Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Great Maps and Explanation of How Trump Won

Trump won decisively and the Left is left with their jaws dropped.  Trump won in black counties, Latino counties and other places that have always been blue!  This link below shows lots of maps with county by county showing how America is a sea of Red!  

Jesus is not a Democrat or Republican but blessings come on those who FEAR THE LORD and maybe America is done for a while with those who can’t even say what a “woman” is anymore?  Trump might not be a Christian but he certainly isn’t opposed to Bible believers.  He may even believe that God spared him for a purpose!  Bible readers know that if God can use Nebuchadnezzar to accomplish His purposes He can certainly use an ego-filled man like Trump.

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Donald Trump has won the majority of electoral college votes to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election.

Despite polling gains for the Democrats after Biden’s exit from the race in July, Harris failed to maintain a lead and the election was neck-and-neck in the final weeks of the campaign.

As of 9.10 ET (14.10 GMT) on Wednesday, more than 2,800 of nearly 3,200 counties had returned more than 90% of their votes. The results show that America has firmly swung back to the Republicans. The Democrats won 2020 by expanding their share of votes across the country, but 90% of counties swung back to the Republicans in 2024.

The Republicans managed to take three key swing states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia. That was enough to win, even with Nevada and Arizona races still undeclared. At the time of publication, no swing state had been called for the Democrats.

Below, there is a granular picture of how Trump won the election by looking at how every county’s vote has changed compared with the 2020 presidential election.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/06/the-key-swings-that-handed-trump-the-white-house-a-visual-analysis

Greatest Comeback in History!

 Some of the nations of the world weren't happy that Trump won.  Like France.  Who cares?

Some said it didn't matter.  Like Iran.  Oh well!

Some said it was the greatest comeback in history and clearly excited!  Like Israel!  Praise God America will continue to be a supporter of Israel, under Donald Trump, for at least the next 4 years!

9:55 a.m.: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated President-Elect Donald Trump on his victory in the 2024 elections.

"Dear Donald and Melania Trump,

Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback!

Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.

This is a huge victory!

In true friendship, yours,

Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu"

Here;  'Greatest comeback in history' | Trump elected to be 47th President of the US | Israel National News - Arutz Sheva

The globalists and all the Democrats are crying.  We shouldn't gloat in that...well maybe for just a little....but should remember that we have been given a few more years of freedom to proclaim the Good News that Jesus is the ONLY way and He is coming quickly!

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Russia's Deal With Iran

 I know we sound like a broken record, but Ezekiel 38 appears to be taking shape right in front of our eyes.

Notice that Turkey also shows up in the article.

Also notice that Bretton Woods shows up, which was the agreement following WWII that gave the US Dollar the status of WORLD'S ONLY RESERVE CURRENCY.

According to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Russia is close to signing a comprehensive treaty with Iran that will include defense cooperation. At the moment, there is no text of the agreement nor any detailed description of its actual contents.

Yet hidden behind the Russia-Iran deal is a bid by Russia to become the “peace broker” in the Middle East.

This would enhance Russia regionally and beyond, and would diminish the American position considerably. It is part and parcel of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal of attaining international credibility and acceptance two years after the start of Russia’s so-called “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine.

For decades, Russia has been trying to gain influence in Iran, including seeking bases in that country. While Iran has been willing to buy Russian military equipment, or to barter for it — and willing to sell drones and missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine — it has been unwilling to grant any bases. Iran appears to be sticking to that policy now, as there is no hint that Russia will get a military presence on Iranian territory.

Nor is there any suggestion that Russia would come to Iran’s aid if there was an attack on Iranian territory, provoked or unprovoked. In short, Russia is under no obligation to help Iran in case of war.

So, what is Russia hoping to achieve?

While Moscow surely wants to expand its influence in Iran, it also has important relations in the Persian Gulf that it not only wants to protect, but also expand. Major oil producers the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are on this list.

The mechanism the Russians — and Chinese — are using to build relations with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE is BRICS (an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and — later — South Africa), a group formed in 2001 of then-emerging economies.

Described as an “informal relationship,” it is focused mainly on economic and financial issues. Seeing an opportunity for expanded political as well as economic influence, in December 2023, the BRICS members invited a number of countries to join. Argentina declined after Javier Milei was elected president. Iran, the UAE, Ethiopia, and Egypt  accepted — the last three being long-time US allies and commercial and military partners. Saudi Arabia was invited, but “delayed” a response. Under apparent pressure by the United States, the Saudis have neither confirmed nor denied their intentions.

For the recent BRICS meeting in Kazan, Russia, 38 countries were invited and 32 participated. A surprise participant was UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, which was seen as controversial, since the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, who hosted the meeting. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister attended as an “observer.”

BRICS is moving toward establishing an alternative banking and currency system to the US-led currency system, known as Bretton Woods, which includes the SWIFT financial transaction processing system. In 2022, as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US and EU imposed sanctions on a number of Russian banks, which were removed from the SWIFT system.

Meanwhile Turkey, a NATO member, has asked to join BRICS, and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the summit.  Turkey has been furious with Europe, as the EU has consistently blocked Turkey from EU membership, based on human rights violations, rule of law, and other complaints. As Ankara increasingly turned eastward, Russia sold Turkey sensitive military equipment including the S-400 air defense system, and would like to sell more in future, especially fifth generation jet fighters.

Here;  Russia’s Deal With Iran and Middle East Peace - Algemeiner.com

What an awesome, exciting time to be alive!  We are very likely the generation that qualifies for Jesus' words, "When you see ALL THESE THINGS BEGINNING TO HAPPEN, then lift up your heads (look up!) because your redemption (snatching away?) is near."


Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister

 For yet one more day, Israel is at the very top of the headlines in Google News.  Tiny, little Israel with only 9.7 million people is headline news almost every day.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to replace Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the middle of a war “is an act of madness,” Opposition Leader Yair Lapid tweets, calling for Israelis to protest the high-level cabinet shakeup.

“Netanyahu is selling out Israel’s security and the IDF’s fighters for [his own] disgraceful political survival. The ultra-right-wing government prefers the [draft] dodgers over the those who serve,” Lapid accuses — calling on his party’s supporters and “all Zionist patriots to take to the streets tonight in protest.”

Here;  Lapid says Netanyahu's decision to fire Gallant mid-war is 'act of madness' | The Times of Israel

Just like here in America, Israelis are divided about a lot of things.  One would think they'd be on the same page when they are fighting a war on 4 fronts but that's certainly not the case.

Is the Left Prepping for War if Trump Wins?

 My cousin did a social media post this morning about the election.  She can’t understand how anyone with half a brain could vote for Trump.  And she uses the word “dictator” in her post referring to Trump.  So the Left has been carefully crafting their propaganda to make Kamala voters believe that Trump would be a dictator and maybe even the next Hitler.  If Trump wins they have already set the stage for their “moral, noble purpose of trying to save democracy” by doing everything in their power to overthrow him…even using an insurrection that they claim to hate.

Can you see how the nation is heading for violence?  At some point saying, “we have to agree to disagree” will not be enough for either side.

God sets up and tears down nations, leaders and kings.  Pray today for our country.  Pray for God’s mercy.  Pray that “thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

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The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment. It is the central piece of a narrative that, by characterizing Trump as a tyrant (indeed likening him to Hitler), establishes the conditions for violence — not just another attempt on Trump's life, but political violence on a massive scale intended to destabilize the country.

As I write in my forthcoming book Disappearing the President, Democratic Party research and media reports show that many senior party officials and operatives are preparing for the possibility of a Trump victory. Accordingly, planning is focused on undermining the incoming president with enough violence to rock his administration. Prominent post-election scenarios forecast such widespread rioting that the newly elected president would be compelled to invoke the Insurrection Act. With some senior military officials refusing to follow Trump's orders, according to the scenarios, the U.S. Armed Forces would split, leaving America on the edge of the abyss.

By vilifying Trump as a despotic madman who must be stopped before he can commence his reign of terror, the regime's propaganda apparatus not only slanders Trump but also pre-emptively threatens the reputation, as well as the livelihood and perhaps the liberty, of current military personnel. The point is to push the military against Trump: When the time comes to act, will you stand for democracy or side with a tyrant who sees the military only as an instrument to advance his personal interests? 

The purpose of the Hitler narrative is not to alter the electoral preferences of left-wing media audiences already solidly in the anti-Trump column, but rather to justify taking extreme measures against the Republican candidate and the America First movement and ensure that the bulk of the military sides with the anti-Trump plot. Thus, it is best understood in the context of recent accounts promising, or urging, violence after the November vote.

https://www.wnd.com/2024/11/is-the-left-preparing-for-war-if-trump-wins/

Monday, November 4, 2024

The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War

 I saw this headline today on my Google News feed.  It's amazing how many articles we have found in the last year with the words "civil war" in them.  People, on both sides, have a sinking feeling that something isn't quite "normal" in the USA.  Many are realizing that a nation based on compromise between the two parties are realizing that half of us can't even agree on what a woman is or whether or not a doctor can tell a new mother, "It's a boy!"

A person then starts to wonder what will happen in America if half the country refuses to accept the results of the election tomorrow.  If Kamala wins by a tiny bit the folks on the far right could scream, "Revolution time!" and really makes plans for an insurrection.

If Trump wins by a tiny bit, the Left could cry, "Russia!", and start burning down cities like they did in Minneapolis when a drug addict named George Floyd died.

Did he say fight?” Drew Miller asked me. It was July 13th, and we were in rural Colorado, near an outpost of Fortitude Ranch, a network of survivalist retreats that Miller has constructed in anticipation of civilizational collapse. News of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump—the first one—had just pinged: a young man named Thomas Crooks had shot at Trump from a rooftop near a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, striking his right ear. Trump had stood, with blood on his face, and shouted to his crowd, “Fight, fight, fight!” The shooter’s motives were unknown, but Republicans were blaming Democrats. “File charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination,” Representative Mike Collins posted on X. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused the “evil” Democratic Party of attempting “murder.” Miller’s phone began to make the sound of a dog barking—his ringtone—as members and employees of the ranches sent texts and e-mails.

A salesperson in Nevada was seeing a sudden increase in requests to join: “Member interest. I’m already getting previous leads texting me.”

A member in Colorado wondered if it was time to mobilize: “Should we do an alert?”

As the barking continued, I asked what Miller thought. “This could stir things up,” he said, after a heavy pause. “Things could escalate.”

Miller, a fit and unnervingly analytical sixty-six-year-old, was wearing a Fortitude Ranch T-shirt and had a handgun holstered on his cargo pants. He grew up in Nebraska, and served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force for thirty years before retiring as a colonel, in 2010. He has long maintained a fixation on disaster. A “Unabomber-type person,” he told me, could release a bioengineered virus to kill off “mammalian weeds,” as one prominent scientist has called humans; an electromagnetic-pulse attack could cause months-long blackouts. After retiring, Miller had an idea that combined his interest in readiness for such events with an entrepreneurial streak: establishing a survival community that was both comfortable and armed to the teeth. He reached out to real-estate agents in West Virginia. “I just said I wanted a remote location with year-round water, off the beaten path, accessible in all kinds of weather,” he told me. “The first one said, ‘Oh, you’re looking for a survival location.’ ” After several more agents had the same response, Miller asked one how they knew what he was after. The agent replied, “We have people from every three-letter agency in D.C. with little places out here.” Miller told me, “She even showed me a few! I thought, God dang it, people, you shouldn’t do that!” In 2015, Miller opened the first Fortitude Ranch in the mountains a couple of hours outside D.C. Its proximity to the capital was strategic. “That’s the obvious big target,” Miller told me. At the time, foreign terrorist attacks were at the top of people’s minds. “Now, for many, it’s civil war,” he said.

According to an analysis of FEMA data, some twenty million Americans are actively preparing for cataclysm—roughly twice as many as in 2017. Political violence, including the spectre of civil war, is one of the reasons. A recent study conducted by researchers at U.C. Davis concluded that one in three adults in the U.S., including up to half of Republicans, feel that violence is “usually or always justified” to advance certain political objectives (say, returning Trump to the White House). In May, Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, told the Financial Times that he believed there was about a thirty-five-per-cent chance of civil war breaking out in America. “We are now on the brink,” Dalio said, noting that a modern civil war—though it might not involve muskets—would see the fracturing of states and widespread defiance of federal law. In June, Dalio upped his estimate to “uncomfortably more than 50 percent,” predicting “an existential battle of the hard right against the hard left in which you will have to pick a side and fight for it, or keep your head down, or flee.”

Fortitude Ranch has more than a thousand members of all political persuasions, including doctors, engineers, restaurant workers, pilots, and entrepreneurs. “I’m not some hard-core prepper survivalist,” George, a retired C.I.A. officer in Texas, who asked that I use only his first name, told me. “I don’t want to live without running water or air-conditioning or run around in the woods for long. But it’s like the old saying goes: When trouble is on the horizon, a wise man takes precautions. Civil war is a definite possibility.” A man named Pat, who works as a computer scientist in Colorado, agreed. “The potential for violence across the country scares us,” he told me. “Fortitude Ranch is insurance.”

Here;  The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War | The New Yorker

I've said this before, but when we toured the Antitem Civil War National Battlefield 30 years ago and heard the stories, I thought to myself, "How would it have been possible that brothers and cousins were lined up shooting at each other in America??"  I now know the answer. 

The good news is that Jesus told us things like this would happen.  Our blessed hope is that he returns for us before the nastiness and mayhem reach a fevered pitch.

Biden-Harris Secretly Sign Up for Global Governance

 On the one hand, it's sad to see articles like this and think of America going down the tubes.

On the other hand, the Bible very clearly says that the world will be dominated by a one-world government and when we see headlines like this it confirms in us that we will be meeting Christ in the clouds very soon!

On September 22, unnoticed by most Americans, the Biden-Harris administration adopted the United Nations Pact for the Future to transform global governance, which introduces the foundations of a world government. There was no debate, no media coverage, no press releases, and no interviews about the Biden-Harris administration's surrender of United States sovereignty to the UN.

Americans were apparently not supposed to find out.

These agreements usher in a dystopian future, where the UN -- an active supporter of terrorism and arguably the world's most corrupt international entity... in partnership with the unelected and unaccountable World Economic Forum, led by Klaus Schwab... is given unprecedented power over the peoples of sovereign countries, who have had no say whatsoever on the contents of this pact, because it has been kept hidden from them.

Buried near the end of the Digital Global Compact, in paragraph 30, is the only thing you need to know about it: "We must urgently counter and address... all forms of hate speech and discrimination, misinformation and disinformation...."

The UN, its member states and the Biden-Harris administration evidently want to establish world-wide censorship that will make any future criticism of their power grab impossible.

In 2021-22, the UN entered into a partnership with Google to ensure that the search engine only display information reflecting UN perspectives. Dissenting views would have to be erased. The UN did not even hide their totalitarian move, and issued a press release about it.

Google is clearly doing the UN's bidding. If you try to google the words "climate change" today, every single dissenting view has been suppressed by the search engine. In the first twenty-plus pages of results that come up on Google, not a single of them deviates from the UN/WEF narrative, with most results only containing links to UN bodies or other institutions that partner with the UN, such as the EU, the World Bank, government websites and a few climate-alarmist articles from the Guardian, the New York Times, AP and Reuters.

This is what UN censorship looks like now. Can you imagine what it will be in a few years, if countries do not immediately move to stop it?

Here;  Biden-Harris Administration Secretly Signs Up for UN World Governance, Internet Censorship :: Gatestone Institute

So if there is no stopping this, are we called to at least RESTRAIN the evil?

I think so.  Paul tells us in 2nd Thessalonians that the restrainer (Holy Spirit indwelling believers) will restrain evil until HE is taken out of the way.  This will happen at the snatching away of believers when Christ calls us to Himself in the clouds.

But let's not put 100% of our effort into trying to save America and forget that our main mission, during the little time we have left, is to scatter seeds in hopes that we play our part in snatching souls from the fire.

So be thankful for America and all that God has done with this nation but worship Jesus and be obedient to the Great Commission.

Hope for a Doomed Nation

 Pastor John MacArthur put a never-heard-before sermon on OnePlace a few days ago called Hope for a Doomed Nation.  I encourage you to listen.  Tomorrow is Election Day when the people of America choose their leaders.  What kind of leader does America deserve when so many have no fear of the Lord, have rejected Jesus, embrace perversion, celebrate gender confusion in little children, murder millions of babies for convenience and know more about their local football team than they do about God’s word? 

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Please listen to this broadcast “Hope for a Doomed Nation” on the Oneplace app! 


As Election Day gets closer, you’ve no doubt been hearing the slogans and the promises of each party. And basically, what are they all saying? Only the right candidate can fix our nation’s problems. But even if only the truly best people were elected, would that solve our nation’s deepest problems? 


https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/grace-to-you/listen/hope-for-a-doomed-nation-1193093.html


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Sunday, November 3, 2024

Trump Pledges to Help Homeschool Families

Those of us who grew up in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s maybe had heard about someone who was homeschooled but probably didn’t actually know anyone who was. It was thought of as extremely weird.  And then suddenly it became more common.  We even had a family in our rural neighborhood who homeschooled in the ‘90s.  It was still strange but at least we knew someone.

And now today, there is no way we would allow our kids or grandkids to go to public schools.  Imagine putting your 1st grader on the bus with a bunch of 6th grade boys who have cell phones and have been watching porn for 3 years, and they want to shock the new kid.  And the drugs in the form of edible marijuana and vapes used by grade school kids.  Next throw in the leftist agenda of forcing evolution as a fact, LGBT as wonderful and not being able to teach your child what a man and woman actually are.

Trump is not going to save America if he’s elected but his ideas might slow down our inevitable collapse.

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 (WND News Center) —Homeschool parents long have faced the double burden of taxes that support their local public school, but also the costs of paying for their own supplies, curriculum and more. A definite double-whammy.

But President Donald Trump is pledging, if elected, to change that.

Trump said his plan is for $10,000 a year per child, “completely tax-free, to spend on costs associated with homeschool education.”

He said, “I will also work to ensure that every homeschool family is entitled to full access to the benefits available to non-homeschool students, including participating in athletic programs, clubs, after-school activities, educational trips and more.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-pledges-to-boost-homeschoolers-with-10000-per-child-tax-write-off/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Wealthy Americans Plan On Leaving After Election

 This headline was on Google News this morning.  They don’t want to leave for good, but they want options to get out.  If Trump wins by a narrow margin the Left could light cities on fire like they have in the past over George Floyd dying of a drug overdose and blaming police.  If Kamala wins by a narrow margin the Proud Boys and other right-wing militia types might say, “stolen again!  It’s time for a change.”  What would they do, I don’t know but unrest, no matter who wins, is certainly possible.

Another rumor is that Iran is planning a major attack before the election.  Might that affect things?  How about if China invades Taiwan this Monday or Tuesday?  

Of course I hope Trump wins by a landslide so no one can question if cheating took place.  But Trump is not going to fix America, only Jesus can do that.  But he might delay our collapse by a few years by not handing over our national sovereignty to globalists who seek a global government.

Pray, because this is a big one.  And don’t even consider not voting if you’re reading this.

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A growing number of wealthy Americans are making plans to leave the country in the run-up to Tuesday’s election, with many fearing political and social unrest regardless of who wins, according to immigration attorneys.

Attorneys and advisors to family offices and high-net-worth families said they’re seeing record demand from clients looking for second passports or long-term residencies abroad. While talk of moving overseas after an election is common, wealth advisors said this time many of the wealthy are already taking action.

“We’ve never seen demand like we see now,” said Dominic Volek, group head of private clients at Henley & Partners, which advises the wealthy on international migration.

Volek said that for the first time, wealthy Americans are far and away the company’s largest client base, accounting for 20% of its business, or more than any other nationality. He said the number of Americans making plans to move abroad is up at least 30% over last year.

David Lesperance, managing partner of Lesperance and Associates, the international tax and immigration firm, said the number of Americans hiring him for possible moves overseas has roughly tripled over last year.

A survey by Arton Capital, which advises the wealthy on immigration programs, found that 53% of American millionaires say they’re more likely to leave the U.S. after the election, no matter who wins. Younger millionaires were the most likely to leave, with 64% of millionaires between 18 and 29 saying they were “very interested” in seeking so-called golden visas through a residency-by-investment program overseas.

Granted, the interest in second passports or residencies has been rising steadily among the American rich since Covid-19. Whether it’s retiring to a warmer, cheaper country or being closer to family abroad, the wealthy have plenty of nonpolitical reasons to want to venture overseas.

The ultra-wealthy also increasingly see citizenship in one country as a concentrated personal and financial risk. Just as they diversify their investments, they’re now creating “passport portfolios” to hedge their country risk. Others want a non-U.S. passport in case they’re traveling to dangerous countries or regions hostile to the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/01/wealthy-americans-plans-leaving-united-states.html

Friday, November 1, 2024

First Typhoon EVER After Mid October

 Typhoon “Kong-rey” made landfall along the coast of Taiwan’s Taitung County just after 05:00 UTC on Thursday, October 31, 2024, as the strongest typhoon to hit the island since 1996 and the first to hit the country after mid-October. Kong-rey brought wind gusts exceeding 260 km/h (162 mph) and heavy rainfall that claimed at least one life and knocked power out for over half a million homes. Around 500 flights have been canceled, schools and markets have been shut down, and over 8 000 were forced to evacuate their homes.

https://watchers.news/2024/10/31/kong-rey-taiwan-landfall-october-2024/

Thursday, October 31, 2024

North Korea Tests ICBM With Longest Flight They’ve Had

 Well, isn’t this a pickle!  North Korea and their leader, who Trump calls Rocket Man, are back in the news in a big way.  They sent troops to fight with Russia near Ukraine and Russia might help them get a nuke screwed onto their ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) in exchange for their help!  Last week we read that NK blew up all of the roads and rails connecting them to South Korea, sending a strong message that peace is not likely much longer.  So here is just one other piece on the chess board of what the Bible would call the Last Days.  It seems like everyone is getting ready for war.

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SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - North Korea said it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, upgrading what it called the "world's most powerful strategic weapon", as Seoul warned Pyongyang could get missile technology from Russia for helping with the war in Ukraine.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the test was a warning to enemies that have been threatening the country's security, KCNA state news agency said.

“The test-fire is an appropriate military action that fully meets the purpose of informing the rivals, who have intentionally escalated the regional situation and posed a threat to the security of our Republic recently, of our counteraction will," Kim was quoted as saying by KCNA.

The muscle-flexing comes amid international outcry and rising alarm over what the U.S. and others say is North Korea's deployment of 11,000 troops to Russia - 3,000 of them close to the western frontlines with Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-conducts-longest-icbm-test-amid-storm-over-troop-deployment-russia-2024-10-31/

95 Killed, Dozens Missing in Spain Flash Flood

Another day, another crazy weather event.  12 inches of rain in a few hours would require a deluge of water like none of us have seen.  The earth continues to groan as it anticipates its redemption…which will happen after the rapture, after the 70th Week of Daniel, when Christ returns to earth to set up His kingdom for 1000 years and sits on David’s throne in Jerusalem.

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At least 95 people have been killed by severe flash floods in Spain, according to authorities on Wednesday, as emergency responders scramble to find dozens of missing people.

In the worst-affected region of Valencia, 92 people were killed, according to Angel Victor Torres, Spain’s minister of territorial policy and democratic memory. Two others died in Castile-La-Mancha, and one person in Andalusia.

Several locations in southern and eastern Spain were hit with up to 12 inches of rain in just a few hours on Tuesday, in what marked the worst rainfall in Valencia in 28 years, according to state weather agency AEMET.

Emergency services in Valencia, the city of Malaga, and Castile-La-Mancha, among other regions, said they were still working on finding dozens of missing people.

Emiliano García-Page, president of Castile-La-Mancha’s regional government, compared the deluge to a levee breaking. “It’s not a rain pour, it was like a dam burst,” García-Page told Spain’s national broadcaster TVE. “People were calling [emergency numbers] crying, asking for help and it was almost impossible to reach them.”

The badly hit Valencia region was thrown into a state of chaos, with most highways becoming completely unusable on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Vehicles that had been left abandoned in traffic were picked up by the water and moved around.

 https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/europe/spain-flash-floods-intl/index.html

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Alarming Signals Pointing to the Collapse of US Dollar

 Here is just one more prophetic headline that speaks of the US Dollar collapsing.  As the book of Daniel says, "the writing is on the wall."  Of course we know this is going to happen but only God knows the timing.

As America's debt grows unchecked, the question isn't so much whether the U.S. dollar will falter but when. Seven key indicators signal trouble, painting a picture that suggests the dollar's days as the world's primary currency may be numbered. 

And yet, the troubling debt spiral unfolding before our eyes receives little more than passing concern from leaders and policy shapers. The consequences of ignoring these signals could be catastrophic.

1. Federal Budget Deficits - A Debt-Fueled Spiral

One of the clearest signs of economic instability is the massive federal budget deficit. Despite optimistic projections that rely on implausibly smooth conditions--no wars, recessions, or emergencies--U.S. debt is projected to grow by $22 trillion over the next decade. With each economic shock or policy shift, these optimistic estimates become even less realistic. The American government, it seems, has become so comfortable borrowing that repaying this debt is an afterthought.

Such soaring deficits can destabilize the dollar by making it less attractive to foreign investors, especially as interest on this debt crowds out critical public spending. The most disturbing aspect of these projections is the near certainty that deficits will only accelerate over time, locking the U.S. into a vicious cycle of borrowing.

2. The Ballooning Federal Debt

Federal debt now stands at $35 trillion, exceeding 123% of the nation's GDP, a staggering burden for any economy. The government's addiction to spending has become so extreme that, contrary to logic, government expenditure is counted as a "positive" in GDP. 

In reality, government spending on interest payments and debt-financed projects only deepens America's financial vulnerability. The real economy supporting the debt--the economy of workers, businesses, and production--is already strained under the weight of this spending spree. And as this cycle continues, the true strength of the economy, relative to debt, is much weaker than headline figures suggest.

3. The Exploding Federal Interest Expense

The cost of servicing America's debt is surpassing $1 trillion annually, exceeding all other expenditures, including national defense. This reality should be a wake-up call: the U.S. is heading toward a future in which its largest expenditure isn't education, health, or infrastructure--it's debt interest. Even more alarming, the government is on the brink of spending more on debt than on Social Security, a pillar of American society.

When interest payments alone begin to dwarf federal spending on social programs, the consequences can be extreme. The government may find itself in a fiscal bind, with fewer funds for essential programs and a growing need to placate creditors. This can create a perception of financial instability, further weakening the dollar's appeal.

4. The Federal Funds Rate and the Struggle with Inflation

In a desperate attempt to curb inflation in 2022, the Federal Reserve embarked on one of its steepest rate-hiking cycles in recent history, moving from near-zero rates to over 5% in just 18 months. But this monetary medicine came with consequences: as rates rose, the government's interest burden exploded, forcing the Fed back to rate cuts. The inability to sustain higher rates, even when inflation persists, suggests that the U.S. economy is no longer resilient enough to weather the fallout from responsible monetary policy.

This cycle of low rates followed by frantic hikes and cuts only makes inflation harder to control, creating a volatile environment that could further erode confidence in the dollar.

5. Money Supply and Currency Debasement

The Fed's tools of "currency debasement and gaslighting," as critics would say, are thinly veiled attempts to inflate the money supply in a bid to control debt interest costs. When money is created "out of thin air" to buy up government bonds, inflation inevitably follows, eroding purchasing power and widening inequality. The result is a world where many Americans struggle to stay afloat financially, watching as their real wealth erodes amid skyrocketing prices and stagnant wages.

Those whose wealth hasn't grown by at least 37% since 2020 may already be falling behind, losing ground in an economy that penalizes prudent saving and rewards speculative investment.

Here;  The Alarming Signals Pointing To A Potential Collapse Of The U.S. Dollar

We've said it 100 times over the past 15 years, EVERY CURRENCY based on faith and confidence fails.  History shows us that.  The government that is strong enough to convince it's citizens that faith and confidence is all that's needed will one day not be strong enough to keep up that faith and confidence.  

When politicians realize they can pay for things by printing/borrowing money at very low interest rates, the temptation to keep doing that over and over again ultimately leads us into a debt spiral.  Sadly, we seem to be there.  The interest on our debt will now be bigger than all other government spending.  And when investors start to realize that they will demand higher interest rates in order to stay invested in those government bonds.  And if the government doesn't have enough money to pay 4% on $35 trillion in debt just imagine how fast the cookie crumbles if they are forced to pay 8% then 9% then 10%.

We sincerely hope that Jesus is coming soon so that we don't have to be around here to witness this collapse...because it will be pretty scary and really painful.

Gold at Another Record High

 Huge money printing is coming.  Gold is going up because of what everyone can see.  But would Trump or Kamala have a bigger deficit if elected?  This analyst thinks Trump will be twice as bad if elected.  We’ve said it for some time now, a politician in America can’t be elected unless he promises free stuff, lower taxes, etc…. All of which ad to the deficit and bring us closer to financial collapse.

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