Important Takeaways:
- Firefighters in California gained a foothold in the battle against a wildfire north of Los Angeles while weather officials on Tuesday issued red flag warnings across the Northeast where blazes turned deadly over the weekend.
- The Mountain Fire in California’s Ventura County burned 20,630 acres of land as of Tuesday, an amount it has held near for several days after 80 mph winds fueled its explosive growth last week. As winds slowed, firefighters managed to bring the containment level to 42%, allowing officials to downgrade several evacuation orders. The fire has torched nearly 200 homes and businesses, injured six people and threatened thousands of structures.
- In the Northeast, weather officials issued red flag warnings from New Jersey to Massachusetts after a bout of modest weekend rainfall failed to douse the region’s wildfire threat.
- The rain helped firefighters gain some control over the Jennings Creek wildfire along the New Jersey-New York border, which has engulfed 3,500 acres and was 20% contained by Monday night. In anticipation of Tuesday’s winds and dry conditions, fire officials fortified control lines along the blaze’s east side.
- Some 82 brush fires were being monitored across Connecticut…
- Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont declared a Stage 2 drought advisory for all eight counties in Connecticut over the weekend, citing “far below normal precipitation levels and ongoing fire danger levels statewide,” according to a statement from his office.
- In Massachusetts, officials said firefighters were battling dozens of wildfires throughout the state. In October, the state’s Department of Fire Service recorded 200 wildland fires, a 1,200% increase from the month’s average total of 15 fires.
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- Pro-Palestine protestors had clashed with riot police earlier in the day at Amsterdam’s central Dam Square, leading to over 50 arrests.
- One of the city’s famous trams was set alight by rioters dressed in black and armed with fireworks, according to De Telegraaf. The rioters threw debris and shouted “Kanker Joden” (cancer Jews), but it is used to mean “f*** the Jews.”
- Rioters reportedly burned a tram in the city’s western suburbs and clashed with police earlier in the day.
- No one was injured in the incident, as the tram had been empty, the spokesman said.
- Masked men reportedly roamed the streets yelling “Free Palestine.” De Telegraaf reported that journalists witnessed a bystander being ripped from his bike and beaten by the rioters.
- It was later reported that private vehicles and bikes were destroyed.
- The young rioters reportedly actively sought to confront officers.
- Following the attack, the city announced a three-day ban on all demonstrations to maintain public order. Furthermore, the government had announced it would hold stricter border control until December 9.
- Hundreds of people defied the ban, which had been upheld by a local court earlier in the day.
- They chanted “Free Palestine” and “Shame on you” and called for an end to the war in Gaza.
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- President-elect Donald Trump has tapped billionaire hedge fund manager and investor Scott Bessent to serve as Secretary of the Treasury, according to multiple reports.
- Bessent is billed as a crypto-currency enthusiast and an advocate of deregulation. He will also be a key figure in using America’s economic power to support its diplomatic priorities.
- He has advocated for his version of Japan’s “three arrows” plan as a focus for economic revitalization: 3% real growth, a deficit of 3% of GDP, and “3 million more oil barrels flowing a day from U.S. energy production.”
- Following the trend set in other announcements this week, Bessent has been a Trump loyalist since his first term despite being an Al Gore fundraiser in 2000 and one of George Soros’s inner circle.
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- An obsession with green energy has the German economy on the brink of collapse. Germany has foolishly been chasing a dream of achieving net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045, and this has taken a very heavy toll on the German economy. German GDP contracted in 2023, and it appears that it will contract again in 2024. The manufacturing sector is dealing with the greatest crisis that it has faced since the 1940s, the big banks are struggling, and the coalition that was running the government has collapsed. Did David Wilkerson see what was going to happen all the way back in the 1970s?
- Something that Steve Quayle posted the other day got me thinking, and so I decided to look into it. In Wilkerson’s book entitled “The Vision”, he stated that he was shown “economic confusion striking Europe first” during a period of great economic turmoil for the whole world. In a subsequent sermon, he was even more specific. In fact, in that sermon he specifically stated that the collapse that he saw would “start in Germany”…
- To give some background, first, in his book, “The Vision,” at the beginning of chapter 1, Wilkerson states, “I see total economic confusion striking Europe first, and then affecting Japan, the United States, Canada, and all other nations shortly thereafter.”
- So, the economic collapse begins in Europe. There is a slightly different version of this which is circulating on various sites on the internet, usually titled “David Wilkerson’s Economic Vision.” This is the one you quoted, where he narrates how the collapse starts in Europe, spreads to South America, then Mexico, then the U.S. Notice he again mentions Europe first, and then later, “the first country (that) goes bankrupt,” but doesn’t identify the country. Well, I did some more digging and found this audio sermon by Wilkerson:
- AT EXACTLY 2:03 (see audio below) HE STATES: “It’s going to start in GERMANY!!!” After that he says it will “spread to Japan, and finally to the U.S.”
- Could it be possible that what Wilkerson warned us about so many years ago is starting to happen right in front of our eyes?
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- U.S. federal authorities have disclosed an assassination plot by Iranian operatives, targeting former President Donald Trump.
- The plan, unveiled on Friday, involved recruiting criminal assets to monitor and ultimately kill him on American soil, the AP News reports.
- What Happened: The Justice Department released details of the plot following the indictment of Farhad Shakeri, an alleged Iranian government operative. Shakeri reportedly received orders from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to organize surveillance on Trump and prepare for a possible assassination attempt, per federal court filings
- The instructions reportedly came with an urgent seven-day deadline. Authorities stated that Shakeri’s handlers implied the operation would be easier if Trump lost the election, expecting a potential delay if he remained in office, the AP reports.
- Shakeri remains at large in Iran, while two other suspects linked to separate Iranian-backed assassination schemes have been apprehended.
- According to the Department of Justice, Tehran’s attempts to disrupt the U.S. political landscape have included both physical threats and cyber operations. A previous incident involved Iranian hackers attempting to distribute stolen Trump campaign data to Joe Biden’s team. Intelligence sources confirmed that no response came from Biden’s camp regarding these phishing attempts.
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- Vladimir Putin has amassed 40,000 of his soldiers and 10,000 North Koreans as he plots to attack Kursk in just days, a report claims.
- The Kremlin leader is set to try and claw back the area of Russia which Ukraine seized back in August.
- Those soldiers are said to be wearing Russian uniforms and have been equipped by Moscow, but will fight in their own units.
- Putin’s army has also been training the North Koreans in infantry tactics, artillery fire, and trench clearing.
- Russia’s major battlefield assault looms as Donald Trump’s election win could also change the shape of peace talks.
- Ukraine is waiting with bated breath for the Republican’s next move following his historic election win.
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- 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Cuba on Sunday, causing material damage in several regions as the island continues to recover from widespread blackouts and the impact of two hurricanes over the past few weeks.
- The earthquake was reported about 39 km (24 miles) south of Bartolomé Masó before noon local time, about an hour after a 5.9 magnitude quake rocked the area, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
- “There have been landslides, damage to homes and power lines,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said, adding that authorities are evaluating the situation to start recovery efforts.
- Residents in eastern Cuba told Reuters that the tremor was as powerful as any they’ve felt before.
- The quake was also felt in the eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Holguin and Guantánamo, where the deadly Hurricane Oscar struck last month.
- Another storm, Rafael, slammed into western Cuba on Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane, knocking out power across the island, in the latest major blackout in recent weeks.
- The quake was apparently not felt in the capital Havana, but shockwaves did reach southern Florida, with footage on social media showing swaying ceiling lights from a tower in Miami.
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Important Takeaways:
- Biden-Harris Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell announced Saturday a federal disaster relief official who advised her survivor assistance team to ignore homes displaying Trump signs in Lake Placid, Florida, following Hurricane Milton has been fired.
- Criswell said in a post on X:
- More than 22,000 FEMA employees every day adhere to FEMA’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often sacrificing time with their own families to help disaster survivors.
- Recently, a FEMA employee departed from these values to advise her survivor assistance team to not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump. This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation.
- This was reprehensible. I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct.
- We take our mission to help everyone before, during and after disasters seriously. This employee has been terminated and we have referred the matter to the Office of Special Counsel. I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again.
- Multiple government employees told the Daily Wire that Washington also relayed this message verbally.
- The employees told the outlet that “at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags” were skipped from the end of October and into November — about the same time as the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election.
- The report said, “It is unclear whether the same guidance was issued elsewhere in the country.”
- One of the employees wrote in a whistleblower complaint filed to DHS: “If they had damage or lost power for over thirty-six hours, it was my duty to inform them of benefits to which they are entitled through FEMA.”
- The employee added, “This behavior raises significant concerns of discrimination against United States citizens because of their political views… . These actions not only undermine the integrity of our agency and create a hostile work environment for those who may hold differing political beliefs but they also threaten the very democracy of our country.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Former President Trump’s decisive victory Tuesday led to a shock wave that was felt in newsrooms across Washington, D.C., and New York. Everyone knew the polls were close and that a Trump win was a strong possibility, sure, but the scale of Trump’s win left one senior producer at a broadcast network stunned: “We are questioning our relevance right now,” they said Wednesday morning.
- It was a sentiment shared by former Sen. Claire McCaskill, who lamented on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “I think we have to acknowledge that Donald Trump knows our country better than we do.”
- Ratings for the broadcast and cable news channels saw steep declines in ratings from Nielsen (finals showed an average of 42.3 million people, down from nearly 57 million four years ago), with the lowest ratings in decades. The steepest drop was felt at CNN, which saw its numbers fall below MSNBC for the first election night since that channel launched nearly three decades ago.
- Meanwhile, emergent platforms and programs outside of the traditional media thrived…
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Important Takeaways:
- Not even 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump won more votes in Illinois this general election than in the previous two, and after winning the US election in a massive red wave sweep, far-left protesters gathered outside the Trump Hotel in Obama’s Chicago.
- The protests appear to have been highly organized and well-planned before the election, given the coordination among activists, the hundreds—if not thousands—of protesters—many holding signs—and the likely pre-approved protest routes from City Hall.
- Organizers shouted into megaphones, “Trump is a fascist” and “racist,” echoing hate speech spewed by the defunct Harris-Walz campaign in the months leading up to November 5.
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