Iran launches wave of drone attacks against Israel

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/iranian-launches-wave; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Iran is delivering its promised escalation.

“Iran launches wave of drone attacks at Israel — Netanyahu says IDF prepared to respond: report,” by Chris Harris, New York Post, April 13, 2024:

Iran has launched an attack against Israel using dozens of drones, according to a report.

“BREAKING: Iran launches attack against Israel using dozens of drones, four U.S. and Israeli officials told me,” Axios reporter Barak Ravid posted on "X."

Unverified videos posted to Telegram and shared online showed a swarm of buzzing Iranian drones — which are known to make a “lawnmower sound” — flying over Iraq.

In response, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announced restrictions on civilian activities.

The Times of Israel reports the guidelines prohibit educational activities and bans gatherings of over 1,000 people….

And earlier:

“Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with Israel,” by Jon Gambrell, AP, April 13, 2024:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday in the latest attack between the two countries.

The seizure followed a suspected Israeli strike this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that killed 12 people, including a senior Guard general.

Iran has promised to retaliate, and U.S. President Joe Biden cut short a weekend trip to his beach house in Delaware to return to the White House and monitor the situation. Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip has inflamed decades-old tensions in the Middle East, and any new attack threatens to escalate that conflict into a wider regional war.

Iran’s state-run IRNA said a special forces unit of the Guard’s navy carried out the attack on the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, a container ship associated with London-based Zodiac Maritime.

Zodiac Maritime is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group. Zodiac declined to comment and referred questions to MSC. Geneva-based MSC acknowledged the seizure and said 25 crew members were on the ship.

“We are working closely with the relevant authorities to ensure their wellbeing, and safe return of the vessel,” MSC said.

White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the crew was made up of Indian, Filipino, Pakistani, Russian and Estonian nationals and urged Iran to release them and the vessel.

IRNA said the Guard would take the vessel into Iranian territorial waters….

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U.S. Shooting Down Some Iranian Drones Headed Toward Israel

IRAN-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT A demonstrator kisses a bullet shell replica as others gather at Palestine Square in Tehran on April 14, 2024, after Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel. Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed early April 14, 2024 that a drone and missile attack was under way against Israel in retaliation for a deadly April 1 drone strike on its Damascus consulate. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
IRAN-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT A demonstrator kisses a bullet shell replica as others gather at Palestine Square in Tehran on April 14, 2024, after Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed early April 14, 2024 that a drone and missile attack was under way against Israel in retaliation for a deadly April 1 drone strike on its Damascus consulate. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
UPDATED 4:23 PM – Saturday, April 13, 2024

United States officials have stated that some Iranian drones have been shut down intercepting their entry to Israel. 

Reports have stated that drones are heading towards Israel on Saturday and are expected to take several hours to get there. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video message said that “in recent years, and even more so in recent weeks, Israel has been preparing for the possibility of a direct attack from Iran.”

He warned Tehran that “whoever harms us, we will harm them. We will protect ourselves from any threat and we will do so with steadfastness and determination.”

Netanyahu thanked Israel’s allies, including the US, France, and Great Britain, for supporting the Jewish state and urged Israelis to follow Home Front Command orders.

“Together we will overcome all our enemies,” he said.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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Biden’s Failure to Act Allowed Houthis to Shoot Down 2 US Drones

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/02/bidens-failure-to-act-allowed-houthis-to-shoot-down-2-us-drones; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

The US Navy is not being allowed to go on the offensive.

The Houthis have caused damage to multiple ships, the latest a UK flagged vessel, and shot down two U.S. drones. They’ve managed to deploy an underwater drone in one of their latest attacks.Biden’s campaign of mildly inconveniencing the Houthis, Iranian-backed terrorists in control of much of Yemen, is going well. While Israel’s campaign against Hamas has largely ended the group's constant rocket attacks of the group, Biden’s pinpoint minimal strikes against the Houthis have not stopped the Islamic terror group’s attacks.

On Feb. 18, U.S. Central Command announced naval forces in the Red Sea destroyed an uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) in Houthi-controlled waters around Yemen. This is the first time that the Houthi Movement has been observed operating UUVs since attacks began last October.

Iran has a long tradition of unconventional naval warfare which has become more refined in recent years. Many of these platforms are now uncrewed, including boats, aerial drones and underwater drones, based on images systems released by the Iranian government. Hamas has also touted its possession of UUVs in Gaza, according to images the armed group released in November as reported by Naval News.

Iran is using the Houthis to test the weapons it plans to use against America. We're letting them do it.

“Unmanned surface and subsurface vessels are likely more difficult to detect and destroy than aerial drones and anti-ship missiles. "The Houthis are not likely capable of manufacturing these weapons on their own, so they are probably coming from Iran,” Mulroy said.

The unmanned weapons systems are an acute threat, Mulroy said, since they could “overwhelm the ship’s defenses” by attacking from multiple dimensions, a so-called “swarm attack.”

Meanwhile, the Navy’s ability to respond has been crippled by the Biden administration.

On Wednesday, U.S. forces destroyed seven mobile anti-ship cruise missiles, three aerial drones and an explosive surface drone prepared for launch from Houthi-controlled territory. The four separate strikes, conducted over a time span of about 6½ hours were in defense of ships in the Red Sea, the command said.

These aren’t strikes, they’re playing defense because the US Navy is not being allowed to go on the offensive to avoid inflaming the situation.

And so this is an absurd situation.

A US Navy admiral says the conflict against the Houthis in the Red Sea is one of the largest naval battles the US has fought in decades.

“I think you’d have to go back to World War II, where you have ships who are engaged in combat,” Vice Adm. Brad Cooper told the “60 Minutes” host Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired Sunday.

“When I say engaged in combat, where they’re getting shot at, we’re getting shot at, and we’re shooting back,” he continued.

So Operation Earnest Will in the 80s doesn’t count? Reagan at least allowed American forces some leeway to fight back. Currently, US Navy forces are mainly under fire while Biden allows Iran to humiliate us. Again.

Israel discovers six drones amid UNRWA donations entering Judea and Samaria this week

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/02/israel-discovers-six-drones-amid-unrwa-donations-entering-judea-and-samaria-this-week; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

UNRWA is actively aiding the “Palestinian” jihad, and must be shut down.

“i24NEWS Exclusive: Israel finds 6 drones amid UNRWA donations that entered the West Bank this week,” by Matthias Inbar, i24News, February 15, 2024:

UNRWA donations that entered the West Bank from Jordan through the Allenby Bridge earlier this week contained six military drones, i24NEWS’ military correspondent Matthias Inbar has learned from Israeli security sources.

The drones have been confiscated by Israeli security forces….

Did Iranian Agent Serving as Pentagon Chief of Staff Cause Death of 3 Soldiers?

How were terrorists able to perfectly time their drone attack without inside information?

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/did-iran-agent-serving-as-pentagon-chief-of-staff-cause-death-of-3-soldiers; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:


In September 2023, Pentagon Chief of Staff Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant, was accused of having worked as an agent of the Tehran regime. Dissident media outlets produced emails that allegedly showed that Tabatabai had joined an initiative by the Iranian Foreign Ministry to coordinate operations and that she had even run her congressional testimony on Iran’s nuclear program past the head of an Iranian Foreign Ministry think tank.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center and Front Page Magazine had been among those to take the lead in warning about the potential danger posed by her and enemy agents in the Pentagon.

Tabatabai had served under Robert Malley, Biden’s Iran Envoy, who had been suspended from the Obama campaign for his backchannel contacts with Hamas, and has been under investigation for mishandling classified documents. But the emails appeared to show that she had personally worked for Iran and its influence operations aimed at the U.S. government.

Despite that she continued to be promoted until she is now the Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC).

In January 2024, Iranian-backed terrorists launched their most successful single attack against an American base to date. The target was the living quarters where U.S  military personnel were stationed on an obscure support base in the Jordanian desert known as Tower 22.

While the drone attack would normally have been intercepted, the Iranian-backed terrorists had precisely timed the arrival of their drone to match that of an American drone returning home.

In the confusion, the Islamic terrorist drone was not intercepted and 3 American military personnel were killed and over 30 more were wounded. And it could have been worse.

The Iranians had known where the living quarters on the base were, what our procedures for drone arrivals and departures were, and when one of our drones would be coming back.

How were the Islamic terrorists able to precisely coordinate the arrival of their drone and ours?

Tower 22, located close to Syria and Iraq, was one of the bases that we helped Jordan build up during the Syrian Civil War. Under Obama, it was a key element for supporting the Syrian Sunni rebels while under Trump, it focused on fighting ISIS forces in Syria. Syrian Sunnis fleeing the country passed by, some were allowed to enter Jordan, while most, including some Sunni Jihadis, had to remain in what became known as the Rukban refugee camp.

The proximity of the Rukban camp to Tower 22 and the nearby Al-Tanf base would provide plenty of options for “refugees” to monitor and track the movements of American drones.

But Ariane Tabatabai’s presence in Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict raises another troubling possibility. Tower 22 was used as a jumping off point by special operators and the U.S. presence in that area falls under the shadow of the SO/LIC office.

Special operators had been stationed at Al-Tanf and the SO/LIC office would have potentially had access to a great deal of information about what was going on at Al-Tanf and Tower 22.

That indeed is why Tabatabai likely ended up in the office, not despite her ties to the Iranian regime, but because of them. During the campaign against ISIS, the United States came to rely on some of the same Iranian-backed Shiite Jihadist groups to do the heavy lifting on the ground.

Tabatabai could have been seen as a potentially useful backchannel for an office that was likely unofficially coordinating with Iran anyway. That would explain her initial role as a senior advisor.

But by elevating a former Iranian agent to a chief of staff of an office overseeing special operations, the Biden administration, the Pentagon and the SO/LIC may have been gambling that they could control that backchannel and that would have been a catastrophic mistake.

Late last year, 30 Senate members had urged the Pentagon to suspend her security clearance.

“Iran continues to threaten U.S. military personnel in the Middle East and remains intent on assassinating American citizens here in the United States. Given these facts, we find it simply unconscionable that a senior Department official would continue to hold a sensitive position despite her alleged participation in an Iranian government information operation,” they warned.

“Dr. Tabatabai was thoroughly and properly vetted as a condition of her employment with the Department of Defense,” a Pentagon spokesman claimed. “We are honored to have her serve.”

And the cost of that DOD decision may have been quite high, not just in security, but blood.

We don’t know how exactly Iran’s terror groups were able to closely coordinate the arrival of their drone with ours, but it’s hard to believe that it could have happened without either sloppiness, close observation or inside information. Operational security had clearly been compromised and in such a situation it’s the fundamental duty of the Department of Defense to examine its procedures, tighten its security and look into Iranian agents inside its offices.

There should be no place for current or former agents of an enemy government which is actively attacking and killing Americans inside the Pentagon. And yet Tabatabai is still there.

And she’s not alone.

Nor is she even the only Pentagon Chief of Staff with Islamic terror ties. Front Page Magazine’s ‘Disloyal Military’ investigations into enemy agents and wokeness within the military not only cast light on Ariane Tabatabai, but also on Yousra Fazili, the Chief of Staff for the Pentagon Comptroller, as well as other hostile figures in the government and the defense industry.

Yousra Fazili, the daughter of Kashmiri Muslim immigrants who studied Islamic religious law or sharia at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, a hub of Jihadist thinking, had testified in Congress in support of her cousin who had been arrested for his support for Islamic terrorists in India.

Fazili had worked for the Qatari ambassador, an ally of Iran, and which serves as a state sponsor of Hamas, and she had represented the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations known as a Muslim Brotherhood operation, co-founded by figures tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden, and she has cheered on pro-Hamas protesters.

Despite multiple congressional letters and warnings from Senate and House members, the Department of Defense has done nothing to clean its house and the clock is ticking.

We do not know if inside information led to the deaths of 3 Americans in the Iranian attack at Tower 22, but it is only a matter of time until foreign enemy agents inside the government end up passing information to Iran, Qatar or other Islamic terror states that gets our people killed.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center will continue investigating the enemy within and working to hold them and their enablers in the government accountable before it’s too late.

Three US soldiers killed, over 30 service members injured in drone attack on small US outpost in Jordan

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/01/three-us-soldiers-killed-over-30-service-members-injured-in-drone-attack-on-small-us-outpost-in-jordan#; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

There shouldn’t be a US outpost in Jordan.

Iran and its proxies are stepping up attacks, knowing that the Biden regime is weak, America-last, and appeasement-minded.

“First on CNN: Three US troops killed in drone attack in Jordan, more than 30 injured,” by Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN, January 28, 2024:

Three US Army soldiers were killed and more than 30 service members were injured in a drone attack overnight on a small US outpost in Jordan, US officials told CNN, marking the first time US troops have been killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the beginning of the Gaza war.

The killing of three Americans at Tower 22 in Jordan near the border with Syria is a significant escalation of an already-precarious situation in the Middle East. Officials said the drone was fired by Iran-backed militants and appeared to come from Syria. It is still being determined which militia group specifically is responsible.

US Central Command confirmed in a statement on Sunday that three service members were killed and 25 injured in a one-way drone attack that “impacted at a base in northeast Jordan.” Two US officials told CNN the drone hit in the vicinity of living quarters on base, and that three the injured service members were medically evacuated from the area.

The number of wounded is expected to rise.

President Joe Biden vowed on Sunday to hold those responsible for the attack “to account,” saying that while facts are still being gathered, “We know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.”

“These service members embodied the very best of our nation: Unwavering in their bravery. Unflinching in their duty. Unbending in their commitment to our country — risking their own safety for the safety of their fellow Americans, and our allies and partners with whom we stand in the fight against terrorism. … [H]ave no doubt – we will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing.”

As of Friday, there had been more than 158 attacks on US and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, though officials have described the constant volley of drones, rockets, and missiles as unsuccessful as they have frequently not caused serious injury or damage to infrastructure….

Forty drone and rocket attacks launched at U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in three weeks

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/forty-drone-and-rocket-attacks-launched-at-u-s-forces-by-iranian-backed-militias-in-three-weeks;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

It’s now laid bare for the whole world to see: the Palestinian “resistance,” funded by Iran, and openly supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, is all about Islam. Israel was left with no choice but to defend itself from attempts to obliterate it by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and surrounding jihadist groups. A confrontation between Iran and the US is already escalating. America is sliding toward the brink.

In the last three weeks, “at least 40 separate drone and rocket attacks have been launched at U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.” One of the attacks was caught on camera in the tweet below:

Biden has now found himself in a situation where he can no longer afford to appease the Islamic lobbies with which he made a pact. Normative Islam is supremacist at its core, and will not compromise, as America and the West now face off against the jihadis in what was an inevitable battle. Israel’s battle in Gaza against Hamas will not stop with Israel. Islam seeks a global caliphate, and Israel, being the tiniest, lone non-Muslim state in the conquered Middle East, stands as an affront to Islam. Hence the persistent attacks by Arab states, which began upon Israel’s founding. Even before that, Jewish immigration to the homeland of the Jews was violently “resisted” by Muslims.

Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for the Middle East Dana Stroul confirmed: “Hamas has been using civilians as human shields, has blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid, and continues to hold at least 200 civilians.” And that the “department’s commitment to Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism is ‘ironclad.’”

It isn’t new information that Hamas has been using human shields, while the Palestinian Authority teaches and hails “martyrdom.” Palestinian children even attend jihad summer camp.

It isn’t only the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas that is being fought. Islam and jihad conquest are central to this escalating Gaza battle.

“US forces under fire in the Middle East as America slides towards the brink,” by Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters, November 9, 2023:

WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD, Nov 9 (Reuters) – A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict.

The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and crashed into the second floor of the barracks housing American troops at about 5 a.m, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

But the device laden with explosives failed to detonate and in the end, only one service member suffered a concussion from the impact, said the officials, who asked to remain anonymous to speak freely about the attack. The U.S. had got lucky, they added, as the drone could have caused carnage had it exploded.

The incident was among at least 40 separate drone and rocket attacks that have been launched at U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria over the past three weeks in response to American support for Israel in the Gaza war, according to Pentagon data and the two U.S. officials….

 

Russia deploys doomsday nuclear ocean drones as global economic MELTDOWN looms

BY MIKE ADAMS

SEE: https://naturalnews.com/2022-10-04-russia-deploys-doomsday-nuclear-ocean-drones.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Image: Russia deploys doomsday nuclear ocean drones as global economic MELTDOWN looms

(Natural News) According to multiple media reports — including The Sun (UK) — Russia has now officially deployed the world’s largest submarine which can carry up to eight “apocalypse drone” torpedoes. These super weapons are actually nuclear-armed underwater drones that are designed to hide off the coast of a targeted nation, then detonate their nuclear warheads upon receiving satellite commands, generating a highly destructive, radioactive tsunami that inundates coastal areas of the targeted country, rendering them uninhabitable.

The K-329 Belgorod submarine is the only one of its kind in the world, and it reportedly can travel at a speed of 125 mph using a secret, highly-advanced propulsion system. Officially, the Poseidon drones carry 2 megaton warheads, but we have received information from other sources that indicate Russia can outfit them with 100 megaton warheads — over 6,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb used over Hiroshima.

Upon detonation, such a warhead would unleash a truly massive tsunami that could potentially reach heights of 500 feet or more, moving at hundreds of miles per hour before crashing onto intended coastal targets. The radioactive ocean water would deposit radioisotopes onto everything it touches, rendering the affected areas uninhabitable for at least three centuries (that’s ten half-lives of Cs-137, fyi).

Notably, America’s most important power centers — government, finance, military, and trade — are all located near the coasts. Just one Poseidon detonation on the East Coast could take out America’s government, finance, and military hubs while a single detonation off the coast of California could take out America’s largest trade ports and transport hubs. 

Stealth submarine travels at extreme speeds, dropping nuclear drones at will The Belgorod submarine was built using exotic technology that allows it to achieve almost unimaginable speeds (125 mph) while still operating covertly. As The Sun reports:

The revolutionary design – based on the Oscar II class cruise missile subs – has been extensively modified to specialize in covert missions. The sub was made its giant length so it could carry the devastating nuclear-tipped Poseidon torpedoes guided by artificial intelligence. The nuke can be dropped onto the seabed by a sub or ship and zoom past underwater defenses at reported speeds between 70 and 125 knots. Christopher A Ford, a former assistant secretary of state for International Security and Non-Proliferation, told CNN the torpedo is being designed to “inundate US coastal cities with radioactive tsunamis”.No country in the world has any defense against radioactive tsunamis, by the way.

 

United States attacks Nord Stream pipelines, pushing escalation toward nuclear war

It is now abundantly obvious that the United States played a significant role in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, attacking civilian infrastructure targets in an effort to isolate Germany from Russia’s energy supply and prolong the war. The United States, as Putin pointed out in a recent speech, has a long history of using weapons of mass destruction to target civilian infrastructure and civilian populations, including the use of atomic weapons in World War II and the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm (which killed well over half a million Iraqi civilians).

Now, the US is resorting to cutting off the energy supply needed by millions of Europeans as they face a winter of food scarcity and freezing temperatures, with as much as half of Germany’s industrial operations facing shutdowns due to a lack of natural gas energy. (Ammonia production is already down 70%, and industrial metals smelting operations are down 50%, and those numbers are weeks old.)

Putin explains that the United States has set the precedent justification for nations that are faced with the threat of destruction to use nuclear weapons in their own defense, to strike civilian targets if needed. Note that Putin deems the West to be a “satanic” cabal of criminals, while his defense head Medvedev describes the West as the “Antichrist civilization” that must be brought to its knees for humanity to survive.

Thus, it appears that Putin is preparing a large-scale nuclear first strike against the West, planning the complete destruction of western nations like the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, and others. Super weapons like the Poseidon nuclear “apocalypse drones” are clearly designed to achieve that goal, while shorter-range nuclear-capable continental missiles (such as the Iskander) would be unleashed to strike European cities such as Berlin, Paris, and London.

It also appears this destruction of the West is desired by globalists who want to see America annihilated so that national sovereignty can be wiped from the slate, with the remaining survivors enslaved under globalist control. The United States of America is “scheduled” to be reduced to under 100 million survivors by 2030. This could be achieved through multiple means (vaccines, famine, bioweapons, power grid sabotage, etc.) but is most quickly achieved by the globalists through the use of nuclear weapons that target infrastructures such as finance and transportation.

Another important point is that Democrats want a nuclear war before the Nov. 8 midterm elections because they don’t want to have to endure defeat at the ballot box. They need a nuclear emergency to delay the elections and invoke a kind of martial law to push nationwide gun confiscation. This is the only way they can remain in power and continue their agenda of child mutilations (transgenderism surgeries), criminalizing their political opposition (DOJ / FBI weaponization), censorship, vote rigging, and money laundering (money for Ukraine).

If democracy is allowed to breathe in America, the Democrats are done. Nobody wants the agenda that Biden and the demonrats are serving up. Thus, the Democrats must find new ways to interfere with democracy and halt the will of the people.

United Nations begs Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates, or an economic meltdown will occur across Europe

We also need to understand that the criminal cabal currently running the United States is at war with Europe, attempting to reduce Europe’s industrial base to rubble in order to make sure America has the last western factory left standing. In addition to the USA destroying the Nord Stream pipelines (which the lying corporate media claims were for some reason carried out by Russia), the Federal Reserve is waging a currency war against the Euro and the Bank of England.

As the Wall Street Journal reports:

The Federal Reserve and other central banks risk pushing the global economy into recession followed by prolonged stagnation if they keep raising interest rates, a United Nations agency said Monday.

…the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said the Fed risks causing significant harm to developing countries if it persists with rapid rate rises. The agency estimated that a percentage point rise in the Fed’s key interest rate lowers economic output in other rich countries by 0.5%…

Rising interest rates are causing a wave of capital to leave Europe and head to the United States. Higher rates are also devastating the value of fixed rate bonds which were heavily purchased by England’s pension funds and are now on the verge of total collapse.

In addition, the Credit Suisse bank is reportedly on the verge of insolvency, and a cascading collapse of European banks is a mathematical certainty of US banking interest rates continuing to rise. The Fed has said multiple times it is determined to keep raising interest rates until inflation is brought under control, which would require multiple rate increases well into 2023.

Realize that if interest rates don’t increase, inflation will spiral out of control in the USA. If interest rates continue to rise, Europe will suffer an economic meltdown. It’s clear the Fed is choosing the latter of those two options, which is why many observers have concluded the United States is waging an “economic war” against Europe at the very same time the USA is waging a kinetic and economic war against Russia.

Oblivious Germans suddenly panic buy electric space heaters, having no clue how they are powered

Finally, in the latest example of insane levels of ignorance and lack of preparedness, a large number of German consumers are reportedly panic buying electric space heaters following comments by energy minister Habeck who recently stated that Germany might run out of gas energy supplies.

The panic buying of electric space heaters reveals that many German citizens had no idea winter was coming or that an energy crisis had already impacted their country. It’s as if millions of German citizens have no memory of last year’s winter, somehow. Or maybe they believe the lies of their own government which is telling them there are no problems, that everything will be fine. (If so, they need a sanity check…)

Even worse, they seem to be oblivious about what powers electric space heaters. Not only will they be paying 1000% or higher increases on their electric bills, but that electricity is largely generated by the very same natural gas that Germany won’t have, especially since the Nord Stream pipelines were already blown up and can’t be repaired this winter. So, if millions of Germans turn on their electric space heaters, German utility companies will see a huge spike in electricity demand, requiring them to consume more gas which is already likely to run out.

In fact, electric space heaters powered by electricity generated from natural gas is the least efficient use of energy for heat. It will end up taking far more gas to power the electric space heaters than if they just burned natural gas-powered home heating systems in the first place.

Put another way:

Hydrocarbons -> Heat = Efficient
Hydrocarbons -> Heat -> Steam turbines -> Grid electricity -> Space heater heat = INEFFICIENT

Somehow, nobody in Germany seems to be pointing this out. The country appears to be acting as some sort of “green suicide cult” of herd-mentality mass obedience acolytes who can’t wait to obliterate their own infrastructure and industry. Meanwhile, they seem to have zero knowledge of how heat, electricity, and hydrocarbons actually work, an ignorance shared by nearly all the socialist greens in Europe and around the world. They seem to think that electricity comes from nowhere, so using electricity to heat homes is somehow not going to require energy inputs or something.

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