Arutz Sheva: Syrian media reported overnight Wednesday that the country’s air defense systems were activated following an Israeli attack in the Damascus area.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap. Isaiah 17:1
Explosions were reported in the area. The Syrians claimed that their air defense systems fired at the Israeli missiles and shot down most of them.
A Syrian official said four Syrian soldiers were injured in the attack and that damage was caused.
During the attack, a loud explosion was also heard in the Metula area in northern Israel. The city’s security department informed residents that no missiles had fallen in the city and they can continue with their normal routines. Read More
With Republicans reduced to hecklers, Albany Democrats, oblivious or reckless or both, are marching toward the cliff in an Alfred E. Neuman, What, Me Worry? way. The rising chorus of “Stop!” goes unheeded.
Washington is sending train loads of money to blue states to bail out their high tax, high spend habits. As longtime government guru Dick Ravitch writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Congress has been generous, allocating more than $12 billion to New York state, $6 billion to the city, $6 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and $9 billion to the state’s schools.” Read More
The New American: Apple has announced that it will be offering a COVID Travel Pass in mid-April for iOS, and mid-May for Android. As more and more Americans get their COVID-19 vaccine and the director of the CDC continues to stress the necessity for people to “roll up their sleeves,” more companies are jumping to offer their own version of a vaccine passport.
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 ESV
As the Biden administration expands mass vaccination sites to provide 95,000 shots per day, the tension among those who are taking the vaccine and those who chose not to, is growing. Public health officials are urging Americans to take an experimental vaccine that has been fast-tracked during the pandemic, but many people remain skeptical.
This is now such a point of contention that numerous state officials in conservative states are currently working to draft and sign legislation that rejects policies that mandate vaccine passports or require vaccines:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) issued an executive order banning vaccine passports late last month, stating, “It is completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in society.” Read More
Arutz Sheva: An Iranian ship was attacked in the Red Sea Tuesday according to unconfirmed reports on social media
The ship which was allegedly attacked, the Saviz, is reportedly an intelligence vessel linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The alleged attack took place off the coast of Yemen.
Iran and Israel have reportedly targeted each other’s ships recently. Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Israel has been targeting Iranian oil shipments to Syria since as early as 2019.
According to the report, the attacks were carried out using a variety of weaponry that has been confirmed to include naval mines as well as other, more advanced techniques. This comes as a larger part of Israel’s undeclared war against Iranian assets of all kinds in Syria.
“The collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”Vladimir Putin April 5, 2005
Day Star, UK: Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are heating up, sparking fears of an imminent war — and a prominent rabbi claims it’s a sign that the coming of the Messiah is near.
“The word of the Lord came to me:2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him.” Ezekiel 38:1-2
Conflict between the two nations has been brewing for the past seven years, ever since Russia annexed Crimea in the wake of the Ukrainian revolution.
On March 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree essentially declaring war with Russia, calling for the “de-occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol”.
(Ukrainian tanks have been spotted rolling into the Luhansk region(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Since the decree was issued, there has been a significant military buildup on both sides, with Ukrainian tanks spotted rolling into the Luhansk and Donetsk region.
Meanwhile NATO has been shadowing an unusually large number of Russian military aircraft flying over the North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea.
he worrying escalation in military tension has been cited by religious scholars as the fulfilment of an apocalyptic prophecy made in the 1700s.
Rabbi Elijah of Vilna, also known as the Vilna Gaon, was an 18th-century Jewish academic who made many significant contributions to understanding the Messianic process. Read More
WSJ: A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money that could shake a pillar of American power.
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads” and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17
It might seem money is already virtual, as credit cards and payment apps such as Apple Pay in the U.S. and WeChat in China eliminate the need for bills or coins. But those are just ways to move money electronically. China is turning legal tender itself into computer code.
Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have foreshadowed a potential digital future for money, though they exist outside the traditional global financial system and aren’t legal tender like cash issued by governments. Read More
Tehran set to unveil ‘133 new nuclear achievements’
Free Beacon: Iranian officials are claiming victory over the United States as diplomats gather this week for negotiations over a revamped nuclear deal, discussions that are likely to result in the Biden administration lifting tough economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
“Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets,6 also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.” Ezekiel 38:5-6 NIV
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said Tuesday that his country’s leaders will not sit down for talks with the Americans, including U.S.-Iran envoy Robert Malley. American diplomats, however, expect indirect communications through intermediaries. Rabiei said the negotiations, which will occur in Vienna, represent a victory over the United States and the former Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran, which included some of the most wide-ranging economic sanctions in history. The Iran spokesman predicted the Biden administration will have no choice but to lift these sanctions in the near future.
Iran’s posturing is accompanied by increased nuclear work, moves likely meant to further pressure the Biden administration into granting concessions during the talks in Vienna. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said Tuesday that it is ready to unveil “133 new nuclear achievements,” including “quantum, enrichment, heavy water, radiopharmaceuticals, [and] lasers,” according to state-controlled press. The country is also pressing forward with the installation of IR-9 centrifuges, an advanced type of nuclear enrichment device that more quickly and efficiently turns uranium into fuel for a nuclear weapon.
Biden administration officials say they are ready to grant Iran sanctions relief before the country even halts its growing nuclear program and comes back into compliance with the original 2015 accord. Read More
PJ Media: On Tuesday afternoon, the Arkansas House and Senate voted to override Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of H.B. 1570, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. The bill would “prohibit a physician or other healthcare provider in Arkansas from providing any gender transition procedures to minors that are intended to alter the gender of a child or delay puberty.” Experimental “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones may have long-lasting impacts on fertility, so advocates have branded them “chemical castration.”
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Mark 9:42
The Arkansas House overrode Hutchinson’s veto, 72 to 25. The Senate overrode the veto by a 25-8 margin.
“If [the bill] becomes law we are creating new standards of legislative interference with physicians and parents as they deal with some of the most complex and sensitive matters dealing with young people,” Hutchinson explained in a video press conference. He argued that children “deserve the guiding hand of their parents and of the health care professional that their family has chosen.”
Hutchinson accused lawmakers of trying to make the state “the definitive oracle of medical care” for children in Arkansas.
Last year, Britain’s High Court ruled that children under age 16 lack the ability to consent to “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones that have irreversible life-long effects. Children who undergo such “treatments” often persist in transgender identity and lose their ability to have children later in life.
Zero Hedge: Last week we asked if Biden’s $2.25 trillion “Infrastructure” plan, also known as the American Jobs Plan (not to be confused with its sequel the American Family Plan) will pass Congress, and observed that the plan’s fate will ultimately depend on how centrists such as Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema end up voting:
Centrist Senators such as Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who also featured in Rabo’s American Rescue Plan report, may be difficult to keep on board. In other words, while the American Jobs Plan has the potential to unite the Republicans in their opposition to Biden, it will also put tremendous pressure on the internal relations between the left and the right of the Democratic Party.
Since then, amid increasing criticism by progressives (and outright opposition by the GOP) of the Biden infra plan, the market appears to have repriced the likelihood of the $2.25TN plan passing, with Bloomberg yesterday noting that “the response so far in bond markets has been muted, with inflation concerns easing amid doubts over the viability of more-generous spending, even as central banks remain committed to keeping interest rates lower for longer.” Read More
And Magazine: Recently the state of Georgia adopted a new election law. The centerpiece of this bill is a requirement that voters in the state requesting absentee ballots establish their identity by listing a driver’s license number, state ID number, or providing a copy of some other form of acceptable voter ID.
“Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy. Proverbs 12:20 ESV
This is a change from the previous procedure where your identity was established by a comparison of your signature on your application with your signature on file with the state, a notoriously unreliable methodology. The new law also allows you to return your application for an absentee ballot online via a newly established website. (No, the bill did not forbid people from drinking water while waiting to vote, limit the hours of polling places, or do any of the other myriads of things its detractors claimed.)
Immediately, the usual suspects went into fits of rage. The woke multinational corporations of America in particular melted down – led it seems by Coca-Cola – home-based in Atlanta and one of Georgia’s largest corporations. James Quincey, Coca-Cola’s chief executive, speaking on CNBC has this to say. “This legislation is unacceptable. It’s a step backward and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity.”
The official statement of the Coca-Cola Company, appearing over Quincy’s name added this.
“We want to be crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation. Throughout Georgia’s legislative session we provided feedback to members of both legislative chambers and political parties, opposing measures in the bills that would diminish or deter access to voting… Our focus is now on supporting federal legislation [emphasis ours] that protects voting access and addresses voter suppression across the country. We all have a duty to protect everyone’s right to vote, and we will continue to stand up for what is right in Georgia and across the U.S.”
Then Coke went back to work preparing for its role in the upcoming 2022 “Genocide Games” in Beijing. The 2022 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held in China. Coca-Cola is an official sponsor of the games. It has even designed and begun to distribute in China commemorative Coke cans celebrating the upcoming games. The gold and red cans, which are already being seen in Beijing, bear the message “Congratulations Beijing.” Read more
