Assessment: State media claimed Wednesday that Israeli missiles had hit Zakia, a suburb of Damascus …
Syria’s state media said on Monday that its air defenses intercepted an Israeli missile attack on sites in its central and coastal regions.
State media had said earlier that air defenses were intercepting “hostile targets” over the countryside around the city of Homs, after explosions were heard over Homs and the coastal city of Tartous.
““Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.” Isaiah 17:1
The Syrian military said in a statement that air defenses managed to shoot down most of the missiles used.
Two soldiers were wounded and there were some material losses, the military added.
Assessment: “There is no place for an American consulate that serves the Palestinians in Jerusalem ..
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, formerly political opponents, closed ranks to oppose the Biden administration’s plan to open a consulate to the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem.
Speaking at a media event on Saturday night after the approval of the state budget for 2021-2022, Bennett was unequivocal in his opposition to the plan.
I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the Valley of Yehoshafat. There I will contend with them Over My very own people, Yisrael, Which they scattered among the nations. For they divided My land among themselves Joel 4:2 (The Israel BibleTM)
“There is no place for an American consulate that serves the Palestinians in Jerusalem,” Bennett said, noting that Lapid was in agreement. “We are expressing our position consistently, quietly and without drama, and I hope it is understood. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel alone.”
“If the Americans want to open a consulate in Ramallah we have no problem with that,” Lapid added, emphasizing that “sovereignty in Jerusalem belongs to one country — Israel.” Read More @ Israel 365 HERE
Assessment: Israel continues to oppose a plan by US President Joe Biden to reopen a consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem.
Israel continued its public opposition on Saturday to a plan by the Biden administration to reopen a US consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, a move it sees would undermine its sovereignty in the capital.
“My position, and it was presented to the Americans … is that there is no place for a US consulate which serves the Palestinians in Jerusalem. We are voicing our opinion consistently, quietly, without drama,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told reporters.
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.” Zech. 12;2
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, speaking next to Bennett, proposed that if the US insists on reopening its mission, it should do so in the West Bank.
“If they [the US] want to open a consulate in Ramallah, we have no problem with that,” he said.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, rejected Lapid’s comments.
“We will only accept a US consulate in Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state. That was what the US administration had announced and had committed itself to do,” he told Reuters.
Assessment: Gore, who in 2008 said there would be no polar ice caps left within five years, continued …
speaking from the private jet and super yacht owners gathering, otherwise known as the COP 26 summit, Al Gore touted his latest solution to curb carbon emissions, mass surveillance via satellites, sensors and artificial intelligence.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Proverbs 1:7
In the interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Gore declared that technology created by the so called Climate TRACE coalition will monitor greenhouse gas emissions and root out the culprits.
“We get data consistently from 300 existing satellites, more than 11,000 ground-based, air-based, sea-based sensors, multiple internet data streams and using artificial intelligence,” Gore explained, adding
“All that information is combined, visible light, infrared, all of the other information that is brought in, and we can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from.”
Assessment: Thiel reiterated the fact that he wished he had bought more bitcoin, adding now that he thinks inflation is here to stay …
Outspoken billionaire Peter Thiel said this week at at the National Conservatism Conference that the high price of bitcoin is an indicator of U.S. inflation, which has also recently touched a 13-year high.
“You know, $60,000 bitcoin, I’m not sure that one should aggressively buy,” Thiel said, according to Bloomberg.
“But surely what it is telling us is that we are having a crisis moment.”
“[Bitcoin]’s the canary in a coal mine. It’s the most honest market we have in the country and it’s telling us that this old regime is about to explode.”
Thiel also slammed The Fed, claiming that they were not acknowledging the seriousness of the problem, and mentioned that the prices were not coming down any time soon, adding that Powell and his pals are in a state of “epistemic closure,” meaning close-mindedness, and they were of the view that printing money to resolve market issues will not impact inflation.
Assessment: Inflation doesn’t stop at the supermarket but continues at the fuel station, where gasoline prices have jumped to seven-year highs …
Soaring supermarket prices might not seem like a big issue for the top 10% of Americans who’ve enjoyed a period of asset price inflation thanks to the Federal Reserve, but for the working poor who don’t own assets and are stuck in a renting society, every single price increase for food is eating away at their real wages.
Add milk to the long list of foods that are getting more expensive at supermarkets across the country. Bloomberg reports retail prices for a gallon of milk are up 26% at $3.59 since bottoming at $2.84 in July 2018.
“You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.” Haggai 1:6
There are several factors at work pushing milk prices higher. First, the number of dairy cows has collapsed to the lowest in a decade, which crimps output. Foreign dairy producers, such as major ones in the European Union, New Zealand, and Australia, are also experiencing declining outputs. On top of this all, the cost to feed dairy cows and operate a dairy farm is becoming more expensive thanks to soaring commodity prices, suggesting prices will continue to rise well into 2022.
For the average household, dozens of gallons of milk are purchased each year, and for the working poor, every incremental price increase adds up. But it’s not just milk and dairy products that are on the rise, almost every product at the grocery store has jumped in the past year. For example, meat prices — boneless chuck roast have risen 28% in the last year.
Vice President Kamala Harris asked NASA if it could use its satellites to track trees “by race” in various neighborhoods as part of “environmental justice” during a recent display on climate change, leading many to ridicule the vice president online and even giving rise to a “Black Trees Matter” hashtag.
Harris, who serves as chair of the National Space Council, visited Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday “to see vital climate science work.”
As she met with scientists and engineers and received a firsthand look at how the climate is studied by the space program as well as how it provides data concerning planetary changes and their impacts, the vice president declared, “I truly believe space activity is climate action.”
In a clip originally shared by Deputy Director of Rapid Response at Republican National Committee (RNC) Jake Schneider, Harris is seen interrupting a presentation in order to share her “woke” inquiry.
“Can you measure trees — part of that data that you are referring to, [and it’s an issue of] EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?”
Assessment: Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden should switch countries …
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday took aim at “cancel culture” and supporters of transgender rights, suggesting that teaching gender fluidity is a “crime against humanity” while stating that Russia should maintain its “spiritual values and historical traditions,” per The Washington Post.
“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.” Genesis 3:20
Speaking at the the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, Putin said that some Westerners believe “the aggressive deletion of whole pages of their own history, reverse discrimination against the majority in the interests of minorities … constitute movement toward public renewal.”
“It’s their right, but we are asking them to steer clear of our home. We have a different viewpoint, he said the “emphasizing the racial topic divides people.”
Assessment: Many on the right have criticized the concessions that Bennett has made to appease the Arab coalition members such as Mansour Abbas …
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday night urged unity, promising that, “The government will serve its full term.”
At a press conference together with Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), Bennett said, “Citizens of Israel, the good news is that the budget for 2021 and 2022 has passed. We have thus completed the complex move of rescuing Israel from three years of instability.”
“The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of your enemies!” Psalm 110:2
“We formed the government less than five months ago. We shifted to a policy of managing the country alongside the coronavirus without lockdowns and we broke – with determination, in the face of pressures – the Delta wave. We made the decision to be first in the world with booster shots; we managed, and are still managing, this entire operation closely, in order to protect the health of the people without wrecking the economy and safeguard all aspects of life. It is enough to look at the jump in morbidity in Europe to understand where we are and where the world is.
