Important Takeaways:
- President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly tapped Massad Boulos, the Lebanese-American father-in-law of Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, to lead U.S. negotiations with Lebanon to end the war between Hezbollah and Israel.
- The Boulos family has Christian Arab roots and is part of a global business empire.
- The Times of Israel reported:
- Lebanese-American businessman and Donald Trump surrogate Massad Boulos revealed in a recent interview days before the election that he will serve as the US point man for Lebanon in the incoming administration, tasked with negotiating with Beirut to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
- “I will be responsible for negotiating with the Lebanese side in order to reach an agreement, and Trump will appoint someone familiar with the Israeli file to negotiate with the Israelis,” Boulos told the Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed in what appears to be one of the first revelations regarding now President-elect Trump’s personnel.
- Boulos joined the Trump inner circle after his son Michael married the former president’s daughter Tiffany in 2022. He helped Trump make significant inroads in the Arab American in yesterday’s election.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hezbollah marked President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election by firing rockets at the Israeli town of Trump Heights on Wednesday morning.
- There were no reports of damage there.
- However, a car was damaged in the town of Ra’anana, near Tel Aviv, when pieces of a Hezbollah missile that was destroyed by Israel’s missile defense system fell onto a parked car.
- Trump Heights was named for Trump in appreciation for his recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which were taken from Syria in a defensive war in 1967.
- Trump has promised to stop the war in Lebanon, while also allowing Israel to do whatever necessary to defend itself from Iranian-backed terror organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas.
- An end to the war could provide opportunities for major foreign policy wins in the early days of the new administration, including an expansion of the Abraham Accords to include Saudi Arabia.
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Important Takeaways:
- The Chinese navy is hard at work on a huge new amphibious assault ship – a combination troop transport and aircraft carrier that could carry hundreds of troops toward Taiwan, and then launch helicopters to deposit those troops behind Taiwanese defenses.
- Why would the Chinese need a third type of big-deck amphibious ship?
- The most chilling answer is that Chinese officials anticipate losing a lot of ships in any attempt to land troops in Taiwan – and they’re planning in advance to replace sunk or damaged Type 075s and Type 076s with smaller assault ships they can build fast and cheap. Or they may want to add numbers to their invasion fleet as quickly as possible.
- Shugart noted it in satellite imagery going back “a few months” prior to October. In those few months, workers completed the ship’s hull and deck.
- In shipbuilding terms, that’s fast. It took Chinese shipbuilders a year to complete the first Type 075; construction of the Type 076 might also take a year.
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Important Takeaways:
- China’s air force announced it is about to unveil its newest stealth jet fighter, the J-35, which U.S. officials say was built with the help of stolen American military technology.
- The J-35 will be declassified and shown for the first time at the annual Zhuhai air show scheduled to begin Nov. 12, Chinese military officials announced Tuesday. The aircraft has been in development for more than 10 years.
- “For the first time, new equipment such as the medium-weight, stealth multi-role fighter J-35A, the HQ-19 surface-to-air missile and a new type of reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle will be on display,” Col. Niu Wenbo, a military spokesman, told CCTV state television. A photo of the J-35 was released but no other details were provided.
- It is the second radar-evading stealth jet in the Chinese military arsenal, after the J-20.
- Both jets are viewed as an effort by China to match the U.S. military’s F-35 and F-22. The J-35 will also be used on China’s growing fleet of aircraft carriers. Two are deployed, and a third is being built.
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Important Takeaways:
- A new report from expert Gordon Chang suggests China may be preparing for a direct confrontation with the U.S., potentially using “sleeper cells” embedded across America. According to Chang, covert People’s Liberation Army (PLA) agents have been entering the U.S. through southern border crossings, posing as migrants to evade detection. This infiltration is reportedly part of a larger plan to sabotage critical U.S. facilities in the event of an escalating conflict with China. Chang warns that unless addressed, these covert operatives could destabilize key infrastructures, including military sites, heightening the risk of a preemptive strike.
- The increasing rate of Chinese nationals attempting to access U.S. military sites has sparked alarm among U.S. officials, emphasizing the need for heightened security measures. As tension builds over Taiwan, experts urge immediate government action to counteract potential risks before they become active threats.
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Important Takeaways:
- At least five people were killed after torrential rainfall led to flash flooding in central and eastern Missouri, impacting transportation and making it challenging for some voters to reach their polling place on Tuesday.
- The relentless rain, which shattered November rainfall records, turned streets into rivers, inundated homes and forced widespread closures.
- According to the St. Louis County Police Department, preliminary investigations revealed that one of the victims, identified as an adult female, drove her car into floodwaters in the area of Interstate 55 and Bayless Avenue in St. Louis Tuesday morning as the worst of the flash flooding was ongoing.
- The unprecedented rainfall event has also set a new record for the highest 24-hour rainfall total for the month of November. With over 6.4 inches of rain falling since Monday, the airport has shattered the previous record of 3.56 inches set on Nov. 18, 1921.
- The nearly 7 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period caused Deer Creek to overflow its banks, submerging major streets in Maplewood, Brentwood and Webster Groves, FOX 2 in St. Louis reported.
- Drone footage captured the force of the flash floods, showing rapid water surges surrounding homes and businesses in Park Hills.
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Important Takeaways:
- Residents in the Florida Keys have been warned that powerful storm surges could be headed their way as Hurricane Rafael barrels across the Gulf of Mexico.
- Rafael, which is currently a Category 2 hurricane with wind speeds of 100 mph, will make landfall in Cuba today before sideswiping the Florida Keys on its journey northwest toward the Louisiana coast.
- Up to 2 feet of storm surge is forecast for the Lower Florida Keys, which may cause some destruction along the coast due to flooding.
- “Prepare for locally hazardous surge having possible limited impacts across the Florida Keys,” the National Weather Service (NWS) Key West said in a local statement.
- Potential impacts may include “localized inundation with storm surge flooding mainly along immediate shorelines and in low-lying spots, or in areas farther inland near where higher surge waters move ashore,” as well as damage to marinas and piers, and moderate beach erosion.
- Rafael is due to possibly reach Category 3 strength today before it makes landfall along the coast of Cuba. Hurricane warnings are in place in the Cayman Islands and several Cuban provinces, with tropical storm warnings across more Cuban provinces, Dry Tortugas, and the Lower and Middle Florida Keys from Key West to the west of the Channel 5 Bridge.
- The hurricane is anticipated to bring up to 10 inches of rain in some regions of Cuba, which may trigger flash flooding or mudslides.
- Up to 3 inches of rain are forecast for Jamaica and in the Lower and Middle Florida Keys, and there is also some potential for tornadoes in the Florida Keys.
- The storm will then carry on across the Gulf of Mexico heading northwest, possibly making landfall in Louisiana at the weekend or early next week. Exactly how strong it will be and where it will make landfall is still unclear this far out, however.
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Important Takeaways:
- An undersea volcano off the southeastern coast of the Big Island of Hawaii has been rocked by a swarm of more than 70 earthquakes since the weekend, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
- The largest earthquake has been a magnitude 4.3 event that happened just after noon, local time, on Saturday. Meanwhile, there was a magnitude 4.8 earthquake just 3 miles south of the town of Pahala early Tuesday morning. There have been no reports of injuries in any of the quakes.
- The USGS reports that although earthquake activity declined slightly around midnight, rates of earthquakes remain above background levels on Tuesday.
- Kama‘ehuakanaloa’s peak is about 3,189 feet below sea level, according to the USGS.
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Important Takeaways:
- Kim Clement’s accurate prophecies regarding Donald Trump as a two-term president have been fulfilled following the Nov. 5, 2024 election results.
- Back in 2007, Clement prophesied about the rise of Donald Trump to the presidency, and even more, that he would be a two-term president. Now that Trump has won the 2024 election, this prophecy has been fulfilled.
- “There will be a praying president, not a religious one. For I will fool the people, says the Lord. I will fool the people, yes I will,” Clement prophesied. “God says, the one that is chosen shall go in and they shall say, ‘He has hot blood.’ For the Spirit of God says, ‘Yes, he may have hot blood, but he will bring the walls of protection on this country in a greater way, and the economy of this country shall change rapidly,’ says the Lord of hosts.”
- “God says, ‘I will put at your helm for two terms a president that will pray, but he will not be a praying president when he starts. I will put him in office and then I will baptize him with the Holy Spirit and My power,” Clement prophesied.
- Clement specifically prophesied that Trump would become a “trumpet.” Years later in 2013, Clement also spoke on the rise of another Ronald Regan who would come after Barack Obama for the protection of the nation and the world.
- “It was a Ronald Regan that stood up and took away the tumor,” said Clement. “Now, we see that this is trying to grow again and trying to come back…it tells me there will be another kind of Ronald Regan that has to be emerged.”
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Important Takeaways:
- President-elect Donald Trump addressed his supporters in the nation early Wednesday morning after earning more than 270 electoral votes, vowing he will lead the “golden age of America” after launching the “greatest political movement of all time.”
- “This was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There’s never been anything like this in this country, and maybe beyond. And now it’s going to reach a new level of importance because we’re going to help our country heal,” Trump said just before 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
- “We’re going to help our country here. We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly. We’re going to fix our borders. We’re going to fix everything about our country and we’ve made history for a reason tonight. And the reason is going to be just that. We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,” he added to cheers from the crowd.
- “Every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future. Every single day, I will be fighting for you. And with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have to have. This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” he said.
- “We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful and free again. And I’m asking every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor,” Trump said.
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