Israel Warned: Coronavirus Surge Heading Toward 1,000 New Cases a Day…...
June 20, 2020
June 20, 2020
The rising level of coronavirus infection if sustained would lead Israel to a thousand new cases a day within a month and many hundreds of deaths – unless new restrictions were imposed, the National Coronavirus Data Centre of the Intelligence Directorate warned on Saturday, June 20.
The Centre raised the alarm after confirming that Israel is undergoing its second wave of the disease with different but equally serious characteristics.
The new spike in infection calls for thinking about preparing for a second lockdown despite the harm to the economy.
The Centre advises that this course can be prevented by means of certain urgent steps.
They include reconsideration of the most recent decisions for reopening the economy; closer enforcement of health rules, more information for the public; reinstating quarantine centres at hotels; and boosting epidemiological testing and research for cutting short the chains of infection.
The report takes full account of the economic price of tightened restrictions but asserts that if the authorities move fast and decisively, the economic and social fallout can be comparatively moderate.
Last Tuesday, after the centre urged a halt on further relaxations, the ministers went ahead nonetheless and approved the reopening of theatres and places of entertainment.
Another 304 cases were reported between Friday and Saturday, raising the total to 20,500 including 4,300 active cases.
They include 40 in serious condition of whom 28 are on respirators.
Iran Tests Cruise Missiles in Naval Drill……….
June 20, 2020
June 20, 2020
Iran’s news agency reported on Thursday that its navy had test-fired two kinds of missiles during a naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, without elaborating.
They were reported as destroying targets at a distance of 280km, a range that could be extended.
Images were broadcast of the missiles being launched both from a truck and a ship.
Iran’s Navy chief Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said the “homing” c-class cruise missiles have new highly accurate warheads, capable of resisting any kind of electronic warfare.
"Homing” means built-in navigation systems that operate after the missile is fired.
In Iran’s last naval drill in May, an Iranian vessel was accidentally hit killing 19 sailors.
Turkey Bombs Iraq, Syria, Targeting Kurdish Group it says Trains Antifa…..
20 June 2020
20 June 2020
Turkey bombed Iraq and Syria, striking a Kurdish militia it has accused of training members of the left-wing, international Antifa movement involved in protests across the United States.
The Turkish Defence Ministry released footage Friday of an F-16 fighter jet taking off and conducting what it said was an operation in Iraq's northern Great Zab region that "neutralised" four members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The outlawed group has been locked in a three-decade, cross-border insurgency with Ankara, which has stepped up its campaign against Kurdish forces in Iraq in recent days.
In Syria, Turkish forces and allied rebel forces bombed Kurdish groups in the Tel Abyad countryside of the northern Raqqa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based monitor with ties to Syria's exiled opposition, reported Wednesday.
The mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces often bear PKK insignia and Turkey argues the militia is simply a proxy of the underground group.
The United States' support for the Syrian Democratic Forces has complicated Turkey's campaign in northern Syria.
In addition to Kurdish PKK sympathisers, other ethnic minorities and Arabs, the Syrian Democratic Forces and its fight against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has attracted foreign fighters from across the globe, including a number of leftists and anarchists, largely from the West.
US Convoy Tries to Stop Russian Armoured Vehicle in Syria………..
June 20, 2020
June 20, 2020
DAMASCUS, A new video has surfaced of the U.S. Armed Forces encircling a Russian military vehicle in north-eastern Syria and forcing it to stop.
In the video, the U.S. forces can be seen encircling the Russian BTR-80 vehicle as it was attempting to conduct a patrol along a roadway near the Al-Qamishli District in the Al-Hasakah District.
The video’s date is not known; however, over the last 24 hours, there have been reports of U.S. and Russian troops engaging one another in the Al-Hasakah Governorate.
The most recent incident that is known happened in the Al-Qamishli countryside on Thursday.
A number of U.S. vehicles attempted to block a Russian military patrol, but they were unsuccessful in stopping the latter, as they simply drove off road to go around them.
In February, Turkey lost at least 62 troops killed in Syria, nearly 100 soldiers were wounded, dozens of Turkish armoured vehicles were destroyed and more than ten drones were shot down.
Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of involvement in the deaths of Turkish soldiers, Russia rejects these allegations.
In early March, the presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, concluded an agreement according to which a ceasefire came into force in the Idlib de-escalation zone.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad later said that if the US and Turkish military did not leave the country, Damascus would be able to use force.
The reason for the Russian-Turkish negotiations was a sharp aggravation of the situation in Idlib, where in January a large-scale offensive by the Syrian army against the positions of the armed opposition and terrorists began.
Australia Under Massive Cyber Attack…..
June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
Australian PM Scott Morrison disclosed on Friday that his country is under far-reaching sophisticated attack by a “state-based actor.”
Security experts said China, Russia and North Korea are the only countries that fit this definition but lean heavily towards China with which relations have soured of late.
The prime minister told a press conference that the attack is targeting Australian organisations across a range of sectors, including all levels of government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure.
Inside the White House…
William Koenig
White House Correspondent20 June 2020
William Koenig
White House Correspondent20 June 2020
Week in Review
The Covid-19 situation has accelerated final day events and given us a good picture of how some of the final day events will fall into place.
One world order, one world currency, the mark of the beast technology (ID2020), digital tattoos that determine whether a person has been vaccinated, tension among nations and much more. Once again, this proves the veracity of the Scriptures.
World’s preparation of digital currency accelerating…..
The World Economic Forum in their June 3, 2020, article “Now is the time for a ‘great reset’” continues to push for global governance and a future digital currency.
They wrote; To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions.
Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.
In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.
There are many reasons to pursue a Great Reset, but the most urgent is apparently COVID-19.
Having supposedly already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, the pandemic represents one of the worst public-health crises in recent history.
And, with casualties still mounting in many parts of the world, it is far from over.
This will have serious long-term consequences for economic growth, public debt, employment, and human well-being.
According to the Financial Times, global government debt has already reached its highest level in peacetime.
Moreover, unemployment is sky-rocketing in many countries: in the US, for example, one in four workers have filed for unemployment since mid-March, with new weekly claims far above historic highs.
The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to shrink by 3% this year – a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points in just four months.
Left unaddressed, these crises, together with COVID-19, will deepen and leave the world even less sustainable, less equal, and more fragile.
Incremental measures and ad hoc fixes will not suffice to prevent this scenario. We must build entirely new foundations for our economic and social systems.
They also wrote on May 6 about “How digital payments can help countries cope with COVID-19, other pandemics: Lessons from China.”
The rapid move to global governance and digital currency are by-products of the Covid 19 pandemic.
The world is rapidly moving towards a cash-lite society with the continuing global spread of the coronavirus disease, Covid-19, helping to accelerate the demand for digital payment services.
Everyone is cooperating except President Trump—another reason they would be like to see him defeated in the November US Presidential Election.
Annexation
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman [pictured above] ended his mediation efforts between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz.
There is now an impasse that doesn’t seem to have a solution.
The ambassador was attempting to help get the Israeli government to form a united position regarding annexation of the Jordan Valley and the West Bank.
U.S. House Democrats have put together a letter that they hope will unite their entire caucus in warning Israel against annexation of part of the West Bank.
The letter, now circulating among the party’s House caucus and obtained exclusively by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, warns Israel about the dangers annexation would pose to Israelis and to the region.
But it does not hint at any danger to the US-Israel relationship and restates the signers’ commitment to the relationship.
The letter concludes: “As committed partners in supporting and protecting the special US-Israel relationship, we express our deep concern with the stated intention to move ahead with any unilateral annexation of West Bank territory, and we urge your government to reconsider plans to do so.”
Trump and Pence downplaying Covid 19
President Trump declared during an exclusive interview with Fox News anchor “Hannity” Wednesday that the coronavirus is “fading away” as states continue to reopen and the president prepares for his first re-election campaign rally in months.
“‘We are starting up and it’s going to be very, very strong …’ Trump told host Sean Hannity at the tail end of a discussion on the economy.
‘We’re very close to a vaccine and we’re very close to therapeutics, really good therapeutics. But even without that, I don’t like to talk about that because it’s fading away. It’s going to fade away, but having a vaccine would be really nice and that’s going to happen.’”
VP Mike Pence in a Wall Street Journal OpEd:
“In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a ‘second wave’ of coronavirus infections. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American people, our public health system is far stronger than it was four months ago, and we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy.”
White House staff will be recommended, but no longer required, to wear a face mask while travelling through the West Wing, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany [pictured above] said during a briefing on Wednesday.
There are big political risks in these public proclamations by President Trump and Vice President Pence.
According to CNBC, the U.S. coronavirus cases surged by more than 27,700 in a day as 7-day average jumps 15% from week ago.
Plus, many states are increasing their mask requirements while the White House has loosened theirs.
Today, Apple closed stores in parts of Florida, North Carolina and Arizona due to Covid 19.
Election 2020
The Democrats and their media will play the black racism card through the election.
The very rare and tragic incident of a white cop killing an unarmed black man is perfect fodder for public outrage by the Democrats and their media.
Apparently, Derek Chauvin [cop] and George Floyd [victim] were co-workers as security guards at a nightclub.
The Democrats are also hoping for an extended first wave of Covid 19 and a second wave predicted in the fall during flu season - for political damage—especially with President Trump and Vice President Pence sounding so assured that the worst is behind us.
A few of us are concerned the recent Beijing breakout connected to Salmon from a food court could be a test of Covid 20 and the release of that by China leading into the fall election.
The United States is very vulnerable with just under $7 trillion provided for the US economy from Congress and the Federal Reserve.
Federal unemployment benefits of $600 a week stop at the end of July.
The Democrats want to extend that until January 31, 2021. The Trump Administration is considering an additional stimulus payment and incentives for people to get back to work.
Having to contend with Covid 19 and Covid 20 at the same time could be devastating. It could also lead up to mail-in ballots that would be the worst for the Republican party.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch delivers for the LGBT community…..
Conservative Christians (including me) were concerned about Neil Gorsuch’s liberal Boulder, Colorado, church that had a pro-LGBT female rector named Reverend Susan Springer when President Trump nominated him.
Secondly, Gorsuch [pictured above] was highly endorsed by Justice Kennedy, a huge disappointment for his support of LGBT issues and same-sex marriage in his five affirmative votes.
Opposition to Gorsuch's affiliation with St. John's was voiced even before he was nominated.
Christian conservative activist and lawyer Andy Schlafly, [pictured below] the son of the late pro-life leader Phyllis Schlafly, voiced his concern over the possible nomination of Gorsuch in an email sent in November with the subject line: "veto these Sup. Ct. nominee candidates."
Schlafly wrote that Gorsuch "probably would NOT be pro-life on the Supreme Court" and included him on his list of "unacceptable nominees."
"Gorsuch's Episcopalian church has declared its 'unequivocal opposition' to pro-life laws and he has said nothing publicly pro-life," Schlafly wrote in the email.
Unfortunately, those concerns surfaced this week in Gorsuch’s vote and opinion on whether an employer can dismiss an employee if they were found out to be gay or transgender.
In other words, a person’s religious views have no grounds.
Worse yet, he wrote the opinion siding with the liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts continues to draw the ire of conservatives.
Once again, a justice appointed by a Republican president sides with the liberals. The liberals never change sides or join the conservatives in their decisions. It is always a few conservative justices that join the liberals.
Israel Report
Editor; Mike Claydon
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