Iran Is A ‘Legitimate Target’ For Air Strikes
ISRAEL - Nir Barkat, Israel’s economy and industry minister and the leading candidate to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as leader of the ruling Likud Party told the Telegraph : “Iran is a legitimate target for Israel. They will not get away with it. The head of the snake is Tehran. My recommendation is to adopt the strategy that President Kennedy used in the Cuban missile crisis. What he basically said then was a missile from Cuba will be answered with a missile to Moscow.” He continued: “And we should very very clearly make sure the Iranians understand that they will not get away with using proxies against Israel and sleep good at night if we don’t sleep good at night,” he added. “We believe them when they say they want to destroy Israel. If anything, what we have learned from October 7 is believe our enemies and the wickedness in their evil, their goals, thoughts and actions and we are not going to allow another Holocaust.”
'Doomsday Clock' Update
USA - AI joins nuclear threats and climate change as a key concern on the Doomsday Clock, highlighting its potential global impact and risks... The infamous Doomsday Clock was updated on January 23 by atomic scientists to reflect the planet’s imminent danger, set only 90 seconds from midnight due to an array of factors, including artificial intelligence (AI). The clock is set based on “existential risks” to the planet and humankind, which include nuclear threats, climate change and disruptive technologies. Midnight on the clock represents an “apocalyptic” state. Therefore, the 90-second mark is deemed “a moment of historic danger.”
Sodom and Gomorrah is being imposed on citizens...
USA - Paul Craig Roberts: Sodom and Gomorrah Is Being Imposed on Citizens by Allegedly Representative Governments. The collapse of Western civilization and its replacement with woke Satanism has proceeded so rapidly that not even I, who expected it, can keep up with it. Stephen Karganovic writing in Global Research brings to our attention five of the many insane woke policies that have been implemented in Canada, California, and Great Britain. This is not a joke. This is very real:
- In order to maintain the fiction that in their attributes men and women are physiologically indistinguishable, the Canadian government has mandated the installation of tampon dispensers in men’s bathrooms. The empirical fact that men have no use for tampons is trumped by ideology, which dictates categorically that they do because it is dogmatically prescribed that men do menstruate and are furthermore able to give birth to babies.
- “Mother” and “father, “expressions that allude to the manifestly different roles of parents in the process of conception and nurture of offspring, in the woke-controlled universe have been forcibly replaced by designations “parent #1” and “parent #2,” invented to hide those facts. Now the Methodist Church of Great Britain has gone a step farther, to label terms “husband” and “wife” offensive.
- The avant-garde state of California has passed a law that takes effect this year, AB 1084, requiring large retail stores to include gender neutral toy sections or face fines and other punishments. The new law will place an additional undue burden on retailers and will have the foreseeable economic impact of raising the price of toys generally for normal families and their children.
- In Britain, the country where the novel 1984, which introduced the notion of thought crime, was written, the first literal thought crime prosecutions have recently been instituted. Isabel Vaughan Spruce, Director of UK March for Life, so far has been cited by the police three times and taken to court for silently praying in front of abortion clinics. Readers should note that her arrests were triggered not by speech or conduct but for an “objectionable” activity that was purely mental. Even the KGB in the old days could not have made this up.
- Returning to avant-garde California, award-winning Glendale fifth-grade teacher Ray Shelton was suspended for refusing to acquiesce to male students who “identify” as girls stripping naked in front of female students in the girls’ changing room. For opposing the transgender agenda in his school Shelton lost his job. It made no difference that female students and their parents fully supported him and also vehemently objected to these aggressive displays of opposite sex nudity.
If I may, I will tell you what this means. It means that everything previously considered normal, moral, legal, and totally defensible is now suspect, indefensible and criminalized. The most massive coup in world history has been accomplished. No one in the West has any rights except those our woke conquerors approve, and they are the rights of the abnormal, the immoral, and the sexually perverted. Christians and adherents of Islam are regarded as terrorists against the Satanic order. If you don’t believe that male humans menstruate and can have babies, you are guilty of placing biological fact higher than woke ideology and are an enemy of the people
Ban lobbying. It’s bribery
USA - Lately, there’s been a growing chorus calling for the ban of lobbying, branding it as a subtle form of bribery. Whether it’s Big Oil, the NRA, Big Pharma, or even anti-gun groups, the sentiment is strong – lobbying appears to wield significant influence over our representatives. The big question looming is whether a blanket ban on all lobbying is the solution, breaking free from what some perceive as puppetry in our political system. You can’t have a representative democracy and lobbying (bribery). They can’t exist together...
‘This Is Not Over’: Abbott Vows To Defend Texas
USA - Governor Greg Abbott (Republican for Texas) vowed to continue to fight for his state’s right to secure the southern border after the Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Monday, ruling that federal officials may cut through razor wire that Texas installed to repel illegal immigrants.
After Texas installed around 30 miles of razor wire along the southern border, the US Border Patrol repeatedly cut through the wire to allow illegal immigrants to enter the country. Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, saying the federal government damaged state property and was trespassing, according to NBC News. Since President Joe Biden took office three years ago, Customs and Border Protection has encountered around eight million illegal immigrants, and the federal government has released more than 2.3 million illegal immigrants into the country.
Is war coming to the Korean peninsula?
NORTH KOREA - With nothing to lose and limited time to achieve certain geopolitical goals, Kim Jong-un might opt for conflict as his only option. A few days ago an analysis piece appeared on the North Korea research website 38North with the headline asking the question: “Is Kim Jong-un preparing for war?”
38North is a respected source of analysis and does not push an agenda or sensationalism. This particular piece was authored by Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, who are also not known to be alarmist.
Their argument is as follows: North Korea has attempted to pursue a process of normalization with the US, particularly during the Donald Trump administration in 2018-2019, and failed after Trump walked out on the February 2019 meeting in Hanoi. After that effort failed, Pyongyang has now effectively “given up.” It believes it has no options left, and has continued developing its nuclear program and increasingly hardening its position, emboldened by the geopolitical context in respect to Russia and China.
Indeed, even though Kim Il-sung started the Korean war in 1950 and subsequently faced defeat from the US and its allies, China still saved him – and back then it was much weaker than it is now. So, would Kim Jong-un fancy his chances in unleashing a full-scale war again on the Korean peninsula on the premise China would be forced to intervene? That isn’t beyond the realm of possibility.
How $1 Trillion in Interest Is Breaking the Federal Budget
USA - Contrary to conventional wisdom, higher interest rates mean more inflation in the environment today. That’s because the federal interest expense increases as interest rates rise. As the federal interest expense rises, so does the budget deficit. As the budget deficit increases, so does the currency debasement needed to finance it. Skyrocketing interest expense will have an enormous impact on the US budget. Even according to the US government’s rosy projections, the interest expense on the federal debt will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in 2024… and it shows no sign of slowing down. On the contrary, it’s growing exponentially.
The biggest expenditures for the US government are so-called entitlements. It’s not likely any politician will cut these. On the contrary, I expect them to continue to grow. With the most precarious geopolitical situation since World War 2, so-called “National Defense” seems unlikely to be cut. Instead, military spending is all but certain to increase. Income Security is a catch-all category for different types of welfare. That’s unlikely to be cut too.
The US government is now borrowing money to pay interest on the federal debt, which has a compounding effect as the federal debt and interest expense grow exponentially. I suspect we are close to the inflection point where it gets out of control. 2024 could be the year that it becomes evident the US is trapped in a debt spiral.
So, if higher interest rates are off the table and cannot entice more natural buyers, who will finance these growing multi-trillion dollar budget deficits? The only entity capable is the Federal Reserve, which buys Treasuries with dollars it creates out of thin air. That’s why I am convinced extreme currency debasement is the inevitable outcome.
Texas Won’t Give Up On Securing Its Borders
USA - The state of Texas will not give up on its efforts to secure its borders after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to intervene. In a ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 majority that federal officials had the right to remove physical barriers erected by the Texas National Guard. Two supposedly conservative judges, Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barett, sided with the Biden administration, while Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch dissented. The decision vacated a previous injunction from the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented federal agents from cutting the wire. However, the Texas Tribune reports that both Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton will refuse to back down over the issue and will carry on fighting to secure the southern border from the waves of illegal immigration.
Aircraft carrier fiasco
UK - Aircraft carrier fiasco as the UK REFUSES to deploy either of its £3.5 billion warships to help tackle Yemen's Houthis: RAF jets are forced to fly 3,000-mile sorties while vessels are anchored in Portsmouth. Former defence ministers and Royal Navy chiefs tonight expressed dismay over the UK's refusal to deploy either of its £3.5 billion aircraft carriers to the Red Sea. They suggested it was absurd for Britain to continue to rely on RAF jets flying 3,000 miles from their base in Cyprus to launch air strikes against Houthi in Yemen. The Navy's website describes HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales as 'investments in British security, prosperity and place in the world'. Despite the rhetoric, neither carrier has ventured anywhere near a conflict zone since they entered service.
It Is A Bloodbath For The Mainstream Media
USA - Should any of us be surprised that the news industry is being hit by a massive wave of layoffs? Survey after survey has shown that the American people have lost faith in the mainstream media, and millions of us have decided to turn to other sources for news and information. Mainstream news outlets have been bleeding viewers and readers for years, and now many of the biggest names in the news industry are losing staggering amounts of money. It was only a matter of time before we witnessed large scale layoffs, and now they are here.
- Time Magazine just announced that it will be laying off workers...
- The Los Angeles Times has decided to eliminate “slightly more than 20% of the newsroom”…
- Paramount plans to give the axe to hundreds of workers…
- The news division at NBC is shrinking as well…
- Sports Illustrated is very much in doubt and many of the magazine’s employees will now be searching for new employment…
All of the stories that I just shared with you have happened within the last seven days. It is crazy how rapidly things are moving now. If you currently have a good job that you value, hold on to it as tightly as you can. Because a lot more layoffs are on the way, and you don’t want to be without a chair when the music stops playing.
Polyamory Is More Common Than You Think
USA - One in nine Americans have been in a polyamorous relationship, and one in six would like to try one, a study has revealed. Polyamory is a type of relationship where people have multiple romantic and sexual partners. It differs from cheating because each person is aware of and consents to the arrangement. It is also different to swinging and open relationships, which often involve limited amounts of emotional intimacy and romantic love with others, according to the authors of the study published recently in Frontiers in Psychology. Researchers found one in six (16.8 percent) respondents wanted to be polyamorous, one in nine (10.7 percent) have been polyamorous at some point in their lives, and approximately one in 15 (6.5 percent) said they knew someone who was or is polyamorous. That means around the same number of Americans want to be polygamous as want to move to another country, and as many have been polyamorous as people hold a graduate degree in the US, the authors said, citing past research.
The Globalists' New Weapon
SWITZERLAND - On the heels of Davos (World Economic Forum) week, the MSM hysterical propaganda push from the globalists regarding “Disease X” is in full swing. Almost every major news outlet in the world has run black propaganda pieces about Disease X. Why do I write black propaganda? – because the “experts” aren’t actually named, the peer-reviewed papers supporting the thesis of “a deadly pathogen causing 20 times more deaths than COVID-19” or “killing 20 times more people than COVID-19” or “killing 50 million people” are non-existent. Yet these narratives are all headline news in mainstream media.
This is just another exercise in globalized messaging to support the WHO (World Health Organisation) and WEF-pushed narrative that governments must pour billions into the largest transnational corporations in the world to “cure” a non-existent disease.
What isn’t black propaganda but rather grey propaganda is that this fearporn is being pushed by the WEF and the WHO. WHO officials are most of the featured speakers and panelists on “Disease X” at the Davos meeting this week.
Davos: Your Lifestyle Could Be Tracked, Taxed, And Criminalized
SWITZERLAND - Perhaps the most alarming proposition from Davos is the idea of creating a new international crime: ecocide. Equating fertilizing lawns with war crimes and crimes against humanity is not only misguided but dangerous. Imagine for a moment if every real-life Bond villain decided not to hatch his evil plans in a secret lair, but instead broadcast them to the entire globe. That will give you a small idea of the messages that came out of the Word Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The global elites want to upend life as you know it, and they are not even trying to hide it. Here is just a sample of the recent proposals pushed.
- The Carbon Tracker Plan. In 2022, the president of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate, celebrated harnessing technology to measure carbon footprints, opening the floodgates for government intervention.
- Global Climate Tax Hysteria. At the 2024 conference, which took place while most of America was gripped by an Arctic blast and frigid temperatures, attendees again called for a global carbon tax to fix so-called climate change. And while some billionaires virtue signal their willingness to pay more, this demand for a carbon tax — coming from the wealthy participants who flew on their fancy jets into the snow-capped Swiss event — paints an image of elitists imposing financial burdens on the masses under the false premise that more money changes the weather.
- Assault on Farmers and Agriculture. The eco-elite’s agenda in Davos also takes aim at farmers, who are the backbone of our food production system. Through buzzwords like “small-scale” and “regenerative agriculture,” attendees arrogantly claim to possess superior knowledge about land usage and seek to enforce their plans on unsuspecting farmers.
- The Rise of ‘Ecocide’. Perhaps the most alarming proposition from Davos is the idea of creating a new international crime: ecocide. Equating fertilizing lawns with war crimes and crimes against humanity is not only misguided but dangerous.
Davos has become a symbol of the eco-elite agenda, where ideas are presented that threaten personal liberties, economic growth, and individual responsibility. It is essential to recognize these schemes for what they truly are: attempts to consolidate power and control under the veil of environmentalism.
The Gathering Storm Clouds in the Middle East
MIDDLE EAST - Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Houthi attacks on the Red Sea and Iranian missiles fired on Iraq: The risk of escalation in the Middle East is growing. If the Middle East were a blank piece of blotting paper and the wars and crises in the region were blots of ink, it would be easy to see that the dots are rapidly multiplying. The Gaza Strip, the border area between Lebanon and Israel, Erbil in northern Iraq, the mountains of western Yemen and the Red Sea. Some of the inkblots are growing. They remain separated from each other, but when the first ones begin merging, the risk grows that they will all join together. That the Middle East – from Israel to Iran, from Lebanon to Yemen – will sink into war.
The roots of the conflict are deep. Localized power struggles, regional loyalties and political opportunism in addition to ideological dogmas and public opinion are all fueling the fighting in the Middle East. And it is becoming increasingly difficult to control. The greatest danger, however, continues to be the contested border between northern Israel and Lebanon.
Given the increasing number of skirmishes there between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres issued a dramatic appeal on Monday: "Stop playing with fire across the Blue Line, de-escalate, and bring hostilities to an end." The rocket attacks by Hamas would be a light summer shower compared to the deluge that Hezbollah could bring down on Israel."
Domestically, the Iranian regime is stuck in a quagmire of economic crisis, inflation of over 40 percent and a lack of clarity regarding the successor of ailing, 84-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Not to mention the fact that the regime is despised by broad swaths of the population.
The Crisis In The Red Sea
MIDDLE EAST - The crisis In the Red Sea Threatens to disrupt global supply chains even more than the pandemic did. Do you remember the supply chain problems that we experienced during the darkest days of the COVID pandemic? Well, now we are being warned that the crisis in the Red Sea could actually disrupt global supply chains to an even greater degree. Needless to say, this comes at a really bad time because the US economy has really been struggling lately. The US and the UK are desperate to resolve this crisis, and so they have been bombing the living daylights out of the Houthis in Yemen. We haven’t seen anything quite like this from the US military since the early days of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On Monday, there was yet another round of air and missile strikes… Unfortunately, so far the strikes don’t seem to be doing much good. The Houthis continue to attack commercial vessels in the Red Sea, and this is greatly frustrating US officials. It is being reported that the Biden administration is now planning a “sustained military campaign” against the Houthis… That definitely sounds like a war to me, and Congress has not approved it. But of course our federal government has not been following the Constitution for a very long time.
So what all of this means is that the crisis in the Red Sea is going to persist for the foreseeable future. At this point, shipping giant Maersk is warning their customers that there will be “significant disruption to the global network”… This is very serious. There will be delays and there will be shortages. And it isn’t going away any time soon.
Needless to say, our society is not going to handle any major economic disruptions very well. Poverty, homelessness and hunger are all rapidly growing, and our cities are absolutely packed with vast hordes of extremely desperate people. We now live in an environment where many of these extremely desperate people will get violent at the slightest provocation…
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