnitude 2.5 generally isn't felt, but the shaking can be detected by a seismograph.

Scientists have warned that the fault line can generate a magnitude 7 or higher in the next 50 years.

The chances of a quake that size is around about 40 percent, but 'every year that goes by, the likelihood becomes greater,' said Robbie Myers, an emergency coordinator with the Missouri Department of Safety.

And on December 11, the eight was detected in Howardville.

The area has not had a significant quake in more than 200 years.

The last powerful seismic activity occurred between 1811 and 1812 when three quakes hit that were 'estimated to be between magnitude 7 and 8,' according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The swarm destroyed settlements and 'dramatically affected the landscape,' officials reported.

Though this week's earthquake swarm is not necessarily a sign that the New Madrid fault is about to produce a larger quake, experts have said people living around it should always be prepared for a major seismic event.

A magnitude 8 quake in this region could kill thousands, destroy bridges over the Mississippi River, buckle major highways such as Interstate 55 and cause oil and gas pipelines to break, Myers previously told DailyMail.com.

Experts believe the most significant destruction would occur in St Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee. But an event of this magnitude would cause nationwide disruptions.

A damaging earthquake of magnitude 6 or greater occurs about once every 80 years in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The last one of that magnitude was a 6.6 event in 1895 near Charleston, Missouri - 129 years ago. Thus, this fault is long overdue for a large earthquake.

'[An earthquake] in the next 50 years is a strong possibility, and people should take precautions,' Myers said.

'Right now there is nothing more pressing. And every year that goes by, the likelihood becomes greater.'

The NMSZ is one of the most active seismic zones east of the Rocky Mountains. Thus, swarms like Monday's are not uncommon.

Earthquake swarms are characterized by clusters of small to moderate quakes that occur over a short period.

Scientists are still investigating what causes an earthquake swarm, but they have some theories.

One possible explanation is that the fault is slipping slowly, and small sticky patches are popping off and generating numerous small earthquakes, according to the USGS.

Alternatively, magma - or molten rock - might be pushing up into the Earth's crust, opening a pathway for itself by breaking the rock in front of it and triggering a series of quakes.

But most often, earthquake swarms appear to be caused by the gradual release of tectonic stress along fault lines, or changes in subsurface conditions, according to the USGS.

Although the NMSZ frequently produces earthquakes, their generally low magnitude and meager impact doesn't garner much attention for this seismic zone.

Instead, most of the earthquake preparation in the US has focused on California, which experts say is about 80 years overdue for 'The Big One', a massive earthquake along the 800-mile long San Andreas fault.

This focus on California has made it harder for experts in Missouri and other states on the NMSZ to convince officials and the public to be prepared.

But the impact of an earthquake in this area could be more widespread than what's recorded on the West Coast, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has said.

'Due to the nature of the bedrock in the earth's crust in the central United States, earthquakes in this region can shake an area approximately 20 times larger than earthquakes in California,' Department officials wrote in a blog post.

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Oreshnik’s 4,000°C Fury: Russia’s Missile Melts Steel, Crumbles Fortresses | West's New Nightmare?

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Russia’s latest hypersonic missile, Oreshnik, has debuted in Ukraine with devastating results. Equipped with a 4,000°C thermal warhead, it melts steel, vaporizes concrete, and obliterates hardened fortifications. Six warheads were unleashed on Dnipro in its first combat test, marking a chilling new era in warfare. Could this unstoppable weapon reshape the battlefield?

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“Falling Off A Cliff”: This Chart Proves That We Are In A Major Economic Downturn Right Now

December 12, 2024 by Michael

The number of job openings in the United States has been “falling off a cliff”, and that is a major red flag. The last four years have been an economic nightmare for most Americans, and that is one of the primary reasons why Donald Trump won the election. But as we approach 2025, things are starting to get frighteningly bad. When the number of job openings in the U.S. drops by 2 million or more, that normally signals that we are either in a recession or that one is about to happen. Well, as you can see from this chart that was posted by Bravos Research on Twitter, we are witnessing a collapse in job openings that is absolutely unprecedented…

I was floored when I saw that chart.

I knew that job openings were falling, but I didn’t know that things had gotten this bad.

Not too long ago, there were about 12 million job openings in the United States. Unfortunately, here in the second half of 2024 that figure has fallen below 8 million…

There were an estimated 7.4 million unfilled jobs on the last day of September, a drop from August’s revised tally of 7.86 million openings, according to new data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The largest drop-offs in openings were in industries that have driven much of the job growth in recent years: health care and social assistance, and government, according to the report.

Meanwhile, major employers continue to shed workers all over the nation.

For example, the U.S. lost a total of 78,000 manufacturing jobs during a recent three month period…

The manufacturing sector continued to shed jobs in October, bringing its tally of job losses to 78,000 over the past three months.

The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday released its jobs report for October, which found that the manufacturing sector lost 46,000 jobs last month, according to the agency’s preliminary analysis.

That followed a loss of 6,000 jobs in September, which is also a preliminary figure, as well as a decline of 26,000 jobs in August.

Every day, there are more layoff announcements in the news, and the number of people filing initial claims for unemployment benefits increased much more than experts were projecting last week…

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time jumped significantly last week (from 225k to 242k – well above expectations of 220k) – the highest since the first week of October.

On an un-adjusted basis, claims exploded higher (highest since January)…

Throughout the second half of this year, I have been arguing that the U.S. economy is rapidly heading in the wrong direction.

Now we have even more confirmation that this is indeed happening.

Once we get past the holiday season, retailers are going to be dropping like flies.

According to the Daily Mail, it appears that Party City could soon be forced to declare bankruptcy…

A major party and craft retailer with 850 stores across the nation is considering filing for bankruptcy.

Party City has been faced with the possibility of mass closures just a little over a year after the company surfaced from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The celebration retailer, known for selling balloons and essential party supplies, is currently behind on rent at some of its locations, people close to the matter told Bloomberg.

And it is being reported that 670 Family Dollar stores have already been shut down…

Discount behemoth Dollar Tree has shuttered 670 of its underperforming Family Dollar stores so far, about two-thirds of the nearly 1,000 it plans to close, as it considers whether to sell or spin off the struggling chain.

The Chesapeake, Virginia-based retailer provided an update on its portfolio optimization efforts when it reported is fiscal third-quarter earnings. Dollar Tree officials also said they were still reviewing options for Family Dollar, with no set deadline or timeline to complete that process.

Overall, thousands upon thousands of retail stores in the U.S. have been shuttered in 2024, and thousands upon thousands will be shuttered in 2025.

In many areas of the country, the landscape is absolutely littered with once thriving businesses that have now been boarded up.

More than a decade ago, I warned that we were headed for a future when impoverished areas of the U.S. would be filled with boarded up businesses and abandoned buildings.

Now we are there.

On top of everything else, inflation is starting to surge once again, and one recent survey discovered that about a third of all U.S. households have been forced to cut back spending just to keep the lights on…

With the cost of things like food and housing still straining people’s budgets, many U.S. households over the past year have found themselves having to pare their spending on basic necessities just to keep the lights on at home.

That’s according to a recent Lending Tree study which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey data from Aug. 20, 2024 to Sep. 16, 2024 to find the percentage of Americans 18 and older that had cut back on necessary expenses to pay their energy bill, kept their home at an unsafe or unhealthy temperature, or was unable to pay the full amount on an energy bill at least once over the preceding 12 months.

The study found that more than 34% of respondents said they have had to cut back or skip spending on certain necessary expenses at least once over the past year in order to pay their energy bill.

As I discussed the other day, prior to the election most Americans believed that we were already in a recession.

Since the election, conditions have only gotten worse.

Many are hoping that our economic momentum can be reversed once the new administration takes over.

We should all be hoping that is true.

But right now we are on a freight train that is steamrolling in the wrong direction, and that is not good news at all.

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Macy's will close 65 stores within weeks - but not before huge clearance sale

READ MORE: Macy’s to exit upscale mall as chain's store closures continue

By DANIEL JONES, CONSUMER EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 14:33 EST, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 14:54 EST, 12 December 2024

Macy’s is ramping up store closures this year as it struggles to revive its faltering business.

In February, the embattled retailer announced plans to shut 150 underperforming stores within three years - including 55 closures by the end of 2024.

But the company now expects to close 65 locations by the end of the year. Bosses said they will remain open through the holidays to let regular customers shop but then shutter for good before the end of December.

Macy's has yet to announce exactly which stores will be affected, but employees are speculating whether their location could be on the chopping block. The latest to emerge is at the Kingston Collection mall in Massachusetts.

Once all 150 are shuttered, Macy's will be left with just 350 stores - a far cry from the peak of around 1,100 in 2008.

Like many department stores, Macy's has been suffering from dwindling sales amid the stratospheric rise of online rivals and the demise of America's suburban malls.

The company appointed a new CEO, Tony Spring, earlier this year, who announced a major turnaround effort.

Spring revealed the updated closure numbers during Macy's latest earnings on Wednesday, telling investors: ‘We now expect to close roughly 65 locations this year. Closures will occur post-holiday.’

Sales at the iconic department store chain - which also owns Bloomingdale's - fell by 2.4 percent in the quarter ending in November, the company also reported Wednesday. Macy's also significantly lowered its expected earnings for 2024.

Shares plummeted more than 12 percent Wednesday on the news, but have mostly recovered by Thursday lunchtime. They are still down 15 percent so far this year.

Adding to the turmoil, Macy’s is dealing with an accounting scandal involving a single employee who hid over $150 million in delivery expenses. The company insists this was a one-off but admits the error has cost them $79 million in their full-year outlook.

A retail expert told DailyMail.com that while there may be more store closures, Macy's still makes a profit and so was not a bankruptcy risk.

On this Wednesday's quarterly earnings, retail expert Neil Saunders - from GlobalData - said: 'Macy’s outlook is very mixed. There is still a big dose of decline in the numbers, but the chain isn’t at the bottom of the department store league table – which is positive.

'The numbers are not expected to strengthen significantly over the year ahead as the consumer economy remains pressured and Macy’s is in the middle of a turnaround program.

'There will certainly be store closures in the year ahead, but most of these have already been planned in.

'Macy’s might be struggling to generate growth, but the group is still generating profit and is in the black. As such, bankruptcy is not on the cards.'

Macy's is one of many retailers closing stores this year as the ongoing 'retail apocalypse' forces brick-and-mortar locations to grapple with rising theft and shrinking profit margins.

There were almost 2,600 store closures in the first four months of 2024. If that trend continues, almost 8,000 will have been lost by the end of the year.

It emerged in October that Walgreens will shutter more than 1,200 stores in bid to turn around struggling chain.

In the same month, Big Lots said it was shutting 500 stores across multiple states as its financial woes worsen.

Meanwhile, Badcock Home Furniture & More said at the end of July it is closing all its 380 stores dotted around the South after it fell into bankruptcy earlier this year.

Dollar stores have been hit hard too, with 99 Cents Only announcing in April it would shutter all 371 of its locations across California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada.

Family Dollar has said it will shut 1,000 stores under its own banner and that of sister company Dollar Tree over the next three years.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/store-closures/article-14187103/macys-multiple-store-closures-weeks.html 

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What If A Nuke Detonated In Los Angeles?

by Tyler Durden

Authored...

Submitted by Angel Studios,

As the Deep State continues its desperate push to cause as much chaos as possible before Trump takes office with the overthrow of Assad in Syria and deeper strikes into Russia causing Putin to loosen his nuclear weapons doctrine, Newsweek recently published a harrowing analysis showing the effect of a R-36M2 missile impact in major U.S. cities.

Screenshot from movie Homestead. © Angel Studios

Also know as SS-18 "Satan", the nuclear-grade missile is a cornerstone of the Russian arsenal since the Soviet Union with a range of up to 10,000 miles and yield of 20 megatons (over 1,000x Hiroshima). Just one impact in any major U.S. city would dwarf America's WWII losses in minutes, to wit:

Washington, D.C.: Approximately 6.1 million people would be within the total blast range, with fatalities reaching 1.64 million. Capitol Hill would fall within the fireball radius being melted.

New York City: With an average of 16.3 million people present, fatalities could exceed 5.46 million. The destruction would extend to surrounding areas like New Brunswick and Stamford.

Chicago: Fatalities might approach 2 million, with Lake Michigan absorbing much of the fallout.

Houston: In this city, over 1.2 million deaths and 2 million injuries are estimated.

Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, and Dallas: Each city would suffer extensive casualties and injuries, with death tolls ranging from nearly 1 million in Phoenix to 1.6 million in Philadelphia.

Behind NYC, the most devastating metropolitan blast would occur in Los Angeles. Per Newsweek:

“Some 2,758,790 would die and 4,369,390 would be injured. In any given 24-hour period, there are on average 12,092,715 people in the full blast range (all four circles) of the simulated detonation. Thermal radiation would hit Santa Monica, Calabasas, Long Beach and parts of Pomona.”

Anyone within 2,360 square miles of the explosion (the thermal radiation radius: wider orange circle) would be at risk of suffering third-degree skin burns, "often painless because they destroy the pain nerves," which can cause severe scarring, disablement and require amputation.

Within the light blast damage radius (wider gray circle), 3,490 square miles from the blast, glass windows should be expected to break.

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Map Shows Russian Missile Could Hit US Air Force Bases in Minutes

Published Dec 11, 2024 at 10:42 AM EST Updated Dec 12, 2024 at 1:27 PM EST

A map depicting the range of Russia's newly unveiled hypersonic missile suggests the weapon could strike U.S. military assets in Europe within minutes.

"Russia continues its efforts to intimidate Europe with Oreshnik," Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.

Gerashchenko posted a map, reportedly being shared across Telegram by Russian "propaganda" channels, which showed the approach time of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik—which translates to "hazel tree"—missile if launched from Belarus.

Russia continues its efforts to intimidate Europe with Oreshnik: propaganda Telegram channels post a map with the missile's approach time to targets in the West if launched from Belarus.

Nuclear saber-rattling is now joined by an Oreshnik-jingling. https://t.co/WGPTzkhBgb pic.twitter.com/gZg7KNAH9V   

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) December 9, 2024

Newsweek has contacted the Belarusian and Russian Foreign Ministries, and the president's office of Belarus for comment.

According to the map, Oreshnik is capable of traveling from Brest, Belarus, to a U.S. Air Force base in southern Romania in 5.5 minutes and to another base in Poland in just 3.2 minutes. It also claims that the weapon could reach several European capitals within a comparable timeframe, including Paris and London, in less than nine minutes.

While the missile's reported range of 5,500 km (3,418 miles) would fall short of the distance from Belarus to the U.S. mainland, this would still allow it to reach U.S. military assets in Europe, as well as those in the Middle East and the Gulf states.

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin at the Supreme Council of Russia and Belarus on December 6, 2024, in Minsk, Belarus. Putin recently agreed to transfer the country's Oreshnik missiles to Belarus. Contributor/Getty Images

The ballistic missile was first unveiled on November 21, when it was launched at a military industrial facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

The new missile—which Ukraine's Defense Intelligence directorate said traveled from Astrakhan, Russia, in just 15 minutes—reportedly reached a top speed of over 11 Mach (8,400 miles per hour) before impact.

Hours after the strike, dubbed by Vladimir Putin a "successful test," the Russian president touted the capabilities of the weapon. He said that "no countermeasures currently exist" against the Oreshnik, which is able to "strike targets at a speed of Mach 10" or 3,430 meters per second.

"Modern air defense systems, including those being developed by the Americans in Europe, cannot intercept such missiles," he said during the television address, adding that Russia would "determine targets for future tests of our newest missile systems based on threats to Russia's national security," and that Russia considered it "our right to use our weapons against the military facilities of countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities."

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Concerns were again raised after the Russian president said that he would deploy the hypersonic Oreshniks in Belarus in 2025, in response to a request from Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, considered Putin's closest ally on the continent.

On Tuesday, Lukashenko said that "a few dozen" of the weapons had already been transferred to his country.

During a trip to a production facility in Borisov, Lukashenko said that MZKT, a state-owned tractor and heavy vehicle manufacturer, would be instructed to begin manufacturing launch systems for the Oreshnik missiles in the second half of 2025.

Do you have a story we should be covering? Do you have any questions about this article? Contact LiveNews@newsweek.com .

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The pitchforks are here: Populist rage and the rise of moral absolutism

by Justin Williamson, opinion contributor - 12/12/24 10:30 AM ET

In 2014, billionaire Nick Hanauer warned in Politico that “The Pitchforks Are Coming … For Us Plutocrats.” He argued that extreme inequality inevitably leads to revolution, comparing it to bankruptcy — it happens slowly, then all at once. A single act of violence, he cautioned, could ignite years of simmering frustration into an inferno of uncontrolled fury.

When combined with a generation taught that disagreement itself constitutes harm, that warning seems perilously prophetic in the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder.

Immediately following his assassination, something disturbing emerged. With breathtaking speed, celebration became the predominant response. Within hours, social media erupted not with horror or condemnation, but with declarations of justice served — some thinly veiled and others brazen in their glee.

His title alone was enough to warrant death in mind of some, with no pause to examine his actual record or consider the human cost — including the conversation his wife would have with their teenage sons.

These weren’t just scattered trolls or fringe activists. The approval came from suburban parents, office workers, writers, influencers, teachers and professors — the very people shaping future generations’ understanding of discourse and disagreement. Some of these same voices who argue that challenging their ideas constitutes violence were now celebrating actual violence without hesitation.

This isn’t occurring in isolation. The Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the 2020 racial justice protests that at times escalated into riots, and the approval some expressed for attempted political assassinations each reveal a society where disagreement has become synonymous with evil.

The Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel were even met with applause in more than a few quarters, including most absurdly on the campuses of our most elite universities, driven by a simplistic narrative that casts complex geopolitical conflicts in absolute terms of oppressor versus oppressed.

As Hanauer pointed out, the stratification of wealth and inequality set the stage, and the numbers behind our current populist rage are staggering. The wealthiest 1 percent now hold more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined, while wages for the average worker have stagnated for decades.

For millions, the cost of basic necessities — healthcare, housing and education — has become crippling. But equally staggering are developments in our schools and universities, where students whine that challenging their views is a form of harm, that intellectual discomfort is trauma, that disagreement invalidates their personhood.

This dehumanizing impulse revealed itself during the pandemic as well. Just as Thompson was reduced to his corporate title, neighbors were reduced to either “responsible citizens” or “selfish murderers” based on single observed moments. Scientific debate was recast as violence against the vulnerable.

In hindsight, we know some restrictions weren’t necessary and indeed harmful, but that debate was suppressed not just under the guise of protecting public health, but because we’d forgotten how to debate at all.

We’ve seen this pattern evolve through cancel culture, where complex individuals were reduced to their worst moment or most controversial statement. Digitally vilified and drawn-and-quartered. Critics warned that teaching people to respond to disagreement with demands for punishment and banishment rather than engagement would lead to darker places.

They were dismissed as alarmist. But the speed and consensus with which Thompson was deemed deserving of death — without any examination of his actual views or actions — shows how completely this mindset has taken hold.

Many Americans still insist revolutionary unrest “could never happen here” — perhaps the most dangerous delusion of all. Skeptics often point to 1968 as a modern analog — the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic Convention, the war protests and the violent police response — as evidence that America has weathered worse without collapsing.

But that ignores two crucial distinctions. First, 1968 fell during one of the greatest periods of economic expansion in U.S. history. Second, it was an era where political opponents could engage in substantive debate without being branded as existential threats.

Back then, young idealistic revolutionaries might have taken to the streets and even turned to violence, but many ultimately receded into conventional society, thanks to a strong middle class and genuine upward mobility. That economic engine, coupled with a belief in the power of dialogue to effect change, provided an escape valve that simply doesn’t exist today.

The rise of this moral absolutism — wherein debate is violence and disagreement is erasure — combined with unprecedented economic stratification, creates perfect conditions for actual violence to flourish.

When you teach people that words constitute violence while simultaneously stripping away paths to economic dignity, physical violence becomes not just self-defense but inevitable. When you insist that challenging ideas invalidates personhood while concentrating wealth in fewer and fewer hands, eliminating ideological opponents becomes a moral imperative.

The pitchforks aren’t just here — they’re being forged in our classrooms, sharpened on social media, and wielded by those we have taught that words are violence and debate is oppression.

Is it already too late? Perhaps. But averting the worst requires reclaiming abandoned principles.

We must restore not just economic opportunity, but the very possibility of good-faith disagreement. We must teach the next generation that challenging ideas isn’t violence — it’s how societies progress. We must embrace complexity and reject the false comfort of moral absolutes. Economic inequality must be addressed — not as a favor to the poor, but as a necessity for societal stability.

The warning signs are flashing red. Whether we heed them will determine not just America’s fate, but whether we can ever return to a society capable of solving problems through discourse rather than destruction.

Justin Williamson, a former Wall Street litigator and international dispute resolution professional with extensive experience in global advisory services, now works as a writer and strategic consultant based in Louisville, Ky.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5034916-populist-rage-inequality-discourse/ 

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James O’Keefe Investigates FEMA’s Response to the WNC Disaster (VIDEOS)

Daisy Luther December 12, 2024

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In an uncommon (these days) act of objective journalism, James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas and now the CEO of OMG Media, has gone to Western North Carolina to investigate. He went to see who was telling the truth about the situation there: the federal government or the people struggling to survive in tents in freezing temperatures.

This isn’t the first time FEMA has been accused of not aiding the survivors of a disaster. The accusations of cold disinterest to downright negligence were also present after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Superstorm Sandy in the North Eastern states, and the terrible wildfire that ravaged Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii.

In each case, the story was the same. Victims of the disasters criticized FEMA’s lackluster responses and were accused by the media of spreading “harmful misinformation.”

“We don’t want to have an epidemic of people freezing to death,” a resident declared during the Buncombe County Commissioners meeting, voicing frustration over the slow pace of disaster relief in North Carolina. Another resident added, “I’ve never seen the lack of public officials coming out and actually trying to help,” reflecting the sentiment of abandonment felt by many in the community. Despite the mainstream media’s narrative of assistance, a resident revealed, “FEMA money runs out, and all the help I’ve seen has come from people out of state.” One FEMA employee even admitted, “Every delay means another night that a child sleeps in a car.”

@OKeefeMedia Group investigated these concerns, visiting FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers across the state to uncover the reality of Hurricane Helene relief efforts.

Here are the videos he has released so far. You can judge for yourself.

Part 1:

“FEMA doesn’t want these people.”

Part 2:

O’Keefe Calls FEMA’s Mysterious ‘HAL’ Robot-Like Representative for Answers on Disaster Relief Response

Part 3:

O’Keefe Sneaks Into Emergency FEMA Locations, Exposes Empty Disaster Recovery Center

Who is helping the Helene victims?

The people who are actually helping are volunteers from across the country. They’re organizing the donations of campers and RVs, transporting them, and setting them up on peoples’ land, completely free of charge.

If you feel moved to help, the groups I recommend are:

Operation Shelter

Emergency RV

Operation Helo

What do you think?

How do you still feel hope when it seems like your own government cares more about the welfare of people in Ukraine, Lebanon, and Africa than it does suffering American citizens?

Do you believe O’Keefe’s reports, which are in line with the “conspiracy theories” put forth by locals? Or do you think the government is doing its best?

Let’s discuss it in the comments section.

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/okeefe-investigates-fema/ 

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Missing American ‘pilgrim’ Travis Timmerman found in Syria after spending months locked up in prison

By Patrick Reilly Published Dec. 12, 2024 Updated Dec. 12, 2024, 7:34 a.m. ET

A scruffy, bearded man who identified himself as missing Missouri resident Travis Timmerman was found in Syria Thursday — and said he was imprisoned after traveling to the country “for spiritual purposes.”

Timmerman, 29, said he had spent more than half a year in the government prison when he was freed by rebel fighters armed with AK-47s on Monday as Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell.

“My door was busted down, it woke me up,” Timmerman told CBS.

“I thought the guards were still there, so I thought the warfare could have been more active than it ended up being … Once we got out, there was no resistance, there was no real fighting.”

Video of Timmerman posted Thursday by Turkish news agency Anadolu had initially sparked speculation that he could be American journalist Austin Tice, who vanished in 2012 while covering the anti-Assad uprising in Damascus at the beginning of the Syrian civil war.

Timmerman said he was detained seven months ago after entering Syria without permission when he crossed the border from Lebanon.

He had traveled from Europe to Lebanon for “spiritual purposes” — and described himself to NBC News as a religious “pilgrim.”

His experience in one of Syria’s notorious prisons “wasn’t too bad,” he said.

“I was never beaten. The only really bad part was that I couldn’t go to the bathroom when I wanted to. I was only let out three times a day to go to the bathroom,” he told CBS News.

He was found by journalists walking barefoot in the town of Dhiyabia outside the capital on Thursday as he headed toward Jordan.

Timmerman told CBS he had the chance to speak with his family on the phone three weeks ago while in prison.

Finally freed, he said he’s having more difficulty now trying to find a place to sleep at night in the streets, but people have been more than willing to assist him.

“I’m feeling well. I’ve been fed and I’ve been watered, so I’m feeling well,” Timmerman told CBS.

Earlier this year, authorities in Missouri and Budapest, Hungary, put out missing persons reports for a man named Pete Timmerman, whom Hungarian authorities identified as “Travis” Pete Timmerman, NBC reported.

The alert from the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Timmerman vanished in Budapest on May 28.

Budapest police said he was last spotted at a church and had “left for an unknown location.”

US officials are aware that Timmerman has been found and are working to provide support, CBS reported.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/missing-american-travis-timmerman-found-in-syria-

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Where Are the Protests for Christians Slaughtered by Genocidal Jihadists in Nigeria?

"Up to 100 Nigerian Christians had been slaughtered since October."

By Rod Lampard Dec 12, 2024

While the threat of genocide from jihadists in Syria makes headlines, the genocide of Christians in Nigeria goes untouched, unnoticed, and unresolved.

Even self-important speculative bloggers, quick to leap for the ‘who’s to blame?’ dollar, appear to be more interested in bashing Israel, and the West than they are about securing Syria’s Christians.

Like Nigeria, if persecuted Christians cannot be exploited for political posturing, there’s no interest in Christians suffering.

Since Caldron Pool started covering the Islamist war on Nigeria’s Christians in 2019, little has changed.

As recently as Dec.1, 48 Christians were slaughtered after Fulani Muslims in central Nigeria’s Benue state gunned them down.

300-armed herdsman ‘attacked predominantly Christian communities in Logo and Katsina-Ala counties,’ reported Morning Star.

Community leader Joseph Anawah told the Christian persecution watchdog,

‘They overwhelmingly attacked our people, shooting anyone in sight.’

Although the Nigerian government promises to bring an end to the killings, World Watch Monitor said, Christians are still being targeted by Muslim herdsmen, and the jihadist group Boko Haram.

Up to 100 Nigerian Christians had been slaughtered since October.

Truth Nigeria said a lot of attacks are located in Benue, a 3-county area rich in farmland.

Muslim ‘Fulani-tribe terrorists, and local Tiv mercenaries hired by them, have been unleashing mayhem on the locals who are chiefly Catholic.’

‘Benue has been an ethnic killing zone for years.’

Last week, International Christian Concern (ICC), reported the murder of a pastor, and businesswoman, in two separate attacks.

Although witnesses identified the killers as Muslim, ‘authorities have only categorized the attackers as unidentified gunmen’ or ‘bandits.’

‘The latest attacks reflect a broader trend of violence against Christians in Taraba and surrounding states,’ ICC explained.

In one instance, ‘Oluwakemi Moses Konye, a pastor’s wife, was killed while travelling with her infant child.’

Many believe, ICC added, ‘that these targeted attacks indicate a concerning trend aimed at destabilizing Christian populations in Nigeria’s Northern and Central regions.’

Countering the soft-on-Islam government narrative, Morning Star said the killing of a Christian without provocation was a clear sign most attackers were Islamic.

There have been 750 attacks on churches, and other Christian buildings such as hospitals, schools, and cemeteries between Oct. 2022 and Sept. 2023.

‘Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands, and impose Islam.’

This is made worse by hindrances to farming caused by ‘desertification,’ Morning Star concluded.

Without these Christian NGO news organisations, or X it’s doubtful news about what’s going on in Nigeria would have a platform.

Though thousands of Nigerian Christians have been displaced, maimed, and/or killed, there have been no Black Lives Matter Inc. protests shouting their name.

Antifa are nowhere to be seen.

University’s useful idiots, vacuously protesting to “end Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” while shouting for genocide, with “from the river to the sea,” are noticeably silent.

Legacy media coverage offers soft interviews or begrudging lip service.

Most Western politicians are simultaneously censoring Islam’s victims out of fear of being called “Islamophobic,” while prioritising aid for “Israel’s victims” instead.

With all eyes on Syria, and Black Lives Matter Inc.’s meltdown over justice for Daniel Penny, news about the ongoing suffering of Nigeran Christians barely registers.

Concern is contempt, and care is lost in a howl of hypocrisy.

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Can Trump Save the Dollar?

12/11/2024 • Mises Wire • J.R. MacLeod

During his 2024 presidential campaign Donald Trump repeatedly and in grave terms highlighted the possibility of the US dollar losing its world reserve currency status. This occurred at summits with business leaders at the New York and Chicago Economic Clubs.

Trump occupies a rather unique position in this debate since he recognizes the real possibility of the dollar losing its world currency status, he opposes this change and wishes to prevent it, and yet he is not a paradigmatic member of the ruling class. However mainstream he is—today or in the past—he doesn’t possess the establishment credentials of a Ben Bernanke, for instance.

Since Trump doesn’t want the dollar to lose reserve currency status, his acknowledgment that this is a real possibility should at least serve as ammunition against those who are oblivious to this change, or who claim that it isn’t happening. Typically, when dollar defenders argue that the loss of reserve currency status is an impossibility, they are arguing against those who wish for this change to happen. When Trump says that the dollar could lose its reserve status—even though he opposes this change—it at least undercuts the factual basis of those dollar defenders who claim its status is secure.

Admittedly, the possible loss of reserve currency status is not a short-term trend. Anyone claiming the demise of the dollar is imminent—and particularly anyone trying to sell you a financial package on this basis—should be treated with skepticism. But there is a bizarre school of thought which downplays all blows to the dollar’s position, and claims that these events are insignificant. There are, in fact, many significant events occurring, and they are stacking up to present a real threat to the dollar’s position. Events such as Saudi Arabia trading oil in other currencies, BRICs countries developing a new payment system, and China rapidly decreasing its holdings of US treasuries. How can these events not mean anything?

If the dollar is in jeopardy, and Trump wants to save it, the question then becomes: can he save it? One approach to achieving this goal would be to manage the dollar more competently. This would involve less creation of new money (inflation), since many national economies were severely destabilized by the massive inflation of recent years. It would also involve a judicious, non-ideological use of dollar-based power, as opposed to weaponizing the dollar over conflicts where a nation perceives its fundamental interests are at stake, and the US interest is peripheral at best, and unjustified at worst. The other approach would be to get tough; to threaten countries who move away from holding the dollar for forex purposes with either economic or military power.

Trump has made noise about both approaches, though he seems to lean most heavily towards the use of tariffs to prevent nations from breaking away. In my view, the aggressive approach would only accelerate current trends, since this was the path taken from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 up until now, and it created the situation in the first place. A Trump administration managing the dollar the way it used to be managed could placate other nations and slow down current trends, but I think that is all it could do, rather than permanently halt and reverse these developments. A fundamental rupture has occurred and too many important nations perceive it as a fundamental interest to break the power of the dollar as the world reserve currency in the long term. They may be happier if this process is managed slowly and without disruption, but they are committed to it.

In my view, it is impossible for Trump to stop the process of de-dollarization. Regardless of how much success he is able to achieve, we should also ask whether this is the right goal in the first place. Undoubtedly the dollar losing global reserve currency status would cause significant short-term economic pain for the American people. Trump seems to have the noble intention of avoiding this pain, but we also know that markets can respond to these events and get the economy working again rather quickly when left alone. Beyond markets, there is also the calculation, by which the government could adjust the ratio of its gold holdings to the dollar (assuming implementation of a hard gold standard). This is explained by Murray Rothbard in the final chapter of The Case Against the Fed. In the event that the dollar loses its reserve status, this plan could very quickly restore the currency to a sound position.

It may seem noble to attempt to reinforce the reserve status of the dollar, but defending the Fed, the fiat dollar, and global reserve currency status are the economic equivalent of defending death by strangulation just because it’s slow. This currency system supports the bloated welfare-warfare functions of the government. It has hollowed out American industry by financialization and the fact that dollars can be created out of thin air to pay for goods and services domestically and abroad. This tremendously undercuts genuine production and wealth generation.

Because this system creates such an unnatural and unproductive economy, and though this economy has such pernicious effects on society, collapse is inherent in the system sooner or later. The longer the system lasts, the more rot sets in, and the worse the eventual collapse will be.

This discussion brings us to the subject of institutionalism. There is a powerful tendency in politics to regard an institution as one’s own, long after one’s own faction has lost it, or even where the institution never belonged to one’s own faction in the first place. Accompanying this is the tendency to want to reform institutions recognized as not aligned with one’s own faction, rather than destroy them.

Being unable to recognize when an institution is opposed to one’s political goals, and being unable to recognize when an opposing institution is irredeemably opposed to these goals and, therefore, not subject to reform, can prevent a faction from achieving its desired political goals. In these cases, all energy—by the fact of being directed into these institutions—is then redirected against the goals the political faction wishes to achieve.

According to Trump’s stated goals of wishing to revitalize the American economy on behalf of the American people—and not government or corporate special interests—the Federal Reserve and the fiat dollar it supports are irredeemable institutions. Trying to reform and reinforce the status of the dollar as global reserve currency will never achieve these goals. People may be able to point to this or that improvement in economic conditions over the next few years, but I am talking about systemic change and a lasting victory. It is hard to argue that these aren’t necessary over and above small improvements.

Between the Biden administration inadvertently and obliviously endangering the global reserve currency status of the dollar through its own incompetence, and Trump’s intention to undo this damage, there is a better path. Any future American administration should create a plan to manage the transition away from the fiat dollar as global reserve currency towards a national gold dollar, that is, a national policy of a 100 percent gold-backed dollar, where other countries are free to set their own monetary policy. This would vastly improve the American economy as well as international relations.

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15 Big Grocery Stores Collapsing All Around Us

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With grocery prices at record highs, you might think that grocery chains are making loads of money right now. While some of them have strong business models and are doing well in this environment, several others have never recovered from the losses they faced during the pandemic or even earlier.

In the past couple of years, many grocers have filed for bankruptcy to restructure their debt, faced changes in leadership, or been sold out to larger corporations, but these measures were no guarantee of success and that their core problems have been solved. Especially now that U.S. consumers are looking for the best deals they can find and competition is growing.

At the moment, many big grocery chains are finding themselves at a crossroads, navigating through uncertain times and staring at the possibility of disappearing from the market. Although some of them still have hundreds of stores open, others are closer to annihilation, with so few locations left that you can count them on your fingers.

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U.S. Government ROBS $20 Billion from Russia Funds

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The U.S. just STOLE, and sent, $20 billion to Ukraine, using cash from frozen Russian assets.

Russia’s reaction? Calling it “simply robbery” and threatening to snatch Western assets in return.

Moscow is accusing the U.S. of cooking up “Russophobic” moves before Biden hands over the White House.

The U.S. says the funds fulfill a G7 promise to back Ukraine’s fight against Russia, and Moscow is not taking it lightly.

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There is no authority under US law or under International law, for one country to "seize" the sovereign wealth funds of any other country, whether there is a war going on (Ukraine) or not.

The US just did exactly that.

This is outright theft. Brought to you by the same people who just overthrew the government of Syria last weekend.

Miscreants, Murderers and Thieves: That is the United States Federal Government.

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The Quiet Before The Storms That Are Brewing As Biden Is Inserting American Tax Dollars Into Yet Another Country By Funding Terrorist Groups Who Hate America

- Warmongers never learn their lesson

By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline  December 11, 2024

Some ANP readers have noticed a lack of real "news," as the traditional liberal media industrial complex is spending the majority of their time attempting to smear Donald Trump's cabinet picks.

Don't get me wrong, they report on what is happening in Syria, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, but the majority of what they seem to consider their job, is to derail any nominee Trump wants in his cabinet. The smears come from unnamed sources, reporting "allegations" as if a claim is the same as a fact, and basically joined at the hip with Democrats as the "opposition party."

This is not "new" news, but a pattern of behavior over the past few decades, that has shown confidence and trust levels by the American people, toward the MSM, dwindling with each move to the left they have taken.

We remind them of that every time we, Independent Media collectively, cover topics the media is unwilling to focus on until they are forced to as they try to take over the narrative to spin it in a manner that reflects badly on conservatives and better for liberals.

I bring this up yet again because below we are going to cover a few stories the MSM is either downplaying, ignoring, or spinning madly in order to misinform the American public.

The wars across the globe are being reported, but the media doesn't bother to inform the American public of the ramifications to them if we see war on U.S. soil. The so-called "resistance" to Trump's agenda is also being downplayed by the media, perhaps they are hoping for a shock effect on inauguration day.

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WAR, MORE WAR AND THE AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS....

Recent reports indicate that the U.S. is planning to fund two terrorist groups in Syria, more money thrown at our enemies in an attempt to try to control what happens in Syria.

Those weapons, money, and anything else sent to these terrorist groups, will assuredly be used against the U.S. at some point....mark my words.

That funding is also on top of the hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars already sent, and more to be sent, to Ukraine. All while Americans are trying to figure out how to eat three meals a day and pay their bills.

Disgraced U.S. Intel agencies are warning that Russia is preparing to use their new hypersonic lethal intermediate-range ballistic missile for a second time in Ukraine.

Within hours of the attack on the military facility, Russian President Vladimir Putin took the rare step of speaking on national TV to boast about the new, hypersonic missile. He warned the West that its next use could be against Ukraine’s NATO allies who allowed Kyiv to use their longer-range missiles to strike inside Russia.

Considering America is one of those allies, one would think the media would at least attempt to inform U.S. citizens of how to prepare for an attack on American soil, but they don't.

Independent Media readers will survive the aftermath of an attack on U.S. soil, far better than those allowing themselves to be dumbed down by the media.

If America is directly attacked, it will affect our ability to get gas for our generators, so those that have the means, should definitely get a solar generator. When was the last time anyone reading this remembers the media warning you about gas powered generators being ineffective when gas runs low and becomes too expensive to continue using your generator?

Never?

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Frankly I don't think they care since the media has been part of the depopulation agenda from the start.

THE RESISTANCE......

A look at what is happening closer to home, as in the U.S., the media is leading the charge with their smear campaigns against Trump's nominations, deliberately trying to incite liberals into taking rash actions. They are also downplaying the "resistance" movement that began against Trump back after he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Doing so offers them an opportunity, they think, because if the protests on inauguration day are smaller, they can say "see we told you," and if they become out of control, they will gleefully claim it was a grass roots movement, a surprise, and "unexpected."

The local DC Fox News affiliate reports that "DC readies for Trump inauguration with massive security plans."

Smith added Tuesday, that the department is also tracking other potentially large-scale events.

"Currently, we’re tracking I think four major…if you want to call it…major events as it relates to First Amendment activity. As you know, this is nothing new to the MPD. We handle large protests and demonstrations, not just coming on the heels of a January 6th certification of the elections and inauguration, but we do this year-round," she said. "We signed up for this job. We understand the risks are and what’s associated with this, and as with any protests and demonstrations, we will be prepared to address what comes with that."

We also have direct threats of action from some that appear harmless, yet after multiple assassination attempts against Trump even before the election, appearances are deceiving.

On the Instagram account of videomattpresentsofficial, we see the following note, with the video itself beneath the note.

Lib's Dramatic Bid to Disrupt Trump's 2025 Inauguration

In an audacious move, a liberal activist, referred to only as "Lib," has publicly solicited help to gain access to the stage during Donald Trump's anticipated 2025 presidential inauguration. His goal is not to celebrate the transition of power but to confront and challenge what he perceives as Trump's detrimental vision for America's future. Lib's call to action has stirred significant reaction online, with supporters viewing it as a necessary protest and critics seeing it as an attempt to undermine the democratic process. This incident raises questions about the boundaries of protest, the sanctity of presidential inaugurations, and the deep political divide in the U.S. The discussion around Lib's plan reflects broader tensions about free speech, political activism, and the role of public disruption in political discourse.

Here is the weirdo's original video:

Next up is from the Answer Coalition's "National day of action Jan. 20: PROTEST on Inauguration Day -- We Fight Back!

This fight starts right now. Tens of thousands of people are taking action on January 20th all across the country. Join this new national movement. Find a demonstration or an action near you, organize one in your area, and share the call.

Related: Thousands expected for People’s March on Washington ahead of Trump’s inauguration

Yup, the crazies are back and most of the media are ignoring them because they are too focused on smearing Trump's cabinet picks.

BOTTOM LINE......

There are storms brewing, and the media is being extremely quiet about them and are failing at their job to help inform Americans.

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Rockefeller Chair Warns US Stock Market Will See Catastrophic Crash

December 11, 2024

Rockefeller International Chair, Ruchir Sharma, warned the US stock market will see a catastrophic crash. He also warned “America is over-owned, overvalued, and overhyped to a degree never seen before,” and compared today’s jubilation to the Roaring 1920s, which was followed by the Great Depression. King World News agrees with his assessment and cautions investors to get prepared.

Prepare For Collapse

December 11 (King World News) – Gerald Celente: The Happy Days in America keep getting happier since Donald Trump won the race to the White House.

The University of Michigan’s monthly survey of consumer confidence registered 74.0 at the beginning of December, jumping from 71.4 in November to reach its highest level since May and beating economists’ estimates of 73.0.

Confidence rose among Republican voters and declined among Democrats. Independents split between the two.

We note this survey because it is more than another nod to the partisan divide.

The survey director Joanne Hsu said the numbers reflect the collective economic experiences and observations of respondents, and that “Democrats voiced concerns that anticipated policy changes, particularly tariff hikes, would lead to a resurgence of inflation,” while “Republicans expect the next president to usher in an immense slowdown in inflation.”

Putting their money where their minds are, U.S. consumers’ surging confidence was accompanied by a rise in sales of durable goods—items expected to last at least three years.

Yet, Hsu said the higher sales were not a vote of confidence in the economy, but, instead, consumers are buying more products now because they expect inflation to continue and are buying now to avoid paying higher prices later.

We disagree.

Trump’s election victory has brought more of an upbeat economic vibe to the general public rather than a more-of-the-same if Kamala Harris was elected.

Yet, in reality, more people have less money to spend.

The U.S. Commerce department reported that in October, the U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $73.84 billion, compared to $83.3 billion in September.

The average U.S. monthly trade deficit this year through October is $80.7 billion, 12.3 percent above that during the same stretch in 2023…

Further illustrating the global economic contractions, October’s exports fell 16 percent compared to September’s to $265.72 billion. Imports dropped 4 percent to $339.56 billion.

A slight gain in exported services, including travel and intellectual property, was negated by a drop in shipment of goods. Exports of computer accessories shrank by $1.2 billion and passenger cars by $1.3 billion.

Computer imports were off by $3.7 billion and cars, engines, and parts by $1.6 billion.

Downbeat or Upbeat?

Yet, as evidenced by the U.S. equity markets and its economy, as the old saying goes: “We’re #1.”

Rockefeller Chair Warns US Stock Market Will Crash

Indeed, in last week’s Financial Times the Chairman of Rockefeller International Ruchir Sharma said investors around the world were pumping more money into U.S. equities at the highest levels ever recorded. He said that back in the 1980s, U.S. companies accounted for just 30 percent of the global stock index, but now it’s up to 70 percent… even though the U.S. Gross Domestic Product accounts for only 27 percent of the world’s GDP.

Warning that the “Awe of ‘American exceptionalism’ in markets has now gone too far,” he also noted that so far this year, foreign capital has poured in over $1 trillion into the U.S. debt markets, while less than half of that has gone into the Eurozone sector.

He wrote that “In the past, including the roaring 1920s and the dotcom era, a rising U.S. market would lift other markets,” but “Today, a booming U.S. market is sucking money out of the others.”

Warning of another dot.com bust and market panic he noted that “Talk of bubbles in tech or AI, or in investment strategies focused on growth and momentum, obscures the mother of all bubbles in U.S. markets,” and that “Thoroughly dominating the mind space of global investors, America is over-owned, overvalued, and overhyped to a degree never seen before.”

The Other Side

Seeing no “bubble” danger ahead, on the upside, Deutsche Bank projects that next year the S&P 500 will hit 7,000, Bank of America predicts 6,666, Barclay says 6,600 while JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs forecast it will close the year at 6,500. Today the S&P closed up at 6,034.

And again, on “The Other Side” is the other economic downside of the world which we have greatly detailed in this and previous Trends Journals.

And just yesterday, China reported that imports fell nearly 4 percent… which equals more Chinese people buying less products because they are making less money. On the export side, the projections were that outbound shipments would rise by 12.7 percent, but they rose just 6.7 percent.

In hopes of trying to prop up the economy which the government destroyed as a result of its three years of zero COVID policy, which destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions, China’s Politburo loosened monetary policy on Monday for the first time in 14 years.

While the announcement pushed Hong Kong’s Hang Seng China Enterprises stock index up 3.14 percent yesterday, today, the Hang Seng was flat. We forecast the Politburo money scheme will help juice the overall economy, but not enough to salvage the damage caused by their COVID war policies that destroyed the real estate market which accounts for some 30 percent of China’s Gross Domestic Product.

TREND FORECAST:

And as we have detailed in this and previous Trends Journals, there is a global economic slowdown and we forecast a bad situation will become much worse.

In trying to reverse this downtrend, central banks will lower interest rates which will in turn juice inflation. And, the higher inflation rises, the higher gold prices will rise as investors seek safe-haven assets.

On the “upside,” the U.S. economy, which is outperforming the rest of the world, will stay strong in at least the first year of Donald Trump’s administration. As we have forecast in the past and continue to forecast, President Trump’s primary interest is “The economy, stupid.” Therefore, he will do all he can to keep propping it up.

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US strikes dozens of ISIS camps and operatives in Syria amid Assad's downfall

Assad fled Syria on Saturday and was granted asylum by Russia

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted dozens of airstrikes on known ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria on Sunday to prevent the terrorist organization from taking advantage of the demise of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s regime.

After Assad’s family ruled over Syria for more than 50 years, Assad was forced to flee Syria to Russia, where he was granted asylum, when a coalition of largely radical Islamist groups led a sweeping offensive across Syria and captured the country’s capital city.

CENTCOM announced on Sunday that it has conducted strikes against ISIS leaders, operatives and camps as part of an ongoing mission to "disrupt, degrade and defeat ISIS."

Specifically, CENTCOM is working to prevent the terrorist group from conducting operations to ensure ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria.

TRUMP URGES US TO STAY OUT OF SYRIAN CIVIL WAR, BLAMING OBAMA FOR FAILURE AS ISLAMISTS CLOSE IN ON CAPITAL

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During the operation, CENTCOM forces struck over 75 targets using U.S. Air Force assets like B-52s, F-15s and A-10s.

Damage assessments are currently underway, CENTCOM said, and there are no indications any civilians were killed in the operations.

ASSAD ARRIVES IN MOSCOW, IS GRANTED ASYLUM BY RUSSIA

Islamic State militant holds ISIS flag in a desert setting

CENTCOM also said it, along with regional allies and partners, will continue to carry out operations to hinder ISIS’s operational capabilities during this "dynamic period in Syria."

"There should be no doubt - we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria," General Michael Erik Kurilla said. "All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Sunday that the people of Syria "finally have reason for hope," adding the U.S. "strongly supports a peaceful transition of power to an accountable Syrian government" through a Syrian-led process that is inclusive.

ISLAMIST REBELS IN SYRIA CATCH ASSAD, PUTIN, IRAN REGIMES OFF GUARD GIVING US NEW MIDEAST HEADACHE

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"The Assad regime’s refusal since 2011 to engage in a credible political process and its reliance on the brutal support of Russia and Iran led inevitably to its own collapse," Blinken said. "During this transitional period, the Syrian people have every right to demand the preservation of state institutions, the resumption of key services, and the protection of vulnerable communities."

The secretary also said the U.S. would be closely monitoring developments as they unfold in the region and will support international efforts to hold the Assad regime and its backers accountable for "atrocities and abuses" against the people of Syria.

Blinken noted the atrocities included the use of chemical weapons.

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"We have taken note of statements made by rebel leaders in recent days, but as they take on greater responsibility, we will assess not just their words, but their actions," Blinken said. "We again call on all actors to respect human rights, take all precautions to protect civilians, and to uphold international humanitarian law."

Fox News Digital’s Michael Lee contributed to this report.

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etc. You will see Russia as she begins to move even more clearly than she has in the past. Syria, it will be gone such as you know it and the Muslims will have total control along with the nerve gas, along with the poison gas, along with their nuclear weapons. etc..

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Assad reportedly sought help from Israel in confronting rebel groups – Israel demanded Iran first be expelled

As Syria conflict continues, Kurdish groups make push to strengthen positions

All Israel News Staff | Published: December 3, 2024

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad asked Israel for help in confronting the advance of opposition Islamist rebel groups besieging his forces, Saudi newspaper Elaph reported Monday. Describing it as “a notable development,” Elaph cited an intelligence official who confirmed Assad's request for assistance against the opposition groups.

The intelligence official told Elaph that the message was relayed to an Israeli security agency through an Assad ally in Europe.

The official said that Israel responded by stating it was not particularly concerned with what was happening in Syria, but that it would first require the expulsion of all Iranian elements, including militias from Syria, before considering any assistance.

Syrian opposition groups, many directly or indirectly funded by external actors, including Turkey, launched a large-scale offensive several days ago aimed at recapturing Aleppo and its villages. The groups, led by Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) [a Sunni Islamist faction], managed to seize control of most of Aleppo before advancing toward other Syrian cities and towns like Hama, before being halted by Assad's regrouped forces with support from Russian fighter jets.

Syrian government forces have fully withdrawn from the areas around Aleppo, which are now under opposition control. According to reports, the Syrian army was not heavily present in Hama before the offensive, with Iranian elements and proxy militias maintaining the largest presence in the area.

According to the security official, Assad is relying on Israel's predictable security stance toward his regime, in contrast to the uncertain position of opposition groups regarding Israel.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has stated that Israel views the Kurds as natural allies in the region.

“The Kurdish people are a great nation, one of the great nations without political independence,” Sa’ar said at the handover ceremony marking his assuming the office of foreign minister. "They are our natural ally.” Sa’ar has also said that Israel “must reach out and strengthen our ties with them.”

So far, Kurdish resistance groups have largely focused their attention on combating Islamist rebel groups that threaten them and on providing security and stability in Kurdish-dominated areas against Turkish-funded opposition groups such as the Syrian National Army (SNA) and HTS.

At press time, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led opposition group, announced it had begun an operation aimed at capturing seven villages on the east bank of the Euphrates River that had been held previously by Assad with the help of Iranian militias.

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government is “constantly following” the situation in Syria and taking action to protect Israel’s interests.

https://allisrael.com/assad-asked-israel-for-help-in-confronting-rebel-groups-which-said-iran-must-be-expelled-first 

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Israel prepares for Assad regime collapse as clashes erupt within sight of Israeli border in southern Syria

Rebel groups attack regime forces in Daraa province, near Israeli Golan Heights

All Israel News Staff | Published: December 6, 2024

The State of Israel is preparing for the possible collapse of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as Islamist rebel forces in northern Syria continued their lightning advance by capturing the city of Hama on Thursday and reaching the outskirts of Homs on Friday.

Meanwhile, new clashes erupted on Friday, partially within sight of Israel's border with Syria along the Golan Heights, as rebel groups seized control of several towns and military checkpoints in the Daraa province.

On Thursday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an urgent security assessment to discuss the rapidly unfolding events in Syria, Israel's northeastern neighbor. The IDF also stated that Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi held a situational assessment with the army’s top brass.

“The IDF follows the events and is prepared for any scenario in attack and defense,” the army said. “The IDF will not allow a threat near the Syrian-Israeli border, and will work to thwart any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel.”

According to Israeli media reports, prior to the rebels reaching the outskirts of Homs and capturing towns in southern Syria, the IDF assessed that the Syrian regime was in real danger of collapse – a scenario that has become increasingly likely in recent hours.

Channel 12 reported that Israeli intelligence was surprised by the rapidity of the collapse of the Syrian army. “The Syrian military forces are not really fighting,” an Israeli official told the Axios news outlet.

“We don't think the regime is in immediate danger, but this is the biggest challenge for the Assad regime in the last decade,” he added.

On Thursday, al-Arabiya news carried a so-far unconfirmed report, citing an Israeli political source claiming Israel would “establish a buffer zone inside Syria” if the city of Homs fell to the rebels.

Israel shared its concerns with the Biden administration about the potential takeover of Syria, either by radical Islamists or by additional Iranian-backed militia forces, a U.S. official told Axios.

Syrian reports claimed on Thursday morning that Israeli airstrikes had destroyed caches containing advanced weapons in northern Syria to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Islamist rebel groups.

On Friday, the rebel groups led by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Shams (HTS), an ideological offshoot of al-Qaeda and ISIS, continued their rapid advance south and captured towns on the outskirts of Homs. Their presence threatens to cut off a major highway connecting the capital Damascus with the coastal areas, which serve as the Assad regime’s Alawite support base.

After renewed clashes that focused on northern Syria for almost a week, on Friday, the uprising reached areas near the Israeli Golan Heights. The clashes were so far centered in the area of Nawah, a city only 10 km (6 miles) from Israel.

According to Abdo Jabassini, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University whose research focuses on southern Syria, rebels captured an army post west of Nawah, only 10 km (about 6 miles) from the border. In the city itself, armed groups imposed a curfew after “they stormed the police station, detained the police officers, and seized all weapons.”

More clashes were reported in and around the province capital of Daraa, called the “Cradle of the Syrian Revolution” where the uprising began in March 2011. In the nearby town of Dael, video footage showed the flag of the revolution raised in a public square.

“Calls have been made for military conscripts in Daraa and Quneitra provinces to defect, with guarantees of safety and security extended to those who comply,” Jabassini wrote on ?. “Multiple defections of members from security apparatuses have reportedly occurred in Daraa province.”

More clashes and uprisings took place in Ghabagheb, Jasim, Inkhil and several other towns in close proximity to the Israeli border.

A source from the Druze town of Suweidah, some 65 km (40 miles) from the Israeli border, told Kan News that the Syrian Druze community would not allow HTS to enter their area, known as the Druze Mountain.

“The international community and Israel in particular should pay attention to what is happening in southern Syria,” he said.

Channel 13 reported that Israeli representatives already sent messages to rebel leaders to keep away from the Israeli border.

Read more: SYRIA | BASHAR AL ASSAD | HAY'AT TAHRIR AL SHAM (HTS)

All Israel News Staff

The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel.

https://allisrael.com/israel-prepares-for-assad-regime-collapse-as-clashes-erupt-within-sight-of-israeli-border-in-southern-syria 

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Hamas counting number of living hostages, hostage deal negotiations enter 'final' phase - report

Hostage deal negotiations have been reported to enter a new and "final" phase, sources told Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.

Hamas is attempting to determine the number of living Israeli hostages it and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip are holding, Palestinian sources told Saudi-owned news outlet Asharq Al-Awsat on Saturday.

The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Hamas leadership reached out to other groups to assess the number of living hostages.

The report comes as sources told the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar that hostage deal negotiations have been reported to enter a new and "final" phase.

Plans for Gaza's 'day after'

An Egyptian source told the Lebanese outlet that "several points are still pending" regarding the plan for Gaza after the war ends, specifically managing and rebuilding the Gaza Strip.

Ongoing contact with the Qataris has taken a positive turn in the past two days, Al-Akhbar added.

Additional topics that are reportedly on the table in negotiations are the IDF's presence in the Gaza Strip and the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

This is a developing story.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832330 

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Bombshell report details exactly how banks worked with Biden officials to spy on pro-Trump Americans

READ MORE: Biden admits surveilling citizens' private financial transactions

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By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 17:14 EST, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 18:04 EST, 6 December 2024

The Biden administration has gotten banks to let them 'spy' on the everyday purchases and money transfers of Americans, carrying out millions of searches without getting a warrant typically required for such snooping, a stunning new Congressional report charges.

The House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government just released its damning findings, which the panel found skews heavily toward surveillance of Americans inclined to support President-elect Donald Trump.

'The federal government is spying on your bank account,' the Republican-led panel posted in a video on X summarizing its 47-page report.

'The federal government has conditioned financial institutions to work for them,' another alarming slide on the video reads.

What the video seeks to explain is the complex and convoluted process in which major financial firms, like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase and more have all handed over their customer's data to the government for free.

'The next time you swipe your [bank or credit] card know that someone may be watching,' the subcommittee video eerily adds.

This data can include the location, date and description of transactions, making it easy for the government to compile an understanding of where people go, what they buy and what activities they spend their time on.

After receiving this data, the FBI created an internal portal, where employees could search these typically private transactions and profiles could then be made on individual citizens of concern, like those who have shopped at Cabela's or purchased a Bible, the panel claims.

Over 14,000 federal employees accessed that sensitive financial data in 2023 during which the subcommittee claims 3.3 million 'warrantless searches' were made.

The Weaponization Chair Jim Jordan has said that conservatives and Christians were the target of surveillance in the wake of January 6

Bank of America sent the private financial data of customers to federal officials to help them investigate crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol protest. The bank cooperated and sent over data that was later used to create profiles on Americans, the committee claims

The report highlights the detailed specifics of how the committee was able to uncover such federal monitoring.

The panel's Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was first tipped off to this financial surveillance in 2023 when an FBI whistleblower alerted them to how the feds were using their influence to coerce banks into handing over access to the private transaction data following the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.

Retired FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill told the committee 'that following the events of January 6, 2021, Bank of America, voluntarily and without legal process, provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a list of names of all individuals who used a BoA credit or debit card in the Washington, D.C. region around that time.'

But it wasn't just Bank of America.

At least 13 financial institutions were investigated by the Republican-controlled panel for colluding with the federal government to spy on Americans after the January 6 riot.

The banks and feds justified such queries by claiming they were looking for purchases that could identify someone as an extremist.

The Biden administration worked with banks to comb through 'extremism' indicators like the purchase of a religious text, like a Bible, or searches including the terms 'MAGA' and 'TRUMP,' according to shocking revelations by the committee.

Bank of America, Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and Truist were all investigated in the probe looking to expose how the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the FBI worked together.

Charles Schwab, HSBC, MUFG, PayPal, Santander, Standard Chartered and Western Union were all also investigated.

The House Judiciary Committee revealed in January that officials at the U.S. Treasury circulated a memo instructing financial institutions how to spot extremism indicators like purchasing travel to Washington, D.C. or religious texts around the time of January 6, 2021

According to investigators, FinCEN and the FBI received data on 211 individuals from the Bank of America in a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) on January 17, 2021.

But the SAR was only sent after the FBI and FinCEN - the feds - asked U.S. banks to scour customer transactions for key terms like 'MAGA' and 'Trump' to identify 'extremism' in a memo distributed in the aftermath of Jan. 6.

The federal agencies provided the financial institutions 'thresholds' for which an SAR should be raised, according to Peter Sullivan, the FBI's former financial sector liaison.

According to the 'threshold' set by the FBI and FinCEN, Bank of America then sent them the data of the 211 individuals.

Jordan and the panel were concerned the practice was widespread, with federal employees prompting many banks to freely send over private data.

When pressed on the Treasury's FinCEN materials circulated to top financial institutions during a February congressional hearing, Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen dodged lawmakers' questions, responding once, 'I promise a thorough look into everything.'

The federal agencies provided the financial institutions 'thresholds' for which an SAR should be raise, according to Peter Sullivan, the FBI's former financial sector liaison

The committee also obtained documents indicating officials suggested that banks query purchases with keywords such as 'Dick's Sporting Goods' could be markers of extremism

In the aftermath of January 6, FinCEN even suggested that banks review transactions at sporting and recreational supplies stores like Cabela's, Dick's Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops in order to detect customers who might be 'extremists.'

In March, Jordan sent letters to GoFundMe and Eventbrite asking that they cooperate with committee's ongoing investigation.

House Republicans say that the federal government urged the crowdfunding platforms to 'comb' through their personal transactions 'report charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.'

The federal government also created 'profiles' on the American people kept in a 'secret portal' shared with companies to identify customers' levels of extremism, Jordan has said.

That interface is shared between over 650 companies and federal officials, Jordan has claimed.

'The federal government is building profiles on the American people. And the profile is not based criminal conduct, it's based on political belief,' Jordan said at the time.

'And if you've got the wrong political beliefs, well you're potentially a domestic violent extremist.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14167011/pro-trump-feds-spy-americans-banks-transaction-report-congress.html 

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Costco Insider EXPOSES Products Disappearing From Shelves!

Costco customers are familiar with the frustration of wanting to stock up on their favorite Costco products only to find out that they have been discontinued or are out-of-stock. Unfortunately, this happens pretty regularly at the chain's warehouses, and in the coming weeks shelves will look even emptier, according to a new announcement made by the company last week.

Typically, when the warehouse retailer faces shortages it may be because there were disruptions in manufacturing, delivery delays, or prices have risen way too high to keep in line with the company’s low-cost brand. When products are discontinued it is often because they were limited edition or weren't selling well.

Then again, it could just be that the retailer wants to create a sense of urgency and encourage shoppers to embark on its infamous Costco grocery treasure hunts.

Down the supply chain, manufacturers and food processors are coping with declining agricultural and livestock production as well as labor shortages and rampant operational costs.

As we were warned by experts and economists several times in the past, grocery inflation and shortages will be stickier than government officials have predicted.

Sadly, this means Americans will have to get used to spending more on food and seeing their favorite essentials vanishing from sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzNXz1TdCMk 

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Putin says Belarus will receive Russia's new Oreshnik missiles, with Lukashenko left to 'determine targets'

By DAVID AVERRE and REUTERS

Published: 09:34 EST, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 11:58 EST, 6 December 2024

Russia could deploy its new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile on the territory of its ally Belarus in 2025, Vladimir Putin has declared.

The Russian President was responding to a request by his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at a summit in Minsk, where the two leaders signed a mutual defence pact today.

'As for the possibility of deploying such, frankly speaking, formidable weapons as the Oreshnik on the territory of Belarus: since we have today signed an agreement on security guarantees using all available forces and means, I consider the deployment of such systems as the Oreshnik on the territory of the Republic of Belarus to be feasible,' Putin said.

'I think this will become possible in the second half of next year, as serial production of these systems in Russia increases and as these missile systems enter service with the Russian strategic forces,' he added in televised comments.

Russia fired the Oreshnik at a Ukrainian city last month in what Putin described as a first test of the weapon in combat conditions.

He has boasted that it is impossible to intercept, and that it has massive destructive power, even when fitted with a conventional warhead.

Some Western experts are sceptical about Putin's claims for the missile, which they say is based on a system that Russia had at one point tested as an intercontinental weapon before putting its development on ice.

Putin told Lukashenko that Belarus - which shares borders with NATO members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania - would determine the targets for Oreshniks based on its territory.

The two men met in the Belarusian capital on Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Union State, a borderless union and alliance between the former Soviet republics.

Putin said the mutual defence treaty 'will make it possible to reliably protect the security of Russia and Belarus, thus creating conditions for further peaceful and sustainable development of the two states,' according to TASS state news agency.

The Kremlin leader approved changes last month which lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike on Russia and extended Moscow's nuclear umbrella to cover Belarus.

Nuclear weapons were withdrawn from Belarus after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, but Putin announced last year that Russia was placing tactical nuclear missiles there as a deterrent to the West.

Lukashenko, in power in Belarus since 1994, said in October that any use of Russian nuclear weapons now deployed in Belarus would require his personal assent.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14165855/Putin-says-Belarus-receive-Russias-new-

Oreshnik-missiles-Lukashenko-left-determine-targets.html 

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Superfast Russian fighter jet seen carrying hypersonic Kinzhal missile during drills

In a surprising new development, a specialized Russian MiG-31 aircraft – also called by NATO as Foxhound – has been seen carrying a hypersonic missile.

The MiG-31 interceptor is one of the fastest manned jet aircrafts in the world, and it is known to reach speeds of around Mach 2.83 – which is almost three times the speed of sound.

Developed by Mikoyan, the MiG-31 was first introduced in 1982 – making it a Cold War-era plane.

The MiG-31I – which was reported to be carrying the hypersonic Kinjhal missile – is an upgraded version of the jet.

The addition of hypersonic weapon carrying capacity will further boost the combat range and strike ability of the Russian forces.

Mig-31 jets carrying hypersonic missiles

Russian news agency TASS reported that MiG-31I will be taking part in the joint drills being organized by the Navy and Aerospace Forces in the eastern Mediterranean.

The report was based on a statement from Russia’s defense ministry.

The exercise involved over 1,000 personnel, 10 ships and support vessels, 24 aircraft, including MiG-31I fighter jets of the Russian Aerospace Forces carrying Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, and a Bastion coastal defense missile system crew,

The three-day drills came to an end on December 3, and it saw the Russian taskforce built up its capabilities in the eastern Mediterranean.

Some combat exercises involve the comprehensive use of precision weapons and the latest armaments accepted for service with the Russian Navy and Aerospace Forces recently, the ministry said.

Kinzhal or Dagger

Kinzhal (also called Dagger) is one of the six "next generation" weapons that Russian President Vladimir Putin had unveiled in 2018, claiming that no air defense system in the world can shoot it down.

It is a nuclear-capable missile with a reported range of 932 to 1242 miles (1500-2000 kilometers).

It is widely believed that its design concept is based on the ground-launched Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile which Russia has been using since long.

As per reports, the missile travels at speeds of Mach 4 (3044 mph), and can even reach top speeds of Mach 10 (7673.9 mph). It is capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads of up to 1058 pounds (480 kilogram).

The missile’s high speed, and erratic trajectory during flight can lead to difficulties in interception, making it a significant threat.

In March 2022, Russia had stated that it used the Kinzhal missile to destroy a weapons storage site in west Ukraine.

Other developments during Russian military drills in Mediterranean

The Russian war drills in Mediterranean sea also saw the 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missile breaking cover.

The Russian Ministry of Defense released a video showcasing the missile’s launch from a Russian combat ship, marking a significant step in the global arms race.

The Zircon’s first combat deployment occurred in January 2023, signaling its readiness for operational use. By March 2024, President Putin confirmed the missile’s use in active combat, specifically against targets in Ukraine.

The 3M22 Zircon is capable of reaching hypersonic speeds of Mach 9 (around 6,835 mph). This extreme speed allows the missile to cover vast distances in minutes, giving adversaries little time to respond.

The missile has a range of up to 621 miles, depending on its trajectory. When flying at low altitudes, it covers approximately 311 miles, but using a semi-ballistic trajectory increases its range.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/superfast-russian-fighter-jet-seen-161935479.html 

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Matt 24:6  "And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Matt 24:7   "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

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CDC breaks silence as mystery flu-like infection kills dozens of children and sparks Covid-era travel restrictions

READ MORE: Health officials issue dire warning as mysterious illness emerges

By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 16:32 EST, 5 December 2024 | Updated: 17:20 EST, 5 December 2024

The CDC is 'standing ready' amid an outbreak of a mystery disease in Africa.

There are rising concerns about the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where dozens of people have died from a flu-like respiratory illness.

A source at the CDC told DailyMail.com they were 'aware' of the outbreak and were in contact with health officials there 'and stand ready to provide additional support if needed'.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed a team to the southwestern province Kwango where the outbreak is being reported to take samples and test for the virus.

DRC health minister Roger Kamba said his country was currently on 'maximum alert' as they try to work out what's behind the 'epidemic' that has killed up to 143 people.

Most patients were children in their late teens, officials said, who suffered from symptoms including a fever, headache, cough and shortness of breath.

The symptoms suggest a respiratory virus — and, already, parallels are being drawn to the early days of the Covid pandemic.

Hong Kong became the first country to bring in health checks for arrivals from the DRC and Africa today, in an echo of measures taken to limit the spread of Covid.

A source at CDC told DailyMail.com in a statement: 'The CDC is aware of reports of an illness in southwest DRC.

'US Government staff, including those from US CDC's country office in Kinshasa [the DRC's capital], are in contact with the DRC's ministry of health and stand ready to provide additional support if needed.'

It was not clear how concerned the CDC was over the outbreak, or whether the agency plans to alert the nation's doctors.

Tests on patients are currently being carried out in the DRC, with officials saying they expect to have the results before the end of the week.

There are no direct flights between the US and Kinshasa, according to flight monitoring websites, although passengers can still arrive via connecting flights.

This may include catching connecting flights in Johannesburg, South Africa, or in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Officials say it is taking days to establish the illness behind the outbreak because the cases are in a remote part of the country, which took two days for the health team to reach.

It is not clear what disease could be causing the outbreak at this point, but officials say it could be a respiratory disease.

Experts speaking to DailyMail.com said the symptoms were 'non-specific' and they needed more information.

Dr Annie Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has worked in Congo since 2002, told NBC News that diagnosing the illnesses may be complicated by underlying health issues in the local population, including malaria and malnutrition.

'I think it's really important to be aware of what's happening, and I think it's also really important not to panic until we have more information,' she said.

'It could be anything,' she added. 'It could be influenza, it could be Ebola, it could be measles. At this point, we really just don’t know.'

Dr Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious diseases expert and associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said that at this stage it was difficult to tell what was causing the outbreak because only general symptoms had been reported.

'We need more information,' she told DailyMail.com, 'the information that has been provided at present speaks of a number of diseases'.

Asked whether it could be monkeypox or Ebola, she said: 'In what they are reporting, we have not seen any reports of skin rash or skin abnormality — which would go with mpox.

'Typically, with viral hemorrhagic fever [like Ebola] you would hear reports of coughing or throwing up blood, and that has not been reported either.'

She added: 'The reports are concerning, but we need more data and more information about the symptoms they are seeing on the ground.'

The above map shows the DRC, and highlights the province of Kwango where the outbreak has been recorded

Officials initially suggested that 143 people had died from the mystery disease, although authorities appear to have reduced that number to 71 deaths.

These include 27 people who died in the hospital and 44 people who died in the community.

Of the people who died in hospital, 10 died due to a lack of blood transfusions and 17 died as a result of respiratory problems — the health minister said.

Most of the cases were children in their late teens, aged between 15 and 18 years old according to the BBC.

Dr Hotez, a leading supporter of lockdowns and mask mandates during the Covid pandemic, warned there were at least nine infectious diseases currently spreading in the US that could cause another pandemic — in a plea to the Trump administration not to cut disease research funding.

Scientists are currently warning over a surge in bird flu cases in animals that are spilling into humans, as well as a resurgence in measles and whooping cough linked to falling vaccination rates.

In an interview with MSNBC news, Dr Hotez said: 'Here's the reason why we need to care about this stuff. We have some big-picture stuff coming down the pipe.

'All that's going to come crashing down on January 21 on the Trump administration. We need a really really good team to be able to handle this.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14162857/cdc-aware-outbreak-respiratory-disease

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Tucker Carlson Returns To Russia; Warns "We Are Closer To Nuclear War Than Ever"

by Tyler Durden

Authored...

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Tucker Carlson has returned to Moscow to interview Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as the outgoing Biden administration pushes the US ever closer to a hot war with Russia.

“In the week since we left Russia, Moscow, where we are now in February, after interviewing Vladimir Putin, we’ve watched from the United States as the Biden administration has driven the US ever closer to a nuclear conflict with Russia, the country that possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal,” Carlson announced.

He continued, “It has accelerated ever since, and it’s reached its apogee so far in the weeks after Trump’s election. He’s now the President-elect. In that time, just a few weeks ago, the Biden Administration, American military personnel launched missiles into mainland Russia and killed at least a dozen Russian soldiers.”

“So we are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russia, an undeclared war, a war you did not vote for and that most Americans don’t want, but that is ongoing,” Carlson urged.

“And because of that war because of the fact that the US military is killing Russians in Russia right now, we are closer to nuclear war than at any time in history, far closer than we were during the Cuban Missile crisis,” Carlson warned, adding “That would mean the elimination of Russia, the United States, and most of the rest of the world.”

“We felt there must be someone behind the scenes in Washington working to make sure that this conflict doesn’t become a nuclear Holocaust. But we found out that no, in fact, there is nobody,” he explained, noting that the State Department has cut off all communication with Russia.

Tucker also revealed that he has been trying to sit down with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy but has been prevented from doing so by the US government who have ordered Zelenskyy not to do the interview.

Watch:

We’re back in Moscow. Here’s why. pic.twitter.com/7FfBhcaIUu

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 3, 2024

Biden’s government refuses to engage in diplomatic exchanges with Russia, despite serious escalation that risks cataclysmic war, and Tucker Carlson is having to try to fill the void.

Disgraceful.

Meanwhile, Democratic strategist James Carville claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Carlson has had the most influence with regards to Trump’s cabinet nominations.

Carville claimed “One person is driving this, I promise you. And it’s Tucker Carlson. Tucker’s an old friend of mine.”

Carville added that Tucker “has more influence in this current administration, way more than Vernon Jordan had in the Clinton administration or any of the kind of wise men that were around,” adding that “Tucker is very, very, very powerful.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tucker-carlson-returns-russia-warns-we-are-closer-nuclear-war-ever 

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3:16 PM EST -- The French government collapsed about 45 minutes ago after a "No Confidence" Vote in Parliament.

The historic vote of no-confidence was passed against Prime Minister Michel Barnier in the National Assembly.

It marks the first time a French government has been ousted by a no-confidence vote in over 60 years.

French MPs including the left and the far right combined voted 331 out of 574 in favour of the motion to pass, exceeding the minimum mark of 288.

The vote rose from fierce opposition to his proposed budget for 2025 from opposition parties such as the left-wing alliance New Popular Front (NFP) and Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN).

They were left angry as Barnier decided to exercise special powers to push through his budget, even though it failed to receive support from MPs.

It comes as a huge blow for President Emmanuel Macron who is now likely to name a new prime minister rapidly, possibly even before the grand reopening of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral at the weekend.

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Russian Vessel Fires Toward German Military Helicopter in Baltic Sea

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An incident has taken place between a German Army helicopter and a Russian ship. Details are very sketchy at this hour, here is all I know:

The crew of the Russian ship shot "signal ammunition" believed to be a flare, at the German military helicopter, which was performing reconnaissance.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock briefly described the incident at the beginning of a NATO meeting in Brussels. She did not give any details.

The use of signal ammunition is only common in emergency situations. Thus, the firing of such signal ammunition today, is unusual on its face.

It appears, at least initially, that the vessel involved was Russian, but NOT a military vessel. It is described as a "tanker." But western media coverage is now calling the vessel a "Russian warship."

Baerbock claimed that there are always ships in the Baltic Sea that are involved in circumventing sanctions for the Russian war against Ukraine. Was this some type of justification for the presence of the helicopter? That is unknown.

More if I get it.

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US is going bankrupt fast — Elon Musk 3 Dec, 23:20

US entrepreneur, along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswami, will head the newly created "Department of Government Efficiency" in Donald Trump’s administration

NEW YORK, December 4. /TASS/. US entrepreneur Elon Musk warned of his country’s impending de-facto bankruptcy in a post on the X social network.

"America is headed for de facto bankruptcy very fast," he wrote.

Musk, along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswami, will head the newly created "Department of Government Efficiency" in Donald Trump’s administration.

The US national debt exceeded $36 trillion for the first time ever on November 15. According to forecasts, the figure is expected to grow to $50 trillion, or 122% GDP, by 2034. The average US GDP growth is forecasted at 1.8% in 2029-2034.

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3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
4A by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises

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Why God Dedicated Over One-Third Of The Bible To Telling Us The Future In Advance

By Jonathan Brentner December 3, 2024

The Bible is a book of prophecy. Over one-third of its verses predict the future, with every fulfillment happening with one hundred percent accuracy down to the smallest of details.

The Old Testament contains forty-eight specific prophecies related to Jesus’ first coming, which happened precisely as the prophets of old foretold. The odds that one person could fulfill all of them stagger the imagination, and together, they verify that He was truly the promised Messiah, the Christ.

During His earthly ministry, the Lord prepared His disciples for what was coming by repeatedly telling them about His future death and resurrection. In the Upper Room, the Savior again told them what was to happen so as to calm their troubled hearts concerning the news that He would soon leave them. His words on this occasion provide us with a key for understanding the purpose of Bible prophecy: “And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe” (John 14:29).

Although His followers already believed that He was indeed the Christ, the Son of God, He warned them about His arrest, death, and soon departure so they wouldn’t give into doubt but would instead remain confident in spite of what they would see in the coming hours and days. etc.

Jesus’ Promises for Us

During that same evening, the Lord also promised His disciples, and us, that He would prepare a place for us in Heaven and take us to His “Father’s house” (John 14:1-3). The apostles later expounded upon this assurance by adding many details about it. They told us He would someday:

Resurrect the dead in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:47-55; I Thessalonians 4:16).

Transform living saints into the same immortal and resurrection bodies (1 Corinthians 15:51-55; Philippians 3:20-21; Romans 8:23-24; 1 John 3:1-3).

Catch living believers up to meet Him in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

Take His Church to Heaven, to the place He’s preparing for us (John 14:2-3; Colossians 3:4).

Why did Jesus provide us with so many precious promises of our future? He did so for the purpose of providing a means of mutual encouragement among believers (1 Thessalonians 4:18-5:11). While Paul was in Thessalonica, he emphasized future things, perhaps sensing that the Jews living there would persecute the new believers. Amid severe and painful opposition to their faith, the Thessalonians saints remained faithful as they held on to the hope of Jesus’ imminent appearing. etc

The World We Live In

Amid growing opposition to and, in many cases, persecution for our faith Bible amid daily warnings of nuclear WWIII, prophecy comforts us today in at least two ways. First, it assures us of a glorious future after the end of this life. The pre-Tribulation Rapture is biblically sound and most definitely a very “blessed hope” (Titus 2:11-14) that fills us with joyous anticipation regardless of what we face in this life.

Second, it calms our hearts by assuring us that our world today precisely resembles what Scripture foretold about the last days. The Lord revealed these things long ago so that we might remain confident in our faith as everything falls apart around us. We recognize the buildup to the blasphemous kingdom of the beast and know that regardless of the wait, Jesus is coming for us in the near future.

For example, if the antichrist is to control all the buying and selling in the world, we would expect to see the development of the means for this well ahead of the time he needs it. And that’s exactly what’s happening. The globalists are feverishly working on a cashless and digital payment system that will enable the coming beast to fulfill the words of Revelation 13:16-18.

The Bible tells us that the Tribulation will be a time of great lawlessness, deception, and wickedness. Although these things have existed to some degree throughout history, they define the day in which we live like no other time. When asked about the end of the age, Jesus’ first words were, “See to it that no one deceives you” (Matthew 24:4). Each and every day, we witness deceit on a scale that was once far beyond my imagination. I struggle to know what’s real, and as a result, constantly thank the Lord for the words of Scripture that anchor my soul amid the storms of gaslighting.

These things are just a sample of how God’s Word long ago described the day in which we live, the time leading up to the Rapture of the Church, and, after that, the start of the seven-year Tribulation. Do you not now hear the echo of the Lord’s words from the Upper Room, “And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe?”

Jesus knew all about the difficulties we would face in the days before His appearing to take us home. He realized it would be difficult to wait as we watch the Tribulation approach and wonder how much closer we can get to the Tribulation before it happens. Perhaps that’s why, as Jesus spoke of His return to the church at Philadelphia, He emphasized “patient endurance” and holding on to what we have (Revelation 3:10-11). He knew we would need these things in order to keep our focus on His appearing.

Everything remains under His sovereign control and is unfolding precisely as he said it would in the days leading up to the Rapture. As we wait, we remember His last words to His church: “I am coming quickly” (Revelation 22:20).

He is.

Jonathan Brentner is an author, writer, and Bible Teacher with a passion for encouraging believers with a sound biblical worldview and the nearness of Jesus’ appearing.

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4-14-02 At the altar after the pm service etc So listen not to the world, nor the lies of the world, or to those that say it is all turning around, for it is not so. You shall hear of more fish being washed ashore that are dead, because of the pollution of the water. You will hear of more icebergs breaking off and melting. You will hear of places in the south that will continually throughout summer be in the hundred and above range. You will hear of droughts like you have never heard of before. Not only here, but all over the world. Volcanoes, earthquakes, straight-winds, tidal waves, you will hear of things you have not heard of in the degree that you shall now hear of them. Realize that it is only signs of the end-time. etc

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Published December 5, 2024 2:05pm EST Updated December 5, 2024 3:09pm EST

Tsunami threat ends for Northern California, Oregon coasts after major 7.0 earthquake

A powerful 7.0 earthquake was recorded off shore of Ferndale, California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A Tsunami Warning was allowed to expire from Davenport, California to south of Florence, Oregon.

By Emilee Speck Source FOX Weather

SAN FRANCISCO – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California prompted a rare tsunami warning for coastal areas near the California-Oregon state line, including San Francisco Bay.

A powerful 7.0 earthquake was recorded around 10:44 a.m. PT about 60 miles offshore of Ferndale, California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The 7.0 quake is the strongest in the region since at least 2005, when a magnitude of 7.2 occurred, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

The major quake promoted a Tsunami Warning from Davenport to 10 miles south of Florence, Oregon. The warning included more than 4.6 million people and was allowed to expire just before 11 a.m.

A Tsunami Warning means that a tsunami with significant inundation is possible or is already occurring.

A tsunami is a series of long waves caused by significant disruptions in the ocean, most commonly earthquakes along tectonic plate boundaries.

HUNDREDS OF CALIFORNIA BOATERS MOVE VESSELS OUT TO SEA DURING TSUNAMI THREAT

San Diego State University Geologist Pat Abbott said even a small tsunami wave can do serious damage.

"You go to the beach and you see a wave rise up, break, runs up the beach and pulls back," Abbott said. "But that's not the way a tsunami is. A tsunami is not a solitary wave. It's the front of a big sheet of water coming in. So if it's even coming in knee-depth, then you can't stand up and it's going to carry you, you know, 100 feet, 1,000 feet, a quarter of a mile. And it could be beating you up with three branches and things at the same time."

‘You are in danger': Evacuations ordered for coastal areas

Shaking from the major earthquake was felt in Napa Valley and across San Francisco.

Officials in West Berkley issued evacuation orders for the tsunami zone west of 7th Street.

Emergency management in San Francisco warned residents, "You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters."

Bay Area Rapid Transportation (BART) temporarily closed Transbay Tube after the earthquake. Trains began running again before 11 a.m. PT.

Abbott said it was important the NWS issued the Tsunami Warning quickly.

WATCH: MAJOR EARTHQUAKE OFF WEST COAST CAUSES SHAKING IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON

"It's best to give people time. We don't want to give fake warnings, you know, warning that there's nothing behind this kind of thing. You don't want people to lose faith in the system," he said. "But this one, it needed to go out."

Aftershocks ongoing

The USGS does expect more aftershocks. According to the USGS Aftershock forecast, "there is a more than 99% chance of magnitude 3 and above aftershocks within the next week, and it is most likely that 3 to 280 of these will occur."

Those aftershocks should decrease in intensity and frequency over time. Geologists said about 25 aftershocks have already occurred, at a magnitude of 4.3 or less.

There is a small chance of aftershocks being stronger than the initial 7.0 earthquake.

The USGS originally reported that a magnitude 5.8 quake struck Cobb, California, three minutes after the 7.0 quake but later updated its data to reduce that quake to a magnitude 4.1.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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

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Published December 3, 2024 6:29pm EST Updated December 5, 2024 12:21pm EST

Snow squalls, blizzard conditions lead to treacherous travel as winter storm slams Great Lakes, Northeast

Snow Squall Warnings have been issued in multiple states from North Dakota to Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey over the past two days, and forecasters were warning people of the dangerous and potentially life-threatening travel conditions due to the blowing snow leading to whiteout conditions.

By Steven Yablonski , Scott Sistek Source FOX Weather

ERIE, Pa. – Millions of people from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians and Northeast are facing another blast of winter weather as a powerful winter storm races across the U.S. bringing life-threatening snow squalls and blizzard conditions to regions that were just slammed by the first significant lake-effect snowstorm of the season.

The storm has even brought some frozen precipitation to the heavily traveled Interstate 95 corridor since the storm began Wednesday.

Snow Squall Warnings have been issued in multiple states from North Dakota to Ohio, as well as in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut over the past two days, and forecasters were warning people of the dangerous and potentially life-threatening travel conditions due to the blowing snow leading to whiteout conditions.

Several multi-vehicle crashes have also been reported, including crashes that closed lanes on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania while snow squalls were racing across the region. A multi-vehicle crash was reported on Highway 40 near Holland, Michigan. No serious injuries were reported, but the dangerous travel conditions will continue on Thursday.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said winter weather conditions had forced officials to lower the speed limit on Interstate 90 from the New York state line to Westfield, Massachusetts, but those restrictions had been lifted as of Thursday afternoon.

In addition, MassDOT said more than 1,000 pieces of equipment were out plowing and treating roads statewide.

Power outages have also started to creep up, with PowerOutage.US reporting outages in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Connecticut in New England.

Mulitple reports of rare thundersnow

The National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh said there were numerous reports of lightning flashes and rare thundersnow as the line of rain, snow and sleet slid across the region late Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.

A video shared from Holland, Michigan, showed a bright flash of lightning and thundersnow as the storm pushed through the region.

Thundersnow is a rare weather phenomenon where thunder and lightning are observed despite precipitation falling in the frozen variety.

Similar to thunderstorms, thundersnow requires a significant amount of atmospheric instability, and in areas where the phenomenon occurs, snowfall rates can be exceptionally heavy.

Winter weather alerts stretch from Michigan to Maine, including Blizzard Warnings in portions of West Virginia and Maryland in the mid-Atlantic, as well as a new Blizzard Warning that has Erie, Pennsylvania, on alert for whiteout conditions amid 10-18 inches of new snow and gusts to 60 mph.

Dangerous winds continue to impact areas across the eastern half of the U.S. Between 40 and 50 mph toppled the Christmas tree at the West Virginia State Capitol when a securing cable snapped overnight Wednesday.

In total, more than 17 million people are included in some sort of winter weather alert.

"Nearly 3 feet of snow has fallen already since last Friday here in Erie, and surrounding areas on the interior up to 6 feet in some pockets," FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray said. "We know how dangerous I-90 has been over the course of the past almost a week, and we expect those conditions to be as dangerous or even more as these blizzard conditions continue throughout the morning."

What’s the winter storm forecast in the Northeast?

The FOX Forecast Center said the winter storm will continue to push across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic on Thursday. It will likely continue to produce potentially life-threatening snow squalls that will be accompanied by bursts of heavy snow and strong winds.

That will lead to continued treacherous travel on major roads and interstates across the region, including Interstate 90 from portions of Massachusetts through New York state.

The FOX Forecast Center said that the potential for accumulating snow on the Interstate 95 corridor is low.

Snowfall totals of 1-2 feet are expected in the lake-effect snow belts, with up to a foot likely along the central Appalachians and across the higher terrain of interior New England.

Strong winds are also possible, which could lead to more power outages if trees or other debris bring down power lines.

The FOX Forecast Center said wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible across portions of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Thursday.

Storm left whiteout conditions across Upper Midwest Wednesday

The storm first spent Wednesday revving up over the Upper Midwest as it dropped out of Canada, bringing multiple snow squalls to North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) shared a dramatic photo just west of Grand Forks, North Dakota that showed the whiteout conditions blinding portions of far eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.

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This image shows a life-threatening snow squall just west of Grand Forks, North Dakota, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024.

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A time-lapse video that was shared from Fargo, North Dakota, shows a snow squall racing through the city on Wednesday.

NWS forecasters in western Wisconsin warned of a flash freeze Wednesday afternoon as the approaching arctic front quickly drops temperatures below freezing, along with wind gusts of 40-50 mph or more. Rochester, Minnesota saw its temperature drop from 36 to 27 degrees in two hours as winds gusted to 62 mph. A wind gust later reached 74 mph in South Haven as the storm crossed into Michigan.

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/near-blizzard-alberta-clipper-winter-storm-northeast 

Unknown disease with flu-like symptoms kills almost 150 sparking pandemic fears

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are monitoring the mysterious disease after many sufferers died in their homes after being unable to get treatment

A photo of people wearing hazmat suits in the DRC

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are working to learn more about the mystery disease (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

By Anders Anglesey News Reporter

Health officials have raised the alarm after an unknown disease with flu -like symptoms killed nearly 150 people since first being detected.

Deaths have been reported Kwango province and the Panzi health zone in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Remy Saki, the deputy governor of the province said samples are being collected and analysed in a bid to identify the disease behind the outbreak.

The initial report of 143 deaths was recorded between November 10 and November 25. Symptoms of the disease include fever, headache, cough and anaemia, health minister Apollinaire Yumba told reporters over the weekend.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/unknown-disease-flu-like-symptoms-34243724 

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Mysterious “Skyquakes” Are Causing Strange “Booms” In The Sky, And Scientists Have No Explanation

December 3, 2024 by Michael

What is causing the extremely loud “booms” that people are hearing in the sky all over the world? We are being told that “skyquakes” are responsible, but scientists have no idea why these “skyquakes” are occurring. In some cases, the “skyquakes” cause such powerful shaking that people actually think that something has hit their homes. But when scientists check, there has often been no detectable seismic activity in the area. This is a huge mystery, and hopefully the experts can get us some answers because this phenomenon appears to be intensifying.

According to the New York Post, these strange booming sounds in the sky have been “terrifyingly rocking the globe” in 2024…

This one’ll have you quaking.

Scientists have little explanation for a booming phenomenon that’s terrifyingly rocking the globe — though they have been noted as ominous preludes to earthquakes.

Yes, there have been cases where “skyquakes” have preceded significant earthquakes, but most of the time “skyquakes” are not linked to any seismic activity at all.

For example, southern Idaho was recently rattled by a serious of very loud “booms”, but there were no sizable earthquakes at that time…

Social media has been going crazy over the last 48 hours with inquires about loud ‘booms’ heard around Southern Idaho.

If you’ve lived in the Twin Falls area for any length of time, you are probably familiar with the occasional bouts of rumbles we feel from time to time. It’s not unusual for the booms to resonate throughout a building and shake windows, debatably similar to what you might feel during an small earthquake. But these (usually) are not earthquakes… So what are they?

At this point, we have more questions than answers.

According to Wikipedia, “skyquakes” have been happening literally all over the planet, and most of the time it is not clear why they have happened…

A skyquake is a phenomenon where a loud banging sound is reported to originate from the sky. The sound may cause noticeable vibration in the ceiling or across a particular room. Those who experience skyquakes typically do not have a clear explanation for what caused them and they are perceived as mysterious. They have been heard in several locations around the world, several locations in the North Sea, the Ganges, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Finland, Australia, Italy, Ireland, India, The Netherlands, Norway, Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mexico, Malaysia (particularly Ipoh) and Indonesia (particularly Jakarta and Java).

Scientists had theorized that many of these “skyquakes” were probably linked to low level seismic events, but a study that was conducted in 2020 appears to have ruled that out…

In 2020, a team from the University of North Carolina conducted an extensive analysis of seismic and acoustic data from the EarthScope Transportable Array (ESTA). This network of over 400 stations across the United States is designed to detect both seismic events and atmospheric phenomena. The researchers aimed to establish a correlation between skyquakes and previously undetected seismic activities. However, their findings yielded no direct link between these mysterious sounds and earthquakes or other underground activities.

This lack of connection to seismic events lends credence to the theory that skyquakes originate in the atmosphere. However, the exact nature of the phenomenon remains unclear.

The bottom line is that there is a lot that we do not know.

But we do know that very loud “booms” are happening in the sky, and we do know that they have been making frequent headlines all over the globe in 2024.

Hopefully the fact that they are occurring so often is not a bad sign.

On a related note, an asteroid that was discovered just several hours in advance was “on a collision course” with our planet on Tuesday morning…

A newly discovered asteroid is on a collision course for Earth and will hit our atmosphere in just a matter of hours.

The asteroid, designated COWECP5, is forecasted to streak through the sky over Eastern Siberia at 11:14am ET.

Scientists say the small space rock, measuring 27 inches in diameter, is expected to burn up in the atmosphere and poses no threat to humans on the ground.

The good news is that this particular space rock was so small that it was never a threat to anyone.

But it did put on quite a show when it exploded over Russia…

The space rock exploded in a stunning red light over Yakutia, soaring over the bright city lights and was seen firing off flames as it flew over Olekminsk.

In many cases, incoming asteroids are not detected in advance or are only detected once they have flown by us.

In this case, scientists were able to see this one seven hours before it arrived…

It was detected seven hours before it is due to hit, which is only the 12th time scientists have accurately reported an asteroid before it struck.

This event will also marks the fourth asteroid to hit Earth’s atmosphere this year.

A lot of people think that our scientists have a really good handle on any potential major threats to our planet that are floating around out there.

Unfortunately, that is not true at all.

Over and over again, our world has been hit by space rocks that nobody saw in advance.

And it is just a matter of time before we get hit by a really, really big one.

Needless to say, if we do get hit by a really, really big one the lives of every man, woman and child on the entire planet will instantly be turned completely upside down.

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Saudi crown prince, France's Macron to lead Palestinian state conference in June

"In the coming months, together we will multiply and combine our diplomatic initiatives to bring everyone along this path," Macron reportedly noted.

French President Emanuel Macron and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced they would co-chair a conference for the establishment of a Palestinian state, according to a Wednesday AFP report.

The conference is expected to take place in June.

"In the coming months, together we will multiply and combine our diplomatic initiatives to bring everyone along this path," AFP quoted Macron as saying.

"We want to involve several other partners and allies, both European and non-European, who are ready to move in this direction but who are waiting for France," the French president added.

Regarding a French recognition of a Palestinian state, Macron stated, according to the report, that France would carry out such an action "at the right moment."

UN approves conference

Earlier on Wednesday, the UN General Assembly approved a decision to hold a "peace conference" on the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in June 2025, with the aim of "promoting irreversible steps to end the conflict and establish a Palestinian state."

Some 157 countries supported the decision, seven abstained, and eight opposed, including Israel, the US, Hungary, and Argentina.

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etc. You will see Russia as she begins to move even more clearly than she has in the past. Syria, it will be gone such as you know it and the Muslims will have total control along with the nerve gas, along with the poison gas, along with their nuclear weapons. etc..

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Russia accuses Ukraine of helping Syrian rebels

Ukraine allegedly helped Syrian opposition fighters by providing training and drones

Yana Suryadnaya ■ Foreign Affairs Correspondent, i24NEWS Hebrew Channel ■ 

Russia claimed on Wednesday that the Syrian rebels received help "from the outside," including training and material support in drones. Moscow said it identified traces of Ukrainian involvement, but did not provide evidence for this.

Russia stands "in solidarity with the Syrian leadership," the country's foreign ministry said, and that "armed criminals" are exacerbating the situation in Syria and creating a new wave of refugees. The Kremlin strongly supports the actions of the Syrian leadership in the fight against "terror groups" and argues that "strengthening 'terrorists' in Syria threatens the entire Middle East."

The ministry's statement said that Russia "strongly condemns the attack in Syria led by 'terrorists.'"

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, "Among the terrorists there are many foreign fighters, including immigrants from the post-Soviet space, and it is clear that there traces from Ukraine."

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/ukraine-conflict/artc-russia-accuses-ukraine-of-helping-syrian-rebels 

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READY FOR WAR Putin stages hypersonic war games in Med as two warships blast 6,900mph missiles in message to West over Syria & Ukraine

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A MENACING Vladimir Putin staged provocative war games in the Mediterranean today in a blatant show of strength to the West.

The despot's latest aggression came amid major tension with rebel advances in Syria, where he protects his authoritarian dictator pal Bashar al-Assad.

Putin fired 6,900 mph hypersonic missiles in a major warning to the WestCredit: East2West

The missiles were fired in the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday

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The missiles were fired in the eastern Mediterranean on TuesdayCredit: East2West

They were blasted by modern frigates Admiral Gorshkov and Admiral GolovkoCredit: East2West

Tuesday's drills were the Kremlin despot's latest show of force

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Tuesday's drills were the Kremlin despot's latest show of forceCredit: Getty

It coincided with deep tension in Ukraine, and was aimed to show he has a global reach beyond Russia’s backyard.

Video shows Putin's major warning to the West by firing Tsirkon [Zircon] 6,900 mph hypersonic missiles in the eastern Mediterranean - Europe’s favourite holiday destination.

They were blasted by modern frigates Admiral Gorshkov and Admiral Golovko.

Both warships were operating as part of the Russian Navy strike group, Russian TV network Zvezda reported.

The Kremlin dictator's diesel-electric submarine Novorossiysk also launched a Kalibr cruise missile at a maritime target position.

The Russian Defence Ministry said a Bastion coastal missile system from the Mediterranean coast - presumably Syria - carried out a "combat launch of an Onyx cruise missile”.

The Ministry added it was all part of military exercises involving more than 1,000 servicemen, 10 ships and support vessels, 24 aircraft, including MiG-31I fighters armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

Russia's Bastion coastal missile system was also involved in the exercises, according to Zvezda.

The drills were carried out under the supervision of Russian naval commander in chief Admiral Alexander Moiseyev.

Several days ago, he was dispatched to Syria amid turmoil in the country as rebels took Aleppo and put on the back foot Putin’s close ally President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.

A key message of today’s war games may be to warn that Russia’s naval port in Syria - Tartus - will be vigorously defended.

A crucial reason for the rebel advance was that Putin had moved forces from Syria to fight in his bloody Ukraine war.

Today the Russians said that its military strength ahead of the war games in the eastern Mediterranean Sea had been increased.

Its forces conducted “missile, artillery and torpedo firing, as well as bombing.”

The Russian Defence Ministry said: “The exercise involves over 1,000 servicemen, ten ships and support vessels, 24 aircraft, including MiG-31I fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces with Kinzhal [Dagger] hypersonic missiles and the Bastion coastal missile system."

They did not show or report launches of the 9.200mph Dagger ballistic missiles.

“The exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean is being conducted in compliance with current international law, as well as agreements between the Russian Federation and foreign states on the prevention of incidents at sea outside territorial waters, as well as in the airspace above them."

https://www.the-sun.com/news/13016569/putin-stages-hypersonic-war-games-mediterranean-warning-west/ 

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WEF Working with Bill Gates to ‘Debunk’ the Bible Using AI, Usher In ‘One World Religion’

Bradley Greer By Bradley Greer

Any opinions expressed by authors in this article do not necessarily represent the views of Disswire.com.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) and billionaire Bill Gates have been working together in the background to rewrite the Holy Bible using artificial intelligence and release a new version that will to usher in a new universal spirituality to fit within their vision of a transhumanistic world.

The new plan, which has already received the blessing of Pope Francis, aims to reconstruct the core teachings of Christianity with a new AI “fact-checked” version that will force the masses to accept as their new God.

Recently, WEF official Yuval Noah Harar claimed the Bible is “dangerous” because it’s full of “hate speech,” arguing that a more “unified religion” must be created that’s “actually correct.”

That’s right, Harar believes the Bible in its current form does not fit into the WEF’s globalist vision, therefore, a new version must be created to reshape spirituality.

The global elite know that the teachings of Jesus Christ go directly against their dark spirituality, and their agenda can only succeed in a world devoid of religion.

RELATED: Jeff Bezos Joins Bill Gates in Push to Bankrupt Farmers With ‘Fake Meat’

It’s no surprise that Pope Francis has been singing from the same hymn sheet for some time.

In 2017, Francis called for a “one world government” and “political authority” to combat “climate change,” arguing that the United Nations does not have enough power to impose complete governmental control.

We’ve already seen things like scanning phones to enter public areas to prepare people to accept the microchip, digital tattoo, or the Mark of the Beast system predicted in the Bible.

Now, they are laying the groundwork to remove God first.

Someone should remind Francis of Exodus 20:3, Matthew 4:10, Luke 4:8 and elsewhere, where it says “You shall have no other gods before me.”

RELATED: Bill Gates Demands ‘Death Panels’ for Vaccine Injured

Meanwhile, Bill Gates, whose deadly DNA-altering vaccines have already admitted a large portion of the satanic agenda, said the next step would be to usher in a new type of global religion to coincide with AI technology.

During the unnerving episode of “Possible” podcast, co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Gates reflects on “spiritually” before suggesting that the world’s current religions will become obsolete.

“The potential positive path is so good that it will force us to rethink how should we use our time,” Gates said.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said in July that NATO was "not ready now" for a possible war with Russia but that they "will be ready" in the future.

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

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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America.  If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc

 etc. Are you aware of how far they say you are behind in your military protection, etc.  

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Russian missiles more powerful than those supplied to Ukraine by West – Putin

No weapons deliveries to Kiev by Washington and its allies will change the situation of the front line, the president has said

The Russian military possesses longer-range and more powerful missiles than any of the Western analogues supplied to Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has said.

Russia’s Iskander short-range ballistic missile system has a similar payload to all three modifications of the US-made ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System), but boasts a longer range, Putin said during the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, on Thursday.

“The new American PrSM (Precision Strike Missile) system is in no way superior to its Russian counterparts in terms of its characteristics,” he added.

Earlier this month, the US, UK and France allowed Ukraine to use the long-range weapons that they’d supplied earlier to conduct strikes on internationally-recognized Russian territory. Several such attacks have already taken place. Kiev’s forces are currently equipped with American ATACMS as well as British Storm Shadow and French SCALP missiles.

READ MORE: Oreshnik missiles could be used to strike Kiev – Putin

“We know, of course, how many relevant weapons systems our potential opponent has; where exactly they are located; how many weapons have been delivered to Ukraine and how many are planned to be delivered,” Putin stressed.

The Russian president said that “no arms deliveries, even of the most advanced weapons, to Ukraine will change the situation on the battlefield.”

He also pointed out that Moscow vastly surpasses Ukraine’s Western backers in terms of production of long-range weapons.

“As for the output of the relevant missile systems, in Russia it is ten times higher than the combined production in all NATO countries, and next year it will grow by another 25-30%,” Putin said.

The president noted that Russia’s arsenal already includes Kalibr cruise missiles as well as Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonic missiles, which “in terms of their characteristics have no analogues in the world.” Their production is now “in full swing” and is being extended further, he said.

In the coming the years, new state-of-the-art hypersonic systems would be added to the country’s “menu,” Putin promised.

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Why US and Its NATO Allies Can’t Intercept Russia’s Oreshnik Missiles

November 23, 2024

The Oreshnik missile flies at a speed of Mach 10, or 3 km per second, retired Russian Army colonel and military analyst Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik, explaining why it can’t be intercepted by modern air defenses.

“The unique feature of the Oreshnik missile system is that, firstly, it is a medium-range missile – it flies to a distance of 1,000 km to 5,500 km – and secondly, it is hypersonic, flying at a speed of Mach 10,” retired Russian Army colonel and military analyst Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik.

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Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound, equates to 3 km per second, the pundit noted. There is not a single air defense or missile defense system in the world capable of intercepting those hypersonic missiles, Litovkin stressed.

“The West does not have missiles that fly at such a speed or hypersonic missiles at all,” the pundit continued. “Although the US has repeatedly boasted that it has such missiles, it has never demonstrated a missile flight. They appeared to show missiles that flew at a supersonic speed of 5.5 times the speed of sound or Mach 5.5. However, hypersonic speed begins at Mach 6-7.”

The missile’s operating principle is similar to that demonstrated by the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, which is launched by the supersonic MiG-31K aircraft, or the Avangard hypersonic system’s glide vehicle accelerated by the UR-100N UТТKh intercontinental ballistic missile, the expert explained.

Read More @ SputnikNews.com

https://www.sgtreport.com/2024/11/why-us-and-its-nato-allies-cant-intercept-russias-oreshnik-missiles/

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Russia used an advanced hypersonic missile for the first time in recent strike, Ukraine claims

By Brad Lendon, CNN  4 minute read

Updated 1:24 AM EST,

Ukraine claims it has evidence Russia fired an advanced hypersonic missile – one that experts say is almost impossible to shoot down – for the first time in the almost 2-year-old war.

The government-run Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise said in a Telegram post that debris recovered after a February 7 attack on the Ukrainian capital pointed to the use of a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile by the Russian military.

“Markings on the parts and fragments, the identification of components and parts, and the features of the relevant type of weapon” point to the first-ever use of the Zircon in combat, said the institute, which is part of Ukraine’s Justice Ministry.

The Telegram post was accompanied by a video showing dozens of pieces of debris believed to be from the new missile.

Ukrainian authorities reported four people were killed and 38 others injured in Kyiv during the February 7 attacks, but no casualties have been directly attributed to the alleged Zircon missile.

There was also no mention of the launch platform for the missile, though previous reports in Russian state media say it has been deployed on a warship.

Experts say the Zircon, if it lives up to what the Russian government says about it, is a formidable weapon.

Its hypersonic speed makes it invulnerable to even the best Western missile defenses, like the Patriot, according to the United States-based Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA).

The alliance says its speed has been put at Mach 8, or almost 9,900 kilometers per hour (6,138 mph). Hypersonic is defined as any speed above Mach 5 (3,836 mph).

“If that information is accurate, the Zircon missile would be the fastest in the world, making it nearly impossible to defend against due to its speed alone,” the alliance says on its website.

The site also points to the missile’s plasma cloud as another “valuable” feature.

“During flight, the missile is completely covered by a plasma cloud that absorbs any rays of radio frequencies and makes the missile invisible to radars. This allows the missile to remain undetected on its way to the target,” it says.

Additionally, the MDAA says the Zircon is “a maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile” with a range of somewhere between 500 and 1,000 kilometers (310 to 620 miles).

When the Russian navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov set out on a combat mission last January, leader Vladimir Putin boasted about the Zircon missiles the ship was carrying.

“It has no analogues in any country in the world,” Putin said, according to a report from the state media agency TASS. “I am sure that such powerful weapons will reliably protect Russia from potential external threats and will help ensure the national interests of our country,” he added.

If Russia has introduced the new weapon into the conflict, it could mean trouble for a Ukrainian air defense already straining to repel Moscow’s aerial attacks.

For instance, in that February 7 attack in which the Zircon was allegedly used, three Iskander ballistic missiles and four Kh-22 cruise missiles fired by Russian forces evaded attempts to bring them down, data from Ukraine’s air force shows.

Although air defenses have brought down Iskander missiles in the past, it is believed that Ukraine has failed to intercept a single Kh-22 in almost two years of war. Speaking in December, Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said that Russia had fired almost 300 Kh-22s so far in the war.

Ukraine’s air defenses did have some success during the February 7 attack, bringing down 26 of 29 Kh-101, Kh-555 and Kh-55 type cruise missiles, all three Kalibr cruise missiles and 15 of 20 Shahed drones fired by Russia. But those are less-advanced than the Zircon.

Despite that, analysts caution not to exaggerate the impact the use of the Zircon could have on the war as a whole.

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Florida Republican Lawmaker Introduces Legislation to BAN Weather Engineering Amid Rising Concerns Over Climate Manipulation

by Jim Hᴏft Nov. 27, 2024 8:20 pm

A Florida Republican Senator has introduced SB 56, a bill that aims to prohibit weather modification activities within the state.

Introduced by Senator Ileana Garcia, this legislation targets chemical and technological methods used to manipulate weather patterns, temperature, or sunlight intensity, effectively halting a controversial practice often linked to geoengineering.

What Does SB 56 Say?

The bill repeals existing provisions in Florida statutes related to weather modification.

It specifically prohibits the “injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of 36 a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus 37 into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the 38 express purpose of affecting the temperature, the weather, or 39 the intensity of sunlight.”

Violators could face stiff penalties, including fines of up to $10,000 and potential misdemeanor charges.

SB 56 is set to take effect on July 1, 2025, but it will likely encounter opposition from industry stakeholders and environmental scientists.

Florida is not the only state taking a stand against weather manipulation. Earlier this year, the Tennessee State Senate took a definitive stance against the controversial topic of “chemtrails” by passing SB 2691/HB 2063.

The bill, which aims to ban the intentional release of chemicals into the atmosphere for geoengineering purposes, was sponsored by Representative Monty Fritts (R-Kingston) and Senator Steve Southerland (R-Morristown) and won approval in the Senate on Monday, The Tennessean reported.

The legislation is predicated on the claim that “it is documented the federal government or other entities acting on the federal government’s behalf or at the federal government’s request may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere, and those activities may occur within the State of Tennessee.”

This new bill seeks to outlaw any such activities, stating that, “The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited.”

In New Hampshire, two motivated House Representatives, Jason Gerhard, Merrimack – District 25, and Kelley Potenza, Strafford – District 19, have introduced “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act” NH House Bill (HB) 1700.

The three-page bill establishes regulations to prevent the intentional release of polluting and harmful emissions into New Hampshire’s atmosphere. This bill aims to bring forward a subject many experts have warned us about for years, as well as the necessary transparency for NH citizens so we can educate and unite to stop this destructive environmental onslaught we are experiencing.

HB 1700 cites pollution released during cloud seeding or weather modification activities and associated electromagnetic radiation, all defined as pollution by scientists. “Even Verizon and AT&T define what we are referring to as pollution. To be clear, we are not worried about snow-making cannons, since we know what comes out of those, or looking to regulate domestic airplane engine emissions as some have disingenuously suggested,” Rep. Gerhard said.

Marjorie Taylor Greene also made headlines last October.

After Representative Greene tweeted a simple and accurate statement last week regarding weather manipulation, the mainstream media went on autopilot mode, calling her an “unhinged conspiracy theorist”.

A community note was added to Rep. Greene’s tweet, stating, “While small-scale ‘cloud seeding’ to create localized rain is possible, hurricanes and other large storms cannot be produced with modern technology.”

Interestingly, even this note acknowledges that weather can, in fact, be manipulated—proving Greene’s point. Rep. Greene didn’t specifically mention hurricanes in her tweet; instead, she broadly suggested that scientists have the ability to influence weather patterns.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/florida-republican-lawmaker-introduces-legislation-ban-weather-engineering/

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 Thanksgiving Texas shooting leaves 2 dead, 2 wounded: ‘Happens all too frequently,’ police chief says

By Louis Casiano, Fox News  

Published Nov. 29, 2024, 4:11 a.m. ET

Two people were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in San Antonio on Thanksgiving morning, police said.

Shots rang out around 8 a.m. in the city’s east side at a home off Potomac Street near St. James Street, KABB-TV reported.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said four people were found shot.

“All the individuals involved in this incident knew each other, including the shooter,” he told reporters at the scene.

The suspected shooter, a man in his 20s, was leaving the house when he allegedly opened fire.

The suspected gunman was taken into police custody.

“I can’t remember the number of times I’ve called out on Thanksgiving for something like this, but it seems to happen all too frequently,” the chief said.

Details about what led to the shooting were not disclosed.

Fox News Digital has reached out to law enforcement officials.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/29/us-news/thanksgiving-morning-texas-shooting-leaves-2-dead-2-wounded/

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