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I promised my readers that I would keep digging into the mystery drone phenomenon, and what I have discovered is absolutely stunning.  It appears that many of the drones that people are seeing may be of foreign origin after all.  In recent years, the Chinese have made historic breakthrough after historic breakthrough when it comes to drone technology, and now it is being claimed that they are using that technology to spy on us and test our defenses.  According to the New York Post, “17 military bases adjacent to Chinese-owned farmland” have been swarmed by mystery drones in recent weeks…

At least 17 military bases adjacent to Chinese-owned farmland across the US have experienced a rash of drone sightings in recent weeks, The Post has learned.

Mysterious drones have been reported near military bases in Hawaii and by installations in Utah, California, Maine and Florida — among other facilities scattered throughout the country.

This cannot be just a coincidence.

The Post had previously published a list of 19 U.S. military bases that “lie close to farmland bought up by Chinese-owned companies”, and all but two of those bases have had recent encounters with drones…

The Post previously identified 19 military bases that lie close to farmland bought up by Chinese-owned companies — a situation that has worried China analysts, who feared the Communist country would use the land to spy on US military operations.

All of those facilities apart from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis in Texas had reports of drones either attempting to fly over their bases or nearby, according to local reports.

And people need to understand that this didn’t just start happening last month.

According to the Daily Mail, an “internal government report” proves that our military bases have been getting swarmed with drones for at least a year…

DailyMail.com obtained an internal government report showing federal agencies knew about incursions from apparent advanced drones over a year ago but have failed to put a stop to them.

Langley Air Force Base in Virginia was swarmed with dozens of drones for weeks in December 2023, creating a security panic. The incident was kept secret until it was revealed by defense magazine The Warzone in March this year.

A report authored by the Air Force, FBI and NASA – which has a facility next to Langley air base – said that their ‘detection equipment’ and ‘signal jamming’ had ‘failed’, in a presentation slide titled ‘lessons learned,’ DailyMail.com can reveal.

Wow.

The truth is that we are far more vulnerable than most people realize.

These drones have been operating in U.S. airspace for a long time, and we can’t seem to do anything about it.

When U.S. Representative Michael McCaul was asked about these drones, he openly admitted that he believes that they are “spy drones” that are probably being deployed by China…

‘We want answers but the response I’m getting is we don’t know whose drones these are,’ McCaul said before executive-branch officials offered a classified briefing to members of the House intelligence committee.

‘I was with the NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, he said that these drones have been reported over military sites, military bases. I would not think those are friendly. I would think those are adversarial,’ he added.

‘I believe they’re spy drones and the PRC and communist China is very good at this stuff. We know they bought land around military bases. This would be very consistent with their policy over the past couple years,’ he said.

Michael McCaul is a credible source.

Members of Congress are now public discussing this theory, and so we should take it very seriously.

And these mystery drones continue to be spotted over our military bases.  In fact, witnesses just saw a drone “the size of a small truck” hover over a base in Virginia Beach…

Two people said they spotted an aircraft Thursday night near Virginia Beach that was unlike any other they had seen.

The object was over the ocean and they watched as it slowly moved over an Army National Guard facility, John Knight told The Virginian-Pilot.

“It was definitely different,” said Knight, who took videos of what he thinks was a drone the size of a small truck.

The drones that have been appearing over New Jersey have been getting the bulk of the attention, but the truth is that sightings have been occurring from coast to coast.

And these mystery drones have also been spotted in other countries as well.

For example, on November 20th there was a very disturbing incident at a base in the UK that is heavily used by the U.S. military…

The source, a senior officer, was briefed in detail on the drone incursions at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, which began on November 20.

Lakenheath is a highly sensitive location for the US military, reportedly earmarked earlier this year to store some of America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons.

The officer told DailyMail.com that drones were recorded flying at up to 170mph near the base, chased a police helicopter, and appeared to be controlled remotely using radio frequencies outside of the normal bands used for military or civilian drones.

Our government told us that these drones are not a threat.

Clearly, they were not telling us the truth.

Residents of New Jersey have been clamoring for something to be done about the endless drone swarms over their state, and now the FAA has banned drone traffic over large portions of New Jersey until January 17th…

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on drone operations in several areas of New Jersey until Jan. 17, unless operators are granted special permission from the government due to “special security reasons.”

The FAA is telling us that “deadly force” could potentially be employed against any drones that violate the ban…

The FAA warned that ‘deadly force’ could be used against drones that present an ‘imminent security threat.’

Pilots who violate the restriction may be ‘intercepted, detained, and interviewed by law enforcement.’

I would love to see one of these mystery drones get shot out of the sky.

Once that happens, maybe we will finally start getting some solid answers.

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Enormous “mystery drones” are buzzing rooftops and flying freely through the skies in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and our government is powerless to stop it.  As I discussed yesterday, these drones have been spotted over military facilities, water reservoirs, transportation hubs, police departments and other sensitive installations.  But even though some of these drones are the size of cars, and even though they are buzzing us at rooftop level in some cases, we can’t seem to track them effectively and when our aircraft do approach they “go dark” and disappear.

What in the world is going on?

These drones have been appearing just about every night since mid-November, and there are countless eyewitnesses.

In fact, New Jersey State Senator Doug Steinhardt says that he saw them from his own front porch…

And State Senator Doug Steinhardt says that’s simply not good enough.

“I’d be happy with an explanation that we’ve looked at it, and we don’t have information, or for law enforcement to say it’s an ongoing something or other, you know, and that’s as much as we can tell you, but we’re not even getting that which is unfortunate,” said Steinhardt.

And Steinhardt says he’s not just speaking as a lawmaker, he’s speaking as a witness.

“I walked out of my front porch last night and saw it would look like drone activity to me. I mean, I’ve seen airplanes cross the sky before and this wasn’t that,” he says.

We have never seen anything quite like this before, and people are really starting to freak out.

Many can’t seem to understand why nothing is being done to stop these unidentified drones from doing whatever they want in our airspace.

The mayors of 21 different towns in New Jersey got together and wrote a letter to Governor Phil Murphy demanding action…

The mayors of 21 towns in New Jersey are demanding action in a letter sent to Gov. Phil Murphy over the mysterious drones that have been spotted flying overhead in recent weeks.

Since mid-November, large drones of uncertain origin have been repeatedly spotted in the sky at night over central and northern New Jersey.

The drones, which are larger than the type typically used by hobbyists, have raised concerns due to their proximity to both a military installation and President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course.

Of course Murphy is quite concerned as well.

At a press conference on Monday, he explained that these drones are “very sophisticated”…

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy commented on the situation on Monday, saying that while authorities have not identified any immediate threats, they are treating the sightings with seriousness.

“This is something we’re taking deadly seriously,” Murphy said during a press conference Monday, adding, “These are apparently very, as I understand it, very sophisticated. The minute you get eyes on them, they go dark.”

Murphy said state and federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, are actively investigating. He noted that 49 sightings were reported on Sunday.

This confirms what we have been hearing from other sources.

Apparently we have been trying to confront these drones, but the moment they see our aircraft coming they “go dark” and disappear.

If one of our enemies has giant drones that we can’t track and that can elude us with ease, that is a major problem.

Of course it would probably be even worse news if these drones do not belong to any of the usual suspects.

At this point, authorities are openly admitting that they do not know who these drones belong to or where they are coming from.

When Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson, this is what he was told…

Pergram: It seems as though Members from both sides are not getting answers about these drones or whatever they’re seeing in New Jersey and Staten Island. There’s a hearing focusing on this today. What is the level of concern? Do you think the government is being straight? And Members can’t even get answers on this.

Johnson: We’re working on that. We need straight answers of course. We are concerned about drones and all of these new technologies and what it might mean for national security and the safety of the American citizen. I’m looking forward to the outcome of that hearing. And if we don’t get the necessary answers there, we’ll dig deeper and go to the classified level.

Pergram: Any thought that these might be “dark” programs?

Johnson: I hope not. I do not believe so. But there’s a lot of investigation going on. So we’ll find out.

Yes, I do hope that we get some “straight answers” soon.

The FBI is deeply involved in the investigation, and they just released a statement that tells us absolutely nothing…

“We understand the concern, and we are doing all we can to figure out what’s going on,” a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Newark Field Office, which is leading the investigation, told PIX11 News. “We truly don’t have much information to provide at the moment.”

If these drones actually belong to our military as some are suggesting, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security wouldn’t be expending resources looking into this.

The fact that they are trying to solve this “mystery” tells us a lot.

And obviously Congress doesn’t know what is going on either, because they are actively searching for answers.

So that leaves us with two main theories.

Either Russia, China or another one of our enemies has drone technology that we cannot defend against, or these drones originate from a source that is not human.  As I have discussed extensively, there has been a dramatic increase in sightings of unidentified aircraft all over the world in recent years.  At this point, it is becoming very clear that something truly unusual is happening.

As for the enormous drones that are invading our airspace night after night, hopefully it will turn out that there is a simple explanation.

But for now, mystery drones continue to brazenly buzz the east coast during their nightly visits, and people are really getting scared.

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Well, that certainly escalated quickly.  Just a few days ago, I wrote about how Syrian rebels had taken Aleppo and were on the way to the central city of Hama.  Now Damascus has fallen, the Assad regime has been toppled, and it is a new day for Syria.  But will it be a better day?  The Assad regime was horrible, but the radicals that are taking over are not exactly George Washington and the boys.  The truth is that they are hardcore Sunni jihadists that have much in common with ISIS, al-Qaeda and the Taliban.  Assad pretty much allowed Christians and other minorities in Syria to do their own thing, but now many fear that these jihadists will soon impose a brutal form of sharia law that will make life extremely difficult.

For the moment, there is jubilation on the streets of Damascus, and rebels are having a grand time looting Assad’s presidential palace…

Thousands of Syrians took to the streets in celebration, firing guns into the air, lighting flares, and waving the rebel flag.

Delighted fighters posted footage from inside Assad’s presidential palace as they celebrated their stunning win.

The rebels have ransacked the palace, going room from room looting items of value including Louis Vuitton and other prized possessions.

Video footage from inside Assad’s palace makes it quite clear that he was living the high life.

But now that the looting has begun, soon there won’t be anything left…

A video features scores of people raiding the cupboards while duvets and linen bed sheets are on the floor.

One person was seen holding an orange Louis Vuitton box while others carried bags bulging with looted items.

It’s thought dozens of Assad’s luxury vehicles have also been seized after militants broke into his garage packed with Mercedes, Ferraris, and Audis.

Nobody should feel sorry for Assad.

He was an absolutely brutal leader, and he was deeply hated by large portions of the Syrian population.

As they advanced, the rebels gleefully toppled one Assad statue after another…

As armed rebels have advanced at lightning speed in recent days from the north of Syria toward the capital, Damascus, footage online showed statues of the Assad dynasty — which has kept the country in its authoritarian grip for over 50 years — crashing to the ground.

Needless to say, the rebels would have loved to get their hands on Assad.

But apparently he was able to escape.

Originally, there were reports that Assad was on an Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane that “disappeared from flight tracking” and that was thought to have been destroyed…

An Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane operated by Syrian Air has disappeared from flight tracking amid uncertainty over the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Assad, who has served as the president since July 2000, has reportedly fled Damascus, after a lightning advance by rebel fighters reached the outskirts of the capital city early on Sunday morning.

But now it is being reported that Assad has arrived safely in Russia where he has been granted asylum…

Russia has granted Syria’s ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and his family asylum on “humanitarian grounds”, according to Russian state media.

“Assad and members of his family have arrived in Moscow,” a source told the TASS news agency. “Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds,” he added.

Obviously, Russia is one of the big losers in this saga.

Syria was Russia’s closest ally in the Middle East.  Now the Russians have been forced to pull all of their forces out of the country and will be losing their sole naval base on the Mediterranean Sea…

Russia is evacuating its ships and transporting leftover weapons by air from its bases in Syria as the regime of Bashar al-Assad falls, according to the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU).

The rapid collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has led to the Russian contingent fleeing the country.

“After losing control of Damascus and amid the ongoing offensive by opposition forces in the provinces of Latakia, Hama, and Tartus, the Russian military withdrew its warships from the Tartus naval base, which Assad had previously handed over to Moscow in exchange for security,” intelligence officials stated.

Iran is another big loser.

Syria was an extremely close ally of Iran, but now it will be a very bitter enemy under the new Sunni regime.

In addition, the Iranians had been able to funnel countless shipments of arms through Syria to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, but now that will no longer be possible.

We are being told that “all pro-Iranian forces” have left Syria, and this represents the biggest strategic defeat for Iran in decades…

All pro-Iranian forces have reportedly withdrawn from the country in a humiliating blow to the Ayatollah.

Iran has lost a key ally in its Shia axis across proxies and allies in the Middle East.

So who are the winners?

The western elite that have been trying to take the Assad regime down for more than a decade have got to be thrilled by these developments.

They finally achieved their goal.

Needless to say, Israel is going to come out of this as a big winner as well…

What is happening these days in the Middle East cannot be found even in the most optimistic scenarios heard 14 months after the surprise attack of October 7. The Shiite axis designed to strangle Israel is collapsing before our eyes.

Qassem Soleimani’s “ring of fire” vision, designed to allow Iran to advance its nuclear program and endanger Israel’s existence, is being buried like its mastermind. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, first lost the gifted commander of the Revolutionary Guards, then his favorite ally Hassan Nasrallah, and now the Assad regime has fallen.

Interestingly, the IDF has already moved into Syrian territory a bit in order to set up a “buffer zone” in case the Syrian rebels decide to launch attacks in their direction.  It turns out that the peak of Mount Hermon falls within that “buffer zone”…

Israel’s Army Radio reported Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had seized the peak of Mount Hermon, the highest mountain in the region, as a precaution against the advance of Syrian rebels as the Assad regime collapsed.

The mountain, covered in snow during the winter months, is the highest in the region, and a key strategic point. Israel has a military base on the mountainside, but Syria has long had a military base on the peak of the mountain itself.

The move marks the first time Israeli troops have been on the peak of the mountain since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

In the end, I think that Turkey is actually the biggest winner.

More than anyone else, Turkey was responsible for arming and supporting the rebels that overthrew the Assad regime.

Now Turkey will have a very strong Sunni ally directly to the south, and this will also provide Turkey with a land corridor if it ever decides to physically invade the land of Israel.

The Turks are really starting to flex their muscles in the region, and I think that this success may embolden them even more.

As for the people of Syria, they are being promised a government that is made up of a “council chosen by the people”…

Syria’s armed opposition ultimately plans to form a government defined by institutions and a “council chosen by the people,” Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant figure driving the latest rebel swing, told CNN. He heads the dominant group in the coalition, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), a former Al Qaeda affiliate.

Jolani declared victory for the “entire Islamic nation” on Sunday, in his first public remarks since the rebel-led coup, which he said “marks a new chapter in the history of the region.”

We shall see what happens.

The Taliban promised that there would be reforms when it reconquered Afghanistan, and we all see how that turned out.

Ultimately, I believe that what just took place in Syria is setting the stage for the sort of history-changing events in the Middle East that I have been writing about for a long time.

Now that the Assad regime is out of the way and Hezbollah is severely wounded, the Iranians are in deep trouble.

Let’s watch and see what the Iranians choose to do next, because a cornered predator can be extremely dangerous.

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This week, Donald Trump shocked the Washington D.C. establishment to the core.  For decades, the unelected bureaucrats that control our mammoth federal agencies have been running our country into the ground.  No matter who we have sent to Washington, the culture in these federal agencies has remained the same.  But now Trump has nominated firebrands such as Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr. for some of the most important positions in his cabinet, and this shows that he is quite serious about “draining the swamp” during his second term.  In essence, there will be a bunch of “mini-Trumps” running around firing hordes of useless bureaucrats and dismantling federal power structures that have existed for generations.  Needless to say, many on the left are in a state of panic now that it appears that many of the institutions that they cherish so much could literally be turned completely upside down.

For a lot of Democrats, the possibility that Matt Gaetz could be the next attorney general is truly a nightmare scenario.  When his nomination was announced, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy called him “dangerously unqualified”…

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., warned Tuesday that President-elect Trump’s selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be U.S. attorney general signaled Trump’s intention to follow through on promises to persecute his opponents.

Murphy called the firebrand Floridian “dangerously unqualified” to lead the Justice Department, noting that Gaetz urged the need to abolish the FBI and other law enforcement agencies that do not get in line with conservative priorities.

Many in the corporate media are freaking out about the Gaetz nomination as well.  For example, Geraldo Rivera says that he “threw up in my mouth” when he heard that Gaetz was the pick…

“When I heard that Matt Gaetz was picked to be attorney general, I threw up in my mouth,” Rivera told host Leland Vittert. “I think it is a horrible, creepy choice. I have no idea why he did it.”

The nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence has also caused a tremendous amount of outrage…

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., declared in a post on X that she was “appalled” by the selection of Gabbard for the role.

“Not only is she ill-prepared and unqualified, but she traffics in conspiracy theories and cozies up to dictators like Bashar-al Assad and Vladimir Putin,” Spanberger claimed in a post on X.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., called the choice of Gabbard as DNI “incredibly reckless,” declaring in a tweet, “Putting someone with known sympathies for foreign adversaries is not putting America’s interests first – it’s putting our security at risk.”

I find it quite comical that Democrats are now talking about “putting America’s interests first”, because they haven’t been doing that for years.

At the Pentagon, the environment is “like a morgue” now that Pete Hegseth has been nominated to be the new boss of the Department of Defense…

But the surprising top cabinet-post appointment came as an absolute shock to Pentagon career employees – who weren’t anticipating such a non-establishment pick to lead the nation’s largest federal agency with a $800 billion budget.

One defense official told DailyMail.com that it was ‘like a morgue’ inside the Pentagon after Trump’s announcement.

They said the career staff were ‘apoplectic’ after hearing Hegseth, who has no government or management experience, would be taking over administration of the largest joint fighting forces in the world.

In the past, Hegseth has talked about the need to fire all of the “woke” generals, and I certainly think that would be a promising step in the right direction for our military.

After all of the other nominations that Trump has made this week, he topped things off by choosing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services…

I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!

At this moment, the corporate media is begging for the Senate to block these nominations.

But that isn’t going to happen.

As U.S. Representative Thomas Massive has correctly pointed out, even if the Senate does not want to confirm these nominees Trump can just push them through as recess appointments…

In a video posted to X by Haley Talbot, a reporter with CNN, Massie was asked if he thought Gaetz would be confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as the Attorney General.

“Do you think he’ll get confirmed by the Senate?” a reporter asked Massie, to which Massie could be heard responding, “recess appointments.”

“He’s the Attorney General,” Massie added. “Suck it up!”

Many people don’t realize this, but the U.S. Constitution specifically gives whoever is president the power to make recess appointments…

A recess appointment, however, allow presidents to install their nominee to the position while the Senate is in recess, without a confirmation hearing or vote, according to the Recess Appointments Clause in the U.S. Constitution. It says: “The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.”

So this means if a president manages to make a recess appointment, that individual’s term would only last for about two years. At that point, the person could be appointed again through the same recess appointment or through the regular Senate confirmation process.

The Supreme Court has ruled that recess appointments are only allowed if the U.S. Senate is not in session for at least 10 days.

But of course our senators are so lazy that they like to take lots of long breaks.

And since Republicans now control the Senate, there probably won’t be any dramatic moves to stop Trump from getting the recess appointments that he wants.

Some “experts” are making it sound like Trump intends to do something out of the ordinary, but the truth is that other presidents made large numbers of recess appointments…

According to the Congressional Research Service, former President Obama made 32 recess appointments while in office; Bill Clinton made 139 and George W. Bush made 171.

When Senate Majority Leader John Thune was asked about the possibility of recess appointments a few days ago, he specifically mentioned “recess appointments” as one of the ways that Trump could get his nominees in place “as soon as possible”…

“We must act quickly and decisively to get the president’s cabinet and other nominees in place as soon as possible to start delivering on the mandate we’ve been sent to execute, and all options are on the table … including recess appointments,” he said in a statement.

Of course the radical left is not just going to sit back and let Trump do whatever he wants.

In fact, they are already planning massive protests for Trump’s inauguration…

Flyers are now appearing on complete campuses in DC. These fliers have QR codes. When you scan the code, the links invite you to “fight fascism” by protesting Trump’s inauguration on 1/20.

So violent leftist groups have begun recruiting WokeQaeda.

One of the groups is Students for Justice in Palestine.

If that doesn’t sound familiar, that’s the group that one of the primary factors of the violent protests on college campuses.

It appears that there will be a great deal of turmoil in the streets of Washington D.C. on January 20th, and that will just be a preview of the widespread turmoil that is coming all over America.

After everything that they have said and done during the past eight years, the radical left is not going to suddenly change course and decide that it is time for “healing” and “unity”.

Our nation is more divided right now than it has ever been in my entire lifetime, and we should all be deeply concerned about what is coming next.

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The U.S. is accusing Russia of preparing to cut undersea cables which carry Internet traffic all over the world, and Russia is accusing western powers of preparing to do the exact same thing.  In some cases, these undersea cables literally stretch from one continent to another, and so it is impossible to guard them.  That means that they are an exceedingly vulnerable target, and it is probably just a matter of time before someone decides to attack them.  Of course if the undersea cables that connect one global superpower to the Internet get hit, they will probably start cutting key undersea cables that connect their enemies to the Internet.  Needless to say, such a scenario would have the potential to turn apocalyptic very rapidly.

According to CNN, U.S. officials are warning that there has been “increased Russian military activity around key undersea cables”…

The US has detected increased Russian military activity around key undersea cables, and believes Russia may now be more likely to carry out potential sabotage operations aimed at disabling a critical piece of the world’s communications infrastructure, two US officials told CNN.

Russia has put increasing emphasis on building up a dedicated military unit, which deploys a formidable fleet of surface ships, submarines and naval drones, according to one of the officials. The unit, the “General Staff Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research,” is known by its Russian acronym GUGI.

“We are concerned about heightened Russian naval activity worldwide and that Russia’s decision calculus for damaging US and allied undersea critical infrastructure may be changing,” a US official told CNN. “Russia is continuing to develop naval capabilities for undersea sabotage mainly thru GUGI, a closely guarded unit that operates surface vessels, submarines and naval drones.”

On the other side, the Russians are suggesting that it is actually the U.S. and the U.K. that are preparing to start attacking undersea Internet cables…

An ally of Vladimir Putin has accused the U.S. and the U.K. of intending to sabotage underwater internet cables and planning to destabilize the maritime energy trade.

In reporting the comments by Nikolai Patrushev, the Telegram channel Crimean Wind posted, “it would be funny, but such statements often sound like a cover for their own intentions.”

When contacted for comment, a British Foreign Office spokesperson told Newsweek on Tuesday: “We are not going to provide a running commentary on Russia’s conspiracy theories.”

So who is telling the truth?

I don’t know.

But what I do know is that these undersea Internet cables are incredibly important…

Undersea cables, also known as submarine cables, are the physical infrastructure that connects the digital world. Hundreds of fibre-optic cables, some no thicker than garden hoses, are laid out across the ocean floor, enabling the real-time global transmission of data and communications signals. These cables facilitate around 99% of internet traffic as well as the telephone calls, data transfers and other telecommunications that enable modern life to function. The first undersea telegraph cable was laid in 1858; today, there are almost 400, most of which are commercially owned and operated.

What would happen if all of the undersea cables connecting a particular country to the Internet suddenly got cut?

I did not have an answer to that question, and so I asked Google, and this is what Google told me…

Communication disruption

People would lose access to phone calls, video, messages, and streaming services.

Financial impact

E-commerce would be affected, and the stability of financial networks would be at risk.

Critical infrastructure impact

Power grids, transportation networks, and water networks could be affected.

Country-wide impact

A country could be severed from the internet, which would impact banking, business, and health networks.

Repair delays

It could take months to repair the cables.

That sounds really bad.

Over the past two decades, our entire economy has become exceedingly dependent on the Internet.

If we were suddenly cut off from the rest of the globe, there would be widespread economic chaos…

Payment systems and ATMs would be down. Trillions of dollars would be wiped off the European and US economies as banks were unplugged from the global financial system, with economic effects felt across the world. Workplaces and businesses that rely on the internet would also go down. Educational institutions would struggle to conduct online learning, impeding students’ education and limiting access to knowledge and resources.

E-commerce would take a hit too, exacerbating disruptions to supply chains and shortages of essential goods. Brick-and-mortar stores would be cut off from communication with suppliers, limiting access to food and other essential supplies.

If someone cut just a few dozen cables, we would suddenly be facing the the biggest disaster for the U.S. economy since World War II.

That is how vulnerable we are.

And a precedent has already been set.  Just two years ago, “someone” sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered Russian gas to Europe…

On 26 September 2022, a series of underwater explosions and consequent gas leaks occurred on 3 of 4 pipes, that were rendered inoperable,[8] of the Nord Stream 1 (NS1) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) natural gas pipelines, two of 23 gas pipelines between Europe and Russia.[9] The leaks were located in international waters,[a] but within the economic zones of Denmark and Sweden.[10] Both pipelines were built to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, and are majority owned by the Russian majority state-owned gas company, Gazprom.

If push comes to shove, I think that both sides would not hesitate to cut undersea Internet cables.

Using nuclear weapons is a far more dramatic move, and it is being reported that the Russians were very close to doing that in 2022…

Vladimir Putin was apparently so close to launching a nuke in 2022 that Liz Truss spent her brief time in office preparing for the fallout.

A new biography of Ms Truss claims the former prime minister spent her final days in No 10 examining weather maps and preparing for UK radiation cases after American spies warned her that Putin was dangerously close to pressing the button.

The ‘exquisite’ intelligence provided by the US concluded there was a 50% chance Russia could deploy a tactical nuclear weapon on the Ukrainian battlefields or test an even larger bomb in the Black Sea.

On the other side, I think that we have entered a time when globalists in the western world have become so desperate that literally nothing is off the table.

Right now our world is more interconnected than ever, but that could change at any moment.

Once someone decides to start cutting cables, things will get really crazy.

So enjoy the Internet while you still can, but also prepare for the day when you will no longer be able to depend upon it.

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Now that Donald Trump has won the election, he is going to have to deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia, and that isn’t going to be easy.  The Russians have no incentive to end the conflict because they are steadily gobbling up territory in eastern Ukraine.  As long as the Russians are making progress toward achieving their goals, why would they want to stop?  On the other side, the Ukrainians will never agree to any peace agreement that allows the Russians to keep all of the territories that they have already taken, but the Ukrainians are losing even more ground with each passing day.  Of course most members of Congress and our NATO allies want to keep fighting until Russia is defeated, but escalating the war even more is likely to bring us to the brink of nuclear conflict.

So where do we go from here?

As we wait to see what Trump will do once he takes office, the Russians have gathered a force of 50,000 troops to push the Ukrainians completely out of the Kursk region…

The war between Russia and Ukraine is escalating.

The neighbors this weekend launched their largest drone attacks against each other since the start of the war nearly three years ago. Russia last week began a fresh effort to oust Ukrainian forces from its Kursk region after amassing more than 50,000 troops, including some 10,000 soldiers from North Korea. And Russian troops, while advancing steadily in Ukraine’s east, are incurring record numbers of dead and injured, according to the British military’s top commander.

The fact that North Korean troops are now involved has gotten a tremendous amount of attention.

Apparently these North Korean troops are actually “wearing Russian uniforms”…

US and Ukrainian officials say 10,000 of the 50,000 massed troops are North Koreans.

Those soldiers are said to be wearing Russian uniforms and have been equipped by Moscow, but will fight in their own units.

Putin’s army has also been training the North Koreans in infantry tactics, artillery fire, and trench clearing.

NATO officials are absolutely furious that North Korean troops are being introduced into this conflict, and they want to take things to the next level.

They will undoubtedly be putting pressure on Trump to take action, and we shall see what Trump decides to do.

Over the past few days, the corporate media has been telling us that there was a phone call between Trump and Putin…

President-elect Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday and warned him not to escalate the fighting in Ukraine, according to a source briefed on the call.

It was being reported that Trump specifically warned Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine…

The source said Trump’s message to Putin was roughly: “Don’t escalate because I have weapons, too.”

But now the Russians are denying that such a call ever took place…

But the Kremlin is denying that any of this happened. It is saying the call didn’t even take place. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov blasted the Post report as “pure fiction” and said that currently there are no plans for the Russian president to speak to Trump.

“This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, it’s just false information. There was no conversation,” Peskov told reporters in a briefing.

“This is the most obvious example of the quality of the information that is being published now, sometimes even in fairly reputable publications,” Peskov added.

What in the world is going on here?

Obviously, someone is lying to us.

A call either happened or it didn’t.

Hopefully Trump will come forward and clarify things for us.

Meanwhile, the Russians continue to march forward in eastern Ukraine…

On the front lines, particularly in Ukraine’s east, Russia is advancing slowly but steadily. Russian troops seized almost 200 square miles of Ukrainian territory last month, according to a Ukrainian war-monitoring group, DeepState, which said it was the largest monthly gain this year.

At this moment, a fierce battle is happening for the key logistical hub of Kurakhovo…

Russian troops are engaged in urban combat with the Ukrainian army in the city of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As TASS was told by security agencies, the Ukrainian troop group is being “taken in pincers” from the northern, southern and western suburbs.

The agency’s source reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently trying to transfer small groups to the city.

The city of Kurakhovo is located 46 km from Donetsk and 30 km from Pokrovsk. The settlement acted as a logistics hub through which supplies were supplied to the Ukrainian garrison in Ugledar. On November 2, the Ministry of Defense also reported the capture of the village of Kurakhovka, located on the approaches to Kurakhovo.

The Russians are going to try to take as much territory as they can before winter officially begins.

Once snow starts piling up everywhere, it will become much more difficult to maneuver.

Elsewhere, our relations with China also continue to go downhill.  In fact, the Biden administration just ordered TSMC to stop sending advanced AI chips to China…

The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers that are often used in artificial intelligence applications starting Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Department of Commerce sent a letter to TSMC imposing export restrictions on certain sophisticated chips, of 7 nanometer or more advanced designs, destined for China that power AI accelerator and graphics processing units (GPU), the person said.

Needless to say, this is going to make the Chinese even angrier with us.

And we are being told that the EU and China are also “on a path that leads straight to a dangerous trade war”…

China and the European Union are on a path that leads straight to a dangerous trade war. After European duties on imports of electric vehicles, the Asian giant announces its first retaliation: from Friday, Nov. 15, Beijing will impose “temporary anti-dumping measures” on brandy imported from EU countries, despite “progress” announced by both sides over the weekend on negotiations to remove duties on battery-powered cars.

Beijing threatened to tax the distillate a month ago, trying to dissuade EU governments from imposing duties and sit at the negotiating table with Brussels from a position of less weakness. In a note, China’s Ministry of Commerce explained that “the authorities have decided to implement temporary anti-dumping measures in the form of cash deposit or letter of guarantee” against European brandies. A decision taken in response to the risk of “substantial damage to the domestic industry.”

Every time we push China further away, the result is that they just get even closer to the Russians.

This should deeply alarm all of us, and I have been specifically warning about this particular alliance of superpowers for a very long time.

2024 was a year of war.

But in 2025 military conflict will rock the entire globe.

The war in the Middle East could go to an apocalyptic level at any moment, China could soon decide to invade Taiwan, North Korea could soon decide to invade South Korea, and we are closer to nuclear war with Russia than we have ever been before.

We really are living at a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, and a tremendous amount of death and destruction is right around the corner.

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Things are about to get very interesting in the Middle East.  The Israeli strike on Iran that we have been anticipating has finally happened, and now Iran is warning that there will be “no limits” in how it responds to that attack.  In other words, we are on the brink of the sort of all-out war between Israel and Iran that I specifically warned about in a chapter entitled “The 3 Wars Of The Apocalypse” that was featured in a book that I published last year.  I know that virtually everyone in the U.S. is really focused on the upcoming election at the moment, but what is going on in the Middle East right now is really big news.

We just witnessed the largest Israeli attack on Iran ever.  It is being reported that “dozens of fighter jets” were involved in a massive operation that struck targets all over Iran and Syria…

Dozens of fighter jets hit ballistic missile factories, air defence batteries and missile launchers. Israel launched a simultaneous attack on military targets in central and southern Syria. Among the pilots and navigators involved in the Iran strikes were a number of women, praised by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) for their bravery.

It is thought the secret research base near Tehran was developing ‘kamikaze drone’ technology, designed to loiter over a target until instructed to attack.

According to Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari, the Israelis now have “broader aerial freedom of operation in Iran”, and this will make it easier for the IDF the next time it becomes necessary to strike the Iranians…

Israel’s first open attack on Iran targeted missile production facilities and air defense systems, the military said Saturday, tempering fears of a broader foray but giving Israeli aircraft the ability to operate more freely in Iranian skies as the region entered a new phase of escalation.

“Israel now has broader aerial freedom of operation in Iran,” an Israeli military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said in a statement after the attack concluded. The remarks signaled Israel’s willingness to strike Iran in the future, even as Israeli officials said the attacks were tailored to minimize casualties and allow Iran to deny major damage.

The Biden administration is trying to play down the size and scope of the Israeli operation, and Joe Biden is desperately hoping that the Iranians will choose not to respond…

“It looks like they didn’t hit anything other than military targets,” President Joe Biden, speaking to reporters in Philadelphia, said of the Israeli strikes. “I hope that this is the end.”

We should all hope that this is the end of it.

But it appears that the Iranians have already made their decision.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Iran has “vowed revenge” and that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is using the phrase “no limits” to describe what Iran might do…

Iran vowed revenge yesterday after Israel’s missile blitz on Tehran destroyed up to 20 key military sites, including a top-secret research facility.

Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran had ‘no limits’ in defending its interests and was obliged to take retaliatory action.

Those are very strong words.

And we are being told that Araghchi has already delivered a letter to the United Nations that declares that Iran has the right to respond to the Israeli attack…

Iran’s top diplomat has condemned Israel’s unprecedented attack on multiple military sites across the Islamic Republic and has asserted Tehran’s right to respond to the latest escalation amid a year-long Middle East conflict in a letter obtained by Newsweek.

The letter was attributed to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and sent Saturday to United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General António Guterres and U.N. Security Council President Pascale Christine Baeriswyl via Iranian Permanent Representative to the U.N. Amir Saeid Iravani.

According to Araghchi, Iran “reserves its inherent right to legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time”.

To me, it sounds like the Iranians do not plan to respond immediately.

But a response is definitely coming.

And the Israelis have already warned that they will hit Iran again if the Iranians strike back.

So this is it.

The big war between Israel and Iran is here.

Of course the big war between Israel and Hezbollah has already been raging.

In recent days, fierce fighting in southern Lebanon has resulted in a substantial number of Israeli casualties…

Ten Israeli soldiers were killed and at least 28 more wounded to varying degrees amid heavy battles against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday and Friday.

The soldiers were killed in three separate incidents in just over 24 hours. Since the start of the ground offensive in Lebanon, 27 soldiers have fallen amid the heavy fighting.

In the most recent incident, five reservists serving in the 8th Hazaken Brigade’s 89th Battalion were killed, and 19 others were wounded, with four in serious condition, when a Hezbollah rocket struck a supply point at a building in a southern Lebanese village.

We aren’t hearing much about this from the big news networks in the United States, are we?

If they give too much attention to what is going on in the Middle East right now, that could make Kamala Harris and the Biden administration look bad, and so they are being pretty quiet about it.

The big news networks in the United States are also being pretty quiet about the stunning Russian advances that are happening in eastern Ukraine…

With Russia advancing at the fastest rate in eastern Ukraine since the first months of the invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with the West to allow Kyiv to fire deep into Russia with Western missiles.

The Biden administration’s plan for the war in Ukraine has completely and utterly failed.

Billions and billions and billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been poured into that war, but the Russians are still winning.

In fact, the Russians are gobbling up more territory with each passing day.

And now the Middle East is on the verge of erupting in flames.

We were warned about these wars way in advance, but most people still aren’t paying much attention.

What will it take before most of the population finally starts waking up?

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Can you imagine what a full-blown war between Israel and Iran would look like?  We are literally on the verge of an apocalyptic war in the Middle East, but it isn’t getting much attention in the western world because everyone is so focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election.  I completely understand why people are so focused on this election, but what is about to happen in the Middle East has the potential to change the course of history.  Once Israel attacks Iran, nothing will ever be the same again.  Iran has already promised to hit Israel back extremely hard, and that would compel Israel to attack Iran again.  Once these two heavyweights start pummeling one another, it may be virtually impossible for anyone to stop the fight until it is decisively concluded.

According to CNN, U.S. officials are saying that they expect Israel to attack Iran before the U.S. presidential election on November 5th…

American officials expect Israel will retaliate against Iran for its attack earlier this month before November 5, sources tell CNN, a timeline that would thrust the growing volatility in the Middle East squarely into public view within days of the American presidential election.

The timeline and parameters of Israel’s retaliation against Iran have been subject to intense debate inside Israel’s government and are not directly related to the timing of the US election, the sources said.

Still, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — described by senior US administration officials as a political animal deeply attuned to American politics — appears highly sensitive to any potential political ramifications of Israel’s actions in the US, they said.

If this report is accurate, that means that the attack on Iran will almost certainly occur before the end of October.

CNN is also reporting that Israel’s military plan for a strike on Iran “is ready”…

Israel’s plan to respond to Iran’s October 1 attack is ready, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, without providing further information.

CNN has reached out to the Israeli ministry of defense for comment.

If the plan “is ready”, that would seem to infer that the specific targets have already been selected.

And that lines up perfectly with a report that was just put out by the Times of Israel…

According to Channel 12 news, the military presented a list of targets to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant as it finalizes preparations, which include “sensitive coordination” with other countries in the region.

A report by the Kan public broadcaster said “the political echelon” had decided on the targets, without specifying which officials or decision-making forum.

“The targets are clear. Now it’s a matter of time,” an Israeli source told the broadcaster.

That sounds pretty definitive.

It is clear that an attack is coming.

The only question now is what day it will happen.

Will the Israeli government wait until after the Feast of Tabernacles to launch the strike?

If so, it would appear that the last week of October would be the most likely window of time for the attack.

Of course it is always possible that the Israeli government could order the attack to happen right away.

We just don’t know.

But what we do know is that the Iranians have told us over and over again what will happen if Israel attacks.

In fact, the foreign minister of Iran just made it very clear to the head of the UN…

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned UN chief Antonio Guterres that Tehran is ready for a “decisive and regretful” response if Israel attacks his country in retaliation to the almost 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on October 1.

An Iranian response would almost certainly be quite a bit larger than the missile attack that we witnessed on October 1st.

Needless to say, such an Iranian response would not cause the Israelis to back down.

Instead, Israel would just hit back even harder.

And then there would be all-out war between Israel and Iran.

Are you ready for that?

As the world waits for the Israeli attack on Iran to begin, the IDF just continues to hammer targets all over Lebanon.

In fact, the IDF just hit Beirut with missile strikes for the first time in six days even though the Biden administration has been strongly urging Israel to show restraint…

Just hours after the Biden administration warned Israel over the expanding scope and scale of its military strikes on Lebanon’s capital, the Israeli military said its fighter jets flew to the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh and struck an underground Hezbollah weapons cache. Dahiyeh, considered a stronghold of the Iran-backed, U.S. and Israeli-designated terrorist group, has been hit by Israeli missiles previously, but the strikes Tuesday night were the first in five days.

The overnight attack was Israel’s fourth on the Lebanese capital since it started targeting top Hezbollah officials in the country in mid-September. Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 10 killed at least 22 people and injured more than 120 others in a particularly deadly 24-hour period.

And it appears that preparations are being made for a widespread ground operation along the northern front…

Israeli troops have cleared landmines and established new barriers on the frontier between the Golan Heights and a demilitarized strip bordering Syria in a sign Israel may expand its ground operations against Hezbollah while bolstering its own defenses, security sources and analysts claimed on Tuesday.

The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from further east along Lebanon’s border, at the same time creating a secure area from which it can freely reconnoiter the terror group and prevent infiltration, the sources said.

Tens of thousands of people have already been killed since this war began on October 7th, 2023.

But if all-out war between Israel and Iran erupts, millions of people could die.

I wish that I was exaggerating.

This is it.

This is the biggest Middle East war, and as I have been warning for years, it is going to shock the entire planet.

Israel and Iran have been getting ready for this final showdown for a very long time.

And once they start going at it, this war won’t be over until one side settles things decisively.

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