French Folks Freak Out as Retirement Age Changes from 62 to 64

The French have kind of been the brunt of jokes for sometime now.  And now many of them seem to be acting like petulant children who refuse to do their math.  Even though people are living longer and they aren’t having children, they still want to retire at 62!  The idea of that being raised to 64 has them flipping cars over in the streets and garbage men going on strike.

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 PARIS (AP) — Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in Paris as opponents of the change maintained their resolve to get the government to back down.

Striking sanitation workers blocked a waste collection plant that is home to Europe’s largest incinerator to underline their determination, and university students walked out of lecture halls to join the strikes. Leaders of the influential CGT union called on people to leave schools, factories, refineries and other work places. 

Several groups, including the yellow vest activists who had mounted formidable protests against Macron’s economic policies during his first term, called on the president’s opponents to march on the parliament at 18:00 (17:00GMT ) on Friday.

Union leaders were not the only ones angry about Macron’s plan to make French citizens work for two more years before becoming eligible to collect full pensions. Opposition parties were expected to start procedures later Friday for a no-confidence vote on the government led by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. The vote would likely take place early next week.

https://apnews.com/article/france-retirement-macron-protests-government-noconfidence-vote-a3dddbcb812a452d567c5350a803a3ab

Transgender Asst Secretary of Health Says Changing Kids Genders Soon Embraced

 We now live in a world run by clowns.  Demented Joe Biden put a transgender in charge of Health.  They have been pushing for it to be legal for kids to change their sex.  It’s one thing if some man wants to wear panties and dress like a girl.  It’s quite another thing to say a little boy or girl should have puberty blockers or genital mutilation because because their woke parents hope their little kid will grow up to be a champion of the LGBTQ agenda.  That’s sick.  But what have we come to expect from those on the Left?  The more godless they can behave, the happier they are.

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Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized.

Levine praised the "gender-affirming care" at the Pediatric Grand Rounds session at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Levine was invited to speak at the event about the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and the political implications of gender reassignment surgery taking place at children’s hospitals.

Levine also said gender-affirming care for minors had the "highest support" of the Biden administration.

"But I'm a positive and optimistic person, and I choose to be positive, optimistic. And I think that the wheels will turn on this," Levine said.

"I think that it's not going to be politically advantageous. It wasn't particularly in 2022. And so I think that as we look to all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging. But I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won't be as politically and socially such a minefield."

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm organization, a national association of medical professionals that combats "woke" activism in the healthcare system, told Fox News Digital that there is "no good evidence that children treated with gender-altering hormones or puberty blockers improved mental health assessments."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-rachel-levine-changing-kids-genders-soon-fully-embraced-wheels-turn

Scientists Warn of Phosphogeddon

 In so many ways, we seem to be seeing “geddon” put at the end of words.  Of course they are playing off the Bible’s use of the word Armageddon which speaks of one of earth’s final battles right before Jesus returns and stands on the Mount of Olives.  And now fertilizer is going to play into that possible battle.  Most folks don’t know a thing about farming and how their food is growing.  What they should know is that millions of tons of fertilizer are spread on fields around the world and it gives us the ability to feed 8 billion people at reasonable prices.  But those days may be over as we speak.

There will be famines.—Jesus

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Our planet faces “phosphogeddon”, scientists have warned. They fear our misuse of phosphorus could lead to deadly shortages of fertilisers that would disrupt global food production.

At the same time, phosphate fertiliser washed from fields – together with sewage inputs into rivers, lakes and seas – is giving rise to widespread algal blooms and creating aquatic dead zones that threaten fish stocks.

In addition, overuse of the element is increasing releases of methane across the planet, adding to global heating and the climate crisis caused by carbon emissions, researchers have warned.

“We have reached a critical turning point,” said Prof Phil Haygarth of Lancaster University. “We might be able to turn back but we have really got to pull ourselves together and be an awful lot smarter in the way we use phosphorus. If we don’t, we face a calamity that we have termed ‘phosphogeddon’.”

Phosphorus was discovered in 1669 by the German scientist Hennig Brandt, who isolated it from urine, and it has since been shown to be essential to life. Bones and teeth are largely made of the mineral calcium phosphate – a compound derived from it – while the element also provides DNA with its sugar phosphate backbone.

“To put it simply, there is no life on Earth without phosphorus,” exlpained Prof Penny Johnes of Bristol University.

The element’s global importance lies in its use to help crop growth. About 50m tonnes of phosphate fertiliser are sold around the world every year, and these supplies play a crucial role in feeding the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants.

However, significant deposits of phosphorus are found in only a few countries: Morocco and western Sahara have the largest amount, China the second biggest deposit and Algeria the third. In contrast, reserves in the US are down to 1% of previous levels, while Britain has always had to rely on imports. “Traditional rock phosphate reserves are relatively rare and have become depleted in line with their extraction for fertiliser production,” added Johnes.

This growing strain on stocks has raised fears the world will reach “peak phosphorus” in a few years. Supplies will then decline, leaving many nations struggling to obtain enough to feed their people.

The prospect concerns many analysts, who worry that a few cartels could soon control most of the world’s supplies and leave the west highly vulnerable to soaring prices. The result would be the phosphate equivalent of the oil crisis of the 1970s.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/12/scientists-warn-of-phosphogeddon-fertiliser-shortages-loom

Civil War Mentioned as a Possibility in Israel

• It seems the entire world is in a state of unrest, even Israel!  One would think that being surrounded by enemies who would love the opportunity to kill you all, would sharpen your need to see eye to eye.  But apparently not.  It sounds like the Conservatives want to reform the powers that each branch of their government has.  And the Left is screaming no.  Read down to the bottom and the phrase Civil War even gets thrown on the table.

  It would seem Israel is being prepared for needing a king that everyone can look up to for leadership, may a messiah?  But remember that first they will accept the Antichrist.  They will suffer untold loss when they do this.  

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  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected Isaac Herzog's proposal for compromise on constitutional and judicial reforms that the Israeli president had hoped would replace the government's controversial judicial overhaul plan.

  Why it matters: The governing coalition plans to bring the first part of its judicial overhaul plan to a final vote in the Knesset next week, despite months of mass protests that have rocked the country, including the Israeli military, against the legislation. 

  Driving the news: Herzog's proposal appeared to seek to appeal to the ruling coalition by including reforms that would have limited the ability of the Supreme Court to strike down certain laws.

  • The proposal also would have limited the court's ability to cancel administrative decisions by the government on the basis of "unreasonability," including the appointment of ministers and policy decisions.
  • Herzog’s proposal would have changed the balance of power on the committee that appoints judges and cancel the veto power the judges on the committee have over the appointments. But appearing to appeal to critics of the government's plan, Herzog's proposal didn't give the coalition an automatic majority on the committee.
  • It also didn't include an override clause that enables the Knesset to cancel Supreme Court rulings. The override clause is one of the main tenants of the government's current overhaul plan.
  • Herzog’s compromise plan also proposed drafting a bill of rights for the first time since Israel was founded, which would have included passing a basic law to protect minority rights, not allow discrimination, and establish the principle of equality, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. 

  Behind the scenes: Herzog’s plan was a result of consultations he conducted in recent weeks with experts, think tanks and liberal and conservative politicans, his aides said.

  • According to press reports, Netanyahu was briefed about the proposal earlier on Wednesday and wanted to accept it, but backed off after Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who is leading the judicial overhaul, threatened to resign. Levin hasn't denied the reports. 

  What they're saying: "Many parts of his proposal only perpetuate the current status and do not restore the balance between the different branches of power. This is the sad truth," Netanyahu said.

• In a speech earlier Wednesday, Herzog warned that the current debate in the country contains dangerous rhetoric and hatred from all sides that he never thought he would hear even in his worst nightmares.
• “Whoever thinks a real civil war that will cost human lives is something we will not reach does not know what he is talking about. Now when we are reaching Israel’s 75th anniversary the country is on the brink of the abyss. A civil war is a red line and I will not let that happen," Herzog said.

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/15/herzog-warns-israel-on-brink-of-abyss-as-he-lays-out-judicial-compromise-proposal

Arrested for “Stealthing”? Yep, It’s a Real Problem We’re Told

Turns out that if you are having sex with a woman or a man (presumably not your wife), and while she/he isn’t aware you remove your condom but continue having sex, you’re guilty of stealthing.  You can be fined and arrested.  You have broken the trust and subjected your partner to disease and pregnancy.  In this immoral world in which we live we need to have this as a law.  Of course if we followed God’s laws and kept intercourse between a husband and wife and never had sex with men, we wouldn’t be having these discussions of diseased men and unwanted pregnancies.

BTW, this story of stealthing was front page on Google News so it must be a serious problem.🙄

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 In 2021, California lawmakers made the state the first in the U.S. to outlaw "stealthing," making it illegal to remove a condom without obtaining verbal consent. But it didn't change the criminal code. Instead, it would amend the civil code so that a victim could sue the perpetrator for damages, including punitive damages.

In the case in Dordrecht, a 28-year-old man from Rotterdam was given a three-month suspended prison term - meaning he won't have to serve the sentence unless he commits another crime - and ordered to pay his victim 1,000 euros ($1,073) in damages.

In a separate case, judges cleared a 25-year-old man after finding that he had not removed a condom at any time, but had instead failed to put one on in the heat of the moment.

The Netherlands has no specific law against "stealthing" but these were the first rulings on the practice, public broadcaster NOS said, adding that there had been similar rulings in countries including Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stealthing-conviction-sex-netherlands-man-guilty-removing-condom-without-consent/

San Fran Proposal Seeks Reparations of $5 Million per Black Person

Yes!  From the Land of Insanity, CA, comes some great ideas to atone for the guilt and wrong of slavery.  How can a nation make things right for black people today after making sure that those blacks stay on the bottom of the economic ladder for all these years?  Maybe $5 million up front?  Maybe $100k per year for 250 years?  Maybe forgive all their debts?  Maybe make all the white people slaves of black people for some amount of years?  All great ideas given by idiots.  CA is already imploding.  They have natural disasters happening pretty much non stop.  Businesses and citizens are leaving in record numbers.  Homelessness is a huge problem...but one City by the Bay wonders how they can bankrupt themselves further by handing out money?  

America should be given a World Freedom Award for being one of the first nations to outlaw slavery.  Is America now good for black people?  Check out how many immigrants from black nations want to come here?  On the flip side do we see any blacks from America begging to get back to the land where their great, great grandparents came from?  Google it and see.  Millions of Africans still live in mud huts and have no running water or electricity.  I’m not saying they aren’t happy, but their great, great grandchildren should be thankful for where they are in America.

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 SAN FRANCISCO — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family.

These are just some of the recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with a thorny question: What would it take to atone for the centuries of U.S. slavery and generations of systemic racism that continue to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless populations?

A first hearing underway before the city's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday could offer a glimpse of the board's appetite for advancing a reparations plan that would be unmatched nationwide in specificity and breadth. Critics have slammed it as financially and politically impossible. One conservative analyst estimated that each non-Black family in the city would have to pay at least $600,000.

Supervisor Shamann Walton, who is Black, opened the hearing by stating the board would not say Tuesday "what recommendations we will be supporting or moving forward with." He also expressed thanks the committee and the board for delving into an issue that has made him and other reparations supporters the target of racist comments and threats.

"It is not a matter of whether or not there is a case for reparations for Black people here in San Francisco. It is a matter of what reparations will and should look like yet," Walton said, "and still we have to remind everyone why this is so important.

Some supervisors have said San Francisco can't afford any major reparations payments right now, given the city's deep deficit amid a tech industry downturn, but they still want to discuss the proposals and consider future solutions. The board can vote to change, adopt or reject any or all the recommendations.

But reparations committee members consider their results to be an accurate estimate of what it would take to begin to repair the enduring damage of slavery and discrimination, and they bristle at the idea that they should figure out how to pay for it.

"We are the harmed," said Eric McDonnell, chair of San Francisco's African American Reparations Advisory Committee. "If the judge ruled in our favor, the judge would not turn to us and say, 'Help them figure out how to make this work.'"

The idea of paying compensation for slavery has gained traction across cities and universities. In 2020, California became the first state to form a reparations task force and is still struggling to put a price tag on what is owed.

https://www.abc10.com/article/money/san-francisco-reparations/103-e41fa24c-9811-4297-88f0-a925fc24db3c

What Does God Think of Drag Queens?

Thankfully, in the age of grace in which we live, we are not shade righteous by the blood of bulls and goats.  We have Jesus providing His blood to cover our multitude of sins.

In my daily Bible reading we are; Deuteronomy.  God is telling the Israelites how to be different from all the nations they will overthrow.  He told them to show no mercy on some of the tribes they were overthrowing but to kill every single man, woman, child and animal.  Those people had become so wicked and detestable that God didn’t want any of them mixing with His tribe, the Jews.

God also made it known what he thinks about men and women dressing as the opposite sex...and he doesn’t appreciate the confusion.

“A woman must not wear a man’s clothing, nor a man wear woman’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this”. Deuteronomy 22:5

Is God never changing?  Has God changed his mind and now loves the diversity and creativity of transgenders?  Does he now approve of transgenders leading the church as pastors?  Has he apologized for saying He once detested someone?  

All can be saved if they repent and confess with their tongues and believe in their hearts that Jesus died and was raised from the dead...even VERY confused people.  But the key word is repent.

The fact that American Military News is publishing an article with the phrase “alien mothership” should help us all believe that the earth is in the final countdown and the rapture is even closer.  No, these beings didn’t evolve in a far away galaxy.  The Prince of this earth has been up to something very deceptive, and just like the Bible would suggest, most left-behind folks will fall for his deception. Satan will come with “lying signs and wonders”.

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A mysterious object in our solar system could be an alien mothership sending smaller probes to monitor the Earth, according to a new draft report co-authored by the head of the Pentagon’s UFO research office.

Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, put forward the theory in a recently released, but still-unfinalized paper he wrote with a long-serving head of Harvard University’s astronomy department, Abraham Loeb.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/alien-mothership-may-be-sending-probes-to-earth-pentagonufo-chief-posits-with-harvard-professor-in-draft-paper/

Collapse of a Financial Cycle or the Entire Financial System?

 Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on Saturday.  Today we are reading that Signature Bank of New York has also failed.  Of course any type of "bad news" like this will probably mean the stock market will suffer today.  And with rising interest rates, bonds are typically not where you want to be.  In fact they are saying that SVB's biggest problem of buying US Treasuries which were losing value as rates rose.

We know all of this news pushes us ever closer to cashless society that the Bible says will be here.  But could all this bank news just be your typically up and down of markets and business cycles?  Or could this rip into the entire system and expose that there is a Ponzi scheme holding together all the "faith and confidence" that is required to keep our fiat currency of US Dollars afloat?

The mainstream media continues to tell us that the economy is in fine shape, and you can believe that if you want.  But evidence continues to mount that indicates that we are headed for very serious trouble.  

Inflation is out of control, home sales have fallen for 12 months in a row, large corporations all over America are conducting mass layoffs, and hunger is spreading like wildfire as economic conditions rapidly deteriorate.  

If this is "fine", I would hate to see what "bad" would look like.  Virtually everything that normally occurs during the early stages of a major economic downturn is happening right now, and that includes an inversion of Treasury yields...

On Tuesday, the difference in the yield on 2-year and 10-year Treasury notes further inverted, with the yield on the 10-year falling 103 basis points, or 1.03 percentage points, below the yield on the 2-year yield. This dynamic has preceded each of the last eight U.S. recessions.

Please read that last sentence again.

This has happened for eight recessions in a row.

Do you think that by some miracle we won't have a recession this time?

At this point, we are actually witnessing the deepest inversion that we have seen "since September 1981"...

The spread between the monetary policy-sensitive two-year U.S. Treasury yield (US2Y) and the 10-year (US10Y) UST yield reached the deepest inversion since September 1981, as bond-market investors priced in higher-for-longer interest rates following Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's Senate testimony earlier in the session.

Wow.

1981 was more than 40 years ago.

As one analyst told his clients, this is "a big psychological level" that has just been breached...

"We are not sure that -100bps means anything different than -80bps or -90bps did, but it is likely a big psychological level that many will notice," BTIG analyst Jonathan Krinsky wrote in a note to clients.

But don't worry.

CNN says that everything will be just fine.

You believe them, don't you?

Needless to say, a lot of Americans don't believe them.

One of the things that I appreciate about Challenger, Gray & Christmas is that they don't have a political axe to grind.  They just report the facts, and their latest report tells us that announced job cuts in the United States are running 427 percent higher than they were at this time in 2022...

So far this year, employers announced plans to cut 180,713 jobs, up 427% from the 34,309 cuts announced in the first two months of 2022. It is the highest January-February total since 2009 when a total of 428,099 job cuts were announced in January and February.

Let those figures sink in for a moment.

When the number of planned layoffs is running 427 percent higher than a year ago, your economy is moving in the wrong direction very rapidly.

Here;  Collapse Of An Economic Cycle Or The Entire Financial System? (prophecynewswatch.com)

We have no idea if we are on the edge of another Great Recession such as 2007-2009.  But we do know that nothing got "fixed".  Sure, we learned a lesson on giving out mortgages to folks with no jobs.  But quite sure we haven't learned our lesson on CREATING US Dollars out of thin air.  You can do it a little and you can do it for a little while.  But you can't do it a lot and you can't do it forever.

China's War Warnings

 I know history teaches us that when nations/people say they are going to do something to someone, then that someone should not doubt it.  Israel knows this very well which is WHY they will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon.  Iran continues to open up it's political sessions with a chant of  "Death to America!  Death to Israel!"  

So what the heck is China up to?  Is it possible they could try and launch on nuclear strike on America's strategic weapons and hope that THEY would survive a nuclear exchange BETTER than America would...so would end up the King of the Hill?  

We don't believe this will happen before the rapture but after the rapture and/or during the Great Tribulation, then all bets are off.

The fact that the sentence "gathering intelligence for a nuclear strike" was included in a mainstream  news source should have all of realizing the seriousness of the times in which we live.  Yes, it's serious but even more than that, it's exciting!!

The world needs to look at what the Chinese leadership is in fact doing. Xi Jinping appointed what is now known as his "war cabinet" in October, at the Communist Party's 20th National Congress; he is implementing the largest military buildup since the Second World War; he has been trying to sanctions-proof his regime; and he is mobilizing the civilian population for war. Communist Party cadres, for example, are taking over privately owned factories and converting them from civilian to military production.

In the latest move, China's regime is establishing National Defense Mobilization Offices across the country. The Reservists Law went into effect the first of this month.

Whatever China intends, its intended victims need to match its preparations. There has never been a time when it has been more important to deter the People's Republic of China.

Even if all this is the biggest bluff in history, the Chinese military is provoking incidents that could lead to war, especially in the tense climate Xi Jinping has created. In December... a Chinese fighter jet dangerously intercepted a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the South China Sea.

Moreover, beginning January 28, China's large spy balloon intruded into American airspace, then proceeded to surveil nuclear weapons sites, including Malmstrom, F. E. Warren, and Minot Air Force Bases, which house all of America's Minutemen III intercontinental ballistic missiles..... This path suggests China is gathering intelligence for a nuclear strike on America's strategic weapons — and shows Beijing's utter disrespect for the United States.

Whatever China's intentions... this cannot end well. The problem is complacency. Xi Jinping and Qin Gang, whatever they are doing, are establishing a justification to strike America — and they are making preparations to do so.

Here;  China's War Warnings :: Gatestone Institute

ChatGPT

 Many of you know who Jordan Peterson is.  Certainly a voice for our age and a defender of common senses in the storm of “wokism”.  Watch this short video on what is coming that will totally alter our lives and how things are done.  ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence program that is already here but not fully released.  He been able to spend some time on it.  I’ll let you watch it for yourself.

Also, we believe that the Familiar Spirits and demons will 100% be involved in AI to deceive the Last Days world...even the elect, if that were possible.

https://youtu.be/xHYbNUHWsaY

Minneapolis Mayor Speaks Out on Death Threats

 As most of you know Minneapolis is a very liberal city run by very liberal people.  So when I saw this headline of threats to the liberal mayor, I assumed it was going to be the skinheads or Proud Boys or some other right wing group doing the threatening.  But in fact the Strib reports it’s “left wing extremists” doing the threatening.  I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that the right wing extremists have vanished from Minneapolis cuz they know it will never again lean their way.  Now all your gonna have is the super-woke folks threatening the woke folks.  I’m gonna guess it’s the “defund the police” nut jobs threatening Mayor Frey cuz he insisted that the city still needs some police.

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Nearly three years after the unrest following the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey still gets death threats.

In fact, the threats of violence might be worse now than they ever have been, Frey and his wife, Sarah Clarke, say.

"I think right now is probably the most concerned I've ever been about Jacob's physical safety since he's been in office," Clarke, an attorney and former lobbyist, said.

The threats and vandalism, which lately have come from left-wing extremists and often target their home where they live with their 2-year-old daughter, have gone beyond any acceptable bounds of what a political family should expect, reaching deep into their private personal lives, even whether they should try for a second child, the couple said in an interview.

They emphasized that they believe the vitriol, which has come from far-right extremists as well, is emanating from a small number of people. They decided to speak publicly about it because they want to see stronger condemnation from leaders across the political spectrum — because it's taking its toll not just on his family but on colleagues.

"Taking a position against this kind of thing should not be hard," Frey said. "It should be a prerequisite for entering public service. Part of what we uphold is the institution of democracy. This is an attack on our ability to exercise democracy. On more than one occasion, I've known public officials to change their positions out of fear for themselves or their family."

https://www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-and-wife-sarah-clarke-death-threats-minneapolis-mayor/600258091/