The War With Iran Is Not Over: Are Tactical Nukes On The Horizon?

A Lot Of People Think That The Midterm Election Results Mean That The War With Iran Is Over, But The World Will Be Shocked By The Death And Destruction That Are Ahead

Michael Snyder

The war with Iran is not over. There isn’t going to be peace in the Middle East. In fact, the most apocalyptic chapters of the Great Middle East War are still ahead of us. If President Trump decides to bomb the living daylights out of Iran before January 3rd, 2027, there is very little that the Democrats can do to stop that from happening. After the new Congress is sworn in on January 3rd, 2027, the Democrats will have more power but President Trump will still be able to simply veto any bill that they pass. Of course it is entirely possible that President Trump could change his mind and choose not to attack Iran at all, but if that happens I guarantee you that Israel is going to go in anyway. If Iran responds to new airstrikes by the United States and/or Israel by using unconventional weapons or by destroying the nuclear facility at Dimona, there is nobody on the entire planet that will be able to stop what happens next.

However, military transports continue to carry heavy equipment to the region, and a third U.S. aircraft carrier is still on the way…

Some time about the middle of this month the USS Theodore Roosevelt will be in position.

Will that be the moment when the U.S. and Israel start conducting airstrikes?

The number one target that the U.S. and Israel would like to take out is the nuclear facility at Pickaxe Mountain.

The problem is that it is hundreds of feet underground…

Some estimates put the heart of Pickaxe Mountain as far as 100 meters (nearly 330 feet) underground—meaning even the most destructive non-nuclear U.S. bombs, such as the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or “bunker busters,” would be hard-pressed to destroy it.

But using nuclear weapons would be absolutely insane.

Unfortunately, that is precisely what some are suggesting that we should do.

A B61-13 tactical gravity bomb would likely get the job done, but it also has “around 24 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima”…

Instead, it is more likely to use a tactical nuclear weapon, although any form of nuclear strike remains very unlikely. The U.S. has an estimated 200 B61 gravity bombs, half of which are deployed in bases across Europe. They can be launched from fighter jets like the F-35A.

The U.S. is rolling out the upgraded B61-13, which is designed to blast apart well-defended targets. Only strategic bombers can carry the B61-13, which has a yield of up to 360 kilotons—around 24 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Hypothetically, the U.S. could drop several GBU-57s on Pickaxe Mountain, opening up the way for a follow-up tactical nuclear strike with a B61 gravity bomb.

If we use a tactical nuclear weapon on Pickaxe Mountain, the entire world will be absolutely horrified.

And it would also give Iran a perfect excuse to use everything in their arsenal against Israel.

If the Iranians destroyed the nuclear facility at Dimona or used unconventional weapons against Israel, the Israelis would likely respond by using nuclear weapons against Iran.

We are dangerously close to a point of no return.

If there is any sort of attack on Iran at all, the Iranians are threatening to use “new conventional weapons technology”…

“If America or the Zionists take any action, Iran will respond differently than before, using a new doctrine and new conventional weapons technology,” said Hamidreza Moghaddamfar, an adviser to the IRGC’s commander in chief.

Should Arab states such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain allow their territory to be used for attacks, he added, “Iran’s strikes will go further” than the US bases. He said the assassination of Iranian officials or commanders would draw “surprising responses”.

Iran, Mr Moghaddamfar said, had “set aside the principles of symmetry and proportionality a long time ago”, and would retaliate “beyond any geographical limits”.

In addition, the IRGC is warning that they now have missiles that can “target areas beyond the Middle East”…

Ziaeddin Aghajanpour, head of the ministry’s political-ideological organization, made the remarks at a government event in Karaj, near Tehran.

“Our scientists, experts and intellectuals in the defense ministry and armed forces have produced surprise weapons, and the missiles we have developed can target areas beyond the Middle East,” he said. “We also warned the Americans that if they do not stop their hostile actions, we will target all US interests in the region, and you saw that we did so.”

Netanyahu wanted to attack Iran in October, but Trump was able to persuade him to wait until after the elections.

Now the elections are behind us, and Netanyahu appears to be quite eager to take action.

In anticipation of what could be coming, a number of municipalities in northern Israel are already opening up their bomb shelters…

Several municipalities in northern Israel have opened public bomb shelters as concerns grow over a possible resumption of hostilities with Iran, while the United States is reportedly reinforcing air defence capabilities in the region.

Kiryat Shmona and Safed have opened public shelters, while authorities in Karmiel have made shelters across the city accessible to residents, according to Israeli media reports.

Karmiel Mayor Moshe Kuninski said the decision was taken as a precautionary measure amid the evolving security situation. He urged residents to continue their normal routines while adhering to instructions issued by Israel’s Home Front Command.

From this point forward, any moments of peace will just be temporary.

The Great Middle East War has already been raging for more than 3 years, and there is no end in sight.

Israel and Iran are ultimately headed for a final showdown, and the level of violence that we will witness will shock the entire globe.

Ebola Outbreak: Current Situation

Ebola Outbreak: Current Situation

CDC

• CDC is responding to an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 
  
• This outbreak is spreading substantially faster than previous Ebola outbreaks and is now the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record.
• The outbreak is caused by Bundibugyo virus, a type of Ebola virus.
• In DRC, cases have been confirmed in Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, Ituri, Nord-Kivu (North Kivu), Sud-Kivu (South Kivu), Sud-Ubangi (South Ubangi), Nord-Ubangi (North Ubangi), and Tshopo provinces.
  • This is the 17th outbreak of Ebola in DRC.
  • This Ebola outbreak surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases within 40 days of response activation. In comparison, the 2018 Ebola outbreak in DRC took approximately 235 days to reach more than 1,000 cases.
  • South Kivu has reported no confirmed cases since May 29.
    
• As of October 23, Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed a total of nine cases of Ebola disease and two deaths.
  • The initial case was a confirmed travel-related infection reported on October 6. A man traveled from DRC, through Uganda, to Kenya's capital Nairobi, where he was hospitalized and died in an isolation unit. He did not contract Ebola while in Kenya.
  • Further cases, including an additional death, were among relatives or healthcare providers with close contact with the first infected man, and all were already in quarantine when diagnosed. All cases were in Nairobi, and Kenya's MOH has reported no community spread of Ebola in the country.
• On October 20, Nigeria reported its first case of Ebola in the 2026 outbreak. Testing confirmed the infection was caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which is the virus driving the current Ebola outbreak.
• Uganda also reported cases of Ebola at the same time DRC declared an outbreak.
• Uganda reported 21 confirmed and probable cases and 3 deaths. The last reported case there was confirmed June 21.

• The response to this outbreak is challenging due to a number of complex circumstances in the region.
  • Limited health infrastructure, including limited access to healthcare, diagnostic and laboratory services, infection prevention and control supplies, and other basic services make stopping this outbreak more difficult.
  • Ongoing conflict in the area where the outbreak is occurring creates security issues and complicates contact tracing and infection prevention and control.
  • Violence against healthcare workers and shortages of personal protective equipment are leading to healthcare workers becoming infected while treating patients.
  • Frequent population movement and cross-border travel increase the risk of spread to Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, and to other areas.
  • Lack of trust in the government and misinformation make communicating about Ebola more difficult.

To reduce the risk of Ebola importation into the United States, U.S. entry for travelers who were recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is temporarily restricted. Travelers, including Americans, who have been in DRC within 21 days of their flight will not be allowed to board commercial flights with U.S. destinations.

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Hezbollah is back: Lebanese army fails to fill the vacuum left by IDF

Hezbollah is back: Lebanese army fails to fill the vacuum left by IDF

Elisha Ben Kimon

The pilot program in Lebanon is increasingly looking like a failure, with potentially serious security consequences for Israel. More than 100 days have passed since the IDF handed control of three villages in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese army, but Hezbollah is gradually returning to the areas it evacuated.

Instead of the gradual dismantling of Hezbollah's infrastructure and the expansion of Lebanese army control, the terrorist organization is managing to return to the area, reactivate parts of its civilian networks and reestablish its influence among the local population.

As the results of the pilot become increasingly clear, the IDF has struck suspects approaching its forces in Lebanon for the first time in several weeks. The military deployed a Zik drone against two suspects riding a motorcycle in the southern Lebanese village of Qabrikha, killing at least one of them. The man killed was identified as Nasr Mohammed Younes, a medical team member with the Amal movement's Risala Scouts. The relatively unusual targeted strike was the first in several weeks against suspects who, according to Israeli security officials, posed an immediate threat to troops by approaching too closely. The incident comes alongside the IDF's ongoing strikes against Hezbollah infrastructure.

Against the backdrop of the pilot's apparent failure is political uncertainty in both Israel and the United States. Talks between the parties over a mechanism to monitor the agreement have been stalled for months, and there is still no agreement on how to ensure that the Lebanese army is actually dismantling Hezbollah's infrastructure. Israeli officials say the Lebanese army is not conducting sufficient searches and, as previously reported, is avoiding entering private homes or searching private property.

The IDF, meanwhile, continues to hold defensive positions, although with significantly fewer troops than during the ground maneuver and the period leading up to the demolition of the tunnel network beneath the Ali al-Taher Ridge in early September. Troops continue clearing the area and preparing for the possibility of renewed fighting. Since completing operations on the ridge, the forces have shifted to a defensive deployment, with a much smaller presence than during the period of intensive operations.

Hezbollah is exploiting this period to rebuild its capabilities, bring operatives back into the area and gather intelligence on IDF forces. The military does not disclose details about the devices it intercepts along the northern border, but at least some are believed to be Hezbollah drones used for reconnaissance and surveillance.

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Information Warfare And The Propaganda Machine

The Media’s Propaganda Machine Is Malfunctioning

J.B. Shurk 

It feels as if the march of history is accelerating now.  The number of meaningful current events around the globe continues to grow.

We don’t have time to process the Islamic riots across France before turning our attention to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempted judicial coup d’état.  While President Trump seeks peace between Russia and Ukraine, the United Kingdom prepares its citizens for WWIII and a Russian invasion.  The United States has elections, but Democrat seditionists and subversive members of the American Intelligence Community push for a “color revolution” to topple the Trump administration.

Big events happen every day, and we have scant opportunity to understand what they mean before another comes across our screens.  The issue of “screens” is important.  If you’re reading this, you are not likely a hermit living self-sufficiently in the woods.  Unless you limit your “screen time,” televisions, computers, tablets, and phones are pumping your brain full of information all day long.  Even when we’re not consciously reading or watching something on our screens, our brains are picking up signals about the events playing out in the world.

If you are a fan of science fiction, it is not difficult to understand that we are now living in a version of the dystopian worlds that writers such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick envisioned.  People who possess power in this world have a strong incentive to shape our minds, and they use every available tool to condition our way of thinking.

Information is no longer confined to a book, catalogued in a quiet library.  It is blaring at us from all directions.

Different cable news hosts on competing cable news networks repeat the same words and phrases all day long until we find ourselves reaching for those words while having polite conversations in real life.

Songs from pop artists representing different genres push the same messages, and when those pop artists collect awards, they use their acceptance speeches to drive those messages further into the brains of their most loyal fans.  Those fans magnify those messages on their social media platforms, and pretty soon, tens of millions of people are expressing the same thoughts.

Movies and television shows teach us to fear or detest “hate speech,” “global warming,” “white supremacy,” “Russian aggression,” “science deniers,” “right-wingers,” “fascists,” “European Union skeptics,” “fossil fuels,” “Islamophobia,” “transphobia,” Christianity, immigration enforcement, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump.  Any Hollywood character who doesn’t condemn these things is depicted as a villain; any Hollywood character who denounces these things is a brilliant, beautiful hero.

This is information warfare in a nutshell, and it is all around us

If you look back in time, you will realize that some version of it has always existed.

Twentieth-century newspapers gave us descriptions of the facts filtered through the worldviews of their writers, editors, and publishers.  Three broadcast news anchors delivered almost identical accounts of each day’s news.  If you scrutinized those newsrooms, though, you realized that newspaper publishers came from the same prominent families that ran parts of the government and that federal licenses required television networks to abide by certain national security protocols.  The same “journalists” who gave each other awards for their “integrity” and “independence” married members of the government.  Twentieth-century “journalists” were never really part of a Fourth Estate; they acted as the public relations arm of the American government.

The most important aspect of “journalism” last century was its ability to seduce the reader or viewer into believing that “reporters” are impartial, just-the-facts clerics collecting important stories for the public’s benefit.  So long as “journalists” were seen as ink-stained priests who cared nothing for money or fame, they received a certain amount of public respect.  If people could be convinced that “journalists” would risk their lives to inform the public what is “true,” then some people might even consider those “journalists” heroes.  Priestly heroes cultivate public trust, and public trust is its own kind of power.

In this sense, the government had no interest in telling Americans not to trust the news.  All governments want the public to believe the news because it is through the news that governments disseminate their public messages.  In true symbiotic form, newsrooms and governments do not have competing interests.  They have a shared interest: to convince the public that what it reads or hears is the “truth.”

When a propaganda system works well, you don’t notice how all the various agents have clear conflicts of interest.  You don’t stop to ask why the deputy director at the FBI would be working with The Post to take down a sitting president (something that both Mark Felt and Andrew McCabe have in common).  You don’t wonder whether it’s appropriate for “reporters” to depend entirely upon anonymous sources.  You don’t ask whether the billionaire moneymen who own newspapers might have ulterior motives that undermine the pursuit of truth.  You don’t notice that the same families that own movie studios and publishing houses also own multinational chemical plants, pharmaceutical firms, shipping conglomerates, and banking empires.  You don’t realize that these wealthy families include members of Congress and the heads of agencies.  You don’t see how government officials receive awards from nonprofits and NGOs that are run by the same families handing out awards to authors, musicians, actors, and “journalists” for their professional achievements or contributions to “truth.”

See the problem?  Over the last thirty years, the public started to see through this sophisticated network of information warfare and recognize it as the propaganda that it has always been.  The expanding web of the Internet allowed people to learn information that had been hidden from them.  Email allowed people to communicate with groups much more quickly than traditional phone calls or written correspondence.  Social media platforms turned ordinary people into public broadcasters almost overnight.

Comedians lose their power over minds when ordinary people on YouTube are just as funny.  Hollywood actors lose their star power when teenagers can become famous just for filming their lives.  Publishing houses lose their gatekeeping power when writers publish online.  “Journalists” lose their monopoly on objective “truth” when citizen reporters describe current events in real time.

When all these parts of the propaganda machine malfunction together, people finally see the puppet strings moving the various actors.  And whether they work in Hollywood or for CNN, the narrative engineers are all actors — people paid to deliver messages that corporations and government officials wish to spread.

This is one of the reasons the march of history is speeding up!  The people who have long controlled public opinion realize that they have lost their greatest weapon: legitimacy.  Illegitimate systems are unsustainable.  So the narrative engineers have been forced to flood the zone with so much information that it becomes ever more difficult to ascertain the truth.  Global warming, Russian collusion, COVID, defending democracy, WWIII — the demand on your attention is huge and will get only worse!

As this happens, remember this: Your brain is the battlefield.  If you prevent others from using it for you, they will lose.

The Image of the Beast and the Great End Times Deception

The Image of the Beast and the Great End Times Deception

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This end times deception update examines the rise of synthetic control and how an image of the beast may manifest today. We analyze the dystopian future depicted through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. By evaluating the narrative of forced obedience and systematic identification, we provide context on how these developments align with the Book of Revelation. Our goal is to offer clarity on the pressure to worship created entities while maintaining a biblical worldview that points to hope beyond the machine.