There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
If there is going to be “peace in the Middle East”, why are Israel, Iran and Hezbollah feverishly preparing for war? I am watching the Middle East very closely, because I expect something really big to happen. In fact, just hours ago the IDF conducted major airstrikes in Lebanon. Meanwhile, the Iranians are stockpiling missiles like never before. The clock is ticking, and the Middle East could potentially erupt in flames at any moment.
A lot of people out there seem to think that Hezbollah has been totally defeated.
But of course that is not the case at all.
It is still very formidable, and it is being reported that Hezbollah is “working on rebuilding the Radwan Force and retrieving weapons from its bunkers”…
The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that “the Israeli army is preparing for multiple scenarios on the northern front with Lebanon.”
The newspaper added that “Israeli intelligence has detected increased activity by Hezbollah in several Lebanese regions, including the north of the Litani River, the Bekaa Valley, and in Dahiyeh.” It noted that “Hezbollah is working on rebuilding the Radwan Force and retrieving weapons from its bunkers that were previously targeted by Israeli airstrikes.”
The Israeli army has intensified military preparations along the northern front, amid growing indications that Israel is preparing for a major confrontation with Hezbollah, according to reports from Israeli media.
Army Radio cited informed sources as saying that the anticipated operation will involve wide-scale assassinations of senior Hezbollah commanders and strikes on key positions deep inside Lebanon. The sources added that the operation could be launched “at any moment,” depending on developments along the border.
The reports suggest Israel aims to neutralize Hezbollah’s leadership and infrastructure, even as a fragile ceasefire remains officially in place.
Of course we can now see this plan in action.
In recent days, there have been “wide-scale assassinations of senior Hezbollah commanders”. In fact, a number of the top leaders of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force have recently been killed…
The IDF claimed that it had killed “approximately 20 Hezbollah terrorists whose activities violated the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
On Wednesday, the IDF said it killed Hussein Jaber Dib, a member of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force. Israel alleged that Dib had “advanced terror attacks against Israel and its citizens.”
Additionally, on Monday, the IDF confirmed it had killed two Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon. Muhammad Ali Hadid, a senior member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was eliminated in Nabatieh, while another operative was struck in Ayta ash Shab after being seen collecting intelligence on Israeli positions, according to the Israeli military.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Thursday that it had started striking Hezbollah military targets in southern Lebanon.
The IDF said it struck terrorist infrastructure and several weapon storage facilities that belonged to Hezbollah’s Radwan Force on Thursday. The military also alleged that the Radwan Force was working to “reestablish terrorist infrastructure” that was “intended to harm the State of Israel.”
“The weapons storage facilities were constructed in the center of civilian-populated areas. This is yet another example of the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s strategy to cynically and brutally exploit Lebanese civilians as human shields as it operates out of civilian areas,” the IDF said in a press release.
There is no point in pretending.
Israel and Hezbollah are at war again.
Hezbollah is ruling out any negotiations, and they are warning that they will fight to defend their interests…
The attacks come as Hezbollah issued a firm rejection of any political negotiations with Israel, saying such talks would “not serve the national interest”. The statement followed mounting pressure from the United States and Egypt for Lebanon to begin direct dialogue with Israel, the AFP news agency reported. Al Jazeera could not independently verify those claims.
“We reaffirm our legitimate right to defend ourselves against an enemy that imposes war on our country and does not cease its attacks,” Hezbollah said, referring to ongoing Israeli air raids despite a ceasefire agreed to in November 2024.
Lebanon and Israel remain technically at war, with communication limited to a United Nations-backed monitoring mechanism involving France and the US. The two sides meet separately under UN auspices but do not engage in direct talks.
While all of this has been going on, the Iranians have also been preparing for another round of fighting.
Iran has been feverishly stockpiling missiles, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is claiming that his nation’s missile forces are now “far greater than during the 12-day war”…
“The Islamic Republic’s approach was to rely on domestically produced military equipment, and the result was that those who initially demanded unconditional surrender ended up accepting an unconditional ceasefire on the 12th day…International relations are based on power. We must be strong, and the armed forces have gone above and beyond in this regard. Our missile power today is far greater than during the 12-day war.”
U.S. and allied intelligence have flagged Iran’s arsenal as not just large, but also evolving in sophistication, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing the missile program in September as an “unacceptable risk.”
Since the end of September, Iran has reportedly received 2,000 tons of sodium perchlorate—a missile fuel precursor, enough for roughly 500 ballistic missiles—from China, Western intelligence sources told CNN last week.
But when it comes to the Iranians, the much bigger potential threat is their nuclear program.
The Iranians have vowed to rebuild it stronger than ever, and right now the IAEA has absolutely no idea what is going on at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan…
Iran must “seriously improve” cooperation with the United Nations inspectors to avoid heightening tensions with the West, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi.
Grossi told the FT that while the IAEA has carried out about a dozen inspections in Iran since hostilities with Israel in June, it had not been given access to nuclear facilities such as Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, which were bombed by the United States.
We are supposed to believe that the Iranian nuclear program has been set back for a long time and is no longer an imminent threat.
I am not buying that.
Elsewhere, Russian forces continue to march forward in Ukraine.
The battle for the fortress city of Pokrovsk is nearing an end, and even the New York Times is admitting that the Russians are “close to capturing” it…
Russia is concentrating its firepower and troops on the small, battered city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, apparently pushing its forces close to capturing what has become a gateway to the war’s most fiercely contested region.
After more than a year of fighting, Pokrovsk, a railroad hub in the Donetsk region, has been turned largely into rubble, its prewar population of 60,000 now reduced to fewer than 1,300 residents. Ukrainian soldiers defending the city report intense combat. Nearly one-third of all the battles along the front line, which stretches almost 750 miles, are in Pokrovsk, and half of Russia’s attacks with deadly glide bombs are focused on the city, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Monday. Those numbers could not be independently confirmed.
Some of Ukraine’s best units have been trying to defend Pokrovsk, but now it is clear the the city will fall and western experts are acknowledging that the wise move would be to withdraw those forces so that they can fight another day…
“At this stage Ukrainian forces should be withdrawing rather than trying to stay in a collapsing pocket,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment who focuses on the Ukrainian conflict and recently visited troops near Pokrovsk.
The situation was looking “increasingly precarious,” he said and “nobody is sure about how many troops actually remain.” Whatever the number, “at this stage of the war it is exceedingly difficult to extract forces under fire control of enemy drones.”
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refuses to do that.
He has apparently decided that Pokrovsk will be defended to the last man, and so a lot of good soldiers will be needlessly lost…
The next news From Ukraine, and again about Pokrovsk. According to Ukrainian media, despite criticism, including from the military, there will be no retreat from Pokrovsk. The city’s garrison has already been condemned.
Ukrainian UAV expert Sergei “Flash” Beskrestnov reported today that Zelenskyy has decided to hold Pokrovsk to the last Ukrainian soldier. According to him, the General Staff has decided to concentrate reserves on Pokrovsk, regardless of losses. According to the General Staff, the city is too important for further defense; the entire Dnipropetrovsk region lies behind it, and there isn’t a single strong line of defense within its borders. In short, Pokrovsk supposedly protects Dnipropetrovsk from being captured by Russian forces.
If Zelensky feels this strongly, I would like to see him gear up and head out to the front lines.
Of course he would never actually put himself in any danger.
In ancient times, kings would go out and fight with their armies.
If politicians were forced to do that in this day and time, there would be a lot less war.
Sadly, I expect war to continue to be a major theme in 2026, and that is not good news for any of us.
I have been hearing from a lot of people about the month of November. Many are convinced that things are going to get really crazy next month, and I think that it is quite likely that they are correct. Of course things are already starting to get crazy all over the globe and we haven’t even gotten to the month of November yet. One of the strongest hurricanes in recorded history just made landfall, renewed fighting has erupted in the Middle East, the streets of Rio de Janeiro have been transformed into a war zone, and the bird flu is absolutely ripping across Germany. Unfortunately, what we are experiencing now may just be a prelude to what is coming next month.
On Monday, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica with maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall across the Caribbean Monday afternoon as the terrifying storm is set to be the worst in history.
The Category 5 hurricane, which has been described as the ‘storm of the century’ that is now stronger than Katrina, is expected to unleash destruction across Jamaica with intense flooding and 185mph winds.
This storm suddenly became one of the strongest hurricanes that we have ever seen.
If a “Category 6” actually existed, it would have been classified as a Category 6 storm.
Personally, I think that it is time to update the scale.
The National Hurricane Center is warning that up to 40 inches of rain could fall in southern Hispaniola and Jamaica through Wednesday.
That torrential rainfall is likely to trigger catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and landslides in Jamaica and Haiti, especially in hilly and mountainous terrain, according to the National Hurricane Center.
In eastern Cuba, up to 25 inches of rain could fall through Wednesday, with potentially catastrophic flash flooding and landslides. And in the southeast Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, up to 10 inches of rain could fall through Wednesday night, with flash flooding expected.
In my entire lifetime, I have never been anywhere that has received that much rain.
I can’t even imagine what that would look like.
The good news is that Hurricane Melissa is not expected to hit the United States.
Let us hope that our meteorologists are correct about that.
Elsewhere, the very fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears to be collapsing.
Renewed fighting erupted on Tuesday, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his forces to carry out “powerful strikes”…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, and Hamas responded by saying it would delay handing over the body of a hostage, putting new pressure on the tenuous U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
Associated Press reporters and witnesses heard tank fire and saw explosions in various parts of Gaza, including in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah.
The order from Netanyahu follows heightened tensions, as Israel reported Hamas firing on its forces in southern Gaza and after Hamas returned a set of remains that Israel said belonged to a hostage recovered earlier in the war.
If the ceasefire is not restored soon, things could quickly spiral out of control.
An Israeli official told CNN that among the options being considered are expanding the so-called yellow line – Israel’s withdrawal line in Gaza – reoccupying additional territory, or retaking the Netzarim corridor, which cuts across Gaza.
Despite a US-backed ceasefire having officially been in place for over a year in Lebanon, Israel has been steadily ratcheting its aerial attacks in southern Lebanon, against what it says are Hezbollah and terror targets, resulting in scores of casualties.
The latest attack came on Monday, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) having confirmed an airstrike in the al-Biyad area of southern Lebanon, which killed two Hezbollah operatives.
One of the Hezbollah operatives that the IDF took out was named Abbas Hassan Karky.
According to the IDF, he was involved in “efforts to rebuild Hezbollah’s combat capabilities”…
ELIMINATED: Abbas Hassan Karky, the logistics commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front headquarters, was struck & eliminated in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon.
Abbas led recent efforts to rebuild Hezbollah’s combat capabilities: Managing the transfer and storage of weapons and assisting in the reestablishment of terrorist infrastructure that had been dismantled during the war, south of the Litani River.
To me, it appears that the war in the Middle East is far from over.
In fact, I think that it is quite likely that we could see a major “surprise” in the weeks ahead.
Before I move on to my next topic, there is one more thing that I wanted to mention.
All of a sudden, Turkey is making a major push “to gain international recognition of its sovereignty over the Golan Heights”…
Syria, backed by Turkey and several Arab countries, has launched a diplomatic campaign to gain international recognition of its sovereignty over the Golan Heights and to return the territory to its control. The move runs counter to ongoing security negotiations between Syria and Israel.
Israel annexed the Golan Heights by law in 1981 and considers it fully sovereign Israeli territory. That sovereignty was recognized by President Donald Trump during his first term, through a 2019 presidential proclamation. As a gesture of appreciation, the Israeli government announced the establishment of the community Trump Heights.
Why is Syria choosing to do this at this time?
Could this spark a conflict between Israel and Syria’s new regime?
The U.S. military on Monday struck four more vessels that were allegedly trafficking narcotics in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 and leaving one survivor, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on X.
The four vessels were hit in three different strikes, Hegseth said. The strikes bring the total death toll in President Trump’s campaign against alleged traffickers in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific to more than 50.
“The four vessels were known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics,” Hegseth wrote. “Eight male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessels during the first strike. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the second strike. Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the third strike. A total of 14 narco-terrorists were killed during the three strikes, with one survivor. All strikes were in international waters with no U.S. forces harmed.”
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal drugs that have come pouring into this country from elsewhere.
So something had to be done.
But if all of this is leading up to full-blown war with Venezuela and/or Colombia, that won’t be good at all.
In Brazil, a government operation that is targeting narco-traffickers has turned the streets of Rio de Janeiro into a war zone…
Dozens are dead, including four police officers, following a major narcoterrorism operation targeting organized crime in Rio de Janeiro. The government operation comes less than two weeks before globalists gather for the COP30 global warming conference in Belem, Brazil.
“We stand firm confronting narcoterrorism,” Governor Claudio Castro wrote on X. He said 2,500 security personnel and 32 armored trucks were a part of the operation across the Alemao and Penha favela regions.
If you think that the term “war zone” is an exaggeration, just watch this video.
I can’t remember ever seeing anything quite like this in Brazil.
Over the course of 24 hours spanning October 25 and 26, 2025, Taal Volcano reminded the Philippines—and the world—why it’s considered one of the most unpredictable volcanoes on the planet. Residents of Batangas Province woke to the sight of towering ash plumes and the faint smell of sulfur. At least four short-lived eruptions, classified as minor phreatic and phreatomagmatic events, rocked the northeastern portion of Taal’s Main Crater. These eruptions sent dense columns of ash and steam shooting 1,200 to 2,100 meters into the sky, casting a gray pall over nearby communities in Laurel and Agoncillo.
This is a really big volcano, and a full-blown eruption could cause a tremendous amount of destruction.
So let’s watch this one closely.
Over in Europe, they are dealing with a different sort of a crisis.
The bird flu has been ripping across the continent in recent weeks, and Germany has been getting hit particularly hard…
Over half a million hens, ducks, geese and turkeys have been culled in Germany since the start of September as a virulent strain of bird flu sweeps the country.
According to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), the German government agency responsible for monitoring animal pestilence, there have been 30 registered outbreaks in poultry batteries and another 73 among wild birds.
“And we’re expecting more,” a spokesperson told the dpa news agency, explaining that another 23 suspected cases are currently being investigated.
Egg prices are likely to spike once again in the months ahead.
That would be a best-case scenario.
In a worst-case scenario, the bird flu would mutate into a form that can spread easily among humans and millions would die.
Last week, I wrote about how a team of researchers in the United States and South Korea has come up with a version of the bird flu that has a 100 percent death rate in mammals.
They are assuring us that this new version of the bird flu will never get out, but as we have seen, it is way too easy for accidents to happen.
In fact, a truck that was carrying rhesus monkeys that were infected with “hepatitis C, herpes and COVID” just overturned in Mississippi…
A truck hauling “aggressive” rhesus monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and COVID overturned Tuesday in Mississippi, allowing them to escape.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said most of the escaped animals had been destroyed or remained in their cages, but one was still on the loose.
“The monkeys are approximately 40 (pounds), they are aggressive to humans and they require PPE to handle,” a sheriff’s spokesperson said on Facebook.
If you live in Mississippi and you see a diseased rhesus monkey running around in your neighborhood, it would probably be wise to avoid it.
One of these days, there will be an “accident” that they are not able to contain.
And that day may be coming a lot sooner than many people think.
Our ability to create deadly diseases is far greater than our ability to control them, and we will eventually pay a very great price for our reckless behavior.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly by Mars 1 month from now — and Europe’s Red Planet orbiters will be ready The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing for a unique opportunity to study the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas from what could be the best vantage point in the solar system. Astronomers made the rare and extraordinary discovery of an interstellar object in our own solar system on July 1, 2025, sparking a scramble to study the mysterious visitor. The object has since been named comet 3I/ATLAS, where 3I stands for “third interstellar,” and designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS). it may be observations from Mars, not Earth, that give us our closest look at the comet.
Zelenskyj: Putin Tests Global Response with Ukraine Attacks Donald Trump says he can imagine further sanctions against Russia and similar messages have come from European quarters. But Volodymyr Zelenskyj demands actions, not words. It must be felt by Russia, says the Ukrainian president.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Resigns After Losing Majority Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces that he is resigning. The message comes after less than a year in power where his Liberal Democratic LDP has lost its majority in both the parliament’s lower house and upper house.
Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures at a club in San Francisco—about the Antichrist PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel is embarking on an unusual intellectual journey this fall—delivering a sold-out four-part lecture series on the biblical figure of the Antichrist. The private lectures, which will be held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, represent the latest evolution in Thiel’s increasingly public theological interests that intertwine his Christian faith with his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control. The series, organized by the nonprofit Acts 17 Collective, will explore “the theological and technological dimensions of the Antichrist” in four sessions across September and October. The lectures remain off-the-record,
Seven AfD Candidates Die Before German Local Elections Amid Rising Political Violence As many as seven candidates for Germany’s anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have died in recent weeks ahead of local elections in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, prompting calls for investigation. Police said “there is no evidence of foul play,” but AfD co-leader Alice Weidel reposted a social media comment suggesting at least four of the deaths were “statistically almost impossible.”
Heart inflammation caused by covid “vaccines” is a potential time bomb In May, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their covid-19 vaccines to include a heightened risk of heart inflammation, specifically myocarditis and pericarditis, in males aged 16 to 25. Although the FDA has not characterised it as such, others have noted that the risk of myocarditis is a potential “ticking time bomb” because of its often-symptomless nature.
China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere While the United States rushes head-first into a self-inflicted economic crisis in an attempt to develop AI with human-level intelligence, China is eying a different goal. Last week, the Chinese State Council unveiled its ten-year plan to fully integrate AI into every aspect of the country’s economy by 2035. Called “AI+,” the ambitious plan sees AI becoming a “key growth engine for the country’s economic development,” a transformation mirroring that of the internet age.
New US CENTCOM Chief Cooper meets IDF chief, affirms ‘ironclad commitment to Israel’s security’ “The United States maintains an ironclad commitment to Israel’s security,” Cooper stated. “We are mutually dedicated to promoting regional security and stability.” The meeting reportedly also focused on strengthening the already close and solid cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Blood Moon Eclipse Over Israel: Confusing Masculine and Feminine, Leaving the Arabs in the Dark As darkness falls over the Holy Land on Sunday night, Israel will witness a celestial phenomenon that bridges the realms of science and prophecy. A total lunar eclipse will transform the moon into a dramatic “Blood Moon,” casting an eerie crimson glow across the skies above Jerusalem and throughout the Jewish state. For observers in Israel, this astronomical event holds particular significance, as Jewish tradition has long interpreted lunar eclipses as divine messages explicitly connected to the Jewish people and their destiny.
Trump: I think we’ll have a Gaza deal very soon “I think we’re going to have a deal on Gaza very soon. It’s a hell of a problem. It’s a problem we want to solve for the Middle East, for Israel, for everybody. But it’s a problem we’re going to get done,” said the President. As part of the framework, Israel would halt the takeover of Gaza City and would immediately begin negotiations to end the war, under the direct management of President Trump
After Facing Backlash, ‘Christian’ TV Personalities Double Down On LGBT Promotion With New Game Show Chip and Joanna Gaines. Maybe you’re familiar with them. The self-described “Christian” couple is best known for their home renovation TV series “Fixer Upper,” but over the last couple of months, they’ve been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. … they have announced yet another “family-friendly” show. This time, it’s even more brazenly affirming of the LGBT cult.
The Battle Brewing: Mass Surveillance Vs The People Flock Safety, a leader in ALPR technology, is one of the companies in the eye of the storm. Last week, Flock’s CEO and co-founder Garrett Langley made headlines when he released a statement announcing the company was going to “pause” its pilot programs with the U.S. government. The company said that while it has no current contracts with any U.S. Department of Homeland Security agencies, it did engage in “limited pilots with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), to assist those agencies in combatting human trafficking and fentanyl distribution.”
Undersea Cable Cuts Kill Internet To Parts Of Asia, Mideast Associated Press (via NBC) seems to think (‘there has been concern’) that Houthi rebels from Yemen have been targeting the cables, which sounds absurd – though parts of the red sea are only as deep at 100m (330 ft). So, who knows – but AP (deep state) spends considerable ink on the Houthis
Maryland Scrambles To Deploy More Law Enforcement To Crime-Ridden Baltimore After Trump Threat Maryland Governor Wes Moore and Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott, both leaning left on the political spectrum, announced late last week that additional law enforcement resources will be deployed to support the crumbling Baltimore City Police force, which is suffering from a dangerous officer shortage after years of disastrous criminal justice reforms, including “defund the police” initiatives and other progressive programs that have backfired.
Why Washington’s Panic Over Kennedy Tells Us He’s Close To The Truth Whenever we see such coordinated verbal assaults, we know Kennedy is circling something explosive, something Washington elites are desperate to keep buried. Kennedy was grilled hard for firing CDC Director Susan Monarez, tearing down the vaccine advisory board, canceling $500 million in mRNA contracts, and restricting shots for children and pregnant women. The questions weren’t really about medicine; they were about power. Secretary Kennedy has been working to dismantle a system that thrives on crisis, contracts, and revolving door profits.
T8 warning issued in Hong Kong as Tropical Storm Tapah moves toward Guangdong Tropical Storm Tapah prompted the T8 warning in Hong Kong at 21:20 LT (13:20 UTC) on September 7, 2025, with gale-force winds of 63 km/h (39 mph) or above forecast to persist into September 8. The severe weather is expected to continue with the storm being forecast to make landfall in western Guangdong on September 8.
L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics Have Jubilee With Pope’s Blessing, if Not His Presence Hundreds of L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics processed through the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday to officially participate in the church’s quarter-centennial festival of renewal and forgiveness, a marked sign of acceptance in a church in which many felt shunned or excluded until recently.
The Image That Killed The Democrat Ticket In 2026 And Beyond It’s over for the Dems in 2026 midterms. Maybe even 2028’s general election. Maybe even the final nail in their splintering, mentally ill Marxist coffin. A violent lunatic with 14 previous arrests, who still freely roamed the streets, randomly and viciously stabbed a young woman on the train, killing her….The video is chilling and terrifying, the horror every urban female (and plenty of males) fears. The still image of the moment the madman’s knife begins its descent…will now become the face of the modern Democrat party. The young woman was from Ukraine.
Houthi drone smashes into Israeli airport, injuring 2 Footage of the aftermath showed black smoke billowing from the airport near the resort city of Eilat, causing major delays and diverting flights from the air hub.
Those that are crying “peace, peace” might want to take another look at what is happening on the other side of the world because there is no peace. Israel is conducting airstrikes in Lebanon, the military offensive in Gaza is moving forward, and high ranking terror leaders are being eliminated. Meanwhile, the Russians just unleashed the largest air assault on Ukraine that we have seen in more than three years, and Russian troops are gobbling up territory at a very rapid pace. On top of everything else, speculation is rampant that the war between Israel and Iran could suddenly erupt again at any moment. Echoing the opinions of so many other experts, Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis is warning us that “the Israeli-Iranian war is far from over”…
The headlines may proclaim a ceasefire, but let us be clear: the Israeli-Iranian war is far from over. What we are witnessing is not peace—it is a tactical intermission. The guns may be momentarily silent, but the war remains alive in motive, method, and mindset.
Sadly, I believe that he is quite correct.
Israel has publicly warned that it could strike Iran again. The primary reason why Israel attacked Iran in the first place was to eliminate the threat of Iran’s nuclear program, and we just got even more evidence that goal has not yet been achieved. The following originally comes from the Washington Post…
The United States obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing this month’s U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected, said four people familiar with the classified intelligence circulating within the U.S. government.
The communication, intended to be private, included Iranian government officials speculating as to why the strikes directed by President Donald Trump were not as destructive and extensive as they had anticipated, these people said. Like some others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
In comments at the funeral of over 60 Iranians who have been martyred in the Israeli regime’s war of aggression against Iran, held in Tehran on Saturday, General Ali Mohammad Naeini said the Zionist regime and the US have failed to accomplish their declared objectives in the war.
“This is our final message to the Zionist regime and the delusional president of the US: If Iran’s national interests and assets are violated once again, our response will be different, more crushing and more devastating this time, in a way that it will accelerate the process of downfall of the (Zionist) regime,” the spokesman said.
Those that believe that Iranian leaders have turned over a new leaf and that they really want peace this time are just being delusional.
You see, the truth is that Iran is run by a bunch of “Twelver” Shiites that are waiting for “the Mahdi” to arrive.
And as Michael Youssef has aptly pointed out, “the Mahdi” is supposed to arrive during a period of great conflict…
Twelver Shiism is the largest branch of Shia Islam, and is defined by its belief in twelve divinely ordained Imams (rightful successors to Muhammad). The last Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, supposedly went into occultation (a miraculously hidden state) in the 9th century. Twelvers claim the Mahdi will one day reappear to establish global justice.
Many of Iran’s clerics fervently believe that, before the Mahdi can be revealed, an apocalyptic battle must be fought between faithful Muslims and the forces of evil. As a result, some Iranian leaders—and possibly the Ayatollah himself—are motivated to trigger a nuclear war to fulfill the ancient prophecies and force the appearance of the hidden Mahdi.
So the Iranian regime doesn’t want world peace.
The Iranian regime wants chaos so that “the Mahdi” will come.
Enjoy this “pause” while you can, because it won’t last indefinitely.
Meanwhile, the IDF is using this time to hammer Hamas and Hezbollah with airstrikes.
On Saturday, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced that a targeted airstrike on the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City eliminated Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa, a key Hamas leader and the mastermind behind the October 7 terrorist attack against Israeli civilians.
IDF shared that Al-Issa, one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing, led the terror group’s force build-up and the training and planning of the October 7 massacre. His current role was as Head of Combat Support Headquarters in Hamas’ military wing.
The day before that, the IDF conducted at least 12 strikes against an underground Hezbollah command center in southern Lebanon…
The IDF Air Force on Friday launched strikes on South Lebanon’s Beaufort mountain range targeting an underground Hezbollah command center.
According to reports from the area, at least 12 strikes hit the area around the village of Tebnit. Explosions were heard on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon area.
“This site is part of a significant underground project that was completely taken out of use following IDF strikes. The IDF identified rehabilitation attempts made by Hezbollah beforehand and struck terror infrastructure sites in the area,” the military said in a statement.
The day before that, an Israeli airstrike killed one of the top commanders of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force…
On Thursday, the IAF killed an elite Hezbollah terrorist commander, also in Lebanon’s Nabatiye Governorate.
The airstrike in the village of Baraachit, located less than four miles from the border, killed a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, a unit of terrorists specialized in infiltrating Israel and capturing areas around the Jewish state’s northern frontier, the IDF said.
Two days before that, an Israeli airstrike killed the head of the Al-Sadiq Currency Exchange…
On Tuesday, the Israeli Air Force killed Haytham Abdullah Bakri, the head of the Al-Sadiq Currency Exchange, in a strike in Kfar Dajjal, also in the Nabatiye Governorate. The exchange serves as a transfer mechanism for Hezbollah, handling funds originating from the Iranian Quds Force, the Israeli military said.
While all of those airstrikes have been going on, the Israeli military continues to conduct ground operations inside Gaza…
The evacuation order covered the Jabalia area and most Gaza City districts. Medics and residents said the Israeli army’s bombardments escalated in the early hours in Jabalia, destroying several houses and killing at least six people.
In Khan Younis in the south, five people were killed in an airstrike on a tent encampment near Mawasi, medics said.
As you can see, this isn’t a time of peace for Israel.
This is a time of war.
So don’t be fooled by this “pause” with Iran. That front of the war will erupt again at some point too.
Let me shift gears and talk about what is going on in Ukraine.
Many were hoping for peace, but instead it appears that the war has just shifted into another gear.
In fact, the Russians absolutely pummeled Ukraine with drones and missiles last night…
Ukrainian authorities said Russia had launched 477 drones and decoys, as well as 60 missiles of various types, at Ukraine overnight. The country’s air force said it had shot down 211 drones with another 225 straying before hitting their targets. Air defenses intercepted one of the short-range ballistic missiles, four of the Kalibr cruise missiles and 33 Kh-101 missiles, according to the military.
This bombardment was so unusual that NATO actually scrambled fighter jets in response…
NATO countries scrambled fighter jets early on Sunday, according to the Polish military, after a Ukrainian official said Moscow had launched its largest-scale air attack on the country in more than three years.
Poland’s Operational Command said its fighter jets, along with other NATO aircraft, were scrambled with ground-based air defenses and reconnaissance systems put on the “highest state of readiness” after Russia launched overnight attacks on Ukrainian soil.
On the ground, Russian troops have been taking ground at a rate that is much faster than earlier this year…
The rate of advance of the Russian army in June increased by 30% compared to May. If in May the rate of advance of the Russian Armed Forces was approximately 14 square kilometers per day, then in June it was on average 18 square kilometers per day in the period from June 1 to June 26.
During May, the Russian army advanced more than 400 square kilometers. The most active offensive was observed in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), as well as in the Sumy region.
For general comparison: in January the rate of advance was 325 square kilometers, in February – 191 square kilometers, in March – 133 square kilometers, in April – 177 square kilometers, in May – 418 square kilometers.
I realize that it is not a popular thing to say, but the truth is that the Russians are winning.
As Russian forces move forward, this is going to put an increasing amount of pressure on NATO to intervene more directly.
JERUSALEM, Israel – Israel continues to wage war on two fronts this week – to the north in Lebanon and the south in Gaza. The battles with the remnants of Hamas and Hezbollah come as a showdown with Iran and its nuclear program looms over the Middle East.
The Israel Defense Forces struck dozens of Hezbollah rocket launcher sites on Saturday, the largest attack since the ceasefire. The attacks follow a rocket launch from southern Lebanon toward the Galilee.
Israel called it a blatant violation of the ceasefire. Hezbollah denies they were responsible but the IDF claims the terror group continues to operate in the area.
In Gaza, the military operation is expanding as another IDF division prepares to enter the fighting. The operations have been ongoing since the end of the ceasefire and the refusal by Israel to continue any negotiations while “under fire.”
During the recent fighting, the IDF eliminated two major Hamas leaders.
While visiting an IDF Armored Corps regiment on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “We are winning because we understand that in order to defeat our enemies, those who are closing in on us, we break through them with crushing ground force, in addition to the excellent work of the Air Force, Intelligence, (the) Navy and of course the Infantry.”
On Fox News Sunday, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff blames Hamas for the collapse of the negotiations to free more hostages.
“I was in Doha. I met with many of the leaders at the Arab summit. “I thought we had a deal, an acceptable deal. I even thought we had an approval from Hamas. Maybe that’s me, just getting duped,” Witkoff admitted.
He added, “So, this is on Hamas. The United States stands with the State of Israel. We need to be clear about who the aggressor is here – and it is Hamas.”
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Beyond the fighting in Gaza and southern Lebanon, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz addressed the major threat facing the region and said the Trump administration has clear goals for Iran and its nuclear program.
“Full dismantlement. Iran has to give up its program in a way that the entire world can see,” Waltz told CBS Face the Nation Sunday. “And this is, as President Trump has said, this is coming to a head. All options are on the table and it is time for Iran to walk away completely from its desire to have a nuclear weapon.”
Meanwhile, the Israeli cabinet voted unanimously this weekend on a no-confidence vote to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, the Netanyahu government believes is undermining the prime minister and his policies.
The unprecedented vote follows the firing of Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bed, Israel’s version of the F.B.I.
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets to protest the firing, while many Israelis believe the prime minister has both the authority and the reasons to dismiss Bar.
News from around the nation and the world. Crosstalk looks at it all from a Christian perspective and reports as much as time will allow each Friday. Here’s a sample of stories from this week’s broadcast:
–*Breaking News*–Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has fired the fire chief who said the city failed residents as it pertains to the wildfires.
–*Breaking News*–U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is saying the Jeffrey Epstein client list is “sitting on my desk right now.”
–In response to a blood parade by Hamas where they celebrated the deaths of hostages, including young Jewish children, President Trump said, “I want to see Gaza wiped out. I don’t want to see even one building standing.”
–At the end of an incredibly hard day of mourning, Israelis had to deal with a series of mass transportation terror attacks. Bombs exploded on 3 public buses on Thursday evening. Miraculously no one was injured in the explosions that police believe were coordination terror attacks, most likely carried out by Hamas.
–Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, is declaring a national day of mourning following the return of the remains of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons who were kidnapped by Hamas back on October 7th, 2023.
–The Republic of Fiji, known as one of the friendliest nations toward Israel, has decided to open an embassy in Jerusalem.
–The IDF confirmed Monday that troops will stay in 5 strategic locations in southern Lebanon beyond Tuesday’s withdrawal deadline under a cease fire with Hezbollah, despite Lebanon’s government expressing frustration over the delay.
–Lebanon has indefinitely extended its flight suspension to and from Iran after initially imposing a ban February 18th, following revelations that Iran was smuggling cash to its terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, through civilian flights.
–Turkey has severed all ties with Israel.
–The Trump administration has frozen funding for the Palestinian Authority’s Security Forces, a group that purportedly aims to crack down on terrorism in the West Bank but employs terrorists who have carried out attacks on Israelis.
–President Trump praised the U.S. Central Command forces for carrying out a successful air strike last weekend in Syria that targeted a senior “terrorist leader.”
–King Charles III accepted an accord of reconciliation from the leaders of several major Jewish and Muslim groups in the U.K. on Wednesday.
–U.S. and Russian officials had some diplomatic talks in Saudi Arabia without any Ukrainian officials present on Tuesday.
–A Canadian citizen has been charged by U.S. authorities for allegedly using a drone to take photos of a military base in Florida.
–The Chinese hacking group known as Salt Typhoon is still infiltrating U.S. telecom networks, despite being sanctioned by U.S. authorities.
80 Years After Auschwitz’s Liberation, ‘Never Again’ Is Now Exactly 80 years ago, on January 27, 1945, the world witnessed the liberation of Auschwitz, with the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust on full display. More than 1.1 million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered in Auschwitz, cementing it as one of the most harrowing symbols of humanity’s darkest period. Given the Holocaust’s enormity and relatively recent history, its atrocities should be deeply ingrained in our collective memory. Unfortunately, eight decades later, a disturbing number of people question, distort, or outright deny the acts of evil that took place.
Dozens of Lebanese army officers leak intelligence to Hezbollah, warn terrorists of IDF raids Report raises serious doubts over Hezbollah’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Dozens of officers of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) leaked intelligence to Hezbollah, enabling the terror group to evade Israeli raids and keep weapon stores from being discovered, … dozens of officers, including Suhil Bahij Gharb, head of the LAF’s military intelligence for southern Lebanon, have leaked sensitive information to Hezbollah.
Lessons from Witold Pilecki, the Polish spy who voluntarily entered and operated in Auschwitz International Holocaust Day is marked every year on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This year marks the 80th year since the event, which came too late for millions of Jewish people. The rescue could, and should, have come much sooner. When it gradually became known that people were being taken to camps and disappearing, a Polish operative named Witold Pilecki was tasked with the unenviable job of finding out what was going on. He willingly went into Auschwitz.
Hezbollah incites & pays rioters to provoke Israeli soldiers stationed in southern Lebanon After dozens of Lebanese were killed and wounded in clashes with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Israel’s Kan News reported that Hezbollah was behind the riots, sending civilians to provoke Israeli troops and reportedly even paid them to do so.
Mysterious security warnings see Israeli diaspora minister’s trip cancelled, flights to Cyprus rerouted the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli’s scheduled trip to Brussels, during which he was scheduled to speak to an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the European Parliament on Tuesday, was abruptly canceled for security reasons. It is unfortunate that the European capital, Brussels, has become an unsafe place for Jews and Israelis.”
World leaders honor Holocaust survivors amid rising global antisemitism Around 600 people, including international Jewish community leaders and activists, gathered on Sunday in the Polish city of Krakow at an event organized by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) ahead of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventeen Holocaust survivors attended the event in the city that is located merely one hour’s drive from the infamous Nazi death camp Auschwitz.
Trump mulls adapting Iron Dome technology for US defense President Donald Trump has proposed developing a missile defense system for the U.S. similar to Israel’s Iron Dome. While Iron Dome has largely been successful in protecting Israelis from missile attacks, experts disagree on whether such a system is necessary or even feasible for the United States.
Lawyers involved in prosecuting Trump dismissed The dismissed employees were part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, which had led to now-dropped indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss. “Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” a Justice Department official informed NBC News. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.
Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Monday, amid Western concerns about Tehran and Moscow’s growing military cooperation.This is the first time an Iranian official has confirmed the purchase of Su-35 jets. However, Ali Shadmani, who was quoted by the Student News Network, did not clarify how many jets were purchased and whether they had already been delivered to Iran.
Iran Unveils ‘Gaza’ Drone With 1,000-km Range The Aerospace Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Sunday unveiled its new heavy-duty drone, named Gaza, during a “hybrid operation” on the sidelines of a massive military exercise in southern Iran, according to semi-official Iranian media. With a range of 1,000 kilometers and a payload capacity of at least 500 kilograms, this unmanned aircraft can carry up to 13 missiles in a single flight.
IDF operates against suspects who posed threat to troops in Gaza IDF Spokesperson’s Unit says that, over the past day, IDF troops precisely operated against suspects who posed a threat to the troops operating in the Gaza Strip: The IDF is determined to fully maintain the terms of the agreement in order to return the hostages.
‘All those on motorbikes, are Hezbollah’: Lebanon border once again exposed Dozens of Lebanese roamed freely in the ruins of Al-Matmura village, near the border fence facing the western Galilee on Sunday. The area was vacated by IDF forces on January 11, and the Lebanese army was expected to secure it and prevent residents from returning.
Trump fires 17 inspectors general in Friday night ‘massacre’ Over the course of his first week back in the White House, the president had taken strides to fulfill his promise to drain the swamp. Friday, this included a decision to terminate at least 17 inspectors general according to reports that also suggested Trump may have broken the law by failing to give Congress ample notice. “The inspectors general were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately,
Pres. Trump correct: Don’t spend billions on buildings Israel will need to destroy – relocate the Gazans President Trump is correct that the solution for the Gazans is to relocate them rather waste literally tens of billions of dollars erecting buildings in the Gaza Strip which Israel will have to destroy in a future war. President Trump is also correct in noting that, in the absence of the Gazan terrorists and their supporters, which is basically the curren population of Gaza, the location has fantastic potential for large beach front resorts.
906 Earthquakes Hit California And Nevada As We Closely Watch Seismic Activity At Yellowstone, Mt. Rainier And The San Andreas Fault Have you noticed that there has been a lot of seismic activity on the west coast recently? According to the Southern California Earthquake Data Center at Caltech, there have been 906 earthquakes in California and Nevada just within the past 7 days. Meanwhile, magma is on the move at Yellowstone, we are being warned that a gigantic volcano off the coast of Oregon could soon erupt, and houses in New England were just “shaking like crazy” after a very strange earthquake struck. … the vast majority of the earthquakes that are occurring in California and Nevada right now are very small.
DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China The United States’ recent regulatory action against the Chinese-owned social video platform TikTok prompted mass migration to another Chinese app, the social platform “Rednote.” Now, a generative artificial intelligence platform from the Chinese developer DeepSeek is exploding in popularity, posing a potential threat to US AI dominance and offering the latest evidence that moratoriums like the TikTok ban will not stop Americans from using Chinese-owned digital services.
“Gigantic Rat’s Nest”: Taibbi Hints FBI Communications With COVID Scientists Will Be Exposed There are so many different areas where they are going to have to investigate and reinvestigate that. We just went through a period where there was mass stonewalling of Congress when it was trying to investigate what happened with COVID. There were key people like Peter Daszak from the EcoHealth Alliance, who just didn’t answer subpoenas, right? There are documents that we know exist that we’re going to get now with FBI communications between the bureau and a lot of these scientists dating back ten years. And it’s going to tell a crazy story, a really interesting story.
Feds Nab 50 Illegals In Raid On Tren De Aragua Gang’s ‘Makeshift Nightclub’ In the latest indication that President Trump’s new administration is dead-serious about securing the border and sweeping up those who already waltzed across it, federal agents raided a Sunday morning party in Denver on and nabbed nearly 50 illegal aliens, including members of the notorious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang.
Trump & His New Frenemies, Abroad And At Home President Trump recently gave a video talk to the World Economic Forum (WEF) assemblage in Davos. He expressed fondness for Europe. He praised many for their attendance – and then tore into the evils of hyperregulation, high taxes, radical environmentalism, and the DEI/ESG commissariat of both the prior Biden administration and indeed the European Union. One might have thought the attendees’ heads would have exploded when Trump referred to oil as “liquid gold.” And he topped that by referring to the venerated Green New Deal as the “Green New Scam.”
7 Charged In America’s Biggest COVID Tax Credit Fraud Scheme A group of seven who allegedly sought to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in the “largest COVID-19 tax credit scheme” by falsely claiming pandemic-era benefits were charged on Jan. 22, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The charges were made against Keith Williams, Jamari Lewis, Morais Dicks, Janine Davis, Tiffany Williams, James Hames Jr., and Ewendra Mathurin; all of whom are either current or former residents of New York.
House Republican who wants a Trump third term proposes Constitutional amendment Not even a week into President Trump’s second term, a congressman is pushing for Trump to have the chance to serve a third term. Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, a Republican, has introduced a proposal to amend the Constitution and allow a president to be elected for three terms.
Philippines says China’s ‘monster’ ship on a mission to intimidate The Philippines has deployed vessels and aircraft to closely monitor a gigantic Chinese coast guard ship – the world’s largest – in waters off Luzon island, Filipino officials said, describing the ship as a menacing presence in its exclusive economic zone. “We have all our assets pointed at this monster ship. At the moment it does something bad in the sense that it would provoke actions, there will be appropriate action from the government,” Malaya said, without elaborating.
Are megadroughts upon us? A team of researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria produced a 40-year global quantitative inventory to inform policy about the environmental impact of human-induced climate change. It also detected previously “overlooked” events. The team, writing in an article in the January edition of Science, pointed to its research showing that multiyear droughts (MYDs): “…have become drier, hotter, and led to increasingly diminished vegetation greenness.
Charting the Promising Future of Neuromorphic Computing The research is part of a broader effort to advance neuromorphic computing, a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to mimic the brain’s function and structure. Neuromorphic chips have the potential to outpace traditional computers in energy and space efficiency as well as performance, presenting substantial advantages across various domains, including artificial intelligence,
Rare M3.8 earthquake hits Maine, felt in Boston and beyond A shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M3.8 hit near the coast of York Harbor, Maine at 15:22 UTC (10:22 local time) on Monday, January 27, 2025. The agency is reporting a depth of 13.2 km (8.2 miles). The quake was felt as far away as Boston and beyond.
Lebanon truce extended to Feb. 18, White House says The U.S.-monitored arrangement between Lebanon and Israel will carry on until Feb. 18, the White House stated on Sunday evening—the day the prior agreement, struck on Nov. 26, was slated to end.
REPORT: Trump Administration Locates “80,000” of Over 320,000 Migrant Children Missing During Biden Regime “We discovered that while in federal government custody, some children asked to be sent back to their home country, but are instead taken away in the middle of the night and sent to sponsors who they do not know. It is also well documented that this program has placed children in the hands of criminal organizations such as MS-13, as well as labor and sex trafficking rings,” says Muckraker CEO Anthony Rubin.
Who Owns The Media? There Are 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read …Today, the media industry is controlled by just 6 gigantic corporations. They own television networks, streaming services, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most of us don’t ever stop to think about who is feeding us the endless hours of news, sports and entertainment that we constantly ingest. But we should.
Trump says 88,000 newly hired, armed IRS agents could be reassigned to US-Mexico border …“They hired – were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border,” Trump said. “I think we’re going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they’re so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So we will probably move them to the border.”
Florida State legislation to ban weather modification progresses Florida Senator Ileana Garcia has introduced a bill, SB 56, aimed at banning “weather modification activities” in the state. Titled ‘SB 56: Weather Modification Activities’, the Bill would prohibit the injection, release, or dispersion of any substance or apparatus into the atmosphere within Florida’s borders for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather or intensity of sunlight. It includes a ban on what is colloquially known as chemtrails and formally known as stratospheric aerosol injection from aeroplanes.
Qatar presents final draft of Gaza truce deal after a ‘breakthrough’ Qatar presented Israel and Hamas with a final draft of a ceasefire and hostage release deal on Monday, following midnight negotiations attended by US President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy that resulted in a “breakthrough.”
India gears up for world’s largest public gathering The world’s largest public gathering — the Maha Kumbh Mela — begins this week in India. More than 400 million people are expected to take part in the six-week Hindu festival, which is held at an astrologically determined time every 12 years or so. Attendees celebrate with a ritual dip in sacred waters at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Sarasvati rivers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which has aggressively promoted Hindu religiosity, has essentially built a pop-up city for attendees,
‘Syrian above all’: The Alawite community refuses to pay for Assad’s crimes A month after Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed, Syria’s Alawite minority, which served as the regime’s backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their stronghold of Tartus, members of the community recount that they too suffered under the former dictator’s bloody tyranny.
Israel strikes multiple Hezbollah targets, claims ceasefire mechanism did not address threats The Israel Defense Forces announced early on Monday morning that they had conducted “intelligence-based strikes on a number of Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon.” The Israeli military said that before the strikes were carried out, “the threat posed by the targets to the Israeli home front and IDF troops was presented to the monitoring mechanism of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon.” However, it also claimed that those threats “were not addressed.”
Israeli Druze leader travels to US, urges protection for Syria’s Druze minority under Islamic rule The spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze community, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif travelled to the United States to ensure U.S. protection for the Druze community in Syria under the new Islamic rule in Damascus. The Druze minority fears that it will be persecuted by the new Islamist regime led by the Jihadist leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, also known as Al-Jolani.
New Knesset Party Emerges to Support Judea & Samaria On Sunday, Idan Roll, a high-ranking Member of Knesset for the left-wing Yesh Atid Party, announced on Twitter that he is leaving the party to form a new party. Roll has been making public statements since October 7th, which appear to place him outside of the left-wing opposition views of the party led by Yair Lapid. I informed the chairman of the Yesh Atid faction, MK Yair Lapid, of my resignation from the party and my departure for an independent path.
Nukhba terrorists will not be released as part of hostage deal A diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post that Nukhba terrorists who took part in the October 7 massacre will not be released in exchange for hostages. Although some of the Palestinian prisoners slated for release in the hostage deal are serving life sentences for serious crimes, they are not part of the Nukhba terrorist forces.
How Joe Biden’s work, with Donald Trump’s pressure, brought a hostage deal – analysis The threat pressure was not only felt by Hamas, however, and over the past few days, Trump conveyed a message both to Qatari leadership and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the American hostages must come home “no matter what.” Trump personally sent his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, for negotiations. This is an unprecedented move in the history of transitions between US administrations and conveys the intended message.
Houthis fire missile at central Israel, triggering sirens in Samaria The Israel Defense Forces shot down a missile launched at central Israel from Yemen by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists on Monday night, triggering air-raid sirens throughout Samaria, the army said. “Following alerts that were activated a short time ago in several areas of the country, the Air Force intercepted one missile launched from Yemen,” the IDF stated. “The missile was intercepted before it crossed into Israeli territory;
As 30% of North Korean Troops Are Eliminated, Ukraine Still Holds Parts of Russia’s Kursk According to Ukrainian authorities, Pyongyang volunteered to send approximately 12,000 troops, aiming to gain combat experience for its military. This marks North Korea’s full entry into the war on Russia’s side. However, North Korean forces—poorly prepared for modern warfare—have sustained heavy casualties. President Zelenskyy stated in an interview with Lex Fridman that around 3,800 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded. Despite these losses, Pyongyang appears ready to increase its contingent by 30,000–40,000 troops if needed.
‘IDF will stay in Lebanon until Hezbollah is dismantled’ Israel is not relying on anyone but itself to ensure Hezbollah does not rebuild in Lebanon, according to Brig.-Gen. Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of HaBithonistim. But more than 40 Hezbollah terrorists have been killed by Israel since the beginning of the cease-fire because they were trying to rebuild themselves. And this is not going to change—not only in South Lebanon, but all over Lebanon.”
Musk Says Neuralink Implanted Third Patient With Brain Device “We’ve got now three humans with Neuralinks implanted and they’re all working well,” Musk said during an event in Las Vegas this week that was streamed on X, his social media service. Neuralink is one of a growing group of startups developing brain implants that can help treat conditions such as paralysis and ALS. They are experimental procedures that usually require opening up the skull to place electrodes in the brain tissue. A year ago, Neuralink said it had implanted its device in its initial patient, Noland Arbaugh.
FBI’s Wray Drops ‘Chinese Infiltration’ Bomb On Way Out, Warns Of Threat To Critical Infrastructure While the FBI – the same FBI that participated in the Russiagage hoax, polarizing half of America into focusing on the Kremlin for a decade, the Chinese government – the same one that enriched the Biden family to the tune of millions, has apparently been ‘lying in wait’ all over America and is ready to attach critical infrastructure at a moment’s notice. According to … Wray “The Chinese government is prepositioning on American civilian critical infrastructure to lie in wait on those networks to be in a position to wreak havoc & inflict real world harm at a time & place of their choosing.”
Blaming ‘Climate Change’ For L.A. Fires Only Makes Newsom Look Criminally Incompetent Newsom is again blaming “climate change” for the fires ravaging Los Angeles. But wait. If climate change really is to blame, why was California so obviously, so woefully, so inexcusably unprepared? Someone needs to ask Newsom why the state didn’t spend the last four years aggressively clearing out underbrush to minimize the chances of a catastrophic wildfire. Why didn’t it carve out large and effective buffer zones … In 2018, former Gov. Jerry Brown signed a $1 billion bill that was supposed to “prevent catastrophic wildfires and protect Californians.” Where did that money go?
House Republicans Weigh Sweeping $5.7 Trillion In Spending Cuts To Fund Trump’s Domestic Agenda The plan, designed to bankroll President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious priorities – including tax cuts and increased border security – details reductions to major federal programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Biden-era climate initiatives. slashing welfare programs, revising Affordable Care Act subsidies, and rolling back green energy tax credits.
Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden In California No one has really taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe are blame-gaming each other to determine who was the more incompetent, which in this case translates to the most woke. No one knows how many have died; all know the number will escalate in the next few days. The eventual price tag of the ruin will exceed $200-300 billion and outstrip the billions of dollars given to Ukraine. All the state media, the legacy newspapers, the Silicon Valley daily online news sites, the Bay Area-based Apple, Google, and Facebook monopolies, and the local news outlets are parrots of the woke-green mindset.
Texas Sues Allstate For Secretly Tracking Drivers Through Apps, Using Data To Raise Rates The state of Texas has sued Allstate and a subsidiary, Arity, accusing the insurance giant of illegally tracking drivers through cell phone apps without their consent and then using the data to charge more for car insurance. Allstate created the “world’s largest driving behavior database,” which collected information on more than 45 million Americans after paying mobile app developers millions of dollars to secretly incorporate tracking software. Texas says Allstate also profited by selling the data to other insurers.
A Comet That Appears Every 160,000 Years, A ‘Glowing Ring Of Metal’ That Just Fell Out Of The Sky, And A Giant Coronal Hole Spanning 1/4 Of The Circumference Of The Sun 2025 has been quite a chaotic year already. On New Year’s Eve lightning struck four of the most iconic buildings in our entire country, on New Year’s Day we had terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, Justin Trudeau stepped down just a few days later, and now we are in the midst of the worst fire disaster in U.S. history. Meanwhile, a lot of other really weird stuff has been going on in the sky above our heads. For example, a “once-in-a-lifetime comet” that only comes around once every 160,000 years is about to be visible from our planet.
Strong and shallow M6.8 earthquake hits Kyushu Japan A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.8 hit near the coast of Kyushu, Japan at 12:19 UTC (21:19 LT) on January 13, 2025. The agency is reporting a depth of 49 km (30 miles). The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is reporting M6.6 at a depth of 36 km (22.3 miles).
Extreme rainfall leaves 10 dead in Ipatinga Minas Gerais, Brazil Extreme rainfall hit parts of Minas Gerais, Brazil late Saturday into Sunday, January 11 into 12, 2025, causing destructive landslides in which at least 10 people lost their lives. Most casualties were reported in Ipatinga where nearly 80 mm (3.1 inches) of rain fell in just one hour, causing widespread destruction.
The Insurance Industry Is Going To Be Absolutely Devastated By The Los Angeles Fires Will the insurance industry be able to survive tens of billions of dollars in losses from the Los Angeles fires? There have been catastrophic fires in California before, but never anything quite like this. So what is going to happen to homeowners if their insurance companies go bankrupt and cannot pay? Even the ones that do not go bankrupt are really going to struggle. I have a feeling that some of them will delay payouts for an extended period of time and will deny as many claims as they possibly can in a desperate attempt to survive. In the end, it is likely that vast numbers of homeowners that were counting on their insurance companies to bail them out will be left holding the bag.
Cotton Reintroduces Legislation to Expel Chinese Police Operatives in U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today reintroduced the Expel Illegal Chinese Police Act of 2025, legislation that will impose sanctions with respect to police departments run by the People’s Republic of China and other persons seeking to establish a Chinese police presence in the United States. This reintroduction comes after a man accused of running a secret police station on behalf of China’s Ministry of Public Security pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government.
Embalmers Keep Finding Fibrous CV19 Vax Clots …An embalmer from Indiana, Wallace Hooker, was lecturing at an Ohio embalmer’s conference in Columbus, Ohio, on the 26th of October in 2022. He was lecturing to a room of about 100 embalmers. He showed them photographs of the white fibrous clots he had been pulling out of his corpses for the last year or so, and he asked by a show of hands how many of you are seeing these white fibrous clots? He said almost the entire room of 100 embalmers raised their hands and said yes. He then asked when did you start seeing them? They all said about six months after the Covid vaccines rolled out.”
Florida cancels transgender activist’s new ID after changed gender label Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration canceled a transgender activist’s driver’s license after the popular TikToker publicly posted about changing the stated gender on their ID. The 2024 letter also said that misrepresenting one’s gender on a driver’s license constitutes fraud.
Palestinian Authority condemns Hamas for using Gazan civilians ‘as human shields’ The Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Hamas terrorist organization traded barbs on Saturday amid growing tensions between the rival organizations. The Fatah party, which controls the PA, condemned Hamas for using Gazan civilians “as human shields instead of protecting them and their homes,” confirming Israel’s long-held position.
Vance explains what Trump means by ‘hell breaking loose’ if hostages aren’t freed by Jan 20 Vance said, “It means enabling the Israelis to knock out the final couple of battalions of Hamas and their leadership. It means very aggressive sanctions and financial penalties on those who are supporting terrorist organizations in the Middle East. It means doing the job of American leadership,” Vance said.
Trump’s incoming Ukraine envoy urges ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran Kellogg stressed that the opportunity to improve Iran is fleeting and must be seized. “We must exploit the weakness we now see. The hope is there, so must too be the action,” Trump has pledged to reinstate the policy from his previous term, which aimed to devastate Iran’s economy
New Israeli study reveals how terrorists are weaponizing AI Artificial intelligence technology could be exploited by terrorist groups around the globe in a number of ways, a new study has found, while governmental regulatory agencies and tech companies appear to be woefully unprepared to deal with the growing threat.
Hostage’s father: ‘Trump knows – barbarians only understand power’ “The State of Israel, under various pressures, is forced to fight the enemy while being obligated to provide it with humanitarian aid and logistical supplies. Never in the wars of history has this been seen. Imagine that while America is fighting ISIS or the Nazi regime, it is also obligated to provide its enemy with a continuous supply of food, water, electricity, medicine, fuel, and money. This is madness!”
IAF strikes Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon Israel Air Force jets struck and demolished multiple Hezbollah terror targets throughout Lebanon, the military confirmed in the early hours of Monday. The military noted it had struck a rocket launcher site, a military site, and routes on the Syrian-Lebanese border, which were utilized to transfer weapons to the Lebanese-based, Iranian-backed terror group.
What will Turkey do with Syria’s Kurdish population? Although Erdogan might deplore the effect on Turkey’s domestic political scene, he may yet see an autonomous Kurdish region recognized within a new Syrian constitution.
Turkish media linked to Erdogan claims Iran will send drones to Kurds in Syria Iran has reportedly agreed to supply 1,500 suicide drones to the Kurdish YPG/PKK group in Syria to counter Turkey’s military operations, a journalist of conservative Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak, known for its support for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), reported on Sunday.
Gaza Terrorists Likely Have ‘a Few Hundred’ Rockets Left At the start of the war, Hamas and PIJ reportedly held 15,000 rockets and a five-brigade, division-strong invasion force capable of seizing Israeli territory and committing massacres. Today, their remnants consist of scattered guerrilla cells with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and explosives—as well as a handful of projectiles.
Islamic Jihad terrorists caught on way to shooting attack in Samaria sraeli security forces arrested two Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists on Saturday evening who were on their way to carry out a shooting attack in the “immediate future.” Islamic Jihad operatives Ahmad Zaqarna, 21, and Tariq Abu Zayd, 25, from Qabatiya in the Jenin area, were arrested in Nablus (Shechem) with two loaded M-16 rifles, ammunition and military gear in their possession by the Israel Defense Forces
EU Globalist Explicitly Threatens To Cancel German Election Result If Right Wing AfD Wins Former French European Commissioner Thierry Breton has essentially openly confessed that the West stole the Romanian election and stands ready to do it again in Germany if deemed necessary. “We did it in Romania, and we will do it in Germany if necessary,” a translation from the French of Breton’s recent appearance in European media said. Early last month a top Romanian court simply annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election in order to create what amounted to a ‘do over’ election.
A Message To All Americans From Storm-Ravaged Western North Carolina Ward cited President Joe Biden’s recent X post: “The federal government will cover 100% of the cost of measures to protect lives and property in Southern California for six months.” Referring to the X post, Ward said, “I hope that happens.” Ward then segues to the topic of forgotten and devastated Western North Carolina, asking, “What about Appalachia?” “We are 105 days in since one of the most devastating storms known to mankind. We are still supplying our own campers, shelters, while paying mortgages on piles of rubble.
Truckers sue Minnesota for refusing to recognize out-of-state firearm permits The lawsuit says Minnesota’s firearm permitting law deprives nonresidents of their Second Amendment right to bear arms. The Liberty Justice Center filed the suit in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on behalf of two truckers licensed to carry in Texas, Florida and Georgia, who believe they should be able to carry a firearm for self-defense in Minnesota.
Biden to further limit Nvidia AI chip exports in final push Joe Biden’s administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of artificial intelligence chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. just days before leaving office, a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia.
Strong M6.2 earthquake hits Michoacan, Mexico at intermediate depth A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.2 hit Michoacan, Mexico at 08:32 UTC (02:32 LT) on January 12, 2025. The agency is reporting a depth of 86 km (53 miles). EMSC is reporting the same magnitude and depth.
Palisades Fire Threatens New Upscale Communities As Santa Ana Winds Return “The Los Angeles Fire Department continued battling four major blazes that have burned over 38,000 acres and destroyed over 10,000 structures. Another round of Santa Ana winds is expected from Monday through Wednesday, elevating fears that the fires will continue to spread. The Palisades Fire has placed Brentwood, Encino, Bel Air, Sherman Oaks, and West Los Angeles at severe risk. Additionally, Malibu has lost a third of its eastern edge to the Palisades Fire.”
This Is One Of The Most Catastrophic Disasters In U.S. History, And High Winds Could Spread The Fires To New Areas Of L.A. Until Wednesday High winds returned to Los Angeles on Sunday morning, and that is making one of the most catastrophic disasters in U.S. history even worse. Already, more than 60 square miles in the L.A. area have been burned. To put that in perspective, the entire city of Washington D.C. covers just over 68 square miles. I have been trying to find the right words to describe the devastation that we have been witnessing, but I just can’t seem to find words that are sufficient. According to California Governor Gavin Newsom, this is one of the worst natural disasters in the entire history of our nation…
Real-time aircraft tracking shows firefighting efforts on the massive Palisades Fire, Los Angeles County The Palisades Fire, now the largest of six active wildfires in Los Angeles County, has scorched over 9,500 ha (23,600 acres) of land, destroyed 5,300 structures, and forced new evacuations as containment remains at 11%. To improve public awareness and operational transparency, CAL FIRE LNU has introduced real-time 3D aircraft tracking on its incident map.
Could There Be A Reason Why Los Angeles Is Burning That Nobody Really Wants To Talk About? There is so much anger about the unprecedented fires that are ravaging the Los Angeles area because there is a widespread belief that they could have been prevented. Some are blaming mismanaged forests, some are blaming the extreme incompetence of our leaders, some are blaming “climate change,” and some are blaming budget cuts. But could it be possible that the real reason why Los Angeles is burning is not related to any of those factors?
IDF: More than 100 airstrikes in Judea and Samaria since Oct. 7 The Israeli Air Force carried out more than 100 strikes in Judea and Samaria since the Swords of Iron war began on Oct. 7, 2023, killing at least 165 armed terrorists who posed a threat to Israeli troops, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a joint statement on Saturday evening.
UK’s Climate and Nature Bill will write extreme Net Zero demands of the climate change cult into-law Supporters of the Climate and Nature (“CAN”) Bill are claiming that “the people have spoken and now everyone needs to act.” They are claiming a public mandate when none exists. The CAN Bill’s climate targets are so unrealistic, unachievable and unscientific that it equates to King Canute-like absurdity. Yet it is on track to become UK law, and next to no one knows about it.
Drone crisis is ‘just the beginning’ as expert warns ‘big announcement due in 30 days.’ [Just in case there is anyone who hasn’t heard about the drones in the skies in December – or the orbs that the drones appeared to be trailing. The only ET’s out there are angelic and demonic. Don’t be fooled into thinking otherwise.] This report is from January 1st. Alleged UFO expert Dr. Steven Greer has suggested that these strange lights seen worldwide are part of a staged operation designed to trick the public into believing an alien invasion is imminent.
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Biden admin shifts millions in aid from Israel to Hezbollah
The same folks who lecture endlessly on U.S. foreign aid to Israel never seem to get around to mentioning this, or the billions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and every Muslim terror state in the world.
At this point, if Iran tests a nuclear detonation before Jan 20, I would put good money on someone in the Biden administration having Fed-Exed them the parts.
Still trying to do the next best thing to it…
The Biden administration in its final days is shifting more than $100 million in military aid from Israel and Egypt to Lebanon as it tries to bolster a ceasefire agreement it helped mediate between Israel and Hezbollah.
In separate notices sent to Congress, the State Department said it was moving $95 million in military assistance intended for Egypt and $7.5 million for Israel toward supporting the Lebanese army and its government.
The notices were dated Jan. 3 and obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The Lebanese Army is controlled by a Hezbollah puppet government. This hasn’t stopped us from spending a fortune propping it up on the theory that the puppet is somehow supposed to stop the puppeteer.
Here’s a press release from the State Department in 2022 that resulted in everyone involved being fired.
“U.S. security assistance for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is a key component of U.S. Lebanon policy to strengthen Lebanon’s sovereignty, secure its borders, counter internal threats, and disrupt terrorist facilitation.
Key areas of cooperation include border security, maritime security, defense institution building, arms transfers, and counterterrorism.
The LAF historically served as a pillar of stability in a country facing extraordinary challenges, including the presence of the terrorist group Hezbollah.
The U.S.-LAF partnership builds the LAF’s capacity as the sole legitimate defender of Lebanon’s sovereignty.
Since 2006, U.S. investments of more than $3 billion to the LAF enabled the Lebanese military to be a stabilizing force against regional threats.”
Over $3 billion. To a terrorist puppet force. To fight terrorism.
The same folks who lecture endlessly on U.S. foreign aid to Israel never seem to get around to mentioning this, or the billions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and every Muslim terror state in the world.
But yes the LAF is a pillar of stability which is why Hezbollah was able to take over the country, build tens of thousands of rockets, and a force of tens of thousands of Jihadists.
Here’s another $7.5 million diverted from Israel to Hezbollah’s puppet, whose current role is once again acting as a shield for Hezbollah and pretending that Hezbollah is keeping the ceasefire by standing in front of the terrorists.
When you’ve already spent $3 billion, what’s $7.5 million more?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a rare televised address from the Oval Office, President Biden warned the American public of an imminent terrorist threat as a result of his releasing eleven terrorists from prison.
“My fellow Americans, it is my duty to warn you of an imminent terrorist threat that may irreversibly alter the American way of life,” Biden began. “Today, I authorized the release of eleven terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, and now, believe it or not, they are threatening death to America. No, I’m serious. Not a joke.”
The eleven terrorists, some of which worked directly with al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, were released into the custody of Oman, a nation that borders Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Biden confirmed he had already spoken with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman and been informed there were “no takebacks.”
Biden concluded his speech with a rallying cry of optimism that this at least gets them closer to closing Gitmo. “We just have to release a few more terrorists and we’ll get there,” he said. “God bless America and God bless our troops. They’ll need it since they have to keep fighting terrorists.”
Republicans blasted the president for his deadly blunder, but have rejected calls for impeachment as premature. “I mean, it’s stupid,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson. “But being stupid isn’t a crime. If it was we’d all be in trouble.”
Thanks to clown world, it’s been a great year for comedy. Here are some of our top-performing sketches of 2024!
Capital/Washington Monument/Empire State Building Hit by Lightning on New Year’s Eve: Message from God? Lightning striking several significant buildings on New Year’s Eve led to speculation, some dismissing the events while others suggested divine meanings. Videos on social media showed lightning striking the U.S. Capitol Building and Washington Monument in Washington D.C simultaneously. Another lightning strike hit the One World Trade Center and Empire State Building in New York City.
Netherlands Publishes List of Suspected Nazi Helpers utm_source=uol&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss_world_img_b Some uncomfortable family histories may be unearthed in the Netherlands, where a digitized list of suspected Nazi collaborators during World War II has just been made public. The names of about 425,000 people are in the database digitized by the Huygens Institute, reports Euro News. All were investigated at the end of World War II, and their names have previously been accessible only through a physical visit to the Dutch National Archives in the Hague
Cybertruck Driver Shot Himself Before Blast Wednesday’s Tesla Cybertruck blast appears to have been a suicide, but one intended to inflict other casualties. Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters on Thursday that it appears the driver died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head before explosives in the vehicle detonated, reports the Washington Post. The explosion took place outside a hotel owned by President-elect Donald Trump and left seven people with minor injuries.
Former Quebec politician says Canadian hospital wanted to ‘harvest the organs and kill’ his young son “They (hospital staff) said it would harvest the organs and kill him, and they would unplug him as of November 29 – that’s Quebec health-care system for you,” he said in the video message. As a result of the ordeal, Tétrault found a way to transport his son to the United States to get proper and urgent care via air ambulance to the Ochsner Medical Center. I’m telling you, some heads are gonna fall when I’m finished doing my investigation.”
No quiet on the northern front: IDF strikes Hezbollah launchers & Syrian weapon factories With the most serious attacks on Israel in recent weeks originating from the Houthi terror group in Yemen, the northern front has seemingly quieted down. However, despite appearances, the IDF continues to closely observe the threats – and to strike hard when the need arises.
40 Hamas gathering points and command centers struck in last day Over the past day, in an activity based on IDF and ISA intelligence, the IAF struck approximately 40 Hamas terrorist gathering points, as well as Hamas command and control centers throughout the Gaza Strip. Dozens of terrorists who had planned and executed terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the citizens of Israel had operated from within these areas.
Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution warns Americans about the ‘slavery of communism’ “I know it sounds really, really interesting, but I have to give you bad news. We’re not going to have a woke-free world. And the reason is simple. As long as we have people who want to be taken care of by the government, as long as we have people who want to be victim, because victim give them power, and as long as we have people, the so-called intellectuals, who feel like they know a better way of living and they’re going to show the rest of us how to live, we’re going to have woke. Woke, in another word, is cultural Marxism. I’m very familiar with it because I was born in China, lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Cultural Revolution is the word we have here in America,” she said.
‘Join Hezbollah and Kill Jews’: Pennsylvania Man Indicted on Terrorism Charges A grand jury has federally indicted an American who absconded to the Middle East with the intention of joining Hezbollah — the Iran-backed Shia terrorist organization based in Lebanon — the US Department of Justice announced on Thursday. The action affirmed the veracity of evidence that Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, had “attempted to provide material support and resources” to Hezbollah both in and out of the US, operating in his home state of Pennsylvania as well as in Syria and Lebanon between August and December 2024.
Trump appoints Morgan Ortagus as deputy envoy for Middle East peace Donald Trump named Morgan Ortagus as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace to Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, the US President-elect announced in a Friday evening post to his social media platform, Truth Social. “These things usually don’t work out, but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for them. Let’s see what happens.”
Nearly every building rigged: Hamas shifts tactics as north Gaza falls to IDF Hamas terrorists are struggling to move within Jabalya, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun due to the IDF’s aggressive operations in these areas. Hamas has pivoted its combat strategy to booby-trapping almost every structure that remains standing.
US Navy launches missiles at Houthi weapon production and storage facilities (watch) The US Navy launched Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) at weapon production and storage facilities belonging to the Houthi terrorist organization in Yemen on Tuesday, CENTCOM announced early Saturday. US forces reportedly used guided-missile destroyers from the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which was operating in the Red Sea at the time of the missile precision strikes.
Connect the dots between New Orleans and support for anti-Israel terror Attacks that can be linked, however tenuous or unlikely, to the political right, are seized upon as an excuse to demonize conservatives and Republicans. Those that can’t be associated with the right but involve gun violence are used to promote gun control laws. But comments about slaughter linked to Islamist extremism are very different. They are primarily used to scold the country not to connect the dots between such incidents and a growing tolerance for antisemitism in the country, as well as support for anti-Western violence in the Muslim world.
Mike Johnson re-elected as House Speaker US House Speaker officially re-elected as speaker by a 218-215 majority, securing the majority after Reps. Keith Self (R-TX) and Ralph Norman (R-SC) change their votes to back him.
A Counterfeit Of ‘The Most High’: Why Satan Manipulates World Leaders For Satan to believe that he could become like El Elyon shows the extent of his foolish pride. “He awoke in the first moment of his existence in the full-orbed beauty and power of his exalted position; surrounded by all the magnificence which God gave him. But it begs the question – of all the names and characteristics attributed to God, why does Satan want to be like El Elyon? The men he desires must not only carry out his will but also cooperate to do the one thing that he believes will stop the introduction of the Millennial Kingdom of Christ – destroy every Jew.
Winter Storm Warnings For 50 million Across U.S. Here’s—What States May Be Impacted Some 50 million people are under winter weather warnings as the first winter storm of the new year is slated to begin Saturday, according to the National Weather Service, producing hazardous travel conditions, multiple days of heavy snow, ice, and potentially record-setting low temperatures in the midwest, south, and east.
Multiday lake-effect snow to blanket parts of New York and Pennsylvania with heavy snow A powerful multiday lake-effect snow event is set to blanket parts of New York and Pennsylvania, with areas downwind of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie expected to receive up to 90 cm (3 feet) of snow by Sunday, January 5, 2025, creating hazardous conditions across several regions.
Masks Return: Quadruple Virus Surge Strikes US As millions of Americans return to work after the holidays, a quadruple threat of viral infections — including flu, COVID-19, RSV, and norovirus — is sweeping the nation, fueling hospitalizations, mask mandates, and heightened public health concerns, the Daily Mail reported.
UK’s Online Censorship Law Drives Small Websites to Shut Down The law is presented as a new way to efficiently tackle illegal content and, in particular, provide new ways to ensure the safety of children online, including by age verification (“age checking”). Opponents, however, reject it as “a censor’s charter” designed to force companies to step up monitoring and censorship on their platforms, including by scanning private communications and undermining encryption.
California Rings in The New Year With New Push To Block Voter Identification In California, Democrats are ringing in the New Year with a new push against voter identification. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has been hammering Huntington Beach because the city recently amended its municipal laws to require basic voter identification.
New Zealand is transitioning from a middle-income to a low-income economy The New Zealand Treasury’s Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update predicts a cyclical downturn with 0.5% economic growth in the current fiscal year ending June 2025. But it’s likely to be worse than that. The Department of Statistics has reported a 1% contraction in the September quarter.
Bill Gates Is funding research to use mosquitoes as “flying vaccinators” Bill Gates is funding research to develop “flying vaccinators,” which are genetically modified mosquitoes designed to deliver vaccines. The project is being conducted by researchers at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. The goal is to combat malaria by using these mosquitoes to administer vaccines without causing significant illness. Critics have raised concerns about safety, informed consent, and unintended ecological impacts.
Matteo Salvini: Zero Tolerance for Islamic Migrants Who Disrespect Italian Values “If an Italian went to an Arab or Islamic country insulting Allah, breaking the law, or disrespecting the locals, they wouldn’t send him home—they’d put him in jail,” declared Matteo Salvini as he criticized migrants who, he claims, insult Italian values while enjoying its generosity.”
Now The Mainstream Media is Talking About The “Mystery Fog” Phenomenon That Is Causing Panic All Over America Has there been an unusual amount of fog in your area lately? If so, did a lot of people in your area start getting sick after the fog arrived? All of a sudden, fog has become one of the hottest topics on social media, and even the mainstream media is now talking about this phenomenon. But is there any validity to this story? I am going to try to be balanced, and I am going to share information from both sides of the debate. I would encourage you to read this entire article all the way to the end because there is a twist that not a lot of people are talking about right now.
Psychological terror: Islamic Jihad claims Israeli hostage tried to commit suicide A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza claimed that an unnamed Israeli hostage being held by the group attempted to take his own life. This marks the latest instance of psychological warfare against Israel, leveraging the 100 remaining hostages in Gaza.
IDF soldiers say AI system known as ‘the Gospel’ has led to increase in civilian casualties in Gaza The IDF has publicly acknowledged its use of an AI system it calls “Habsora” (“the Gospel”) for generating targets in Gaza, saying the AI system is a valuable asset in helping Israel achieve its goal of eradicating the Hamas terrorist organization. Responding to accusations that its AI systems have led to an increase in civilian casualties, the IDF told the Post that such criticisms are “off the mark.”
Israel kills Hamas police chief; DM Katz threatens more strikes if Hamas won’t release hostages The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later confirmed the killing of Shahwan, who served as head of Hamas’ internal security in the southern part of the strip. “The internal security mechanism of the terrorist organization Hamas has carried out violent investigations against the residents of the Gaza Strip, while seriously infringing on human rights and oppressing the organization’s opponents,”
Biden presented with options for attack on Iran nuclear program According to the report, the plans were presented about a month ago by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and were developed for the event that Iran makes a push to develop a nuclear bomb before the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump on January 20.
‘Turkey is becoming the new Iran in Syria’ Turkey is becoming the new Iran in Syria. Iran supported Bashar al-Assad, Turkey supports Abu Mohammad al-Julani, and as we all know, Turkey is not our best ally as it used to be before. The only difference is that Iran was not part of NATO and Turkey is part of NATO,” he said.
Reports in Syria: Israel struck defense facilities east of Aleppo The Saudi television channel Al-Hadath reported that “the attacks in Syria, which appear to be Israeli, targeted defense factories in the area of the city of As-Safira, east of Aleppo,” adding that the city has “some of the largest defense factories in Syria.” Russian news agency Sputnik claimed that three Israeli fighter jets flew over the city of Aleppo and fired several missiles, which were aimed at military factories and scientific research centers.
Antisemitic Hate Crimes in Massachusetts Reach Eight-Year High The US state of Massachusetts saw more antisemitic hate crimes in 2023 than at any time since government officials began tracking such data eight years ago, according to a report issued by its Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS).
‘Reality’s Last Stand’: In A Case On The Protection Of Children, Will The Supreme Court Uphold The Truth? To be completely upfront, the reason for this article is a call to get on our knees and pray for a clear and decisive victory to protect children and youth in Tennessee and across the country from reckless, unsubstantiated, harmful and often irreversible medical experiments. This case has massive implications for at least two reasons. First, if you have ever listened to the testimony of a sterile, regretful, broken 20-year-old detransitioning woman, and tears don’t pour from your eyes, you don’t have a heart. Young lives are permanently damaged, and no one warned them.
“Trump Is Not Wrong” – MSNBC Finally Admits Massive Spike In Illegal Immigration Under Biden https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-not-wrong-msnbc-finally-admits-massive-spike-illegal-immigration-under-biden Unless you have lived under a rock or never dared to venture beyond MSNBC or CNN or the front page of the New York Times as your source of ‘news’, none of this will come as a surprise at all… But, for those that have lived blinkered from the truth about the border for the past four years, MSNBC just sent your minds to ’11’ on the ‘cognitive dissonance’ scale as they dared to show a chart that – hold your breath here for a moment – shows a massive surge in illegal immigration during Biden’s reign
Corporations Clinging To DEI Will Lose Social License To Operate Americans hate racial discrimination, and they hate inequality borne of government force. However, if you try to solve the problem of inequality by engaging in Orwellian and neo-racist “discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination” (often advanced under the banners of “antiracism” and “DEI” — “diversity, equity, and inclusion”), then you will sooner or later experience the wrath of the people.
New Florida Bill Would Prohibit Illegal Immigrants From Filing Lawsuits A new bill introduced to Florida’s state legislature intends to prohibit illegal immigrants from being able to utilize the civil court system to file lawsuits and other legal actions. Titled HB 71: Civil Actions Brought by Unauthorized Aliens, the single-page bill stated, “an unauthorized alien may not commence a civil action,” using the definition of “unauthorized aliens” as stated in the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. …someone who enters the country illegally has no legal standing to file lawsuits, be it for a slip and fall or malpractice.
10 Questions We Should All Be Asking About The New Year’s Day Terror Attacks There were dozens of major terror attacks in 2024, but most of the population is not going to pay attention unless something happens within our own borders. Sadly, everyone is paying attention now. So was this the end, or is this just the beginning?
Major winter storm to impact U.S. through the first weekend of 2025 Millions across the central and eastern U.S. are bracing for a major winter storm expected to dump heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain, with dangerous travel conditions and power outages anticipated through the first weekend of 2025
US Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Red Sea In Disastrous ‘Friendly Fire’ Incident In the early morning hours of Sunday (local), two US Navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent friendly fire incident. This comes after more than a year of war against Yemeni Houthi rebels, who have targeted international transit in regional waters.
Attention Parents: Foreign-Made AI Toys For Kids Used As Possible Propaganda Weapons Videos circulating on X show a foreign-made AI robot, available on Amazon and designed for children, allegedly spreading misinformation and disinformation favoring the Democratic Party. The most alarming part is the potential for foreign propaganda operations targeting American youth through seemingly cute and lovely AI robots. This raises serious national security concerns that may warrant an investigation on Capitol Hill during Trump 2.0.
Here are a few of the new laws taking effect in the US in 2025 All US adults will be required to present REAL ID-compliant identification to fly domestically and access certain federal facilities from May 2025. This is just one of the new laws taking effect in the US in 2025. As well as new identification requirements for domestic travel, state laws governing everything from the use of artificial intelligence to transgender health care will soon be enforced.
Magnetic Pole Moving Towards Russia Presaging Malachi’s Devastating “Day of Hashem” While the magnetic north pole is constantly in motion, Scientists noted that for the first time in recorded history, the pole has changed its speed, slowing dramatically in an inexplicable manner since it was last recorded five years ago from 50 kilometers per year to 35 kilometers per year. “The current behavior of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before,
Who are the key figures of Donald Trump’s new inner circle? A second Trump presidency “is going to be much more hard-hitting,” said Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former political strategist during his first administration in 2016, shortly before the November 5 election. The conservative media host remains a close outside ally and central figure on the radical right in the United States.
IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba terrorist who led invasion of Kibbutz Nir Oz, among others The IDF and the Israel Air Force announced their elimination of Nukhba terrorist commander Abd al-Hadi Sabah, who led the invasion of Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, Israel National News reported. Sabah was a platoon commander in the Western Khan Younis Battalion who operated from a “humanitarian” area in Gaza.
IDF Eliminates Islamic Jihad Rocket Commander in Precision Strike The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed the elimination of Anas Muhammad Saadi Masri, commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) northern sector rocket unit. The precision airstrike, conducted earlier this month, was guided by intelligence from Aman (Military Intelligence Directorate) and the Southern Command.
Trump: They better let the hostages come back soon “Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk, and no action!” Trump wrote. “Let me put it this way: They better let the hostages come back soon,” stated Trump.
German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules A German court has ruled that an 85-year-old woman and her son who live in a property sold under duress by its Jewish owners in 1939 must give up their home. The ruling earlier this month capped a decade of legal wrangling over the home, located in Wandlitz, outside Berlin.
Israel, at UN, Warns Houthis Risk Sharing Same Fate as Hamas, Hezbollah Israel‘s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terrorists to halt missile attacks on Israel, saying they risked the same “miserable fate” as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad if they persisted.
Top Palestinian Authority Official Predicts Trump Will ‘Destroy Iran,’ Decimate Hamas “We see that Trump and the ruling government in Israel are planning to destroy Iran, so Hamas [followers] will have no other choice than to become Palestinian,” … he believes the Trump administration’s presence will lead to Iran and Hamas’s complete collapse.
Netanyahu: Fighting will resume after hostage deal Hamas is refusing to release 12 live hostages, offering bodies instead. “If there is a deal—and I hope there will be—Israel will return to fighting afterward. There’s no reason to obscure or conceal this because resuming fighting is intended to complete the war’s objectives. This doesn’t obstruct a deal; it encourages one,” the news outlet quoted the premier as saying.
Lebanon to choose its president two years after Aoun resignation Lebanon will appoint a new president on January nine two years after the resignation of Michel Aoun and as no agreement could be reached on who should replace him. The Hezbollah insisted on naming the next president, leading the country to a political stalemate. According to Lebanese law, the president must be a member of the Maronite Christian community while the prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament from the Shiite sector.
Judge Forbids HHS From Restricting The Ability Of Doctors To Report Abortion And Gender Transition Abuse U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo granted an injunction this past Sunday that will protect Texas physician Carmen Purl from new rules that restrict how doctors can protect patients from the harms of abortion and “gender transition.” While Purl’s lawsuit is ongoing, the court’s injunction allows Purl and her medical office to continue serving patients without fear of legal action from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The legal challenge centers on the Biden administration’s HIPAA Privacy Rule, which took effect in June of this year.
Very bright fireball seen over Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver A very bright fireball was observed over the skies of Washington, U.S. and British Columbia, Canada at around 02:17 UTC on Sunday, December 29, 2024. Observers noted that the fireball was particularly bright and visible through heavy cloud cover, displaying hues of white, green, and red with some reports of yellow and light blue.
Flights canceled, roads blocked and thousands stranded as heavy snowfall hits Kashmir, India Kashmir experienced heavy snowfall on December 28, 2024, with accumulations ranging from 13 to 90 cm (5 to 37 inches) across the region. The severe weather disrupted flights, blocked major highways, and caused widespread power and water outages, leaving hundreds of travelers stranded.
44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe Of course 2024 was also a year of war. Israel battled Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the government of Syria was overthrown by radical Islamists, long-range missiles provided by NATO started raining down on targets deep inside Russia, and Russian forces stormed even deeper into eastern Ukraine. 2024 also brought us Hurricane Helene, a “Great American Eclipse,” and “the comet of the century.” Now here we are at the end of the year, and we are being told to brace ourselves for a bird flu pandemic. I have a feeling that the year ahead is going to be absolutely nuts.
Satellite Images Show Rapid Chinese Build Disputed Border Area China has reportedly constructed new military outposts in the Tawang Valley, according to an analysis of high-resolution satellite images from December 19 obtained by open-source intelligence teams.
Is 2025 Going To Look Like A Hollywood Disaster Movie? …Gallup just conducted a survey that discovered that most Americans believe that 2025 will be a year of “political conflict, economic difficulty, international discord, increasing power for China and Russia, and a rising federal budget deficit”…
Is WHO’s Pandemic Treaty in its death throws? The World Health Organization (“WHO”) Pandemic Treaty negotiations made no significant progress at the end of 2024. Several countries, including the US, have expressed opposition to the treaty. Developing countries are concerned that the treaty would impose surveillance and obligations under the guise of pandemic prevention and Donald Trump has said he plans to withdraw the US from the WHO on day one of assuming office.
Israel issues warning to Houthi leaders over ongoing missile launches With Hamas largely degraded and Hezbollah severely weakened, the Houthis in Yemen remain Iran’s last viable terror proxy still launching missile attacks on the Jewish state. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed on Christmas Eve that Israel would begin targeting Houthi leaders in Yemen.
The wolf speaks of sheepfolds: Al-Jolani and Christian minorities under Islamic rule al-Jolani’s peaceful words today clash sharply with what he said before. Just a few years ago, he clearly stated that “Alawites, Christians, and other minorities have no place in Syria.” His group HTS then acted on these words – forcing thousands belonging to religious minorities to flee their homes, destroying churches, and driving Christian communities from their ancestral lands.
Marwan Barghouti tops Palestinian polls for PA leadership as family lobbies for his release As the family of imprisoned Palestinian terror commander Marwan Barghouti lobbies for his release in a widely anticipated ceasefire, a Palestinian survey released found overwhelming support for him to succeed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. 71% of Palestinians were dissatisfied with the leadership of PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
Bracing for Israeli retaliation, Houthis raise combat readiness alert to highest level On Wednesday, the Houthis raised the combat readiness for Yemen to its highest level in anticipation of Israeli retaliation, according to Saudi media reports. They ordered the evacuation of civilians from areas close to the major coastal city of Hodeidah and called troops to the front lines. Merchants who own warehouses in the “Kilo 7” district in Hodeidah were told to empty their facilities and prepare for the destruction of their property.
UN Security Council calls emergency session on Houthi attacks on Israel The United Nations Security Council agreed Wednesday to hold an emergency session next week, following multiple missile attacks by Yemenite Houthis on Israel. “The Houthis appear not to have grasped the consequences that await those who attempt to attack Israel,” Danon said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu: ‘The Houthis will learn what Hamas and Hezbollah learned’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit the first Hanukkah candle on Wednesday evening … “The Houthis will also learn what Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad regime, and others have learned, and this will also take time. This lesson will be learned across the Middle East, I tell you, in those days at this time.”
Ukraine: President Zelenskyy lights Hanukkah candles in presidential bunker Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participated in a first-night Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony on Wednesday with Chabad emissaries and rabbis in his presidential bunker. The event, organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine (FJCU), which oversees Jewish life across 169 communities nationwide, maintained its annual tradition despite heightened security measures.
Unprecedented intel. penetration: How the IDF blocked Hezbollah’s doomsday attacks on Tel Aviv The IDF disclosed on Wednesday that its decapitation of Hezbollah from mid-September until the November 26 ceasefire was not luck, but based on an unprecedented level of infiltration. According to the military, its intelligence branches spent years separately diagnosing each level of Hezbollah’s firepower: mortars, short-range rockets, medium-range rockets, and precision and long-range rockets.
Iran shifts to foreign policy, but it has to shake violent past Iran may be shifting to focus more on foreign policy, a logical move after the fall of the Assad regime and the weakening of some of its proxies in the region. This focus can be extrapolated from different messaging coming out of Iran. One message came from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in which he denied that Iran even has “proxies.” Another is the recent spat between Iran and the new Syrian government, in which Damascus warned Tehran to respect its sovereignty. “Iran must respect the will of the Syrian people and the country’s sovereignty and security. While Iran may be pushing foreign policy over proxies, it is still ruffling feathers.
Biden Admin Slams US Agency’s Claim of ‘Famine’ In Northern Gaza The Biden administration issued a statement disputing a new report alleging the emergence of a famine in northern Gaza, accusing the group which issued the report of using false data in service of advancing an inflammatory narrative regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
Ireland: Antisemitism Without Jews When Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s Foreign Minister, recently announced the closure of Israel’s embassy in Ireland because of Ireland’s antisemitic actions and anti-Israel posture, it led to flurry of articles in the press. Largely missing from the discussion is that there are almost no Jews in Ireland. Jews were never very numerous in Ireland, but today they are on the endangered list.
Israeli Defense Minister says Houthi leaders in crosshairs Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that the Jewish state will target the heads of the Houthi terror group after a successful missile interception by Israel’s long-range Arrow defense system shortly before 2 a.m. local time. The missile was intercepted outside of Israeli territory, the IDF said. “I warned and said that just as we dealt with [recently eliminated Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar in Gaza, [Hamas political leader Ismail] Haniyeh in Tehran and [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah in Beirut, we will also deal with the heads of the Houthis in Sana’a and everywhere in Yemen,” Katz said.
Hamas refusing to hand over list of hostages to be released in deal Sources close to the talks paint a picture of deliberate obstruction, describing how slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s brother has consistently misled mediators over weeks, stonewalling requests for hostage lists and withdrawing from previously reached agreements. Security and political officials have expressed deep concern over Sinwar’s handling of the negotiations.
Netanyahu set to attend Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, alongside global leaders including Argentina’s Javier Milei and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán; This marks Netanyahu’s first trip abroad since the ICC issued an arrest warrant against him
US Airstrike Eliminates Islamic State Leader Abu Yusif in Syria The United States military has announced the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Yusif, who was also known as Mahmud, in Syria. According to U.S. Central Command (Centcom), the airstrike was conducted in an area that, prior to the recent political changes, was under the control of Bashar al-Assad’s government and Russian forces.
Why Has The Threat of Iranian Nukes Suddenly Become Such a Huge Narrative Western officials suddenly have a tremendous amount to say about the threat that Iranian nukes could potentially pose to us. Is it that the threat has increased, or are they trying to justify something that they have planned in early 2025? I don’t know, but all of this talk about Iranian nukes is certainly not good. Without a doubt, the Iranian nuclear program has been moving forward for a long time, but now we may be reaching a point of confrontation which could have enormous implications for the entire Middle East.
Home Alone Why America Is Dealing With A Severe Epidemic of Loneliness Right Now We live in a society where a significant chunk of the population feels painfully alone much of the time. It is an epidemic that has enormous mental, emotional and spiritual implications, and it is one of the clearest signs that we are a society that is coming apart at the seams. One of the primary reasons why there is so much loneliness in our society is because the institution of the family is in decline. Today, the proportion of the population that is single and childless is at an all-time high, and the proportion of the population that is married with children is at an all-time low. How can anyone possibly claim that we are headed for a bright future when we are facing such alarming societal trends?
Walmart Removes T-Shirts Featuring Yahya Sinwar From Website Fierce controversy erupted on Tuesday on social media after the discovery of T-shirts bearing the likeness of Yahya Sinwar, The recently eliminated hummus leader on Walmart’s online sales site.
Christians in Haifa prepare for Christmas after months of Hezbollah rocket fire Haifa’s Christian community is diverse, consisting of five different churches including Anglican, Catholic and Greek Orthodox. The northern city of Haifa is known for its peaceful coexistence between Jews, Christians and Muslims. Following months of relentless rocket fire by the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist militia Hezbollah, the Christian community in Haifa, numbering almost 17,000 people, is hoping the Christmas holiday will bring some peace and happiness.
One Dead, One Missing In Massive California Waves Fueled By Storm At least one person is dead and another believed to be missing amid massive waves fueled by a West Coast storm that pounded the California coast Monday. The death was reported in Watsonville along Monterey Bay, where a man was found trapped under debris at Sunset State Beach. A large wave is thought to have pinned him there, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. About 13 miles south at Marina State Beach, authorities say high surf also likely pulled a man into the Pacific Ocean around 11:30 a.m. Monday. Strong currents and high waves forced searchers to stop looking for him and the man remained missing Monday evening.
Iran seeks air corridor to supply weapons to Hezbollah – report The purpose of the air corridor would be to supply weapons to the Hezbollah terrorist organization, which would constitute a violation of the recent ceasefire agreement made between Israel and Hezbollah. Iran previously armed Hezbollah fighters by land through Syria, but lost this route due to the fall of the Assad regime to anti-Iran rebel forces… and is now trying to turn Beirut airport into its new logistics hub
Iran said to be fearing Israeli attack in near-term Iran is worried about a direct attack by Israel against its strategic sites in the near future, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported on Sunday. The Iranians have reached this conclusion due to a series of events, including Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire with the Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon. Iran’s leadership has interpreted this move as being intended to free up Israel to concentrate on the Islamic Republic directly,
Archaeologists find Jewish empire where Putin claims Russian-Christian roots An unlikely archaeological project funded by a Russian oligarch has unearthed evidence of Jewish life so ancient it makes Vladimir Putin’s claims of Russian Orthodox dominance look like yesterday’s news. Bankrolled by businessman Oleg Deripaska’s Volnoe Delo Foundation, a sprawling first-century Jewish quarter has emerged hidden beneath the soil of Phanagoria along the Black Sea.
Images of PA forces with RPG rouse calls to step up security in Judea and Samaria Images of Palestinian Authority forces with an RPG have caused alarm in Israel and inspired calls to take action to increase security in Judea and Samaria, Ynet reports. The photo circulated on social media on Monday showed PA forces holding an RPG during a crackdown on terrorism in a Jenin refugee camp.
Any agreement must include the seven American hostages Robert O’Brien, who served as White House national security adviser during Donald Trump’s first term as US President, and Tom Nides, who served as US ambassador to Israel under President Joe Biden, on Monday published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal titled “America Demands Hamas Return Its Hostages”.
Defense Minister says for 1st time that Israel eliminated Ismail Haniyeh Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed for the first time this evening (Monday) that Israel eliminated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Katz participated this evening (Monday) in a special event for local security officers to thank them for their extraordinary bravery and activity in the war. During his remarks, the minister warned the Houthi rebels in Yemen that their continued attacks on Israel would result in their meeting the same fate as the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations.
Bashar al-Assad’s wife files for divorce, seeks to move to UK – The British wife of Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, has filed for divorce after expressing dissatisfaction with her life in Moscow, Turkish and Arab media reported Sunday. She reportedly seeks to move to London.
Living In A Time When Murderers Are Called Heroes, And God Is Called Hateful Who would have ever thought we would be living in a time when murderers are considered heroes? I suppose, in one sense, it’s not surprising. Millions of children are murdered in their mother’s wombs, and those who murder them, the abortionists, are considered heroes or heroines. We now have this particularly alarming example of Luigi Mangione,
‘People in the media often message me saying, ‘I wish I could say that too.’ They are scared’ Australian journalist Erin Molan has emerged as a powerful voice for Israel; speaking to Ynetnews, she shares about the impact of the October 7 Hamas attack on her life and her family, addressing the rising antisemitism in her country and the challenges of countering distorted media narratives;
The Jewish People: The Root Cause Of Global Suffering Or The Avenue Of God’s Redemptive Plan During an interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show, Israeli journalist Haviv Rettig Gur explained that antisemitism is more than stereotyping or insulting Jewish people. It’s “an ancient idea . . . that the Jews stand in the way of the redemption of the world.” In the first half of the 20th century, a smear campaign victimized the Jewish people. Not only did Nazi propaganda blame them for Germany’s financial and social problems, but it also portrayed them as the root cause of global suffering.
Cyclone Chido kills 94 people in Mozambique Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people in Mozambique since it made landfallin the east African country last week, local authorities have said.
US Airstrike Eliminates Islamic State Leader Abu Yusif in Syria The United States military has announced the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Yusif, who was also known as Mahmud, in Syria. According to U.S. Central Command (Centcom), the airstrike was conducted in an area that, prior to the recent political changes, was under the control of Bashar al-Assad’s government and Russian forces.
Suspect in Murder of Woman Burned Alive on Subway Is Previously Deported Illegal Alien The suspect whom police accuse of setting a sleeping woman ablaze on a New York subway train is an illegal alien from Guatemala. And what’s worse, the New York Post revealed, he was deported under the Trump administration, only to jump the border again. Then he traveled to New York for free room and board, courtesy of city taxpayers.
TEL AVIV—Biden administration officials have claimed credit this week for the ongoing collapse of the Iranian axis, seeking to recast their role in a series of Israeli victories that they worked to thwart.
Hours after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria on Sunday, President Joe Biden touted “the unflagging support of the United States” for Israel’s war against “Iran and its proxies,” Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Biden noted that Israel had weakened the coalition of tyrants and terrorists in the region to a point where it became “impossible … for them to prop up the Assad regime.”
“Our approach has shifted the balance of power in the Middle East,” the president boasted in remarks at the White House. “Through this combination of support for our partners, sanctions [on the Assad regime], and diplomacy and targeted military force when necessary, we now see new opportunities opening up for the people of Syria and for the entire region.”
The Biden administration has overseen crucial U.S. military and diplomatic support for Israel during the past 14 months of the war. But from the outset, Biden and his aides have also pressed Israel to reach accommodation with its enemies—criticizing, threatening, and punishing the U.S. ally in the name of regional deescalation. By early this year, before Israel had militarily defeated Hamas or seriously retaliated against Hezbollah or Iran, Biden was already publicly calling for an end to the fighting.
“Biden tried to prevent us from winning this war in every way he could,” Gadi Taub, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a cohost of the Israel Update podcast told the Washington Free Beacon. “Now that we’re winning in defiance of him, he’s pretending that he was with us all along.”
On Oct. 9, 2023, two days after Hamas started the war with a surprise invasion of southern Israel, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged leaders of the devastated region to “stand firm because we are going to change the Middle East.” The following week, Biden flew to Tel Aviv and—even as he embraced Netanyahu and affirmed U.S. support for Israel—sought to contain Israel’s military response.
“President Biden and his top aides have been urging Israeli leaders against carrying out any major strike against Hezbollah, the powerful militia in Lebanon, that could draw it into the Israel-Hamas war, American and Israeli officials say,” the New York Timesreported at the time. “U.S. officials believe Israel would struggle in a two-front war and that such a conflict could draw in both the United States and Iran, the militia’s main supporter.”
According to the Times, the Biden administration aimed to preempt “an Israeli overreaction to Hezbollah rocket attacks,” which forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from the north of the country, and “harsh Israeli tactics in an expected ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza that would compel Hezbollah to enter the war” in solidarity with the Palestinian terrorist group.
“The response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top”
Netanyahu recalled in an address to the Knesset last month that the Biden administration had been against every major Israeli military advance in Gaza, starting with troops going into the strip at the end of last October.
“The United States had reservations, and proposed that we not enter with ground forces. It took issue with the entry into Gaza City and into Khan Younis, and first and foremost it was strongly opposed to the entry into Rafah,” Netanyahu said, naming Gazan cities that saw decisive Israeli battles with Hamas.
In December 2023, less than seven weeks into the war, the Biden administration demanded that Israel wind down major military operations in Gaza. Speaking at the White House in February, Biden called for a permanent “pause” in the war, saying “the conduct of the response … in the Gaza Strip has been over the top.”
In May, as Israeli troops carried out initial raids in Rafah, Hamas’s main hub for smuggling weapons and other supplies into Gaza, Biden declared a partial weapons embargo on Israel meant to halt the operation. “There are a lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it’s gotta stop,” he said in an interview with CNN.
Later that month, Biden presented a proposal for a “permanent end to hostilities “and regional peace deal. He said his administration had for “the past several months” been “relentlessly focused” on bringing a “durable end to the war.”
In September, shortly after the conclusion of the Rafah campaign, the Israeli military assessed that Hamas had been militarily defeated in Gaza.
“I am comfortable with them stopping”
Meanwhile, the Biden administration stepped up efforts to head off Israel’s counteroffensive against Hezbollah.
Asked by a reporter in late September if he was aware of and comfortable with Israel’s plans for a ground incursion into Lebanon, Biden replied, “I am more aware than you might know, and I am comfortable with them stopping. We should have a ceasefire now.”
In October, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the Biden administration opposed Israel’s intensified airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, which had recently killed Hezbollah’s top leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
“There are specific strikes that it would be appropriate for Israel to carry out,” Miller told reporters, “But when it comes to the scope and nature of the bombing campaign that we saw in Beirut for the past few weeks, it’s something that we made clear to the government of Israel we had concerns with and we were opposed to.”
Last month, according to Hebrew media reports, slowdowns in U.S. weapons deliveries hampered Israel’s war effort in Lebanon and Gaza. Current and former Israeli officials confirmed the reports to the Free Beacon.
Israel nonetheless wiped out most of Hezbollah’s formidable weapons arsenal, terrorist infrastructure, and leadership before agreeing to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon late last month.
“Take the win”
Iran directly entered the war for the first time in April, launching more than 300 missiles and drones at the Israel. Biden emphasized that Israel had intercepted nearly all the incoming projectiles with the help of a U.S.-led regional coalition, and urged Netanyahu not to respond.
Iran attacked again in October, firing more than 180 missiles at the Jewish state. Biden this time acknowledged Israel’s “right to respond.” But he said “they should respond proportionally” and avoid hitting Iranian nuclear facilities. A week later, a U.S. intelligence leak exposed potential Israeli plans for retaliation.
After a mostly symbolic response to the first Iranian attack, Israel hit back in October with a wave of airstrikes that crippled Iran’s missile production and air defenses, as well as a secret nuclear weapons research facility.
Iran vowed a “crushing” third retaliatory strike and moved to ramp up enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade.
In recent months, Netanyahu has said that the war must end in Iran.
“This war is a campaign against one entity first and foremost, and that entity is Iran, which raises the banner of our destruction,” Netanyahu told the Knesset last month. “Iran has one option left, of arming itself with a nuclear weapon, and it is striving to achieve this. We will be tested by our ability to thwart the nuclear program. We held Iran back by a decade, but it advanced. The test is of us, of the government of Israel, and of our friend the United States.”
“Logical and consistent with Israel’s right to self-defense”
On Nov. 5, Donald Trump won the presidential election, and the Iranian axis started to crack. Late last month, Hezbollah, with the assent of Iran and Hamas, approved the Lebanon ceasefire, which allowed Israel to enforce the group’s disarmament and withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Next door in Syria, rebel forces sensed weakness. They stormed across the country in less than two weeks and took Damascus as Assad and his forces fled the capital without a fight. Iran and Hezbollah, which propped up Assad’s regime for more than a decade, could not or would not come to its defense.
A number of U.S. officials have joined Biden this week in taking a victory lap for the regional realignment they worked so hard to block.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan enthused at a conference on Sunday that “Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia are all in a position of relative weakness in the Middle East,” and “our core security partner in the region, Israel, is in a position of relative strength in the region.”
“We believe that the United States has taken steps over the course of the past year, through military deployments, through diplomacy, and through engagement with all of our partners that have helped to bring about this set of conditions,” he said.
The Biden administration may be adjusting policy to match its revised version of history. In Tel Aviv on Thursday as part of a renewed U.S. push for a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that would involve Hamas’s release of Israeli hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack, Sullivan backed Israel’s deployment of troops to the Syrian Golan Heights and massive bombing campaign of the Assad regime’s military assets.
“What Israel saw was an immediate threat, the collapse of a structure that had been in place for a long time and the potential for that vacuum to be filled by a direct, proximate threat right across its border. So it moved in to fill that threat,” he said. “That, from the United States’ perspective, is logical and consistent with Israel’s right to self-defense.”
Sullivan also rejected the idea, previously encouraged by Biden and other U.S. officials, that Netanyahu was stalling the ceasefire negotiations for political reasons, and credited Israel’s military achievements for what he said was new flexibility by Hamas in the talks.
“Hezbollah can never again rebuild its terror infrastructure to threaten Israel,” he said. “Hamas’s leaders are gone, including the terror masterminds of Oct. 7. “Now the Assad regime in Syria is gone.”
Still, few in Israel expected the Biden administration to come all the way around to support a decisive confrontation with Iran. In Taub’s view, the Democratic foreign policy establishment remains wedded to former President Barack Obama’s failed Middle East strategy, which seeks to achieve regional balance by accommodating Iran and restraining Israel.
“This goes back to Obama’s red line,” Taub said, referring to the then-president’s 2012 decision to subcontract to Russia promised U.S. action against Assad’s use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. “Obama handed over Syria to [Russian president Vladimir] Putin as part of a progressive strategy to create a new regional order in which America’s allies would learn to ‘share the neighborhood’ with Iran. The Biden administration did its best to preserve Obama’s accomplishments, but Israel has stubbornly insisted on winning this war.”
Taub pointed out that as recently as last month the Biden administration renewed a waiver of U.S. sanctions on Iran, continuing years of non-enforcement that has enriched the regime to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
“If they had more time, I suspect they would go right back to trying to balance and retreat,” Taub said of the Biden administration, which will end in a month.
In a press gaggle on Tuesday, a reporter asked National Security Council spokesman John Kirby to respond to “Israelis’ perspective” that “contrary to what you said, which was that President Biden’s support has been unflagging and unrelenting, it has, in fact, flagged and relented at various points.”
“Indeed, much of what the Israelis have done that has served to weaken Iran has been done against the advice and warnings of Mr. Biden and his national security team. So my question is this: Isn’t it disingenuous, at a minimum, for the Biden team to be crowing over this checkered record of support for our closest strategic ally in that region?”
Kirby replied that the question did not “merit a response,” before saying that “no president” could match Biden’s record of visiting Tel Aviv, supplying weapons to Israel, and defending the Jewish state against Iranian attacks during wartime.
“There is so much wrong with your question,” Kirby added. “It just befuddles me, and I don’t have the time to address it right now.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Concerning an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters at the end of the age: on Nov. 27, 2024, AccuWeather’s Chief Meteorologist said:
The 2024 hurricane season will be remembered for shattering records and causing approximately $500 billion in total damage and economic loss.
This has been a tremendously expensive and devastating hurricane season.
In addition to the economic costs, 230 people lost their lives as a direct result of this year’s hurricanes and tropical storms.
Here are more recent reports that seem to indicate that the end of the age is near.
One, concerning the so-called religion of peace (Islam): on Nov. 27, 2024, it was reported that:
The FBI said in a statement that it is aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents (false accusations) targeting incoming administration (Trump) nominees and appointees.
The FBI said it is investigating the incidents.
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s transition spokesperson, said, “Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent, un-American threats to their lives and those who live with them.”
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s nominee for EPA administrator, said, the threat against his family came with a “pro-Palestinian themed message.”
(My opinion: It is not enough to investigate Muslims for threatening U.S. officials. They should also be arrested and prosecuted.)
Two, concerning corruption in the UN, in response to evidence that the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has been employing Hamas terrorists: Israel passed a law prohibiting the UNRWA’s presence in Israel.
On Nov. 26, 2024, the UNRWA closed its offices in east Jerusalem and said they will move to locations outside Israel.
(More: In recent years, at least 2 high-ranking UNRWA officials have been forced to resign over misconduct. Now the UNRWA has been kicked out of Jerusalem.)
(More: Israel and Hezbollah have been at war for several years. In 2006, the UN unanimously passed UN Resolution 1701. This resolution authorized UNIFIL (the UN Interim Force in Lebanon) to use 10-15,000 troops to help Lebanon keep Hezbollah troops north of the Litani River and away from Israel’s borders. But UNIFIL has been ineffective and worthless. UNIFIL has allowed Hezbollah to move right up to Israel’s border with Lebanon, dig tunnels, store weapons, fire rockets into Israel, drive about 80,000 Israelis out of their homes, kill some, injure others, and more.
(My opinion: I wish the U.S. would withdraw from the UN, ask the UN to leave New York, and stop giving desperately needed U.S. tax dollars to that worthless organization. Israel’s frustration with the UN is one reason the wars in Gaza and Lebanon are taking place now.)
Three, on Nov. 28, 2024, it was reported that:
Israeli troops in Lebanon have found chemicals and gas masks in Hezbollah strongholds.
They believe these chemicals and gas masks may be part of a plan to produce chemical weapons and/or to drug and abduct Israelis in cross-border raids.
Four, concerning the destruction of Damascus, Syria, in one night: on Nov. 27, 2024, Israel sent a warning to Syria that said,
If Syria helps Hezbollah to rebuild, they will pay direct prices. Not only the convoys will be attacked, but there will be prices to pay in Syria as well.
Five, concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog (Russia, Iran, Turkey, and others attacking Israel in the latter days and latter years): on Dec. 2, 2024, Israel warned Iran that it will not tolerate Iran rebuilding Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border.
Six, concerning the Two-State Solution (division of Israel): Israel approved extending indemnities to PA banks for another year to prevent the PA economy from collapsing after the Biden Administration assured Israel that it would veto any UN Security Council resolution recognizing a Palestinian State.
(My opinion: Stopping the Biden administration from agreeing to the Two-State Solution before Trump takes office was a big move by Israel.)
Seven, concerning Israel being a great army at the end of the age (Ezek. 37:10): on Nov. 27, 2024, it was reported that Israel’s Rafael Advanced Delivery Systems,
Has managed to develop solutions for atmospheric disturbances and concentrate energy into a laser beam capable of striking a target the size of a coin, neutralizing it by unifying multiple beams into one beam before impact.
Eight, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Nov. 30, 2024, thousands of insurgents took over most of the city of Aleppo (the second largest city in Syria) and its airport. They also took over most of the province of Idlib.
(More: On Dec. 1, 2024, it was reported that the insurgents captured and invaded Syrian President Assad’s palace in Aleppo, a nearby military academy, and Russian air defense systems.)
(More: On Dec. 2, 2024, it was reported that Russian jets are now attacking the insurgents that are attacking targets in Syria.)
(More: On Dec. 2, 2024, it was reported that Iran has sent 200 Iraqi supporters to Syria to help fight the insurgents that are attacking targets in Syria.)
(More: On Dec. 3, 2024, it was reported that Turkey is supporting the insurgents that are attacking targets in Syria.)
(More: On Dec. 3, 2024, a U.S.-backed Syrian militia group led by Syrian Kurdish forces took control of seven villages in Syria.)
Nine, on Dec. 2, 2024, it was reported that Syrian Pres. Assad sent a message to Israel through Israeli security forces in Europe requesting help to deal with the insurgents that have rebelled in Syria.
Israel responded by demanding that Syria remove any Iranian forces from Syria before it would consider helping Assad.
An Israeli expert said the insurgent attack in Syria is good for Israel because it hinders Syria’s assistance for Hezbollah and Iran and complicates their efforts to rebuild Hezbollah.
(My opinion: God is helping Israel and giving Syria a chance to get on the right side before Damascus is destroyed.)
Ten, concerning wars and rumors of wars: in response to recent tests by Russia and China, the U.S. Navy has started equipping one of three destroyers with hypersonic missiles that travel at more than 5 times the speed of sound.
Eleven, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Dec. 3, 2024, it was reported that Iran has abandoned its threat to attack Israel since the election of Trump.
Here is my weekly update on the Israel-Hamas war.
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024 (day 418), The three hundred and sixty-third day of the resumed war. Day 196 of the attack on Rafah.
Israel said it will appeal the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for suspected war crimes by Netanyahu and Gallant in Gaza.
In the last few hours before Israel’s ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah went into effect, Israel struck about 120 sites in Lebanon.
Israel discovered an Iranian weapons smuggling operation in Judea and Samaria.
Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 (day 419), The three hundred and sixty-fourth day of the resumed war. Day 197 of the attack on Rafah.
Thanksgiving day, and I didn’t find anything that I wanted to report.
Friday, Nov. 29, 2024 (day 420), The three hundred and sixty-fifth day of the resumed war. Day 198 of the attack on Rafah.
Hezbollah’s chief declared that Hezbollah has won the war against Israel because they prevented Israel from destroying them and prevented Israel from stopping the resistance.
Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, said Hezbollah and the other Iranian proxy groups have no interest in peace, and it only will come when they are eradicated.
Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, (day 421) The three hundred and sixty-sixth day of the resumed war. Day 199 of the attack on Rafah.
Israeli jets blocked an Iranian cargo plane that was assumed to be delivering weapons to Hezbollah and forced it to turn around over Syria and return home.
Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, (day 422) The three hundred and sixty-seventh day of the resumed war. Day 200 of the attack on Rafah.
US. jets shot down 7 missiles and drones that Houthis in Yemen fired at ships in the Red Sea.
Monday, Dec. 2, 2024 (day 423), The three hundred and sixty-eighth day of the resumed war. Day 201 of the attack on Rafah.
Pres.-elect Trump told Hamas, “If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity.”
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, (day 424) The three hundred and sixty-ninth day of the resumed war. Day 202 of the attack on Rafah.
Israel’s ceasefire agreement is on shaky grounds because of Hezbollah’s violations and Israel’s retaliation.
Israel warned Lebanon that Israel will treat Lebanon like it treats Hezbollah if the ceasefire collapses.
Israel accused UNIFIL (the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon) of ignoring ceasefire violations by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel said they have killed 7 more Hamas terrorists that participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born with a sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6).
Finally, are you Rapture Ready?
If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.
TRUMP: Release hostages by January 20 or there will be ‘ALL HELL TO PAY’ Trump:’ Those responsible (for holding the hostages) will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!’ US President-elect Donald Trump demanded that all hostages be released by the time he takes office on January 20 or there would be “Hell to pay.”
Biden’s CDC planned to create nationwide quarantine camps during COVID On July 26, 2020, with the George Floyd riots having finally settled down, the CDC issued a plan for establishing nationwide quarantine camps. No matter how bad you think COVID policies were, they were intended to be worse. Features of the CDC’s edicts did incredible damage.
PM Netanyahu vows ‘forceful response’ after Hezbollah breaks ceasefire by launching grenades at IDF on Mt. Dov Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a strong response after Hezbollah took responsibility for launching two mortar grenades at IDF positions on Mount Dov earlier Monday. “Hezbollah fire at Mt. Dov constitutes a severe violation of the ceasefire, and Israel will respond forcefully,” the prime minister stated in the evening.
IDF warns Iran against smuggling weapons to Hezbollah as regime sends proxy troops into Syria After Jihadist rebel groups captured the city of Aleppo in northern Syria over the weekend, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Daniel Hagari issued the military’s first official statement on the situation in Israel’s northeastern neighbor. “The Iranian regime is sending reinforcements to Syria,” Hagari confirmed while speaking to Sky News Arabia. Monday morning, Reuters reported that Iran-backed militias entered Syria from Iraq overnight to assist Syrian army forces in beating back the Jihadist rebel groups that captured Aleppo.
Israeli intelligence discovers 200 Iranian-led cyberattacks against Israeli officials “The Shin Bet uncovered an Iranian phishing campaign aimed at Israeli citizens, some senior members of the security echelons, politicians, members of academia, journalists and others,” the security agency announced in an official statement. “The aim of the Iranian campaign was to get access to computerized media systems: e-mail, computers, smartphones of Israelis the Iranians planned to attack, in order to access personal information such as home addresses, contacts and places where they regularly stay.”
Chaos in Syria ‘creates opportunities’ against Iranian axis The renewed fighting has seen the rebels quickly take Aleppo and advance further south, and is being closely monitored by Israel. It is already drawing in Russia, which is conducting airstrikes on the Sunni forces, while unconfirmed reports of strikes by an unidentified air force targeted positions of Iran-backed militias in Deir Ezzor, northeastern Syria, an area used by Shi’ite militias to cross into Syria from Iraq.
Hezbollah fires first missiles since ceasefire took effect he Israel Defense Forces on Monday confirmed carrying out airstrikes on a Hezbollah missile production facility in the Beqaa Valley and other sites in the Hermel area of the Lebanon-Syria border used for weapons smuggling.
Syrian leader Assad asks Israel for help with rebels In a surprising development, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad asked for Israel’s help to quell the revolt within the country, a security official told Elaph, an online Arabic media outlet. Israel responded with a demand to remove any Iranian forces from Syria before it would consider assistance, according to the report.
Israel warns Iran not to rebuild Hezbollah’s forces The Israeli military on Monday warned Iran that the IDF has monitored Iranian forces operating in Syria to bolster the Assad regime, adding that Israel will not tolerate Tehran using its foothold on Israel’s northern border to reinforce Hezbollah.
Israeli hacker faces extradition to the US from Norway An Israeli who served seven years in an Israeli prison for hacking a host of American institutions as a minor was arrested last week in Norway and is now facing extradition to the United States, according to Hebrew media reports. The Israeli, who was released from jail after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence, had traveled to Norway and applied for political asylum,
Making history in Andorra: Official Rabbi appointed first time in 1,000 years For the first time in one thousand years, the European principality of Andorra will have an official Rabbi. Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson and his family have arrived in the Catholic country to lead the 250-member Jewish community. “There is no crime or antisemitism here,” says Shimon Bar Sheshet, a local resident since 1979. “You can walk in the streets at midnight or two a.m. without a worry.”
The Coast Guard suspends its search for the crew of a capsized fishing boat in the Gulf of Alaska The Coast Guard began the search after Wind Walker’s crew sent a Mayday call at 12:10 am Sunday, Dec 1st that the 50-foot (15-meter) boat was overturning off Point Couverden. The Coast Guard tried to get more information as it mobilized a response, but the crew didn’t answer. The state ferry Hubbard reached the scene, followed by a Coast Guard helicopter and response boat. A winter storm warning was in effect as responders faced heavy snow, winds up to 60 mph (96 kph) & 6-foot (1.8-meter) seas.
Record snowfall blankets parts of U.S. over Thanksgiving weekend A powerful lake-effect snowstorm unleashed its full force over Thanksgiving 2024 weekend in the US, burying parts of New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan under more than 90 cm (3 feet) of snow. Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced its snowiest day on record on Friday, Nov 29, receiving 57.4 cm (22.6 inches) of snow in 24 hours. Hazardous conditions are expected to persist until midweek.
Mexico Stops 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Tariff Threat Days after President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States,” or face 25% import duties on Mexican goods, it appears she’s done just that.
Scrutiny of World Bank Intensifies Over $24 Billion In Unaccounted Climate Funds Scrutiny has intensified over the World Bank’s handling of climate funds, with a recent report by Oxfam revealing that between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate finance disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years remains unaccounted for.
Syria flare-up jolts the US and offers chance for Trump The surprise resurgence of Syria’s civil war is shaking the table for the United States, which tried to turn the page years ago on a devastating conflict where it saw few good outcomes. The latest turmoil in a chaotic region comes less than a couple months before the return of President-elect Donald Trump, whose team could see an unexpected opportunity as part of its bid to reshape the Middle East, albeit with plenty of question marks…
Putin approves record defense spending – a third of Russia’s budget Russian President Putin approved a record-breaking defense budget, setting aside a staggering third of the government’s total spending as the war in Ukraine drains resources from both sides nearly three years on. The budget for 2025 allocates about C$179.5 billion (13.5 trillion rubles) to national defense – amounting to 32.5 percent of government spending.
Covid: “They Put a Bounty on Our Heads” With the recent election of Trump, a number of firms have backpedaled their DEI policies, “wokeism”, and censorship. There are still many more companies that have to follow…. On Nov 22, global market authority Bert Dohmen had his latest interview, titled “The Market Risk No One Is Talking About,” published on YouTube. He offered his insights on a number of market and economic topics…. However, shortly after its premiere, YouTube banned the interview and took it down. The presumed reason was a brief, frank discussion on the giant Covid hoax and Vax scam. Watch the full uncensored interview by clicking this link: https://go.dohmencapital.com/BDBannedInterviewNov2024
Newly discovered Asteroid flew past Earth at closest flyby of the year and second closest on record Asteroid 2024 XA was first observed at Catalina Sky Survey, Arizona, only 5 hours before the flyby. This is the 123rd known asteroid to fly past Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year and the closest of the year. This is also the second closest asteroid flyby on record (since 1900).
A Chinese ship is suspected of sabotaging undersea cables A Chinese commercial ship is suspected of deliberately dragging its anchor to cut undersea cables that connect countries over the internet, Two different internet links — one between Sweden’s Gotland Island and Lithuania, and another between Finland and Germany — stopped working earlier this month, prompting the investigation by authorities from all four countries and other nations,
US Ambassador-designate to Israel Mike Huckabee says ‘world will see under President Trump that Iranian-backed terrorism can’t be rewarded’ Ambassador-designate to Israel Mike Huckabee said the nomination to the role “came out of the clear blue” for him. “I did not lobby President Trump or suggest to him that I really wanted this position. I never mentioned it to him,” the former Arkansas governor told show host, Joel Rosenberg. “When I got the call… I was floored. I did not expect it. President Trump called. He told me, ‘I want you to be the ambassador to Israel and I’m looking forward to you saying, yes.’”
IDF Discovers Chemicals and Gas Masks in Hezbollah Strongholds Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered chemicals and gas masks in Hezbollah strongholds, raising concerns over the terror group’s potential use of chemical weapons or plans for cross-border abductions. The findings, … suggest Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force may have been preparing for unconventional attacks.
Warning: No deal whatsoever with Iran’s mullahs The possibility of negotiating a deal with Iran has resurfaced. Reports suggest that the Islamic Republic’s leaders are expressing a willingness to engage with the incoming US administration after Donald J. Trump assumes office. Reaching a deal, however, with a regime actively waging proxy wars against Israel, most of the Persian Gulf States and the United States — and that is arming Russia in its war on Ukraine — would be a monumental error.
IDF eliminates terrorist who participated in October 7 massacre Earlier on Saturday, the IDF struck a vehicle with a terrorist who took part in the murderous October 7th massacre. The terrorist was monitored by IDF intelligence for a while and was struck following credible information regarding his real time location. The terrorist, Hazmi Kadih, infiltrated Israel and took part in the murderous October 7th massacre in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Syrian rebels sweep into Aleppo, Russia conducts strikes in support of Assad The Syrian army said on Saturday that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city of Aleppo, forcing the army to redeploy in the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad in years. The surprise attack, led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, was the boldest rebel assault in years in the civil war, where frontlines had largely been frozen since 2020.
Donald Trump nominates Charles Kushner as US ambassador to France In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump stated, “I am pleased to nominate Charles Kushner, of New Jersey, to serve as the US Ambassador to France. He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our country & its interests,” according to The Guardian. Trump added, “Together, we will strengthen America’s partnership with France, our oldest Ally, & one of our greatest!”
Attacks in Aleppo ‘ostensibly good news for Israel,’ JISS senior research fellow says The Islamist attack on Aleppo is “ostensibly good news for Israel,” Daniel Rakov, a senior research fellow for the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, said in a Saturday post to X/Twitter. “the fall of northern Syria to the rebels damages the infrastructure of the Iranians and Hezbollah there and will make it difficult for them to work to restore Hezbollah.”
President-elect Trump says he wants Kash Patel to head FBI Patel, who during Trump’s first term advised both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense, has previously called for stripping the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and purging its ranks of any employee who refuses to support Trump’s agenda.
Hezbollah can only claim Pyrrhic victory, but the real one is Israel’s While criticism of the cease-fire agreement is valid, it is equally true that Hezbollah was badly battered in this war, and Israel can claim a resounding victory; Now Israel needs to turn its attention to the Iranian nuclear threat that, if it materializes, will render Hezbollah irrelevant in terms of Middle East power dynamics
IDF Jets Hit Syrian Military Infrastructure Being Used By Hezbollah To Smuggle Arms “This strike was carried out following the identification of the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah from Syria to Lebanon, even after the ceasefire agreement, and constitutes a threat to the State of Israel, in violation of the terms of the ceasefire agreement,” the military says in a statement.
Severe floods hit southern Thailand, affecting over 240 000 households Floods caused by continuous heavy rains have severely impacted 68 districts in seven provinces in southern Thailand, including Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Phatthalung, and Satun. Among these provinces, Songkhla has been particularly hard-hit, with its governor officially declaring all 16 districts as disaster zones on Friday, November 29, 2024.
Bright fireball observed over southeastern Brazil A bright fireball was observed over Brazil at approximately 00:29 UTC on November 28, 2024, with sightings reported across 10 cities in three southeastern regions.
Canadian Town Fined And Mayor Sent For Compulsory Education After Failing To Hoist Pride Flag CBC News is reporting that the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the small town of Emo to pay damages after failing to hoist an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag” in celebration of Pride Month. One problem is that the town of fewer than 2000 inhabitants does not have a flagpole (though you could presumably “show the flag” in other ways).
Arla’s project adding anti-methane compound to cows’ feed is another limb of the fake food agenda Arla has enlisted 30 farms to participate in trials of an additive to cattle feed that they claim will reduce methane gas emissions. As the safety of the product is as questionable as the dubious reasons for introducing it and the risk to humans is unknown there has quite rightly been a public backlash.
Why have all the live webcams in London gone dark? Does it indicate they are planning a false flag event? After all London’s webcams went dark on Monday, 25 November, Alex Krainer wonders if a false flag attack is being planned on London. He suggests that a false flag attack on London may be planned by Western powers to blame on Russia, triggering a whole-of-society mobilisation against Russia. Why, what would they have to gain? Krainer suggests that the Western powers’ goal is to maintain their dominance over the Eurasian landmass.
Covid-19: The Greatest Hoax in History Reminding us that the covid “vaccines” are toxic and more harmful than all drugs, even illegal ones, Dr. Vernon Coleman shares the forward to his book ‘Covid-19: The Greatest Hoax in History’ which was published in September 2020.
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