Important Takeaways:
- Virginia U.S. Senate candidate and retired U.S. Navy captain Hung Cao earlier this month toured a nearly-finished state-of-art nitrile rubber plant in southwest Virginia that President Joe Biden’s administration has abandoned, allowing China to be on track to become America’s largest supplier of rubber medical gloves, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
- “I don’t understand why Joe Biden hates America so much and hates American manufacturing,” Cao said “We are waiting patiently for November 5th so we can go ahead and start this process and really build up the industry in southwest Virginia as well as bring more revenue to an area that’s been depleted.”
- The plant, located in Wytheville, Virginia, was expected to create 2,500 jobs and bring in $1.3 billion in revenue to the area, and eventually create 4,000 more jobs.
- Blue Star NBR completed building the nitrile rubber plant spring 2023 but ran out of funds due to inflation and the increased cost of building materials and energy costs before it could be hooked up to a power source.
- However, the Biden administration’s HHS has, since last year, refused to provide more money to hook up the finished plant and build a planned adjacent rubber glove factory. Blue Star NBR was forced to begin mothballing the equipment in the factory.
- Blue Star NBR CEO Scott Maier’s appeals to the Biden administration have fallen on deaf ears.
- Meanwhile, the Biden administration has reportedly provided a grant to a factory in Louisiana that is much further behind than Blue Star NBR.
- In the short time that it took for the rubber nitrile plant to be built, China went from being a small global supplier of the gloves to now being on track to become America’s (and the world’s) biggest supplier
- Cao also raised the prospect of China — who was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic in the first place — refusing to supply America with gloves.
- “Shocking is the fact that HHS just said no, we have what we need. Because again, they’re reliant on the Chinese-made product instead of relying on Americans,” he said.
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Important Takeaways:
- State of Emergency declared in Virginia amid wildfires: ‘Additional resources are required to contain these fires’
- Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently declared a state of emergency as two wildfires broke containment lines earlier in November amid dry conditions and high winds, the Guardian reported, and the fires have continued spreading, with a Newsweek report covering recent updates with a map.
- As firefighters responded to the original Quaker Run fire in Madison County and the Tuggles Gap fire in Patrick County, “officials said additional resources [were] required to contain these fires and respond to additional fires,” per a press release. Youngkin’s declaration of a state of emergency allows the mobilization of additional resources, staff, and equipment.
- “This executive order will ensure that the Commonwealth has additional resources and is using every tool at its disposal to keep Virginians safe,” Youngkin said in a press release. “Thank you to our first responders who are doing everything they can to help contain these wildfires in the Commonwealth during this year’s fall fire season.”
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Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Virginia Quakes May be ‘Foreshock’ for Something Bigger
- A series of six small earthquakes in Virginia since mid-June has left scientists concerned a larger event may be inbound, with Virginia Tech geophysics professor Martin Chapman warning: “When you see a series of these things in a smaller area, you have to take into account the fact that they may be foreshocks of a bigger earthquake.”
- The “burst of activity”, as Chapman put it, is unusual in the Old Dominion, with Virginians typically feeling only two or three earthquakes per year.
- “We [need to] take a close look at it and… monitor our instruments a little bit closer to make sure that we’re not missing any more little earthquakes, because if you see a continuous sequence that’s something that you have to pay attention to,” the professor explained.
- Virginia suffered its most powerful earthquake since the 19th century in 2011. The 5.8 magnitude quake inflicted up to $300 million in cost on the state and nearby Washington D.C., with homes and schools demolished, a nuclear power plant forced to shut down, and the Washington Monument and National Cathedral suffering serious structural damage.
- The 2011 quake was not predictable, however, with no “foreshocks” observed before it hit.
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Leviticus 24:17 “Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
Important Takeaways:
- Glenn Youngkin said he supports a 15-week ban, something he feels could satisfy both sides.
- Virginia is about to become one of the last states in the South with broad access to abortion after North Carolina and South Carolina took historic action to restrict the procedure.
- “I would say Virginia’s abortion laws are kind of more akin to China and North Korea than our neighboring states now,” Todd Gathje of The Family Foundation said.
- Gathje also worries that Virginia may become an abortion destination for the abortion industry.
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Leviticus 24:17 “Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
Important Takeaways:
- Most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will be banned in North Carolina beginning July 1 after the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature successfully overrode the Democratic governor’s veto late Tuesday.
- Abortion is banned or severely restricted in much of the South, including bans throughout pregnancy in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. In Georgia, it’s allowed only in the first six weeks.
- Stricter bans across the South would heighten Virginia’s role as an access point and create a “ripple effect” as people travel from out of state to seek care
- Virginia currently allows abortions in the first and second trimesters. An abortion is allowed in the third trimester only if three doctors certify the mother’s mental or physical health is at serious risk.
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Mark 13:12 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
Important Takeaways:
- Virginia ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ plead guilty to attempted murder of her ex after she sent him happy birthday texts
- “These two thought they were the modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, but now they’ll have to face the serious consequences people face when they commit violent crimes in Louisa County,” Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Alex Goodman said in a statement.
- Just hours before Ohse and Poindexter arrived at the home to kill the ex-boyfriend, investigators said Ohse had sent him text messages wishing him a happy birthday.
- Ohse pleaded guilty to a slew of charges, including attempted second-degree murder, malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, attempted armed burglary, and eluding law enforcement.
- Poindexter already pleaded guilty to many of the same charges in addition to possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
- Ohse faces up to 63 years in prison while Poindexter could face up to 70 years.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Authorities Report No Deaths in Southwest Virginia Flooding, Clean Up Expected to Take Months
- Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued a State of Emergency declaration for impacted areas. Residents said their neighborhoods look like a war zone.
- “Well, it’s just mudslides. Trees in the road. Water in the road. Houses on the road. It’s just a mess,” said Archie White, a flood victim.
- Flash floods were seen gushing through city streets. Buildings were washed from their foundations and roads were left impassable. In total, more than 100 homes were damaged. The clean-up is expected to take months as crews are still surveying the damage.
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Luke 21:10-11 “Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 Great earthquakes will occur in various places, and there will be famines and pestilence. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Vandals target Virginia pro-life center with menacing graffiti: ‘You ain’t safe’
- Vandals targeted a pro-life center in Lynchburg, Virginia, with threatening graffiti and broken windows following the U.S. Supreme Court voting to overturn Roe. V. Wade on Friday.
- “If abortion ain’t safe, you ain’t safe,” red graffiti states on an entrance area of the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center, photos posted by local police show.
- Lynchburg Police responded to the pregnancy center at about 10:40 a.m. on Saturday. Officers found “that the building had been spray painted with graffiti, and multiple windows had been broken out. Security camera footage shows four masked individuals committing the acts.”
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2 Thessalonians 2:11 “Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false”
Important Takeaways:
- Drug overdose deaths up again in Virginia in 2021, fentanyl the leading cause
- Virginia saw an overall 15% increase in drug overdose deaths from 2020 to 2021
- The fourth-quarter report shows 2,656 total overdose deaths in 2021, a 15% increase from 2020. Synthetic fentanyl was reported as contributing to the most deaths, with 2,033 deaths recorded. Cocaine proved the second most common contributor to drug overdoses in Virginia in 2021, with 801 deaths reported versus the 650 reported in 2020.
- The CDC reported a 28.5% increase in overall drug overdoses from 2020 to 2021. Opioid overdoses also saw a nearly 26% increase from 2020 to 2021 nationally, with 75,673 total opioid overdose deaths reported in 2021, according to the CDC.
- “Fentanyl and fentanyl related substances are fueling the overdose epidemic, killing 64,178 Americans between May 2020 and April 2021 and making up 64% of total U.S. overdose deaths,” the letter said.
- Approximately 10,586 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the southern border in 2021, with US Customs and Border Patrol reporting a “substantial increase” in fentanyl seizures as of January.
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Luke 21:25,26 “There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Winter storm: Tens of thousands of Virginia residents without power as more snow looms
- According to Dominion Energy, the largest electric utility company in the state, around 80,000 residents across the state still didn’t have power
- The National Weather Service is projecting even more snow in many of the already hard-hit areas.
- “In some localities, the damage is so severe that some areas are not even accessible by foot, in those cases we are using drones to assess”
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