There's also the issue Gulf Coast refiners' are prioritizing exports to Europe rather than increasing domestic supply, sending the price of diesel to a record high. Diesel is used in trucks, tractors, freight trains, and power generation. Soaring prices will only exacerbate inflationary pressures.

Blas said: "The diesel shortfall is nearing crisis levels." Reality is starting to sink in about the worst inflation in four decades. Truckers have told the Dirty Jobs jobs guy Mike Rowe that it now costs $1,000 to fill up their fuel tanks. With the US' busy travel season less than a month away and diesel inventories on the East Coast at record lows with refinery capacity in the region struggling, this could only suggest a fuel crisis could be nearing.

Eventually, the majority of the medical community conceded that the imposed shelter-in-place policies caused more deaths than if there were no shutdowns at all, yet every institution continues to act as if it was the virus — not their reaction — that produced these problems. The issues that lockdowns caused soon worsened after the federal government — advised by the CDC — printed a record amount of money, injected trillions of dollars into the economy, and then introduced a moratorium on the payment of rent and mortgage.

These actions worsened the record business closures and worker shortage, which further exacerbated the supply chain issues. As bad as everything is now though, it seems like somehow it’s about to get a lot worse. Over the past few months, dozens of food processing plants have either exploded or caught on fire. Barns have also been ‘spontaneously’ bursting into flames, and tens of millions of chickens have been exterminated since November of last year.

On March 21, a Walmart distribution center in Indianapolis, Indiana caught fire, requiring over 350 firefighters to extinguish it. In February an explosion caused significant damage at Shearer’s Foods in Hermiston, Oregon, and in April, a food processing plant in Salinas, California suffered a large fire, leading to local evacuations. Additionally, small planes have also crashed into two food processing plants in Idaho and Georgia within weeks of each other. These are just a few examples of what many are calling an ‘attack’ on our food supply chain while it is already in an extremely vulnerable state.

He adds: “First of all, our country should do everything, and I don’t see it doing it, for the conflict to end. When I say do everything, I mean to agree with the other European countries, in particular France and Germany, on a common position vis-à-vis the warmongering countries led by the United States, so that they stop, so that they promote a truce and negotiations, even at the risk of disrupting relations with the United States.”

General Marco Bertolini: “It is a conflict that we must try to stay away from for as long as possible,” says Marco Bertolini, a retired general in the Italian army and now head of the defense department of the Fratelli d’Italia [ER: political party on the right]: The war began with the intervention of Russia, which does not belong to NATO, in Ukraine, which does not belong to NATO: it is a confrontation between two European countries which do not have anything to do with NATO and anything to do with Italy. I don’t think we can discuss neutrality or anything else.”

“In the Catholic sphere, there has always been a debate about whether war is just or not. Many theologians have discussed it, St Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas, saying what are the criteria for a just or unjust war” recalls the general who commanded the special forces. “I believe that for a war to be considered just, it must first be ‘our’ war. And this one is not.”

The newspaper noted that Scholz’s phrasing indicates that as long as the United States and Germany’s other major allies are not sending Western-made battle tanks to Ukraine, Germany will not stand out and send such armaments to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime. However, Scholz, a Social Democrat in office since December, has drawn intense criticism for not taking such a stand. Zelensky himself has asked Berlin to send armored vehicles and accused the German government of “earning [its] money in other people’s blood” by continuing to buy Russian oil and gas. Meanwhile at home, Scholz’s approval ratings have sunk, and members of his own government have publicly stated that Ukraine should be armed by the West, with no “excuses.”

“You should take note of surveys, but you must not make your actions dependent on them, especially in questions of war and peace that would be extremely dangerous,” Scholz told Bild am Sonntag. The chancellor has previously insisted that he doesn’t think it is “justified for Germany and NATO to become warring parties in Ukraine,” and that Germany “must do everything possible to avoid a direct military confrontation between NATO and a highly armed superpower like Russia.”

“The team’s disease monitoring experts would look for potential outbreaks. Once it spots one, GERM should have the ability to declare an outbreak and work with national governments and the World Bank to raise money for the response very quickly. Product-development experts would advise governments and companies on the highest-priority drugs and vaccines.” Gates continues, saying that the team would coordinate with various countries to determine “how and when to implement border closures and recommend mask use.”

Gates’ announcement of the GERM team coincides with the World Health Organization’s drafting of a global pandemic treaty. If a pandemic is declared, the WHO takes over the global health management of the pandemic. …Of even more concern, if this treaty is enshrined, the WHO would be in full control over what gets called a pandemic. They could dictate how our doctors can respond, which drugs can and can’t be used, or which vaccines are approved. We would end up with a one-size-fits-all approach for the entire world… A one-size-fits-all response to a health crisis doesn’t even work across Canada, let alone the entire globe.” The WHO has further stated that countries disobeying regulations dictated by the WHO through their pandemic treaty may need to be sanctioned.

The next question, then, is how the WHO and Bill Gates would be able to monitor every individual in every country to determine whether enough people are sick to justify locking a region down. To this end, the WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system, with plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID. Thus, there will be one pandemic treaty, one GERM team, one global vaccine passport, and one World Health Organization to monitor every person on the planet.

Herzog’s strikingly articulated plea for national unity should not have been necessary. As has been the case in the 74 years since Israel’s revival, the challenges to our national existence are grave and unmistakable. A nation that survived its War of Independence against all odds in 1948 finds itself, in 2022, facing an Iran to the east promising relentlessly that our demise is nigh, as it arms terrorist armies on our borders and closes in on attaining nuclear weapons.

Hamas is fashioning itself as the protector of our historic capital. The Islamist terrorist group ruling Gaza to our south is vowing to attack Israel and desecrate synagogues worldwide if we dare to defend the holiest place in Judaism, the Temple Mount, where, in immensely controversial and far-reaching deference to world Muslim sensibilities, we chose not to fully realize our sovereignty when capturing it from its Jordanian occupiers 55 years ago.

Herzog spoke out at the most poignant of national moments — at the annual event where his plea for unity was most likely to resonate, at the ceremony where Israelis, briefly, are most able to put aside their differences and come together in mourning and tribute to those who gave their lives in the defense of this country, who died to help ensure that we can live here.

One of the hottest end-time prophecies at the moment is the building of a Third Temple. This is a big topic in New Testament Bible prophecy. The very real possibility of a Third Temple is a sign that no other generation has seen. All the implements of Temple worship have already been created by industrious and devoted visionaries.

Are things coming to a head? Recently Israel Today Magazine reported that “proponents of the Palestinian cause have tried to inflate the position of the Temple Mount in Islam, and thereby paint Israel’s sovereignty as an affront to their religion.” But a couple of years ago, a renowned Egyptian scholar and novelist acknowledged in a series of TV interviews that Jerusalem holds no particular religious significance for Muslims.

In fact, Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran, and a growing number of Saudis on social media have taken to using a hashtag that translates as “Riyadh [the Saudi capital] is more important than Jerusalem.” Furthermore, lately some Muslim leaders who are part of the Abraham Accords have admitted that the Temple Mount really belongs to the Jews and that Muslims should be concentrating on their holy city of Mecca.

In light of all of this, it’s appropriate to pray the prophetic words of Psalm 33: “The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance.”

Apparently "heaven and earth" in the second statement includes billions in weaponry, but not a single pair of US boots on the ground. Nor does it include American war planes; even a no-fly zone to counter Russian air superiority. That telegraphs America does not consider the Ukraine war critical to America’s national self-interests that risks a single American life. US policy boils down to: Ukraine does the dying; America does the supplying.

But endless war and deaths is just one of several calamities facing the world by using weapons, and its less violent policy mate, sanctions, instead of negotiations. Worldwide recession may be now more likely than not. Flowing from worldwide recession, and sanctions crippling supply chains, millions in poor countries may be doomed to starvation and death from policies proclaimed as life savers.

But the worst possible consequence of proxy war by the US and NATO against Russia is all out nuclear war between the 2 major nuclear powers possessing over 13,000 nuclear weapons. Sixty-four days into war, every day brings new potential for miscalculation, blunder, simple misunderstanding, to trigger warfare not seen since World War II, 77 years ago. If that happens, the catastrophe will not be limited to two Japanese cities.

This results in enormous military spending of public money diverted from social spending. For example, the M777 howitzer supplied to Ukrainian forces can fire 7 Excalibur bullets per minute at 40 km. Each bullet costs $112,000. Therefore in one minute the howitzer shoots bullets costing the equivalent of 25 gross annual salaries (according to the Italian average).

Europe, through the European Union itself, is thus dragged into the abyss of the war against Russia, which the US and NATO want to make permanent. The price paid by European citizens is enormous: the boycott of Russian gas imports is causing a disastrous economic crisis. Hence the vital need to bring Italy and Europe out of the war.

“The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenhood v Casey – that largely maintained the right,” Politico reported, with conservative Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion drafted in February.

Draft opinions are not final. Justices can and often do change their minds throughout the writing process. The published opinion in Politico will only add fuel to the fire on one of the most politically sensitive topics in the country. Its premature release designed to place undemocratic pressure on justices to bend their opinion in conformity with loud extremist voices already waging insurrectionist threats on the court.