Important Takeaways:
- Washington continues to throw billions into the fire of the Ukraine conflict despite its ballooning debt, Russia’s ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has said.
- The comments followed Monday’s announcement by the Pentagon that the US will send an additional $1.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
- “Washington continues to burn colossal money in the furnace of the Ukraine conflict, and it does so in the face of record levels of US government debt,” the diplomat told journalists.
- US national debt has reached a new milestone, surpassing the $35 trillion mark for the first time, the Treasury Department stated on Monday
- The Pentagon said on Monday that Washington has allocated a total of $56.1 billion to Kiev since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
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Important Takeaways:
- Today, the United States’s national debt reached another alarming milestone – our national debt is a staggering $35 trillion.
- Background:
- The gross national debt is currently $35 trillion. This equates to:
- $104,497 per person
- $266,275 per household
- $483,889 per child
- The debt one year ago was $32.65 trillion, meaning that the debt has increased by $2.35 trillion over the past 12 months. This rate of increase equates to:
- $196 billion in new debt per month
- $4 billion in new debt per day
- $268 million in new debt per hour
- $4.5 million in new debt per minute
- $74,401 in new debt per second
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Important Takeaways:
- A magnitude 4.9 earthquake followed by several strong aftershocks shook Southern California early Monday afternoon.
- According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck at 1 p.m., with the epicenter roughly 13 miles northeast of Barstow in San Bernardino County. The impact was felt across a wide swath of Southern California, including metropolitan Los Angeles and northern San Diego County.
- The USGS initially measured the quake as a 5.1 magnitude but quickly downgraded it to 4.9. It was followed by several significant aftershocks measuring 3.5 and 2.7.
- There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
- Thousands of earthquakes are recorded in California each year, but the vast majority are extremely minor. According to the USGS, only several hundred are greater than magnitude 3.0, and only about 15 to 20 are greater than magnitude 4.0.
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Important Takeaways:
- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned the United States that if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany, then Russia would station similar missiles in striking distance of the West.
- The United States said on July 10 that it would start deploying long-range missiles in Germany from 2026 in preparation for a longer-term deployment that will include SM-6, Tomahawk cruise missiles and developmental hypersonic weapons.
- In a speech to sailors from Russia, China, Algeria and India to mark Russian navy day in the former imperial capital of St Petersburg, Putin warned the United States that it risked triggering a Cold War-style missile crisis with the move.
- “The flight time to targets on our territory of such missiles, which in the future may be equipped with nuclear warheads, will be about 10 minutes,” Putin said.
- “We will take mirror measures to deploy, taking into account the actions of the United States, its satellites in Europe and in other regions of the world.”
- Russian and U.S. diplomats say their diplomatic relations are worse even that during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and both Moscow and Washington have urged de-escalation while both have made steps towards escalation.
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Important Takeaways:
- US state is rocked by more than SIXTY earthquakes with up to 5.1 magnitude in a week
- A single county has reported more than 60 earthquakes in the last week, sparking a State of Emergency to be declared.
- Scurry County in West Texas was hit by a 5.1-magnitude quake on Friday, which was felt as far north as Oklahoma, followed by a 4.5-magnitude the next day.
- The epicenter in Hermleigh has now experienced 62 seismic events since last Monday (July 23)
- No damages or injuries have been reported.
- The largest quake was felt about 80 miles away in Lubbock and across parts of the South Plains.
- West Texas is not located on a major fault line, but features 250 minor ones that extents outward 1,800 miles from the Dallas-Fort Worth area
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Important Takeaways:
- We, the people, are the pawns being manipulated now. Carson referred to the 45 goals of communism taken from the 1958 book The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen, a former FBI employee. The 45 goals were taken from that book and read into the Florida record.
- “It was things like gaining control of the public school system and the teacher unions so that you can indoctrinate the kids, gaining control of the news media and Hollywood so that you can manipulate the opinions of people denigrating the role of the family, denigrating the role of the church, getting into the churches and changing the real gospel to the social gospel, making sexual perversion normal, natural, and healthy.
- Kruschev called it:
- “I mean, just right down the line, all the things and the things that are happening in our society right now. And we, the American people, are the pawns who are being manipulated. And it’s one of the reasons that Khrushchev was so confident when he talked to Eisenhower and said that your grandchildren’s children will live under our system. We won’t have to fight a war. Because we think we won the Cold War, but they had a much better plan on how to actually change us. And we’re falling for it.”
- We must wake up.
- “…part of the overall plan of Marxism and Marxism and communism is very anti-religion because they want it to be dependent on government. They don’t want you to be dependent on God. They want you to believe that they have the ultimate say in everything. So naturally, they’re going to be anti-religion and anti-God. And it’s sad to see. I mean, when you look at television, the way that they mock. Christians and Christianity.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Pat Boone, the accomplished pop singer and devout Christian who first gained fame in the 1950s, released a song on Friday called “Where Did America Go?” that aims to be a wake-up call for all Americans to return to the country’s spiritual and constitutional roots.
- “That old Constitution / Still holds the solution,” Boone sings. “But we gave up our freedoms for sale.”
- Boone said in a Facebook announcement, “I don’t see how America can keep going in this way. I’m deeply concerned. We’ve got elections coming up, maybe they’ll make a difference. But I couldn’t wait, I just felt I had to do something like my friend Bob Dylan did when we were in similar states of confusion.” Boone said the song’s style was patterned after Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” but lyrically it points to the answer: God.
- The lyrics of the song call on listeners to reflect on the current state of division in the U.S. “We’re not one nation under God anymore,” Boone said in a press release. “This song is a warning, an alarm that America is in danger of losing its way.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The opening ceremony of the Olympics is supposed to be a celebration. Instead, it was an abomination. It was supposed to be a festivity. Instead, it was blasphemy.
- The entire opening ceremony was characterized as “one long drag show.” Drag queens did a parody of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci with a woman sitting in the middle with a halo over her head, intended to represent Jesus surrounded by his disciples. It’s hard to imagine something more blasphemous than that. People in drag and transgender filled the entire celebration—or what was intended to be a celebration.
- Elon Musk, who certainly is no friend of Christianity, weighed in and said the parody was “extremely disrespectful to Christians.” It was an open mocking of the Lord’s Supper.
- There was lots of fire and a bloody display of beheaded Marie Antoinettes singing, of course, referring back to the French Revolution.
- Notably, the scene also featured a woman riding a white metallic horse across the river of seine (pronounced “sin” in English), donning the flag of the International Olympic Committee. They claimed the display was “representative of the Olympic spirit.” The horse passed under successive bridges as dove wings were unfurled, supposedly to symbolize a message of peace.
- The imagery is undoubtedly very reminiscent of what we read in Revelation 6.
- In that chapter, the Bible tells us that someday, there will be a rider on a white horse who will come forth from Europe, a reunited Roman Empire, and that person will be the ultimate antichrist. It’s hard to imagine a stronger symbol of Biblical prophecy than what was just seen at this Olympic celebration.
- Revelation 6 describes a false messiah, the antichrist, who rides forth at the beginning of the tribulation period also on a white horse—the ultimate counterfeit Christ.
- There was one final thing that was a capstone to all of this. The celebration included a rendition of John Lennon’s song, “Imagine,” the lyrics of which state:
- Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try.
- No hell below us / Above us, only sky.
- Imagine all the people / Livin’ for today.
- Sadly, that’s what you see in the Olympics: people living for today with no thought of eternity, accountability to God, and no fear of God.
- Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do.
- Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion, too
- Imagine all the people / Livin’ life in peace
- The Olympics are also supposed to be this great picture of humanity, unity, and peace. The picture is certainly muddied by the 45,000 police and 18,000 soldiers in Paris for these opening ceremonies. There has already been sabotage against some of the railway systems in Paris.
- In their worldview, somehow, without God and Christ, we can have peace and unity in this world. Tragically, that is just a mirage…
- As our world continues to go farther into wickedness, evil, blasphemy, and abomination, let’s be faithful to Jesus Christ. He’s coming back. Let’s live in light of that. Let’s have all the influence we can have in this world until He comes to take us to Heaven.
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Important Takeaways:
- Text messages revealed that law enforcement responsible for monitoring former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally spotted his would-be assassin and flagged him to colleagues as suspicious at least 90 minutes before he opened fire.
- The messages, obtained by Fox News Digital from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who obtained them from Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, showed that officers flagged 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks after he was spotted using a range finder – but did not approach him.
- The first screenshot is a group chat of Beaver ESU officers, while the second is from one Beaver County sniper departing his shift at around 4:30 – approximately an hour-and-a-half before Trump took the stage. The New York Times first reported the text screenshots.
- In a group chat, around 4:36 p.m., when one of the officers texted that his shift was ending, he warned that a man, later identified as Crooks, had parked nearby their vehicle.
- “Someone followed our lead and snuck in and parked by our cars just so you know,” the text from an officer read.
- A follow-up message said that Crooks was about 50 yards from the rally’s exit, sitting at a picnic table.
- Two other counter-snipers responded with a thumbs up emoji and responded, writing, “Roger that.”
- Approximately 45 minutes later, at 5:10 p.m., officers flagged that Crooks was on the move and had positioned himself near the American Glass International (AGR) building. Crooks would later perch himself on top of the AGR building to target the former president.
- While Crooks waited, an officer snapped a picture of the 20-year-old suspect.
- “Kid learning around building we are in,” an officer wrote in a text message, along with an image of Crooks. “AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out.”
- “I lost sight of him,” the officer added.
- A follow-up message said: “Call it in to command and have a uniform check it out.”
- By 6:11 p.m., approximately 1 hour after the last text message was sent, the “kid” would be killed by a counter-sniper after he opened fired on the rally goers.
- Trump was grazed by a bullet on his ear, while three rallygoers were also shot, including Corey Comperatore, 50, who was killed protecting his family from danger.
- David Dutch and James Copenhaver were injured after being shot at the rally. Copenhaver was recently released from the hospital on Friday.
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Important Takeaways:
- Northern California’s Park Fire has surpassed 368,000 acres burned as evacuation orders affect four counties—Butte, Tehama, Shasta and Plumas.
- Cal Fire reported that containment remained at 12% as of Monday morning. The Park Fire is the largest wildfire in the state so far this year and the sixth-largest wildfire in California history, burning 368,256 acres as of Monday morning, Cal Fire reports.
- The fire has scorched an area more than five times the size of the city of Sacramento.
- …spreading at a rapid rate of 4,000 to 5,000 acres per hour on Friday. Most of the burn area was in Tehama County with the flames spreading north toward Shasta County
- 4,200 residents are under evacuation.
- As of Sunday evening, 100 structures have been destroyed and crews expect this number to fluctuate in the coming days.
- The Butte County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday they had arrested a man suspected of starting the fire. As detailed by the DA’s office, a man was seen pushing a car that was on fire down into the gully near Alligator Hole in upper Bidwell Park — allegedly spreading the flames that would become the Park Fire.
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