TENSION, TUMULT, AND TREACHERY
Iniquity Shall Abound
Escalating gang violence across Haiti has pushed displacement to record levels, deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis and leaving nearly 1.5 million people without a stable place to live, according to new figures released. Families across both urban and rural communities continue to flee attacks, often multiple times, with increasingly limited options for safety.
Plague, Pestilence, and Plandemics
Faith, fear and trust: Inside DR Congo’s fight against Ebola. In the Congo, health workers, who arrived to help bury a person who died from Ebola, were forced to leave. The family carried out the burial, potentially exposing dozens more to the virus. Some families attribute deaths to witchcraft or poisoning rather than infection. The outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no vaccine or treatment, continues to spread in eastern DRC while cases have also been reported in Uganda.
Orwellian/Surveillance Society and AI’s Vast Drain on Electricity, Water, & the Environment
See the following: AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030. Also see AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More.
Weather Events
Summer-like heat to brief cooldown as weekend severe storms target 50 million in Northeast. Major US cities along the Interstate 95 corridor, including Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Columbus, Ohio, and Baltimore, will be under some type of severe weather threat.
Tropical Storm Amanda has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean. “There is a chance Amanda could strengthen into the season’s first hurricane, but the separate developing system near Central America and southwestern Mexico has a greater likelihood of becoming a hurricane and could even reach major hurricane strength if it remains over water long enough.”
Wars and Rumors of Wars
Lebanese president: Iran using Lebanon as ‘bargaining chip’ in negotiations with US. Lebanon’s President Aoun has repeatedly sought to distance Lebanon from regional conflicts and said decisions concerning Lebanon’s sovereignty and security must be made by the Lebanese state alone. “Our house is being destroyed. [Iran is] using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in their negotiations with the US. It is unacceptable,” he says.
In Same Day, House Votes to End Iran War, Keep Funding Ukraine War. The Republican base supports the war, but independents are souring as the conflict drags on — a warning sign for Republicans fighting to keep their seats in the midterms. A major factor in that shifting mood has been economic woes.
Zelenskyy issues open letter to Putin proposing meeting as US ‘fully focused’ on Iran. He said, “We see that the United States is fully focused on the issue of Iran, and it would be wrong to simply wait until the war in Europe returns to the center of its attention. Ukraine proposes ending this war through direct engagement between us — and you. I am proposing a meeting.”
Renewing Military Strikes Against Iran Is the Only Way to End Its Nuclear Ambitions. In the to and fro over US attempts to negotiate a peace deal with Iran, there can be no compromise that allows Iran to have nuclear weapons. The intransigence of Iranian leaders could ultimately persuade Trump that, in order to ensure Iran has no chance of resuming its nuclear and ballistic missile programme, he has no alternative but to resume military action against the regime.
Iran says US peace deal hinges on release of $24 billion in frozen assets, warns against renewed conflict. A senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader has said negotiations between Tehran and Washington have reached a deadlock over $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets, warning that any return to war could trigger a broader regional conflict stretching beyond the Persian Gulf.
“Israel Watching Regional Military Shifts with Growing Concern.” Read this week’s Nearing Midnight column on Rapture Ready, where Terry James discusses this interesting development and how it relates to the end-times Battle of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38—39) in “Turkey Strutting Its Prophesied Power.” Also relating to the Ezekiel prophecy is Daymond Duck’s article this week, “The US Is Turning Against Israel.” Bible prophecy tells us that Israel will be alone to defend itself in the Gog/Magog invasion. But we know how it ends when God steps in.
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