You really have to wonder if these people just make things up as they go to suit the narrative-of-the-day. Most of what we see is a lie.
Question:
When is a drought not a drought?
This is what is being said currently:
Residents
in high fire risk areas should be ready and set to evacuate if
emergency officilas say so,” the weather service office said.
Tom
Fisher with the ]weather servi cce said the NWS was not making a new
category of warnings.
Extreme
red flag is not a grade but was it was super important that we get
the residents' attention”, he said.
“This
is the fourth event that we've had, it's been a very long dry spell.And there is no rain in sight”
Just a few months ago they were announcing an end to the drought:
California
is officially free of drought after more than seven years, drought
monitors said Thursday.
The
Golden State has experienced some form of drought for 376 consecutive
weeks, the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of
Nebraska, tweeted. It’s the first time the state has been free of
drought since Dec. 20, 2011
And yet we know (by joining the dots and by anecdote, because the media won't tell you the truth) that official droughts may come and go but largely due to manufactured drought and the spraying of particulates into the atmosphere that everything is becoming dessicated.
The soil is bone-dry, very little is growing, ground-water is being depleted and the forests are dying.
I wonder how much update to this story there has been.
Things are falling apart rapidly. At times like this one gets contradictory reporting and considerable confusion. I think that I can safely disregard most of the mainstream narrative of Syria, Russiagate, Ukrainegate but it is very difficult to get to the essence of what is true.
There is little actual evidence of what is being talked about here, so it is not possible to say how much stands up to scrutiny in times of “the Fog of War”.
In this case Hal Turner's story is, at the very least replicated quite independently.
Listen to what Hal Turner has to say along with the audio which I have extracted from something that appeared on Twitter yesterday.
Finally, there is this audio which parallels much of what Turner is saying.
Here are some of the relevant stories as covered by the Hal Turner show. Everything, of course, needs to double checked with other sources.
BREAKING
NEWS: ISRAEL CLOSING ALL OF ITS EMBASSIES WORLDWIDE IMMEDIATELY
The
state of Israel is CLOSING all of its foreign Embassies, worldwide,
effective immediately. No consular services will be available and no
persons will be permitted entry until further notice.
Ambassador
Joel Lion, the Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine, says this is due to a
Ministry of Finance decision, but history suggests something
different: Something HUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE is about to take place.
It
is almost unheard of that any country, even with financial
authorizations lagging, closes its Embassies. It just isn't done.
Yet Israel is doing so.
Is
this part and parcel of the ALLEGED nuclear "false flag"
said to be in the works against Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA for
this Sunday, November 3? Unknown.
Does
this have something to do with Diplomatic Cables uncovered in the
lair of ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi? Diplomatic cables between Baghdadi
and the US State Department were seized by US Special Operations
Forces during the raid that killed Baghdadi over the weekend. If
Cables were found to the US State Department, were any others found
to and from Israel?????
One
off-the-wall claim are those rumors that Israel had a nuke stored in
strategic embassy basements around the world as a blackmail option.
Will those nukes be detonated? Unknown.
This
is very unusual and very disturbing. Clearly something very big is
up. Endeavoring to find out what it is.
UPDATE
11:03 PM EDT --
Just
a reminder.
We
have two Aircraft Carries operational, one in Asia (based out of
Japan) and one in the Arabian Sea. NOT A SINGLE OTHER US CARRIER can
put to sea at the moment. 11 carriers and only two are capable of
deploying at the present time.
COVERT
INTEL: U.S. SPECIAL OPS FORCES FOUND INCREDIBLE EVIDENCE DURING
AL-BAGHDADI KILL-RAID
United
States troops participating in the operation to capture or kill ISIS
founder and Leader Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi, came across -- and seized --
incredible materials during the raid.
Included
in the items seized are CABLES to and from Al-Baghdadi and . . . the
U.S. State Department!
The
Cables provide first-hand, INCRIMINATING evidence of the Obama regime
providing material support to the ISIS terror group.
More
importantly, the cables contain names of senders and recipients . . .
Attorney
General Barr, US Attorney John Durham, and other law enforcement
officials are going over the CABLES . . .
Charges
under consideration: Material Support of Terrorism. Conspiracy.
Facilitation of murder . . . .
TURKISH
ARMY HITS RUSSIAN CONVOY WITH ARTILLERY IN SYRIA
The
Turkish Army has fired artillery at a Russian military police convoy
in Syria. At least one vehicle was hit near Dirbesiye, Syria.
Video below . . .
This
is the SECOND attack by Turkey upon forces they should NOT be
attacking, today! First they attacked and killed six soldiers from
the Syrian Arab Army, now they've hit Russians.
Benghazi
"Stand-Down" Order was to Cover-up ILLEGAL WEAPONS DEALS
done by U.S. State Dept.
The DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) is 1 of 16 US military intelligence agencies. According to a leaked document obtained by Judicial Watch, the DIA wrote on August 12, 2012 that:
“there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime …”
This was written before ISIS came on to the world stage. Clearly ISIS was no random uprising, but rather a carefully groomed and orchestrated controlled opposition group.
The “supporting powers to the opposition” referred to are Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the GCC nations such as Qatar, who are in turn being supported by the US-UK-Israeli axis in their struggle to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. As outlined in this article Syrian Ground War About to Begin? WW3 Inches Closer, the US is backing the Sunni nations while Russia, China and Iran are backing the Shia nations, so there is the definite potential for this to erupt into World War 3. Below are screenshots of the actual DIA document:
US Senator John McCain visited the Free Syrian Army. In circle is the ISIS Leader Baghdadi
ISIS is a US-Israeli Creation: Indication 2: ISIS Leader Baghdadi a Mossad Agent
Although this indication is hard to confirm, there were reports apparently originating from Edward Snowden that the leader of ISIS (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) was actually an Israeli Mossad agent by the name of Simon Elliot or Elliot Shimon: [Editor’s note: this source and quotation are yet to be fully verified, including the source originating from Edward Snowden]
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, so-called “Caliph,” the head of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is, according to sources reputed to originate from Edward Snowden, an actor named Elliot Shimon, a Mossad trained operative.
Simon Elliot (Elliot Shimon) aka Al-Baghdadi was born of two Jewish parents and is a Mossad agent.
We offer below three translations that want to assert that the Caliph Al-Baghdadi is a full Mossad agent and that he was born Jewish father and mother:
The real name of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is “Simon Elliott.”
The so-called “Elliot” was recruited by the Israeli Mossad and was trained in espionage and psychological warfare against Arab and Islamic societies.
This information was attributed to Edward Snowden and published by newspapers and other Web sites: the head of the “Islamic State” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has cooperated with the U.S. Secret Service, British and Israel to create an organization capable of attracting terrorist extremists from around the world.
Source: Radio ajyal.com
Another source corroborates this statement, the site Egy-press:
With photo support, a Iranian media discovers the true identity of the Emir Daash, a trained Zionist agent.
Iranian intelligence discovered the true and full identity of the Emir Daash, which is known under the name Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi; his real name is Elliot Shimon. Its role in Mossad secret agent in the Zionist espionage. His false name: Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim Al Al Badri Arradoui Hoseini.
The plan: get into the military and civilian heart of the countries that are declared as a threat to Israel in order to destroy to facilitate thereafter, the takeover by the Zionist state on the entire
Today
the Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri resigned after -at times-
violent protests. In Iraq the gadfly cleric Moqtada Sadr joined
protesters after previous protests in Iraq also led to violence. In
both countries at least some protesters demand the resignation of
their governments. While the demonstrations in both countries are
about local economic and political issues there are foreign actors
involved who want to use them to achieve their own goals.
Elijah
J. Magnier @ejmalrai - 12:37 UTC · Oct 29, 2019
#Lebanon
and #Iraq protestors hitting the "Axis of the Resistance"
stability in these two countries and pushing Prime Ministers in both
countries to resign and lead the country towards instability.
#US
and #SaudiArabia has lost #Syria but are still fighting in other
theatres.
On
October 6 we warned of these 'regime change' attempts : The U.S. Led
Coup Attempt In Iraq May Further Weaken That Country
During
the last five days there have been protest all over the south of Iraq
where the majority of the people are Shia. The protest escalated
within a few days into shootings with over a hundred killed. In
several cities party and government offices were burned and various
groups hustle to take a position in the "leaderless"
movement.
There
are legitimate reasons for protests. The majority of the people in
Iraq are younger than 20. The people have little chance of finding a
job. The state is weak and many of its actors are corrupt. Services
the state is supposed to provide don't get delivered. Electricity and
water supply is often sparse.
But
those are not the reasons why the protests immediately escalated into
violence.
...
The
protests are part of the conflict between the U.S., its Saudi
proxies, and Iran.
The
immediate aim is to bring down the government under Prime Minister
Adel Abdel Mahdi who strove to stay neutral in the conflict between
the U.S./Israel/Saudi Arabia and Iran.
...
New
U.S. sanctions against Lebanese banks who allegedly support Hizbullah
are likewise part of U.S./Israeli/Saudi effort to squeeze Iran and
its proxies ...
An
imminent breakdown of the very weak economy of Lebanon, partially
caused by U.S. sanctions against Lebanese banks and the end of
traditional Saudi subsidies to Lebanon, also led to protests and
today to the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. He will now
lead a caretaker government which will have too little power to
change anything.
Both,
Iraq and Lebanon, have ethnic-sectarian systems that are finely
balanced. The warlords or clan leaders of the various groups use the
state for their own enrichment. Providing services for the whole
country mean nothing to them. All they want is more money that allows
them to run a system of patronage and clientilism for their immediate
followers which keep them in their positions.
In
Iraq and Lebanon the positions in the parliament and government are
decided (more or less) by group quotas that are difficult to change.
Both countries would be better off under universal constitutions that
would do away with any quotas and specific positions for special
groups.
But
the Christian groups in Lebanon would lose out as the Christian share
of the population has decreased over time. In Iraq the currently
strong Kurdish and Sunni positions would lose power to the Shia
majority. These groups would rather fight than give up on their
privileges.
The
current political systems make any change extremely difficult. The
demonstrators are asking for the corrupt politicians to leave. But
even if the governments resign and call for new elections an
adherence to the election laws and constitutions would only recreate
a similar situation.
To
call for resignations is thereby not the way to achieve change.
The
best strategy for the legitimate protesters is to press the current
governments for reform. The governments in Iraq and in Lebanon have
both already agreed to make certain changes. The protesters should
accept those and pull back. If the politicians do not stick to those
commitments the protesters can always go back into the streets and
demand more.
Unfortunately
there are external actors with lots of money who want to prevent
that. They want to throw both countries into utter chaos or even
civil wars because they hope that it will weaken those factions that
have good relations with Iran.
In
Lebanon there was some violence by followers of the Shia Amal
movement against a protesters tent camp. 'Western' media falsely
attributed the violence to Hizbullah. In Iraq the guards of a
government building in Karbala shot at protesters who tried to breach
its gate. Some 'western' media falsely alleged that those shooters
were Iranians.
But
external actors have made such bids before only to fail to achieve
the wanted results. The outcome of any violent strife now will - in
the end - likely be a different one than they dream of. In both
countries it is likely that, after a bloody and chaotic period, the
groups that will come out on the top will be the very once that the
Saudis, the U.S., and Israel want to push down.
There
would also be a lot of collateral damage and both countries would be
further weakened. That is why the Iran aligned groups are currently
trying to avoid to react to the obvious provocations against them.
But with blood flowing in the streets it will be difficult to adhere
to that position for much longer.
The
dominance of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is being
robustly challenged on all fronts. Other geopolitical powers and
smaller but important players are unwilling to accept the political
influence Washington exerts through its fiat money. And in times of
trade wars, sanctions, and even tensions between allies, the push to
dethrone the Greenback is once again gaining traction. Turkey is now
joining Russia’s version of Swift to trade with Moscow directly in
rubles and liras.
Trump
vs Turkey
Moscow
and Ankara have long since put the incident with the Russian fighter
jet Turkey downed over Syria four years ago behind them. And since
the 2016 coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Erdogan, the
two Black Sea neighbors have been moving closer and closer together.
In a controversial move from a North Atlantic perspective, Turkey
recently bought Russian missiles made to shoot down Western airplanes
and has been offered Russia’s Su-35 fighter jets after the U.S.
kicked its NATO ally out of the F-35 program.
Turkey
Throws Another Wrench Into the USD's Works and Joins Russian Swift
But
relations between the United States and Turkey soured long before the
Russian arms deal. President Obama’s administration blocked Turkish
attempts to acquire elements of the U.S.-made Patriot missile system.
And president Trump recently tweeted that he “will totally destroy
and obliterate the Economy of Turkey” if Ankara “does anything
that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits.”
His message was issued on the backdrop of pressure from his own
Republican Party and congressional leaders to impose sanctions on
Turkey over the purchase of Russian military equipment, as the law
now requires.
Turkey
to Settle Bills With Russia in Rubles and Liras
The
rapprochement between Turkey and Russia has catalyzed trade between
the two countries over the past few years, with Turkish contractors
building infrastructure for the Sochi Winter Olympics and Russia’s
giant Gazprom completing Turk Stream, a natural gas pipeline that
runs through the Black Sea. Not to mention Turkey’s nuclear power
projects to be realized with Russian technology and the six million
Russian tourists visiting the country last year.
All
this intensified economic interaction will be increasingly
facilitated by transactions in the two nations’ fiat currencies.
According to an announcement by the Russian finance ministry, issued
October 4, Minister Anton Siluanov signed an agreement with the
Turkish side to start using the ruble and the lira in cross-border
payments and settlements, Reuters reported this past Tuesday.
Turkey
Throws Another Wrench Into the USD's Works and Joins Russian Swift
As
part of the agreement, Turkish businesses and banks will now connect
to the Russian version of Swift and introduce Russian Mir cards in
Turkey, an alternative to Visa and Mastercard. Moscow developed its
System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS) in response to
proposals in the West to exclude the country from Swift following the
annexation of Crimea back in 2014.
“We
see attempts to use the dollar as a political weapon. I regard this
as another big mistake,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said
during the 2019 Russian Energy Week forum last week. He expressed his
opinion that by implementing restrictions on the use of their
currency, the Americans have “started sawing the branch on which
they sit.” Putin also pointed out that “the dollar shrinks as a
reserve currency in many countries around the world, including U.S.
allies” and added that the same applies to dollar settlements in
international trade. Putin stressed that the restrictions on Iran,
the Russian Federation, and other sanctioned nations undermine the
confidence in the U.S. currency.
As
a result, not only Russia and Turkey have been looking for settlement
solutions outside systems based on the dollar. Disagreeing with the
Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear
deal and reintroduce sanctions against the Islamic Republic, the
European Union announced its own Swift alternative in January.
Instex, or Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, was developed by
France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to facilitate non-dollar
trade with Iran. And in March, a central bank official in Moscow
revealed several Russian banks had joined the Cross-Border Interbank
Payment System (CIPS), China’s version of Swift.
Turkey
Throws Another Wrench Into the USD's Works and Joins Russian Swift
Is
There a Better Swift Than Bitcoin?
Thinking
about Swift and its alternatives as well as other fiat currencies
that could challenge the dollar’s dominance as a reserve currency,
all of them part of geopolitical weaponry, some questions arise. For
example, will Britain remain part of Instex after Brexit? Will Russia
invite Ukraine to the SPFS system? What stops China from banning
Taiwan from the CIPS? Will the U.S. ever make the Greenback a true
world currency?
There
was an Eastern Bloc joke during the Cold War about a propaganda
poster at a Russian hospital. “Soviet Patients Are the Healthiest
Patients!” the slogan read… But there is no such thing as a
healthy patient, is there? That’s why they’re all in hospital.
By
coincidence or not for the people in Turkey, Russia, and China, none
of their governments is particularly friendly towards Bitcoin, yet
are among the most eager adopters of decentralized digital
currencies. For example, according to the 2019 edition of the Global
Consumer Survey conducted by market data provider Statista, 20% of
Turks own cryptocurrency. China is eighth among 18 polled countries
with 11% of Chinese citizens holding crypto, while 9% of the surveyed
Russians also said they used or owned digital coins.
Until
a cryptocurrency becomes the world’s reserve currency and its
blockchain is used for international financial settlements, a lot of
new Swifts may come into existence and many fiat currencies may try
to challenge the dominance of the United States dollar. But that’s
fine: bitcoin thrives in the face of adversary.
What
are your expectations about the future of the U.S. dollar as the
world’s reserve currency? Do you think a cryptocurrency can play
that role? Let us know in the comments section below.
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To add a bit to my tirade against MMT (and other monetary nonsense) on Monday, some people will claim that because we can also buy raw material resources (such as ores or roundwood), finished goods, and services with money, my claim that money just stands for energy is mistaken. Note, however, that without energy, any material resource you might obtain would have a value of precisely zero. And there would also be no services or finished goods. Energy is needed to "unlock" the potential value of material resources. In other words, material resources are onlyincidentalto energy. In the final analysis, everything comes down to energy. -- RF
## Fault lines/flashpoints/powder kegs/military/war drums ## Turkey, Russia in negotiations for potential Su-35 jet deal Turkish and Russian government officials are in an “advanced stage of negotiations” to finalize a potential deal on Russian-made Su-35 fighter aircraft, Turkish officials said.
Trump also highlighted a potential U.S. energy market opportunity by tapping into Syrian oil.
And that's the plan for Venezuela, too. All the major players on the global chessboard are grabbing everything they can because they know that controlling the oil means controlling the world. They also know that military forces powered by fossil fuels will crush military forces that rely on renewables. -- RF
About Trump Wanting Iraq’s Oil Fields What the president advocated was one of the most telling statements of his presidency. It amounted to an admission that he is perfectly willing to commit a war crime.
Chinese military plane enters South Korea's airspace A Chinese military plane entered South Korea's air defense identification zone after sending prior notification on Tuesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, in a turnaround from China's practice of breaching the zone without notice.
The largest banking lenders to the oil and gas sector are becoming more cautious, marking down their expectations for oil and gas prices that underpin loans in a move expected to put further financial stress on struggling producers, industry and banking sources said.
Since Donald Trump was elected president the New York Times' understanding of the 'Deep State' evolved from a total denial of its existence towards a full endorsement of its anti-democratic operations.
All that ridicule of the deep state theory, and now suddenly it becomes mainstream. This is a serious matter. In a democracy, unelected bureaucrats are supposed to implement the programs set forth by elected officials, not take matters into their own hands. -- RF
London Times Runs Fake Browder Opinion Piece Ben Brandon and Alex Bailin are London lawyers who have co-authored a fake story based on fabrications by William Browder about Russia’s legal action against his tax evasion and the death of his accountant, Sergei Magnitsky. The writers of this London Times op ed managed to put eight lies into just five opening lines. Yale in academic censorship row in Singapore
Pets and human toddlers don't understand what's happening when they're dressed up in costumes or the latest in baby fashion. It's all meant to feed the egos and tickle the funny bones of adults. -- RF
The Islamic State leader died after running into the end of a tunnel, “whimpering and crying and screaming all the way,” as he was chased by American military dogs, Trump said.
Big talk comes cheap when you have the world's biggest military at your disposal and are surrounded by a small army of highly trained bodyguards 24/7. My guess is that if Trump were cornered by a death squad and facing certain death, he would be on his hands and knees squealing for mercy, just like any other ordinary human being. -- RF
