Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
Important Takeaways:
- Biden to ban Russian oil imports over Ukraine war
- President Joe Biden has decided to ban Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the matter.
- The move follows pleas by Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy to U.S. and Western officials to cut off the imports, which had been a glaring omission the massive sanctions put in place on Russia over the invasion. Energy exports have kept a steady influx of cash flowing to Russia despite otherwise severe restrictions on its financial sector.
- The U.S. will be acting alone, but in close consultation with European allies, who are more dependent on Russian energy supplies. Natural gas from Russia accounts for one-third of Europe’s consumption of the fossil fuel. The U.S. does not import Russian natural gas
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Important Takeaways:
- Rick Scott: Biden Is Making Iran, Venezuela Our Partners ‘To Save our Economy’
- Broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) criticized the Biden administration for reportedly looking to boost energy production in Iran and Venezuela and stated that doing so would make the authoritarian Maduro regime and Iran’s dangerous regime partners “to save our economy” and argued that every day America waits to boost domestic energy production
- ”This idea that we’re going to go do business with Maduro, he’s killing his own citizen[s], or Iran, that wants to kill all the Jews and demolish Israel, we’re going to go — they’re going to be our partner to save our economy? Come on.”
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- ‘This Deal Is Illegal’: Critics Warn New Iranian Nuclear Deal Will Pave Way to Atomic Bomb
- The new or renegotiated Iranian nuclear deal is reportedly close to signing and critics are concerned this version is worse than the original.
- After 11 months of negotiations, Israel’s chief takeaway is alarm.
- Russia, a key player in these negotiations, wanted written guarantees that sanctions from its war on Ukraine will not stop its trade with Iran.
- The deal would also reportedly provide billions in sanctions relief to Iran.
- “There are no restrictions in this deal in how this money can be spent and fueled to Iran’s proxies So, we can expect that a lot is going to go to Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis
- That power represents an existential threat to Israel.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- China Warns U.S. Against Forming Pacific NATO and Backing Taiwan
- China has often accused the U.S. of trying to form blocs to suppress its growth, a complaint that’s likely to attract greater attention after President Vladimir Putin cited similar grievances before his invasion of Ukraine.
- Foreign Minister Wang Yi said “This would not only push Taiwan into a precarious situation, but will also bring unbearable consequences for the U.S. side,” Wang said on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, later adding: “Taiwan will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland.”
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Russians Announce US-Iran Deal as Tanks Roll Across Europe
- A senior Russian official announced on Thursday that a new nuclear deal with Iran will be announced within 24 to 48 hours, signaling the Biden administration’s continued reliance on and cooperation with Moscow even as it wages a full-scale war in Ukraine.
- The terms of the deal remain unknown as the Biden administration has sought to cut Congress out of the deal and prevent it from performing its legally mandated oversight. Under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, Congress must give its approval of any new agreement with Iran.
- Mostafa Khoshcheshm, one of the Iran negotiating team’s advisers, told the country’s state-controlled press on Thursday that “the U.S. has accepted Iran’s conditions to reach an agreement.”
- Khoshcheshm claimed that the Ukraine conflict has forced the Biden administration to “retreat” from its tough negotiation stance.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- WILD THREATS Putin’s ‘propaganda chief’ threatens West with nuclear destruction as Russia’s arsenal put on high alert
- News anchor Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers across Russia’s 11 time zones that the West would be blown to smithereens with “more than 500 nuclear warheads” if it continued to threat Moscow.
- “This would guarantee destruction of the USA, and all other NATO countries.”
- Kiselyov appeared to back his argument with the crackpot principle that if Russia wasn’t part of the globe then “why do we need the world?”
- “Today our Russian Nuclear Triad is on the high alert.
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Proverbs 12:19: “The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”
Important Takeaways:
- Biden Contends ‘We Are Stronger Today’ in State of the Union Address, GOP Says Pro-Family Revolution Coming
- Biden began his speech by honoring all Ukrainians and the Ambassador of Ukraine, Oksana Markarova, who was in attendance with First Lady Jill Biden. “We the United States of America stand with the Ukrainian people,” the president said.
- “Throughout our history, we’ve learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos,”…
- Biden said he’s enforcing economic sanctions and cutting off Russia’s largest banks from the international financial system.
- The president addressed the brutal U.S. inflation spike which has reached a 40-year high as the economy tries to recover from the pandemic. “Lower your costs, not your wages,” he said. “Make more cars and semiconductors in America. More infrastructure and innovation in America. More goods moving faster and cheaper in America. More jobs where you can earn a good living in America. And, instead of relying on foreign supply chains – let’s make it in America.”
- Biden also addressed the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it his third big topic in the speech. “Because of your resilience and the tools we have, tonight I can say we are moving forward safely, back to more normal routines.
- Biden concluded his address by declaring that America is the “strongest, freest, and most prosperous nation the world has ever known. We are stronger today than we were a year ago. And we will be stronger a year from now than we are today.”
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Proverbs 12:19: “The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”
Important Takeaways:
- The state of the union, according to President Biden’s worried supporters
- With war intensifying in Europe and Biden’s domestic agenda stagnating, will the president’s assessment of the state of the country match what tens of millions of Americans see and feel when they turn away from the screen? Are their lives better than a year ago, when Biden vowed to “preserve, protect and defend” a divided, pandemic-ravaged nation? And can he address their worries and fears as Russia attacks Ukraine?
- Biden’s approval rating hit a new low this month, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday, with 37 percent approving of his job performance
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Important Takeaways:
- While the US Wasn’t Looking, China Became the Dominant Power in Latin America, Right on Our Doorstep
- Latin America took on a new trading partner: China. The region has also begun to shift in an anti-American direction, creating a big strategic problem for the United States.
- Evan Ellis, a Latin American expert at the U.S. Army War College, Twenty Latin American nations have joined China’s Belt and Road initiative, in which China invests in a nation’s infrastructure, like the new container port China is building for Peru at the Port of Chancay.
- China will also be supplying nations with civilian nuclear technology, helping them develop space programs, and providing them with Chinese 5G technology that experts have warned is a surveillance tool of the Chinese military.
- China is establishing a growing number of Confucius Institutes in the region, which are school programs that teach young people Chinese language and culture and push Chinese government propaganda.
- Ellis said China is also cultivating military ties here which it could use in any future conflict with the United States.
- “If war ever broke out over Taiwan, they would probably not make it a war that was fought just in Asia, but they would have ways of thinking about how to use operations in the hemisphere,” Ellis warned. “It’s entirely possible that there would be certain anti-US states in the region that might welcome China in.”
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- U.S. shutters embassy in Belarus amid Ukraine crisis
- The U.S. is suspending operations at its embassy in Belarus and is allowing nonemergency employees and family members at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to leave.
- The U.S. Embassy in Russia on Sunday warned Americans to leave the country as soon as possible using any commercial option still available. It warned American citizens that the government would not be able to launch an evacuation effort from the country.
- The decision to suspend operations at the U.S. Embassy in Minsk comes on the fifth day of Russia’s brazen attack on neighboring Ukraine. Belarus was one of the main staging areas for the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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