Weekly News-Oct-3-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – Iran Strikes Israel With Ballistic Missiles in Retaliation for Assassinations
by Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
Iran launched a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC general Abbas Nilforoushan.
The attack came one day after Iran’s moderate president Masoud Pezeshkian said he was lied to by US and European officials who promised him there would be a ceasefire if Iran declined to retaliate against Israel for their assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Read full article >
#2 – East Coast, Gulf Coast Port Worker Strike Begins Sparking Fears of Supply Chain Shortages
Update: The strike has been suspended until at least Jan. 15 as the ILA reached a tentative agreement on a 62% wage increase over six years. The union and the US Maritime Alliance have yet to agree on terms regarding the use of automated machinery which will be a major focus between now and the Jan. 15 deadline.
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) walked off their jobs just after midnight earlier today in the union’s first strike since 1977. The ILA members are calling for increased wages and a ban on the use of automated cranes and container trucks for unloading freight. ILA President Harold J. Daggett spoke about leveraging U.S. dependence on foreign imports for their strike, stating in an interview last month:
Let me explain something to you, these people today don’t know what a strike is. When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down. You know what’s going to happen? I’ll tell ya, first week it’ll be all over the news every night, boom boom, second week, guys who sell cars can’t sell cars cause the cars ain’t coming in off the ships, they get laid off. Third week malls start closing down, they can’t get the goods from China, they can’t sell clothes, they cant do this, everything in the United States comes on a ship, they go out of business…
#3 – Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
By | AntiWar
On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were any deaths. But Israel is now considering a counterattack that could propel it into an all-out war with Iran, with the U.S. in tow.
For years, Iran has been trying to avoid such a war. That is why it signed the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement with the United States, the U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union. Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018, and despite Joe Biden’s much-touted differences with Trump, he failed to restore U.S. compliance… Read full article >
#4 – Hurricane Helene death toll tops 200, making it deadliest storm to hit mainland since Katrina
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death toll surpassed 200 on Thursday, making it the deadliest storm to hit the mainland of the U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Search-and-rescue teams are still trying to reach secluded areas hit the hardest by the storm, which hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 26. Read full article >
#4 (Tie)– Grid Apocalypse Hits Carolinas: 360 Substations Down, Power Restoration Could Take “Months”
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), representing a district in the western portion of the state battered by Hurricane Helene, released a press release Sunday detailing the infrastructure devastation.
Edwards said power outages remain widespread in Western North Carolina as of Sunday. Fast-forward to Wednesday morning, Poweroutage.US data shows more than 400,000 residents are without power in the region. Read full article >
#5 – America LAST: Billions To Ukraine And Israel While Hurricane Survivors Get $750!
By Daniel McAdams | Ron Paul Liberty Report
Homeland Security Director Mayorkis admitted that after spending hundreds of millions helping illegal migrants, FEMA has no money left to help American hurricane victims. That on top of recent billions the Biden Regime has sent overseas to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – Bank Of America Customers Report Widespread Outage, Zero Balances
Bank of America customers on Wednesday reported having problems accessing their bank accounts or that their account balances currently show $0.
The outage started at around 12:30 p.m. E.T. on Wednesday, according to the tracking website Downdetector.
About an hour later, more than 20,000 user complaints were submitted via the website. Read full article >
#2 – Corporate Media Lays Off Hundreds of Journalists and Employees
By Ava Grace | Natural News
Hundreds of journalists and employees have already been laid off this year by corporate media companies.
The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated, Business Insider, New York Daily News, National Geographic and the Baltimore Sun have all been in the news for wrong reasons – layoffs, cost-cutting, labor walkouts or bleak prognosticating. Significant cuts were seen at the Los Angeles Times, which reduced its newsroom staff by more than 20 percent in January. Time magazine also fired 15 percent of its workforce. Read full article >
#3 – USDA Approves Controversial Genetically Modified Wheat Grown Using Dangerous Neurotoxin
By Cassie B. | Natural News
In more bad news for the rapidly declining quality of the American diet, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has given its stamp of approval to genetically modified wheat.
That’s right: there is going to be yet another Frankenfood you’ll have to go out of your way to avoid, and when it’s something as ubiquitous as wheat, you’re going to need some excellent label reading and interpreting skills given how hard food companies try to obscure the true nature of the ingredients they use. Read full article >
#4 – Christian Olympian Suspended for 5 Months After Making Sign of the Cross at Paris Olympics
By Clare Marie Merkowsky | LifeSite News
A Christian judo Olympian has been punished after making the sign of the cross at the Paris Olympics.
According to the International Judo Federation’s Disciplinary Commission (IJF), Serbian judo world champion Nemanja Majdov has been suspended for five months after making the Sign of the Cross while entering the ring during a July 31 Olympic tournament.
“Before I am an athlete, I am an Orthodox Christian,” Majdov told the commission, quoting Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic. Read full article >
#5 – Jeep Announces Recall for Almost 200k Plug-in SUVs that are at-risk of Spontaneous Combustion
By Olivia Murray | American Thinker
Electric vehicles are already an exaggerated hazard on the road—weight and risk of fire—but now, a quality control problem is exacerbating the latter of those factors. From AP News comes this story:
Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs worldwide because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off.
In addition, Jeep is urging owners not to charge the SUVs and to park them outdoors and away from structures until they are repaired.
