BIDEN WATCH: 3.12.22 - In comes Russia out goes COVID and tyranny grows

In comes Russia out goes COVID and tyranny grows - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com In the months leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, military sources were telling The Daily Jot that there not only would be a Russian invasion, but also it would be used to supplant COVID as the emergency crisisfacing America and the rest of the world. They also were concerned that the invasion would prompt Joe Biden to force all military irrespective of medical or religious objections to take the COVID jab. Additionally, they predicted that when the invasion occurred,everything COVID would fade into the background. The premise is that these globalist politicians use crisis after crisis to ratchet down personal freedom and Constitutionally guaranteed rights. This has been an ongoing pattern. Other than television commercials promoting the COVID “vaccine” and boosters for everybody all the time, the government and corporate media have turned their attention tothe Russian invasion. Gone are the mask mandates, the shot mandates, the lockdowns, the limits on businesses and restaurants that tightened the grip of government at all levels against personal liberties. On to the next tyranny as all the puppets rush to theRussian narrative. In the process, personal liberties are being threatened in yet another way. Inflation is at a 40-year high, reflecting the aftermath of yet another failed Democratic Party president, Jimmy Carter, whose Russian grain embargo and energy policiesrobbed Americans of their economic freedoms, financial security and property. And to what end? Today, Biden is driving the economy off a cliff with his energy policy. Record prices at the pump inflate not only the cost of transportation, but also food prices, utilitycosts, dry goods—everything that requires fuel to grow, produce, or deliver. These record costs are nearly as effective as draconian COVID lockdowns and mandates at curtailing personal liberties. During this horrible economic crisis, exacerbated by the Russianinvasion, Democrat politicians are doubling down on their promotion of “green” energy, even though it is not even close to being ready for prime time. Joe Biden is refusing to unleash the power of America’s gas and oil production, even though all of Americais suffering from his misguided and damaging policies. If it’s not COVID, it’s another crisis. These government bureaucrats and politicians perpetuate their attack on liberty through the lifeblood of crisis. They never let itgo. Think about how the Islamic crisis curtailed American freedom with the Patriot Act, the provisions of which are rarely sunset. The precedent of COVID restrictions will be with us forever, even though the policies were an abject failure. But the thingsgovernment can levy with impunity are taxes and policies that erode your ability to live an abundant life. These tyrannists push just enough so as to not force people to act, yet people feel restrained from acting. It becomes a “no man’s land” between freedomand tyranny. As in Jeremiah 6:14, “They have healed the hurt of my people slightly, saying “Peace, Peace” when there is no peace.” -------------------------------------- The Economic War Between The United States And Russia Just ShiftedInto Overdrive - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/the-economic-war-between-the-united-states-and-russia-just-shifted-into-overdrive/ Economic conflicts have a way of becoming shooting wars, and so we should all be deeply alarmed by what we are witnessing. With each passing day, authorities in the UnitedStates and authorities in Russia are imposing even more measures which are intended to punish the other side economically. Thankfully, our militaries are not shooting at one another yet, but an economic war has already started and it just shifted into overdrive. OnTuesday, Joe Biden announced that his administration has decided to ban all imports of Russian oil and natural gas� �Today I am announcing the United States is targeting the main artery of Russia�s economy. We�re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy,� Biden said at theWhite House. �That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S. ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin�s war machine.� About the same time, the government in the UK also announced that it will be banning Russian oil� The U.K. government will ban all imports of Russian oil, its latest sanctions move against Vladimir Putin�s administration over the war in Ukraine. The measure � taken in concert with the U.S. � will be phased in over the rest of 2022, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said. The ban applies to refined products suchas diesel � which the U.K. relies on Russia for about a third of its imports. It won�t apply to natural gas. Will these moves hurt the Russians? To a certain extent. The rest of Europe has not joined the U.S. and the UK in this boycott yet, and Russia will always be able to sell massive quantities of oil and natural gas to China. In response to this latest move, Vladimir Putin signed an order which will ban the export of certain raw materials� Within hours of Joe Biden announcing a far-reaching ban on all US imports of Russian oil � while warning Americans that gas prices are about to �go up further� � VladimirPutin is reported to have signed his own counter-measure decree. Russia�s RIA news agency is reporting that the new decree blocks all exports and raw materials from Russia �of certain materials� � with state media reports noting the specificlist will be made public in two days. We will have to wait and see what specifically will be on that list, but I have a feeling that it will definitely include nickel. On Tuesday, trading of nickel was suspended after it suddenly more than doubled in price� The London Metal Exchange on Tuesday suspended the trading of nickel after prices more than doubled to surpass $100,000 per metric ton. The LME said in a statement that trading will be suspended for at least the remainder of the day. A global shortage of nickel is going to severely hurt industries all over the planet. And of course Russia could decide to cut off all oil and natural gas exports to the western world as well. If that happens, natural gas prices in Europe would soar to catastrophiclevels, and the Russians are warning that we could eventually see the price of oil reach $300 per barrel� Russia has threatened to close a major gas pipeline to Germany and warned of $300 oil prices if the West goes ahead with a ban on its energy exports. �It is absolutely clear that a rejection of Russian oil would lead to catastrophic consequences for the global market,� Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak saidMonday in an address on state television. �The surge in prices would be unpredictable. It would be $300 per barrel if not more.� Unfortunately, we are not talking about a short-term crisis. Western powers are never going to forgive Russia, and Russia is never going to forgive the western powers. So a lot of the moves that are being implemented now are likelyto be permanent. And that is truly a nightmare scenario. Right now, many Americans are complaining about the rising price of gasoline. On Tuesday, it hit another brand new record high� After rising dramatically following Russia�s invasion of Ukraine, the price of gas has reached a new record, topping an all-time high that stood for nearly 14 years. As of Tuesday morning, the average national price for a gallon of regular gasoline touched $4.17, according to AAA, the highest price ever, not accounting for inflation.That was up from $4.07 on Monday and $3.61 a week earlier. But this is just the beginning. Not too long from now, $4.17 for a gallon of gasoline will look like a rip-roaring bargain. Needless to say, higher gasoline prices are going to be very painful for average American families that are just trying to survive from month to month. According to YardeniResearch, the average household �will spend an additional $2,000 per year in gasoline on top of an extra $1,000 in food expenses� in 2022� The latest research note from Yardeni Research estimates the average household will spend an additional $2,000 per year in gasoline on top of an extra $1,000 in food expenses.Adding this all up, the typical household will spend $3,000 less this year on other things. Ouch. Speaking of food, the war in Ukraine has absolutely paralyzed shipping in the Black Sea, and it has essentially resulted in �a shutdown of the world�s second-largest grainexporting region�� The war in Ukraine has severely hobbled shipping in the Black Sea, with broad consequences for international transport and global supply chains. Dozens of cargo ships arestranded at the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv, shipping trackers said. An estimated 3,500 sailors have been stuck on some 200 ships at Ukrainian ports, according to London-based shipping tracker Windward Ltd. More ships are stranded around the globe than at anypoint since World War II, maritime historians said. The result is a shutdown of the world�s second-largest grain exporting region. Ukraine accounts for 16% of global corn exports, and together with Russia, 30% of wheat exports. As I have explained to my readers many times, we struggle to feed the entire planet even in the best of years, and this is definitely not going to be one of the best ofyears. Global hunger was rapidly spreading even before we got to 2022, and Time Magazine is reporting that the price of wheat has risen by a whopping 70 percent over the past fewmonths� The war has already driven wheat prices 70% higher in Chicago this year and is threatening to upend global food trade. Russia and Ukraine are vital suppliers of grains,vegetable oil and fertilizers, which means that supply disruptions will be felt all over the world. Wheat prices have surpassed levels last seen during the 2008 global food crisis�which helped spark widespread protests�and a United Nations index of food priceshit a record in February. What we are witnessing is going to have a devastating impact all over the planet. For example, Egypt imports more wheat than anyone else in the world, and they normally get almost all of it from Russia and Ukraine� Egypt � the world�s largest wheat importer � gets roughly 60% of its wheat from Russia and 25% from Ukraine, JPMorgan analysts wrote in a research note last week. So what is Egypt going to do now? Meanwhile, the price of fertilizer continues to soar to unprecedented heights, and experts are assuring us that a �global food crisis� is dead ahead� �Half the world�s population gets food as a result of fertilizers� and if that�s removed from the field for some crops, [the yield] will drop by 50%,� Svein Tore Holsether, head of agri company Yara International, told theBBC. Known as �the breadbasket of Europe,� Russia and Ukraine export around a quarter of the world�s wheat and half of its sunflower products, such as seeds and oil. �For me, it�s not whether we are moving into a global food crisis � it�s how large the crisis will be,� said Holsether, noting that increasing gas prices were causing a steep rise in the cost of fertilizer. I wish that I could get everyone to understand how serious this is. The global food crisis that you have been hearing about for years has now arrived, and the poorest areas of the planet are going to be hit the hardest. This war in Ukraine could have been avoided so easily, but there is no turning back the clock now. A chain of events has started that nobody is going to be able to stop, and things that were once considered unthinkable will soon become commonplace. --------------------------------------- We�re for the little guy - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com How�s that Joe Biden election working out for you? Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Texas, and Michigan have all admitted to voter irregularities and illegal votingmethods during the 2020 presidential election. Of course, nothing to see here and if someone brings it up, they are cancelled, censored, and ridiculed. Within hours of taking office, Biden issued an Executive Order rejoining the Paris Agreement on ClimateChange, which essentially means taxpayers will pay to clean up the world�s air, mostly polluted by China. He then cancelled the Keystone pipeline and ended oil exploration and leases on federal lands, again turning the US into an oil dependent country. Buthe�s for the little guy. When Biden took office the national average price of gasoline at the pump was $2.46. Within a month, prices shot up to $2.79. Now, according to GasBuddy, a fuel savingsplatform dedicated to saving North American drivers money on gas, �The national average price of gasoline in the U.S. today (February 8) broke the existing record, rewriting the all-time high to today�s $4.104 per gallon. The previous all-time high was setback in 2008 at $4.103 per gallon, just ahead of the U.S. Great Recession and housing crisis. The national average price of diesel is also nearing a new record, now at $4.63 per gallon, likely to break the record of $4.846 per gallon in the next two weeks.� But Biden�s for the little guy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation is at a 40-year high since Biden took office. BLS reports: �Over the 12 months from January 2021 to January 2022,the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 7.5 percent, not seasonally adjusted. This is the largest 12-month increase since the 12-month period ending February 1982. Food prices increased 7.0 percent over the past year, while energy pricesrose 27.0%.� All this in less than a year after Biden took office, translated: Biden policies are gouging the American citizen�s pursuit of life, liberty and happiness more than at any time in the past 40 years�an entire generation! But Biden�s for the littleguy. Biden told the nation in his State of the Union address that �Under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 a year will pay an additional penny in new taxes.� What Bidendidn�t say is that when you tax corporations more, prices rise and we all pay more for goods. Even the left leaning Tax Policy Center said that up to 30% of middle-income households will pay more in taxes with the Biden plan. Point is, people like Biden andhis party always say they are for the little guy. In fact, they say one thing while they are doing the opposite. James 1:24 says, �For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and forgets what manner of man he was.� If Biden and his ilk are for the little guy,I�d hate to be who they are against. Say it with me�Stupidocrisy. ------------------------------------- Disaster In the Making - Biden Iran Deal Playing into RussianHands � Clifford May - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5246 We all have our patterns of behavior. Start with Vladimir Putin, who, over the more than two decades he's ruled Russia, has assassinated dissidents, slaughtered Chechens, detached two provinces from neighboringGeorgia and seized Crimea from Ukraine, while fueling conflict in the east of that country. He's also helped the Assad regime kill Syrians--half a million and counting. On Feb. 24, Putin again invaded Ukraine. He has been using artillery and unguided bombs to murder men, women and children, and reduce cities to rubble. His apparent goalis to subjugate Ukraine, to strip it of its independence, sovereignty and freedom. Over to President Biden, who, during his first year in the White House, capitulated on the battlefield in Afghanistan to the Taliban, a terrorist organization joined atthe hip to Al Qaeda. He left behind more weapons than a Ukrainian general could dream of. He then declared that mission a success. Biden now appears eager to capitulate at the negotiating table in Vienna to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a regime that funds and instructs Hezbollah, Hamas, PalestinianIslamic Jihad and the Houthi movement in Yemen, whose catchy slogan is "Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam." He'll then declare that mission a success. While Biden's stated intention is to isolate Putin, his diplomats in Vienna continue to work hand-in-glove with Mikhail Ulyanov, Putin's envoy. That's because the theocratic regime's negotiators--as a matter of revolutionary Islamic principle--have refused to sit at the same table with Americans. The Biden teamhas meekly accepted this humiliation. Ulyanov is reportedly not just a go-between but "the dominant player," proposing compromises to the Americans (who are always flexible) and to the Iranians (who never are). As for Ulyanov's interests, do you suppose they are peace, international security, nuclear nonproliferation and a "win-win" outcome? Or does he want to please Putin by helpingIran's rulers further humble and diminish the United States? On Saturday, Moscow demanded a written guarantee that any sanctions imposed because of its war on Ukraine will not "in any way damage" its commercial and military relationshipwith the Islamic Republic. The Biden administration has rejected that demand--for now. Perhaps you think, as does the U.S. State Department, that "Russia shares a common interest in ensuring Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon." If so, think again. Putin calculates that any nuclear-tipped ICBMs produced by Iran's rulers will be pointed at America and used to keep America at bay while their proxies conquer and/or destroymore of the Middle East than they already have. When Biden's "indirect" talks with the clerical regime began, he vowed to produce a "longer and stronger" variant of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that former presidentBarack Obama concluded in 2015 and from which former president Donald Trump exited in 2018. It's now clear that a shorter and weaker variant--more economic relief in exchange for fewer verifiable restrictions--has been taking shape. It's not only "sources" who say so. It's also Ulyanov. "Realistically speaking, Iran got more than frankly I expected, others expected," he told one reporter. "This is amatter of fact." He added: The "Iranian clerics are fighting for Iranian nuclear--national interests like lions. They fight for every comma, every word, and as a rule, quite successfully." Biden's deal will provide Iran's rulers with billions of dollars that they can spend on arms and even nuclear power plants (for peaceful purposes only!) from Russia, anduse to fund terrorists, and threaten their American-allied neighbors. Biden won't submit his deal to Congress as a treaty (as he clearly should) so it won't bind the next administration. But Russian and Iranian negotiators are reportedly lookingfor a workaround. For example, they might persuade Biden to agree that Iran's enriched uranium be stored in Russia, with the condition that it will be returned to Iran if, at any time, Putinand Iran's rulers jointly declare that the Americans are violating the agreement. Or they might insist on an "inherent guarantee" that Iran's rulers get to keep their advanced centrifuges on standby with permission to continue enriching at 60% if theydecide the U.S. has transgressed. By contrast, noncompliance and even out-and-out cheating by the theocratic regime will be ignored or forgiven. We know that based on our experience with the JCPOA. Relatedly, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said on Saturday that a new deal cannot be concluded unless Tehran first settles outstandingissues relating to nuclear material found at former Iranian nuclear sites that the regime failed to declare. That will require months. Can a deal be announced before these issues are settled? Logically no but, in the current era, logic is not a major component in the patterns of behavior driving American foreign policy. Was it logical to respond to Putin's many crimes over the years with a salad of carrots and not enough sticks to make a bonfire? Was it logical to invite him to partner with the United States in negotiations with Iran's rulers while excluding the American allies most threatened by Iran's rulers? Is it logical to give the theocrats in Tehran the means to do in the Middle East what Putin is doing in eastern Europe? The Biden administration--building on the record of too many of its predecessors--has been establishing a shameful and damaging pattern of behavior: It is proving to beharmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend. -------------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM