End Times Headline News. December 12 2023
Houthi Rebels Hit Norwegian-Flagged Tanker With Anti-Ship Cruise Missile. Tehran warns of ‘explosion’ if war continues. Is This The End For Zelenskyy? Britons Urged to Prepare for Cyber Attack
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Houthi Rebels Hit Norwegian-Flagged Tanker With Anti-Ship Cruise Missile At Key Maritime Chokepoint
An anti-ship cruise missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea near a key maritime chokepoint known as the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, where nearly 10% of all crude traded at sea passes through.
Reuters quoted Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sarea, who said the tanker - named "Strinda" - was targeted because it was headed to an Israeli terminal, and the crew ignored all warnings. However, Strinda's owner, Norway's Mowinckel Chemical Tankers, said the vessel was bound for the Suez Canal and then on to Italy with a cargo containing vegetable oil and biofuels.
France says warship attacked by Yemeni drones
Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has repeatedly vowed to strike any vessel it believes to be aiding Israel amid ongoing fighting in Gaza
The French military has successfully repelled an attack on one of its guided-missile frigates in the Red Sea, a top government minister has said. The military noted that the attempted drone strikes were launched from a Houthi-controlled region of Yemen.
Speaking to lawmakers in the French Senate on Monday, Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu provided an update on last weekend’s failed attack, stating that all hostile aircraft had been shot down with guided munitions.
Tensions Soar in Red Sea as Yemen Rebels Declare Blockade on All Ships Heading to Israel
Tensions are building in the Red Sea following the shooting down of two drones by a French naval frigate on Sunday as Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen doubled down on threats to attack Israel-bound vessels.
A statement from the French navy on Sunday confirmed that the frigate Languedoc, which operates in the Red Sea, had carried out the “interception and destruction of these two identified threats.”
Damascus hit in Israeli Air Force strikes
Israel Air Force fighter jets struck several targets in and around Damascus on Sunday night, causing some material damage.
“Nearly at 23:05 p.m. on Sunday, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the vicinity of Damascus,” the state-run SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.
Tehran warns of ‘explosion’ if war continues
‘The only things Iran and Israel have in common – we don’t believe in two-states’
The continuation of the Gaza war will lead to a regional explosion, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told the Doha Forum on Monday, as he explained that the scope of the conflict had already expanded to include Lebanon and Yemen.
“At any moment there is a possibility of a big explosion in the region, one not controllable by any party,” he said as he spoke through an English language translator in a virtual interview conducted by CNN’s Becky Anderson.
Israel rejects global pressure – war deepens; Turkey lashes at U.S. over veto
1) Israel remains unrelenting in its war on terror. 2) Jerusalem labels mounting international pressuring aiming to end the war on Hamas – ‘a double standard’. 3) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a Just World can only exist without the United States – in light of its support of Israel.
Reports: Israel expressed willingness to discuss another hostage deal
Reports say Israel is more willing to discuss a new agreement that will include the women who were supposed to be released in previous deal.
Sky News Arabic reported on Monday, citing Israeli sources, that the Israeli government has expressed willingness to promote a hostage release deal with Hamas.
"There are offers that have been submitted, but there is no ready agreement and further negotiations are needed," said the report.
Freed Bedouin hostage said Hamas kidnapped family ‘even though we are Arabs’
Bilal Ziyadne, 18, a Bedouin hostage freed along with his sister, Aisha, describes how Hamas kidnapped his family even though they were Arabs. He recounted to Channel 13, “I told them we were Arabs. They said to us, even though we’re Arabs, they’re kidnapping us.”Bilal and Aisha are the only two members of their family who have been freed so far. Hamas also kidnapped Bilal’s older brother Hamza and his father Youssef, who are still being held in Gaza.
Harvard board "unanimously stand in support" of Claudine Gay
Merchants of Misery: Cornered Zelensky Joins Team Biden in Appealing for More Ukraine Funding
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to appear before US Congress to try his luck again to get more money this week, coincidentally on the same day the House is set to vote to formalize President Joe Biden's impeachment inquiry. How will events unfold?
Tuesday could prove to be a rough day for both President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
US wants Ukraine to fight Russia on tight budget – NYT
The Pentagon is advising Kiev on a new strategy after the failed summer counteroffensive, according to the newspaper
Lackluster results from Kiev’s summer counteroffensive against Russia and problems faced by the White House in appropriating more aid for Ukraine are forcing a rethink of military strategy for the entire conflict, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Washington is pushing for a conservative, defensive approach next year that would involve fighting “on a tighter budget,” the newspaper said, citing sources in the US government.
Is This The End For Zelenskyy?
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Western public has been sold the story of a Ukrainian front united in its unwavering commitment to a total military victory over Russia. Over the past few weeks, however, this narrative has started to crumble.
Despite the failure of Ukraine’s Nato-backed counteroffensive, which is now universally accepted, Zelenskyy continues to stick to the maximalist victory-at-all-costs narrative — that Ukraine must go on fighting until it retakes every inch of lost territory, including Crimea, and that Putin should not be negotiated with. This is understandable: he has staked everything on achieving that objective — anything less would probably mean the end of his political career.
Another PROXY WAR in the works? U.S. shaping the Philippines into the next Ukraine
The U.S. is reportedly shaping the Philippines into the next Ukraine in its fight against China.
"With the rise of China, so too rises Southeast Asia," New Eastern Outlook (NEO) reported. "Southeast Asia has slowly transformed in terms of economics, infrastructure, tourism, industry, and politically over the last two decades as Chinese influence increases and inevitably displaces U.S. influence over the region."
Illegal immigrants invade Spain en masse
Britons Urged to Prepare for Cyber Attack or Power Grid Failure
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has urged Britons to stockpile batteries, candles, torches, and radios to prepare for a possible cyber attack or power grid failure. Dowden claims that the public has become too dependent on electronics and must learn to survive without electricity. The government plans to launch a “resilience academy” to train individuals and businesses to prepare for such disasters.
U.N. Backs First-Ever Call for an End to Oil, Gas and Coal Use
U.N. climate negotiators confirmed Monday they are pushing for a deal at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that will be the beginning of the end for fossil fuels.
Flying back to Dubai to add his voice to the negotiations, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “maximum ambition and maximum flexibility” to reach an agreement that can find consensus among the nearly 200 countries.
Thousands of Young Canadians Are DYING SUDDENLY, and No One Wants To Talk About It – Dr. Makis
Former Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza Under Investigation Amid Vaccine Scandal
The current investigation will delve into claims of murder and severe bodily harm.
COVID Crackdown - NZ Update
In the last four years we have witnessed the “authorities” going all out to cover up the COVID-19 fraud. Pointing out flaws in the scientific evidence has resulted in accusations of spreading “misinformation” or even being struck off.
Google’s Gemini AI Hints at the Next Great Leap for the Technology: Analysing Real-time Information
Google has launched Gemini, a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can seemingly understand and talk intelligently about almost any kind of prompt – pictures, text, speech, music, computer code and much more.
This type of AI system is known as a multimodal model. It’s a step beyond just being able to handle text or images as previous ones have. And it provides a strong hint of where AI may be going next: being able to analyse and respond to real-time information coming from the outside world.
Living Everywhere in a Carceral Surveillance State
If you live in a Chinese city, or even in London, you are probably so used to surveillance cameras all around you – on lamp posts, the corners of buildings, and so on – that you would hardly bat an eyelid. Yet what contemporary city-denizens take for granted was not always the case, and most people would be surprised to know that surveillance has a long history, and was linked to modes of punishment from early on.
The thinker who brought us the history of punishment, linked with surveillance, was Michel Foucault, who died prematurely in 1984, and whose thesis of ‘panopticism’ I referred to in an earlier post.
Canadian Human Rights Commission Labels Christmas Celebration “Discrimination Grounded In Colonialism”
The cancerous spread of woke ideology into every facet of society and government is more obvious in some places compared to others, but every so often the movement crosses a line and sparks considerable opposition. In the US, the social justice movement seems to have hit a few snags; numerous companies adopting and promoting ESG related propaganda have been pummeled with successful boycotts, losing billions in profits and in stock value. Overall public sentiment is quickly turning against major universities as a root source of woke beliefs.
Satanic Abortion Rituals—A Counterfeit of What God Has Done?
Many people were shocked when news outlets began reporting that Cosmopolitan had published an article sharing “steps for how to have a ‘Satanic Abortion Ceremony.’” But this shouldn’t be shocking—after all, Satan always attempts to counterfeit everything God does. Now, what do I mean by that?
Well, God himself provided a sacrifice for sin through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ who became the God-man as the babe in a manger; therefore, the devil wants sacrifices made to himself.
Christian teachers remain locked out of their classroom after refusing to ‘lie to parents’ about secret gender transitions.
Two Christian California teachers are advancing legal action against a school district over its gender policy, which a lawsuit alleges compels teachers to “lie to parents” about students’ secret gender transitions.
Plaintiff Lori Ann West is a devout Christian and Elizabeth Mirabelli is a devout Roman Catholic. Both work at Rincon Middle School in the Escondido Union School District. Both requested religious accommodation from the district regarding parental notification for the transgender policy, according to the suit.